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skaruresonic · 26 days ago
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Lakeside - Chapter 1 - benignmilitancy - Silent Hill (Video Game Series) [Archive of Our Own]
Fandom: Silent Hill Characters: James Sunderland; Douglas Cartland; Heather Mason; Paul Scheible (Homecoming) Relationships: Douglas Cartland & James Sunderland (platonic); Douglas Cartland & Heather Mason (platonic) Genre: Angst; mystery; psychological horror; partial epistolary POV: Third-person present (alternates between James, Douglas, and memos)
Content warnings: Blood
Summary:
James Sunderland doesn't remember why he'd driven his car into the lake. He can't explain why he was rescued, or what led to his decision, but he clings to the hope that someone will help him piece it together before hell freezes over. Douglas Cartland swore he'd never set foot in that godforsaken town again. That vow gets tested when Toluca Lake begins freezing in the middle of summer, against all logic and reason, and resurrects the drowned man he'd given up for dead.
Or, "Nature is healing. Hell is freezing over."
Prologue.
"What you see behind me isn't water. It's frost.
"Late yesterday afternoon in the town of Silent Hill, fisherman Joseph Wylam was angling near this spot over Toluca Lake when his boat capsized, its bow torn on a treacherous patch of rock.
"Wylam climbed a safety raft and tried to paddle his way to shore. However, when he lowered himself into the water, it wasn't the mild fifty-two degrees as is the average median temperature around this time of year, but a startling eight degrees Fahrenheit.
"Wylam suffered immediate shock and would have drowned had it not been for the intervention of his boating partner. Unfortunately, this wasn't enough to save him, as he later passed at Kindred Hospital of complications brought on by aggravated hypothermia. Wylam was fifty-six years old at the time and had no known next-of-kin. The partner, who prefers to remain anonymous, is expected to be discharged with a clean bill of health.
"Today, a light sheen of frost has laid across the entire lake surface, and is solidifying even as I speak with no apparent signs of stopping. As you can see, various forms of wildlife have fled the area.
"To say this is bizarre is an understatement, baffled locals claim. Researchers brought in to study Toluca Lake have called it the strangest phenomenon they've witnessed in years. Although they cannot yet determine why, they hypothesize the rock that overturned Wylam's boat may have been, in fact, a detached ice floe.
"We'll bring you more details as this investigation continues."
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James Sunderland, who was declared missing along with his wife Mary in June of 1994, shivers in the thick vapor blanket paramedics have draped over his shoulders. The lake's sediment and composite minerals have bleached his hair a sickly bluish green.
Moisture caresses his grayed flesh. He's sat in the water for so long that most of his clothes have unraveled at the seams. His right jacket sleeve curls on the ground beside him, dwelling in the puddle he grows with the droplets he sheds.
They're attempting to pry the shell of a broken boat from an old vehicle. James watches machinery crack open the crushed and sodden remains of a teal Chrysler, watches flotsam spill over the pavement in a wash of decay, and asks whose car that is.
Yours, Mr. Sunderland.
James blinks, readjusting his swollen eyes to sunlight. Liquid overflows and runs down his gaunt, wrinkled cheeks, pinkened by blood.
I don't remember.
An EMT pulls down his lower eyelid, shining a beam directly into his socket. The iris takes a moment to get fixated, and the pupil's dilation response time is rather delayed.
What day is it? James asks.
Tuesday.
He nods, as if the answer holds some meaning.
One paramedic nudges the other. We've got to get this man to a hospital.
It's 2002. Commute thins as the roads wind through the hills. The firs surrounding the neighboring valleys sweep low, burying their roots deep within the slopes.
For a town whose reputation hinges on misfortune, this morning proves an extraordinarily rare and beautiful exception. Clear skies shine while local flora bursts with the green blossom of summer.
No mist radiates from Toluca Lake; today it resembles a placid mirror, reflecting the passing houses and various boats drifting on its surface. Police cruisers keep sentry for miles along its circumference, where officers standing before fluttering tape deny access to disappointed tourists.
The town basks in August beauty while ice creeps and crackles over the surface of the lake.
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"Since yesterday, more floes have emerged, bewildering residents and investigators alike.
"Despite the torrid weather, a thin sheet of ice has completely covered the lake and appears to be expanding outward, reaching an estimated speed of 0.48 inches per hour. Where this ice came from, and why it has started a push, remain to be seen. Right now, those who live close to the shore are urged to evacuate inland until the state withdraws its declaration of emergency.
"The invasion appears to show no signs of slowing down. Here at Rosewater Park, brickwork and parts of the observation deck have already been claimed by ice. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to keep my balance on the slick ground, and you can feel the rapid plunge in temperature the closer you approach.
"All traffic to and from Silent Hill has been gridlocked for the time being."
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thelittlegreensnek · 2 years ago
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help? Anyone there? Im new and looking for a fanfic? gosh I sound stupid
HELP PLS I NEED TO FIND SOMETHING So this is my first time using Tumblr and I have no ducking clue how this works but I'm kinda hoping someone sees this if this is how it works. A lonnnnnnggggggg time ago I read a fanfic on Tumblr that I absolutely loved. One problem: I lost it. So I am just putting everything I know here hoping somebody reads this and knows what I'm talking about.
It was a My Hero Academia fanfic with y/n's quirk being being ale to like let knives come out of her hands like Wolverine or something? Also I don't even know the pronouns used in this fanfic sorry😭I think it was y/n x deku and y/n x bakugo and the reader could choose at the end. Im not even crushing on any of those two but I just loved the story. there was something with y/n doing the unalive thingy by yeeting themself off a building and then they end up in the hospital. And Bakugo and Deku are kinda sad I guess that they weren't able to stop them. I mean they saved them but they still jumped. And in the hospital they try to unalive themselves once again with their quirk but Aizawa is there and un-activates it or whatever. And they say sorry because they think they caused him trouble or something? Also I think the author first wrote the fanfic for a friend but changed the pronouns before posting it here?
Im sorry guys my mind is really foggy but it was ages ago okay
Could someone pls help me find it? Also, since I just made this account and am new to Tumblr could someone teach me how sh!t works around here? what different buttons do and if you can curse here without having to put a warning first? Thanks in advance!!!! Now I just click Post now I guess?
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