#Eye Avatar Graham AU

[char-lie-spirals]

ooh, does eye avatar graham means magnus institute employee graham? 👀

It does!!

In one of the Eye AUs, at least! In that AU he runs into Amy a few weeks after she gave her (slightly different from the original) statement and decides to go get his version of the events down on paper. And well, since at that point of his life the Eye is kind of backseat-gaming his life, it gets him to apply for a job there! And how could Elias not offer this almost-avatar-of-the-Eye reject him!

He gets taken into Research, and at some point meets Jon, Tim, and Sasha. Then, when Jon becomes the new Archivist, he doesn't exactly request Graham as one of his assistants, but after having to call him down for Multiple follow-ups at the very start, Elias suggests that things would be easier if Graham just transferred to the Archives long-term! So he becomes an Archival Assistant, and he seems to Know his way around the Archives pretty well!

Then uh. The podcast-typical horrors happen.

[a-dumbass-jester]

Some end avatar hcs I have w Oliver!!

Ok I have a vast one for Mike so I’m going to cover that first, so it’s kinda inspired by the discussion around dcartcorner’s elsewhere au, but I hc mikes emotions can influence the weather. Not majorly but in the area he’s in, because he was marked by the vast using a storm, and even as an avatar he’s associated with storms. So his emotions can infunence them. Also I hc the Fairchild manor (is that even cannon or did I just hear it somewhere(I’m pretty sure the manor existing in a vast pocket dimension is something I heard but idk if the manor itself is)) doesn’t experience weather it’s just clear skies. So if it’s raining there or smth it’s probably best to go check on Mike.

Ok that was not quick BUT ANYWAY OLIVER

My first hc is that after he became an avatar he could see directly into the future as long as it relates to death, and occasionally could even show the person. Like he’ll see a moment from someones death flash before his and maybe their eyes. He could also use tarot (? Idk much about that stuff) to direct his sight and even see more and rarely see non death stuff if he’s careful.

So I know Oliver being physically dead is a well known hc (at least I hope it is) like his hearts not beating and he has no pulse, but I hc that the longer he goes without feeding the end he’ll start decaying. And he doesn’t regenerate. It’s not super noticeable at first, it’s a very slow decay, but it add up overtime. He’s still relatively ok now but in a few decades or maybe centuries, he probably won’t be. As of now though, it’s getting a bit noticeable but not super bad as to immediately give him away. But definitely bad enough to draw some concerns (especially with his torso and hands (but I’ll get into his hands in a minute)) His skin is a lot paler/ashier, with a lot of darker spots that make him look deathly thin(he is).

Ok the hands thing is inspired by a death touch thing I saw a but ago but his hands are probably the biggest give away that he’s an avatar. There thin and skeletal (like most of his body) because skeletons are a common theme with death and the grim reaper. His fingers are a dark gray almost black color, a sign of the death touch. His hand are also VERY cold, colder than the rest of his body because of it. Even though gloves you can feel how ice cold his hands are. Without them there so cold it almost burns.

I want to end this off with a simple one and it’s that he can control the roots, and make them grow and when he does it everyone can see it.

Edit: also Oliver sees ghosts now

Edit 2: mainly because au where Graham is a ghost and Oliver can see him

[emthetimelady]

Remember the post wondering how Oliver got back to land? Well, it's written now.

5 ways home by me

Normally I don't post links here to my fics however I've decided to in order to give proper credit.

Chapter/part 4 is inspired by "A World of His Own" by @catwings-writes-things So check that out. She's also made a fic with the canon (well, canon to the au) way it happened. Which I suggest reading bc it's so good

Chapter/part 5 is inspired by a tag from @char-lie-spirals and includes eye avatar Graham. Highly suggest checking his blog/ao3 out for more Graham stuff

[spookyagentfmulder]

NAME: Fox William Mulder DATE OF BIRTH: October 13th, 1961 PLACE OF BIRTH: Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts GENDER: Cisgender nonconforming Male SEXUALITY: Autochorissexual Polyamourous HEIGHT: 6'0" (182 cm) WEIGHT: 200 lbs AGE: 36 EYE COLOR: Hazel. HAIR COLOR: Auburn.

OCCUPATION: Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assigned to the X-Files division. CURRENT STATUS: Alive. CURRENT LOCATION: Washington, D.C., United States

BACKGROUND:

Agent Fox W. Mulder was born on October 13, 1961, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts to Bill and Teena Mulder. The mysterious disappearance of Mulder’s sister (SAMANTHA MULDER) and his ensuing search for her became the consuming drive of his life. In 1983, Mulder graduated with first-class honors from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. He then graduated with honors from the Quantico FBI Training Academy in 1986. Mulder joined the FBI on October 24, 1984. On graduating from the Academy, Mulder began his work in the Behavioral Science Unit (psychological profiling) under Special Agent Bill Patterson, with whom he had a testy relationship.

In 1988, the FBI assigned Mulder to the Violent Crimes Unit. Around this time, Mulder first came across the X-Files, an obscure FBI section dealing with cases relating to the paranormal; he pored over these cases in his spare time, becoming obsessed with them. In 1991, Mulder re-opened the X-Files with Special Agent █████  █████, but  █████ left shortly thereafter. Mulder investigated the X-Files by himself until March 1992, when Special Agent Dana Scully, an instructor at the FBI Academy’s Forensic Science Research and Training Center, was partnered with him for the purpose of applying scientific reasoning to Mulder’s work and theories.

MUSE SPECIFIC INFORMATION

MAINS:  Special Agent Dana Scully - beyondthescully John Constantine - talentforlying William Graham - shilohgreen Emmanuel - handgiven Dr. Hannibal Lecter - consumare Agent Clarice Starling - cstarling

VERSES MAIN/MODERN: For all of Mulder’s interaction this will be the primary verse he will be interacting from. Timelines are sort of blurred here, but for the most part he is situated between seasons 3-4 of the show. This is mostly characterization based, and the events of said seasons are played sort of fast and loose.

THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES: #;pick up the receiver i’ll make you a believer -TMA!AU Agent Fox Mulder is an avatar of The Eye and works with the X-Files division in order to consume information. He has a Supernatural/Paranormal Hotline set up for people to call and supply him with fresh cases.

WITH A GRAIN OF SAND: Emmanuel and Mulder have formed a close relationship, so close that they are now literally a part of each other. You've heard of soulmates, well you ain't seen nothin' yet. Mulder now has a piece of the divine within his soul, and in exchange a part of him resides in his guardian angel.

[nebulapie]

cursed post of the day: sherlock holmes is an eye avatar

[jerakeenc]

It Was You, My Shine Light by old_enough_to_know_better

ATEEZ, K-Pop | Jeong Yunho/Song Mingi | Teen | 11,304 words

The world was grey, shades ranging from brightest white to darkest black. Everything was drab and dreary, until you met your soulmate. At least, that was how it was supposed to work. Mingi's always been able to see in color. How will he ever find his soulmate when he never knows when he'll meet them?

The Family You Choose by TunaFishChris

Avatar: The Last Airbender | Gen | The Gaang & Zuko | Teen | 36,049 words

Some people are born with soulmarks. Zuko has them, but his grandfather burned them off because they "make you weak." Team Avatar has a few things to say about that.

Louder Than Words by TheMarkOfEyghon

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | Ripper Giles/Randall | Mature | 36,740 words

In a world where everyone is born with their soulmate's first words to them marked on their arm, Rupert "Ripper" Giles is born with no words at all. Terrified at the prospect of growing up into a life without love, he becomes jaded and embittered, diving headfirst into loveless one-night stands and casual affairs. And then he meets Randall Evans. A non-verbal boy with a bright smile and even brighter eyes and his entire world is sent into a tailspin.

two halves of a soul by angel_deux

Game of Thrones | Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth | Teen | 42,773 words

Brienne really does think it's a coincidence that Cersei Lannister starts being extra cruel to her after catching sight of Brienne's soulmark at a slumber party. It's not.

Après moi le deluge by beyond_belief

Generation Kill | Brad Colbert/Nate Fick | Teen | 15,054 words

"That," he says, "is how you know it was close." - Sebastian Junger, War

The Fault in My Code by LiaS0

Hannibal | Will Graham/Hannibal Lecter | Mature | 90,434 words

Soulmate AU: Soulmates find their other half when they look into their eyes. After the next time they sleep, they wake with one eye the color of their intended. Will Graham avoids eyes. He's never wanted a soulmate, never wanted to be told by the universe who he was supposed to feel a connection to. He already struggles enough with connections, thank you very much. As a psychiatrist, he works with soulmates who have lost their other half through various means, part of a social system that regards the journey to your soulmate as the most important thing a person can do. Coerced by Jack Crawford to consult on a case where the assailant is targeting soulmates, Will finds himself turning to the notorious Dr. Lecter to gain insight on how he's choosing the soulmates to target. Things go horribly awry when he looks into Hannibal's eyes, though. The next morning, he wakes up with one eye blue, the other maroon. He's never wanted a soulmate, least of all one behind bars for murdering dozens of people and eating them. Hannibal thinks it's delightful -it's been dreadfully boring since he was locked up. Romance, thriller, mayhem, mystery, soulmate au with a realistic twist, and a grumpy Will Graham

Written on the Heart by who_la_hoop

Harry Potter | Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter | Explicit | 113,984 words

Harry doesn’t mind that so many Slytherins from his year have returned to finish their NEWTs, really he doesn’t. It’s just – do they have to be so friendly? He’s not prejudiced, really he’s not. It’s just – they’ve got to be up to something, right? Unnerved by the attention he’s attracting from everyone – the Slytherins are the least of it, to be fair – and struggling with a raft of changes to Hogwarts itself, Harry wishes he could be happy that one constant remains: Draco Malfoy really fucking hates him. When he’s hit by an illegal love-spell though, Harry finds he has more to worry about than whether or not Blaise Zabini actually wants to be his friend. For if everyone affected has been blessed – or cursed, by the look on Malfoy’s face – with a magical tattoo revealing the name of their soulmate, what does it mean that Harry’s skin remains completely bare?

Meadow of Ink by esama

Hikaru no Go | Gen | Shindou Hikaru | General Audiences | 933 words

It's the ones that matter who leave a mark.

Fastening One Heart to Every Falling Thing by thefourthvine

Hockey RPF | Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin | Explicit | 51,519 words

Geno can't. Sidney won't.

my heart is gold (but my hands are cold) by Rock_n_Fuckin_Roll

Karate Kid | Daniel LaRusso/Johnny Lawrence | Teen | 12,674 words

“No, please, don't, stop!” Those were the words that haunted Johnny Lawrence. One's that followed him day and night, ones that he looked at late at night in the darkness, when no one else was there, and traced them, thinking that they were the rightful punishment he got. That the first time he met his soulmate, they would scream for him to stop. To stay away. It was the punishment for Johnny Lawrence.

Nobody Lost, Nobody Found by ClaraxBarton

Marvel Cinematic Universe | James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton | Explicit | 108,331 words

"Look, dude, I get it. You’re fucked-up. HYDRA fucked you up. I’ve been there. But you’re my fucking Soul Mate!" “I can kill you. I could kill you without even realizing what I was doing. I’m not fucked-up, I’m a monster. I’m a nightmare. You can’t be here. You can’t- All the people I’ve killed- I will not murder my Soul Mate too. Not after everything else I’ve-” Clint worked his left hand between their bodies and managed to land a punch to the man’s right side, forcing him to shift his weight, and Clint brought his right hand down on the place where the man’s metal arm met his torso - hidden by the shirt he wore, but on full display in the video Clint had watched. The man released Clint with a grunt of pain, and Clint pressed his advantage, landing another punch to his abdomen, backing him up against the opposite side of the RV and then pressing the kitchen knife he had pocketed while cleaning up earlier to the man’s throat. “Like I said, I’m not a Boy Scout. I’m plenty dangerous myself. We clear on that?”

The Mark for Everyone's Souls by siderealOtaku

Persona 3 | Arisato Minato/Mochizuki Ryoji | Teen | 2,330 words

Minato Arisato's body is covered in marks. His mother called him blessed, until she saw the pitch-black skull on his left hip. "Death!" she screamed. "He is Death's soulmate!"

An Ever-Fixed Mark by AMarguerite

Pride and Prejudice | Elizabeth Bennet/Fitzwilliam Darcy | Teen | 190,537 words

One would think that having the name of one's soulmate appear on one's wrist on one's sixteenth birthday would make matrimony much less complicated. It mostly does not. And not at all for Miss Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourne.

Pair Bond by Kass

Stargate Atlantis | Rodney McKay/John Sheppard | Explicit | 5,734 words

"I'm sorry," the librarian said. His voice sounded genuinely regretful. "But I can't possibly grant access to a lone electron."

your favorite old-fashioned fairytale romance by sinead

White Collar | Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey | Explicit | 12,442 words

Such a small touch, that whisper of skin against skin.

can you help me unravel my latest mistake by suzukiblu

The Witcher | Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Explicit | 17,099 words

“It’s just a soulmark,” Geralt says, fist tightening. He feels like Jaskier’s about to get up and leave and he’ll never see him again, and he . . . “It doesn’t mean anything.”

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[slashyrogue]

AU-gust Day #22: Futuristic AU

It happens every few weeks. 

Hannibal Lecter, notorious cannibal, escapes custody and goes out on a spree. He kills at least three each time, and when the bounty set for him is high enough the bounty hunters bring him in without fuss. 

Will Graham, intake officer and handler of dangerous criminals, is there every time. 

Hannibal always greets him with a blood stained smile. 

“Hello, Will.” 

This time had been four days, pretty small amount of time, and yet fast enough for more to be dead. Lieutenant Crawford, head of the Behavioral Sciences Department, came to the intake office to beg Will for his help but he refused. 

He won’t get involved in things that make his head hurt like that again. 

Yes he’s mind sensitive, but he’s also very human. 

Humans can only take so much. 

Hannibal has just about gotten Will to his threshold. 

The intake office, located just on the edge of nowhere, has a system for every criminal that comes in. The mind sensitive officer has to put them into a mind palace of sorts that lets them view the criminals actions and record them. Will prefers this method over the Behavioral Sciences Department. Mind melds are painful, frightening, and still gives him nightmares. The mind palace is a safe space. 

Of course, not when Hannibal goes inside. 

Hannibal loves to be in the mind palace with Will. 

He’s gotten accustomed to how the system works, and often abuses the system to try and get in Will’s head. It’s oddly flattering how many times he’s escaped to try this, just to be close to Will, and sometimes Will even enjoys the time they have together. 

Even watching the murders. 

When Nigel brings him in this time it’s the seventeenth. Will knows that one more and Hannibal will be executed. He should have by rights already but Will may have altered his report a few times. 

Seven, but who’s counting? 

They go under this time and Will greets Hannibal’s mind avatar with a smile. 

“Have fun?” 

“Always,” he says, stretching out on a chaise that he conjured himself, “I do enjoy time outside.” 

“How many this time?” 

“You will just have to wait and see.” 

Will puts up his view and waits, only to see...nothing. 

Hannibal is walking around, buying things, stealing petty cash, and just enjoying his time. He eats very rare steak just before Nigel finds him, and when Will turns to look he’s smiling. 

“I wanted to surprise you.” 

“What...why?” 

He gets up off the chaise and comes to kneel at Will’s side. Will stares down at him, shocked, and his hands shake as he digs them into his avatar. 

“I wanted to see you. It’s been...” 

“Four months.” 

“Yes,” Hannibal says, reaching for his face, “Four long months. Have you thought of me while you sat here, altering reports and waiting for more criminals?” 

“I didn’t...” 

“Eight deaths, Will. You erased those people. Why?” 

“I didn’t...” 

Hannibal leans in close now, and Will shuts off the mind palace. The system connects to a series of wires and Hannibal lays on a soft bed while Will his chair. He gets up, walks to the bed, and takes off the wires. Hannibal awakens immediately. 

“You did,” he says, smiling, “The first time it happened I was...surprised. The second, amused, and all the others...left me with joy. The last, that poor young man with the unfortunate penchant for hurting animals...I realized you wanted me to hurt those people. You enjoyed knowing I did.” 

“No, I....” 

Hannibal runs fingers over Will’s lips. “You did,” he says, “And now, if you’ll permit me, I’d like to show you something I know you’ve been longing to see.” 

Will lets out a long breath. 

“What?” 

“This.” 

He kisses him, hard, and Will moans as he pulls him in closer. The immediate shock that Hannibal is mind sensitive makes Will shiver, and when their minds touch he has tears in his eyes. 

Yes, he’s been longing for this. 

Needing it. 

When they pull apart he can feel Hannibal’s mind tickling his own. 

“It feels...” 

“...right.” 

Will nods and Hannibal touches his cheek. 

“Will you come with me this time, Will?” 

He doesn’t hesitate. “Yes.”

[avatarofthebeholding]

Down to the Root AU

A post for my little pet project GerryOliver au ft. Tim, Jon, Helen, Manuela, and a couple OCs.

Overall summary/premise: A world in which Oliver Banks meets Gerry Keay. A world in which the End and the Eye are hungry for new avatars and the Web pulls at strings.

Series Link (individual works under the cut)

Series Playlist on Spotify

Series Playlist on Youtube (not fully updated!)

1. Flesh and Bones

Characters: Gerry Keay, Ria Mirti (OC), Mary Keay (mentioned), Ria’s parents (mentioned)

Relationships: Gerry Keay & Ria Mirti

Additional Tags: Oneshot, Chance Meeting

Summary: It is 2003. Ria has not yet become the Casualty. Gerry is beginning to wonder if hunting for leitner tomes is worth the trouble.

Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 601

Link

Song Recommendation

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2. Widow and Casualty

Characters: Ria Mirti (OC), Rosie Zampano, Oliver Banks (mentioned), Gerry Keay (mentioned)

Relationships: Ria Mirti & Rosie Zampano

Additional Tags: Oneshot, Web!Rosie, The End, The Web, The Beholding, Conversation, Reluctant Alliance

Summary: Rosie Zampano doesn’t consider herself an impatient person. That doesn’t stop her veins from freezing with frustrated anger when the Casualty waltzes into the Institute ten minutes later than scheduled, bleeding profusely from a gash at her hairline, and announces, "I’m here to make a statement!" with a ghoulish grin.

Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 968

Link

Ria Art

Song Recommendation + Lyrics Analysis

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3. Terminal Sight

Characters: Oliver Banks, Gerry Keay, Ria Mirti (OC), Anahita, Rosie

Relationships: Oliver Banks/Gerry Keay, Oliver Banks & Ria Mirti, Gerry Keay & Ria Mirti, Oliver Banks & Anahita, Gerry Keay & Anahita, past Oliver Banks/Graham Folger

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Major Character Death, The End, The Web, The Beholding, Fix-It of Sorts, Fluff & Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Friendship, Prophetic Dreams, POTS Gerry, EDS Gerry, Panic Attacks, Depression, Anxiety, Dissociation, Web!Rosie, Major Character Undeath

Summary: Spider silk weaves through the visions of two Seers. Monstrosity is dawning on them both.

Chapters: 27/27

Word Count: 31,038

Link to Ch 1

Ch 2 Gerry Art

Ria Visualizers

Keystone Gang

Playlist on Spotify

Playlist on Youtube

“Floor” by Vérité Lyrics Analysis

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6. Steady Hands

Characters: Gerry Keay, Oliver Banks

Relationship: Gerry Keay/Oliver Banks

Additional Tags: Fluff, Oneshot, Post-TS, Established Relationship

Summary: All Gerry cares about is that Oliver’s here. That they’re both here, solid to the touch in spite of everything that’s happened over the past few months.

Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 297

Link

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5. Beside Remains

Characters: Tim Stoker, Ria Mirti (OC), Rosie Zampano, Basira Hussain, Martin Blackwood, Melanie King, Oliver Banks, Gerry Keay, Annabelle Cane, Jonathan Sims

Relationships: Tim Stoker & Ria Mirti, Tim Stoker & Jonathan Sims, past Tim Stoker/Jonathan Sims, Gerry Keay/Oliver Banks, Tim Stoker & Martin Blackwood, Tim Stoker & Basira Hussain, Gerry Keay & Ria Mirti, Oliver Banks & Ria Mirti, Jonathan Sims & Ria Mirti, Martin Blackwood & Jonathan Sims

Additional Tags: Web!Rosie, End!Tim, Coroner!Tim, Trying to Stop the Unknowing, Character Study, HoH Tim, BPD Tim

Summary: The Unknowing looms heavy on the Institute’s horizon. The End still needs a Coroner.

Chapters: 13/?

Word Count: 18,702

Link to Ch 1

Playlist So Far on Youtube (not fully updated!)

“Tired as Fuck” by The Staves Lyrics Analysis

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6. So Darkness I Became

Characters: Manuela Dominguez, Helen | The Distortion, Oliver Banks, Gerry Keay, Anahita

Relationships: Manuela Dominguez & Helen | The Distortion, Gerry Keay/Oliver Banks

Additional Tags: Character Study, Exploration of Various Avatars’ Relationships to Fear, Helen and Manuela Bonding as Various Avatars Run in and Out of the Corridors like it’s Scooby Doo, Evil Scooby Doo Where the Hallway With Many Doors Wants to Maybe Kill You

Summary: Reflections of the High Priestess of a fallen church, on herself and her uneasy alliance with the Distortion

Chapters: 2/2

Word Count: 1,632

Link to Ch 1

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7. Lethe in Acheron

Characters: Ria Mirti (OC), Tova McHugh (mentioned), Justin Gough (mentioned)

Additional Tags: Oneshot, Eyepocalypse, The End, The Web, The Corpse Roots

Summary: The Casualty used to be human. She isn’t anymore. She is a silkspun embodiment of the fear of "normal" demise.

Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 524

Link

Ria Playlist on Spotify

Ria Playlist on Youtube (not fully updated!)

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8. This Isn’t Control

Characters: Ria Mirti (OC), Other Original Characters, Gerry Keay

Additional Tags: The Beholding, The Stranger, Fear Soup, Statement Fic(s), Outsider POV, The Nuances of Humanity and Monstrosity, Beholding!Gerry, Detective!Gerry

Chapters: 2/?

Word Count: 2,387

Link

Song That Matches the Title

Ashton Playlist

[worm-wife]

A dumb little soulmate au i won’t do anything with.

So I was thinking about how romantic/platonic soulmates would work in tma and this brain baby came from it. For context this is a no entities au. You have matching earrings with romantic soulmates and matching bracelets with platonic soulmates. 

polychives jon (photographer) platonic soulmates: oliver, gerry, melanie, georgie, daisy, nikola martin (creative writing) platonic soulmates: annabelle, basira, oliver, gerry sasha (digital artist) platonic soulmates: michael, melanie, helen tim (dance instructor) platonic soulmates: danny, rosie, jude

wtgfs georgie (podcaster) platonic soulmate: jon, oliver, annabelle, uhhhh helen!! melanie (indie film maker and youtuber) platonic soulmate: jon, sasha, daisy, her crew (idk there names)

avatars/other characters oliver (runs a local newspaper that focuses on minorities and local issues) - romantic soulmates w/ graham, michael, gerry platonic soulmates: jon, martin, georgie, mike crew, basira, jane gerry (runs a sculpting class and sells sculptures and jewelry online) -romantic soulmates w. graham, michael, oliver platonic soulmates: jon, martin, gertrude, annabelle, nikola :3 michael (runs an antique shop!!! also paints) - romantic soulmates w/ graham, gerry, oliver platonic soulmates: sasha, helen, that one funky dude from the pottery class graham (a freelance writer, usually works with oliver on his newspaper but also runs a youtube channel surrounding paranormal things and conspiracies. also blogs) - romantic soulmates w/ michael, gerry, oliver platonic soulmates: martin, the girl from the class!!, nikola :3 daisy (runs a local dojo but also works part time security at the college) romantic soulmates w/ basira platonic soulmates: jon, melanie, joshua gillespe because yes basira (philosophy teacher) - romantic soulmates w/ daisy platonic soulmates: martin, oliver, uhhh annabelle? helen (lawyer) - romantic soulmates w/ annabelle, jane, nikola platonic soulmates: sasha, michael annabelle (architect) - romantic soulmates w/jane, helen, nikola platonic soulmates: martin, georgie, gerry, basira her rival is elias jane (runs a tarot shop but has a side job at a bait and tackle. she takes care of the worms) - romantic soulmates w/ helen, nikola, annabelle platonic soulmates: oliver, rosie nikola (runs a small group of street performers) - romantic soulmates w/ helen, annabelle, jane platonic soulmates: jon, gerry, graham, jude jude (performs in nikolas thing as a fire eater) - romantic soulmate w/ agnes platonic soulmates: tim, nikola agnes (does woodburning classes) - romantic soulmates w/ jude platonic soulmates: martin, annabelle, gertrude :( just for roles: danny is a tour guide, rosie is a business major, mike crew does skydiving and is platonic soulmates w/ oliver and danny, getrude is an english professor, joshua is an architect, elias is just a bitch, and peter does boat toars. the earrings and bracelets

jon - small hoop, simple beaded bracellet martin - simple silver stud, one of those charity bracelets sasha - mother of pearl earring, red and orange friendship bracelet tim - hoop on upper part of ear, a leather bracelet georgie - a hoop with a cross, her bracelet is just her shows merch melanie - a black stud, a simple hoop bracelet. oliver - a skull earring, and beaded bracelet from party city gerry - a small guage, his bracelet is from hot topic michael - one of those ear cuffs (its elaborate), a very elaborate rainbow loom bracelet graham - a little pencil earring, a scholastic fair bracelet daisy - a cuff and chain earring, a small metal bead bracelet basira - small silver stud, a simple blue and white friendship bracelet helen - biiig hoops, her bracelet is a copy of one probably worn in legally blonde annabelle, a ear cuff with a spiderweb design, a bracelet of little spiderman beads jane - a small loop painted like an earthworm, she has a brown braided bracelet nikola - lesbian earrings of clowns, a big dangly plastic bracelet jude - another earring cuff, this time its flame themed, a leather bracelet with burning on it agnes - little fire earrings of the lesbian kind, a red and orange friendship bracelet. danny - small black hoop, a tour guide merch bracelet rosie - flower studs, a beaded pearl bracelet mike crew - small black hanging cross, also merch bracelet (from his company) getrude - hanging pearls, and her bracelet is just a thing of yarn. joshua - one of those in the middle of your ear, a plastic bead bracelet saying 'king shit' i forgot jared earlier, he is also ace. umm, he has a bone earring and a simple metal bracelet

elias is romantic soulmates with peter and has no platonic ones (same with peter), his earring is an eye and the only bracelet he gets is handcuffs. peter has little seagull earrings

[shipsforeveryone]

XL Ship For Anon

Their Request - 

Hi! Can I request a ship for all of your fandoms. Males only please!

Oh and for the scenario - First Fight. For TVD?

I am a tall, curvy straight female with blonde hair and blue-green eyes.

I am introverted, intellectual, I have a bunch of interests and hobbies, which I tend to hyper fixate on. I am also a bit of a jack of all trades as I like to learn/teach myself how to do a wide variety of things.

I have a very idiosyncratic point of view, I'm bookish and very interested in history. I have a knack for accurately predicting the likelihood of the future. I tend to test people to see if I can trust them a lot but then I become a friend for life. Literally, a ride or die. I have hidden dimensions and intensity and they're hidden because I'm pretty withdrawn. Wanting to watch people from afar to see if I can even poke my head out of my shell around them.

I tend to act arrogant, cryptic, or cynical when afraid. I can be diplomatic and say things without saying them. I am defiant/rebellious towards authority and habitually find counterexamples to whatever others assert. Despite this attitude, I'm incredibly loyal, hardworking, ambitious, and very idealistic.

I struggle with ADHD, social anxiety, and paranoia. I can brood over injustices or entertain conspiracy theories. I am a bigger fan of sneaky vengeance over outright confrontation. I can be passive-aggressive and self-attacking. I love all animals though I never want to personally own a dog, due to how needy and loud they are. I'm more of a cat or reptile person.

I like to record my thoughts out loud and later organize them.

I'm also currently fighting the urge to delete this because I think I sound very full of myself in this lol

Pretty please and thank you! Also sorry this was so long.

My Response

No worries, babe! You don’t sound full of yourself at all. I love the fact that you didn’t beat around the bush about describing yourself!

Avatar: The Last Airbender 

OTP - Zuko. He would love your idiosyncratic point of view and how insightful you are. And would often come to your for advice.

BrOTP - Aang

NOTP - Sokka

Bright

OTP - Nick Jakoby

BrOTP - Tikka

NOTP - Daryl Ward

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

OTP - Rupert Giles. You have quite a bit in common, and you may even end up arguing the uses of technology while admiring books as much as he does.

BrOTP - Daniel “Oz” Osbourne

NOTP - Buffy Summers

Doctor Who

OTP - The 10th Doctor. He’d gently coax you out of your shell. And he’d take you anywhere in time or space that you want to go. If you don’t outright say where/when you would like to go then he’ll pick up on it by listening to your latest interests. 

BrOTP - Is it cheating to say the 12th Doctor? Oh well. I think you would be partners in crime all the way.

NOTP - Rose Tyler

Dragon Age

OTP - Solas. There’s so much in common and I think you’d probably be the best option to convince him to change his plans. 

BrOTP - Merrill.

NOTP - Cassandra.

Fast and Furious franchise

OTP - Tej Parker

BrOTP - Deckard Shaw

NOTP - Luke Hobbs

Game of Thrones

OTP - Tyrion Lannister. Tyrion would tease you to draw you out of your introverted shell. He'd be very interested in your hobbies, interests and your knack for predicting the future. He'd admire your wide skill set, loyalty, defiant attitude and how hardworking you are. He’d often suggest books to you and vice versa. 

BrOTP - Jon Snow

NOTP - Daenerys Targaryen

Golden Girls

OTP - Dorothy. 

BrOTP - Rose

NOTP - Sophia

Hannibal

OTP - Will Graham.

BrOTP - Alana Bloom.

NOTP -  Jack Crawford

Harry Potter

OTP - Severus Snape. Your mind, skill set and attitude would all appeal to him very much.

BrOTP - Luna Lovegood

NOTP - Ron Weasley

Inglourious Basterds

OTP - Hugo Stiglitz

BrOTP - Donny Donowitz

NOTP - Aldo Raine

John Wick

OTP - John Wick

BrOTP - Marcus

NOTP - Winston

Jurassic Park franchise

OTP - Dr. Ian Malcolm

BrOTP - Dr. Ellie Sattler

NOTP - Dr. Sarah Harding

Kingsman

OTP - Merlin

BrOTP - Harry Hart / Galahad

NOTP - Jack Daniels / Whiskey

Legend of Korra

OTP - Mako

BrOTP - Asami Sato

NOTP - Tahno

Marvel 

OTP - Bucky Barnes

BrOTP - Loki

NOTP - Natasha Romanoff

Mayans MC

OTP - Ezekiel “EZ” Reyes.

BrOTP - Johnny “Coco” Cruz

NOTP - Emily Thomas-Galindo

NCIS

OTP - Timothy McGee

BrOTP - Abby Sciuto

NOTP - Tony DiNozzo

New Girl

OTP - Nick Miller

BrOTP - Winston Saint-Marie Schmidt

NOTP - Julia Cleary

Once Upon A Time

OTP - Killian Jones / Captain Hook

BrOTP - Regina Mills

NOTP - Mary Margaret Blanchard / Snow White

Parks and Recreation

OTP - Ben Wyatt

BrOTP - April Ludgate

NOTP - Jean Ralphio Saperstein

Peaky Blinders

OTP - Tommy Shelby

BrOTP - Alfie Solomons

NOTP - Ada Thorne

Pokemon

OTP - Brock

BrOTP - Bulbasaur Ash Ketchum

NOTP - Jessie

Rick and Morty

OTP - Rick Sanchez

BrOTP - Beth Smith

NOTP - Jerry Smith. 

Schitt’s Creek

OTP - David Rose

BrOTP - Ronnie Lee

NOTP - Moira Rose

Sherlock (BBC)

OTP - Sherlock Holmes. He'd adore your mind and find your skill set useful. Sherlock would love your defiance of authority and ambition. Though you'd butt heads every now and then ultimately your differences would make you an even better match. You'd both bring out each other's emotions more and understand each other better than anyone else ever could.

BrOTP - Mycroft Holmes. I know, very surprising. But like with Sherlock there’s a lot in common and a lot different. So you’d frequently argue But in the end you’d have the common goal of looking out for Sherlock to make you both closer.

NOTP - Jim Moriarty.

Sons of Anarchy

OTP - Jackson “Jax” Teller.

BrOTP - Bobby Munson

NOTP - Tara Knowles

Star Wars Prequels

OTP - Obi-Wan Kenobi

BrOTP - Qui-Gon Jinn

NOTP - Anakin Skywalker

Star Wars Original Trilogy

OTP - Luke Skywalker

BrOTP - R2D2

NOTP - Han Solo

Stranger Things

OTP - Jim Hopper. I think Hopper would admire you for testing people so thoroughly to see if you can trust them. And he’d really love how loyal you are to the people you do trust.

BrOTP - Alexei. Here me out, the two of you seem to have a bit in common. First and foremost your intelligence. And I think you’d make Hopper quit being such an ass to Alexei.

NOTP - Nancy Wheeler

Supernatural

OTP - Sam Winchester. Okay I can just see you researching together. Staying up all night in the Bunker’s library poring over every single book.

BrOTP - Charlie Bradbury. Do I need to say anything more than nerd power?

NOTP - Mary Winchester.

Teen Wolf

OTP - Chris Argent

BrOTP - Stiles Stilinski

NOTP - Lydia Martin

That 70’s Show

OTP - Eric Forman.

BrOTP - Donna Pinciotti

NOTP - Jackie Burkhardt

The Expendables

OTP - Lee Christmas

BrOTP - Barney Ross

NOTP - Mr. Church

The Hobbit

OTP - Thorin Oakenshield. Thorin would admire your wide skill set and your ambition to learn how to do so many things. He'd adore your loyalty and knack for diplomacy. 

BrOTP - Fili Durin.

NOTP - Thranduil

The Lord of the Rings

OTP - Faramir. 

BrOTP - Samwise Gamgee

NOTP - Denethor

The Vampire Diaries & The Originals

OTP - Elijah Mikaelson. I think that Elijah would adore your intelligence and would encourage your interests and hobbies. If you want to know anything about history? He'd be more than happy to discuss his own experiences with you. He'd often get your opinion on a course of action before doing it, due to your with and ability of predicting the possible outcomes. He'd love your original, no pun intended, point of view. And though he loves your tenacity, your ambition, your idealistic nature and your loyalty, sometimes it can frustrate him when he thinks certain people who have your loyalty don't deserve it. Or at least not at the intensity that you give it. 

First Fight - Your first fight would probably have to do with your friendship and loyalty towards Klaus. While sometimes he admires it, he often wishes that you weren’t so loyal to his brother. Thinking he isn’t always deserving of it. Afterwards you’d both go in different rooms to brood until ready to make up.

BrOTP - Niklaus Mikaelson. Klaus would admire your intelligence, ambition, hard working and even defiant attitude. Your skills and ability to think differently from everyone else. He would also come to you for advice though he wouldn’t always adhere it. Though what Klaus would love most of all is your loyalty. Especially after he made it through all your tests and found himself on the receiving end of your loyalty. And he would feel guilty when your loyalty and friendship with him would cause a rift in your relationship with his brother. 

NOTP - Damon Salvatore. Damon is impulsive and has his own way of testing the loyalty  of those around him. Though his form of testing is more of him doing things that makes them less loyal and trusting of him. He’d probably end up trying to test and strain your loyalty towards Elijah and Klaus. Which would infuriate you. And he would fail which would infuriate him.

The Walking Dead

OTP - Negan.

BrOTP - Carl Grimes. In an AU where Rick’s Group became saviors instead of finding Alexandria. I think Carl would have become Negna’s protege and may have even softened him up.

NOTP - Rick Grimes.

The Witcher (show)

OTP - Geralt of Rivia

BrOTP - Yennefer of Vengerberg

NOTP - Queen Calanthe

True Blood

OTP - Eric Northman

BrOTP - Bill Compton

NOTP - Sam Merlotte

Vikings

OTP - Ragnar Lothbrok

BrOTP - Ivar the Boneless

NOTP - Björn Ironside

WWE (kayfabe personas)

OTP - Roman Reigns

BrOTP - Finn Balor

NOTP - Chris Jericho

[char-lie-spirals]

I would like to learn about the rest of the aus you mentioned here:3

Okay okay so!! I talked about some of them, so I'll just put the entire list under the cut and either link to my previous responses or cook something up! And what I cook up can possibly include a snippet of my writing too :]

Also since this is a lot of AUs/WIPs I'll try to be brief, but feel free to ask about more details on them!

Terminus' Ritual

This is an AU I've had for like a year now, and it answers a very simple question - What if the End HAD a ritual? That its avatars complete between mag 159 and mag 160? Simple answer - Zombies. And also some deaths getting reversed because getting a quick taste of it should make people more scared, and it's hard to keep a zombie apocalypse going with too few people. (This doesn't match the End's values, I Know.)

I have some notes on different characters' situations, who comes back etc etc but honestly the storyline I focused on the most is Oliver seeking shelter in Graham's old flat only for Graham to also be there, Pretty Confused about the passage of time between his death and now. :]

Graham gets spat out AU

Sasha gets replaced, NotSasha picks up the tape recorder and goes to dispose of the tape. The Artifact Storage is silent, but not empty, as a man who doesn't recall his own name wakes up on the floor. Okay this already sounds a bit like a snippet so I guess you can have a proper one too:

It was all pointless, you only suffered longer -- but is that truly pointless?

This one is a WIP in which I just wanted to explore the idea that the only reason Graham lived for so long was because he was scared that entire time, to the point the NotThem wasn't in much of a rush. It's pretty angsty, but can be bittersweet too if you look at it at the right angle and I am a simple man with a lot of hope in my heart. I've not been making much progress with it, and I'm not sure if I'll end it on the title-question and leave it up for the reader to decide, or if I'll provide my own answer, but let me say here: I don't think it was pointless. Not to me.

Michael(s) experience confusion

Already talked about this one here!

Graham Lives WITHOUT Becoming

Graham survives the events of MAG 003 because Oliver gets there in time to help him, and the two of them try to navigate the aftermath together. They go through many ups and downs, Oliver ends up becoming an Avatar himself, but Graham just kinda,, doesn't?? It just never happens. No fear claims him. At this point a lot of people are convinced he's an Avatar because of how his life is intertwined with the Fears but nope. Just some guy who can bluff pretty decently, gets lucky a lot, and loves his End-Avatar fiance a whole bunch :] (yes they're engaged now)

Graham Folger Lives because The Eye Is A Backseat Gamer

One of my Eye Graham AUs :] The main one, you could say! In this one, The Eye backseat-games his MAG 003 experience, and he Knows where to hide, what to do, and how to survive. After that, he goes on to start working at the institute, becomes an Archival Assistant after Jon's promotion, and goes through the horrors! I also talked about it Ages ago, right here- hold on that was in MAY???? 2023????? 10 months ago???? This is messed up.

Anyway! here's a little something I have written about it so far :]

DeathNote intro

Just me trying to explore how Graham and Oliver might've met, grown closer, gotten together and stayed together for 6 years :] No clue if I'll ever publish this and if so, if I'll use it as a backstory/background for one of my AUs or as its own stand-alone thing? But yeah it's just the two of them growing closer and falling in love :] You can have this snippet of it, too! It's their literal first meeting!

Antique seller Graham

Talked about this one here! I will probably do so again soon! But you can also have a snippet, since I guess writing all this really put me in a snippet mood! This is from this AU's version of Amy's statement :D

Cockroach Graham AU

I don't think I need to elaborate.

[fromathelastoveritaserum]

The Self Care Tag Game

Tagged by @strafethesesinners​ , Thank you! I haven’t done this yet ٩(⁎❛ᴗ❛⁎)۶

Favorite comfort food: Kraft Mac’n’cheese! With chopped up lil’smokies and a hint of sriracha sauce :9

Favorite drink: Dr. Pepper 

Favorite relaxing activity: Playing video games (Far Cry 5 at the moment) and writing fanfiction during my study breaks :3

Favorite fluffy/feel good fic: While I enjoy fics with a good dose of fluff and good feels, I also like heapfuls of angst, humor, action, with a dash smut where the romance was cooked slowly and lovingly! My faves that I highly recommend can be found on AO3:

Fallout New Vegas (Benny/Female Courier) “Heaven Can Wait” by moon_crater

Fallout New Vegas (Female Courier/Joshua Graham) “The path is always there” by snaildetective

Far Cry 5 (Jacob Seed/Female Deputy) “Come a little closer” by lowtides

Fire Emblem: Awakening AU (Female My Unit-Avatar/Sort-Stahl) “Unbreakable Glass Heart” by averageghost

Mass Effect Milky Way AU (Garrus/Female Shepard)  “Son of Palaven, Daughter of Earth” by miceenscene

Mass Effect AU (Garrus/Female Shepard) “Fibonacci” (Revamped) by squiggly_squid

Mass Effect Milky Way AU (Nihlus /Female Shepard - with Saren Father) “Sins of the Father” by MsWikit 

Mass Effect Milky Way (Original human female/original male turian) “Five Weeks On” by chockymousse

Mass Effect Milky Way (Original human female/original male turian) “In Bloom” by Wafflesrock

Mass Effect Andromeda (Jaal/Sara Ryder) “The problem with flirting” by Steinbjoern

Pokemon Sword & Shield (Raihan/Gloria) “Into the Wild” by writingnerd

Favorite calming scent: Soft lavender 

Favorite white noise: The gentle pitter patter of rain

Favorite relaxing (or uplifting) song: Oh boy, right now my ‘crush that exam anthem’ playlist includes: Doja Cat - ‘Say So’ and The Weeknd - ‘Starboy’,  ‘Can't Feel My Face’, ‘Blinding Lights’, ‘In Your Eyes’, and ‘Secrets’.

Favorite book to get lost in: Sabriel by Garth Nix and The Harry Potter series

Favorite TV show to chill-out: Community, Arrested Development, The Simpsons, Futurama, Disenchantment, and Eddie Izzard’s recorded stand ups.

The best advice you’ve ever had: Remembering that ->"This too, shall pass...”  ಥ_ಥ It applies to everything in life...

I’m tagging the following, but please only do if you would like to (no pressure!), plus anyone else who would like to join in on the fun! @rpgwarrior4824, @bitterestel, @squigglysquidd, @anavakarian, @angaranprincess

[eatspages-a]

something something... information for p.athfinder-ish group au. idek what im calling this au but its Gotta be better than ‘au: wizard.’ nvm anyway, blap

similar backstory to canon so far, des influenced by the slaughter but ultimately chooses the eye, sam almost buckled under the dark but chose the eye, graham was born on an island close to an eye site.

(thank u samuel for the picture/reference. <3 if i forgot someone im so sorry)

also maybe graham effed around with travelling a bit (both with his parents and alone) and also got caught up in. the clown place just across the water, re: not-them business. might be a later point idk yet. same with probably everywhere lbh (altho there can be avatar business in. unrelated areas but yk)

graham is Not part of elias’ stuff. not willingly anyway.

just kinda doing his own wizard thing and vibing and collecting antique furniture but isn’t unapposed to new friends ofc. so long as they don’t give him elias vibes <3

RE: SPELLS

L0 - Arcane Mark: Inscribes a personal rune on an object or creature (visible or invisible). -- re: eye stuff

L0 - Prestidigitation: Performs minor tricks. -- re: post-notthem survival stuff

L0 - Detect Fiendish Presence: tldr detects only outsides with evil subtype as well as lingering effects caused by anything they do, and detect clerics & paladins of ‘fiendish’ deities. -- re: eye stuff, post-encounters with several things (ongoing?)

L0 - Read Magic: reading scrolls and textbooks -- re: eye stuff

L1 - Comprehend Languages: You understand all spoken and written languages. -- re: eye stuff

L1 - Shadow Trap: You pin the target’s shadow to its current location, causing the target to become entangled and preventing it from moving farther than 5 feet from its original position, as if its shadow were anchored to the terrain. -- re: eye stuff sort of (could be web, re: table)

L2 - Burning Gaze: Inflict 1d6 fire damage to creatures by looking at them. -- re: eye stuff

RE: FEATS

Fast Learner: You possess extra versatility. -- yeah

Fearsome Spell: Your spells inspire great fear in those harmed by them. -- re: he’s a bit mean sometimes u_u

Divine Defiance: You distrust, disrespect, or doubt the gods, which helps you fight off their power. -- still serving the eye but not Willingly lmao. also eff all the others

Scribe Scroll: You can create magic scrolls of any spell you know. -- re: eye stuff

[backofthebookshelf]

105 Hill Top Road: What the Fuck

(Relevant episodes: 008, 019, 043, 055, 056, 059, 067, 078, 089, 114, 130, 134, 139)

I mean, I think it's pretty obvious at this point that Anya Villette came from another reality, right? The timeline's different but the Powers are the same. At least one of them, with that spidery tree. She goes into the house in one reality and wakes up in another one, where all her friends tell her, "oh yeah, when shit like that happens to you, you go to the Magnus Institute," and she says, "the what now?" And there's this building in Chelsea that wasn't there before and they take her statement and then she...what? Does she disappear? Do the spiders get her? Or does she just not have a legal identity in this reality so that's why they can't find her?

(Did Gertrude actually read this statement? She's probably busy as hell in 2009, she's been working on rituals, Mary Keay has just turned herself into a book, Leitner's running around in the tunnels. And she was skeptical of Dekker's theories; would she be as skeptical of something like this? Presumably she read Vanderstock's statement, she would have wanted to know, and he mentioned the "scar in reality" but would she have believed it? Would she have considered it worth following up on, even without the spiders doubtless doing all they can to keep people from paying attention?)

Vanderstock mentions "other Powers" at work at Hill Top Road, but the only one I can identify besides the Web and the Desolation is the Spiral, and that only vaguely: Ivo Lensik and Father Burroughs were both Spiral-adjacent. And I wonder about that table, too; everything about it seems Spiral-like, except for the fact that it is used to trap a Stranger creature. Granted I can make a case for hypnosis being related to spiders, but still.

Still no idea what actually happened there, of course. Agnes would have been fully grown (26, per her death certificate) by around 1980, assuming she ages normally, which is kind of a big assumption. (139 makes it sound like it took her twenty years to be eleven years old, but that might be me misinterpreting.) Vanderstock makes a reference to Gertrude doing something that delayed their ritual preparations just after Jude Perry joined; not sure whether that's when she first met them in '89 or when she "completed her transformation" in '91, but let's average the difference and call it sometime around 1990. But the house at Hill Top Road burned in 1974, so whatever was happening there happened well before they'd given up on their ritual.

(Besides, it really sounded like the Last Feast was the first ritual Gertrude had successfully and intentionally disrupted. So either she did this accidentally or it was something else. But why assume it was her, otherwise? In 2008 Mary makes a snide comment about Gertrude not getting out and doing much herself, which is hilarious because she disrupted at least two rituals in 2008, but it does indicate that she's at least not seen as someone who gets involved. But that's almost twenty years later; maybe she used to get out more? Maybe the Eye had a particular interest in something? We've got a few statements from the 90s but mostly 1996 and later; we've got exactly one statement from the 80s and it's Tucked In. Anyway. This is (probably) a distraction.) (Interestingly Jon only comments on Agnes's death, not on whatever happened in the early 90s, which makes me wonder if it wasn't Gertrude at all but the spiders themselves. But Vanderstock is so sure it was her.)

I can't find anything in other statements that tells us much of anything aside from one thing: the Institute got a new Head in 1973, a year before the house burned. It might be nothing, but if the Web and the Eye are as closely aligned as we keep speculating they are, it might be something. (This was Elias's predecessor, James Wright, about whom we know nothing at all.) There is a really annoying lack of statements from the 80s and early 90s; we have virtually no idea what was going on in the supernatural ecosystem at that time. Would those be the statements on tape that were found with Gertrude's body, perhaps? What did happen to all of those? Two or three boxes of tapes is a lot of statements.

But back to the point, what was happening at Hill Top Road? It was owned by the Fieldings from the 1800s, which makes me think it's been a Web stronghold that long. (I'd love to know if Walter Fielding knew Smirke or Magnus or anyone else in their circle.) By the sixties Raymond Fielding was using it to harvest...victims? Hosts? What did happen to the kids Ronald Sinclair saw in the basement, who had been turned into spider egg sacs? Were they just there to feed the baby spiders, or were they turning into spider-Jaegers like the one Trevor Herbert met in 2009? (Daisy told Basira her first sectioned case was something to do with spider husks but we never got any other details. That would've been the latter half of 2002. We got no other details but I'd be interested to know where it was. HEY JON TALK TO YOUR COWORKERS.)

So okay, 105 Hill Top Road is a spider factory, cool. Then Agnes shows up. Two-three months later she saves a guy from getting et by Raymond Fielding for no apparent reason, that's nice of her. (Agnes likes cute boys confirmed.) And it seems like she stops him from taking in more kids, because they say the number of kids at the house dwindles until it's just Agnes left, and then Raymond disappears. It's "years" that Agnes lives in the house alone and mostly never leaves, though pets go missing from the neighborhood, before, in 1974, a five-year-old goes missing. A week later the house burns down and in it they find only Raymond Fielding's skeleton, sans right hand. So that sounds like Fielding was feeding on the kids, and catching smaller prey after he didn't have them any more, and when he worked back up to kids again Agnes caught him and stopped him. But it had to be more than that, because this is the fight Vanderstock describes as creating "a scar in reality," and which tied Agnes to the location. The fact that she kept Fielding's hand worried Arthur Nolan, which yeah, that would worry me too, but I'm not an avatar of destruction created by an evil cult, so I have to assume it was for some reason other than "eew."

(I also have to wonder exactly what their ritual required, other than Agnes herself, because there's a long time between 1974 and 1990. But.)

Then, in 2006, the house is being rebuilt and Ivo Lensik is working on it evenings and weekends, and who shows up at the door but Raymond Fielding, in an old-fashioned coat and looking "like something out of an old Polaroid," showing off the deed to the house and poking around. This show doesn't really go in for ghosts, and besides he was an avatar or something, so I'm gonna go with "alternate universe Ray Fielding," I guess. Who then...gets burned to a crisp after being inside the (new) house for two minutes? There's a smell of burning and a scorch mark on the floor. This freaks out Lensik so bad he falls and hits his head and also worries that he's getting schizophrenia (which his father apparently had, except schizophrenia doesn't work like that, that was definitely Michael) and he goes to the hospital, where a local nurse apparently likes suggesting exorcisms to people.

(There's no indication that anyone from the Lightless Flame noticed AU!Ray, so I'm assuming for now he was destroyed/banished/yeeted back to his own reality by whatever latent Desolation power is attached to the place.)

So one night the exorcist shows up and while he's waiting outside Ivo Lensik just. Snaps. He cannot handle that tree. That tree is looking at him and he doesn't like it. He takes a crowbar to it and it bleeds; he chains it to his truck and pulls it down. At this point Agnes, who's out with Jack Barnabas being blessedly normal for a change, spasms like something hurt her and makes a panicked phone call, and then Arthur and Diego and everybody show up at her flat with an unlit lantern, a bag of candles, and a jar of tiny spiders, and then she asks them to kill her. Vanderstock puts it down to Jack Barnabas, but in Barnabas's own statement it's very clear that the tree comes down, she calls in a panic, they meet her at her flat, and then she kisses him and he's in the hospital for three days. (I'm not saying her attachment to him didn't ruin the ritual, that's probably why she made whatever decision she did, but the tree was an inciting incident.)

(At the same time the tree is coming down, too, Father Burroughs is inside the house feeling like he's burning alive, and the Spiral is speaking through him insisting that he's already been claimed and the Desolation just doesn't care. It doesn't stop until the tree comes down outside. There's also no indication that any Desolation avatars noticed this.)

Under the tree is a six-inch-square box covered in twisting lines and there's a whole OTHER thing, because that box belongs in the center of the table that trapped the not!Them, and how did it get from here to there? How did it escape the fire that burned down the original house? (Graham had it in 2005. Dekker had it in 2001. No clue where it went between 2005 and when it shows up at the Institute in 2015.) And what was the purpose of it when Fielding used it, had the kids sit around it every Sunday dinner? Did he bury the box, with an apple inside, to protect himself from Agnes? Is that why pulling down the tree hurt her? (In Anya Villette's statement the tree is heavily spider-identified, to the point where she refers to it interchangeably as "branches" and "arms," of which it has eight, but in Ivo Lensik's statement he notices that it was heavily burned at the base. Was it attacked by the Desolation? In which case why did pulling it down hurt Agnes? Was she, in fact, tied to the tree itself? In which case, given the importance of the tree in the alternate reality, is there an alternate Agnes out there? Maybe one where she got to go on dates with cute boys instead of having to either die or burn down the world?)

AND. As more than one of us have pointed out by now, in 114, Jon says:

I’ve half a mind to just go down and have a look at it myself, but… I don’t know. Ever since it first came up I’ve felt like it would be… just a very bad idea.

And then Tim walks in and he and we forget all about it, but doesn't that sound like spidery manipulation to you? It does to me. So whatever Agnes and the Desolation did at Hill Top Road, it had a lasting effect (both in terms of leaving some remnant of the Desolation there and in the side effect of the...apparent dimensional portal?...) but the spiders do still seem to hold a lot of sway there as well.

What this has to do with anything I wish I knew, but I will say that 114 was the first thing I thought of after Garland Hillier's "la porte est la porte," which also sounds a lot like "all the doors are open now" from The Bifrost Incident (which is probably an entirely different continuity and has nothing to do with this other than ~themes~ but you know), but now that we've been talking a lot about the Powers as places I'm not so sure that means anything other than poor Hillier managed to walk into the domain of the Extinction and found his way out again for a while. But if the Powers are places, does that imply that Anya Villette came from one of them, or that there are other mostly-normal universes that haven't been taken over by the Powers? And if they exist...well. What does that imply about saving our universe from them, or losing it to them? (By "our" I mean "Jon and Martin's universe," obviously, "our" universe is another one entirely. I hope.)

tl;dr (TOO LATE): I have absolutely no idea what was or is happening at Hill Top Road but I’m pretty sure the spiders don’t want anyone poking around and also someone should go poke around there immediately, unless that's what Martin is doing right now, Martin stop, go back and get your boyfriend, he's freaking out

[nebulapie]

eye avatar will graham au when

[eatspages]

starter call: full avatar au

Full-on Avatar Graham AU. Where Graham leans in completely and embraces being an avatar/agent/servant of the Eye/Ceaseless Watcher.

note: open to plotting.