#Gabriel and Cassie was unintentional

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Fnaf characters who share a birthday in my au!

Michael Afton and Vanessa Monroe -> January 3rd

Cassidy and Andrew Liu and Cassidy Afton -> June 26th

Gabriel Clark and Cassie Sanchez -> March 11th

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Tell me everything about zombie AU now

whoo boy theres a lot

EVERYONE IS HUMAN BTW!! (unless i say otherwise)

William Afton, a famous doctor known for creating incredible cures, makes something regrettable. A virus. It wasn't 100% unintentional. He was experimenting, the outcome was born from curiosity. Then, it got out somehow and began infecting people.

His three kids were at home alone when it happened (William works pretty far away, and was staying out of town for a few days) they fled and decided their best bet was to find their father in hopes he could make a cure. easier said than done.

On the way, they meet Dave Miller (NOT WILLIAM), who isn't all that he seems. Michael doesn't trust him, but he wins over the younger Aftons immediately. it doesnt help that evan especially is close with dave, considering evan doesnt trust/like mike.

Meanwhile, Ballora Afton is living her best life when the virus hit. She managed to escape her packed city and hid at a school, where she found six kids.

Charlie, Cassidy, Jeremy, Fritz, Susie, and Gabriel.

She decides to protect them.

Then William finds the school too, seeing it as a good place to hide, and is face-to-face with his ex wife and six different children.

One of which is Henry's.

William has been unable to contact Henry recently, and assumes he is dead.

Which means Charlie is alone. So he decides to stick with Ballora and the kids.

As for the three star fam, they were together when it hit, but circumstances seperated Gregory and Vanessa from Freddy. They find Cassie and Roxy, their friends, and they help them.

in a series of unfortunate events, they are killed. possibly.

they eventually find evan, badly injured and all alone, and take him in. Gregory helps him out, and they take care of him. after he explains his situation to them, they agree to help him find his dad (he thinks mike and lizzie r both dead)

at the same time, william and the kids attempt to escape the school. turns out thats not so easy. theres a lot of people around them.

of course, someone was gonna get bit. that someone was charlie.

cassidy tries to save her friend, but william forcefully pulls her away, saying charlie is a lost cause. cassidy is upset iwth him over this and harbors a lot of anger over it.

(That's not the end of charlie btw >:3)

after they finally escape, they wander looking for supplies and stumble across mike, exhausted and unconscious and hurt, and william is overjoyed to see him, but his siblings are missing.

michael does not elaborate.

eventually, ness greg and evan meet up with will ballora mike and the mci kids. and elizabeth comes back in her own special way

for now, everything else is a secret/not planned. have the refs for the afton kids + dave

the masks are from dave (except michael's.)

[deanchaos]

not sure if anyone ever thought of this before (probably) but hear me out besties i had a vision: mammamianatural. dean gets extremely exhausted after a couple armaggedons and decides to actually take his toes-in-the-sand vacation. while backpacking through europe he encounters 3 non-human fellas and has special magical moments with each of them (benny, crowley and cas). obviously cas can’t stay with him bc his deadbeat of a father has some big plans for him etc etc and dean is left heartbroken.

dean ends up in this gorgeous greek island and while he’s writing all about it in his cutesy diary an unidentified magical creature (preferably archangel as in gabriel) appears to him and tells him his intense connection with a magical being somehow broke all of the universe’s rules (shocker) and manifested in the form of (yup) a supernatural child (jack) that appears before him as the messenger vanishes.

dean gets confused as hell and thinks “what the fuck no way that’s my goddamn kid” but when he looks into his *angel eyes* he completely forgets that thought. he raises that unknown baby creature for like a week or something and gets even more confused about how fast he’s growing but asks no questions bc well that doesn’t really matter to him at this point.

later on, it’s jack’s first 365-day-count-birthday and they decide to make a big deal out of it, inviting everyone that’s ever been important in dean’s life: sam and eileen, charlie, rowena, bobby, garth and even cool exes like cassie. jack finds dean’s old diary and invites benny, crowley and castiel in secret bc yay second daddy reveal the more the merrier. and all of that happens in between abba songs. period

ps: eventually they all find out gabriel simply spat dean in this insane alternate reality for kicks

ps2: it all makes sense because it is known that donna sheridan’s mom in mamma mia was kind of a bitch to her (which clearly applies to john

special shoutout to @emeraldcas for the unintentional inspiration with the abbanatural videos

[cassandraclare]

q&a prejudice and Shadowhunters

nevergonnagiveyouuporletyoudown said: Hi Ms. Clare! I was just curious as to why the kids at the Academy were mean to Alastair. Shouldn't Shadowhunters be less racist? They travel and see people of all different backgrounds, and if Idris is a center for Shadowhunters then shouldn't there be people of color there too? They have to work together so why wouldn't they accept each other?

katy-krazy-xoxo said: Hi Cassie! I want to ask about Alastair and Jem. Alastair was treated poorly in the Shadowhunter Academy due to his Persian heritage. So how was that Jem, with his Chinese heritage, wasn't being discriminated against in TID?

galbinuscarnation said: I was wondering, why was Alistair made fun of for being of Persian descent? I was under the impression that he was a Shadowhunter first, although as we've seen many Shadowhunters adopt their local customs from whence they came. It could be a product of the times, or maybe related to his parents, but I have been wondering this for quite a while. Thank you!

I see this question is on people's minds! Yes, Jem’s experience was different than Alastair’s — because there is no one monolithic experience for people of color in any situation, and we’re talking about an entire spectrum of behavior. Shadowhunters are generally less racist than mundanes, because their prejudice against mundanes and Downworlders trumps their prejudice against other Shadowhunters. They’re already banded into a subgroup — Shadowhunters — by which they identify themselves. That doesn’t mean there’s never any prejudice within the subgroup: that’s sadly not usually how these things work. 

As we’ve seen, Idris is indeed full of people from all over the world, but so is New York, and that hasn’t erased racism from existing there. And while being a Shadowhunter is the most important thing to them--the first, essential thing--it isn't the only thing. Since we’re looking at 1903 — Shadowhunter society would have involved somewhat less of the systemic and structural racism of the time, because racism wasn’t encoded into their Laws the way it was into the laws of the US and England: what we see is more of a pattern of microaggressions and offensive assumptions and beliefs. 

To look at another issue: Shadowhunters in 1903 were also generally less sexist than mundanes — women had a vote in the Council in 1878 when they didn’t have a vote in mundane government. But that doesn’t mean they’re not sexist at all. 

“I never meant to hurt Charlotte.”

“Charlotte is very sensitive about the way the Institute is run. As a woman, she must fight to be heard, and even then her decisions are second-guessed. You heard Benedict Lightwood at the Enclave meeting. She feels she has no freedom to make a mistake.” — Clockwork Angel

Shadowhunter society is folded into ours, never entirely independent of ours--though invisible to us, they walk among us, and are necessarily influenced by our world. Portals are a new invention in TID, and still recent in TLH, and so before that it was easier for Shadowhunters--as it was for everybody in the past--to think of the world as just the people immediately around them, who often looked and acted like them, because travel and seeing different places and people was immeasurably more difficult. (In part, the whole idea of the “travel year” was meant to ameliorate that, and we can see that in some cases it did help, but it wasn’t enough on its own!) 

Moreover, Shadowhunter Academy, as we saw in 1899, was populated overwhelmingly by white boys--who were also presumed to be straight--being brought up in what was thought of as Shadowhunter Tradition, capital letters. The Victorian Era was a time of travel and an expanded world, but also a time when the British Empire —which stretched over vast portions of the globe — uplifted white men as the default, the natural ones to have power, and the Clave is influenced by that as they are always influenced by the bleed of mundane culture into theirs. Boys at the Academy make connections that turn into them being comrades with political influence later in life, in the same way old boys' networks of politicians exist now. Josiah Wayland, Consul during TID, was a white guy. and Victor Whitelaw, Inquisitor during TID, was a white guy--and that wasn't an accident. Inquisitor Bridgestock in TLH is a white guy, and very powerful because conservative Shadowhunters are edging away from their female Consul, and that isn't an accident either. There are people of color, there are women of color, who would've been amazing Consuls and Inquisitors in the 1870s, but they didn't get the chance. Women were rarely sent to the Academy; we know this from Nothing But Shadows. Charlotte was the first female Consul, and she didn’t have an easy time of it: women in the next generation were still less likely to be warriors or politicians. Most, though not all, of the Consuls have been white. Also, PoC Shadowhunters just weren't sent to the Academy as often, because the Shadowhunters are aware of how the world works and the parents of those children didn’t want to do that to their kids. James with his Downworlder heritage went because he wanted to go, because he wanted to find friends his own age (which he did) and look how that turned out. 

Racism is varied in different times and places and situations, and all circumstances and experiences or racism are not monolithic. I think it's fairly clear that Alastair attended the Academy at a time when there was a pretty rotten bunch of kids in his class. That sucks. It happens, in real life and in fiction: in the Narnia series, one brother (Edmund) has a horrible character-altering time of it at school, and his older brother Peter is just fine. Alastair was sent by his father Elias, who is white, and thus being white was able to tell himself that racism doesn't exist among Shadowhunters, that there are no microaggressions (I mean, none of them would know that word, but microaggressions still exist in TLH: we see Mrs Bridgestock call Alastair “that Persian boy” and Mrs Bridgestock, who loves her PoC daughter, thinks of herself as just describing Alastair, but Alastair and Cordelia both know what's up, and react accordingly.). Elias had the privilege of not really thinking about it. Alastair paid the price. 

Jem didn't go to Shadowhunter Academy--neither he nor Will ever went, and neither of them knew what the Academy was like: Jem lived in London with the very accepting Charlotte and Henry. And Jem was the son of two well-respected Shadowhunters who died hero's deaths, and so he got some slack. Alastair, the son of a suspected murderess and a disgraced and despised Shadowhunter (we'll see what's up with Elias in TLH!), does not. These things are never simple! But Jem did have to deal with racism. Benedict Lightwood and Tatiana and--I'm sorry to say--Gideon and Gabriel's attitude to Jem is definitely informed by racism. Will has behaved badly to the Lightwoods (for understandable curse reasons) but Jem has done nothing to them, and Gabriel definitely prefers Jem to Will, but Gabriel isn't exactly a peach to Jem either. In Clockwork Angel Gabriel references Jem's “disability”—which Will understandably takes extreme issue with!--and equates Jem being tortured by yin fen with an opium addiction--the fact Jem is half Chinese, and that Gabriel's mind jumped to opium addiction, is no mistake, and Will understands and is insulted on Jem's behalf. Even though Gabriel, like Mrs Bridgestock, doesn't intend to be racist, microaggressions are often unintentional.  

(From Wikipedia: “There was much prejudice against the East End Chinese community, with much of it initiated by the writings of Thomas Burke and Sax Rohmer. Both of these men wrote about the Chinese community. Burke and Rohmer exaggerated the Chinese community's true size and made much mention of gambling, opium dens, and "unholy things" in the shadows.”)

I don't say this to be down on Gabriel. Benedict raised his kids horribly, in bad harmful beliefs! They needed space to learn, and grow away from him — and they did! Gideon and Gabriel changed for the better. I don't want to portray a perfect society, or perfect characters, but complicated ones, with complicated attitudes that can hopefully change. Jem didn't have the same experience as Alastair; he had his own experience and both are valid. So has Magnus, and Lily, and Jia, and Aline, and Raphael, and Diego, and Cristina, and Jaime, all in their different ways. Shadowhunters are urban fantasy books, not high fantasy books: they do take place in part in our real world, and though prejudice in the Shadowhunter culture is complicated by prejudices we don’t have (Downworlder prejudice, prejudice against folks with demon blood!) they also experience the prejudices we do have. 

“They have to work together, so why wouldn't they accept each other” is really true, but also applies to the real world. We all have to work together, so why don't we accept each other? I wish we would. The world would be better, and work better, if we did. But we don't. I hope someday we will.