#Hello Neighbor Ptolemy

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It's so crazy to me how my new job I just sit there what the fuck-

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Heee heee

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Considering Diane is Ike's sister, does this make her Jewish? (Ike's last name, Gershowitz, has very Jewish origins and the fact that the pizza he ate is Kosher implies he is Jewish)

Considering it but I'm thinking it's one of those scenarios where she doesn't practice it (cause well... Raven Brooks in this AU is very Midwest... Very conservative leaning...)

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If you don't mind me asking, what are finch and delroy's role in the plotemy au :O

Delroy and Finch are a little wishy washy? Like if you just looked at my two questions about the two in my previous ask

So rn they're still very plot convenient and tbh HNAS has not been helpful in th slightest with their characterization just a tip sometimes... Making a mean character u gotta need substance than being a mean cunt its whybookenzoworkedsowell

They're still very much centered around Ivan, Finch is Ivan, Delroy and Maritza's bully and Delroy was Ivan's sorta semi friend that felt left out when Ivan befriended EMU

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Omg I just realized one of ur inspirations is the Preacher's Daughter

Ahah yep! That's where Hello Neighbor: Ptolemy got it's name from Ptolemeae from Preacher's Daughter by Ethel Cain!!

Ptolemeae is where the 9th circle in hell in Dante's Inferno it was named after Ptolemy, I really am just in love with this word and the name as it felt like a very similar but more hard hitting word to "Omen" like in the books.

I would've named if Judecca like how yk Hello Neighbor referenced Judas's betrayal of Jesus

but it felt a little goofy to say it out loud so Ptolemy it is especially cause the betrayal is all about someone who let's you into their house, and in the words of Ethel Cain:

"That’s how it feels.’ When someone invites you in, brings you into their life, just to hurt you"

And for me though I could see Theodore using that against Aaron in a way... Make no mistake Theodore is the biggest traitor in the room just like in the song in a way who brought people into his life and ruined and hurt them for life, one too many to count... I'm very influenced by Preacher's Daughter it's a very southern goth ethereal album I actually would recommend you maybe get into it later if ur a minor in my crowd it's a pretty dark album that deals more than just death and traitors. But yeah that's where it got it's name.

It felt like a perfect marriage to this concept AU as it leans heavily on the fact Hello Neighbor is from Missouri which is close to the South so...

It made sense to my brain I thought I could talk and depict more on the Americana values of that time and the usual criticism of "The traditional father", "traditional family values" and "protection of children" so on so forth it's a couple of queer kids in the midwest saving their best pal it's gonna end pretty badly for one of them 😭😭

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sorry, but how long did it take you to draft all of this for ptolemy?? your talent is surreal, my ass would never

i take pretty much a month just to open my doc to finish a draft 😭😭😭

Oh that's cause I have a part time job the gallery I work in is in a factory (A very horrible place for location tbh) I don't do a lot I just sit in the from desk and my superior has kinda told me "I could do whatever" so though I do my homework for the gallery and read up the paintings sometimes... I just journal down HN Ptolemy ofc now im working on 1986 AU which has given me a bit of trouble ngl trust me ik how it feels...

As for the concept I think it's been a year but I never fully gave it a name so here we are...

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Ik this is all still WIP, but can you tell us if certain important characters past the trilogy like the cult, Guest, Quentin, etc show up in the world of Plotemy?

Hi im so sorri i never replied sooner I was um.... Simming... Sooo very much sorry to disappoint the only character in the HN2 universe is Guest and Ike stated here im gonna be pretty selective of the Hello Neighbore lore I feel can fit in and co exist the issue is Quentin's general story for me does not hold a lot of ground to be reasonable enough to put into the story with the books.

(forgive me I may have forgotten some of the years these medias were released)

Here is all the HN media im taking and picking as you see the "Inspiration" category it's not exactly gonna be done "By the book" instead it's more what I enjoyed and selected to put in Ptolemy... Plot relevancy (By it's name) I'm not gonna attempt to interfere too much and let it play as it holds a lot of the glue so book 1 & 2 is there but I'm gonna reimagine book 3 and redo what it's initial intentions were.

Unfortunately, if I put in the forest protectors I feel it might end up complicating an unnecessary beat to the story (I'm more so looking at the Peterson drama and lucy tbh when I inspo Bad Blood) as I'm more focus on Peterson that is the integral focus of this story. Not some town that needs to be investigated. Not a cult. Not a big omnipotent luck device. It's about the Petersons. It's about Aaron. It's about Theodore and his mistakes and in short I cannot find a reason for HN2 to coexist with the two books I selectively to all choose to talk about Theodore as a horrible person who isn't willing to take responsibility...

So in the words of Carly's favourite author:

"Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings." -Stephen King.

So sorry for such a long winded explanation but the only character I'm giving at least a blind eye is Guest and Ike but only because I have a kind of thing I want to do with them... Other than that sorry 2020 further on HN characters will not really be seen as they were a completely different story.

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I NEED to know what Aaron's like in this AU

Great question... Not to... spoil the fun.. She's a very messy middle school kid who is an unfortunate victim of circumstances.

I rewrote it instead of Aaron travelling around the world it was more like Diane and Ted rode across America because of Ted's projects and Aaron was born in Orlando, Florida during the mids of Ted building Bosco Bay. But! She mostly does not remember much about Florida and grew up under the buckle of Raven Brooks being an ABSOLUTE outcast for as long as she remembers, she of course she and her dad buds heads and no matter how long Aaron tries to live to the expectations, she's never gonna live up to him so she's more incline to reach more with her mom and though she doesn't intend it she sometimes feels an inferiority complex to Mya (Despite them both suffering no Ted not abusing her does not mean it's peachy for her)

Still was friends with Enzo at one point till the bucket hit about the "Did you see Lucy fly?" comment towards Maritza thus the Espositos don't go there no longer so Aaron has some codependency traits when it comes to his friendship with Nick who he himself is very new to this too...

She's a very messy character having to emotionally try to navigate her emotions, having to deal with her father's ruling fist under the family and eventually uncovering one of the worst secrets that he kept for so long that broke the family apart and Ted is trying to mend the mess he felt Aaron started

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Tell me about the the hello neighbour ptolemy

HEHHEHEHEHEHEGE okay so it was originally that Neil Byron/HNAS rewrite that I am now conceptualizing in a book rn using it to maybe be a portfolio to show off that I can do ideas this is a long term project in a sense I do want to eventually make it to something (my hopes being it be a game maybe-)

But! Yeah it's a cool rewrite of the first game really to fully capitalize it's other media some being more inspiration but I'm not one to delve too deep like HN 2/3 or even the Weather Disaster story trust me I felt they couldn't sadly fit to the themes and it'll muddle up what I had in mind.

Rn it's in the inspiration and concept stage maybe I'll make a whole diary on it but I'm very proud I got this far and will start writing and conceptualizing on the characters, especially with the Petersons who I felt are a far darker take than I originally anticipated... Rn my favourite is Diane and how I rewrote Ike to be her brother (who is also the portrait man) rather than a friend Ted knew for god knows how long but used him as exposition for Aaron

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