#I saw art from 2021 and 2020 I did of her and got so angry by how bad it was LOL

[spoiledskullz]

Welkin expressions

[the-era-of-shadow]

The Twisted Mystery of Wilma Brevair

Written by Ash Rose Cover art by Ash Rose

Chapter 5: The Hope for Freedom

THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS: Swearing, Violence

(OG ver) Original publish date:

(Amino) August 31st 2020

(Fanfiction.net) February 8th 2021

(Rewrite) Original publish date:

(Amino & AO3) April 24th 2021

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Whisper woke up, chained to a wall. She looked up and saw a window. It was too high up for her to potentially escape, but at least she could tell from it that some time had passed, with it not raining anymore, and the little bit of sky she could get from the view was blue and nearly cloudless. Whisper started thinking. Thinking about how she could possibly escape, and let the world know that Wilma is indeed guilty. Before she could get any real ideas from those thoughts, let alone act upon any of them, she heard the sound of talking above her.

"Yeah, it broke down… They're walking back on foot now." Wilma said, sounding upset.

"If you want me to go get them for you, I'll do it as soon as you say the words!!" Clysdale responded without hesitation.

"Are… are you sure?" Wilma asked, seeming concerned.

"Of course! Anything for you!" Clysdale answered.

"Hmm… Alright, go get em for me. I'll go check on Whisper." Wilma told them.

“You…” Whisper snarled as she heard Wilma walk down the stairs, the lights flicked on, confirming what Whisper already knew.

“Ah, glad to see you awake." Wilma said, smirking slightly.

"I'm going to ask you again. What. Did. You. Do. To. Those. Men?!" Whisper asked Wilma with clear fury in her voice.

"Hmph, aren't you nosy…?" Wilma pouted "You really wanna know, kid? Ya really wanna fuckin know?! I killed them! Murdered them! As simple as that!" 

Whisper had heard Lux and Tangle say a lot that they thought that's what was going on, but hearing it outright from the woman herself made her shocked and flat out unable to speak. "It's only fair! I've lost the love of my life, and now the rest of you get to suffer the same pain!" Wilma continued, becoming angrier and more emotional. 

"Fair? FAIR?! HOW THE FUCK IS THAT FAIR?!" Whisper finally shouted out. 

"THEY TOOK MY HUSBAND AWAY FROM ME SO NOW I TAKE AWAY THE SONS, FATHERS, BOYFRIENDS AND HUSBANDS OF THE WORLD AWAY FROM THEM!!" Wilma shouted back.

"AND YOU THINK YOUR HUSBAND WOULD APPROVE OF SUCH A CRUEL THING?!" Whisper argued.

"YES. HE WOULD!" Wilma yelled in response.

"WELL MAYBE YOUR HUSBAND WAS A PIECE OF SHIT THEN!" 

A dreadful silence quickly filled the room as Wilma looked like it was ready to kill Whisper right then and there. The silence was then broken by the sound of soft whimpering. Whisper looked over and saw the young fox girl from earlier, Dr. Clysdale’s daughter. She didn't notice before that she was there. Whisper's eyes gazed by the notebook the girl was holding and saw what seemed to be a blueprint of sorts for a megaphone, but the girl quickly pulled the notebook to her chest and out of Whisper’s sight.

"I'm sorry for yelling, sweetie… Let's go upstairs, okay?" Wilma said to the girl softly, pushing away her magenta highlighted bangs ever so slightly. The girl nodded and thus she and Wilma went up the stairs, leaving Whisper alone.

Shortly after, there was a shout from a familiar voice, a voice that gave Whisper hope.

“HEY LUX I THINK I FOUND A WAY IN!!” That hope wasn’t much though. Whisper was glad to know that Tangle and Lux came around to free her, but groaned at the stupid move Tangle just made.

“NOT ON MY WATCH!” The angry voice of Relic followed quickly after.

“Oh you’ve got to be kidding me..” Wilma sighed, annoyed.

Meanwhile, outside the house and clinic, Relic was trying the best she could to chase Lux and Tangle off of the property.

“You can’t go back here! You’re trespassing!!” Relic shouted. Lux pulled on Relic and got a hold onto her, though not for long, as Relic squirmed her way out of Lux’s grasp, and ran after Tangle, forcibly pulling her to the ground as she was getting up the stairs. Tangle, however, managed to pull Relic down with her.

Practically at the moment they both hit the ground, there was a blood curdling cry from Relic that even Whisper and Wilma could clearly hear, followed up by the sound of a cracking bone. Tangle instantly got up, and despite Relic’s involvement in Whisper’s supposed kidnapping, she instantly felt extremely guilty. 

“M-M-My arm...!! I-I can’t move m-my arm…!” Relic was crying heavily, and Tangle could tell that her arm looked seriously screwed up. “It hurts!! IT HURTS!!” She screamed in pure agony. Wilma ran outside and went to Relic’s side.

“Get off of our fucking property right this instant before I call the police! Don’t you realize what you idiots have done?!” She yelled at them, tears in her eyes. Tangle ran away from the scene, terrified.

“Holy shit Tangle! What happened back there?!” Lux asked, trying to get her friend to calm down. Tangle didn’t respond, she just kept crying.

Whisper could hear Wilma and Relic from the basement, Relic was still crying very loudly, barely able to speak, while it seemed that Wilma was calling someone on the phone in the room right above where Whisper was. At first, Whisper’s heart dropped as she realized this, as she assumed that she was calling the police on Tangle and Lux.

“Okay, I know you’re coming back the old fashion way as to avoid suspicion, but I really need you three here ASAP, two of those girls came by trying to break in and attack Relic-- I think they broke her arm!” No, it seemed that Wilma was just calling a close friend, most likely Clysdale, with the other two being the "them" Wilma had reluctantly asked Clysdale to fetch for her.

“Yeah, I know that I could drive her to the hospital myself, but she told me she wants you here, and I need someone to look after our captive.” This basically confirmed that theory to Whisper.

“Don’t worry, it's not like she’s alone right now or anything. I’m here, and Garrick and your little ones are being a great help calming her down a bit.” Whisper felt bad for those kids. Garrick, and all four of Clysdale’s kids too. They seem so nice, and yet their parents are so twisted! 

“... Where are you, anyhow…? Spiral Hill, eh? I think that’s where those girls are from… Yes, those two out of the four that are investigating my killings, Whisper included… One of them was the big burly tiger girl, the other one was that slim lemur… Lux and Tangle, huh? We should pay them a visit some time, ya know… To pay them a lesson. Don’t you think?... Heheh… Oh absolutely..! But we need to get Relic to the hospital first, at LEAST!” Whisper gulped, hoping that she would be able to escape and rejoin her friends before Wilma and Clysdale decided to “pay them a visit”, per-say.

But for now, it seemed that she just needed to wait things out. 

She heard a bit of commotion going on a few minutes later, and could somewhat hear the voice of Doctor Clysdale for a few seconds, but it was too quiet and muffled to understand. The ruckus only lasted for a few seconds, as it seems that they were quite quick about getting Relic to the hospital. 

After that… complete silence, other than the occasional sound of whoever stayed behind to make sure Whisper didn’t escape getting something, most likely food.

Eventually, Lux and Tangle made it back to their house, Tangle immediately ran up to her room.

“Hey! Tangle! What’s wro-” Tangle slammed her door on the concerned Jewel. Lux ran up the stairs, and Jewel immediately turned to her. “Lux! What happened?!” Lux explained everything that had happened during their attempt to free Whisper, including Wilma’s threat to call the police, which made Jewel’s heart drop.

“O-Oh… I see…” Lux quietly opened the door to Tangle’s room, and saw her softly sobbing, laying in her bed.

“Hey… Tangle... “ Lux said softly as she made her way to Tangle’s bed. “I know you probably feel pretty guilty-”

“No… That’s not it… Well…” Tangle wiped her eyes. “That’s not my main concern…”

“It’s not? Then what is?” Lux asked. Tangle started to cry again.

“I just want Whisper to be okay!!” Lux hugged Tangle.

“I know, we all do.”

“Um… If you feel up to hearing it… I got some more info while you guys were gone.” Jewel mentioned as she handed Tangle a box of tissues.

“Oh…? What kind of info…?” Tangle asked.

“Yeah Jewel, what’d you find?” Lux was curious as well. Jewel told Lux and Tangle everything that Amy had told her.

“Did she ever follow up on what she was saying??" Tangle asked, worried.

"I haven't checked…" Jewel admitted. 

"You should do that. I'll comfort Tangle." Lux told Jewel.

Jewel powered on her computer and then quickly hopped onto Twitter. She noticed a message notification from Amy.

"Oh thank goodness.." She sighed to herself.

She opened up the conversation.

"Sorry for the wait!! A big fight went down in my house and Knuckles forced me into hiding before I could respond. Anyway, about my ex-friend…" 

Jewel read the full message, her jaw hanging open.

"Shadow?" 

“I actually honestly figured that the person who betrayed Amy would be Shadow.” Tangle butted in, after Jewel told her about Amy’s new message.

“Yeah, they're weird….” Lux said. 

“Mhm…. Always thinking they were better than Sonic…" Tangle pouted.

Jewel sighed and giggled a little, which caused Lux and Tangle to look at her.

“Sorry! It’s just that… well, you two are so cute!” 

“JEWEL!!” Tangle shouted, embarrassed and blushing.

“Heeey… Hey.. Settle down there Tangle. I mean, you gotta admit, she’s at least half right!” Tangle pouted, but knew that whether she was talking in her own opinion, or for her, Lux had a point. She just didn’t want to say it, especially cause the two had practically just met. Tangle’s known Jewel since they were kids, and she’s known Whisper for two years, meanwhile, she’s only known Lux for a DAY.

“Anyway, anyway.... I have an idea.” Jewel said. “An idea on how to get Whisper free.”

[6rookie-writer0110]

Let's make a playlist of your favorite songs

Cassie Lang x Male Reader Stark

Request - Can you do Cassie lang x Stark!reader where he and cassie are the same age since they are born in 2007 and should be 16 in 2023. R is Tony's son and survived the snap. Before the snap he was best friend with Peter and ned when he was like a kid and the three of them hang out. Plue Y/n and peter do like spiderman ideas. After the snap he was living with Tony, pepper, and his little sister in the lakeside cabin. In the year 2021 he got bitten by a radioactive spider but has an alchemax logo and number 42.

Since you were a toddler you have been friends with Peter and Ned. Always together playing together. Even during high school, you didn't lose your friendship with Ned and Peter. You have always been into creating music and art, sometimes you would like to tag the buildings and the trains. Only, Peter and Ned knew they are your supporters.

Sometimes you and Peter would do parkour. You and Peter have sketchbooks and notes of being a hero and being called ’Spiderman’

You, Peter, and Ned never left each other side. People always saw you three spend time together all the time.

-----

Spring 2018... 50% of the population disappeared. The older you got, you started to study what happened during the fight against Thanos. You collected notes, hacked into your father’s computer and his friends’ computers then into Shields.

You survived the snap when you found out what happened it broke you. You cried when Peter didn't survive, or when your dad is stuck in space. You would spend hours in your father’s lab and look at his stuff.

”Y/N, I knew you would be here. You are like Tony can work on something for hours or days” Pepper said.

She put her hand on your shoulder.

”I miss him and Peter,” You said.

”I miss them too. You should see Ned, he came by earlier” Pepper said.

You nod.

”I will go see him. *sighed heavily* I want Thanos to suffer” You said.

”One day he will,” Pepper said and she kissed your head.

Later, you went to see Ned. Ned did give you new ideas for your spiderman gadgets so it won't break half of the time. You and Ned start to work together on it.

✬ ✫ ✯ ✬

The year 2021...

You walked through the alley for a short cut. You dropped your cell phone, you bend down to pick up. You stood up and checked your phone while walking you hit a web. You tried to get rid of the web and you didn't notice the radioactive spider crawl on your shoulder and bite your neck.

”What the hell?” You yelled.

You rub your neck then noticed the radioactive spider on your forearm. You noticed the spider has an alchemax logo and number 42.

”You are coming home with me” You mumbled.

You went home and straight to the lab. You put the spider in a small tank and watched it move around.

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The next day you woke up feeling strange. You couldn't explain it, you are in shock just seeing electricity go through your hands. You start to breathe hard and your heart started to beat fast. You go to the bathroom to wash your face suddenly you turned invisible.

”I have powers!” You yelled.

Your mood changed, now you are happy that you have powers. You always dreamt of being a hero and having powers, you couldn't stop smiling. You called Ned and told him to meet you at your house. Ned did help you figure out what kind of powers you have.

----

You stare at your father’s suits and you thought about using them. But you wanted to make your identity as a hero, you want to give people hope again.

the first suit you made with Ned it's an armored suit. Ned helped you pick out the colors red, white, and black. When Ned saw you wearing the armor suit, he freaked out.

”Dude, it's awesome! You will be the coolest hero ever” Ned said.

”Thanks. I can't wait to go to the city and start saving people” You said.

You and Ned high five each other. You go to the city and start saving people. Everyone started to talk about the new hero on tv and the Internet, you felt proud of yourself.

✬ ✫ ✯ ✬

Being a hero wasn't easy for you. You found out working alone is hard, some people didn't like what you are doing. Other people do cheer for you. Balancing life and being a hero is very hard. But you got an idea and you worked day and night to make the app called ’Friendly Neighborhood 1.0’

People can report crimes and you will go save them and keep you in the loop, what happens in the city.

Today is slow and no one is in trouble. You decided to go tag some places. You swing to an abandoned building, you take out the spray cans, and started to draw. You stopped to put on your headphones then you started to draw again. Once you are finished you took pictures then tagged the subways.

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You got an alert on your app, gang gun shoots in downtown. You started to swing fast and you see people caught in the crossfire. You started to venom blast to fight them and you used your web to take their guns away. You noticed the boy is deaf and you started to do sign language and he smiled.

”You know sign language?” Cassie asked.

You nod. ” Yes. I thought to learn so I can communicate with someone who is deaf”

You asked questions to the boy and you're glad he isn't hurt.

”I’m Cassie and this is Roger,” Cassie said.

”I’m Spiderman,” You said and it in sign language.

Later on...

You and Cassie became friends. She found out your secret when your mask fell apart while fighting Kraven the Hunter. Sometimes you would swing to her place to see her. She would always smile when you're around.

---

Cassie noticed you set a spider-free and didn't kill it.

”I hate spiders I don't know how you stand them,” Cassie said.

”it was a harmless spider. I don't feel scared when bugs are around” You said.

”I hate all kinds of bugs. But it's cute, you liking bugs and not killing them, bug boy” Cassie smiled.

You laughed and smiled back at her.

”Bug boy?” You asked.

She nods.

”Your new nickname” Cassie giggled.

”Thanks for the nickname?” You giggled.

”Anytime, Y/N” Cassie smiled.

~The next day~

Cassie went to your house. She met Pepper then Cassie goes to your bedroom. Cassie didn't say anything, she watches you make beats and you started to sing, you have your headphones on. She kept watching you and you keep making beats. She tapped your shoulder and you looked up, your eyes opened wide.

”Cas!” You said too loud.

”Hi Bug boy. You are talented” Cassie said.

”Thanks. Sorry, I didn't hear you come in” You said.

”So, you're into music?” Cassie asked.

”Yes, also I'm into art. If you want I-I-I can show you my work” You said shyly.

”I will like to see it, Y/N,” Cassie said.

”Cool!” You said.

You grabbed your sketchbook and she starts to look at your art.

✬ ✫ ✯ ✬

The year 2022

You told Cassie you wanted to upgrade and design a new suit. Again Cassie caught you making beats this time you teach her how to make beats.

”This is fun, Y/N,” Cassie said.

”I’m happy that you're enjoying making beats,” You said.

”Y/N aren't you scared when you swing around the city?” Cassie asked.

”At the very beginning, I was terrified when I would swing and jump from extremely tall buildings. Much later on, the fear went away so I'm not scared anymore. If you want you can swing with me around the city” You said.

”Okay. That would be an interesting experience, but yeah let's do it. Oh, I got an idea how your suit can look” Cassie said.

”Tell me,” You said.

Cassie started to explain how your suit should look with what colors. Music is the main inspiration for your suit 2020.

----

You are standing on the roof with Cassie. She wrapped her arms around you very tight.

”Ready?” You asked.

”Y-yes,” Cassie said.

You hold her tight and you start to swing. Cassie’s heart is beating faster and faster, you feel her grip tighten. You keep swinging and you noticed how scared she is. You stopped on top of the hotel building.

”Are you okay?” You asked.

She put her hand on her chest.

”No!” Cassie yelled.

You laughed and she smacked your arm.

”I’m guessing you had fun?” You teased.

”I got scared halfway. I thought I was going to fall, I don't know you get used to that” Cassie said.

”Takes time. I got over my fear the more I started to swing” You said.

”I won't do it again,” Cassie said and you laughed.

----

Cassie is sick and you went to buy soup for her. You knocked on her window, she opened it and let you in then you take off the mask.

”I got this for you, Cassie,” You said.

”Thank you, Y/N” Cassie smiled.

”Cassie, I know we been friends for a while but I really like you a lot and I hope we can be more than friends,” You said.

”Y/N, I like you too a lot. I would kiss you but I don't want you to get sick” Cassie said.

You smiled and she sneezed.

You and Cassie do spend time together mostly watching tv or movies. Cassie finds it sweet that you're taking care of her. You gave her medicine and reheat the soup. Later, you and Cassie do play board games, video games and asked questions about each other.

You noticed Cassie has in her bedroom for a while. You go upstairs and you can hear her crying

You sit next to her on the bed ”Cas, what's wrong?”

”I miss my dad so much” Cassie cried.

You wrapped your arms around her and she starts to cry more. You rub her back and you listen to her.

You did try to make her feel better worked for a little bit, but she is still feeling depressed. You stayed with her all-day

✬ ✫ ✯ ✬

Finally, your 2020 suit is complete. You can't stop smiling and start to put on the suit. The led mask, you loved it when Cassie told you about it. You got an alert on your app

”Time to test out the suit,” You said.

”Be careful, Y/N” Cassie said.

”I will,” You said.

Cassie watched you swing away.

You were busy saving people, Doctor Octopus and Kraven the Hunter kidnapped Cassie. They sent you a message and you got angry. You started to swing rapidly to Doctor Octopus’s lab. Cassie is tied up in a chair and she is feeling terrified.

You start to fight them. You used venom blast to punch Kraven, then Doctor Octopus grabbed you. Kraven punched you then you kicked him in the face and you used your web to cover Doctor Octopus’s face. You turned invisible and you started to fight them.

----

You grabbed Cassie and left the lab. You stopped on a roof and she hugged you tight then she smacked your chest.

”What was that for?!” You yelled.

”You know I hate it,” Cassie said.

”I’m not a speedster. I had to swing us away from them” You said.

You take off the mask.

”I know but I still hate it,” Cassie said.

Cassie started to ramble on then you did the same ramble on. She kissed you and you kiss her back, you and Cassie pulled apart and smiled. It's the first kiss.

✬ ✫ ✯ ✬

Time Skip~

Everything changed for the best. You found out Tony came back from space, you ran to him and hugged him.

”I missed you, dad,” You said

He kissed your head and held you tight.

”I love you 3000, Y/N,” Tony said.

Peter came back and he hugged you and Ned. Ned told everyone by mistake you are dating Cassie. No one knew about the relationship just yet.

”Sorry, bro,” Ned said.

”When we will get to meet her, Y/N,” Tony said.

”Soon, dad. Don't worry about it, Ned” You said.

You celebrated with everyone and you can't stop smiling.

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You and your family moved to the woods, now live in a cabin. Now it feels like a family and you don't want that to change. Your little sister started to scream and ran towards Pepper.

”Why do you have a pet spider?” Tony asked.

”I hate spiders,” Morgan said.

Pepper was going to kill your pet but you stopped her.

”Stop!” You yelled.

The spider is in your hands.

”The spider is my pet. I got used to him being around” You said.

”Y/N, I will never understand why. But please just keep him in the cage” Pepper said.

”I will,” You said.

You go to your bedroom and put the spider in the tank. You feed him and just watch him.

✬ ✫ ✯ ✬

Date Night...

You arrived with pizza and she kissed you. You and Cassie played videos and it became competitive. You were going to take her out, but there is a rainstorm. The night is going well, she is having fun with you. You and Cassie eat pizza and started to debate what is the best movie and worst movie.

Later, you and Cassie started to play Uno but you and Cassie argued about the rules. You and Cassie eat more pizza and tried to play Uno again. Later, you and Cassie watched a movie on the couch, but end up falling asleep.

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Scott found out what happened, he is in shock. He rushed home and knocked on the door. Cassie opened the door, they start to cry and they hugged each other. You did spend the night at her place, then Cassie introduces you to Scott.

“Wait, you're Tony’s son!?” Scott said.

“Yeah, I'm his son,” You said.

“Hurt my daughter and I will go after you,” Scott said.

“Dad!” Cassie yelled.

“I won't break her heart,” You said.

“I will keep my eye on you, Y/N,” Scott said.

“UGH!” Cassie mumbled.

Later, Scott joined you and Cassie for breakfast.

---

Later, you meet up with Peter to show him your 2020 suit. Peter is loving the suit and asked many questions about how you build your suit. You and Peter worked together to save people.

[clementineesotsm]

THE KING: ETERNAL MONARCH EP 16, My Appreciation and How It Made Me Feel

JTE now back to Korea after the reset. You know i loved thought out small detail right? We can see the photo on JTE id card is back to the origin, no tied hair and navy jacket. Please see it.

Everything was back in order, she lives in a same old world with a same old activities but where Gon and KSJ doesnt exist. This was so heartbreaking. Esp when she remembers how Gon was always there to come to her.

And next we got a glimpse of her team leader story about his loneliness. Many people think this scene was unnecessary but since the writer wants to make closure for everyone she need to made this. Also to clear some misunderstanding. Because for me i thought he is one of LR minion before 🤣 and also maybe to show that our leads live in a world full of people who practice kindness. Hence why all of them has this stoic quality. Im fine though. They are kind of cute.

Also the side effect of the reset was JTE see Gon doppelganger on the street walking pass through her just like that.

And also they shows us Gon WAS ON THE WAY TO CROSS ALL UNIVERSE TO SEE JTE. But since there are so many universe he need to open many door before finding his way to her. I can say, JEONG TAE RA was mood! Im a tera byte!

Then suddenly on 1 night in 2021, a year later. Nari calls JTE to inform her that her father buys a horse and that someone was standing next to it. JTE are rushing home to see HIM. This is so emotional. I loved how they make the meeting also parallel to eps 1. With JTE put on the sirene - the rest was history. The disbelief in JTE face, the relief in Gon face, the words, the music, the KISS! Im glad they find each other again 🥺🥺

Back to Corea, apparently JY also has his memory. So at the end yoyo boy keep the memory of 3 person involved in making things right. I suppose as a gift? Thank you yoyo boy. I almost had heart attack when Gon said to JY about twins haha i thought it was Gon’s, but no its JY siblings and he name it after Eunbi Kkabi. Im so soft for him. And we can see Luna and KHM also the revelation of cctv record that Gon saw in eps 9(?), 27 May 2022. Also Luna future is to become police/good guy because she is adopted by GSR mom. So both are siblings 🤣🤣 i like that. Also i like we got to see Kim Biso becoming guard of GSR in prison. Fate it is. Like what the whole story was all about.

So the flute when in a whole, had a lot more fun. It allows our couple to travel through time and universe. They choose always universe that did not have them as doppelganger. So most of the time they travel to past. But since there are no rule now inside the gate, they cannot choose where they may end up and just follow the fate. How i really loved this insight. Relating it to real life, we never knew where we go and which door led us to. But if we just follow the destiny it definitely bring us to the right time and place. Eventually.

At 1 time they got back to Kingdom of Corea at the same time, dates. I loved Lady Noh now, very sneaky 🤣 also JY and MSA actually flirting/dating 💕💕 and the iconic cctv room KISS!!!

I appreciate they show us how both lovers still pretty much doing a good job in their respective universe. JTE with her team and Gon doing his King work. Its shows how equal they are. And we got to see Secretary Mo as the new PM. And the fact they touches the working mother issue was everything i want to see!

And to hear Gon iconic line for the last time makes me emotional. It was the last time we can hear him introducing himself 😭 the cinematography was amazing and can make you feel the sadness of saying goodbye to this characters. Not only Gon but also JTE.

Then last scene! Both arrive in the past i think around 1960(?). Both travel together, doing all the things they skipped, just smiling, laughing, be happy, until they old. Seriously this ending was great. Quoted their last words “no matter what kind of a door opens before us in life and even if the moments we share makes us sad at times, i wish to love tirelessly. Just like that, we decides to love the fate that chose us. Just today and only today. Forever” then we got to see them hands still holding until they got old and DREAM song!! It was all just to beautiful. So apparently this series was touching much about being stoic and carpediem - brb crying until years after -

How it made me feel:

What a roller coaster ride. This series made me laugh, cry, grin, angry and warm. At first 1-6 episode it will left you uncertain about what they want to do with it, but 7-16 all become darker and darker, better and better. Im impressed by the script, the characters, the development, the acting, the cinematography, the directing, the editing (it has it flaws but it gets better anyway), everything. Im a bit emotional in writing this because it feels like im saying goodbye to them when i dont feel like it yet. Also i need to thank them because of them i saw something beautiful and they basically save me from a devastated year of 2020. No matter how this world treated this art badly, this remains masterpiece.

“Those who judge will never understand, and those who understand will never judge”

[oddlyhale]

As much as I begin to see the horrors of RWBY fndm and how crazed BB fans can be, there'll probably be no comparison to the psychotics I had to deal with in the HH fndm.

While I can totally find myself being tolerant with all RWBY ships, there's something territorial when it comes to HH ships. It's a different beast on its own, especially with the popular artists that can and will control their fanbase.

Boy do I have a tale of 2020 that had me deal with the mental gymnastics these wild shippers put me through. The sheer hypocrisy, the fear fans had of standing up to them, the collective harassment.

In a synopsis, before we start:

Hi, my name is Hale.

Alfa and Alex are probably the most psychotic people I’ve ever met when it comes to my online daily life. I used to think my ex-friends were the bane of my existence, but Alfa and Alex started making me think just how angelic my exes were in comparison.

So let’s begin.

When I first met the Double AAs, it was Alex first (awhile back in late-June 2020 during Vaggie Week) but it was indirect. I was on my Instagram when I was tagged by a random user in something Alex had drawn. This was when I first saw the kill art of Vaggie. I was so upset that I had yelled at this random user for tagging me, as well as showing it via screencap on my twitter, as a warning to never do this to me to my followers. Keep in mind, I had censored Alex’s name from the screencap, not the random user.

However, Alex saw this somehow and became hysterical, thinking I was targeting him for what he drew. This caused an uproar of his fans to come attack me, and it did cause me to become scared and get away from my account. Alfa decided to insert herself into the mix, but I didn’t care enough for her to say anything. It was mostly Alex and how much he was “scared” and cried about the “fandom being so hateful and scary.” He went private for a while I believe, but Alfa was still going hard at me and sending more of her fans to come harass me.

If Alex ever says he is a strong and brave man, don’t believe him. He fears the HH fandom.

Anyhow, after Alfa’s fans had done their best to gaslight me, I didn’t give in. In fact, I made amends with the random user that tagged me. Somehow they assumed I would like the art of Vaggie being killed, which was childish to even believe in. Nonetheless, I forgave them, and we moved on from there.

But even when we both resolved this together, Alfa and Alex decided that it would be fun to make this “kill Vaggie art” a meme, or trend. With their huge followings combined, they were able to get their artist fans to join in and start creating so much hate art of Vaggie. Many of them drew her head being cut off, mutilated, raped and cheated on.

Alfa and Alex adore gaslighting the hell out of people. While they draw such hideous things, they will go ahead and say, “but it’s just fiction, it’s not real,” and call you psychotic for even caring so much about their bad behaviour. I can only imagine what Alfa’s husband goes through everyday since Alfa loves to make people second-guess themselves often.

Keep in mind, Alfa and Alex are the same people who will cry and shake when their fictional ship is invalidated and written out. They often wish nothing good for Viv and her team that are providing these ungrateful children with the show and content they so badly want. It shows you just how privileged they had grown up as children, doesn’t it?

This wasn’t fun, it was horrible. I didn’t realize just how many toxic people existed in the HH fandom until this “trend” began to spread.

But the funny thing that I'll never forget is how apeshit Alfa went when I had the audacity to draw Alastor plus sized. She accused me of being a pedophile, supporting MAPs. Even though she leans towards being pro-ship (likes incest, OK with lolicon, will condone drawing necophilia.) But me? Having the sheer audacity of drawing Alastor fat? It burned her so bad.

As well, this was being pushed on the VAs during a small livestream. The chat wouldn’t stop asking, “what do you think of the Vaggie kill art going around?” Of course the VAs ignored these questions, but it was really rude to even ask these things. Especially when Vaggie’s VA was in the same livestream.

But then this trend was proven to be a lie, by Alex’s own words. He dropped the ball in a one-off conversation with an anti that “he only created this to get back at the Chaggie shippers.” So retroactively, this trend was worthless.

What also began to start becoming obvious was that Alfa was too afraid to do anything on her own, and thus, she will recruit some darlings to defend her. Alfa seems to have more defenders than she has any confidence to defend herself, and when she has no choice but to stand up for herself, she will buckle and hide. She is weak, is what I had learnt.

I decided to just ignore Alex and Alfa as much as I could. With a friend though, I was given updates of what was happening on the Double AAs’ side in the meantime, and it’s amazing to see just how vile they can be with their own fans and haters. Especially with their new puppy named Salty. (I think that’s their name, another weak ass bitch.)

As months went by, the major event that stirred from the AA camp was when they were harassing Pastel Sky. This would be where the big reveal of just how horrible the AAs and their friends truly are, when they have nobody to harass except for kids. HH has a wide audience of children involved in this fandom, hence why many other artists keep saying we should try to be good examples for them, and keep them safe. But not for the AAs.

Pastel was ruthlessly attacked by them and it was all unwarranted. What they were angry about was that Pastel had the nerve to have negative opinions when it came to AAs, and they broke their own rule of “don’t like then block.” Even Galactic Potatoes (Spuds) would go out of their way, again, to gaslight Pastel into believing that what attacks she received on Twitter was allowed, because Pastel was asking for it. Spuds is well-known to gaslight, a thing they had learnt from the AAs quite often.

Pastel was a minor at the time, and it really doesn’t matter if Pastel was just 17. I don’t care if Pastel was only 17 and that “well she’s almost 18,” because regardless of age, harassment is not the answer. Follow by that, fighting with minors is actually fucking stupid and braindead. Spuds tried very hard to justify why attacks were OK, and that Pastel “should learn” how to grow up. I then learnt that Spuds went into hiding afterwards.

That was until the Double AAs’ discord chats were exposed, showing that they were practically mouth-watering at Pastel’s pain, romanticizing her apparent abuse and trying to convince each other how her punishment on Twitter was correct. Even one (I believe was Jay because he loves me and wants me back) wished that I would die. This would be the third time he asked me to die indirectly, which justifies my points on how toxic and abusive they are.

This entire event seemed to have unraveled a new wave of truths, and it’s sad to know it had to take a literal minor to have their masks fall off.

In 2021, Alex was exposed to be a thief. Stealing commission money for “stress pills.” If Alex is on a path of drug addiction, I hope it’s not the case. That’s a terrible place to be, and hopefully he’ll be clean and grow up for once. I still don’t care enough about Alfa, after now knowing all she is, is just a dramatic housewife with nothing better to do in her life. Perhaps if they just got jobs instead of stealing money from fans, they’d be leading well-productive lives.

From what I understand, many of the toxic fans of the Double AAs have either dropped HH fandom, or have deleted their accounts. Good, I hope they stay gone. The fandom deserves better, not trash.

Needless to say, the best advice I can give to those in the HH fandom that come facing the Double AAs is to not be afraid of them.

Over time, once you get used to their behaviour, you come to realize that this is their default. They’re not likable, they’re not nice, and they aren’t appreciative of one singular thing you do for them (hence Alex stealing from his own fans.)

It’s their M.O., they are just that cruel. So don’t fear them, but challenge their behaviour. Don’t stoop to their level of wanting to draw hateful art, though, that will fuel them. Talking down to them like their idiots always works like a charm.

Anyways, thanks for reading.

If anybody from the Double AAs’ camp ever finds this and reads it, I just wanna say that you are doing a great job, sweety. Thanks for proving me right by the new year. I appreciate the honesty for once. It only took you a year, just think of what other things you’ll do in the next year.

[psychedelic-ink]

New Beginnings 2020 

I have no idea what time it is where you are but currently we have entered the year 2021. So I wanted to talk a bit about what I’ve been through at the end of 2019 and my growth in 2021, maybe it’ll help you guys out if you’re in a pretty bad place right now. In the end I just wanted to share my story, I won’t go into much detail about the whole thing but I will try to give you a general idea of what happened to me. 

Also before reading further, I will be talking about cheating, gaslighting and self physical harm(not anything too serious tho), so if these things trigger you please don’t read any further. 

Basically, right before we entered 2020, I had a boyfriend which I ended up marrying simply so we could move out of the country together. That was all it was supposed to be, but due to his misogynistic views he immediately turned the arrangement into a “you’re the wife, cook,do dishes, clean the house” kind of setting. And even though I was thinking about why on earth should I bet the only one doing these things, I started to believe in what he said. He was working after all (he worked in 24 hour shifts) and for all the years we’ve been together (5 years) I was dependent on him, because I believed no one else would love me. This one had nothing to do with him, I just didn’t like myself. I also felt like I was protected because I had this idea that no one could stay stuff like “oh she’s ugly, or she’s fat, she’s alone anyway because she’s awful” because I had a boyfriend, it was somewhat a shield for me. 

During our so called marriage he made me feel like what I did was never good enough, there was always something wrong, my issues or the things that pissed me off weren’t important enough to listen and just silly stuff considered to him and I, at the moment, believed him. Instead of going out with me, he would always say how tired he was after his shift (this wasn’t every time but generally he was like this), he would go out with a friend which was a woman. I’m ashamed to say but I went into a jealous rage, basically having meltdowns and breakdowns whenever he went out with her, hitting myself or the things around me. Now I know that the reason I felt like this was because he never showed me the proper kind of love and I always wondered what it felt like to actually know that your significant other loves you. I would always joke about me knowing that he loved me was like believing in god. You didn’t know god was real or not but you believed anyway, and we always laughed about this. 

We moved into another house, he stopped hanging out with his work friend from before and started hanging out with another woman that he worked with. I met her, she seemed, normal, nice. One time I went to another city with my friend when I came back I saw a wine bottle we had, empty, and snacks. Stuff that I knew he wouldn’t do alone. I asked him, he told me that she was with him and they had dinner at our place. Of course I got mad but didn’t really have an outburst since I had started to go to therapy and was feeling much better then. I told him that he should’ve just told me even if I was not in the city, he agreed, of course and that was that. I did trust him, so I just figured my jealousy was just my problem that I had to deal with. 

Then came my birthday, another bad habit of mine, I care a lot about my birthdays. Since I put effort into surprising my friends and loved ones, I expect them to at least remember. It’s kind of shitty but it’s been something I cared about since I was a kid. And on the night of 23th of December (my birthday is on the 24th) he went out with her, I said nothing except that I wanted home by midnight so he would be with me when the clock hits 00.00, the day on my birthday he had work so he would be at work for 24 hours and I wouldn’t see him. He didn’t come home that night, I called him multiple times, and when he finally opened the phone he said that there were no cabs and that he had to stay at her place. I went insane, told him that I would consider that he was cheating on me if he did such a thing. As always he told me I was overreacting and hung up, not opening my phones later on. Of course on the day of my birthday, we fought but I ended up forgiving him and told him it was my fault. 

Then I went to visit my family before New Years. When I came back, he went out to visit a coworker (at the time I didn’t know that he went with her, I found out later on) and when he came home we had a huge fight, I said that maybe we should break up (something that I usually said during fights) and he said yes let’s breakup. It was out of the blue and I was so confused when he suddenly said that. I was heartbroken and while we went to sleep that night, I was convinced that I had to win him back. I would clean the house, lose weight and show him that yes I could change even more. I woke up and for some reason had the urge to check his phone, I took it and went to the toilet then I saw his messages with her. 

Messages saying that he didn’t want to be with someone who wasn’t putting the same effort as him, saying that he was going to break up with me and that he was afraid of my reaction, saying that he was relieved that it was going to happen. 

I was shocked, especially because when we broke up I asked him if he liked her, he lied and said no and that it just had to do with me and him. I straight up told him that I read his messages and that he should’ve just told me. I didn’t yell or do anything at the moment, I just asked if they kissed or did anything sexual. Apparently they only kissed. I cried like a freaking baby after that, my heart was broken and we had to continue living in the same house. He went out with her every goddamn day. On New Years I was lucky enough to have friends that knew about the situation and they called me over so I spent the night with them, I couldn’t really enjoy myself but I was happy as happy I could be. 

Like I said, due to school and other complications we had to continue to live together and I absolutely felt like shit. I blamed myself, hated myself, especially when I saw that he was going out with her everyday when he was always too tired to go out with me. Even if we were broken up he still tried to micro manage me going so far as basically shouting at me for buying almond milk (he didn’t let me when we were dating because it was expensive) 

But then...I started getting better. I moved back with my parents, I also had very supportive friends in my hometown, I started exploring stuff that I used to like but gave up. One of these was writing fanfiction and reading fanfiction. I wrote so much but then for some reason, we started dating and I just stopped. I wanted to pursue art but that also cost a lot so that was also out of the question and wouldn’t “make me social” . I started feeling better about myself, stopped biting my nails, meet new people here on tumblr, write and actually start to earn some money, pursue my dreams of being an animator and purchasing an ipad with the money I OWNED (he also told me that the other woman had “stable finances” like I was a student what did you expect) and now after a year, I look back and I feel truly happy. I’m happy with who I am, happy about my thoughts, happy about where I am. Of course I have doubts sometimes but generally I am happy to be doing the things I love. 

Basically what I want to say is that I am proud of myself. This year was shitty in many ways, sure. But for me it was a year of self growth and understanding who I am a little bit better. It does get better, even if it seems like it doesn’t. When I was living with him after the break up I thought that I would be alone forever, I was angry because I was convinced no one would fall for me. But that’s not true, I don’t have anyone right now but everything takes time. Hopefully, this year will also be a year of learning for me but I also know that I was lucky that my family and friends were very supportive so If you ever feel down, or if you’re feeling down right now don’t hesitate to talk to me, I would be happy to listen and try to help as much as I can. 

Happy New year everyone! Stay Safe!

[riotatthemovies]

Today we have a true wildman, maverick of low budget film Joel D Wynkoop. Let's get in the mindset of an actor, an actor's actor. An American Brian Blessed without the beard you could say (imagine Joe D Wynkoop as Hawkman and let that sink in) . To you regulars here at Riot at the movies you will remember Joel from 2019s Terrible Two Day fest where he closed the weekends events by appearing in Clownado as the cowboy pilot. Then just before screenings shut down in the first week for March 2020 we saw him again in the first film of this year Terrible Two Day Fest with a small but high energy cameo at the very end of Dinogore.

Let's pretend we are a live audience talk show and give a round of applause for Joel D Wynkoop.

Riot: Joel you are known as a high energy guy, what do you think or even what do you hope are people's first impressions of you?

WYNKOOP:      Well I hope they like my performances.  There are some that just flat out say "He yells too much!" I even had an actress tell me "Stop yelling at me, you're always yelling at me" but what she didn't get is that was the idea in the movie, the Sheriff(Played by me was yelling) but she got her feelings hurt and asked me not to yell at her.  "But....I'm supposed too." I told her...anyway the director pulled her aside and explained to her "...this is not real life and we were pretending" and she still didn't get it, so the director told me "don't yell at her too much."  Aside from the yelling and the out of control antics of a lot of my characters, I also want to be known as the actor that can do serious stuff too.  I have done parts that when they were done or in the middle of where the audience was crying because I was going for that emotional touch.  I have done things that scare the audience, not to mention my co stars.                          My wife, before I knew her, we had just met and we did a very emotional scene when I was in her face yelling at her, later the director said to her "You were great you really looked scared." and she said "I was scared, he is a scary guy when he yells... I thought he was going to hit me."  But I can also do comedy where people may say "Man Wynkoop was so funny in that" or "Mannnn Wynkoop was so annoying in that" in each case that is what I was going for.                                In my latest movie "THE CRAIGLON INCIDENT" I think people are going to say the latter because the character I do is annoying....but funny...I hope.  If they don't like me right away or there's someone out there going "Wynkoop sucks, his movie's suck"  I hope people make their own decisions if they like me or not.

Riot: Let's look back at your early break into low budget films. Which character do you relate to the most, Steve Nekoda the religious, confused martial arts man of action from Lost Faith or do you deep down feel a little more fucked up like Dan Hess from Wicked Games or maybe even worse the officer in Dirty Cop No Donut? Or is that just crazy ? If you don't feel you personally relate to them, who was your favorite character to play?

WYNKOOP: Just doing Steve Nekoda, Dan Hess or Gus Kimble I think I am a little of all of them in real life.  One time... well more then once in my life...real life...I have had to step in and protect someone like Steve Nekoda would, other times I have been the smart ass like Gus Kimble and his brand of justice where I have said things like (When someone is too close to me, I mean right on my ass) I turn to them and say "Are you gonna propose?" and they say "No" then I say "Then get off my ass!"                        More than once I have stood up for somebody... one time I told two guys to leave the premises because the girl inside the store was scared of them.  The one guy then said to me.  "You got a problem with me?"  I said "No, I don't have a problem with you, but you're gonna have a problem with me if you don't leave now!"  He started to move towards me. I went into a striking stance and his buddy grabbed him and said  "Let's go man." and they left.  The cops told me later "Don't be the hero just call us next time, we have guns."                      Dan Hess pushed in his Truth or Dare world, is me when I get annoyed in traffic.  Someone cut me off I exploded in rage, he saw me in his mirror cursing him, he stopped his car and jumped out and came after me, I jumped out of my car and yelled at the top of my lungs "Don't FUCK with me man!!"   He got back in his car and left and I did the same.  Hey, I'm not perfect!  

                     Again Steve Nekoda. I am a Christian yes, I swear, I'm sorry, were all human. I will stop and pray with someone at the drop of a hat.  I have ran charity events for people struggling with medical bills.  I will offer you some money if they are hard up...not scammers!  So I guess I am a little of all of my characters.  Nick Hazzard, Dan Hess, Steve Nekoda, Parsons Cooper, Angus Lynch, Tie-Ree, Cope Ransom and a lot more.                         Favorite character?  I think all of them.  I loved Steve Nekoda cause he is like a superhero, Parsons Cooper is turned into a sci-fi superhero.                          Dan Hess is fun because he is an average guy with a messed up life.  Angus Lynch was fun to play because he was just psycho!  Same with Gus Kimble from the Dirty Cop movies.  They are all fun to play, I just can't lock one particular one down.  They're all fun...CLOWNADO?  I loved playing that character "HAWK" for Todd Sheets!!  It was a fun role to play and Todd really let me run with it.  Little easter eggs too in one line almost under my breath you here my character HAWK say "I'm just about to watch a Todd Sheets Joel Wynkoop double feature, those guys kill me."  Yeah I love them all!

Riot: I am honestly imagining you doing a remake of Falling Down (the Micheal Douglas movie) just so I can see you super red faced getting angry in your car and flipping out at the traffic. You have like a dozen, if not more projects on the go at any time. How's Covid treating you? Are you going stir crazy or getting some stuff done on the side? I hope the conventions come back and people can get copies of all these movies as well.

WYNKOOP: Covid?  We are dealing with it.  If the law, Government or whatever wants you to wear masks just wear the mask.  It's not that big a deal.  Yes it annoys me but I wear it because it is the law and you're keeping people and yourself safe.  You know what?  I knew a guy that was a nudist and he told me "Joe, I don't know why we have to wear these, these clothes, I should be able to walk around unencumbered and free, there's nothing wrong with my body, I should be allowed to walk around nude, go into the store, go to the movies, I feel like I am being persecuted against because I cannot be free and naked."  Well guess what?   That is what everyone is saying about wearing their masks...are you comfortable with people walking around naked in your grocery store, pet store, church, movie theater, everywhere you go?  I'm not.     I think if we are told to wear masks then wear them.  It's "NOT" being sheep, you're being smart.  If you don't believe in it... go up to a stranger and say (With your mask on) "Please hack up all over me because I don't believe in the Corona Virus... try and let spit come out of your mouth too cause I don't believe in it so I won't get it!"  Then pull your mask down so you can inhale all that virus you think is "NOT" there.  People say more people die from the flu then Corona?  Really?  Personally I don't know any of my friends that have died from the flu...BUT I Have had at least 10 friends die of the CoronaVirus in the last two months.  As of writing this tonight I just found out two more of my friends caught the Corona Virus because they let someone in their home and now they have it.  If you don't believe in it then you don't believe the Earth is round.                     Stir Crazy?  Nah!  If we need to get out it is because of the news.  The world is really messed up now and it is all the same stories over and over again.  The riots were terrible!!!!!!  Anyway when it gets too much we go for a ride in the van.  I just want to make movies. I can't change anything, I'm not magic.   I'll  just continue to make movies.  Also I am editing my new movie now called THE CRAIGLON INCIDENT which never would have happened if it were NOT for the Corona Virus, I started this movie cause everyone was told to stay home, it was mandatory here! Curfew was enforced.  So I asked my wife Cathy, "Hey just shoot me talking to the camera."  Now spin it around so it looks like I am talking to myself as my counterpart and THAT is how The Craiglon Incident originated.  It is now like two hours long in my timeline waiting to be completed.  If there was no virus there would have been no CRAIGLON INCIDENT".                    But just editing the movie keeps me plenty busy! PLUS I ask people if they are interested in being a producer or executive producer of either or both my movies "THE CRAIGLON INCIDENT" or "BEAST MODE"(A movie we started with Debbie Rochon and Lloyd Kaufman but was shut down because of Covid) people can contact me and become producers and executive producers just by purchasing some of my movies...It's a great way to get some entertainment and build your IMDB!!!!                       Conventions YES!!!  Me too.  So many have been shut down at the last moment.  We even had Tampa Bay Screams here that was slated in August but it has been moved to March 2021 and we don't even know if that will happen.  Yes I miss it!!  More than selling the flicks I like meeting everyone that comes to the shows.  That's why I continue to do things on Facebook and make movies and sell online to keep my name out there so folks don't forget about me.  I don't think I would be comfortable doing a show right now anyway, not the way things are. I have had two shoots lately, one a TV show and one a rap video and I was nervous the whole time hoping I didn't get anything from anyone.  But yes it would be nice to get the world back to normal, well, not even normal... BETTER THAN NORMAL...hey that's a good name for a TV show..."Hey brother what are you doing next Wednesday night?"  "Me, oh not much I'm gonna check out that new TV show...what's it called, oh yeah...BETTER THAN NORMAL".

Riot: Let this be a reminder to my regular Canadian viewers and readers of just how freaking lucky we are up here. I love America for many things but for my health situation I wouldn't trade places with you Joel for the world. Thanks for being so open with us. Ok, How do you feel your films have dated over the years? The projects you've done with Tim Ritter seem to have just as strong a twisted fan base as always if not more these days.

WYNKOOP:     I think they hold up fine.  You have to remember when Tim Ritter and I started there was no CGI in indie movies.  It was all practical effects, if you wanted blood you made it and threw it on the actor you couldn't say "Hey put a blood splat there and make it look real with your CGI effects."  Nothing wrong with CGI it is just we didn't have that then. Also editing wasn't on your home computer with Movie Maker and Premiere... (They didn't exist when Tim and I broke into this, in fact some places have credited Tim and I  have been credited with the whole direct to video happening.)...  it was rent an edit bay with big 3/4 machines and shuttle the tape back and forth... In the beginning for Tim and myself, Tim and I use to edit on cutting boards with splicing tape.  You scratched your effects into the actual film.                           I remember putting "The Eight Million Dollar Boy Meets The Invisible Transport Boy" together, splicing it all together, it was an hourlong and it was hard to do that 50 feet at a time.  But yeah a lot of people are like "Yeah I remember TRUTH OR DARE man that was cool!" Even Elijah Wood on all the late night shows was talking about how much he loved "TRUTH OR DARE"!  "LOST FAITH" has got that same kind of attention, a lot of people really love it.  BUT like all our movies... some hate them, some love them.  I'll take the love over the hate... but you have to accept it all.       Believe it or not I learned this philosophy from Marvel Team Up.  Spiderman had just stopped the Basilik and was handing him over to the cops and Spidey said "Here you go officer, although I don't know why you would want him?" and the cop said "All part of the job wall crawler, you take the bad with the good."  And that is how I take everything, especially reviews.  You take the bad with the good.                               So yeah I think they hold up...I had a friend when STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION came out and he was like "Oh the original sucked the effects are much better in NEXT GENERATION"   Well "No Duh" I told him... it's like 30 some years later but STAR TREK is still a classic show!!  It still holds up today, the stories are great and I love the effects... yes the upgrades are awesome but always classic "Star Trek".  There is always gonna be a better format... pretty soon movies will be like holograms and we'll be being punched in the face by the characters in the movies. Technology changes everything so you have to give them credit for the era they were made.                                    The people that love Twisted Illusions movies and my movies are AWESOME.  I divide the two because Tim and I have done alot together as Twisted Illusions and I in turn have done a lot under Wynkoop Productions and joined the two over the years. I am still a part of Twisted Illusions with Tim and he with me in Wynkoop Productions it is two small companies just trying to entertain people.                                   We are BOTH very fortunate to have the nice people we do enjoying all of our movies and we will never forget that.  I get Facebook requests all the time and I ask them "What made you want me as a friend?" and they 90% always say "I saw your movies in High School" or "I saw you in Truth Or Dare"or "I loved you in Dirty Cop No Donut" and they all say "What are you doing now?".  In fact every time I think I am going to quit I get a Facebook from someone saying "I love your movies please don't stop making them." and I never will until GOD calls me home.  Even then when I am gone, I hope people keep watching all my movies I have done with Tim and the ones I have done and the ones we have collaborated on.  To the ones out there that watch our stuff I hope we are entertaining you because that is all we want to do, 'cause we sure arn't getting rich from it.

Joel Getting Tough in The Other Side

Riot: You do the whole package, acting, directing, producing. What makes low budget filmmaking still a passion for you and what are some of the things these days that frustrate you the most?

WYNKOOP: Frustrate me the most?  Editing.  I will have a whole scene in my timeline and the power goes out, I hit the wrong key and delete stuff, lightning hit the house and fries it, lightning turns out our power and I lose it.  It freezes up as I am editing and I have to wait an hour for it to fix itself.  When it says "SAVE" I hit no.  I make mistakes when I am tired while I am editing and boom I do something wrong and it is gone and I have to start all over again.  There have been problems when I was editing my TV show I was putting in the last minute touches and lost the whole thing and had to start over from the beginning again.  Frustrating!  I keep working at it no matter what.  I like to act in all I can.  When I don't have anything that is when I say it's time to make my own movie, although in this case of "THE CRAIGLON INCIDENT" it was because of Covid 19.  I'd like to make more money at it but doesn't everyone?

So as you can tell I sneak more then one question in at a time and I'm glad you took the time to shoot the shit with us. I hope 2021 means we get to go crazy and make all the weirdest and wildest movies we all can think of and I look forward to seeing what you got to throw at us. Thanks again. Stay Awesome.

Also Check out Joel in Lycanimator made by our Ontario buddy Seb Godin (also of Dinogore), get the vhs horror boobs made for Wild Eye Releasing , its better then the dvd.

WYNKOOP:  Thank you all for taking the time and showing some interest in this old guy!!!!  It is appreciated, thank you to everyone on your staff and everyone reading this article... thank you all so much and to see what I am doing please seek me out on Facebook under Joel D. Wynkoop.  Thank you!

[queennicoleinboots]

Doing Business As Swamp Business, part 1 (Count Macula, Jr. POV)

King Joebear growled and was eating a large barbecue chicken leg. That big black bear was wearing a crown. Xara walked in the woods naked. 

Wow!!! Wow!!! Wow!!! Wow!!! Wow!!! Wow!!!Wow!!! Wow!!!

Zombies were walking behind her before they gang-banged her. 

I would love to be a zombie right now. I would love to be a zombie right now. I would love to be a zombie right now. I would love to be a zombie right now. I would love to be a zombie right now. I would love to be a zombie right now. I would love to be a zombie right now. I would love to be a zombie right now. 

"Bae Whuhh!!!!" she shouted. "Join us." 'Bae Whuhh' was her husband, King Joebear. He was a large black bear.

"JOIN US, BAE WHUHHH!!!" the zombies shouted. 

Xara and the zombies then danced to seriously spicy salsa music. I danced right along with them. I could be a Bae Whuhh. A female zombie bear and I did the tango in step. I have moves.

King Joebear's fat ass was not ready to dance to seriously spicy salsa. He was taking a shit that made even swamps smell like fresh cut roses. It seems that the sewer was flying out of King Joebear's ass.

A young black and white cat named Miss Oreo came storming into the swamp. Kissy, their female orange cat that grew to be twice the size she was months ago, followed Miss Oreo. Those cats were cute.

Garfield's spirit was ascending to Heaven. I will miss speaking to him on Earth. I don't know angelic, so we can't speak anymore. I waved to him.

"Hoowoo Bae Whuhh you sexy!" Xara said. At that moment, she started her period. She had swamp vagina. She needed business more than ever. "BAE WHUHH!!! I NEED BUSINESS BAEWHUHH!!!" I would be glad to give her business. I've got my DBA all planned out.

"Kissy! Kissy!" King Joebear said in a low melodic voice. "I need you, Kissy. Kissy!" He was ready to sob. He and I missed Garfield.

Kissy ran over there to lay with him. She cuddled up to him, and they cried together.

Xara laid with King Joebear. A barbeque chicken pizza fell out of the sky. King Joebear ate pizza. She ate pizza. I ate pizza and skipped over to them. I am still a forever young white cub, and I wanted to be there for Xara and her family at this time.

We were watching YouTube on a screen on a tree, and it sucked us into the video.

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Trumpy Bear was standing on a podium and speaking in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021. He was saying that we must take back America and make it great again.

Bears and cubs were cheering and wearing MAGA masks. My parents and I were growling.

Pency Bear growled in song that maybe there was another way for America to be great again other than going bear shit on the White House, but most of the other bears were listening. Nobody listens to white bears like us.

I growled in agreement, but my father would hear none of it, so he growled.

Bruce Ace's mother (I don't feel like writing titles. I don't feel like writing titles. I don't feel like writing titles. I don't feel like writing titles. I don't feel like writing titles. I don't feel like writing titles. I don't feel like writing titles. I don't feel like writing titles.) jumped on the podium and shouted that WE should take back America. Ninety-five percent of the bears charged the White House. Ninety-five percent of the bears charged the White House. Ninety-five percent of the bears charged the White House. Ninety-five percent of the bears charged the White House. Ninety-five percent of the bears charged the White House. Ninety-five percent of the bears charged the White House. Ninety-five percent of the bears charged the White House. Ninety-five percent of the bears charged the White House. Ninety-five percent of the bears charged the White House.

Washington D.C. was overrun by a bunch of angry bears. Bears were mauling people, throwing cop cars, punching windshields, pulling out cops, and eating them. Other bears were eating out of the trash bins. There are always hungry bears at every protest. There are always hungry bears at every protest. There are always hungry bears at every protest. There are always hungry bears at every protest. There are always hungry bears at every protest. There are always hungry bears at every protest. There are always hungry bears at every protest. There are always hungry bears at every protest. There are always hungry bears at every protest.

My parents charged the White House with other bears. They growled and held picket signs saying, "Trumpy Bear is the real President. Get Bidet out of the White House." Bidets are a type of toilet accesory, and that's exactly what my family thinks of Biden.

The Democrats ran for their lives as they climbed into gigantic black helicopters to fly away to safety.

Unfortunately, the FBI sent their own army to capture the bears. I growled to warn my parents, but no one could hear me. When those Federal Bastards of Investigation captured my parents, I became infuriated. I flew into the air dramatically with a dark look in my brown eyes and growled feriously eight times. The United States of America then caught on fire. I growled eight more times and dramatically raised my bat wings in the air and turned the world upside down.

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We entered Transylvania. The harsh wind blew snow around me. I couldn't see much in front of me. And I didn't feel cold. I only felt hot rage as my parents were taken from me. It was supposed to be a peaceful protest. We just wanted our country back. We never asked for the schism between Democrats and Republicans. We never asked for the schism between Democrats and Republicans. We never asked for the schism between Democrats and Republicans. We never asked for the schism between Democrats and Republicans. We never asked for the schism between Democrats and Republicans. We never asked for the schism between Democrats and Republicans. We never asked for the schism between Democrats and Republicans. We never asked for the schism between Democrats and Republicans.

So here I am in Transylvania. Somehow, I must save my parents from the FBI. I assumed they were somewhere in these mountains. The FBI never makes tracking easy, so I climbed.

King Joebear was taking a shit on the mountain again. Kissy was sneezing as she guarded him. Miss Oreo also guarded him.

"Oh excuse me!" I shouted. "Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me."

King Joebear growled and bared his teeth at me. "Keep climbing. I will join you when I finish my business," he said.

"Will do," I said as I kept climbing. "Will do. Will do. Will do. Will do. Will do. Will do."

As I climbed, I saw Xara wearing a plaid eskimo outfit. I growled to her as I ran to her and jumped in her arms.

"Count Macula, Jr! How art thou, great cub?" she asked.

"Not good," I said as I nuzzled her. "The FBI kidnapped my parents."

"Yeah. They kidnapped a good bit of my family, too," she said. "Those bastards! I knew we shouldn't have sent out a mass text message to everyone in the family about the Chinese Communist party."

"I received that text," I said. "You should have kept that on the down low. You should have kept that on the down low. You should have kept that on the down low. You should have kept that on the down low. You should have kept that on the down low. You should have kept that on the down low. You should have kept that on the down low. You should have kept that on the down low."

"I REALIZE THAT NOW, COUNT MACULA, JR!" she shouted.

Bruce Ace growled as he and his wife barrelled up the mountain. He had fire in his blue eyes. "THOSE BASTARDS TOOK MY MOTHER AND MY DAUGHTER! I WILL KILL THEM ALL!!!!" He growled with might. A big sheet of snow fell off the mountain.

Megara Ace growled swear words as she charged up the mountain. She had an ass as big as a boulder.

King Joebear, Kissy, and Miss Oreo came up the mountain.

"We must forage for food if we plan to survive the climb to find our family members," King Joebear announced.

On the way up, we discussed conspiracy theories, our favorite foods, our family members, our hatred for the IRS, and late Garfield. When we finished eating the spoils of our hunt, which included an elk, we growled in song.

A bear growled in the distance, but he sounded like he was right in our ears. That bear did not sound like a typical bear. He sounded like a bear angel. And he even projected his face in the fire we started in the middle of our circle to stay warm.

It was the face of Count Macrula. I can only translate what he said in bear language to, "Will you please keep it down? My girlfriend and I are trying to conduct business, and every time one of you sings a note, she bursts out laughing hysterically. Admittedly so do I. Please quiet down so I can conduct business. Thank you."

Bruce and Megara Ace, King Joebear, and I growled in a bear language that translates to, "We're sorry."

The FBI heard us growling, so they vanished us to the swamp we were in back in the beginning of April 2020. But it is swampier now than it was back then.

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I spoke immediately as I sat down to eat more pizza. "They're a bunch of crooks in the Beast system. They will go to Hell for this. They will go to Hell for this. They will go to Hell for this. They will go to Hell for this. They will go to Hell for this. They will go to Hell for this. They will go to Hell for this. They will go to Hell for this."

A super hot curly-haired woman with green eyes and glasses also appeared in the swamp. She was eating pizza, but she was dancing in ballet style around in a purple form-fitting crop top and a pink bekini. The bottom of her supple C-cup breasts would show when she jumped in the air.

Wow! Look at those breasts! Wow! Look at those breasts! Wow! Look at those breasts! Wow! Look at those breasts! Wow! Look at those breasts! Wow! Look at those breasts! Wow! Look at those breasts! Wow! Look at those breasts! I have a boner!

She was 7'4" and looked like an Amazon. She was a perfect hour glass figure. Swiggity Swoogity! I ate that slice of pizza and was going for that booty.

Bruce Ace and Megara were also eating pizza. But when he saw that Amazonian Woman, his eyes popped open and he growled in sexual excitement before he was inspired to sing opera as entertainment for dinner. I sang with him because I was sexually aroused, too.

Holy Shit I was sexually aroused. Holy Shit I was sexually aroused. Holy Shit I was sexually aroused. Holy Shit I was sexually aroused. Holy Shit I was sexually aroused. Holy Shit I was sexually aroused. Holy Shit I was sexually aroused. Holy Shit I was sexually aroused.

I also heard another voice singing with Bruce Ace and me. It was heavenly, and it almost took my focus away from the super sexy Amazonian woman. Almost. Almost. Almost. Almost. Almost. Almost. Almost. Almost.

Paul the Goat rode Hollywood while they both ate pizza. But when he saw the Amazonian woman, he bleated and damn near fell off the horse. He stared her down with his blue eyes and bleated in a high-pitch voice.

Kissy then ate Xara's pizza crust and meowed as though she were a wind-up toy. That cat had a set of lungs on her.

Count Macrula descended from the Heavens and blessed us all.

I blinked eight times as he looked at him and took another bite of pizza. "Apparently we have entered Heaven. This pizza tastes like Heaven. Excuse me. I have a cub call to make. I have a cub call to make. I have a cub call to make. I have a cub call to make. I have a cub call to make. I have a cub call to make. I have a cub call to make. I have a cub call to make," I spoke before I growled a great cub growl eight times. 

Bruce Ace did some vocal exercises before he, too, joined in my bear chorus. 

King Joebear growled in bear chorus before Miss Oreo stole a bite of pizza from him. "OREO, lay down!" he growled at her. Miss Oreo stared at him before she continued to chew. 

Paul the Goat bleated before Hollywood neighed loudly. 

The super hot curly-haired woman with green eyes and glasses started to bleat before she looked up at Count Macrula and asked, "Who the hell are you?"

'I have the same question for you, Amazonian Goodess,' I thought as I looked up at her.

Count Macrula spoke with vigor, "I am Macrula, a dark angel with regrets, angel wings of redemption, and have traveled across many planes of existence. A cat called upon me. What shall she have me do?"

I have a boner. I want to hump her thick muscular legs, climb up to her pussy, and stick my head right inside her lovely coochie. Then when I climb in her body, I would like to lick every morsel of her poop before squeezing out between her velvety gorgeous cheeks. Then I would eat her ass out until her butt hole was sore. 

Macrula spoke again, "I heard a cat that sounded like a wind-up toy."

Kissy meowed again. "Sorry about that. I was excited about pizza crust. When I eat pizza crust, I'm in heaven. Thank you for coming," she said to Macrula.

"You are most welcome, cat of great beauty," Macrula said. "What shall you have me do for you?"

"Well, we are having a great swamp party, despite the fact that this swaaaamp is completely fucked," Kissy said as she meowed. 

Pauno, a Greek God with green eyes and black curly-hair and Kendrick, Peter's ex-girlfriend and Pauno's current wife also wandered in the swamp. They also were eating pizza. Pauno looked over to the Amazonian woman and mouthed, "Boobs!!!!" He was making the swamp into a beautiful garden.

Kendrick looked over at the curly-haired woman and approached her. "You look familiar. Have I seen you before?" she asked as she looked her up and down and had her jaw dropped. 

The Amazonian woman smiled awkwardly and kind of looked away as she hunched her strong, sexy shoulders. "I don't remember, but maybe we crossed paths before." She shrugged with her arms and smiled. Her smile was extremely familiar... her teeth were sort of like a vampire's... I know someone else who has teeth like that. She must have been on TV somewhere... She is extremely hot, hot enough to be a porn star... WAIT A MINUTE! WAIT A MINUTE! WAIT A MINUTE! WAIT A MINUTE! WAIT A MINUTE! WAIT A MINUTE! WAIT A MINUTE! WAIT A MINUTE!

"Peter?!" Kendrick said. 

Whoa! My boner felt confused, but it stayed up. I just stared at her. I am going to have to think LONG and HARD about this dilemma.

She sighed cutely before she spoke, "I changed my name. Peter isn't a girl's name." She sighed and rolled her gorgeous green eyes. She still acted like Peter, but she was cuter as a girl. She is very pretty.

The swamp bubbled up before a man with shaggy red hair started crawling from the large puddle in the middle of said swamp. He was covered in mud. He looked familiar. He looked like someone who was at my Taco Mac party. He then hugged that sexy girl around her curveous, milky waist. She's taken? Let me have some of that body. I bet she feels really soft. Her tummy is super beautiful. Her belly button was tiny.

I still have a boner. I still have a boner. I still have a boner. I still have a boner. I still have a boner. I still have a boner. I still have a boner. I still have a boner.

"Xaria, I have found you," the man covered in mud said as he kissed the left side of her curveous, smooth, milky body. Xaria is a pretty name, like the girl who has it. Well, she was a boy, and now is a girl. She looks waaaaaayyyy better as a girl.

My boner is still way up. I want to kiss her body up and down, too. I would even take that shirt off and kiss those pink nipples, too. Yeah, I watched a few of her porn videos when she was a dude, so I know exactly what those nipples look like. And then I would like to pull that bekini down and see what's underneath. I hope it isn't a cock because I'm not gay. I'm not gay. I'm not gay. Holy shit I'm not gay. I'm. Not. Gay.

Xaria put her dainty yet long fingers around those of the man. "Oh hey, Jared. Why the hell did you emerge from the mud?" 

King Joebear then growled a great bear growl before announcing, "That's great, and now excuse me, I need to lick ass."

While King Joebear licked Xara's ass and while I joined in with Jared and Xaria, Macrula sang an opera.

"BAE WHUHH!!!!" Xara shouted as she shook her divine booty and did the backfat dance in front of us. She still was bleeding like a stuffed pig. Xara's ass is almost as sexy as Xaria's ass.

But Xaria's ass was still sexiest of them all. It tasted delicious, too. I took a peak to see what was underneath her asshole. There was a scarred vagina in between her legs. There were black and blue marks around her opening, but it was still kind of cute. Her monis pubis was puffy and shaved. I licked her opening and liked the taste. It actually tasted like a peach. She moaned. Jared had his finger on her small penis that turned into a clit.

King Joebear growled before he mauled Xara and started to lick her ass. I felt like I connected with that bear in our ass-licking activity.

Macrula laughed a hearty laugh before he addressed Kissy. "I am not going to lick your cat ass if that's what you are implying."

Well, licking a cat's ass is a little bit past what I could imagine myself doing. Please don't lick that cat ass. Please don't lick that cat ass. Please don't lick that cat ass. Please don't lick that cat ass. Please don't lick that cat ass. Please don't lick that cat ass. Please don't lick that cat ass. Please don't lick that cat ass.

Kissy meowed again. "No. I definitely did not call you for that. I simply meowed out of enjoying pizza crust," she said. 

We went down the swamp drain in a clockwise direction because we were in North America. And then I entered Xaria's pretty ass.

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The sun was glinting in my eye. I found myself laying in the dewy grass with a doll that looked like Xaria. I picked up the doll and saw that the name that was across her off-white long-sleeved button-down shirt as Xaria Wonderboom. Apparently,

Xaria Wonderboom changed her last name from Parker to Wonderboom.

I never read Xaria's novel, but Xara told me that the main character was named Artie Wonderbloom. Xaria wonder-bloomed all right. I guess even Artie changed his... her gender and name, too.

A Rolls Royce was driving up the long estate driveway. I didn't pay it no mind. I was checking out her circular-framed glasses and playing with her long brown curly-hair. Her curly hair extended to the bottom of her back.

An old man and Xara went to greet the people coming out of the Rolls Royce, Pauno and Kendrick. They exchanged greetings before Pauno saw me playing with the Xaria Wonderboom doll. He walked over to me and asked, "Where did you find that doll?"

"Right here on the grass," I said. "Right here on the grass. Right here on the grass. Right here on the grass. Right here on the grass. Right here on the grass. Right here on the grass. Right here on the grass."

"BOOBS!!!! I am Pauno, the Greek God of parties, being supportive, wine, and crack cocaine," Pauno said with authority as he stared at the doll.

It was true. Xaria's suspenders were struggling to wrap around those large boobs of hers.

"Oh brother. I thought I put that toy away. How the heck did she get out here?" Xara asked as she stared at the doll. "But yes, her toymaker made her with extremely big boobs!!! Must have been a horny son of a bitch."

"Yeah. I used to jack off to her when I was a boy," the old man said. "She made me horny... still does."

"My Goodness. I guess sex dolls have been a thing at least since the 1800s," Xara said with a laugh and went back to mansion on the estate. 

"Enjoy your toy," the old man said to me as he led Kendrick and Pauno back to the mansion. Pauno was making trees that had plenty of food on them.

"I will!" I shouted after them. "I will! I will! I will! I will! I will! I will! I will!"

Xaria woke up and then became 7'4". She was laying in the grass, and her boobs were life-sized.

All of my blood has rushed to my penis.

"Sorry about that. I had to freeze because there were adults everywhere. The old man would have shit himself if he knew I were still alive," Xaria said.

"Did you use to fuck him when he was younger?" I asked.

"Yeah! Like waaaay younger. Try 50 years younger," she said.

"I understand," I said. I was a vampbear. I looked like an eight-year-old cub, but I have been alive for over 40 years. Apparently, Xaria was some hot vampiress doll or something.

"Yeah, the life of a toy, let me tell you," she said with a smirk.

"So, you are actually a toy?" I asked.

"Actually, yeah. I was made in that house over there," she said as she pointed to a castle on the other side of the estate. It was even more haunting than the one I lived in. Ghosts of children's toys were flying around it.

"Count Macula, Jr. COME! Dinner has been prepared. Bring your toy with you!" Pauno commanded.

Xaria then returned to her toy form, and I picked her up and pressed her against my chest. Damn her boobs felt good against my chest. I was walking with a boner toward the estate.

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I was laughing my ass off at the dinner table. We were talking about current news, shapeshifting reptiles on the news, and how MSNBC was fake news.

Xaria was sitting on the table next to me and scowled. I forgot. She was a damn Democrat. She was a damn Democrat. She was a damn Democrat. She was a damn Democrat. She was a damn Democrat. She was a damn Democrat. She was a damn Democrat. She was a damn Democrat.

Kissy sniffed Xaria's hair on the table before she batted it. Xaria sat still. I laughed seeing Kissy play with Xaria's hair and sniffing it.

Miss Oreo jumped on the table and crawled on Xaria's lap. She brushed past Xaria's boobs as she went to grab a sweet potato from a bowl.

"Oreo, get down!" King Joebear said sternly as he scowled at her. Yes, he joined us for dinner.

I laughed. I wanted to be Miss Oreo about now. I like Xaria's boobs. I like Xaria's boobs. I like Xaria's boobs. I like Xaria's boobs. I like Xaria's boobs. I like Xaria's boobs. I like Xaria's  boobs. I like Xaria's boobs enough to rub them with my thumb when no one was looking.

Xaria stared straight ahead at everyone and had the same scowl on her face.

"After dinner, I'm going to take you somewhere to change your attitude. After dinner, I'm going to take you somewhere to change your attitude. After dinner, I'm going to take you somewhere to change your attitude. After dinner, I'm going to take you somewhere to change your attitude. After dinner, I'm going to take you somewhere to change your attitude. After dinner, I'm going to take you somewhere to change your attitude. After dinner, I'm going to take you somewhere to change your attitude. After dinner, I'm going to take you somewhere to change your attitude," I whispered to Xaria with conviction as I brushed a lock behind her ear.

King Joebear shouted, "Whoa! We opened up the crazies up in this conversation!"

That was a bit too much conspiracy for me, so I picked up Xaria and took her fine ass upstairs.

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Xaria and I were in the bedroom after we took our bath together, and she was still in her towel. I was still a naked bear, too. I was nowhere near done with her.

She was drying herself off as she was sitting in the bed.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" I shouted. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"

[the-era-of-shadow]

Inner Connection

Written by Ash Rose Cover Art by Ash Rose

THIS STORY CONTAINS: Swearing, depiction of suicidal thoughts, light talk of sex

(OG ver) Original publish date:

(Amino) October 20th 2020

(Fanfiction.net) February 17th 2021

(Rewrite) Original publish date:

(Amino & AO3) May 28th 2021

When Rouge and her passengers arrived in Station Square, the sky already was dark, illuminated by the waning moon, and the few stars that were able to be seen amongst the street lights. 

“9:30pm already? You better have a good reason to be here…” Rouge groaned.

“Oh... some things really don’t change, do they?” Shadow thought, both relieved and annoyed by Rouge’s lack of change in her personality in the two years since they last saw each other.

“Yea, I’m aware… But I need some help safely retrieving something from a storage unit around here…” Shadow explained. 

"Oh my~! How mysterious!" Rouge teased, making Shadow pout.

“Awwwwww! They’re so cuuuuute!!” Black Widow suddenly said. "Garrick's such a great friend!" She added, making it clear that she was talking about how Garrick was curled around Eclipse's sleeping Dark Arms.

"I'm glad to see them bond… To see my sweethearts be accepted as if they were full blooded Black Arms… Oh it makes me so happy…" Eclipse said.

"Oh yeah, they're hybrids, aren't they?" Widow asked Eclipse.

"Indeed. They started as wisp eggs, but I modified them with Black Arms genetics!" They explained.

"Ah! I've always wondered what the Dark Arms were! But if I may ask another question… What's a wisp, anyway?"

"Oh--! I can answer that for you, Widow!" Relic said excitedly. "Wisps are a species of small but powerful creatures that are not native to our dimension! They come from the Will Dimension! I've never been there myself, I haven't been to any of the other dimensions, I simply don't have the power to, but maybe one day I'll find some sort of device or method of traveling dimensions!--" Relic explained, quickly going into a ramble. 

"The wisps are from another dimension?? How did you manage to get wisp eggs, Eclipse??" Widow asked in utter confusion.

"I have my ways, Lady Widow~." Eclipse responded with a smirk.

"Could you teach me one day? I'd love to travel the multiverse!" Relic asked.

"You haven't even traveled outside of this planet, Relic! What's the big rush?" Eclipse pointed out to her.

"Ah! Right! I suppose I should start by traveling this universe before I go to others, huh?" Relic said, laughing a bit. Eclipse could tell that Harazuki was looking at them with a suspicious look, but decided to head her no mind.

"Though, I don't think wisps are known for learning languages other than the one they already speak amongst themselves… I wonder what caused the Dark Arms to be different in that way…" Relic said.

"Most likely the addition of Black Arms DNA…" Eclipse answered nonchalantly.

"Or maybe it's that your intelligence rubbed off onto them, ay Relic?" Rouge suggested in a flirty tone, causing Relic to blush.

"Wh-what??--" She blurted out.

"You know, one must argue if something is of nature or nurture…" Eclipse noted, further encouraging Rouge's point.

"E-ECLIPSE--!!" Relic shouted, her face now completely red. Eclipse and Rouge both chuckled loudly, which made Relic even more embarrassed and angry.

Shadow felt Widow squirm back into their embrace, catching a tear quelling in her eye.

"Hey, mom, you alright…?" They asked.

".... How close are we to the storage space?" She asked flatly.

"I think we're almost there." Shadow answered. Widow moved herself to be able to stare out the car window, leaning its head on the rim.

"... Does Rouge flirting with Relic bother you?" Shadow asked over the hivemind.

"... It does, if I'm being completely honest. You and Garrick remind me so much of Doomie, of course, but… with Rouge in the mix, I've got myself missing both of them now…" Widow responded.

"... "Both of them"?" 

"Hey! Shadow! Is this the place?" Rouge asked.

"Oh, yeah. This is the place." Shadow answered.

Rouge pulled the car into park and hopped out along with everyone else, who stood there, waiting for Shadow or Omega to tell them what needed to be done.

"Omega, can you give instructions on how to handle Midnight for me?" Shadow whispered to Omega, who happily took its request, and started giving orders out as Shadow tried to ask Widow again about what she said.

"What did you mean by "both of them", mom?" They asked.

"Oh, it's nothing…" Widow responded, trying to get Shadow to drop the subject. “Didn’t you say you needed help with something?” It asked.

"Right…" Shadow nodded. “Omega, Mom, you two come with me, I bet you two can carry the big stuff to the truck.” They instructed.

“Is that a challenge?” Omega asked boldly. 

"Look, just get started, okay?" Shadow told him, not feeling up to being playful. "Mom, come with me, okay? I'll help you if you need." Widow silently nodded in response.

“So we’ll handle the rest after they get out the heavy things??” Yuki asked as Shadow left.

"Is that what Omega told you to do?" Shadow asked him.

"Yeah-"

“Then Yes!” Shadow hastily answered.

"Oh- uh- okay…" Yuki responded, tearing up a bit. Shadow felt bad and wanted to apologize, but didn't get the chance to.

“What is it that you need us to carry?” Omega asked.

“It’s a project that I've been working on for a few months now…." Shadow began to explain, a smile forming on its face. "You see, I wanted a child, ya know? So I recovered Gerald’s journal, and got to work on Project: MIDNIGHT!” There was a few seconds of silence, and then Shadow heard Widow sniffling, but before they could say anything, she was already flying off towards the truck. “Stay here, Omega.”

“Understood.” Shadow ran after her.

By the time Shadow caught up to her, Widow was inside the truck, holding Garrick close.

“Mommy….?” Garrick rubbed his eyes tiredly, confused and worried about his mom.

“Did I say something wrong..?” Shadow asked.

“Oh no… It’s just… The way you spoke about that Midnight project of yours…” Shadow caught on to what Widow was saying.

“I see... I’m sorry.”

“Why are you apologizing? I’m the one getting over emoti-”

“Because we wouldn’t even be having this conversation if it wasn’t for me being stupid… Hell, we wouldn’t even be here…”

“.... Yeah, you aren’t wrong.” Widow looked back at Garrick. “I’ll never forgive you, Shadow.”

“Good, you shouldn’t.” Shadow responded, tearing up.

“But that doesn’t mean I hate you.”

“I know.”

“You’ve changed since then. You’re capable of doing as much good for us as you’ve done bad, or even more so.” Widow added, looking at Shadow, most likely smiling under that mask of hers. Shadow stayed silent. “Anyway, I’m feeling better now… We should get back on track, and rejoin Omega in getting the supplies and stuff for Midnight.”

“.... I’ll stay here.” 

“Are you sure?”

“Yes.” Shadow insisted sharply. They stayed in the truck, eventually falling asleep, with its mouth still quivering, feeling its cheeks get wet as they slipped into slumber, a part of them hoping that it’d never wake up.

But they did, and when they did, it noticed that they were in a completely different area, and that Midnight's lab area had been nearly completely rebuilt, with Eclipse and Relic sleeping next to it. But more importantly, Shadow heard something, a faint voice…

Calling out to them.

“Wha… Hello…?” Shadow responded, still mostly asleep.

“Shadow… Are you awake..?” 

“Huh..?” Shadow started to fully wake up, quickly realizing who was trying to talk to them, “Dad?? Wait, does that mean… My wish came true…?” Shadow asked.

“... No.”

“Oh… I’m still alive then…” Shadow sighed and stared off into the distance. 

“Why do you so desperately want your own demise..?”

“Oh please, don’t you fucking DARE act like you don’t know why!” Shadow snapped back, causing Doom to become even more upset than he already was.

“Shadow…”

“Why are you even here? Why are you supposedly working through ME of all people?” Shadow yelled, incredibly emotional. Doom saw Garrick begin to stir due to the loud noise, and quickly teleported Shadow away from the truck, as to not wake him or anyone else up.

“Do you not remember what Widow told you earlier?”

“No, I do. She’s just wrong..” The way Doom was going about the conversation was clearly not helping, so he took a moment to rethink their approach.

“I know you feel guilty for killing me-”

“It’s not just that! I killed millions, no, BILLIONS of Black Arms! I took nearly everything Widow knew away from her! I've RUINED so many lives!!” Shadow curled up and sobbed. 

“You aren’t wrong, but neither is Widow… You’ve changed so much since then, Shadow… The fact that you are beating yourself up so much about it proves as much… That’s the main reason I chose you to be my vessel…”

Shadow looked up at Doom, successfully soothed. 

“ ”Main reason”…? What are the other reasons?”

“I’ll explain, but… Let’s take a walk together, it’ll be good for you…”

Shadow nodded, agreeing. 

“The other reasons why I chose you… well, my other two considerations were Widow and Garrick, but I ended up choosing YOU, Shadow, was because you have the best of both of them…” 

“What do you mean?”

“You see, Shadow, you have Widow’s maturity and intelligence, and you have a piece of me that I can link to you through in the form of having my DNA, like Garrick does.”

Shadow smiled, blushing a bit from Doom’s comments about it being mature and intelligent.

“You know, it may be odd to say… But I’m impressed that you were able to kill me..!”

Shadow was taken aback.

“I-Impressed?? What??” Shadow asked, completely confused.

Doom laughed heartily.

“I’m QUITE powerful, yes, but you, Shadow, defeated me with relative ease! My heir being even more powerful than I? Yes, it’s a dream come true!!”

“You’re a lot more passionate than usual..!” Shadow said.

“Oh yes, Widow says I talk much more than I normally do when I get excited.”

“I see that!”

The two of them continued walking, sharing stories and bonding with each other. Despite Black Doom being a mere ghost now, Shadow felt closer to him than ever before.

“Oh, right! All of this talking made me forget!”

“Forget what?” Shadow looked at him, confused. 

“The reason why I was calling out to you earlier was because I needed you to get something, but I knew you wouldn’t know where it was, so that’s why I came with you.”

“Oh… So, just like how it used to be..? Before I..-” Doom quickly cut Shadow off before they could go into a guilt-filled mental breakdown like last time.

“Not exactly… What we’re looking for isn’t for me this time… It’s for you!”

Before Shadow could respond, Doom piped up once again.

“I'll go get it for you, actually. I think I can sense where it is...”

Suddenly, Black Doom’s iconic Doom’s Eye Amulet appeared at Shadow’s feet.

“Your necklace…?” Shadow looked up at Doom, who looked back at them lovingly. “You want me to have your necklace..?”

“Yes, indeed… It’s one of my smallest pieces of jewelry, but I know that our difference in height is quite distinct, so it may still be a bit big on you..”

When Shadow put it on, the six-pointed star pendant hung at its ankles.

“Ah…. yeah.” Shadow chuckled awkwardly. “I bet Mom can fix it up for me..”

“I bet that as well."

"By the way, I just remembered…" Shadow said. "What did mom mean by… both?"

"What do you mean?"

"When I was talking to mom earlier, it said that Rouge was making her miss "both of them"...." Shadow explained.

"Oh, I think I know what she meant - Give me a second." Doom then went out of Shadow's view for a few minutes, soon coming back with a woman. She was slightly taller than Doom, with nearly fluorescent iris-less teal eyes, wearing a ripped black dress and a seafoam green scarf that was just as torn as her dress.

"Aww! What a cutie pie! Is this Garrick?" The woman asked.

"N-no ma'am… I'm Shadow…" Shadow answered sheepishly.

"Oh…. Well, you seem pretty upset. You regret what you've done?" 

"... Yes." Shadow looked away, trying to keep themself from crying.

"Ah! Sweet!" The woman said cheerfully. "My name's Sendrir! I helped to kickstart the Black Arms back in the day, ya know." She said with pride. "I also fucked his wife a couple of times." She added, pointing to Doom.

"SENDRIR!" Doom yelled, appalled.

"What? You let me." Sendrir responded in a sassy tone.

"THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M ANGRY ABOUT!" Doom argued. "... I'd rather you not be so vulgar about it in front of my child…!" 

"Dad, I know what sex is. You don't need to baby me.." Shadow said, trying to hold in its laughter.

Doom sighed, he knew that Shadow was right, so they decided it'd be too much effort to continue arguing with Sendrir.

"Oh, and there was that one time where Doom and I got drunk and-" Sendrir started to add, but Doom interrupted her.

"IF YOU'RE TELLING THEM ABOUT WHAT I THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT I SWEAR I WILL-" Shadow was on the brink of laughing hysterically now.

"I know you enjoyed it." Sendrir said, causing Doom to groan.

"Look, let's just get going, the sun's almost up. I'd hate to have the others worry about where Shadow is." 

"Oh yeah… sorry." Sendrir responded seriously.

"I hope that the others don't freak out that I'm gone…" Shadow said. "Causing more sorrow is… The complete opposite of what I wanna do…" It added.

"I can tell. You know, you're very different from what I was expecting from THE Shadow!" Sendrir said to Shadow. "I think you're gonna do a lot of good things for us." 

"You… You really think so?" Shadow asked. 

"Of course!" 

"Sometimes you really do know what to say…" Doom noted.

"Uh, yeah? We've known each other for how long now?" Sendrir responded, switching back to that usual sassy tone of hers.

"Come on you two. Let's get back to base already." Shadow said to them, cracking a slight, calm smile. 

“Shadow!! Where were you?!” Garrick yelled, tightly hugging Shadow right after they were teleported back to the temporary camping spot. “Mommy and I were worried about you!" 

“Settle down, both of you. We only woke up 15 minutes ago, for all we know-” Eclipse started to say, but Widow interrupted them, seeing the necklace Shadow had on. 

“Is it really…? Doom’s amulet?? How did you find this??”

“Well… Ah, you’ll probably never believe me..-” Suddenly, the emerald center of the pendant produced a bright light and a bit of force, sending Widow and Shadow back a bit. The light quickly dimmed down, revealing Doom’s ghost to everyone else. Widow stood in disbelief for a few seconds before its eyes filled with tears.

“OH DOOMIE!!” She belted happily, heavily crying.

“I missed you so much, my dear..”

"I missed you too…" Widow responded, wiping her eyes.

"IS THAT THE VOICE OF MY LITTLE WIDOW I HEAR?" Another voice suddenly shouted out. Both Shadow and Widow automatically recognized it.

"S-Sendrir???" Widow asked, tearing up again.

"You know it baby!" Sendrir answered, coming into everyone's view. Widow suddenly felt something go by her, quickly realizing that it was Garrick.

"Are you my daddy, mister?" He asked Doom.

"Yes, I am… Oh how I wish I could have been there to see you grow, my son…" He answered, trying to hide the tears in their eyes, so as to not upset anyone. "But it seems that your mother has done quite a good job at raising you…" 

"Wouldn't expect any less from the best!" Sendrir added, looking at Widow.

"Aww… you guys are so sweet, even after all this time… If only I could still feel that love in a physical sense…" 

“Don’t worry, my love… I already accounted for that hope..” 

He looked back at Shadow.

“Prepare yourself, Shadow… This may be a bit overwhelming..”

The blinding light from before returned, and shined briefly through Shadow’s eyes and mouth. The light left as soon as it came, just as it did last time. Everyone watched over Shadow’s body in curiosity and confusion, seeing their eyes open, completely orange, with no visible irises. Widow already caught on to what was happening, but then a third eye opened up on their forehead, making it more obvious. Widow turned into her Mobian form to erase the height difference, and pulled her beloved into her arms. Temporarily being a ghost was quite surreal to Shadow at first, but it quickly pulled themself together and appreciated getting to see their mother being so happy for once. 

"Hey! What about me?!" Sendrir pouted.

"Finding a conduit for you will be tricky…" Doom explained. 

"And why's that? What about-!" Sendrir began to argue, but then a realization came to her. "... Oh yeah. I see why that wouldn't work. That's fair."

"I'm just happy to see you guys again at all, honestly!" Widow admitted. 

"Lord Doom." Eclipse said suddenly. 

"Hm? Oh, what is it you need of me..?" 

"Is Sendrir the only ghost of a fallen Black Arms you're able to bring to us?" They asked.

"No, of course not." Doom responded.

"... I see." Eclipse said with a satisfied smile. "It would be a pleasure to see my masters once again." 

"Hey can I ask? Who is this kid??" Sendrir asked, pointing to Eclipse.

"This is Eclipse. I don't know much about them, but I know that the "masters" they refer to are Death and Vladmira." Doom explained to her.

"... That explains the "master" title… God Death was always so full of himself.." 

"My masters told me many stories of the Black Arms' history. I do believe I've heard of you in many of them." Eclipse said to Sendrir.

"Well, I sure hope you enjoy getting to meet me in person!" Sendrir remarked.

"I very much do enjoy meeting you! You seem like a fun person to be around." 

"Well, I'm afraid that I must return to my ghostly form…. Shadow and I will try to learn to sustain this form of my existence for longer periods of time, but for now I am at my limit, I cannot try to inhabit Shadow’s body any longer without some dire consequences…" Doom said sadly.

"Oh… well it was nice being able to hug you again.. and stuff." Widow replied. Doom kissed her on the lips.

"Wait! Wait!" Garrick cried.

"Hmm?" 

Garrick ran up and hugged Doom tightly. "Are you proud of me?"

"Of course…" 

After letting go of Garrick, Doom left Shadow’s body, allowing Shadow to inhabit it once again.

"Thank you, Shadow…" 

“Hey… What’s with all the noise?? So early in the morning t-” Rouge groaned tiredly as she walked into the scene,, overhearing the commotion cutting herself off when she saw what was going on.

“My, would you look at that? I’m not much into supernatural things, aside from the mythologies of ancient civilizations, but even I’ll admit seeing a ghost right before my eyes is quite a sight indeed!” Relic said, surprised, as well as quite curious. 

“Anyway…. No hard feelings, rig-?” Rouge began to say to Doom, before being cut off again, though it wasn't by herself this time.

“HOLY CRAP!! HARA WAKE UP, YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!!” Yuki suddenly yelled, being one of the last people to wake up aside from Eclipse’s Dark Arms,

“Yuki…? What are you yelling about now…” Harazuki looked up. “What the- Lord Doom???” She hopped up and ran to everyone else.

“Ah, Harazuki! How have you been?”

“Oh my... you, it’s really you…!” Hara said, already on the verge of tears. Hara looked down, curious as to where Doom's ghost had come from, and saw that the light illuminating Doom’s ghost was coming from Shadow. “... Maybe you’re not as bad as I thought…”

“No, I probably am…” Shadow replied, really only half-joking around.

“Shadow! Have you already forgotten what I-”

“Nah… I’m just kidding. I swear."

"Mhm… Surrrrre you are." Sendrir remarked.

"No need to be a troublemaker now, Sen." Doom told her.

“Hey, sir, I just remembered something.” Yuki said, finally catching up to Hara.

“Hello there Yuki! What is it?”

“Well… What ever happened to the Aerth Temple? The one you, Widow, Sendrir, Mom and Black Death built back in the old days or whateves?”

“Oh dear! What DID ever happen to that?”

“Ugh, it better not be destroyed!” Widow pouted. 

"I'm with Widow on that! We worked real hard on that, ya know?" Sendrir said.

“I think it’s still up, I mean, Knuckles, The Doctor and I were the only outsiders who knew about it… Right?” Shadow asked.

“Yeah, I don’t remember hearing about it, let alone destroying it.” Rouge added. 

“Then it’s most likely still up…!” Doom reasoned.

“That's great!” Widow and Sendrir said in unison.

“We can use that as our base!” Yuki suggested.

“I like that idea, Yuki..”

“Whelp, looks like we gotta deconstruct Midnight’s set up again…” Eclipse sighed, looking over to Relic, hoping to see her feeling the same tiredness they did, but they saw that she seemed to be incredibly excited, which was in some aspects, even better to see.

“This is quite wonderful! I can’t wait to see it!”

“Eclipse, I’ll go get as much scrap metal as possible while you and Relic deconstruct the Midnight lab.” Shadow offered.

“Ah, yes, that’ll be quite good. Make sure to get a lot, I need enough to make an airship that’ll hold all of us!” Eclipse responded.

“I can help you if you want.” Hara said to Shadow.

“Same here!” Yuki added.

“Sounds like a plan to me! What about you?”

“I’m quite fine with that!” Eclipse said.

"By the way, Yuki… Sorry for how I spoke to you yesterday..." Shadow said.

"It's alright Shadow… Sometimes things just happen under stress… I've been under enough pressure myself to know that well… let alone all the pressure this vessel's dealt with when I'm not using it." Yuki rambled out in response. 

“I’ll take that as my goodbye cue… Farewell for now.” Doom said.

"Guess I gotta go too… Bye Widow!! Love you!!" Sendrir added.

“Farewell...” Widow blew a kiss to its lovers. “For now…” She added, taking solace in those words, and Shadow did as well, knowing that they weren’t alone.

[the-era-of-shadow]

The Twisted Mystery of Wilma Brevair

Written by Ash Rose Cover art by Ash Rose

Chapter 3: Rainy Day Breakfast

THIS STORY CONTAINS: Swearing, depiction of drugging

(OG ver) Original publish date:

(Amino) August 24th 2020

(Fanfiction.net) February 8th 2021

(Rewrite) Original publish date:

(Amino & AO3) April 24th 2021

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Whisper tried to sleep some more, setting her clock to wake her up at 5:00 am, as Doctor Clysdale’s clinic was an hour walk away, though the voicemail had spooked her so bad that she couldn’t get any rest at all. As she thought about and eventually listened back to the voicemail, she came to the conclusion that Wilma and Dr Clysdale must be close friends, and Wilma told them about the fact that Whisper and the other Freedom Trainees had been stalking her yesterday. 

After what seemed to be an eternity later, her alarm clock went off. Whisper got up from her bed, wrote a small sign explaining where she was, and hung it on her door. When Whisper went downstairs, she noticed that it was raining outside, so she put on her raincoat and rain boots, and grabbed her umbrella before heading out.

Whisper was indeed nervous, but walking alone in the rain, with the sun slowly rising into the sky, creating streaks of vibrant yellows, oranges, reds and even pinks in the sky as it changes from a dark indigo to that more familiar cyan, even faded through the gray clouds, gave off a calming vibe.

Soon enough, Whisper reached Doctor Clysdale’s clinic, which had a sign on it saying that it wouldn’t be open until noon because of “internal reasons''. Suddenly, Relic came around from behind the building.

“I told them that you wouldn’t have been able to show up so early!” She pouted.

“A-Am I late?” Whisper asked.

“Yeah… Only by an hour.”

“An hour…! I-I’m sorry!” Whisper apologized, partially because she was scared of the doctor, after hearing their angry voicemail, but also partially because she just felt bad for being late in general. Relic assured her that everything was okay, and told Whisper to follow her. Relic led her behind the clinic, where a small house resided. 

“That’s where ol’ Clyde and I live!” 

“Oh? I see…" Whisper responded.

Relic opened the door for Whisper. Before she could even take one step in, she was confronted by two young foxes fighting. Both of them had primarily gray fur like Clysdale, with one of them having their red highlights as well, while the other had cyan highlights, similar to Relic. 

“Ah! Whisper! There you are, darling!” Doctor Clysdale looked quite chipper, completely different to how they were the night before, though a small crack into the more angry side of them that Whisper had seen showed when they stared at the two young foxes angrily. The two foxes went to the kitchen, grabbed a plate of food for each of them and then scurried upstairs. "Why don't you find a seat?" Clysdale suggested to Whisper, placing their hand on her shoulder. Whisper did as she was asked, and saw none other than Wilma, standing around, and her son Garrick, quietly playing a video game with another young fox. She instantly panicked.

“Oh. Don’t worry yourself, Clysdale says you’re a good kid, and I believe them. You looked uncomfortable yesterday, I could tell.” Wilma said.

“Wait, really?” Whisper was surprised to hear that.

“Yeah.” Wilma nodded.

“Oh, hey, I think our breakfast is ready…" The fox with Garrick spoke up, as he sat up and paused the game.

"Awww…. Does that mean I have to go upstairs too?" Garrick pouted. 

"Not if you promise to behave." Wilma told him sweetly. Wilma continued to whisper softly to Garrick, though Whisper couldn't hear her anymore, she did notice that Wilma pointed to yet another young fox, this one female, wearing glasses and a hoodie, who was sitting quietly on the couch, doodling in a notebook and listening to music. 

"Do you guys wanna play a game together?" Relic asked.

“Oh! Oh! I wanna play Uno!!” Garrick excitedly requested.

“I do like that idea quite a good bit. What does everyone else think?” Wilma said.

“Sure…! I like Uno…” Whisper answered.

"Uno… Uno's good." The young girl answered as well.

“Agreed! So let’s play!” Relic excitedly declared.

Wilma shuffled the cards, and passed them out, 7 for each person as Clysdale joined them and set food on the table. Wilma took the rest of the cards and placed them in a pile, flipping over the card on top, revealing the color and number of that card, and thus, the game, and breakfast, began.

As the four played, Whisper decided to talk to Clysdale. 

"Are those little foxes your-?" 

"Children? Yes. I told you I had parental experience, didn't I?" Clysdale answered, holding the hoodie wearing fox close to them.

"Oh, that's nice…" Whisper responded. "Are you and Relic… together..?" She asked.

"Oh no. I'm aware that some of my little ones may make it look that way, but I assure you, I simply don't feel that kind of attraction." Clysdale told her, making sure she understood. "We are simply friends." 

"Yeah…" Relic sighed.

“So, who… is the other parent, then?" Whisper asked.

"My, you're certainly nosy, aren't you?" Clysdale answered, clearly wanting to drop the subject. Whisper, not wanting to cause tension so quickly, especially with Dr Clysdale of all people, quickly apologized for asking.

"Speaking of being nosy--" Wilma interjected. "Your friends were quite a nosy bunch yesterday, weren't they? How long have you known them, anyhow?" 

“Oh! I’ve known Jewel and Tangle for a while, but we all met Lux just yesterday.” Whisper replied quite quickly.

“Pardon me, I managed to get a picture of you four on my phone… which is which?” Whisper pointed out each of them.

“Lux was the one who told us about you, and asked us to help her... Get you imprisoned…” She admitted. Wilma understandably looked offended, but quickly cooled down.

“Thank you… I’ll remember that.” Wilma took her turn in the game.

“What?! That’s… That’s… That’s so mean!! She sounds like a meanie!! I wanna smack her in the face for being a meanie!!” Garrick jumped up in defense of his mom, which startled Clysdale's daughter. Whisper laughed a bit from Garrick's reaction, even though it made her feel bad.

“Settle down pumpkin, Mommy can deal with her own issues.” Wilma assured him.

"Don't worry dear… just focus on your music, okay?" Clysdale said, comforting their little girl. The girl nodded softly.

As the game went on, and Whisper talked more with Wilma and Relic, she started to feel right at home. She knew that her friends would freak out at the sight, but Whisper truly did feel loved in the moment.

Whisper finally got around to eating the food that Clysdale provided, taking a bite of the slab of meat, chewing it and tasting it's juices.

“Hey, Doctor Clysdale?”

“Yes?”

“What kind of meat is this?” They laughed at the question.

“Beef! I use a very specific blend of spices!” Whisper looked down at her plate, and took another bite.

It had an odd taste… not overall, but there was a slight tinge of...

Iron.

“Do you not like it, Whisper?” 

“No no… I do..” She said. She kinda did, but it was just… off. She ate the rest of the meat, along with the rest of the meal provided to her, as to not seem weird or suspicious. Though, with her a bit more cautious and aware now, Whisper decided to bring up the cases against Wilma again.

“Did you ever find out what happened to all the guys you dated… that went missing?” 

“Why now of all times do you bring that up?” Wilma asked, annoyed.

“I… I was just curious.” 

“It’s a very personal matter to me.” Wilma said. Whisper was thrown off by how it was outright avoiding the question.

“Hey, why don’t we have another round of Uno?” Relic suggested, though at this point, Whisper couldn’t tell if it was to innocently calm the tension in the room, or to force her into dropping the subject.

“That sounds like a good idea. Oh! I think the tea is ready!” Doctor Clysdale got up.

“Tea?” Whisper asked.

“Yeah! I found a good flavor blend online and wanted to test it out.” Clysdale responded as they returned to the living room, pouring a glass for Whisper. Against her better judgement, she took a swig. “What do you think?”

“It’s good…” Whisper answered genuinely, though seconds after drinking the tea, she started to feel woozy. “Sorry, I didn’t… get any… sleep… last ni….” Whisper passed out mid-sentence.