#SHIT AT PROTECTION // MARLON // post-game au.

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Tags - Marlon

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

I read your post about Marlon surviving and joining the delta. I'm super curious about how Louis would react to this, especially the part you wrote about him being the one to cut his finger off. And what would Marlon's reaction be to seeing Louis in a relationship with Clem?

Well. 

This gets wild.

Sorry ‘bout that. 

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Their relationship would become incredibly strained once Clementine and AJ entered the picture, and eventually hostile depending on choices. 

In the beginning, there are several instances that show how close Louis and Marlon are; the photo in Marlon’s office, Louis being referred to as “Marlon’s lap dog,” defending Marlon and making excuses whenever he gets angry, Louis sharing a story with Clementine about him and Marlon when they were kids and how Marlon stepped up when no one else would, as well as more scenes of them standing together in the background and conversing. 

However, the closer Clementine gets to him, the more changes you see in their friendship. It becomes clear that Marlon feels a bit possessive of Louis and their history together, and with him planning on giving Clementine and AJ away to the delta when the time comes, he’s afraid that Clementine will break his heart. 

It gets to the point where Marlon takes Clementine out for a hunting trip and asks her intentions with him. Regardless of your response, the next morning when Clementine’s going to Marlon’s office, she hears arguing before Louis leaves. For the rest of the day, Louis keeps his distance and it’s clear that it’s Marlon’s doing, further telling the player how much of an influence [or rather, control] Marlon has over Louis. 

And when the final confrontation comes and Clementine turns to Louis, it goes down about the same with some extra dialogue showing the true strain of the lies forming around their friendship. 

Now, as I said, depending on if you attack him or not, Marlon will survive and be put down in the basement or AJ will kill him. For the sake of this, Clementine attacked him and got the gun, preventing his death.

The next morning comes and after Brody’s funeral, Louis and Violet, as well as the rest of the group, argue about if they should kick Marlon out. 

Violet argues that he murdered Brody and is still a threat to everyone, while Louis argues that Marlon will die out there by himself and that he can atone by helping them against the delta. 

Clementine has the choice to side with either of them and when she agrees with Louis, he’s incredibly thankful to her. 

But, in the end, the majority vote is to kick Marlon out. This leaves Louis upset and unable to face his longtime best friend, but expresses his gratitude to Clementine for her support, even though he can see that she doesn’t truly agree with him. 

Clementine and AJ lead Marlon out into the woods.

 During this time, Marlon asks why Clementine would vote for him to stay. Clementine responds that she did it for Louis, which upsets Marlon. Then, they run into Lilly and Abel, they take Marlon, and Clementine and AJ are saved by James. 

Back at the school, Clementine explains what happened to Louis and the others, and they prepare for the attack. 

 She and Louis have a quiet moment together in their graveyard where Louis goes more in-depth into his guilt about leaving Marlon to take all the responsibilities and how he noticed something going on with him, but always turned away from it. He always wanted to believe in him, and a part of him still can’t comprehend that Marlon killed Brody and gave the twins away. 

The piano scene goes down the same [EXCEPT I get my piano mini-game!!! If Violet gets constellations then Louis gets a duet!!] and so does the fight, except Lilly mentions Marlon in hopes that someone will come forward. 

Fast forward to the boat, we see Marlon for the first time weeks, and he’s fucked up. I’m talking his head is shaved, he’s got healing bruises all over him, his eyes are sunken in, and he speaking much differently. He’s clearly been subject to the delta’s “training methods” and it’s made him damn near a new person. 

And here, he replaces Dorian, telling Clementine to not try anything or else they’ll hurt Violet more.  Lilly shows up with Minerva, they chat, Minerva confesses to killing Sophie, and Louis freaks out. Marlon tries to calm him down, but it’s too late. 

Lilly orders Marlon to pull Louis out of the cell, to which Louis and AJ try to stop him, but ultimately Louis ends up on the ground with Marlon on top and ready to cut off Louis’ finger. 

AJ bites him, and Louis is dragged back into the cell. Marlon’s left to watch the others while Lilly drags AJ away, and here’s where we see Louis completely come apart. 

Up to this point, we’ve watched Louis slowly come to terms with all the fucked up shit Marlon’s done and realizes how he manipulated him into avoiding Clementine all out of selfishness. And here, after Marlon did this to him- his best friend? 

You thought Louis screaming “FUCK YOU!” at Minerva left you shook? Oof. OOF. Double that you and you’ve got his heated argument with Marlon while Clementine escapes. 

Louis gets out of his cell and fucking tackles Marlon off of Clementine. Louis isn’t as physically strong as him, so Marlon kicks Louis off and goes after Clementine with a knife. Louis crawls to grab Marlon’s crossbow and shoots him through the shoulder. 

Realizing what he’s done, Louis goes into shock, but instead of going to Marlon’s side and apologizing, he turns his back on him and grabs Violet out of her cell. 

The group leaves Marlon lying there. 

Back on land, we’re left with a split second choice: Do you shoot Minerva or Marlon? Whoever you shoot gets killed by walkers while the other only gets bitten. 

Marlon gets bitten, and we’re left to think he died as well. 

Now, depending on if Tenn or Mitch is alive, they’ll travel with you, Louis and AJ to the bridge. For the sake of this scenario, we’ll say that Mitch is with us. 

Marlon corners us on the bridge. He’s even more fucked at this point, dragging his feet and talking to himself. When he sees Louis, he begins to reminisce about them when they were kids, apologizing for not being a good friend. He apologizes for killing Brody, for giving away the twins, for betraying everyone. He knows that Louis likes Clementine, but she’s not worth it. She’ll get him killed. Marlon begs Louis to leave with him, saying he’ll protect him, completely delusional about how near-death he really is. 

He says that it’ll just be the two of them, no Clementine, no school. Louis tries to talk him down, and it’s a jarring contrast to their previous seen together. It’s quiet, with only the growing groans and growls of walkers closing in on them and Marlon’s sobs echoing. 

Clementine and the others try to quietly sneak across while Louis keeps him distracted, but Marlon catches a glimpse of Clementine, causing him to break down. He shoots the gun off, brings the walkers to full attention. 

It plays out very similar to the Minerva route, but here Clementine [her leg fucked] and AJ are both across, but Louis and Mitch are left trying to escape. 

Marlon wrestles Louis to the ground, choking him until Louis finds the strength to claw at Marlon’s eyes, kicking him off and into the walkers. Louis, coughing and holding his bruising throat, watches in horror as Marlon is ripped apart and eaten alive by walkers. 

Mitch tries to help him up, and this is where he gets bit. 

They both make it across, and Louis is just…. a mess. His best friend [his brother] is dead, he can barely breathe, Clementine’s hurt, and now Mitch is bitten because of him. 

In the end, Louis still makes a marker and grave for Marlon, burying some of his belongings in place of a body and he says his final goodbye. 

This is just the basics. 

I really wish the game had an extra focus on Louis and Marlon and the conflict Clementine brought to their relationship for several reasons. This whole “AU” I’ve created, I guess, is just what I would’ve loved to see. 

More Louis, more Marlon, more tragic conflict. 

[gciltyascharged]

verѕe: MAIN | PRE-APOCALYPSE .✵. тroυвled yoυтнѕ!

Blowing up things and being a nuisance to the staff with Willy, Mitch never fit the mold -- just wasn’t good at doing what he’s told -- and that’s how he liked it. Better to blow up shit in the chemistry lab than fight every last asshole he met at Ericson, right?

*Age Range: 9-10

verѕe: MAIN .✵. ғυcĸ тнιѕ ѕcнool!

Abandoned by the staff, left to rot by the damn douchebags meant to keep them alive -- sans Ms. Martin. They might have had some great lessons that helped him learn how to better react chemicals together, but their abandonment meant NOTHING.

*Age Range: 11-17

verѕe: MAIN 2.0 .✵. ғυcĸ тнιѕ ѕcнool!

Down Minnie and Sophie -- and 32 others ( can be be with or without Clementine and AJ).

*Age Range: 17-18 *Chapters: 1-2 *Can also take place Pre-Chapter 1

AUS!

verѕe: AU | MITCH SURVIVES .✵. ι lιved вιтcн!

Who knew Lilly’s aim could suck so much? Falling down on the ground with a knife in his neck, the only reason she didn’t have time to jab his head being because of a shot directed her way (who did it, he could never tell). After all is said and done, he owes Ruby his life, even if he won’t admit it, and remained behind during the rescue mission to heal with stitches keeping this bitch in bed.

The knife thrust into his neck would pierce the sternocleidomastoid muscle and thus keep him alive long enough for Ruby to medically attend to him. Lilly wouldn’t want to take Mitch ; his injuries, she’d assume, would be too great for him to survive.

Dialogue option(s):

“You’ll need all the hands you can get -- don’t worry about me. 

To Clementine telling her to take everyone to the boat and let him stay at the school, zip tied to the bed.

“ Now, go kill that little bitch...”

To Clementine about Lilly before she leaves him to go attend the party.

*Age Range: 18+ *Chapters: 3 -- Post Game

verѕe: AU | MITCH SURVIVES 2.0 .✵. ι lιved вιтcн!

Down for the count after attempting to take down Lilly, Mitch was carted off with Omar, Aasim, and either Louis or Violet. In his defiance of being thrown into a cell, he broke one of the raider’s fingers, which led to three of them holding him down while Lilly sliced his left ear clean off, leaving him in the cell to bleed on to his clothing and completely shaken -- a stark reminder that he’d been beaten TWICE and had been useless to everyone in the school when they’d needed him most.

While locked up in the cell, he’ll get up once he hears the confession of Minerva killing Sophie to call her out in anger, but he’ll silence himself to avoid Lilly’s wrath after just doing one insult. After she leaves with AJ and Minerva and Clementine start their fight, he’ll grab hold of Dorian as she comes by his cell and begin to bash her head against the bars to protect Clementine from her and her cleaver, which he’ll snatch from her hands as she raises it to jab into her skull where it will distract Minnie long enough for Clementine to knock her out or give Violet a clear shot to Minerva’s shoulder with the crossbow (determinate on who is captured). 

Dialogue option(s):

“You fuckin’ asshole!” 

To Minerva after her confession of killing Sophie.

“DON’T YOU FUCKIN’ LAY A HAND ON THEM AGAIN!” 

To Dorian while he bashes her head against the bars for either cutting off a finger of Louis/Violet or kicking AJ over biting off her ear.

He’ll be on land with the others as the bomb goes off, because he needs to help defend them as they leave the ship due to the injuries sustained on Omar’s leg and Aasim having to carry him. He’ll last be seen before the cart carries them all off to the school again hugging Willy and getting inside.

*Age Range: 18+ *Chapters: 3 -- Post Game *Idea Credit to: ask-twdg-rus

verѕe: AU | NO APOCALYPSE .✵. we lιɢнт ιт υp ; we woɴ'т coмe dowɴ!

Takes place in a world where there were never any walkers, no patient zero, no reason for the Ericson kids to become abandoned. It’s just the smell of a schoolyard and a city a few miles away of people who don’t care much for them.

*Age Range: 11-18

CROSSOVER AUS!

verѕe: AU | TLOU .✵. wнeɴ тнe vιoleɴce cαυѕeѕ ѕιleɴce ; we мυѕт вe мιѕтαĸeɴ! Note: TLOU stands for The Last of US.

Please request this verse if you’d like it (can be requested as: TLOU AU).

Born only two years after the apocalypse began, Mitch and the other kids inside the old building that once was a boarding school for troubled youth grew up inside these walls. With adults who took care of them and tried to raise them with expectations they’d grow up to become soldiers against the outbreak, these children resisted at every turn, not desiring to ever accept that life.

They were -- as the curse of the school name implied -- troubled, their parents either died when they went outside the walls or weren’t the best fit for raising their kids. Some parents who didn’t die while hunting ditched them early -- Mitch’s father left when he was only eight -- and others remained until a sudden break in the wall let in clickers ; the adults, realizing their plan was a lost cause, abandoned these children here and ran from the only place they knew ; left to their own, Marlon, one of the older kids, stepped up to take charge of their group and led them to take down the clickers and rebuild their foundation. At only ten, Mitch was alone with people his own age where he’d remain until eight years later...where the verse begins.

*Age Range: 18+

verѕe: AU | UNTIL DAWN .✵. тнe нαllwαyѕ тнey ecнoed αɴd ɢroαɴed!

Please request this verse if you’d like it (can be requested as: Until Dawn AU).

What’s better than rumors of a crazed serial killer in the mines up North? What’s better than RUMORS of creatures called ‘wendigo’ haunting the hills? Mitch, himself, believes the deaths up on Blackwood Mountain are just a bunch of superstitious bullshit, so he dares his group of friends to come with him up there during their winter break to check out the place after winning some money off a lottery ticket for $10,000. Why bother wasting it on college when he doesn’t plan to go anyway?

*Age Range: 18+