#Survivor!Curly

[itsallmouthwashing]

Ghost Adventures AU- Survivor!Curly (Part 1)

Alright fellas, I got stupid high last night and rubbed this out with some editing while I'm at work. Please enjoy and feel free to write your own interpretations of this AU!! I don't really want to claim 'ownership' or whatever (if that's even a thing with AUs? Listen I haven't been in fandom for a while before Mouthwashing. It hath risen me from the soil like a necromancer and I am it's silly little skeleton minion) I just want to see what everyone else thinks may be going on

Anyways, please enjoy part one (out of Only God Knows) of the Ghost Adventures AU!

“Are we ready? Cameras are rolling? Yeah? Alright… We’re here at the site of the historic Tulpar Massacre-”

God, I thought I could handle this. He’s not even said anything but Tulpar. Fuck, I need to tune it out. The images are already flying through my mind. I’m reliving it all at lightspeed and it keeps fucking repeating. Every second I’m seeing it all-

“Behind us is a long-haul freighter that belonged to a company known as Pony Express. This corporation was known for cheap and speedy deliveries, along with being one of the last few companies to rely on human employees in an age of automation.”

I hope they know. We’re all heroes today.

“However, while Pony Express may have provided jobs to hundreds of people, the abuse these employees suffered is the real root of this tragedy.” Zac puts his hand up and turns his head to me. “Would you like to say a few words?”

“Huh, oh- No, I trust you.”

He nods, short and with a small smile like he’s seeing it all happening behind my eyes. Maybe he knows I'm not listening. Trying to, anyway.

“Employees aboard Tulpar were only allotted a mere FIVE hours for rest. This does not include recreational activities, which they were not allowed to do in the other nineteen hours in their day. NINETEEN hours, non-stop working around Tulpar.”

His eyes are on me. He wants to know if I’ve changed my mind.

“That’s not the worst part, oh no, friends,” He says when he realizes I won’t, “For a company that claimed to care deeply for its employees, they made it hell to file complaints or go to upper management for help. While on this year long trek-”

My stomach is in hell. I cover my mouth, pretend I’m stifling a cough, and swallow the vomit before it floods their headquarters. Think about something else. 

Anything, Anya. Anything.

“Joining us for our lock-in tonight is the sole survivor of this tragedy, Captain Grant Curly.” He opens his arms to welcome me into the frame. “We’re happy to have you here, Captain.” He says, shaking my hand.

“Happy to be here with you, fellas,” I lied. 

We aren’t even to the door and I already see the inside. We’re simply standing in a residential space travel unit, on the landing pad, which connects to the main door. To the lounge, my quarters. The cockpit, the medical bay. The lounge. Utility. The Pod.

“Captain, off the record,” He nods for his partner to turn off the camera,” In all seriousness, I want to express my appreciation. Please know that at any point you can bow out. Or if you don’t want to be in the episode at all. You just let us know if you need a break or leave all together.” 

I smile. I have to or else I may break. 

“Of course. I think more people need to be aware just how awful Pony Express was to us. It’s great that you guys are covering this.” 

They’re all waiting for me at the door. Swansea and Jimmy cross their arms and grumble something about dying to get started. Two grouches on the ship could be difficult. But Anya and Daisuke are chatting about expectations. She’s stitching the air, mimicking the motions shown in a textbook on her lap. Daisuke copies her and she rolls her eyes playful, remarking that she’s glad he’s not her intern. Swansea tells her to not give him ideas.

“Captain, where’d you go-”

“Besides, who is a captain without his crew?”

“You really loved them, didnt you?”

“Yes,” I say.

They were my responsibility, I don’t. 

Zac smiles back at me before stepping back and observing the map of the ship. He mumbles something to his crew, all of two other people, and they go separate ways to gather equipment. Zac marks something with what looks like a bingo blotter around the blown-up image of my ship. 

“Zac?”

My face looks back at me in question. I’m in my uniform, bent over the blueprints of my ship. My belt buckle, a gift from the company when I was promoted to Captain, shines in the harsh light of the ship. 

“Yes, Captain?” I ask. 

“Uh,” I start, running a hand over the dim and rusted buckle of my own, “Why do…” I have that look. The one like he sees it all before it all comes back to the front of my mind. Zac blinks and leans forward.

“What’s up, Cap?” He asks. 

“Can you read minds… or something?” 

“Ha!” He laughs, hearty and true. “No, nothing like that Mr. Curly.” He wipes moisture from his eyes. “I’ve been told I’m something of an empath."

“Ah, no wonder you’re so kind.”

Zac starts to say something, but his crew is back and dropping equipment on the floor with heavy grunts and sighs. 

“Guys! You need to be careful-” Zac rushes over, but I’m still standing at the table.

[sunlitmcgee]

say No to the supposed toxic yaoi of shipping a rapist abusive creep with a man who enabled him and was then tortured by him for several months.

Embrace, or at least consider, instead, the nuanced tenderness of a woman and a man, both hurt by the same monster, in a kinder ending, being able to heal their bodies from where he touched them. Regaining parts of themselves. Connecting and apologizing and healing alongside one another, growing into happy people who will live far beyond the events on that awful ship.

And have her peg him

[dykedvonte]

Another reason I believe Anya didn't mercy kill Curly is because by doing so she would've subconsciously admitted to herself that sometimes it's easier to just give into the suffering and end it rather than push/maintain through and she wasn't ready to admit that about herself.

[carlestin]

was having fun with portraits tonight

[rosemaries-shroom]

Mouthwashing fandom! I need a little of your time

I made a post already on the Mouthwashing fandom's struggle with seeing nuisance in the game/characters

Please remember that other fans are just as nuisanced. That the people making art and fanfics (especially the "everyone lives! Yay!" ones) aren't ignoring canon or diluting the message of the story.

We enjoy the fics where Anya does get the protection she deserves, the fics where Curly/Jimmy(in therapy) is a thing. The fanart of everyone getting a happy ending (minus Jimmy), of Curly and Anya in solidarity. It doesn't change our opinion on the game or the canon characters. It just fills the what-ifs, the wishes we have for ourselves, for things to be good.

We love the curly/canon!Jimmy fics, the trauma fics of jimmy/Anya, the ones that make things worse. The art of Jimmy going mad with burned!Curly in the background, of Curly and Jimmy's insanity. It's also not a portrayal of what we think of the canon characters. It does connect our reality to the experiences of the characters.

You can't control how others connect/relate to something. You can't control the way people use a piece of media to cope. You'll exhaust yourself, annoy yourself and more than likely end up targeting the very people you want to support. Block or move on, protect your peace

[thebestusernamepossible]

I’m mostly staying off the Mouthwashing fandom bc I personally don’t want to put myself through whatever discourse is ever going on there. But know I love Anya and Mouthwashing is one of the best games I’ve played that had an SA survivor AND was respectful about it!! The abuse Anya suffered is never portrayed as a spectical for the audience to leer at. They use the art of implication VERY well, and in the end Anya gets to go out dignified. She’s not just Jimmy’s tradgic victim, she’s her own character who makes her own decisions. Jimmy doesn’t get to kill her, she expresses her own agency to do so. She’s also the one who kept the gun away from him for so long. Also she’s SO fucking strong, she’s so cool. Anya I love you.

Also the game’s overarching (but subtle) commentary on rape culture, enabling, and how capitalism almost makes a set dressing for it is peak.

[cccyyyaaaannnnnn]

mass doodles

the things im thinking of rightnow another post about multiple fandoms

[the-real-couchrat]

So did Jimmy ACTUALLY eat Curly? Or was it all a hallucination?

(Pls note that I haven’t actually played mouthwashing myself, just watched gameplays of it)

Bc if he was doing it to survive on low supplies, then why not just eat the other bodies? Everyone else was dead at that point. As much as I ADORE the horror of Curly being force-fed his own flesh by the man he considered a friend, At this point I’m pretty sure it was just a trippy metaphor hallucination.

Maybe everyone has already figured this out. but I learned about mouthwashing last night, and still don’t fully know what’s real and what’s not.

[trans-leek-cookie]

mouthwashing is one of those games that having a 80% male cast very obviously Is Saying Something, with the one woman's role being traditional in that she is the Nurse, therefore Caretaker, and is given the burden of """supporting""" (BS bc capitalist hellscape company but also shed probably get blamed anyways) everyone else's mental health without ever getting even that fucking bullshit excuse for "mental health support" and is fucking Assaulted with no recourse (in some ways due to the nature of It's A Spaceship but also it was clearly Not Handled Well By The Captain) and y'know. Due to her role as caretaker she is given responsibility over the consequences of A DIFFERENT PERSON'S ACTIONS (THE ACTIONS HAPPENING EBCAUSE HE COULDNT DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF WHAT HE DID TO HER)

And then I have to see a million posts about Toxic Yaoi focusing on how the guy who hurt her hurt the guy who wasn't helping (like you can argue about his intent and why he didn't take certain actions and that's not wrong but the point for this post is that he did not fucking keep her safe which is in fact His Job and also just Basic Decency) and while yeah he did get hurt (INCREDIBLY HURT) that was as a consequence of HIS FRIEND TRYING TO ESCAPE THE CONSEQUENCES OF HURTING ANYA LIKE. LITERALLY THE WHOLE PLOT OF THE GAME HAPPENS BECAUSE HE HURT ANYA AND THEN REFUSED TO FACE THE CONSEQUENCES. OH MY GOD

[l0ver-nyan]

Jimmy: I could make it all disappear. No one has to know the truth. A tragic accident with no survivors. I'll take care of it.

Curly:...

Jimmy: I'm going to crash the ship.

Curly:...

Jimmy: *walks to the cockpit at a casual pace*

Curly:...

Jimmy: *crashes the ship*

Curly: (ﾟoﾟ ??????????????

[itsallmouthwashing]

Ghost Adventures AU- Survivor!Curly

Listen to me I CANNOT stop thinking about this so here are some bullet points ENJOY MUAH

The bodies and site itself is cleaned up while still preserving the incident. 

Ofc Curly still sees them all

It’s all the same to him. Zac (yes Zac Baggins. His great-great-great-grandson maybe but it’s just Zac Baggins) points out where bodies ‘used to be’ and Curly gets really confused and starts questioning his interactions with the ghosts

He also sees them where he knows they died and can usually talk to them there

Jimmy is confined to the utility room by everyone's collective ghost powers (ghost willpower ig)

Jimmy is the first ghost Curly interacts with and that kinda causes a breakdown

He kinds sees wisps of Jimmy around utility and the cockpit and they eventually lead him to utility (he thinks he hallucinating the whole time)

While Curly is super questioning his talk with Jimmy, Zac and crew come in and confirm crazy ghost activity. He goes through his routine checklist to ground himself. (meds, slept nine hours, ate at least twice, etc?) I feel he would have a very strict schedule that he sticks to and uses to ground himself in reality and his current actions and efforts rather than spiral hard into guilt and anxiety 

At one point the crew use an Ouija board in medical. Curly watches Anya move the planchet and she just stares back at him. She talks through the Oujia board only (He gets really fucking confused when she straight up talks to him later)

Daisuke has periods where he forgets that he’s dead. He more often forgets how

Swansea continues to guard utility most times. He has the ability to go in, just like everyone else, but chooses not to. Jimmy will annoy him by banging on the door and wailing

He tries not to be around Daisuke when he forgets. It’s too painful for him to see again

Anya usually roams the halls. She can't stand being in one place for a long time. If she does she starts to feel sick

The ghosts still have game night! They can all interact with the environment just fine 

Maybe in this AU Curly ends up living at the site or frequenting it way too often. So there’s potential for nice moments and not just traumatrumatraumatraumtraumatrauma yk?

PLEASE add on to this I am begging I would love to hear your ideas :)

[joowee-feftynn]

from intergalactic conquerer to single mother of two

[breakfastteatime]

Respawn, why do you deny us:

1) Curly haired Cal?

2) Cute ponytail Cal??

Why, Respawn, why?!

[r0nin25]

(totally not canon)

here's what they're saying:

"Do you think we're together in every universe?"

"The hell kind of question is that?"

[ayakashibackstreet]

Next time I'm getting haircut at that place I saw curly haired and black stylists. I'm not letting a lady with straight bleached hair touch my scalp ever again

[solianapaeris]

18 years in remission & cancer free 💕