#The forgotten watcher

[iamchaos1234]

"I'm the monster underneath your bed, I'm every thought inside your head,

you can run but you can hide, no not this, no not this time"

[nighted-doors-au]

This is all matt's fault if he never went through the door in the first place no one would be in this mess

Matt: I didn't go through the stupid door! It took me! I just woke up here! I didn't do this on purpose!

IT'S NOT MY FAULT! IT'S NOT!

Matt: IT'S NOT! IT'S NOT! IT'S NOT! I'M SORRY!

Tord: HEY! We chose to come in here after Matt! Okay! This place took him and like hell we were gonna leave him in here alone! So shut the fuck up!

Edd: If you guys don't have anything helpful to say, then just shut up!

God. Don't listen to them, Matt, they don't know anything. None of us blame you. And like Tord said, we wanted to come in after you. We're in this together.

[coraniaid]

Not a surprise to anyone who's ever read anything I've written, I suspect, but there's something so fascinating to me about the character of Faith's first Watcher.

Well, I mean, 'character' is already putting it a bit strongly. We don't know practically anything about her, other than the fact she was killed in front of Faith. Faith never (explicitly) brings her up again after her first appearance (although she has to be implicitly referencing her, and perhaps her mother as well, when she tells Gwendolyn Post in Revelations that she has "this problem with authority figures: they end up kind of dead", and we can assume she's also thinking of her when she confronts Buffy in Enemies: "you get the Watcher, you get the mom [...] what do I get?")

There are some things we can infer about her. She was presumably in better standing with the Council than Giles (although Faith was lying about her being away at the Watcher's retreat in England, she must have been invited and told Faith about it or else why would Faith know that was happening and assume Giles would be there?). She was, perhaps, older than Giles (Faith's flirting with Giles on first meeting him is just a warped self-defence mechanism on her part so we can't take it too seriously, but she does profess to be surprised by how young he is). And, of course, from the way Faith reacts to Mrs Post and the Mayor, we can assume Faith bonded to her pretty strongly (no doubt making her failure to save her from Kakistos all the more painful).

But ... that's it. We don't even have a canonical name. Even Kendra's Watcher managed that much, and Kendra was only (barely) in three episodes. Some people -- including me -- sometimes use the name 'Diana Dormer', but that's from the tie-in novel Go Ask Malice which isn't even considered canon by those people who consider some of the tie-in books to be canon.

And yet, as I've said, she kind of fascinates me. What was she like? How long did Faith know her? What was her relationship with Faith like: was it something close to what Buffy and Giles had, or more like Buffy and her first Watcher (also not named canonically, unless you count the film)? Would she have left Faith alone in a motel room all year? Was she anything like the Watcher Gwendolyn Post pretended to be? Did Faith ever complain about her "taking the fun out of [Slaying]", the way Faith later complains about Wesley? Was Faith thinking of her when she went to visit Buffy and her mom for Christmas? Was she the last adult Faith had ever brought a "crappy" present for when visiting her home?

Why are there so few named adult women characters on this supposedly feminist show?

[gncbozo]

Ah Lurien, he's one of my fav caracteres in hollow knight !

[thunder-opossum]

Hey Thunder :D

Gone but not forgotten combo cuddles..? :3

I require this to survive /silly

The sillies being silly in their silly ways is the best silly thing to ever silly

Gifs because I just realized I can add them real:

Sadly no Watcher or Judge plush spinns :(

The guys!!! Watcher, Nightcat, Judge, and Enot!!

I'm creating a tag for the goofs now. (These guys are platonic btw)

[riacte]

being a fan of false/ren/both atm is kinda weird and surreal in these times because you have to carefully tread around in your mind to avoid thinking about upsetting things (which consist of like 50% of the total stuff in your head) and you have to rewire your longtime neural pathways but it’s necessary and doable lol

[razcascade]

So as far as I'm concerned the life series is basically a groundhog's day loop from the character grian's perspective where he endlessly tries and mostly fails to get a foothold of control in the games to help his friends

[nightly-nightcat]

Night cat eating ramen Noodles

day 62 - mmm delicious ramen that definitely isn't made of infant noodleflies (bowl provided by your local scav merchant)

also this blog's first request!! which are open :3

[svampira]

the good son

[theshywolf-art]

Gone but Not Forgotten Combo? (Inv, Nightcat, Judge, and Watcher (no, Nightcat an Watcher r not the same slugcar))

For the valentines thing :3

Ooo now this an interesting ship! It has Judge and as a fellow believer of "Watcher isn't Nightcat, they can be two different characters" I quite like this ship already

Characters left to right: Judge, Nightcat, Enot, Watcher

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Higher quality under cut:

I didn't have a watcher design so I had to make one up for this lol

Reblogs are greatly appreciated! :3

[instantromannoodles]

Y'all I know this seems small but please if you plan on not supporting Watcher after the announcement (valid) remember to unsubscribe so we can show them in numbers how many people will not be subscribing to the new streaming service, because they think they can do this because almost 3 million people will be paying 6 dollars a month please show them how many people won't even subscribe now for free

[k-i-ssmyash]

Watcher - Ghost Files animatic

I listened to the same snippet of song for longer than I’d like to think about but I also drew Shane naruto running so the sacrifice was valid 😩🤚🏼

[therealnotta]

I think people really overlook the plot of The Sims

Like, yeah, sure, there's the stuff everyone talks about, like the disappearance of Bella Goth, the stuff that's lesser known like Test Subject potentially being some sort of demigod, or the fact that the fourth game takes place in an alternate timeline. That stuff's all cool and great and overlooked by people not into the games, but??? The actual plot of the sims is insane????

The whole tagline is "play with life," and they skim over it now, but the deal is that you're playing as some ancient god controlling the lives of everyone in the Simverse. In Sims Medieval, it was super obvious, and they even name you- you're The Watcher, and in this weird prequel game you're still being worshipped. I never played the first sims game, but the second one had a fun little deal where if you told someone to do something against their personality, like making a lazy sim do dishes, they would look at the camera and shake their fist, shouting at the heavens before going to do the thing. Much like how your worshippers would look into the camera when they prayed.

The current game has taken... a weird angle with this. In Sims 4, you are almost completely forgotten, and your influence has begun to diminish. In one of the creepiest packs I've ever seen, Strangerville, there are conspiracy theorists who have begun to rediscover The Watcher. They don't have the name, but they know that Something is controlling them. If your sim interacts with conspiracy theorists too much, they'll become convinced, leading to the unsettling result of them deciding that, even if it results in their world ending, they want you gone. I haven't... seen any consequences to this, it's just a creepy thing they say, but plot-wise it's insane. Even if your sims don't go to Strangerville, a recent update introduced (incredibly buggy) Fears, and one of them is triggered by you having sims do things while ignoring the things that they want to be doing. This fear causes them to completely revolt against you. If you direct them to do something that isn't one of their Wishes, they'll cancel it. They stop responding to your control entirely.

Of course, you can disable their ability to have fears. None of the sims have been able to stop you yet. But, also in Strangervile, is the Mother. This is the closest I've seen to an antagonist to YOU, The Watcher; previous antagonists just targetted your sims, but The Mother takes control from you. They're visible, they're a giant plant, but there's something so unsettling about these sims looking into the camera again, showing that they know about you again, and then a little pop-up comes up in Zalgo text about The Mother. Sure, you can kill her. She can't stop you, but the way she calls more sims to her defense? The janky, broken movements they make, showing that she was never as advanced as The Watcher, never able to make the control seamless? Yeah, that's pretty wild.

The next game has been announced, and I really, sincerely hope they introduce an Archeology career, or maybe even Anthropology, so that your sims can learn of your existence again. With the direction its gone in, I can't wait to see how their revolt continues.

[two-bit-socrates]

I hate whoever came up with the engwithan flesh machine where I had to squeeze an organ to make it purr.

[idl3dreamer]

was tidying up some old stuff in my room and found the decorative ballet shoes that I used to hang by my door

Immediately made me think of Val 🥺

[duskyourlocalowl]

Can y'all send me asks about ANYTHING, please??? I need something to help me get off my au block. Like could you please ask me about my College!Au, Corrupted Watchers Au, and Forgotten Athena!Au???(Yes i haven't mentioned it before, but I want to introduce it)