#The One Eyed Black Cat
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artoflured · 1 year ago
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Some old ghouls I forgot to post ages ago…
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askthebrokenones-fm · 1 year ago
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((Hidden in the Sand’s version of the One Eyed Black Cat
The Cat is a fragment of a wraith, similar to Host in his condition. He remembers nothing about his mortal life but knows that he’s angry. Why? He doesn’t remember. All he knows is that others must feel pain or be destroyed
Currently, the Cat is trapped in the catacombs of the Mansion, entombed in a silver plated, rune marked statue in a lonely dusty room covered in sealing runes
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asktheredheadedfeline · 2 years ago
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This cat is VERY evil!
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xieliansbignaturals · 4 months ago
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I've made too many (four!!) non-fandom, real-world-problems-related original posts/additions today. 😬 To even things out a little, here are some silly Hualian headcanons:
Hua Cheng collects Xie Lian's toenail clippings. Xie Lian thinks this is normal, reasonable, and actually quite cute, so he makes sure to clip his toenails where the clippings can be easily collected.
Hua Cheng wishes he had to breathe so he could suffocate to death via Xie Lian sitting on his face.
Xie Lian is unhinged about Hua Cheng, too. Aside from the pain thing from the birthday extra, he also knows things like exactly how many eyelashes Hua Cheng has. (The number doesn't change, for ghost reasons.)
Hua Cheng's calligraphy never improves. Xie Lian actually loves Hua Cheng's cursed handwriting, and Hua Cheng knows this, and Xie Lian knows he knows. They keep doing lessons anyway.
Hua Cheng is jealous of Xie Lian's stray cats. Sometimes he shapeshifts into a cat and tries to blend in with them. This is not successful in the sense that he actually manages to blend in, but it is successful in the sense that he gets lots of gege attention and chin scritches.
Slowly, as Xie Lian adjusts to married life, he becomes a blanket hog. Hua Cheng is delighted by this development. It's not like he needs a blanket. And even if he did, His Highness should feel so comfortable, and value his own needs/wants enough, that he demands things even in his sleep!
Xie Lian also relearns his sense for when textures, tastes, etc. are Not Right, and his urge to complain about them until they are Fixed. Hua Cheng loves this, too! A picky Xie Lian is a mentally healthy Xie Lian, and being ordered around by his god is like, the sexiest thing ever.
Both of them get sad if the other closes the bathroom door to pee :(
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elasgottoomuchfreetime · 8 months ago
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You know how they put cheetahs with labradors to help them adapt to their environment and help with socialising (or smth).
Well I have a headache, and my fried mind says it‘s them:
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winterspellsfrozenkit · 5 months ago
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Twisted Wonderland's Grim is a Grimalkin.
Okay TWST fandom, so today I was chatting away with another friend who plays TWST explaining that it's highly likely that Crowley summoned us due to the opening you get when you first start the game and she asked why he'd do that. And I said this without thinking:
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Once I said that, it hit me: GRIM IS NOT NAMED FOR GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES, HE'S A GRIMALKIN.
Let me explain! (This is a long post, you've been forewarned. There is a TLDR at the bottom if you need it.)
So I like reading fairy tale books, retellings, etc., and I learned a long time ago during my high school hyperfixation on reading faery based YA readings about Grimalkins. What are Grimalkins?
Grimalkin (Also spelled Greymalkin) is an archaic term that was often used to describe cats; particularly haggard, female cats. Grimalkin, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, likely comes from compounding the words "Grey" and "Malkin". "Malkin" is a term with several meanings including: a low-class woman, a weakling, an untidy slovenly woman. It's also used to describe cats and hares.
Grimalkins were listed in Scottish legends as a faery cat that dwelt in the highlands, but during the 16th Century witch trials, cats became associated with the devil and witchcraft. Women on trial in Scotland were frequently accused of having a familiar, a ‘demon in disguise’, which was often a Grimalkin. One example of Grimalkins being tied to witchcraft and the devil at the time is William Shakespeare's play MacBeth, which shows the Three Witches who foretell Macbeth's future as having a cat familiar named Grimalkin. They're also in Louis Le Breton's Dictionnaire Infernal, which is a book on demonology.
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So how does this relate to Grim?
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Grim's design is heavily influenced by common media portrayals of the Devil with a pitchfork tail and fiery pointed ears that can look like horns at times.
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One reason that fire is blue like Hades, Idia, and Ortho's hair is because thanks to the Pop Culture understanding of Christianity, people heard Hades and thought to equivocate him to Satan which is why he's the bad guy in the Disney movie, Hercules, when in the original myth, Hera is the one antagonizing Heracles.
Also, most of the fandom believes this creature in the pre Prologue scene when you first start the game, is Grim.
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Just saying this looks a lot like different representations of devils and demons.
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Note the human hands and clawed feet on this statue of Pazuzu.
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And the incorporation of animal traits blended with humans
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This is some concept art for Bald Mountain in Fantasia and I can see leathery wings like a dragon/bat, one has a snakey tail, and some have those human-like hands, but clawed feet.
As stated earlier, Grimalkins are tied heavily to devils and witchcraft and TWST tends to push this at us. For Halloween, while all the Dorms have different monsters such as mummies, ghost pirates, headless horsemen, but Ramshackle's Halloween outfit is this:
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Not only that, but when we wake up, this is what Crowley says to us about Grim, when he finds us in the library after Grim cornered us, trying to get our robes:
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Again, the most common familiar that people accused of witchcraft were said to have was a Grimalkin. A demon cat. This also ties into why we and Grim are put in Ramshackle Dorm.
Now, as some know, Ramshackle Dorm is based on the Haunted Mansion. But the Haunted Mansion had a specific haunt that was cut before the ride came out: The One-eyed Black Cat.
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Now, if you don't know this cat, it's okay. He was cut before the ride came out. To sum up, X Atencio, the Imagineer who came up with the basic story ideas and the script for the rides of Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean, had many drafts of the Haunted Mansion's story. One of these cut drafts had a distinct villain character: The One-Eyed Black Cat.
Now, people might argue the Bride/Constance Hatchaway is the villain of the Haunted Mansion, but the One-Eyed Black Cat was different. In that draft, the Ghost Host would warn guests about the One-Eyed Black Cat and the One-Eyed Black Cat was specifically trying to attack/get the guests on the ride and detested mortals, especially happy ones. Guests would've seen signs of the cat throughout the ride as if he was stalking them (Think something akin to the little glimpses of Catnap as he stalks the player throughout Poppy Playtime Chapter 3). At the end of the ride, they would've faced the cat, who's face would turn into some form of human-esque skull like head.
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Now the cat made it pretty far before he was cut, because we do have surviving sound outtakes of Paul Frees, the voice of the Ghost Host, saying "Except for that unnatural and dreadful one-eyed black cat" which implies he's not one of the 999 happy haunts, but something truly evil, like a demon.
Now, One-Eyed Black Cat's not mentioned in the Haunted Mansion ride, and there's an idea that his role was passed over to the Raven, another cut antagonistic character who would haunt the rider specifically, but was less unnatural than the cat, but the more likely reason is both the raven and the cat were cut due to the ride changing from story driven to an atmospheric ride. However, nowadays, you can find the One-Eyed Black Cat on the Composer's Crypt in Walt Disney World and as a statue in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion (Funnily enough, during the Haunted Mansion Holiday, the cat statue gets a black and white pinstripe bow...).
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Now, this may be reaching, but Grim chasing the player throughout the school, trying to steal their robes because he wasn't allowed to attend NRC, feels like a reference to this possibly demonic cut cat character. Also, his smirk face does make one of his eyes look smaller than the other, kind of like the image on the Composer Crypt.
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Anyways, back to Grimalkins. So besides being tied to the devil and witchcraft, Grimalkins were also known as Scottish faery cats. Why does this matter? May I draw your attention to these moments from Book 6 and Book 7?
(Warning minor spoilers)
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Idia discussing what Grim is.
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Idia and Ortho describing powerful magic cast on Grim.
And from Book 7 Chapter 106
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Soi in Book 6, Idia notes Grim is some magical mix of direbeast and animal. In a lot of faery stories, faery animals like Grimalkins, Cat Sidhe, and Kelpies look very similar to normal animals, but they are distinctly a fae, which makes them much more dangerous to mess around with. Much like how Grim is not fully an animal, he's also part direbeast which, considering what has been mentioned in game about direbeasts, sounds like a distinctly magical species that is far more dangerous that regular animals.
Grim is also noted to fluctuate between full Phantom and absolutely no blot levels, but Idia does note a complex magical spell on him that later Papa Shroud mentions is very similar to Malleus's magical realm, which is a faerie spell... (Again, there's that faerie connection). Likewise, depending on the story context, Grimalkins can either be demonic familiars to witches (more akin to TWST Phantoms) or they can be faery creatures (more like TWST Direbeasts).
I've also noticed people point out some kind of connection between Malleus and Grim. There's a blog post by ventique18 does a really good job about pointing out the similarities between the two. Here's the link: https://www.tumblr.com/ventique18/721267245925400576/three-pronged-tail-bringing-back-the-grim-is?source=share
So perhaps one of the reasons for the tie between them is Grim is at least in part based on a Grimalkin, a faery cat, and Malleus is a dragon faery. With all these little things lining up, maybe Grim got his name in part from Grimm's Fairy Tales, but I really and truly do believe Grim is some form of Grimalkin and his name is more a reference to that, but whether he is based on the demonic familiar, faery, or BOTH, we shall see.
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TLDR: I'm pretty sure Grim is HEAVILY based on a Scottish fae cat creature/demonic cat that act as a witch's familar called a Grimalkin because there's a lot of references that seem to point to that.
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ab121500 · 7 days ago
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Spite the Cat and The Buttons
Hi yes heres a dumb little modern au where Spite is a cat. Its too short for me to put on my ao3 so its a tumblr exclusive! Yay!
They should have known.
When Lucanis moved in with his girlfriend, he knew of the buttons. He knew her cat knew how to speak with them, and she sent funny (and a little heartbreaking) clips of Ria using the buttons to ask for him. He thought they were a funny and cute thing for Aylewin's baby to use. 
He thought Spite would ignore them. He should have known better.
It took the little bastard 4 weeks. 4 weeks to figure them out. He didn't understand what they said or how to talk with them like Ria, but he did understand a few buttons. Mainly the “Food”, “Aylewin” and “Lucanis” buttons. Lucanis could see the gears turning in Spite's little head as he stared at the buttons, hitting the “Ayelwin” one and being happy when his girlfriend came over and gave him praise and pets.
So when it was four in the morning and he heard a near constant stream of “Lucanis. Lucanis. Lucanis. Lucanis. Lucanis. Lucanis. Lucanis.” He should have realized. Instead, he panicked a little. Ria had done something similar months ago when he spent the night and forgot to turn off the stove. She also was making a racket, so he should have realized it wasn't her. But he hurried out to check on the cats.
Only to see Spite. Sitting on the “Lucanis” button. Staring at him. As soon as the little bastard saw his owner come out of his room, he moved off the button and instead sat on the “Food” button. His singular green eye just stared, waiting for Lucanis to give him food.  “Its too early.” He hissed. 
“Mrow.”
“You get fed at 7.”
“Mrow.”
“I know I'm supposed to reward you for learning how to use them. But I don't want you doing it again.”
Lucanis picked up Spite and carried him to the “Time-Out” bathroom. A bathroom they had put a litter box and water and occasionally food in so that there was a spot with a door that they could put Spite in when he was being naughty. Spite hated the room, but he had also learned if he yowled he wouldn't be let out any sooner. Lucanis gave him a little food to tide the bastard over before shutting him in there. 
He was so happy they had security cameras because there was no way Aylewin would believe him.
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grimgrinninggoth · 2 months ago
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Meow!🐈‍⬛⛓️
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alistorcipher · 10 months ago
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My other favorite HM character, this one eye demonic black cat.
they not have name? I not think I call them Pluto since was young as reference to Edgar Allan Poe story.
i make fanart soon.
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uwu4771 · 11 months ago
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Excuse me but where was the One Eyed Black Cat?
There he is!
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mom can i keep him pls...?🥺✨✨✨
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lunarlights-world · 4 months ago
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Spicy kitty Pixie playing with shoelaces
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askthebrokenones-fm · 11 months ago
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Gabrielle "Belle" Danielle: hey Hosty, about that certain cat, how did you and the others manage to stop him? It's ok if you don't want to answer it if it makes you uncomfortable - since it's forbidden to say, I'll completely understand if you don't want to, I'm only asking cause I'm curious and if something were to happen, I wanna be there to help you and the others, I'm not just a detective and investigator but I'm a slayer as well and an experienced and competent at that
*the autistic mortal detective/investigator and slayer places a gloved hand on their skeletal best friend's clothed shoulder and squeezes it reassuringly, the spectacled mismatched - brown and blue, eyes staring right at the sockets of their best friend*
Gabrielle: again, mi mejor amigo, if you feel uncomfortable on the question, again I'll completely understand if you don't, forget I asked anything, I know you guys don't like saying his name/title unless it's ABSOLUTELY necessary, and let's face it *small smile* I've been working and living here for a long time, so it's about the time I know the full story, don't you think? Again *takes their skeletal hands into their gloved ones* only if you want to
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Transcript:
"Sigh. Thank you, Mx. Belle. You're too kind."
"And you're right. Perhaps it is time to tell you."
"Give me a moment. I need to get the memoir I need."
"Here. Ah... Don't worry about the lock."
"Now then... Let me open this and we'll start."
"The Black Cat came from one of the Madame's summoning sessions. Back then we weren't aware of the Cat's malevolence."
"Or it's power of suggestion. The Eye."
"It wanted the Mansion to destroy it. That's all. It's a spirit of destruction. A wraith like that... It can never rest..."
"Sinclair knows that restlessness. He saw the Cat's malevolence first. We planned to confront the Cat. Bind it, banish it peacefully."
"But..."
Belle: "Host?"
"Hosty? Are you okay?"
Host: "...I. Yes..."
"... I'm sorry. That's all I remember..."
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benthesoldiersjeanshorts · 5 months ago
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Behold, the beautiful bitey bastard!
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aetherdoesthings · 7 months ago
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hello people of the earth, it's that time of the year again
do you like one piece?
you do? that's cool! i like one piece too!
i write one piece stuff--headcanons, the occasional smut (read rules), fics, etc.
if you want some stuff you've been thinking for a while written..
💛😁pLEASE SEND ME SOME ONE PIECE REQUESTS 🤩💛 🙏🏻 🙏🏻🙏🏻
i mainly like writing the women of one piece (up to eneis lobby), but i'm open to anything !!! (i've literally run out of ideas to write about pls flood askbox 🙏🏻🙏🏻)
wouldn't it be so cool to have what you're thinking of written? i mean.
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AND ALSO
according to my weekly report of 22 hours on genshin impact, i'm starting to be open to writing for some genshin characters!
my list of cutie patooties i'm willing to write:
ganyu
shenhe
xiao
yelan
raiden
yae miko
ningguang
beidou
arlecchino
the list will grow!!!
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hells-favorite · 2 months ago
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Halloween Lucipurr and company
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icewindandboringhorror · 8 days ago
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Recent things.. mostly just writing screenshots lol
#There's a water problem in the apartment so thats been taking most of my attention lol.. the way maintenance happens here is just#this big long vague wait with no clear communication. You just send in a request to the apartment building and then you might hear from the#any weekday from 8am - 4pm any time after that. Sometimes it's quick but sometimes its like days before you hear anything. So then#you just have to be operating under the assumption that at any time during working hours you might get a call or a knock at the door#Like if you were expecting company at any time for a week straight ghjhj.. ANYWAY.. I've been working on making a little discord#server thing for the game maybe for playtesters to communicate in initially i guess but then also after it's out or... something like that.#no idea how all of that works. but you hear about people doing it. or something... Still not entirely sold on the idea since I'm not really#a big user of discord format speaking (like little chats and stuff) but.. again idk.. seems like.. common.. for things...(< socially odd#hermit fumbling through trying to imitate what '''normal''' people do/enjoy/desire lol..). Since I think my biggest issue is I am very bad#at socializing and thus marketing since a lot of that is social. The type to just google ''what do people do about games once they've#made them'' and just go after whatever the top 10 things apparently are hjbjhbjh... But like I said. still unsure it will be utilized. it#all feels very awkward to me. then again most things do. But that's what the ''overall progress'' screenshot is from. the little channel#where I've been posting updates to myself lol. Also ''coding'' in that being used very lightly consdering it's ren'py and I'm only using#the very bare bones most basic functionality of it lol. Extremely intense highly daunting master level coding such as ''if x then y''. gbjh#slacked on writing a lot due to the evil maintenance and such things... and just general... appointments... events... aughhhhhh#I think it's Goose Time here or something because nearly every day I hear big V shaped rows of geese flying by like multiple#times a day and they're so pretty and neat to watch. They've really inspired me somehow. Today it was rainy and gray skied and high winds#and cold (some of my favorite most beautiful weather) and I went out to check the mail and like 6 or 7 rows of geese fluttered#by in the air. I felt like that meme image of that guy that looks kind of weird (william dafoe??) and its like black and white and#he's looking up at something almost teary eyed wide eyed in awe.. The goose... those are my goose.. the universe sent those gooses just#for me and the high speed winds blowing my coat open and chilling my face... a tender platonic kiss from the world is often delivered#by way of chilly weather and bird formations.. peace and love on planet earth truly..#OH and of course.. boy with boy!!!! shout out to those little mcdonalds toy animal plushies from like 2006 or something. I found the#gray cat one and was like.. hrmm.. I have one of those as well (a real life gray cat). surely they're friends now.
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