#and since hes not technically jack you can just kinda alter him in whatever way you want

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Supernatural: Plotholes, Thoughts and Other Unanswered Questions.

I know that I am extremely late with this, but life got in the way. I know that a lot has happened since the finale. (The online reunion happened tonight and I missed it.) I would really like to get some of your guys opinons. I have my thoughts on the show finale and I would love the feedback and hopefully some answers. I tagged the following mutuals that I know are part of the fandom. If you don’t want to participate, I completely understand and no hard feelings. 

After letting the finale sink in, I still have a few things I need to know. Some of these may have been answered and I am just a dumbass and didn’t know it. If you know the answer or have an opinion on anything, please feel free to share it with me. I am not leaving the fandom just because the show is over. Some of this may be ranting. Some you may not care about. So, let’s talk...

I have been trying to think of a way to put all my questions and thoughts in a easier way to understand. Cause I have more than a few.

1. Dean’s Death.

(a.)The first question may be dumb, but how the hell was Dean still standing after he died? That has always confused me about the show. Whenever one of the characters is tied up standing, they never fall. Even passed out or apparently dead.

 (b.)I think that Dean was ready to die. Because even though Sam and Dean are free from Chuck’s story, Dean may not be truly happy because Cas is gone. I think that’s why he is attached to the dog. It was a subsitute for Cas’s abscence.We have seen in previous seasons when Cas dies, that Dean always spirals. He drinks himself unconcious and throws himself into hunts. He is visibly shaken whenever he witnesses Cas’s death. He held on to Cas’s coat in season 6&7 after he died. Dean does whatever he can to ensure Castiel’s safety.

2. Sam’s Life After Dean.

(a.) It was nice to see Sam live a “normal” life. However, with him living his normal life, there are a lot of questions. Did Sam marry and have a child with Eileen? I get that with the pandemic everyone wasn’t able to be there for filming. So, I truly undersdtand why we didn’t see Shoshannah in the final episode. We onlyget to see a woman on the porch in the background. She is so far away we can’t see her. Even during Sam’s life montage, we see diffrent pictures, but none of Eileen. Hell, the only woman’s picture I saw was Mary. Nothing around his death bed either.

(b.) Did Sam give up hunting? We know that he gave it up when Dean and Cas went to purgatory. Now that they are both TRULY gone, did he just completely give it up? I can’t imagine that just because he is free and alone, that he would let innocent people die. I know that he wouldn’t go after big hunts, but maybe a ghost or spirit. 

(c.)Does Little Dean ‘D’  become a hunter/Men of Letters? I am sure that Sam told ‘D’ about all the monsters and dangers of the world. But does he become a hunter? Did ‘D’ get Baby after Sam’s death? What happened to the Bunker and all the relics? It seems kind of wrong to just leave the Bunker unattended. There are so many hunters that could use it. 

3. Missing people.

(a.)Kevin Tran. Did Kevin get to go to the new heaven or did Jack bring him back to life to be with his mom? Cause the last time we saw Kevin, he was a ghost in Hell. (Cause Chuck is a dick.) Heaven was closed and he had to go and roam around. Kevin deserved better.

(b.)Adam Milligan. What happened to Adam? Did he go to heaven or did Jack bring him back? Because technically, Chuck killed him in the snap. If he died,  he really deserves to go to heaven. He was in the cage with Michael and Lucifer. He was forgotten by his brothers and the other angels.

(c.)Alisha and Max Banes. A few of you may not remember them, but I always wonder what happened to them. In season 12, the twins call Mary’s phone for some help to find their mother. There they go through the “MOTW” scenarios. When Alisha dies from her wounds, Max takes the witches ring and create a Twig!Alisha and burns his siters body. We never got to see what happened to them. I know that they weren’t huge side characters, but they were interesting to me.

(d.)Harper Sayles. Harper’s storyline has always felt unfinished to me. She had her apperance in season”s 14 “Optimism”, where Dean and Jack work a case in Nebraska. Jack gets close to Harper and she believes that they are in love. It is revealed that she comes from a long necromancers and she brought back her dead boyfriend Vance. After Vance is caught, Harper escapes, but is seen later in a diner writing a love letter to Jack. She says that when she finds Jack she’ll have to kill him for what he did to Vance. But, that she can bring Jack back just like Vance, because their love is so vivid. She addresses it to Jack Smith, Lebanon, Kansas P.O. Box... So what happened to her? Harper could have been a very interesting character for at least 2 episodes. Watching Jack having to deal with his own version of Becky. I just thought that it was weird that she knew where he lived (kinda) and we just never heard from her again.

(e.)The Horsemen. During season 5, we got to meet the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse; War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. This one kinda confuses me. In this season I was to believe that the Horsemen couln’t be killed. (Death’s death was a shocker.) But they couldn’t kill War. They just took his ring.

(f.)Jesse Turner/Antichrist. This is by far the biggest plotholes I know from the show. Where the hell is Jesse. He had one episode in season 5, “I Believe the Children Are Our Future.” It is discovered on a case that Jesse is a Cambion, half-human, half-demon. Castiel reveals that he is the Antichrist. He was destines to align with Lucifer and “With a word.” destroy the forces of heaven. Afterword, Jesse disappears and is never seen or heard from again. I definetely thought that we would see him the last 2 seasons. Given that these were the biggest villians. A battale between him and Jack would have been so awesome. This is the biggest plothole for me. Heaven wanted Jesse dead and then they just forgot about him.

(g.)Jesus Christ. Where was Jesus? He was mentioned a plethora of times on the show, yet he doesn’t get any reconigtion. Throughout the shows running time, different dieties mention him. Eve said in Season 6 “...And Then There Was None”, to character Rick, “You know that he was just a man.” In season 3, “A Very Supernatural Christmas”, Madge and Edward Carrigan are Pagan gods. Edward tells the Winchesters, “All of a sudden, this Jesus character is the new hot thing in town. All of a sudden our alters are being burned down and we are being hunted down like monters.” Even if He was just a man, he was still important to Chuck at one point. Wouldn’t that make him a viable ally during this? 

That is basically the main “issues” I have with the show. If anyone wants to discuss this, please feel free to share your thoughts. Love you guys and Carry on.

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In the Cards

Henry pretty much had mapped out everything that would possibly be needed for the wedding, and even though Charlotte believed that waiting an additional year was a lot of time, he knew that it was actually good to give it some time to acquire everything. This way, they could save up for some of the expenses and also, probably actually plan a honeymoon of some sort. He also liked the idea of not having to be forcing a lot of details at the end of his college career, too. That additional year meant that he could focus more on his senior year things and less inb the wedding planning… though he was looking into some details about possibly opening at least an office in Junk N’ Stuff where he could do wedding type things. “One more floor needs to be added and Junk N Stuff needs to be up there, and the wedding boutique down here,” He was saying to Nate the Contractor. “Piper made some plans in drafting class.” 

Ray didn’t care what Henry did with the store, as long as he didn’t have to pay for any of it. He most certainly WOULD be paying for it, but Henry knew that he’d be able to make it back up with the actual revenue that he’d get for the business. He was a little bit nervous to try to begin this project after Adanna’s reading. She had pulled a couple of cards that weren’t really that great and explained them to him, trying to sound kind, but serious. One of them was the Devil, which he chuckled about and made a joke, “I know that Dude,” and she informed him that this card meant that he had some type of toxic attachment and was possibly very comfortable in it and a little reckless about it. “Oh, it’s you and Ray,” Charlotte said and laughed. Henry furrowed his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders. They weren’t toxic, just misunderstood and didn’t necessarily bring out the very best in each other. But, they were in tune and had been for a long time and would be for a long time, so Bite It, Devil.  

The next card was the Death card, which… the name and photo alarmed everyone BUT her. She explained that it didn’t necessarily mean that anybody was dying, but more than likely some type of life altering change (a bad one, probably). She pulled it in the present position, so it was either already in motion or at the start, at least (if he were to take stock in those cards), and it would be something that he couldn’t stop or control.

When she pulled the last card, her whole countenance fell and Henry felt his heart sink. “Is somebody gonna die, now?” He asked, jokingly, but nervously. 

The woman looked at him with soft eyes and said, “Hopefully not. It’s just such a spread of strife that I feel deep empathy for you and your journey. This is the Ten of Wands. It means that you’re suffering, or about to suffer.” He looked at the guy on the card, carrying this bundle of sticks. Looked heavy… He was carrying a heavy load. “This card isn’t generally okay, in any spread, but along with the Devil, and Death, well, I worry that you’ve got a long, hard journey in your near future and I worry that maybe you’ve had one for some time.” 

His eyes were damp. He certainly couldn’t tell her about Kid Danger, but he knew that was probably what she was seeing in these cards… IF he was going to believe that there was any merit to this little trick… “Yeah, well… I work hard for a difficult man, but I can handle it,” he said and forced a smile. She nodded, but got up to gather some things for him. She hadn’t gathered things for the others, after their readings, so he was kinda worried, but he’d take whatever it was that she had. 

“This is a mugwort and lavender smudge stick,” she said, gathering a few of them and putting them in a see through bag with a little instruction card. “These are ritual baths…” She grabbed a box and set a few jars into it. She set it down and was going through cabinets and searching for things that she certainly knew where they were, but Henry got the feeling that she felt like he needed a lot of work… She pulled out a little doll and he smiled awkwardly. “This… you can take the things that trouble you and attach to it, then burn it.” She handed it to him as his eyes went wide.

“This… is getting to be a lot.”

“You have a lot in your past and a lot ahead of you,” she said and grabbed another poppet, for good measure and put it into his box. “Anything beyond these little helps, I’ll have to actually come to you and guide you through. I don’t want to overload you with rituals and practices.” She placed the bags and things into his box, added a few other items - tea, soaps, oils, and crystals, all with information cards attached or tied to them and she handed it to him. 

“That’s like hundreds of dollars worth of stuff!” Charlotte observed.

“What?” Henry asked and tried to give it back.

“I’m not charging you,” Adanna said, avoiding the box. “It’s a gift. For a friend of Jack Leigh’s son. You’ll need them more than I need the money for them.” 

.

And, so far, things hadn’t been terrible or anything, as far as he noticed, but he had been worried about things since then. Charlotte was, too, at first. She would ask him questions almost everyday about how everything was going and how he was feeling. She’d made the time to text him everyday and ask about him. He worried a little more because of this and told her as much. So, she stopped, but would ask Jasper, “Did you talk to Henry today? Is he alright?” Then, she wouldn’t even be satisfied when Jasper told her yes, because she presumed that he was probably assuming that Henry was alright and maybe that Henry was lying about it. Jasper had taken to just telling her all of the stuff that Henry did say when they spoke. 

“You talk to Henry? Is he okay?”

“He said that he thinks he finally found a botanical garden that we might be able to rent out for the wedding. He and your mom are gonna go check it out this weekend.”

Or

“You talk to Henry? Is he okay?”

“You’ll never believe what he said that Piper managed to convince Ray to do...Put a JUICE AND SMOOTHIE BAR inside of Junk N’ Stuff. Between her and Henry, that place is really gonna be somewhere that you can get all of the junk and all of the stuff.”

She stopped asking and Henry and Jasper sincerely  hoped that she’d stopped worrying. They both did, after she left the subject alone. She was getting much too busy anyway. Technically, this was the senior year for her first double degree. She was working in a lab, had a full load of classes, and was still “involved” in her extracurriculars on campus. She was neck and neck for the top of the class spot, after having averaged 3rd or 4th for a couple of years, and well… the other candidate was a little bit more involved with things outside of academia. Which, technically shouldn’t count, but really did chap her hide.

So, whenever some things took place with Henry, he didn’t want anyone to panic or anything and just tried to keep things to himself and not worry too much about it all. Piper was at the Man Cave pretty much every moment that she wasn’t at school and he felt a way about it, but didn’t question it much. She helped him to move into his “apartment,” which was one of the clear Man Caves, in the living segment and he was shocked at how helpful she was being, but welcomed the help, because they hardly really hung out outside of work, and she didn’t even work there, she had simply declared herself a part of the team and kept showing up. But, whenever she showed up on his elevator and came in with a few bags, he finally thought about the fact that she had not really been home very much lately and he was curious as to why, now.

“Mom officially left,” she said, trying not to cry. “Dad is useless. Her new partner is not great with kids, not even his own and I just… Can I stay here for a little while? I can probably arrange something else, soon.”

“Shut up and come in,” he said. 

They sat down at the couch and she dropped her things to the floor. “I didn’t bring move in stuff. Just stuff for a few days. Hopefully that’s long enough for him to stop crying. He’s just like… wailing. All night and all day. I don’t even think that he’s gone to work, or know if he still has a job. I want to insult him and lash out at him and tell him this is one of the reasons that she left him… but… that would just be mean and wouldn’t account for the fact that she left me too.” Her voice was small. “Anyway, I haven’t gotten a lot of sleep the last few days. Weeks, if I’m being more honest. I could tell that something was going on. She was disappearing a lot, even more than usual. He was trying to bond a lot more than usual. The whole atmosphere of the house was just off and I tried to avoid being there, but no matter when I came in, one of them was there being weird, or nobody was there and it just felt empty. What’s it gonna be like when I go back in a few days?” She wondered.

Henry sighed and shook his head, “You don’t have to go back to that. Get some sleep and when you’re feeling better, I’ll help you go get the rest of your stuff. You can stay here for however long you want.”

“Thanks. I’m sorry that I didn’t tell you about what was happening. You[‘ve just seemed like you had a lot on your mind. You’re in college. You’re Kid Danger. You have no friends. I just didn’t wanna be a burden anymore. I know that I was for a long time. You practically raised me. I didn’t know who else to turn to. I have all these friends, but none of them understand it like I think you do.”

Henry furrowed his eyebrows. “You’ve never been a burden. I mean, yeah, I hated having to watch you so much when I was a kid, but I was a kid. And… You’re still a kid. ONE of them should be looking after you.”

“They’ve never really been good at that.”

“Well, hopefully I can do, in a pinch.”

“You can do, on the regular. I was such a bratty and shitty kid… I sometimes wonder how much worse would I have been if you hadn’t been here for me…”

“Okay, now I know you’re tired. I’ll bring your stuff into a bedroom. You need anything else?”

“No. I’m just gonna text Charlotte and let her know that everything’s okay. She called earlier to check in and heard Dad in the background.”

Henry gasped and said, “Hey! Maybe this is it! The toxic relationship could just as easily have been our parents, not necessarily RAY. This is a life altering change, for the Death card! And… maybe this burden will be helping pick up the pieces… only, that’s not a burden for me, but I could see how it could be read that way. YES! Whew. I can stop worrying.”

“I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about,” she said. He just smiled, nodded and gave her a hug. “Okay. I know that I came to you, but this is more than I need,” she said, but wrapped her arms around him and squeezed tightly, then started crying. She dropped her phone on the floor and sobbed. Henry looked at it. It didn’t break or anything, but the fact that Piper was so upset that she hadn’t even rushed to it said that helping her get over this might be harder than he initially thought. That didn’t matter though. This was his sister. He loved her. He’d be here for whatever she needed while this stuff was going on.

.

Charlotte was searching frantically for her jewelry set. She had JUST seen it like five minutes ago! Piper walked into the room and wondered, “What are you looking for?”

“My jasper jewelry set that Adanna made me for graduation!” she said, in a panic. 

Piper picked up a small red box and wondered, “Is it this?”

Charlotte looked up, sighed and smiled, “Thanks. I’m nervous. You’d think that I never graduated before, but I almost forgot how much I hate to have to give a speech in front of people. Thank you for helping me get ready.”

“All I’ve done is helped you find a box and eat off of your fancy ice cream.”

Charlotte winced, “Awww, Man… That was Jasper’s fancy ice cream. Now, I’m gonna have to buy him some more.”

“I’m sure he’ll live.”

“You’ve never lived with him while he’s having a craving. He’s a HUGE baby!” Charlotte said. 

“He doesn’t even live here…” Piper said, but looked around the room and definitely could see all the Jasper-ness in the place.

“He’s here more than me,” Charlotte offered. Then mumbled as she put on her jewelry set, “But, still won’t move in or officially look for another apartment with me.”

“You guys oughtta get a house, anyway. You work for Ridgemont Diagnostics. That’s like working for Lexcorp.”

“No! Evil Corporation is like working for Lexcorp. This is more like working for… Stark Industries… sort of. I mean… There’s not a good comic book equivalent. We help the world.”

“I meant fiscally. You have to be able to afford a house, right?”

“I probably could, but I think that Jasper wants to buy our first house,” She checked her jewelry in the mirror. The set was an assortment of jaspers in rose gold - earrings, a necklace, a bracelet and a ring. She loved it. Jasper had some things to do before her graduation, so Piper was going to drive her there (Piper was coming into town to be at the graduation anyway and Charlotte hated driving, much more when she was nervous), and nervous, she was. But Piper broke into her nervous thoughts.

“And, just because he wants to, you’re gonna wait on him to be able to, even though you already can? That seems… not like you.”

“I mean… I’ve changed a lot. I make compromises. Jasper makes compromises. There’s things far more important to me than buying a house.” Charlotte packed her bag and grabbed her steamed and pressed graduation gown, then searched for her hat. Piper grabbed it and held it out to her, with a questioning face, although she was sure that was precisely what Charlotte was looking for. It was. She took it and laughed, “Let’s go.”

“Seriously… It’s a good idea to go ahead and just have your own things, anyway. You can have a house on the side. If you just have to have Jasper buy your first house, I recommend still getting one for yourself, or at least some property. You never know. Sometimes, people drift apart. Sometimes, people just give up on each other. While I can’t imagine Jasper ever doing that… I can’t imagine you not realizing one day that you married Jasper Freakin’ Dunlop.” She laughed, but it was fake. Charlotte stared at her, but didn’t argue. She saw that this wasn’t about her and Jasper at all and Piper usually didn’t want to talk about what happened with her parents a few months prior. 

“I’ll make sure that I take care of myself,” Charlotte promised, then paused and wondered, “Are you taking care of yourself, Piper?”

Piper forced a smile, “Things don’t really bother me like they used to. I’m okay.” A lie, but Charlotte didn’t feel like she had the right to push. For one thing - she couldn’t even IMAGINE her parents suddenly breaking up, especially while she was still living there. For another, she unfortunately hadn’t been as present in Piper’s life as she probably should’ve to someone that she saw essentially as a little sister. Someone, who she’d gone to whenever she needed another girl to gab with. She’d… not been a good enough friend to try to press her now for something this serious. 

“Well, in the event that you aren’t, I’m here for you. OR in the event that you are. I let us drift apart whenever I came here and I’m sorry for that. But, I promise, that even if I’m busy, you can always come to me.”

Piper wanted to say some things. She really, REALLY wanted to open up to Charlotte and tell her all of the things that she couldn’t even tell Henry about how badly she was feeling, but Charlotte was about to graduate and receive not one, but TWO degrees, at once and her makeup was done and she was already flustered and losing everything not attached to her body. It would’ve been unfair to bother her with this stuff. She felt bad enough distracting Kid Danger with it all. “Thanks, but I’m fine.”

.

Charlotte told herself not to look towards the crowd. She didn’t want to be aware of how many people were there… or how many people weren’t. Jasper had texted her several times to update her on where he was and whenever she was arriving at the center, he was saying that he was on his way to her. She sighed. She was early, so it was okay. She was in Piper’s car, catching her breath and stuff when she heard Jasper’s truck pulling in. She got really excited and really relaxed somehow, at the same time and jumped out of the car to meet him. He’d decorated his truck with congratulations, a banner of her smiling face and her title, degrees, and the date, and balloons floating, tied to the mirrors and long tinsels tied to the back. She gasped, “Jasper! What did you do?” She asked. 

“It’s to celebrate you!” He said, smiling, and reading her face to see if she was pleased with it or not. She smiled and gave him a kiss. She was pleased. Piper pulled out a metal little box and took a purple rolled cigarette out of it while Jasper said, “I pretty much lied about where I was all day, because I was trying to finish this and…” He opened the door of his truck… “This.” He handed her a bouquet which was graduation teddy bears and flowers, with one Black Barbie doll with an afro in the middle, in her graduation outfit. “Had to sew her clothes myself because I couldn’t find a doll with the color of your cap and gown! Sorry, I procrastinated…” She was crying and he gave her a hug and handed it to her. She hugged the bouquet to herself and then noticed that Piper was smoking on the other side of her car.

“Piper… You… You’re smoking a cigarette?”

“Oh, don’t worry. It’s not one of those death sticks you get from the store. It’s one of the smoke blends you can get from Jasper’s mom,” She said.

“My mom hates smoking,” Jasper said.

“Not your mom, mom. The good one. The Black one,” she said. Adanna. “It's basically just herbs and leaves. Rose, spearmint… something called hyssop and stuff. I don’t know. I like them, though. This relaxes me.”

Jasper whispered, “Is it okay for a 16 year old to smoke herbs?”

“I don’t know, but I feel like I should protest, but don’t have the right…”

“Piper, I don’t think that a 16 year old should be smoking herbs,” Jasper said.

“Noted,” she told him and kept smoking. She’d gotten these from Henry. Adanna sent them to him whenever he called her to tell her about the situation and how he thought it might be his event from her card reading, and she’d asked for his address and began sending him gift baskets of some of her product every couple of weeks. She told him that something about him made her feel like he was often helping others, but had very little support. He definitely used some of it. He loved the burning things, whether it was one of those weird dolls or some fragrant plants, he always felt better afterwards. He set the smoke blend rolls aside and noticed when they went missing, but Piper had already claimed them and began using them by the time he asked her about them. He didn’t raise a big deal. There were kids her age smoking cigarettes and weed. This was… at least… not exactly illegal? And, it seemed to help her out. “But, you better wait until you’re 18 to try weed!” He said.

“What makes you think that I wanna try weed?” She wondered.

“I’m just telling you, IF you do…”

“I tried weed years ago. It has some kind of stupid adverse affect on me where it makes me feel anxiety. I’m not trying it again,” she said and walked off. She dismissed a lot of their conversations by just walking off. He didn’t know what to do. He didn’t want to pretend to be a parent, because he technically wasn’t. Both of their parents were alive and they had asked her who she wanted to live with when they went into different homes. “I live with Henry, now.”

But, they were bothered by this, because, as far as they knew, Henry lived in the junk shop. There was a little office in the back with a cot and a dresser and there was no way that they could both fit there. Like they had known where she was sleeping every night all of the nights that they rushed off and left her to be taken care of by a 13-19 year old boy, a 20-22 year old man who was barely at the house that he “lived in.” 

Now, she was always taking them as soon as one of the baskets came to Junk N Stuff, even though Henry reminded her several times that it was illegal to open his mail. 

He was heading into town for Charlotte’s graduation. His was the next day in Swellview, so after the ceremony and probably dinner, they were all going back that way so that they could make it to his and would be having a party in the Man Cave, afterwards. Charlotte’s parents were going to throw her a little something, but she insisted that she needed to spend this time with her friends and reminded them that she was getting married in another year and they could throw her something then.

“You’d better at least come have breakfast or lunch or something with us. Nobody’s playing with you, Little Girl,” her mom said. She read that loud and clear.

“Jasper and I will be there after we wake up and get dressed,” she promised.

Henry, Schwoz and Ray had come in the van and Charlotte realized that it was the first time in 4 years that either of them had visited there (Ray and Schwoz), so they wound up grabbing to go food and getting a little tour of the town, Jasper’s frat house, which there was a HUGE graduation party happening at, Char’s apartment, where she kept having to keep Ray from stealing her dogs, and their current workplaces. 

Ray was very impressed with Jasper’s life. He was a star athlete! Girls loved him! He had guys who followed his commands! He was internet famous and a local hero, of sorts? “Gee, Henry, maybe I should have had JASPER be my sidekick. He’s clearly more successful,” Ray said.

“Ummm… It’s not a competition,” Henry said, “And I also am successful, it’s just different. I graduate tomorrow. I’m in the process of remodeling our entire store and making it a functional business with projected profits.”

“So… You’re not successful… YET,” Ray pointed out. 

Piper glared at him and reminded him, “You’re not exactly successful yourself. The store is fake and your only skill is being indestructible, which was not only an accident, but says nothing about your merit. It’s the only thing that you ever bring to the team. Meanwhile, Henry does the majority of the work, with absolutely no superpowers.” Everyone was silent for a moment while Ray just scoffed, unable to find a retort. “Belay my last,” she said and rolled her eyes, reaching for her cigarette holder. “So, has anybody been watching ROTC: In the Chiz? I could have sworn that one of the girls on there was Bianca, but they call everybody by last names, and I never learned hers…” She lit the thing and everyone awkwardly said that they didn’t know or hadn’t seen the show…

.

“Man… Piper’s really kind of a buzzkill, right?” Ray asked Jasper and Charlotte while Henry and Piper were at her car, talking, before the drive back to Swellview. 

Charlotte said, “She’s been through a lot.”

“She’s been through what half of us have been through. You think that my mom was WITH my dad through this irresponsible scientist stuff? Jasper didn’t meet his dad until last year or something! She’s old enough to chill out.”

“Or, she’s much older than either of you were when your parents broke up, so it’s affecting her harder,” Charlotte said. 

Jasper nodded his head and said, “She’s doing her best, Ray. She feels like her mom left her when she left their dad. She probably is wondering if it’s her fault or maybe she’s depressed or something and there’s no adult to enroll her into therapy. She just needs our support and you can be a little negative sometimes.”

He scoffed again and said, “I’m the most positive person that either of you have ever met!”

“Such a lie,” Charlotte said and Jasper had said, “That’s incorrect, Man.”

“Well, I didn’t deserve to have her ruin the entire gathering at my expense, did I?”

“I mean.. She was harsh, but not necessarily wrong and you kinda were going a little rough on Henry there, Friend,” Charlotte said.

“Hey, Guys, Piper’s ready to drive back to Swellview, so I’m gonna ride with her,” Henry called out, getting into the passenger’s seat of Piper’s SUV.”

“What? No! We said that we were gonna circle back to the frat party as soon as the child of the group was gone!” Ray pouted. 

“Dude..” Henry said.

“He’s right,” Piper told him. “You did make those plans.” 

“I did, but you just said that you’re super tired and didn’t feel up to driving,” Henry reminded her.

“Yeah, and you’re in the passenger’s seat, so you might as well stay and party with your friends. You’re a total loser. How many parties are you gonna get to go to, Bruh?” She laughed lightly and said, “If I have to kick you out of my car for you to have a good time, I will.”

“Ugh. Well, drive safely you get tired, pull over at a rest stop or get a room or something and call me AS SOON AS you make it home.”

“Jesus Haysues Christ. I know the routine, dude. We’ve been living together like a year. Go actually pretend that you know how to enjoy life or something,” she said.

“I love you, Bye!”

“Have fun, Nerd,” she said and pulled away.

“Guess I’m comin’ to the party!” Henry said, running back to his friends.

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Henry was exhausted by the time they got back into the van. He checked his phone and it was 3 am. Piper hadn’t called or texted. He called her and she didn’t answer. “Wow. Seriously. You’re gonna leave a voicemail? I can assure you, I’m never checking it and I’m probably not gonna return your call. Text me like a normal person,” her voicemail greeting said.

“Yeah, you were supposed to call me whenever you got home. You left before Midnight, so that should’ve been 30 minutes ago, unless you got a room or stopped at a rest stop. Either way, a text would’ve been nice, Dude. Now, I gotta wonder if you’re okay until you call me back or don’t and I have to wait until I’m home. I’m kinda pissed, Piper. Call me. Shit.”

An hour into the drive home, he fell to sleep. Schwoz was driving and he and Ray were talking. Henry was asleep for about an hour longer, whenever his phone rang and it was Piper’s ringtone. He jumped awake and answered it, “Piper! Goddamn it! You were supposed to call me whenever you got home!” He said. 

“Hello, this is actually the police. We noticed that your number was the last and most frequent number in a phone that we located. Who does the phone I’m holding belong to?” The man on the other end of the phone asked. Henry’s heart sank to his stomach and he felt a tear rolling down his face. Wherever this conversation was going, he knew that it couldn’t be good.

“It’s my little sister’s phone. She drove out to see a family friend graduate and was heading back to Swellview when I last saw her at 11:30…”

“What are you talking about back there?” Ray wondered.

The policeman said, “Well, we found this phone at the site of an accident. One of the girls has been rushed to the hospital. The other will need someone to identify her, in Bordertown, where the wreck occurred.” 

Henry felt more tears falling now and he whispered, “I told her not to drive if she wasn’t… Was… Was the… dead girl the one who was driving a charcoal SUV?” 

“Sir, you should come to the Bordertown coroner and take a look…”

“No. NO. Look in the phone and call Siren of Jake Hart. Or Horrible Mom or Idiot Father… They… Let them be the ones to do this,” he said.

“Okay. Thank you for your help. Try to enjoy the rest of your night.”

“Yeah, I’m sure I will!” He hung up and covered his face.

“You okay kid?”

“Piper got into a wreck and I think she might be dead,” Henry said.

“WHAT???” Schwoz and Ray both said. 

Henry waved a hand and shook his head, “Just drive. No, pull over…” He got out of the van and Jasper’s truck pulled over behind them. Charlotte was asleep, but Jasper got out of the truck and Henry told him as the other guys got out. “And he wouldn’t just say that it wasn’t the girl in the charcoal SUV that died. So, it’s probably her, right? I mean… and if they found her phone at the site, what does that mean? Was it in the car? Was it on the scene because her body was tossed out? I never should have let her go by herself! She was tired. She was depressed. She was sleepy… I shouldn’t have let her go…” Jasper collected him into a hug and calmed him down. By that time, Charlotte woke up and noticed that they were stopped and also that everybody else was outside of the vehicles. She got out and walked up, nervous about whatever she was seeing. Jasper repeated what happened to her and she sighed and put her hands on Henry’s shoulders, “Hey… we’ll find out, first… then, we’ll do whatever we need to do to take care of you, okay?” 

She went back to the truck to get her laptop, and she and Schwoz worked a little bit of magic to get into the hospital information in Bordertown. She took a deep breath and said, “Hen…” He turned to look at her, apprehensively. “It’s not Piper. I’m sorry for that other family’s loss, but Piper is the one that they brought to the hospital.” 

“Is she gonna be okay?” He wondered.

“She’s still in surgery, but we can all just head there now. You ride with us.” She took his hand and led him back to Jasper’s truck. “Sit with him,” she whispered to Jasper and kissed him on the cheek and got into the driver’s seat. Schwoz and Ray got back into the van and they drove away again. Everybody felt a way about this. I should have done more… They all kept thinking.

[tainbocuailnge]

As you seem to be the leading expert on the subject... Am I allowed to ask for a tip for NA? I have Heracles, Beowulf, Tamacat, Ibaraki, Fran, Nightingale, Raikou and Berserkerlot. Am I capable of constructing a Team from those factors and what CEs would I need if yes? (Love Bersekers and they love me. Short of Raikou, Ibaraki and Fran they are all NP2 and I’m still F2P. It’s been months since I rolled a non-berserker gold)

oh man. out of those the most useful and versatile ones are herc ibaraki nightingale and raiko. 

i highly suggest you put your all into raising raiko first of all cause she’s a right proper fuckhouse and extremely easy to build around. she’s at her best when you’ve got some crit buffs in your party (hans, waver, one of many ce’s, etc) but for the rest you just kinda point her at whatever you want dead and mama will take care of it. like all zerkers she’s more fragile than other classes but I don’t get the idea that she drops dead if you brush her slightly, random crits are obviously dangerous but it’s not like you need to tape mashu to her back or she’ll explode. nightingale can heal her back up technically but she’s fragile herself too so someone like nero bride or another heal/buff hybrid might do you better there if you don’t want to live on the edge 100% of the time. as everyone knows I don’t like playing arts at all so bride is my preferred healer just for those two busters in her deck so my attackers can chain more often.

herc is a backline hero, you pretty much just throw him in your last slot and he’ll come out in the last stretch and kill the enemy dead. you’ll want to drag him around as much as possible to raise his bond level because his bond ce gives him several undispellable guts which makes him even better at his job. I don’t like using him as main attacker cause his 4* berserker hp means he dies fucking easy, he really shines at those last 3-4 turns of burst damage and kind of sucks if you want more consistent damage cause he’ll just die before you get to the last wave unless you actively babysit him (or have his bond ce i guess). a fun trick to remember here is that if he’s the last one left and his guts is triggered, the enemy turn ends even if they have moves left which buys you another buster brave chain to finish them off

if you want to go all zerker then nightingale is your best friend, she won’t die easy (relatively) and her buster buff is stupid big. she can also take over for your main dps if they die cause she’s not fucking bitchmade. her np tends to be hard to use unless you throw a QAAAB servant to chain with or a kaleidoscope in the mix so don’t count on getting to use that one often. 

ibaraki is one of the sturdiest berserkers and her party attack up makes her one of the most useful teamwise until penthesilea too. her attack is lower to compensate so I suggest you run her alongside a servant with a real class advantage so they can work together instead of leaving all the dpsing to her. 3 busters alongside her party buff means your damage goes up pretty significantly just by having her there. like most zerkers her np is really hard to get going without going out of your way to charge it so don’t worry about the np buff part of her skill cause especially if you’re running all zerkers you won’t even get to that point

the others I’m admittedly less familiar with cause I didn’t get around to raising them myself until recently but looking at them on paper they just can’t compete in terms of power and synergy with those four. especially beowulf and tamacat are kinda infamous for being really clunky and just very not good. fran has the highest np power in the game so she’s a good friend for farming but the stun afterwards makes it hard for her to keep up consistent damage. lancelot can deal some really sick fucking crits if you manage to make him work but not until his strengthening quest which doesn’t exist on na yet, and you already have raiko to deal the sick fucking crits for you anyway

for an all berserker party with this pool id go for raiko/ibaraki/nightingale with support/asterios/herc backline. support suggestions are cu alter, another nightingale, or another raiko. asterios is there mostly to lower your total cost since you’re working with so many golds. for ce’s on raiko you’ll want some buster or crit thing and on the rest just slap 2030s if you have them or otherwise more buster buffs. on nightingale you can consider kaleido or equivalents so you’ve got a heal on standby in case you need it

non-zerker options to enable your berserkers are elizabeth or anyone else with charisma, brynhildr with her targetable crit buffs and heals, the usual support casters, martha with heals and debuffs, mashu or anyone else with a taunt to draw aggro, and anyone who can make a fuckton of crit stars (jack, cursed arm hassan, okita, rider kintoki). in the future you might also want to be on the lookout for ereshkigal, summer ishtar and raiko, merlin (of course), hijikata & penthesilea, and queen of sheba cause they’re all good buster supports with most of them packing decent damage themselves too. generally you’ll want to pair your berserkers with characters who have QAABB decks so they can get both buster and arts chains going but obviously everyone has different preferences so by all means try things out and see what you like

[narutofoxlover]

Refs and Info for my Anti. Top right picture was made for me by Chenaniaharticles on DA. The reddish lines on his arms are scars. The top left picture is his alternate outfit and the picture was made for me by EvinaRain on DA. Bottom right picture is a ref for the gages he wears with his alternate outfit. Bottom left picture is a more detailed drawing of the choker that is shown in the alternate outfit picture, the symbol on it is the Japanese kanji for demon, Dark gave the choker to him as a gift. I drew the bottom pictures. His bracelets don’t actually glow btw.

Info:

Anti was apart of Jack from day one. But he was originally dormant, not having a purpose and thus wasn’t fully formed. Not untill the fateful day when Jack got that bad cut over his eye and it got infected. Anti finally started to form properly after that, becoming a sort of safety net. His purpose was to take the brunt of injuries and negative emotions, essentially a protective shield, making it seem like Jack wasn’t as badly injured as he actually had been. That first incident is what caused his left eye to be green, he took the worst of the infection and the damage has caused his power to leak out of that eye, making it perpetually green. Over time he developed a mind of his own, and naturally he wanted a chance at being apart of the world at least a little. Jack however was afraid of this entity inside his head and kept him locked away. Anti, being trapped in a mind that didn’t want him and being forced to take on the worst of Jack’s injuries and emotions, grew depressed. He felt broken, like an incomplete being whose sole purpose was to be hurt. That is, till Youtube started. When fans took some of the creepy stuff Jack did for fun and gave it a persona, he saw an opportunity to finally be something more. Previously without a name, he took on the name of the character the fans had created and started molding himself after their ideas. They gave him purpose, and the attention he so desperately desired after Jack had ignored him for all those years. He drew strength from them, finally starting to break from the chains that kept him trapped. And in October of 2016 he started his campaign to show Jack that he should never have locked him away. And he had the perfect plan on how to end with a bang. He had taken the worst of Jack’s injuries for years, so for once, he would harm Jack. Unfortunately for him though he still ended up taking on most of the injury, Jack ending up only having irritated looking red marks on his neck. While Anti got a deep scar that sometimes reopens when using his powers. However, he still got the desired affect. Fans noticed him more than ever and Jack finally understood that what he had done was wrong, agreeing to let him out now and then, sometimes for the fans, as long as he never tried to hurt themselves again. Anti has altered his appearance to fit some of the more popular fan creations. The spiked up, dark green hair a few have, the fangs a few have, the paler skin a lot have, eyes that change between the various versions though they are naturally one blue and one green that both glow green when using his powers, shadows under his eyes, slightly pointed ears, various gages though he uses the small black ones the most, and then two recent additions. After the throat cutting incident he wanted something to cover up the scar when he isn’t in videos. He took inspiration from some fanart for a fan contest Jack had liked on Tumblr and started wearing a black remote activated shock collar and also took a liking to the character’s green and black hoodie, though he wears a long sleeved one with a green and black septiceye along the right sleeve. The collar was originally only to hide the scar but, after curiosity made him want to know what getting shocked feels like, he now wears it for fun as well. He likes the rush of adrenaline he gets from being shocked, plus it kinda just feels cool. Nothing sexual though. Due to taking the worst of Jack’s injuries, Anti has multiple scars along his torso and his arms and legs. Only a few are bad enough to be visible to the naked eye though. Most are extremely faded and only visible under certain lighting. He still likes to cause trouble for Jack, but it’s not meant to be malicious and is all in good fun. He just likes messing around and playing pranks. He is practically a child in certain ways since being trapped for so long didn’t exactly allow him to develop normally. His personality is pretty similar Jack’s, perhaps amped up slightly. Unlike Jack however he has confidence issues and mild depression, though he is very good at hiding it. He’s actually quite modest as well, for example, he’s a fairly good singer but would deny it if anyone said so. He shares Jack’s passion for drumming but is also quite good with electric guitar. He gets quite flustered about sexual stuff, especially when it’s directed towards him. Though he strangely doesn’t mind teasing others in a sexual manner. He carries a lot of guilt about what happened in Say Goodbye, and does his best to make up for it. He loves doing cameo’s in Jack’s videos, always getting excited by the fan theories. He absolutely adores anything mint flavored, especially if it has dark chocolate. He likes just about any kind of rock music, including metal. He really likes soft stuff. So if he finds anything soft he can end up stroking whatever it is for a good while. Something about it calms him. Jack actually found him snuggling with a giant Sam plushie once. Kinda likes my Dark but is unsure what to do about his feelings. Especially since he hasn’t been interested in guys before. Not to mention he doesn’t want to weird Jack out since they share a body and Jack is straight. Likes the smell of a wood fire and spiced cider. basically any scent that can be associated with being warm and cozy such as cinnamon and pumpkin spice. Loves the rain, especially thunderstorms. He likes seeing the lightning flash, hear the rumble of thunder and the sound of rain on the roof and windows. And he really likes the feel of the cold water washing over him, he finds it refreshing.

Powers:

Floating. Speaks for itself, sometimes uses this ability to essentially walk on walls and the ceiling (( indoor walls, buildings go too high )). When not walking on walls or ceilings he floats up to 7 feet off the ground at most. He can’t go much higher than that though, otherwise it would be considered flying.

Can make himself look like Jack. Typical power for an Antituber.

Glitches. He can make electronics glitch out and his body will look glitchy sometimes. He can also teleport with his glitching but only by a couple yards at most. Hence how he was able to suddenly appear and then disappear during the Say Goodbye video. He can also use his glitching to elicit pretty unique sounds electric musical instruments as well as just about anything electrical, hence the odd screeching noises and stuff that are sometimes heard when he’s in a video.

Healing. Any injuries he gets heal rather fast, though scars are left if the injury is bad enough. This ability kinda leaks out onto Jack as well, but not enough to raise suspicion. 

Fast. He’s pretty speedy and agile, might not technically be a power though since he’s only a short ways past the scale of how fast and agile a human can be. Just enough that you know he’s not human but nothing like the Flash. The best comparison i can think of would be a cat. He’s as fast and agile as a cat.

Screaming. He has this loud scream that leaves people disoriented. He doesn’t really have control of it though, it’s more of a defense mechanism that kicks in when he’s scared or in danger.

The Sight. If Anti is looking at a person or creature with just his green eye and they have an alternate and/or ‘true’ form, he is able to see it due to some of his power leaking through that eye. This is probably the only power my Anti has that no other Anti has had. He has to be careful however, if he looks at a really powerful creature’s alternate form for too long a black liquid will start to leak from his eye and he’ll become dizzy and potentially faint. Due to this ability Dark called Anti a ‘Seer’ which are people who have the ability to see things normal people cannot. If this Anti were to ever meet with other Anti’s I imagine Seer would be his nickname.

The last ability he has is that he is able to temporarily separate from Jack for a few hours, creating a body out of particles in the air that go back to their original state once he returns to Jack’s mind. He can only stay out for a few hours because he is a piece of Jack’s soul and being separated too long will make him ill and can even kill him.

Felt like talking about my Anti. I’ll probably do the same for my Dark soon.

@ego-protection-squad @magic-marvin-protection-patrol @chase-brody-protection-squad thought you guys might be interested in seeing this