#eternal prison cassidy

[thepurplebacon]

Kids :))

[thelasttime]

so i don't know your general familiarity with ABC's Once Upon a Time but we were talking about it on here earlier so i wanted to offer a brief (lord willing) explanation of the timeline and relationships bc it's a hot mess!

i've used yellow to divide the major characters into two main "generations" based on who we see interact and when but there's some caveats. as you can see, hook, milah, and rumple were all contemporaries but rumple became immortal and hook went to neverland so they never aged after their first appearances. baelfire/neal, who as rumple and milah's son would be the generation immediately after them, also went to neverland and didn't age except he was still a kid (that's important for later).

its unclear how much time passes before cora appears but like i said, immortal or in neverland, and for transparency's sake i had to include rumple and cora's relationship, which is the miller's daughter spinning straw into gold story that most people associate rumplestiltskin with. anyway, that relationship doesn't work out and cora marries and has regina, the evil queen who becomes snow white's stepmother but i put snow and regina in the same generation because just trust me okay, i don't have time to explain, just trust me that we're meant to interpret them as closer to peers than mother-daughter.

belle is in gen 2 because while she doesn't meet snow or charming personally before the show's present, rumple mentions her to charming and regina kidnaps belle and holds her prisoner for a while. so yes, rumplestiltskin is Chronologically older than belle and most of the main cast except for hook, but more accurately he's eternally Father of a 13 y/o Aged, and belle, who was old enough to be engaged to gaston at the time of meeting rumple, is into that.

everyone who isn't in neverland (or wonderland, long story) gets frozen in time for 28 years Per The Plot and baelfire returns from neverland, still a teenager, in time to take on the identity of neal cassidy and meet main character emma! they have a tryst as teenagers (emma confirmed to be 18) that results in henry. we don't know neal's exact age at the time, but their actors are almost the same age (one year apart) so neal was most likely 18 or 19 physically.

the end result is that when time starts moving again, emma is 28, henry is 10, and everyone else appears to be Around Emma's Age (she says as much in season 2) or in rumple's case a bit older but not as old as you'd expect because neal/baelfire aged a bit without rumple aging.

i say all this because i need people to know that its not worth talking shit about age gaps in OUAT since hook is literally from the same generation as rumple and OLDER THAN BAELFIRE but no one has any problems with him and emma because they think his actor is attractive. thank you for your time, madie, this is something i'm very passionate about ;0;

"28 years Per The Plot" made me laugh so much help!!!! this is so fun, thank you so much for the info-dump <3 this lowkey (highkey) makes me want to watch the show although it does seem very chaotic

[horrifichaunts]

@chaosmultiverse asked: “My life may be just a moment, but, eternity means that this moment lasts billions of billions of years, without end.” -Evan to CASSIDY. Maybe showing one of his memories to her in the afterlife

Cassie had a soft frown, just watching the moment play out that Evan was showing her. Sure the two can be at odds sometimes but she cares…..she cares in her own way for the fellow soul trapped in this yellow prison with her. Patiently letting him speak till…there! Right there! The memory froze on that man, the man who was responsible for most of this. A different culprit was responsible for Evan though was here due todifferent reason, and she did have plans for that mask wearing asshole ...but right now her attention and slowly growing anger is drawn to-.

“That’s what I'm trying to do. Get us out of this prison and put him in one. So he can experience all the suffering you, I, and the others have had to go through. This eternity of torment .” 

[afaimsarrowverse]

250(ish) Favorite Arrowverse Episodes: Part 2: 225-201

Picked from „Arrow“, „Black Lightning“, „Supergirl“, „Legends of Tomorrow“, „The Flash“, „Barwoman“ Season 1+2 and „Superman & Lois“ Season 1+2. I did consider kicking „Superman & Lois“ of this list, but since it pretended to be part of the Arrowverse for its first two seasons I left it on here.

 225. Second Chances (Arrow 5x11)

103, Written by: Speed Weed, Sarah Tarkoff, Directed by: Mark Bunting

 "Yeah. Maybe this team is all about finding second chances."

 224. Hell No, Dolly! (Legends of Tomorow 4x7)

58, Written by: Grainne Godfree, Morgan Faust, Directed by: April Mullen

 "Sara? Is it possible that our fugitive killer is a possessed doll?"

"Horror movie 101."

 223. Exodus (Supergirl 2x15)

35, Written by: Paula Yoo, Eric Carrasco, Directed by: Michael Allowitz

 "'A halb emes iz a gants lign', as my grandmother from the shtetl would say: A half-truth is a whole lie."

 222. Streets of Fire (Arrow 2x22)

45, Written by: Jake Coburn, Ben Sokolowski, Directed by: Nick Copus

 "You honor the dead by fighting and you're not done fighting! Malcolm Merlyn, The Count, the Clock King, the Triad... everyone who was trying to hurt this city, you stopped them. And you will stop Slade."

 221. The Trap (The Flash 1x20)

20, Written by: Alison Schapker, Brooke Elkmeier, Directed by: Steve Shill

 "You look so young. And I could kill you right now so easy. What I wouldn't have given? All those times before to have had you like this. So helpless. But fate, it's tricky, isn't it? I come here to destroy you. And then to get home, I have to be the one who creates you. But I will say, it's been an education. Watching you grow up all these years. Science fairs and soccer games. No hint, no sign, no trace of the man you will be one day for whom I have nothing but hate. And to be clear, nothing is forgiven. There will be a reckoning. I promise you, Barry Allen, that you will die."

 220. There Will be Blood (The Flash 6x4)

118, Written by: Lauren Certo, Sterling Gates, Directed by: Marcus Stokes

 "Everyone dies, Ramsey. Maybe the only thing that makes it bearable is to find some meaning in it."

"Well, that means I'm making the greatest sacrifice of all. Don't you see? What I'm becoming, this is the cure. I am the answer, Flash, to the greatest mystery of all. Life eternal."

 219. Leap of Faith (Arrow 8x3)

163, Written by: Emilio Ortega Aldrich, Elizabeth Kim, Directed by: Katie Cassidy

 "You know, I've been thinking a lot about mom and dad lately, wondering what they would think about the lives we've chosen. All the mistakes they made, all the lies they told in their own very, very messed up way. They thought they were protecting us."

"They weren't. They didn't." "No, but it did help us become the people we are today. They turned us into heroes."

 218. Tender is the Nate (Legends of Tomorrow 4x6)

57, Written by: Phil Klemmer, Matthew Maala, Directed by: Dean Choe

 "When I first stepped on to this ship, I was, you know, trying to get away from all my baggage back home, and I can't believe I'm gonna say this.... Hemingway once wrote 'Can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.' And thanks to you guys, I don't have to run anymore."

 217. Through the Looking Glass (Batwoman 1x16)

16, Written by: Nancy Kiu, Directed by: Sudz Sutherland

 "When I was under the influence of Fear Toxin, out of all the horrible things I experienced, worst was being left behind by you."

 216. Homecoming (Supergirl 2x14)

34, Written by: Caitlin Parrish, Derek Simon, Directed by: Larry Teng

 "I'm not being paranoid here, I'm not. When's the last time we were this lucky? Lucky enough that Cadmus was moving their most valuable prisoner, a guy that the D.E.O. has been unable to find for 15 years, and he just lands in our lap?"

 215. City of Blood (Arrow 2x21)

44, Written by: Holly Harold, Directed by: Michael Schultz

 "I don't know anything about hoods and masks or...human weapons...or any of this...but I know you. I know you like I know my own name. And I realize it may sound crazy in the light of your secret but I know you in your bones, Oliver. That person doesn't give up. That person...he ALWAYS finds a way."

 214. Grodd Lives (The Flash 1x21)

21, Written by: Grainne Godfree, Kai Yu Wu, Directed by: Dermott Downs

 "Maybe the accelerator explosion created a meta-gorilla."

 213. The Justice Society of America (Legends of Tomorrow 2x2)

18, Written by: Chris Fedak, Sarah Nicole Jones, Directed by: Michael Grossman

 "Well, I gotta admit, watching your team work like a well-oiled machine kinda makes me feel like I'm doing this whole hero thing all wrong."

 212. What We Leave Behind (Arrow 5x9)

101, Written by: Wendy Mercile, Beth Schwartz, Directed by: Antionio Negret

 "There's two types of every legacy, two versions of what we leave behind. There's the good and then the bad. You just really have a lousy habit of focusing only on the bad."

 211. Haywire (Superman & Lois 1x4)

4, Written by: Michael Narducci, Directed by: James Bamford

 "I've had a lot of time to think about you, obsessively tracking your patterns. I noticed you haven't been around Metropolis quite as much. But that's how I knew that the, um, big shots would move me to a more secure prison. It seems like you're obligated elsewhere. That makes you distracted. Vulnerable. A weakling."

 210. Dancing Queen (Legends of Tomorrow 4x3)

54, Written by: James Eagan, Morgan Faust, Directed by: Kristin Windell

 "My best friend Nate, he, uh, has a desk job. And Amaya... well, she's gone. I actually really miss her. She was kind of our moral compass. Helped us do the right thing when it wasn't always easy to do the right thing."

"I never knew disco could get so barmy."

 209. The Martian Chronicles (Supergirl 2x11)

31, Written by: Gabrial Llanas, Anna Musky-Goldwyn, Directed by: David McWhirter

 "This is for every Green you ever killed." "In that skin, you look like a monster." "We're the monsters, Armek. This skin is beautiful."

 208. Seeing Red (Arrow 2x20)

43, Written by: Wendy Mercile, Directed by: Doug Aaroniokoski

 "Oliver, I know. I know. I've known... since last year, I suppose. The night of The Undertaking, everything became so clear. It was pretty much the night I stopped sleeping."

"Before you say anything else..." "There's nothing else to say. Nothing I need to say. Except I could not be more proud."

 207. Rogue Air (The Flash 1x22)

22, Written by: Todd and Aaron Helbing, Directed by: Doug Aarniokoski

 "You can't stop me, Flash, and you never will."

 206. Out of Time (Legends of Tomorrow 2x1)

17, Written by: Greg Berlanti, Chris Fedak, Phil Klemmer, Marc Guggenheim, Directed by: Dermott Downs

 "As flawed and unruly as you are individually, together you are the best crew, the best team a captain could ever hope for. So... stick together. And remember: history is yours now, my dear Legends. Good luck!"

 205. Call to Action (Supergirl 4x6)

71, Written by: Gabriel Llanas, Daniel Beaty, Directed by: Antonio Negret

 "Well, we did stop the Children of Liberty from hurting innocent aliens. But Agent Liberty is still out there. And the rhetoric of hate is growing. Just haven't figured out how to win this fight yet. With so many people siding with fear, how far will this go?"

 204. The Darkest Place (Supergirl 2x7)

27, Written by: Robert Rovner, Paula Yoo, Directed by: Glen Winter

 "I've heard that before. Years ago, Superman came to my son, Lex, and promised him the world. A new dawn for mankind. Lex believed him, poor thing. And then he watched as your kinsman infected this country with his propaganda, as his power became unchecked. And when Lex tried to take that power back, Superman convinced the world Lex was evil. My darling boy. My genius son. An actual superman, behind bars for life. Because you and your kind will stop at nothing to poison Earth."

 203. Birds of Prey (Arrow 2x17)

40, Written by: Mark Bemesderfer, A. C. Bradley, Directed by: John Behring

 „No. He died. And I couldn't deal with it. So I became a drunk. Every problem I had, I solved with a pill or a drink. My friends and my family, they tried to help me, but I wouldn't let them. You don't have to do this, Helena. It's not too late." "Yes, I do. Because once you let the darkness inside, it never comes out."

 202. Crazy for you (The Flash 1x12)

12, Written by: Todd and Aaron Helbing, Directed by: Rob Hardy

 "Not too many men can keep up with me."

 201. Abnominations (Legends of Tomorow 2x4)

20, Written by: Marc Guggenheim, Ray Utarnachitt, Directed by: Michael Allowitz

 "No! Please, don't say it. I know they're essentially a myth, but I have this irrational fear of..." "Zombies." "Please, don't say it."

[kingtrash-fox]

Here’s the prologue to the C&C Spiritual Inc Au (Official name)

Enjoy I guess

Boredom.

The feeling was…New in a way? She knew what the emotion was and obviously remembers being bored while she was alive what with playing with the same few toys as a kid waiting for something to happen.

And to say something happened is the understatement of the century. Upon her death the last one at that damned restaurant locked away in a suit she couldn’t move in. And for many years she laid and rot. At the very least she wasn’t alone. The son of her killer, Mr. Afton, was a scared alone child seemingly alone in there far longer than she was. It wasn’t until an event that the others called “The Happiest Day” was he finally able to move on. She stayed behind of course to keep tabs on William who refused to die.

“I wonder how he’s doing up there?” she pondered to herself watching her killer be torn to pieces for the 7,846,230th time.

“Can they see the world down here? I feel like they should especially how high they are.” She shifted a bit. “But could they see what I’ve done? Especially to Afton? Maybe…”

Silence fell not including the “animatronics” shuffling around and the screams from Afton. She pondered this feeling more. Perhaps not boredom but rather a yearning need to be…More. More than the spirit that kept a great evil contained. More than a hidden savior of the Pizzaplex. More than the Princess of the Game tearing apart the glitch with her golden bla-

“CASSIDY CAN YOU PLEASE OUT A NOISE DAMPENER ON HIS ROOM IM TRYING TO FISH!” She froze before realizing it was her…

“Guardian? Roommate? Parental Figure? Landlord? What can I call this guy outside of Mr Consequences? Eh I’ll figure it out later, for now I better mute the bastard.” With a wave of her arm in her spiritual form William quieted before going silent still screaming for Mike, Henry, hell even the devil to come and relieve him of this prison. “I should see if the old man wants some company”, she said turning to the red woods, the domain of the crocodile, “we could honestly both use it”.

The red woods or more known as the 4th Layer laid the home and lake of the mysterious creature known as Old Man Consequences. She found this world while harnessed to the husk that was her killer, in a game that the greedy executives at Fazbear Industries made called FNAF World for honestly for the sake of money but also a gateway. A gateway for things beyond mortal reach to make a connection and that day she looked within the digital code and went deep.

Their conversation was short but simple. All he asked was for her to rest to end this hunt but he could not convince her. Instead simply waiting for another chance . And upon Afton’s death and the beginning of the torment he contacted her again saying she should rest her souls for there would be nothing else.

And that’s when the virus struck infecting minds made with bits and pieces of Aftons husk, forcing the pair to act putting themselves into the Princess quest Games to find the source and eliminate all traces of the glitch. After that the pair came to an understanding and a realization. Even in death the monster would find a way to torment the land of the living. For fear of unleashing this evil unto hell the old man stopped trying to make her rest her soul but chose to keep an eye on her as a guardian of sorts.

She approached him at the docks slightly confused. “I’ve been here for a few years now why are the fish fleeing up now?” She looked towards the glowing lake in fascination

“Well at first it was just 50 entities, a ghost girl, and a horrible man, and with one search on the internet you have at least a small army of robots tormenting him from now till eternity” -Applying new bait to his hook he continued- “So excuse the fish for having to panic.”

“Well at last he’s silent…I wanted to ask you something” Sitting down she popped the question “I’m happy that Afton gets to suffer and that he can’t hurt anyone-but i feel like I should be doing more.” she began, “Like I can feel so much torment and fear going around and I could easily be doing more…do you think I should? Like what Charlie did with us but even more?”

Moments passed, with Cassidy wondering if she overstepped. What the pair had was good keeping him all locked up in this limbo occasionally fishing together in this lake. Maybe she should forget about it and go back to the torment nexus she made for one of the worst fathers in history. It’s what she chose after all!

As her mind whirled around with nerves the old man spoke up. “Well I don’t see anything wrong with that idea. No one has came for us holding Afton here yet and Charlie did keep the souls alive for years in the suits. You going around doing the same, hell we could even possibly classify this as “Guardian Angel” buisness. At the moment sky’s the limit” He reeled in a large tuna still wriggling. “Ooh rare fellow gonna eat well for a bit.” He got up taking the oversized fish with him. Cassidy followed hoping to continue this discussion with a sense of relief that he was onboard with this decision.

Upon reaching his cabin Cassidy was ready to explain this course of action. Her plan is she would search for locations with souls in pain or just general agony and she would find the person responsible or at least leave it better than when she found it. And the old man agreed…all except for one part.

“your gonna charge them?!” ,The croc exclaimed as he was chopping up the tuna, “You’re a ghost what would you need money for!?”

“Firstly I’m not gonna charge them money. I’m gonna request I siphon away some of the agony of the location to enhance the William Torture Nexus and give him no chance of escape.” She said it as if it was a completely normal sentence. As the ole croc kept staring she continued to explain. “And second I can’t really call myself a “Guardian Angel” cause I sure as hell ain’t getting into heaven cause of..” she waved her arm and the sound of William screaming filled the air, “That. Plus I feel like if I’m clearing the fury of other damned souls I better get some damn compensation!” She waved her arm again and William went silent again. After a pause she asked, “On a related note has William been getting louder?” ,she wasn’t particularly concerned for William’s sanity but concerned that Consequences would struggle to fish after the other conversation.

“Eh I’m used to it getting louder but he is really giving his lungs the works.” He threw a bit of tuna in his mouth as he spoke. “Heesh mosht likely ish starting to louse it”

Cassidy got a bit annoyed. “Can you maybe swallow please?” *gulp* “Thanks. Btw you’re still drooling a bit” she pointed to his scarlet maw and the small waterfall of spittle on it

Wiping off the drool (It was very good tuna even raw) he continued the original point at hand. “Still it feels selfish asking people to hand over anything for clearing out spiritual problems.”

“There are Tv shows dedicated to people hunting ‘ghosts’.” ,she replied rolling her eyes, “at least I’d be solving it for cheap, and hey sometimes agony can come from just a soul crushing work place. 2 in 1 Stress relief spiritual aid service! It’s brilliant!”

The crocodile could see a change in mood. Clearly she was thinking about this for much longer than he thought. However he was glad that Cassidy seemed passionate about this absurd plan. But hey anything to keep Afton locked up could be useful. In fact…

Making up his mind he asked his own question,“Why don’t I help? You have the Power to contain them and I have knowledge of many ghosts and such we could make spiritual bank. That is if you want help of course? I mean you are such a powerful spirit you might not even need my-“

“Heck yea!” Cassidy said with a gleam in her eye

The lizard smiled glad that he could help with this ambition of hers. There was one more question to ask.

Thankfully Cassidy brought it up, “If you’re wondering no this little ‘business’ doesn’t have a name yet though I got a few ideas” she said pulling out a list.

“Lay them on me”

The pair spent an hour sorting through names, Cassidy wanted some more comedic names as they weren’t exactly gonna be an actual business at least the kind that makes money, while Consequences kept arguing they should at least seem professional otherwise they might be found out of being ghosts (or a Spirit in the case of Consequences) themselves.

“So what you’re saying is we need something catchy yet professional?” Cassidy said peeling through the list for a name she thinks is perfect, “Cause if sooooooo,ah here we are”.

She pointed to a name towards the very bottom of this list above Bear and Croc spirit fighters and below The Spirit Men.

“What about this one?”

The old gator looked it over debating with himself. “This…will do.”, He nodded “I think we are gonna have a lot of fun with this Cass.”

“…same. Well we should make a few things to make ourselves look professional at least…”

They walked away from the table leaving the list…light shone on the chosen name u seen by the pair almost like a change in humanity was made.

C&C Spiritual Inc. is now open for buisness!

Huh better than usual

I’m gonna assume this is the permission to continue the AU I was Talking about.

at a later date maybe in like a few days I’ll write a story and start posting it here.

I’m kinda excited.

I’ll just start with the idea I mentioned with the Smiling Critters Cartoon thing. If anyone wants to help feel free to Message me on here

[thelordstears]

I think it’s time to show some lines and how much I’ve improved eh?

“ You see, we're all living our lives confined in this little, locked room, we store our thoughts here, our dreams, our doubts, our darkest confessions. But the right people come along with a key and find the real us quivering in a corner of ourselves we fear with all our fuckin' might. All of humanity fears. And so in the span of a blink life created death to separate what is bad, and what is good. “ - Shawn Werdelstein

“ I look deep into my eyes and I swear I can see her darkness flickering in my damn eyes, she took my heart in her murderous stride, flaying me of all my salvation, tellin' me I was nothin' more then livestock on her farm of delicacies and delights. “ - Lupin Rinderez

“In the end I was never really human in the eyes of those who hate me, was I? I was always a toy to those more wicked then I, and so I have rotted in a chest of forgotten dolls and stitched together souls lost to time." - Ingretta Shazowlla

“ Some men are born for prison. They're raised in a cell, and told this is all you can ever be, and when they finally scratch their way out of that prison, they start to get homesick, so they find themselves a new cell, a new Hell, a new home away from home. Chaos is peace ta the broken man. “ - Francis Killvawhile

“ Karma doesn't care about how small the sin was, she just reaps. “ - Scarla Scottaine

“ There's something foreign about an empty bed, something unfamiliar about holding my own hand, it's like love is a language we speak, and when it leaves us we can no longer speak the language of the loveless, because we're already native in the country of love. “ - Finn Desandra

“ The darkness of my past caught up to me and killed the kind pure hearted man I thought I'd forever be, I was always doomed to become a reflection of my father. But with these bloodied and cracked pieces of me I'll bleed him with broken pieces of his reflection. “ - Alviro Conritz

“Isn't it funny? How men and women alike will pull a trigger on another when faced with a gun at their own heart, held steady in the hand of a man who never misses?” - Remington Burlwitz

“ I am Eve luring Adam to his fate.” - Belle Nalroma

“ I am a grave of fireflies and ravens whom head out to war, a wolf of death and anguish that drove me to madness. Don't you call me a freak, I'm just a little bit different, my mind is an eternal state of flickering emotion and madness that has never left me be. In truth the firing of this rifle is the only thing that keeps me alive, it is the beating of my heart and the howl in my soul, so dare you fire back with pieces of your heart shattered in the bullets? “ - Luther Woolhaun

“ I feel like a blank slate that's always re-written. “ - Wendell Ace

"I look at who I am with judgmental eyes.” - Earl Mumford

“ Believe the tales of dead men, they have a perspective like no other. “ - Earl Mumford

“ Stepping up to me ain't a fucking war, it's an execution disguised as such. “ - Saul Northutt

“ Decaying and gentle I shall be lain to rest as the Devil the world mourned. “ - Jonkiv Kramteil

“ Look, the truth is a hard pill to swallow, but swallow it you will. “ - Simon Rossburg

“ I'm a killer and a cheat, if my dagger is unstained remember, there's etches of lives lost on the handle, do you really wanna become another scar on the wood of my blade? “ - Killgrove Butcher

“ Mercy is a surefire way to meet God, so I sling an old club wrapped in barbed wire over my shoulder and watch the river spill crimson. “ - Olivia Juarez

"They call kindness weakness, so I must be the strongest bitch in town.” - Olivia Juarez

“ My wrath comes down like a cold rain of daggers when faced with the wicked, if they ain't ready to die then they best fucking prepare for it, cause those who use the powerless as a simple stepping stone to Heaven don't deserve the breath in their damn lungs. “ - Lucille Ramaswami

“ That man, that wicked fuckin' man, 'e's an old vulture sittin' atop the Church waitin' for the holy ta fall down the steeple, 'e swoops down and picks their bones 'a love, 'a holiness, 'a morality. And den, the holy become the damned. “ - Maxwell Soderstrom

“ The Devils and snakes in the grass should fear the gardener with his shovel ready to bury the pests." - Guarva Plucker

“ Don't call me your hero, cause heroes don't kill good men." - Al Hunderson

  "Brother, there's somethin' sinister brewin' in the bones of humanity, has been since the Neanderthals huddled in caves, lighting fires underneath the murky walls of a place they could call home. I'm afraid you're gonna have to be a little more specific." - Roman Hemlock "Ya can always spot the little, tinges of darkness in the bad man's eye, the little seams of pain that follows 'em." - Sandro Colorfeid

"I slither and slide into the darkness, a basilisk hiding in shadow and sin, biting into the forbidden fruit of Eden with glee and cruelty flickering in my snake likes eyes." - Vexine Hatchet

"I stood with blood on my hands and a snarl on my lip. It was from that moment on, Nico no longer were." - Nico Litchenfels

“ I'm a cutthroat fucker with his heart bared open and cruel on his trench jacket's sleeve. “ - Nico Litchenfels

"I stood like a question never asked, and then before I had the chance to give myself an answer in the echoes of my insanity, she smiled and asked who I was." - Zachariah Rinderez

"I have died a thousand times, Minerva. But you make me want to live again." - Simon Drogace

"I'm not lucky enough to be me." - Simon Drogace

“Do you ever feel like, your mind is a hammer?” - Simon Drogace

"He stood there, like a wicked omen of what never should've been, a testament to all humanity tried to kill." - Neal Marrows

"Losing yourself is a game no one can win." - Neal Marrows

"You know me, just a grave of who I was, grasping the soil wondering why it always slips between my fingers." - Sam Dellwotfire

"Someone once asked me what life before war was like, and truthfully, I've never known." - Hunter Creasey

"You spend your whole life under the shadow of death it starts to become you, and as you let the light it in, as you let your heart burst in seams of color and little figments of love and joy, that's when the shadow casts itself over you the longest. As soon as you start to live, death comes on by to greet you as if she were an old friend, and as I live through the essence of love and peace, I can see a smile filled with the lost lives of all whom ever walked greeting me on a road all too familiar." - Hunter Creasey

"I'm the mad man's greatest friend, but in the eyes of the sane, in the eyes of all whom stand against cruelty, I'm a weapon, an atomic bomb that'll level the city of peace to dust." - Moores Thomas

"It is in madness and grief we find who we really are. So who's to say humanity was supposed to live in peace? After all, even our mind tells us things we could never dream of with intrusive thoughts, and in the end some of us succumb to the darkness every single mind brews." - Moores Thomas

"You see, madness starts with a small seed the human race calls trouble, it comes in many different variants, some get in very small dosages all their lives. But mad men get a taste of trouble long before they know what the word means." - Moores Thomas

"The way I see love, it's an interesting sort of medicine. One moment it stitches together the loose threads of your heart, and in the very next it unravels you like a spool of thread." - Cornelius Combs

"I walked into the Church only to be spat out, falling down the sinner's steeple coughing up bloodied pieces of my faith." - Takizen Fruivein

"Challenging what I've become is a fools game, and my friend, I am no fool." - Allinza Harzvi

"Humanity is not inherently kind, everything we've seen, and everything we are, is proof of that testament." - Allinza Harzvi

"We are never in the same boat, we are in the same storm, facing life's darkness with different privilege's." - Caldvain Lucelo

"You know, someone once told me you have control over your own mind, but as it drifts away from me as smoke in the dying embers of a midnight wildfire, does that statement still hold true?" - Harvin Scoviney

"God does not help. He observes." - Victor Da Ville

“ You can't explain what evil means without mentioning the feared name of Cassidy Vanderberg. “ - Cassidy Vanderberg

“ I'm a hero, and I know, it's a heroes curse to go down in history, shooting her glory through the chamber of a revolver, leaving the world with the gunfire smoke of her gun, but so be it man, so fucking be it. “ - Miella Fang

“ Tragedy runs through my veins like the blood I bleed.” - Harkman Burtrow

“ You can run your hands through these cracked and yellowed pages, wondering when I lost my mind, but you won't find any answers in my chapters. “ - Mortelo Vonenwoft

“ ”You ever feel there’s jus’ this empty box where your heart’s supposed ta be? I've shoved all my monsters in this box, my addictions, my anxiety, the thoughts that don't go away. But sometimes, the box starts ta open, and I can't even push the door back, cause I'm too busy with this ghost followin' me like a yappin' chihuahua. “ - Isadore Rast

“ Everyone is always sayin' you're strong, for fightin' past that hurt, but am I? I didn't fight, I fuckin' stumbled, I fell, it wasn't just a battle, it was a god damn war I still wage. The gunfire echoes and cocaine ghosts will never leave me be, cause I made the mistake of losin' myself ta the bad side of life, and I just can't forgive myself for that kinda shit. “ - Isadore Rast

“ I'm not a recoverin' addict, I'm just a fuckin' ghost. “ - Carrigan Hopva

“ I met myself on a dead end street, she looked distraught, with chunks of hair missing, cigarette on her lip, trying to light a match in the rain, eyes troubled with memories of what would be. She told me to keep my enemies close, cause god damn, they were everywhere, but she never told me I'd be standin' in a house of mirrors. “ - Rain Morvosina

“ I tell myself, I could've done better, I could've saved the circus, but truthfully, not a single man can stop fate in its tracks, he would become another splatter on her railroad within a series of seconds and terrible events. “ - Bortosley Velltwo

“ I'm guilty ‘a first degree, of lil ol' me." - Howard Wraith

“ Oh mum if ya could see me now, sinnin' on the other side 'a paradise lookin' for reasons ta stain me teeth the color of me jacket. “ - Davy Blight 

“ I ain't the poor lil' boy who shot at 'is brother with orange capped revolvers and plastic swords, mate, I'm the real fuckin' deal. This venom 'a trouble and sin flows like blood in me veins, corruptin' the essence 'a who I fuckin' was. “ - Davy Blight

“ I'm the darkness your mother says ta stray away from, the boogeyman ya're mum tells ya snatches away naughty boys and girls in the dead 'a night, and worst of all mate, I'm Lind fuckin' Blight, bastard son of the seas. “ - Lind Blight

“ I'm just old honey whiskey sitting on the shelf gathering dust and mildew, locked in this little cabin of darkness and decay, wondering why no one cares to pop open my cork and let this darkness and mold spill to the soil of a freshly dug grave. “ - Roxane Vanderberg

“ I met her in a garden 'a roses, and there she stood as the only thorn. “ - Kayella Wisp

“ I've gunned bad men down on the streets, cackling and sinful they died, cruel and wicked they lived. “ - Hoshino Akinori

“ I once went into an old confession booth, sins sat heavy at my shoulder, salvation far off as it always seemed to be, and as that preacher listened to my darkest secrets I was sure he would damn me. But he told me salvation is for all, and that God loves whosoever follows the path of the righteous. “ - Erika Vans

“ I used ta live with one foot in the grave, wondering when the hell I'd become my last name, but then I met a wise man in the woods and found myself once again. Sometimes, we're lost, and we don't even know it. So I think destiny sends us a Messiah to lead the way ta who we are, and as Pennington took my hand in the darkness, I knew I'd found who I am past all this trouble. “ - Alonzo Graves

“ I traverse this labyrinth of my heart and soul, trying to find myself in the midst of all this trouble, but these mirrors are starting to look like enemies, and this maze is starting to become a prison cell. “ - Andre Jollows

“ Deep in my soul is the sound of war calling me home, and death whispers in my bones that she wishes to hold me close as I fade gently into the stars, but I sigh strapping my boots on in the morning, putting this old gas mask on my face and facing another venomous day. For I am a curse, wondering where my blessings went." - Max Caldiph

“ If my heart were a painting, it would be a starless night sky, the trees wilted, stripped of their leaves standing as threadbare omens of the bones etched in darkness that hold me up and the roses would be black, decaying with some dead scent of mercy burning whosoever walks into this garden of death's nose. “ - Apollos Quinn

“ Who I am ain't even me, he's just someone I've been for too long.” - Drew Dreadful

“ I died halfway to Heaven and too close ta Hell. “ - Dylan Huffers

“ I was living a life of trouble and cigarette smoke, chasing lies as if I were just a harmless little kitten, batting my hands at another yarn ball, always wondering why it ran away from me, but as my mother held me in a gentle embrace and showed me the way to paradise, I found out that it's better to be you then somebody else. “ - Scottie Bloodvallo

“ My mama once told me sometimes you gotta fall and stumble to learn who you are, because it's as trouble and peace wage war that we discover who's side we're on, and as those old foes grabbed their rifles and loaded their cannons, I came to realize I never wanted trouble to become who I am. So I picked up my guns and fired a couple rounds of peace into my head. “ - Marty Thievekit

“ You wanna run with the wolves, but brother you're sparrin' with chihuahuas, ya wanna play with the big boys, but you're frolicking in a garden full of gnomes and fairies, you wanna go knuckle to knuckle with your demons, but brother you surround yourself in angels. Do you really expect to kill a man while you're swingin' plastic blades and firin' bullets from a cap gun? “ - Walton Burke

"The truth will always sound like a lie to he who doesn't want to admit he's wrong. “ - Stewart Astoria

“ I'm tied up and tangled in the webs of madness, cackling at the midnight sky as these bastards try to fire bullets of sanity my way. But god damn baby, I'm bullet proof. I take what I want when I want it, so as I slam these bullets of madness into the echoed chamber of my revolver and put a few holes in my mind do you think it'll be me seepin' through the corners of this old mental ward, or will the ground pool crimson with my sanity? Guess there's no way of knowin' til I pull this trigger, sanity and purity spilling like crimson ink in my mind. “ - Ares Malstone

“ Forevermore I shall stand as a threadbare omen of the unholiest parts of mankind, drifting away from myself like the wildfire smoke of a dying confession.” - Alastair Sambridge

“ My mother once stared me dead in the eye and said I was not so holy, one day I would sputter up all the pieces of me and succumb to the Devil inside, and I must say, the old wicked witch was right. My father told me I was just a sin, drifting forevermore into the midnight sky, and as I pulled the trigger upon a battlefield I came to realize fate vows for promises made by wicked people. So by God, I vow to die, I vow to choke on these holy pieces of me and sputter up my dying breath. “ - Alastair Sambridge

“ Who I am is such a far cry from who I was, if you looked at a photograph of me at ten years old you wouldn't recognize the eyes that smile, for as you look into the cracked lenses and into my eyes, it is not me you find. But rather, it is the insanity that swam in Calzell's eyes when I met him." - Ackilzo Thyme

“ My mother once told me that rage whispers into the ears of the broken that they deserve nothing more then this unsteady heart beat of broken bottles and cracked knuckles, but it's the ever smiling lip of peace that brings the sorrowed man back to himself. So I oughta wonder why peace keeps on scowlin' at me. “ - Varvaina Escobar

“ It seems it is the nature of humanity to point blame at those who are howling with regret, love beating empty in an open chest. “ - Sarkelus Johnson

“ Sometimes, life just fades before your eyes and ya don't have enough time to catch it, so you slowly drift away from it yearning for the gentle touch of death. But you know what? We all need a hero every once and awhile, and as Barbara lays her head against my chest, dancing her fingers across my shoulders and cheek, I think I damn well found my hero. “ -Rob Percstand

“ I don't wanna die with dreams, I wanna die with memories, man. “ - Revie Scollinew

"In the outback of Montana my tale began in crimson stained history. I look to my aunts and uncles and see murder deep inside of their hearts, but they should've thought twice before taking my heart in their rough hands, for there is something dark that's brewing inside of me, and if I were them, I would start looking underneath the bed for monsters." - Enoch Avoxin

"There's a certain truth, to madness." - Zachariah Rinderez

"Hold honor close to your heart and you'll end its beat." - McKormick McReavey

"You know, everybody says, this won't happen to me, I'm just your average everyday person, collecting my paycheck, paying my bills, living my day to day life just like everybody else. But what we seem to forget is that we're all normal people, we're all just a little bit average enough to stand out. And when these tragic things do happen to us, we stand in a stunned silence our whole world falling apart, and all we can utter is, "This can't be happening to me." - Ray Burzfoll

"If I could strip the emotion from my mind I fear I would do so in a heart beat." - Wyatt Demouchett

"Love comes and goes but power drifts on by and stays." - Dastallio Sanchez

"Darkness has intertwined itself within my heart sputtering the light from out my throat." - Cornelius Shmackelstein

“I am not myself, so what the fuck am I?" - Coraiza Scotchfuel

"Living in reality is the most cruel form of torture for a mad man." - Draven Scotchfuel

"It is as if she makes my black and white heart burst with some form of color it's never seen." - Armello Vanrick

"Perhaps it was always a mirror hiding inside of my closet." - Julie Forkroad

"The world went dark before it fell, we were just playing a waiting game." - Brooke Bergmeir

"I've got more fighting days left than you have years." - Maximo Guanch

"If everything exists, nothing does, really." - Arthur Wellburn

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Milquetoast watches Uncivilized

Uncivilized S1xE7 Special Victims Unit: Episode Review

what this episode is about: When a young boy is found raped and murdered in a field, a paroled sex offender who lives in the area is the prime suspect.

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Olivia talking to kids is always heartwarming.

Mrs Davis...I've seen her before! She's a crime scene tech on Criminal Intent! I've seen so many of these damn actors before already in seven episodes.

awwe Elliot, he looks so damned heartbroken looking at Ryan Davis' picture.

Cragen: "Alright people, what have we learned?" Olivia: "No one can handle crimes againest children." Jeffries: "And lesson get out after two years." Elliot: "Three, no one can handle the children."

First of all, Jefferies and Cassidy are the ONLY ones who get out after two years (or even before I don't remember). And I love that Olivia and Elliot say the same exact thing here! I don't even think Elliot heard Olivia say that earlier. He was so distracted by looking at Ryan's picture. For both Elliot and Olivia, it always seems to be the cases with kids that hurt them the most. Elliot because he has kids and can see his kids in every single child victim.

Torquil Cambell...That's a COOL name!

Cassidy : "Ever think about having Kids?" Munch: “Why when I have you.” Cassidy: “I think about it all the time.”   um...Really!? I just don't see that jiving with the character.  Cassidy is like the eternal bachelor always playing but never settling. I never thought of him as a guy that looked to his future with some kids. Like when he gets with Olivia, she’s doing her best to live her life and move forward. She brings up children and I get the feeling that he doesn’t want kids with her. 

Elliot's creep dad collected stamps. Maybe he wasn't written as an abusive manipulator of a man or maybe was...I don't know.

Munch: "When I was a little kid my parents told me never to eat sweets." Cragen: "So as an adult you overcompensate?" Munch: "Yeah." Cassidy: "I'm guessing your parents also said you should never get married." Daaaammn! That's actually a sick burn! That's a shit ton of candy! OMG are you going to a party, Munch? Oh look this is another opportunity for Cragen to eat something.

Inverted Jenny C3a. I know I've heard of this stamp. Looks it up. HOLY SHIT that stamp is worth $500,000!!!

So turbit is a CMo, which probably means that he didn't kill Ryan. Because this is SVU there is always a twist.

Yelling neighbor who finds out Turbit was a CMo: "I let my son be alone with him (turbit)." um...that's your fault.

Soo...Turbit was high and thought the boy was dead and also attacking him. So Turbit may not have even moed this kid he was convicted for 11 years back. I knew it had to be something. Turbit is definitely weird but I don't know if I get the creep vibe from him.

Turbit: "I don't like needles." Who does? 

Elliot: "Where's Dickie?" my thoughts exactly Elliot. Go find your kid!

OMG Elliot yes run! Please, that ass! You can run in that direction anytime.

Bartender is telling Elliot that he never saw Turbit playing cards with anyone and that he left for a few hours and then came back. He tells this to Elliot right after he was up all night thinking about his little girl who lives with her mother and hoping that some creep doesn't do the same to her. I have suspicions about this guy. I think he's lying because he thinks the guy did it. I guess we will see.

So he choked the kid which is consistent with the chain thing but...did he molest him? The former victim just says he blacked out but it's not clear if he was molested.

Bartender: "Detective Stabler, I wasn't entirely straightforward with you the other day." I KNEW IT! Called that shit!

Cragen is in this ALOT, like more than what I really remember.

They want Cragen and Co. to keep Turbin even though he has an alibi. Like - so they are going to send him away to prison even though he didn't do it because of his previous conviction. BUT what about the real killer. They are just going to let him go?

Dickie wants Elliot to talk to his class! OMG I want this!!! This is so cute he's just climbing those money bars and flipping himself over.

Elliot watching the dude across the street watching them while putting his socks back on his feet.

Dickie: "Looking for pedo**** dad?" ...how does this 6 year old kid know that word? Oh it was Danny Baker because he told Dickie that's what Elliot does. Dickie REALLY wants Elliot to talk to his class.

We see Elliots home life, like every episode when are we going to see Olivia's homelife. Like it would be a really interesting contrast. Just seeing scenes of Olivia home alone, talking to no one just cleaning or working on a laptop doing work stuff.

What is that hairstyle!? The psychiatrist looks like she stepped out of the 1800's.

No DNA match. So...who did it? I really don't see those kids having done it. Maybe the dad. Otherwise I have no clue.

So now they have to break it to the parents.

Olivia to Ryans parents: "We have some solid leads." - YOU DO? Who? Because idk who the hell is on your radar. I smell bullshit Olivia.

OMG elliot talking at Dickies school! YESSS!!! He's passing around his badge! I love how elliot looks to the teacher to ask her what he wants him to call the pe4os.

"What if your dads the one that's hurting you?" "Then you'll tell Dickie and he'll tell me." OMG this kid. Please be ok! This actually happened, had a friend's kid tell their parent that their friend was being hurt by someone in their family. It's important to educate kids with this kind of stuff because sometimes people are more than creepy and knowing that they can go to someone safe so that stuff won't happen to them is sooo important!

I just love how Elliot and Olivia are back their whispering to each other during the hearing. Off in their own little world.

DAAAAAAMMMN! Ryan's dad just came out of now where and shot Turbin like 5 times!

Oooh so the kids really did kill Ryan. They were lying about having seen Turbin the whole time. What do you wana bet?

Seeing Elliot and Cassidy having a heartfelt conversation about kids so soooo bizarre. Like I feel like I'm in lala land. I like seeing Stabler mentoring Cassidy but have they ever had a relationship like this?

So the two boys looked online and found Turbit on the sex offenders registration list. And then Jimmy became obsessed with it so they they did it. Jimmy sounds like a psychopath.

Killer says about Ryan: "Kid was a loser anyway." cold hard psychopath, it's a interesting contrast in which the killer has no empathy or remorse for what he did. But when Turbit is talking to the psychiatrist he expresses remorse and says he doesn't know what's more horrifying. What happened to the boy or that he was capable of doing it.

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Final Thoughts: This was the best episode so far. This episode is uncomfortable but it's excellently written. Turbit is not the innocent man wrongly accused. He's the sex offender, wrongly accused. Which color everyone's perspective on him. Instead of innocent until proven guilty, he's guilty until proven innocent. We even have a bartender who lies and says Turbit wasn't at his bar at the time of the murder. It's a great episode that really makes you think about the justice system and the people who play in it.

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LiS2 Fanfiction recommendation list - updated

I updated the ff list I made a few months ago. As before, if anyone has any suggestions to add, I’m all ears. I divided the stories into three categories (Post-ending, AUs and Missing Moments) and all the ffs on this list are either completed or still actively updated.

POST-ENDING

Blood Brothers: To Puerto Lobos - And Beyond! by SerratedCucumber, in progress. It starts as the brothers break into Mexico and follows them as they try to build a life for themselves. I swear that I hear Gonzalo and Roman every time that Sean or Daniel say something: the dialogue is that good. 11,000 words for now.

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Lone Wolf: The One You Feed by zeldanerdster, in progress. This work follows the "Lone Wolf" path immediately after events unfold at the border. Following that, it will chronicle Daniel's experiences for as far as they take him in an effort to reconcile the various open-ended resolutions of Life is Strange 2. Because LW didn’t break our hearts enough. 20,500 words for now. Lone Superwolf by Dreamprism, in progress. The ff begins with Sean’s death at the border and aims to show how Daniel got from the car to the “six years later” scene. The fanfic is written from the perspective of Daniel Diaz, similar to how Sean shares his internal thoughts with the player throughout Life is Strange 2. 17,000 words for now.

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Parting Ways: After by koldtbold, one-shot. Sean gets to Mexico, Daniel doesn’t. Sean has a lot to do and think about. What I love about this story is that there’s much bitter and little sweet, but like in the game there’s an undercurrent of optimism, a feeling that tomorrow can still turn into a better day. 6,000 words. When There’s Nowhere Else to Run, by Autumnyte, in progress. It begins right after Daniel yeets himself from the car and follows Sean as he tries to build a life for himself in Puerto Lobos. I told Autumnyte that this story feels like a blanket: it’s warm and comfortable. No matter what issues Sean has to deal with, there is a pervasive undertone of "tomorrow will be better" that I think really captures the spirit of the game. He is done running, and he can now start to look to the future with hope. 31,000 words for now.

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Redemption:

The Bravest Wolf in the World by RoodAwakening, 2 chapters left. Ask anyone for reading suggestions, and they’ll inevitably point you to this story, for a reason. Sean finds out he can use his sketches to time-travel, much like Max did with her photos, prevents Esteban’s death, and has to deal with the consequences as he tries to navigate the new life he made for himself. Wonderful characters, a realistic depiction of trauma, and golden dialogue. I love this Sean, I love the people in his life, I love his interactions with all the characters. 160,000 words (!) for now. A Howl in the Night by Bracco, one-shot. Sean is in prison, and Daniel is free: it’s everything that Sean had wanted when he surrendered. That means he can be happy… right? 28,500 words. Tomorrow's Horizon by AlariOdonell, in progress. A mysterious stranger recruits a post-bay Max Caulfield with the promise to bring Chloe back to life and to right a few wrongs along the way, like those suffered by two brothers. I am very partial to this story because it ticks every box in my list of narrative kinks: a well-written OC, an incoming threat, superpowers, misfits teaming up, IC characters, action and fuzzy feelings... 52,000 words for now, updated bi-weekly. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want by DarkJaden825698, one-shot. After his sentence, Sean reconnects with some old friends and says some things he didn't get to say when he had the chance. This story is a warm, fuzzy thing where everything goes well for a change. I may also be very partial to the title: that song is tied to some of my fondest memories, so extra points to the author. 4,000 words. Spirit Realm: Road to Redemption by Sombraguerrero, completed. Sean has served his sentence, abbreviated by a lack of success on the authorities' part to attain burden of proof on the supposed major crimes. The public has run out of patience and has allowed Sean and Daniel to try and pick up the pieces, with as much help as they can get along what is once again a rough road. 21,000 words. Stay Strange by DarkJaden825698, completed. Dr. Bright is assigned to Sean Diaz as his therapist in prison, and walks him through his trauma while trying to find him a lawyer to challenge his sentence. Crossover fic between LiS2 and The Bright Sessions podcast - you don’t know anything about the podcast? Me neither, and it’s not an issue. 32,000 words.

AUs

And All These Empty Streets by Riona, one-shot. After the apocalypse, Sean and Daniel have a run-in with Joel and Ellie from TLOU. I think that this is the story that made me realize how I love Sean and Daniel so much that I’m willing to read the weirdest AUs and crossovers so long. It flows really well and it feels natural. 2,000 words.

Riona has written a lot of stories that start from an unexpected premise and draw a little vignette. They are all different from each other and I loved them all. Check out her AO3 profile! Can you give me a hint by Idnis, completed. Teenage Daniel/Chris. If you like “mutual pining” and “dumb idiots in love”, this story will make your day. It’s just... fluffy and sweet and innocent, a tiny bit of teenage drama that Daniel and Chris deserve after everything they’ve been through. 22,500 words. Closer to the Heart by darkjaden825698, in progress. After the shooting, Sean waits for the police to arrive. He’s cleared of all charges and sent to live to Beaver Creek, where he must come to terms with what happened and rebuild a life for himself. A teen drama where nothing bad happens to the boys and they get to live normal lives? Hit me with it. 4,000 words. Double exposure by Riona, completed. It draws inspiration from *Your Name*: Max and Sean begin swapping bodies at random. If the premise doesn’t turn you away, it’s a beautiful bittersweet story about two people trying to help each other while their own worlds are falling apart. 11,000 words. Faithless by HollowK, in progress. Six years after the failed heist, Sean wakes up from his coma and has a brother to find. Exactly: oof. 6,500 words for now. I Took Both Roads, series by owlmug. AU where Esteban isn’t shot. Sean/Finn (with some Sean/Cassidy in the first story). It’s a coming of age story, and I really loved how the author mirrored some situations that are found in the game by giving them a new twist. I won’t lie, these stories hurt, because they made me think about what could have been. The characters are spot on, and the interactions of the Diaz family are golden. Bonus points for having Sean behave like a teenage brat at times, because the boy deserved to have temper tantrums and getting into fights with Esteban over stupid stuff. There are also a lot of beautiful images across the series, a lot of lines that feel raw and powerful, and a lot of healing. At times it’s like having a heart-to-heart with the author. Sometimes I felt that the sex scenes were too long, and some of them I found unnecessary, but that’s just my personal taste. I really liked all the four stories, but the last one is my favourite for sure because it follows Esteban’s point of view and it’s *chef’s kiss*.

 1.       A Way to Reappear (https://archiveofourown.org/works/19096837), 18,000 words. Sean’s POV

2.       A Piece of the Puzzle (https://archiveofourown.org/works/19386670), 26,000 words. Sean’s POV

3.       A Little left Behind (https://archiveofourown.org/works/19852561), 24,000 words. Finn’s POV

4.       (I’ve Been Going Through) a Change (https://archiveofourown.org/works/20562086), 28,000 words. Esteban’s POV.

If I Lay Here by owlmug, completed. Diverges from canon after episode 3. Sean and Finn try to track Daniel down. Sean/Finn, 46,500 words. I can repeat here most of what I wrote for the earlier series: wonderful characterization, beautiful imagery, touching themes, characters that find themselves along the way. Something that makes you go “Please, sir, can I have some more?” at the end of every chapter. i just don’t know how i’m doing (i’m so curious about you) by Larrymurphycansteponme, one-shot. Another High School AU, another wonderful coming of age story for Sean. I wish I could make it justice without repeating everything I said about owlmug’s series: spot-on characterization, a beautiful narrative about growing up and finding one’s way, wonderful imagery. It’s the story of what Sean deserved to have, and one of my favorite ever. 28,000 words.

MISSING MOMENTS

A Night With Misty Mice by That_one_internet_lover, completed. It follows Sean and Lyla’s concert night that is mentioned in his phone chat in ep.1. It’s the first fanfiction I read after my endgame heartbreak: it gave me all the happy Sean I wanted, and even a bit more. The dynamic between him and Lyla is exactly what I pictured from their interactions in the game, put into words by someone who knows what they’re doing. 10,000 words. Astray by Riona, one-shot. Daniel leaves Sean behind after the events of Wastelands. It’s probably more of an AU than a Missing Moment, since it was written before Faith came out and so it’s not entirely canon-compliant, but it’s still a very good window on Daniel’s state of mind after the heist. I’m eternally grateful to Riona for filling some of the gaps that the game left in the development of these wonderful characters. 1,500 words.  Fire and Floods by Riona, one-shot. Sean and Daniel go on the run, and this fic covers the first day of their journey. A spot-on dissection of Sean’s feelings after the shooting. 1,500 words. life is strange 2 poems by Spotsuns, an ongoing collection of one-shots. These stories have all the oooffness of the game. The stories in here hurt. In the good way, but they hurt nonetheless. Beautiful character studies, and some heavy-duty, post-ending feel unpacking. 11,000 words. Never Stop Shining by CorazonDesnudo, in progress. During his stay in Away, Sean receives a letter from Finn with an offer to help him and Daniel cross the border. It’s a chance to come to terms with a lot of things he didn’t really process before. 11,000 words for now. Torchbearers by Riona. Ep.1’s Sean and Daniel run into Max and Chloe among the ruins of Arcadia Bay. I can definitely see this story being a moment of quiet in the game. 2,600 words. What Remains of the Diaz Family by That_one_internet_lover, completed. Lyla sneaks into the Diaz household after the brothers have disappeared. Heartbreaking oofness ensues as Lyla walks through their memories and faces her own pain. 6500 words.

[curseofbreadbear]

animatronicabundance​:

The name snaps him from his racing thoughts, and he does his best to control his breathing so he can talk. She looked so familiar to Gregory, and yet the memories were hard to grasp like most of the things in his head. Cassidy? Cass….a void, a feeling of floating and being so alone and yet never alone.

“You-”

The next part of his words are whispered, and come out before Gregory can even think to hard about them. Tears silently falling onto his lap, still curled up where he sat in the booth.

“Screaming there was….sc-screaming, I tried to…..I tried to h-hold onto you.”

Separated, two halves of a whole violently ripped apart after a decade of sharing a prison together. Ripped from each other’s fingers, screaming for his cellmate as he went from the dark to some sort of light. His words are still whispered as Gregory speaks again, but he’s finally looking at her and there’s some recollection in those scared brown eyes. 

“W-We….We’re not sup-p-pposed to be h-here, are we?”

It had been a prison, but after decades don’t the bars start to feel like home? The world of the living was something they lost the right to wander long ago, so why-? The air in his chest starts to feel horribly foreign to him.

[Before she knew it, Sammy had reverted to crying -- his natural state. “Crybaby” had been her favorite derogatory nickname for him for a reason. Just like always, the tears seemed to accompany a memory...she swallowed as he described it in detail.]

[They’d been torn apart. Two souls that had been unwillingly tethered, now fighting to cling to one another. That void was their only “known” -- beyond that, there was no knowing what there was. When she felt Sammy start to disappear, to leave the strange comfort of their shared abyss, she was terrified. She’d never felt a fear stronger than that. The only rival it had was when she’d been murdered, and even then, her despair and terror had since been turned into rage. When she’d lost Sammy, she’d lost everything.]

[That was when she dedicated herself to revenge again. Without Sammy to hold her back, to ground her, she’d been more focused than ever on finding her killer. She would never let him leave. She would never let him rest. For an eternity, she wanted to unleash her anger and hurt on a man who could no longer fight back -- ]

[...Until he miraculously escaped.]

[Sammy spoke up again, stirring her from the bitter memory of her failure; she sniffled and tensed. Had she been crying? She frantically wiped at her eyes -- she couldn’t cry. She couldn’t show weakness, not anymore. But between reuniting with Sammy like this, and the bleak reminder of losing him...]

❝ ...Y-You do remember. ❞ [Her shoulders shook, but she did her best to hold her tears at bay. She couldn’t cry. Taking a deep breath, she continued.] ❝ You’re right. I don’t think either of us are meant to be here. Or...you aren’t, at least. ❞ [Sammy had moved on. In the moment, she’d been devastated -- and then her grief turned to anger, all over again. Sammy had “abandoned” her. But now, she could see that that hadn’t been the case; she’d just been stubborn. She refused to leave when her time was “up.” Speaking of which...]

❝ Me, though -- I...made a mistake. I think I’m here so that I can fix it. ❞

[naturepointstheway]

Blue Skies of Freedom (LIS2, Parting Ways ending)

Sean doesn’t know if Daniel has survived the pandemic, and perhaps he never will, and perhaps this is why he still sends letters, still sends photos, because he doesn’t ever want to face the possibility that he hadn't. He hangs on to hope that Daniel lives, happy and healthy at the Reynolds’, best friends with Chris, in the USA. He hopes Daniel is safe from the horrors of a land festering with evil malice, a dark continent that had threatened to take his life and his brother.

People tell him Daniel’s probably dead anyway—it’s the USA, what should he expect? They insist Sean’s in denial, because in what world is Daniel safe in the fucking United States? They insist he’s living in an illusion of his own making. He should wake up to reality. To a world that will be no less hateful toward Daniel than it is to Sean.

Sean doesn’t give a fuck. If choosing to hope he lives in a world where Daniel is still alive and safe with the Reynolds makes him foolish, then so be it. Let him have this, let him think he hasn’t lost his younger brother like he had his father—doesn’t he deserve at least this drop of hope? If having faith Daniel is okay makes him deluded, at least he has that one hope to go on living day by day.

It’s not like he can go back to the USA anyway.

It’s not like he wants to, ever, even if it means forsaking his family and friends.

And, at least, staying in Mexico, he can convince himself that everyone he had ever loved had made it to the other side of the pandemic—at least he knows Finn and Cassidy and Hannah made it, but it fucking hurts knowing he’ll never know if Lyla made it either. He doesn’t even know if the Reynolds made it, nor Chris, nor Jake and his sister Sarah-Lee, nor Karen, nor anyone at Away.

Does he even want to know?

Maybe this is why he never goes back, he stays beyond the border, his feet in the warm sand, drinking cocktails, and enjoying a stunning beach view. Just as Finn had always wanted. In the bright sunshine, cloaked in eternally blue skies that never fade in their beauty. Azul cielo. It is the colour of freedom in a world where he doesn’t have to run from bloodthirsty hunters. It is the colour of Finn’s shining eyes when he had made it to Mexico, staying for a good time with Sean. It is the colour of warm water wrapping around his body when he skinny dips in the ocean at the height of day when the heat is at its fiercest.

In Sean’s Matrix, he chooses to swallow the blue pill. Azul. The colour of blissful, perhaps-foolish hope, of choosing to dream that somehow, somewhere, Daniel is okay and Lyla is alive, still kicking injustice in the face, making American society face its bloodied history of white supremacy. He saw her briefly on the news back in 2020, raw rage and fury, one of the many faces in the numerous Black Lives Matter marches around the USA. She is going to change the world. He has to believe in that too.

Is he selfish if he wants to stay here, in the land of freedom he had yearned for, his own promised land, having crossed the metaphorical Red Sea from a land of cruelty into a safer country where he could be free? If it makes him selfish, so be it. Then again…

Wasn’t it selfish of Daniel too, to suddenly change his mind, want to turn back, want to stay in the USA? If staying in the USA made Daniel selfish, then staying in Mexico meant that, perhaps, deep down, Sean was a selfish man too.

And if he were honest with himself, deep down, he was okay with that. At least he wasn’t running, wasn’t sleeping under bridges, wasn’t shivering in a rundown cabin in the middle of nowhere in winter, wasn’t always looking over his shoulder, and wasn’t always suspicious of every face he met. Here, he trusted people who looked like him, who spoke like him, who had a culture familiar to him from his father’s stories. Here, he didn’t have to worry about shelter, didn’t have to worry about shivering in the snow, didn’t have to worry about police being on his ass. He spoke virtually no English these days, except in the occasional letter to Daniel at the Reynolds’—if they were even alive, if they were even still in Beaver Creek.

How could this ever be a bad ending for him? Bittersweet, certainly, knowing he’ll never know if his photos and letters are being sent to a deceased brother, to deceased grandparents, but bad? Bad would be if he was fatally shot, choking on his own blood right as he crossed the border. Or, worse, it would be if Daniel had been shot—again—dying in the car seat next to him, through his own selfish actions.

Not that his actions were selfish—he’d had enough of all the fucking shit he’d suffered through in the USA; he hadn’t made it all the way to the border just to give up. Just to let himself fall into the hands of monsters as cruel—or crueler—than any king in history. Just to let Daniel fall into the hands of police—he’d wanted a better life for both of them.

But Daniel had made his choice.

He had chosen to stay in the USA, chosen to stay in that terrible land of cruelties.

And Sean had been helpless to do anything to stop him.

He had never felt so helpless in his life that day, knowing from then on, he would be alone except for the friends he’d make in Mexico, or for Cassidy and Finn passing through on their individual journeys. But then again, as Brody had once told him, “there’s a difference between alone and lonely…”, and now Sean really understood what he had meant. He was alone without his American family and friends, but he wasn’t lonely. Sure, at first he had felt lonely, but it hadn’t lasted long once he had started making friends who would keep him company through thick and thin. Friends who would stay strong by his side, who would rib his terrible karaoke singing, who would pile together in his car to go on random road trips around the country and beyond to the brim of South America itself, from Argentina to Chile.

Sean wouldn’t have it any other way.

Except once a year, every 11th April: Daniel’s birthday.

The last time he’d ever been there for Daniel’s birthday, the latter had been turning nine. Their father had been still alive. Everything had still been more than okay. Life had still been…normal. When normal used to be getting jitters over his crush for a girl at a party, skating with Lyla and the crew, fighting with his little brother on a daily basis, enduring his father’s dad jokes, and…

This was his new normal now. A new normal where Daniel chose—that was what he did, he had chosen—to stay in the USA. A new normal where Sean could never go back to the USA, could not know—if ever—if Daniel had survived the pandemic of 2020, where he had friends to hit the road whenever the desire hit them, where he was a free man. At least everywhere else on the planet but in the USA.

A new normal where he would never be there on Daniel’s birthday for a long time, if ever again.

Where he could never wish him happy birthday in person except in his sketches, in his head, in his heart.

Where he could never watch him grow up, experience the ups and downs of teenhood, of finding a new girlfriend (or boyfriend), of dating for the first time, of experiencing his first kiss, of graduating from high-school, of seeing him go to college for the first time.

Where Daniel could never assure Sean he was okay, he was alive, he was thriving, he was still best friends with Chris Eriksen.

Where Daniel could never prank Sean with his powers, just to tick him off.

Where Daniel could never come to him after a nightmare about Lisbeth.

Where Daniel could never come to him for comfort or just a chat, like he had so often done after Havenpoint.

Where Daniel knew Sean was alive…but Sean could never know if Daniel was too.

Did he know Sean didn’t know whether he was alive or dead?

Did he know?

Did he know?

Did he?

Did he ever lay awake at night, trying not to think how Sean would never really know he was still alive?

Did he ever jolt awake with the realisation Sean couldn’t tell him where he was now, except as hints through photos? Look, it’s the edge of the Amazon Rainforest! Look, it’s the mountains of Argentina! Look how blue the sky is! Look how beautiful the world is, where he is a free man, everywhere, except…

Except in a country that would hunt Sean down were he to put his address on the back of an envelope.

Except in a country that would never cease in its desire to throw Sean behind bars, never hesitate to beat him to a pulp again, would stare with empty and dry eyes as they shot him without mercy.

Except in a country that would somehow instantly know where he is, were he to phone Daniel, ever, no matter where he was. One video call through whatever video calling app was the hot shit these days, and the USA would hunt him down, tie him up, throw him into prison.

Throw him into hell.

Fuck that.

Especially that.

That bit.

The bit where he couldn’t know, couldn’t check if Daniel was doing okay, couldn’t talk to him in person, nor over a payphone, nor a video call. He couldn’t even slip a permanent address inside the envelope, because for sure, Daniel would write him back. Sean was sure he would, there was no way Daniel would never write back, ever.

So, Sean can’t do that. Not yet. Not now. No.

He will have to wait.

Maybe five more years. Ten. Fifteen. Twenty.

Maybe when he’s old and grey and cataracts is blinding his remaining eye.

Maybe when he’s on his deathbed.

Maybe in the next lifetime where the wolf brothers could really grow up together in a safer country, in a safer time, in a safer normal. 

Maybe never.

[ofbadcharacters]

TVDverse Masterlist

Name: Amethyst Julia Flemming

Show: The Vampire Diaries

Faceclaim: Lily Collins

Love Interest: Klaus Mikaelson

Fic Title: Beauty and Beast

Summary: In a sad sort of way, Amethyst knew her older sister never really cared about her, that the only reason she hadn’t been thrown out was because it would look bad on Isobel, her husband was nice enough, though he never really paid attention to her. Out of everything Amethyst thought her sister would do to get rid of her, being sent to die (or worse) at the hands of a vampire was not one of them. What was even less expected was that the vampire would not only not kill her, but that he would be kind and understanding, that he would come to care about her in a way no one else had before, that she would come to feel the same for him. In the end, the only reason someone could say Klaus Mikaelson was heartless, was because he had given his heart to Amethyst Flemming.

Name: Carmen Goldenstein

Show: The Originals

Faceclaim: Stella Maeve

Love Interest: Klaus Mikaelson

Fic Title: Dea

Summary: Carmen Goldenstein’s life had always been hectic: moving every six months or so, always without warning and hurriedly, she had to learn to live out of a suitcase. She never understood why, until one week before her eighteenth birthday, her father told her the truth: about how they were hiding from a coven of witches that wanted her dead, about how she herself was a witch. They kept running, until one day, the coven got too close and Carmen’s father sacrificed himself to make sure she escaped. When she went back for his body, he wasn’t there, the coven had taken him with them. Carmen wished she could have her revenge but she was not strong enough.

Name: Erica Mikaelson

Show: The Vampire Diaries/The Originals

Faceclaim: Sarah Bolger

Love Interest: Stefan Salvatore

Fic Title: Undying

Summary: Erica’s story was tragic. Her mother was the reason she became a blood sucking monster, her father treated her and her twin as if they were curses, her twin got cursed by their mother and became extremely paranoid, she was thought to be a bastard her whole life only to find out she wasn’t and she has to live for eternity without the connection to nature that was so important for her. It was 900 years before she could finally have something to herself, she fell in love, he fell in love with her as well and it was beautiful but all good things have an end and when she had to flee from her father once more Erica was sure she had lost him forever. Until one day, when Klaus arrived on her doorstep with a surprise behind him and after 90 years apart, Stefan Salvatore and Erica Mikaelson were reunited

Name: Francis Evangelin Parker

Show: The Originals

Faceclaim: Katie Cassidy

Love Interest: Kol Mikaelson

Fic Title: Sempiternal

Summary: The Gemini Coven was toxic and the Parker family even more so. Francis was lucky that Kai existed otherwise she would have been the family disappointment and maybe she would be the one in a prison world. From fifteen to eighteen, Francis slaved away so she could get away from the coven as soon as she could and after she got out, she thrived, moving to New Orleans, opening a flower shop, becoming a lecturer in university after getting her degree and building a good relationship with the local supernatural community. However, since nothing’s perfect, the Mikaelsons had to come.

Name: Myria Mikaelson

Show: The Vampire Diaries/The Originals

Faceclaim: Elizabeth Gillies

Love Interest: Klaus Mikaelson and Stefan Salvatore

Fic Title: Deadly Beauty

Summary: Myria Mikaelson was married to Niklaus Mikaelson as a way to further ensure peace between the Vikings and the wolf packs, she expect a brutish husband that wouldn’t care about her but was met with a caring man who, with time, came adore her and she ended up falling in love with him. She certainly never expected to become a vampire or to be cursed by her mother-in-law along with her husband. But that was all in the past and with no prospect of breaking their curse anytime soon, Niklaus, Myria and Rebekah were currently stationed in Chicago, once again hiding from Mikael, when Stefan Salvatore and a simple suggestion from Klaus changed them forever.

Name: Natalia Romana Andino

Show: Legacies

Faceclaim: Ester Exposito

Love Interest: Hope Mikaelson and Lizzie Saltzman

Fic Title: Mystically Magical

Summary: Natalia was a natural born actress. If you asked any of the students at the Salvatore Boarding School, Natalia had it all, she was pretty, popular, and had the money to get whatever she wanted except for the attention and love of her parents, who abandoned her in the school when she was five years old. After spending seventeen years of her life masking, Natalia goes back to school finally having a diagnosis and ready to finally find out how to be herself instead of what everyone else wants her to be. It was a little unfortunate though that the self-discovery has to be occasionally interrupted by a monster of the week.

Name: Rosalie Mikaelson

Show: The Vampire Diaries/The Originals

Faceclaim: Elizabeth Olsen

Love Interest: Kol Mikaelson and Davina Claire

Fic Title: The Tribrid Series

Summary: Being abandoned in the woods as a newborn wasn’t exactly fun. However thanks to the hasty decision made by her sperm donor, Rosalie Mikaelson had the best childhood and the best father she could have asked for. However not everything was sunshine and roses, her father wasn’t really happy with a part of him missing and so, Rose drowned herself in grimoires to try and help her father break his curse but it all seemed hopeless until the news of a human doppelganger reached them and off they went to Mystic Falls

[thepurplebacon]

Zadkiel and Cassidy getting / making breakfast together?

Zadkiel hasn't slept for a while because of the divorce lawsuit. Cassidy decides to help her dad make breakfast, but...

[eggs-benedict-afton]

⌚timeline

FNAF 4 (‘83)

FNAF 2: Grand Reopening (‘87)

FNAF (‘93)

FNAF 5: Sister Location ('93)

FNAF 3: Fazbear's Fright (2023)

FNAF 7: Help Wanted (Sometime after 2023 and before FNAF 6)

FNAF 6: Pizzaria Simulator (Sometime after 2023)

FNAF Ultimate Custom Night (Hell)

Detailed Timeline

William Afton and Henry become business partners and create Fazbear Entertainment

Fredbears family diner opens with Spring Bonnie and Fredbear as original mascots

Several sister locations open (JRS and Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzaria)

4 children go missing

Charlie is killed by William and becomes the puppet

The Puppet gives life to the 4 missing children

Out of grief, Henry designs Charlie’s robots

William steals the design of the 4th robot Charlie and creates Circus Baby

Elizabeth is murdered by Circus Baby

Micheal Afton (The crying child) is the victim of the bite of ‘83

Michael is rebuilt by William and becomes an animatronic

Michael experiences memory loss

William becomes a murder suspect of the 4 missing children and the death of Charlie

Henry forbids William to return to Fazbear Entertainment’s establishments

Due to the tragedies, Fazbear Entertainment closes down

Fazbear Entertainment company is bought out

FNAF 2: Grand Reopening occurs in 1987

William Afton goes under-cover due to new management and becomes a day-time employee

Another child goes missing during the day shift (The one you should not have killed)

A golden suit is notably stolen (presumably by William Afton)

Falsely accused victim is arrested for the child disappearance

The Bite of ‘87

William becomes the night guard for 1 night (On night 7)

William is fired for foul Odor and tampering with the animatronics

Grand Reopening shuts down due to kidnapping

FNAF 1 occurs in 1993

Fazbear entertainment, in an attempt to recover from debt, fixes the withered animatronics and opens a cheaply made pizzeria

Being used by William, Michael goes under the name Mike Schmidt to work the night shift

William Afton goes under-cover again and becomes the night guard for night 7

William is fired for foul odor and tampering with the animatronics

Pizzaria shuts down for foul odor and mucus oozing animatronics

William Afton preserves the abandoned FNAF 1 pizzeria to gather the endoskeletons of the 5 dead children (Chica, Bonnie, Freddy, Foxy, and Golden Freddy)

William experiments on and melts their endoskeletons down to create the Funtime animatronics

William Afton injects himself with Remnant (Pixie Dust)

William is scared into the Spring Bonnie suit by the angry ghosts of the 5 missing children

The springlocks activate and kill William, but he melds with the suit due to Remnant and becomes Springtrap

Springtrap remains in suit mode and is boarded up and hidden for 30 years

Meanwhile, FNAF 5: Sister Location occurs

Michael is hired by his father to find Elizabeth

The Funtime animatronics merge to become Ennard and scheme to possess Michael so they can escape the underground

Ennard Scoops Michael and possesses his corpse

Michael’s body rots and Ennard ejects himself into the sewers

Michael possesses his own undead body and pursues his father

Elizabeth is ejected from the Ennard tribe due to her sadistic nature

Elizabeth returns to her old animatronic body and becomes Scrapbaby

Cassidy (Golden Freddy) assumes leadership of the Ennard tribe and becomes Molten Freddy

Fazbear Fright is opened in 2023

Michael Afton becomes the night guard

Springtrap is found and pursues Michael

Fazbear Fright goes up in flames (most likely due to Henry)

Items left over after the fire are put up for auction to be salvaged

Fazbear Entertainment hires game developers to create a VR experience

“Circuit boards” from salvage auction import a bug/virus (Glitchtrap/William Afton)

William Afton (or shadow bonnie) possesses a game developed by fazbear entertainment

Jeremey, from FNAF 2, commits suicide after seeing Gltichtrap

Tape girl is corrupted

Glitchtrap obtains reluctant follower

Springtrap escapes through the help of his follower(s) and pieces himself back together with scraps, becoming Scraptrap

The Puppet possesses Lefty

Henry sets a trap for Molten Freddy, ScrapBaby, Lefty, and Scraptrap

FNAF 6: Pizzaria Simulator occurs sometime after 2023

Michael Afton “accidentally” accepts Fazbear’s business owner offer

Michael, with the help of Henry, collects the possessed animatronics and releases them into a maze-like ventilation system they cannot escape

The fake Pizzaria is set on fire, releasing the undead from their mechanical prisons

Ultimate Custom night occurs after the plot resolves

William Afton lives in Hell for eternity

[shrapnelstars]

How are people reaching the conclusion that this is Mike’s Hell? How? Mike worked his ass off to free the spirits throughout the series. Why the fuck would they crack down on him and not the guy who killed them in the first place? Why would the Puppet say “I recognize you, but I’m not afraid of you. Not anymore.” to Mike? She has no reason to have been afraid of him. William, yes.

This brings me to another theory. I don’t think Henry’s daughter and the ghost kid that randomly appears/speaks through the Mediocre Melodies characters are the same child. I think the ghost kid is the legendary “One you should not have killed”, Cassidy. The game is highlighting the difference between the two spirits. Henry’s daughter was loving and wanted to save and love everyone she met. (I have not started on TFC yet. I plan on starting it later today since it just came in the mail.) Cassidy is full of violent hatred and wants to torture everyone even remotely involved, as hinted at in UCN where either Nightmare or Nightmarionette states that they intercepted William’s spirit on the way to Hell and brought everyone together to kill him over and over again for the rest of eternity.

Withered Bonnie also says “Is this prison for me or you? Perhaps it is for both of us.” Everyone is trapped, apparently.

Why waste all of that energy on Mike, who sat there and willingly died with everyone else after spending his life trying to undo his father’s actions?

[planetsank-archive]

"Cassidy...if I could set you free of your prison, would you allow it?" (From Michael! Because he wants to help them all, but also, eternally torturing William in hell is a lot of people's dream scenarios lol)

   “I’M. NOT. DONE.” as much as she hated to admit it- her own desires of revenge were her prison. they were both trapped, no matter how many times she brought him back, just to kill him again in different ways. how long had it been? apparently, not long enough.

   his… son, was still here- wanting to help, but she didn’t need it. SHE DIDN’T WANT TO GO YET. it felt like she was alive again, feeling sparks of joy seeing the person who ruined her finally be the one in pain. she tries to take a deep breath, body twitching and shaking with faint sounds of metal and bone clicking together.

   if she was honest, she was scared to be free. she didn’t know what will happen once her cage was unlocked. nothingness, probably. she was afraid of being LEFT IN THE DARK.

   “i don’t think… he’s learned h-his lesson yet. w-w-wouldn’t you agree, michael?”

[curseofbreadbear]

@burnt-basement-bunny​ ❤’d!

[Cassidy sensed his presence here; having shared a mind with him for so long ( if only to inflict a not-so-eternal Hell upon him ), she would know his wretched stench better than anyone. She knew where to go. She knew what she would do. There was only one setback...]

[Her physical form had vanished. Once she found him, there wouldn't be much that she could do -- not on her own, anyway. She couldn't possess something in the hopes of regaining her powers, either...the robots here had either been corrupted by his presence ( at some point or another -- she could sense traces of him within them, and she wasn't about to trust that he was completely gone ), or utterly destroyed in "random accidents."]

[Still...Cassidy was desperate. She'd done everything wrong, and she was convinced that she might be the only one who could right it all. She'd broken out of that arcade cabinet prison for a reason -- if she'd freed him, then she was the only one who could imprison him again. She was still a spirit. Maybe if she directly linked to him again, terrifying as that idea was...maybe there was something she could do. Maybe she could destroy him from the inside. Now that she knew how powerful he was, she couldn't simply torture him...she needed to end him. That should've been what she resolved to do from the beginning, but she'd been greedy. She wanted him to feel her agony. Sammy was right -- she should have listened.]

[And thus Cassidy worked her way down to the depths of the Pizzaplex, following only instinct and her sixth sense, connecting her intrinsically to a man she detested. She found him. Everything led to this spot, through yet another horror attraction built upon the tragedies from over 80 years ago. Of course he'd wind up here...she still remembered Fazbear's Fright. How could she not? That was when she'd lost...well...somebody very dear to her.]

[Cassidy continued to follow her senses, until she was led to a strange glass -- maybe plastic? -- structure. Her hands pressed on the cylinder, struggling to determine what it was...but it was powering the whole building. Or maybe it was fueling him? Perhaps both. It didn't matter...if all went well, he wouldn't be here much longer, and nobody would need to suffer. Never again.]

[She took a breath...and jammed her translucent hands through the barrier. She squeezed the rabbit-man's head ( albeit more forcefully than necessary ) and concentrated all of her energy on linking their consciousnesses. If this somehow worked...if she could somehow grip his mind, as she had when she'd put him through that non-stop Hell...then she'd have a little chat with him in yet another mindscape of her own design -- and then, she would destroy him once and for all.]

[She could do this...she had to.]