#his ass literally works at a Freddy’s location

[lunarbeee]

Just remembered the cursed knowledge that FNAF takes place in Utah and then remembered that c!Wilbur is from Utah.

C!Wilbur FNAF crossover when?

[stop-talking]

Honestly? I'm not surprised the FNAF movie is delayed.

They're DEFINETLY struggling to come up with a plot for the next movie. They planned to make three movies if the first went well, but they didn't really leave themselves much room for a sequel.

What do I mean by that? Well...

• The driving conflict of the first movie, that got Mike to work at Freddy's in the first place, was the custody battle with aunt Jane. But they fucking killed her off. (In the movie, it seems like it's possible she still may be alive, but in the book it's pretty much confirmed she's dead.) Abby sees her "lying in a puddle of ketchup" or something when golden freddy comes to get her. And I have a direct quote from Mike.

"You know," he said, "I think my aunt has finally decided to move on." I mean... she kind of did, Mike thought. (Pg 317)

• Oh, and also in the book, it's said Mike gets a nice new job as a contractor after the events at Freddy's, so it's not like they can pull the "Mike can't find a job so he HAS to work at another Freddy's location!" thing again.

• AND, they resolved his storyline with Garrett. He's found the killer, and watched him die. (Even if we know he's not dead). Mike realized Abby is much more important than his dead brother and he no longer torments himself with thoughts of Garrett... so I don't think he'd go poking around in another Freddy's location to "figure out what happened". He knows what happened. And he's finally over it.

• It seems like they TRIED to give themselves something to work with in the end credits. You know, the "C O M E F I N D M E". But honestly? It's not all that helpful. There's no clear way to tell who it's addressed to or who it's from. Everyone seems to agree it's Garrett speaking to Mike as the puppett, but honestly? That doesn't make sense to me.

• I've already explained that I don't think Mike is interested in learning more about his brother's death. He knows who killed him, and watched that man die. Mike is as "at peace" as he's ever going to get. Besides, I don't think Garrett is the puppett!! At all!!

• In the movie, Mike says he feels closer to Garrett at Freddy's. I think that means his soul is LITERALLY there, in THAT Freddy's location. Why else would he say that? Just because there are ghosts there killed by the same man? Also, in the novel, Mike literally sees Garrett's ghost in the pizzeria and it leads him to Springtrap. Finally, the "It's me" messages that keep appearing near Mike. Who else would be writing that shit? It's not just a little Easter egg for the audience. It has to be someone Mike knows. Garrett. (Also I think there's a strong argument to be made that Garrett is co-posessing Golden Freddy with the little blonde boy)

• SO THEN, WHO IS SAYING "COME FIND ME," AND WHO ARE THEY TALKING TO?

Honestly? No clue. But I think there are a few interesting directions they could take things.

1) From Mike's dad, to Mike.

In the movie they sort of imply Mike's dad offed himself, but in the book they reveal he just walked out on them. So he's still out there somewhere, and they could totally reveal he had some kind of connection to Freddy's and William, and it would explain why William drove all the way to goddamn Nebraska to kidnap some random ass kid.

2) From springtrap, to some unfortunate soul dumb enough to set him free

In the games, he was locked away in a bricked off room for like 30 years before being set free, but I don't think these movies are going to have that big of a time skip. Probably a year at most. So I could see the next movie starting with some idiot freeing springtrap.

3) Okay yeah I cant think of anything else.

And I know I'm not a professional screenplay writer but those bitches are anxiously struggling too!! In every interview where Josh Hutcherson (Mike) has been asked about a sequel, he says they're still trying to figure out the story. No shit!! They didn't give themselves anything to work with.

• So basically, Mike has absolutely no reason to go back to another Freddy's location, and the little secret message at the end is almost too vague to be useful.

So, what DID they leave themselves to work with in the next movie? What plot points remain unresolved?

• For one thing, they didn't even give William a fucking motive for killing kids. Or for luring security guards to their deaths. This version of him seems to have a much better understanding of remnant and possession that his game counterpart, but there's no reason given for that either. In the game, he does it all for his dead son. He wants to "fix" him. But they didn't set up any hints to that in the first movie. Mike talked to Vanessa about HIS dead brother, so I feel like if the whole "dead son" thing was the case, she would have mentioned she lost a sibling too.

• Or maybe William would have brought it up at the end when he was getting mad at Vanessa. The "mess YOU created!!" scene. He probably would have said something like, "You know why we have to do this, Vanessa." But he didn't. There's literally no known motive, and it'll be kind of hard to set one up without any breadcrumbs left in the previous movie.

• Mike was TOTALLY falling for Vanessa in the books. Yeah, I know, a lot of people feel FNAF isn't a place for romance, and SCHMELLY isn't a very popular ship... but that doesn't change the face he almost kissed her in the novel. (Also in the book she threw his EMPTY PILL BOTTLE into the river, didn't actually toss bro's meds! So she's a little more likeable!)

"Vanessa and Mike grinned at each other, and Mike felt something zing inside of him. It was a palpable 'wow' feeling that was much more intense than his casual appreciation of her beauty. And the zing felt like it was going both ways. The look Vanessa was giving Mike was one he hadn't ever seen before... not directed at him anyway. Her reciprocation of his feelings was so strong that he felt himself leaning toward her." (pg 186)

(They didn't kiss though, Vanessa blushed and looked away and changed the subject.) Still... now they have to address their little romantic subplot in the next movie as well.

• Vanessa. Just as a character. There's a lot to work with there. Personally, I think it would be interesting to use her coma to tell a story. You know, have her flashback to there's childhood with William and at Freddy's. (Honestly if they don't do that they're dumb and missing a huge opportunity. Why else put her in the goddamn coma?)

• Also, in the novel, they heavily implied she's... a robot? Apparently, her eyes drastically change color and Mike notes she flips from "girl mode" to "cop mode" on a dime. In the movie she just looked bipolar.

"Yeah Abby, let's use the tables for the fort! ���"

"Mike if you bring her here again I will SHOOT YOU. 🤬"

• But yeah apparently she's a robot. A robot so convincing that even hospital nurses and doctors can't tell. With no explanation for how William could have built that. Or why there's a photo of her and William where she's clearly a child. Did he build a child robot that grew up into an adult woman robot? Or did he build two robots? Or did child Vanessa die and he replaced her with a robot? Who knows!

"Mike watched, mesmerized, as Vanessa's irises deepened noticeably in hue. They went from their usual soft, almost greyish-blue to a deeper indigo. The shift was so pronounced it almost looked computer-generated. It was also enormously disquieting. Mike felt like he was watching a human turn into..." (pg 184)

• So for the next move, Mike has no motive to go visit Freddy's, William has no motive in general, and Vanessa is a robot. The script practically writes itself, am I right??

And then there's the way Scott Cawthon likes to incorporate fan feedback into all of his projects.

(Ex: People complained FNAF 3 wasn't scary, so he made FNAF 4 horrifying)

• I have no doubt he's going to incorporate the fanbase's favorite characters into the next movie. (Ness, Doug, Maxine, Jeremy) Which honestly just complicates the plot further, adding more stipulations to the script.

• Bringing Ness back would be easy? Mike and Abby could have a scene in the diner, I guess, but it's also sort of unnecessary, and I'm not sure MatPat would agree to another cameo. He's retired.

• Bringing Doug back would be more complicated. He's aunt Jane's lawyer... but they fuckin' killed her off. So. Doug is not needed.

• Jeremy could come back? Maybe? He's really a background character... It's not stated whether or not Mike was friends with him outside work, or kept in touch with him after being fired.

• Maxine is a lot more complicated. The actress who plays her, Kathryn Sterling, said herself that she was originally supposed to have a bigger role in the film but it got trimmed down. And THEN there's the way she was stuffed into a purple Freddy suit, which a lot of fans theorize is supposed to be Shadow Freddy. On her TikTok, she basically confirms this, hinting to her character coming back in the next movie and being more important.

So in the next movie...

1) Mike has to somehow have to end up tangled back into Freddy Fazbullshit even though he has NO desire to... (Remember the way he looked at Abby when she asked if they could visit them??)

2) They have to reveal or at least hint towards Vanessa being a robot

3) Mike & Vanessa romance subplot??

4) William needs a fucking motive for killing people

5) The audience needs to be able to tell who "come find me" was said by AND who it was directed towards

6) Bonus points if they can cram in more youtuber cameos & beloved characters from the last movie like Jeremy and Doug

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So yeah. It's a lot to consider when writing. And the clock is ticking, because kids, especially little kids like Garrett's actor, grow up FAST. And ghost kids aren't supposed to grow up. Ghost kids are supposed to be dead.

I do want to say though, that despite the plot holes, I LOVE the FNAF movie. I've watched it 20+ times. It's genuinely one of my comfort movies. I'm excited for the next movie, but I'm also sort of expecting it to be late 2025 before we get to see it.

Scott is notoriously picky. He turned down, like, 8 scripts for the first movie before settling on the Mike storyline. I don't mind waiting, especially considering how difficult this next movie is gonna be to write. Also if you read this whole rant?? Damn?? Kiss me on the mouth rn.

[doomzidle]

What is the canon route for DSaF 3?

There's been a lot of confusion on what is the canon route for DSAF 3, and for good reason. Direct Doggo says that no single route is canon, which originally didn't make any sense because the start of DSAF 3 looks like it follows DSAF 2's 'Perfect ending' (The ending where you and Peter rig Dave's suit, and springlock him, effectively turning him into Davetrap.) But, if you follow any 'Dave' route in DSAF 2, Dave never becomes Davetrap, which doesn't make any sense with Doggo's claim, because in the third game you will ALWAYS find Dave as Davetrap.

How ELSE would Dave become Davetrap? Fortunately, we've found the replacement for the perfect ending, and how Dave becomes Davetrap even when you side with Dave There's a DSAF spin-off, not many people know about, called Project: Save the Kiddins. Doggo made it as a fundraiser. It takes place after the events of DSAF 2, and before DSaF 3. It's canon. basically FNAF 1, but with DSAF characters, and you have the ability to wander around the map freely.

(look at the lil guy.) Jack has gone to work the nightshift under a false name, and it seems like he’s doing this to fix what he’s done, hence BJ’s deciphered dialogue. We also know this HAD to of followed a Dave route as well, meaning Jack had killed kids before this.

Dave's tapes.

Here's more evidence this is a former 'Dave route', he's literally alive and NOT springlocked, and just look at the way he's talking to Jack. This also takes place a few years AFTER dsaf 2. The fact Dave's not already davetrap itself tells us it that DSaF 2's 'Perfect ending' ISN'T the canon route the third game follows. (these are 2 of the nightly messages Dave leaves for the nightguard)

``Old sport! It must be you. Nobody else could just lob their ass down and survive four nights like it’s nothing at all. Old sport oh, how I’ve missed you. You came back. You Always come back. Have you come back for me, Old Sport? Have you come back for ol’ Davey? I knew it! I just knew that you really loved me! Look, I have to go, Old Sport, but, I’ll be right back tomorrow night. Okay? Stay alive, old sport. I’ll speak to you tomorrow, Sportsy.``

And the following night, Dave sill say this;

''Old sport! I can’t believe you’ve come back. You have no idea how much I’ve missed you. How much WE’VE missed you. We’re a family, Old Sport. Freddy’s is a family, I thought you had abandoned us, Old Sport. But now it’s clear to me. You can be part of us again! You don’t have no idea how lonely these last few years have been, Old Sport. My life was dead without you, but you were lost and now you are found. I’m coming back for you, Old Sport. I’m going to come back and find you, I’m going to come find you, I’m going to come find you.``

Dave's still kicking, and Jack's trying to makeup for his wrong doings.

Now, if we go to the ending of Project: Save the Kiddins, we see the only other way Dave would've become Davetrap.

The kids trick him into entering the suit, and he dies, right there and then. Bro is DEAD, GONE, DECIMATED. This is also the UTAH location, I believe. The same location you find Davetrap in while salvaging in DSaF three.

This makes Doggo's claim of no single route being canon make sense. Project: Save the Kiddins servers as a replacement for how Dave becomes Davetrap. There's also more evidence in the flipside, you can walk up to any bonnie poster to get the dialogue tree. Jack will say he's seen Bonnie without a face at three locations, Dave will ask 'three? but I only remember seeing you at two locations.'' Jack will reply 'I know, that's because I worked the night shift. You wouldn't of seen me.''

ANYWHO, have this big hunk of lore. I usually have a LOT of lore discussions in several servers, so I'll probably just post stuff I find here, too... because why not?

[scrypticmetal]

Rebuilt

Chapter 1

Synopsis: You are the current owner of Fazbear Entertainment and founder of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex. After finally striking gold and basking in your success, a new location, Fredbear’s Frights, pops up. As more rumors spread of your affiliation with the sorry excuse for a horror attraction, you set off to sabotage the buisness before it can even open its doors.

(Warning: Alternate Universe, the timeline is ALL OVER THE PLACE.)

Reader is a 43 year old trans man but the gender is left relatively open for the most part

Also posted on ao3!:

You jammed the crowbar into the window, cramming it open. The window creaked in defiance, giving you a damn hard time. You had to kick the thing open. Finally, you opened it enough to squeeze yourself into the building.

This stupid horror attraction has done nothing but cause you trouble since it opened. You promised the public since day one you weren’t here to make fun of the lives lost and this fucker was screwing it up for you COMPLETELY. News reporters somehow mistaking this as one of your projects even though this place wasn’t even affiliated with Fazbear Entertainment!

TWO MONTHS AGO

You sat at your long desk, cluttered with notepads and sticky notes reminding you of everything that’s due. You procrastinated paying most of the buisness expenses and now you were paying the price… Literally and figuratively. All the tiny numbers on the computer screen were practically making you go crosseyed.

A knock at the door disturbs you from your work. One more minor inconvenience and you’re going to go ballistic, you groan internally.

“Come in!” you yell.

In steps Brandon. He’s a college student who’s been interning down at the workshop, watching the work that gets done on the animatronics. However, he doesn’t do any of the real repairs. All maintenance employees go through very strict training before being allowed to handle the animatronics.

You wheel your desk chair away from the monitor, “Brandon, what a surprise! What’s up?”

“I don’t mean to bother you Mr. Bossman, but I’ve got a wicked idea. What you got goin on here is great, but the people itch for more! I think we can make a totally wicked haunted house type thing. It’ll have all the old relics and-”

“No.” You cut him off before he keeps going.

“Whaatt? I thought you were all about innovation and new ideas man?”

“Fazbear Entertainment™️ is not going to capitalize on the death of others.”

“That’s not- that’s not what I’m trying to do man” he holds his hands up in protest.

You cross your arms on the table, rolling your eyes. “It’s not what you MEANT to do, but that is what you’re doing. Treating REAL deaths like a cheap horror thrill.”

“You’re putting words in my mouth, man!”

“I’m not going to entertain this conversation any longer, Brandon. Get back to work.” You sigh, sliding your chair back behind the monitor.

“I’m not going back to work because-” You hear a click noise and Brandon’s name tag smacks onto the middle of your keyboard. “I QUIT!!”

You look up at Brandon unamused. Is this supposed to be a threat? As if you’ll actually care that his mediocre ass is headed elsewhere. You had engineering students from just about every state begging for a position at the pizzaplex.

Brandon goes to storm out but then it hits you. You stand up out of your chair, peeking over the monitor, “WAIT!”

Brandon crosses his arms and stops, turning around with a smug look.

“If you use Fazbear Entertainment���s name for anything related to that attraction, I’ll sue you for everything you’re worth.” You glare at him.

Brandon’s face falls and he leaves without another word. The door clicks shut behind him and you sink back into your chair.

“He’s going to get a rude awakening” you laugh quietly to yourself.

From the day you got your hands on this company, everyone was trying to paint you out to be the bad guy. You saw the vision for what Fazbear’s could be! You had nothing to do with murder! But you were only let off the hook for one reason only: you yourself were a victim. You were able to get the news on your side as someone who could understand where the people were coming from. But Brandon doesn’t have any honorable ties to vouch for his cause. They’ll cancel his ass before he can even open for business. Maybe you’ll have to keep your eyes peeled on Twitter for news about this.

CURRENT TIME

"It felt depraved; busting into this sad excuse for a haunted house. You slipped through he window, dropping to the floor with a hard thud.

Groaning, you push yourself up off the dusty ground.

"I'm getting too old for this shit."

You hear your own whining bounce and reverberate off the dusty, cold concrete lining the inside of the complex.

You try to dust off the grime from your face but it sticks to your sweat. You get back up on your feet and wander around. This place is so gross. The first thing you notice about this place is the smell. It’s wet and muggy and smells like pure rot. Everything has this weird greenwash. Sure, the vibes are creepy, but what’s scarier is how much of a health violation this place is. “Aaandd that’s mold” you shine your flashlight at the wall. Black vines of mold reach from the floor up to the ceiling.

You put the flashlight in your back pocket and fish out the latex gloves you brought with you. You are NOT touching anything in here with your bare hands.

Wandering from room to room, you can’t help but stop to check out every artifact Brandon had managed to scrounge up. He had some legit stuff buried among a sea of fakes. You were honestly surprised at the dedication to find this stuff. (And the balls. You tried you very best to stay FAR away from the previous locations)

Something shifts behind you and you whip around to see what the noise was from. You’re greeted with an empty hallway. “Tch, this place probably has rats too.” You mumble, turning back around.

A foxy mask at the opposite end of the hallway stops you in your tracks. You walk up, taking the mask off the light fixture and examining the inside of the head. Yeah, damn it’s official too. “Long time no see bud” you chuckle, twisting the mask to face you.

“I’d love to stay and chat but I’ve got bigger fish to fry right now, Captain.”

You wobble on your tippy toes trying to put the foxy head back on the light.

You continue wandering around, the place is pretty lack luster. Actually this place is really boring; the scare factor wore off pretty quickly. Maybe you have nothing to worry about. If Twitter doesn’t get this place shut down, the health department will surely get his ass.

A long ear-piercing clang of metal scraping metal reverberates down the hall. You nearly hurt your neck from how quickly you turn around. A hunched over rabbit animatronic grabs onto the wall, head hung low. Its neck cranes up with a loud creak. He looks like a mangled Bonnie…of sorts? Its shoulder cocks sideways unnaturally as it shifts its weight on the hand grasping at the wall. Before you can react, it dashes towards you at a terrifying speed. You screech, attempting to run from the beast.

His hand yanks you by your arm, crashing you into his metal frame. Everything goes in a blur as you’re whipped around to face him and slammed against the wall. His rough jagged hands contract around your neck, lifting you off the ground. You flail hour legs, trying to kick at his shoulders.

“Wait- WAIT” you plead. You want to say more but you can’t choke another word out.

To your surprise his hands relented their iron grip, but stayed firmly around your neck. He’s cognizant! Maybe you can reason with this thing!

Your cough and wheeze, trying to catch your breath. His putrid stench was overwhelming your senses, suffocating every jagged breath you take. “I can get you out of here” you say in between coughs. God… you can taste the coppery rot in your mouth. Your shoulders shake as you fight back from dry heaving.

He tilts his head, narrowing his eyes at you.

“It’s cruel keeping you here like this. They’re treating you like an animal in a zoo! I can get you away from this trashheap!” He stares at you blankly. No response. Think of something else! “Better yet, I can fix this” you thud your knuckle against his tattered arm.

“New suit, new life, sounds like a steal to me” you feel like you’re in the investment room again, bumbling like an idiot to try to sell your idea.

His left hand lets go of your neck, clanking his knuckles against his torso, “There’s no fixing this” his gravely voice seethes.

“Oh god no!” you laugh nervously. “It’ll be a new suit entirely. New endo, new casing, it’ll have all the bells and whistles you could possibly desire!” Of course, everything comes with a catch, “But you have to promise not to kill me” you claw your nails against the hand still squeezing against your neck. It ain’t much of a catch; he’s getting all the benefits here!What more could he want?!!

His hand still stays firmly planted, scraping against your skin, “Who the fuck are you supposed to be exactly?”

Tough crowd…

“(Y/n) (L/n), Fazbear Entertainment’s current owner and overseeing repairman for the California branch” you slide your hand into your back pocket, slipping your buisness card out of your wallet. You wave the colorful card in front of him. He snatches the paper with his free hand, examining it closely with squinted eyes. You watch the lights of his eyes glide from side to side.

He looks back at you quizzically. “You? You’re the owner?” His face is unreadable but you could hear him holding back laughter.

“Yes” the corner of your mouth twitches in annoyance.

A loud gargled wheeze emits from him, making you jump. He chokes out a booming laugh, losing his composure making his hand slide you down the wall, finally letting you plant your feet back on the ground.

He covers his mouth with his hand, still choking out short laughs. He looks at you again and booms with laughter again. It’s a deep throaty laugh that rattles his shoulders. You sit there watching him in irritation.

“Ok, ok,” he wheezes through stifled laughs, attempting to… catch his breath?… he straightens back up, meeting your eyes again.

“If you’re the owner…” he stops and thinks, “Then why am I here?” He gestures at the building. His hand closes in on your neck again.

“Fredbear’s Frights isn’t affiliated with Fazbear entertainment!” You speak in a panic, trying to reason with him again before he chokes you out again.

“I have nothing to do with this place. This place is barely legal to begin with! He got this place through stupid fucking loopholes in copyright laws!” you blabber.

“If you’re not affiliated, then why are you here?”

Christ, he’s is just like everyone else: painting you out to be the bad guy. HE’S the bad guy here!! He’s fucking psycho!!!!

“Everyone’s trying to blame me for this stupid sorry fucking excuse of a haunted house! Copy-write laws be damned, I need this place GONE.” you wrangle against his grip like a fish out of water. Your patience is running thin. Can’t he just take your offer?!

“If you’re lying to me. Know that I will find you.” He flicks your buisness card in your face before releasing his grip on your neck. Your knees buckle under the sudden weight. Rubbing your sore neck, you take in a deep breath, savoring the feeling of being able to breathe normally again.

You straighten out your button-up shirt,

“Is there somewhere we can sit and talk?”

He hums and walks toward the direction he crawled out of earlier. You follow carefully behind him.

“I never got a name for you.” You speed up, getting in front of him, walking backwards as you keep talking. “I can’t say I recognize this suit’s model. It looks antique.”

he rolls his eyes, putting on a mocking tone, “Shouldn’t you already know. Since you’re the owner and all”

“Well you’re obviously not Bonnie. He’s purple. And you’re not springbonnie. He’s yellow. Not really sure what other bunny animatronics there are to compare you to.”

“Firstly, Bonnie is not purple. He’s blue.” He corrects. You go to open your mouth but puts his index over your mouth to shush you. Ew ew ewww, his finger touched your tongue. The fur was crusty but damp at the same time.

“But you were almost there. Springbonnie would be correct.” He huffs.

“See, I know what I’m talking abou-“ you trip over stray boxes in the hallway, falling flat on your back with your arms sprawled out.

The animatronic steps into your view. His ear flops as he looks down to face you. That permanent jagged smile on his maw suddenly feels so smug. “Yeah, you seem to know exaaactly what you’re doing” he mocks.

You have to fight yourself from telling him to fuck off. You’re quick to get back up on your feet. All this falling and being thrown around is going to kill you tomorrow…

Finally, you reach the storage room. It’s a bit of a stuffy room. Most of the space is taken up by the metal table in the middle. And on the top left, there’s a squatty window just wide enough that you could squeeze through.

“So,” you sit down on the stool by the table, “Springbonnie —can I call you Springs?”

“Springtrap” he sits down across from you.

“What?”

“I go by springtrap”

“……..caaan I call you Springs?”

“No.” he deadpans.

“Okay, Springtrap. So, I’d like to lay a couple ground rules down first before we begin. I’d like to remind you of our deal that while you get a new body and a life outside of here, you cannot kill me or hurt me in any way.“

“I know”

“Just confirming” you shrug. Better safe than sorry, especially when it’s your own life on the line here.

“So we have a standard endoskeleton model that-”

Springtrap waves his hand to get your attention, “let me stop you there. This isn’t going to be any standard procedure.” He circles his hand around his chest.

“In case you haven’t noticed, hotshot, I’m not a robot. My corpse is part OF the suit.” He continues to talk to you like you’re stupid.

“Well, you sure as hell smell like a dead body, so I already figured.” You grimace.

“Actually, I would like to see what I’m working with, if you don’t mind?”

“Take me out to dinner before you ask to poke around my insides, freak.” He jests.

You bite back a laugh. He’s pissed you off way too many times for you to laugh at his joke.

He’s still chuckling to himself when you get to his side of the table. “Can I?” You point your flashlight down at his chest cavity.

Springtrap hesitantly nods. You flash the light inside the large gash in his chest.

It doesn’t help that your vision here is limited, but you can barely tell where his corpse stops and the endoskeleton begins. You knew the basics about the springlocks but you’d never actually encountered on of these suits in person before. This was total foreign territory to you. In a morbid way, you were intrigued. How fascinating that his body was still somewhat in tact. His chest still rises and falls taking ragged breaths. He breathes.

Your brain starts to pile with questions. How does he function? What all is still in tact? His intestines billow around his hips, hanging loosely. Can he eat? You can’t help but squish one of the intestines lightly. Suddenly, Springtrap grabs at your wrist, yanking it as far up as he can without popping your shoulder out of place. “Did I say you could touch me?” He seethes in your face; his nasty breath clouding up in your nostrils.

“Sorry! I didn’t mean to overstep” you yelp.

He drops your wrist. Your body is really taking a beating today huh? It’ll be a miracle if you aren’t bedbound tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrow…

“I do have to inform you that unfortunately my time today is limited. I have work tomorrow and it’s quite a drive from here to the Pizzaplex. I hate to cut things so short but I do have a couple more questions before I leave!”

“Pizzaplex?”

“I can explain that tomorrow.” You wave him off. “But, I do need to know what exactly you’re looking for in a remodel. As I was saying before, we have a standard endoskeleton that can fit a variety of body types. You can choose whichever casing you like best. The color choice is of course up to you, and you can even change your animal if you wanna really switch things up!”

“I’ll stick with the yellow rabbit.”

“Suit yourself” you shrug.

“What do you mean by different body types? Do you have examples?” He crosses his legs and leans in closer.

You take out your phone, scrolling through your gallery for a good picture of the fazgang. Finally, you land on a picture from not too long ago. It was one of the work parties held for your assistant repair overseer, Ryan. He’d worked for the company back in the 80s but retired back in early June. You and Ryan are posed in front of the main four. Freddy is hugging both you and Ryan, Monty is throwing up the rock and roll hands with his tongue out, Roxy was slaying, and chica was being her bubbly self.

You show him the phone, watching his reaction. He freezes for a minute but then takes the phone, putting it super close to his face.

“Did you make them?” He asks bewildered.

“Yeah- well. I’ve had some help here and there but yeah, the designs are mine. Pretty cool right?” You give a smile. A genuine smile this time. They were your proudest work.

“where’s the fox?” He quizzes.

“Long story.”

“Where’s Bonnie?”

You cringe, “Even longer story”

“I’m not seeing anything I want personally. Do you have anything a little less…” he motions a very exaggerated version of the glamrock’s dorito shape.

“You’re asking for something custom?”

“Yes.”

You sigh, “you drive a very hard bargain, you know that?”

“I know what I want.” He shrugs.

“What is this thing anyways?” He waves your phone that he still held in his hand.

“That would be my phone.”

“THIS? This is a phone?? You can take pictures on this?”

“It can do a lot more than that.” You laugh.

His absence of technical knowledge was somewhat refreshing actually. Usually, you’re forced into rooms with insufferable tech bros most of the time.

“When did they start making these? What….” He goes quiet for a moment, “What year is it exactly?” He looks at you with genuine concern.

You raise your eyebrows. He’s really never seen anything remotely close to this, huh? You hold your hand out, gesture for him to hand your phone back. He plops it back into your palm. Glancing at the time, 5:25. It’s getting way too late…

“What year do you think it is?”

Springtrap sits, thinking, “I’d guess maybe… 1999?”

“Ohhh you’ve got a lot to catch up on… it’s 2024”

Springtrap’s eyes go wide and his jaw goes slack, revealing what’s left of his skull behind the mask. This is the first time you’ve seen him express an emotion beyond anger and entitlement.

“I’m sure you’ve got a lot of questions. Think of all you wanna ask and I’ll have all your answers tomorrow. I do apologize but it really is getting late.” You almost feel bad for leaving him to sit in shell shock like this. Almost…. Actually, he deserves it after how he’s treated you all night.

Before leaving the room, you realize you never asked what time would be best to meet again, “How does 11:00 pm sound for tomorrow?”

“I can only free roam from 12 am to 6 am” he mumbles.

“Damn, that sucks. 12 it is then!” You turn around and leave, waving without looking back at him.

12 works better for you, one less hour you have to spend looking at his ugly mug.

[the-ourple-ouppy]

NEW AU ALERT!!

Here me out here. DSAF and South Park. Smush them together.

(DISCLAIMER: This AU will probably end up having Kyman in it. Sorry not sorry!!)

A Freddy's location opens in South Park, and after the usual missing children's incident happens there, Kyle insists they have to go check it out. The rest of the main 4 aren't really that enthusiastic about it, but Kyle basically drags them there.

Unlike the rest of the dumbasses in South Park, the main four aren't fucking blind and see Jack dragging the bodies out to the dumpster. Aside from freaking out about a literal MURDERER in their town, they also question why the fuck this guy is fucking orange and looks like a walking corpse like what. After collectively losing their shit for a few minutes, Cartman decides to follow Jack back to the saferoom, and the rest of the main 4 go after Cartman.

Of course, they get fucking caught. They walk in on Dave and Jack kissing talking about their plan, and Cartman says, "Holy shit dude!" which is why they get caught. Dave and Jack try to kill the main 4 because no witnesses and all that, and they're about to kill Stan when Kenny jumps in front of him and gets killed.

"Oh my god, they killed Kenny!"

"You bastards!"

The main four run out of the saferoom, freaking the fuck out.

The next day, on their way to work, Dave and Jack see the main 4 by the bus stop, and when they see Kenny there with them they're like, "What the fuck? Didn't we kill that kid?"

They go up to the main 4, confused as all hell, asking about how the fuck Kenny was still alive.

"Oh, he's immortal." Cartman says casually. Kyle and Stan are surprised, along with Dave and Jack. Cartman then asks about what the fuck is up with Dave and Jack and why their orange and purple and stuff, and Dave and Jack kinda explain their whole situation.

Idrk what to do after that but my plan is that the main 4 kinda just hang out with the DSAF crew (basically DSAF 2 + Steven is there for some reason).

Stan would be kinda nervous around Dave and Jack, usually choosing to hang out with Dee or Peter. (Steven, Matt, and Ronaldo all intimidate/scare him.)

Kenny would just try to die in every way possible, and Jack is happy to show him all the dangerous ass shit at Freddy's. The two of them also bond over being both orange and immortal. (My HC is that Jack remembers all the times he died/got the Springlocked or Stuffed Endings.)

Cartman keeps trying to one-up Dave and Jack crime-wise. Like, he'll tell them about how he fed a kid his own parents, and Jack or Dave will just go "That's fun! I kill children for a living and have at least 3 fake ID's." Like they are completely unfazed by the shit Cartman's done.

Kyle doesn't trust Dave and Jack for a second. He hangs out with Steven quite a lot (definitely not a found family or anything), and warns Kenny and Cartman against being near Jack and Dave, always berating Cartman about how he shouldn't try to provoke them because he's going to get himself killed. (Also dw yall Kyle will eventually warm up to Jack and Dave but he's Kyle so he'll be all stubborn about it)

Would love to hear yall's thoughts on this AU!!

Also Henry probably wont have a major role in this AU because it's based off the Gnarly and Radical endings :]

[the-matpat-ever]

My FNAF AU

[I thought of this a while ago]

Okay here me out

I'm currently making a fnaf au where Movie!William Afton actually had 4 kids of his own

1. Michael, 28, ??? [NOT MIKE SCHMIDT]

2. Vanessa, 26, alive

3. CC, 12, deceased

4. Elizabeth, 10 years, deceased

Basically everything that happens to the Afton kids in the games, happens to them in my au

●Elizabeth is killed by Circus Baby and is 'Daddy's little girl'[Helps William kill from obsession of wanting Daddy to be proud]

●CC witnesses Elizabeth getting killed and then is killed by the jaws of Fredbear

●Michael Afton is scooped by Elizabeth

●Vanessa is the only Afton kid alive and decides to be a police officer. She pacifies and looks after the missing kids.

Mike, Abby, and Garret Schmidt are Henry's kids

1. Mike Schmidt, 23, alive

2. Abby Schmidt, 10, alive

3. Garret Schmidt, 6, deceased

●Henry was the co-owner of Freddy Fazbears Pizza with William

●Henry left William and betrayed him

●William wanted revenge

●After CC dies, William takes his anger out and kidnaps and kills Garret

●Years later, Mike Schmidt gets a job at Freddy's from 'Steve Raglan'

●Everything in the Fnaf movie takes place

●Months after William gets spring-locked, he hunts Mike down

●Mike is now working at a different location, The Security Breach Pizza Plex

●Michael and Mike meet because Michael knows his father is trying to kill Mike

●They form an alliance because Michael doesn't want anymore dead bodies from the hands of William. Michael is essentially Mike's body guard

●Vanessa doesn't know that Michael is 'alive' and they have a heart warming reunion Mike x Vanessa & Michael x Vanessa is strictly platonic because ew

●Vanessa and Michael are literally Mike's big ass guard dogs-

[wjehfshs]

141 characters as FNAF night guards + what game they belong to bc I can

FNAF stuff, spoilers for the FNAF lore?

Gaz

Sister location

Almost shat himself when he saw that Circus baby wasn’t in her correct spot

Has literal tears in his eyes every time he has to go check up on Funtime Freddy

But loves Bon Bon

Didn’t sleep for a week after he had that first interaction with a bidybab

Only thing stopping him from crying in the spring lock suit was knowing he wouldn’t survive if he even just sweat a little

After Ennard fucked off out of his body he had a break down in the mirror

Not because he was a walking corpse or anything but because he didn’t look as good when he was alive (or at least that’s what he believed)

Ghost

FNAF 4 (cuz yknow, childhood trauma)

Except he’s an adult in this

Don’t ask why or how it works just go with it

Calm on the outside but once the sun comes up he gets in the shower and just stares at the water for 3 hours, contemplating his life and what it’s become

Very skilled at knowing where everyone is

Always struggles to fit under the bed

Once it’s all over it looks like he put black eyeshadow all over his eyes due to his lack of sleep

Now has a new fear of bears he didn’t have before

Soap

FNAF 2

Cried his first shift

Actually no scratch that, he cried every shift

Only reason he kept going was because it was the only job he could get

Had a crush on Toy Chica until she took her beak off

Now he’s scared shitless of her

Likes balloon boy even though he’s a little shit

At first genuinely believed he had too much Za when he saw the animatronics move

Least favourite is definitely Withered Chica

She haunts his dreams fr

So sad she ended up withered because she used to be his fav

At some point debated just going into work with torches strapped all over his body with a Tupperware container filled to the brim of batteries

Decided not to because he couldn’t afford it and it would be uncomfortable

Price

FNAF 3

At first thought it was a prank by his co-workers

When he realised he was in actual danger, all he could say was “well fuck”

Every time an animatronic apart from spring trap jump scares him he swears he goes more blind

“Bloody fuckin hell! I’d rather have my eyes strapped open while a flash bang goes off”

Smokes 5X more cigars than usual to help with the stress

“Laswell I’m tellin you! These fuckin robots are out for my ass! There’s this giant fuckin rabbit that looks like it ate a grenade about to go off!!”

Burns the place down and goes home and collapses for the first time in a week

[phoenixwatchesmovies]

Ok, I'm doing this out of order, but it's my blog and I can do what I want. *rubs hands together* Let's talk about Freddy's Revenge.

So, this one's kind of a weird one if you're talking Elm Street movies, but a pretty solid possession movie. Think of it as taking a specific Lego set and using it to build something completely different than what's pictured on the box. For example (spoilers ahoy, I guess):

Dream deaths - while no one falls asleep and dies, whenever Jesse falls asleep, Freddy takes over to slice and dice

Mythology - this franchise entry seems to fall into the haunted house/cursed item category, and thus it has less to do with the people than it does with the house/item in question. In this case, that's Nancy Thompson's old house and Freddy's glove.

(Minor tangent. The rest of the franchise follows along with this one's framing of the house as a main character, or at least a significant location, but otherwise pretends this movie doesn't exist. While that DOES make sense, considering this one fits so outside the box, WHY keep up with the whole house thing?! 1428 Elm Street is only significant because Nancy lived there, and if there's one thing Freddy's Revenge does well, it's establishing the connection between Nancy and Freddy, and thus the house and Freddy. His weapon of choice is still hidden in the basement, so OF COURSE it makes sense that the house itself figures heavily in how the narrative plays out. That's not the case so much elsewhere in the franchise, but I'll get back to that with later movies.)

As stated above, this works best as a possession movie that happens to feature Freddy Krueger rather than a Freddy Krueger movie. No stalking and killing people in their dreams here. Instead, we get Freddy haunting Jesse's dreams in an effort to take over his body and resume his killing spree. Coming at it from this angle, even the pool party massacre makes sense! (Though I haven't seen anything that indicates this was the intention all along, so this is just me calling it like I see it.)

See? Same devices made to serve different functions.

Also, yeah. This movie is pretty fucking gay. The way Jesse is filmed hovers between "suggestive" and "male gaze," there's the whole leather bar scene, Coach Snyder's death is literally balls and ass, and then there's this:

There is nothing more I can say about this that hasn't been said eleventy-one million times already, and there is an entire documentary about Mark Patton's experience filming this movie, so I'm moving on.

Two of my favorite aspects of the movie are the effects and the soundtrack. Jesse's transformation into Freddy is hella gnarly (you want body horror? You got it!), and Freddy himself is just plain gross and scary looking.

You agree, yes? And Freddy's death this time around is *chef kiss* All hail the FX department! And the soundtrack! A darker toned movie needs a darker toned score, so we don't get Charles Bernstein's dreamy theme, but we DO get something creepy and unnerving.

I dig it.

Onto the rest of it. This movie, in many respects, suffers from a lack of time. The rush to get it out in such a hurry (less than a year after the original was released, if you were curious) leaves a lot of the story undeveloped. My fourth bullet point up above? I'm pretty sure I put more thought into that than TPTB did. The characters feel half-baked, and the only relationship that seems believable is between Jesse and Grady, and even that takes a hit from the rough pacing. Because the pacing? It's rough. Too much time is spent on hashing out lore the audience already knows, and not enough on expanding what's new to this installment. Or on making the genderbend make sense. I love the idea of a Final Boy, but...

Actually, this needs its own paragraph. The thing about every Final Girl you can think of is, she does something. She doesn't necessarily need to defeat the Big Bad (Sally Hardesty outruns hers, and Laurie Strode holds hers off until help arrives, after all), but she still has to drive the story somehow. Nancy, for instance, does the heavy lifting of the previous film. She's the one sounding the alarm about Freddy, trying to smoke him out, and finally cornering him. And she never once loses her agency in the process. Jesse, on the other hand...stuff just happens to him. He ends up being less of a Final anything, and is instead a picture perfect possession victim, with little to no control over what's happening to him and ultimately needing someone else to save him. Which fits in with Bullet Point #4, but again, I doubt that much thought went into it. You know who DOES hit all the marks for a Final Character? Lisa. And she's only there to host a party and kiss Freddy back into being Jesse. Is this argument coming several decades too late? Yes! Do I care? No! They did that boy dirty, and I'm mad about it!

Idk, man. It's not the best of the series, but that doesn't mean it's not good. I certainly enjoyed it more rewatching it than I did the first time around, which gives more weight to the general consensus of there are no shitty Freddy movies.

That being said, this one needed more Freddy.

[newmsies]

Got any backstory for the brothers? Canon or non canon compliant?

YAYYAYAY!THISISGONNABELONGBAREWITHME.

SO. We start in 1885, December 22nd 17:17PM (5:17PM), France in The Hôtel-Dieu, a hospital located on the Île de la Cité in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, on the parvis of Notre-Dame Morris Delancey (i don't fuckin know how old i think he is anymore) was inside the hospital, mourning the loss of his mother, and awaiting the doctor's return. waiting to see if his mother wasn't the only person he lost that day His mother had given birth to his younger sibling, the name not yet decided we'll call him the child (real creative, honestly give me an award) however she had died during the long and painful process of having a fucking watermelon sized useless sack of meat. The child had been born with a few complications, his mother not really caring all too much and continuing to smoke and drink heavily throughout the nine months, left his brother being born with a complication... or five. I'm kidding!.. as far as you know. AHEM. So there Morris was. All alone in The Hôtel-Dieu Hospital (his father's a bastard and left his wife and soon to be two kids at the hospital because fuck you Frank. Fuck him. Fuck Frank.) Waiting for a doctor to tell him he didn't even have a sibling anymore. Of course all of my stories have a happy ending at first so that's not what happened, instead a doctor came out and happily announced to Morris that his sibling was okay blah blah bullshit he went to see Oscar, named him ig and ✨ happily ever after ✨ they move to NY with their dad, Frank is still an ass, fuck Frank, he pretty much abandons them, they're picked up by Snyder and taken to the refuge until Otto Wiesel was found, thier mother's elder brother. They were put in his care and almost immediately were put to work at The World. Remember the Pulitzer father arc tag? Yeah that's now, Oscar immediately latched, literally. Because tall man with leg you can latch onto while you walk, it's fun fuck you (you means Frank, ily /p (this is gonna start going by faster because it's the last day of Hanukkah so my family expects me to do stuff with them)) Pulitzer in his dad era real, teaching More ice how to take apart and put together a printing press as well as teaching English, Wiesel and Pulitzer both decided to send Oscar to school with Pulitzers youngest daughter's Edith and Constance. Morris isn't interested in school but . SO IT'S PRESENT DAY NOW (19/1/23) ANYWAYSS.. He's also attending with David, and Sarah also David plays football and you can not convince me otherwise /hj and now present day, aging Oscar up to 16 from 14 because it's my hc and i get to do that kind of stuff. Association by actor Oscar is John Doe from Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, AND I SAW MY COUSINS DMS SAYING IT WAS A BAD MOVIE, IT WAS AMAZING THANK YOU VERY MUCH. /J blah blah blah I'm not gonna spoil the movie but Spencer, Carlos, Tracy, Maggie, and Doc are all people in Oscars life now so, yippee! I'm out of ideas for this tbh, i feel like i covered what i wanted to cover in my notes app while wishing i didn't have a grandmother so, i hope you enjoyed the backstory ig and I'm sorry it was so long😭

[hell-ama-official]

Why was New Akeldama ever named "Ap. Judasfield"? That's such a horrible name for a city in literal Hell. It's almost as bad as the "City of Jaws / Vultures / Insects / Spiders / Freddy Crueger or something" naming convention.

Because creative people don't get far enough up the authority ladder to be responsible for such decisions. New Akeldama, in itself, is not that creative a name as well, but it has the decency of sounding bad ass. "Akeldama" by itself means "Field of Blood", so both the -field ending of the original city name and the connection to Judas were preserved through the name change, and I approve of that. Judas' contribution and lasting commitment to the city does indeed deserve to be memorialized forever. It also takes courage to name a location you pour your hard work into after your place of death, and I think we should all take a short break to appreciate Judas for what he does to the community. He is, no doubt, the most prolific unpaid volunteer to ever work in Hell, with concessions made for Cain and Abel. I know I bad-mouthed him before, but that's because I don't like his outlook on life and the way he wrote the Epistles. He's a chill guy.

[nineliabilityrisk]

Which game is your favorite? / Who's your favorite glamrock animatronic?

7 . which game is your favorite ?

— FNAF WORLD FULL STOP. i love that stupid little pokéfnaf game so fucking much you dont understand. literally the only fnaf game i can play because [ its free ] i dont have good enough reaction time to play any of the others. its so goofy but genuinely so fun too, im currently working on a 20 difficulty playthrough of it because . i dont respect my own sanity.

— if youre talking mainline, though, its a toss-up between sister location and pizza sim. sl because funfred my fucking beloved and the vibes are immaculate . pizza sim specifically for the simming part, not the nights, im sorry but the nights and the jumpscares are SO ass. but i will never get enough of helpy jumping from a height and breaking every single bone in his tiny little body. or the connection terminated speech i have that entire thing memorized [ i am mentally unwell ]

4 . who's your favorite glamrock animatronic ?

— ... am i allowed to say glambun? listen i KNOW we have little to no canon information about him but. bnuuy. bonnies been my fav since fnaf 1 so this gay little rabbit is an EASY win in my book [ esp cause i wasnt too attached to any of the actual sb characters before ruin ... it says something that mapbot and the wet floor bots were my faves before that game came out. ]

— but if glambun isnt allowed its probably gonna be glamrock freddy. [ definitely not because i have too much fun seeing glammike theories. i dont care if it has any basis in canon its just FUN okay ] or maybe roxy after what we saw in ruin. ... or does the blob count? i think the blob is really funky. im sorry all the little side animatronics are so much more interesting to me for some reason-

[aftonenterprise-moved]

im about to be autistic for a second

it really bothers me that so many people subscribe to mike being the older brother theory, like, there’s nothing inherenyly wrong with it, but there is more proof towards mike being the younger brother/crying child, which i mean. THERES NOT A LOT OF PROOF!!! but there is more proof for him being the crying child than there is him being the older brother.

in the fnaf security/ survival logbook, which is canonlly owned by michael. we can all agree that fnaf 4′s protagonist is crying child, EVERYONE agrees with this, it’s literally canonly shown, with the hospital medical suplies and the iv drips and hell the hallucinations of the nightmare animatronics with huge teeth and multiple mouths.

anyways, back to the book, the book is canonly owned by “mike schmit“ which is argueably one of michaels false names when he was working in various positions. considering there‘s drawings like this

i’d say its just michael. that’s a michael sister location thing. that being said. there is a constant theme of presumably doctor (psychiatrist) questions, what is your name, what do you remember, and specifically  "Was your favourite childhood toy a plastic purple telephone?" (the one in fnaf 4′s bedroom, the crying childs bedroom) as well as a long of unanswerable questions like "Was your favourite ride the carousel?"

there’s an answer that could contradict this, a question about what to say if someone claims freddy bit their kid. mike answers

"He tripped and fell on Freddy's teeth, not our fault."

 and that’s often used as proof that he’s the older brother, but i feel like it’;s not that cut and dry. it could easily EASILY be the excuse people used for the older brother, or the older brother himself saving his ass., mikes canonly pretty fucking sarcastic and dry (even in this book), it wouldn’t be surprising if he wrote that

i also think chalking the questions and answers up to... i don’t know. ghosts? communicating? the crying child being dead, the asker... also being dead, despite having the same hand writing even though mike cleraly has his own hand writing is uhhmm. idk. i feel like a lot of people see fnaf as a very specific literal story instead of taking a lot of things as symbolism or metaphorical. this is my problem with pizzeria simulator and the pizza plex being two sperate things too, because it really does just feel like the shitty room in pizzeria simulator was simply just. i dont know. a symbolic representation of what was actually being built (the pizzeria)

but that proof is THERE. the qwuestions are directed at the owner of the book, the owner of the book is mike, and the questions are only things thatd be asked to the bite victim.

[grumpydevilfellow]

After two days of on and off spawn hunting and resetting my game multiple times I finally got BIG. DADDY. 

Yall I’m sorry I gotta rant, but this guy is REALLY hard to get like REAAALLY HARD. Because he literally only spawns in one area in the entire game (during the day not at night; made that mistake and every possible other one I could while trying to get this fucker) AND because he shares his only spawn area with THREE OTHER YOKAI so if you find the wrong one you gotta save beforehand, reset the game, go to the spot again, and hope your yokai watch is picking up a Rank A yokai in the area because that when you know it’s Papa Bolt. to top that off there’s also the chance that area won’t spawn anything at all if you enter it! Which of course results in another reset.

So you literally have a 1/5 chance of finding this dude in his only spawn area. You’d think that would be enough of a challenge right? Oh ho ho we’re just getting started... It’s not enough to just find Yokai and throw some sort of enslavement ball at them no the Yokai have to WANT to be a part of your team in other words, you gotta befriend them and befriending Yokai is quite easily the most frustrating mechanic in the game that really just deadass relies on luck and the stars aligning even for the weaker Yokai.

You gotta have a Yokai on your team with the Popularity ability which makes befriending enemy Yokai more likely. There’s only 5 Yokai in the game with this ability, but realistically you really only have the option of picking 2 out of those 5 for reasons I don’t feel like explaining but will. Just know your real choices are either Cupistol who evolves w the same ability or Shmoopie who evolves w the same ability. Then there’s like one more but he’s S rank and probably only attainable end game or through a lucky draw. So yea 5 theoretically but realistically you’re picking Cupistol or Shmoopie and that’s just your teammate forever if you want more Yokai. (at least their evolve forms are cute to look at)

Speaking of which having the Popularity ability isn’t enough along with the other usual methods used for befriending Yokai. Turns out you need a Superstar Soul that you equip any Yokai you want with and its ability is basically Popularity, but better like oh my god give me a break game. So fine how do I get this Freddy Fazbear ass soul? You gotta do PART 1 of some girl makeover mission then locate the same girl in a different part of the huge ass map, do PART 2 which involves finding a classmate in a ridiculously hidden spot you will def need a guide to even figure out they’re there, and then after completing the mission you get a Love Scepter item which only use is to literally be fused with Shmoopie and make them evolve. So you go to the fusion guy and have him fuse Shmoopie with the stick to make them evolve into Pinkipoo and then you gotta take your new and fairly difficult to evolve yokai, and essentially fucking destroy it and turn it into a soul via the soul guy not to be confused with the fusion guy who does a totally different thing. (rolls eyes) Anyways once you get the soul of one Pinkipoo you gotta fuse that soul with the soul of a Cupistol so you’re thinking hmm this requires fusion right? Better go to the fusion guy. Welp these are souls. Souls aren’t his bag. Fusion is; even tho you’re literally tryin to fuse something right now. So finish wasting that trip, go back to the soul guy. F U S E the Pinkipoo and Cupistol souls together and boom you got the superstar soul. Good Job Superstar! ( I don’t feel good...)

Now you may be thinking at this point 2 things. One may be “Uh what happened to trying to get Papa Bolt why tf do you have to do all of this unrelated stuff and are you done and can get back to trying to get him?”. To answer that question, no not even remotely lmao you want that rare Yokai? Suffer for it.

Your other question may be “OK so you worked hard to get the Freddy Fazbear soul. Got it. Does it stack with the Popularity ability you mentioned before?” And to answer that question...No one really fucking knows. We know Popularity by itself does not stack IE having 2 Cupistols on your team increasing your chances of winning over enemy Yokai, but as for Popularity and Superstar Soul being on the same team and thus stacking abilities and increasing your chances of befriending enemy Yokai, we just don’t know. A bunch of Japanese sites swear up and down they don’t stack, but as far as us American users know, no one has datamined the game and given the exact percentages over this whole deal.

Thing is tho, after all the shit you’ve done and how hard it is to even find Papa Bolt alone, are you gonna risk it? Are you gonna take the chance? Of course not. So whether or not they actually stack is neither here or there. You’re gonna do it anyways for your sanity alone. lmao

Next you gotta buy Papa Bolt’s favorite food like a bunch of it. Turns out his favorite food is suishi and the version that helps you befriend him the most is 7 bucks a piece so get that wallet out. After that you gotta design a team based around catching Papa Bolt which involved me doing a bunch of trial n error battles of finding out what kills him, but doesn’t kill him too quickly so I can do all the befriending options before I seal the deal. Needless to say that process was frustrating.

Would’ve been even more frustrating if I hadn’t made Chummer (cool looking Shark yokai) essentially my Pikachu for the entire game. He has some really great abilities for catching Yokai the two mainly being his Ultimate, Sharkskin Shield, which raises his defense and draws in all enemy attacks and his Inspiriting move (this move which all yokai have, places a curse or blessing on other yokai) Loitering which makes enemy yokai loaf around and literally do nothing for a turn. So my strat for Chummer was make him fairly tanky while still having a strong attack and change his nature to Twisted so he’ll inspirit enemy Yokai with his Loitering curse frequently and keep them docile/inactive.

That worked out really well in my favor for catching Papa Bolt because you HAVE to inspirit him with a curse in order to increase your chances of befriending him. When you inspirit a Yokai and gain the second Yokai watch, you can activate the Poke feature which involves using your stylus to literally poke the enemy Yokai repeatedly for different effects. You then gotta poke around until you find the spot on the Yokai that puts out heart emojis and then hammer away at that spot for an increase in your chances of befriending them. (no it was never the crotch...)

Keep in mind you have to do all of this while not accidentally killing them because your Yokai are too strong...

Inspirit him, poke him (pray you can find the right spot before the poke timer runs out or you gotta start all over and it will be in a new spot this time...), practically shove sushi down his mouth whenever the item button for enemies isn’t on cooldown, while making sure you got Popularity and Superstar soul on your team. I had to redo my equip items and only equip my attackers with items that boosted defense and drained attack because you literally gotta draw the battle out as long as possible and I was killing Papa Bolt too fast. I had already swapped out my team to Chummer, another yokai who mainly healed/had fairly weak attacks, and Baddude who has a ridiculously high attack but misses frequently. I chose Baddude because his attacks miss a lot and his ultimate inspirits meaning I’d have control over when Papa Bolt gets inspirited vs waiting on Chummer to do it which might still take forever even tho his nature is literally to do that first. But Baddudes ultimate also does dmg and that wasn’t working cuz I’d still kill them too fast. So I just ended up waiting on Chummer and was considering swapping out Baddude all together having to raise the perf yokai to take his place. It would’ve been a defensive guarding yokai with a good inspirit ability that like lowers atk or makes them loaf idk.

Turns out I didn’t have to do any of that though because I paused my game when I found Papa Bolt for like the 35th time while I was at work, got home like 8 hours later, opened the game and just ended up befriending him! Heck yea it’s been a wild ride and I’m glad I got him. Def gonna have to work on getting a guarding yokai just so this situation doesn’t happen again. Lmao

[sanchoyo]

danny phantom season 2, eps 1-5 thoughts! opening the new season with episodes like these kinda blew me away. we had multiple serious episodes INCLUDING a two parter!! also, valerie :)

see prev episode thoughts in this tag <3

-I don't know what I expected s2 to open with. but danny portal incident in more detail was not it. (also, I hate to break it to you, sam, but danny's parent's bigass ghost hunting rv def chugs more gas than those vehicles, lmao. unless it runs on ectoplasm or something...)

-WHY WAS DESIREE IN THE SEWER? HAVING TEA WITH IT DOWN THERE?? Her making the giant cow come alive is a boss move, we've almost had all of my fav animals as ghosts now <3 I also don't like how sam was expecting danny to just, haunt the place so the cars wouldn't get sold? I KNOWWW I know she's 14 (and I had a very annoying phase like this, I think I mentioned in a previous post, I GET IT) but they're HIS powers, and messing with (1) dealership will not really put a dent in sales overall because they can just move the cars to another sales lot, and it certainly wont change the industry anyway, it's more of a minor annoyance for (1) location. Also, usually people who work at car sales places work on commission, so if they dont make a sale, they don't have money to pay bills, or eat. sam baby if u wanna be an activist you need to like, actually look into these things. with as much money as her parents have, she could be doing a lot..more useful things for causes she cares about? it's frustrating to see someone with resources who doesn't know how to use them. but shes 14 so again. cannot be really upset :/

-IS THIS A PREDATOR VS TERMINATOR VS FREDDY KRUEGER MOVIE BUT THEYRE ALL WOMEN?? you know, sam is so right to be excited about this. /I/ want to see this movie. that rules

-paulina inviting danny and friends to her quinceañera, aw! even if it is just to get phantom to show up :') and there'll be a meteor shower, and we KNOW danny wants to be an astronaut!! there's not a meteor shower every night!! the tickets are non-refundable, but..she's rich? like. gotta agree with danny, they never get invited!! I KNOW it's the principle of keeping promises, but if she was that upset, she should've said something. directly. I hated how she was like, passive aggressive about it through the episode, like you SAID IT WAS FINE, THAT YOU'D GO TO THE PARTY TOO. MOVIES SHOW FOR A FEW WEEKS IN THEATERS. IF YOU HAD A REAL PROBLEM YOU NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT. WE'VE HAD THIS PROBLEM BEFORE, SAM. YOUR FRIENDS. ARE NOT. MIND READERS.

-MR. LANCER GOING AFTER THE GHOST WITH THE FIRE EXTINGISHER LMAO

-this outfit is everything . anytime the show does an over the top cutesty pink outfit i WANT IT. it looks like shit I wear JKASDHF I HAVE a bow like that and a pink sweater. I need leg warmers </3

-SAMS GOTTA RE-HALF-KILL HIM??? thats fucked up. but also, he finally got his logo!! it took until s2!!! this episode was lowkey very fucked and I felt like it glossed over a lot. does sam have guilt about like. kinda KILLING HIM?? I know, he also agreed and walked into the portal. but. she made the choice to redo it SO quickly (even if it was because someone had to beat desiree) and danny, during their fight, brought up a lot of stuff sam's done in the past, meaning he was holding onto those memories and resentment was building. (I KEEP SAYING HE LOWKEY NEEDS THERAPY, BUT I THINK MOST EVERYONE IN THIS SHOW KINDA DOES) which...is a red flag? and then they didnt even GO to the party URGH I know she tried to make up for it, but it really felt like Sam fucked up and barely faced any consequences and got everything she wanted in the end. I KNOW it's a kids show obv they aren't going to go too in depth, and she undid the damage, kinda, but...I DUNNO how to articulate it but it rubbed me the wrong way.

-but on a note about desiree, her powers of wishes were STRONG ENOUGH TO ERASE NOT JUST THEIR MEMORIES, BUT DANNY'S POWERS?! fuck, if I was danny I'd be like, trying to make friends with her. I know they always have horrible side effects as most genie-granted wishes do, but...c'mon, I'd at least TRY to be like 'I wish no ghosts would hurt anyone in my town' or 'I wish vlad would lose his ghost powers forever no matter What and also forget about my mom' LIKE. SHIT DESIREE IS SO POWERFUL. rewriting reality powerful, basically!! appreciate her. respect her.

-aww, sam helping tucker pass the nurse's office so he wouldn't see because he's afraid of medical stuff? very sweet. I also don't like medical stuff, I've gotten a lot better at handling it tho. but seeing blood and needles still makes me feel lightheaded x_x

-FOLEY, BY TUCKER FOLEY. I want to make my own perfume, that's so cool. even if his first attempt isn't good, he's pretty consistently shown to have an inventor/entrepreneur streak in the show, so like. I can see him inventing or making something (or several somethings) that make him $$$ when he grows up :) proud of my creative son

-I know the 'creepy abandoned hospital on the edge of town' is a joke and the creepy hospital trope is so Worn Out, but in my town we actually DO have a hospital like that! my dad was born in it, but its not in use and hasn't been for, like, 20 years! it needs to be torn down but I think the city doesn't wanna pay the money. the inside is horrible, spray painted and broken glass and shit everywhere. but there's still like, rusty equipment and fucking DOLLS all over the place. the cops drive by it pretty frequently to make sure no one is like, breaking in. (because of water damage, some of the areas really aren't safe. also, asbestos, but people still go in anyway) but also, some of my town was used in a filming for a stephen king show. So it's lowkey spooky all over. just a fun personal tidbit :) to lead into saying, any hospital abandoned for any period of time is NOT safe to quarantine these kids in JKSAHDKF like I KNOW it's a ghost trying to do this, but NONE of these parents are even like, 'well, why dont we keep them in the regular, working hospital'....YIKES. this hospital looks pretty accurate to the one in town. grungy and spooky.

-fentons are tax evaders confirmed by jack's fear of being audited, lol no one is surprised

-ghost sickness via ghost bugs. horrifying concept. I actually expected it to be a new villain, not dr. spectra again! this is a very elaborate scheme. her new form rules, love the new costume. the way none of the bg kids seem to recognize her as their old school councilor. did we just forget about that completely?

-dash watching romance movies in the fucked up ghost hospital. same.

-'oh please, you're ghosts, do you have any idea what YOU smell like?' no, tucker, what DO ghosts smell like? I genuinely didn't know they would even have a smell, I actually want to know now.

-it feels like a while since we've seen jazz!! i was happy to see her again, even if she was a head in a jar for most the episode. I want another jazz-focused ep!!

-we finally see danny doing space-related stuff!! him and his friends stargazing to open ep 3 of s2. cute :) until, GHOST PIRATES!!!!! ...ghost pirate captain is a small child?? VOICED BY TAYLOR LAUTNER???

-oh, the easy listening is ember's song instrumental slowed. 'vapor drone' THEY VAPORWAVED HER!!! ember in a pirate outfit tho >>>>. and the cruise being called m.bersback JKASDHJK. ember adopting a little pirate brother is also pretty cute. concerning this teen and little kid have such bad opinions of adults, like, who hurt you?? (how did you DIE ALSO?? im always lowkey curious about that. we know desiree died at an old age, but her ghost form is young, probably mid-20s, so I wonder how that sort of thing works...its a more mental thing, isn't it?) but ghost team-ups are always cool to see, even if ember bailed after danny took her guitar. I guess she probably thinks youngblood can handle it (which, he's been owning danny this far in the ep, so...fair)

-tucker got that sponsorship from nasty burger for their radio!!! again, opportunistic money maker king, love to see it!!!

-danny taking control of the kids SO FAST. he makes a pretty great leader. no one is surprised, im pretty sure I said I think he's the most mature of the trio, once again, correct, because he's taken on so much responsibility already. all the teens suiting up in the jumpsuits to go save the adults and taking the ship over with a BLIMP. OKAY LETS GO. this feels like it should be a mid finale or straight up finale.

-...speaking of finales. why is ep 4-5 of s2 combined into a 50 minute episode? I havent even clicked play and im concerned. weird placement, like, this season JUST started and we're getting a two parter? okay...why are the episodes placed like this? why not put this at episode 10 or something, for a mid-season thing?

-this is also a cute dress. possibly my fav dress so far. can her parents give ME cute dresses, I'LL wear them.

-it turns out the castle fright knight was in is called pariah's keep and there's something worse than fright knight in there! lovely! fuck off vlad wtf are you doing <3 your hubris <3 is going to literally get you killed <3 'ring of rage' and 'crown of fire' are great names tho. ...vlad turning into a super polite guy when he was scared of mr. pariah was hilarious. and fright knight doing the same...I mean, it makes sense, he's a knight, he serves a king? happy to see fright knight again either way :) vlad telling him to call him tho, lmfao. you WISH HE WOULD. (I wish hed call me, too. 😔)

-so...jack being genuinely concerned about vlad...maddie really didn't tell him what happened at the cabin, did she. damn. if I was her id immediately come home and be like 'YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS SHITTTT THIS CREEPY GUY--' like, I feel like that stuff you need to tell your partner!!! I know she didnt want Jack to think she was an irresponsible parent putting danny in danger at that time, but STILLLL. maddie spilling boiling tea on him. get his ass. how is jack this oblivious to his wife's discomfort with vlad!! ughhh

-fenton wipe (tm). trademarked toilet paper.

-DANNY AND VALERIE BEING FRIENDS??? :D that was a cute moment. 'hey val <3' and 'if you like him like him, make a move, or someone else will ;)' at sam...damn!! I love her. valerie go for it girl!!! I hate how sam and tucker treat val also, like I GET IT YOURE PROTECTIVE AND DONT TRUST but if anything him befriending valerie will help when she finds out or he tells her like I feel like she'll be more understanding that they think! ALSO I feel like her reason for not liking ghosts is valid, like you haven't really explained the full story to her anyway! she doesn't seem to have any other friends after being booted from the a-listers so im like :( but seeing them kick butt together again was nice <3

-the ghosts all RUNNING FROM PARIAH DARK IS NOT GOOD, I thought he sent them to attack or something, but no. why doesn't someone just tell desiree 'hey i wish pariah dark would die' lol. once again I think she can solve every problem <3 but seeing all the enemies in one place, being civil and hiding together? love it.

-you just know danny's gonna have to clean up vlad's stupid mess. also, jack being willing to put on the ectoskeleton pants to help maddie, as soon as vlad heard it could kill him, he suggested jack do it instead of helping maddie himself? this is why jack got the girl, my man.

-ghost skeletons. how do you end up as a skeleton ghost in your afterlife instead of a humanoid like most the ones we've seen? lmao

-the ghosts just making new homes in various stores. I'd totally be setting up in an expensive clothing store if I was a ghost.

-valerie's dad is possibly the most useful adult so far, with that ghost shield expansion!!! and valerie saving vlad and danny, even tho shes been thru it already, shes still so good!!! this family rules.

-danny: *gently caresses valerie* :)

-*then he immediately TELLS HER DAD ON HER. and his first response is 'are you okay?' :'( such a good dad...

-*me every time fright knight breathes* youre doing SO great sweetie :)

-the fenton suit thing is so silly looking. does anyone take this thing seriously

-ALL THE GHOSTS FIGHTING WITH DANNY <3 AAAAA. and the fact that pariah isn't perma-defeated, but just locked away again. yikes. he'll probably get out again, won't he? it wasn't too clear, but if vlad DID make a pact with fright knight, I am rabid. I will beat vlad to death with the fenton bat (tm). YOU DONT DESERVE A COOL KNIGHT.

-valerie being direct with sam and challenging her? kinda love that, even tho I normally don't like 'catfight' type situations. because sam has been very passive aggressive about it which is annoying. valerie knows wtf she wants and wasn't even embarrassed to tell sam, but she did tell her, giving sam time to make her own move! and sam denied it and got embarrassed/mad! and sam did have a chance when danny was about to go off and fight, and she hesitated and didn't tell him. I feel like she's hesitating because they're friends and it might make it weird between the trio (poor tucker would be third-wheeling) but if u snooze u lose, u gotta GO after what u WANT girl. smh this is a No Tsundere Zone. 😤

[m1k3y-m1k3]

gonna ramble abt the funtimes//sister location rq

funtime freddy;

f. fred was weird to say the least

he /was/ rlly nice at day and when he wasn’t trying to kill me

really liked hugs - think huggy wuggy lvl shit

could not spell ‘bon-bon’ for the life of him

literally spelled it ‘bawn-bawn’ because that’s how he says it

honestly? was probably gay for f. foxy /hj

( regarding that they were always together when they could be )

he/they were what they preferred

bon bon;

rlly wanted to be on his own

dude /always/ got thrown

^ had to be fixed 90% of the time lmao

HATED the babs with a PASSION

was actually nice to me - mainly cuz he didn’t want to get thrown anymore

often argued w/ f. fred

he/it/they i think?? idk i usually used he/him 4 them but ik the other technicians used it/it’s sometimes

funtime foxy;

didn’t talk. like at all? it was rlly odd - becuz they did talk to kids, just not to me? or any other technicians for that matter

opened and closed the curtains a lot (in their cove)

often crashed into walls ( had no depth perception )

very clingy

what’s the gender neutral version of a himbo? that’s what they were.

if they’re weren’t in their cove they were w/f. fred. no exceptions

they/them. would allow smaller children to use binary pronouns but i don’t think they liked it much

now we get into the two where my mems r. weird

welcome to my dysfunctional family, starting w/my mother

ballora;

( i’ll probably make another post about her as my mom but these r her as ballora )

i think she could open her eyes? she just. didn’t most of the time

taught the kids ballet when she wasn’t on the job

adored rlly upbeat pop music

could tell the difference between 4bu$3d/n3gl3ct3d kids rlly easily - and she told me specifically

was a rlly good listener in the sense that i vented to her

was the mom of sister location and she knew it

could tell the difference between technicians just by their footsteps

called me ‘mr benedict’ it was rlly sweet

she/her 100%

baby;

i don’t have many mems w/baby specifically; i tried to avoid her

i do have a lot with scrap baby but that’s besides the point

her movements were really stiff while on stage - very robotic; unlike everyone else

was the unofficial leader of sister location

she didn’t do well with big groups of kids or one kid in a room w/her, unless it was an audience

repeated herself a lot ( ex: ‘you won’t- you won’t die..’ )

kids always tried to grab more ice cream from inside of her, it was so annoying to fix

her nose honked

she/her? maybe she/they? not sure

lolbit;

lolbit was okay

it was this weird ass computer program - i think it was a glitch

i didn’t see it much, my laptops were protected

i do know that it occasionally controlled old animatronics and would beg me to fix them

it was… actually really nice

big prankster, often showed up when i was doing something

talked really glitchily, but it sounded rlly cool :]

any pronouns but preferred it/it’s

yenndo;

once again, didn’t see him much

it was an endo that was controlled by a computer program; similar to lolbit

couldn’t talk

blended into the walls and doors all the time, like i would bonk into him

couldn’t get broken and couldn’t get fixed

didn’t make any expressions but you knew when it was angry or judging you

he/it, ik that for sure

bonnet;

oh my god she was so annoying

bon-bon had a crush on it

i didn’t see them around? like at all? i think she lived in the vents

i could pick it up and squeeze them like a plushie

would show up when i was in parts and services working on bon bon i think she liked him too

didn’t talk to me but she sounded like a freakin’ valley girl

would help us reach low down places

she/it/they

i doubt ‘ll do ennard; i don’t remember him pre-that night

[love-fireflysong]

Day 5: Storm

Fandom: Until Dawn Character(s): Josh Washington, Chris Hartley, Ashley Brown, Sam Giddings, brief appearances by Hannah and Beth Words: 2164 Rating: M (Mortal Kombat fatality descriptions, it only the second paragraph though I swear) Author’s Notes: Holy shit. Day 5 you guys. 1/6 of the way through and I can’t believe I’m still somehow managing these. I didn’t think I’d make it past day one honestly. Timeline wise, I’m imagining everyone circa 2011-2012 range in this so keep that in mind. Also that I have never once played the Mortal Kombat games in my life.

“I seriously cannot believe that you’re doing homework right now.”

The wind howled outside as Josh lounged on one of the couches in the main room of the lodge, PlayStation controller in hand as he just stared disappointed in the direction of Ashley. Who, true to his word, was currently working on what looked like her English homework at the coffee table.

“I mean, c’mon Ash, it’s our February break! I was nice enough to invite you and Chris up my swanky family lodge—” the sound of the a deep voice interrupted him with a cry of ‘Finish him!” and he returned his attention to the TV with a cry of horror. Just in time to watch as Chris’s character called up a double and both grabbed on to Freddy Krueger’s legs and pulled. The lodge now filled with the sounds of a bones cracking and breaking as the body was methodically ripped in half with shower of blood. Chris had the gall to actually snicker from where he was sitting next to Ash on the couch. It wasn’t nearly enough to cover the taunting ‘Noob Saibot wins. FATALITY!’. “What the hell, Cochise? That wasn’t fair!”

Chris shrugged as Ash shook her head in exasperation and a vague expression of disgust. “Not my problem, man. Should have been playing closer attention to the game. All’s fair in love and war.”

“Love my ass! You cheated. There was no way that Noob could ever beat Freddy in a fair fight and you know it! I demand a rematch! But first,” Josh turned his attention back to Ashley. “Do you have any idea of the things I had to promise Beth in order to convince her to give me her friend invite? I have to be her personal chauffeur for the next month and this is how you repay me? By doing homework?”

“This report is due next week, Josh! You may be able to not care about any of that, but I certainly do. I can’t afford to fall behind!” Ash made a wide sweeping arc with her hand, Chris frantically grabbing at the pen clenched within before she almost stabbed Josh in the eye with the end of it. “Wait. What do you mean you had to beg Beth?”

“Parents’ only allowed each of us a single plus one. Not important.”

Chris took over for Josh, almost like they had planned it. “Exactly. What is important is the fact that there is no way you can fall behind from being late on a single book report. What, you scared you’re 4.0 is going to drop into a terrifying 3.9?”

She shoved at Chris and tried to steal her pen back, but he was holding behind him out of her reach. “Not funny Chris. Only reason I was allowed to come was if I promised to finish all of my work before we got back.” The two of them began to play an entirely childish game of keep away with the pen, Chris appearing to lower his guard before yanking his hand away just out of reach and Ash scowled as she started to practically climb over him. “Seriously Chris, give me back my pen.”

“You’re gonna have to take it from me Ash.”

“Oh my god, what are you? Five?”

“I know you are, but what am I?”

Next to the both of them Josh debated on giving Chris a hand for roughly five seconds before turning back to the game, intent on giving him a taste of his own medicine. Maybe with the boiler? He wasn’t sure yet, the pit of hell was always a goodie after all. He would unfortunately never be able to find out what his choice would have been though, as with a loud bang from outside, the electricity went out and entire lodge was cast into darkness.

There was two shouts and a scream from the couch (and no, Josh was definitely not the one scream, no matter what Chris and Ash would say later) and Josh frantically dived to the coffee table in front of him. Blindly, he smacked his hand around on the tabletop until he finally found the familiar rectangular shape of his cellphone. Sighing in relief, he turned on the flashlight function and moved the beam towards the others.

“Alright, I think that the wind may have blown out one of the power lines nearby and—” he paused a moment to simply take in the image in front of him. It seemed that in response to the sudden outage. Chris and Ash had grabbed at each other in surprise. Except since they had been fighting only seconds before, she had ended up straddling his lap with her arms around his neck, while he had his arms wrapped quite firmly around his waist. If there had been any space between them, it was purely microscopic. “Well, if I knew that a simple power outage would be enough to finally drive you into each other’s arms, I would have done this ages ago.”

With the phone quite literally casting light on their situation, the both of them seemed to realize their position and they frantically began to push away from the other with apologies and burning faces. Except in their struggle to try and untangle themselves, they both managed to fall off the couch with a surprised yelp, thankfully missing the coffee table in doing so.

“Well, I’m going to go and check on the girls, make sure that they’re alright. Once you two lovebirds figure yourselves out, try to find some candles or flashlights or something.” With that, Josh stood up among the embarrassed stammerings and frantic fumbling and walked towards the stairs. He stopped, and turned his head to yell over his shoulder, “Oh and try to find something to start a fire with, and some blankets. There should be some in the linen closet by the storage room. With the power out, the heats gonna be out as well.”

He walked up the stairs, catching the way the both of them practically ran in opposite direction of the other with an unrestrained snort. And ran into Sam once he reached the top of the stairs on his way to Hannah’s room where he had last seen the blonde and his sisters. Though he squinted painfully at the light from her own phone’s flashlight shining directly into his eyes.

“Jesus Christ Sam, lower that a little will you? I think one half-blind Washington is more than enough for this family thank you very much.”

“Josh? Oh, right. Sorry.” Dutifully, Sam lowered the beam coming from her phone. “Is everything okay? I heard a scream coming from downstairs.”

“Hmm? Oh, yeah, that was just Ash.” Josh shrugged nonchalantly. “You know her, easily spooked and all that.”

“Uh huh.” Sam said slowly with disbelief and looked over his shoulder, and was surprised to not see Chris and Ashley right behind him. “And where are Chris and Ashley now?”

“Well it’s quite simple. You see, in the darkness they flew into the other’s arms and got so caught up in each other that they fell off the couch.”

“Uh huh,” Sam repeated again, with impossibly even more disbelief. “Sure. Whatever you say Josh.”

“Sammy, is that disbelief I hear in your voice?” Josh placed his unoccupied hand onto his chest scandalized. “I swear to you on my third aunt four times removed grave —bless good old Aunt Prudence’s soul— that every word I have just said is one hundred percent true.”

Sam rolled her eyes but even in the low light from his phone, he caught the growing smile on her face. “Okay, okay. I get it. What are you doing up here anyway?”

“Just came to check on you and my sisters. Make sure that Beth didn’t strangle one of you in fear, really.”

“Well you’re not wrong about that. I just managed to pry her off of Hannah before I ran into you. Though I think it was the blood-curdling scream from downstairs that got her if you ask me.” Sam turned to stare out one of the windows nearby on the second floor and frowned. “Jesus, that blizzard really came out of nowhere didn’t it? Did your parents make it back from town yet?”

Josh looked over her shoulder and was surprised to see nothing but a thick sheet of white blocking his vision from seeing more then a foot out of the window. “No, not yet. They’re probably just gonna spend the night at a hotel or something until the storm clears up enough for them to make it back up here.” He turned to look back at Sam. “Speaking of, I think that there’s a couple of flashlights or something up here. I think they’re further down the hall towards Hannah’s room. I’ll help you look for them, but then I should probably get back downstairs. Make sure that Chris and Ash didn’t manage to knock themselves out by walking into a door or table in the dark.”

"They’re not really the most graceful of people are they?”

Josh sighed wistfully as he once again placed a hand over his chest, this time in extreme fondness. “Bless their dorky little hearts, but they are as awkward and clumsy as a newborn deer.”

“Well, lead on then. Bring me to these rumored flashlights oh great and all knowing one.”

With that, Josh spent the next several minutes with Sam helping her to locate and bring back the flashlights and extra blankets when they managed to find them. After confirming that his sisters were fine, if not a little annoyed that their brother had thought the need to check up on them, he recommended that the three of them sleep in one of the guest room’s on the main floor, as it was the only bedroom other than their parents’ that had a fireplace. He then had to spend another couple of minutes reassuring them that he would be fine, he would just spend the night sleeping in front of the fireplace in the main room with Chris and Ash. Then, and only then, was he was finally able to go back downstairs to confirm that neither of his best friends had managed to lose a limb by running into the sharp corner of a table. Only to stop at the bottom of the stairs and raised his eyebrows.

“Wow, I know that both of you have a weird idea of romance, but I think doing homework by candlelight is a little nerdy even for you two.”

Chris turned from where he was trying, and failing fantastically, to light a fire in the fireplace. “I told her that she was insane for doing it, but she refused to believe me.”

Ash turned to look at the both of them, eyes catching first on Chris before moving to Josh on the other side of the room. “I meant what I said earlier, I really need to get this report done.”

Josh groaned as he went to go over and help Chris out with the fire. “And I meant what I said too: we are vacationing in a ski lodge and you are doing your homework. You are a killjoy of the highest degree.” He and Chris fumbled with the fireplace for another few seconds and gave a shout in victory when a flame finally managed to catch onto the dry timber and newspapers.

Walking over to Ashley, he noted the quite frankly insane amount of blankets that covered nearly every surface of the couch and the pile on the floor. While he was relieved that they, or more likely Ashley, had figured out his plans, had they they looted every single bedroom in the lodge or something? He hadn’t even been aware that there were this many blankets in the building to begin with. 

He sat down next to Ash on the floor, Chris not far behind, and began to take away her papers, making sure that they were well away from candle flames. As much as he joked about getting rid of it sometimes, he didn’t actually want to burn any of it.

“What the—? Josh!”

“Ash. Ashley. Ash-oh-ley Bu-row-nuh. Let’s be honest here. Your kids are already gonna be getting terrible genes in the eyesight department, we don’t need to add yours to the mix.” Ash face’s colored a bit, but she let him remove and give the papers to Chris who carefully tucked them away.

“Now that that’s dealt with, you know what’s just the thing to do on a dark, stormy night when the power’s out?” Josh grabbed a flashlight from off the table and flicked it on, making sure that his face was cast in shadow from the beam of light, and gave a wide, toothy grin. “Scary stories.”

Honestly, the two pillows that came from either side to hit him in the head was just rude.