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[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

If House of Ashes was a full-length game (like Quarry and Until Dawn) and Merwin, Clarice, and Dar were playable survivors in addition to the main five, this is how I imagined their dialogue would be in the eclipse finale:

1) Nathan Merwin

When the alien vampires pop up out of the ground: “Oh, fuck off! Get inside now!”

When asking about the eclipse: “Can anyone fucking tell me when the FUCK does the sun come back!?”

If someone else asks and Eric or Clarice isn’t around to explain: “Do I look like I know anything about fucking space!?”

If Eric and Clarice are around to explain the eclipse: “Six fucking minutes? Oh, kiss my motherfucking ass!”

Random dialogue during the showdown: “Ah shit, I’m out!” / “Fuck this shit!” / “I fucking hate Iraq!”

The flares: “What are we supposed to do with flares?! Scare them to death!” / “I ain’t going out like a bitch…grab a flare and let’s do this!”

2) Dr. Clarice Stokes

When the alien vampires pop up out of the ground: “We can’t fight them with the eclipse underway! Just run!”

When someone asks how long the eclipse lasts and Eric isn’t around: “Uh…I believe we have six minutes!”

After explaining how long the eclipse is: “It’s six minutes, deal with it! So shut up and start shooting!”

Random dialogue during the showdown: “We’re gonna fucking die here!” / “Please, I just wanna go home!” / “Go away! Just go away!”

The flares: “Oh great, flares! At least we can see each other when the vampires rip us apart!” / “They’re afraid of light, we might have a chance. Light them up!”

3) Dar Basri / characters reacting to Dar

NOTE: Dar’s dialogue is unique since he doesn’t speak English. So imagine most of Dar’s dialogue in Arabic.

When the alien vampires pop up out of the ground: (in Arabic) “Get to the huts! Move it!”

When asking about the eclipse: (in Arabic) “How long will the eclipse last?”

If Jason is the other survivor: “English damn it, I don’t fucking speak Iraqi!”

If Nick is the other survivor: “Sorry bro, I didn’t understand a word you said!”

If Eric is the other survivor: “Sorry, my Arabic’s not too good. Just shoot at whatever’s coming our way!”

If Rachel is the other survivor: (in Arabic) “I don’t know! I’m not a scientist! But it should be only for a few minutes!”

If Salim is the other survivor: (in Arabic) “Maybe a minute? Five minutes? I don’t know!”

If Merwin is the other survivor: “Oh for fucks sake, I don’t speak terrorist!”

If Clarice is the other survivor: “Look, I don’t want to be mean…but I have no idea what the hell you just said.”

If Rachel or Salim asks Dar how long the eclipse will last: (in Arabic) “I don’t know, I never learned this subject!”

If anyone else asks Dar how long the eclipse will last: (in Arabic) “Fucking Americans, I can’t understand you! At least learn the language if you’re going to invade my country!”

Random dialogue during the showdown: (all in Arabic) “I survived the Americans, I’ll survive you monsters!” / “Damn it, out of ammo!” / “Go back to the pit you spawned from!”

The flares (when Rachel and Salim are present): (all in Arabic) “These are flares, not ammunition!” / “We will make do with what we got. We have no choice!”

The flares (with everyone else): (in broken English) “American…no ammo! Just flares!” / (in Arabic) “Come on American, we make do with what we’re given!”

[sargeantsarmy]

SALIM BIRTHDAY SALIM BIRTHDAY SALIM BIRTHD

Birthday boy bby boy I love him

[cranberrybanjo]

We are so back (part 1)

Bonus:

[mooninparadise]

Good Boy 🥺

I saw this meme and knew immediately it had to be these two.

[juicedbug]

replaying house of ashes for the bazillionth time, and I'm noticing how many times the game likes to pan over jasons body. they were whoring that man out from the beginning.

[cr33pypaper]

[incorrectsibunaquotes]

Mr. Sweet: Today I finally realised I'm just plain old.

Mrs. Andrews: What happened?

Mr. Sweet: I slipped and fell on something, and instead of laughing, Alfie and Jerome came running to see if I was alright.

Mrs. Andrews:

Mr. Sweet: I saw fear in their eyes.

[hauntedcheesecakewizard]

House of ashes "until dawn" au ideas.

The team got shipped off to a mountain holiday destination by CENTCOM to keep them out the way as they cleaned up what happened in Iraq. They say its to reward them for their discovery and to calm their minds. Then, they run into more monsters.

Probably doesn't follow the full plot of until dawn, but I can just imagine how pissed off they'd be at the idea of being sent to somewhere with more monsters.

"Come to America, you said. It'll be calming, you said."

"Salim, I swear to god..."

I'm basically turning the House of Ashes characters into a strike force for the supernatural, lol. Vampires, werewolves, and wendigos galore.

[ultrabananapudding]

In which Salim visits America for the first time and the Marines makes sure to give him a very warm welcome.

Based on this audio that has completely overwritten my speech pattern this past week.

[ambersgiantpanda]

"And as for you, miss Williamson, you will copy down that Periodic Table one hundred times before tomorrow!"

Do you know how much time it takes to copy down a periodic table one hundred times? No? Well, I do, because I did it.

16 hours, 54 minutes and 7 cups of coffee. Period.

Why did I do it, you may ask? Was it the detention I also got in school like Patricia did? No. I did it fucking VOLUNTARILY...

So, here's the deal. I am writing a story based on season 2 of HOA to later post on AO3 when it's ready, and I was like hmm... How much time it took Patricia to actually do it?? Because she really did it, she really wrote it one hundred times for Sweetie. Well, there's no time like the present to find out!! Right? Right!

And just like that I ended up sitting for 17!!! fucking hours at my desk, actually copying the periodic table one hundred times to get the timing right for the story. (Sponsored by insomnia, procrastination in terms of actually writing the story, and loads and loads of coffee)

I don't need you to tell me that I'm crazy, cause I really am, I figured it out a LONG time ago, somewhen in the fourth grade when I've plotted a multilayered lie, including three completely different stories I told my mom, my teacher and my principal, to avoid participating in the school concert and got away with that, but still, was this too much?

Am I going completely and utterly insane or am I just devoted to my work?

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

Imagine: “House of Ashes”, but as a full-length game along the lines of “The Quarry” and “Until Dawn”

1) THE PLAYABLE CAST

a. Kurum and Balathu are still the prologue/false protagonists

b. The 5 leads return (Eric King, Jason Kolchek, Rachel King, Nick Kay, Salim Othman)

c. 3 additional playable characters: Nathan Merwin, Clarice Stokes, Dar Basri

NOTE: Just like all Supermassive games, everyone has a chance to live or die, depending on choices made by the player(s)

2) THE 10 CHAPTERS

0: Prologue (Ancient Sumeria)

1-2: Introduction to the main cast and the encounter between the U.S. Marines and the Iraqi Republican Guard.

3: Falling into the temple

4-5: The main characters start exploring the temple and realize just how bad their situation is

6-7: The survivors are forced to work together when they’re chased away by the Vampires. Chapter 7 ends with the “survive the assault” sequence.

8. The survivors make their way down to the lowest level, where the Vampire/Alien nest is

9-10: Showdown with the Vampire Aliens (escaping the temple and the eclipse)

3) SURVIVABILITY/PLAYABILITY OF EACH PROTAGONIST

a. Kurum and Balathu will die regardless of the choices made. How they die, the other in which they die, and who returns as the Ancient One depends on the choices made by the player(s).

b. Clarice and Merwin have the least amount of playability and the most chances to die. Pretty much once the cast falls into the temple, Clarice and Merwin can die in every chapter they appear in. Also, they have the least amount of playability since they’re the most expendable of the cast. Think of Clarice and Merwin as the equivalent of Matt and Jessica in “Until Dawn”.

c. Eric and Nick’s survivability is tied together. In this new version, the player(s) can choose between Eric and Nick when it comes to saving Rachel with the rope. If both Eric and Nick survive, the story will continue as normal. If either Eric or Nick die, then the other is guaranteed plot armor until the final chapter. This is because Eric or Nick is needed to plant the bombs in the alien nest.

d. The earliest that Rachel and Jason can be killed off is Chapter 7 (the Gatling gun sequence). In this new version, either Rachel and Jason can be killed off during this chapter. If either Rachel or Jason die, then the other is guaranteed plot armor until the final chapter. This is because Rachel or Jason is needed to go on a life-changing journey with one of the Iraqi main protagonists.

e. The earliest that Salim and Dar can be killed off is Chapter 7 (survive the assault). But if either Salim or Dar die in Chapter 7, then the other is guaranteed to move on to chapters 8-10 due to the storyline. See above for Rachel and Jason’s survivability.

4) HOW THE FINAL 3 CHAPTERS CAN TURN OUT

If the player(s) have been making choices that led to the least amount of survivors going into the final 3 chapters, then only THREE main characters will be left:

1) Rachel or Jason. At least one of them needs to be alive to fulfill the role of the “ignorant American who is forced to partner up with the Iraqi soldier”.

2) Eric or Nick. At least one of them needs to be alive to fulfill the role of the one who plants the bombs in the hive.

3) Salim or Dar. At least one of them needs to be alive to fulfill the role of the “Iraqi soldier who has no choice but to rely on the ignorant American”.

So you can end up with the original game’s group (Jason allies with Salim, Nick plants the bombs) or something completely different (Rachel allies with Dar, Eric plants the bombs).

Side note: The American/Iraqi dynamic depends on who was teamed up with who.

* Jason and Salim relate to each other as soldiers who don’t really believe in their cause.

* Jason and Dar realize they’ve both been acting ignorant and that their hatred is blinding them to the real danger.

* Rachel and Salim relate to each other as broken people dealing with marital problems.

* Rachel and Dar relate to each other as leaders who just want to keep their people safe.

5) FANCAST (since Until Dawn and The Quarry feature prominent actors)

Ashley Tisdale as Rachel King

Nick Tarabay as Salim Othman

Charlie Cox as Eric King

Michael B. Jordan as Nick Kay

Ben Barnes as Jason Kolchek

Lewis Tan as Nathan Merwin

Katie McGrath as Clarice Stokes

Amr Waked as Dar Basri

6) MISCELLANEOUS

* The game’s equivalent to the Psychiatist and Eliza Vorez is the CIA Agent. The CIA agent is interrogating the player due to the fact that the CIA is trying to cover up the existence of aliens. Just for fun, let’s say the CIA Agent is played by Sigourney Weaver.

* Just like in the original game, if Jason is teamed up with Salim/Dar, then Rachel is infected. The same is in reverse (Rachel teams up with Salim/Dar, Jason is infected).

* Possible achievement: A Good Night for Iraq (only Salim and Dar survive)

* Possible achievement: Ladies Night (only Rachel and Clarice survive)

[sargeantsarmy]

Sorry just,,, hyperfixating on two things at once and making a storyboard-type thing for an animation ill definitely never actually make haha

[bucketbender]

HOA is the best game in the whole Dark Anthology Pictures series.

It just has so much the other games don’t have. Like ogres, it has layers. So many details for each character (like the « was Joey dead ? » post ? This shit is brilliant guys, please never stop investigating), the game gives them time to breathe, to exist outside of the horror, to be actual people instead of puppets that move around and react to stuff. Every relationship (even the love triangle, which pisses me off most of the time) feels genuine and earned.

For instance, just take the Checkpoint discussion scene. I know, out of all of them, I chose the most impactful one in the whole game. But there’s just so much to say about it.

First of all, the fact that Jason said this to Salim of all people. Salim. That random Iraqi soldier who almost shot him at the beginning and who he kept on threatening the whole game. The enemy of his state. The enemy of his enemy. I mean, we could be led to believe he would share such deep thoughts with his "official" best friend in the army, right ? Not to mention that Nick was there as well : out of all people, if there’s one person he should talk to this about, it’s him. But no. Every time Nick mentions the checkpoint, Jason shoots him down. He can have one moment to admit that this incident did mess with his head, saying that if they die down here, maybe that’s what they deserve, but that’s it. He refuses to talk about this any longer. Why should he ? It’s done. It’s over. They fucked up. Dwelling on it won’t make things right.

But then, after spending roughly two hours making his way down the place with Salim, slowly getting to know the human being behind the Iraqi, learning about his personal life that Salim isn’t afraid to share, his son, the only reason he fights, even as a single parent, how proud he is of him, how Salim just wishes he would stop stealing. How much he misses him. Only when Salim asks him if his conscience is clear, if he has anything weighing on his soul, now that they’ve reached the end of the world. Only then does Jason finally crack.

There’s just so much going on on screen. His voice wavering and breaking. The way he interrupts himself and Salim has to gently say « Tell me » to give him enough courage. The way he hesitates as the guilt of making the call weighs on him : « I order… I ordered her to stop, loud and clear ». The way he feels like he has to justify the way he called for the woman, to Salim and to himself, that he wasn’t really in the wrong for ordering Nick to shoot her. The way he just spills out that he joined the army out of desperation because his life was going nowhere. The way he laughs humorlessly at Salim’s try to make him feel better : « We all have our reasons, they don’t have to be profound ». The way he tells him how miserable and pathetic he was, stoned enough to only hear about the towers after a week later. The way he admits he has no idea what he’s even doing here, in the catacombs as well as in the army.

Salim assures to him that right now, in his life, he’s doing something worthy, something good : « You’re serving your country ». But Jason just summarizes this whole situation in a single thought : this woman had her whole life ahead of her, and they just took it all away with a bullet ; « I mean, what the fuck ? ».

But then Salim gives him a new goal, a present goal : hurt the vampires. Make these abominations pay for everything they’ve done. And Jason approves. Yeah, these things did try to kill them, didn’t they ? and they will pay for it. And you know what else ? « Start believing, Salim. We’re gonna get out of here and see the sun again ». And then, the Oorah scene. Jason just completely accepted Salim as one of his pack. (You see the meme « [BLANK] will now die for you » ? Yep that’s Jason).

In Nick, Jason has a friend. A great friend, even. Maybe a best friend. A brother in arms. A member of his pack. They often talk together and joke lightly. It’s obvious that they’re close. They are sincere towards each other, but there’s still this "toxic masculinity" thing going on with them. Jason not wanting to talk about his feelings // checkpoint, Nick telling Rachel if he dies down there, at least he would make things clear and go down « like a man », Jason calling Salim a pussy for not wanting to touch a freaking fossilized vampire, etc.

In Salim, he has a confident. The man’s a father, and a particularly reluctant solider. He didn’t want to serve in the army, he never had a choice in the matter. Salim has a perspective far larger than his, and Jason comes to understand this. This isn’t about the war. This isn’t about the Americans he’s trapped with underground. This is about going back to the surface to hold his son and celebrate his birthday. When everyone around him remains fixated on their war, Salim never loses sight of his own goal.

« Seeing the sun again » isn’t just literally. They were going to get out to find their purposes.

[cranberrybanjo]

I’m not taking constructive criticism at this point in time xx

Bonus:

[juicedbug]

ive been sick as a dog AND i got my piercing ripped out this week, but so help me god ill do part three of this jalim fanfic AAAGGGHHH

[cr33pypaper]

Bonus: Live Jason Reaction