#i had a lot of shit to type jkhsdkjds

[svturn-exe]

y'all mind if i (spills unfiltered au thoughts all over the floor)

au where mark is a ghost who attaches himself to thatcher when he comes to check on mark after the school calls. mostly bc thatcher is the first real person he's seen in days, but he's conflicted bc (deranged hissing) c o p.

he sticks around just so he can knock thatcher's pens off his desk. maybe he starts fucking with the lights and doors and powerpoint presentations during meetings. generally just causing small problems on purpose

mayb one day he gets pissed off enough tht he throws smth bigger across the room & now every cop is staring at him horrified & o shit, he's visible now. he fades away back 2 intangible after a moment bc he surprised himself out of his own fit of anger & it's funny to watch the police panic thinking there's an alt. but thatcher is still like staring @ the spot where he was like he saw a ghost (ha) bc thatcher's the one who found his body & he knows who that is

n in the following days every time a pen gets swatted off his desk if he squints hard enough he can vaguely see the outline of a person. so he's being haunted by a dead kid he failed to protect, which is great and not at all soul crushing and miserable :)

maybe eventually he just like. buys a ouija board and after a solid hour of mark flinging the planchette around with reckless abandon out of sheer pettiness they finally have a conversation

somehow this leads to thatcher going to cesar's house? i guess? bc he's investigating the alternates or w/e and hey. no better place to get leads than a literal victim as awful as that sounds

cesar is a poltergeist in his house, raging bc his mom died :( + he got got + the alt is going after mark next!!! maybe doesn't realize he's already dead? or not fully lucid, anyway. he's definitely at least a little fucked up bc the alternate stealing his face

thatcher almost gets his shit folded by a delirious ghost but eventually mark is able to get cesar to calm down a little & he goes and wails in the corner bc mark is dead :( & thatcher is just awkwardly there w/ scratch marks like. this is fine

n then he can get the security cam footage n everything and mark is ghost depressed and not throwing thatcher's pens across the room with as much enthusiasm

when thatcher & ruth are in th house responding to the "home invasion" together thatcher doesn't notice the alternate silently trying to merc ruth behind him but mark definitely does and he just starts throwing shit and making as much noise as possible & gets both ruth and thatcher's attention. so ruth lives which is fun :) she's traumatized but that's ok everyone in mandela county is

poltergeist ces somehow tracking thatcher down & he's just losing his shit b4 mark and thatch realize he's trying to tell them something but is generall just too Generally Fucked Up to communicate well & it takes a few false starts w the ouija board for him to tell thatcher that there are two teens at his alternate infested house and one of them has gone into the basement, which is a VERY bad idea

jonah's spirit is in the car he and adam stole & he's just not having a good time. thatcher finds him first and takes a sec to investigate bc he's gotta and ends up w a wailing ghost attached to his sleeve just kinda screamin abt how he left someone named adam behind and thatcher has to help him

adam is injured and traumatized, but still mostly alive, which is great. jonah chills out a lil but is still kinda inconsolable. adam can see the ghosts bc he had a close call there & is just staring @ mark bc dude. how r u a l i v e rn. he's super not alive he's a ghost

that's all the thoughts i have so far ok bye