#im glad people like it when i brain vomit onto a tumblr post because this shit is right up in my brain and it's not going anywhere

[needsmorewlw]

Heya!

I know you're open to discussing various ideas and aus for the Quarry crew, so thoughts about this little idea that's been floating in my mind for quite a while?

The events of the game go normally, every counselor survives and whoever is bitten gets cured when Kaitlyn kills Caleb. Everyone, but Dylan, who got bit by Silas.

Ryan, Laura and Travis find Silas but a bit later then in the game. They hesitate before shooting him for a bit too long (the end of the full moon) and he begins changing back before Laura panics and kills him.

Queue everyone thinking they're safe, Silas finally dealt with so there's no worry about him running around and infecting other people, even if he was technically killed at the cusp of full moon and the dawn of the next day.

Then a month later, they learn that Oops! Dylan is still infected and also Silas was killed too late so it doesn't count as a cure, and since he's dead, there's no way to help our boy.

Also interesting to think about would be if there were any changes to how the werewolf curse worked if murdering your higher up on the chain was done literally between forms. Maybe, for example, the changes Dylan experiences are slower and more painful, but also he's not as aggressive as the beast.

Just wanted to hear your thoughts and maybe any ideas how others would react knowing there's nothing they can do to fix it?

Anon you've genuinely blown my fucking mind and I also think you've just unveiled yet another massive plot hole in the lore of this game but let's dive in anyway because I'm hooked.

I hadn't considered how the entire "you have to kill them during the full moon to cure the people they've bitten" thing can be completely boned by them dying on any other day. Because that would mean the next in line becomes the new top of the chain and can't be cured. Which is TRAGIC but I'm so into it. Plot hole? More like angst hole. For me. I'm in it and I'm thriving.

I *deep breath* fucking love that Dylan was bitten by Silas. It fits my agenda of his werewolf form being bigger and stronger than the others 😩😌🤌💕💕💕💕💕💕

The first I'll say about this wonderful ask; is that as we've seen in The Quarry, the change is instantaneous. It's a split second blink-and-you-miss-it blood explosion. There's no bone cracking mid-transformation like other werewolf movies and shows. There's no "between forms" just human and werewolf.

I really tried to think of a way where this part of the headcanon makes sense but I'm drawing blanks. I'm gonna dive into the hypothetical anyway because who cares about this flimsy canon lore amirite?

But like say for example, Laura shot him, then right before Silas dies from the silver bullet, the sun rises and he pops like a werewolf balloon THEN he dies. He technically died in his human form from a shotgun wound to his back, not the silver. I'd say in that specific scenario, it just falls under "oops you were too late lol" and doesn't cure anyone because the full moon had officially ended when he died.

I do get where your beautiful head is at anon but I think if Silas changed back from the sun rising right when he died, by the law of the curse, the full moon was over and anything that follows would just be typical The Quarry werewolf stuff.

If it was like a Harry potter werewolf where you could shoot them when they're half transformed then yeah! Maybe anyone under Silas would be this weird half werewolf. And just to swim in this hypothetical pool for a moment; Yeah I think the transformation would be all fucked up and would maybe even happen not just purely on full moons 👀. Like Dylan gets stuck in an "infected" form, never fully going back to normal but also never fully transforming. He's just rabid 24/7. I cannot think of a way they'd fix that. Maybe over the years Dylan would learn to control it a little but more likely, he'd just go insane. This really feels like the "bad end" in a choose your adventure video game. Just everything is fucked and you cannot fix it.

HOWEVER THE REST OF THIS ASK IS STILL GONNA HAUNT ME UNTIL I TALK ABOUT IT SO LETS GO. Dylan being the new lone wolf? Absolutely fuck me up anon.

Ok straight up Dylan would absolutely know he hasn't been cured. The moment he tries to touch water to clean the werewolf gunk off him in the morning, he'd jump out of his skin. And damn...just like...imagine the mood in the lodge when he figures that out right? Everyone was so relieved it was over but nope. Immediate left turn back into Shitsville. Like there's this immediate shadow of helplessness that falls over them because there's nothing they can do.

I think Dylan's next transformation IS fucked up purely because he's the the new sole curse holder. Whatever Eliza (supposedly) did to Silas to turn him into a werewolf is now just Dylan's. I think he's even more aggressive and I think it starts to affect him the day leading up to the full moon.

Now I know Silas was a white wolf with red eyes because he was albino but what if Dylan's new werewolf form is white with red eyes 😌👉👈 think about it 😌👉👈 maybe I watch too much fantasy/SciFi but what if Dylan get a white streak through his hair? Ok I'm done.

Laura feels HELLA responsible. So does Ryan. Dylan's trying to keep it light for the sake of his own sanity but everyone can tell he's not ok. Laura just spirals all the way back to how if she hadn't dragged Max to the lodge a day early none of this would have happened. She's majorly deep in the self hatred. Meanwhile Ryan's just assuring Dylan that he's not going anywhere and he's gonna stay with him until they cure him 🥲🤸⚰️🪦

[I'm ignoring the canon epilogue of them all getting arrested for three months before the evidence clears them because that literally makes no sense if any of them are still cursed.]

But anyway. The evidence is enough for all of them to get cleared before the month is up and they're immediately brainstorming. All of them together because found family.

I wish there was some explanation on what the curse is specifically? Is it like the wendigos where it's the spirit of a monster, or is it like a magic spell kind of curse? Can the curse be broken by the same means it was brought into existence? Well in theory, Silas had to get cursed somehow. And that's their only lead to curing Dylan.

I'm on the fence about whether or not Travis would...care? Like half or potentially all his family is dead. It's entirely possible he would just see this as no-longer-his-problem. But I'd like to think he helps by just giving them all the info he has on Eliza and her show. What she did, if she was actually the cause of Silas turning in the first place. Anything at all. And I think he is pretty integral to discovering exactly how Eliza did it. Maybe I'm biased to all "Travis and his nine children" headcanons because there's nothing I love more than a grumpy old man looking after a bunch of teenagers.

I think they eventually figure out the means Eliza used to curse Silas but not before the next full moon where Dylan goes absolutely sick nasty werewolf mode. Like I said earlier, the sun ain't even down yet and he's already going nuts. He's covered in the black veins, his eyes are red his skin has gone ghostly white and his teeth are all hella pointy. And he's just unreachable mentally. Like fully, Dylan's not home right now, only his feral twin brother who tries to bite anyone who gets close to him. He can't even talk, it's nasty boy central.

They definitely used the lodge as their place of operation so they could lock him in the storm shelter which he probably breaks out of right when it's the most dramatic. Like before Abi or Emma does the final part of the incantation to hopefully end the curse and right when he's about to kill Ryan or Kaitlyn, it works, they cure him and instead of the blood explosion it's like when they're exorcising a demon in Supernatural™ except not as lame. Like this wispy black essence gets forced out of him, he turns back to normal and he passes the fuck out and doesn't wake up for like two days.

But anyway I'm done now. If anyone actually reads this, you're a real one. Hop into my DMs and let me pour out the contents of my brain onto your lap xox