#jaakoppi huotari

[koskela-knights]

Night In Deer Springs

[exhaling-dust]

Remedyverse's February Ficlet Challenge, the Masterthread:

(challenge based on @februaryficletchallenge's daily prompts!!!)

day 1: buckle up | survive: "The Failed Loop" (Alan/Alice)

day 2: everyone comfortable? | trapped: "Long Way Down" (Jesse & Trench)

day 3: park | nonverbal communication: "Same Endings" (Jaakoppi & Ilmari, the Huotari brothers)

day 4: highway | pirate AU: "Iteration no. 7" (Emily & Logan)

day 5: pack | accidental marriage: "<Engagement/Subjection>" (Jesse/Emily)

day 6: pay the toll | sedoretu AU: "Poetic License" (Zane/Alan)

day 7: pit stop | spy/secret agent AU: "Pre-Morphism and Glasses" (Jesse & Polaris)

day 8: breakdown | soulmate AU: "Underwater" (Alice/Alan)

day 9: deer in the headlights | picnic: "Come Home, Casey" (Saga & Casey)

day 10: playlist | making your own traditions: "Pages 100-103" (Darling & Dylan)

day 11: places to go | fairytale AU: "Lost Commercial" (Ilmo & Jaakko)

day 12: snack | historical: "Who is the good boy?" (Rose/Scratch)

day 13: wish you were here | dragon: "Missing Red Dot" (Dylan & Arish)

day 14: attraction | bodyswap: "Bureau Gossip" (Arish/Langston)

day 15: shoulder | disdain: "Merry Marriage" (Alice/Scratch)

day 16: [blank] is my copilot | poetic: "Iteration no. 13" (Logan & Mr. Door)

day 17: map | oath: "Continue" (Trench/Jesse)

day 18: tire | fake dating/pretend relationship: "I know you" (Tim & Mr. Door)

day 19: off course | longest Tuesday ever: "Amateurish" (Estevez/Rose)

day 20: souvenir | rivalry: "Me First" (Alan & Scratch)

day 21: crossing the border | superpowers AU: "Wait—why do I know you?" (Tim/Mr. Door)

day 22: museum | immortality: "It Lingers, Still" (Alice/Barbara)

day 23: oddity | theater/band AU: "Line of Succession" (Dylan & Alice)

day 24: vampire | werecreatures AU: "A Lone Poet's Bargain" (Zane/Saga)

day 25: horizon | crossover AU: "When Sky Dreams of the Deep" (Darling/Alan)

day 26: backseat driver | decorate: "Ol' Watery Blues" (Ilmo & Jaakko)

day 27: stay in your lane | scars: "State of Radiance" (Jesse & Trench)

day 28: hole in the wall | time loop AU: "True and Final Iteration"

and here's the entire work! with 10,492 words and 28 chapters, it is finally done : )

[spiderh0rse]

Notes on Yötön Yö. Long post, so the notes proper are under the cut. May add my own speculation in a reblog later :)

Opening text is the lyrics to the Sankarin Tango.

"Alex Casey as Aleksi Kesä" interests me. It does seem to be an direct transliteration, and in doing so, much of the meaning of either name is lost. Fairly usual for translations.

"Baba Jakala as the writer's widow" aside from obvious similarities to "Baba Yaga," this is more of a parallel to Barbara Jagger, and not Alice, as one might expect. "Widow" implies a marriage. Interestingly, "widow" also refers to a single word in a line. In professional writing, this is avoided.

The first bits of footage appear to be the final parts of the film!

Bright light signifies a transition between scenes, but it does exist diagetically for Kesä.

A figure in a deer mask opens the spiral door for Kesä, then disappears. They flicker onscreen in a similar way to Zane, in his scenes in the game.

Kesä entering the room prompts Alén to begin reading. Likely his own manuscript, possibly as he types. Most of what is said describes Kesä's experiences throughout the film. Most notable are mentions of a "lost fortune," Kesä arriving at his hometown on Midsummer's Eve, and a blurring of the lines between waking and sleep. Might explain how jumpy the film is.

There is a person, bloodied, mostly undressed, and twitching behind Alén's desk. It's hard to make out who he is in this scene, but a later one shows him more clearly. I believe this is Kesä, both on the floor and standing in front of the desk.

Alén partially emerges from the shadows he's been in. (Typing in the dark? He has a lamp, but it's been off.) All we see of him here is his face. Slightly bloody.

Kesä's windshield is thick with pollen in every place the wipers can't hit. The midsummer sea forecast is on the radio, but his signal seems to be poor. Adjusting it helps. The sign he passes reads "Kattilajärvi," which is a lake in Finland.

He also reacts to the scene transition light by lowering his sun visor. Reacting to it, but not thinking anything of it.

We briefly see Kesä in a dark void, holding what seems to be a suit jacket over one arm. Deer-masked figures approach him.

Ahti continues to have posters of himself on doors he's behind. Janitor's closets. This one is very slightly off-center. Kesä makes no verbal note of the poster, but looks confused by it for a moment. He does recognize Ahti.

Ahti also quotes one of Zane's poems, this one directed at Kesä. "Beyond the shadow you settle for, there is a miracle, illuminated."

Kesä left his hometown at least in part due to Alén and Jakala getting together.

Jakala agrees to join Kesä when he's done visiting and leaves again, but won't until morning, at least.

The dance is interrupted by multiple people in deer masks closing around Kesä. We can see flashes of later in the film, during the murder.

We arrive in the woods, in front of a group of six men. Five are dressed very similarly, with the remaining member of the group being Ilmari Huotari, whom is wearing a Kalevala Knights leather jacket.

Ilmari is telling a story to his companions about killing his brother. His group is enthused, but the mood sours at Kesä's arrival. Ilmari believes Kesä has done something that would want forgiveness.

Jaakoppi's death was meant to serve Ilmari's "master," whom we can safely assume to be Alén, but it failed in some way. Kesä is declared the "chosen one" for that purpose, instead. Ilmari doesn't know why.

At least two of the group takes a drink from a flask at roughly the same time. Given the one Jakala later gives to Kesä, this may have some significance. Hard to say.

"The knives are out" with a rattle? The last thing you'll hear? Likely a coincidence that this line coincides with the lyrics to the song Yötön Yö.

Another scene with Ahti. Drinking coffee, both him and Kesä. Ahti asks why Kesä came back, and he claims he didn't mean to, he just found himself there. He seems aware of being stuck in a story, here.

Ahti believes Kesä to be employed at the Federal Bureau of Control. This is not presently true. Kesä was fired from a different Bureau, I suspect the National Bureau of Investigation.

The master of the farm that Ahti works at "vanished into the night years ago," not long after Kesä left.

Ahti drinks his coffee på bit. That is the Swedish term. I'm unsure if there's a Finnish version of the phrase.

Jakala offers Kesä a flask with a clear liquid within. She seems to need him to drink the entirety of the contents, but whatever effect it has is nearly instant once he's drank it.

The chant this cult uses is "This is the ritual to lead you on. He returns and you in turn are locked in the room." when translated to English.

Scene cuts to the Writer's Room again. Alén has the angel lamp. We can see him a bit better with this light. He dresses less formally than Alan, but more than Zane. The only thing I find otherwise notable about his outfit is that his shirt is partially unbuttoned, exposing a bit of his chest, over his heart.

There's a scene transition without a bright light! Leads us to another scene with Ahti. He exposits about how Alén was lost in the darkness. "Reached too far."

Kesä admits he was afraid of Jakala when he left.

The next scene has Kesä driving Jakala around. Sankarin Tango plays on the radio.

A figure in a deer mask appears in the back seat of the car. Jakala doesn't seem to notice or care, even as Kesä reacts poorly.

The figure's necklace seems very cleanly made.

Kesä, crawling through the woods, throws up. There is a noticable chunk in his vomit, but it's hard to tell what it is, if it's important at all.

bisexual lighting turns on here <3

This seems to be not long after Kesä drank the liquid Jakala gave him, as he is still leaving afterimages when he moves.

Multiple figures in deer masks shove Kesä to the ground. Jakala and Ilmari unmask and begin stabbing him. Flashes of grey (smoke? clouds? Not dissimilar from the ones interspersing Scratch's jumpscares.) appear between their attacks. We are briefly able to see Kesä's body as it was closer to the start of the film, in the Writer's Room.

Alén is among the figures stabbing Kesä thrice, very briefly.

Alén seems to be compared to the Christian God very briefly (the cultists call "In the beginning, there was the word,") and then rises from a well, shirtless.

The "At last." "Thank you, my love." exchange is the same as one performed by Alan and Alice in AW2.

Kesä is in two places at once, both dying and at the edge of the clearing, unharmed and fully dressed, staring at the scene. He turns (to leave?) and is instead in the Writer's Room.

The thought of his situation being part of a spiral, not a loop, distresses him. It's not the hopeful revelation it is for Alan.

We see a final bright light, and very briefly, Kesä's body in the woods. Then the credits roll.

[ahti-the-janitor]

Tempted to go and fix mentions of Jaakoppi Huotari on the Alan Wake Wiki bc his name keeps being written as Jaakkoppi even though it's Jaakoppi (with one k).... I know it's such a small thing and idk if I should be bothered to fix it ahshdhf.

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👀Dlkfdslkj yess the angst 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽💔

From my Huotari bros whump request. It's about the Dark Presence corrupting Ilmari from Jaakoppi's POV.

The first time it happens, Jaakoppi doesn’t know how to react. After all, he never thought he’d find his brother on his doorstep at midnight with blood all over his hands and shirt and panic written across his face. “What the hell happened to you?” Jaakoppi says, all sleepiness gone from his system. At first, he thinks his brother might be hurt, trying to move closer to look Ilmari over, but his brother steps backwards, keeping distance between them. “’Mari?” he asks. Ilmari looks manic, tremors running through his system as he stares at him. “I, I need help.”

[koskela-knights]

AW2 characters as JellyCat plushies

Alan

Saga

Casey

Alice

Scratch

Zane

Rose

Andersons & Bob Balder

Ilmo & Jaakko Koskela

Tim

Estevez

Door

Mulligan & Thornton & Nightingale

Ilmari & Jaakoppi Huotari

Bonus Characters

Blum & Ahti

Cult of the Tree

Bookers

Darling

Jesse

Big thanks to @copiasmic for the idea and for picking Alan, Casey, Darling, Ilmo & Jaakko

[koskela-knights]

AW2 Characters & Emoji Use

AW 2 characters and how they'd use emojis or not. I think most of them would use the 🙂in a non passive-aggressive way but as a genuine smiley emoji.

Alan: :-) 👍 doesnt use them often

Saga: 😃😊😘❤️💖😏👍🏾👩🏾‍🦱🤦🏾‍♀️🎉🧂

Casey: doesnt use emojis but if he rly has to choose 👍👎😋☕️

Alice: 💡🔦😄👍☀️

Zane: 😘🤩🥳😏😈 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 💪🤓🍆💦🌀

Rose: 🤣😍😌😳🥵🥶😱🥺🤭🙄🔦👀💘💖💗💝 (i feel she would use a full range of emojis. Especially on her blog when talkin about Alan)

Door: 😎👊🏾👌🏾👍🏾👋🏾🤩😉

Tim: 🤠🙂👊😄

Estevez: 🙂😐✔️🔻🕓⚠️❓🆘📁🗓 but not frequent user either

Ilmo: :) ;) :(☺️😉🤓🤑🤠

Jaakko: :-) 👨‍🔧💙

Tor: 🧑‍🎤💥😎😑🤟💪

Odin: 😜🤩👊🤘🤟🎤

YY Ilmari: 🔪😐🩸😒😏:^) >:3

Jaakoppi: :-) :-( >:-(

[koskela-knights]

Koskela family & Language

Random thoughts and HCs regarding the Koskela family and their relation with being bilingual.

The Koskela brothers are raised in Finnish first and foremost. Finnish Watery residents still remain proudful of their heritage and try to pass on their culture and language to the new generations as much as possible

As the years progress, the brothers learn to adapt a more American accent. Mainly becos it grants them more social status becos society favours those who are more “integrated” and sound less “foreign”. For Jaakko, it’s another way of masking so whenever he is in Watery and more intimate locations, he lets go of the American accent

Jaakko’s partner was American.

Depending on whether his partner stayed with him for a few years, his partner would try to learn Finnish

For Cult talk, the brothers often switch to Finnish, especially around BF residents if it’s urgent and they cant wait until they’re alone. I HC Watery residents are in on their secret and most are part of the Cult to some degree

Jaakko tries to speak Finnish & Finnish culture to his kids as much as he can, but also still has to teach them English.

Depending on the partner AU, Jaakko speaks mainly Finnish and his partner English to the kid

Charlie goes through a rebellious phase and refused to learn more Finnish, smth he later regrets becos he cant always communicate with elderly Finnish residents

At school, the twins also learn that some people are xenophobic toward heavy accents, so they try to use a more American accent over time

With the kids being more connected to the world through internet, they do use English more often and often

I imagine Charlie and Charlene often struggle with their Finnish-American identities. With Charlie feeling more American, often wanting to be a “real” one but his surname “betrays” his heritage. Meanwhile Charlene as she grows older, wants to know more about her dad’s culture and the Koskela history

However, Charlie likes to use his Finnish to cheat in elementary and high school. He also likes to curse in Finnish

Ilmo sometimes experiences social “dysphoria” becos he is proud to be Finnish but having to subdue some of it in order to make money in some places. However, he tries to slip in his culture whenever he can (the Ahma business being the modt obvious, but he’d also talk about Finnish legens during adventure tours)

In dire or very serious situations, the brothers speak their mother tongue. Charlie and Charline do this less

Kalle and Liina are Charlie and Charline’s nicknames/baby names. Both Jaakko and Ilmo use these names, especially when they were younger. Jaakko sometimes uses these names when lecturing his kids

For Kalevala Day, performances in the Suomi Hall are done in Finnish but also get translated to English and Swedish

Ilmo likes to switch languages whenever he finds English lacking in vocabulary or when he doesnt know the right words in either Finnish or English

He and Jaakko easily switch languages but for the kids it’s not as smooth

Bonus Huotari HCs

Ilmari struggled the most with English

Both Huotari brothers speak Swedish as their second language

They both speak with a heavy accent, Ilmari not always being comprehensible in English so he often relied on Jaakoppi

The language barrier made work difficult at times but luckily there were other Fins and Swedes at the lumbermill who could translate official English documents and procedures to their fellow colleagues who didnt know English yet

As the Dark Presence gets a stronger grip on Ilmari, his paranoia skyrockets and he suspects everyone who speaks English is talking about him in a negative light

The language barrier prevented Jaakoppi to seek help when Ilmari became mentally ill (the DP influence) They did have a Finnish doctor in their small community but he couldnt help more either

(Also feel free to add ur own ideas, thoughts or bilingual experiences 👀)

[koskela-knights]

AW2 Mercenaries or Arcade Mode

Once again, imagining a Mercenaries (à la Resident Evil) mode or an arcade mode similar to AW:AN where you have to defeat as many Takens as possible.

You can play as multiple characters and/or teams: Saga & Casey, the Koskelas, the Andersons, Rose, Alan & Alice, Alan & Barry, the Deputies, etc. Each character has their unique weapon of choice besides a standard flashlight) + Selection of OGoA songs to play during the campaign! Co-op mode possible if you play as a team.

1 Characters

Saga & Casey: coffee consumption bonus: once they reach a certain level of coffee, their attacks are more efficient and quick. Casey is support and long-range. Will often throw Saga extra ammo or health boosters. Saga has a limited version of her vanilla game inventory. She still has her little charms that grant her mini bonuses

Alice: Alice has a photo camera with a bright flashlight option that can stun Taken for a few seconds which allows Alan time to shoot them at a blank point

Barry: has a distraction action where he can temporarily put up an Alan cut-out that can draw multiple Taken away from him and Alan. His Christmas lights give him a bit of extra protection vs others

Alan: this is dissonant to the actual game, but he could have a berserk/rage mode where Scratch takes over for a few seconds for a frenzy. Teamed with Barry he has the angel lamp to stun Takens in a short radius for a few seconds

Andersons: Odin uses an indestructible guitar as a melee weapon for close-range combat. Similarly, Tor might have a special hammer. Power-up moment: Odin blasts a deadly soundwave that can instakill Taken who get in a defined radius

Koskelas: Ilmo has a knife & Jaakko has a special shotgun. For long-range Ilmo has his sniper rifle. Beer consumption could work in similar way as coffee does for the FBI agents. Build up their special meter for a Sisu-boost unlocking a temporary melee combo attack against multiple Takens

Rose: has her customized rifle as her main ranged weapon and the angel lamp that has healing abilities. Actually it'd be funny if she has some pies she could throw to make enemies slip

Deputies: They could have a handgun for close(r) range and a shotgun for long-range combat. They could have a power boost where they turn into their Taken selves for extra damage

Tim: as an officer, he might have a few more fireweapons available to him. He has his PRS to summon another version of himself to temporarily help him fight the Taken

Estevez: has a basic handgun, some flares and maybe a special FBC device as her specialized weapon. I can imagine she might have special traps to temporarily trap Takens.

Huotaris: Ilmari uses a hunting rifle or shotgun while Jaakoppi uses an axe. Ilmari also has a berserk/rage mode that turns him into YY Ilmari where he'll use a knife for quick but very efficient melee attacks.

2 Maps/locations

Bright Falls outside

Bright Falls main street

Bright Falls woods

Cauldron Lake

Watery main road

Historical Huotari/Watery which has a black/white filter

Suomi Hall (with Ahti just vibing in the background, probably doing karaoke and unbothered by the main fighting stage)

Coffee World

Ocean View Motel

2 Items

Coffee or Ahma, depending on the characters as health items

Coffee: boosts stamina/energy

Ahma: increases speed

Karjalanpiirakat: increases health

Ammo: gun ammo & flash light batteries

3 Enemies

Depending on the map, enemies might vary (ex. Coffee World having CW employee takens, the woods have wolves)

Basic Taken

Wolf Taken

Taken Bruisers

Taken Floaters

Maybe there's a boss fight if you clear X stages/waves

4 Songs

The entire Old Gods of Asgard soundtrack of course! You can unlock Control songs if you've played as Estevez and Tim

Feel free to add your own ideas or characters in the reblogs or/and comments!

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Jaakoppi & Heikki

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Forest Saint

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Shadows & lighting practice

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Kalevala Bands AU x Social Media x their Fans

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Another meme collection

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Ilmo and Jaakko.

Jaakoppi and Ilmari.

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Happy Holidays Everyone

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