#kollok driver

[aceofspaces16]

a stranger on a couch - a kollok fanfic

chapter 1 - "a strange man"

summery - when a strange man suddenly appers on mallory's couch, the kollok radar doesn't know what to do about him or someone kicked the driver out of the driver seat and now he is apart of the story he was telling

word count: 1144

This isn’t supposed to be happening 

Something is wrong 

The story is wrong 

What happened 

“Hey you awake yet '' Billy said looking down at the strange man lying down on the couch. He had tried snapping his fingers in front of the man but he was still asleep. He walked around the living room frantically wondering what he was supposed to do. 

“So none of you guys know who he is, isn’t he what, special like you guys” malloys voice can be heard from the far end of the room, scared at the strange man who just appeared on his couch. 

“No he’s not … not every random person has powers like us” mickey said sitting down opposite to the man, she had to go home soon her dad might be worried. 

Billy once again snapped his fingers rapidly in front of the man hoping for some kind of response but nothing came. 

The man had short blond hair that was brushed to the side and a trimmed beard, he wore a simple black suit with a white shirt and a black tie, his facial features were scarcely similar to Billy's, a bystander would think they were related. He looked to be around his late 20s to early 30s. He was barely alive, but his breathing was irregular. 

“What am I supposed to do? I don't have room for one more person” Malloy said, his voice getting shaker with every word said. 

“We’ll figure it out” Mickey said, attempting to comfort Malloy, he’s the one that's going to have to deal with it. 

“I’m gonna start shaking him!” Billy said walking back towards the man and his hands moving towards his shoulders, micky without missing a second ran up to Billy to hold him back. “Please, how else is he going to wake up” 

“I don’t think shaking him would work” “No, I agree with Billy, we need answers and he will probably give it to us,” Malloy added, wanting to see some results. 

Micey, fighting a losing battle, calmly let go of Billy as he rushed towards the man, lifting him up and rapidly shaking him. As Billy kept shaking him, the man's eyes slowly opened up until Billy was satisfied and dropped the man back onto the couch. The man is now fully awake. 

“See, I knew it would work,” Billy said, turning towards Mickey with pride in his voice. 

The man slowly sat up looking around him, rubbing the back of his head. He glanced at everyone present in the room until his focus was on Billy baker. 

“What did you do?” he said, his voice shaking, almost scared towards Billy.  

“Hey I didn’t do anything, your the one who just appeared on Malloys couch” billy said defensively 

“Roll- '' the man's mouth moved to reply but he stopped himself from saying anything. He moved into a more comfortable position as he wrapped his arms around his body while looking down at the floor as his mouth curled in on itself. 

“So um hey, I’m Malloy Jenkins you might have heard of my dad, you seemed to have appeared on my couch” Malloy moved slowly closer towards the man hiding his fear within his voice. 

The man kept looking at the floor and back to the people in the room and back at the floor, making no attempts to continue the conversation. He kept trying to move his body back, trying to hide from the curious eyes of the group. 

“So … um what's your name?” Malloy continued talking. 

Hearing the direct question, the man quickly looked at Malloy, looking surprised at the question. His mouth slowly opened but closed as quickly as it opened. 

“I- don’t know” was all the words the man could muster. 

“Do you know who you are?” Billy asked, wanting to contribute 

“I do but…” the man stopped himself from saying more. 

“Man this is too weird, I mean a guy just appeared in my living room” Malloy walked backwards visibly showing how scared he was of the man. 

“I got it, what if we give you a name” Billy interjected, killing the silence. This idea had gotten the man’s attention as he looked surprised at Billy's comment. 

“I do not need another name billy baker” the last part slipped out of his mouth, as now Malloy’s full attention was back at the man and Billy took a few steps away from the man. 

“How do you know my name?” realising his mistake, he looked back down onto the floor struggling to speak.

“It's hard to explain, but I know more then you would think” 

“How!?” 

“I can’t explain it” 

“Don’t worry i’ll believe you” the man's eyebrow raised at Billy's response, curious about Billy's reaction. 

Billy has seen a lot of stuff. If anyone was going to believe this strange man it would be Billy or anyone apart of the kollok radar, there was stuff he had never considered to exist until the radar was formed.  

“I know what you have been through, all of you, Malloy, MickEy, Embeth, Laura, I am not someone you should be afraid of, I know your story Billy Baker” his words came out like fiction, the group didn’t know what to think, if he was even telling the truth or not. They weren't expecting the man to know their names, Billy took a few steps back and Mickey moved to be next to Billy hovering over him.  

“And why should we believe you?” Mickey chimed in, confronting the man in a defensive state, she moved closer to the man almost towering over him, as if Billy and Malloy left the room.  

“I understand how you wouldn’t believe me, but please, something is wrong and I need your help” the man begged, he begged to the group. The previous fear from the group changed to confusion, as micky gave the man some room to breath   

“Well you came to the right place sir, the Kollok radar is the best help you can get” Malloy said with pride, not understanding how serious this situation is. 

“Guys we shouldn’t trust him, not yet” Mickey said, turning towards Malloy, slightly forgetting the man was still in the room.   

“I understand how you wouldn’t trust me but please I need help. I don't know who else to go to” the man said with a hint of disgust like the sentence itself was unknown to him, he looked back down at the ground feeling his mouth with his hand. 

At this moment Malloy moved towards the man and Mickey took a few steps back, they were speechless. They gave each other a look as micky mumbled something under her breath and pointed to the hallway. 

“Excuse us for a moment” Mickey said, the man didn’t have time to respond as they all ran down the hallway.

A.N i had this fanfic in my docs for a while and now that i see that people are actually interested in kollok stuff, why not post it, its not beta read cause we die like men in this house, anyways so the chapter list might be all over the place so please don't mind that i have no idea what i am doing, anyways i will try my best to keep this upload regural but i will try

[jackaycola]

let him get up.

[payton-bagel]

Gender: Driver

Pronouns: any/all

Assigned at birth: M (stands for “Mallory”)

[utilitycaster]

ok we are 10 minutes into kollok and i am straight up not having a good time but I am going to commit to this hour of watching. to keep myself from losing it i'm going to do some very irritating stream of consciousness on this post and post it at the end, nonrebloggably so as to not yuck any yums (though feel free to go wild in the replies). also I need to point out: I don't have misophonia. I have openly and repeatedly said I think the Sam Riegel ASMR ad is not just inoffensive, but actively very funny and enjoyable. The sounds on this show are setting my teeth on edge. I hate it. also for the intro the immersion is genuinely WORSE than say, CR or D20 because everyone's just reading prologues that they've written.

speaking of we're done with the prologues to the prologue and into the prologue, as demonstrated by the title screen and horrible noises.

I call this filter the "yeah I've got mild astigmatism and have taken mushrooms before, you're not special"

hmmm we're stuck in this fuckery for a while and i'm suffering so anyway folks i've made it so polygon will think CR is good:

the music is pretty good I will give them that. also this is literally not special though. like Zac just was like uhhhhhh math as any GM would say, he just was weirdly aiming for suaveness instead of like. normal.

All the profanity on this show sounds like a mormon or a ten year old who just learned the word "fuck" and is trying it out. as a woman who swears constantly i'm like what is HAPPENING. also this blonde woman who isn't on the show in the present day is rolling so hilariously badly. is this why she's not on. girl get out.

back to the present day; this actually is a really good industrial music video ruined by some actual play in the background

"zac, I'm going to command attention please"

"who's zac"

"sorry, driver" ah yes yes this is SOOOOOOO much more immersive i'm totally not making the jerk-off motion

i love u danielle radford you deserve better. although the actual RP now that we're in it is like, fine.

really i think a really significant problem is that this is the most 2014 YA-dystopia plot that ever plotted except as a core part of the premise, everyone is 30. I feel, honestly, that this is the other big issue in actual play that people at polygon obsess over that leaves me ice cold, (also? lots of fandom cold takes), but like...I was a HUGE sf nerd pretty much from childhood, and I think a lot of people came to actual play for a number of reasons not tied to the genres in which it typically exists (fantasy, science fiction, horror). This is fine but it means you get people who act like VERY standard genre conventions are either the most brilliant and original creation on earth, or utterly baffling. Anyway my point is that this is giving Divergent by Veronica Roth but it THINKS it's somewhere between Twin Peaks by David Lynch and the adaptation of the Handmaid's Tale and it's like no babe. you're Divergent by Veronica Roth. stop fronting like you're Twin Peaks. You're Divergent. By Veronica Roth. Which I read while stranded at LaGuardia over a decade ago.

lighting effects are fine honestly. reminds me of the Doja Cat 2020 MTV EMA version of Say So. Wish I were just rewatching that. rotating rock i love you. you are the best thing here other than danielle radford. I feel like I'm in a really fancy Spencer's Gifts. by the way I know i'm being pretty bitchy and incoherent here BUT I'm sober; let's hear it for Stupidly Bougie Soda and Nonalcoholic Spirits.

I'm also eating bean dip with a spoon. in my defense I made REALLY good bean dip and I don't have chips.

I just. other than the digital filter in the flashback I genuinely don't see how this is different than D20 except lacking in any charms and OH GOD THAT'S TIME.

but I want to add that like...the thing is Danielle (C-dubbs) was doing some wacky funny stuff and it felt like it was being shut down and to be fair I get wanting to stick WITHIN the genre but this whole thing feels joyless, and not like "oh, survival horror is so grimdark and sad", I am a tragedy enjoyer, but like. it feels...mandated.

Also this is weird and picky but for all of Those High Production Values (repeated direct quote from the Polygon article) they do a weirdly bad job of filming the die rolls? Like, they cut to the dice trays at the wrong time?

Finally, and this is just a pot shot at Polygon but they should stop making it so easy, but the article was like "I watched the 4-ish hour first episode and I didn't have a clue what was going on but it had Those High Production Values" and it's like...I was demonstrably fucking around on tumblr and in GIMP while watching and I have a pretty solid idea of what was going on. Maybe it goes nuts in the remaining 2.5 hours that I may chip away at to be able say I watched a full episode and decided it "wasn't for me" *smiles like I'm a waitress on Hell's Kitchen and Gordon Ramsey just asked me a question* but I think you might be dumb.

CONCLUSION: just watch the Doja Cat 2020 MTV EMA version of Say So, read Divergent (by Veronica Roth) (you don't have to be at LaGuardia) and like, check out Mentopolis or Misfits and Magic if you want to see Danielle Radford in a Kids on Bikes game that is good.

[isabelopaque]

i dont have the energy to rewatch it because its Long but god ill never get over kollok and how masterfully it portrays the trope of a haunting. rachel jewell is dead shes alive she was never real shes the end and the beginning shes in the walls of the house shes in the crevices of the storybook. mallory jenkins lived and died in the way he always knew he would not with a gunshot like his father but a slow descent and his suicidal tendencies finally giving him a way to help someone for the first time only to have to relive the story over and over. mallory jenkins forever nineteen, the driver, the storyteller, rachel jewell the ghost and the murderer. like do you get me

[posthypermodern]

Given its emphasis on stories, and its continued focus on the people who tell stories I’m really itching to see Neverafter get increasingly meta. Like KOIIOK levels of meta. 

I don’t think Brennan-as-GM, is also a character in the same way that the Driver is in Kollok 1991: this all-too-aware narrator that is endeavoring to guide the story to its natural conclusion.  Metatextually, the Driver knows that this is a game...kinda. I just think it’d be cool if Brennan pulled something like that. 

We already have characters like Scheherazade. Mother Goose. Aesop. Even the staffpeople within the Lines Between. People who are able to hold stories in a very real and tangible way. Brennan is essentially the same. But it’s in conjunction with the players that we have a table of co-authors. 

When you drop shit like the omnipotent “Authors” being these eldritch beings beyond the ken of even the liminal beings of the Lines Between you open up the possibility of some serious Death of the Author. It begs the question of how they might try and spin that on the table.

So much of Neverafter is in conversation with this existential question of free will versus determinism. Predestination and self-determination. It makes me think: what happens when they inevitably cross with the higher ordered powers of their universe?  

I’d love to see Ally in the GM chair. Hell, I’d love to see any of them in the GM chair just to bring it another meta-layer level deeper. Neverafter is a story about stories. Its Book has got to be in there somewhere.  

[grace4867]

I posted 10,059 times in 2022

That's 4,547 more posts than 2021!

46 posts created (0%)

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I tagged 595 of my posts in 2022

#kollok - 34 posts

#for later - 30 posts

#art - 20 posts

#my art - 20 posts

#artists on tumblr - 17 posts

#kollok 1991 - 14 posts

#digital art - 14 posts

#ttrpg - 12 posts

#maddy addy - 11 posts

#my oc - 9 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#and one of them wont stop bringing it up until u tell them they act them same way around their male friends and all of the sudden they stop

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Oh?

26 notes - Posted January 27, 2022

#4

Tibby: You have to die so you can't use your powers

Also tibby: I'm going to use my power to kill you

27 notes - Posted March 1, 2022

#3

"You're the reason Tibby died"

32 notes - Posted March 23, 2022

#2

Nona loves you!

See the full post

61 notes - Posted September 5, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

THE FINALE WAS SO GOOD IM SO MAD I WASN'T ABLE TO WATCH IT LIVE

Zac opening the episode the way he did in 1991 made me so nostalgic

Aabria killed it tonight as usual and I really hope they do find a way to bring Laura back

The scene with Mallory and Laura made me cry hrggggggg I'm so upset they didn't get to have a proper reunion

bUT MALLORY IS THE DRIVER AND HAS BEEN THE WHOLE TIME

The driver death scene was so dramatic lol I loved it and story's entrance was rlly cool

This season was so good and everyone on and off screen absolutely killed it and I hope they all enjoy their well deserved rest

Here's to hoping for a season 4!!

83 notes - Posted June 28, 2022

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[goblinqat]

The driver and some sonic (+knuckles) because I’ve been rewatching 1991 and it’s painful

Also omg I scribbled something out on the back of the page and accidentally indented zac’s face sob

[fischyplier]

I loved this little moment! <3

[lionsocks]

The perfect trinity of drivers has been completed

[aceofspaces16]

I made a simple Kollok edit with a sound from tiktok and I hope there are still people who can appreciate this so here you go

If this gets noticed I’ll post more Kollok edits that I have made

[jackaycola]

JUST SPREADING THE WORD AND NEW INFO.

Kollok for the Emmy’s!!

It’s such an amazing show like PLEASE WE NEED THIS IN THE SPOTLIGHT. ITS SO GOOD.

[payton-bagel]

KOLLOK Character Playlist

for all my kollok girlies

YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeC-Wedq-tln9xOhZETt87k6GG67jK8Yy&si=BaZrHn3FYXSgfwkW

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0M4t1uU5Go6zYlvjAhtOiL?si=0ef0a47ac8dd47a2

1.Rachel - Dead Girl Walking - Heathers 2.Skye - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper 3.Marcus - The Principal - Melanie Martinez 4.Mickey - VOID - Melanie Martinez 5.Tibby - Nightmare - Set It Off 6.Billy - Tom's Diner - Suzanne Vega 7.Emily - Just A Girl - No Doubt 8.Laura - What's Up Danger - Blackway 9.Mallory - It's Tricky - Run-DMC 10.Clarity - We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn 11.AJ - O' Children - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 12.C-Dubbs - Good Day - Nappy Roots 13.Devina - Lion's Theme - Steven Universe 14.Syd - STUPID - Ashnikko 15.Jude - Insane in the Brain - Cypress Hill 16.Ro - GOLDWING - Billie Eilish 17.Reed - Human - Rag'n'Bone Man 18.Driver - Moog City - C418

[knightingale99]

Zack should have never worn a green screen tie.

[clotpole-art]

don't distract him, he's trying to drive

[dropofjade]

Out of context spoilers for Kollok episode 8