#lily ortiz

[spacetravels]

something something sticker sheet something something anniversary something someth

(i’m making a couple other things for a little it lives fandom gift qqqq)

[kald-dal-art]

Remember when I made ILITW/Until Dawn crossover art, fun times. So why not revisit this AU with slightly better drawing skills this time around.

Also have watched a lot of Until Dawn let’s plays lately as well so that was part of it.

[rjschoicesstuff]

Did a self indulgent one and picked the characters myself lol

[melosansdodo]

I go back and forth between my interests,,,

Like a goddamn tennis game

I am insufferable lmao

• • • A while back already I had seen similar edits done and idk I've just thought about it again because it lives in the woods can never really leave my mind nor heart lol and so I just did my own version ! :) hope you like it !

[peonyblossom]

how is her nerve high 😭😭😭

[rosesnink]

The Way to Rome, Prologue: Turning Tide

Author's Notes

During my first ILW playthrough, I thought to myself, 'what if I had a Lucasmancer OC and their story played outside ILW?' and thus Faye was born. I want to thank Instagram friend _departer for listening to my ramblings and my Discord friends too for helping me shape her and their story. I hope you guys like what I have to offer!

English isn't my first language, so please forgive any typos/grammatical mistakes

My OC's Choices sprite's been made by @peonyblossom all credits to them!

If you'd like to be tagged in this series, comment or reblog here, go to my taglist or send me an ask/DM!

Summary: Homecoming ends up being a disaster, and Faye deals with the consequences on her own once again.

Word Count: 1.1k

Category: Angst

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Lucas Thomas x F!OC (Yun Faye) (Eventually) mentions of Stacy Green x F!MC (Tallulah Hunter)

CW: Major character death, grief, trauma, strong language

Book: It Lives Anthology

Silence.

As the first specs of dawn begin to lighten Mr. Red’s—Jane’s fort, the seven friends get up one by one, their fancy clothes torn to shreds. After checking each other out, Dan is the one to address the elephant in the room.

“Guys… where’s Tallulah?”

“And Faye—,” Andy is not capable of finishing the sentence, for a soul-wrenching scream ripples through the woods.

All suddenly going into fight or flight mode for Faye, they all march into the keep again, to where the screams are the loudest.

“LULA!!” Faye keeps crying out. “Wake up, Lula! Don’t do this to me, please!!” She begs.

Andy’s the first one to get to it, and he immediately freezes. Lucas grimaces in pain and looks away, and Ava holds rageful tears. Lily quietly sobs at the image, Dan closes his eyes in defeat and pain, and Stacy drops to her knees, her hand on her mouth.

The scene before them is Faye, trying to get a dead Tallulah to move. She’s crying out her name “I know you’re there, Lula, wake up!” She sobs “Please! I take it back! I take it all back, just wake up!”

Lucas tries to get Faye away from her dead body “Faye, she’s gone—,”

“SHUT UP, LUCAS!” She bellows. Lucas grimaces. The sweet girl who was telling him the sweetest things was gone. Now, a raging and pained seventeen-year-old girl was there, cradling her childhood best friend’s dead body.

Stacy tentatively approaches the scene, and tenderly grabs Tallulah’s hand. She presses her two fingers on her wrist, and declares with a pained tone “She’s dead, guys. Noah killed him.”

She regrets it, for Faye perks up “That ungrateful little rat—where is he?! I demand an eye for an eye!”

She is vengeful. She is angry. She’s hurt, and alone. Terribly alone.

“Faye—,”

Andy, despite his broken leg, is capable of taking a hold from Faye “Do not stoop to his level, Faye. Vengeance creates more vengeance.” He takes a deep breath “Lula’s gone, Faye. She saved us, somehow. Let’s make her death not be in vain, hm?”

Faye stands there, with her frilly pink dress, before she drops to her knees and starts sobbing uncontrollably. This is the worst day for her. The guy she’s been in love with since they were seven doesn’t like her back, her best friend’s dead and her group will fall apart once again due to Jane. She had a way of ruining things even before her death. It all came back to her in the end. Jane, and her childish desire to play with danger. Jane, and her unwanted leadership of the group. Jane, and her obvious favouritism for Tallulah. Jane. Jane, Jane, Jane. Could one resent someone who had been dead for ten years?

The sounds of police sirens and concerned parents brought everyone back to reality. Lily gently took Faye outside. The morning sun blinded her. Her dress was covered in blood, and had fallen in a sepulchral silence.

One by one, everyone’s parents rushed towards their children. Faye’s mother tried talking to her, but she couldn’t say a word. She was numb, feeling like this was all a bad nightmare.

Only the cries of horror and pain of Mrs. Hunter brought her to reality. Faye had lost a friend, but kind Mrs. Hunter had lost a child. Her only child. As the images of the night flooded Faye’s mind, she felt her knees giving in and falling into exhaustion and grief.

The only thing she remembers is her father calling out her name, his footsteps running towards her.

A year later

Faye had done her best to dress for the memorial. She had a black dress that Lula once said that was cute and would love to see her in. She did her best to put on some concealer, blush and a nude lipstick.

Everyone would be there. Including Lucas. Whom she definitely saw making out with Tallulah in the office of Britney’s father. After Lula figured out that Faye had been in love with him.

Shaking off said thought, she walked to the memorial, and many had shown up to the memorial. All the seats were taken, except one… beside Lucas. Not wanting to break down, she silently sat down beside him and started fussing with her hands, like she did when she had many emotions that she couldn’t control.

She saw Connor Green, who’d speak for her. She had e-mailed him her speech for him to read. She would’ve read it at prom, but of course, Jane ruined everything even from the grave. Giving her a nod, after his opening of remembering those who had died, he started.

“I want to begin by saying that this speech is not mine, and I am only a messenger. Today was supposed to be the best day of our lives. What would’ve been the beginning of a journey together ended up in blood, and there isn’t a day where I don’t think about what could’ve been had we been more careful with what we do in the dark. I always pictured all of us, side-by-side, welcoming our eighteenth birthdays, cheering and laughing. But it cannot be, for the one who held us together is sadly in heaven. There are many things left unsaid, and so many things I could do if I could see you again: hug you, cry, yell at you for being a hero, and hug you all over again. Together, we went through so much. There was nobody who knew me more deeply than you, and despite our differences, I always stood loyal to you. And when I thought I could have my sister back, you were taken from me. And, if I could go back, I’d offer myself in a minute. Because if someone deserved to graduate and be celebrated, it was you, Lula. You earned it. But it was taken from you. And you were taken from me, and the people who loved you like life itself. But I won’t waste my words with these things. Let me tell you three things: I love. I’m sorry. I take it all back.”

They all stood in respectful silence, fully knowing that those were Faye’s words. As the video of Lula and Stacy played out, Lucas asked “I… caused the rift between you and Lula, didn’t I?”

She didn’t say anything. Instead, she stood up and ran. She ran, and ran, and ran until she found Lula’s house. The garden where they’d play. Where she found out she liked Lucas. And where she last saw Lula alive. She dropped to her knees, the past and present weighing on her, and promised herself “Your death won’t be meaningless. I will live for both of us the life we used to fantasise about here. I promise, Lula.”

[cadybear420]

Guess this was the wrong choice 😶🫢

@choicesbookclub

[storyofmychoices]

SpreadJoy #886 spreading positivity with quotes and @playchoices characters.

Quote by Em Manuel

For @choicespride: Lily Ortiz (ILITW)

[myautumnrose]

It Lives in the Woods, 25 years later…the complete series! I hope you like it!

[choicesoutofcontext]

it lives beneath | ch 5

[choices-binglebonkus]

I'm not a Jocelyn fan either. She's toxic and vile, but I find her more compelling in a lot of ways than say, Lily Ortiz – especially when the writers want the readers to see Lily as this pure as the driven snow angel who can do no wrong. Jocelyn is horrible, but she did put her life at personal risk to save others at Homecoming paid a steep price for it. She was also hit hard by Cody's death, so there's some humanity there too, even if it's just a drop.

There’s a lot to this ask so I’m going to tackle the littler bits first, starting with the ILITW cast and their weaknesses.

The It Lives characters are all incredibly flawed in their own ways. Their stans don’t think they’re innocent: they acknowledge and embrace those flaws because those are what make the characters so human.

Ava’s biggest flaws are that she’s kind of reckless, and that she’s sarcastic toward people who are easily angered which endangers her.

Andy’s biggest flaw is that he gets angered very quickly, though he has good reasons for it, he still does fly off the handle at times. Anger leads to rash and not very well thought out decisions, which can very easily get you hurt or killed, especially in a horror series.

Stacy’s biggest flaw (which we do see going away as the book goes on) is her fixation with appearance and status.

Lucas’s biggest flaws are unwillingness to ask for help and biting off more than he can chew, which are also behaviors that are dangerous enough in real life, but potentially deadly in horror series.

I can’t really say what Dan’s biggest flaws are because we get so little interaction with him in the series, and all of Noah’s flaws can be attributed to the trauma he’s faced throughout his life, as even before Jane died, his parents had a lot of issues with their marriage, which was something he was aware of and tried to shield his sister from.

If Noah dies and takes Jane’s place, the ILITW crew is shown and stated to be completely unaware of it, the MC being the only person who knows of Noah’s true fate. Given this, the same could probably be said if the MC dies and takes Jane’s place. It’s not that the ILITW crew used the MC: they simply aren’t aware of the true nature of their death.

And given all the chaos and trauma that took place in the book, it’s perfectly understandable why the ILITW crew would want to move on in their lives without revisiting the ordeal more than they need to. I’d probably do the same. However, they’re more than willing to help out in ILB, and they still meet for pizza every year so they never fall out of touch and never forget what happened and those they lost.

It also makes sense why the MC can’t and won’t let go of their supernatural experience. Jane, their best friend, died right before their very eyes, was stuck as a shadow monster for a decade, and then Jane’s brother Noah (who arguably becomes MC’s closest friend as a result of their shared loss) dies and takes her place. The MC probably feels some survivor’s guilt and feels as if they’re to blame for what happened, and wants to make it right by “fixing” things if they can, which is why they’re devoted to becoming a monster hunter/tracker.

None of these characters are perfect. Absolutely none of them. But what person is? To have a flawless, completely innocent character who has done absolutely no wrong is completely unrealistic.

Moving onto Lily, who I’ll admit isn’t my favorite of the bunch.

It is true that the ILITW crew is dealing with some heavy shit. Abuse, blackmail, estrangement, familial neglect, PTSD, struggles with identity, struggles with ostracism. That is very true.

However.

Lily’s big life-or-death issue isn’t merely that her crush doesn’t like her back, that’s kind of an oversimplification. She’s mercilessly bullied because she’s fat (and maybe there’s a bit of homophobia thrown in there too, I’m not actually 100% sure) and she’s preyed upon by her crush and her crush’s friend who think manipulating Lily and humiliating her on homecoming night is funny.

Lily is not a physically strong character. She can’t fight, she runs away, and is generally no help in a fight. But not every character can realistically be an action hero and badass. She also suffers from low self-esteem from the bullying (which she mentions occurred throughout her childhood as well) and has little to no confidence.

To be frank, to say she thrives off of playing the victim comes across as victim-blaming.

Lily does shove Ava and yell at her for almost killing Jocelyn in the fight, and I’m not trying to excuse that because that’s pretty harsh, but I’d probably chalk her reaction up more to adrenaline and fear than trying to pin all the blame onto her. Lily did foreshadow early on in the book that the monster could enthrall Ava using her powers and was probably aware that the monster had some form of control over her during the fight.

Additionally, she doesn’t seem to give Jocelyn a free pass either: she was visibly scared and upset during the fight where Jocelyn had the upper hand and after all is said and done, the principal is the one who tells her (and Stacy) to help Jocelyn to the nurse’s office.

Lily doesn’t blame Ava and doesn’t hold any rancor over the fight after everything has settled down. Her reaction is pretty much on par with everyone else’s emotions in the ILITW crew after the fight: fear, helplessness, and guilt. I mean, she almost watched someone get strangled to death in front of her.

She does acknowledge the possibility that Britney changed and began treating her better because of Redfield, but doesn’t want it to be true. She acknowledges it and probably deep down knows it’s true, but still wants to give Britney a chance because they used to be close in childhood. She even states at one point that Britney used to defend her from bullying when they were young. Lily wants to give Britney a chance to change because she remembers all those fond memories as kids, but also, her confidence is so depleted from the years of bullying that she just wants someone, anyone to show some semblance of care for her, even if it isn’t completely genuine.

Hell. I’ve been bullied throughout my whole life, and I’ve dated people who treated me like absolute shit just because they paid attention to me. Lily is absolutely the type to do the same. I empathize.

Should Lily survive the events of ILITW, she goes on to create a successful indie video game with a sequel in the works. That didn’t surprise me because she mentions having gone to a coding camp, and she also had a 4.5 GPA in high school. She’s used her wildly smart brain and incredible drive to find her own success and further her own life, just like everyone else from the ILITW crew.

Which is why your statement about everyone else bettering their lives “while she gorges on pizza” comes across as incredibly and unapologetically fatphobic.

Lily is not my personal favorite. She’s actually my least favorite of the ILITW crew. But every character brings something to the group. Lily is timid, meek, and suffers from a lack of confidence. She’s not a fighter and she’s frequently terrified throughout the book.

But she still helps the group. She helps research, she helps obtain the hospital records when the group visits Dan, she risks life and limb to go into the woods and perform the binding ritual, and she does it again to save Andy. She faces her fears time after time after time.

So in a way, though Lily is fearful and afraid throughout the book, she’s actually the bravest character of them all.

[art-and-hearts]

Love seeing how my art improves over the years. Got back into this game and it’s been a blast

[cadybear420]

I tend to give Britney one more chance and I did that in this and the last playthrough, but I'm honestly not sure which I like better

[ILITW Book Club]

[freckled-lili]

Rio, after MC gets kidnapped: You kidnapped Emma?! You kidnapped my future wife?! Oh! Oh! Jail for you! Jail for you for One Thousand Years!!!!

[your-blorbos-are-queer]

new icon poll!

to celebrate the end of july (and the fact that it's been 3 months since i last changed my icon), i'm holding a new poll to determine which character i should choose as my icon for the next 3 months.

[kazamajun]

Nike x Tekken 8