#monty is ares

[deconstructthesoup]

Okay, I had thoughts on forming a legit DBD Hadestown AU, and seeing as they kept me up literally all last night, it seemed only fitting that I actually write them down. So:

Charles and Edwin are, obviously, Orpheus and Eurydice respectively. However, rather than having just met and falling into a whirlwind romance, I decided that they're childhood friends who've met again and rediscovered feelings that they'd both been ignoring for a long time. Edwin is dedicated soley to figuring out why the world is dying and if he can help people while he can, and he hasn't really let himself rest, or even feel happy, in years---to the point where he feels that any good thing is too good to be true, even falling in love. Charles, on the other hand, has long since made the decision that someone has to be happy and keep spirits up in the trying times, and it might as well be him... even at the cost of his own health, as he works tirelessly on a song that he knows, despite all logic and understanding, will bring back spring again.

Crystal is Hermes, but she is also Hecate---she is the goddess of the in-between, magic, trickery, the crossroads, and restless souls... and that last part refers not only to the dead that she guides to Hadestown, but to anyone who chooses a life of wandering the road, from the honest messenger to the thieving highwayman. And yet, since the world has begun to die, she's been slowly slipping away from her role, choosing to spend her time among the mortals. This decision, of course, is helped by the fact that not only is Crystal one of the few gods who thinks there's more to the world dying than it just being "a reflection of mortal hubris," but that she's managed to make a friend in Charles. She's seen the way that music can change the world, after all, and knowing that there's at least one mortal who still has hope means that she can still believe.

Niko is a combination of Aphrodite and Dionysus---she's the goddess of love, revelries, happiness, and abundance, yes, but she's also the goddess of the mania that comes when all of those things are taken too far, and she's been dipping more and more into that side of herself as the world gets worse and worse. She wants to forget all the pain and suffering, and she gives herself and others the means to do so, even if it's all temporary. And while Niko does care for the mortals, and wishes that things could get better... deep down, she's lost a lot of her old hope, and even she can't disguise the fact that she's living with a broken heart.

Monty is Persephone, but he's also Apollo---he's the god of rebirth, prophecies, the stars and the earth, and new beginnings... and for what should be half of the year, he rules over the dead. He used to find just as much joy in watching over the souls as he did creating spring with Niko and charting the stars to bring prophecies to the mortals, but as Hadestown gets more punishing, more people die up above, and the world just gets worse, Monty grows even more bitter and closed off. He's unable to even properly enjoy his time on the surface, knowing full well that he won't stay for six months like he should... and the man he loves is wearing his patience thin.

The Cat King is Hades---and yes, somebody did make a very compelling argument for him being the Fates, but it works for the story, so just hang on. Once upon a time, he was happy just ruling over souls and managing the afterlife, and he cherished the time he spent with Monty as much as he could. But over time, wealth became added to his already vast domain, and his fascination for making and collecting things became an obsession... in no small part due to the fact that those six months spent away from Monty started to weigh incredibly heavy on him, and he eventually loses himself in his effort to replicate everything his husband loves about the upper world as it dies along with the way they used to feel about each other. Not to mention, his old empathy and compassion for the souls has hardened into cold indifference at best and a sick enjoyment of their suffering at worst. And all this change is making one person in particular very happy...

Esther is the Fates, but she's also a version of Demeter---the goddess of nature and all of its love and cruelties, and the one who spins everyone's path on her loom, punishing those who dare to stray from what she has determined for them. She's despised the Cat King for years, ever since he whisked Monty away to Hadestown, and she wholeheartedly believes that the reason the world is dying is only because he's been keeping Monty down there for too long, not because they've begun to fall out of love. So, when Esther spins a tale of a pair of lovers who are destined to end tragically, she sees it as an opportunity to finally push the Cat King and Monty to the breaking point---to save her son and the world, she tells herself, but mostly for revenge.

[its-ares]

— Dancing with your ghost

Male Reader, sad

You sit on your bed and cry, you hold a gray shirt in your hand - Monty's shirt, he forgot it at your place. You smell the shirt, it still smells like Monty but unfortunately not as strong as at the beginning. You turn your head to the left, the first scene plays out in front of your eyes.

You and Monty are sitting on the floor in your room together and laughing at nonsense. It was dark in the room, only some light shone through the curtains. With you, Monty could switch off and didn't have to pretend. With you, he was safe. Monty leaned over and kissed you. One kiss from many to follow.

You smile at the memory, the evening had been beautiful. It was the first evening that Monty asked if he could stay.

𑁤🫀🩹🥀❤️‍🩹

The next memory played before your eyes, tears are now streaming down your cheeks and your chest ached at the memory.

You and Monty were laying on your bed, both of you lying on your back staring at the ceiling. Neither of you have said anything for several minutes, you just listen to the storm. Monty turned his head towards you, wanting to say something but struggling with himself. You smile at him encouragingly and fold your hands. After a few minutes you hear Monty whisper something.

"I love you". The first dear confession of many that will follow.

𑁤🫀🩹🥀❤️‍🩹

You sob and hug Monty's shirt to your chest, the following memory burned into your mind and heart.

You and Monty were eating out from Evergreen. You both had a great time and were just in a good mood. Monty had changed in the last few months, you two went out a lot and he didn't care if he was seen or not.

When you came out of the restaurant, there was a live band playing not far away and Monty quickly pulled you behind him. On the way to the park where the band was playing, you laugh because Monty was in such a hurry.

Lots of people danced to the music and Monty held out his hand to you.

"May I ask?" he asked gentlemanly and you giggle.

You grab his hand and you dance tightly embraced. The band played a quiet song and while you dance you talk quietly and make plans for the future. After the music has died down, you kiss passionately.

It was the last time you saw Monty alive.

𑁤🫀🩹🥀❤️‍🩹

So many memories of your time together are flashing before your eyes. You smile sadly, next to your bed was a framed picture of the two of you. You and Monty are grinning broadly for the camera, a few tears dripping onto the picture.

"I miss you so much," you whisper into emptiness and continue to stare at the picture.

"I miss you too," Monty said and you look up, startled.

Monty stood in front of your bed in his purple flannel shirt and smiled softly. You exhale shakily and Monty held out his hand. You stand up, knees shaking, and carefully grasp it. His hand was warm.

Monty pulled you into his body and started dancing with you."I don't know what to say," you say, sounding slightly overwhelmed. You stand in your room and dance with your dead boyfriend.

"You don't have to say anything, just enjoy the moment," Monty said, smiling. You return his smile and rest your head on his shoulder. After a while, Monty pulled away from you and gently cupped your cheeks.

"I know you miss me and believe me, I miss you just as much. But you gotta start living your life again, you can't hang on to me forever. You have to keep living M/N, promise me that,” Monty said, looking deep into your eyes.

Tears glittered in your eyes. „But I love you," you whisper in a tear-choked voice. "I love you too," Monty replied kissing you softly.

As you separate, Monty takes a few steps back. He smiles. "Live your life baby, I'm always with you," Monty said, pointing to his heart.

You nod and wave Monty goodbye, a smile on your lips despite the pain.

[jupiterjelliez]

moon should be happy, he’s sleeping

[foxyconfessions]

Kiss, Mary, end

Puppet eclipse monty

Err.... This be an easy on me

Marry Puppet, kiss Eclipse, and end Monty

Not much thought needed 'ere for sure

[hellleo]

tiny sketch dump :) why does tumblr format them like that.

[arkhonarchive]

mlm/wlw solidarity<3

[crabussy]

VERY UPSET ABOUT RUIN

[elecman108]

It's Halloween at Freddy's! Everyone's dying to meet you! Are you afraid of the dark? Are you in for a scare? With so many ways for your heart to stop, it's bound to be a frightfully good time!

Got inspired today to make Halloween Costumes for the FNAF guys I currently have their full body refs finished of. Do you know all the references here? Do you know all of the Animatronics here? Either way... Happy Halloween! I know it's only halfway through the month but... I work on Halloween. You get this now instead. <3

From left to right:

Springtrap (Jason Vorhees), Freddy (vampire), Bonnie (Michael Myers), DJ Music Man (pumpkin), Ballora (the girl from the Ring), Monty (mummy), Sun (Day of the Dead), Balloon Boy (Chucky), Cupcake (Annabelle), Marionette (Jigsaw), Chica (witch), Vanny (black cat), Foxy (ringmaster), Goldie (Corpse Bride), Baby (Nun), Roxy (Alice Angel), and Moon (Slenderman). That's all of the "main" "initial" "Animatronics" in my AU.

...aside from Eclipse, who isn't here because I ran out of ideas. Whoops. I feel like he'd be uhhh like a Zombie or something idk. I cant brain right now after making up all these Halloween costumes and listening to my Halloween Spooky Tunes Playlist I have that is mostly, uh, not Halloween nor Spooky tunes. One Winged Kong is here though.

[glamrocktiger]

Glamrock Freddy meets FrostBear!! Since it's still kinda winter time you can have these two :D

[yellowskarmory]

aight time to repair monty now with the claws that this game definitely gives out

[inutaffy]

monty did you lie

[cicos-macos]

Once again, a reminder that Montgomery Gator DID NOT have claws before Bonnie's decommission. In no world could he have acquired them, killed Bonnie and then got new ones back to back.

Once again, a reminder that Montgomery Gator envies and hates Freddy and Freddy only, proven with the golf AR-Cade game and the headless Freddy statue. He wears Bonnie's glasses and I have a hard fucking time believing that Freddy would let him wear them if Monty indeed killed Bonnie.

Genuinely, with all kindness and respect - use your fucking brain.

[jellycreamjammedart]

My ruin brainrot's still going strong y'all! So have a couple more headcanons for it! (Other headcanons here)

Cassie has some bandages and bandaids on her person now, result from the ruined robots trying to nurture and patch her up from her injuries from the elevator drop, mostly. Her clothes have a few tears too.

M.X.E.S and Helpi love fucking around in the AR world to make Cassie laugh when she can see it through the vanni mask.

I.E. trailing an AR moustache on Monty's face while he's doing whatever in the real world. Cassie puts her mask to see if there's anything around not in the real world then sees Monty having a moustache, and nearly loses her breath trying (poorly) to not burst out laughing and confuse the real world squad since only she can see it through her mask.

M.X.E.S does feel quite bad for being so hostile towards Cassie at the beginning. If it had attempted proper communication with her instead maybe none of this would've happened. So now at the slightest possibility of Cassie being in trouble or danger, it doesn't hesitate to send distress signals to the real world squad to go help her.

After getting her hands scratched up and sore from removing all the metal stakes that were impaled into Prototype Glamrock Freddy's body, his stomach hatch becomes possible to tuck Cassie in, he just has to be more careful with the hatch lids. It's a little uncomfortable in there compared to a pristine Glamrock Freddy, but it's tolerable.

Roxy: Okay, you can give me my child back now.

Prototype Glamrock Freddy, with Cassie in his hatch: *wraps his arms around his own torso in defiance* ("No, MY child! >:c")

[ohno-the-sun]

Spoiler heavy fnaf ruin dlc rant up ahead

I am so fucking proud of steal wool they really took every criticism from the original game and fixed it and even added more

Like Cassie actually acts like a human being?? And like her knowledge of the original characters and cute little comments on every item are so endearing there is so much detail going into this.

The fact that they expanded on one of the fan faves Roxanne and giving her a great arc I’m in love I’m so happy

They honestly gave more depth to all the animatronics too like we finally see Bonnie’s design and get and get a taste as to what happened, also that poster Freddy gifted him I’m crying they are so cute and gay I love them

😭😭😭

Also the whole dark ride section with Monty is so fascinating like is that narrative kind of true or is it just fabricated by fazbear inc to cover up the decommissioning of Bonnie

Why replace Bonnie with Monty?? Why not make a new Bonnie model?? With the prototype label on Freddy it may be confirmed that they make multiple models (well we already kinda knew that with Freddies comments but oh well)

Also Freddy?? Like is that our Freddy or a different one?? They very clearly highlighted the prototype label so they want to emphasize it, but then the head is still missing like in the princess quest ending so what is the truth??

Feel bad for chica fans tho she really was sidelined hard

Aaaaa and my baby boys!!! There’s 3 now aaahaga

I was really not expecting eclipse to be the way they were, very… normal? Is that the right word?? Like obviously a little delusional on when the daycare is gonna open again, but in the right mindset of like this child needs to leave this place is not safe. It is interesting to me that both he and Roxy thought that it was Cassie’s birthday, maybe that was the last day before she left the plex? Or maybe that was the day the plex caught fire? Or maybe most depressingly we are playing on Cassie’s birthday so the animatronics have it in their systems what her birthday is and wish her a happy one (if they are in the right state of mind lol)

Some peeps are upset moon is a little too villainous

I think you can still say it was mainly the virus but I would argue even if it’s not the virus I feel like moon is kinda justified here. Like sun has been shutting him away for a long time before this (if the books are to be believed but also in general) so when he finally gets a chance to roam free of course he’s gonna take it. And idk about u but if my alternate personality was constantly trying to shut me out and I finally got control, I probably too would try and keep my control for as long as possible. Also from what I have seen so far, not even moon is all that aggressive? Like he grabs you at the beginning, but I think that’s just his very ineffective way to get kids to sleep and other than that he just kinda stays away

Poor sunny baby is stuck in the ar world 🥺🥺 I didn’t notice at first but yeah everytime you talk to him it’s only in the ar world. And the end part where you switch them out for eclipse if you do that in the ar world, he says not for me it’s for moon.

I will say though I noticed the voice acting for them changed a little this game, like both have a higher pitch and are more goofy sounding? Like more gremlin energy than evil villainy. I wonder if that was on purpose? Both of them sounded more like the other so maybe that was the reason? Interest interest

Also their mouth moves?? Sort of?? That’s so silly to me they have a whole working mouth system and their face mask doesn’t work with at all 😭

Does give me lore intrigue tho cause like why do their mouths move but not anymore?? Did something happen?? Are they just not maintained enough?? They also move outward instead of up and down (at least from what I saw) so is the mechanism different?

Also the way that sun and moon talk about eachother is so interesting. Like moon says the light hurts “us” and sun says “no the other me” like they seem to almost consider eachother more connected than we first thought, like they’re not just coworkers or strangers they are almost like two sides of the same person. It’s very interesting and I wonder where people will take this.

Overall great job I’m so excited to comb through the game and find every little secret (especially regarding the dca) aaaa

Ok ok update moon does have a jump scare but it’s ridiculously hard to get and I’d still argue he’s not as vicious as he was base game. I mention in another post but eclipse being as kind as he is and being (presumably) a combination of both AIs, gives even more evidence moon is supposed to be kind and caring like his posters suggest but something went wrong. Also Cassie’s comments on their plushes show that there were kids who truly liked the daycare.

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

Would you be willing to write something with MXES where the reader wears the mask and sees MXES but isn’t afraid of them, and maybe Helpy is urging the reader to run, or deactivate the system but they’re curious about this big scary bunny… hopefully no animatronics get called to the scene if their interaction…

-glitch phone

"Erm, I'd advise that you RUN away from the Entity. You should not approach it under any circumstances!"

Ignoring Helpi's constant warnings of danger, curiosity overtook and and all instincts to flee as you walked close to M.X.E.S, still wearing the security mask. You weren't all that scared of it, instead wanting to have a better look.

The tall and sinister-looking black hare just stared down at you, tilting its head. It, too, was curious about your intentions.

While its purpose was to stop you from tampering with the parent node behind you, it couldn't help but wonder why you turned away from your task the second you felt its presence.

For whatever reason...you weren't freaking out despite it sending Monty after you once before.

You barely got away without getting your ankles bitten off by that feral gator!

You knew very well it could summon him again, but you weren't scared at all.

Pocketing the Faz Wrench, you stopped and waved your hand, awkwardly smiling at the entity. "Hello, there." You spoke, surprised by the brief disappearance of its usual grin, as though your actions confused it entirely.

But it then waved back, before disappearing into a cluster of glitches, vanishing from your sight altogether.

Suddenly, you heard an awful static noise and turned around to see it now mere inches from your face, its grin returning and looking wider than ever.

You winced slightly as you felt another migraine coming on...no thanks to you wearing the mask for so long.

Yet besides that...you didn't scream or flinch.

M.X.E.S thought for sure that little scare would've intimidated you enough to back away from the node. Maybe then it wouldn't have to call an animatronic to your location, and you'll leave the Pizzaplex's systems alone.

It's grown unusually protective over them, even though you were authorized to use the mask and access the AR world.

For a few moments, you had an intense staring contest, unsure of who was going to do what.

But you only became further fascinated by this creature the longer you gazed upon it. You had no clue which one of your coworkers designed it, but...they sure did a hell of a job making it look so real despite being a simulation.

Then you wondered something...and it was something you hoped to try.

And wanted to try something.

Helpi kept babbling inside your brain that making direct contact with the Entity would likely result in "death and dismemberment", adding the company wasn't responsible for that should it happen. You just rolled your eyes, knowing he didn't need to remind you of that shitty excuse of a "policy".

Instead, you slowly reached out to M.X.E.S' face, surprised when your hand rested on its muzzle. You could feel cold steel, fur, wiring, and static buzzing beneath your fingertips.

Although it couldn't see it, your eyes were wide in awe, and you had a huge smile that nearly rivaled the one on the mask.

This entity was solid. It was a creature you could actually touch, now that you were both on the same plane of existence.

Its eyes widened, yet it didn't react violently or fearfully...it simply remained perfectly still, allowing your hands to roam and pet it.

"Oh wow..haha.." You laughed softly, bringing both hands to the sides of its jaw. "Didn't expect you to be so soft and cuddly. You take after Bonnie well, huh?"

M.X.E.S isn't sure what overcame its programming in that moment, but...it began to like your touch.

It's never known gentle hands, not even from its own maker, until now.

That alone caused it to abandon its current directive as its shoulders relaxed, closing its eyes with content. Then it leaned its head down slightly so you could gently rub its ears--which were also made of metal and fur and static.

Shrinking its size down a bit enabled you to fully cradle its head in your arms, and you smiled, looking over at the glowing blue bunny node that stared back at you.

Meanwhile, Helpi had gone radio silent, much to your relief. That little bear probably crashed because this scenario was so unexpected, so unusual that he simply couldn't compute.

You silently chuckled at that thought, deciding that you'll stay like this for a little while.

The parent node didn't really need maintenance, anyways.

[bamsara]

fnaf sb ruin dlc spoilers

ROXY BELOVED my girl she is helpful (somewhat)

i am not through all of the endings of the game yet but the world play they have for the dlc, espeically the whole AR VANNI system for Cassie thats straight up manipulates real world reality is super neat. Also I wonder why Monty and Chica are still hostile when Roxy seems to have moments of clarity (assuming she is only hostile to Gregory because he took her eyes, but when she learns its Cassie, she lets go)

The headless Freddy animatronic got me spooked but as of writing this post, I don't think that was actaul Freddy (our Freddy) but rather another one of the prototypes. I could be wrong tho

Also....yeah I knew from the start that Gregory was not in fact actaul Gregory. So uh......where is our son.

anyway its 5am of release day lmao im taking a nap