#parame: nevermore

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I dunno if this was already a tag game at some point, but I used this Picrew to make me and then make my parame, and I thought it would be fun! So, here are mine:

No pressure taggies! Just wanted to share~ @acircusfullofdemons @fallingmaddlyinlove @madd-many @heartofdaydreams (and this is open to anyone who wants to play, of course!)

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I had so much fun reading the responses to this and I didn’t even do it myself! 😅

Welp, here’s mine:

“I’ll make you pay!” “I’ll make you bleed.”

^ This except I wanna know the hardest line in your paracosm

[maladaptivedaydreamingculture]

MADD culture is rewriting movie scenes to include your parame, lmaooo!

(Wdym, Nevermore isn’t in the MCU? She was in three different movies! 🤨)

- @nevermore-grimes

Sounds about right lmao

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HOLY SHIT!!! I’M LITERALLY SHAKING OMG!!! I FOUND THEM!!! I FOUND MY OLD PARACOSM NOTEBOOKS!!!

Oh my god, I thought I was gonna throw up… Oh my god…

It’s gonna take me ages to digitize them, but I took pictures of all the pages so I didn’t have to get caught with the real copies (it took me, like, an hour and I was sick with anxiety the whole time).

So, please enjoy some really old arts that I drew of some of my paras (terrible art warning below the cut, lmaooo!).

*NOTE*: Since these designs are old, they do not exactly reflect how each of the paras depicted look today.

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Nevermore-Grimes does Daydreamtober 2024

Original art from Pinterest.

Prompt #17: Justice (Incarnate, hehehe!)

Paracosm: The Ember Blade Chronicles

TEBC Saga: The Origins

Summary: Detective Jackson Dunlop visits Nevermore in prison, but he doesn't seem to learn much from his unwilling interviewee...

Warnings/Tags: Mentions of killing/death, brief vague allusion to sexual assault, and insinuation of character death

Word Count: 1344

[TAPE START]

JD: This is Detective Jackson Dunlop visiting convicted serial killer, Nevermore Grimes, in Alcatraz Penitentiary. Please state your full name for the record.

NG: …You just did.

JD: [Sighs] I realize this, but I need a record of you pronouncing your own name.

NG: No need. You did fine.

JD: Look, the sooner you follow interview record protocol, the sooner we can get this over with. Wouldn’t you want that?

NG: [Groans] I’m Nevermore Grimes. Happy now?

JD: Very. Do you know why I’m here, Nevermore?

NG: To bother me?

JD: [Chuckles] Close, but not quite. I’ve come to grow fascinated by the connections in your cases, and I wished to study the woman behind them a little more closely. After three attempts, I finally got the clearance for this interview with you.

NG: [Dryly] Lucky me.

JD: Growing tired of my visit already?

NG: I was tired from the moment they pulled me from my cell for this bullshit.

JD: I deeply apologize. I had assumed there was nothing too interesting for me to be interrupting.

NG: Asshole.

[Papers rustle]

JD: Let’s get on with my questions, so I don’t keep you from your glamorous prison life, then.

NG: Mock me all you want, but I’m not answering your stupid questions.

JD: Won’t you humor me?

NG: Wasn’t my “glamorous prison life” enough humor for you?

JD: Nevermore, please. Why don’t you start by telling me about your upbringing?

NG: Hm… Let’s see… I was born… then I was raised… with a family… in a house… in a neighborhood… in a town.

JD: Care to elaborate… anywhere?

NG: No.

JD: [Sighs] You’re proving to be a tricky one.

NG: You’re proving to be obnoxiously nosy.

JD: Alright, fine. We’ll stick to the more directly relevant questions.

NG: Or you can skip all of your questions and get the fuck out.

JD: Aren’t you a ray of sunshine.

[Papers rustling]

JD: Among your personal belongings, investigators found a list of your victims’ names, each crossed off, among a list of names of those who were still alive, not crossed off. Would I be correct in assuming this was a sort of “hit list”? Were those who weren’t crossed off your next targets?

NG: [Sarcastically] Wow, detective. You cracked the case. How long did it take you to figure that one out?

JD: [Mutters] I’m just being thorough…

JD: [Clears throat] Alright, so you had a hit list. But, why? Why did you do it?

NG: I’m pretty sure the stupid name all those news outlets gave me pretty much encompasses my usual theme.

JD: No, no! I’m not asking why you chose them. I’m asking why you did all of this! Why you kept pushing, even with the law opposing you! Why? Why did you choose this life, even when it led you here?

NG: …

JD: Nevermore…

NG: You wanna know my motive? That it, huh?

NG: How honorable of you to want to study me like some pathetic animal! You think I’m some poor traumatized little girl who made some bad choices in her life, don’t you? Well, guess what? You’re wrong. I had a normal fucking life! I’m just like this.

NG: But you know what happened next? I grew the fuck up, and I watched the unfair shit this little system of yours pulled on people just like you. You think you’re different from the rest of your gun-carrying counterparts? You’re just as corrupt, if not worse, prying into people’s lives and then leaving the dirty work of locking them up to somebody else. You’re worse than a cop. You’re a pussy.

NG: You thrive in a system where the innocent get put away while the most disgusting of human beings are free to run around harming those you didn’t get to yet. I’m not a charity case, I’m a bitch on a mission, and I won’t stop until I’ve eradicated all of the walking shitstains your system benefits.

JD: “Justice Incarnate”. That’s what your notes say, right? You call yourself Justice Incarnate. Do you see yourself as more righteous than the people on that list of yours?

NG: Yes. Not because I’m a good person, but because it’s not that hard to be a better person than those wastes of space.

JD: I see… And you despise the legal system, from what I gather?

NG: I hate everything about it. I want to burn it to the ground and spit on the ashes.

JD: Mmhmm…

NG: …Are you afraid of me, detective?

JD: Why would I be afraid of you?

NG: Because I want to dismantle the system that gave you your comfortable little life.

JD: Well, I’m not particularly afraid of you. I deal with people of your standing every day.

NG: You mean, the criminally insane?

JD: I don’t believe you are. I think you may be misguided.

NG: Misguided or not, I won’t stop.

JD: I know… That’s why you have to stay here, for a very long time.

NG: We’ll see about that.

[Long silence]

NG: …Can I ask you a question?

JD: [Chuckle] I thought I was the detective here, huh?

NG: Humor me.

JD: Alright, I’ll bite. What is it?

NG: Towards the beginning of your little recording, you said this was your third attempt at getting ahold of me.

JD: That stuck with you?

NG: Yeah, well, consider my memory good.

NG: …But, why? Why did you fight so hard to talk to me? You coulda walked away the first time, you know. It’s not like I’m part of an active investigation right now- [Handcuffs rattle] -especially stuck in here. So, why?

JD: Like I said, your case fascinates me. I want to understand how your mind works. It’s not often that someone so young is compelled to act so radically on a whim, but I was wrong about you. It looks like you’re operating on a belief system years in the making. You put a lot of thought into this.

NG: You’ve thought about me a lot, huh?

JD: [Laughs] Maybe.

NG: …Is that because you found your name on my list?

[Long silence]

JD: …What?

NG: Don’t play dumb. You’re the detective in the room, after all. I recognized your name the moment you said it. Jackson Dunlop. I know all about you. I know all about your abuse of your power. I know all about your missing wife. That’s why you’re one of my targets.

[Long silence]

NG: But, you knew that. That’s why you’re here, and that’s why you’re asking me all these questions. You wanna learn about me because you wanna survive me. Well, lemme tell you something… I’m not giving you shit. And the moment I get out of this hellhole, I’m coming for you, and I’ll thoroughly enjoy the thrill of sliding my blade across your throat and letting you choke and writhe to death in a pool of your own making. And if you somehow find the breath to beg me for mercy, I’ll put a hole in your skull, and only then will you feel the sweet release of death.

[Long silence]

NG: …Are you afraid of me, now, detective?

JD: [Voice wavering] I- I think our little meeting here is over-

[Click]

[TAPE END]

Post-Transcript Notes: Nevermore escaped the penitentiary two weeks after the recording of this file. Detective Dunlop also went missing within the hour, but not before marking this file for deletion. An investigation was launched for the missing detective, though the investigators who’ve listened to this tape stand to reason they know exactly what happened to him. It would seem Justice Incarnate has struck again…

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I imagine this ALL THE FUCKING TIME!!!

Here are some key points:

Half of the fandom thinks Nevermore is a feminist icon, half of it hates her and thinks she’s just a glorified bitch

Most of the fandom infantilizes Aerith and simplifies her character to “precious little cinnamon roll that must be protected at all costs”

They roll their eyes at Venice because she’s “basically a copy-and-paste of Nevermore” (She’s more complex than that, but whatever…)

They simplify Giffany’s character to a “bimbo bitch” (That’s how she started, tbh, but she’s had development since then!!!)

Very strange confession but do you guys ever imagine discourse in your "fandom" and if so, what are the wildest discourse that happened in it

Unfortunately all my paracosm sources already have fandoms inundated with discourse do I don't need to imagine it. Followers?

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I got bored today so I re-created funny tweets as my paras!

(I had to change some of their users because there was a character limit 🙄)

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Nevermore-Grimes does Daydreamtober 2024

Original art from Pinterest.

Prompt #2: New Meeting

Para Perspective: Nevermore Grimes

Paracosm: The Ember Blade Chronicles

TEBC Saga: The New Asgardian Saga

Summary: As Nevermore’s enjoying dinner at her old home with her family, a new character pops in for a visit

Warnings/Tags: Brief crude humor, mentions of guns, mentions of killing

Word Count: 883

“Is that the Backstreet Boys?” Aerith questioned the sudden melody coming from outside. Oddly enough, it sounded like it was getting closer, and it most certainly was not a Backstreet Boys song.

“That’s *NSYNC, ya dip.” I teased after recognizing the song. Bye Bye Bye. “I’m telling Alya you made that mistake, by the way.”

“No, please!” Aerith’s eyes grew wide, a playful smile flickering under her feux fear. “She’ll disown me!”

Just then, a man dressed from head to toe in red, with dual katanas sheathed at his back, came crashing through the bay window. “Surprise shawties!”

“AAAAAAHHH!!!” Aerith screamed bloody murder as the rest of us jumped out of our seats around the kitchen counter.

“Dude, what the hell?” I frowned at the window that took more beatings since I moved out of this place than when I actually lived in it.

“Relax,” The costumed man shut off a portable speaker in his belt as he casually strolled over. “What’s a little property damage between friends?”

Loki leaned in from his spot next to me to quietly ask me, “Do you know this man?”

“No!” I loudly responded. “And he ain’t my friend, either!”

“Ouch.” The man held a gloved hand over his chest. “Is this how you treat your guests? You invited me, sweet cheeks. Remember?”

“Don’t call me that.” I flatly warned him.

“Me-ow.” He made a paw with his hand before reaching towards the food on the table. “Ooh, pizza!”

“Cut that out!” I slapped his hand away. “What do you mean about me inviting you?”

“Uh, hello?” He put his hands on his hips. “Does the name Deadpool not ring a bell? Ya know, the mercenary you called to talk about Avenger stuff with?”

I tap my chin, slowly remembering the details as he recounted them. “Oh yeah…”

“So, you did call him!” Aerith folded her arms.

“Mayyybeee…” I bashfully scratched the back of my neck. “But, I sure as hell didn’t invite him to break my fucking window!”

“Can’t a guy make a dramatic entrance without some uptight homeowner getting all offended anymore?” Deadpool scoffed and flopped down onto the living room couch, propping his feet up on one of the armrests. “Besides, didn’t you get canned and have to move outta this place anyway?”

“That’s not relevant.” I walked over and stood by his feet.

He examined his fingernails. “It is if you’re constantly being gunned down by your last employer.”

“Fuck you.”

“You wish~”

“Ugh!” I threw my arms in the air.

“Excuse me?” Aerith approached the back of the couch with a small wave. “Mr. Deadpool?”

“Oh, please.” He waved off the title. “I’m not a formal guy. Deadpool’s the name.”

“Right, um,” Aerith leaned on the cushions. “You said Nevi called you out here for Avenger stuff, right?”

“Nevi?” He folded his hands behind his head. “If that’s what you call Ember Blade, then yeah.”

“She’s my sister.” I rolled my eyes. “She’s not gonna call me Ember Blade.”

“Wow, you guys do not look related.” Deadpool remarked.

“Yeah, we get that a lot.” Aerith waved off his commentary. “But, if you wanted to talk about Avenger stuff, why would you come looking for her if you knew she got fired?”

He thought on this for a moment, then shrugged. “Same reason you’d ask Rowling about wizards. Has-beens give good advice. And, boy, did your sister peak.”

I flipped him off in response.

“Well,” He sat up with a soft grunt. “Whaddaya say, Grimes? What’s the secret to being drafted onto the hero team?”

I looked to Aerith, who shot me a look that seemed to say Are you seriously considering this?

Why, yes, my mental interpretation of the look in Aerith’s eye, I was.

“Alright.” I walked around the couch to sit down on the edge of the coffee table in front of him. “You want in on the Avengers? You picked the right person. I’ll tell you my secret tto getting on the team… But, it’s gonna cost ya.”

Deadpool somehow narrowed the solid white eyes of his mask at me. “What are we talkin’?”

I leaned back on one of my hands, examining the fingernails of the other. “You know how my situation makes it difficult for me to be out in the open while I’m on Earth, yeah?”

“You mean your situation where the news exposed you as a former serial killer, the aunt of your unofficial adoptive son took him back, and your job fired you before starting to hunt you for sport?” Deadpool shrugged. “Yeah. But, I’m sure it’s not that difficult to get around if you don’t mind gettin’ swiss cheesed.”

“…Right,” I continued. “So, here’s my offer. You run a few errands for me on Earth, and then I’ll show you what it looks like to be recruited by the Avengers.”

I held a hand out to him, raising an expectant eyebrow. “Do we have a deal?”

He looked at me for a moment, letting out a soft hum in consideration before finally reaching out to grab my hand. “You got a deal, pookie.”

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Nevermore Grimes as Tumblr Posts

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*Glances at my main (@divine-knight-hand)* Well, how could I not play this?

Also, I totally went the vibes route because only a handful of my paras can ride horses… (*Womp womp*)

Announcer Duo: Tony + Pepper

Scaredy Knight: Chase (Lmaooo!)

Unlucky Knight: Venice

“We needed an even amount of knights” Knight: Logan (LMAOOOOOOOO!!!)

Girl Knight: Aerith

Hero Knight: Nevermore

Evil Knight: I’m tied between Inferno and Amora for this one…

Thank you for tagging me, @parasafterdark! This was too fun! Also, I hope you enjoyed the Knight Tourney! That sounds so epic!

Taggiesss: @acircusfullofdemons @star-drip

Casting paras in the Knight Tourney I just watched:

Announcer Duo (non rider): Sheo + Ava

Scaredy Knight (Beginner): Zitrell

Unlucky knight (average): Chris

We needed an even amount of knights Knight (average): Kuzan

Girl Knight (2nd best rider): Fluke

Hero Knight (3r best rider): Shal

Evil Knight (best rider): Meth

Tagging @madd-many @nevermore-grimes @aircastledweller to cast their paras as knights in the tourney I just watched (be it vibes or actual riding ability)

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hello it's madd ask game op on main!! how abt 1, 30, and 35? :0

Ahhh! Hiiiiii! Thank you for sending these in! Your ask game is so much fun!!!

how long have you been daydreaming for? (bonus if you can remember: what was your first daydream scenario/paracosm?)

Hmmmmm... I've been daydreaming as long as I can remember, really. Officially, I say since I was six years old, but I was daydreaming even from before then, I think.

In the earliest daydream I can remember, I was floating in a spaceship (zero-gravity moment!) with Ash Ketchum and Pikachu for some reason??? Don't ask me why, it was just the vibe, I guess.

if your paras had madd/daydreamed immersively, what would they daydream about?

This question almost broke my brain, lmaooo! It's sad, but I feel like if any of my paras were maladaptive daydreamers, they'd just daydream about lives where they either made better decisions or had better lives.

Like, Aerith would daydream a life where Nevermore never ran away from home, and Nevermore would daydream a life where her moms never tried to force her to be a princess. Sad stuff like that! *Sniffles*

if you have multiple paracosms, what would it be like if they had a crossover?

All of my other paracosms right now are just AUs of my main paracosm (The Ember Blade Chronicles), so if there ever was a crossover, everyone would be looking at each other like that one Spiderman meme, lmaooo!

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I finally figured a diagram was in order, so here is the polycule and some of their relationships:

*A not-so-secret secret: Every time I add to the polycule is purely self-indulgent (then again, what part of MADD isn't?), lmaooo!*

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🎨 & 🎡 for the Self Ship ask meme! Uhhh Loki I guess idk

Yayyy! Thank you for sending an ask, Luka!!! 😆🫂

🎨 paint - make a color palette for your s/i and f/o! (can be two separate palettes or one combined palette!)

I'm a huge fan of how Nevermore's came out!

But I'm still not a visual artist, so Loki's came out a little... Yikes. 😬

(I tried to combine colors that made a nod to his aesthetic with colors that made a nod to his Jotun heritage and it just didn't work out- 💀)

🎡 ferris wheel - what would be your f/o’s favorite activity at an amusement park?

Not to steal from the prompt name, but I have a strong feeling that Loki would love the ferris wheel! It's really the only ride where he and Nevermore can be alone (and the view from the top is always gorgeous, especially at night), so he definitely finds it a very intimate spot.

...How have I not made him and Nevermore kith on top of one yet? 🤔

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Yayyy! Thank you for tagging me! I love the way yours came out, and I’m obsessed with OP’s! 😆

So, heeeeeere’s Nevermore! 🔥

Yeahhh, I think I struggle with collage-making, too. I was gonna make one for Aerith, too, but… yeah. I think I’ll stick to the moodboards. 😅

I was skeptical at first but I’ve become genuinely obsessed with Pinterest’s collage feature and now I’m starting a madd tag game with it because i can lmfao

But! Make a pinterest collage for your paras and post them here, then tag some other people to do it! Bonus points for explanations teehee

tagging: @acircusfullofdemons @shrimpnymph @scorpiolight-madd @parasdreams @burningivy

Here’s Fairywren and Ford, with some explanations underneath the cut!

Fairywren’s collage has two main goals: a) be fun and cute and pink and b) show that she is also a dangerous person! Fairywren’s cute and friendly persona is not an act at all - she’s genuinely very sweet and fun-loving, she just also kills people for a living and has no qualms about it. It’s a kill or be killed world no matter where you are, and she’s a survivor above all else. Also the bird in there is a fairywren, which is what she was named after!! teehee! pov you are some guy who pissed off a violet district gang leader and a cute girl roller skates in, says “hiiii :3” and then kills you

Ford’s is obviously much darker, mostly because. well. being a Terror is pretty much an edgelord starter kit. He’s not all doom and gloom, though! Ford is actually very impulsive, mostly because he’s been stuck as Eddie’s evil hunting dog for forty years and just discovered the concept of free will two weeks ago. And Fairywren’s sense of humor has definitely rubbed off on him now that he’s able to talk! He is also, however, very angry, and rightfully so after having spent so long trapped in silence and servitude. As much as he has “weird but cool uncle” vibes, he is still very much a dangerous and carnivorous beast, which he also hates about himself. He spent decades being told he was disgusting and unworthy of living, so he still has to unpack all that shit! It’s been two weeks he can only heal so fast lol. also peep the bear teeth that i spent fifteen minutes trying to remove from the rest of the picture <3

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐭

Link to original art

So, as promised in this post, I’m finally gonna explain how Nevermore is a cheating piece of sh- I mean- how the game went down:

The Rules

Contrary to the typical rules of Manhunt, there was only one seeker, and this game took place indoors.

They played the game inside the Avengers tower. The hiders were free to move around, as long as they weren’t caught by the seeker, and anyone who left the tower would be disqualified.

The lights had to remain off on every floor except for the lobby (FRIDAY took care of that quickly and easily). Any hider who was found by the seeker had to go to the lobby for the rest of the game.

Every player could only travel by elevator. (Taking stairs in the dark is a one-way ticket to the hospital. Also, imagining the elevators casting light into the darkness of each floor is pretty damn cool.)

Every player had a flashlight. The hiders were allowed to turn theirs off, but the seeker had to keep theirs on at all times.

The seeker was given exactly one hour to find the hiders. Starting at 11:00PM, they would lose the game if they didn’t find all the seekers by the stroke of midnight.

Playing the Game

The Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor, Loki, Aerith, and Nevermore gathered in the lobby of the Avengers tower, late one night.

Nevermore suggested the game, and after explaining the rules, she assigned the role of seeker to Aerith.

The rest of the gang had a few minutes to hide, since Aerith wouldn’t start seeking until the clock struck eleven.

In the elevator, Rocket questioned Nevermore as to where she was planing on hiding, and she refused to answer. (Rocket grew mildly annoyed at her for this.)

Once Aerith was finally allowed to start seeking, Rocket was actually the first one found in the tower’s kitchen. (He knocked over a pan and gave himself away, lmaooo!)

Aerith slowly made her way up the tower, finding a bunch of the other seekers. (I don’t have all the details, though, since my brain wanted to go ahead and jump to the interesting parts.)

By the time she made it to the top floor, she only had Nevermore left to find.

But, on the top floor, eerie things started to happen. Things were moving on their own, machines were whirring, and things pretty much started getting really supernatural.

Aerith wanted to stick it out and believe that Nevermore was just pulling a prank on her, but she eventually grew so creeped out that she retreated to the lobby with the intention of forfeiting the game.

But, once Aerith got to the lobby, she found Nevermore hanging out among the found hiders.

Nevermore had taken the elevator back down after all the hiders had gotten off (and Aerith had started her ascent in the other one). She insisted that “I never said you couldn’t hide in the lobby. I just said you had to come here once you’re found.” (Bitch.)

Aerith grew so frustrated with Nevermore that she forgot all about the spooky happenings on the top floor. But, this only lasted until she checked her watch and realized that it was only 11:59. Nevermore had given herself away too early…

But, What Happened on the Top Floor???

I can’t say for sure what caused the craziness on the top floor, but I guess they never figured it out. Maybe Tony had some faulty tech. Maybe there was a draft. Or, maybe, there’s a ghost making its home on the top floor, after all…

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After I've made most of my posts about them, I got curious. With the limited knowledge I gave about them so far...

Aerith is wary of propaganda, but Nevermore is encouraging it. Do with that information what you will. 😌