#sepelire securi AU

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me, trying to write: wouldn’t it be ironic if Jane “died in a car crash” Perkins worked in auto-insurance

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sepelire securi AU things (part 1)

THIS IS JUST IN CASE I DON’T END UP FINISHING MY FANFIC SERIES

jane perkins

Jane is a foil to Emma; she’s a lawful who uses society’s rules and expectations as a key to a happy, fulfilling life. she’s convinced the way works, but somehow isn’t happy. she chalks it up to people not following the system as the reason why the system is struggling to work. (this also adds to people feeling inferior around her; she doesn’t intend this) Emma, by contrast, is inherently rebellious and counter culture. she knows how to live the life she wants, but is very disillusioned with society to get there at a time and manner that she wants. her sister being a “perfect person” adds to that disillusionment

she and Emma are raised in a family of atheists; Jane’s birth year is 1979

she works as an insurer in an auto insurance firm because the officework involved is steady and she’s taught to like that, and ends up liking that. also, irony.

she knows McNamara’s husband through her work as a subordinate to him; she only met John once and that was during his wedding with her boss

her love for tim has led her into doing some of the weirdest things as a parent; it bothers her whenever things just don’t go the way she believes is supposed to

she finds it hard to deal with surprises, particularly because she rarely experiences them. the only ones that really hit her were: a) Emma’s birth, b) falling in love with Tom, c) the car accident that killed her

what attracted her to Tom Houston was his sense of duty via his military service, and just his overall energy of safety

she actually had a hard time trying help Tom from the trauma he endured in his service–she wishes she could’ve done him better

death is the most painful thing that happened to her, making her realize the way she lived could’ve been more fulfilling if someone just convinced her it could be that way

not that she’s ungrateful with what she had when she was alive, but it was very clear to her that she was taught to want the things she had achieved and she hates that she never questioned it

this motivates her to be one of the most powerful phenomena in one of these hatchetfield timelines/this AU: a ghost who knows how to wield that “higher power” that is love and strength of the human heart, albeit in a weaker level given her ghost status

this higher power peaks in human hands, as it requires the human heart specifically

ghosts come in different forms, but can commonly be expelled from a dimension once they’ve cleared up their unfinished business

where ghosts come from is still unknown, but they can exist in a lot of places

PEIP deals with ghosts by trapping them away into their facility; they know how ghosts disappear but have resigned to this given that trying to help a ghost finish their business is a long and difficult task already

Jane’s business is a large, bordering on absurdly abstract one, and she’s gonna be haunting hatchetfield for a long while

john mcnamara

DADT applied to PEIP, which affected John’s experience and his way of leadership

he’s in his forties, raised with a strong Christian background

his experiences in PEIP have negatively affected him and his relationships with loved ones

whoever his husband is, he’s not being very attentive to him and his needs; PEIP is demanding, yes, but he never finds the time

McNamara met his husband during a damage control situation involving peip; said husband is a civilian who actually managed to save John’s life during said damage control situation

very few people in PEIP know they’re married

his strong attachment to secrecy and non-disclosure aren’t just professional, but also personal

his husband is dead (for health reasons) and he does not know it

his aggressive tendencies to fall into a black and white mentality are rooted from his relationship to the act of having to explain and justify himself and his behaviors

as uncomfortable it is for him to bend the rules, a part of him takes joy in it, most especially when it helps people

he’s not used to being corrected, and finds difficulty being the learner

so strongly disensitized to chaos that he finds it difficult to exist in very mundane settings/situations

one of the most neutral goods out there alive

his light readings on love and strength of the human heart aren’t actually sufficient to stop this AU’s big phenomenal threat

actually has a hard time around children and teenagers, despite his kindness to them

loves the duty and good involved when working for PEIP

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until canon delivers, this is for an AU

hypothetical Jane Perkins design because why not???

her face is obscured since we have no canon casting yet and i can’t decide who should play her tbh

tried to mush fun mom and strict mom energies because i think she gives off both

hoodie and black undershirt are designed to parallel tom’s flannel and white undershirt, with the lighting used on tom taken into consideration 

the white splatter is supposed to parallel tom’s plaid print and represents jane’s wounds in that car crash 

lots of black and white because she’s special in the AU

lots of gray because AU spoiler i don’t wanna get into let

feautring this exact pose but with various expressions and lighting

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A Hatchetfield AU, or at least I'm calling it that if none of this speculation is correct

To be known as the Bury the Hatchet AU/Timeline/Concept, including connections to Nerdy Prudes Must Die

Edit: Now the basis for my sepelire securi AU; a separate post may be made to clarify the AU

(Can't put a read more thingy--I'm on mobile)

In order to achieve a "hatchet field", wouldn't one have to "bury the hatchet?" To "bury the hatchet" is to cease conflict, which could only be achieved by the highest law to exist.

Love and Strength of the Human Heart, according to General McNamara is the highest law to exist.

Hatchetfield evokes strong storm imagery, and storms represent conflict. Storms are composed of gray clouds; gray is the color between black and white. The black and white have been framed as opposing forces, particularly good and evil, as well as "monsters and men." Storms in Hatchetfield may imply that Hatchetfield is where the black and white meet and become one, or at least interact.

Therefore, burying the hatchet = calming the storm

In a way, this removes the polarization involved in siding either with the black or the white, thus the concept of gray area that of which drives home humanity's inability to either be truly good or truly evil.

(The concept of calming a storm is known to be biblical in origin, famously done by Jesus who is presented in the scripture as a prophet. The concept prophets exist in Black Friday's Hatchetfield. Whoever can stop the conflict must be able to wield powers, with the power in question invoking the higher law of Love and Strength of the Human Heart. Since the biblical calming of the storm could only be done by faith, calming the storm in the Hatchetfield context would require that higher law.)

In relation to Nerdy Prudes Must Die, the title seems to imply a disapproval with nerds and prudes, so the threat may have to combat wisdom and chastity through messing with the deep desires of the Hatchetfield citizens, as demonstrated by Wiggly and the Apotheosis.

This show would most likely criticize deliberate ignorance of facts in favor of traditional yet harmful systems of love and sexuality, potentially invoking criticism of purity culture, sexual abuses AND amatonormativity. The highest law of love and strength of the Human Heart might actually work this time, and it disproves the toxic forms of love being utilized by the threat.

The threat would may likely utilize human desire into the creation of increasingly unhappy life experiences via toxic forms and expressions of love and a poor interpretation of given knowledge that are intended guide others. With strong hints to a predominantly teen character ensemble, being knowledgeable is very important in that context.

The threat would be paranormal, following the P in PEIP, as The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals utilized E as in extraterrestrial and Black Friday I for interdimensional.

There's many ideas for what kind of paranormal threat, but I'm on the ghost bandwagon because we have a lot of possibly dead characters. A character who is dead in both preexisting shows is Jane Perkins, so she may be referenced in some way or even debut here.

Black Friday and The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals reference each other a lot--multiple melodies from TGWDLM are heard in Black Friday, notably that "look what happens, nightmare time" melody from Not Your Seed which is thrown around a lot in TGWDLM and is heard in Black Friday's Made in America, specially when Cross is speaking about the completion of the Wiggly cult. Show Me Your Hands foreshadowed Black Friday within a verse, the one where Sam's on the megaphone. 411 is police code for theft, which is what starts the riots in ToyZone, as started by Curt Mega's ex-factory worker character. The policeman played by James Tolbert that catches Ethan enters with Show Me Your Hands playing, and leaves once he gets informed about the riots in ToyZone. The line "any mall-rats comin' in hot--they'll melt" references the burning of the Lakeside Mall with the cult inside, melting onstage.

I'm going on with the theory that it might be ghosts, as they were uttered by Paul in Inevitable ("Emma, do you believe in ghosts?"), a song whose melody was brought up in Black Friday too, also in Made in America, just directly right before the Not Your Seed melody (and after the America is Great Again one.) When it plays, President Goodman speaks of his failure to stop Wiggly--the same melody that plays in Inevitable occurs when Paul tells Emma that she lost. Ghosts were uttered by Jeff Blim’s Man in a Hurry (“I heard Tom is seeing things,” “only ghosts”) in reference to Tom Houston’s PTSD in the song What Do You Say.

Am I thinking of sexy ghosts? Ghosts who want to fuck? Ghosts who regret having romances? Ghosts whose presences remind the living of poor life choices? Ghosts possessing others to feel alive again? Yeah, I am. Whatever these ghosts do, they have to line up with the criticisms speculated for their horror to work.

(If it is ghosts, I am hoping for Phantom references--in a way it is a horror musical, and the Hatchetfield series has referenced other horror musical pieces like Little Shop of Horrors. We could even have a Phantom-esque arc occur during the show.)

Assuming this musical is about love and sexuality at all, perhaps this show might be even darker due to a more personal nature that it seems to invoke in it's chosen themes.

More speculation here.

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Chapter 2 to this! Includes my interpretation of the Monroe boys and their family!

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Part 4 of the sepelire securi AU. This is just this AU’s take on how John McNamara met his eventual husband, no biggie. OCs incoming.

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Hatchetfield--literally a grave of axes, figuratively an origin of storms--was a unique place, just as intended by the design of the two brothers in the sky that created the multiverse. It confounds P.E.I.P. how one island could invoke trouble so frequently.

This timeline's, or this universe's trouble? The Ghost of Gray, whose unfinished business lies in bringing about a brand new order that can satisfy everyone's collective yearnings without catastrophe or sacrifice. Her manner and intention are in conflict with the interests of the deities that inhabit the Black and White, the place of which she had blurred with a higher power, prompting the services of a warrior of darkness and a prophet of light. Tasked by the gods to stop her, she seeks the aid of a virgin sage, a virgin sage with the intelligence and the dignity to convince the world around them that the way society behaves is in the wrong.

The start of this Hatchetfield fic I’ve been meaning to write! The culmination of my AU!

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sepelire securi AU doodles (and designs, i guess???)

my plans are very scrappy rn but i have to get this out

complex AU is giving McNamara a complex hairdo—i couldn’t decide between braids or bun

hot chocolate boy gets a coat for some point of difference

tbh alice would probs wear various clothes as long as it fits shades of pink—she frequents jackets and flannel print in parallel to deb and bill

some more doodles of my jane perkins design; more about that here

behold soon to be debunked design of grace chastity that will only be for this au

no official casting so face obscuration

grace canonically goes to church; i hc her as episcopal

archetypical nerd glasses

jacket is in shades of black, white, and gray for plot importance

storm print on jacket for increased importance given its connections to hatchetfield

vest is mainly purple bc i’ll code the au as such—blue and green are intertwined in reference to the previous musicals

she’s a surprisingly simple dresser underneath; she dresses for comfort and practicality

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Part 3 of the sepelire securi AU. Grace Chastity and Hot Chocolate Boy work on an English project. They do it in Beanies.

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Part 1 for my Sepelire Securi AU, in an alternate timeline in which Wilbur Cross never went mad and stuck with PEIP but still serves Wiggly to a degree. A Hannah from California meets him at some point. Big bad is hinted and introduced.

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Part 5 for the sepelire securi AU. Wilbur Cross and Hannah Foster give someone of note an interview. Ghosts are abound.