#that serves as a nightmare

[the-6th-harbringer]

"You've changed..you're getting weak."

SCARAMOUCHE RP BLOG PFP ART/BANNER ART NOT MINE

!!!!!WARNING!!!!!

Scaramouche is a bitch. We are all aware that he is a bitch. Therefore, to make sure I am entirely in character, I must be a bitch as well.

If you are uncomfortable with verbal abuse, probably a capful of swears, possibly disturbing topics [human experimentation], and maybe even more, I'd suggest NOT interacting with this blog. Shit's gonna get rough here.

DISCLAIMER

The cause of this Scaramouche's existence is based on the stories of my ocs, who can be found at @realmflora . Make sure to check out the important threads down below. This means this blog is really selective, and I typically only interact with those involved in this story/my closer friends (Cyrillemod, the mod of the other two puppets, Wandermod).

-> RULES <-

•Pro-shits, Incest, homophobes, racists, transphobes, ableists, and anything of the sorts will not be accepted here. Anything I think contain these will be DELETED and you will be BLOCKED with no hesitation nor remorse. • NSFW isn't allowed. Suggestive stuff is, but only for Cyrille or topics related to Cyrille. • This blog contains oc x canon(technically not even canon). If you don't like it, that's fine. But don't send hate to me or the oc involved. • This isn't the only rp blog I'm running. I also have a girlfriend and school to keep up on. IF I DO NOT ANSWER YOUR ASK WITHIN THREE DAYS TIME, THEN YOU MAY RESEND IT. If you spam your ask, I will intentionally not answer it out of spite. Cry about it. -The exception to this rule is if I'm on hiatus. But that probably isn't happening any time soon. At least not again. • As you may have noticed, I curse frequently. So will Scaramouche. However, I don't overkill, and will not tolerate overkill either. Don't overuse swears to the point where it makes up more than 40% of your asks/roleplay replies. •No DM roleplaying. If you DM me, I will be ooc.

TAGS

divine knowledge - general emotionless doll - used when rp/ask contains heavy topics annoying co-workers - other fatui times changed - asks about wanderer/kabukimono/kizashi time bubble - Scaramouche confronting the time wall 🍵tea buddy - menthe menthe's family - other melusines linked joints - wanderer interactions a worthless insect - kabukimono interactions to spite the gods - cyrille interactions/asks

scara kinnie moment - ooc posts RP STUFF

text - speech [ text ] - actions {text} - thoughts Important Threads:

#time bubble / #menthe #the puppet and the heart #that serves as a nightmare Relationship Post:

TAKEN SIGN OFFS 🔍 ♠️❤️ 🧱 🎉 🐇🐸

OTHER ACCOUNTS 3 oc blogs, 2 HSR blogs, and 3 other genshin blogs. Not tagging them because Im lazy

[reinbouxsworld]

Silly doodles of silly skeleton boy 💀🤲

[meyerlansky]

don't know what you're talking about. a shark did this. 🦈

[sparticus2000art]

Here’s the bad sanses as team rocket (with nightmare as Giovanni)

It was originally going to be a bit of a shit post but I got a little too into it

Based on a joke from a cjdoesva stream

Nightmare by jokublog

Killer by rahafwabas

Dust by ask dusttale

Horror by sour apple studios

Cross by jakei

[the-august-axolotl]

WITCHMARE WITCHMARE WITCHMARE

ITS OFFICIALLY SPOOKY MONTH WITCHMARE BE UPON YE

close up under the cut :]

[cowardlykrow]

A conversation between my mother and sister

[ajuunisu]

Edited 👍

HMM HMM HMM MY GUY EclecticIsMyMiddleName BOTH MADE A LN AND OP CROSSOVER?? BRO OUT HERE COOKING AND SERVING A FEAST YESSIR

And hell yeah bro just a mini rando little nightmares x op crossover comic inspired by this awesome lad's poetry AND art work on ao3 bro 🙏😚

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38651067

Think the layout i drew was the one with the tower bro damn been awhile since I've seen the game yall

Bonus+

Bonus++

[ky-landfill]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*tries to organize my thoughts*

*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*

*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*

(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next

[one-time-i-dreamt]

A common nightmare I had as little kid was a fully grown lion leaping through my bedroom window full force directly at me.

[starrycrim]

day 10! really the guy of all time

[the-6th-harbringer]

This one certainly wasn't easier. Esp considering the random parts where the sentences dont make sense/different timelines seem to be present... but here goes!

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"So.. any warnings or words of advice before I do this?"

"You'll be rather angry at time itself when this curtain closes."

"You're always so cryptic for no reason. Just what are you warning me about?"

"Being cryptic is kind of the very point of my existence. You know that, right?"

(A cutoff/time jump? I think this one is after scara would get his mems back)

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry and I know you can't forgive me. I promise you, I never intended for you to almost become another me. I don't want you to forgive me."

"Your.. tone of static.. seems so frantic. And desperate."

"You need to ground yourself now. It's either you wake up and take this chapter outside- or we both die here."

(something happens that makes scara upset?)

"WHY DID YOU HAVE TO- NO ONE ASKED YOU TO. IT WOULD'VE BEEN BETTER IF I-"

"I SAID I'M SORRY. I DID IT BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO LOVE YOU. YOU STILL HAVE A CHANCE AT A BETTER FUTURE."

"..."

"I wish you never saved me. You idiot. You absolute idiot."

"You know deep down you don't wish that at all."

"..."

"..I..I think I'll just wake up now."

"..Be careful out there."

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// BRO DROPPED THEIR CROWN //

// you got it spot on, actually. its meant to be vague and confusing. but some implications are obvious //

[lord-squiggletits]

I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.

I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.

The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...

Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.

I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.

And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?

It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.

To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.

In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.

Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.

So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.

What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.

Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?

[flamingfoxninja]

This makes so much sense why Kipperlilly was asking about how Kristen made Yes! And specifically Where she made Yes! at.

Kristen made a whole new Deity through Arthur Augfort's office and school. As a powerful cleric she reached into the Astral Plane and made life out of her questioning and worship. She temporarily had access to the realm of dead gods to make something from nothing. This was all set in the making from day one.

Jace was working with Kalina and Arianwen to revive The Nightmare King and The Rage Goddess. That's what Ragh saw in front of the office after Prompocolypse. They used Kalvaxis wanting to regain his power as a bigger play to bring back their corrupted and dead deities. A chess piece in a series of steps.

While Kalina was going to bring back The Nightmare King, Jace would work on bringing back The Rage Goddess through Elmville. Kristen already proved that Augefort Academy has access to the Astral Plane. He found and targeted students susceptible to rage, took them to the Mountains of Chaos where the Divine Wedding took place and force the students to make a choice: live for Rage or stay dead.

The Rat Grinders made that choice except for Lucy. Which is a problem because the Need a Cleric. The people the Rat Grinders killed from the school have been Clerics, because with Kristen's method you need a powerful connection to a Deity and Worship to bring life to one.

Lucy worshiped a Giant Goddess, she would have been perfect but she refused.

Yolanda gave up any affiliation to a specific deity, neutral but powerful in worship. She would be a worthy vessel but she refused.

Buddy was brought to always be killed. A follower of Helio, the son of Sol who had corrupted the Goddesses in the first place. He is the grandson of a powerful Cleric, and has that same connection and power within himself. Kipperlilly didn't kill Buddy in panic, that was the plan all along: bypass Obliviti Mori by killing a cleric to meet the Rage Goddess in the Astral Plane, then revive them to spread the word and start the ritual. Buddy was just the first one to accept.

Like in Sylvaire, they are seeding Rage to make their own version of the Nightmare Forest to bring back The Rage Goddess. It's going to bloom and spread, rake over Elmville and the Augefort Academy where the Astral Connection is.

These plans have been started since Freshman Year, and have been defeated all because on goblin was just trying to find his babysitter and another halfling just couldn't handle that.

[pattydia]

my father was a milkman. my mother was my dead mother, now a memory. i always had a thing for scary movies. you know?

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Little House on the Prairie | S3.E5 The Monster of Walnut Grove | 1976 directed by William F. Claxton, director of Night of the Lepus | 1972