#the seance cosplay

[seanceofghouls]

Forgot to post these but here some real life seance ata con last weekend!

[thisweekingundamevents]

GW Hallows 2024!

Here’s the prompt list for this year! Use them for any media type! (fics, arts, cosplay, moodboards, playlists, etc.)

Werewolves

Seance

Creepy Crawlies

Trick-or-Treat!

Haunted House

Watching scary movies

“I ain’t afraid of no ghost!”

Have fun and be spookily inspired!

Self-inserts, reader fics, and OCs are welcome! Just be sure there’s at least one canon Gundam Wing character in your creation. Simply have fun and tag anything you make with GW Hallows 2024!

This event is just a tag-in, runs the whole month of October!

[myreitha]

Costume time!

Okay, you know what, I want to share this process and I've chosen y'all to suffer with me.

SO! A friend of mine doesn't have a spooky show to produce this year, and so is putting all his energy into a cool-ass halloween event (Fancy paper invites, puzzles to solve, challenges, games, seances, etc). The whole thing is themed around this fake secret society that we're all now part of, and the dress cose and we're being encouraged to come up with cool fancy clothes/outfits to match the theme to come in. Best description I can come up with for this theme is "Fancy witchy-vampire" (Like, think VtM, but witchier). THAT SAID. I'm still out of a job, so, I've got to be strategic. AND I've got the itch to make things. Even better. (More past the cut!)

I don't have photos for a lot of these earlier decisions and stages, sorry. BUT I go through my closet and costume tubs (the for-fun-or-cosplay costumes as well as the circus/performing ones) and have a nice closet-runway to figure out what I'm starting with and settle on this one burgundy satin wrap top with big-ass sleeves that I love. . .that unfortunately doesn't go with much that I have in my wardrobe that vibes with the theme. (There's like. . .one or two things it works with, but I want to be FANCIER). So I sketch around and come up with an idea based around this shirt (and a statement necklace collar I have that was some of the best $5 I've ever spent)

I have this old dress I'd bought at a flea market years ago and had altered to be an overskirt for a hoop skirt, and then it's been worn as a bustle with the bodice tucked away more times than it's felt hoops. It's a similar color as the top, so I figured I'd finally take the bodice off it, pull it in to be something I could walk in that wouldn't trail on teh ground, and I could set it under a corset in the center. Bing-bang-boom! Genius!

No. The skirt and the shirt were similar-but-different enough colors and textures that they clashed. Damnit. Well, I can ditch the skirt and figure out the rest! Some skinny moto pants. A decorative corset - I could embroider a corset (Myr no), or, ooh, use gold appliques (Okay, more realistic, proceed).

Next step was to mock things up as I'm trying to find what I want without purchasing a bunch of shit, which got me to this:

Okay okay okay. Cool, I've got a direction (that's not the shirt, but it's the closest I coudl find online to use, so I used it). Now for the endless internet and thrift store (No fingers, not thirst store, dear god) and internet thrift store searching to find me some cool-ass pants and a corset and some shoes that'll work with this. You'll notice, though that my statement necklace has been swapped out for cool-strappy-thing. Because statement necklace-collar is geometric and GOOD LUCK finding geometric applique. Harder than I expected. Took me a couple months to find things that weren't lots of money that I could afford. BUT I EVENTUALLY DID IT. This included buying multiple corsets with the intention of returning things. Benefits of modern shopping. The happy "lets try everything on" day was this weekend!

SO FAR SO GOOD. Took a poll from friends and the short corset is the winner. It's definitely the best constructed of the three, though the pants aren't QUITE high enough waist to be able to wear under it without some adjustments. But it'll do. The shoes turned out to be dark brown instead of black, so I need to see about making them black (and fixing them so the tongue doesn't decide to go deep diving towards my toes.) Other things to do: bring in the wrists of those sleeves some, they're a bit too big (Here they're clipped with bobby pins), decorate the corset, maybe add some gold detailing onto the pants? They've got that gold ridging along the thighs that you find on moto-pants, but that's absolutely invisible most of the time, so I think if I just brush some gold paint along the tops of those ridges, it'll make them pop in a good way. You'll note that none of these photos have the strappy-thingy, and instead we're back to the statement necklace-collar. Turns out the differece between the image I found on the internet and teh shirt I own is enough that you BARELY SEE the strappy. Also, I decided that instead of using applique, I'd buy some gold paint, make a design that'd work, and paint it on the corset. Only time will reveal whether this was a good or a bad idea.

Other thing this showed me is that this doesn't feel FANCY enough. So I'm coming back to that half-skirt idea. This time, though I'm thinking about something sheer - either a burgundy to match the top, or a black with gold accents (OR A FULL DESIGN?!?!?!).

Last night I got flat photos of the corset for figuring out the design, since the shape I was working with in my sketches doesn't match the chosen corset shape. Pls to enjoy some of the designs I was playing with:

Proooooobably going to see about adjusting the eye design. I think it fits the theme best.

Last night I started on the alternations by taking in the waist of the pants. Please have this photo that happened 30 seconds before my thread was attacked.

[kopfkino-o]

hi hello it is me again this time with an acotar crackpot theory poll: halloween edition

[angeiisa]

Perona Headcanons

Modern AU!

SANRIO GIRL! She loves collecting any & all Sanrio plushies, her favourite being Kuromi & MyMelody. Her bed is full of them & I strongly believe she's one of those people who will scold you if you move or knock down her stuffed toys.

She is also a figurine collector and has many rare Monster high dolls on display, Draculaura is her favourite.

Watches anime such as "Madoka Magica", "Nana" "Evangelion" & "Death Note". Speaking of Death note she moulded her personality after Misa Amane when she was 13 & bought clothes to match. Robin probably sees her reading something gory & Perona gets her into "Junji Ito".

As a kid she played games she shouldn't have, much like "DDLC", "Yandere Simulator" & "FNAF". Probably stayed up late watching "Silent Hill" & "Resident Evil" gameplays.

She also watches true crime videos & her favourite YouTuber is "Baliey Sarian", she enjoys that there's also a makeup aspect to the videos.

Loves horror movies, especially paranormal ones. "Poltergeist" "The Shining" & "Conjuring" are her favourites. When "The Nun" came out she made everyone watch it, Ussop cried.

Absolutely has a Quija board & makes guests summon ghosts with her, Ussop cried again.

Mihawk is her dad! Zoro is her brother! It's canon to me, I love the gothic family. Mihawk knew she loved ghosts as a kid so for Halloween he cut some holes into a bedsheet & made that her costume... at least he tried. On that note, Perona enjoys cosplaying her favourite characters casually & is on forums for her fandoms. She definitely scourers Reddit & Twitter & very often gets into arguments.

She loves blasting music which irritates Zoro to no end primarily when he's working out. Very frequently he will barge into her room telling her to turn it down (She does not).

Of course a night-core listener. Most liked artists are “Lady Gaga”, “Melanie Martinez”, “Poppy”, “Jazmin Bean” & “MARINA”.

Halloween queen! Always hosting multiple Halloween parties throughout October & a Seance on the actual day. These get-togethers consist of scary movies, excessive haunted decoration, although that's up all year long, spooky stories & fall snacks. She is a sucker for a pumpkin spice latte.

Her room smells like rosemary & she has candles everywhere.

Hated “Ghost Busters” because she didn’t think it was fair to the ghosts. Very into Scooby Doo as a kid & would make Zoro play it with her, he was the dog.

[artzychic27]

MHA characters in aus

YES! I HAVE MANY LINED UP, TAKE YOUR PICK! (It’s mostly Deku-centric… It’s all Deku-centric)

Dad For One AUs

Villain in Training: Izuku was raised by his father after his mother’s unfortunate death due to a hero. Since that day, Izuku’s grown to hate heroes, and his father is just thrilled. He introduces him to the world of villainy at the age of four, and at age five when Izuku doesn’t get his quirk, All For One let’s him pick out whichever quirk he desires

Vaulted: Izuku was kidnapped from Yuuei by All for One, but before he could fight back, he has his memories altered so he believes that he was taken away from his father by heroes after they accused him of being a villain. And now that Izuku is back in his doting father’s care, there’s nothing separating them ever again… Except maybe a two ton steel door, but that’s just to keep the heroes away from Izuku

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Father Scorned: Hisashi never left, and he’s glad he never did so, because he never would have seen the horrors those brats and that “teacher” inflicted on his son. Well, if they’re going to use their quirks in such a way, then he’d be doing society a favor by taking them. So the next week at school, every student and teacher at Aldera find that they are now quirkless and Izuku somehow developed a pyrokinesis quirk over the weekend. Sweet karma

Izuku Born with a Quirk AUs

Medusa Quirk: Izuku has snakes for hair, and when he looks into the eyes of someone while activating his quirk, he can paralyze them for up to ten minutes, but it really depends on how much energy he has.

Addams Quirks: Based on the hit gothic comedy from the pre-quirk era, Izuku’s quirk alters him mentally and physically, making him desensitized to all thing gruesome, making it so poisons don’t kill him, and making him much paler while his hair becomes darker. He seems to be able to teleport, has visions, and plants die around him. Izuku and Tokoyami have seances on Wednesdays

Isabella’s Gift: Always teased for his “girly” quirk, Izuku never let that stop him from trying out for Yuuei’s hero course. After one bad day thanks to some assholes who just wouldn’t leave him alone, Izuku snaps, yells, and a cactus spurts right in the middle of the floor. Cue “What Else Can I Do?” He practices the new aspect of his quirk over the course of the months; and by the time of the entrance exam, he create weapons made from vines and stabs the zero pointer by having a massive cactus grow from under it. Anyway, he’s in the hero course, and over the first few weeks, gives life long lasting flowers to those he sees as his friends based on their meanings and creates a blue and white rose for Shoto

Misc.

The Midoriyas and Yaoyorozu Have Money Fights on Saturdays- The Midoriyas are modest when it comes to their wealth. They live in the same apartment building as their many tenants, they shop for groceries at some of the stores they own, etc. Izuku and Momo have been friends since they were three and even after Izuku didn’t get his quirk. Screw that. Brains beat brawn any day. They go shopping, do each others hair, threaten Izuku’s bullies with their wealth, look fabulous while flipping off some quirkists, and take the recommended exam in designer gym clothes

Seamstress Izuku: Izuku is in the Support Course’s design department. He learned how to sew at the age of five from his mom when he didn’t get a quirk and needed an outlet for his pent up frustration. By the time he was six, he was sewing ball gowns and selling them for huge amounts of money, and was able to get him and his mom their own home. Now, every time he comes home from school, he doesn’t cry. He sews. He created an Instagram account to show off his work and cosplays as heroes and villains while critiquing hero informs and making them much more practical than they are and creating upgraded versions of their support gear. He gets a DM from Nezu one day, offering him a chance to try for Yuuei’s design department. Of course, he gets in and redesigns all the hero course students’ costumes, ‘cause they were trifling, especially Yaoyorozu’s and Hagakure’s. They all step into battles looking fashionable but also having functional clothing that doesn’t tear so easily and isn’t skintight on young girls’ bodies. He even redesigns Midnight’s outfit, using zippers instead of that tear-away fabric. And when he’s not designing new hero uniforms, he’s having the students (and teachers) model some dresses he made.

Izuku: Do you or do you not feel pretty?

Katsuki: *In a black ball gown* … I do feel pretty.

Izuku: Wonderful! Because you look pretty!

Izuku gets adopted by every Pro Hero- One day, Inko is late to pick up Izuku from school, and before his bullies could try anything, Death Arms swoops in and offers to walk Izuku home while reprimanding his bullies. Even when they explain that he’s quirkless, he shrugs and walks the greenette home. It happens again, only this time, it’s Miss Midnight. She takes him out for ice cream. Then Recovery Girl sees some assholes ganging up on him and strikes them with her cane, heals Izuku, but not them. While Izuku’s at the grocery store, some jackass who knows he’s quirkless harasses him until Best Jeanist steps in. He even buys Izuku’s groceries. Seeing their car broken down on the side of the road, Endeavor surprisingly gives them a ride home. And on the way, he receives a harsh lesson on parenting from the Midoriyas. Over the years, just about every Pro Hero has decided: I want to be Midoriya Izuku’s aunt/uncle/auncle. They go to the apartment in formal clothing, surprised to see the other pro heroes there and hand Inko the adoption papers. Now Izuku’s got like a hundred new family members who all share custody of him, but Inko gets more time because she’s the mom, of course

Izuku gets Adopted by Every Pro Hero, only Inko’s Dead: Twelve year old quirkless Midoriya Izuku receives terrible news: His mom is dead. No orphanage will take him in, he can’t get a job to pay rent, and he refuses to stay with the Bakugous. Things seem bleak until Pro Hero Recovery Girl hears about his dilemma while doing her rounds at the hospital, and he hears the boy saying goodbye to his mother. She heads back to Yuuei and explains Izuku’s situation, and immediately, every staff member wants to adopt him. Present Mic prints out the adoption papers and runs to the hospital while the others try to stop him. It becomes the custody battle of the century with dozens of pro heroes wanting to adopt a quirkless boy. They each state their reasons for wanting to do so until Izuku speaks up and suggests shared custody. The judge would’ve dismissed the idea of not for All Might threatening to Detroit Smash his ass into oblivion

[dannymayevent]

Day 13: Monster

Today’s theme for the daily calendar is Monster!  

The prompts are open to everyone’s own interpretation. This means you can do whatever you want with these themes, whether it be fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, or even a poem or song!

Tomorrow’s theme will be Seance!

Remember to tag all creations #Dannymay2023 and #Danny Phantom

Link to the Calendar / FAQ

[alightwhendarknessfell]

What you can't hear is my boyfriend (dressed as Matt) taking these photos, saying "Yeah babe, you should do that gun thing with your tongue"

Anyway, that's a wrap on Galaxy Con Richmond! Sleep-deprived and beat, but I had an absolute blast this weekend! Got to spend the weekend cosplaying with my boyfriend and hanging out with some of my favorite people. Cosplayed as my favorite 2000s bad boy, Mello; Lip-sync battled to Blank Space by Taylor Swift, went feral at the Emo night (turned mosh pit/seance) rave, bought some really cool art, and met a ton of Death Note fans. 

Tag me in photos/videos if we took some together 🖤

P.S Long live my homie Bob, he went hard in that pit IYKYK 

[belphieslilcow]

i love having belphies comic seance card bloomed/deflowered/idolized/trained/i dont know what it's called cause now i get to see belphie in his cute ruri chan cosplay during battles hehehe

[maniac-reboggles]

Oh my gods. I NEED more answers to this! Because. Like. Most of the time I see Fiddleford in Reverse Falls, it's the one based off of that one cosplay music video. Which like... I LOVE! But people don't tend to do much with him other than have him divorce his wife in a very ugly way to marry Stanford. I just want MOAR content with him! And him being in the background as Ford's husband that doesn't contribute much is so very eh to me.

But then there were these two. THESE TWO REVERSE FALLS FICS THAT MADE ME STARVE FOR MORE!!!!

There was one where basically, Fiddleford was still very much romantically involved with Ford... But Ford basically locked Fidds in the manor's basement, not letting him out or recieve that affection he so DESPRATELY craved unless his experiments got results. And as he was locked in the basement, he was very much going insane. The chapter that included him was mostly how he was trying to catch this rat (that may or may not have existed and/or may have been a super-rat or an undead rat), but was making Fiddleford fail and accidently wreck all of his own experiments.

And then there was another excellently written one in which Fiddleford was a priest. And.. Just!!!!! FUUUYUUUUUUUUCK! I wanted to know that Fiddleford's deal SOOO much! Like what an interesting angle for Fidds to go into in a Reverse Falls story! Instead of creating a cult, he joined the church...? Why? That's such a neat idea! What makes a man of science like F become a man of the cloth, right!??? But even though the episodes I read were both excellently written, literally the only thing of note that I remember Fidds doing in that fic was deciding to sit out of a seance because he just didn't believe in the supernatural. Another interesting choice for a priest!

In amy case, I have no idea if either of these fics can be found on AO3 anymore. >.< And regardless, I need more Reverse Fiddleford! I'm starving!!!

What are y'all's versions of Reverse Fiddleford like? I feel like I only see RF Fiddleford when it's Fiddauthor and even then he doesn't usually have any personality or story changes.

Use this as an opportunity to infodump in the reblogs if you want because I'm genuinely curious what other people's ideas for him are.

[we-are-the-dury]

Klaus Hargreeves // 4 10 2021 they/he // ig + patreon: mckellsen

[earthgay2052]

The Séance // 12 21 2020 they/he // ig + patreon: mckellsen

[catrinabug]

My comic book Klaus Hargreeves Halloween 2020 cosplay.

[halibellecter]

So I have worked my nerve up and my hyperfixation has not gone away

Alright

I yelled about this on discord a bunch but hopefully this will be a little more cohesive.

So the year is 2009. I'm in high school. I watch this movie that, and I say this with all the love in my heart, is mid. It is so beautifully mid. I love this film so much. It is my favorite horror film. I can watch it over and over, never get tired, but the midness is inexorably linked with the charm.

Why are the worms on the eyelid and photo box earthworms from outside? What were those funky little guys doing in the crawlspace for 70 something years? Hey Reverend, what the FUCK does "he removed their eyelids not to make them see, but to make them UNSEEN"--- what the fuck does that actually mean, my dude? I've seen this movie probably about twenty times by now I still have no clue. Why is there a dumbwaiter (with, apparently, a SKYLIGHT? in the hide and seek scene Jonah is backlit, by what looks to be daylight from above), that slots side by side into a crematorium? Why does it have a full length side hatch with HOLES IN IT? Why is the only other access point for this dumbwaiter on the SECOND FLOOR HALLWAY? What kind of crematorium has a VENTED(?!!) front hatch, side hatch the full length of the side, with HOLES, and, apparently, some kind of rear access as well that goes through an external wall (the reverend goes to get Jonah's remains and he does that by going outside and removing some kind of grate? was that all there was between the flames and the outside world? a grate?!)?? Mr. Aickman, please, please turn on your location. I just want to talk, I have QUESTIONS--. While we're at it why do the bound spirits have little sleevies? Why did you leave their arms and legs free? What was the purpose of that, my dude? You were stacking them like cordwood, saving a ton of money on insulation, making batteries to power Jonah's seances-- did you. Did you want them to be able to like. Wiggle around in there? Like why was that a step? Did they need to be able to stretch?! How did you get their eyelids so flat? Did you press them? Did you have an eyelid pressing book, Mr. Aickman, can I vall you Ramsey, did you press them in a phone book? Huh? Ramsey please I have so much to ask you stop screening my calls.

--ahem.

I love this movie.

High school, 2009, I'm already a terminal otaku so why not get weirder? I become, and this is being kind, OBSESSED with this film. My first and only cosplay was a bound spirit-- I wore the costume until it fell apart, working a haunted corn maze two or three years running. My mom did my runes for me with lip liner, but since this was too realistic for her, she had to put in an error, lest she accidentally bind my spirit, I assume. Somewhere woven into the Aramaic, a different spot each time she did my makeup, she would put "867-5309". I went to Walmart in this cosplay. I overheard someone asking why the kids were waving at me, I was so scary! "She never scares the kids." I didn't. I would wave them through.

So if it was so mid and I've got so many issues with it, why was I so obsessed? Well... it scared me. It scared me in a way I'm just now fully unpacking. And it scared me so bad that I wrote an entire AU, just to fix it. My first oc that I used in roleplaying was from this AU. She's... gosh, she's about 15 in concept years. Wow. And... well... she was the first one to be written into the AU because she fixed the thing that scared me the worst about canon. That sometimes, horrible things happen to scared kids that had no choice and no agency, and nobody saves them until they've suffered for years, so damaged that they're so terrifying that they're a monster, nearly universally unable to be tolerated, never mind heard, let alone understood.

Spoilers for the movie, heh. Um, so, brief plot outline. Back in the 1920s Ramsey Aickman, a necromancer, owned a funeral home. He used many of the bodies for his magic. He had an assistant, a boy named Jonah-- the fandom (are you out there, fandom? please??) often takes him as Aickman's son, but not only can I not find anything in canon to confirm this, the articles about their seances seem to dispute it, repeatedly stating that he's "known only by his first name". Jonah is canonically horrified by the magic Aickman is doing. We see this repeatedly and we also see him try to run away and get physically DRAGGED back to the mortuary by Aickman, none too gently, either. It's made abundantly clear, multiple times, that Jonah wants no part of this, but that he also has no choice. He has no choice about participating in Aickman's seances either-- this is classic 1920s parlor mediumship, complete with what's either a Brownie Reflex or Argus 75 camera on hand-- with Aickman operating it instead of joining the circle, of course-- for photos. It's anachronistic either way, 20 years too far in the future for Aickman to be using in the 20s, even the LATE 20s....... hm. I'll have to watch it once more and zoom in. Anyway, the seances are not directly said to be difficult for Jonah, but it's heavily implied. He does not seem to be having a good time, clenching the sitters' hands, grinding his teeth. He manifests ectoplasm, which again isn't directly STATED to be harmful to him... but it's heavily implied to be physically painful. We see it explode in one scene, so it's volatile and dangerous. And Jonah manifests somewhere in his throat-- the ectoplasm comes out of his mouth-- so any time that happens during a seance, there goes his airway. He looks completely terrified when we get a shot of his face; you can't tell me that kid can breathe. And he is a KID. Look at this.

Not only is he a kid, if this character isn't autistic, I will eat my hat.

At the time I watched the movie, those parts didn't strike me as scary, so much as... well... what happened when the ectoplasm exploded.

It killed every sitter. The only one to survive who was in the circle was Jonah.

It killed Aickman, who wasn't even physically linked to the seance. Remember, he was working the camera. He has just a few last words to Jonah and they are: "They'll be after you now. Get out."

Who's they? Who's they. They-- the hundreds, no, literally HUNDREDS of bound spirits, canon confirmed by the number of bodies we see, in the house. You know, the ones powering up the seances. Without the necromancer who bound them to keep them in line, they're loose, they're pissed, and they take out their rage on the only target available: Jonah. The scared kid who just watched half a dozen people die, including the closest thing he's got to a loved one, arguably by something he did even if it wasn't his fault. The terrified sole survivor who gets run around the house, chased in a blind panic into the crematorium... and then they turn it on. When we see Jonah as a ghost, later in the movie, he's burned, blackened, the only untouched part are his bright blue eyes (and his immaculate, unsinged, ash-free nicely pressed wool suit, but we're, you know, just going to ignore that).

He can't speak.

His vocal chords-- he was screaming when he died. His throat doesn't work anymore. He can only make gasping, choking noises and he looks terrifying... so no one even TRIES to understand him, let alone help.

He spends the whole movie trying to protect the living family in the house from the wrath of the bound spirits; he is the ONLY thing holding them back. And everyone is terrified of him, and no one understands, and... and..... and.......

It just... it HURT it was so scary. I didn't fully understand the horror I felt. I'm still unpacking it now. Years later, with psych experience from both sides of the table, with so much more understanding of how cptsd and tries can work, and with my own ASD diagnosis sitting on my shoulder going "hm, yep, that response makes a lot more sense now".

It was the lack of agency.

It was the loss of control.

It was being not just misunderstood, while doing your BEST to do the right thing, but... actively rejected. Hated and feared. A thing of disgust. Who cares what you're trying to say if you're saying it with that burned mouth that doesn't move right anymore? It doesn't matter what way you're trying to show people to safety if they take one look at you and run screaming and I just---

I had to fix it.

So I did.

The fix-it AU of The Haunting in Connecticut is so far removed from canon that it's basically just me handing out canon nametags to a bunch of unrelated OCs. Sorry about that. Sometimes, much like in the movie, there's so much awful that you've just got to burn it all down and start over.

So let's start over.

In the quirky little burg of Roswell, New Mexico, we find a mortuary with a ghost hunting side hustle. Shrewd businessman, non-retired funeral director and mostly-retired medium Ramsey Aickman keeps both sides of the business going, from logistics to advertising. He even made some ill fated t-shirts.

[ID: Arching text reading Don't Go, under that is a stylized drawing of Aickman's face, then bowing text reading My Heart. As in, "Don't Go Aickman [Breaking] My Heart".]

Can't imagine why these didn't fly off the shelves.

His legitimate business is decent sized one with regular employees doing regular mortuary things. They handle the embalming and transport for funeral businesses that don't do that stuff in house-- which is a lot of them, actually. (Thanks, roommate!)

And then there are two other types of business... the kind that calls on the phone about strange things happening, and the kind that shows up to the business with an unmarked van and a body that the county coroner or next of kin is VERY sure is not "empty" yet.

Phone calls are handled by the whole small team, Aickman, secretary Wendy, who does not do spooky shit but does do scheduling and bookkeeping, Matt, powerful medium, local cancer survivor to Sighted empath pipeline rider, spoonie, IT guy, and medic......

...and if things get really bad, or someone comes up to the back door with a soul that doesn't want to rest, they call their combat specialist:

Jonah.

Jonah, listed as the team's demonologist, combat person, first in and last out of danger, a consummate badass lone-wolf necromancer (unusual in AU canon), who came to Aickman already fully trained and experienced in binding and controlling the dead. Not permanently; that's cruel, not to mention dangerous. But in exchange for the control and the power, she can open the lines of communication and figure out what they need to move on and help them. She's hiked into the desert with their eyes for one last sunrise that they fell from a precipice trying to see. Sifted through the gravel on the train tracks to find their locket and return it to their family. Put together who could have hit them in that hit and run, helped along by their memories, and sent the evidence on to police. Then the bodies--and their binding spells-- go into the crematorium, and the spirits go on to the next plane. She works alone-- to the extent that she can-- she's fiercely protective of the rest of her team, ESPECIALLY Matt, constantly putting herself between them and danger. For example, she won't let Matt do Empath Things until she's thoroughly checked out a new house. "There could be anything in there! you're a walking conduit. Stay here where you're safe." If there's a seance with a chance of something going wrong-- high energy or demonic presence-- Matt is never going to be the anchor. Jonah won't let him. It's not pleasant; she's not very empathic, and as a result, there's a lot of free energy with her as an anchor. Energy that usually manifests as ectoplasm, which, according to Jonah... well, I'll let her tell you.

"It feels like throwing up battery acid and fiberglass."

I'm told that it tastes even worse.

But that's fine, and her team doesn't need to know how bad it hurts-- do they suspect? Probably. But she'll never tell them. She's already used to pain and Matt is just a scared kid and he's already been through so much. He doesn't deserve to go through that, too. She'll step in front of him every time if that's what it takes to keep him from ever experiencing that kind of pain.

In the AU, she came to the team already trained; her magic was strong from a young age, but growing up in the South, she was just too blunt and direct to every get help with it from other humans. The shocked looks, scorn, the anger and teasing-- and the fear. All that stuff is Devil Worship. The Baddest of Bad Things. And she's not bad, she's not, she's a good kid, so she shut up.

Her teacher was one of those things that only Evil Devil Worshiping Witchcraft Going to Hell Witches could see, and by the time he got to her, she was well trained not to mention it to anyone. Instead she followed him, listened to him, studied under him for years. When they met she asked for his name and he told her to pick one for him, something clear. Jonah, ever the literalist, called him Bell. That day, most days of the years after it. The night that he gave her the binding runes that she uses to this day, crying as softly as possible under his blade and hanging on desperately to every little whisper of praise and reassurance. And until days after he vanished, when she finally stopped screaming it into the shadows of the swamp where they always met to train.

Sitri remembers her, of course, and maybe he'll even come back for her someday. She seems to be doing well without him... but he hears from his colleagues, very often in fact, that she still looks for him everywhere she goes. She was one of his most dedicated students.

And... that's the overview. I uh. Heh. Wow. I haven't written this much in... months. I um, I'm happy to answer questions I guess? If anyone has any? I'm going to go get a drink...

save me terrible horror movie from 2009

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hey, did i ever tell you guys about the time i waxed my ass with chocolate pudding? ☂️