#tw london posting

[sweetslemon]

he’s right but how does he get attention for this and hijack this while the same women who’d say this all along would be bitter feminazis god

[kenmentine]

blinkies i made

[geraldofallon]

Fallen London Species: Snuffers

[grave-ng]

thought about american werewolf in london again .. jack goodman is my WIFE

[gmalaart]

Growing Pains

aka Cavendish’s tragic backstory moment with their brother

[thevioletscout]

I, I want your love I, I want enough I want to be part of you

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So awhile back I found a beautifully haunting photo by Megan Glc that gave me major Light Fingers energy. So of course, I had to redraw it with that in mind.

If you marry Poor Edward, one of the things you can do when visiting him is basically sick him on one of your enemies. All you're doing is having him haunt their dreams, but I wonder if Edward might find reasons to go further than a simple nightmare when spiriting them to the parabolan orphanage. He dislikes butchery, but he also promised that he would give his love all the hearts in the world if he could.

And that's me making the charitable assumption that this heart is indeed not his own. I like to hope even he wouldn't go that far, but this is a world where you can peel yourself open to show off your organs and walk away fine...

Either way, I don't think this is quite what Emery had in mind.

Original photo below.

[nayeliiixoxo]

Maybe the nights

are supposed to be slow.

You sleep on park benches,

the rain starts to pour onto your backpack

that you use as your pillow.

The dogs bark with force

but they won't bother you.

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Sitting slumped against the wall

a mouse runs about

looking to feed

as you go hungry.

People pass by, in a Friday night rush,

invisible to the mass population

that is London.

Some look at you,

young teen girl,

thinning and wasting,

A lady kneels down,

"You need this more than me."

she says, as she passes over a 50-pound note.

she works in a bar,

feeding into the alcoholic issues

that many use to cope.

You feel guilt; as she does not know,

that this is your first night

out on the streets.

anorexia is the voice that tells you

there's no point on taking the money,

as the food purchased will only fill you with guilt.

but she's adamant, young lady, as working away is a purpose that feeds her

as the day draws to an end.

--

You get noticed

by an older friendship group,

three girls and one boy,

they cry and hug you

for a girl of the group explains she was once homeless too.

the earth swallows you;

you feel the tears

as they roll onto your blouse.

Maybe you're not as alone

in the world as you thought.

[dudethatsmyundeaduncle]

Tim Drake's Mom is actually Lara Croft! AU

After getting pregnant Lara Croft disappears off the face of the earth, takes up a shell company in Gotham left to her by her father, and assumes the identity Janet Drake.

(DC made Timmy's parents archeologists! so Sis it was between Indiana Jones or the Tomb Raider and well here we are!)

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Lara Croft has a daring archeological adventure/world saving mission with a dashing man she only knows as N. Drake (if u know u know) and finds out she's pregnant weeks after.

Lara Croft did not expect to be Pregnant. Lara knows that she shouldn't have a baby. She knows this intellectually and emotionally, she doesn't have any family left and after nearly 10 years of traveling the globe and putting herself in life or death situations she knows her life can't accommodate children. Lara knows the responsible thing to do, she makes an appointment with NHS/MSI and focuses on her next project. (TW: Discussion of Abortion)

Lara never gets her appointment. She misses her abortion date in London when she gets caught up in another mad expedition that takes her half way across the world.

On this mission she nearly looses everything, her friends, her own life, what's left of her father's legacy, all for a semi cursed magical artifact that nearly blows up the South American Coast.

Lara's tired, scared, she's been running from Trinity (evil org) for nearly a decade now . She's 29, she's 5 months pregnant, and she's stuck floating on her back in the middle of the South Atlantic sea watching the sky burn.

Lara's rich she could always get the abortion, legally or otherwise, her father left her a billionaire and the souvenirs she'd collected from her travels do nothing but add to that wealth.

Trinity wants Lara Croft dead, they'll never stop chasing, and Lara just wants respite. She wants her quaint childhood in the English countryside with her father, she wants to curl up and sleep for a thousand years. She wants to be someone else, just for a moment.

Her heart beats wildly in her chest and she can almost feel another heart beating alongside it.

Lara Croft makes a decision. She sinks into the sea and doesn't come back up for air even when it burns.

On the shore a nameless woman washes up, water logged and looking for passage to America.

The Croft's have had shell companies for years, one can't be a billionaire these days without at least a few, Medi-industries is an unassuming medical supplier located in Gotham, New Jersey the crime capital of North America. It's the perfect place to disappear.

Janet Drake Lands in Gotham on a gloomy morning in March, she's got enough money to throw around that people forget to ask what family she's from, this is Gotham new money is nearly unheard of.

By mid April Janet has reestablished control of Medi-Industries, Now Drake Industries, and purchased an old English style mansion in Bristol, which the real-estate agent has assured her is a great neighborhood.

Timothy Jackson Drake is born July 19th at nearly 3 in the morning squalling high into the night like a banshee. He is perfectly healthy and perfectly safe in Janet's arms.

It is only in the safety of their home, in the house Janet picked, because it was high on a hill for tactical advantage and had bullet proof glass nestled between quaint wood paneled windows, It is only in the heart of Drake Manor that Lara dares to Whisper her son's name

"Timothy Jackson Croft"

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AU ALSO INCLUDES!

Badass Lara Croft being the cool mom TM

A family portrait of the Drakes, Including Janet, baby Tim, and a mysterious Jack Drake (who was a very discreet and well paid member of Gotham's theatre society, and who was also more then happy to pose as a rich ladies dead husband for a day)

A Socttish Nanny/Housekeeper with a very keen eye and discreet mouth who will not tell a soul that she is fairly sure she's employed by Lord Richard Croft's, eccentric billionares, missing daughter.

precocious and slightly British accented baby Tim who gets to have his Mom with him for 10 whole years! before she inevitably runs back off to save the world

Tim being unaware of his mother's past life beyond her name until the age of 13 when he becomes Robin and is able to actually find out what his mom's been protecting him from his whole life.

I imagine in this AU that eventually Trinity finally catches wind of where Lara is hiding and she has a big confrontation with them in New Jersey. It's way too close to Gotham and Tim for her comfort, she knows this is the only chance she'll get to control the chaos.

So she packs Tim up to move him into the dorms at Gotham Academy and promises she'll write and be home for his birthday in the summer. After she's finished her "company" business first of course.

Tim's confused but he trusts his mom, he gets unsigned postcards from all over the world and pins them above his bed in the dorm and goes to sleep trying to guess what country she's in every night.

The move to the dorm is kind of cool to Tim as well because it means he can start his plan to follow Batman and Robin in the city! (in this AU there's no way Lara wouldn't have noticed him sneaking out at 9, but Gotham academy security? totally oblivious)

Tim celebrates his 10th birthday with his mom at home, he has so many freaking questions about where she was! and she tells him outlandish stories about daring fights and cursed artifacts that he rolls his eyes at but enjoys none the less.

it isn't till he's 15 that his Robin work and his mom's adventures cross paths.

After so many years of close calls, of hiding bruises from his mom with same concealer she uses to hide her own wounds, of wondering if it was selfish to wish his Mom cared a little bit less about the world and would stay with him for more then a few weeks at a time. Finally it all comes to a head in the worst way. Lara Croft's latest adventure puts her right in the middle of a Bat Level investigation. It has Tim near loosing his mind with worry hoping his mom is alive and Lara having the worst freakout/Blow up of her life realizing her son has been putting himself in Danger every night she thought he was safe.

The Drake/Crofts are messy! Bad at communicating! And unfortunately the exact same kind of reckless and self sacrificing!

Fun food for thought:

Lara canonically is a killer, if you've played any of the reboot Tomb Raider series she can be pretty gruesome and efficient! Very cool! Jason would stan! Tim is kind of appalled! Lara is glad Tim's never killed, that he's never had to.

Lara still dies in this AU but it's in a big Trinity X Obeah Man X Captain Boomerang Cluster fuck where Lara finishes off Trinity and Obeah Man for good but looses her own life in the process. Tim is devastated, he feels like they were just starting to really be 100% transparent with each other before her death. Que Tim's not good very bad year!

if you've made it this far in my rambles here's a treat! I actually wrote a lil fuckin blurb for this!

preface: This the first time Robin and Lara Croft have ever met/are on the same mission.

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" mom!" Tim shouts, running before Bruce can even properly land the BatJet.

The old temple is ablaze, the ancient structure already half crumbled in on itself with what's left of it is spewing out clouds of jet black smoke.

Tim's mother limps out what was once the front entrance clutching at her ribs.

She's filthy, covered in a thick layer of dirt and grime. but she's got on a triumphant smile like the cat who got the cream.

" Mom!" Tim yells again watching as she does a double take at his choice of moniker.

Her mouth twists in a grimace as she stumbles and Tim dives under her arm quickly moving to support her left side.

Lara Croft meets the white lenses of Red Robin's eyes in confusion

" What'd you call me?" She slurs trying to blink away the smoke inhalation that makes it hard to focus and leaves her lightheaded.

Lara's right ankle which took the brunt of a very nasty dive from a very high perch, not 20 minutes earlier as she raced out of the Dead Kings Tomb, finally gives up the ghost and she pitches forward taking Red Robin with her.

He's young, she thinks, he's very young.

Before either of them can hit the ground Batman intercepts their fall hefting Lara into a secure hold.

Red Robin catches himself and latches onto Lara's hand.

He yanks off one of his gloves and tries to wipe some of the grime out of her eyes.

" Mum" he croaks this time, voice breaking nearly in half on the last syllable.

Lara furrows her brow, the cowl covers so much of this young man's face, from his nose too his brow bone, but his chin is startlingly familiar as is his absolutely atrocious British accent.

He reminds her terribly of Timothy.

" Tim" she says deliriously, Lara tries to smile but her eyes start to droop and her head lolls slack against Bruce's arm. She's clean out.

Tim makes an odd lunge and jerk movement pressing his fingers into her carotid artery to feel her pulse.

He's shaking, more wrong footed and anxious then Bruce has ever seen him.

Batman is extremely grateful when Nightwing comes up behind him and gently pulls his younger brother's hands away from his mother's comatose body.

" She's fine Red. We need to get her on board so we can get her some oxygen though, the smoke inhalation is getting to her. "

" Right" Tim says, still frozen in place. He shakes it off quickly " Right." he repeats pivoting in place and leading their small party through the remains of the ruins and back to the jet.

" I'll prep the med bay."

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pics or it didn't happen! (ps, if u wanna write, draw, or HC anything for this AU feel free my lads)

[zeebreezin]

hiii its @neathyingenue!! just gonna go ahead and admit i am hazy on some of harb's details. this is an au for beverley yeah? or is it him in the future

Hello my good friend MJ Neathyingenue!! Dw about it I’ve actually been meaning to make a semi-formal summary on him so!

The Scintillating Harbinger is the Sunless Skies AU of Beverley, so yeah technically it’s him in the future (the wonderful year of 1906), but also it’s not the only possibility of him in the futures. Thankfully.

In the Sunless Skies AU, Beverley’s search in London failed due to Shaw’s machinations (and boy howdy did he do some shit). He never found his Dawnlight suitcase bomb - but more importantly, he never found out that B survived the shipwreck they disappeared in. He left London assuming his life’s work and his best friend were both lost to the waves, and threw himself into his work as a means to cope. It helps up until it doesn’t, and then he gets weird about the New Sun to cope.

Fast forward a couple years, and he’s risen through the ranks enough to be working on the Clockwork Sun personally, and rises to the Skies with the rest of the New Sequence. Surprisingly (or maybe unsurprisingly) leaving his home and the only world he’s ever known Doesn’t help Beverley’s mental health. So he doubles down on his love for the sun - this is when the idea that he’s given up everything for it really becomes mission critical.

And then the Clockwork Sun starts glassing/Dazzling the senior engineers. By the time it’s Bev’s turn he’s kind of a mess. Insert the fic I just wrote here, where he manages to stall out his own death with a combination of blind faith and mastery of the Correspondance, binding bits of metal to his glassy side to make it usable. However this has horrible effects on his sanity and overall health, he’s in constant pain and isn’t even really aware of that fact anymore due to being high on that sunny supply.

In my mind, Beverley’s become to the Logoi as the Clockwork Sun is to a Judgement. He’s just stuck in a (somewhat) human body. Right now at least. That’s part of why everything on his ship is - effectively - bound to live in time with his machinery.

Now with insane levels of… everything, he doubles down into his work of making Judgement Light powered weaponry, a speciality that gets him Victoria’s attention. Bev even starts bending the trapping of Other Judgements to make his weapons of mass destruction like the Icarus looking ass he is. For stellar service during the Winchester War (read: war crimes), he was awarded both the Victoria Cross and a dubious position of importance. Legally he’s a captain (despite having way more functional power) of a research Locomotive, the Deliverance, not a war engine. He just… has permission to test the creations on board on enemies of the empire! That’s all!

He’s also still dying due to the damage to his body, but he doesn’t really care he’s got other things to worry about :)

The actual story of him involves his encounters with Shaw’s son, Everett, who he… really doesn’t like, considering his history with Shaw in this AU.

That’s the TL;DR!

[thatgayoctopus]

Au where instead of Jack and David it's Me and My Business Associate @classickatze

Tw: blood and gore

They are wolf and I am ghost and we think it's FUNNY AND FULL OF WHIMSY

I'm very VERY proud of how he turned out in the screenshot redraw

[staring-at-my-keyboard]

The parallels and differences in how Thomas and Atlas were brought up and how that translates to them in the present make me so Unwell I need to talk about them.

The parallels first: both Thomas and Atlas were raised as commodities by parents that viewed them as more of their roles as opposed to children, and as their present selves they both still have one foot stuck in that, but in different ways, because neither of them really know how to get out of it.

Now onto specifics.

Long-ass multi-character ramble under the cut, warnings for: financial + emotional + child abuse (nothing physical).

This was a ride to write, I love my blorbos so much why have I done this to them

Atlas

So, Atlas first. My boy was raised in rural Northern England, in a tiny village, to a French father and British mother that owned the sole bookshop. Atlas, as a firstborn, was slated to get the bookshop upon their parents’ passing. This was defined the moment they were born, to the point where they were never able to truly develop ambitions or plans of their own— their entire world was their village and the surrounding wilderness and countryside, and they were neither content nor upset with that; it was how it was. Seven years after they were born their brother Théodore comes along, and Atlas got to pick the name, which already cemented them as a foundational figure in Theo’s life not only to them, but their parents: now, not only were they the inheritor of their family’s legacy, they were the Eldest Child, they had duties to their family and their brother, specifically. They were fine with this, of course they were— they weren’t allowed to feel otherwise. Atlas was pulled from school at age 10 to further focus on helping around the shop and getting a feel for it, since all they really needed was knowledge of arithmetic and how to read, while Theo remained in school and even had university aspirations as Atlas watched him from behind the purchase desk. They read vigorously, and self-taught quite a few (very randomly-chosen) things, and took dear care of their brother until he was killed— after their parents had died— which they perceived as a failing on their part because they were supposed to protect him, so the least they could do for the life they were responsible for was avenge it.

Atlas was an emotional child, that grew into an emotional adult, but from a certain (young) age was expected to have maturity and decorum. Add this expectation to the fact that they’re autistic, and you have someone who has done their damndest to figure out social norms who also has a funky emotional cocktail brewing just beneath their skin at Literally All Times. Their anger is an explosive thing, if something makes them happy they will beam like the sun, if they cry for anything- happiness, sadness, panic, etc they will apologize repeatedly out of habit to anyone who isn’t Thomas and do their best to eliminate any evidence of tears. Despite this, there are still certain things they aren’t allowed to feel, so they simply don’t think about it and shut it off. Their deepest darkest secret from themself is that they never wanted to come to the Neath, and regret it every day; if they hadn’t felt an absolute obligation to their deceased parents they wouldn’t have even tracked the killer, and instead would’ve remained on the Surface and mourned.

Now, despite this, there are many things about the Neath they relish: the connections they’ve made, the studies they’ve been able to pursue— while self-teaching filled some of that hole that was left by having a (supposedly) pre-defined fate, suddenly having a future open to them was kind of intoxicating when they first realized it, and even after years that realization is part of what leads them to be so reckless and obsessive with what seizes their interest; they are pursuing things because they can, why would they not go all-out? (Once they and Thomas grew closer and he learned how bad they were at taking care of themself he was appalled, and while they were initially confused they now think it’s the sweetest thing and picture him almost every time they eat.)

Thomas

My beloved NPC… Thomas is Neathborn, the scion and only child to an exceedingly wealthy family that has a high standing with devils, and has hated those facts for his entire life. His parents sold their souls before he was born, and the emptiness behind their eyes was always somewhat off-putting to him, and as a child he associated it with why he was constantly shuttled off to governesses, why his parents just seemed so uninterested in him as a person— although they were interested in him as a shiny bauble, the final piece to complete their image of a family of standing: man, wife, heir. He was on the piano when he could barely walk, taught Latin and French, brought to social functions when he got old enough to not cry when he got tired— none of these were for enrichment, they were his parents’ way of polishing him for the masses. Once he hit adolescence and his personality began defining itself, his parents began trying to get him to sell his soul to further advance their wealth and status, and he refused. Years and years of him living the curated image, of them hounding him, and he still refused; his parents weren’t as involved in raising him as they thought, and he has always seen souls as precious things. Cut to him in his late teens, he starts dating— his parents realize they can use this. For years, any partner he would have would either be tempted out of their soul by his parents, after which he would fall out of love with them, or socially ruined if they refused. Then there were the more casual flings, for when Thomas didn’t want the emotional tax that came with a relationship— even then, oftentimes the people he slept with just used that for gossip points, or to gain a social standing. Years pass, Thomas gets sick of what going against his parents costs (even if he doesn’t have a partner they can threaten, he is entirely reliant on them, they’re not dying anytime soon, and they regularly remind him of those facts), he stops getting with people altogether until Atlas stumbles into his life and (accidentally) sweeps him off his feet.

Now? Thomas went from ‘always somewhat threatened by’ to ‘utterly fucking terrified of’ his parents, because he has someone to lose again, someone he adores with every part of himself. Every time they send him and invite to a gala or dinner he goes, every time they request he brings Atlas as his +1 he does, because even though if he had his way he would never see them again, the very thought of ignoring his parents fills him with dread— he knows what they can do, he’s seen it firsthand. He’s a generally put together person until the topic of devils or soul trade comes up, or he and Atlas are invited somewhere as a couple, in which case he will need to make an active (and often unsuccessful) effort not to panic— but the panic rarely shows, of course, his parents made sure to raise him to always act proper no matter how he felt. Hell, he can’t even officially move in with Atlas, because he knows that if he left the townhouse his parents gave him for a scholar’s apartment the consequences would be dire (the pair get around this by spending periods of weeks or months in each other’s homes, but that has shifted to Thomas simply spending stretches of time at Atlas’ apartment).

[geraldofallon]

Fallen London Species: Clay Men

[garfunclegaming]

Civilization and Barbarity seperated by thin walls. Mind the gap.

[standardlovers]

I want to hear about castor acklys

HI BEST FRIENDS I LOVE U BEST FRIENDS <33

castor is my oc who was invented when one time i was listening to preachers daughter and decided i wanted to make a plot that had an album style set up (i am not involved in music and do not make music), the main character dying & a complex sibling dynamic! it started off by outlining 2 albums which are the canon timeline (Saviour's Secret & Brother Of The Sky (Extended)) and then added 2 more for a lighter alternate ending (Husband & Keeper's Lover) but then there was a 3rd alternate ending created (Something Like God) and a final conclusion to castor's story in an album created at the same time as SLG (Gravesite)

it is supposed to have the vibes of southern gothic but its not southern! this all actually happening in britain! but still. GOTHIC, its dark, it has unpleasant themes

HERE ARE SOME WARNINGS BEFORE GOING FORWARD: THIS CONTAINS BRIER DISCUSSION OF KIDNAPPING, DEATH/MURDER, CULTS AND MENTIONS OF ABUSE

the album order is SS (aka C1), BOTS(E), H (aka C3), KL, Gravesite, then SLG and the album titles are all reflective or Castor's "identity"/viewing himself through the connections he has with other people, its not until Castor is dead that he defines himself by anything other than his connection to someone else (or he joins a cult and believes he is Something like God bc thats how cults can be sometimes)

as shown below there is one timeline that doesnt have an album ! there is an album i dont have written (and honestly dont intend to write atm) about castors life if he ran away AND found The Star again

these are also all of the tracks for the first 4 albums (im on mobile so i dont have the other 2 album tracklist available rn until i go home tomorrow night)

i can and will go into each song but probably not in this post bc it is 10+ tracks on 4 albums which will be a lot of me talking but heres what you should know !

NAMES:

i took a long time deciding character names so i will be explaining them (hyperlinked w the characters tag)

Castor Acklys is a star name (which i very much wanted for symbolic connections to other characters specifically The Star & Nova) + Acklys (from Achlys) is the blindness over someones eyes when they die + (from Achley) being the mythological personification of sorrow

The Star does have a name but that information is on lockdown you arent supposed to know their name and i personally do not even know their gender , but there is symbolism in BOTS(E) abt Castor seeing "The Stars" when he dies, he however dies at 2pm so there are no stars in the sky, he is hallucinating both the night sky and his sibling being present

Charles Mercy Charles is shortened to Chuck then Chuckle (as in laugh) and Mercy bc he is supposed to be the saviour (bonus tag Mercklys)

Abram is from Abam which is a feminine name meaning the second in a pair of twins and also i did just read AFTG when i started working on this project so i may have been influenced there (bonus tag CAbram)

Nova is an astrological name + means New (bonus tag CastorNova)

Dalilah Fare comes from Dalil which means guide but also means witness and Fare to represent the fare paid to ride into the underworld

Victor E. Casement bc Victor means conqueror and Casement means God's protector (bonus tag Victonna)

Donna Casement is supposed to be overwhelmingly normal and Donna was a very popular name for i think the 1960s when she would have been born, Casement is her married name and smth she carries from Victor

Irma means whole/complete

Winifred means holy/blessed reconciliations and is the patron saint of virgins

Calamity bc when i googled it, it said that "despite meaning disaster most people take Calamity from Calamity Jane meaning someome good to have in troubled times (idk if i have a calamity tag)

Alice was similar to Donna where its just a popular name from the time she would have been born

Simon just felt like a 1934 name

Angie , same as above

Kory genuinely bc I liked the name and it suited how i picture her in my head

THE TIMELINES:

the acklysverse is split into 3 timelines

1934

Dalilah Fare runs away to marry her lover Simon, she is sadly kidnapped and killed. This leaves behind her lover Simon and her younger sister Angie, who get married! (dw, Dalilah is very happy for them!)

1984: 50 years later,

Castor is the younger sibling after his sibling (The Star) runs away and is presumed dead. C1 & BOTS(E) (canon timeline) are following Castor's life before and leading up to The Star leaving, including Castor falling in love with Charles Mercy (the leading romance in C1!), Charles is very sweet and charming but has a bit of a saviour complex. He believes everything will always be okay because, for him, it always has been, and Castor's life issues (abusive family, flight risk sibling, confusing sexuality crisis, etc, etc.) will eventually just stop, he genuinely believes he can save Castor but the thing is he cant. Castor knows this and wants to cut his losses early but feels torn abt hurting Charles since Charles has not yet come to terms with not being able to help Castor. C1 ends with their break up after Castor has known for a while that it is not going to work out and Charles finally realises the same.

This is the first album bc its the first time Castor uses the song/album set up to explore his emotions on the situation. So BOTS(E) reflects on Castor's life as whole. I like to call it The Life and Death of Castor Acklys. This explores Castor realising his home life is unhealthy and then he loses The Star bc they run away which causes even more fall out. Living in an abusive household he decides he can not stay in and realising this is probably what drove The Star to leave, so he also runs away less than a year later and is also sadly, kidnapped from a bus stop and killed. The Extended of this album is one of my favourite ways the albums communicate anything bc BOTS is Castor's life and (E) is Castor's death, all extended tracks are post mortem.

Skipping forward a few albums bc the others are Alt84 (see below) we get to Gravesite ! This is the return of Dalilah <3 and the reveal that Dalilah's ghost has been here the whole time. Dalilah's death is cosmicly interconnected to Castor's (more on this later) and she has been watching his life happen since Castor was 13 when the events began that would lead to his death began being set into play by the universe. Gravesite is Castor's death and welcoming to the afterlife from Dalilah's perspective of trying to stop this all from happening! We also learn that Dalilah's death is almost a perfect mirror of Castor's, in the same location, by the same cause of death, same last words, same final regrets. They are soulmates in the most intimate but tragic sense.

Alternate 1984

Alt 1: C3 + KL,

Alternately, Castor never runs away. In a different time in a different life, Castor stays and gets married before he's 20 to Abram. Abram is amazing and perfect and Castor is deeply unhappy bc he doesn't want Abram as a husband but marrying him got Castor away from his home and into a life that was 100% his own. Abram loves Castor deeply and romantically and without any strings attached and Castor cant understand why he cant just love Abram back when all he wants is a friend (and maybe a little bit still trying to fill in the hole The Star left when they left) but will take Abram as a lover to avoid losing yet another person he loves. During their marriage, Castor meets Nova <3 a shopkeeper he begins to fall for and have an affair with. C3 ends with Castor and Abram's divorce and Castor trying to process a lot of things he has to deal with. KL then explores Castor's first 100% healthy and reciprocated relationship and unpacking and reevaluating everything he has come to know bc he lacked those healthy relationships !

ALT 2: SLG

Instead of being killed, Castor still runs away but chooses to walk to a different more active bus stop hoping it will delay his family who may look for him from actually knowing where he went. At this bus stop he meets Victor E. Casement, a current cult leader but ex professor. He slowly warms to Victor over a few weeks and ends up diving head first into said cult, where we see the inner workings of this cult through Castor's eyes as he becomes friends with Donna, Victor's wife.

2004

You may be thinking "hey if everyones dead and 2004 follows canon how could there be anything to happen next? is this another alternative?" well! 2004 does follow canon! in a morbid way! 2004 follows canon in terms of the fact that Castor was only the main character of his timeline!

THERES A BACKGROUND PLOT WITH THE MURDERERS!

The man who killed Dalilah is in fact the great uncle (grandmothers brother) of the man who killed Castor! This information about a family history of murder was not passed along but was found in Dalilah's killers old jounrals and then replicated by Castor's killer. The time jump is much smaller now bc that information has been passed on directly, Castor's killer talks to his child about his crimes and it is replicated in 2004 with the next in line, Kory. Kory is also cosmicly interconnected to Dalilah and Castor who are doomed to repeat the cycle of trying and failing to save the next victim. And its almost identical again, another soulmate !

SIDE CHARACTERS:

Irma : Castor's best friend who dies shortly after The Star leaves, the cause of death is never specified but her absense is smth he feels strongly about

Winifred : Castor's mother *was maternal grandmother for a while but that was altered as the plot developed

Alice : A cult member and Victor's friend since before they were a cult

Angie Fare : Dalilah's sister and Nova's grandmother

Simon : Dalilah's ex lover & brother in law, and Nova's grandfather

Calamity : Castor's maternal cousin

[thevioletscout]

"Do you by chance want a stray cat I have found during my travels? He's a difficult thing that I can't care for, but I think he'll be no problem for someone with more spring in their step like yourself. - Samuel Wolff"

"Of course! A little friend to keep me company would be very appreciated as I move into this next chapter of my life. Let me know when I can meet up with you to take the cat off your hands. Oh and please take this mushroom as a token of gratitude. God bless you, Sibyl Bierce."

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So my friend @anannoyanceofjackofsmiles got burdened with the Starveling Cat. This was quite the problem for him as right now he has no intention of seeking Mr Eaten's name as either of the Wolff twins.

Thankfully, he has me.

Now, over here in reality this was just two friends doing each other a solid. He knew I was going to do the story as Sibyl, and he didn't want the cat, so it made sense to hand it off to me. However- We couldn't help but notice the unsettling implications of Samuel being driven mad enough by the little beast (and way too many doses of laudanum) that he hands it off to an innocent church girl, all while not giving her the full story and passing the cat off as simply difficult. Even feeding her lies that someone younger and more energetic like her could probably handle it.

So I got inspired to draw a quick comic based off this interaction while it was still fresh in our minds. I even used a bit of one more letter Jack sent me for the dialogue.

Of course, this isn't even the start of Sibyl's coming journey into madness. The game seems to know what I'm up to because I drew the opportunity card with the well TWICE, and she's still a relatively new account. The powers that be have already set their sights on Sibyl, Samuel's actions here is just one more push towards the edge.

Anyway, used stock photos as reference for the poses.

[insertfunnysayinghere]

Didn’t know what to do with the body of Christ… When I came up to the pastor with the wine, I could not hear what he was saying over the organ. So I thought he was saying “can you wet it?” So I put the whole wafer in my mouth and then spit it out, thinking I was supposed to dunk my saliva encrusted wafer into the wine. He then said “can you eat it?” Mortified, I popped Christ’s corpse into my mouth and walked away