Petra stood at the front steps of her family home. The windows once illuminated by the shadows of amazing people now remain dead and cold. Petra knows deep down that the house hasn't changed much. Its paint is still peeling lightly from years of rain and snow, it's garden still flourishing as if her father still came out to tend to the little blooms, the house's bedroom windows still lit up as if someone was living there.
Whatever was in the house wasn't human, is what Petra decided. After all, what human would do what he's done and not face even the slightest of consequence? What human could stand in the once bustling home and not feel guilt. That must mean the thing that now roams those halls was something less than human, or perhaps something more?
So Petra stared blankly, no longer feeling as though she had the energy left to cry. All of her tears have been used up. Dry sobs wracking her body as she fell to the pavement, her head cracking into the ground, unable to even hold up its own weight under her grief.
Why? Why her mother? Why her father? Why her brother, who had not even begun to live his life? Why not whatever monster was living underneath her siblings skin.
Her head was pounding, her chest felt heavy and constricting. She needed to breathe, needed to feel something that wasn't the disgusting dread that crawled up her back. Leaving a slimy trail of defeat in its wake. She needed to tear her own chest open, if only to breathe in more than her own panicked breath. Her vision blurry, she began wondering if she might pass out.
A noise startled her in her increasing panic. As Petra looked up, she froze. It was that thing. That disgusting beast that did nothing but take and take and take.
"Why are you here, Petra?", a question that should not have been posed as it was. He spoke as if she was a friend visiting, as if he wasn't sure why she would be at her own home. He spoke as if nothing happened.
"You-", she began, but fell short at the look of confusion on what used to be her twins face, "what have you done."
Her voice broke as she looked at Peter. Just as happy as he had been not even a week ago, entirely unbothered by the lack of life that used to thrive in this home. Despite her inability to shed any more tears, she felt her body heave.
"You. Sick. FUCK." Petra snarled in anger at the open door, her only surviving brother staring blankly as his back was illuminated by the lights from in the house.
"How could you?" She felt as if she was hearing her voice from miles away, crazed even to her own ears.
"HOW. COULD. YOU." Her throat was raw from the scream that tore and clawed it's way from her throat.
"You're not getting away with this."
Why wasn't Peter moving?
"I'll tell the police."
Why didn't he feel *guilt?*
"I'll fucking get you."
Did he have no remorse for Mother and Father?
"I won't stop until you are rotting in a god damn cage.
...Did he feel no remorse for Able?
Petra was startled out of her thoughts with the sound of approaching footsteps. Her head snapped up, petals whipping violently from how quickly she moved.
Is this it? She wondered, is he going to get me to?, she hoped. She hoped she could leave with her family, prayed she could leave with her family. Desperate from the rapid development of this hellish new existence.
"Oh Petra...", her head whipped to Peter's face, his eyes carefully blank and his smile painfully wide.
"We're playing a game of Cat and Mouse now!" He looked giddy at the prospect of playing with her, as if her suffering was nothing more than *entertainment.*
"And..." Peter seemed to think for a moment, "... Well I sure as hell ain't the mouse, right?"
Petra felt sick. If she had anything left in her stomach she is sure that she would have thrown up. Nothing but water and pain medication left.
And it was a game.
Petra could swear that her blood was boiling out of her skin, her head pounding in her ears, and chest beating so heavily that it felt as if the ground was shaking.
She looked up at the monster that prevailed in her twin's skin, the creature that dared to pretend to be human. The vile things that did it's best to act like it could feel. It circled back, in a way, as looking up at the terrifyingly bored eyes of that monster reminded her.
Reminded her that even if it pretended, even if it fooled everyone in this bumfuck town, it could not feel.
The creature she was looking at was not human, and so she backed away, fearful of contracting whatever caused this disease to take hold in what used to be her twin's mind.
Peter didn't move. Perhaps he didn't feel like playing a game of chase at the moment, perhaps he didn't find her worth his time, perhaps he knew it wouldn't be much longer before she was gone anyway.
Petra stood at the opposite side of the street, and found that she no longer had the energy to scream, to yell, to fight back.
Peter looked at the shell of his twin and somehow managed to smile even wider, the grin cutting across his face in a terrifying line. He held no emotions behind that smile, and even less behind his eyes.
"No one will believe you." The words were chirped in such a chipper tone that for a second she thought she had heard him wrong.
Peter repeated the phrase. An impossibly cold laugh ripped its way out of his mouth, his empty smile falling away for a brief second to reveal something worse.
Ice traveled up Petras spine, a sinking cold enveloping her mind as she watched the abomination in front of her double over in laughter. The cackles that left his mouth even less human than his words, otherworldly shrieks of joy that left her to wonder again what it was that was standing in front of her.
Peter wiped a tear from his face as he straightened his back, looking more carefree than he has in months.
"No one will believe you..." Peter sounded almost wistful as he said it, as if the idea that Petra being regarded as crazy would bring him nothing but joy.
Dusting off his coat and straightening his gardening jacket, Peter turned around and reentered the house. A monster returning to prowl the halls like a ghost in a house full of nothing but.
Petra could have stood there for minutes, hours, days even. She wouldn't know. And when she finally felt as if her body was her own again, she ran. She ran away as quickly as her legs could take her.
And if she collapsed into heavy sobs behind her apartment room door, no one would know. If she threw up the water in her stomach, bile curling in her throat as an ugly mess of sick, no one would know. And if she swore to get revenge on that disgusting creature that now haunted her families home unburdened by it's actions... no one would know.
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You know what I find like intensely bewildering about the FOP fandom.
Is the fact that somehow it's still a debate among people about whether the kids in the Channel Chasers flash forward, Tammy and Tommy, are Timmy's kids with Trixie or Tootie.
Like they're very obviously supposed to be Tootie's kids.
Even when I saw Channel Chasers' ending as a literal kid, I instantly clocked the fact that Tootie was the mom and not Trixie, because neither kid looks anything like Trixie, and both have stuff inherited from Tootie.
So I'm putting this debate to bed right now.
The girl looks essentially like a mix of Tootie and Timmy's design (with long-ish hair that's down), while the boy is just Timmy with black hair and Tootie's nose and skin tone.
[What Tootie's skin tone was at the time Channel Chasers came out.
The show runners change the saturation of the show like 3 or 4 times over the years, and outright change some character's skin tones at some points.
Wanda for example also originally had lighter pinker skin in the earlier seasons, but it was changed to the same tanner/more orange toned skin as Timmy and Cosmo's.
Tootie however retained the lighter pinker skin, it's just that as they upped the saturation, her skin turned more pink.]
The Twins:
Tootie:
Timmy:
"But Trixie has black hair and blue eyes too, and the girl is wearing a headband just like Trixie's, so Trixie could still be the mom"-
Trixie is asian. Trixie is asian. Trixie. Is. Asian.
We can see Tommy's eyes, and we can tell he didn't inherit Trixie's eye shape, even though that would be perfect for making him not look like Timmy with his hair dyed black.
Not to mention neither has Trixie's nose. Or her height. Neither are rocking a turtle neck sweater, or boots.
Neither have Trixie's straight across bangs, the girl doesn't have Trixie's winged little eyelash, she has the same tri-prong eyelashes as Tootie.
Not to mention the girl twin's styling. She wears a plaid skirt and glasses just like Tootie's.
Sure she's got a pink headband instead of high pigtails like Tootie, but you know what other female character wears a pink headband?
Both Timantha and Timeena (only showed up in the comics, and is also a fairy), Timmy literally as a girl, wear pink headbands:
"What about the fact that Tootie has braces and Tammy doesn't?"
Tammy doesn't have any kind of tooth division at all, not even one showing where her top and bottom teeth separate in a lot of her scenes.
Even if the kids aren't a total one to one match with Tootie, they still look far far more like Tootie's kids than they do Trixie's.
Like even if the mom of Tammy and Tommy are someday confirmed to officially not be Tootie (which I doubt they'll ever do), I still wouldn't believe it's Trixie over just someone who looks pretty similar to Tootie and has a lot of the same features as Tootie.
As I've gotten older I've just become convinced that the people who honestly believe that Tommy and Tammy's mom is Trixie have just always been hardcore Timmy/Trixie shippers, and just didn't want to believe Timmy ended up with Tootie.
Which is fair. I don't want Timmy marrying into Vicky's family, or to Tootie at all. Girl has no boundaries, and is part of the worst possible family situation to marry into.
Considering A New Wish shows that Vicky hasn't changed at all in 20 years.
Also I know the show runners say that they have some traits of Trixie also thrown in to the kids to make it ambiguous who their mom is, but like where?
They don't have her eye shape, her eye color (they don't have Tootie or Timmy's eye colors either), her eyes being wide set (compared to Timmy and a lot of other characters), her nose, her height, her bangs, her eye lashes, her fashion sense, her straight hair.
They have literally nothing from Trixie, on either of the kid's designs.
Other than the fact that the girl wears pink and white, and a headband. But that's also just the color pallet of Tootie & Timmy combined (or just Timantha's), and all of Timmy's girl versions also wear some kind of headband.
They 100% designed Tommy and Tammy to be Timmy & Tootie's kids, and then decided that the mother was "intended to be ambiguous" when Timmy/Trixie shippers decided to head canon Trixie as the mom because we never see the mom or have her name dropped.
Because shipping drama fuels fandom interaction, which fuels ratings, and they didn't want to alienate the Timmy/Trixie part of the fandom by confirming Timmy/Tootie was endgame.
Though they tossed the idea of it being ambiguous who Timmy ends up with out the window in the live action trilogy and just made Tootie the end game of that canon.
So yeah, I've always thought Tootie was Tammy and Tommy's mom, but here's all my proof and reasoning.
Which as someone who did ship Timmy/Trixie as a kid, you could imagine that seeing Timmy's future kids look like Tootie and my main ship for the show wasn't endgame was kind of upsetting.
I could ramble on about the reasons why Tommy and Tammy are obviously Tootie's kids and not Trixie's for a whole lot longer. And the fact that they show up on Trixie's family tree on the wiki but not Tootie's, even though it's canonically supposed to be unconfirmed either way, irks me to no end.
But I'm going to cap this post right here. Maybe I'll bust out my punnet squares, and show why I think Tommy and Tammy being Trixie's is genetically impossible, some other time but I've thought about this too much today. But that day isn't today.
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(Ignoring that my Penny is a Paige kid, but) Penelope is genuinely such a great name for a Piper kid, both for Grams and for the associations itself.
First off, Piper was the closest to Grams as we can see throughout the show really. She was this strong but nurturing presence in her life, who influenced Piper's love of cooking and everything. Furthermore, Piper is the one to inherit her role as matriarch of the family, along with turning out most like her in the end. (I mean, initially sweet and gentle-hearted witch who hardens after the death of a loved one to lead her family forward and display some pretty impressive power and backbone.) So if anyone's naming their kid after Penny, it'd probably be Piper.
Secondly, as least for me, Penelope brings to mind Penelope of the Odyssey, a clever woman representing home and peace after the war. Eternally faithful, both to her lover and to her family. Additionally, it's such a classic, elegant name that I think would appeal to Piper. (Both Phoebe and Paige seem like they'd use more unique/fun names. Although I do like Phoebe kids with Greek mythology names, I think it just works for her and Coop, or even Cole, tbh.) I mean, all of Piper's kids' names have both that familial association and somewhat classic element to them: Prudence Melinda/Melinda Prudence, Wyatt Matthew, Chris (middle name not super counting here), etc. Honestly, I think that Wyatt is the least typically elegant of the names but makes up for it because of the strong familial tie.
Admittedly, it's also one of my favorite P names that's actually usable and plausible in the next gen. (Could I see Phoebe or Paige using names like Pisces or Paxton? Yes. Piper? Not really. And, in full transparency, I just really don't actually like the name Patricia or Patty that much, I'm sorry.) But it just gives such strong Piper energy to me! It's a great name, especially for a Piper kid.
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Mistystar and Stonefur
Design notes under the cut (how I designed them with respect to my Bluestar and Oakheart designs)
Mistystar
-Overall body shape from Oakheart
-Overall coloration and eyes from Bluestar
-Curled ears with light tips from Bluestar
-Rounded mane like Oakheart, but more definition to it from Bluestar
-Tail that ends in a somewhat-square end from Bluestar, who has a squared off tail. Still rounded like Oakheart’s
-Dark upper head from Bluestar
-Muzzle marking mostly from Oakheart, with a slightly upward shape from Bluestar
-Dark paws from Oakheart. Her ‘Misty foot’ from Bluestar
-Dark stripe down back and fully dark tail from Bluestar
Stonefur
-Overall body shape from Oakheart
-Overall coloration and eyes from Bluestar
-Rounded mane like Oakheart, but more definition to it from Bluestar
-Curled ears from Bluestar, though they are fully dark like Oakheart’s
-Rounded tail from Oakheart, though a light tip like Bluestar’s
-Dark shoulders and back from Bluestar
-Head stripe from nose like Oakheart, though it attaches to his ears like Bluestar
-Light paws from Bluestar
-Light lower head marking that attaches from his eyes like Bluestar
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