#val: monty

[callofthxvoid]

Val grinned when Monty took her hand and spun her around, taking the opportunity to fully flaunt both her outfit, and the body it barely covered. "Aww, thank you, flattery will get you everywhere," they quipped back with a sly wink. "You just like when the people sparkle. I've seen Nadine's sexy magician's assistant outfits." She grinned. "You here all by your lonesome, or did you finally manage to convince Jasper to come have fun?"

whomst: val moreno (@callofthxvoid)

"Hey hottie, lemme holla at you," Monty said with a grin as he approached Val. "Damn, do you look bad in anything? Each time I see you, you look stunning. I'm jealous." He took her hand, spinning her around. "You know what would be an amazing idea? Glitter sunscreen."

[gildedagent]

I keep seeing people talk about this but is it just me or does it seem like midas is making fun of her for being french

[sonzies]

OOPS! all revguys

[crowned-public-enemy]

❌ "Would you do something that someone told you not to do? Why? Is there someone you'd actually listen to more than everyone else?"

I frequently do things I'm told not to do. By the police, the people I'm targeting, stuffy versions of me, so on and so forth.

Because I want to.

There are only two people around who can tell me shit. And even then, only if I agree.

[crzy-gh0st]

OOC INTRO AND RULES!!

This is a nevermore oc rp blog. and before you say anything I'm well aware she doesn't look like a nevermore oc. Don't flame me </3.

they werent made with the intention of fitting the "nevermore academy rules". I have excuses reasons.

Est time zone but i tend to be online alot due too a shitty sleeping schedule

anywho, rule time!!

RULES

1. pretty please dont be mean to mean. Being mean to Val is fine, shes a bitch lowkey. Just uh not me </3

2. no nsfw! im a minor! gosh, keep it in your pants.

3. no fastpass spoilers. i am a fastpasser, but still. dont wanna spoil it for other!

4. no copy and paste/chain messages. please keep asks to only rp things or ooc questions.

5. if its enjoyably feel free to ship val with anyone (unless its an obvious no), just send me a quick ask first so i know!

6. just have funnn. be sillay, because thats what were here to do!!

VAL STUFF

NAME: Valerie

(Goes by Val)

PRONOUNS: She/They

SEXUALITY: Pan (with a preference for women)

AGE: 19

DATE OF BIRTH: February/7/1984

DATE OF DEATH: August/31/2003

CAUSE OF DEATH: Overdose

STYLE: Scene

PERSONALITY TRAITS: Pretty annoying, enjoys pissing people off, loud, hyper energetic, most definitely has mental issues, rarely/ doesnt show weakness, oh so unserious, absent-minded, bratty

SPEACH: An annoying amount of 2000's slang.

(Sick, Take a chill pill, Your mom, le, XD, Rawr, Oof, Rekt, etc.)

MEMORYS: Multiple small memories but she forgets them not long after remembering them

SUITCASE: craft kit, mp3 player, wired headphones, scissors, a pack of markers and a notebook, a locked diary she has recently guessed the code for, and pack of pop-tarts

EXTRA STUFF: enjoys/enjoyed Avril Lavigne ALOT (basic, ik, just shhh), unmanifested, she unsure why but she does remember things she enjoyed while alive (movies, hobbies, etc.), rarely has good sleep at nevermore (due to night paralysis and anxiety attacks because of withdrawal)

(this is unfinished, i will be adding to this. i may reblog with something along the lines of "updated this" when i do. idk.)

(PFP ART BY MY QUEEN @r0sy-maple-m0th)

FULL ART FROM THE PFP HERE

VALS GROUP;

kane - @b4ckseat-bingo-ch4mp

madeline - @undergroundbell

evangeline - @evangeline-diaries

kipley - @getmeftoutofhere

VALS ROOMMATE;

boria - @boria-volkov

OTHER NEVERMORE RP BLOGS

Ocs!

margret - @margret-nevermore-student1

helen - @everybody-hates-helen

ligeia - @sea-creature-fanatic

eleonora - @eleonoras-library

noeline - @fortheloveofnoline

hoshi - @nottokyodrift

sandy - @little-red-axeing-wood

Clusterfucks

annabel - @annabelleewhitlock, @l4dy1nwh1te

prospero - @rats-of-death

ada - @adaa-lovelace

will - @diary-of-a-willy-kid

monty - @asshole-cowboy-devil

Misfits:

lenore - @lenorevandernacht

duke - @duke-laurent

pluto - @purr-of-smoke

eulalie - @imtheghostnow

berenice - @berenicenevermore

morella - @angel-in-green

pluto - @purr-of-smoke

Staff (and others)

deans - @nevermore-merry-official, @nevermore-mourn-official

dolly - @nevermores-only-nurse

poppet - @your-favorite-teacher-poppet

wisps - @wispsofthenevermoreacademy

the stag - @youcantrunfromthewildhunt

the hounds - @theloyalhoundsofthewildhunt

Backstory/Background characters

johnny & sally - @johnny-kicking-up-dust

luca - @way2rich4this

prosperos mother - @motheroftheratman

montresors mother - @blessedangel666

egaeus - @egaeus-exists

manor girls - @victemsoffical

thomas - @mastertamerlanethomas

sallie - @the-kansas-kutie

percy - @teaandcheckmates

basement girl - @randombasementgirl

ira whitlock - @ira-whitlock-official

isidor - @isidor-fauntleroy

eulalie's doll - @never-doll

Antonia @cutelillesbian

montys dog - @a-worthless-mutt

nessa- @yourfavemaid

lucille - @lucille-vandernacht

thaddeus - @thaddeus-vandernacht

bathroom boy - @im2kool4school

viktor -@not-viktorr

matteo - @ihaterats

[victimsofficial]

what’s up?

this is a nevermore rp blog of the best victims ever. @urlocalpestcontrol is the person behind this blog.

No nsfw, NONE. Feel free to bully/ make fun of them. Ig it doesn’t rlly matter for them, but no fast pass bc I’m broke.

Ask anything! Be silly and stuff.

Other rp blogs

dean merry - @nevermore-merry-official

@nevermore-mourn-official

duke - @duke-laurent

ada - @adaa-lovelace

annabel - @annabelleewhitlock morella - @angel-in-green

dolly - @nevermores-only-nurse monty - @asshole-cowboy-devil

pluto - @purr-of-smoke

won’t - @wontwilson realwilliam lenore - @lenorevandernacht

berenie - @berenicenevermore prospero - @rats-of-death

William- @diary-of-a-willy-kid

wisps- @wispsofthenevermoreacademy

poppet- @your-favorite-teacher-poppet

Eula- @imtheghostnow

Sallie- @the-kansas-kutie

Thomas-@mastertamerlanethomas

Percy?- @teaandcheckmates

Prospero's Rats- @rats-who-eat-you

Prospero's other Rats- @squeak-squeak-bitch

The Stag-

@youcantrunfromthewildhunt

The Hounds :( -

@theloyalhoundsofthewildhunt

The Raven- @a-raven-thats-not-so-raven

Aristro Cat Catterina?- @aristro-cat-catterina

Worthless Mutt- @a-worthless-mutt

Madelin- @undergroundbell

Percy- @teaandcheckmates

Luca- @way2rich4this

dolly- @nevermores-only-nurse

Val- @crzy-gh0st

[rosieposie1002]

Added Characters :

Name: Felix Way Kimura D.O.B: 12th January, 1992 Sign: Capricorn Face claim: Alex Schlab Species: Werewitch (Werewolf-witch hybrid) S/O: Rebekah Mikaelson Family: Helen Kade-Kimura (Mother), Darius Kimura (Father), Monty Kimura (Step-Father), Hilary Kade (Maternal Aunt)

Name: Ethan Timothy Everel D.O.B: 18th August, 1992 Sign: Leo Face claim: Brant Daugherty Species: Vampire S/O: Freya Mikaelson Family: Celine Everel (Mother), Nathaniel Everel (Father) Date of Death: 1st November, 2009 (Freya is bisexual, and I wanted my baby to be a part of the family, so don't come at me saying I changed her sexuality.)

Name: Estelle Hawthorne-Mikaelson D.O.B: 7th July, 1653 Sign: Cancer Face claim: Violet Brinson Species: Vampire S/O: Theodore Val Harper Family: Daphne Hawthorne (Mother), Simon Hawthorne (Father), Freya Mikaelson (Foster-Mother), Finn Mikaelson, Elijah Mikaelson, Klaus Mikaelson, Kol Mikaelson (Foster-Uncles), Rebekah Mikaelson (Foster-Aunt) Date of Death: 9th February, 1670

Name: Alex Malaraux D.O.B: 22nd September, 2004 Sign: Libra Face claim: Froy Gutierrez Species: Werewolf S/O: Sunny Bridget Harper Family: Jade Malaraux (Mother), Benjamin Malaraux (Father)

[thatliminal-wanderer]

Backrooms ID Pack

Names

Adam, Adym, Aguana, Aiden, Aiko, Alex, Alexia, Altair, Ambrosia, Amori, Andrew, Ant, Argos, Aries, Ashley, Aster, Avelon, Bartholomew, Belphegor, Berry, Bill, Blake, Blue, Bonx, Bram, Brock, Callum, Caspian, Castello, Chara, Cindy, Clement, Clementine, Colias, Corey, Corri, Crane, Creg, Crimson, Cyllene, Cypress, Daisy, Daze, Destiny, Doll, Dream, Dull, Dunk, Eden, Emily, Emme, Evangeline, Ezra, Ferren, Flannery, Frankie, Freeman, Fume, Gani, George, Gerald, Grey, Hen, Icarus, Jack, Janus, Jax, Jerry, Jess, Johnny, Kaii, Kain, Kami, Kane, Kat, Kimiko, King, Kitty, Koko, Kya, Leeon, Leo, Lilac, Limi, Llio, Lotka, Lucid, Malachi, March, Maria, Mason, Moley, Montie, Nightmare, Noir, Olive, Olivia, Ollie, Paisley, Pedro, Philia, Porter, Quinoa, Rae, Rasputin, Richard, River, Rook, Rosette, Rue, Ryan, Samantha, Sato, Saturn, Sienna, Sol, Terry, Theodore, Tom, Trance, Val, Vanta, Vee, Vesper, Vice, Violet, Will, Xavier, Xoa, Zero

Pronouns

!/!s, 0/0s, 1/1s, 2/2s, 3/3s, 4/4s, 5/5s, 6/6s, 7/7s, 8/8s, 9/9s, :(/:(s, :)/:)s, =(/=(s, =)/=)s, ?/?s, _/_s, almond/almonds, alone/alones, alpha/alphas, back/backs, bee/bees, bird/birds, black/blacks, blood/bloods, blue/blues, bone/bones, book/books, box/boxes, bug/bugs, buzz/buzzes, camp/camps, cave/caves, chalk/chalks, city/cities, clean/cleans, crimson/crimsons, crop/crops, danger/dangers, dark/darks, data/datas, dead/deads, decay/decays, desert/deserts, dirt/dirts, doll/dolls, door/doors, dream/dreams, echo/echos, end/ends, error/errors, eye/eyes, fate/fates, field/fields, fog/fogs, forest/forests, garden/gardens, glitch/glitchs, glow/glows, gold/golds, grime/grimes, hall/halls, haunt/haunts, hill/hills, hive/hives, home/homes, hot/hotel/hotels, house/houses, hub/hubs, ice/ices, icy/icys, jungle/jungles, lake/lakes, laser/lasers, level/levels, light/lights, love/loves, lucid/lucids, mall/malls, maze/mazes, mem/memory/memories, mirror/mirrors, moon/moons, moth/moths, mouth/mouths, musk/musks, neon/neons, noir/noirs, play/plays, pool/pools, rain/rains, rainbow/rainbows, red/reds, road/roads, room/rooms, rot/rots, run/runs, sand/sands, sea/seas, sewer/sewers, silent/silents, snack/snacks, space/spaces, sparkle/sparkles, spring/springs, tha/thalasso/thalassos, time/times, violet/violets, void/voids, wall/walls, warning/warnings, water/waters, wave/waves, well/wells, wheat/wheats, white/whites, yellow/yellows, •/•s, ∅/∅s, ⌛️/⌛️s, ☁️/☁️s, ⚠️/⚠️s, ⚰️/⚰️s, ⛓️/⛓️s, ⛓️‍💥/⛓️‍💥s, ✂️/✂️s, 🌀/🌀s, 🌈/🌈s, 🌓/🌓s, 🌗/🌗s, 🌪️/🌪️s, 🌫️/🌫️s, 🍄/🍄s, 🍄‍🟫/🍄‍🟫s, 🎞️/🎞️s, 🎟️/🎟️s, 🎤/🎤s, 🎥/🎥s, 🎪/🎪s, 🎭/🎭s, 🐁/🐁s, 🐇/🐇s, 🐌/🐌s, 🐛/🐛s, 🐜/🐜s, 🐥/🐥s, 👁️/👁️s, 📞/📞s, 📠/📠s, 📹/📹s, 📺/📺s, 📻/📻s, 📽️/📽️s, 🔑/🔑s, 🔗/🔗s, 🔮/🔮s, 🕊️/🕊️s, 🕯️/🕯️s, 🕰️/🕰️s, 🕳️/🕳️s, 🕷️/🕷️s, 🗝️/🗝️s, 🗺️/🗺️s, 😶‍🌫️/😶‍🌫️s, 🚪/🚪s, 🛎️/🛎️s, 🛠️/🛠️s, 🥀/🥀s, 🥣/🥣s, 🥩/🥩s, 🦂/🦂s, 🦜/🦜s, 🦟/🦟s, 🦠/🦠s, 🦴/🦴s, 🦷/🦷s, 🧠/🧠s, 🧫/🧫s, 🩸/🩸s, 🩹/🩹s, 🩻/🩻s, 🪐/🪐s, 🪜/🪜s, 🪞/🪞s, 🪟/🪟s, 🪦/🪦s, 🪰/🪰s, 🪱/🪱s, 🪳/🪳s, 🪶/🪶s, 🪹/🪹s, 🫀/🫀s, 🫁/🫁s, 🫗/🫗s, 🫥/🫥s

Titles

A Corrupted File, An Unapproachable (Beast/Entity/Unknown/Any Animal), Entity [number], Lucky (Beast/Entity/Any Animal), The (Bride/Husband/Spouse), The (Entity/Beast/Creature/Thing/God) of Level [number], The (King/Queen/Royal), The (Smiling/Frowning) One, The (Spokeslady/Spokesman/Spokesperson), The (Un)Lucky One, The Artist, The Behemoth, The Bellhopper, The Bone Thief, The Bronze Builder, The Catmaster, The Coder, The Comedian, The Concierge, The Crawlspace (Entity/Beast/Creature), The Endless Walls, The Entity, The Entity Which Doesn’t Exist, The Explorer, The First Entity, The Friend, The Game Master, The Headless (Hunter/Huntress/Entity/Beast/Creature), The Hermit, The Historian, The Homerunner, The Housekeeper, The Liminal Space, The Mail Carrier, The Maker, The Maze of Lost Ones, The Memory (Any Animal), The Memory Manager, The Mucked Smell, The Musician, The Neighborhood Watcher, The Numbed (Entity/Beast/Man/Woman/Person/Creature), The One Adorned In (Red/White/Black/Beige), The One Which Light Flicker For, The One Who Buzzes, The One Who Is Hiding in Level [number], The One Who Looks Too Familiar, The One Who Opened The Back Door to Reality, The One With No Data, The Party Host, The Puppeteer, The Scarecrow, The Scavenger, The Singer, The Smiling One, The Wanderer, [prn] That Lives Behind Reality, [prn] Who (Makes/Ruins) The Party, [prn] Who Can Not Be Explained, [prn] Who Endlessly Falls, [prn] Who Is Sick, [prn] Who Makes and Plays The Games, [prn] Who Resigns in Level [number], [prn] Who Wanders The Endless Levels

Genders

0beckəl, 1beckəl, 3beckəl, 4beckəl, 5beckəl, 6beckəl, 7beckəl, 8beckəl, 92levelic, 974kitic, 9beckəl, Backaneic, Backroomgender, Backroomic, Backroomsaesic, Backroomscattic, Backroomsdollic, Backroomsfluid, Backroomsflux, Backroomspinnic, Buzinbackroomic, Catbackroomic, Cliproomic, Deathmothgender, Eeriroomic, Endlessswimic, Entiromaric, Entity555gender, Entity666gender.exe, Entity99ic, Erokoric, Escapethebackroomsgameic, Flowliminpinkic, Hotelliminix, Kenolimighost, Lepidoipresence, Level!ix, Level0liminix, Level1liminix, Level336dia, Level370ix, Level389ic, Level7ix, Liminaldollic, Liminalmazeic, Liminalmushrooms, Liminalpoweric, Liminalsnowic, Liminalspacestalgic, Liminaquarpetic, Liminaquic, Limingender, Liminix, Liminlovecoric, Natatoliraifortic, Nostbackplushic, Panbackroomic, Parkgaraliminix, Partygoerscharic, Partykenous, Rubicunipresence, Sh4dygr3yl3v3l1c, Smilergender, Snowliminalic, Storeliminix, Unfatholiminal, Zeroaromic

Other mogai

Alderbackroentity, Alderitch, Alderliminal, Alderwhitevoid, Assigned Creature at Birth/ACreAB, Assigned Freak at Birth/AFrAB, Assigned Monster at Birth/AMonAB, Assigned Uncanny at Birth/AUnAB, Backroomsvesil, Darkwarmgreyvesil, Eldritch Omninoun, Eldritchvesil, Error Omninoun, Flesheatseaseque, Grey Omninoun, Hiliblayedernic, Kenovesi, Kittyhousehearthic, Mimicryvior, Nonhuvesil, Null Omninoun, Poolroomperspesque, Shard Omninoun, Sublimityhearthic, Terrorhotelhearthic, Thing Omninoun, Vesiliminal, ∅ Omninoun

[docgold13]

All The Batman(s)

From the best of the best to the not so best of the rest…*

#1). Kevin Conroy

#2). Michael Keaton

#3). Adam West

#4). Bruce Greenwood

#5). Christian Bale

#6). Roger Craig Smith #7). Diedrich Bader

#8). Robert Patterson

#9). Olan Soule #10). Rino Romano

#11). Ben Affleck

#12). Will Arnett

#13). Will Freddie

#14). Val Kilmer

#15). Jensen Ackles

#16). Robert Lowery #17). Jeremy Sisto

#18). David Mazouz

#19).Jason O'Mara #20). Anthony Ruivivar

#21). Keith Ferguson

#22). Lewis Wilson

#23). William Baldwin #24). Peter Weller

#25). Maura Monti

#26). David Giuntoli

#27). Troy Baker #28). Iain Glen

#29). Luke Wilson

#30). Anson Mount #31). Ben McKenzie

#32)Levent Çakir #33). Rene Requiestas

#34). Nat Wolf #35). Jimmy Kimell

#36). George Clooney

*Agree, disagree; have I left anyone out? Let me know what you think.

[gildedagent]

one must imagine monty stealing clothes from val and wearing them in private for euphoria purposes

[golden-ghost-gunslinger]

Upon exiting the store, the Gunslinger was met by a group of four.

"Gentleman, ladies." He tipped his hat before squinting at the last. "Fish. What can I do ye for?"

A pink haired woman in a dark coat, their leader apparently, came forward, lazily twirling a shotgun. "Well, if yer in the mood to come along reasonable like, it would be mighty kind of you to turn yourself in. Not certain if you heard, but there's a rather large sum on your head."

The Gunslinger barked out a laugh. "Courtesy of one Baron Kane, no doubt? Come now, you believe that he'd let anyone leave his fancy mansion with that much gold on their hands?"

"If we bring him yours." She retorted smoothly.

Four guns were pointed at him.

"Course, the poster does specify that they don't need to be attached." She drawled. "Per say."

The Gunslinger sighed. "I find myself a reasonable man surrounded by gold loving neanderthals. Very well, if it's a fight yer wanting, allow me to introduce you to my pair of associates."

Bang. The other lady fell down, as smoke curled from the barrel of one of the Gunslinger's pistol. A single diamond inlaid on the handle.

"This here, is Monty."

Another bang, and the man went down. Not even a twitch from the gun in his other hand, a gleaming red ruby shining from the handle.

"And this is Val. They tend to get a little feisty on folks that threaten me."

He raised an eyebrow at the fish. "Comprende?"

The fish warbled slightly, then took off running.

The Gunslinger turned back to the woman in black. "Seems the mackerel had some brains in him. How about you?"

She grit her teeth and lowered the shotgun. "This ain't over, Outlaw. Kane just raised the price on your head tenfold this morning. Every outlaw, inlaw, crook and straight is gonna be gunning for those hands of yours."

The Gunslinger smirked. "How unfortunate for them. I happen to like my hands. Now, how bout you go git. Thank me for being merciful or some such."

It wasn't until after the woman bolted that he sighed and holstered his pistols at his chest. So that's what had them all so riled up. The bounty was obscenely high, on further thought.

Too bad he had been playing roulette with a gun to his head his whole life. He hadn't lost yet, and today would be no different.

[clovertheloser]

@doodlebob54 as you wish!

Season 1: We follow our main cast and get to know them. Our Hotel Staff, consisting of Charlie, Razzle, Dazzle, Valerie, Monty (name change for Husk), Niffty, Alastor, and Mr. C. Along with our residents, Crymini, Travis, Blue Diamond (name change for Angel), and eventually Sir Pentious and Baxter.

We get to know our cast and their struggles, all of them having ties to the Vees in some way. Speaking of which, we get to know the Vees as well, introducing them as this season and the next’s antagonists. The Vees have Sir Pentious and Baxter spy on the hotel for various reasons. Valentino, to spy on Blue. Vox, to spy on Alastor. Velvette, the only one who isn't obsessed with a specific person, wants Sir Pentious to spy because Monty, Niffty, and Alastor haven't been active in hell as a group for over 7 years.

The Casino Three (not the actual name) were rivals to the Vees, and Velvette wants to make sure they aren't going to be a threat to the Vees once more.

We have a heavy focus on Valentino in particular, considering his ties to two of the residents. Charlie actually has a couple of brain cells here and actually tries to help Blue in any way she can. But there's one issue: she’s in trouble. Her parents don't approve of the Heavenly Hotel. She’s supposed to bring destruction, not redemption!

So, as punishment, her power has been greatly reduced, the bare minimum to defend herself and conjure items and clones of herself. She can't simply tear up Blue’s contract or snap Valentino out of existence.

So she bribes the Vees to let Blue stay at the Hotel and away from Valentino, and for a while, it works! But Valentino eventually grows tired, and bold. He wants Blue back, and he’s heard how the princess is a depowered pushover.

He’s coming to the Hotel.

This sends Charlie into a panic. What is she supposed to do?! She can't kill Valentino, he’d just respawn and come back again! And even if she got her hands on an angelic weapon, she can't Extinguish a Sinner, that goes against the whole purpose of the Hotel.

But she has a duty as the owner to protect her guests. What is she supposed to do?

She takes the matter to her guests. To Blue. The whole season, she’s been learning how to actually accommodate her patients and how to help them. She tried going in without thinking the first time, so she’s asking them how to approach this.

As you can expect, they all unanimously vote towards killing Valentino, so Charlie and Mr. C head out to get their hands on one of Carmilla’s angelic weapons to permanently kill him.

But since they don't know Sir Pentious is spying for the Vees, he tells Val that the most powerful members of the Hotel have just left the Pride Ring, so he’s going to attack. But Baxter has grown attached to these people, and warns them that Valentino’s coming.

(He bullshits that he saw on a drone instead of confessing that he and Pen are spies)

So, we get that scene of the Sinners preparing the Hotel and themselves for a fight, trying to hold out for Charlie and Mr. C to get back with the weapon.

We then get two episodes; one of Charlie and Mr. C getting a weapon from Carmine. This takes up a whole episode due to Charlie being on a blacklist caused by her father but Mr. C manages to threaten Carmine into handing it over, hinting that they have a connection. Their episode ends with them returning to the Hotel in ruins and under attack.

The other episode is Valentino and a shitload of contractors attacking the Hotel. We get individual sequences with the Sinners showing their growth over the season as they defend the Hotel and each other.

During Valerie’s sequence, we see her spear shine as she stabs the attackers. Remember that.

However, this battle is not easy. The Hotel is destroyed. But they manage to hold out for Charlie and Mr. C to come back! Charlie, holding the weapon, finds Valentino cornering Blue. She manages to attack him before Val lunges at her, hissing at her that she’s pathetic and an excuse of a leader.

How can she lead Hell if she can't even get Val to respect her? But Charlie tells him that he’s wrong. That there's more to being a leader than blind fear and control. It’s about earning respect and trust as you help your people while keeping them in check.

And she drops that line as she tosses the weapon over to Blue. And Blue attacks Valentino right in the heart, yelling at him about all the shit he’s done to him.

Charlie is the one to pull Blue back when he starts sobbing. Val manages to climb out a window. Charlie says they should go after him, but Blue decides against it. Val is minutes away from bleeding out to permadeath, and they don't want Niffty to have to clean up his blood.

We get a final shot of Valentino about to die, having made his way barely a couple of inches away from the Hotel, before he’s joined by Valerie, holding her spear. Valentino is about to snark that they can't leave well alone before he notices Valerie and exclaims that he knows her, before she stabs him in the heart, her spear shimmering with the same glow of Charlie’s angelic weapon.

And that is the end of season 1.

Now obviously a lot of stuff has been left out and it isn't perfect, but it's the rough draft. More is coming with the other season’s villains, but I hope that satisfies you for now, Mx. Doodle!

If you have any questions, criticisms, or suggestions, please, feel free to drop them in my inbox or in the tags! I love hearing from y’all!

[justforbooks]

Jim Abrahams

Writer and director who was part of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team behind the classic film spoofs Airplane! and The Naked Gun

The 1980 disaster movie spoof Airplane! was a flyaway success. Made for $3.5m, it grossed over $170m and forged a new style of film comedy. It was written and directed by the trio known as ZAZ: the brothers Jerry and David Zucker, and their childhood friend Jim Abrahams, who has died aged 80 of leukaemia.

There had been movie send-ups before, notably from Mel Brooks, Woody Allen and the Monty Python team. One of the innovations of Airplane!, though, was to multiply the gags without lingering on them. The audience had to be quick to keep up: this was one instance where the phrase “laugh-a-minute” represented a serious understatement.

Most radically, the film dispensed altogether with comic actors. Its innumerable puns, running jokes and absurdist non-sequiturs were delivered by a straight-faced ensemble of hitherto dramatic performers including Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and, most famously, Leslie Nielsen, a journeyman reborn here as a deadpan genius.

The trio had wisely resisted the studio’s demands to cast comedians such as Chevy Chase and Bill Murray. “We wanted the audience to feel they were watching a serious movie that we had redubbed,” explained David Zucker.

Airplane! subtly altered a generation’s use of language. “Surely you can’t be serious?” Nielsen’s character, a doctor, is asked on more than one occasion. “I am serious,” he replies soberly, “and don’t call me Shirley.”

In skewering serious dramas such as Zero Hour! (1957) and Airport (1970), ZAZ took their cue from MAD magazine, which printed finely detailed comic-strip spoofs of current releases, each panel packed tightly with gags. Though the film referenced everything from Saturday Night Fever to From Here to Eternity, its adherence to the disaster movie template kept it on course. It was a lesson which later spoofs, such as the Scary Movie series (some of which David Zucker directed, with Abrahams co-writing Scary Movie 4 in 2006) neglected to follow.

ZAZ made for a disciplined directorial unit: Abrahams and David Zucker sat at a monitor watching the filming while Jerry Zucker conversed with the actors. “We huddle after a take and compare suggestions,” said Abrahams in 1986. “The nice thing about three people working together is that you can come to quick decisions – three’s an odd number so we’d vote.” He distinguished his own approach from that of his co-directors: “David and Jerry were always the ones who had goals, drive and aspirations, while I was the one having a good time.”

The trio were not responsible for the vastly inferior follow-up, Airplane II: The Sequel (1982). “[Paramount] came to us and told us they were going to do a sequel,” said Abrahams. “But we’d thought of all the airplane jokes we could and said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’”

After their initial success, they were treated as heroes. “We kind of misperceived ourselves, and what the real beauty of Airplane! was,” said Abrahams. “We really thought that making a successful comedy was merely stringing a bunch of funny scenes together … and that’s not really the way it works at all.”

Their next film, Top Secret! (1984), contained numerous gags, many of them both silly and highly sophisticated, while deadpan duties were ably fulfilled by a young Val Kilmer. But the material was too scattershot in its choice of targets, which included war films and Elvis Presley musicals. “The jokes might be fine, it might look nice and be well-directed, but it’s just not a good idea for a movie,” reflected Abrahams, who admitted that the trio’s confidence took a hit.

The madcap Ruthless People (1986), starring Danny DeVito as a businessman whose wife (Bette Midler) is kidnapped on the same day he intends to kill her, was the first time they had directed a script not written by them. Unusually, the friends found themselves at loggerheads. “Each of us had more confidence, and it was harder to lose an argument,” said Abrahams.

In between Airplane! and Top Secret!, ZAZ had ventured into television comedy with Police Squad! (1982), which was cancelled after six episodes due to poor ratings. But in its dim-witted protagonist, Lieutenant Frank Drebin, played by Nielsen in straight-faced mode, it introduced a character who would provide ZAZ’s spoofing career with its second wind.

Out of the ashes of Police Squad! emerged The Naked Gun (1988), in which Drebin foils a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. The film boasted a gag rate equal to Airplane!, as well as another batch of formerly dramatic actors (including Priscilla Presley and George Kennedy) adopting their best poker faces amid the comic mayhem.

Abrahams, who co-wrote The Naked Gun but left the directing to David, wasn’t keen on the end result. “I remember seeing the dailies and thinking, ‘Oh my God, that’s not how you’re supposed to film that joke,’” he recalled.

Two sequels followed – The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) and The Naked Gun 33⅓: the Final Insult (1994) – though Abrahams was credited only as an executive producer.

He was born in Shorewood, a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Louise (nee Ogens), who worked in education, and Norman, a lawyer. He attended the same synagogue and high school as the Zucker brothers; their fathers had also worked together. Later, the three boys were all at the University of Wisconsin-Madison together.

After graduating, Abrahams worked as an investigator for a law firm. The Zucker brothers roped him into making comic short films on video equipment. As this took up more of their time, they rented space at the back of a local bookshop, where they set up the Kentucky Fried Theatre Company, screened their videos and performed skits parodying movies, TV shows and commercials.

Three years later in 1972, they relocated to Los Angeles and built a considerable fanbase there. One of their shows was titled My Nose, in the hope that the local newspaper listings would read: “My Nose runs indefinitely.”

Eager to break into cinema but unsure how to do so, they sought advice from the young film-maker John Landis. ZAZ wrote a preliminary draft of Airplane!, which presented the central story as a film-within-a-film being shown on TV, complete with fake commercials. Having had no luck pitching this, they teamed up instead with Landis, who directed their script of irreverent bite-sized sketches, The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977).

Even with the minor success of that picture under their belt, they struggled to sell a more streamlined draft of Airplane! Fortunately, it found its way to the future industry titans Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner, who were then executives at Paramount and happy to prepare the film for take-off.

By the time the Naked Gun trilogy was under way in the late 1980s, the quality of spoofs had begun to degrade. Two members of the team had already moved on to solo projects: Jerry Zucker found legit success with the Oscar-winning Ghost (1990) while Abrahams made the lively comedy Big Business (1988), starring Midler and Lily Tomlin as two sets of twins, and directed a young Winona Ryder in the teen drama Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990). He also co-wrote and directed his own Top Gun spoofs, Hot Shots (1991) and Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), starring Charlie Sheen.

His TV movie, First Do No Harm (1997), starring Meryl Streep, was partly based on his own search for a dietary cure for epilepsy, with which his son, Charlie, had been diagnosed. After directing Nielsen in the sub-par mob spoof Jane Austen’s Mafia! (1998), Abrahams dropped out of film-making altogether to devote time instead to promoting the Charlie Foundation for Ketogenic Therapies.

A part-sequel, part-reboot of The Naked Gun, with Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin’s son, will be released next year.

Abrahams is survived by his wife, Nancy (nee Cocuzzo), whom he married in 1978, Charlie, another son, Joseph, and a daughter, Jamie.

🔔 James Steven Abrahams, screenwriter and director, born 10 May 1944; died 26 November 2024

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[huntsvillehq]

new business open!

saffron aubert invites everyone to the grand opening of her new establishment: Sammie's Place. it will feature all ages entertainment from 11am to 5pm, and adult entertainment from 6pm to 12am. the back room will contain cots for those who choose to stay for the adult entertainment.

(all positions full) Owner/Staff Manager - Saffron Aubert Talent Manager - Joey Albright Stage Manager - Ciara Winters Lightning Technician: Grayson Waters Bouncer - Jae-Sung Bouncer/Door - Esparanza Calloway Bartender - Mallory Clarke Bartender - Lynx Bartender - Winifred Barrett Bartender - Rhys Bennett Server - Savannah Lacey Server - Grace Summers Server - Nadine Briggs Server - Romina Lanzo Server - Elora Sakamoto

Current Talent -

Addison Gallagher - music act Ames Shehadi - aerial silk act Cassius Romero - stripper Clementine Hanlon - dancer/stripper Etienne LeDeux - card tricks Georgia Hicks - burlesque (incl. Nadine Briggs and Abby Cromwell) Kiara Clark - dancer Lynx - fire eating Maverick Cafferty - music/trick act Max Hampton - dancer/stripper Monty Larkin - magician (asst. Nadine Briggs) Natalie Gray - music act Peyton Wilson - stripper Rosa Milovanovic - dancer Santiago Ayala - music act Stella Hendrix - art performance Val Moreno - music act

[ihearnocomplaints]

Do you have an oc/character?

I suppose it depends on what ya mean, friend!

I don't typically make OCs or anything like that for any reason other than roleplaying. For example: My animatronic OC, Zephyr. Ignore the old art. Or my mechanic/technician OC Julia (Who I don't think I've posted before). Then there's my self insert oc, Silas. I also have a persona, who I affectionately refer to as my slimesona.

But I do have a FNAF:SB au! Which those are all technically ocs. Sun, Moon, Monty, Freddy, Roxy, the MC, and all other characters in that story could be considered "ocs"

I'll add the art for each character under the cut. Again, old art warning (sobs I do not like my old art all that much)

So, first is Julia, the only time I've drawn a cis person /hj

Then, Silas. He's got a lotta lore. I'll add my most recent art of him that I drew just a few days ago at the bottom

and Finally Zephyr!

These are all used in the same rp server I have with my fiancé

My au is currently in the works with it's designs for the animatronics and characters but you can check my au tags "#tcod au" or "#The Comfort Of Darkness" (You can find all my navigation tags on my pinned post btw!)

And finally, my most recent art of Silas (Being a depressed little baby bc the DCA hurt them emotionally and physically and they've yet to recover. Thanks Val.)

[wainwrightjakobshammerlock]

so everyone knows ur the wainlock guy but are there any blands characters that remind you of certain mutuals bc of how much they like them?

oh boy time 2 tag a few people (sorry if its 2 am and i pinged you)

i had a few Handsome Jack mutuals over the years (hi monty if ur reading this 👋) but pretty much all of them have largely moved on from the fandom except for . Well. John (@handsome-john) as well as Straw (@sosorryjack) who also carries the title of Rhys mutual + only full time Rh//ack fan I like to be around (truly a eridium brick in the skag pile, as they say)

i also had a few Zane Flynt mutuals, the current one is Snowball (@snowballeclipse)

Maya belongs to Mars (@gaymars97). also Krieg. Psyren in general actually

Cicero (@enbytwink) is the Zer0 mutual of all time

Val (@phanztombzz) is the CEO of Timoxxi and i as the CEO of Wainlock consider myself allied to her and her apprentices

honorary mention to Percy (@jakfeaster) who is a secondary Zane mutual but also a Timothy mutual without the Timoxxi part attached

i have had many such other mutuals over the years but again, most have moved on. some have blocked me, and some i have blocked; this is how life is. but my eternal dedication to old man yaoi stays