#Heidi has a rough time adapting to sudden change—Curt going missing doesn't help!

[emersonfreepress]

ROs + MC as camp counselors during a horror movie 😀

oh my godddd 🤣 dear goodness, i skimmed over the first time and was delighted, but now that i’m sitting actually answering this ask, i don’t even know where to begin 😂 this lot as horror movie camp counselors (with a few other filler counselors ofc), ok let’s gooooo

oh but first and foremost, I must address the thing that came to my mind like twenty seconds after starting this answer:

Gabe as Bill from Sleepaway Camp kthxthatsall

Ok now that I've gotten that out of the way, I must start by answering the most important question:

Who is the first to die?

Curt. Because of course he is! Fornicators always die first. I don't make the summer camp horror film rules—the genre does. Everyone thinks he's hungover and sleeping in on the second morning when really he was our opening scene kill, caught unawares while fooling around with a fellow counselor. He could be surprisingly durable in a few horror sub-genres, but definitely not any old school slashers 😂 Whether he has a dignified death or an undignified one in a vulnerable position depends entirely on how trashy the film is.

The Kill: Likely undignified, with his pants down. smdh 😔 it's hard out here for a ho i swear

That means whoever he was caught hooking up with was second to die, BTW, so MCs have been warned! But assuming MC knows better, let's move on to...

(the time to place bets for who makes it to the end credits is now!)

Rain

A filler kill. No one even knows what they're doing here since they clearly hate kids and show no desire to work 😂 They keep to themself and just sketch the surrounding nature. They're the first victim to actually see the creature (because why shouldn't it be a monster?), caught unaware while raiding the pantry at night.

The Kill: Off-screen. They manage to get a hurtful one-liner in before their demise. Good ol' Rain.

Rupan/Rohan and Vivian/Vincent

A two-fer kill. R's spent all of camp so far paired up with Vi on activities and concentrating on bothering them the whole time, in a bid to get them to loosen up enough to actually work well with kids. Vi, on the other hand, is concentrated on getting these little shits to respect them—so it's just a cycle of Vi being humiliated by children and R saving the day (then laughing at them). The two of them are focused on, like, actually being counselors, so they're not paying much attention to the others being lazy or not showing up for shifts or whatever people are complaining about.

The Kills: They're in the woods having a slightly serious argument about R knowing when to let up on Vi's extremely fragile ego and all their noise attracts the creature. They never resolve things because R gets eviscerated in the middle of their apology. Vi runs off in terror but doesn't make it!

Gabe

Gabe is on the verge of a meltdown for all of his screen time 🤣 The cabins are a disaster, the schedule is being completely ignored, the director is acting like everything is fine, these shitty fucking kids won't stop pranking him, and Kile's straight-up fallen off the face of the earth—! Honestly, his plight would be half of the comedy relief. Gabe ends up compensating for everyone else's slacking off (brutal slayings), all the while muttering and swearing about how he wishes people would stop hooking up and gossiping and do some damn work. Frequently spotted urgently stomping across campgrounds, barking orders at a fellow counselor, or barely stopping himself from swearing at children 😂

The Kill: He's just found out someone hasn't shown up for cleaning duty, again, so he takes it upon himself. In reality, that counselor did try to complete their task—they were just interrupted by one very rude, very blood-thirsty monster. Gabe discovers the horrible aftermath but is unfortunate enough to be sharing a room with the beastie. Chomp.

The New Kid

It's hard to include the MC since their potential personalities can be very different... but I think one of the base traits of the MC is, honestly, being nosy. Nosiness is a disadvantage in a slasher flick so the New Kid doesn't last long. You're on the more admin side of counselor work, like Heidi is, so she enlists you in keeping tabs on the counselors. Everything has been chaos but you find yourself distracted by the appearance of shady dealings going on. Jack and Jessie having urgent private talks, Curt still hasn't shown up to flirt with half the others yet. What could it all mean? You're trying to connect the dots to satisfy your own curiosity more than anything, though—if the director isn't concerned, you don't see why Heidi or you should be. Wait, Heidi doesn't even want intel anymore? Have you seen Curt? No—huh. Why are all the kids going home? And what are the adults freaking out about...

The Kill: Taken unawares while listening in on the director and the head chef. Something about a giant, bloody mess in the pantry? What the f—

Jack

Jack is the first to worry about people going missing and he tries to ring the alarm as early as Rain's disappearance. Everyone either wants him to take a chill pill or brushes him off by directing him to work that needs doing, admins included. R and Vi going missing isn't the biggest red flag since he's assumed their winding each other up was just build-up to a fight or a make-out—he's trying to stay out of that lol. The first person to take him seriously is Jessie, who also starts getting truly worried after Curt still hasn't turned up. He's quickly got both Jessie and Heidi on his side and trying to convince the adults to shut down but they... won't listen??

He helps Jessie execute a plan to get the campers home before nightfall and then spends the rest of the last day trying to round up the remaining counselors and inform them the show's over, time to go home—and the ones with their own cars do leave. After that, Jack does all he can to find the others before he has to accept the fact that he, Heidi, and Jess are the only survivors. They meet up, ready to get the fuck out of there—but where the hell are the keys to the van??

The Kill: The search for the car keys turns into a carnage discovery parade as Jack finds corpse after corpse of whoever didn't make it. After giving up on finding the keys in the director's building, he trips over the New Kid's remains (way to blow it, guys) and looks up to a looming shadow and a low, inhuman growl. At least his screams alert Jess and Heidi!

Heidi

Man, this girl thinks she's in a mystery novel. Wrong. Her work mainly has her working with the camp director and other administration peeps but things are way too hands-off and weird this summer. The adults are hiding things, holding hushed meetings, barely looking after the kids or counselors. She can't find her useless brother to bounce ideas off of. Recruiting the New Kid worked a little bit for collecting intel but now they've gone AWOL for some reason... As she realizes that counselors are going missing and not just sneaking around, she starts falling behind on both plots. Do the adults know something? Have people left or been taken? Why is Jessie taking Jack's babbling about a monster in the woods seriously?? The director left? Wait, they all left?? And for fuck's sake—where is her stupid brother?!

The Kill: Heidi's got to find Curt. She's got to. She has a sick feeling he never left and she just—ditches Jessie! She has the grace to apologize but she can't go home without finding her brother. Idk y'all, I think you know how this ends. Heidi speed-searches every last place she can think of in a growing panic, hyper-focused on what she can't accept is a hopeless endeavor. She's so focused she doesn't hear the thing creeping up behind her. She smells the blood first. Gobbled up!

Kile

Fled into the woods the moment Gabe's chore rampage started and spends most of the runtime there! They only came along 'cause Gabe, but he's busy being sucky so they just skip out on work entirely and take some basic camping supplies into the woods lol. They stumble across what's left of R and Vi on their way back to camp a few days later, then book it back to camp, worried. They arrive past dark, just before the climax of the film, and things have gone to complete shit: the campers are gone, the adults seem to have left in a rush—and then they start finding blood trails. Then carnage. They've equipped themself with a decently dangerous, suitably summer campy weapon which is smart! Because they end up using it pretty much immediately when this gnarly, slimy, scaly thing nearly catches them off-guard. Insert Kile fighting a monster they're totally outclassed by, the first full shots of the freaky, practical effects on the monster, etc etc. Kile manages to do actual, serious damage but loses their weapon in the process and has to book it for the van. They don't escape injury either!

Jessie

How did everything go so wrong??? This was supposed to be a good summer but now there are bodies and a monster?!? Jess makes the executive decision, once the director has gone obstructionist, to call the entire emergency contact list and get parents to come pick up their kids, but it's only made possible by coordinating a distraction with Jack. The kids get evacuated and the remaining counselors carpool their ways home, but when she's bracing to be yelled at by the adults... they all just zoom past her and get in their cars—leaving the rest of them there while the final night begins. Jack runs off to find the keys since they're stuck with the camp van as their only way out of here, ok, cool... But then Heidi, who's been getting strangely quiet as things have gone to hell, has an anxiety attack about Curt and—fucking leaves her?! In the dark?! With a monster running around??! It's only moments after Heidi's disappeared from sight that Jess hears Jack screaming, huddled to herself next to the van. Minutes pass, it's totally dark now, and she's a sitting duck...

Until Kile shows up! Nearly giving her a heart attack too since they're covered in blood and—ooze? Ichor?? There's some weird fuckin sludge on them and—oh thank God, they have the keys! ...Wait, they had the keys this whole time!?

The End

Kile's hurt so Jessie drives. Books it the fuck out of there to a fast-paced guitar track and the end credits rolling. —especially now that the priority is getting to a hospital! She handles the van like a madwoman, driving way too fast since now she's got to get to a hospital. It's just a few miles left until they're out of the woods. The credits keep rolling... but the van slows down. Gas.

They're out of gas.

Kile sighs hard. Refueling was their task.

The van slows to a crawl, then a stop. Kile swears viciously. The van is full of pool noodles and random useless shit. Moments of quiet pass until a heavy thud on the roof rocks the van back and forth. Jessie and Kile exchange a look.

Scene cuts to black and we get a mid-closing credits title card.

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i cannot believe i wrote this much has