#look. ive ALWAYS had a thing for mike schmidt/michael afton

[super-nova5045]

overall the fnaf movie was a 10/10 experience! josh hutcherson should be in more movies where he can whimper

[scover-va]

I need to know more about Michael's mom... Is she a cool mom?

SHE IS A VERY COOL MOM janet afton you will always be famous. to me

Im taking this as a chance to finally ramble abt her anyways so Janet's core inspo when designing her was to avoid 2 key things. Don't make her like Immortal & Th Restless's Clara (due to clara representing michael, not mrs afton, so i wanted to avoid that), and don't base her too heavily off of Ballora. I still have ties to Ballora's character (a music-based theme, blue-centric colour palette, im sure there were more basic ideas but everything else is more hc than themes to keep up) due to my hc thingy of each Funtime having ties to William's wife + kids, but yknow.

But yeah. Funky lady who played bass guitar + did backup vocals in a band during her high school and college years. Literally her and William dating can be summed up by "Seriously, what do you see in that guy?!" "He makes me laugh." bc she was and is WAY out of his goddamn league. Not just bc of the whole serial killer thing he was just an even bigger loser in college. Normal people dont develop a crush on a woman after she nearly breaks your nose and makes you bleed, William /j

But yeah uhh. I also dont like the idea of her being absent or neglectful purely because I got way too attached to her (i was originally gonna do that just to make things easy for myself but. Pretty lady,,, I am a very simple lesbian what can i say) so like. She obviously wasnt the greatest, most fantastic mom to ever exist given she was kinda maybe sorta well aware William was making some weird fucking clowns, but like. Hey. She tried. Also side note my reasoning for her being absent during the whole. Yknow. '83 event (and just evan's bday in general) is bc Evan + Elizabeth are twins and Elizabeth demanded a girls-only trip for her bday, and Janet promised Evan she'd do something just as special for him when she got back. That never happened bc he died lmao loser /j

But yeah uhh. Shes got a lot of regrets. Wishes she coulda done a lot of things better. Kinda dies with those regrets. Ive seen people say that one of fnaf's charms is that no character is 100% good and i LOVE that, and wanted to keep it up with Janet. Good mom and overall a good person, however made some bad decisions along the way and whatnot.

Im still working out specifics (ive been slowly working on a lil private fic abt her and william meeting + their early relationship) but uhhh. Minor notes that dont get their own paragraphs is that William sampled her voice for Ballora so yay easy voice claim, she had an on and off relationship with her band's lead singer (her name's Bev), her birth name is actually Janice Schmidt but if you call her Janice she'll knock at least 2 of ur teeth out, she's a runaway teen and got adopted by this older couple bc her home life kinda sucked (idk specifics yet), and also girlie has an extensive criminal record of minor angsty teen type charges. Also teen Mike dying his hair and then 2020's Michael's hairstyle are both kinda references to Janet's hair because he wnated to look less like his father. Thats all ty. No read more bc you WILL look at my mrs afton post, boy /j

Actually no theres more that im remembering as i write the tags and edit a few details. Back to her and William because god im insane about them. So for starters it. Well i was gonna say Janet was def the first to flirt but i think William definitely developed a crush first and they only kept talking bc of said crush so its kinda up for debate. Anyways yeah at first it was a HUGE sorta like "Well he's funny especially when I fluster him so this can be just a fun lil thing" but because they chatted more they def kinda like. Clicked more. William was a huge fan of listening to her music (from. a distance. he looked kinda like a creep but at least janet only misinterpreted it once) but like *specifically* janet he didnt give a fucking shit abt the rest of the band. Uhh. They had their first run-in and janet kinda. Well. Punched him in the nose before he cleared up that he is NOT a pervert or anything weird like that (bc a guy that looks older than he is staring from a distance when there is a clear crowd he could join kinda gave janet the Wrong idea), then they later bumped into each other in the hall and chatted for a bit, then they kinda just kept "accidentally" running into one another. Uhhh. Some cigaerette-themed flirting and a house party later, yay dating :] can you tell where the current cut-off of the fic is /j Also idk how to put this down properly but they are both runaways and can kinda. Get that vibe from one another. Literally Michael is like some fucked up abomination of the both of them between the troubled past + weird situationship thing + runaway stuff + a lot of minor details that arent important rn. I just. Yeah Janet means the world to me go thru her tag on my blog for some art. Not all of my janet art is posted but the non-posted stuff is all concept work/doodles or just. Shit im too embarrassed to post lmao. Anyways NOW im done ty for reading

[charlieslowartsies]

3 & 18!

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?...

Whoops! I answered this one before, turns out it’s #3 not 2. No problem! I’ll switch ‘em.

3. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?

I used to! I wrote a good chunk of my DP fic Starfall on vacation in a notebook, as well as 404 Error and very early work for the knight guard au. I would sit outside on the deck attached to my bedroom, tree trunk height with a lake nearby and just go for it.

However, I’m not sure I could anymore. My handwriting has gotten so bad over the years, and I tend to jump around a chapter so much that it’s almost intimidating to set aside a writing journal. Still, there’s a certain romantic idealism to the process.

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

I’ll pick the past scene from chapter 17 of Last Shift!

“Sure, yeah, but a special flashlight.” Michael assuaged emphatically. “I mean it kid, have you ever seen me get scared in here? With all these monsters around?”

[…]

“Here you go.” He handed the flashlight over, collapsing off his elbow and relaxing. “Take care of that, little dude. Anytime you see a monster, bam. Hit ‘em square in the eye with this, even if they’re down the hall. Sends em scattering, piece a’cake. Oh! If it starts to die, just get some batteries from the hall closet and replace ‘em. Keep some in a drawer somewhere, or under the bed, wherever.”

*****

This was a moment that I’d toyed with for a while, but couldn’t find the way I wanted to portray it until well around chapter 15. By this point, we’ve been given plenty of clues as to how much Michael Afton influenced the Fazes back in the 80’s. From Chica’s love language with food, to Bonnie’s music tastes, even to Freddy, who assures Mike he ‘can do anything he puts his mind to,’ which we later learn was advice young Michael gave the old bear when he was first put on stage. (Triple bonus points for the reference I made with that advice. It’s was just made into a musical ;) )

But something about Michael, now Max, being so integral to a) FNAF 4’s events and B) the knight guard au’s physical embodiment of protection and light, was something I wanted to handle…maybe not with kid gloves. But I wanted it done Well. That’s mostly why the scene wasn’t added until ACT IV, right before the climax. I wanted it to hit hard, I wanted to echo Ghost Strings and the past as much as I could.

I also wanted to portray how important those familial bonds can be, even when Grief and Time happens. How little siblings look up to bigger ones, and how it can seem like their word is Law. Michael told Arthur a quick, typical story to assure the kid that the nightmares weren’t real—and for all he knew, they weren’t.

They did become real, of course. But as scared and helpless and lost as the ghostly Crying Child became, he never lost faith in that promise. That the flashlight he carried could always, always ward away the bad things. The Marionette believed it too, and eventually it went to Mike Schmidt in Ghost Strings who was told the same. This is why it cracked when Mike lost Marion—his faith had been weakened and he couldn’t find something good to keep him going for a while.

This was a scene where we really learned how Michal Afton had been gone for years...but he'd never really left, because Arthur did love the kid. And when you love someone, you always keep them close.