#reesemancer

[madeleinelovescolours]

shhhh they're sleeping

[thefiasco-onyourblock]

I took the boyfriend to dinner today : D

[winkuzz]

Another meme I made and gotta share with my fellow Reesemancers

[sidney-scarlet]

my man Reese was in my dreams both last night and during my nap today, so I need to talk about him for a minute.

(not a sprite I took, I just think he's really cute in this one.)

specifically, his art!! lots of screencaps under the cut to save space.

Abby has posted an empty bg of Reese's room before (either on the patreon or her blog, I can't remember), and not having anyone there caused me to notice two very specific pieces of art I hadn't before

The hands reaching down from his window are fascinating in and of themselves, but especially in context of the drawing to their immediate left, which I've talked about before in my bigass theory post -- tl;dr, I think whatever's possessing Sam Wayne's corpse is a physical creature like a mycelium network due to the yellow tendrils coming down from the window in that picture looking like the yellow thing you see pop out of Wayne's sleeve when he hurts Beese's shoulder with a Keen Eye run.

The hands coming down from the window here don't look exactly like that, obviously, but it does make me wonder if the things that come to Reese's window at night (ditchings, Wayne, etc.) aren't just there to look in on him. I wonder if they were trying to pull him out somehow, to undo Doc Kelly's precautions and set Reese free.

If so, why? What would that do, besides maybe just leading to general chaos around town if Reese is in a manic morb?

I thought that Reese felt hunted or persecuted by these hands, hence why he drew them there, until I spotted this:

That... is very definitely a being with a sheet over it.

So this adds a new layer of complication to my previous speculation on Reese and Wayne's relationship: Wayne obviously openly hates Reese, and doesn't even consider him human, calling him a "waste of flesh" and a "weapon."

But since a lot of Reese's paintings seem only semi-allegorical (that's obviously him going Beese Mode morbing out in a lot of them), I was left to wonder... was that always the case?

I see this potentially going two ways:

1. Wayne maybe tried to nurture Reese for a while, or was at least more compassionate toward him -- then something went wrong, Reese refused him somehow or rebelled, which led to his current acrimony.

...actually I lied, I see this maybe going three ways:

2. The Thing Controlling Wayne (here onward "The Thing") came to Reese in the body it had before it took over Wayne's, hence why it looks different - I'm not saying it was wearing a full sheet, but we can at least agree it's not yellow and gross, so it could represent a previous incarnation. Obviously, the relationship has soured somehow since, possibly for the same reason above, and we have two pictures possibly of the same thing representing two emotions, love and fear.

3. As I suggested in my bigass theory post, there's another entity out there (possibly "The Entity" that Avery played in Charlie's show) that possibly fathered Reese, and that The Thing/Wayne have beef with it. So maybe the subject of that particular painting is The Entity, as opposed to The Thing/Wayne. The hand is very distinctly different to The Thing/Wayne's yellow tendrils -- the hands reaching down from the window are brown, but also have fingers. It's a tentative connection, but I'm just throwing spaghetti at the wall here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

here are the paintings I talked about in my previous post, as compared to the above:

(jesus, these look downright blurry compared to Abby's.)

the same drawing as the above just over Reese's shoulder (you see why the window hands were obscured), but then also to his left in that stack, we see (back to front) a study of his morbed mouth, what's obviously Wayne/The Thing (short, stained sheet), and then Reese being devoured by his morbed self.

see here, among lots of physicality studies, another painting taped to the wall of the yellow lightning/mycelium network. there's also what looks like a hand study taped directly under it, which at first made me think it was the yellow Thing growing/embodying hands. With the context of the hands under the window... hmm.

(...the critter with long hair and wrapped eyes gives me pause, bc it doesn't look like anything else in the room. Or anything we've seen so far. I'm wondering if that could be The Entity? I mean, it also could be just a random study Reese did, but everything else seems so purposeful.)

Finally!! This bigass painting of Reese in front of a window with the yellow lightning/mycelium network, with a ditchling right beside.

it's worth pointing out that while the majority of Reese's paintings explore his own pain, trauma, and relationship with his body... the second most common subject seems to be Wayne/The Thing.

what does this mean? there's definitely some sort of relationship there, and while we've only had glimpses of it in that one horrible night in the clinic, I feel like it's going to get a lot more fleshed out in the next chapter or so.

...mostly bc I've seen the sprite Abby put out on the patreon of our boy in the next chapter, and. it leaves me even more questions.

primarily based the fact that his tail now looks a lot like that of the Tailypo from the story in the library, but I need to play through again to take those screenshots.

anyway!!! thoughts appreciated, let me know what people think, I read everything even though I'm slow as molasses to reply (short term memory issues, mea culpa :'D).

two parting shots of the art down the walls of the clinic, and his baby/school kid photos bc those are adorable:

him and his mom in matching overalls! the cute little toddler pose!!! baby's first anatomical heart!!!!

the longhair emo school photo is my favorite thing!!! but we see too some early studies of being morbed, so it makes for an interesting contrast.

[princey-poetry]

My scarlet hollow character ☺️

Got that scarlet family resemblance (an unreasonable amount of stress)

[cainmak1990]

My horny ass wanted to draw some reesemancing but nothing too serious.

Warning for sexual themes and PUNS.

[tiny--cryptid]

Shout-out to Dr. Joan Kelly, I do not like her as a person or a parent but I respect the FUCK out of her for shooting her shot with the Hat Man and SCORING

[rangerdoubt]

scarlet hollow and its strange and terrible parental figures will always be so so so dear to me

[thelordfool]

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Scarlet Hollow (Video Game) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Reese Kelly/Player Character (Scarlet Hollow), Kaneeka Forsyth & Reese Kelly & Stella Richmond, Joan Kelly & Reese Kelly, Player Character (Scarlet Hollow) & Tabitha Scarlet Characters: Player Character (Scarlet Hollow), Reese Kelly, Kaneeka Forsyth, Stella Richmond, Joan Kelly, Sybil Forsyth, Tabitha Scarlet, Oscar Gutierrez, Rosalina Gutierrez, Sam Wayne, Vivian Scarlet Additional Tags: Human/Monster Romance, Disability, Instant Love, bonded for life, prisoner to yourself, Depression, Matricide, Prison, Chronic Illness, Episode 4 (Scarlet Hollow) Spoilers, Canon Divergence, Fluff, Eventual Smut, First Kiss, impled abuse, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Forced Drug Use, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, gender neutral player character, Non-Sexual Intimacy, learning to love, Implied/Referenced Abuse, Poisoning, Mutual Pining, Canon-Typical Violence, Medical Trauma, mentions of gore, Mentions of Blood, doc doesn't make it out of this alive, but none of us do in the end do we, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Medication, Self-Loathing, Stalking, freeing the beast, Obsessive Behavior, Empathy, Mind connection, mind and soul connection, antagonistic narrator, Psychic Bond, Gender Non-Conforming Reader-Insert, no use of yn or name Series: Part 3 of Gettin' Around in The Holler Summary:

Always managing. Never overcoming. But there's someone who understands. Someone who really gets it, and doesn't see you as a burden. He sees you, your beauty, your humor. How you aren't afraid. [mystic/keen eye mc]

[ch 1-3 are without sexual content]

[calm-shy-social]

Manifesting us Reesemancers getting a kiss scene in chapter 5

[clementinescarlet]

He don't bite :) unless your MC's a Reesemancer ;)

If you like this, please consider reblogging as well! Reblogs are greatly appreciated! <3

[madeleinelovescolours]

Kabedon

[crestoflames]

god why am i tearing up thinking about good ending!reese where he and MC leave scarlet hollow and live their lives together. excuse me while i ramble under the cut. none of this is eloquent and i repeat myself several times but i just had to type this out

im getting back in my scarlet hollow brainrot after watching save data’s playthrough of the game on YouTube (it’s very funny, highly recommend) but it just made me remember how different my perception of Reese is in comparison to people who play the game casually one or two times on YouTube (and fellow Reesemancers get it)

I can’t imagine just accepting the idea that hes dangerous at face value without stepping back to think a bit about the situation and what Reese clearly states to you during the scene. I used to get so worked up about people misunderstanding him and i still do, especially as a disabled and mentally ill person who relates heavily to him, but at this point Ive just gotten so tired of trying to explain myself and why Reese is deserving of compassion that I’m not gonna waste energy on it anymore. I’ve written the equivalent of a couple essays about the topic at this point (usually just in discord convos and whatnot).

but it made me think about my life too. when i first played scarlet hollow, I was basically in Reese’s exact situation (minus the abusive mom poisoning me) and had been since my teen years, just like him. and I could feel his pain and anguish during chapter 4 at the idea that he could have been living his life instead of worrying about his own mortality and staying inside all the time. his excitement at the idea of getting to live his life free of his mom’s control and getting to finally be happy resonated with me so deeply, and i wanted that for him. which is why i am pro-Reesevenge (aka matricide lmao). he deserves a chance to live his life.

but again it made me reflect on how my life has changed since i first played the game. i can honestly say that i consider myself to be happy now. and relatively content. sure, not everything is perfect, and there are plenty of things i’m working towards and would like to achieve for myself (going to law school, continuing to develop my social life, and getting in a romantic relationship eventually), but ive come farther than i ever imagined and i feel almost like a different person. im still disabled and mentally ill and thats never gonna change (i actually had to take today off bc of a flare up, which is something that happens and i just have to accept), but i feel fully in control of my health and medical decisions and i trust the medical professionals I’m seeing. which is huge considering the amount of medical professionals that screwed me over and caused serious damage to me. but it all has to do with the fact that im the one making the ultimate call for all of these things. not someone else. i get help from others of course, but ultimately everything is my decision. and imagining that for Reese makes me emotional (yes I know hes a fictional character but still). And I think about how he would also be happy that I’m happy too.

i really want to get back to writing my fic. I have so much written in my drafts it’s just that life has been hectic and changing so it made me put it on the back-burner. but realizing that im truly happy and have been for a year or so now brings me back to why i was writing it in the first place - to have Reese interact with an MC that understands everything he’s going through and helps him get that happy content life where he gets to do whatever he wants. and i feel more qualified than ever to actually write that (especially because my MC is just basically me with a couple tweaks).

idk. i just felt like musing about this topic. honestly if i can finish my fic that can be my last word on why Reese deserves freedom and i will never have to argue about it again and can just point to the fic where I basically end up breaking down every argument against it lmao.

[cainmak1990]

Reese's big enough for two (and more, there's also the tail!) Thank you, @winkuzz I love this!

One for each jeans jacket wearing cousin

So @cainmak1990 sent in an ask and requested Wren and Agatha to interact, and I still have ideas for that but I kept thinking about this one for days

If Wren and Agatha met it wouldn't be "my boyfriend", it would be "OUR boyfriend"

(Reblogs appreciated, they help a lot!)

[sidney-scarlet]

Sidney Lennox Scarlet --

they/them, bi

hot/mystic plus size goth bc many of the Scarlets I've seen are scrawny and someone needs to bring some Ass to this cursed bloodline

bartender and occasional kitschy ghost/vampire tour guide out of new orleans

more bio under the cut to save dash space.

if you want to read my crackpot theories, try here.

has dyed the Scarlet ash blonde a blue/black, but still has the tell-tale sunken eyes.

needs glasses but hates wearing them, only does so in private

loves horror movies/novels, especially about the monsters that claim louisiana as their home. it makes them feel less alone to imagine they aren't the only strange thing out there.

for a long time during their teenage years, thought their inexplicable psychic impulses were an extremely aggressive symptom of their ocd/the medication they were on. took them ages to accept that they were real and tell Vivian.

doubts most flirtation/attention from strangers for their looks -- they work very hard to keep their weird gut feelings from manifesting on the outside, and they know once someone gets a load of that, they'll lose interest.

that said, fully leans into saying that weird shit out loud around receptive parties when they know they can get away with it. it's there, they might as well acknowledge it, right?

was wondering if the holler was small enough their nose ring might be a problem, then saw Avery's angel bites and was relieved. does it maybe mark them both as outsiders? who's to say.

misses their mother terribly, but has gotten better about coping with it.

chose the name Sidney as a tribute to their favorite final girl, Sidney Prescott. (Lennox was for Vivian's favorite musician, Annie Lennox.)

does actually love their terrible roommate, Truck the cat. Loves all cats, and is doing their damnedest to respect Frou-frou's space.

didn't really have any big life ambitions, happy to live in N.O. with the rich culture of spirits that reside there, but sometimes dreams of moving to a brand new highrise in a city with less... history. just to get a break. turns out they and Tabitha will have that in common.

Vivian actually moved the them to the city before she died, wanting the two of them to spend some time somewhere fun and make good memories at what she felt would be the end of her life. Sidney kind of wonders if moving would be betraying her somehow, even now.

has the Lovers of Valdaro tattooed on their thigh, and a tattoo of the knife from the Scream films on the opposite upper arm.

partially at Pearlanne's funeral bc they think Vivian would want to pay respects, but also bc they miss having family to be close to. they secretly, desperately hope on the ride up that they'll click with Tabitha and have a friend again.

currently romancing Reese in my first run through with them, but I have a branch saved for Avery when (when, dammit!!) they become available in chapter 5.

[princey-poetry]

Guess which one of them has a heart murmur! Is not the one you think!

Me and my sibling's scarlet hollow ocs

(if you see this Dante no you didn't)