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Remember when Gemma Chamberpot was thrown out a plane in vol15? And how the flight attendant said she failed 'them' or something? I always wondered who 'they' were. Its a shame to see the game ending since there were potential storylines that could've been picked up. This game is so underrated.

I believe it was hinting at the Committee of Vigilance? She might have been working for them.

Ah yes, yet another arc that probably could have been wrapped up better if they had the time.

-S

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I feel so bad but I actually liked Blaise's end? I feel she got redeemed, she acted kinda shitty to Jeremy while she was confused about everything, and her getting her own chance to make up for it on her terms was nice. I also ship RedChen simply because I felt it was better for both Jeremy and Amy? Having that stability was good for both of them. I think the fandom does tend to slide over the bad traits of our faves sometimes. It's hard to find critical fans in the small fandom I guess.

Firstly, please please don’t feel bad because everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, especially if it’s not harming anyone! Different people will definitely interpret content in different ways and have different reactions. That’s the whole point of literature! :)

Your points are all definitely valid, and I do agree with a lot of them! But for me, Blaise’s death was unnecessary. We all knew she was a hero. I don’t think anyone of us ever doubted that she was a righteous person (even if she tended to bend the rules a bit). Her killing Kolo might not have been the right decision, but it never influenced how we thought of her as a moral character. Although she was “redeemed” in the eyes of the city/law for her sacrifice in the finale, it was never necessary for us to see that part of her (as the audience) since it was never in doubt in the first place.

What was in doubt was her capacity to love and have an actual healthy relationship. She pushed Jeremy away because she was terrified of admitting to herself that she was falling in love. And then they were both too proud to discuss their problems like proper adults. Instead of trying to fix things, Jeremy runs away. And while I agree that Redchen’s the more stable/safer relationship, I agree with Amy even more - she shouldn’t be the rebound girl (Jeremy should have properly ended things with Blaise first before pursuing another relationship).

Like you, I loved the ending in how she was able to work through her problems and fears herself, and smile even in the face of instant rejection. But her dying means that she’ll never be able to apply her new insights. I’m just a hugely disappointed by the aspect of unexplored potential. I really wanted to see Blaise happy with someone who cares enough for her to stay by her side. Her entire life was such an angst-fest that she definitely deserved it.

Plot-wise, it was also “the easy way out”. A simple means to wrap up loose ends, as the implication that Blaise was celebrated in death would have been better than her survival in prison. We’ll never see Blaise deal with the consequences of her actions, which would have lead to an interesting character-building arc in regards to repentance, as well as creative ways to perhaps shorten her sentence/get her out of jail. 

But I guess with the limitations of the finale, it was the most efficient way to grant her story arc gratification. On an emotional level, I hate it… but logistically, I can see how they didn’t have too many options.

-S

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Hey! I just found your account and your art is absolutely gorgeous! I don't know if you're taking requests, but if you are... May I request Blaise Corso?

Hey there! Thank you so much that’s so sweet of you to sayy, and OF COURSE YOU CAN I LOVE HER SO MUCH (and yes I’m still in denial she is perfectly fine) 

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Can you draw Professor Hunt meeting Mal Fallon and Priya and Natara meeting?

I love this requesttt, haven’t drawn my babies (Maltara) in forever <3 Might ink it and colour it idk

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Well, I tried.

Noroi Hayashi from Cause of Death as The Mad Hatter.

I really enjoyed creating her metal arm because they never showed it to us, they only mentioned it.

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There are currently no ways to download the episodes again (legally or otherwise). CoD doesn’t work on my phone either since servers are down so I can’t restore my purchases :’(

The Deathicated Blog, however, is an absolute blessing to this world because they’ve been posting steady screencaps of the episodes for years now. Please check them out and send them some love ♥

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Hey! Do you have a recap of the game finale? I missed it by a week and it's not on NA anymore.. :(

Sorry dear, it’s been so long that I don’t remember it well enough to give you a great summary :(

You can always check out the Cause of Death Wikia. They don’t have the chapter summaries, but if you check on individual characters, they’ve mostly been updated with what happens to them. I’ve also most a brief character summary list here.

If you’ve got specific questions on anything you see, definitely feel free to ask!

-S

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I’d like to start this post off with a big apology. I’ve been neglecting these messages about the game for a REALLY long time now, and a lot of you were pretty panicked and deserved a quick answer... so for that I’m really sorry.

I wanted to wait until I had a solution to the problem, but as the months progressed, the likelihood of that happening kept decreasing :( I’m in the same boat as you guys - the week before I finally got an iPhone to redownload the episodes on, they took down the servers for good. 

EA Customer Support has not been helpful. The CoD Facebook Page has not announced anything new. I don’t think Apple would even be able to do anything, which sucks because I know a lot of us paid a lot of money to play this game and keep the episodes, on the presumption that we’d have them forever.

Is this game just going to be lost forever? Who knows. Maybe by some miracle, EA restores the servers, but that seems extremely unlikely.

If anyone has any updates/potential solutions on this, please let me know.

-S

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I see you're just posting normal stuff now. How are you feeling after the end of Cause of Death? I loved it and now it's gone....

Ahh sorry about that! I accidentally clicked the wrong button on tumblr mobile - all that stuff was supposed to go to my personal blog! Sorry again!

As to how I’m feeling after the end? It’s weird because it’s been long enough that I’m reasonably not devastated about it every day, but I’m also an unreasonably sentimental person so whenever I think about how much I loved the game, a fresh jolt of what feels heavily of nostalgia (with a hint of regret? loss?) goes through me.

How about you, Anon? How’re you feeling, looking back?

-S

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Mal and Natara

Once Natara Williams moved to Washington DC with Mal, she was promptly promoted to Supervisory Special Agent. She worked in a field office for a couple months before being asked to temporarily lead a team in the elite Behavioral Analyst Unit while the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) was on maternity leave. The Section Chief was so impressed with her leadership, profiling, and intensive field knowledge, she recruited Natara permanently. They were surprised that she could do so much while pregnant. She didn’t officially leave work until the beginning of her ninth month, something she did unwillingly. She organized the first “red cell” team on the east coast. She and her team were the first to be called for extreme cases in Washington DC exclusively. Something she was pleased with, because it meant she got to work alongside Mal very often.

Mal Fallon didn’t even land into the nation’s capital to be flooded with offers. The FBI, Secret Service, National Security, and Department of Social Services amongst many. Not wanting to be tied up with bureaucracy, he accepted an offer from the Metropolitan Police Department. Mal knew that he was a cop at heart. He was offered the role of Lieutenant, but Mal always saw himself in the field. He risked his career and became captain of a struggling homicide unit. He whipped them into shape and quickly rebuilt their reputation. Proving once again that Mal’s gut instinct and tough love approach will bring success.

Mal and Natara recently welcomed fraternal twins, to everyone but Mal and Natara’s surprise. Natara felt in her “gut” that she was having twins, but her doctor debunked it. She got a second, third, fourth, and even fifth opinion, all with the same result. After she successfully gave birth to Blaise Lily Fallon-Williams, her instincts told her to keep pushing and Kenneth Jacob Fallon-Williams was born. It turned out that Kenneth was behind Blaise, thus the doctor was unable to read both heartbeats. Mal joked that it’s always wise to listen to Natara. Natara initially thought that she and Mal would grow restless on maternity and paternity leave, but soon realized that taking care of newborn twins was a full-time job in itself. They are still very much in touch with the gang. They visit every Christmas and Kai and Amy have visited Maltara on may occasion.

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Hi! This is a really dumb question but I'm looking for a Natara Williams look alike in real life. Do you know any actresses?

Let me introduce you to my fancast tag! A place where we all daydream about how nice it would have been if CoD were turned into a TV show/movie.

If you’re looking specifically for Natara, check here.

-S

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so i got my game back, but when i try to restore it says connecting for a second and then just takes me back to the screen that says "volume one: the mask maker". I'm so confused because I bought six or seven of the volumes. what do I do to get them back?

Oh yikes, I haven’t encountered this problem so far, so I have no clue how to help you. Maybe try contacting EA’s customer support? Let me know if it gets fixed, okay? Sorry again.

Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how’d you get past it?

-S

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thank you soo much omg! it worked and I'm redownloading the game now. (:

Congrats!! :D Glad it worked!

If you have trouble restoring all of your previously purchased episodes, don’t be discouraged! [Read More]

-S

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i vote for cameos from the dynamic duo Hal Talon and Natalia Warden

y’know, to avoid copyright violations ;)

GUYS LOOK

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i deleted the cause of death game, but is it not in the App Store anymore? i loved the game and I want to download it again!

Yeah, the game kind of got cut :( What we all think happened was that they weren’t making enough money and were having so many server difficulties that EA just decided to shut it down. They ended it at Vol 16 and removed the game from the app store.

Hopefully, you’ve synced your device with iCloud before? Most devices do this automatically. If so, try going to the app store on your phone and clicking on the “Updates” tab, then the “Purchased” tab. It should be under “apps not on this device” (you may have to search for it). Then, click on the little cloud download icon beside it to re-download it!

Hope this works :)

-S

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“Have you met my daughter?” The voice shakes him out of his daze, pulling his attention to her old, weak form. Blaise’s mother stands before him, her arm clinging to Kelly’s.

Jeremy tries to smile, but the action feels foreign. The noises in the funeral reception hall echo in his skull. 

“Yes ma’am. Kelly, right?”

“Oh no, not this one. She’s taken already.” Madeline chuckles, despite the suffocating mood in the room. “My youngest. Wait, I think I have a picture of her here somewhere…”

“Your… youngest,” he repeats cautiously, exchanging a worried glance with Kelly.

“…ah, here we go.”

Jeremy’s handed an old picture, faded and creased – A college-aged girl on a motorcycle, eyes shining, smile radiant.

He couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen that dazzling grin.

“She’s a daredevil, that one. Always talking about how she wants to be a cop and go about ‘busting criminals’. I think she should do something safer, like be a doctor. Nobody wants to hurt a good doctor,” Madeline explains with a laugh. The corners of her eyes crinkle jovially as she looks up at Jeremy.

“You look like a nice, straight young man. Probably could convince her to do something less dangerous with her life. I think you’d do her some good.”

Jeremy looks away, not wanting to be the one to break the news to her… again. Kelly shoots him a pained look. “Maybe we should get some refreshments, mom…”

“Well, you think about alright?” Madeline gives his arm a squeeze. “Blaise is a nice girl – a heart of gold on that one.” She leaves Jeremy with the photo, a freezing feeling in his lungs, and invisible claws at his throat.

And he’d thought a ceramic knife to the chest was the worst pain he would ever feel.

His hands shake like leaves as he shoves the photo into his pocket, robotically moving to join the cluster of his friends standing by the golden heart’s casket.

Happy Fourth of July, Deathicated.

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I have fallen from grace // blaisebird

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wow have you ever had a sudden kick of Cause of Death nostalgia and then noticed that we are severely lacking in the fanmix department

because I sure have