#*choking in the distance*

[thomas-the-goat-of-satan]

I heart Until Dawn and it's collection of comically stupid characters. and I do mean all of them. and I do mean it affectionately. I just. god. the reason that anything can happen to these people At All is because, somehow, Every Single One Of Them decided that it was a good idea to accept an invite to the World's Most Suspicious Event at the World's Most Suspicious Place. "hmm!! I'm sure nothing strange or horrific is going to happen to us up on our rich friend's isolated mountain lodge; why would it?? I mean, sure, we Are going to be up there on the exact same date that we inadvertently triggered the events of his sisters' disappearance, but surely he's not upset with us about that or anything. let's go!!" seven separate people. nobody thought anything of it. it's incredible. impressive, even. I mean, I don't know. me personallyyyyy?? I probably would've received that invitation and thought, "oh, he's For Sure gonna do something to us up there, and he For Sure has the means to get away with it; I'm Not Gonna Go." but. hey. that's just me.

[ask-zerotrio]

grief that runs deep

Clavell talks to Cyrano, after an AU where Clavell is the one who confronts the PPP possessed AI professors.

[pockethep]

TADC Theory...One of the Characters could be an NPC.

Even before episode 2 dropped people were theorizing that one of the main cast could be an NPC. With episode 2 having come out yesterday a very specific line said by Caine only fuels that theory....

"I know you guys love your NPCs but if I start losing track of who's a human and who's an NPC, who knows what could happen..."

I LOVE this idea for the drama. If the main goal is everyone escaping from the circus, there’s a lot of potential for a scene where everyone leaves but one of them physically can’t make it out because they aren’t a real person. (Very Wreck It Ralph like.)

Just based off what we know from two episodes I'm trying to decide who is most and least likely.

We know it probably isn't Pomni or Ragatha, they both glitched out in the pilot plus Pomni has outside game knowledge. She's been saying "collision" and "glitch" and "we're somewhere under the map", these are video game specific terms. And although NPCs can glitch as well (The Gloinks glitched in the pilot) Kinger remembers Ragathas arrival and how hard it was.

Jax can be ruled out in a similar way for the same reason as Pomni. He referenced Augustus Gloop, the child from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this episode. This is real world knowledge that would be a very specific reference for an NPC to know let alone make.

I can somewhat rule out Kinger just based on the fact that Queenie was a character who (presumably) abstracted. Based on naming conventions and design alone (weak defense but there's only two episodes out) they could have come to the digital circus together. With all the characters having such random designs it feels intentional for two characters look similar. If this is just a coincidence it would be cool for his erratic and paranoid personality to be a result of being an NPC. His spontaneity comes from the fact that he's in an area he isn't supposed to be in. Also he's been at he circus for so long and hasn't abstracted which is very very interesting.

My bets are on Zooble and Gangle. Although mainly because we don't know much about Zooble and the mask gimmick with Gangle is both something no other character has and feels like something from an actual game. Gangle is cheerful with the happy mask and more emotional and depressed with the tragedy mask while the other characters are more permitted to show emotion without something actively filtering them. Also my own bias thinks it would be cool for Gangle to snap, it'd be fun to watch the characters try to avoid getting grabbed by the ribbons while hiding around the circus.

HOWEVER we could look at what Caine said in a different way. Mainly the "who knows what could happen...". What if it was a warning about an actual event that happened? He actually couldn't tell the difference. What if him not being able to tell a human and an NPC apart led to the death of an actual character?

Gummigoo looked very distinct from all the other characters in the circus. He was more gelatinous, had an accent, and was very much from the candy world that Caine had created. It was easy to rule him out from the main group design-wise.

But Kinger and Queenie who look VERY similar...

It would be interesting if the real reason Queenie disappeared was because Caine mixed up the two because of similar designs and blasted the wrong one.

Probably more in tags but TL;DR someone in the main cast could be an NPC and Caine could have accidentally killed a human because he couldn't tell them apart from an NPC. RIP Gummigoo

[edenfire]

🗡❤️ you are my moonlight ❤️🗡

still thinking about rank 8 if they abandoned their weapons😳💦

[slaygentford]

proposition: matthew mcconaughey blonde curls american lestat. of course. of course. of courssse. yeah, baby, as long as you come home to daddy. of courssse.

ive been sitting in silence staring at this since I got the notification.

[fisheito]

i wonder if yakumos grandparents gave him so much soup bc it's something that can safely be swallowed whole by a small child who doesn't have the full chewing instinct...... don't have to break out the crowbar to wrench the entire chicken out of your babys mouth when you have liquefied the chicken

Gasp... brilliant... not only is soup an expedited form of warm... it is also (generally) choke free

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Hey, I think I missed a bit of lore or something, what’s the pit? And what’s the goop™️?

oh yeah no i haven't really talked about those Important Things yet! mostly because i'm still solidifying how they work in my mind... i try my best to adhere to canon, since to me aus are an exploration of the source / characters, so... its still tenuous. i have to think and consider and run parallel - there's a balance i'm still trying to find

like The Pit™️ (the spiral/eye void under Home) in Lights Out is gonna be different from the canon one since i started thinking about the au before the update. and the update changed my perception / theories on what the void is! but the au Pit™️ needs to remain mostly the way it originally was, or a lot of "plot" points fall apart

[mostlybirdsandphotos]

did you know that young crows have blue eyes?

[cherriesandcharms]

..

[occasionallycjshipping]

“[I could break you, Heart.]”

He holds the other Heart’s face. The perpetrator. He doesn’t deserve the name. “[I know exactly how.]” Mind traces a line down to his neck, enclosing his hands around it. A soft hitch of breath.

“[Just apply a little pressure,]” he almost sings, pressing his fingers against this Heart’s neck. He stares at him but his eyes seem oh-so far away. God, he looks beautiful like this, silent and playing into his whims - a perfect victim, an easy opportunity. Heart’s eyes shut without shutting.

Of course Soul found him beautiful: it is beautiful. Mind can’t help but savor this, Heart pliable in his hands as he always could be, falling lax.

He begins to thrash, which Mind had expected.

“[Here you go, love. Soul was right, you really are meant for this. It’ll be over soon.]” Mind shushes Heart.

His neck yields into his fingers so easily. Mind can’t wait to see the bruises pattern him. His bruises. He made them.

Heart goes still.

[alilaro]

i just would like to run astarion a hot scented bath and feed that boy some soup, is that so much to ask for?

[forfuckssakejim]

alright then. now that i'm home and i have a cold one opened im going to do some writing. we'll see how that turns out.

[krys-loves-otome]

So, heads up for the writing blog ( @not-krys ), I have been made aware that some of the links are not working on some of the masterlists, so I'm going to be working on trying to fix them when I can. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[constellarcreator]

Idk if I'm cooking but. Estelle's mom was a Glaceon and his ex best friend is a Pyroar. And I think his two primary abusers being opposing elemental types (ice and fire) creates an interesting contrast and has a lot of potential for symbolism n junk. I don't knowwww maaaaannnnn

[deus-ex-mona]

anyways, guess who finally managed to get unblocked after more than 3 years✌️

[winepresswrath]

I'm so mad about how excited i am for amc with the vampire season two. One third of the excellent casting is gone, I'm annoyed with the show-runner, I take issue with some of the technical stuff (pacing especially), etc etc but still. I love mess. hearts in my eyes. Meanwhile HotD was a delightful surprise all the way through and I think pulled off something genuinely impressive but season two just fills me with dread. like i've been assigned terrible homework. I feel like a parent who favours the problem child but this is what happens when GoT teaches you to fear.