#Case 72

[sm-writes-chaos]

Yo what's goin on with case #72?

My attempt at writing a murder mystery in three days while I was at a girls camp. But I came up with some pretty interesting characters so although I never finished it, I hold it dear. —

Case File: #72

Detective On Duty: August S.

Time Period: June 13-15

Case Name: The Girl Who No-One Liked (Wip name!!)

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A murder occurred on June 13th, the infamous Kelly J. was suddenly down on the ground in a pool of blood. Shortly after the tragedy her body went missing alongside any evidence.

A mystery was born, and everyone was a suspect.

But I’m getting ahead of myself, I should begin where all stories begin,(no not my birth), but three (3) day’s before the crime occurred.

— Here’s a snippet of all the characters: (our main character is August, a 12 year old girl who aspires to be a detective)

Sycamore Camp is run by my school, Sycamore School.

The founders of the school started it as a “fun activity that will inspire perseverance and survival skills for youth.” But that just meant you had to walk a lot.

The school buses could take us most of the way, but we had to hike the last three hours to a crook at the top of the Mount Reswald where the camp was located.

At this point in the story, er, file, I should point out a few oddballs in my school who will be important to this case.

First of all, S.S (Sycamore School) has kids from my age, all the way to high school seniors. Every age goes to this camp. In my class we have the most important to the case, Billy, Turnip, Mike, Ike, and Taffy.

Billy, who I call Search Browser Billy, (not that he ever bothered to give me a nickname), supplies me with additional information when necessary. A detective needs their sources after all. Sometimes he’ll answer whether I ask or not.

He wriggles himself into all different groups, ones his age or not, and collects secrets, confessions, details etc. Anything he can get his ears on.

Despite not giving me a nickname when I gave him one, he’s promised me to always be the first to know when new information is revealed.

Next is Turnip, not her birth name of course. Though I’ve never been able to actually confirm that. Billy knows nothing either seeing as she clams up whenever he walks by.

I once followed her to her parents car when they were picking her up one day, but they too call her Turnip.

She often reminds me of a mushroom. It might be because of her haircut though. Gloomy and glaring, I find her too intimidating to approach. I’ve only observed her from afar but that hasn’t gotten me anywhere.

Onto the twins, Mike and Ike. Contrary to their names however, they are anything but sweet. A twin rivalry has persisted ever since they were six. Billy tells me it’s because one Christmas one of their toys was slightly bigger than the other and he complained about it for days. Out of desperation their parents insisted that everything they do would be exactly the same. Same clothes, same food, same toys.

I suspect this has only made them more resentful, trying to prove one of them is better.

The last important figure in my class is Taffy. Short for Tiffany. The teachers are the only ones who call her Taffy, so she resents the rest of us. I’ve profiled her as a rebel. She gels her hair up in a mohawk, wears denim vests with cut sleeves, and large cowboy boots that when heard gives the impression of a giant walking down the halls.

She often crosses her arms, and I’m beginning to think they’re just glued that way. She spurs everyone during lunch to watch her jump off the highest things she can find before the teachers stop her. And challenges random unlucky people to spontaneous straw sword fights.

I’ve always thought of her as an ally. A detective needs a good distraction sometimes when investigating, so I always keep her favorite candy, green lollipops, on hand at all times.

Then there’s Colin’s class, the soon to be 12th graders. 

First up is the infamous Kelly. J.

I say infamous because she’s the cookie cutter popular girl, except everyone hates her.

A scowl permanently on her face, rude, and only communicating in scoffs, the younger classes have taken to giving her an equally hateful scowl in return.

The only people who seem to tolerate her is her best friend Marge, and her boyfriend Brad.

Marge is really Margaret, but she insists it really says Marge on her birth certificate. Brad was a little different. Instead of tolerating her, he was more scared of her. Being treated more like a butler than a boyfriend, he listens to her every command, always giving her that same nervous smile.

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I might as well tell you the ending because I don’t really plan on finishing it anytime soon. So Kelly J actually faked her death so she could leave her school that hates her and go to a new one. (Very dramatic) Her bf Brad was really suspicious throughout the story so August thought it was him, but in really he had had a fight with Kelly prior to her “death” and told her to “trip on a rock and die” so he thought it was his fault. They were fighting about how in kindergarten he should’ve won this race but he kept tripping (bcuz of Kelly). Anyways thanks for the ask!

[zhongrin]

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(zhongrin shenanigans utc)

"*clapping* yay!! welcome home, neuvillette!!"

"my shiny new hu- hydro dps!!"

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"*HISSING SNARLING GROWLING*"

".... ahaha...."

based on this chat ->

bonus:

sorry li my house my rules-

bonus 2:

it's ok i gave him chin scritches afterwards <3

[whartonists]

Not in our version of the story.

the age of innocence (1993, dir. martin scorsese) // the gilded age season 2 (2022-) // the age of innocence, edith wharton

[apollos-boyfriend]

es is genuinely one of the funniest characters ever. they’re a prison warden. they’re 15 years old. their boss is a talking rabbit jackalope. 70% of their prisoners are grown adults. no one else can hear their boss. they’re an amnesiac. they haven’t questioned any of this. they constantly get bullied by a 12 year old. they’re us. we’re them? they’re canonically non-binary. they’re having 30 different identity crises as we speak. i do not think they’re human.

[crimeronan]

WAITLIST APPOINTMENT WENT THRU I SEE THE RHEUMATOLOGIST ON MONDAY. MAYBE WE ARE NOT IN HELL AFTER ALL.

[the1stexperiment]

[deus-ex-mona]

when the tea leaves you like

[probably-not-a-cannibal]

I actually finished something I started months ago

That genuinely never happens

[wilsonthemoose]

I headcanon that you have a cute stuffed animal collection

although as I was typing this I remembered your post from ages ago about your stuffed moose. I'm still going with this as my hc for you though 🧸

Afraid so.

[transfemgorgug]

saw a tiktok about a schizophrenic man committing a violent hate crime and a lot of the comments were fearmongering about schizophrenic people in general, not the specific situation. and it just got me thinking about how schizophrenia is treated in media and the news, how you only hear about schizophrenic people when they’ve committed a violent crime, how society says these people need to be locked up in mental institutions for their own good, and like. i feel like people don’t understand that bodily autonomy applies to everybody. yes, even truly awful people. and truly awful people who happen to be mentally ill are not awful because of their mental illness, the two are totally unrelated. obviously, someone who’s committing violent hate crimes should not be allowed to continue to do those crimes. but just because a person poses a threat, the way to neutralize that threat is not involuntary commitment. because when you start to shove the “bad” crazy people in mental institutions against their will, that opens the gates for all mentally ill people to be institutionalized.

[astrokea]

Omg it’s Sharkticon Shark Week y’all 🦈

[weareatwar]

The Hacker's War's

[daddy-ul]

Okay, this morning i finally had the time to listen to the whole album again, with the lyrics booklet at hand and.

And i feel kind of stupid for how much it took me to understand why the yellow.

[thistaleisabloodyone]

I recently joined a nest sharing group on Flight Rising and I nested a pair, nest hatched, and I sent the CR to send them back, and it's been 24 hours and the dragons are still in my lair. I've put another comment on the CR, hoping they'll get back to me soon, as someone has fed their dragons within the last 24 hours.

There are mods for this group, obviously, but I don't wanna go to them like "Oh, it's been 24 hours and I still have these dragons, help", but also when is a reasonable time to go to the mods about still having these dragons? If they aren't picked up sometime today?

[the1stexperiment]

[theheadlessgroom]

https://www.tumblr.com/beatingheart-bride/707835668198457344/theheadlessgroom-beatingheart-bride

@beatingheart-bride

Randall’s breath was held tight in his throat as he nervously awaited Emily’s response, pulse pounding as he searched her face, trying to pick up on any sign of how she was to react to this-he was relieved when she finally replied, exhaling softly as she gave her response. Behind the mask, he’d raised an eyebrow at her comment about beauty being only skin deep (it was a phrase he’d heard before, just never in regards to himself...), her elaboration on how, no matter how attraction Don Juan was, no matter how women he had hanging off his arm, he would always be alone.

And that was true! Don Juan dropped these women as soon as he was done with them, leaving him empty and alone at the end (even if such a thing was never shown to bother him)…but what did that mean for Randall himself, he wondered? Did she mean to say that, despite his accursed ugliness, he wouldn’t be nearly as lonely as Don Juan was? He supposed that was true, now that he had Emily in his life, but still...did it mean that, maybe one day, he too could be loved, surrounded by good company?

He wasn’t quite sure of what to make of that, but he could see what Emily was getting, and despite that skepticism, he put on a smile for her, saying, “Th-Thank you, my dear, I...I’ve thought about that, how people still love Don Juan, despite what he does...even we in the audience are entranced by him, and we see all he does on the stage! But him being alone, despite all that...I-I hadn’t quite thought about that!”