The way my brain is literally just never going to shut up about this. Like ever. I need this moment permanently tattooed inside my eyelids at this point. Oh. My. Gawd.
Okay why didn't she go home with her friends?? Her drunk ass mom forgot to pick her up and instead of getting a ride home with them she just waits at the school alone?! Dumb 😐
but the urge to write a crossover fic where the Blissfield Butcher mistakes Cassie for Mille Kessler (both Katherine newton characters) because the butcher accidentally travels to the mcu.
How the Emily Windsnap movies might differ from the books now that Emily’s gonna be 16…
1) All the kid characters will get aged up to be about 16 years old.
2) The kids’ stakes will be much higher, so audiences can still feel the same heightened suspense for them whenever peril is afoot.
3) Emily and Aaron’s romance will be much more passionate and intense.
4) Emily won’t be so confused about being in love. She may have some wrong ideas about love, but at 16 she’d have some notion of what love is like. Probably from reading teen magazines or watching one too many teen movies 😆. Maybe unlike the books, she’ll be 100% confident about their relationship after their first kiss.
5) Mandy will be much more sneaky in how she bullies Emily. Assuming she’s also aged up to 16. Unlike the books where she screams “FISH GIRL” at Emily loud enough for everyone to hear, maybe she whispers it whenever she can get close enough to Emily. And unlike the book where she blatantly pushes Emily into the pool in front of everyone, Mandy will try making it look like an accident and push Emily in a more subtle way. And she might stop not just Julie, but the entire class from wanting to befriend Emily.
6) Millie won’t babysit Emily anymore . Which might drastically affect their relationship. Honestly who babysits a 16-year-old?
7) Mr. Beeston might drop the whole awkward “birds and bees”-style sex talk , and just bluntly tell Emily how she was born from wedlock. He might assume Emily at 16 is mature enough to understand.
8) Jake might be more clingy and overprotective of Emily. If she’s 16 when they finally reunite , then their time together will be very short. They’ll have only ~2 years together before she goes off to college and possibly away from home. And Emily will be at an age where more boys are interested in her. Jake may not be ready yet to let other men into her life, as he’s the first man to JUST enter her life. Not counting Mr. Beeston. Remember Jake’s “…ALONE?!” comment when he’s told Emily and Aaron will be alone together? Just imagine that scene magnified up to 11. This will also makes his Book 2 treatment of Emily even more infantilizing (giving her a baby doll, secretly following her, dismissing her fears and worries by telling white lies, etc.). This might create more conflict between them in the long run.
(thanks to @orithereticent @sundayahope @lolbeech @deepestphotoshopwonderwomanpaper @werewolfpurfect and many more for inspiring some of these ideas!)