#allie (everlost)

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[echoes-fandoms]

My Top 100 Ships (#90: Allie/Mikey)

Source: Skinjacker Trilogy (by Neal Shusterman)

Fanfiction Rating: F There are eight fanfictions for this fandom between AO3 and one of them features this ship. There are twenty on ff.net. This is... not an active fandom.

When Did I Start Shipping Them? I remember this series through a haze because I read it in middle school, yet these two were so important to me that they survive on this list. I think that I shipped them even before Mikey was revealed to be another kid, when he was still acting the monster. Why Do I Ship Them? I've been a sucker for the beauty and the beast archetype since I was younger than I can remember. Damaged and twisted creature kidnaps someone that it sees as an example of perfection? And then they fall in love? This is far from the last time the trope will show up in this list, but this one is special for stealing my heart at a very early age.

Favourite Fanfiction Tropes/Staples? More body horror please! Neal Shusterman did an impressive job with a YA horror book but I'd love to see these characters taken a little further into the horror direction without the limits of needing to not traumatize preteens.

[thenamessparkplug]

next batch of sillies:33

mikey got just a little goofy

[the-thunderhead]

Oh gosh i missed everlost so much. <3 it's such a comfortable read for me. I used to read it to fall asleep. And it helped muffle my fear of death

[quotelr]

Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"Allie considered this. "Meaning?""Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads.""Or tails," suggested

Neal Shusterman, Everlost

[nealshustermanreal]

Have you recently found yourself lost in Everlost? How did Nick and Allie's journey strike you? Do you want them to return home, or do you want them to stay in this eerie world forever? Please share your ideas and opinions with me!

[unholyhelbig]

Books Read in 2023: Everlost by Neal Shusterman

2/5⭐️

Allie and Nick get lost on the way to where they’re going after a tragic accident. They end up in Everlost, a place between life and death that has unspoken rules that you learn the hard way.

[you-need-a-ladder]

I just finished the Skinjacker trilogy and the Arc of a Scythe series this week

I’m glad to be reading again but also I AM FEELING THINGS 😭

Anyone who wants to share thoughts, share em bc my emotions rn are all over the place

[incorrect-everlost-quotes]

Mikey: I don’t do relationships.

Allie: [exists]

Mikey:

Mikey: Fuck.

[here-come-headcanons]

Allie: I shoulda left you on that street corner where you were standing...

Mikey: Butcha didnt.

[tygertyger137]

EVERLOST TRILOGY SPOILERS

I just finished Everfound!! AMAZING series!! I would totally recommend it. But something that just made me really sad was when Mikey went into the light. I get that it's his time to go and everything, and that Allie wanted a chance at living, but that kinda destroyed me just a little bit. It's gonna be like Peter Pan and Wendy. Allie is going to grow up. She's going to do the normal human things- go to college, get married, have kids etc. And Mikey is going to be waiting for her. Maybe time passes differently in the light, but still. I just don't want my favorite couple separated okay!! Neal Shusterman really knows how to write OTPs.

[denpring]

first art in a month and it's this

aka neal shusterman's characters as dank reaction images

[artbycaitlin]

Character designs for the book Everlost by Neal Shusterman.

[semper-legens]

58. Everwild, by Neal Shusterman

Owned: Yes Page count: 424 My summary: Mary wants children to stay in Everlost forever. Nick wants them to find the light. Allie wants to find her parents. But there are battles to be fought and secrets to uncover for each of them, as their paths take them further away from everything they know. With Everlost in the balance, will they be able to retain themselves for long, or fall into chaos? My rating: 4/5

Next up on Everlost, things go Absolutely To Shit! In, like, a narratively satisfying way, I mean. Things go to shit in the story, not the narrative is bad. Anyway. I thought I remembered a lot more about this series than I do, but as it turns out I mostly have memories of the first book with random details from the later ones. Which is fine, it just makes reading these books a different experience from how I assumed it would be.

All the kids split off into their own storylines in this one - Allie is still my favourite, I think. She’s with Mikey/the McGill, trying to get home. I like how headstrong she is, how focused on her goal above all other concerns, and also how petty her persistent feud with Mary is. I don’t really like how there’s a lot of romance subplot for her, but eh, it’s handled ok, and Nick also has one to balance things out. This book is really about skinjacking, a power some afterlights have to possess mortals - Allie is a skinjacker, and learns the trade from another afterlight, Milo. That Milo is a giant piece of shit is obvious to anyone even vaguely familiar with his sort of character archetype, but I did appreciate how the story was still written in an engaging enough way that I wasn’t bored by this.

Nick’s story really deals with issues of humanity, and what it means to hold onto who you are. He came to Everlost with a small patch of chocolate smeared on his cheek, but now he’s picked up the nickname ‘the Chocolate Ogre’, and is slowly turning to chocolate. The more ogrelike he becomes, the easier it is to complete his quest and defeat Mary - but at the cost of Nick, what makes him the person he once was. It’s an interesting idea for the book to be exploring, and seeing Nick make choices between his humanity and his mission is heartbreaking. One thing I didn’t like with Nick is this constant insistence that he’s in love with Mary - my aversion to romance plots aside, he’s fifteen. ‘In love’ feels way strong for a teenager. Maybe that’s just me.

Mary is a great villain. I’ve been thinking about this since I finished reading, I really love her. She’s the perfect blend of self-interest and delusions of grandeur, given enough humanity that the reader can in some way engage and sympathise with her, but at the same time utterly monstrous. In the first book, she was an antagonist but not necessarily a villain - she did seem to genuinely want what’s best for the kids in her care. Here, however, she takes a big jump off that slippery slope. I won’t spoil here what the Bad Thing is (I will in the next post) but when she realises the Bad Thing is happening and doesn’t just condone it but encourage it? It’s genuinely chilling.

Skinjacking is a huge theme of this book, and the other Big Thing that happens in this book revolves around the secret of skinjacking. (Again, not gonna spoil here, will in the next one.) This is one where, unlike the Bad Thing which is obvious to anyone who thinks about it, it’s harder to see coming, although it’s certainly well-foreshadowed and built up to in the book. And the story doesn’t shy away from how messed up it can be! Allie is possessing mortals, seeing inside their brains, taking over their bodies, and that’s kind of fucked up! We know Allie has good intentions, but with Milo and his gang we see how that can be used for less moral acts - and then there’s Jackin’ Jill. (Sidenote - I love all the pun names.) I like that the series isn’t afraid to both ask and answer these moral questions, and give the kids a more complex morality.

Not that it always lands. There’s a real cringey bit of the book where Zinnia, in life a teenage Confederate soldier, and a black kid implied to have been a slave in life, meet and decide ultimately to get along because their ghost glow is the same colour. It’s...simplistic. And bludgeon-you-over-the-head type of unsubtle. I mean, I get it, but hoo boy is it just a weird turn for the book to take into overt after-school special level Hey Kids Racism Is Bad.

That’s all here, folks - next up, the end of the series!

[startsbeatboxing]

Idk if anyone has ever read Everlost, but... that’s just Vanilla’s powers. Vanilla is just Allie.

[pinejay]

so in-canon mary coins a lot of the terms the afterlights use to describe their world, which allie later notes serves to make mary seem all-knowing and subtly spread her way of thinking. and one of the words she invents is "everlost" which is literally a lie bc it tells them that they're stuck here forever. but it's interesting that when they first die, nick immediately picks up on the mechanics of the place and calls it an "interlife", a place of transit between life and death, and it's only when mary's lies reach them do they forget the obvious truth