Necromancer Nolan Holloway AU
"How many deaths have you died to be so strong?
How many times have you screamed to be so silent?"
Trigger Warning: angts, death, seizure, blood
in order to become a "master of death", you must get a taste of if before...
The nightmares got worse, and the lack of sleep was definitely affecting his performance at school, he survived purely on caffeine lately.
Nolan was just leaving chemistry class when it happened.
There was a lot of people on the hallway, a lot of dead people.
Edgar, Tiang, Janney, Brett... Gabe.
These were the few he knew.
They were all just standing, looking bloody and maimed.
Gabe had all his bullet's holes oozing blood and Brett was drooling a black goo.
It was like a horror movie.
Nolan's heart hammered in his chest, he was stuck on his feet, just staring at them.
Then, it all happened really fast, a blinding pain in his head, aching like it was about to blow, the nauseous feeling in his stomach, the rapid fluttering of heart in his chest, his lungs burned, the sudden taste of blood on his mouth...
"Dude, are you okay?" Mason asked.
Nolan collapsed.
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Corey and Mason watched as Nolan fell to the ground fast, as if someone had cut his strings, there wasn't even time for them to react, he was already at the ground.
It took Mason a few seconds, but Corey already was at Nolan's side.
"Nolan, what... What the hell?!"
Nolan's chest jerked away from the ground, his mouth open in a silent scream and his eyes open, fogged, like a cloud was stuck inside his eyes.
Just as fast as it started, he went completely still.
"Someone call an ambulance!" Mason screamed at the students gathering along the scene.
"Mason, he has no heartbeat." Corey said almost in a whisper. "I can hear nothing!"
"Oh my God, okay, okay..." Mason prepared his hands, trying to remember everything from his heath class, he was about to start a very clumsy CPR, when Nolan took a big breath, chest jerking away from the floor again, almost instantly his body started convulsing.
"We need to start counting!" A girl said in the growing crowd.
"On it!" Another boy said, looking nervous from the clock to Nolan's form, seizuring on the floor.
Corey and Mason did their best through the first minute that the seizure lasted, holding Nolan on his side, covering him with a coat donated by someone when he lost control of his bladder.
He just stopped, breathing heavily, then another seizure followed.
The bell rang, and there were and even more people joining the crowd.
"What happened?"
"Have you all called an ambulance already?"
"Oh my God, there's blood coming out of his mouth!"
"Is he dying?"
"Is he possessed?"
"OKAY EVERYONE, GET OUT, FOLLOW TO YOUR NEXT CLASSES, I DON'T WANT TO SEE A SOUL AROUND!" Coach screamed, and people instantly started vanishing.
"Oh, shit!" Liam joined them quickly "He smells awful."
Nolan had just calmed, laying lifeless on the floor, blood coming out from the corner of his mouth.
"He must've bit this tongue... But at least his heart is beating." Corey said, relieved. "Do you think we can move him?"
"No, keep him there." Coach instructed. "Ambulance in on it's way."
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Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.
Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).
Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.
Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.
Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).
AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.
But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s
At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.
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