#ryan finn

[phantomrose96]

Haunting

prompt idea from @zillychu, set in the same universe as the rest of the Ghost Speak series (as in, Ryan Finn is here).

...

“Thanks for coming all the way out here, Ryan. I know it’s a long trip.”

“You kidding? A chance to see my buddy Edward, investigate some ghosts with him, and cap off the day with Eddy treating me to a basket of fries? I wouldn’t miss it for the world,” Ryan Finn answered, one fry between each finger of his right hand in a sort of Wolverine parody. Edward Lancer would say he looked a bit wired from the 9-hour drive, but Ryan always looked like that.

“Still,” Lancer responded, though he didn’t feel all that bad about calling Ryan out here. He traced the rim of a heady glass of beer with his right index finger. Bass music wubbed from the speakers overhead, and in the dim light of the grill it built a small cocoon around Lancer and Ryan. It kept their conversation private.

Lancer sipped his beer, and he was not usually a drinker, but these things on his mind lately had him on edge. And they were so much more potent now that he’d dragged Ryan along to witness it, now that he had another person who had seen it and made it real.

Ryan jammed his arsenal of french-fries into his mouth. Lancer took another sip.

“So what do you think?”

“Hmm?”

“About Danny?”

“Ah, yep, I mean he’s definitely doing that.”

‘That’…was a way to phrase it, Lancer supposed. He’d taken Ryan back to Casper High, room 209, about half an hour after sunset. Lancer had wiled away many a sunset seated at his desk there, grading papers while the sun stole away from the sky. He wasn’t sure if it would happen, this time. If maybe it was a phenomenon only he could witness. But after 10 minutes of standing in silence, darkness cut only by a desk lamp, they’d seen it.

A shimmer. Glowing eyes. A warble cutting air not unlike the bass pumping overhead. It left a shape like an oil stain on space and time, and its eyes found them, and watched, and then shorted away. Gone. It took only another 7 minutes for the thing to reappear, farther back in the classroom, facing the opposite way. A warbling stain, here, eyes, up, staring, gone with a noise that left Lancer’s ears ringing just faintly.

“Am I haunted, Ryan?”

“Oh yeah, definitely. Well you or the room. You say it only happens in the room? Then the room, and you too probably, together.”

The confirmation sat heavy in Lancer’s gut. It left him feeling unsettled in a way that all the ghost activity of Amity hadn’t managed to plant in him.

“…So do you know how to make it stop?”

Ryan blinked, momentarily taken aback. “Well, yeah I do but—” He planted a hand firmly on the table and leaned heavily over it, elbow twisting out at an odd angle as he interrogated Lancer with his eyes, “do you really want it to stop?”

It was Lancer’s turn to falter. “I’m haunted, Ryan. Of course I want it to stop. That’s bad, isn’t it?”

“Only if you think it is.”

“It’s… not bad?”

“Well it can be bad. If the ghost haunting you is bad. Which this ghost—”

“—is not. It’s Danny.”

“It sure is.”

“So why is it happening?” Lancer pressed.

Ryan laughed. “Because he’s comfortable with you.”

Lancer seemed to miss a beat. His eyes shot a little wider. The silence settled between them. Ryan shoved another fistful of fries into his mouth and spoke through his chewing.

“I mean, he’s gotta feel comfortable around you, if he’s haunting you—your classroom—whatever all the same.”

“But why is he doing it?”

“Oh he probably doesn’t know.”

“So it’s not intentional?”

“Nah.”

“And he doesn’t realize he’s doing it?”

“You could ask him, but I’m guessing no.”

“So then… why?”

“Oh hard question, Edward. I mean, why do cats stare at you all soft and squinty when they’re comfortable? Why do rats do that bobble-bobble thing with their eyes?”

“This feels different, Ryan.”

“Trust me it’s very similar.”

Lancer ruminated on his glass for a moment. “Is this normal?”

“Oh, very.”

“And it’s not dangerous?”

“Nah.”

“Usually when you hear about a haunting, it’s dangerous.”

“Usually when you hear about a ghost, that’s dangerous. Do you think Danny’s dangerous?”

“No.”

“Well there you go. Harmless ghost. Harmless haunting.”

Lancer thought about this. “Okay, okay so just—hypothetically—you said you know how to make it stop? How would that work?”

“Oh, simple,” Ryan said. “Make Danny not feel comfortable around you anymore.” He picked up some more fries in his greasy grip. “You could get mean with him, fail him, stop getting his ghost papers translated, stop giving him leeway with the ghost stuff, and bam! I bet this would stop.”

“You don’t think I’d do that, do you, Ryan?”

“It’d break my heart if you did. I’d never speak to you again. I’d disown you and adopt Danny.”

“He has parents.”

“And they’re hunting him. He needs someone in his court.” Ryan crammed the rest of the fries in his mouth and swallowed. “Unfortunately I live 9 hours away. I hear you’re much closer.”

Lancer nodded, and he nodded harder, finding the tightness in his chest easing.

…

5:30pm came sooner than Lancer could have expected. The sun had vanished about an hour ago, sweeping away in a wash of pale pinks and deep reds. Lancer sat alone, halfway through a stack of English tests, desk lamp buzzing faintly at his side.

He heard it before he saw it—the wub of wobbling air. Then the oil stain followed, a shivering shimmering something which spilled into the air, and dropped the temperature a few degrees.

Lancer looked up. The thing’s glowing green spherical eyes looked back at him, mop of pure black hair providing the faintest of silhouettes to the thing’s shape.

Lancer offered it a little wave.

And it vanished.

[kdoxkeic]

Long overdue… Irish women/men have a chokehold on me

[a-weepin-willow]

[lakesparkles]

Sorry for not posting lately, these last weeks aren’t being easy at all....

Anyways, I think it would be nice to show all the animal designs I’ve made for LiS characters so far! It’s being really fun!

I decided their animals for some different reasons: some are the animals they should truly be; some are like “Alex seems to really like tigers!” But I’m still not totally sure about some of them, maybe I’ll change in the future...

[violentlydefending]

adventure time comics good actually [id in alt!]

[thattripleabattery]

[kaitlinj16]

The Losers Club | What's A Best Friend?

IT (2017) // IT: Chapter Two (2019)

🖤🖤🖤

[lispolladay]

[yourfavehaskenergy]

Ben Finn from Fable 3 absolutely has kenergy

Ben Finn from Fable 3 has Kenergy!

[gridgegate]

23-24 cats + cellies + dela (johnny clegg)

[lesbiancerseilannister]

there have been a lot of (canonly) unexplained moments on various television shows i’ve watched over my years being alive, but the one that haunts me the most is definitely quinn fabray asking rachel berry “when you were singing that song, you were singing it to finn and only finn, right?” and then holding back tears when rachel hugs her. what was up with that? what was. what was that. what WAS that?????????

[babolat85]

Triple the chaos

[halfdeadfrognerd]

OKAY just to get this off my chest, it makes me so happy that both love interests are nice, good people in LiS: True Colours

Like, in the previous games it felt like you just can't win with the LI's. In LiS both Chloe and Warren suck, Chloe is a horrible person and toxic friend, and Warren is kind of just orbiting around you, creepily waiting for his chance when Max has given him hints before that she just wants to be friends.

In LiS 2, Sean is 16/17 while both LI's are supposedly over 18 so 🚩. Cassidy seems like a nice laid back person, but in order to romance Finn you literally need to put your 6 yo little brother in danger and it ends horribly for everyone involved. Tad homophobic gameplay innit.

Ngl in the past it felt a bit like the game is paving a way out for you instead of letting you explore the options. So the fact that in True Colours you can romance Steph or Ryan and it's still good and healthy for Alex is a major win in my eyes. Looks like the writers read their feedback and listened to the comments, and it really paid off. (not to say the game is perfect in any means, but a definite improvement on that front).

I honestly went into the game prepared to romance Steph and ended up being the biggest Ryan stan of all time. The man is just. so. goddamn. CUTE!!!! Steph still seems to be the popular choice, which I get because super cool musician D&D lesbian??? 👌👌👌👌👌 But i'm glad Ryan also gets appreciation from the fans because he's a great guy who treats Alex right, and his route is actually a bit more difficult and needs more attention from the player to make it happen.

I know the game came out ages ago but I'm having my midnight thoughts.

[sydneymack]

Finn and Brie - These Hollow Vows

Artist: @sunni_rae_art

[camyfilms]

LA LA LAND 2016

I guess I'll see you in the movies.

[browsethestacks]

Feature Comics: WWII Lala Palooza