#shadow dimension

[iamumbra195]

Random SBG AU where every time one of the kids dies in the shadow dimension, the number of hours they're stuck there decreases.

It starts at six hours, one hour for each of the kids and when Tyler is impaled by the tree and dies, an hour is shaved off. After spending hours searching for Tyler with no luck, they find a place to rest and then Taylor asks Logan how much time was left, only to be cut off by the sudden shift back to the real world. Logan was sure there was still another hour left, given how he periodically checked it to make sure it was running correctly but then they were all too caught up in worrying about Tyler for him to think about the implications of potentially losing an hour of time in the shadow dimension for unknown

Then Aiden dies and another hour is shaved off and they're down to four hours. This time they've noticed it, especially when they've lost two whole hours. Ben notes how much shorter the duration of the shift felt this time and Logan brings up his suspicions.

What were the side effects of two of them dying? What would happen if ALL of them died? Would they be freed? Or would they be doomed to spend the rest of their lives running away from these creatures with no hope for freedom?

[abowtiewaltz]

That time where Aiden bought the lights the gang definitely had a conversation like this, also where Ashlyn?? IDK!

Btw u should follow my TikTok @Bazinga.Things in case if tt doesn’t get banned 🤭

[miscmonstro]

I’ve been seeing a decent amount of “Amity gets scooped and plopped into dc dimension” style prompts so consider: Shadow Zone Amity.

Amity doesn’t appear out of no where in Illinois, in the dc world. It’s not near Gotham/Star City/Metropolis. Instead it’s inside of Gotham (bc batman crossovers remain my interest but any city could work). 

So. Idk how many people are familiar with Transformers Prime but the shadow dimension is a mirror of the real world but in muted colors and people in the shadow dimension can see and hear people from the original dimension, however, people in the regular dimension cannot see/hear/feel/etc. anything from the shadow dimension.

I like that idea but instead of it being the shadow dimension being a mirror it’s a copy of DP’s world and instead of a one way type of perception the dp and dc dimensions remain separate… kinda.

Amity absorbs parts of Gotham and makes a shadowy copy of various places. The citizens of Amity are like, “Well. There’s a new park/office building/street/etc. I guess.” 

Gotham, meanwhile, remains the same. Physically.

Sometimes people will appear in Gotham, walking, sitting in the park, etc. But they never acknowledge anyone and can disappear between one blink and the next. If there happen to be two and they speak to each other, it sounds like static. No one can’t touch them- Gothamites go through them. These ‘shades’ are Amity people in the Gotham areas that have a shadowy duplicate in Amity. None of the Amity people are aware this is happening. 

I imagine the Gotham side of things dubs the Amity people shades ghosts XD

Anyway, on the Amity side a major ghost fight has to happen in one of the Gotham sections and so the Amity people run. Some are screaming, all are frantically trying to get away. One problem though- Ghost Zone ghosts don’t render on the Gotham side. So the Gothamites don’t see Phantom nor whoever he was fighting.

So now the Bats are desperately trying to figure out what could have spooked all the ‘ghosts’ (Amity shades) so badly because, I mean, it’s Gotham. It’s going to pop up again and bite them, right? 

I figure Gothamites can get into Amity too. If one of them passes a threshold from an area of overlap where Gotham exists in the shadow zone then they can step into Amity, however no one from Amity can see them and no one can hear them. If they get back to a place of overlap they’ll end up back in Gotham.

Maybe overtime the merging gets better/worse and things start interacting more. Roads appear and disappear on either side. Buildings clipping in and out of reality, the Amity shades being able to interact with Gotham by like tripping on things that exist in Gotham but not Amity, the Amity people seeing items move that Gothamites are moving around in their dimension, etc. I don’t know. But listen.

The court of owls needs to have one of their 13th floor shindigs and just. Amity shades everywhere. They take over all the 13th floors, making the owl associates terrified because why are all these ‘ghosts’ suddenly haunting notoriously cursed floors?? They begin to believe their own stories. Bonus if the Amity people take the coffee and that’s the only thing they can interact with from the Gotham side 13th floors so now the owl court is supplying the ‘ghosts’ coffee so they can still use the 13th floors as their meeting places in ‘exchange’. The coffee offerings are appeasement. Meanwhile Amity side people are convinced there’s a coffee ghost somewhere because these brands don’t actually exist and where else is it coming from?

The Nasty Burger and Bat Burger could overlap. Someone walks into Nasty Burger and orders Nightwings. Someone at Bat Burger walks up and asks for Nasty Sauce.

Vlads lab and the batcave could merge sometimes. Imagine one of the bats running an analysis and suddenly theres a different computer with cloning info or detailing how to cut off a ghost’s circulation to control them more effectively? Or Danny sneaks into Vlad’s lab and theres a stack of adoption papers and foster stuff for various situations (that belong to Bruce, unbeknownst to him) and is utterly horrified at the level of detailed scenarios that Vlad’s got adoption contingencies for.

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

I'm not saying I'd build a summer home here, but the shadow trees are actually quite lovely

[bungledown-chim]

i cannot explain how much kristen needs to change her marketing tactic

she keeps going around and saying that cassandra is the goddess of mystery and doubt and the night, but thats not quite true. cassandra is the goddess of finding safety in the unknown. of not being afraid of doubt.

she is the belief that even if you don't know where you are or what to do, if you are lost and alone in a dark forest, there will be something on the other side, and all you have to do is get there. Cassandra is the goddess of staring into the cold, uncaring void and feeling a warm hand clasp your own, of a whisper in your ear saying youre going to be okay. you aren't alone. it is going to be scary and hard and uncertain, but you will never be on your own because i am here with you. you will never be lost because i know where you are

[not-quite-so-intrepid-hero]

rizbert i-have-to-follow-the-rules-or-who-am-i gukgak finally doing drugs bc a ghost teacher says she’ll lie to him if he doesn’t

[applebees4prez]

eugenia shadow continuing the unhinged energy of the society of shadows. do you think she and penny luckstone have smoked together?

[oneluckygoose]

Brennan made Eugenia Shadow purely to make up for a lack of Arthur Augefort in this season

[chungledown-bimothy]

the ghost steak fig tried to steal on their first day of freshman year was the rogue teacher's incredible

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

you're telling me that if Fig had managed to grab that ghost steak in the teacher's lounge that first day, there was a chance she could have lured the rogue teacher to her and thus accidentally aced a whole year of rogue classes without ever signing up for them? just imagine the multi-classed mess she could be at this point!

also imagine Murph watching Emily ace his academic track in the first episode of the show without even trying

[fish-food-s]

“that’s the coldest response I’ve ever gotten from Gilear”

[iamumbra195]

Rift Theory

TW: mentions of suicide and blood

So, we all kinda know that rifts form in places with a dark history like the Sorrel Weed House, where two people committed suicide, or the abandoned building where Ashlyn was born that I'm assuming is a school given that they're a very common spot for suicide. So we know death has something to do with rifts forming.

But what causes them to open? I have a theory that has like zero evidence but I feel like blood has something to do with it.

Essentially, I think that you need to spill some blood in order to open and close a rift once you're at the location. Emma bled during birth in the real world, which is when the rift opened. Then Mike got cut and started bleeding too in the shadow dimension so the rift closed.

Ashlyn got cut by the phantom in the shadow dimension before the rift closed too. So, given that Jasmine said she opened the rift to drag Ashlyn in, she probably cut her hand or something to do it.

Maybe because it was Ashlyn (who already had a special connection with the shadow dimension due to being born there) that closed the rift the second time that it didn't close properly and dragged the others in as well.

This is legit only based on these two pictures so I'm probably wrong but it's fun to theorize.

[deconstructthesoup]

I saw a couple people saying that maybe Eugenia Shadow was part of Arthur Aguefort's original adventuring party, and that got me thinking about the possibility of the OG staff of the Adventuring Academy all being made up of his party members, who worked together to take down Kalvaxus

Like, maybe they were short-staffed in the beginning because they were just starting out, so Arthur originally pulled double duty as the wizarding professor and the principal. Maybe he had a huge, thirteen-person party, or there were just a bunch of multiclassers that were teaching two---or even three---classes at once.

...Now I kinda wanna see a prequel sidequest

[tatck]

wha what if every chaos emerald had a guardian 👉👈 and what if the chaos emeralds didn't look like the chaos emeralds at all and what if they all had special powers and what if-

[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

Ah, I seem to have left my orb's lens cap on for that last pic. My mistake!

Anyway, here's the lake I've been fishing at. There's not a lot of other entertainment in the shadow dimension (the locals are difficult to find, and not in a fun way) but there's a great sense of tranquillity that I hope comes through in this shot.

[insert-silly-name-here]

Daily reminder: Don't cast counterspell, hold their hands and kiss them on the mouth (block verbal and somatic components)