Why is the number of killers so inconsistent whenever someone bleeds on the bones, and what’s the “typical” number?
There have been several questions floating around the FS fandom pertaining to the lore, like who took the book at the end of ‘94? Before 1666 came out, a big one was why Ziggy wasn’t possessed while Sam was. But this particular one has bugged me for a while, and I think I’ve got an answer.
Before we get into the theory part of this post, I want to take some time to assess the canonical information we have.
The first time we see someone bleed on the bones, it’s Sam. The dates in 1994 are a little iffy, but at the end of the first movie, while Nick is recording the kids’ statements, he says the date is October 4th. Since it’s the morning of October 4th and the kids were being attacked the previous night, I’m going to assume that Sam bled on the bones on October 2nd.
So she bleeds on the bones on October 2nd, and then the next night, she and Deena are attacked in the hospital by Ryan. Ruby attacks Simon a short while later, and then Tommy follows, also not too long after the previous attacks. While I’m not entirely sure why the killers didn’t go after Sam on the 2nd and waited until the 3rd, the actual “hunt” started the next night and ended some hours later, with three killers coming after her, all of them being the last three sacrifices.
Next to bleed on the bones (in movie order) is Ziggy. This happens on the night of July 19th, and, if the movie’s timing is mostly accurate, which I’m inclined to think so considering how there wasn’t any side action and it all happened in one place, she died around ten minutes later, give or take. During that ten minutes, we see four killers, also the last four sacrifices. I’ll get to why that’s weird in a minute.
The last person we see bleeding on the bones is Deena. She either bleeds on the bones very late on October 4th or very early on October 5th, considering it’s daylight when she and Sam walk out of Nick’s house. Deena is a special case, considering she reconnected Sarah’s hand and learned the whole story. This is very important to my theory, and I will explain in a bit.
Deena is a target for at least an hour (we don’t have the best look at how long it took), but we see six killers after her. I know Sam was also possessed at the time and most likely went after Deena specifically because she bled on the bones, but I’m not counting her since she’s not undead. All of the undead killers were the last six sacrifices.
None of these numbers are consistent, and with the number of killers after Ziggy compared to Sam, it’s definitely not time-sensitive. The only thing that is consistent is that all of the killers are the last _ sacrifices that had been named. No skipping around, no picking and choosing, always chronological (kind of).
So what’s the typical number of killers resurrected after someone bleeds on the bones?
I think that the typical number of killers is three. Specifically, the last three sacrifices.
Sam was being chased for several hours. During those few hours, we only see three killers - Ryan, Tommy, and Ruby. 1994, 1978, and 1965. Why three, I’m not entirely sure, but I think three undead murderers would be enough to quickly kill a person, and I think Satan does, too.
But what about Ziggy?
In Ziggy’s case, Tommy had died very, very recently. Like, his body wasn’t even cold. His corpse was just lying there in the mess hall with Ziggy, Cindy, and Alice. I think that, since it was so recent, the Devil ended up resurrecting him as well as the other three, either for convenience’s sake or out of habit. Still, they all go in chronological order - 1978, 1965, 1953/50 (Leigh give us one date for Harry’s initial possession please), 1922.
And Deena?
With Deena, she reconnected Sarah’s hand. Instead of just the images Sarah showed to Sam and Ziggy, she relived the whole thing. To put it simply, it is likely the Devil went into “oh fuck” mode and deployed a lot more killers than usual - double the usual, actually - to get rid of her quicker and save the pact. Why they took so long to come after her when they were coming from the mall baffles me, but that is not what this theory is about.
So there you have it! This has been sitting in my drafts for a while, and I was finally able to fully articulate my thoughts, which took a surprisingly long amount of time to do. I hope this theory was at least semi-coherent and made some sense, and I hope you enjoyed it.
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Heyyy! Been a while since I posted any catified fear street designs.
Since my artstyle's changed a bit and im not very proud of the previous designs, I'm gonna be slowly redoing the rest of them and I had a very clear idea for the milkman so I decided to start off with him!
I made him a lykoi for fun. He just has lykoi cat energy. To me
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🪓 Fear Street Masterlist 🪓
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Fear Street Trilogy (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Original Female Character/Original Male Character
Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Harry Rooker
Additional Tags: choosing not to use warnings due to the nature of the fandom, it's only shippy like barely, harry was a good man ok, sick of people assuming he was a creep before he was possessed based on NOTHING, Oneshot, we wrote this for ourselves but y’all can read it if you want
Summary:
When another Shadyside Killer hits the papers, nobody bats an eye anymore. But people forget all too quickly that most of those Killers have families, families who still live and breathe...families who still know the truth of who that 'killer' REALLY was.
IMPORTANT: If you have ANY interest in reading Shattered Stone by @cyanide-latte and have not already done so, PLEASE hold off on reading this until you have read through Chapter 12, as this contains spoilers for that fic. [Glen, Ben, and Tom all belong to Cy/Yoru.]
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Darren Criss to Host MPTF’s NextGen Summer Party
Darren Criss will host and perform at the MPTF’s 2023 NextGen Summer Party on Aug. 6.
MPTF NextGen Board also announced Tuesday that the host committee for the evening includes Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Camilla Belle, Matt Bomer, Yvette Nicole Brown, Sherry Cola, Lana Condor, Colman Domingo, Janina Gavankar, Jason George, Max Greenfield, Harvey Guillén, Olivia Holt, Glen Powell, Harry Shum Jr., Michael Rooker, Reid Scott and Tiffany Smith.
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