#barnaby: everything has fallen apart but at least i have my mama

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Whenever I think about your lights out au. I sometimes feel like somewhere, deep in the building. There is Mrs. Beagle and the Joyful sibling just trapped. They are stuck in a storage room without a key. They have been screaming to be let out for months. No one can hear them, the rest are too far away. (Man I love having silly thoughts) (this is also if they even have puppets lol)

oh actually this is an opportunity about a Theory / Speculative Thing ive been thinking about for months - ive applied it to the au but until proven otherwise im highly suspecting this to be true for The Source

im of the "the joyfuls / ms. beagle / the pillar family / any supplemental characters did not have physical puppets, and only existed in the storybooks, records, animated segments, and other non-physical media" crowd. it makes sense to me for several reasons.

but at least for Lights Out, im making it au-canon that theyre... yeah, not real. they're false memories. just like how none of the neighbors had an actual childhood, they don't have actual family. there is only the nine.

#and honesty! its the more painful option #like imagine you wake up and not only is everything you believe False but your dear sweet mama doesnt even exist #and others. i just wanted to pointedly dig at barnaby #since we all know he's a mama's boy and that plays a role in how he acts in this au #so the only screams in the darkness are ghosts! sorry! #rambles from the bog #wh lights out au #barnaby: everything has fallen apart but at least i have my mama #wally: ...about that #and thats when shit hits the fan relationship-wise <3