When Cassandra Cain first began taking ballet, her fellow dancers quickly warned her about the ghost haunting the theater.
"He likes to watch us. I see him looking down at the stage from the catwalk all the time."
"It looks like he stole one of the Phantom of the Opera masks last time a tour came through, but its been covered in stars!"
"I heard him when I was acting in Wicked. I was alone in the green room doing some last minute practice and I swear he was humming along while I was singing!"
"It was the phantom who stole my makeup from my dressing room I just know it!"
"Haley from front of house didn't believe he existed until they came backstage to grab supplies for seat repairs. I don't know what they saw, but now they refuse to go backstage."
"That ghost is evil. It pushed me down the stairs to the office and I tore my suit on the railing. Do you know how hard it is to find an all white suit on short notice? I'm lucky it didn't break my ankle!"
"We used to have balconies before the renovations. Sometimes it sounds like someone is moving inside the walls where they used to be."
"I'm not sure that the ghost is fully aware we're performers. A few years ago when Heathers was here, the actress for McNamara said that it felt like someone was hugging her after Lifeboat."
"I've seen him without the mask. His face looks like it was just... shredded. I only saw it once, but I'll never forget that face."
"I heard that he likes to mess with the equipment in the control booth."
Cass isn't sure that the ghost is real, but she is sure that the other dancers think he's real. They often gossip about the theater ghost in hushed whispers, knocking on wood at the very mention of him. Her teachers prefer not to talk about the ghost at all, but they don't deny its existence.
It's not until she is practicing alone on stage and feels eyes on her that she thinks there might be something to the ghost rumors.
(I don't actually have the game, but Doomsday Calendar is a cool design so I wanted to play around with what a more long-term Corrosion might look like.)
Thinking about how Shadow Company probably has a book full of things the shadows have written down about their Commander and how most of it is cute or funny or stupid or cool things they've seen him do but other times its a full on love confession and nobody knows if the person who wrote it is joking or not.
Shadow Company Record Book
Entry 207:
Graves passed out inside Pluto's helicopter today. It was rather cute although I'm surprised he managed to with the rock music in the background and Pluto's clanging around in the engine.
Entry 125:
The Commander decided to wake up at the asscrack of dawn to go for a run in the snow, and I had to drag him back inside after he fell head first into a pile of snow.
Jay wanting to be a pirate just because of the freedom it gives her in this world. No lofty goals or ambitions. That’s what it’s always been about, hasn’t it? Since La Alma, who set sail from Joaldo without a thought of his future, and even before him, it’s been a clear theme. There is freedom in the open seas, there is freedom in having an open future. Not knowing what is next because you get to decide your heading.
And they help others find their freedom as well, as they make their own journey. Whether it’s by helping them fight back against whatever boot is crushing them, or trying to help them and give them resources to continue on their journey, or other such means. They’re the best goddamn pirates because they embrace this freedom, and they use their power to help others find their freedom as well.
hello! Quick question, my friend is writing a YHS FIC and they really want to get the characters accurate. Do you have any major personality details about YHS!Bunny and what their goals are? Of why they want to investigate and stuff like that?
Also, if you don’t mind: In the Mx. Sinister animatic, there was a scene with bunny and a bunch of written papers and we’re having trouble deciphering some of them. What does this one say?
Thanks in advance!!
Bunny is meant to be a character with schizophrenia, though I'm sure my portrayal isn't very accurate(partially just because I suck at staying in character lol) but this is nonetheless a central part of them!
Bunny's delusions and paranoia lead them to very frequently feel unsafe and isolated. Even when they aren't experiencing hallucinations, their negative symptoms mean they struggle to keep friends.
The disappearances caused a very sharp spike in their symptoms. Nova, previously being one of their few friends a suddenly withdrawing' and having 180 personality shift and was massive hit to their very slim social life and an even bigger hit to their paranoia. I'd say that was the moment when they went from a more passive paranoia to full blown red-string conspiracy, and obsessively taking pictures of everyone and everything (The polaroid camera is a result of one of their delusions, they are terrified of anything hosted digitally being tampered with and so the polaroid are loophole that they can use to assure themself of reality)
Bunny's main goal in life is to feel safe. Unfortunately for bunny, that's kind of unattainable in a town like that.
Especially in the current arc of having been kidnapped and tortured... yeah lets just say they aren't doing so well. Quite a few things they were paranoid about have been validated, they are in constant agony from their missing face chunk and they have developed multiple substance addictions from being force fed pills. Their safety is now totally and utterly out of their hands and I think its kind of broken them a little bit, they are so miserable and hopeless that its kind of wrapped back around. To put it simply they definitely have some Stockholm syndrome going on.
Fizzy takes care of them, Fizzy helps feed them, Fizzy makes sure they don't bleed to death after Chaos hurts them.
Chaos likes(?) their company, Chaos gives them happy pills, Chaos doesn't kill them.
In a very twisted way Fizzy and Chaos are all that they have, and the only people who still care about them.
As for the photo:
it doesn't say anything in particular, its meant to be incoherent nonsense but if I remember correctly its "No" "Yakuza?" "Could be" "Spies?" "Maybe"
i know we've all talked about fili and kili getting along with merry and pippin but u know who I'd really love to see w merry and pip? bofur. bofur would love those lil fuckers.
(Drew this to help me unwind after a marathon of finals, and I figured I'd share a bit more about this design under the cut.)
(The idea I had that Doomsday Calendar is found in the same branch where you encounter the G Corp veterans, starved and desperate, regarded as human garbage by the City that created them. That amidst the chaos of Canto 1, one of them might've fled down to EGO storage and found a weapon that felt like it...resonated with her. A weapon that let her be not helpless vermin, but an almighty creature that demanded tribute and swept aside anything that would not give it in a terrifying apocalypse. A weapon that slowly Corroded away Senja the scout in the days after Limbus Company left in defeat, until only a brutal Prophet remained.)
I gave a few updates while I was reading the book in daily posts as well as in this ask and this post. It's a pretty long book and I felt a lot of feelings and I will definitely forget about mentioning some stuff, but I really want to talk about it for a bit now that I finally finished it.
This book is an amazing epic fantasy story that takes place in a world divided in two main continents, east and west, that are not only separated by a great sea but also by very different cultures and religions. The east worships dragons as gods, while the west fears them like monsters. We are following differnt characters scattered across this world, and eventually we learn a bit about the history, cultures and myths of these places. In the west a queen needs to have a child to continue her line and keep her reign safe, while being in constant danger for her life. In the east a young woman is trying her best to become a dragonrider, and an exiled alchemistis is trying to discover the secret of immortality in hopes of seeing his homeland one more time.
This is incredibly reductive, but it gives you a base about the story. The world-building of this novel is incredible, you can tell the author had very clearly in mind the history of these places as well as their customs and traditions. There's definitely some historical/mythological inspiration, the main one being the myth of saint George and the dragon, and I adored this particular take on the myth. There's so much detail put into this work, while you see different characters and regions you can perfectly picture the landscapes, the colours, the smells you'd find if you were there too. The characters are complicated, they are all trying their best according to their own values and beliefs. I went into this novel knowing very little, I knew there were two main regions, drangons and some queer representation. I had a great time with the book knowing this little, and so I would recommend going into it without knowing much. The size of the book can seem intimidating, it surely was for me, but once I started reading this I couldn't stop. The writing is absolutely amazing, and the author did a great job at making everyone clear to remember about, I could tell the characters apart pretty quickly, and didn't have any problems with the switch of perspective. I never felt like the west or east chapters were more interesting that the other, I wanted to know everything about everyone all of the time. I cannot wait for the prequel to be published here as well. This is apparently my year of fantasy reading and I am very happy about being back into a genre that has followed me ever since I can remember and that has never failed to bring me comfort.
I read this book for the high fantasy prompts of both the jumbo reading challenge and the fantasy reading challenge.