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and-stir-the-stars · 8 months
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Evan doing something bad and asking if that will make William love him less, to which Mike responds "What makes you think he loves you in the first place?" Michael, of course means it in a "Bro, our dad is evil, he doesn't know how to love." kind of way, But Evan takes it to mean "You're already unlovable"
(Had an idea that doesn't really fit into any of my stories, but I thought you'd like it)
Oh my gosh,, that's SO AWFUL, I LOVE IT 😭
Especially bc I can totally see Ev and Mike having this interaction,, esp in mbmw,,
Bonus points if the "bad" thing that Evan does literally isn't even all that bad. It's just that William is a bad parent with unreasonable standards for how kids (and humans in general) should behave, so Evan did something objectively Normal but is afraid anyway; Mike is aware that what Ev did wasn't actually bad, which prompts him to give that "why would you assume he loves you" response (why would someone capable of loving you have these awful expectations?).
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💙🩰Welcome 🩰💙
This is a Clara Afton (Mrs Afton )/Ballora Ask/RP Blog!
This blog takes place in 1985
Elizabeth and Mrs. Afton (Clara) are already dead.
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xaracosmia · 1 year
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ꕥ — WELCOME TO CATA COSMIA, ELIZABETH AFTON. 🌕
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ꕥ  — OOC INFORMATION;
name / alias: Sammi age: 27 pronouns: commonly they/she but any are fine ooc contact: @ sorunort on twitter other characters in xc: N/A
  ꕥ  — IC INFORMATION;
name: Elizabeth Afton (‘Lizzie’ if she likes you or you’re family) age: 12 pronouns: she/her series: Five Nights at Freddy’s canon point: Immediately right before her death. app triggers: mentions of child abuse, child death and murder.
personality:
Elizabeth is a spunky, cheeky, stubborn little girl who has no problem speaking her mind and doing whatever she wants. She’s not afraid to cause some mischief and use her perfect little angelic smile to get away with it. While she loves being the center of attention and getting fawned over, she prefers it coming from her father and brothers– even if that means getting caught red handed causing trouble. She wants to be the center of their world because they’re the center of hers.
something your muse struggles with: Not being as important to her siblings as they are to her, her inability to keep things from falling apart around her, abandonment, being alone.
your muse’s greatest strength: Once she sets her mind to something, she follows it through. If Elizabeth has your back, she will support you through thick and thin (and maybe even some crime [this is a joke shes 9].)
history / background:
Born as the middle child to William Afton, a man who cared more for his robotic creations than his children, Elizabeth leaned on her siblings', Michael and Evan, shoulders for support more than her father’s. She loved play-fighting with them and being an adorable menace because she knew she wouldn’t face any consequences from them– unlike her father who would lash out if Elizabeth interrupted his work. Elizabeth was also close with William’s business partner’s daughter, Charlie, regarding her as the sister she always wanted. 
Unfortunately tragedy struck and Charlie was murdered the day of her birthday party. Charlie’s loss hit everyone hard, especially all of the Afton children. Michael started lashing out at Evan more while Elizabeth had to come between them to make Michael stop. All their fun sibling antics suddenly disappeared and mock fights turned to real fights. Nothing improved, and tragedy struck yet again at Evan’s birthday party where Michael thought it would be a funny prank to stuff Evan’s head in an animatronic’s mouth where the jaws clamped down and crushed his skull. 
Losing her best friend and little brother nearly back to back shattered Elizabeth. Everything changed after Evan’s passing, whereas William didn’t care much for his children prior he all out resented Michael and outright disowned him then looked to Elizabeth as the golden child. She finally had his attention and affection but Elizabeth didn’t want it this way. She was still grappling with the loss of her younger brother and conflicting emotions toward Michael paired with his sudden absence. She received a distraction from her grief when William announced he designed a new animatronic just for Elizabeth– a pretty, glittery clown called Circus Baby. She could make balloons right from her fingertips, sing, dance, and even make ice cream! To say Elizabeth was enamored with Baby was an understatement. But William warned her not to go anywhere near it, much to her dismay.
Nothing would ever stop her from doing what she wanted, though, and on the grand opening Elizabeth snuck off to see Circus Baby by herself. This would be Elizabeth’s downfall, as the last thing she ever saw was a massive claw shoot out from Baby’s stomach, snatching her up then suddenly everything went black.
William created Circus Baby to kill children and siphon their life force, or Remnant, and Elizabeth’s soul became intertwined with Baby’s AI after her death. She didn’t live on as Baby so much as Baby leeched off her spirit to form her own thoughts and plans. Therefore Elizabeth wasn’t in control of Baby or even present until some 30 years later when everyone, including Baby, burnt to death that Elizabeth’s soul was finally freed.
powers / abilities: None
inherent abilities: None
items / weapons:
A well loved Mangle plush that’s befitting of the name given that it looks like it’s falling apart at the seams.
A brand new Circus Baby plush that she adores given how she wasn’t allowed to go anywhere near the real thing.
starting ability: None starting item: Her Mangle plush.
extra:
I kept the history/background purposely short just because of FNAFs uh…everything, but I can and will and happily expand on anything if need be!
killing her brother was the ultimate sibling prank
she has a british accent despite never setting foot outside hurricane utah. Whats up with that
shes just a baby shes so little
discord id: Get Scooped!#1515
passcode: A FAMILY IS REUNITING IN XARA COSMIA.
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and-stir-the-stars · 2 months
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avian au?
Could you explain
gladly!
So, it's basically just an au where I give everyone wings! Bc wings are pretty and i enjoy them, so clearly my Characters need them.
So far the au is giving fnaf characters a combination of bird and insect wings, though I'd like to incorporate mammals and aquatic wings. In the future I'd also like to do an avian au that's JUST bird wings.
Here's everyone's wings so far! :D
(Tw for bug pictures)
Elizabeth.
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Liz has blue-winged grasshopper wings. These grasshoppers evolved to have wings that resemble butterflies, and I thought Liz having wings that look like one thing but are another fit well with Liz being so associated to "pretending", as Circus Baby put it.
People often are very interested in Liz's wings when they think she has butterfly wings, only to lose interest in her when they realize she actually has grasshopper wings. Liz tries to convince everyone, including herself, that her wings are those of a butterfly. She likes the attention and adoration it earns her, and wonders why she had to be born with gross, boring grasshopper wings.
William likes to call Liz "Hopper", though, as much as a nod to his own love of rabbits as much as an acknowledgment of Liz's grasshopper wings. As much as she wishes she had actual butterfly wings, she likes being called Hopper by her dad, likes that her father is happy with her wings.
These contrasting ideas lead Liz to have very complicated feelings about her wings.
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Mike.
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Mike has the wings of a moth. His wings are a brownish red, just like Foxy's fur, and just like his mother's hair. I'm not sure what type of moth is drawn above, but Mike's wings look something like this.
His wings have eye-like patterns on them-- though I haven't decided whether the eyes look like bird eyes (as moths often evolve to have as patterns on their wings, for their own protection) or will look more like human eyes. My friend Honey suggested that the eyes on Mike's wings could be the same silvery pale blue as William's eyes.
Mike's wings are quite large on his frame. When he was younger, Mike was a big kid for his age (his wings even more so), but once Mike reached ~14, he stopped growing, and all his peers started being taller than him. Mike being big for his age is part of the reason why he took the brunt of William's abuse-- William figured Mike "should be able to take it." Mike used to use his larger size to hurt other kids and make him feel powerful in the face of the abuse he faced at home. But by the time Mike is 14, the only thing "big" about him anymore is his wings-- moth wings that are very delicate and easy to break compared to other wing types. He tries extending his wings to make himself feel powerful, but the only people intimated by his wings are young kids like Evan, who is unsettled by the unnerving eye patterns on Mike's wings.
Mike being a moth also makes his canonical association with fire pretty funny-- moths are attracted to light, after all!
And Mike definitely has fuzzy antennae on his head that he tries hiding in his hair.
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Charlie.
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Charlie has the wings of a pigeon! Dead pigeons are supposed to symbolize betrayal, so obviously Charlie needs to have pigeon wings, right? And the black and white of this pigeons' wings fit the Puppet's theme nicely.
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Evan.
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Evan is going to have wings and a tail with a pattern similar to a red-tailed hawk. My bird avians will have tails in addition to wings, because tails are very important to birds' flight abilities.
Evan's feathers have a brown and white barred pattern, but his feathers gleam gold in certain lighting.
Also important to note that although he has the pattern of a hawk, his wings aren't SHAPED like a hawk's wings. Evan's wings will be shaped more like a sparrow or a blue jay's.
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Hawks' wings are long and thin, designed for diving and gliding. A sparrow's wings are shorter and rounder, and like a sparrow's wings, Evan's wings are designed not for hunting prey but for avoiding predators.
When birds moult, their feathers fall off and regrow quill-first. These growing feather shafts often look like needles-- or needle sharp teeth. Evan is scared of his moults. He has big wings that he usually wraps around himself for comfort. But whenever he's moulting, this instinct of wrapping his wings around himself turns against him: he wraps his wings around himself only to find needle-sharp teeth surrounding him on all sides. Evan hates moults, especially because neither of his siblings go through feather-moults like he does, so they're not always the nicest to him during moults because they don't know what it's like.
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William.
I'm not entirely sure what Will's wings will look like yet. I know he'll have bird wings and a tail (as much as I would love to give him wings that match Mike's), and I know his wings are so big that his children will easily imagine William wrapping them safely within his feathers (though William so rarely does, the children can't help but hope).
I would like to incorporate a magpie pattern into his wings, because those birds are associated with death. I'm just not sure what the colors would be just yet.
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I might keep the magpie pattern and have yellow in place of the white, and dark purple in place of the blue? I'm just wary to do that because it would feel weird to have his wings so closely match Fazbear Entertainment's colors. I'll have to think it through more.
But unlike Evan's wings, William's wings will indeed be long and thin like a hawk's (even if magpies don't quite have that wing shape).
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Francine.
I haven't decided yet what wings Mrs Afton will have, except that I think she'll have insect wings of some sort. I was thinking about giving her the wings of some species that is known for taking long migrations since it would fit her theme of wanting to run away. I really do love the idea of Fran having luna moth wings, though as far as I know, luna moths don't migrate. I'll have to think about it more.
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Doin the taggy tags :D @cloudwhisper23
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and-stir-the-stars · 8 months
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Hello.. Blah blah blah I'm drawing zombie AU Evan because I am a self-indulgent.. But I don't know what to do with his face.. Does he completely heal from the bite is there just a chunk missing what's going on??
As the expert of all things Evan I hope you could help
tw for body horror stuff
And I'll preface this by saying that idk if any of this stuff is logically or medically accurate. It's just my uneducated guesses about what I *think* might happen
I don't feel confident in whether ur asking abt Ev being bit by Fredbear or by a zombie in the au so I'll just answer both
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Okay so if u look closely at the Bite, Evan sorta starts out with his entire upper body inside Fredbear's mouth, but by the time the jaws clamp down, it appears to be Evan's head, neck, and upper shoulder area getting the brunt of Frebber's bite.
So typically when I think of Evan's injuries from the Bite, it's like this:
Evan's skull gets crushed, not so much by the teeth, but by the metal "roof" and bottom of Fredbear's endoskeleton mouth. Think of what happens if you pinch a grape too hard between two fingers: this is Evan's skull.
Fredbear's teeth dig into Evan's neck and upper shoulder/collar bone area, likely with enough force to shatter some bones since a normal animatronic shouldn't have had the strength to kill Ev with a bite but Fredbear somehow did have the strength
So an au where Ev heals from the Bite of 83. Doctors would have to piece Evan's skull back together, likely with sutures and screws and metal plates until the bones heal back together on their own.
And in an au where Evan lives, the doctors would need to be really worried about the state of Evan's brain: if Fredbear's jaw or the metal of Fredbear's inner mouth crushed his brain as well and not just his skull, and if any of the shards of Evan's skull accidentally pierced or even got lodged into Evan's brain.
No idea how doctors would approach this if something like this happened, but there have been extreme cases of people surviving severe brain trauma (being shot and having a bullet lodged in the brain, metal pipes being completely shoved through the brain, etc etc). Though these cases are often associated with severe personality changes and deficits in memory and logical functioning afterward.
Post-Bite, Evan's head might always be a little (or a lot) misshappen, depending on how well his skull grew back together. I imagine he'll have a lot of scarring as well. He can have trauma around his eyes as well: eyes missing entirely, or perhaps one or two "lazy eyes" that cloud over and loose their vision, or his vision might remain intact but not be as good as before. Just depends on what you want.
And then I imagine he'd have scarring around his neck and shoulders as well. He might have long-term breathing problems if Fredbear's teeth punctured or crushed his trachea. He could become mute or have problems speaking if the teeth punctured or crushed his vocal chords. Likewise, he could have problems with being able to eat/swallow depending on what happened to his esophagus.
I imagine in an au where Ev survived the Bite, the damage done to his neck by the teeth would be a little less drastic than the damage done to his head by the roof of Frebber's mouth. Any damage done to the spinal cord (which would be very easy to do at the neck like this) is either going to be fatal or can lead to paralysis, from minor to severe paralysis. Paralysis might be something Ev deals with after the Bite, though that could be a bit impractical if he's trying to survive in a zombie au. It's up to you.
if Evan gets bit by a zombie is a bit harder to answer because there's, yk, not any canon content to work with
Generally the head is very hard for a zombie to "bite into" because the skull is just so hard to break. Zombies tend not to have the conscious awareness that it's hard to bite into a skull, so i can see a zombie's rotten jaw coming apart from how hard it was trying to bite into a skull. Which means if Ev gets bit in the head by a zombie, he might come away from the incident with teeth loged inside his skin or even the zombie's entire (or most of the) severed lower jaw lodged into his skin by the teeth.
If the zombie that got Evan managed to open the skull, you might see evidence of that in Ev's zombie form: the skull is cracked, blood and brains spilling from the cracks or from the whole in his skull. If Evan dies from the zombie, then he won't have any scars since his body died before it could heal anything. He'd have a lot of open wounds and bruises on his face from body that will never heal: open, infected cuts everywhere from the zombie scratching at and biting at him, as well as from any wounds Ev may have got from trying to run or fight back. Evan's blood likely would have clotted and curdled in his body in his zombie form.
Whether or not Evan dies/gets zombified depends on how severe you want his injuries to be, and on how the zombie virus gets passed from one host to another in your au
If Evan were to heal from the zombie bite (which tends to be very difficult in zombie aus because they tend to have society collapsed, and doctors/meds are in short supply, plus wounds get infected so easily) then his skull is likely not to grow together very well. This can lead to a section of his head (where the Bite was) OR his entire head being misshapen when he heals, depending on how bad the Bite was/how much of Evan's skull got ruined.
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and-stir-the-stars · 10 months
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ur thing u made. i made him into Posters
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sorry it's almost all just mike; he just had most of the trailer's screentime
I love each and every one of these but especially the one of him just screaming
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and-stir-the-stars · 10 months
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WHATS THE PLANE
According to ebay: 1974 Vintage Fisher Price Daredevil Sport Plane #306
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and-stir-the-stars · 5 months
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Imagine evan meeting hollow cause mike (i just want them be around the same age so theres not so much fear and authority between them and interfering in their possible relationship
Do you think they could get along well? Hollow cause mike seems so sweet, even though he seems very outgoing and
OH IMAGINE SAFFRON EVAN AND POST-EV-DEATH-VERSION OF HOLLOW CAUSE MIKE
ill go insane over this a while
Oooooo fun ask, thank you
I think the interesting thing about normal-verse Evan and HC Mike meeting is just. Both of them view the other as their Big Brother meant to Protect them, so they're not quite sure how to respond to seeing this lil version of their big brothers.
Normal Evan is startled bc he's never imagined Mike being so small!! Mike is big and scary and always able to handle everything without backing down!!
And HC Mike looks at this Evan and is so scared and confused, bc HC Evan always has a smile and is always trying to pretend everything is okay, but this Evan is constantly scared and crying and flinching away.
HC Mike isn't used to this at all. Usually the only times he's seen his Evan cry is when William hurts him or when Mike goes a bit too far on a prank when Ev is having a bad day, and when this happens, Mike always feels guilty and tries to make Evan happy again.
So, I can see HC Mike looking at normal-verse Evan and trying his damndest to comfort him and make Evan all happy and smiley again.
I think it'd really unsettle HC Mike though, how this Evan can never quite look at him when he has his Foxy mask on. HC Ev isn't scared of the Foxy mask; Mike likes to think that his Evan loves the mask, so why doesn't this Evan? I can see HC Mike trying to wear the mask more to get normal Ev to like it, only for it to end with both of them in tears when it just makes normal Ev more afraid than before.
HC Mike probably does still try to pull pranks and jokes on this new Ev, but immediately backs down when Ev starts crying, because he didn't mean to make Evan cry.
HC Mike backing down would likely be really confusing for normal Ev, because his own Mike rarely ever backs down from pranks and jokes. This Ev would probably be scared that as nice as this new Mike seems, he's probably going to turn on him at any moment, because Evan's own Mike can switch from nice to mean so quickly with no warning.
I think they could be friends, it just might take some work on both of their parts to get there though
And oooo, saff Ev and post-death HC Mike,, could be fun!
If HC Mike is still a kid at this point, saff Ev would be greatly unsettled at the sight of Mike. Little kids dig up a lot of bad memories for Ev after what saff William forced him to do. Saff Ev might get scared and try pushing HC Mike away, literally and figuratively, if HC Mike is too forceful (which HC Mike is likely to be when he sees his should-be-dead big brother again).
But once saff Ev realizes this is a Mike, I think he'd be really curious. He's only just starting to learn why saff Mike treated him the eay he did when they were kids, so seeing a little kid Mike would probably feel like another way to learn more about his own Mike when he was that age.
It'd be so so sad if HC Mike saw Evan’s scars and hoped that maybe Saff Ev was his own Evan who somehow survived the animatronic endo that killed him. It'd be strange for Saff Ev to see a little Mike crying and holding onto him, thanking him for coming back and apologizing like hell.
Older HC Mike would be fun too; Mike staring down at saff Ev, seeing the person his own Evan might have become if he hadn't died. He'd be angry and sad when he learns how Evan got his scars, and would take it as more proof that he's an awful person.
HC Mike does work with William for a time, killing kids to help with remnant trials to hopefully bring his family back like Will has been promising. It'd be interesting to see HC Mike struggling to absorb saff Ev's story, struggling to accept that what HC Mike himself is doing is wrong.
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and-stir-the-stars · 2 months
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Other small questions about zombie Evan....
What's his favorite show?
You mentioned before that moving hurts him, How much does it hurt. is it enough hurting that he just never moves?
Does he ever go outside like ever?
His favorite show... hmmm... well, he wouldn't like comedies or cartoons. He's an emotional, traumatized wreck and doesn't have it in him to laugh anymore. Humor is lost on him, drowned in numbness and fear and pain. Even if he could laugh, the movement would hurt.
He doesn't want to watch sad things. He's sad enough already. Sometimes a certain type of sad thing will resonate with him, make him feel understood and less lonely, but mostly, they just make him feel worse.
Adventure genres are out for the most part, too. They're filled with so much violence and horror. Evan's had quite enough of that.
Family dramas make him feel sad and lonely.
I think the thing he feels safest while watching would be something informative, like a documentary. If any exist in the 90s (when SL takes place), he would probably watch a show detailing all of NASA's latest discoveries and explaining space. Evan might be too young to understand most of it, but at least he likes the pretty pictures of space. He'd watch nature documentaries, too, if not for the scary scenes of animals hurting and killing each other.
For your other questions. Every movement Evan makes hurts. He can feel every bone grinding together with each movement, with no muscle there to facilitate it. Moving his hands is the worst; there's so many small bones there, grinding together, so many clicking out of place and into a wrong, uncomfortable, painful position each time he twitches his hand even the slightest.
Then again, the pain is mostly in his head. Like phantom limb pains. There's been many times when Evan’s skin has ripped and his limbs popped off entirely, and Evan never even noticed. He would look down and there his arm is, unattached, dangling in place only by his sleeve. Evan goes to take another step, except he doesn't realize the aching in his leg is a phantom limb pain, that his leg is gone; he "places" a foot that doesn't exist anymore on the ground and faceplants on the floor. The impact chips his fragile teeth, unhinges his barely re-attached lower jaw and sends it skittering all the way across the room; new cracks form in Evan’s skull. Maybe he has a couple of tear-like cracks running down from his eye sockets from this incident.
So, Evan doesn't move. It hurts too much, and he's so fragile. Both he and Mike are scared that Ev will hurt himself. Evan doesn't do much more than sit on the couch, which is ironic, really. Because Evan had a collapsed trachaea as a kid, and it meant that Ev couldn't breathe very easily; he would start wheezing and gasping at the slightest strain, and so spent more time watching tv and sitting stationary playing with his plushies and reading, rather than running around outside like other kids. In that way, Evan’s afterlife isn't so very different from his life-- or rather is a more twisted mirror of what his life once was.
He doesn't go outside. Mike feels so guilty for the state Evan is in, but then again, he doesn't fight Ev too much on the never going outside thing. How can either of them ever go outside again when living like this?
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and-stir-the-stars · 2 months
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These snippets you're posting have me going insane, I missed your writing! 👀 Can't wait to see what you're cooking here
i missed writing too!! But unfortunately college has been taking a lot out of me and i just haven't been able to, yk? But yesterday was a Good Day and I finally got to write a lil smth smth after a whole month of just being meh, yk? I would love nothin more than to keep writing the grab&go fic I've been workin on and postin snippets for, but unfortunately at least for the next few days i gotta focus on studying for exams.
Hopefully I'll be able to work more on it this weekend, though. What I'm currently writing is gonna be called My Keeper, and it's for grab&go au :) Evan’s about 6 years old, and the whole "repressing his entire childhood and being lied to by Mike, with Mike saying he's a family friend who adopted Evan" thing is something that happened rather recently. I haven't gotten to write this time in g&g evan's life before but it's been tons of fun :D
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and-stir-the-stars · 10 months
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Another interesting take: Evan wants to forgive, Mike won't take it.
This could go one of two ways: Evan's quick forgiveness is borne out of trauma, and Mike, seeing that taking the easy road too fast mught hurt Evan more in the long road, demands a degree of separation at first,
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Michael is so self destructive that he wants to hurt, thinks it's BEST if he's hurt, even as his own torment causes his brother to suffer
Yess, the idea of Evan unknowingly pushing aside his feelings about what Mike did and "forgiving" Mike as a response to and/or consequence of his trauma without actually working through any of his feelings is a favorite of mine; I was actually just talking to a mutual about this earlier
Evan seeing himself forgiving Mike plus Mike wanting to be around him as a way for the both of them to finally be happy after so much pain, only for Mike to refuse both of those things would crush Evan so much and I'm so for it.
Though, there's also the option that Evan isn't pushing aside his feelings bc it's worth it to be "happy" with his brother, but because the way his family treated him made Evan think it was normal/justified/okay for other people to hurt him, in which case Mike would also have to take measures to make Evan see that yes, he can and should be mad and upset about what happened and shouldn't instantly forgive Mike because Evan SHOULDN'T expect to be hurt by the people around him (why don't you listen to your advice there, Mike?)
For your second scenario, I think my Mike is too desperate to make up for hurting Evan to outright tell Ev he doesn't accept Evan’s forgiveness-- he couldn't hurt Evan without reason like that again-- but I can definitely see him doing it in more subtle ways.
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and-stir-the-stars · 11 months
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Oooh, the zombie AU has huge angst horror potential. How do you think each of the Afton siblings would react and cope if they got bitten and infected? How would each react to the other getting infected?
If Evan gets bit, there's a lot of crying and asking "am I going to die?" over and over, and when he starts getting really scared, he asks Mike (and Mr Emily if he's around) what death is like and what he should expect. Even if the bite (hah) doesn't happen as a result of something Evan does, he apologizes over and over for misbehaving/not being "good" and getting himself hurt.
Evan reacts similarly if either of his siblings gets bitten: a lot of crying, asking "is he/she going to die?" over and over, and giving his siblings little presents (drawings, flowers he picked from the yard, roly polys and snails he found, etc) to his sibling. If he still has a Signature Plushie that he carries around with him wherever he goes, he lets his sibling hold the Plushie while they're sick. Evan's not too young to understand that being bitten makes you into a zombie, but he's too young and naive to understand that the people he loves can and will hurt him if they turn. Evan has to be taken out of the room when whoever finally has to mercy kill the infected sibling, not just because it's too violent for him to see, but because he would actively to stop anyone from killing his siblings, even zombie siblings.
If Liz gets bit, she tries to pretend it didn't happen. She wears long sleeves and snaps at anyone who brings up the wound or her inevitable fate. She asks Mike to doodle over the teeth marks and the bruises with sharpies. Even when she starts getting so ill that it's hard to move or breathe, she tries pretending that she and her brothers are just playing doctor and she's getting really into her role as patient. As the deliroiusness finally begins to settle in, she gushes to her brother about how much she loves them and wants them all to stay together forever. This turns into her crying and slowly accepting her fate, so long as her brothers promise to find her in the afterlife (but not too soon. she doesn't want them dying just yet.).
If either of her brothers get bitten, then Liz tries diving head first into denial, but she's quickly snapped out of it when she sees how much pain her brother is in. It becomes terrifyingly real terrifyingly fast. Liz stays at Michael/Evan's side and refuses to leave, trying to anticipate every last one of their needs before Michael/Evan is even aware of the need in the first place. She tries playing pretend with the brother, sometimes, to take both of their minds off of it, but Liz isn't able to delude herself into happiness anymore, and it doesn't work. They stay up all night and talk about any random thing, though the conversation always loops into heavy silences as they accidentally say something that reminds them of their current situation.
Michael becomes overprotective if he gets bitten. It was his job to keep his siblings safe, but now he's abandoning them alone in a world they can't protect themselves in. He tries drilling every survival method and trick they could ever need to know into their heads as he fights to get his little siblings somewhere safe before he dies, if they're not already in a camp surrounded by people who can protect them. He's angry and terrified and he hates himself more with every tear that drips from his siblings' eyes and with every tear they hold back for his sake. He forces Evan and Liz to be the ones making and maintaining the fire, cooking the food, checking the traps they have set around their camp; he doesn't do it because he's too weak to do it himself, but because "cmon, what are you gonna do when I'm gone, eh? You gonna eat tree bark to survive? Gonna cuddle to stay warm at night? Because you already hate my cooking and i can guarantee you tree bark won't taste nearly as good, and you're gonna get really sick of being around each other all the time!" He tries turning it into a big joke, even if he knows his siblings can see straight through him.
If either of his siblings get bit, there's a lot of lashing out from guilt because Mike thinks he should have done a better job of keeping them safe. "Why didn't you come get me?" "What were you thinking?! Oh, that's right, you weren't." "I told you not to, didn't I? DIDN'T I?!"
The anger is interspersed with grief, though, and Michael will slip between screaming at his siblings, and being kind (putting damp rags on their heads for the fever, wiping their tears, crying with them, talking about stupid stuff to take their minds off it) so quickly that it gives his little siblings emotional whiplash. Michael becomes paranoid, demanding, and strict after the bitten sibling finally passes away (though this is also interspersed with him being loving and kind).
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and-stir-the-stars · 11 months
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Angsty scenario for you to ponder:
A young Mike wants a little brother. He asks for a little brother.
Whether true or not, Francine's death is attributed to the long-term effects of a tumultuous pregnancy. Mike sees the death as Evan's fault, and acts as if it's Evan's fault, but, deep down, he's worried it's his own.
(post to which anon is referring)
ohhhh. oh. evil, i love it.
That could potentially set up a running theme of Michael blaming others, especially Evan, for the things that go wrong in his life because it's easier and less scary than admitting that he really blames himself.
He blames Evan for his mother's death because admitting that it's really his own fault (so he thinks) is too big and scary and painful. He finds a way to blame Evan for Liz's disappearance because he doesn't want to think that maybe he should have done a better job of watching his little sister. He blames Evan for how distant their father has been, because Evan's been so horrible a son with all his crying and insecurities that Father clearly has had enough of his kids (it can't be Mike's fault, he can't be a bad son, he can't). He blames Evan for being so difficult and annoying to raise without any consideration that maybe Evan wouldn't be so traumatized without Mike actively making it worse.
And then after the Bite, it's just... a complete 180. Michael goes from refusing to take any responsibility for his misdeeds and not wanting to actively blame himself for the things that have gone wrong in his life to blaming himself for everything. It's his fault that mum died, his fault that Liz died, his fault that Evan died; his fault that William hates him, his fault that Evan so traumatized and alone, Michael's own fault that his life has turned to such a horrid hell.
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and-stir-the-stars · 2 months
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(I JUMP ON YOU)
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Potoo bird Evan & Burrowing owl Garrett
The pootato & burrito
Hnndjabdjwb, i look up potoo bird and the first image i see is THIS
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What a silly little guy XD
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But the wing pattern is perfect for Ev, I love it! What a cute little guy!!!
The symbolism is interesting for Ev, too; apparently in some cultures, this bird is seen as a symbol of death, and in others as a sign of protection and healing? Very very interesting
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Ohmygosh, there's so many pictures of burrowing owls just standin there tilting their heads, that's so CUTE. i am imaging that garrett has a constant head tilt now. Any time he's the slightest bit confused he just: (head tilt).
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OHHHH and their wings are GORGEOUS
NOT TO MENTION THAT EV AND GARRETT WOULD BOTH HAVE BARRED PATTERNS ON THEIR WINGS! they would be MATCHING!!!!!
The pootato and burrito.... adorable....!!!
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