#gabrielle deschain

[jjjjabberwocky]

baby, I’m your man ☮️🩸

#the dark tower #drawing #art #artists on tumblr #procreate #digital art #Randall Flagg #Gabrielle deschain #🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

[bc-johnson]

Dreamcasting Mike Flanagan's Dark Tower - The Side Characters

Doing some Dark Tower fancast nonsense for Donald Callahan, Mia, Cort, and the Deschains!

Mike Flanagan posted this Instagram story recently, noticeably after my first blog about dreamcasting the main characters of the Dark Tower series. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mike Flanagan (@flanaganfilm) DO YOU SEE IT? Mike Flanagan’s wife and constant collaborator Kate Siegel reading The Gunslinger, the first novel in the Stephen King dark fantasy series The Dark Tower?!…

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#amelia eve #bruce greenwood #cort andrus #dark tower #donald callahan #Dreamcasting #fan cast #gabrielle deschain #kate siegel #mia #michiel huisman #mike flanagan #rahul kohli #rahul kohli please marry me #robert longstreet #stephen king #steven deschain

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Banished Bastards

by ItsFinished Blade filled his lungs with air as soon as he knew he needed it urgently. The wounds on his forearms burned like flames across his bruised skin, and he snorted as came up from his crouching position. Vampire's mouth filled with blood, his nose was probably nearly broken. The sun went through his eyes like a gust before illuminating his entire body, Blade tilted his head before frowning... the creature was not dying. or: Where different vampires that are totally different from the ordinary turn out to be actually a commune, Blade decides to ally with a couple of hunters knowing that the enemy is big and Michael is really screwed. Words: 3553, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Fandom: Blade (Movies 1998 - 2004), Blade (Comics), Morbius: The Living Vampire, Morbius (2022), Twilight (Movies), Fright Night (2011), Van Helsing (2004), Interview With the Vampire (Movie 1994), Batman (Movies - Nolan), The Dark Tower (2017), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Near Dark (1987) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Categories: M/M, Other Characters: Blade Eric Brooks, Michael Morbius, Jerry Dandrige, Lestat de Lioncourt, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Armand (Vampire Chronicles), Peter Vincent, Aro (Twilight), Milo Crown, Gabriel Van Helsing, Vladislaus Dracula, Bruce Wayne, Roland Deschain, Walter Padick, Bruce Banner, Severen (Near Dark) Relationships: Michael Morbius/Blade | Eric Brooks, Aro (Twilight)/Peter Vincent, Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac, Blade | Eric Brooks & Peter Vincent, Milo Crown & Michael Morbius, Gabriel Van Helsing & Blade I Eric Brooks, Michael Morbius/Bruce Wayne, Jerry Dandrige/Lestat de Lioncourt, Roland Deschain/Walter Padick, Louis de Pointe du Lac/Bruce Banner, Vladislaus Dracula/Gabriel Van Helsing Additional Tags: Blood and Gore, Blood Drinking, Vampire Hunters, Cliche, Love/Hate, Dark, Hybrids, Angst, Hurt No Comfort, Threats of Rape/Non-Con, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Crack Treated Seriously, Vampire Sex, Explicit Sexual Content, Vampire Family, Crying, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hunter/Vampire Relationship, references to some other franchises and fandoms, you know, Painful Sex, Rape Recovery, Vampire Bites, Not Canon Compliant, Oral Sex, Canon-Typical Violence, Jealousy, Out of Character, Dark Magic, Horror, Angst and Tragedy, marvel/dc crossover - Freeform via https://ift.tt/fAmtMlK

#IFTTT #bruce wayne #batman #the dark knight #the caped crusader #gotham #dcu #dc #ao3 #ao3feed

[findroleplay]

RP Request

Edit: link to the character profile

I am 44 Years old and mostly online until around midnight central time

Literacy:  Literate or Multi-Paragraph

Fandom:  Stephen King’s Dark Tower Verse

Pair:   Any Pairing type will be fine

Characters:  I will be playing My OC Anastasia “Annie” Gabrielle Jenna Deschain, the Daughter of Roland of Gilead.  She has a twin brother named Declan who is helping to rebuild Gilead while she searches for their father, Lady Annie is 5’5, has dark blonde hair and deep blue eyes. Gabrielle was the name of Roland’s mother and Jenna is the name of vampire from the Little sisters of Eluria, in my time line she saved Susan, Annie and Declan from being the dinner of the vampire Nuns of eluria. So Susan Added Jenna to her daughter’s name to honor the person

Ship:  I will do any ship. I usually hope for someone to play peter from eyes of dragon who in my timeline is usually in his early 20s and Lady Annie is 17.

Triggers: I don’t write smut, I only do PG 13 violence, I do mild cussing. Basically I write PG-13

Genres: High Fantasy, Western

Plot ideas:  This will be based on My Dark Tower AU, where the time line starts after end of the flashback in Wizard and Glass,  The people around lady Annie treat her like a Gunslinger. As she lives by the code of the gunslinger but she rarely carries her guns with her.  She has horse named Duchess who I usually visualize as a brown and white horse.    While on her quest to Find Roland she starts having prophetic dreams of a shadowy figure lurking over King Peter of Delain.  She ends up living in delain her brother doesn’t think her father is alive. Because he hasn’t tried to find them but he was told that Susan died on the charyoutree [burned to death]. In my time line she was saved and eight months Later Declan and Annie were born and since Roland told Susan she should go to Delain and tell his father steven who she is she would get sanctuary in Gilead. Until age 12 Annie stayed with her mother and then her guardians, her mother went to the clearing at the end of the path when she was 10

Where: Tumblr Reblogs

Other:  Description is my weakness. I am only good at describing things if I am replying to post with decent description.  Can describe but then my character barely speak when I do that.

#the dark tower rp #roleplay #rp

[whoviancumberbunny]

Part Six: It’s All Or Nothing At All

Part One:  Stand and Be True  

Part Two: Ne’er-Do-Wells and Insufferable Bastards

Part Three:    No Room For Fear  

Part Four:  Percy and the Reap Maiden

Part Five: Knight of Crowns

Wedding vows are from this shutterfly list 

The Man in Black

Bacchus from the Magicians [one of my favorite recurring characters]

It is All Or Nothing At All

Percy De Rolo & other Vox Machina Characters Created by Critical Role

Roland Deschain, King Peter of Delain and the Man In Black Created by Stephen King

Magicians Characters Created by Lev  Grossman [I can’t remember if Bacchus is In the books]

Annie Deschain -De Rolo ,  other second generation dark tower characters created by Melissa C. Scraper @whoviancumberbunny

 It was small group probably around 20 people at the wedding, they look back as roland awkward holds Annie;s hair while she throws up in the bushes.  Annie was now five months pregnant with twins the morning sickness wasn’t predictable.   He takes off his neckerchief and hands it to wipe her mouth “Da,  I can’t believe you bought new clothes just for my wedding.”

 “I didn’t buy them, they were gift from jovial wizard in the purple robes.”

 “Of course, Gilmore gifted clothes. Though I wonder how he exactly knew your measurements. He’s never met you before.” She said as roland walks her down the aisle she notices Declan sitting with an awkward amount of space between himself and galen  and kicks him as she walks past him, she whispers “You better dance with him today or I’ll kick you again.”

 Serendipity’s husband, Rook Robins, whispers “So it is obvious to other people.” She nods  

  Pike “Is with all events in our loves nothing is ordinary about the lives and loves of our friends.   I have known Anastasia Deschain for three give or take and we all knew from them moment Percival brought her into our lives she wasnlt going to be leaving it soon, today  in Front of the Sun Tree, as witnessed by the gods of creation. We will witness the Joining of Lord Percival  Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III and Lady Anastasia Gabrielle Jenna Delgado Deschain in marriage.”

 Annie whispered “Percy are you wearing a wreath of Flowers on your head?”

 “Yes.” He said

 Pike “Annie and Percy have written their on vows.”  

 Percy had spent so many hours trying to find the perfect words. “I cannot say I forsake all others in love. I love my family, I love our friends, I will love our children, but I love you above all others, with a passion and fire that will never be quenched and burns brightly so that all around can see how much I burn for you.”

 Annie “I offer myself to you as I am, all my flaws and all my strengths, safe in the knowledge that you complement me perfectly, will raise me up when I am weary, and allow me to take you by the hand when you need to be ushered through darkness. I trust in you and in us completely.” She paused “I wanted so hard in a broad stroke to say your full name, but all of our friends know it took Pike several tried to make it all the way through in rehearsal blaming you for your name being so long.  But I digress.“ as Percy lifts her wedding weil they take eachothers hands “As we take each other’s hands, let the intertwining of our fingers be a symbol of our conjoined life as we walk together hand in hand from now until the end of our days.”

 Scanlan whispers to Vax “this explains all those days where he was staring into the fire mumbling to himself he was trying to write his wedding vows.”

 Vax “Likely.” He had been slightly distracted it made no sense why was he still alive. Annie had told them about the previous time loops, was it possible he was alive based purely on the fact that Roland had suggested she not follow him on his journey this time. “Someone has been watching us.” He Whispers to Vex

 The odd thing was they had made plans in case, the person hiding In the shadows showed up. King Peter of Delain, felt a cold chill as a voice simply said the words “Aww you  have all made it to easy for me to bring an end to line of eld.”

 He went by many names in his life. Peter knew him as Walter O’Dim, Some knew him as Randall Flagg but Roland of Gilead, knew him simply as “The man in black.”  He grumbled “I am not letting you harm my children, It is me you want.”

 Vax “He’s a user of Arcane magic,   likely more than one, he has an air death dealer around him.”

 Galen and Declan looked at Rook “Get Serendipity to safety. She is pregnant too.”  The man  in black didnlt look like much, but only people who had dealt with death could tell this who had allied to a demon known as the Crimson King, his only goal was to make sure the knights of the round table were forgotten, the gunslingers made that difficult especially those from the line Deschain

Annie whispered to Percy, “He is Dangerous. If you choose to fight him he will choose to only kill you.” She knew Percy still had his gun and diplomacy.

 “I’ll be okay, love.” He kisses her “Good thing we technically got married last night.”  After all they had survived surely it wouldn’t be that difficult  for 13 adults to fight one dark wizard.

 Several hours later “Damn it!  He must have weakness!”

 Declan “His weakness has always been that the blood line of the eld exists.  In one of the previous time loops he held me prisoner for six months and used me to power dimensional portals.” He easily dodges a direct attack

 Vax “we may not be able to kill him. But we can end this battle.”

 Vex “Brother, your plan is insane. But I know you well enough this is your final option.”  She begins to help them corner Flagg on a cliff

 Vax “Percival De Rolo. If I donlt return from this,  I wish you all the best as your family begins anew.” He pauses “thank you for being my friend in spite of my seeming indifference to everyone but my sister. I have always felt blessed to have you all as my friends.”

 Gilmore “What are you talking about?”  before he can ask another question vex runs full on at the man in black and plants his daggers in the side of the dark wizard as they plumet off the cliff

 In unison everyone shouted ‘VAX!”

 Roland looks quizzically at Percy and Percy responded “He’s the champion of the matron of Ravens, hopefully she won’t let him die. “this is the first time I have ever seen you in battle, Roland of Gilead. It is easy to understand why the Man in Black fears you.”  He winced a little as they shook hands, Vax would return it wasnlt clear when but he was certain this would end the battle.

 As everyone else manages to  celebrate the wedding, the cave of Lady Dragon. “You Vax’ildan Vessar. Are man of nobility.  You may be the champion of the matron of ravens. But you are also the champion of Lady Anastasia.” She uses a single claw to slide a mysterious weapon towards him. Use this in service of your Loyalty, to her. Your assumptions are correct she is reason you are still tied to the mortal plane. Also I hold nothing against you attacking fellow dragons.   They are as you and your sister put it. Asshats.”

 Vax “Is this a dagger carved from dragon’s tooth? I thought these were weapons of Myth.”

 “So is the knowledge that anyone possesses the egg shell of newborn dragon controls it. But Annie and Declan possess that knowledge, you can rest here if you would like but as soon as you are ready to return to Whitestone that tunnel over there leads to a cave near the sun tree.”

 Eliot Waugh, tall slender. Dark hair and a habit of drinking to avoid things. “I am sure you are wondering why I didnlt use magic. When Annie has mentioned I am a magician. The fact is this is magical copy of my body.  My body is tied to fillory.”

 Annie “El, no one really cares. It only matters that we survived the Man in Black.  I am guessing Margo isn’t hear because she is on the quest where she makes her axes.”  

 A figure in ruffly shirt wearing top hat covered with feathers “Either that or the author of your reality doesn’t like Margo and Alice very much.” The god interjected

 Quentin sighs “Of course anyplace where this is alcohol and celebration.  You show up, Bacchus.”

 “I am the god of wine, women and song. Whenever there is a party, I will pop whether invited or not.”  He chimed in  

 The next Day Vax stumbles into the castle “Vax’ildan! How?”

 “Lady Dragon saved me.” He kneels before Annie “She said I am meant to be your champion as well as the matron of raven. But I have only ever desired to have you trust me.” He admitted.

 Annie looked at King Peter “Peter may I borrow your sword for a moment?” he hands it to her “Largey ceremonial in nature because I have never thought of myself as royal I am  and will always be a gunslinger, a protector and defender of the way of the white.” She knights him “Arise sir Vax’ildan Vessar.  Knight of Truth, defender of Whitestone and Ally of the House of Eld. And most importantly my friend.”

 Percy Whispers to Declan “She knows how to use swords?”

 Declan nods an affirmative “The first hard calibers were forged from Arthur Eld’s sword. The first gunslingers were the knights of the round table. Asked to lay down their swords and take up arms in another way.”

 To Be Continued….

 Thursday, February 9, 2023

#gunslingers au #Vox machina au #percy x oc

[kasling]

AND BLEW, " CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME. "

KASLING . independent fantasy writing blog for roland deschain / the gunslinger of stephen king's the dark tower series (and king multiverse). largely fandomless and headcanon based in nature. penned by fi, she/her, 25+. information below the cut.

this is an independent and selective fantasy writing blog of roland deschain of gilead, the gunslinger, of stephen king’s the dark tower series (and the overall stephen king multiverse). my name is fi, i’m 27 years old and from england, she/her pronouns. 

i run this blog selectively, and on a mutuals basis. i primarily enjoy multiparagraph, plotted content, however off the cuff stuff is fun too. i love turning memes into threads and will always encourage my writing partners to do the same with mine.

i will only write with those that are 21+.

usual rp etiquette replies on my blog. bigotry of any kind will not be tolerated here.

nsfw and triggering content may appear on this blog; all will be tagged in the fashion of ______ tw.

faceclaim is the irresistible rahul kohli. i claim no affiliation with him, or with mr king.

there will be occasional spoilers for the dark tower series on here. that said, i am only halfway through the series! i've recently finished reading wizard and glass. anything in the series beyond this book has no influence on my portrayal; i haven't read that far. please also note that this portrayal is book-based. i haven’t seen the 2017 movie and haven’t read the comics, and i don't plan to.

although my portrayal is book-based, and will explore both the world of the dark tower and mr king's the stand novel, this portrayal is in large part fandomless. roland can essentially be placed in any time period, any universe, and it’ll work–so i’m going to take advantage of that flexibility! i’ll also be taking a few liberties with canon, so this portrayal will be in part canon-divergent, mixed with some personal headcanons.

THE GUNSLINGER.

NAME/ALIASES: roland deschain, the gunslinger, will dearborn, roland of gilead.

OCCUPATION: gunslinger. roland is the last of a long line of gunslingers, who were warriors, peacekeepers and diplomats in roland’s society; much like a knight, in “our” world.

AGE: unknown, even to himself. time in his univers(es), is warped, out of shape, getting bigger and smaller and twisted constantly. he appears to be in his early forties.

PLACE OF BIRTH: the land of gilead, mid-world.

SPECIES: debatably human.

GENDER: cis male, he/him pronouns.

SEXUAL AND ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: pansexual & panromantic.

RELATIVES: steven deschain (father, deceased), gabrielle deschain (mother, deceased).

APPEARANCE.

PHYSIQUE: roland stands at 6’5”. he is strong, athletically built, with muscled arms and a slim torso. roland is missing his right-hand index and middle finger, and big right toe.

HAIR: dark brown, nearly black, streaked with a significant amount of grey; his beard is the same.

EYES: light blue; bombardier’s eyes.

CLOTHES: lots of reds, burnt oranges, whites and dark browns. almost never without his red kerchief around his neck. blue or dark brown jeans. brown vest. long, brown overcoat. two belts. and, yes, occasionally he wears a cowboy hat and poncho.

ACCESSORIES: never without his two sandalwood guns. never.

ABILITIES/SKILLS.

roland trained to be a gunslinger from the age of six, and carries with him a pair of revolvers; they are long, heavy, with sandalwood grips. he shoots equally well with both hands and is able to reload his guns faster than can be seen by the human (or inhuman) eye. he has superhuman accuracy. roland also possesses enhanced senses and extrasensory perception.

he can travel through universes... and also time. semi-purposefully.

EXPLORING.

this blog is a study in being the last of one's kind, the man with no name, earnest belief in fate, the great quest, post-apocalyptic wastelands, realities colliding.

STORY.

roland is the last surviving gunslinger. he follows ka, which is high speech for what some universes call "fate", or "destiny". roland travels through the worlds (for never forget, there are other worlds than these), addicted to reaching the dark tower, the axis upon which the beams of parallel worlds rotate. roland can travel between these worlds at will.

nothing will deter him in his quest to reach the dark tower.

#pinned.

[eclipsecrowned]

a shortlist of muses + romance

muses who are already committed to their person, and that’s all they need: adam, lisa t*pes, odette, aleary ibn’jiang, eugenie danglars, melisande, peter l*kas, er*qus, isa, riku, susan d*lgado

muses who are already committed to their person, but open: nikolai, mystery whitethorn, evi kholin, theophania forrester, joanna l*nnister, henry w*nter, daniel m*lloy, bensiabel, danielle o’ the wold, ariadne, laufey, odin, sigyn, enkidu, john pr*itt, nyx, azumaya hana, laszlo cr*vensworth

muses who are single but it’s complicated because of their dynamic with a third party: ada w*ng, un*hana bane, jonathan cr*ne, maria albescu, kascheyvna, kokoro kyriakou, zelda, l*stat de li0ncourt

muses who lost their someone, and aren’t ready to move on just yet: clare poe, am*lthea, eva portinari, jeannie n*pier, severina ulpia, seth plate, mercedes de morcerf, nish*kiyama akira, aspasia, orpheus, freyja, gwynevere, br*ska

muses who idealize romantic norms, but shy away from the reality of it: br*enne of t*rth, artemis, tanith, z*vran ar*inai, einmyria l*vellan

muses who want love, but for some reason or another consider it beyond them: hel lokadotter, claude di montoya, brunhilde, in*go m*ntoya, mordaunt, yelizaveta molyboga, mercy lee, charlotte d*shayes, max th*mpson jr, shalendra, mira snow

muses who have the wedding, house, and kids names all picked out, they just need the other half: vera sudcliffe, hnoss

muses who want to settle down and find the one: mina wakefield, aria m*hariel, karin lindholm, cristina dragfy, zoltan szilagzy, eric d*lano, gareth h*wke, catherine hamilton, aqua, oswald c*bbplepot, viktor r*znov

muses who are looking for something real, but no rush to commit: laerion vel*ryon, raisa wolfe, pip b*rnadotte, bruce w*yne, lucien, nuala, edgar baines, modeste lachapelle, candelaria silverio, eleirch merch iaen, fenrir, utgard-loki, melanie k*ng, lucienne, l*thric, steven deschain, inessa briar, titus draut*s, steria kyriakou, l*rten cr*psley, catherine rice

muses who want something casual, nothing serious: johnny mactavish, roxelena angethier, nish*kiyama yuko, h0id, danae spencer, sh*va alomar, kayden connors, marika corvinus, odessa h*rkonnen, mercy lee, sarah w*lliams, josette st. yves, melinoe, lucy bierce, astraea l*cis cael*m, aer*th gainsb*rough, marvin br*nagh

muses who want to find a bit of fun in the sack: gensai shizuka, asha gr*yjoy, s*raphina p*tchiner, susan howard, ciaran, taran l*vellan, cyra cross, megaera

muses who want to bedhop like an olympic competitor: n*shitani homare, damien priestley, mary deschain, crowe alti*s

muses who just want the hurting to stop: dream, moash, michael m*rbius, aeg*n iii t*rgaryen, elsa, anais butler, ard*n l*cis cael*m, jon sn*w

muses who do not want love, they want power: cirila montoya, julia mayfair, h*nnibal l*ctor, asena nesimi, uma of the isle, damien thorn, v*serra t*rgaryen, dracula, gabrielle de li0ncourt, miss lukas, invi, alb*l nox

muses who do not want love, they want shenanigans: the mole, the host, kris lindholm, sorcha dempsey, merel van breda, sylphr*na, the snow queen, anna, victor d*shayes

muses who are baby, actually: lyann* b*lton, r*xas

no: roose b*lton, the weasel

#im not tagging all these bitches . _ .

[bodysnatch3r]

how could there be a day in your whole life that doesn’t have its splash of happiness?

the kingfisher, mary oliver + the deschain family.

Image description under the cut.

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: a 5 image gifset.

1. A blue-eyed man, Steven Deschain, clenches his jaw and seems about to speak. His brow is furrowed, either in anger or frustration. The text reads: "The Kingfisher rises,".

2. Steven's son, Roland, walks towards the viewer. He is the same age his father is in the image above, and his expression is one of cautious apprehension, if not outright concern, his brow furrowed and his head tilting. The text reads: "out of the black wave, like a blue flower,".

3. Steven, now on his knees in front of a sitting woman, his wife, reaches up to delicately touch her chin, and shake his head. His expression is one of gentle, if stern, concern. The shot changes, and we can see the woman, Gabrielle Deschain, react to his gesture and begin to weep, as Steven moves his hand away. The text reads: "in his beak he carries a silver leaf."

4. Three shots in rapid succession show Mid-World in all its terrible beauty. The first shot is of an endless plane, storm clouds gathering above, tinted red by the sunset. The second shot is of the silhouette of a man through barley, shaking his hand to put out a match he used to light a cigarette. The third shot is what seems to be a dead body, in various states of decomposition. It has been overgrown by what seems to be moss, lichen and other colourful growths. The upper part of the skull, cleaned of any decaying flesh, is pushed upwards by the sprouting lichen. Antlers seem to have grown out of it as it decomposed. The text reads: "I think this is the prettiest world––".

5. Roland is in a forest, on his knees. He wears old, trail-frayed clothes, and looks blankly off-camera. His eyes are swimming in tears, ringed red. He swallows hard. He has just buried his son, Jake, and must now gather the courage to stand again. The text reads: "so long as you don't mind a little dying."

END IMAGE DESCRIPTION.]

#roland deschain #steven deschain #gabrielle deschain #the dark tower #darktoweredit #stephenkingedit #litedit #horroredit #mine: sk #emo about the deschain family every day of my LIFE

[starslut-whoreofthewinds]

Happy Mother’s Day

Shout out to any of you who are mothers!

Today’s posts will be all about the moms of the Dark Tower series:

-Susannah Dean

-Gabrielle Deschain

-Mia Daughter of None

-Susan Delgado

#the dark tower spoilers #dark tower related #dark tower #gabrielle deschain #susannah dean #mia daughter of none #susan delgado #happy mothers day

[mootmuse]

modern au: gabrielle and steven are divorced or separated. when they talk it’s over the phone and usually about Roland, making plans for him to visit one or the other for the weekend and or how Roland is doing at school, etc, and their talking is always friendly but always distant and mostly-formal and cautious. the closest they get to casual is when gabrielle starts texting steven to ask him for advice about her budding career in politics. 

one day steven texts gabrielle about the girl roland met on his summer vacation - moreover, about her aunt. susan’s aunt is absolutely angling to marry steven for his money and he can’t be outright mean to her because his son is so ridiculously into susan so steven wants to be on good terms with her family. 

the solution? fake date gabrielle. of course. she tentatively agrees. steven is finally in a position to (albeit accidentally) tell/show gabrielle that he loves her and they begin tentatively working through their issues. at the end they’re not solidly back together again but are agreed to very slowly very cautiously start dating again.

i’d consider paying someone to write this. 

#the dark tower #gabrielle deschain #steven deschain #i hate that i have so many good ideas i'm totally incapable of writing at all and i hate it #god it'd be so good though please imagine mostly-amiably divorced couple #who still love each other but are Afraid and Confused due to poor communication #bond over A- loving their son and B- despising Cordelia #and then they talk about their issues FUCKING FINALLY #bonus points if the fic addresses teen roland's Confused Feelings about his mother but that should be devoted to a fic of its own really

[lucienfairfax]

Gabriel the Revelator was Atom’s Plan B, because he could see that he’d lost a lot of ground with Noah and was beginning to get antsy. so he moseyed on down to the Capitol Wasteland to see what he could see, and he found Catherine, and James was none the wiser... until Gabriel was born, that is.

now, he was more careful with Catherine. he didn’t knock her up, he let James do that. but he got in there and tinkered around with the embryo, quickened things, rerouted things, until he was satisfied. Catherine had terrible nightmares throughout her pregnancy, but didn’t know what they meant. didn’t know they meant anything at all.

but the birth was uncommonly difficult, and Catherine died, and James was left holding this... this infant, this unnaturally quiet abomination -- he hated that word, but that was the word for it, wasn’t it -- that made James’ eyes burn and his bowels grow hot every time he held its gaze. and now he was stuck with it, wasn’t he? he was too moralistic to abandon or kill it, so now he was stuck with it

it takes a Vault to raise a child, he reasoned, and perhaps the Vault would fill in where he couldn’t. no one else seemed to see what he saw when they looked at Gabriel. (the other children did, but who listens to children?) he kept himself busy, and let the Vault raise him.

and Gabriel grew up sullen, and distant, and a little cruel. he knew his father didn’t love him. he knew his father was afraid of him. he knew his mother was dead, and that it was his fault. he knew there was something wrong with him, and he knew that no one else was canny enough to know what, exactly, it was. he knew people were untrustworthy, that they lied and obfuscated and avoided, that they pretended they weren’t as weak as they were.

he was perfect, in other words. he should have walked out of the Vault and right into Atom’s embrace.

the thing is, Gabriel trusted no one... including shady characters with easy grins that made Geiger counters go apeshit from 2 miles away. and when he did begin to peek out of his fortress of solitude to see what he could see, it wasn’t the world-eater that he locked eyes with, it was some fuckin easygoing mailman from California who made a game of trying to shoot the spurs off Atom’s boots and laughed in the face of not only death, but in the face of anything that tried to break him (and let’s just say, Gideon went on to live a good long time and went out laughing)

anyway my point is that in trying to make a mini-villain, Atom just made a wicked dangerous wild card and then was stupid enough to let him and Gideon and Ulysses make it all the way to the Commonwealth where Gabriel’s brother and his brother’s husband would, of course, complete the ka-tet that would ruin all of Atom’s plans forever and ever, world without end, hallelujah amen smfh dumbass

#atom is an /idiot/ tbh #he's just as much an idiot as roland deschain is in that they keep doing the same shit and expecting different results #(it's not their fault. it's not their will. they're just written that way) #about.gabriel #.gabriel #fallout #insourced content

[endlessnightarts]

and THIS post brought to you by What The Hell Man That’s Uncalled For

#The Dark Tower #Roland Deschain #Walter O'Dim #bein' a creep #there he is #that motherfucker #what a tool #this is the only mention of Gabrielle in the movie #shrug #i guess its more than Eddie and Susannah got? #I really thought they would get a reference here #although Your Gunslinger Friends might have been it #i assumed that meant Cuthbert and Alain tho

[mercysought]

@cllgood​ . ❝ Fuck those men. Fuck them for their shortsightedness. Fuck them for their ingratitude. ❞ / for the priestess . black sails s02 . not accepting

The boy is far too emotional. 

Perhaps emotional was the wrong term, the priestess thought as tired dark eyes followed the deep sinking lines of his anger on his young face. No, not emotioanl, too prone to outburst perhaps fit the bill better. 

But mayhap that is simply part of his blood, and with that the priestess silences those thoughts. She sighs heavily through her nostrils, leaning forward and the tip of scarred fingers brushing the edge of her wide brim black hat. There was no sun within that small dingy room, no warmth or light that she truly needed to shield her eyes from, but the hat remained over the shaved head of the woman.

These feels were running rampant these days. A trickle turned current in the youngest of them, one that had managed to, impossibly (she had first thought, but the more she thought the more she felt it natural) drip down to the base and pillars of society. Christopher Johns had always been a fool and Allgood’s blood ran brightly in this one too, but she saw it as clear as day even if such a fact remained hidden to the children (men now, but children still in her eyes). 

There were cracks that would cost hell to patch up. Cracks and holes made out in the shape of one Gabrielle Deschain. 

The nameless woman continued to sharpen her knife. Her irons, one resting at her holster and the other on the table to her right, are covered by the large shadow that her hat casts. The gunslinger’s feet feel heavy, so heavy that they could shake the ground around them, shake the earth itself. But it is only dust that lifts atop dark leather boots, and it is only Cuthbert Allgood that is disturbed by the movement.

   “It’d do you some good to remember your lessons, boy.” she speaks plainly, flatly, putting the knife back into her boot “Sooner rather than later.“ 

What did it matter? What would this anger, this agitation do good outside of battle beyond boiling one’s blood and energy? The fact that they could not see that they were the ones that held the world together, that kept it safe from the insanity that clawed its wild teeth against the bars that kept them all asleep. Yes, asleep through the night like babes. That they were blind was nothing knew, that they were dull was a fact that they had known. That was the reason why they carried the irons, the reason why they protected. 

The reason why they were there now, waiting.

The priestess looks to the son of Robert Allgood but it is his mother’s that stare back at her. Good. It only made sense that they would. She whose irons she received from her mother and the mother before her. Whose irons she would give to her own daughter when the time came.

It might be through the memory of their father’s faces with which they killed, but it was through their mother’s eyes they witnessed the world.

The silence drags on and the priestess shifts her weight on the chair, pulling her gun to its holster and getting up. Her bones crack. The noise dissipates with the weight of her body over worn and old wooden planks “What’s on your mind, truly?”

#cllgood #the priestess ( muses ) #raven received ( meme replies ) #( am I proud of this? yes ) #( might I just be proud of it because it's 2.30am and it's prime time for feeling good about my writing? ) #( MAYBE. MAYBE SO but it feels FUCKING NEAT )

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Banished Bastards

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/fAmtMlK by ItsFinished Blade filled his lungs with air as soon as he knew he needed it urgently. The wounds on his forearms burned like flames across his bruised skin, and he snorted as came up from his crouching position. Vampire's mouth filled with blood, his nose was probably nearly broken. The sun went through his eyes like a gust before illuminating his entire body, Blade tilted his head before frowning... the creature was not dying. or: Where different vampires that are totally different from the ordinary turn out to be actually a commune, Blade decides to ally with a couple of hunters knowing that the enemy is big and Michael is really screwed. Words: 3553, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Fandom: Blade (Movies 1998 - 2004), Blade (Comics), Morbius: The Living Vampire, Morbius (2022), Twilight (Movies), Fright Night (2011), Van Helsing (2004), Interview With the Vampire (Movie 1994), Batman (Movies - Nolan), The Dark Tower (2017), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Near Dark (1987) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Categories: M/M, Other Characters: Blade Eric Brooks, Michael Morbius, Jerry Dandrige, Lestat de Lioncourt, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Armand (Vampire Chronicles), Peter Vincent, Aro (Twilight), Milo Crown, Gabriel Van Helsing, Vladislaus Dracula, Bruce Wayne, Roland Deschain, Walter Padick, Bruce Banner, Severen (Near Dark) Relationships: Michael Morbius/Blade | Eric Brooks, Aro (Twilight)/Peter Vincent, Lestat de Lioncourt/Louis de Pointe du Lac, Blade | Eric Brooks & Peter Vincent, Milo Crown & Michael Morbius, Gabriel Van Helsing & Blade I Eric Brooks, Michael Morbius/Bruce Wayne, Jerry Dandrige/Lestat de Lioncourt, Roland Deschain/Walter Padick, Louis de Pointe du Lac/Bruce Banner, Vladislaus Dracula/Gabriel Van Helsing Additional Tags: Blood and Gore, Blood Drinking, Vampire Hunters, Cliche, Love/Hate, Dark, Hybrids, Angst, Hurt No Comfort, Threats of Rape/Non-Con, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Crack Treated Seriously, Vampire Sex, Explicit Sexual Content, Vampire Family, Crying, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hunter/Vampire Relationship, references to some other franchises and fandoms, you know, Painful Sex, Rape Recovery, Vampire Bites, Not Canon Compliant, Oral Sex, Canon-Typical Violence, Jealousy, Out of Character, Dark Magic, Horror, Angst and Tragedy, marvel/dc crossover - Freeform read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/fAmtMlK

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as Steven Deschain in a promo shot from the abandoned Dark Tower pilot with Elaine Cassidy as Gabrielle Deschain

#Jerome Flynn #Elaine Cassidy #Steven Deschain #fucking Amazon dickheads

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Haven DVD Commentaries: 5.08 - Exposure

Commentary with Nick Parker (writer for this episode) and Brian Millikin (writer for 5.07)

In which the writers discuss various aspects of the episode including, Mara and Duke, Vince and Dave, the Trouble of the week, production and writing challenges, and Duke’s backstory with regards to his mom.

Content warning for discussion of alcoholism.

[They talk about how a lot of the episodes this season function almost as two-parters, including 5.07 and 5.08 and how the two of them worked together to make sure these two episodes fit together well.] BM: We broke these two episodes on the board side by side and the outlines and scripts went out together. That was the way we did it this season, both for production reasons, because to help us save time we shot two episodes together in block shooting, and also it kind of helped up to ever so slightly change up the pace and story telling of the show a little bit. Keep it a little fresher in this super-sized fifth season.

[They talk about how happy they are with the director for these two episodes and how they turned out; “Nice, dark, moody.”] NP: Some of the most fun scenes to write were between Duke and Mara here where she’s chained up, but she is the one that’s in control. BM: I love it. I think she’s so good as Mara. Look at this, just leaning into Duke’s face and just trying to work him at all times. She was great. They basically spent two full days doing all of these scenes in the hold of the boat. So Emily sat in this chair, literally chained to it (she had to be unchained to get out of the chair) for two days, and Eric just came in and out. And Lucas is in there a couple times as ghost Nathan but that’s it. And I think, she’s never been better. She’s been just as good, but never better.

NP: Yeah, these were super fun to write and then when we started to get the dailies in they were even more fun to watch because they did such a good job in these scenes. And what’s fun about 5.08 is the task of this episode was partly to tell an important Duke story but also to draw them closer together for where they’re going in episodes 9, 10, 11, 12. And starting to elevate their story. And in these scenes Duke starts to see a little bit of, maybe a kindred spirit, or he sees something in Mara that he respects if not likes. BM: And of course the question to be asking is, is that real what he’s seeing? Or is she putting on a show for him? Is she trying to draw him closer, or is it legitimate? Which is a question you’re asking all the way up until 5.13, when … spoilers. NP: Yeah, and also, what she asked him for there, she says she wants the Crocker Journal at first but then that’s not really what she wants. It’s about getting the story about Duke’s mother. Which is something we’ve never heard about, Duke has never talked about his mother. We’ve heard him drone on and one about his father who we’ve even seen in the past (episode 2.12, back in the day) but never heard tale of his mother. Which was an important thing. BM: It’s funny, I know big fans of Nathan groused a little bit because we once again are dealing with a story about Duke’s history and we get comparatively little about Nathan’s past. I think, they’re not wrong. It’s just kind of the way it worked out. The first season of the show was so much about Nathan and his dad - his dad was a regular on the show. And about the loss of his father and the aftermath of that. And we set up that his mom was gone from an early age and we learn a little bit about that in season 5b. But it was just the way of things that is just worked out that Duke’s history just kept coming up in ways that were more organic to the story. But never more so than this episode. I think it’s my favourite part of the episode. NP: It was my favourite part to write, outside of some lines from a character who’s going to be introduced very shortly [Seth], a returning character from an episode I wrote in season 4, 4.11 - Shot in the Dark.

BM: Now, Audrey and Duke here are both in the same wardrobe that they were in the previous episode. But we imagine this is the next day, we imagine a work-all-night situation. I think you kind of get that a little bit with Mara’s cut being a bit more healed. But it made sense that they’d be in the same clothes from working all night - if they know that Nathan’s out there and they need to save him, are they really going to go home, take a shower, change clothes?

[Nick comments on the Ghost Busters reference as Duke calls Seth and both of them laugh as Seth appears on screen, and comment how good Kris Lemche is in the role.] NP: Seth is named after my brother. BM: Kris is fantastic. NP: He’s great. He was such a delight on set and everything. The cast and crew liked working with him so much. He also brings shot of energy into everything. BM: Absolutely. He’s just a different kind of voice than we have in the show a lot. Especially without Jennifer who was a little bit of that outsider commentary. But I just love him. That scene in the script was exactly as written; cut to the inside of the van and a mountain of dirty clothes and cheetos and then you see hair like a shark fin pop up. NP: Which is basically a description of my bedroom and how I wake up every morning. BM: Absolutely.

[Vince and Dave in the hospital] NP: Ah here they’re playing Gin Rummy, which is a game I used to play with my grandfather all the time, before he passed away, and yeah I just thought it would be a great game for two old men - I imagine all old men play Gin Rummy, that’s just how they go through life. BM: Well this is the third time I think we’ve seen them play a different game together. It’s king of a motiv for Vince and Dave that we find them in the middle of playing something. I like it, it speaks to them a little bit. NP: Yeah and I kind of wanted to have them in a little bit of a different space in this episode. Seasons one and two especially, Vince and Dave were comic relief. BM: Absolutely. NP: We’d go to them and we’d have some nice back and forth, and bickering and banter, and it was a nice change of pace. But as things got darker and Vince revealed who he really is and Dave’s revelation about him being adopted, things got darker and I enjoyed being able to write them in a little bit of a lighter way. Which happens in this scene a little bit and then more so later in the episode. BM: Yeah and they also were not in the previous episode. These guys have never been in every single episode in a given season, but I think we had them so much in the previous episodes that they’re absence was felt in the last one so we were happy to have them back.

[Both of them laughing as Seth appears on screen again.] NP: That was also a nice thing about Seth. There’s kind of timelessness about Haven in some ways. We know when it’s set, but it feels kind of timeless because it’s the quaint small town and everything. And to be able to have Seth come in and make some strange pop culture references is always fun. BM: Yeah. We don’t typically have ton of pop culture references, so when we do it it stands out pretty well, like the Groundhog Day joke from a couple seasons past. But yeah you just get away with it with Kris Lemche. NP: Well luckily he sells it so well I can just be silly. And it’s fun. BM: It was great. I don’t remember when it was that we came up with the idea of bringing him in for this episode, but I think it was after we had settled on the idea of the ‘ghost’ Trouble. And then we knew that episode 7 was going to have All The Bad Things, and then episode 8 was going to be; now we actually have to solve the thing. And even you and I were like; how are we going to do that? And I think it was someone else who suggested, what they need is to try to find a way to reach out to Nathan and we’ve had one other episode where we’ve had devices that do that kind of stuff. And I remember someone was like; Come on, we can’t do a ghostbustery thing. And I was like; Well if you think about it, Nathan is the victim of a Trouble which means it’s caused by aether which means there’s a kind of residual aether quality to it, so of course it would work. NP: It was a conversation I was having with our excellent leader Gabrielle Stanton, where she was saying; We’ve been looking for a time to work Kris back in, they want to have him back up there and this could be a good time to do it. And I jumped all over the idea of writing him again, because he was just so much fun to work with. BM: Yeah, it’s funny, it’s a little bit like with William who shows up again in season 5b and so Seth, and they were just characters we really liked and actors we really liked in the role. And whenever we have a chance to, it’s something we’ve always tried to do, is bring people back. It helps to flesh out the world and make it feel a bit more real. NP: Absolutely. Living in the reality of the way things are. And though William is a transdimensional character from another world, he still brings - he jokes about the situations there’re in, he points out the ridiculousness of where they are, which is something that Seth does as well. So that’s always nice to incorporate whenever we can. And also necessary to  just lighten things. I mean Audrey is now talking to her ghost boyfriend in a desperate attempt to bring him back; it’s pretty heavy. BM. Yep. But this episode establishes Seth as a solid recurring character in our world, right along the lines of Marion from the pilot, Agent Howard, Stan, all the other people who have come to have a real role to play and I’m happy that he’s part of the club.

NP: The bourbon Duke and Mara are drinking here, Gunslinger Standard, we named that for a Stephen King reference. Gunslinger is a reference to Roland Deschain from the Gunslinger. And now they are just going to drink, and drink, and drink. BM: I love his glassware. NP: It’s pretty classy. I love how Duke is like; I’m going to have to tell this story so I’m going to have to be drunk, and the first thing he does is drink about three shots of bourbon in one go. BM: We joked about it internally and maybe we should stop joking because maybe it’s a serious problem that Duke has; he might be an alcoholic. We joked about having a drinking game; what if you just drank whenever Duke drinks. If you were to watch a couple episodes in a row, you would be hammered. NP: Yes. Luckily Eric Balfour is drinking sweet tea.

[As Seth and Audrey are talking in her office] NP: So we’re seeing Audrey’s confidence hit the bottom here. She’s come to rely on Nathan, she doesn’t have her immunity any more; she kind of feels lost in a way. And so this is asking a lot of her to put all this weight on her shoulders while also going through the stress of losing the person that she loves. And with Seth talking about he lost his partner as well (Anderson from 4.11) there’s a little bit of kinship there between them. BM: Yeah absolutely, I think that parallel of them both having lost a partner, and what are you without your other half, is fantastic. NP: It was fun to write. BM: And also just on a purely mercenary level; she needed someone to talk to in these scenes. Because Duke is off on the Mara side of things, which he has to be. Audrey can’t talk to Nathan. And there’s nobody else. So the fact that he’s there is useful, but he really brings something to is; the actor does, the character does. NP: Yeah he’s good. And he did a great job with Adam Copeland in past episodes, though we don’t have Adam for these episodes as we said before. BM: Yeah and Vince and Dave are still in North Carolina. NP: And thankfully for us, Emily is a hilarious person with great comedic timing, so her dry delivery works so well. BM: Yeah I know, I always wish that we could get more opportunities for her to be funny. Because she is.

BM: So we’re back in the Raleigh hospital with Dave trying to make a desperate escape. BM: I remember how much conversation we had, you and I in particular, about the fact they’re in the Raleigh hospital. NP: Oh my god. [They discuss the journey from North Carolina to Maine and how they’ve driven it before and the routes you might take and the places you might go past, and how Raleigh is not one of them.]  BM: But we figure they’re not locals, they don’t know North Carolina. NP: I was fighting hard. But I remember it also came down to a discussion about how is Manteo pronounced. And I called the Manteo tourism board to confirm. BM: But these hospital scenes were fun for these two. We shot them all in one day, I think, one afternoon? And it wound up being really fun. You had kind of an uphill battle because you knew they basically just had to be in the hospital room; that was it. And we needed four scenes. But you did a great job with it.

NP: Oh here comes the story about [Duke’s] mother, which was quite a doozy. BM: Now I remember, we had always talked about how this episode would be the one where Duke opens up and tells Mara a story. Tells her a story about his mom, something that Mara wanted him to tell her. And it was a big deal because she’s asking for something and now he’s giving it to her. And something he didn’t want to share, something he hasn’t shared before. In the thumbnail document, the story pitch and then the outline of these scenes, it just said; Duke tells a story about his mom. And the outline was great, so it’s like; Nick, go write the scripts, and I think it was Speed Weed, one of our other writers, was like; Should we talk about what this story is? And our show runners were like; Nah, Nick go deal with it. We call it a WP - Writer Problem. So a lot of times the outline will call for someone to steal something, and the details of how they steal it is a WP, it’s left to the writer to figure out. But this was a HUGE WP, because this was a significant story about one of our main characters, and none of us knew which way you were going to go. I remember seeing you in the office thinking and working on it, and then we all finally saw the script you came up with, and it was Awesome. NP: Thanks! It was a lot of fun to write. But, as you said, it was a mountain because, I mean Duke is such a big character. So I kind of decided to go the whole way with it and turn it into a kind of origin story. BM: It’s what made Duke, Duke. Or, finished the job of turning him into Duke. NP: Yeah. Duke had learned some things from his father and saw the path his father was headed. BM: He’d already been abandoned, his father was a douche, and then he died. NP: We know from past episodes that his father died in 1983-ish, because of Lucy. And so he would have been 8 years old or something. So it’s like, where does he go from there, how does he turn into the character that we know, this guy who speaks Mandarin and is a rogue and smuggler and everything else? And so I really kind of tried to have that story tell what made Duke, Duke. BM: Yeah, like part two of his origin story. NP: Yep. BM: But it was really great. Really sad. NP: Real sad. BM: But it felt earned. I don’t know, I just loved it. I think If it changed at all [from the first draft], I’m talking like we moved the word ‘the’ or ‘and’ around. Sometimes we have stuff that really doesn’t get changed at all, just because everyone really liked it. And it made perfect sense. Once you read it, it really couldn’t be anything else. NP: Thank you. It was also funny later on in production when we were talking about cutting a couple things and knowing we had to cut for time, there was never any discussion of shortening any of those scenes whatsoever. It was like; everything in the hold we’re keeping, forever, so the cuts are going to have to come from elsewhere. BM: I remember you also had to work a lot on the details of Seth’s stuff because one of the other WPs was; And then Seth’s got “the device”. And it was never really specified what that was. But when you’re writing the script you’re going to have to talk about what it looks like and how it works. So this idea of having to stick the electrodes on Nathan, but that won’t work because he’s a ghost - you had to come up with all this too. NP: Yeah and hopefully it works, because he’s developing this idea but then we put a much quicker ticking clock on it, so that he doesn’t have a chance to modify the device the way he’d envisioned. And so it has to be taken through to the other side as Audrey ends up doing. [Both of them laughing at Seth with his hands in the air as Audrey reminds him she’s armed.] BM: Congratulations by the way on that classic moment, of wait say that again, what you said just gave me an idea. This one totally works, because of the pose that he does with his arms up, the exact pose that Reggie did before he disappeared. NP: Yeah I tried to cover that moment with some Kris Lemche joking and of course he sold it super well. BM: They both sold it, and that idea that it was the pictures that was making them disappear and that the shadows they left were related to the photos, that was something that we had from the start.

BM: Oh here’s Vince [sneaking into the hospital office]. I always like when we can show Vince and Dave kind of being badasses a little bit, showing off their skills. NP: Everyone knows them as the lore-keepers and protectors of Haven, but you don’t get that job in a place as crazy as Haven by being a softy or being a sweet man who wears pink glasses. You’ve got to be a bad ass and these moments are fun to write for that reason. BM: They are, and we always talk about a Haven prequel series you could do about these guys in the prime of their youth. And they were probably the Nathan and Duke of the town. But they’ve still got it, sometimes, and it’s always a great opportunity when we can have them doing stuff as opposed to just being the librarian-type exposition devices that in previous season they often ended up being, just by necessity because they knew so much. NP: I also find that whenever you can have Richard Donat pull out a Southern accent. BM: He’s also really funny. He doesn’t often get to play as much comedy as John Dunsworth as Dave does. So I like seeing him try and fail at this grifting attempt here. And he gets busted, which was great. And the other actor in this scene is really great too. NP: Yeah we had some great casting in both of these episodes, between Chris Masterson [as Morgan], Kris Lemche [as Seth] and Lara Jean Chorostecki [as Amy Potter]. We both know Lara Jean originally from Hannibal, as investigative journalist Freddie Lounds. That was a role that was gender-swapped from the books for the TV show and she was cast in it and that could not have been a better move on Hannibal’s part. She is just awesome, awesome, awesome in that role. BM: She is terrific. We were totally in her corner from the get go. I think she even just looked like what we imagined the character might look like. But just her energy and everything, we were just like; let’s get her. And so she did it and everyone loved her. And we were like; Can we bring her back? But her Trouble doesn’t really lend itself to something that we could keep using. So we were like; Could we just give her a job in the police station or something? NP: New crime scene photographer? BM: But I think she’s going back to Hannibal, or some other project. We were lucky to get her. NP: We should write a Haven spin off series that’s just Kris Lemche and Lara Jean Chorostecki on the road. They just made people turn into ghosts.

[As we’re back with Duke and Mara again] BM: How much of the bourbon is gone by this point I wonder? NP: They have drunk a lot of Gunslinger Standard, and that is some strong, strong bourbon. BM: But think about his tolerance. I mean, he’s not slurring his speech. I’d be asleep. Or at the very least drooling on myself or something. He’s a cool customer. [They joke that maybe Mara is immune to alcohol as well as the Troubles.] BM: But they did a great job with this. We’ve talked about how well this scene was written but they take it the rest of the way. It’s kind of like passing someone a football - it’s a good pass but then they have to run the rest of the way with it. And they absolutely did. NP: They score a touchdown. Eric really, really killed it here. We do tone calls before each episode to talk through the big scenes, and I just remember the tone call with Eric was so very, very short this time. Because I think he had just really lived in that story and really kind of got a good handle on it. And then once we saw the dailies we were like; Yeah, we didn’t need to say a single word to him. He couldn’t have done a better job with it. Kudos Eric. BM: Yeah, he was like; Totally get it, completely, let me do it.

[As Nathan is searching Guard HQ] NP: Here you can see what we talked about before, the desolate Children of Men, post-apocalyptic look to this warehouse. BM: It’s a little bit of a preview of things to come. I love Nathan going through the wall there. NP: Yeah we had a bunch of these moments, but it was a production question as to how man can we actually afford to do, how many do we have time for. There are some that are critical, like Morgan falling through, and the gun getting knocked away. BM: But there’s none for me that are cooler than Nathan with his gun out going through those two walls. It looks great, the fact it was all just this one swooping camera move. And it’s good from a story stand point because it’s Nathan using his situation to some extent to his advantage. NP: Yep and coming up here we’ve got Audrey doing the same thing of using her situation to her advantage. Right now they’re putting together all of the math of how the Trouble works. She’s understanding that Nathan is in mortal danger, which leads to a big decision for her, to put herself in danger and using her lack of immunity to her advantage in order to be able to save Nathan. BM: Our art department killed it with these photos here. And this is great with Seth being the voice of reason a little bit. And Audrey stepping up - this is a really important moment for her because she’s not immune and that’s been getting to her but now she’s going for it. NP: And credit goes to you for that set up, because it was something that you were really pursuing that her being immune is going to be the story for these episodes. And I think it worked out great. BM: That’s the thing people will refer to these episodes as; Ghost Nathan and then Audrey not being immune. I think the cutting back and forth here [from Audrey and Seth at Amy’s place to Nathan fighting Reggie in Guard HQ], both in the script and by our editor, works so well. The gunshots come [into Reggie’s back] and you don’t know if it’s Audrey, and then you reveal that it’s Morgan. NP: And it’s funny, that kind of action sequence would normally come much later in an episode, but we were trying to keep things so fast here, and really the last couple of acts of this episode take place over the course of minutes. It’s all in real time and it’s really fast, so we were trying to keep it energetic as a result. BM: Pretty much everything this season is real time. Like, last week’s episode happened 25 minutes ago.

BM: It’s funny, we had one real goal going into this episode for what the Vince and Dave story was going to be, and it didn’t really have much to do with this scene [where Vince is caught trying to steal Dave’s biopsy sample from the hospital]. All we knew was that Vince and Dave were going to get a sample of Dave’s leg wound taken, by the CDC as it turns out at the end of the episode. NP: Oh, Dearing Place there [on the note Audrey’s left for Nathan], that’s the street I used to live on. BM: So all of this with Vince and Dave trying to steal the sample back and failing and pretending to be other people, was all sort of invented to make more of a story out of it and it ended up working out really well. It’s fun for those guys, because things have gotten pretty serious for them and they get very serious as the season goes along, so it’s good to give them an opportunity to have fun. NP: Yeah and I was trying to accomplish a lot with that storyline; giving them some playful banter, having them show off their skills and what got them to where they are and the men that they were, and also platforming where they’re going because Dave’s leg wound is getting worse and worse. BM: Yeah, and it’s my favourite kind of B story, or C story really, which is that it has nothing to do with what’s going on in the episode but it’s the last scene in the episode and that story with Charlotte Cross coming to town comes to dominate the entire series. So it seemed like it was just this, tangential something, but it winds up being more significant than anything else in the episode. The best kind of C story there is. NP: I enjoyed this scene as well [Mara and Duke talking in the hold again], this was fun because they’re trying to figure out the math of the Trouble and how it works, and for dramatic, and also story, purposes we needed a delay between when Amy takes the picture and when the person disappears. And so we were trying to figure out how does that work? And because this is a Trouble that has evolved from a painter back in the day, the printing is the completion of the photo. And that just made sense and felt right for us in the digital age. BM: It’s funny I’m not sure when we came up with that idea, it must have been pretty early on. But it solved so many problems. Because we needed there to be a delay, and also a reason why Audrey tries it on herself and it doesn’t work. And I think we were struggling with that at the same time someone else - it might have been Speed Weed because he so frequently bangs the drum of like; Well, this is the Trouble now, but what would the Trouble have been like hundreds of years ago when Mara and William first made them? You know, they didn’t have cameras back then, so how did it work back then geniuses? And we were like; Well, back then it would have been something else. NP: Oil painting. BM: We’ve always liked the idea that they, sort of, not evolve but that a Trouble could mean something different nowadays than it would back then. So we thought well it could have been a painter’s Trouble way back when. Or a sculptor, maybe it left some clay dust. NP: Yeah a splash of paint, or clay dust. BM: And nowadays it leaves this photographic imprint. But before it was when a painting is finished, so when is a picture ever finished, in the world of photoshop, resizing, filters … Well it’s when you print it out. NP: And I think once we found that in our conversations, it was like; Great, perfect - now we know and everything evolved from that. [And they then compare that moment they had to Seth’s kind of triumphant reaction when Audrey disappears.] NP: I think this [as Dave comes to Vince’s rescue with his Garland impersonation] is my favourite of all the Vince and Dave scenes, just because John is so funny here. I remember writing this and I think I went a little bit … BM: We share the same office, Nick’s desk is on another wall, and I could hear you laughing. I had my ear buds in but I could hear you laughing to yourself. And you were writing this scene. NP: I was laughing at myself, which was not cool. BM: But this was one of the few scenes that’s really written specifically for him to play this kind of comedy character and he sunk his teeth into it. NP: He goes fully nuts. I actually ended up cutting the rest of that scene and moving it later. But the interesting thing about this here [as Amy’s getting ready to take a photo of herself] is, there used to be another scene in between where we saw the Morgan side of it. But instead we wanted to delay the mystery of what’s happening in the other room. So we cut that whole scene, and I couldn’t have been happier with that.

[As Amy hugs Morgan] BM: This is where we realised how good Laura Jean was too in the role of Amy, because this was an incredibly hard scene for her. You don’t really think about it, but if you’re the actress that has to play the role; this is impossible: she thought that her fiance was dead and gone until a few minutes ago, and now she’s seen him again, but she’s also processing everything else that’s happening with this situation. She’s got an incredible amount to work though. And she totally did it. NP: Yeah, and she doesn’t get to do it in a lot of lines, because a lot of the exposition of it has to come from the other characters. BM: She was great.

[Both laughing at Dave rescuing Vince] BM: This makes me wish we could have them as con artists more frequently. NP: Yes, they’re good at it. BM: And that was kind of the impetus behind episodes five and six, to get Vince and Dave out of Haven and on a mission. Even if it goes horribly awry.

NP: Laura Jean is really selling it here. She gets two or three words to go through all of this emotion but she really sells it so, so well. BM: Yeah, she’s terrific. I mean I thought she was great in Hannibal, but I really thought she brought something even more to the table here. NP: Well and what’s great about it is, her character in Hannibal is very manipulative, a bit of a psychopath in her own way, she’s very, very cold. But here, she has to be extremely empathetic but also go through really complex emotions super, super fast. And she handles both the Hannibal role, and this much smaller - and probably less rewarding - role both very, very well. BM: She’s very good.

[As we see the final flash that signals the Trouble’s resolved] NP: It’s always tough figuring that exact moment when the Trouble is solved and, how does everyone know. BM: What I also really liked about this is that she kind of solved it herself. NP: We’ve been talking about Lara Jean a lot but Chris [as Morgan] also does an awesome job, escalating this emotion here, getting in Nathan’s face; he’s really selling it. And there’s Seth with the knock-out blow. I just really like his line here [“I am the one who goes bump in the night”]. It is terrible and it was a fun thing to write - and I knew Kris would exactly get the humour of that moment. And in the dailies it was funny, he kept picking up the tripod and saying other ridiculous things; I’m sure it’s going to be all over the blooper reel because he was just hilarious. BM: It was originally going to be a picture frame that Seth used to knock Morgan out, but I think there was concern that we could have seriously injured Chris Masterson, so it became a tripod. But his line there is an obvious reference to Walter White’s “I am the one who knocks” line which is just one of the best lines ever in television. This being of course one of the worst lines ever in television.

[As Seth is saying goodbye to Nathan and Audrey] BM: So this scene here ended up touching on maybe a bit of a touchy subject for Audrey and Nathan, which was brought in relief with what Morgan said earlier about; Why are you the only ones who get to be happy? So they’re starting to ask themselves if Morgan was right and if they’ve been selfish - because, she got Nathan back, but at what cost to Morgan? NP: And it’s been going for a while too, since season four - they keep fighting for each other so much, and what is the cost? BM: I think it’s an important thing, a realistic conversation for them to have. Granted of course it’s not just Nathan; they’ve just saved a bunch of people around town who were also ghosts. And Morgan’s a bad guy, and Nathan can do a lot of good, as a human being, not a ghost. NP: It’s funny, the tail end of that scene changed a lot because as we were getting closer to it, it became more and more clear that we were going to want to bring Kris back as Seth again for more episodes in the back half of season 5b. So before he was like; I’m getting out of Haven, goodbye forever, kind of thing. And then it softened and softened. BM: Yeah we left the door open because at this point we knew we were going to bring him back, but we didn’t know if he was going to be a surprise new resident of Haven, or if we were going to have them be like; Hey man, come back to Haven. So we had to be super vague about where he was going.

[As we’re back with Mara and Duke again] BM: So they’re probably on a second bottle at this point, right? NP: They are fully drunk. BM: I would be on the phone with a hospital [if I had drunk that much] NP: A hospital or an ex-girlfriend, one of the two. [As Mara is talking about the importance of intention when releasing a Trouble] This also is something that was in the works from the very beginning, what we always knew we wanted to accomplish was Mara saying; You were the one who was in the driver’s seat when you split me and Audrey, this was your Trouble you were expressing. And over the course of those episodes he’s probably learned better how to express them and she’s saying here that; You want me here - why? BM: And it kind of answers a question that was posed at the beginning of 5.07, which was - how did this happen? Why did this happen? Duke was flicking through the Crocker Journal but he had no idea. And then Mara poses a theory here which is that he selects the Trouble that he wants to, whether he knows it or not, and that he maybe wanted to split Audrey and Mara apart. NP: Yep. BM: And I love it, it’s great.

[The final scene with Vince and Dave outside the Gull] NP: Of course they drink drinks with little umbrellas. BM: It’s not exactly a sunny day outside either. NP: Well it was funny, for production we didn’t have a Grey Gull day. BM: This moved tons of times. NP: Moved a bunch of times; I re-wrote this scene probably half a dozen times. BM: It was going to be outside the Haven Herald at one point, or just on some patio somewhere, some place they could shoot in town. But in the end we shot this weeks later, right? NP: Yeah, Shawn picked it up with a second unit some time. BM: But from back in the beginning of the year when we started mapping out what are the big tent poles for every season, this was always the last scene of this episode; Charlotte Cross comes to town. Because that really kicks off what is the rest of the season; it’s really the main story for the next couple episodes. NP: I thought the art department did a great job with the CDC logo. You can’t use the actual CDC logo; every show that uses CDC has to come up with their own logo, and our art department is really good with those kinds of things. BM: Yes. Shout out to Laura Mennell as well, as Charlotte Cross. We were really lucky to get her. NP: She’s so good. BM: She ends up joining the cast as a regular and I think we’re better for it. She obviously has some big surprises to come, which I guess we can’t talk about now. NP: It’s funny, we’re kind of the book ends for her character; introduced and then …. BM: Oh that’s right, well we can’t say. But this was a great episode. Thanks Nick! NP: Thanks for watching y’all.

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