just a bunch of strays.

welcome to maudlin maw! you've made a wise, wonderful choice in visiting us: we'll make your experience so great, you'll never want to leave! please don't mind the strays scurrying about here. we'll get rid of them soon... ( ask blog for the kids of little nightmares, vis-a-vis modern day au. )

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some more meta for my modern day au!! this time featuring the case of juan and his sister maria!

pt. one pt. two

the north wind that plagued one in the comics still plagues juan in this au — just not as the north wind!! it’s an entity known as the broilsnatch here, and is the powerful fae being that lives deep within the woods just north of maudlin maw. it feeds on human children and swaps maudlin maw’s children with its own “disposable and despicable” ones to do this.

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also before the numbers squad became a group of seven, ren and seiko had to write out most of their responses to the other members because none of them understood sign language. until philip came along!! while he didn’t and still doesn’t understand sign language, he has this uncanny knack for approximating and understanding what ren is saying, and is more often than not able to translate for the rest!

while ren is glad there is someone other than seiko in the group that can understand him without the need for literary transcription, he’s also kind of concerned because that creepily accurate grasp of a language he’s never used before? philip only exhibits it when ren is signing. seiko could sign the exact same thing and philip would not be able to understand her. his excuses for when that happens are pretty flimsy

e.g. “you’re saying it differently!” or “that’s not what ren said!”

fortunately, philip no longer needs to extensively translate what ren is saying for the rest of the squad because they’ve come to recognise and understand certain signs, and both ren and seiko tend to use really simple ones when around them. during times where they’re conversing alone or are unaware of the others’ presence, they all count on philip to translate for them.

unfortunately, philip can only translate one half of said conversation.

“what’d he say?”

“he said ‘you’re a stupid, reckless person who keeps doing stupid, reckless things stop being so stupid and reckless please i care a lot about you’”

“aww that’s so sweet…what’d she say?”

“i don’t know”

“okay he’s saying smth back what is it”

“’i appreciate the thought but please don’t eat my grandma‘“

“what the fuck”

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Whats new to you, Two? we're coming after you you're gonna solve that mystery i see you little Two the trail leads back to you whats new to you, Two? Whats new little Five You are who caught my eye you're gonna solve that mystery we see you little Five Come give me a high five whats new little Five?

! Introducing !

! Maudlin maw’s newest hit show !

! WHAT’S NEW, FIVE-SIX-SEVEN-TWO !

! COMING TO YOUR SCREENS SOON !

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an addendum to pt. 2 of my modern day au because @xellas-the-wanderer suggested the cutest idea!! which was:

Might I suggest Seven has a grey pet cat that follows him everywhere. He named it ‘Nome’ when he was really little. (He meant to name it Gnome but he couldn’t spell at the time)

and i love it so much that fuck yeah it’s canon in the au now. ren has a grey pet cat that follows him everywhere! or uh. everywhere it can haha.

he didn’t get it when he was little because viet parents are vehemently against all pets (”who’s going to look after it? you? don’t make me laugh!!!”)

it just showed up one day in his grandma’s backyard and he fed it like. once and it’s been with him ever since.

he named it nome because it’s missing an ear but still interacts with the world and him and everything else so well — just like how ‘nome’ is missing a letter, but still works v well as a word.

nome is a she!

the one (1) good thing about his grandma being so neglectful is that she doesn’t give a shit about what he brings into the house so nome is both an inside and outside cat!

nome is around seven months old. technically, she’s in that weird transition period between kitten and adult cat. she’s a little too big to be called a kitten, but small enough that she can curl around ren’s neck and shoulders like a personal scarf

nome sometimes accompanies ren and the others on their adventures, though it doesn’t happen often since she gets spooked pretty easily. with the cases she does attend, though, she helps the kids by acting smth like a ‘supernatural radar’. basically she leads them straight to the source of the strange phenomena they’re investigating.

ren loves nome!! nome loves ren!!

and only ren. philip tried petting her one time and she hissed at him before scurrying back to ren.

theresa laughed when that happened but quickly stopped when she got the same result.

all the members tried petting her after that. it did not end well.

she hissed at juan, straight up ran away from seiko before she could even lift her hand, and only barely tolerated carmen’s touch.

she’s more tolerable towards them now in that she lets all of them touch her, but ren is still v clearly her Favourite.

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pt. 2 of my modern day au!!

alrighty so six, the runaway kid, and the comic kids make up a group that they collectively call “the numbers squad”.

though a bit lacklustre in creativity, the name was coined by one and adopted by them all because nobody could think of anything better at the time. one was also the one who suggested they have numbered code names!! which is why he gets the honour of being called ‘one’, haha.

the members of the numbers squad are as follows:

juan (coined by @isnezzed​) “one” santiago

theresa “two” wright

carmen “three” carter

finn “four” wu

philip “five” jones

seiko “six” satou

ren “seven” huynh

they each have a certain role to fulfil, though they all try their best to contribute outside of that role too!

juan is the strategist of the group. he’s the one who does most of the researching for their cases and, most of the time, is the one who devises a way to solve them

theresa is their supplier. her parents are of the elite class of maudlin maw and are, hence, super wealthy. they’re v liberal when it comes to using money on their child; they give her almost anything she wants or needs to get her off their backs. she’s the one who gets all the shit they need to solve cases! she’s also the only one with wifi at her place so her house is kind of their “base of operations”

carmen is the technician!! they’re the one who helps implement whatever plan juan or ren have conjured up. while juan researches about the actual phenomena they’re out to get rid of / solve, carmen gathers all the relative info needed to allow them to actually go about solving said phenomena

e.g. in the case of a ghost haunting their school, juan would research the history of their school and the ghost itself whereas carmen would get blueprints of their school, map out their entire route, calculate how much of what they need is required, etc.

does that make sense??? juan is about the bigger picture and carmen is about all those details and technicalities

finn is their hacker!! or. was lmao. now juan has to try to access all this classified info by himself :))) sometimes ren helps too!

philip is…..uh…..philip is. something. he’s the youngest and smallest of them all, so whenever they need to go through a passageway that is too small or narrow, they send him in to scout for them. he used to hate that because “scouting isn’t a real job seven!!!” until ren told him that it was the most dangerous job of them all and could only be done by someone who was super brave and super adaptable and now it’s all philip can talk about whenever they’re on a case

theresa hates it because whenever they need to separate for a case she’s always paired up with him and she is so sick and tired of hearing about how gr9 his ~dangerous~ job in the team is

i mean. it’s true that it’s the most dangerous job — philip always has to go in houses/rooms first before the others can follow but he has, strangely enough, never been attacked whilst scouting before. he has the best luck! there was this one close call involving sentient pieces of cloth that killed / severely injured people by wrapping around their faces and suffocating them but that was only because finn was with him at the time

seiko is their co-leader. she guides the group with the help of ren and is their most physically involved member. kind of like the muscle?? she’s the one who jumps in front of ghost, goes “SURPRISE FUCKER” in sign language, and initiates the exorcism ritual. with the case of actual live monsters, she’s the one who jumps in front of them, goes “I’VE ALWAYS HATED UR GUTS”, and begins the long, long fight of defeating them.

ren has a heart attack everytime she does it

ren is also their co-leader! he is the most all-rounded member of them all in that he doesn’t have a certain area / field he specialises in. he helps out wherever he can, with research, planning, getting supplies, etc.

while everyone recognises both him and seiko as the leaders, all of them approach ren for any concerns / ideas / suggestions / problems. not because seiko is any less capable of helping them out or anything it’s just,,, her way of helping solves the immediate problem but doesn’t really consider any other possible consequences

e.g. “hey guys we have a problem this ghost/demon/whatever is v mobile and will most likely chase us as we try to get rid of it what do we do?”

what ren says: okay what if instead of letting the ghost/demon/whatever wreak havoc while we try to get rid of it, we trapped it in a specific spot?? are there any sigils or insignias for that?

what seiko says: that sounds like Death let’s not do that how about we have one person be bait and that person deals with the ghost/demon/whatever while we get rid of it

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OMG is Two alright?!

She’s fine. A bit upsejlkdf

I ’ M NOT FINE I NEARLY GOT KILLED AGAIN I HATE THIS JOB I HATE THIS TOWN I HATE EVEYRONE AND EVEYRTH ING I H

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Who's the cutest kid in your group Seven? ;)

Five.

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What are your thoughts on the rest of your classmates have you ever talked to them?

I haven’t really talked to anyone outside of our group. It’s kind of hard to hold a conversation with someone when they don’t know what you’re saying most of the time…and I don’t think the rest have talked to them either. They’ve made it clear they’re associated with me so nobody ever approaches them.

I would tell you what Six thinks of them but she’s being pretty mean about it so I won’t.

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Hi! How's it going?

hey ! pretty good . lol we ’re on a case rn looking for some “ vengeful ghost “ or somethin and 7 says we shouldn ‘t be on our phones but he’ s not here rn and we ‘ve been here for legit 75 hours nothing has happened i’ m pretty sure this is a hoax

celebratory selfie for another night wasted ft. 5 !

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Have you two gone to the movies?

I’m not sure which two you’re talking about. But I have tried going to the movies here two times. One time with Six and the other time with all the others.

The first time Six and I went it was during the tour she gave me of Maudlin Maw. She said that the movies here were decent and thought I should try seeing one.

The thing is, I don’t think Six has ever seen an actually decent film because the only thing that was showing was The Dancer series and that’s an R-rated series about something that would only be made into a movie here.

The second time we went, it was with all the others a few weeks later I think. They were so excited for all the new releases but the only thing that was released was another addition to The Dancer series

We ended up watching all the Kung Fu Pandas at my place.

Maudlin Maw sucks

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Hello seven! How are your friends doing?

Everyone’s fine, thanks for asking. A bit restless though since we’re planning to close a case tonight. It’s nothing too big, but we still get nervous before every case.

If you want to know what everyone is specifically feeling, I’ll let them tell you:

! Excited ! This case is small so hopefully no injuries

so tired . i want to sleep for 10 yrs

Good

HUNGRY!!!!!!!!! PLEASE DONATE!!! !! !! !

i second that please donate to us only two gets to eat good stuff please donate

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Sev my boi how are you getting along with Six?

Just fine. We’re close friends.

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Six is no longer in charge of manning this blog.

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Tell us about one of your adventures!

sure

this was before the others joined us but back when seven was still kinda new he wanted to get rid of all the leeches here

i dont know if its different for you but leeches here are super big and gross and suck a lot of blood and are everywhere! even in places you dont think they’d be in

anyway i told him to just step on them because that kills them pretty easily but he said that was gross and asked if that was why my shoes are so dirty and told me that???????? salt???? gets rid of them too??????????

dumb idea right??? what can salt do????

anyway the thing is the shops here only sell sugar and pepper no salt so i told him that and hahahahahahahahah you wanna know what he did to get his salt

he certyotieiejdjfk

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hi whats up seven told me to make a starting post for this blog so here

he also told me to tell you the inbox is open and we’re open for questions