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Maybe we’ll meet again, when we are slightly older and our minds less hectic, and I’ll be right for you and you’ll be right for me. But right now, I am chaos to your thoughts and you are poison to my heart.
This was kind of random! I had this idea to maybe write a few tiny One-Shots that take place between the games. This one happens right before Secrets Can Kill.
Idk, I’ve always had this head cannon that Nancy’s constant (and seemingly aimless) routine of taking up odd jobs and reconnecting with old friends might come from a place of not really knowing what she wants to do with her life. I thought maybe I’d explore that vulnerable side of Nancy here.
This idea came when I read that Nancy takes a semester off to investigate the case of Jake Roger’s death. I myself am taking a semester off, so this was very personal to me haha.
I hope you enjoy!
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Ned hugged Nancy close, feeling her arms relax around his neck. She pressed her face into the inside of his neck and kept it there. Normally, this would be an elating position for the teen sleuth and her boyfriend to be in. Yet…
Ned sensed that something was wrong. He ran his fingers through Nancy’s titian hair and let her relax just a minute longer.
“Nance…” he urged in a calming, caring tone.
“Mm?”
“What’s the matter?”
Nancy Drew pulled back and faced him, though she kept her arms about him.
“What are you talking about?”
“You don’t seem like your usual perky self—usually when you’re about to go off on a sleuthing expedition, you talk a mile a minute. I just want to make sure you’re all right. You know you can talk to me, right Nancy?”
Nancy looked down, burying her chin in the folds of Ned’s oversized Emerson College sweatshirt. A sigh broke through her nose—she tried covering it with a forced chuckle, but it didn’t take.
“Oh Ned, I hate to sound like a broken record—”
“Nancy,” Ned leaned in, his words firm. “there is nothing wrong with taking a semester off. In fact, it’s a great idea. Not everybody moves at the same pace, exactly like you said…I mean look at me! I’ve changed my major what?—three times?”
“It’s just a bit overwhelming…”
“All the more reason to take off. You need to focus on you, everybody does now and again.”
Nancy shook her head. “It’s not just that…it’s the case, I—”
Ned took her hand and began to rub his long fingers against her open palm, trying to soothe her. Nancy paused, calculating her next words, then displayed them:
“…While I’m staying with Aunt Eloise, I’m going to be doing a little undercover work with the Florida Police Department.”
“That sounds fun!”
“Yeah…it should be…but—” she looked up and gave him a weak smile. She surprised him with an impulsive peck on the lips. That made them both grin like silly schoolchildren, hiding a secret exchange.
“But what?” said Ned.
“I’m going to be posing as a student at the local high school. I know it’s just an act, and it should feel like a fun trip down memory lane. But, I don’t know. It feels…weird. I like the idea of being a high-schooler again. I miss those days At the same time though, it makes me feel sad. I don’t know.”
Ned listened closely and nodded his head even when Nancy’s thoughts trailed off.
“That all makes sense,” he assured her. “It’s so weird that being a high-schooler was just a few years ago, and yet it’s like a lifetime of differences. Everything just isn’t the same anymore. It’s scary.”
“Maybe I’m just being silly.”
“Maybe,” Ned told her, then he hugged her tight again. “but it’s natural. I’d feel the same way if I was you. Just know you aren’t alone—everyone misses things, and places, and people. Even Bess and George, and especially me!”
Nancy smiled. It was true, Ned had been out of high school longer than all of them.
“It gets easier…and weirder…as time goes by, I promise Nance. You’re gonna make it. I’ll be sending lots of love with my brain waves.”
Nancy laughed.
“Thank you. That makes me feel a lot better. Who knows? Maybe I’ll have some fun in Florida after all.”
With that, the two resumed their snuggling. Ned smiled. He could tell—as good boyfriends often can—that Nancy was going to be just fine.
i’m  continuing a cringe fanfic i wrote in 2010
FULL VIDEO HEREÂ (I think this might become a series?)
The synopsis reads: “As Tim Drake still mourns the loss of his friend Kon, He meets three new villains, one of them being a demon sent to earth to begin the apocolypse. With the help of Dick Grayson Nightwing Tim will make sure that Gotham stays safe. I do not own Batman.”
This project presents some fun endeavors.Â
This story centered around three OCs that I haven’t touched in ten years, and didn’t do much to preserve their core identities or backstories.Â
So, I’ll be stitching together pieces from old role-plays, one-shots, journal entries, and private messages in order to cobble together something that is authentic to what 2010 Hagen would have written.Â
I don’t know why, but this is already so much fun. It started as dumb shitposting and making fun of my old self. But, idk, there’s something very freeing about writing something that doesn't have to be good. These characters I made up aren't good, but I had a lot of fun creating them then, and this is a fun way to revisit them.Â
If you’d like to read the fic, here is it on fanfiction.net, as well as on wattpad
We’re back! Nancy is onto another case after her friend is kidnapped in a derelict historical theatre, due to be demolished in just a few days! Since the Final Scene takes place in a theatre, I went the obvious route and just got popcorn and candy.
On with the show! :D
5. Â Â The Final Scene
This is going to be a harder one to write, because it’s just…good? It’s a good game. There’s not really a lot for me to nitpick or gush about.
This was one of the first three Nancy games I owned, and I remember back then it was my least favorite. My mom and I played it the least because we genuinely found it the hardest. We’d always get stuck very early on--literally right after Maya would go missing. It was years before I ever even got to MEET Simone or even Nicholas Falcone. I called the police, and then just gave up I guess?
I honestly don’t remember why or how we were so bad at this game. Playing it now, I found The Final Scene to probably be the easiest of the ones I’ve played so far? It’s not unchallenging and half-done like SCK, but it’s very fluid—I finished it very quickly.
The setting of the Royal Palladium Theatre is great! The backstory of the location, with it’s skeevy two-faced turn-of-the-century owner who screwed over his workers and secretly was low on funds makes it feel so real.
This is my favorite cast of characters out of the first five games—everyone is detailed and dotty, and SUPER shady. Fans point out just how unapologetically rude Nancy presents herself in this game, and yes. It’s fantastic.
Well, so much for “every two weeks”. It took a while to return, but hey!--that means I got to play this game during the chilly wintertime, so maybe it all worked out. I have to admit, I struggled to find foods for this one. Treasure in the Royal Tower takes place in Wisconsin and during wintertime, so I incorporated cheese and cold-weather snacks and made these fucking ratchet as hell, VERY last-minute cute little grilled cheese bites. Ezra Wickford is the inventor of chocolate milk, so I had that as a drink. FULL DISCLOSURE: Having played the game, I should have cooked myself fifty drumsticks, but sadly it is too late for me now.
Without further ado, here’s TRT!
 4. Treasure in the Royal Tower
This game is definitely a big fan-favorite. In the rankings I’ve seen, TRT tends to grace a lot of people’s top fives and tens. So, this might be a little controversial—I’ve never really loved this one. For me, it’s mostly just forgettable? Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike it—I’m more neutral towards Treasure in the Royal Tower than anything.
I see a lotta love for Wickford Castle as a location, but it just does nothing for me. The aesthetic of the castle doesn’t enthuse me—it reads more washed-out and muddled than opulent and chaotic. Sometimes it feels needlessly big—clicking five times to get through long hall after long hall gets tiring. A lot of the mini-missions are laid out specifically to make Nancy meander from one end of the castle to the other, just because. I reached a point where I audibly groaned because Nancy needed to take that convoluted route to get into the tower every. single. time.
There’re also elements to Wickford that feel underdeveloped. The smattering of dead ends you’d think would tie into some backstory about Ezra Wickford being this eccentric weirdo recluse, but he’s presented as mostly a normal dude with like five weird things he did with his house. Mr. Egan tells us he’s so proud and amazed that we found Ezra Wickford’s super-secret door—but like, it’s just a door? In plain view? In the elevator shaft? It isn’t even locked with a key. Are you telling me no maintenance man has ever been in the elevator shaft? Ever?
The characters are okay. Dexter Egan is a standout. Hotchkiss is always divine. Lisa remains memorable mostly because her character is both atrociously acted and written in a way that I think is intentional? Oh, and speaking of underdeveloped—I know these games have a long-standing tradition of “Nancy gets an invitation from a distant friend from far, far away whose link to her hangs on the thinnest of connections”, but the friend who invited her to this castle never even gives her a call. We never even meet her. What even was her name? Kristi? Courtney? Kiri? Help me out here.
There are things I like about TRT. The winter setting is fantastic. I absolutely love Nancy games that teach us things about history, and the Marie Antoinette stuff is great. The idea of this castle that’s been assembled from a dozen other homes in Europe is a great concept, even if it kind of misses the mark in my book. Also, I’m proud to announce that this was the FIRST NANCY GAME I have ever played completely through WITHOUT A WALKTHROUGH! So, this game will always be just a little special to me because of that. Overall, not a bad experience—just not my cup of chocolate milk.
6/10 it beats the heck out of cleaning up a ransacked library.
If anyone in the world is wondering, I started playing Message In A Haunted Mansion like almost six months ago and never had time to go back, and I didn’t want to replay the whole first half so I’m sorry I’m skipping right to TRT
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