the scorpion and the frog

𝙸'𝙼 𝙰𝙽𝙸𝙼𝙰𝙻 𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙿𝙿𝙴𝙳 𝙸𝙽 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙷𝙾𝚃 𝙲𝙰𝚁

[kitchenknifes]

@𝐊𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐊𝐍𝐈𝐅𝐄𝐒 - a plot-based & private multi-muse writing blog from various mediums. written by lou (26, he/him, white trans man). muse list & more info below cut. more in-depth doc forthcoming.

this blog is strictly 21+ only and intentionally small-scale and almost solely thread-based. i heavily prefer plotted dynamics and pre-established relationships, and only write with mutuals. i am also very slow/sporadic activity.

ROSTER:

tony soprano (he/him)

william butcher (he/him)

carmy berzatto (he/him)

eve polastri (she/her)

isaak sirko (he/him)

love quinn (she/her)

benjamin poindexter (he/him)

allyson nelson (she/they)

clarice starling (she/her)

mystique (she/they)

abby anderson (she/her)

john marston (he/him)

dutch van der linde (he/him)

michael de santa (he/him)

ORIGINAL CHARACTERS FORTHCOMING

[kitchenknifes]

@godblooded / cont’d

alana’s smaller than michael, than corey, than cameron. frail, almost. the doctor who’d operated on her knee had told her she had bird bones—she remembers that, at least, through the haze of morphine and whatever else that’d been pumped into her system after her blood-soaked clothing had been cut off of her. what he hadn’t told her was that her mother lay dead just a floor above, so maimed she’d needed a close-casket funeral like vicky, like cameron, like oscar, like corey, like doug, like her father—everyone.

too many funerals. the last one she’d been to had been to lay the boogeyman to rest for good, and she’d thought there’d be finality in it—which there was. but it’d been fleeting. too often she forgets he’s not out there, too often she looks over her shoulder, and too often she wonders if alana will somehow be next in his endless pursuit to destroy her, even hundreds of miles away.

she’s asked alana about dr. lecter, because of course she has, and she knows that despite his incarceration, he remains a boogeyman in his own right.

“if i were to do that—i don’t even know what flowers you like. if you even like them so—do you even like them?” allyson asks with a sheepish little smile, momentarily drops her gaze when alana stares back up at her with such an intensity in her blue eyes that it almost makes allyson feel shy, which she’s never been a day in her life. she lifts her gaze back up to alana, cups her face with long, elegant fingers.

her thumb traces over alana’s cheekbone fondly.

“i don’t think anyone’s ever said anything like that to me before,” she murmurs. corey had offered to burn it all to the ground for her, and she’d wanted to for a long time. the thought doesn’t sound as appealing when she’s with alana.

her therapist tells her she has a tendency to foster codependency, but this feels warm, good, unlike the intense oil fire—the amor fou—that her and corey had been.

“—easy to forget all of that other shit when i’m with you.”

[roslindales]

DIALOGUE PROMPTS FROM ROCKSTAR’S RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2. feel free to change pronouns & tenses as needed.

you’re the only one i can rely on to stay strong right now.

never thought i’d say this but it’s good to see you.

we’re gonna need to come up with a better story for that scar.

go away, you’re drunk.

you’re my favorite parasite. no, wait, ringworm is my favorite parasite, then rats with the plague, then you.

i’m not your idea of charity. 

who made you judge, jury, and executioner? 

i haven’t done anything wrong, besides not play the game by your rules.

what a mess we’re making of things.

no wonder they all leave you.

just be one thing or another. don’t be two things at once. 

have i ever lied to you?

i will break every goddamn bone in your body.

you ain’t as tough and dense as all that.

i wish i had acquired wisdom at less of a price.

we can’t change what’s done, we can only move on.

maybe you could just leave us alone. maybe you could fight some other battle.

don’t forgive me.

you can’t fight nature. you can’t fight change. 

we’re more ghosts than people.

you’ll betray me in the end, you’re the type.

have some goddamn faith.

do not die for pride.

you don’t get to live a bad life and have good things happen to you.

help someone who can still be helped, or help yourself.

i’m undone already.

you’re right to dislike me. i ain’t looking for that to change.

i’m a survivor, that’s all there is - living and dying. 

be loyal to what matters. 

i don’t kill for fun. i kill when i need to.

i’ve lived a bad life. 

life is full of pain, but there is also love and beauty.

take a gamble that love exists and do a loving act.

i guess i’m afraid.

that’s the problem - you don’t know you. 

you and i, we’re more ghosts than people.

maybe you don’t know me as well as you think you do. 

i ain’t afraid of dying. 

i hope you find peace.

i gave you all i had. 

you’ve got a heart. a small one, perhaps, hidden deep inside, but a real one. 

some legacies are for pissing on. 

[rozanovd]

HUNTER SCHAFER starring as TIGRIS SNOW The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023) dir. Francis Lawrence

[cosmicanger]

dominique jackson as elektra abundance in pose, ep. 7

[kensthjerte]

 AMBER ROSE REVAH as mika bakhash in last light (2022)

[kitchenknifes]

i do not ship c/lannibal whatsoever... i could delve into SO many reasons why--besides how gross the h/annibal novel is in how it's executed, which i'm so very grateful that nbc h.annibal explored with a.bigail to depict just how horrifying it was--but principally, they're giving such older gay/younger gay energy. so sad that tharris responded to fan service because i now have to sift (suffer) through 99% c/lannibal in clarice's tag.

[preyatnight-deactivated20250914]

i mostly put rzhalloween very far out of my head for Obvious Reasons but this is just the most agonizingly them thing i’ve ever read it transcends its context

[kitchenknifes]

tidbits abt allyson from ze old blog. under a cut now.

allyson is a capricorn, her birthday is january 6th! 

as a result of breaking her knee and femur during her confrontation with michael in 2018, she had to get a knee replacement. her left knee and leg as a whole aches in the cold, and limits her physical activity, which was a struggle to deal with especially in the first 1-2 years after michael disappeared. 

there was once a time when she was the star of the haddonfield high school track and field team, and aspired to run marathons. after helping kill michael and leaving haddonfield, she’s finding her passion for it again. she also very much wanted to start training for triathalons, but that aspiration is in the past. right now, she’s very into low impact exercises such as yoga, walking, and swimming. 

she loves beer and IPAs, specifically in combination with hikes. she can’t hike as much as she used to because of chronic pain.

i just know karen was the type of parent who wanted allyson to be involved in different activities, and as a result allyson knows how to play the trombone. 

she cut her hair into a bob shortly after halloween 2018 because she couldn't stop thinking of the way michael pulled her hair. she cuts her hair herself and has gotten better at it throughout the years. it's been important to divorce herself from michael in any possible way esp considering her and judith myers’ resemblance too... (see below)

allyson also identifies as non-binary and goes by she/they. she does have a slight preference for masc people but also has such an unhealthy attachment style that she tends to be into anyone who shows her attention, especially as a trauma response. she’s very into flirting, and has historically been a serial monogamist. but - i do definitely think her and vicky were, at the very least, not platonic; and imo, cameron elam was an egg (aka a trans woman who had not come out of the Egg just yet. lots to unpack abt that but that’s how i feel and headcanon them!).

post-ends, she’s finishing up her bachelors in the hope of becoming a psychiatric nurse, likely somewhere in chicago. she has no family left besides laurie, who she is currently no-contact with not entirely out of animosity, but to maintain a healthy boundary from her past to her future.

some canon divergences: i do see her as having a much more active role in killing michael, at the very least. she is he one who slits his wrist after freeing laurie from his grasp. she also struggles with michael having very intentionally left her alive after having so many opportunities to kill her, and struggles to trust anyone after being kidnapped by sartain, after being groomed by doug, and after the truth of corey came out. vulnerability is super difficult for her, especially around men who are not frank hawkins.

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ANDI MATICHAK as Allyson Nelson and JAMES JUDE COURTNEY as Michael Myers in Halloween (2018) & Halloween Kills (2021)