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On a totally opposite end of the spectrum from the role swap-
Imagine if after the Promise chapter things flipped. If after that argument The Operator- out of pure animalistic type curiosity- said “ooh lemme stick my fingers in this sauce here” and left Alex alone to latch onto Jay. Its already discovered how it can push and twist and manipulate one person, but what about a completely separate person? Will the results be the same? Different? Will it be easier or harder?
So it latches onto Jay, and Alex experiences a flat out withdrawal from that thing’s influence, followed by the most gut wrenching clarity. Realizing how crazy he went, how he killed his friends to “save” them when it never would have mattered. So two weeks pass, and all he can think about is Jay- talking to him again and telling him everything, being honest and actually fucking admitting that he cares about him, that he wants to make good on his promise and do things right.
But Jay doesn’t answer. Jay is the one who drops off the planet and goes MIA, and Alex has a horrible, sinking suspicion he knows why. He hopes that Jay just finally got sick of him- he HOPES thats all it is- but deep down there’s this creeping suspicion that its not a coincidence. That he passed his own torment on to Jay like some twisted fucking disease-
He finds out he’s right, later on. When he starts working together with Tim(he’s desperate to find Jay, to fix things, even if that means groveling for Tim’s help-), when they start having run ins with Jay where he won’t see reason, where he argues every point they make and tries to convince Alex that everyone has to die, to help him(and wow, did he sound that crazy too? probably, yikes-)
And in the end Alex makes one last desperate attempt. He meets Jay somewhere alone, tries to convince him to come with him, tells him that he loves him-
But Jay doesn’t believe him. He tells Alex as much(“i love you but i can’t trust you- you said it yourself, why would you ever love somebody like me?”) and Alex wants to cry when Jay throws his own awful words back at him, things he never meant to say-
But what destroys him is when Jay takes the gun that he stole from Alex months ago, puts it to his own head and pulls the trigger with a bang right in front of him.
I’m in a dark mood today LMAO we die like tunnel guy
we die like tunnel guy lmaoooo
fucking THIS tho oh my god the ANGST
i literally have nothing else to add really, my brain saw this and turned into angst mush i fucking love this so much. Jay not believing Alex when he says he loves him fucking OW. This is literally fucking perfect. like, actually.
Everyone come look at this and be fucking destroyed by it because OW. it's especially sad because i'm thinking so much about Alex being the one feeling super hurt and stuff in his uni relationship with Jay, because im writing if it ain't broken at the moment. I am in the perfect mindset for just pouring over Jaylex angst with Alex being the one left feeling worst for it.
Honestly though, Alex finally seeing things fully, truly clearly and realising how terrifying and horrible it must have been for Jay to see him the way he was with the Operator in his head, all angry and not seeing sense and arguing every little thing.
withdrawal from the Operator tho, like, actual withdrawals from it could be so interesting. Like, how would that interact with Tim since he's been dealing with the operator since he was a kid presumably. is he fucked either way? like, if he doesnt take his meds he could get withdrawals from them, and if he doesn't take them for a while then goes back on them does he then get withdrawals from the Operator? Or is it different because the Operator isn't in his head the same way it's in Alex's? is just being near it enough? Like second hand smoke?
I imagine the withdrawals would be CRAZY. Like, insomnia, hallucinations simply due to a placebo effect. They’re so used to seeing that thing in the corners of their rooms, lurking behind buildings, that their mind just conjures it up out of nothing. And they’re so used to it that the headache’s come on instantly, the distant sound of static in their ears.
The panic kicks in so fast they can’t catch their breath, because of course they have PTSD, they’re traumatized. Fight or flight makes it impossible to realize its just their minds tricking them. It makes it easy for The Operator to slip in through the cracks and sink its hooks into them again and again and again.
And just like with substance withdrawals it makes them vulnerable to it. It gives it a chance to influence them again, when fighting back only makes it so hard to resist its pull when their mind has turned against them. Especially if they’re alone without somebody else to help pull them back to clarity, to reassure them everything is fine, that they’re safe.
On another note, if you want more angst, imagine-
Jay survives the gun shot- its rare to take a bullet to the head and live, but it happens(guess his skull is thick enough to take a bullet)- Alex realizes he’s still alive and calls for help, gets Jay to a hospital where miraculously they learn he’s going to live.
Alex swears to himself that things will be different- as soon as Jay is discharged they’ll pack up and leave, they’ll move across the country, far away from Alabama, they’ll put everything behind them and pretend everything is fine. They’ll do things right, just like he promised Jay.
And the day Jay wakes up Alex has never felt more relieved, its so intense he wants to cry, he’s overjoyed, the first thing out of his mouth is that he loves him, he’ll swear it up and down until Jay believes him-
And then Jay looks at him, and the only words out of his mouth are “Do I know you?”
I’m like, bombarding you now and I’m sorry- but I have so many thoughts. 👁️👁️
Like for instance- how much would Sorry, Its Locked have changed if Jay and Alex’s roles were swapped? Alex, who stayed relatively sane(at first), though still denied any feelings Jay(he’s straight, its just smex, shut up). And Jay, who gets so angry and hurt and harbors so much resentment for Alex over the whole thing that The Operator latches onto him instead. Jay who spirals and starts killing their friends(and probably Amy too out of sheer jealousy and resentment), who up and vanishes for years and Alex never knows why(was the smex that bad?).
Power bottom Jay who really doesn’t want to kill Alex, he likes him too much(maybe he’s a little obsessed now, just a bit), so every time they run into each other and Alex starts to question him Jay shoves him down onto the nearest surface and keeps him going till he’s so spent he can’t think straight. And this cycle keeps going until both of them hate each other so badly its angry and its hateful on sight(but they still can’t get rid of those feelings god damn it-).
Alex who teams up with Tim or with Brian when he realizes Jay is too far gone? Who finally accepts that maybe he is a little gay when things start happening between them. Jay, who gets so jealous and angry and believes there’s no longer any other way to spare Alex(if he won’t be with Jay then he can’t keep him safe, the only option left is to put him in the ground).
Oh My God
The way i wanna write this so bad now lmfao. It'd take so long but oh my god fucking IMAGINE IT holy shit. im going to go feral over this i fear.
This got really long lmfao
like... 1.8K words long 💀💀💀
Anyway, i love this idea so much so enjoy whatever tf this is under the thingy-ma-bob
Amy still dying but this time its because of Jay's jealously rather than Alex's hopeless final attempt to save her from his own fate is such a fun iea.
Honestly, i feel like Jay's motivations to kill (which have obviously been twisted by the Operator and all that, he wouldn't kill without it twisting him) would be very different to Alex's. At least in Sorry It's Locked. Because in S,IL Alex's motivations are purely to save people, it's just that the operator twisted him until he thinks killing is the only way to save people, he thinks him killing them is going against what it wasn't, when that's still what the Operator wants, as long as more people get exposed to the sickness along the way. Whereas the S,IL version of Jay probably wouldn't kill out of a twisted and misguided kindness, he'd still think he was doing the right thing, but I honestly think the Operator would have an easier time getting him to kill.
to me Alex is an extremely caring and selfless person. Like, sure he's a bit of a nob and his student film was shit and he just couldn't recognise that because he was pretentious and a film student, but like, idk in my head before the Operator got to him he was the sweetest person, hence how he managed to pull Amy lol. The Operator had to convince him that killing was the way to save people in order to get him to do what it wanted. Whereas with Jay i think he'd have a much easier time killing for selfish reasons, and honestly i feel like he'd still film like he does as the protagonist of MH. I think the Operator would convince him he'd been wronged by the people he was killing and that it was righteous revenge or justice for himself or something like that? You know?
He'd think he was doing the right think in the sense of his own sense of justice, rather than doing the right thing to save the other people exposed to the Operator sickness. And because of his hyperfixation on Alex, it'd definitely go in the same direction of him not wanting to kill Alex, because Alex hasn't wronged him, the world around them has wronged him by making Alex think they needed to hide that they were sleeping together. It was the world's homophobia that caused Alex to refuse to accept that he was queer in any way. And obviously if Jay doesn't blame Alex, it'd be really difficult for the Operator to convince him to kill him, because Jay's actions are based on getting the justice that he thinks he deserves.
He kills Seth and Sarah and tries to kill Brian and Tim because he believes that they weren't supportive enough to make Alex feel comfortable to come out or whatever. Right? But With the Operator going down that route to get him to kill, because that's the easiest route to take, it creates a bit of a problem for itself in the future if it wants Jay to kill Alex eventually. But i don't think it actually thinks. As in like, i don't think it is making any conscious decisions about what it does, its like that fungus that grows inside ants and takes over their nervous systems and makes them climb up high so it can spread its spores. I don't think it's a thinking creature, it just does what it does.
Anyway, i think in Alex's place, with justice as his motivation, Jay would kill more people, and i think he'd make an example of them. He'd still film everything because of the memory loss the Operator causes, but he'd use those videos to kind of, like, show off what happens if you're a homophobe. Or if he thinks you are one. Idk if that makes sense. And idk magic operator powers stop anyone thinking the videos are real, just like with the fact that we see Alex kill tunnel guy in the videos, but no one else in universe actually thinks they just witnessed a murder recorded and put on youtube.
I think with Jay in Alex's role, in Sorry It's Locked they'd probably have more than just one encounter where they have sex. Like, for Alex in actual S,IL that happens mostly just kind of impulsively because like, Jay is coming onto him and yeah, he does kind of miss what they used to have, he still felt shit about having to kill Amy so wanted to distract himself from that, and then afterwards he was like SHIT I NEED TO DRIVE HIM AWAY TO TRY AND SAVE HIM WITHOUT KILLING HIM. or something like that. Whereas with Jay in Alex's place I think he'd purposefully try to tempt Alex closer and closer to him, to try and get him on his side, to become like partners in crime. You know? Everything revolves around Alex for him, so of course he wants to keep him close and under his command.
I think Jay would still be the sub in their dynamic in this, but I think he'd be a bit more like he is in chapter two of If It Ain't Broken (which is up by the way, cheeky lil self promo lol). Because subs can be pushy and the one in charge of scenes in every way other than what they actually do within the scenes themselves. Does that make sense lol? Just because they're being submissive within a scene doesn't mean they are submissive in every aspect of their relationships. Y'know?
And I think at first Alex would be like, fine with it, like, he misses what they had, and he misses Amy (he doesn't know Jay killed her, all he saw was the Operator and someone who he couldn't actually make out and then everything goes blank and he wakes up somewhere else distraught knowing she's dead or something like that) so of course if Jay is offering comfort he's going to take it. He'd still be like, not accepting that he's queer himself and that he genuinely likes Jay, like you said. I think Alex wouldn't find out Jay's the 'villain' until quite a bit later than Jay found out that Alex was the 'villain' because Alex wasn't too concerned about hiding what he was doing because he thought he was saving people (except maybe tunnel guy, that seemed like a weird fear response lol)
ANYWAY, in this like, reversed Sorry It's Locked au i think Alex would take longer to find out Jay was the one killing people, because Jay would be more carefuly about hiding that it's him. He'd film all the murders and shit, but i fell like the main mystery would be who is killing, rather than like, who's behind the hoodie mask. (i know that's probably not like the main mystery, but it is to me lol)
Jay doesn't want Alex to be scared of him, and he's aware enough to know that knowing he's killing people would scare Alex off. The only things he really sees the way they are are things directly related to Alex, and he knows Alex will be scared of him/hate him if he finds out Jay's the one who killed Amy.
And (jesus this is long i'm so sorry)
Jay seeing things mostly as they are when it comes to Alex directly would mean that he'd see when things start to change with how Alex treats him when they sleep together. Aka Alex not wanting to do it as much because he's spending time with Tim and/or Brian and they're showing him what it's like to be in a healthy relationship (they let him still say it's just sex and nothing else, because that's how he feels most comfortable/safe/secure in himself, but they still make sure it's a healthy relationship while also trying to help him feel comfortable enough in himself to recognise that he's queer. I guess a bit like how Tim's going to try and help Jay come to terms with his gender identity in like, the actualy version of S,IL i'm writing, yknow?)
Anyway, Alex kinda drawing back from Jay and insisting on asking him questions and getting answers, rather than just letting Jay shove him onto the floor, or pull him in by his collar, or whatever so he can distract him with sex. Alex doing that would terrify him. Because his entire motivation is based around like, 'getting' Alex? Like, he's trying to make it so Alex feels safe to come out? Kinda? I don't know. He want's Alex to himself and Alex pulling away and trying to like, actually get answers rather than them just having sex would be the exact opposite of what he wants?
I think when Jay finds out Alex is in an actual relationship with Tim and/or Brian (whoever he teams up with, maybe both of them honestly) that's when the Operator kinda convinces him to kill Alex as well? Like, he's so angry and jealous and like, almost betrayed? that he goes from trying to have Alex to himself to just wanting to hurt Tim and Brian any way he can? Maybe? i don't know. Like, he wants to take Alex from them any way he can, and if he can't do that in a relationship sense then he'll have to do it physically.
I think first he'd try to like, capture Alex and keep him prisoner maybe? He wouldn't think of it like that, he'd convince himself Tim and Brian were bad for Alex in some way and that he's saving him, but eventually he'd just want to hurt Tim and Brian really fucking badly for 'what they did to Alex' (showed him a healthy relationship and made it so he decided that, no, he doesn't wanna keep doing this with Jay, actually). And that would be how it kinda ended? Like, I think it'd be a kinda murder suicide thing? Maybe? I don't know I'm very much making this up as i go along surprisingly (not surprisingly) lmao
I think Jay would kill Alex in front of Tim and Brian (with a knife, i think his weapon of choice is still a knife, and I think if anyone has a gun it's Brian but he's incredibly hesitant about ever using it), and then he'd turn the knife on himself. It'd be, like, to Jay it'd be that he and Alex would be together in death, and Tim and Brian would be left with only each other and they wouldn't get to have Alex?
does that make sense?
Then Tim and Brian have to navigate life after that, 1. navigate the revelation that it was Jay all along killing people (Jay was the mystery masked man rather than hoodie) and 2. that Jay took Alex from them even after they worked so hard to help Alex come to terms with his sexuality and everything?
You have read my mind almost completely with all of that, holy shitttttt. 👁️👄👁️
Like you said, I just feel like Jay would be easier to manipulate and drive crazy- without him even realizing it. He hyperfixates on finding answers and the truth all throughout MH, as long as he has some sort of obsession its almost too easy for The Operator to twist his perception of things, and in this case its Alex- which makes everyone else the enemy.
All his videos- unlike Alex he records himself killing Seth and Sarah, he doesn’t just allude to it, he SHOWS it(of course, the viewers still think its fake, the audience never realizes that its real-) but thats not all he does.
Brian was notorious for leaving cryptic, coded messages as the Hooded Man. Jay was obsessed with solving them, but in this, they become his holy grail. Every video he posts there’s messages hidden in codes- in the videos of Seth’s, Sarah’s, even Amy’s death there’s even more of them, not edited in afterwards but written in blood at the scene. Messages that Tim, Brian and Alex don’t manage to decipher for a long time.
When they do its too late. They get into a fight, Jay’s asked Alex to meet him alone but Tim and Brian think its a bad idea. They don’t know whats up with Jay but its something- something is wrong, its obvious- but Alex refuses to admit it. Even he knows something is wrong with Jay, but those feelings are still there and he’s so desperate to just fix things that he doesn’t want to think its no longer an option. They argue and Alex leaves to meet Jay, Tim and Brian stay behind, rewatching the most recent tape, beginning to doubt themselves and thinking maybe they’re wrong about Jay-
Until Brian deciphers a message in the most recent video. A video that was nothing but someone watching the three of them from afar, recording them and focusing mostly on Alex the entire time. The message that flits across the screen something ominous and creepy and stalkerish and obsessive like “he’s mine, he’s mine, he’s mine- not YOURS- if I can’t have him neither can you-“ and now that they’ve deciphered one they can solve the rest. They go back through every video and every message is about Alex, crazy love confessions and possessiveness and obsessiveness. The message written in Amy’s blood after her death is the worst of them.
And its obvious after that, that Jay has been the one behind everything, that he’s well past being saved. Its a terrifying moment of Tim and Brian realizing they let Alex go ALONE to meet Jay- Jay, who’s been stalking them, who’s killed all of their friends-
They call Alex, hoping he’ll pick up, and he does- but its Jay’s voice that comes through. He tells them where to meet him, and they go because they care about Alex, they love him-
But they get there just in time to have a front row seat to his death at Jay’s hands(the last thing Alex ever says to them is that he’s sorry, that he should have listened, he loves them-) and Jay, that breaks him. Thats the last nail in the coffin for him(why was I never enough?) and he takes his own life too.
Someone needs to do an analysis on the way the Kung Fu Panda movies use old-fashioned vs. modern language ("Panda we meet at last"/"Hey how's it going") and old-fashioned vs. modern settings (forbidden-city-esque palaces/modern-ish Chinese restaurant) to indicate class differences in their characters, and how those class differences create underlying tensions and misunderstandings.
So Kung Fu Hornets- yes thats going to be the name of the fic- is officially in production!!!
I am about halfway through writing the first chapter, and I’ve outlined the entire thing. Book One will be fourteen chapters, plus an epilogue, and I am so excited to share this whole crazy thing with you guys! So I hope it meets your expectations. 👀
Btw, anything involving KFH will now be tagged with Kung Fu Hornets, so it’ll be easier to find!
Alrighty friends and foes! The poll is done, and so I present to you the MH babes and what animal they will be in the books!
Tim: Eurasian Wolf
Brian: Tibetan Sand Fox
Jay: Sichuan Jay
Alex: Green Peacock
Seth: Mile Red Bone Goat
Sarah: Persian Gazelle
Amy: Fujian Yellow Rabbit
Jessica: Sichuan Jay
I thought very long and hard on all of these, and got very specific about finding breeds native to China to really fit the AU vibe!
I’ve already started the first chapter, and I can’t wait to post it and share it with all of you! If you’ve got any questions about this wild AU feel free to ask them, I would love to talk about it!
Okay guys, I need some help with a decision here. I’m going to make a post soon to share what animals everyone in the crew is, but I am stuck between two different animals for our beloved film maker.
Should I make Alex a snake? Let him be a quick, fangy boi with a smattering of scales and unnatural flexibility? Or should I make him a peacock? Because lets be honest, he’s pretty, and he’s prideful. 😂
Okay so yes, I have decided that this will become a fanfic!!! I am honestly very attached to this idea, and I think it would be so fun to write out. I already have most of the plot, and am working on the outlines before I start writing.
Because y’all- this will be a SERIES. There will be a ‘book’ that lines up with each of the movies. Keep in mind I have changed several things around, I don’t want to just straight up copy the movie plot. So several things are going to be changed, and you will probably notice that the first and fourth movie become blended in the very first book. Again, I want to make this as much a story of its own while being an alternate universe.
For example, one thing thats changing is that instead of being full anthropomorphic animals, the MH crew are gonna be hybrid-animals. So human, but with animal features and stuff. I already have all of their animals decided, and I will be sharing those things soon in a little synopsis post. 👀
And yes, if you’re wondering…
The featured ships will be Brim and Jaylex. 👌👌👌
If you’re interested in being a beta reader for the story send me a message! I would love to have someone to give feedback for each chapter as we go along!
So I recently watched Kung Fu Panda 4- fantastic movie btw- and SOMEHOW I came up with a whole Marble Hornets Kung Fu Panda AU that I blocked out extensive plot for…
And I know it sounds like total crack and ridiculousness…but if I wrote it out as a fanfic would you guys want to read it…? 👀
You can ask questions about it too if you want, I am weirdly eager to share this strange AU that my brain came up with lmao
But would you guys want to see it become a whole fanfic?
Here’s one of the tiktoks I did today! Its the one we spent the most time and effort on- but we did way more than this today, so go check them out if you want! :3
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