HAUNTING

alice wake of remedy’s alan wake. 21+. captured by moss.

[miswaken]

There’s a world hidden behind ours. A dark tide ebbing and flowing against reality. Faces in the shadows. Fear of the dark is really just fear of what could be. That vast, paralyzing ocean. But photography can freeze reality in a snapshot. Put a cage around the infinite. Capture it. I need to prove those faces are really there.

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      captured by moss (29; she/her) | blogroll: @walriding ; @fanaiceach

[miswaken]

my Alice/Serena evidence really just comes down to how much of a hypewoman Serena is in the radio interviews. like yes that is Alice’s extremely supportive girlfriend who has been helping her make a film and unpack her feelings, and thinks she is amazing for doing so!!

and unfortunately I think Scratch being shitty and sexual with her is also because of her relationship with Alice :/ all of the AWAN ladies get harassed but Serena is singled out in an aggressively uncomfortable way. Scratch wanting to go after Alice and play murder house was a big part of his motivation for everything, so of course he targeted someone who would’ve been in the way of that. jealous bastard

[miswaken]

Alice had some very intense friendships with other girls growing up that she did not clock as crushes until way later in life. It’s not until college that she catches on to the fact that she’s not straight, and it’s mostly because of the people she surrounds herself with. Very stereotypical “all my friends are queer but I’m just an ally!” sort of situation. When she starts questioning her own sexuality and starts talking about it with her friends, they’re all surprised because they just. Assumed this? Alice is the last person to figure it out.

Her social circle is also what actually brings her into the queer community — nightlife, events, etc. Especially when she moves to New York with a couple of her college roommates and feels like she can build an identity in a new city. Once she’s with Alan some of that falls by the wayside just as a natural consequence of being in a relationship. Priorities shift, and then the both of them are very much in the public eye and she’s not entirely comfortable with the idea of being the queer artsy wife. Unfortunately the highly public nature of being married to Alan causes Alice to be hyperaware of how she acts and presents herself in public. To make it clear it’s not like she would’ve been out there gay clubbing and cheating on him! And being in a long term relationship with a man doesn’t negate her bisexuality!! (let’s not make this weird and shitty) But she is concerned about creating controversy or bringing potentially negative attention to Alan and their relationship. Early 2000s homophobia was real. She was out to Alan though — he loved her so completely, why wouldn’t she have felt comfortable being open with him about that?

Bisexuality aside Alice has always been super picky about relationships. While she had one-off dates with a woman or two before Alan, he was her first long term relationship of any gender. She’d never had sex before meeting him either. After he’s gone, she doesn’t date again until Serena. That gets public scrutiny for a lot of shitty reasons, but by that point Alice has been through so much she doesn’t give a shit. She stops compartmentalizing herself as much as she used to, and if people don’t like it that’s their problem. She’s known she’s bi for a long time — in 2012 that becomes public knowledge and something she’s comfortable openly speaking about outside of her immediate circle, backlash be damned.

She never formally comes out to her parents though. Alice didn’t think they would have a problem with it, but some part of her just wasn’t 100% sure. As a chronic people pleaser she hated rocking the boat. And when she’s with Alan it doesn’t feel relevant to reveal that part of herself. Her mom dies in 2009, and Alice is too entrenched in her grief and Alan’s escalating issues to have regrets. But when she’s with Serena, Alice does come out to her dad — by simply saying she’s doing a film festival in Arizona and will be staying with her girlfriend. There’s a weight to how she says it that implies more than just a girl who is a friend. He doesn’t really comment on it beyond that, just says he’s happy that she has someone. He does try to encourage Alice to bring Serena home for the holidays that winter, but by that point their relationship has gotten weird and Alice makes excuses. But it’s reassuring, even as a grown adult, to know the she’s accepted.

[miswaken]

happy pride month from your local lesbian and her weird bi muses

[miswaken]

Last time we spoke you were pretty worried about Alice. Did you ever check Parliament Tower, to make sure she really got out of the Dark Place?

May 2026 | Canon AE-1 | Ilford HP5

[dinindourden]

Alan Wake 2 (2023) dev. Remedy Entertainment

[miswaken]

enriching my fandom experience by assuming people are talking about alice whenever they mention a ship using the [other character name]wake formula

[emilesmuseassembly]

Casey moves to look at her as soon as she touches his jaw, subconsciously tilting his head to lean into the warmth of that touch. The detective's skin is cold, almost disturbingly so, reminiscent of a body in a lake. (Actively drowning or already drowned, it does not matter.)

He hums a bit absentmindedly when Alice asks him to stick with her, his brows knitting together in concentration as he looks at her. There's something — He knows there's something important about her, something he's forgetting.

"Your… husband?" Casey asks, but he picks up the pieces of this new story line almost as quickly as they are put into place. He puts an almost protective hand on top of Alice's to support her, giving her a grim smile. "Of course, I will get you there before you know it."

While he had no idea where to go a moment ago, everything suddenly seems much clearer now as he leads Alice towards an alleyway near the end of the street.

"This should be a shortcut," he explains, but something about it feels… wrong.

Casey holds them both back from going into the narrow alleyway as he peers into it suspiciously, even if nothing about it looks particularly threatening.

Maybe spending all his time in this Godforsaken City is finally getting to him.

Maybe he truly was losing it.

"Let me go first, I will get you if the coast is clear."

[miswaken]

Alice has a harder time getting into character. She's grown used to navigating the ebbs and flows of this place with confidence -- both genuine and feigned. It's a matter of taking charge before the darkness takes charge of you, and she thinks she's at least come to understand how best to keep her head above water. But right now that just won't do. She maintains her tight, frantic grip on Casey's arm as he maneuvers them towards an alley, and tries to remember what it feels like to lean on someone literally and metaphorically.

It's been a while since she had someone to fill that role in her life.

Even then, the act only gets her so far. The minute he suggests splitting up, Alice responds with a quick "No!" She knows how this story tends to go. Casey charges off into the darkness, and something is waiting there to meet him. There's a chance the narrative has shifted enough to prevent that now, but she's not willing to take the risk. But she has to explain herself before he either ignores or turns on her.

"I... I'm afraid of the dark. Don't leave me alone, I'll--" This, too, is a routine grown unfamiliar with time. The Alice who became paralyzed when the lights went out feels like an entirely different person, one she almost can't remember being. She chews on the inside of her cheek and lets a little fear out of the place where she keeps it firmly locked away. She turns wide eyes towards him. "Please, detective, please don't leave me."

[miswaken]

actually alice lowkey is a luddite because why is she still using that bigass crt monitor and tower to send emails in the big 2023

[miswaken]

@rasskaz4ik from [x]

Alice Wake is decidedly not a tech person. She has a cellphone and a computer, the inner workings of which remain mysterious to her, and she knows her way around a digital camera. The immediacy of digital photography and the relatively unlimited number of shots that fit on an SD card make them better for work. Cameras she understands, even the flashier models required for her day job, but she suspects she'll always prefer something a little more vintage.

But when she's working events most people don't care for artistry. They want clean, professional shots -- maybe some creativity at weddings, but these corporate types just want simple documentation. Hardly a setting conducive to film. That's alright by Alice. Jobs like this don't leave her feeling particularly inspired anyway.

Work can't always be exciting, and it's not as if she needs the paycheck -- not with the kind of money Alan is still making, even now that he's gone -- but it beats the dragging, useless feeling she gets between jobs. It's not her art, but it's something.

Sometimes the people she meets are alright, at least. The man who'd met her in the lobby seems pleasant enough. Alan Bradley, and she can't help but smile a little at the name coincidence. Alice takes the offered card with a thanks and slips it into her own jacket pocket, shifting her grip on her equipment to do so -- with a rolling bag and a carrying case over her shoulder, she'd rather be overprepared than under.

"A coffee would be great, if you don't mind." Alice observes the man as they walk. She's not in the tech world loop enough to recognize his name or his face, but he looks like someone who probably has ten other more important things he could be doing than giving her a tour. She knows vague details about ENCOM, would have to be a complete luddite not to, but she's far from being a fan. "So, how'd you get put on photographer wrangling duty? Places like this normally just let an intern or secretary deal with me, and you don't strike me as either. No offense, Mr. Bradley."

[miswaken]

I missed sunday but I am once again thinking about alice taking erotic but tasteful photos of her partners. and very occasionally of herself to share with said partners

[fairycosmos]

fucked that you can’t fix other people especially when you really care about them. Oh so im just supposed to be there for you while you suffer. like a useless cunt gargoyle

[miswaken]

get to know your mutuals!

favorite color: purples and greens. I generally gravitate towards jewel and earth tones

last song: rosalita (come out tonight) by bruce springsteen. it's me and my middle aged man rock against the world

currently reading: the negative by ansel adams. trying to actually improve my photography, or at least get a better sense for the theory of it

currently watching: slowly working my way through the classic universal monster movies in release order. just watched bride of frankenstein, next up is werewolf of london

currently playing: just a couple hours into death stranding 2, and been messing around in dead by daylight recently

currently craving: air conditioning. it's been like 90+ degrees here for the last couple days and my apartment doesn't have central air. I'm sweating

Tagged by: @emilesmuseassembly ty!!

Tagging: I think it's made the rounds on my dash so steal it!!

[miswaken]

we shouldn’t forget that after being stranded in the dark place for approximately five minutes, the thing that alan’s subconscious mind decided was alice’s most noteworthy feature (after her fear of the dark) was in fact her ass

[ilkkawhat]

[apoemaday]

To Know the Dark

by Wendell Berry

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

[miswaken]

I think about this bit from alan wake illuminated a lot

1) if I had a nickel for every time alice was a draft version retconned doppelgänger of someone else’s significant other I’d have two nickels (house of dreams barbara and mrs hartman) I’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice. somehow she is everyone’s dead wife / girlfriend and no one’s dead wife / girlfriend

2) in a sense — and on a meta and in-text level — she’s been dead since the beginning. always obsessed with alice knowingly dead wife’ing herself in aw2 just to pull the biggest haha SIKE of the century. but also man. it’s really what the story has wanted of her all along