Introduction
Hi, I'm Stray! I use he/him pronouns, I'm an adult, and I'm aroace. This used to be an rp blog, but I realized it would work better as a sideblog focusing on the EMH girls, especially Steph. My writing and headcanons are not usually canon compliant, although some aus are more canon adjacent than others. You can send asks about any character, au, theory, or relationship I post about!! I love bouncing ideas off people, and I love love LOVE talking about Steph!! If there's enough interest, I might start doing requests.
ZERO TOLERANCE FOR: Misogyny, ageless blogs, baby jokes, sexual violence, people who pit bad bitches against each other (There will be NO Jessie vs Steph debate here they should kiss with tongue), racism or Homophobia, ect.
YOU SHOULD EXPECT: Blood and gore, drug/alcohol use, heavy canon divergence, implied/referenced explicit content and suggestive content (no full on smut or NSFW content), crossshipping/multishipping/polyshipping, shitposts, character studies, my personal disdain for the baby arc (If it can be called an arc), YURI!!! This is a Steph centric blog but I plan to give all the girls the attention they deserve! Works in progress: Zombie Girl, Aftermath (Strayverse short), and Final Girl Inc.
GENERAL TAGS:
#Final Girl Posting - where I'll post snippets/studies/concepts for my "Steph is the Final Girl au" (in which ALL the EMH girls get important roles and satisfying arcs)
#Zombie Hybrids - posts about my Stessa centric zombie au based on the movie Warm Bodies (in which Steph is a zombie who hasn't succumbed to brain death and Jessa is her badass survivalist handler)
#Strayverse - talking about a potential rewrite or rework for Steph and the other girls, canon compliant to the best of my ability
#The Everyman Archives - The Magnus Archives but make it EMH (ft. Lonely! Archivist Steph, Desolation Marked Jessa, fear-burned Jessie, and Stranger marked Linnie as her assistants)
#Malicious Canon Compliance is for theories, headcanons, or criticisms focused purely on the source material
#Hybrid Moments - headcanons/concepts/writing unrelated to any specific/preexisting au
#Long Shots - concepts, snippets, or theories that I'm attached to but not sure of ≠ canon to any of the related aus or rewrites
#Stray Thoughts - my tag for answering asks, posting theories, or reblogs
#Stray art - tag for art reblogs
#Friendly fire - tag for interacting with mutuals!
#Shotgun shells - my tag for being a hater, feel free to block this if criticism of the writing or characters upsets you at all. But if you, too, have your grievances about how the story and fandom treat women take my hand, this is a safe place for you.
+ All iterations get their own tags too! (Ex. Corenthal files, Princeton tapes). I may dig more into pre-Corenthal era iterations or speculate on post-canon iterations, if I do I'll add the relevant tags here.
CHARACTERS TAGS:
#Stephanie Cade - My Steph tag! I will tag most stories, headcanons, or theories with her regular tags too (Steph EMH, Damsel EMH, ect.) But for rewrite content, mood boards/collages, and non-EMH reblogs I'll only use this tag. For other iterations of Steph, you can find Fairmount/Corenthal era Steph posts under #Steph Corenthal and Princeton era Steph posts under #Stephanie Haze
#Jessa Lynn James - my Jessalyn tag! Same rules as Stephs tags. I've split her name into a compound name, both to separate my rewrite from canon compliant content and to better separate Jessa and Jessie - as they feature in several of my stories together and that could get confusing.
#Jessie Shepherd - Jessie Shepherd is my main Jessie tag, #Jessie Corenthal is specifically for Zombie au content.
#Alexis "Lexi" Garcia - When I said ALL the girls get attention I meant all of them!! There will be no canon fodder girlfriend characters here!! For those who don't remember, Lexi was briefly Vinny’s girlfriend before she disappeared, and she worked at a library helping the Hybrids with their research.
#Linnet "Linnie" Corenthal - Linnie was most prominent in the Corenthal files, and she was briefly mentioned in both the Princeton tapes and the hybrid era - dying to the rake twice? Maybe? This has led me to believe she might also be part of the iterations in a much smaller way. Corenthal-Princeton era Linnie is the same person, separate from main timeline Linnie - whose content you can find under the #Meilin "Linnie" Liu tag.
#Elizabeth Jones - She had only a small mention by Dr. Corenthal, being a psychic he contacted for help. Most commonly known as fembit after a phone call revealed her to be, at least temporarily, possessed by Habit. I'll mostly focus on her as a character, but if a time does arise where I'm mulling over an inhabited version of her, I'll tag it #Lizbit!
+ Any au where the girls are inhabited will also get the fembit tag, as well as other relevant tags (Stephbit, Inhabited Jessa, ect.)
+ I will be treating each iterations cast as entirely separate people from each other (Ex. Main timeline Steph is an entirely different character from Corenthal era Steph) and each iteration will have different last names to denote them. This is only really relevant to Linnie and Steph. They will have their own tags but the general tags will also be used, honestly this tag guide is equally for me.
RELATIONSHIP TAGS:
#Steph/Jessa Lynn and #Steph & Jessa Lynn are for posts about the relationship(s) between Steph and Jessa. On long posts centering them, relevant tags (Stessa, StephJessa, Steph and Jessa) will also be included, but shorter posts or reblogs will only include these main tags, unless I'm reblogging someone else's art.
#Steph & Jessie is for posts about the relationship between Steph and Jessie, because I view them as queer platonic I will note that other similar complex relationships (Ex. One-sided attraction/crushes, friends-with-benefits, ect.) Will all fall under platonic tags unless it leads to a romantic relationship. I like them romantically, too, but I really like them as besties <3
#Jessa Lynn & Jessie and #Jessa Lynn/Jessie - tags for the relationship(s) between Jessa and Jessie. For the sake of my sanity, if I write a fic or snippet centering them, Jessie will get a nickname.
#Linnie & Steph - This will mainly focus on the Corenthal era, maybe the Princeton era. I view them pretty unambiguously as sisters, and I'm unlikely to consider them romantically.
#Elizabeth & Steph - Mostly for the Final Girl au, she doesn't play a huge part in any of my other wips, unfortunately.
#Linnie & Jessie - zombie verse centric.
#Lexi & Steph - Strayverse, zombieverse, and Final Girl verse! It sucks Lexi had like no screen time, I like to think her and steph hung out! Very much potential for romantic aus but I don't have any any in the works right now.
+ Any post that mentions 3 or more girls, platonically or romantically, will be tagged #Girls Night unless the guys are involved. Also a catch-all tag when I don't feel like tagging all of them on shorter posts or non-emh reblogs
#Steph/Evan and #Steph & Evan are for the relationship(s) between Steph and Evan.
#Steph & Jeff - my favorite frenemies/sibling duo/codependent yearners
#Jessa Lynn/Jeff and #Jessa Lynn & Jeff - posts about Jessa and Jeff's relationship.
#Jessie & Evan and #Jessie/Evan - posts about Jessie and Evan, as a note I see a lot of me and my long time best friend in them, which will probably bleed into posts about them. They've got that friends to dating to best friends excellence to them.
#Hybridcule will refer to any ship with 3 or more people (Ex. Steph/Evan/Jessie), all polyship posts will also feature individual relationship tags (Ex. Steph/Jessie, Jessie/Evan, Steph/Evan).
#Steph & James Corenthal, #Linnie & James Corenthal, #Jessie & James Corenthal - ALWAYS platonic/familial. Any Corenthal Era post will also include the #Corenthal Family tag as a catch all for that eras Steph, Vinny, Jeff, Evan, and Linnie. Strayverse Jessie hcs and character studies will include this tag as well.
#Steph & Habit - final girl centric, they are NOT friends but they do have a shared goal (kick the shit out of Slenderman).
#Crossfire will denote relationships between characters from different series's!
#Tim & Steph refers to the (strictly platonic) relationship between Tim Wright from Marble Hornets and Steph.
#Jessica/Steph and #Jessica & Steph refers to the relationship between Jessica Locke from Marble Hornets and Steph.
#Steph/Kate-#DamselChaser - the tag for one of my favorite rarepairs! The relationship between Steph and Kate Milens AKA Kate the Chaser from Slender: The Arrival.
#Elizabeth & Marc - refers to the relationship between Elizabeth and Marc McComber from DarkHarvest00 in the Final Girl verse
#Jessa Lynn & Alec Amsel - refers to the antagonistic relationship between Jessa and Detective Amsel from DarkHarvest00(Who I had to make up a first name for) also primarily in the final girl verse.
Jessa Lynn & Heather - final girl centric relationship between Jessa and Heather McComber from DarkHarvest00, final girl centric.
+ Platonic relationships will be denoted with & (Ex. Jessie & Steph) while romantic relationships will be denoted by a / (Ex. Jessa/Steph).
+ The relationships noted here are just the ones I intend to focus on, you can send asks about any character combination though!
+ Any relationship between a canon character and an oc is probably a family member or classmate, likely to only be seen in character studies and such as background characters.
Ask or message me anytime!
