#backrooms kat

[applecrunchbunny]

It’s kinda crazy that I don’t see many people talking about how Clark sent Kat and Bobby into something he knew he was dangerous

I currently don’t believe it was his intent for them to die but he definitely knew it was a possibility

Maybe something could be said about how older generations ruin things for younger generations, but I have a headache rn and it’s hard to think

There’s definitely something about how men are dismissive of women

[cozmo-oftheuniverse]

i love seeing people analyze clark and mary and them as characters as well as their relationship between each other, and completely disregard Bobby and Kat. Like i’m sorry, i just think they have no substance.

their entire purpose for the film is to be bait, essentially. Bobby gets dragged down by pirate clark, kat goes after him and supposedly dies by Clark’s hand after he has a mental breakdown from being stuck in the backrooms for what must feel like weeks, which are probably a few days max.

As much as I think their roles were interesting, they’re one dimensional for a reason. They fuel Clark’s desperation and his aim to figure out what the backrooms is, and it’s disheartening seeing people write fanfic specifically geared toward Bobby.

He was a one off character.

People writing things about him being an entity, or a life form, or this “better bobby”, it really irks me because why can’t we get fanfiction in that same vain with clark, or even about mary and an encounter between her still life of some sort? We should be expanding on the fully fleshed out main characters. Why does it have to be the white stoner boy who’s already established to have a girlfriend that dies within 10 minutes of being on screen in the second half of the movie?

Oh, oh it’s because he’s hot? It’s because he’s vaguely twinkish? His actor has other medias he’s in. Go see him in those medias instead. Focus on the fleshed out characters rather than the one off, one dimensional, bait characters for once. The Backrooms movie is one of the best horror movies I’ve personally seen, and its exploration in trauma and the inability to move on even long after events happened is something that should be praised and discussed.

The characters that had minimum 20 minutes of screentime then died should not.

edit: comments have been restricted because some people don’t know how to be respectful and take criticism when it’s handed to them.

[zevysocks]

Ppl taking about bobby when Kat is literally right there [thats why I covered him up]

[goonergigi]

I saw the backrooms requests open and had to hop im because I'm a desperate lesbian hoe–

How about a mary kline/backroom entity female reader smut., In which reader looks and acts mostly like a human being, just a very tall, kind of awkward and spooky one, and has grown to like being around mary, who's stuck in the backrooms. She acts like a kind of "guard dog" to mary in a way, but still has the bloodlust of an entity. So mary decides to let reader suck a bit of her blood, and it's this kind of self restraint play going on with her being dom-ish to this creature who could very well kill her but just wont because she's pathetic (kinda vampire coded in a way..) And tension grows and they end up fucking and etc. (you can go as crazy as you want, I'm a freak I won't mind <3)

thanks for reading this long ass thing, love ur writing!

Babe you read my mind that’s literally the first one I was starting with 😭😭

Here’s the other ideas I have currently

Let me know which of these yall would like next after Mary x entity reader, it’ll hopefully be done today or tomorrow!!

[genericgirl420]

freezer bride

[doodler-jpeg]

Threesome with Bobby and Kat but it's you and Kat making out and Bobby's just kinda there for the ride.

[chronicbeans]

A few things I noticed and thought after watching Backrooms for a second time:

Spoilers btw

The photo Phil holds of Clark at the end seems to be Clark with a censored out Clark Still Life. You can vaguely see a peg leg and regular leg at the bottom of the black box.

Mary's Still Life sitting at the end really unnerved me for some reason on my first watch. On my second one, I think it's because she reminds me of how her mother was sitting in the wheelchair during the one flashback.

I'd noticed this the first time, but the Still Life of Clark's wife running away when Pirate Clark came in has implications. However, on my second watch, I noticed that she was holding her head when she first shows up by the Christmas Tree.

The Christmas Tree almost looks like it's an explosion, with the people/statues stuck in the floor shielding themselves from the light.

Pirate Clark/Still Life Clark stumbles slightly from his peg leg. Which, of course, is similar to when he's filming the commercial. However, if thought about the right way, it's also like he's drunk or tipsy.

Also Clark didn't NEED to have a peg leg when you think about it. His store's mascot didn't have a peg leg. Why did he have a peg leg?

The first room of the backrooms that has all the furniture is empty when Mary steps in. So Clark either moves all that furniture somewhere else, or he took all that furniture out of the backrooms like he did that stool in the beginning.

I personally interpreted that he took that stool as him trying to replace the chair he broke in the beginning, because he first picked up those two connected chairs and tried to disconnect them when he first entered. That and trying to prove it was real, but like... I think that chair was at the forefront of his mind.

The piles of chairs, furniture and clothes are somewhat similar to Mary's Mother's house during the flashbacks to Mary as a child. There's all the hoarded furniture and clothes, the barricaded door, and the rotten food. Which explains why Bobby said it smelled awful in that one section. The backrooms isn't just trying to remember how that house looked, but also how it smelled. With dirty clothes, rotting food, and whatever else might not be visible there? I can't imagine the place smelled nice.

I think the section where Clark and Kat are talking through a wall that's also a one way window was slightly foreshadowing to Phil talking to Mary. The one way window there is much more obvious, but it's still there.

Clark's obsession with the backrooms also feels somewhat foreshadowed? Like, he was already obsessed when he tried describing it to Mary, but it definitely got worse towards the end. However, before that (if I remember correctly), there's a brief scene of Clark doodling some sort of building design. It's pretty nonsensical, and even as somebody who isn't an architect, I felt like it was at least a very difficult design to actually build, and at most impossible. Yet, that's clearly a design he wants to make... And the backrooms kind of remind me of that.

Speaking of the scene where Clark tries to tell Mary about what he saw, I think there's some clever parallels to what little we see of Mary's Mother to him. Which works, because I think Mary's way of going about being a therapist and treating her clients is shaped heavily by that. She keeps mentioning windows, which were a big part of her childhood. Clark seems very energetic and fidgety in that scene, which are common signs of anxiety. Mary's Mother definitely was anxious to the point of being paranoid. Then, Mary's Mother mentions "them" being everywhere, which could explain why Mary specifically asks Clark if there's people in the place he found. I could go on, which I might do in a separate post, but you get the idea.

Another pretty obvious thing, but Kat and Bobby both get missing persons posters. Clark doesn't. Both because he was truly alone, but I also like to think it's because Kat and Bobby were probably the only people who would've cared enough to make one for him, and he caused their deaths. Even if he was just their (or just Kat's) boss, that's still a significant enough part of their lives for them to care. Yet, interestingly, Mary also doesn't? I don't think she was let out by Async at the end. Phil was acting much too shady about it. So, maybe they had a cover up for her?

[m4ycrowave]

Guess who’s BAACK

I really need to get a better editing software man CapCut muddies up my colors and it’s wants me to pay for everything now. Not to mention my ipad looks on the verge of death to the point where this is legit the most I could do as to not risk losing my baby and being forced back into the toxic situationship my phone has with my finger. Once I learned what a stylus was I never wanna go back

OH OH also! I sell keychains now :D if anyone is interested in backrooms specific keychains they will only be up til the 27th, the link is in my bio :)