#ch1991

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"And if I run fast enough / Could I break apart?" - Florence + The Machine, Cassandra

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Another piece from the cryptid hunters!! much different than my danny piece i did a couple days ago, but i had just as much fun with this one!

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Good News!

Two of the photographs in our archive have now been digitized! They'll be uploaded to our website shortly under our "digitized images," page in the gallery, and we'd implore those interested to take a look!

-The "Cryptid Hunters (1991)," Team

Mikey, in kitchen - circa 1990, pre-archive

From left: Amber, Danny, & Mikey - circa 1990, pre-archive

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Our Archive

Hey everyone! We're pleased to announce that our digital archive is finally up here! We'll be updating as we go through material, and we hope it sparks intrigue in others of the same field!

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Meet the Character Monday - Amber Collins

Full name: Amber Carrie Collins Nickname(s): CC, Pop-Rock Birthday: July 27th, 1973 Affliction (optional): psychic sensitivity Assigned color: rich purple (#4E2B5C) Full Pinterest board: Amber Collins Character playlist: Amber Collins Assigned song: Modern Day Cain

"Amber had gotten really, really good at getting what she wanted. See, Mikey might have been the firepower, and Danny might have been the researcher and the recorder, but her? Well she got them where they needed to go. And so what if she used that little nagging tic-tic-tic in the back of her head to know that the taste of root beer lingered on the child's tongue, enough for her to know that the kid would tell them what they needed to know if only she bought him a can of the soda. After all, these were just educated guesses, if she played it off right. Not like she was psychic or anything."

featuring Amber denying her weird little psychic powers!! (she actually doesn't have super crazy stuff because that would be WAYYY too op and boring! instead she has tastes and prickles on the back of her neck when stuff is up, just enough to not be completely normal, you know?) Unlike Danny and Mikey, where their weird shit moreso hinders them rather than helps them, she has one of the only helpful powers with very little side effects (although it should be kept in mind that Danny has only been a werewolf since, oh, about 1994)! Go girlboss!!

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Meet the Character Monday - Mikey Ramírez!

Full name: Michael Santiago Ramírez Nickname(s): Mikey, Dumbass, Royal Highness, Eagle-Shot Birthday: April 3rd, 1974 Affliction (optional): family curse Assigned color: 70s sunshine yellow (#EEB751) Full Pinterest board: Mikey Ramírez Character playlist: Mikey Ramírez Assigned song: Cotard's Solution (Anatta, Dukkha, Anicca)

"It was empty, the Nothing. That vast loneliness that stretches on forever and makes you feel sick in your throat because you are alone and should not be. But then, you were never really alone in the Nothing; it only looked like you were. You could taste the Something Else in your mouth, sour and coppery, and Mikey felt so fucking stupid for these dumb names he gave things, but it was better than looking down the empty corridor of the imitation of a school library and calling it something much more frightening. The cloying silence was too thick, too heavy; Mikey could not hear who he was looking for. He needed to go deeper."

hey guys!! first MTCM up now with our first Guy™, Mikey Ramírez! He's Spanish, he's queer, and he's here!! Among the original trio, he's the one who's got every weapon on standby, and (much to Amber's displeasure) was the one who found away to hide their guns in Amber's Ford.

If anyone has any questions feel free to sound off in the comments, and I would be delighted to answer!! <33

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Meet the Character Monday - Danny Ferald

Full name: Daniel Mikheil Ferald Nickname(s): Danny, Darling, Wolf-Jaws, Tiger Birthday: August 15th, 1973 Affliction (optional): lycanthropy Assigned color: dark pond-algae green (#31462A) Full Pinterest board: Danny Ferald Character playlist: Danny Ferald Assigned song: Up The Wolves

"Papers and case files filled the tiny room; Scott had been ever so gracious in allowing him to have that little room of his apartment to store all of their files and recorded cases. He'd even bought Danny a shelf to store all the tapes, each one labeled with the case number, the year, and the general genre. They were grouped on the shelf by genre too; ghosts and monsters and the tiny section labeled, 'Regular Freaky People Shit.' Danny sat down amid the piles and piles of papers and cassettes; his leg ached, but he couldn't be bothered to reach for his cane, propped against the desk on the far side of the room. He just sat there, surrounded by years of his work, and he didn't know what to do."

Second character up! Danny's certainly uh... delightful (?) to work with and write in my goofy little notebooks, which I should actually transfer over to a Google doc. Anyway, chronic pain Danny ftw <33

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Meet the Character Monday - Cassandra Weathers

Full name: Cassandra Weathers Nickname(s): Cass, Prophet of the Iris, Sightless Eyes, Prophet of the Coming of the End of the World, Bringer of Darkness and End of Sight Birthday: ??? Affliction (optional): Vessel of the Iris Assigned color: blood red (#781C0C) Full Pinterest board: Cassandra Weathers Character playlist: Cassandra Weathers Assigned song: Ptolemaea

"The fire and the heat and the rage culminated in a drunkenness, an intoxication of power that the Prophet had not felt even in her dream-connection with the girl. A power that the Father could not falsify, could not impoverish her of nor falsely replicate in his own image. She felt the Thing carefully, the way It reached out in her mind. She knew It; It had been there when she had met the Amber girl, when she had begged to be saved. It was there, and It reached to her now, promising It could help if only she let It in. "Hello, little Prophet," It said. The Prophet allowed It inside, and everything screamed."

Last one guys!!! Ah, Cass my beloved. She's always so interesting to write and I think that's partially due to the differences in the way her mind works.

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Meet the Character Monday - Scott Gray

Full name: Scott Matthew Gray Nickname(s): Scotty, Doc Birthday: December 29th, 1971 Affliction (optional): N/A Assigned color: sunrise gray (#877F74) Full Pinterest board: Scott Gray Character playlist: Scott Gray Assigned song: That's So Gay

"I mean, you'd think they'd listen to Scott at least once. I mean, he literally had a medical degree, he was somewhat qualified in the field of, "Hey, Mikey, your nose is bleeding constantly and you say you're getting headaches constantly, and your pupils are dilated as shit, that sounds like an aneurysm to me!" Turns out, the bitch just has a generational curse that's chasing him and trying to drag him down into its weird liminal hell-space. Unfortunately for it, it got Danny instead, and boy, was there gonna be hell to pay."

Scotty my boy!! he's one of the most-fun to work with in this series, and I greatly enjoy getting to play around with him like a jpeg. he's the most relatively normal of all of them (and still not normal by a long shot lmfaoo)