Here’s some starter-pack information about Look-See and his son. I do apolgize if any of this seems cringey to you, I want to try and keep canon characters as in-character as possible, but I also want to have fun with this concept.
Look-See has been awarded grand prize for World’s Okayest Dad. He’s not a bad parent, per say... but there’s a reason why he’s not allowed to supervise Atticus for extended periods of time.
Atticus thinks his dad is the cat’s pajamas. A strong parental figure that always keeps his word and holds people accountable for their actions? He wants to be like him when he grows up — and the route he’s going, that’s probably what’s going to happen.
Play fighting started when Atticus was seven and you have my absolute guarantee it’s only going to get more violent as he gets older. It sounds questionable, but given that these two are monsters it makes some sense.
After a few years of roughhousing with his father, Atticus once tried to roughhouse with a kid at school and ended up taking their arm off. No more roughhousing outside of a family setting.
He used to watch Atticus sleep. This isn’t an exaggeration — he was so paranoid that something would come and kill his son in the middle of the night that he literally stood over Atticus’s bed and watch him sleep for the first seven or eight years of his life.
They have similar views that Atticus’s mom must be protected from other monsters. It’s not exactly unheard of for humans to offer themselves to monsters, but they usually die after the experience. Atticus’s birth is an oddity in itself, and that’s gonna attract a lot of attention.
In honor of CryptTV’s newest short, we’re pitting Atticus against the prim and proper Miss Annity! Her short was directed by the director of the Look-See shorts, and I’d really recommend checking it out. Obligatory apologies for any shitty format.
From what we’ve seen in the trailer and in the official short, Miss Annity operates on a mentality similar to The Look-See. She gives you very strict guidelines about how she wants you to live, and if you don’t follow them, she’ll make a very bloody, albeit very cheerful example out of you for the others viewing her life lessons.
Monsters are meant to terrify. Humans are meant to run. Any attempt to deviate from these age-old rules is going to guarantee you a special guest spot on Life Lessons with Miss Annity. It’s safe to say that Atticus’s unorthodox family background is going to land him a spot in the woman’s web. But chances are that rather than going after the monster of a dad -- which will most likely result in a fight more trouble than it’s worth, she’s going to take on Atticus and his mother.
Let’s make something very clear -- Atticus may be half-monster, but he’s still a child. He might have some abnormal strength and agility from his father's side of the family, but he’s nowhere near on the same level as the dreaded Look-See. All he can really do in this situation is try to outsmart Miss Annity, and hope that if he pushes back hard enough she’ll lose interest.
Best case scenario, Miss Annity will give up on trying to educate this little monster and go somewhere else to impose her standards. But chances are if she doesn’t let up soon, she’ll end up getting the very thing she was trying to avoid -- an ominous rhyming note and a few less pieces than she started out with. The apples don’t fall far from the tree -- you can mess with the apples all you want, but the tree will always find a way to get you back.
So, given that it’s Spooktober and since I’m a huge nut for CryptTV, I decided that I’m going to start making an effort to post some things about a CryptTV OC my friends and I created. Make way for the Son of Look-See — the result of a bloody coupling between a human and the dreaded Look-See himself.
He will be interacting with and facing off against monsters from the canon. We’ll try to keep things as close to the original CrypTV content as possible, since I’m sure this isn’t the first time a fandom has seen a half-human/half-demon OC.
Keep on the lookout for some more of content featuring Atticus, Son of Look-See, throughout the month!
Link to previous freakout post: https://doodleferp.tumblr.com/post/623224885207040000/yall-im-up-tryna-decode-the-monsino-map-from-the
So what feels like a week ago, I decided to try and decode anything I might be able to find on the map of Monsino locations that was revealed to us in The Girl in the Woods. I wasn’t really getting anywhere trying to unblur the photos of the map I had already taken, so I decided to pull a MatPat and watch the scene where Carrie finds the map a quarter-frame at a time to uncover any additional Easter eggs.
What I found was something that blew my mind even further.
On the map, on Pennsylvania, I shit you not, there is an icon that is a dead-ringer for the Look-See.
Take a look:
That’s Look-See, all right. He’s there, he’s riGHT THERE. This ho knows a Look-See when she sees it, and that? THAT IS A FUCKING LOOK-SEE.
Additionally, I had some suspicions about another icon that I saw in one of my OG screenshots. It was very vague and I couldn’t make it out with my amateur Photoshopping, but I thought it looked like something with antlers. And GUESS WHAT IT WAS.
YEP. The FUCKING MORDEO. Right there in West Virginia (and uncomfortably close to home sweet Ohio). Monsino knows about not one, but TWO heavy-hitters of the Crypt Monster Universe (three, if I can figure out what the mind control icon is all about. Maybe the Kinderfänger? The monster from Tethers?). This only serves to confirm my suspicions and overall theory, so I’m gonna lay that out for ya right here:
The Monsino Corporation is trying to make monsters. I don’t know how, I don’t know why, but that’s their ultimate agenda. They want to make more of these suckers, or at the very least, study them or wherever they come from.
Here’s my main reasoning: the Freaks in the film Taste. For those who haven’t seen the film, I’ll summarize it here: two step-siblings, Clover and Malcolm, have to fight their way through their neighborhood after a shipment of meat from Monsino Farms turns out to be royally messed-up and turns anyone who consumes it into a ravenous beast called a Freak, rather grotesque creatures whose sole thought is what they’re going to eat next to fill the hole in their hungry tummies -- be it fruit, veggies, or human beings. Mostly human beings. Something I liked about Taste is that it ended on a hopeful cliffhanger, which isn’t something I’ve seen too often from Crypt. Usually the shorts end with implications that the monster is still there or that the main character is just about to get chomped on by a monster or something, but Taste ends with Clover and Malcolm going out to kick some cannibal butt, their newfound sibling bond stronger than ever, and that makes me really happy.
But as much as I love these two, the Freaks are what I feel to be a big point of contention in the Monsino puzzle. What intrigues me about these monsters is how similar they are to one of the heavy-hitters previously mentioned -- the Mordeo. Here’s some key similarities, just to name a few:
The way they’re formed. Both monsters are created through eating meat. The Mordeo is created when someone consumes human flesh out of desperation to survive. While not as bleak as the Mordeo, the Freaks are created when humans consume the likewise tainted meat.
Their transformation. As they are created, both monsters undergo a graphic transformation in which they lose their humanity. The Mordeo’s transformation is quite instantaneous, with the victim turning almost immediately after they consume the forbidden meats. The Freaks’ physical transformations are slower, but like the Mordeo their personalities disappear almost immediately after they consume the meat.
Their ravenous hungers. Both monsters are slaves to their vicious appetites. They want that human flesh and they don’t care who they have to kill to get it, be it the crazy hermit they only saw once in the alleyways or their identical twin sibling who they’ve been with since birth.
Get the picture? It’s my assumption that in their goal to study monsters, Monsino attempted to create a Mordeo through scientific means rather than supernatural. But since human testing is frowned upon, they had to find another way to test their theories -- and what better way to see the effects firsthand than to distribute it to a neighborhood under the guise of giving out free samples of a brand-new product?
That brings me to my next point -- Somnidyne.
Making its first appearance in Dream Screechers, Somnidyne is a drug that “relieves fear, inhibits paranoia, and supports sympathetic nervous systems". In layman’s terms, it’s designed to help people with severe phobias or anxieties function in day-to-day life. Sounds tame enough, right? Wrong. Apparently, a nasty side-effect of Somnidyne that they don’t put on the bottle is that it makes people experience nightmares so intense, it’s almost impossible to distinguish them from reality. Hell, one guy even died from these things. That made enough people raise hell over this that Somnidyne was pulled from the market
In the film, we get to see what the drug actually does: instead of helping you conquer phobias, it makes you a potential victim to a hella monster called the Dream Screecher. Now, it’s not exactly clear how exactly you encounter this Dream Screecher, so here’s my guess on that: Monsino wanted to study the Dream Screecher, but it inhabits in an alternate level of our reality -- meaning we can’t see it and it can’t see us, which is why they created Somnidyne. We only ever see the Dream Screecher when the main cast is on the drug, so it most likely acts as a mini-portal to wherever the Dream Screecher lives. Monsino may have had a bit more leeway when it came to testing this on humans, but perhaps they didn’t feel like taking the human test subject route and decided to give it to a bunch of people and see what would happen.
Which brings me to my last points -- the map Carrie found in The Girl in the Woods, and the Torment Fragments.
Torment Fragments are weird purple crystals that originate from portals to the Plane of Torment, the realm that The Brute supposedly hails from. These things also seem to be able to create monsters, such as the case of The Mauler and Miss Annity. A.D. has a map of this Plane of Torment, as revealed in The Girl in the Woods. But the map that we really need to pay attention to is the second map, and it’s the one that really puts the nail in the “Evil Monsino” coffin.
A.D. has a map of what looks to be every Monsino business location in the United States. Monsino ain’t just limited to farming -- from what I’ve been able to decipher, they’ve got Monsino Therapeutics, Biotech, and a pharmaceuticals HQ in New York. It looks really fucking official, too, which makes me wonder what postion A.D. was in for him to get one of these.
What makes me go even more off-guard are all the P markings on the map. If you look down in the bottom left corner, what little we can see of the map’s key identifies the P’s as portals to the Plane of Torment. And all those blue mountain-lookin’ things? You can’t make it out as well, but look at the key again and the blue lines are identified as “torm”. I’ll bet my left ass that the full ID is “torment fragments”, because those lines ALWAYS seem to spawn around the portals.
And even more so -- what’s the deal with all these mini monster icons? We got a clown-looking thing in Texas, and the Mordeo and Look-See symbols as previously discussed. What does Monsino want with all these portals? I can understand them needing to ID the Mordeos, but what makes Look-See so important to them? Do they wanna disect these monsters? Do they want to replicate them? What is Monsino’s game, and how long until we see things unfold? I get that with the second wave of COVID coming up here in the US, things are gonna be slower in entertainment than usual, but I can’t take it.
Crypt TV, we need answers. And we hope that you’ll provide.
TL,DR: Monsino is secretly evil and wants to make monsters, which is why they ID’d the Look-See and the Mordeo on their company maps.
