#gabriel valack

[scottstiles]

TEEN WOLF 5.5 A Novel Approach ♡ July 20th, 2015

[splitterregen]

Do we ever find out why Dr. Valack seems to be the only person in Eichen House's supernatural ward with a room mate (Peter), and why on earth there's only one bed?

because that seems like an insane decision to me

[kaitlinj16]

🐺Teen Wolf 🐺

5.11, "The Last Chimera"

[mostly-vo1d]

The creature in the previous cell. The Sluagh. The myth is that they can take on the appearance of the lost souls that have become inextricably bound to it. Happen to have seen any lost souls, Mr. Stilinski? Everyone down here.

[serendipitioussurvival]

Under your Skin - In your Heart

Fem!StilesxPeterHale  

She should not be missing - presumed a runaway - so that her pack worried themselves sick about her, knowing she was alive but unable to feel her or where she might’ve been through her bond. Not drugged out of her mind because of something that hadn’t even been her fault. He shouldn’t be her only option of salvation. Yet he was, and the very fact was both a blessing and a curse.

Peter growled long and low at the sight of the female curled in the corner of her cell, straightjacket preventing most of her too-pale skin from peeking through. 

“Oh yes, our newest little roommate.” Gabriel Valack chimed, eyeing the poor girl with dulled adoration. “Won’t get much out of her, I’m afraid. They keep her quite tame with the amount of drugs they give her.” Peter was kneeling beside her before he could register his body's movement, hands shaking in both fear for her and horror that this was where she had been. 

That she hadn’t run away, she’d been taken. Taken here, away from all those who cared for her. His hand hung between them, not thinking himself worthy or good enough to touch her, shaking gently with his own indecision. “I don’t suppose you know her name? I, strangely, cannot see anything about her.” 

No, of course he wouldn’t have been able to, not with what she was. Not with the kind of person she was. It just wasn’t possible, this was where she had been after rescuing Erica and Vernon? Deucalion and his pack of Alpha’s had been telling the truth when they said they never took a young human woman, that they’d never even caught her scent? When he found out who had put her here they were going to die, and brutally. 

“Why did they put her with you, why did they put me with you?” Peter demanded, jaw clenching and unclenching in an effort to control his tumultuous emotions. His control promptly shattered when he brushed her hair back from her forehead and saw blank, dead gold eyes staring back at him from bruised, sunken eye sockets. 

“Most likely because I have no interest in her body and am able to fully stop you should you try anything,” Valack suggested with a shrug, not all that interested in either of them quite honestly. “Well, either way, it’s good you two know one another, frankly I’m not interested in sharing a bed with either of you. Not that the darling girl here actually sleeps on the bed much.” 

“Peh-” Stiles drawled through parted lips, inching slowly towards his fingers that were hovering over her hand. “-er.” he swallowed the emotions that were welling up in his throat at her attempt to say his name, at the fact that - even through the drugged haze - she could still recognize him. “Peh-” it was said on an exhale, then nothing else, her gold eyes were dull and the few tears she had built up in her few seconds of clarity fell down the bridge of her nose and onto the ground. 

“I’ve got you,” he told her quietly, sincerely, and gently affixed her into his arms and against his chest. He simmered his rage so that he could revisit it at another time, choosing instead to focus on his wounded packmate and the need for comfort she possessed. “I’m here.” It was a vow and a promise, he wasn’t going to leave her alone, not again. Not if they ever escaped this place, and even if they didn’t then she would be stuck with him then too. He had suspicions on who had placed her here but not a clue as to why, not when she could do so much good-

Not unless they suspected her of still being possessed, even partially, by the Nogitsune. Jeorek, her father, hadn’t even known where she was and now they probably never would. He enveloped her with his body as much as possible, trying to bring comfort to her through touch. 

“Pack mates, interesting.” Valack mused before lying down on his own bed, book in hand. Peter, however, did not comment. He was too lost in thoughts regarding Stiles, in trying to hold her as close, as firm, and as gentle as possible all in the same breath. He wanted to rip the fucking straight jacket off of her, wanted to bleed the drugs out of her so she could regain control of her own body - he knew, personally, that she found it a special hell since the Nogitsune had made her live through everything it did without a way to stop it. This was her worst fear reimagined so that she could have amplified suffering. 

She smelled of Lichen, most likely meant to weaken Peter further. He didn’t care, he decided as he pulled her closer and rested his forehead against hers, he couldn’t feel anything through their pack bond and that scared him far more than any potential poison they thought they could kill him with. They would be sorely disappointed, by showing him that they had Stiles they’d signed their own death warrants. He was going to find a way to save Stiles and then they were going to raze the structure from the ground up. 

‘Peter!’ he clutched her tighter against him when he heard her call his name out, glancing rapidly around the room to try and find the trick. ‘Peter, you found me.’ she sobbed even though her face remained impassive and void of expression. He closed his eyes and buried his nose in her unclean hair, chalking it up to his own hopes painting a vivid mental picture of how Stiles Stilinski should be. She should be laughing and going through her senior year of high school, picking what college she wanted to go to - if she decided to go - and what she was going to do with the pack. 

She should not be missing - presumed a runaway - so that her pack worried themselves sick about her, knowing she was alive but unable to feel her or where she might’ve been through her bond. Not drugged out of her mind because of something that hadn’t even been her fault. He shouldn’t be her only option of salvation. Yet he was, and the very fact was both a blessing and a curse.

“I’m here.” he finalized with a sigh, reluctantly slipping into a soft, drug-induced sleep.

[fandom-oracle]

Valack is a gay icon

[fandom-oracle]

I’m bitter because Jennifer Blake, Deucalion, and Dr. Valack were the show’s most interesting villains but were given barely any development mostly because they weren’t attractive to the majority of the teen girl audience.

[nemetonisevilpassiton]

The Doctor will see you now - The Teen Wolf-Hellraiser meta pt 3

Part 1 - We have such sights to show you

Part 2 - What big teeth you have

Part 3: The Doctor will see you now - Gabriel Valack and Dr Channard.

This comparison is both easier to see and more complex than the Julia-Frank/Peter Lydia one. The character Channard (unlike Frank and Julia) exists only in the second film which was not written by Barker, and it shows. However it is the least worst sequel by some measure, and the last one to understand the Cenobites were A horror not THE horror of the film, and certainly not some sadomasochistic murderers in leather dresses.

So if you were planning a serious marathon as opposed to a non-heckling one I’d stop here and go straight to Candyman [also by Barker]

Back to Dr Channard. In many ways I think early movie Channard is possibly one of the greatest horror villains ever put on paper. Where Frank wanted to know and experience Channard wants to observe and understand, and to do this he acts exclusively on others, or worse, lets them act out their dangerous delusions upon themselves for his benefit, sometimes cultivating these dangerous behaviours for that. Where Frank, and by extension the Cenobites, offer a seduction into the dangerous, and it is often a knowing descent -as  Pinhead says “it is not fingers that call us, it is desire” - Channard cultivates his subjects unknowingly. Let me clarify that. He knows what will come of it - they do not.

The comparison between Channard’s basement of “lost” patients and Valack’s secure ward is explicit.

It is in examining that explicit comparison we find out a lot about both characters.

Both the Channard institute and Eichen House on the surface are up to date modern establishments. They are clean, well attended and no one seems in threat. It is hard to tell with Eichen because we have two images of it, Stiles view as a possessed patient who is therefore unreliable, and Lydia’s view of the secure ward.

When Stiles is in group of people Eichen is about what we would expect for a modern mental institute. It is open, airy, with access to the outside, and although the orderlies are present they are not restrictive. Brunski only reacts to Stiles when he steals his keys for example, and we know he’s an “Angel of Death” and has been for around ten years. In Teen Wolf parlance that goes back to 2004, because everything in Teen Wolf, it feels, goes back to 2004, this also gives us a timeline for Fenris’ appearance. We knew, from the webisodes, that he appeared just in time for Talia to vanish - the fire in Jan 2005 - so his appearance coincided with Valack’s relegation to the basement.

Now whether Fenris came in to take over after they found Valack was drilling holes in his patient’s heads, or Fenris took over because Valack drilled a hole in his own head is unknown, but either way it gives us a rough timeline.

The line drawn between the Dread Doctors and the Cenobites is obvious when you know how to look, the only thing that doesn’t correlate is that there are four Cenobites, to use their colloquial names, Pinhead, Deep Throat, Butterball and Chatterer, of which only Deep Throat [so called because she has her oesophagus held open with pins that go through her cheeks and form a halo around her neck] is female. The three doctors, the Surgeon, Pathologist and Geneticist also only have one female, the Geneticist. But there are hints that there was, or was meant to be, a fourth doctor, as there is a fourth mask.

Valack’s determination I had grouped in my head with the Taxidermist in Nightbreed [the character probably has a name but I don’t know it despite being in love with the film since it came out]. The Taxidermist is a man who lives adjacent to the Necropolis and is aware of it, to the point that he tried to join the breed but they rejected him. There appears to be no bad feelings between them about this and he keeps their secret until Decker [the antagonist] tortures him, and he assumes that Decker is like him, and wants to join the Breed, where Decker wants to destroy them. He is called the Taxidermist because he keeps several stuffed animals including one that he treats like a pet, talking to and petting. It clearly freaks Decker out because he announces himself as the Mask by cutting it’s head off.

In doing this I had Valack pegged but Channard came through and went nope - it’s him.

Channard is the perfectly presented calm doctor who has everyone conned into think he’s exactly as he appears. He lives in the ultra modern -still- house of clean edges and bright lights. There is nothing out of place until we go into his locked room which is an office dedicated to the occult, not just the box but the script of several dead languages is over the walls, pickled medical curios, rubbings of the puzzle box, mock ups of it, an altar to what appears to be Horus.

At the heart of the altar is a two way mirror shaped like a sunburst.

It is clear from the walls of books, and the folder of collected documents he’s been doing it for years.

We learn, from Deaton, that the same is true of Valack, and it is brought up as early as 3b that Eichen had a history of trepanation. We don’t know how long it went on, but unlike Channard’s experiments Valack’s often ended in the death of the subject. Channard experiments almost exclusively on the film with Tiffany who, when she is introduced to Channard, appears to be slightly on the autistic spectrum in a way that manifests in puzzle solving. To keep her Channard murders her mother, then operates on her brain, claiming it as a necessary medical procedure, to force her further into the manifestation so she will inevitably solve the puzzle box.

We do not know what Valack’s original outcome was intended as, however it is likely that Brunski’s victims were those that had been trepanned by Valack, we know that Lorraine Martin was trepanned in 2004 and she was one of Brunski’s victims. The link between Valack and Brunski is certainly one to explore and whether Meredith - last seen in a comatose state something we know Valack can initiate - was Valack’s puppet or acted on the Deadpool on her own.

But having watched Hellraiser - Hellbound I’m sure where I was flirting with the idea before, Valack controlled Meredith, she was his Tiffany. That unfortunately would take another meta because this one is already huge, and nowhere near done. [do not be surprised if parts 4 and 5 appear]

There is a difference between Channard and Valack, Channard wants to watch, to observe, to record, to understand. He approaches it like an academic where Valack is much closer to the doctor in Fatal Frame 4 in the respect he has a goal that he is working for and willing to do whatever he needs to to achieve that goal. Dr Haibara wants to cure his sister who is afflicted with the Luna Sedata illness, Valack wants to coax the doctors to him. He wants to prove them real so that he can justify what he did.

It is interesting however that Fenris in the webisodes says that he lost all credibility by researching werewolves, which is clearly proven a lie when we learn he is the head of Eichen House. It is likely he was invited to take over from Valack, or to work with Valack because of it. However he wants to discourage the boys because he does not know, at that point, that Scott is a werewolf. It is hard to tell if this was before or after he treated Jackson.

However Fenris did search for aconite poisoning with Jackson despite him showing none of the symptoms, and Jackson’s later transformation was suspect. After all where else would a kanima go but the secure ward, and we see at one point that there is a kanima there, but we don’t know if it is Jackson.

So is Fenris working with, or for, Valack or not? I can’t say, we simply, at this point, don’t have enough information.

But back to the comparison I’m supposed to be exploring. Valack seeks the same eldritch truth that Channard does and like Channard he does awful things to do it, but at some point, probably 2004, Valack is questioned to the point that he personally ends up in the secure ward, and Valack’s persuasiveness is closer to that of Pinhead than Channard.

Channard learning of the Julia-Mattress takes it into his office and feeds it one of his patients. This causes Julia to manifest and in a long sequence, a rather uncomfortably long sequence, Julia loses control of the victim and the two of them crawl across the floor, until she wraps herself around him and consumes him. Channard watches horrified, as does the assistant doctor Kyle hiding behind a curtain, terrified that the victim might grab the curtain and reveal him, meaning Julia will eat him too - which she later does.

The scene lasts over three minutes with very few cuts.

After she has consumed her victim Channard then helps Julia back to her mattress. When she has consumed others and she is walking around the house like a flaying victim he wraps her in crepe bandages and gives her a gown, and when she kisses him - wrapped in bandages - he allows this and gropes her. He is surprised- once she has consumed enough- that Julia is beautiful.

It is when Julia has skin and wears a dress that is very “goddess” in it’s style. This is deliberate. However Hellbound Julia is very different from Hellraiser Julia and I want to make this clear, but it would explain Valack’s obsession with Lydia to an extent. As Julia leads Channard into the corridors towards the giant manifestation of the box that she calls Leviathan, Valack wants Lydia to bring him to the doctors.

Channard uses Tiffany to open the box, this film suggests the idea of more than one box, the patients later all have one, in a piece of cinematic hand-waving as the first film saw the box returned to the original vendor. This is literally interpreted in Teen Wolf because Valack uses Lydia to escape his own box, but not in time to prevent the doctors taking his third eye.

What is interesting and not explained is that Valack uses glamour to change his appearance only after the loss of the third eye, previously looking into the eye not only gave visions but induced catatonia [certainly in Deaton and others mentioned by Fenris, suggested to be done to Peter and then Meredith] This matches Channard’s transformation into the Cenobite-Channard - if he has another name I don’t know it. Like pre-transformation Channard Valack is eloquent, perfectly turned out. It is almost like the transformations are inverted.

It would be easy to put in a diagram here but I’m resisting.

Valack goes from dirty bandages and scrubs, with a sort of sleazy and manic phraseology, he is still manipulative but seems more frantic, like he might attack the glass - that he needs to be restrained. After his escape he is shown wearing a vest and immaculate white shirt, the previously open wound of his trepanation is gone and he is charming, frankly honest - often detrimentally so - and manipulative. He takes control of Eichen quickly and like Kyle Fenris is gone, although we do not see his end it is heavily implied he’s either dead or in the secure ward.

Channard goes from the perfectly turned out doctor, in a three piece suit like Valack’s, to a Cenobite upon whom the experiments that Channard performed are done. So because Channard is obsessed with trepanation and brain surgery he is attached to the eldritch by a giant umbilicus that constantly drills into his brain.

That Valack himself is undone by his curiosity is not surprising, it’s simple hubris.

Channard wants to observe and this is an academic dissonance between the two. I find it hard to say if Valack wanted to be one of the doctors, or he wanted to understand them, because he had the fourth mask and he did seem to summon them, certainly the Deadpool didn’t feature anyone in Eichen so it’s likely it’s purpose was to limit the amount of latent supernaturals and actual supernaturals so they would have to hunt where he was, knowing they couldn’t get in except through a kitsune. Except it had to be a lightning kitsune, we know that but did Valack know about the specificity I can’t be sure.

Had Julia shown up to offer the eldritch delights of the box to Valack I do not doubt he would have gone.

Instead he manipulates Lydia, using her like Channard uses Tiffany. This is interesting as it maintains Lydia as ingenue, despite her own character growth. He uses Lydia not because he cannot do it himself but because he maintains that academic distance. We don’t know whether or not Valack taught Meredith to hone Lydia’s abilities but it definitely helped his goals.

We don’t know what would happen if Lydia had put on the mask, would she have become a doctor, or would it have worked like Malia’s goggles, allowing her to see the location of the Desert Wolf. Although I wonder now who has all that stuff, and do I really want Deaton to have it.

There’s so much we can learn about Valack from Channard, the parallels are really obvious.

The psychiatric doctor fascinated by the supernatural.

The neat turned out exterior that is either transformation or transformed.

The academic distance kept in his obsessive study - both use others to do their experiments so they don’t get hurt by them.

The experiments - primarily brain surgery related

The secret floor of experimental patients.

Undone by hubris that results in their death.

Both of them are killed by destruction of the head.

Channard is killed when his murder tentacles get caught in the floor under Tiffany, when his umbilicus pulls his away the tentacles are so fixed his head rips in two, Valack’s head is severed in two by Lydia’s scream.

Valack looks at the doctors the way Lydia looked at Peter, as someone who would open the door to truths they had not considered existing until they were encountered.

But this meta is getting longer than some fics. And there’s a lot of things that do need explored, but this one probably isn’t the one to do it. But if someone wanted to look into Valack Hellraiser 2 would be the place I’d recommend to start, and then Dr Haibara [again who died when his head popped open] but I wanted to leave this meta before we all died of old age.

Considering how much I was able to mine (and that was not really delving below the surface) there is a LOT here, for those with the stomach to explore it.