I have,, so many Edge of Midnight AUs in mind it's not even funny cause I can't even start the concepts of any of them,,
One is a patron and class swap AU, one is a "what if they all died in ep 24" and ended up in Druskenvald reborn as the new races but they're in the Crooked Moon timeline so they meet the worst versions of themselves, and the last one's a Neon Odyssey AU where they're all hired by this rich elite couple known as the Druskenvalds
Can I say how much I adore Sans being a father/mother figure to Papyrus hcs because those are so peak. Sans having to step up and be a parent to his younger brother while also being a child himself; probably having his childhood robbed because he was busy trying to bring food to the table. UGH, i can talk about this for HOURS.
Crap, Russia. I'm hoping Hopper gets home soon, because I don't know how much longer we can do this. I don't want it to drag out or get repetitive. And as I'm writing this, Hopper is literally getting dragged out
I like Nancy's hair. I don't like her mother's hair. Don't like her dad at all. Supposedly he's getting love now, but I still don't like him. Kind of useless. Boring. That's his character though, innit? Still better than Will. Oh, look, there's the child. Holly, is it? Whatever, I'll worry about it later
Dustin being smart, I love him. Cool t-shirt, too. "Byte off" lol. Nancy's a smart cookie, too. I love them
And El's hair is gone again. Reverse Samson. Poor girl. She's suffering too much. I swear, if she doesn't get a happy ending, I'm suing. How inhumane
Oh shit, this is Vecna, isn't it. Creepy stuff happening. Still unsettling without the gruesome sinewy stuff. Not that he looks unsettling. Just a normal, handsome guy. But his body language and demeanour is off putting. Good actor. Was in Harry Potter briefly
"This is so messed up" you're right dude. But these guys are used to this stuff. Dude needs to chill out. Smoke some weed
Will and Mike sitting together. Friends can't do that, they're definitely setting up romance. Sarcasm
Weed dude wanting to make him a grave, how sweet. What a lovely young man, I hope nothing bad happens to him
"Why would he give me a pen that doesn't work?" It turns into a sword! No, wait, that's Percy Jackson
Oh shit, he's seeing a clock
And creepy house. Would not want to go there
Nice, Robin! I like her
"Do you need to be told everything?" I do. Love Steve
Poor El! Why you making her suffer so much?! Trippy stuff going on. So I'm assuming Vecna was the one who killed all those people back in episode one?
Nice accent, Dustin. Good on you for quoting Sherlock Holmes
Shit! Scary! Why are you saying that, Robin?! What's wrong with you?! Nothing, you're great. But that's the worst thing to say when someone has webs in their hair
Nice, Max and Lucas moments! So sweet. "Your laugh" ahhhhhhhj. Max's look afterwords, you know he just laid on some romantic shit right there, and she loved it. Taken off guard. Good work, Lucas! Use the rizz, Luke! I know, not Luke, but just picture me sounding like Alec Guinness when you read that
Murray! Let's hope he wasn't bullshitting about that karate stuff. And he wasn't! Nice! Get him! Get him! Yes! Get the gun, Joyce! Shit! Shit! Shit! Kick him in the balls! Gauge his eyes out! Joyce, why are you shooting all Willy nilly?! Nice! Murray, you beautiful man! Oh shit. Bad news. Hope one can fly a plane. How hard could it be? Pretty hard, apparently. Especially when you can't read Russian. But who can? Not with those ridiculous letters. This isn't looking good. I doubt they'll be flying this thing any time soon
Good thing I'm not watching this alone in my room at night. I mean I have my dog, but still. Scary
This has me thinking, what song would I play if I had to get rid of Vecna? Hopefully I don't have to test that theory someday
Shit, the Blonde Douchebag is here. Run, Eddie, run! Swim! Bash them with your paddle!
This guy is going to die. Patrick. Let's hope Blonde Douchebag seeing this will help him realise it's not Eddie
Christ, what are they doing to El? That's right! Get him! Hope she has her powers now. Yes! Yes! That's it! Get him! Oh no, need a recharge
Anyone want to hear about a Samurai Drama dream I had?
This one kinda stood out to me for the fact it made me woke up emotional? It was weird. Warning, I ramble. I ramble a lot. And also my knowledge of samurai is poor so excuse that too.
The dream I had was weirdly a samurai drama? Twas in a class of wandering samurai who, while known as ronin, have skills that are pretty much unparallel and I just so happened to be one of their star pupils that they're teaching. Basically while it was a clear teacher student thing, there was also a familial bond among all of us cause all the students and adults have some kind of background that either required them to abandon their family or they were abandoned in turn. Anyways, during one of our travels, it was raining and we were near a river. Some of the adults ended up spotting a boy faced down in the sand with a sword at hand. He was sick but we took him with us and he eventually recovered. He was cold and absolutely refused to tell us where he came from or who he is but all we knew is that he refused to go home.
He's pretty in the way only a rich boy could be. You know, with the long hair, straight and cleared taken care of with skin way too clean and white, like he rarely spent a day outside. Even the callouses on his hands weren't as pronounced as they should be. He was blond for some reason? Well, it was a touch darker than blond but you get my point. Anyways...
Cue montage of me trying to befriend this dude who was, honestly, a big stuck up his own ass. He had the vibe of someone that came from a rich family, and had a bit too much confidence in his skills with the sword, but the boy was refusing to being more of a burden than he already is. Meaning, he refuses to eat anything he hasn't made or caught for himself. So, obviously, he wasn't eating enough, so I found a loophole and dragged that fucker with me to a forest to hunt, of which I obviously got the most kill and forced him to help me cook. There, food by your own efforts. Now eat fucker. And that's how we became friends.
He got softer with time, and as we traveled the adults managed to get us some time to spend at a library. Many of the others don't know how to read and the adults didn't want to leave them out. Turns out this was actually a distraction cause the adults ended up accepting this mission to get rid of a high official who's planning on expanding her influence by starting a one-sided massacre. My friend and I ended up overhearing, and turns out this high official ended up being his mother.
He has no father, just a mother who doesn't need a sword, just her own hands to get things done along with just a few other individuals. My friend wanted to kill his mother, or at least detain her for both the treatment he went through and for what she's going to do. Obviously, my friend didn't want to be left out on this attack and wanted a part of it. I ended up coming along with him as I too didn't want to be left out, but I also because whether the adults said yes or no, my friend would follow them. So, they said yes so long as we stick close to the adults.
So, the night comes and we sneaked into her compound. We're obviously not the only ronin there, a bunch more people were wrangled together cause this mission had to be done with as little error as possible. We found her in this small building that's been repurposed as a meditation room. My friend and I were there along with the adults, at the ready and willing to strike. I, however, had a real bad feeling about this cause of how smooth this missions been going. And, guess what? My instincts were right. Twas a traitor in our midst.
A traitor grabbed my from behind and gagged me just as my friend's mother burst out of her meditation room. Swords were swung, but she grabbed the closest one by neck, lifted them up and snap it went. she had a sword at her hip, but she really had no need for it. Really didn't help that our forces were cut by half and being restrained. I managed to get out of them somehow. Grabbed a sword that really wasn't made for me and tried my hand at slashing at her since I too was a bit arrogant for my own good, thinking I could somehow distract her long enough for the others to either run or hurt her.
Nope. She destroys my sword and nearly knocked me out. Punched me in the gut too. The only reason she didn't kill me was cause my friend freaked out and tried to get her to leave me alone.
Of course she would recognize her son. Kind of shocked he returned at all, but that's fine, at least she doesn't have to get pregnant and give birth again. Really only sees her son as an executor of her will and that his time outside really gave him false beliefs that he's somebody. He's nothing without her, all your skills, all your habits, all your speech and all your views, they come from her and you should be thanking her for it. You really shouldn't be thinking that you can have friends. In fact, you shouldn't have them at all.
Anyways, she didn't kill me cause she wanted him to watch while she does do so.
My friend, of course, after his whole journey of getting softer and less rough around the edges, gave himself up. I mean, he really softened up, I feel like he would be reading gentle poetry by a peach tree as the hours pass and would want to share his creations. And his mother kept true to her promise and let me go.
I remember that everyone got massacred besides me, my friend and literally two other adults. My friend stayed behind and I did start to run away. But after taking just a few steps, I couldn't. I couldn't willingly abandon him after all this time. So, dream self being dumb, willingly went back. And, of course, I was put in jail. Well, a private jail cell but still, jail. Twas an isolated thing. Didn't see anyone for nearly months on end. But then, the mother did come and decided to have me see her boy and the work she's done on him.
And it was horrid. I really don't know how to describe his face other than mutilated and stitched back together. Uneven fat, his nose wasn't even there anymore. The only things kept the same were his eyes and lips. His eyes man. Empty black pits. Given up on everything. Given up on all control of his life. I really had to hug him. And I hated that he didn't react. It hurt. I was apologizing over and over. And when he did finally lean against my hand, I was ripped away and man the mother was angry.
The dream ended with her deciding she's done with me and she's sending me off to ally of hers so that ally can have his fun. And I woke up with a lump in my throat.
i'm so anxiety what will the movie be??? how do i know we won't be watching a barbie movie??? at least if we watch murder on the orient express i get to see a little bit of hadley but... WHEN WILL THEY TELL US??? i can't wait this long!!!!! they need to tell us tomorrow!!! dammit teachers tell us the movie!!! and it better be phantom or motoe or i am going to lose it!!!!!
Thinking back to the Crooked Moon as I'm rewatching the last 2 episodes of Edge of Midnight and how it's very interesting that Marius is so accepting of the Duchess in EoM during his metamorposis. Not because it's surprising but rather because of what it means for Marius.
The Crooked Moon is supposedly all of their bad endings, it's another world where they all made the wrong choices and ended up becoming crooked themselves. Jericho lost control to Virgil/Raum, Briggsy was consumed by his greed, Lethica basically became a Sharran/Shar herself but with aliens, Farryn lost herself trying to bring back her wife, and Yorgrim ends up being posessed by the Shroud.
Now Marius ended up becoming the champion of the Crooked Moon's Duchess of Sin, Viraxys, and was basically an evil vampire abbot tryna raise more undead for his "goddess".
That's why I find it so interesting that in EoM, he took an oath to her. It's clear that it's a bad choice (tbh I lowk think she's lying to him) and I know that Marius' motivations are different in EoM, but it's still the same concept of being under a devil because he felt like he had no other choice but to accept it and the monster he had become.
It was also because of losing someone he loved. In EoM, he found out that his king had died before pledging his oath and, in the Crooked Moon, he only fully accepted Viraxys after Lethica found him and was terrified so she left him.
It's why Marius in Ep 32 IRKS me because all I could think about was the Crimson Abbot every time he spoke, especially with his mannerisms. But I am very intruiged on where Andy goes with his character because of it!
He's also so unnecessarily mean to Jericho so I hope he dies actually
