Tamara [tæmra] or just Tam. I think Nancy and Frank are meant for each other. I think Ned deserves better, namely Deirdre. I think Ewan and Zoe have a secret past that links them together, possibly romantically. I think Alejandro and Joanna are totally doing it on the sly. I think Nancy should spend some time sowing her wild oats, and will ship her with just about anybody*
This blog is going to contain spoilers and some rather nsfw content, so while I'm pretty good about tagging, you might want to keep that in mind.
*though right now I'm particularly partial to Grigor, Thanos, and Scott the joe to my frank
I'm telling you tam once grigor gets out of jail literally no business will want to hire him anywhere and he'll end up making ends meet being a stripper and years later nancy will find him there during bess' bachelorette party for her destination wedding and it will be embarrassing and beautiful and literally the perfect fic
okay I’m not even going to lie I told my sister about this and SHE WAS COMPLETELY ON BOARD and there’s a whole plotted out fic just waiting to be written with exactly this plot and it would be SO GOOD >_>
this came up in my activity feed again and I just realized that I wrote it??? THIS FIC HAS BEEN WRITTEN anon you might not even be in this fandom any more or even anywhere close but IT EXISTS, ANON!!!!! THIS FIC EXISTS NOW
Would obsess over anything shippy at all!! Henry/Bess, Grigor/Nancy, or even just Francy are all much beloved <333 tho tbh I would love to see any Grigor content at all, I'm not picky :D
Charlie and Abby from Nancy Drew's Message in a Haunted Mansion
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These games were the soundtrack to my childhood, and as I’ve sought comfort these past months, I’ve been replaying them to find peace ☕️ I drew these a hot minute ago with the intention of redesigning all the characters from every game - ambitious. Maybe it’ll be completed in a decade or two…
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Ship(s): Grigor/Nancy, Henry/Bess
Rating: M
Word Count: 55,615
Warnings: N/A
Summary:
Nancy and co head to Milan for a week of wedding prep in anticipation of Bess and Henry's destination wedding. What they don't expect is for Nancy to run into an old suspect while they're there-- and during Bess' bachelorette party at a strip club, no less.
hey, so did you know that you could get softlocked out of KEY? because apparently YOU CAN
I'm doing my second playthrough of this game rn just so I can slander it accurately in the future, and so naturally I am doing my best to color outside of the lines. this is always a lot of fun in the other games! doing things out of order and watching the flags mess up here and there has gotta be one of my favorite nd pasttimes by far
naturally, this meant that when I reached the alchemy lab, I thought, huh.
will they let me open the chest before doing the alchemy puzzle? normally this game refuses to so much as let you click on anything until it is the precise time that you're ~supposed to
but lo and behold! you can absolutely open the chest first!
this astonished me. I wondered if this meant I could skip the alchemy puzzle altogether, and tried to leave...
hm. interesting. all right, the game demands I do the alchemy puzzle. that's fine, I guess.
so ofc I go back and do just that. and try to leave again.
but here's nancy, once again:
at this point I was like, hm, okay, maybe I overlooked sth else in the alchemy lab? I proceed to painstakingly go through the walkthrough and do everything it asks, but... no dice.
so I thought, okay, maybe I'll try doing the alchemy puzzle again. can't hurt to try!
which led to something incredible.
exhibit a: please note the lack of a stone under that there dome
exhibit b: no stone to retrieve, making nancy look mildly insane.
so I thought, okay, kinda weird, but all right. the game is confused.
then I pulled back and noticed... there was a stone. hovering in mid-air right in front of nancy.
naturally, I immediately grab it, utterly baffled at this glitch, thinking that it wouldn't allow me to interact with it, or that it would disappear if I tried.
NOT SO
nancy is now the proud owner of not one, but two lock combination stones!
now, I immediately thought, my god, I could create the funniest inventory possible here and just fill it up with lock combination stones. unfortunately, it ends up not giving you anything after you have two, which was profoundly disappointing.
anyway, all that to say that it still won't let me leave the alchemy lab and my last save is several hours back :)
and all this can be yours for the low low price of not playing their extremely linear game in exactly the order they want you to :)
"She and Ned don't really need saving but I just think the only reason they're on-again off-again is bc they don't know an open relationship exists. Someone needs to tell them they can want to be boyfriend-girlfriend and also have flings. I'm mostly a reader of the original books but I imagine this to be true in all iterations" - @rhythmic-idealist
