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[lurkingvoid]

"So you threw me- You threw it away?"

TF!Legs so betrayed by someone he thought he could trust more than even the Celestial metals, when I get you Legundo

I don't even know if it was intentional or genuinely a slip of the tongue but my gods, the implications. He gave Megi those rings hoping she would want to still communicate with him somehow in his time away, he TRIED to communicate with her when he heard nothing, he was in agony and still was thinking of his friends and how best not to worry them. Only to come home and find out someone he trusted most abandoned him, in a way that she hadn't even considered.

[brightscarecrow]

After their talk, TF!Scott commented about how TF!Legs reminds him of himself when would have to go off into a forest and cave and punch trees and rocks with his bare fists in order to vent out his anger when he was younger. I bet Legs talking about how he was gonna go back to breaking stuff really made him have some flashbacks.

How much of his own bones did he break and his own blood did he spill against stone and wood after the incident with the bandits I wonder? Angry at just how unfair life was and how cruel other people could be. Angry that he survived when the others did not. Angry at himself for hesitating and having to come home to the screams and wails of mourning families because he couldn’t move when he needed to. Just so, incredibly angry and the only thing he could think to do to deal with it was to put himself in pain until the day he could strangle his own negative emotions down deep into his soul and hold them there.

It’s no wonder he’s a force of nature in a fight, since that’s the only time he feels it’s appropriate to actually let himself feel negative emotions. Other than that he tries to maintain control of his emotions as best as he can, to not perfect results. He mentioned that when he did let go he had accidentally killed AJ, feeling guilty over letting his emotions go the way they did. This instance probably reaffirming his not so healthy “stuff everything down into my soul” mentality.

I think he feels that he physically cannot allow himself to feel strong emotions anymore freely. His magic started to encroach into his being and room whenever he was in distress about Pyro, he accidentally killed AJ when she lit just the right match to ignite the fuse, overwhelming fear caused him to freeze up in the most perilous situation in his life up to that point with the bandits during the supply trip. Every incident continues to reaffirm this severe repression of his emotions because every time he’s felt something that strongly something bad happened/was happening. It’s an incredibly unhealthy and cruel thing to do to yourself, and I feel sad that he probably feels like it’s his only option.

He has to be calm, collected, and helpful. The pressure he puts on himself to maintain those aspects of himself even under extreme circumstances is way too much for any one person to have to deal with. This is not me saying that Scott is a ticking time bomb that everyone should avoid with a 10 foot pole. Quite the opposite actually. He’s a guy that will need help when the time comes if things go even more south than they already are. Because I have a feeling the more of his distress that he tries to bottle up, the bigger the possibility of his magic overtaking him in the future to inevitably disastrous results.

[sw1ft-sniff]

Tf!scott punching trees and rocks to cope with his emotions I AM EATING THAT UPPPPP

Scarring along his knuckles from years of abuse, the skin is rough and unfeeling. Thats why he never removes the gloves. Never wanting to show people the scars. Not wanting his new friends to ask questions.

And if new cuts and bruises start appearing the longer he lives in the academy thats only for him to know.

He's fine. He's projecting his anger onto something that he can't hurt. Scott can handle it all himself, hes here to be the strong one, the one who will take the weight of a body on his back. The one who can take the fall.

[imnotasweetie]

Scott and legs can and should be able to talk at eachother about their issues. Scott gets to voice his anger and legs gets to talk about the song and his situation without worrying about the other getting hurt

god they really should

both are people who clearly dont want their emotions to burden or hurt those around them, especially when both have had instances of letting go of said emotions and accidentally hurting someone (physically or not)

scott even said on today's stream that legs reminded him of himself before everything (aka before starting repressing his emotions I GUESS) and how he apparently used to go off to PUNCH TREES AND ROCKS WHEN HE WAS ANGRY? BARE FISTED?? (why is he so hot why is he so hot why is he so hot why is he so hot why is he so hot why is he so hot )

anyway i can surely see a good dynamic forming here, and i hope they start working together and interacting more, because i feel like it could help both

[jinxzgamingartist]

My twitter refreshed before I could watch the clip but apparently Osteon confirmed that the predecessor books are tricks. Mainly meant to serve as a way to get people prepared to die for the crown which is all kinds of messed up. Everyone has been freaking out over the contents of their books believing them these horrible prophecies but instead this is just to make them the perfect soldiers. Oh Kingdom of Summer you are so fascinating to me but damn does your propaganda work.

[thejesscrazs]

And to think they basically had the opposite effect of Tf Legs. Those books made him so afraid of hurting someone he ran away from the school and the fight

[vsmpheadcanons]

at one point before everything dove into sides and drama Cleo wanted a break from people and Pearl offered to keep them in her pocket for a while. So bat Cleo just sat in Pearls pocket for a while hiding from the world.

I could also see them doing so with Legs.

-🌙

Yesssss

THIS 👏 IS WHAT 👏 I'M TALKING ABOUT 👏 PEOPLE 👏

VAMPIRES 👏 IN 👏 POCKETS 👏

It's so adorable, I can't

Cleo is just so exhausted and Pearls dress has pockets and they're so warm and cozy and Cleo never wants to leave. Except when they are moving to Doc's pockets, which make her feel safe and protected

[hawk-of-night]

I have these hcs related to the whole multiverse thing w/ Jimmy, Grian, and Martyn......

So you know how Martyn and Jimmy are Listeners, and Grian is Watcher? This one thing that happens to at least one version of them, in my opinion causes little connections through every single version of them. In some they're more Aware of who and what they are and keep their memories, others they don't.

In every universe, no matter whether it's Vampires or The Flight or Empires, Martyn and Jimmy will always have ungodly good hearing. Sometimes too good, like someone outside reached in and turned the volume up.

Grian's eyesight and ability to tell if someone is nearby is always ungodly. And he sometimes... sometimes he hears voices warning him, telling him things, leading him away from danger or telling him what to do, who to trust, never leading him astray.

In The Flight specifically, No Name's hearing gets weirdly good at times. he doesn't know why he can suddenly hear people talking at the other end of the Academy or birds outside singing. He doesn't know what the strange, yellow, swirly, ear-like symbol he sometimes dreams of and can vaguely remember when he wakes up. Sometimes, it's another symbol- a purple broken portal. Sometimes it makes him scared, other times.. terribly fond? He doesn't know why seeing a parrot and a canary once makes him feel sad, makes him feel like he misses something -no, someone so terribly, and that night he dreams of laughter and a loud bright cackle and two people smaller than him that he feels very fond of.

One, he turns around and sees a purple eye there, vanishing a second too late. Strangely, it's hard to even remember that very moment later.

On Empires, Jimmy is more.... Aware. I can't decide if it's because he's the same Jimmy who became a Listener or his connection to his Listener self got activated at some point, but his hearing is very well, he has the same dreams of the Listener symbol, or the Watcher symbol, or the Secret Keeper symbol. He even ended up building a tiny tribute, hidden away in a cave, of the Watchers and Listeners. Jimmy knows who and what he is, even as a toy, and when the Hermits come through The Rift, he instinctively scans the crowd until.... his brother's now-purple eyes meet his. He and Grian stay close to together for the whole time. As for Grian..... well. He's a Watcher. And maybe it's because of the worlds he ends up in, or because he's Grian, but he always remembers who and what he is, and usually can connect to his other selves.

For all three, if the self is aware and has been able to connect to the others, they can even tap into the Listener power or Watcher power if need be. Other times the other selves shove it into them in a time of need even if they haven't connected yet.

But yeah.

I need the Watcher-Listener thing to HAUNT these boys across every universe, every AU, every SMP. Not even in a malicious way, it's just there.

[redstonebug]

"Legs is their brother" "Legs is their bestie" i think Legs is their dog

[millastaria]

today's mini fella is tf!ambear

[ultraviolettefan]

How the Batkids became a Bat/Bird:

Bruce to Dick: Damn, poor kid

Bruce to Jason: Damn, poor kid

Bruce to Damian: Damn, my kid

Bruce to Duke: Damn, poor kid

Bruce to Cass: Damn, poor kid

Bruce to Tim: Da-

Tim to Bruce: Have you ever been blackmailed?

[papayafromtv]

conversations overheard through the batkid com lines pt 54 (masterpost here)

*connecting ping*

Dick: Hood, please tell me you're available right now.

Jason: uh, hey, yeah i'm just puttin' fuel in my bike, all clear. are you ok? i thought you were off duty tonight.

Dick, struggling to hold back laughter: no no, i'm not on patrol and this isn't an emergency. i just got off the phone with B and needed to tell you what he just told me.

*a beat*

Jason: holy fuck what did the kids do?

Dick: *high pitched giggles*

Jason, already amused: which- which one was it? or did they team up?

Dick: *attempts to tamp down laughter* ok, ok hold on... *deep breath* you need to- Jason this one's really good, you need to prepare yourself.

Jason: i'm ready, give it to me.

Dick: so, Bruce just called me on my mobile phone, while i was in the middle of shopping for groceries, very angrily, so he could tell me that our two youngest brothers, our darling Duke and magnificent Damian, have gotten themselves banned from the Watchtower.

Jason, snickering: okaay? B bans them from everything all the time, it doesn't mean anything.

Dick, gleeful: no no, Jason you aren't understanding me here. when i say they're banned from the Watchtower, i don't mean Bruce grounded them for a week; i mean- *slight wheeze* i mean Clarkothy Kenneth himself has pulled Bruce aside and told him that Signal and Robin are no longer allowed on the premises,

Jason: *starts laughing, steadily increasing in volume*

Dick: -because they- *loud wheeze* *high-pitched* because they have proven themselves to be a danger to the Justice League.

Jason: *uncontrollable wheezes* what did they- what did they do?!

Dick: B said that- *cackling* *deep breath* B said that Barry used his super speed to win a- a thumb war, against Duke. and afterwards he said 'better luck next time, squirt', and i guess-

Jason: *wheeze*

Dick: -yeah i guess Duke was already in a bad mood, and he didn't appreciate the condescending nature of the whole thing?

Jason: to be fair Barry can be- like he's the asshole uncle.

Dick: oh for sure. and he does it with Damian a lot, which i get why- it's understandable that seeing him do the same shit to Duke made Damian go like- ok well here's my chance to gain an ally.

Jason: in his- *wheeze* in his war against the Flash,

Dick: exac- *choking wheezes*

Jason, high-pitched, slightly muffled: so what- what did they do?

Dick: Bruce said- Bruce said they lured him into one of the outer rooms- *choking* they tried to- they tried to ej- *wheeze*

Jason, barely breathing: w-hat?

Dick, weeping: they tried to- they tried to eject him into space-, *broken wheezes*

Jason: *barely breathing* THEY- *silent gasps*

*silence for fifteen seconds, except for the sound of both men struggling to breathe through laughter*

Dick: n he- *whimper* Barry had to call Clark for help because they locked him in and then tried to open a fuckin' window; Duke said they wouldn't let him in again unless he won another thumb war, and when Barry said 'how am i supposed to do that if i can't reach your hand?' *cough* Damian- Damian went 'better luck next time squirt' and tried to decompress the chamber-!

Jason: i can't- *struggling to breathe* i can't-

Dick: *unintelligible weeping*

Jason: what is wrong with them?

Dick: i'm so mad we weren't that funny when we were their age,

Jason: like how do you even come up with that-?!

Dick, still giggling: they tried to kill the Flash, Jason. Bruce said he cried.

Jason: *loses his shit*

[papayafromtv]

conversations overheard through the batkid com lines pt 40 (masterpost here) (direct sequel to pt 39)

*background noise of rubble crumbling, stones crashing*

Tim: *gasping for air* i... cannot believe that worked.

Jason, distantly: i can't fuckin' believe that thing one-shot my ear and somehow only managed to hit the com piece. how fucking useless of a robot do you have to be to make such a neat shot at such a shit time?

Damian: *cough* i fucking- i am going to kill. all. robots.

Tim: dude you are... really mad at this thing.

Damian, seething: it hit me with a fucking stop sign.

Jason, distantly: *cackles* aw man, yeah i saw that you went flying,

Damian: it isn't too late to lift that things shut-down body and plant you underneath before letting it drop, Jason.

Jason, distantly: mememememe~

Tim, groaning: can we like, re-set my shoulder before we start fighting? there's no way i can swing like this. also where the fuck is Nightwing?

Jason, distantly: he should be fine, i saw him right before the thing dropped taking out the last of the human guys.

Dick: yeah yeah i'm... i'm fine i'm on the other side of the robot thing. i'm just googlin' somthin. hold on.

Tim: the fuckre'- ow that hurts- Robin-

Damian: do you want this to be left untreated?

Tim: *groans* just be quick. fuckre' you googling Nightwing?

Dick, absently: mmm. the minimum legal age for marriage in Pakistan.

Tim: ...what- *faint snap* AUGH-

Damian: there. back in place.

Tim: YOU FUCKING CUCK YOU DIDN'T EVEN WARN ME.

Damian: well doing that would be kind, and i am not kind to those that laugh when i get hit by stop signs.

Tim: THAT WAS FUCKING HIM,

Jason, distantly: don't you fucking point at me. don't you point at me with your One Good Arm. how dare you.

Tim: shut up Jason,

Jason, distantly: i can't hear the coms by the way, is Dickie alive or not?

Tim: *strained grunt* oh- right, yeah, he answered. he was googling- Dick what the fuck are you googling marriage laws in Pakistan for?

Jason, distantly: *casual* oh he's still on that huh?

Dick: bECAUSE I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS SINCE BEFORE THAT ROBOT EVEN SHOWED UP AND JASON- one of you tell Jason his marriage is fucking ILLEGAL because he was UNDER EIGHTEEN WHEN IT HAPPENED.

Tim: ...sorry his what is what now?

Damian: oh, is this about Shaman Fahima? he was underage but i don't think laws really apply where we were. and Fahima was pretty on board with the idea of the marriage's purpose only being to frustrate Grandfather. she was more like an old kindly auntie than a sister-in-law.

Jason, distantly: oh is he on about the age of consent over there? we didn't fuck we just held hands in front of Ra's for a while.

Tim: WHAT are you TALKING ABOUT?

Dick: JASON MARRIED A FAKE WITCH IN THE LEAGUE OF ASSASSINS AND DIDN'T TELL ANY OF US.

Tim: *abrupt coughs* exCUSE ME?!

Jason, distantly: what? what- Day why's he lookin' at me like that?

Damian: it's not that big a deal. there was a neighbouring tribe whose leader was a self proclaimed shaman that seemed to unsettle Grandfather. since this is the only person we'd ever seen manage to intimidate him before, naturally, the next occasion Jason wanted to piss him off, he went to her.

Jason, distantly: stop looking at me like that. it was funny.

Dick: why was marriage what he settled on?!

Damian: he's asking why you went for marriage.

Jason, distantly: oh. i dunno... her sister was ordained in their culture and she was right there, and there was a big banquet with all the tribes including the loa the weekend after. i thought sitting at the head table with Fahima would piss Ra's off the most. also i think it legally made me a king or something, which was cool.

Damian: your wife was remarkably good-natured about the whole thing.

Jason, distantly: yeah she's fuckin' fun. taught me how to butcher a snake.

Tim, slightly indignant: oh, well in that case she's a fucking keeper then isn't she?

Dick: why the fuck has this not come up before?!

Damian: in akhi's defence, it was only really relevant for the month or so after it happened; then we all mostly forgot about it. i'm fairly sure Jason and her only exchange messages once or twice a year if there's something they need to discuss regarding the league.

Jason, distantly: also she sent me an anniversary goat once. to this day i don't know how she managed to ship it to Gotham. she's chill though. i call her Nana Fahima.

Tim, lost: she's your legal wife?

Jason, distantly: yeah but emotionally she's my Nana Fahima.

Tim, solemnly: what the fuck is wrong with you.

Dick: i am so telling on you to Bruce when he gets back to earth.

*a beat*

Damian: he says he's snitching on you to Father once he comes back to earth.

Jason, distantly: good, i can freak him out too. what does he think i am, a coward?

Dick: for the love of- WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT FUCKING DESERT?!?

Damian: *sighs heavily* a lot happened Richard. a lot.

[papayafromtv]

conversations overheard through the batkid com lines pt. 34 (masterpost here)

*gunshot*

Jason: oooooh right down the ear canal. *ace ventura accent* like a glove~!

Dick: *laugh* you're lucky B isn't here tonight.

Tim: the guy was a rapist, i don't feel too bad.

Jason: YEAHHHH, REPLACEMENT TURNS TO THE DARK SIDE! oh shit- *grunt* whoooo, that was close.

Dick: shit, i saw that flip from three roofs over, nice one.

Jason: what can i say, wing? pilates.

Tim: *laughs*

Dick: oooooh~ how sexy.

Tim, snorting: jesus-

Jason, amused: save it for ya waynecest fanfiction goldie,

Dick: *loud cackles*

Damian: for his WHAT.

Tim, weeping: oh g- oh god, it all comes out-!

Dick: DON'T EXPOSE ME HOOD! WHAT I FANTASIZE ABOUT IN THE SAFETY OF MY OWN HOME IS MY BUSINESS.

Jason: *bursts out laughing*

*metal shwing*

Damian: ok that's the last of them on our side. the fuck is waynecest?

Jason: oh didn't you know, kiddo? the public wants all the Wayne boys to fuck.

Dick: YEAHHHHHHH!!!

Tim: ok- *snorts* Robin, Red Hood, can i come over to your rooftop? i dont like Nightwing's energy right now.

Jason: no stay over there. you're the sacrifice.

Tim: *whining* nooooo-

Dick: it's fine Red, you're underage. we filter you out.

Tim: -sorry? SORRY? FILTER ME OUT OF WHAT?

Jason: *cackles* it was- *wheeze* it was one time,

Dick: we were high, to be fair. completely off our faces.

Jason: yeah, fun trip but never again.

Damian: do not fucking tell me you googled that- *disappointed* god, Akhi-

Jason, laughing deliriously: it was his idea-!

Dick: don't you point at me from three rooftops away! you were also there, asshole. you're just mad everybody makes me the jaydick top!

Tim: GOD you remember the SHIP NAME!?

Dick: *cackles*

Jason: well im sorry- sorry, but there's no fucking way i would be the bottom! that's bad writing!

Dick: it's amazing writing, you just don't pay attention. i'm the circus acrobat with good hip flexibility and core strength. you're the guy who's used to taking it up the ass from your troubled past on the streets!

Damian, horrified and resigned: oh my god,

Jason: don't you- *bursts into a wheeze* don't you fucking- i can SEE you gyrating over there,

Dick: you see my form? this is TOP form, Hood.

Tim: i am begging you two, let me come over to your rooftop. i don't like it here.

Jason: *cackles*

Damian, dry: i'm calling childline, this is an unsafe environment.

Dick: you just stabbed like eight people,

Damian, without hesitation: and you'll be the ninth.

[papayafromtv]

conversations overhead through the batkid com lines pt. 28 (masterpost here)

*grunts, the sounds of fighting*

Tim: fffuck that hurt, you bitch- *smacking sound*

Jason: Replacement, duck.

*gunshot*

Tim: *heavy breathing* thanks.

Jason: they're fucking on one tonight, ain't they?

Tim: yeah we need to call in reinforcements, i think these guys are connected to the ring B's supposed to be taking down tonight. he's on a private com line while he investigates so i'll have to call him.

Jason, amidst the clicking of guns: ...why do you always do that, by the way?

Tim, distracted: do what?

Jason: call him. everybody else would shoot him a text, and if you were contacting anybody else you would text too. but you always call B. it's so weird.

Tim: yeah i always call him.

Jason, baffled: why?

Tim: well i used to text him a lot, right? and we'd have a lot of text conversations where i'd be like. joking and bantering with him, and he'd banter back. like we all do together, right?

Jason: yeah...?

Tim: but then what kept happening was i'd be joking with him, and then half way through a conversation he'd send me a voice message and it would just be him sounding- like, supremely pissed off. and i'd just be standing there listening to him like. goddamn i misread those text tones.

Jason: *snort*

Tim: and he kept like. trying to ground me for being disrespectful. so now i just call him so i know how he's feeling to avoid getting yelled at.

*long stretch of silence*

Jason: sorry- and you think you're neurotypical?

Tim, exasperated: OK-

*rapid gunshots*

Jason: OH SHIT-

Tim: fu- GO GO GO GO-

[papayafromtv]

conversations overheard through the batkid com lines pt 23 (masterpost here)

Jason: do you think like- because he doesn't like him,

Damian: to be fair he didn't like father either, that's not what it was about.

Jason: yeah but like- he respected B at least a little bit. he thinks Tim's a bitch.

Damian: Tim is a bitch,

Dick: wait sorry i've been muted for this mission- what are we talking about?

Damian: grandfather has started referring to Drake as 'the detective' which was the title he previously called father by. we're trying to psychologically analyse it.

Dick: ...wait so does he not like B anymore? what does he want with Tim?

Jason: that's what we're trying to figure out! do we know exactly when the name-switch took place?

Damian: one evening he was referring to him as Drake, the next morning it was 'the detective' it was literally overnight.

Dick: so what happened that night?

Jason: nothing!

Damian: is it possible that he's finally succumbing to his age and his mind has deteriorated to the point that he thinks Tim is father?

Jason: he did accidentially call me the name of one of the camels last week.

Dick: ...how often do you talk to Ra's Al Ghul?

Jason: it's basically charity work, he's old and frail Dickie

Dick: ...not touching that.

Damian: we could ask mother?

Jason: Talia also hates Tim, so i don't know how she'll feel about-

*ping*

Tim: hey.

Dick: -Timmy! how you doing, buddy?

Tim: *instantly sounding suspicious* ...ok what.

Damian: brothers can't be nice anymore, what has this world come to.

Tim: you dickheads? no, you can't. what are you fishing for here.

Jason: what'd ya' do ta' Ra's?

*a beat*

Tim: Ra's...? haven't done shit to Ra's, i haven't even seen him since Bruce was missing in the timeline.

Dick: why does he call you the detective then? that used to be B's nickname.

Damian: he only gives nicknames to people he thinks are worthy of distinguishing from other randoms. that's why he never bothers remembering a nickname for Grayson.

Dick: oi-

Tim, suddenly: OOOOOOOH. -wait. that's what made me worthy? he thinks i'm distinguishable because of this rather than when i almost killed his entire army?

Jason: what did you do?

Tim: ok so i didn't- i haven't seen him. but i do occasionally play against him in Words With Friends. and i absolutely destroyed him in a match like, last week. he didn't even last an hour.

*12 long seconds of silence*

Damian: *starts laughing quietly*

Dick: you surpassed B in Ra's head through fucking Words With Friends-?

Jason: -i can't believe i thought you'd done something cool for once.

Tim: w- fuck you, Hood! i beat the Demon's Head in a mind game! i was fucking smug!

Damian, laughter tapering: you beat an old, senile, frail foreigner who learnt english as an 8th language, in a literacy based online game. Drake.

Tim: ok fuck you guys you aren't happy with anything i do this is so fucked-

Dick: Words With Friends-

Tim: FUCK YOU. I'M DISTINGUISHABLE.

Jason: you sure are something.

[indigodreams109]

Me and my girlfriend (who I love dearly but who has only ever interacted with the MCYT space through my frantic excited recounting of various things including the whole plot of vampires) were chatting the other day, and we got onto the topic of different backstories in VSMP.

Can I just say that the absolute disparity is WILD?

Like, you’ve got Owen, who has a whole award-worthy story about monstrosity, grief, and love turning into rage before the plot even begins. You’ve got Legundo, with a story about attributed worth, usefulness, guilt and shame and what it means to be a monster. You’ve got Abolish, who isn’t as inherently angsty but still has themes of possibility for redemption mixed in with the “god I hate paperwork”, themes of masking and timing reveals, being the background until needed and what that means. You’ve got Cleo, with “does doing evil against your will still make the evil yours” among other themes of moving on, new beginnings, love in unlikely places, grief and trust and truth. you’ve got Pyro, with what it means to be a monster, fear and paranoia, being outcast and becoming what he was claimed to be, right down to the meta knowledge of the viewers deciding his story.

And then you have Sausage, whose backstory sums up to “I wrote twilight”. You have Scott, who is just “everyone hates me for no reason I mean murder isn’t that bad really”, you have Martyn with no story at all. And these characters are fantastic, and they evolved to have stories; Sausage with the militia, Martyn with the vision of who he pretended to be, Scott with the lord and sire he became as well as the sudden drop of neglected child trauma in episode eight.

all these characters built off of one another, regardless of what they were originally. Shelby’s story about her father and her fixation on werewolves is enhanced by Pearl deciding they’re from the same place, and her connection to werewolves through her own family. Pearl’s story about what being a monster truly is tied into Cleo’s story about if will matters in monstrosity, and the two of them become entwined in a way out that they share. Scott’s turning of Pyro leads to both of their stories taking a turn for the worse, with Pyro’s fear and obsession feeding into the power and influence of Scott. The Doctor and Owen seeing each other not fully as each other enhances both of their characters. Renhardt’s idea about curses and evil feeds into the militia, enhancing all four of them, as well as the tragic feeling he provides in the finale by dying, following Martyn to his grave.

these characters, these people that had no idea who they were going to meet and what was going to come of it, become so irreparably entwined with each other over just eight episodes. The tone, the talent, and the unique traits that each one brings lead to enhance the story, and in turn enhance each character.

in the end, Scott isn’t just an old vampire. He’s a one sadistic lord who learned that behaviour through neglect and harsh hands, one who gave that up when his apathy was broken so that he could have a future with those that cared for him, not his influence. Martyn isn’t just a nobody, he’s an impulsive character whose nature leads to more deaths than just his own, and whose presence is the catalyst for many things. Sausage isn’t just a writer, he’s a theatrical individual who struggles between temptation and the idea of betraying those that trust in him, becoming what he swore to fight, watching the light of their eyes fades.

they aren’t the same, when they leave Oakhurst. They’re better, richer, more intricate characters with so many different ways to be seen.

and That, my friends, is what I love so dearly about Vampires SMP

[indigodreams109]

Me and my girlfriend (who I love dearly but who has only ever interacted with the MCYT space through my frantic excited recounting of various things including the whole plot of vampires) were chatting the other day, and we got onto the topic of different backstories in VSMP.

Can I just say that the absolute disparity is WILD?

Like, you’ve got Owen, who has a whole award-worthy story about monstrosity, grief, and love turning into rage before the plot even begins. You’ve got Legundo, with a story about attributed worth, usefulness, guilt and shame and what it means to be a monster. You’ve got Abolish, who isn’t as inherently angsty but still has themes of possibility for redemption mixed in with the “god I hate paperwork”, themes of masking and timing reveals, being the background until needed and what that means. You’ve got Cleo, with “does doing evil against your will still make the evil yours” among other themes of moving on, new beginnings, love in unlikely places, grief and trust and truth. you’ve got Pyro, with what it means to be a monster, fear and paranoia, being outcast and becoming what he was claimed to be, right down to the meta knowledge of the viewers deciding his story.

And then you have Sausage, whose backstory sums up to “I wrote twilight”. You have Scott, who is just “everyone hates me for no reason I mean murder isn’t that bad really”, you have Martyn with no story at all. And these characters are fantastic, and they evolved to have stories; Sausage with the militia, Martyn with the vision of who he pretended to be, Scott with the lord and sire he became as well as the sudden drop of neglected child trauma in episode eight.

all these characters built off of one another, regardless of what they were originally. Shelby’s story about her father and her fixation on werewolves is enhanced by Pearl deciding they’re from the same place, and her connection to werewolves through her own family. Pearl’s story about what being a monster truly is tied into Cleo’s story about if will matters in monstrosity, and the two of them become entwined in a way out that they share. Scott’s turning of Pyro leads to both of their stories taking a turn for the worse, with Pyro’s fear and obsession feeding into the power and influence of Scott. The Doctor and Owen seeing each other not fully as each other enhances both of their characters. Renhardt’s idea about curses and evil feeds into the militia, enhancing all four of them, as well as the tragic feeling he provides in the finale by dying, following Martyn to his grave.

these characters, these people that had no idea who they were going to meet and what was going to come of it, become so irreparably entwined with each other over just eight episodes. The tone, the talent, and the unique traits that each one brings lead to enhance the story, and in turn enhance each character.

in the end, Scott isn’t just an old vampire. He’s a one sadistic lord who learned that behaviour through neglect and harsh hands, one who gave that up when his apathy was broken so that he could have a future with those that cared for him, not his influence. Martyn isn’t just a nobody, he’s an impulsive character whose nature leads to more deaths than just his own, and whose presence is the catalyst for many things. Sausage isn’t just a writer, he’s a theatrical individual who struggles between temptation and the idea of betraying those that trust in him, becoming what he swore to fight, watching the light of their eyes fades.

they aren’t the same, when they leave Oakhurst. They’re better, richer, more intricate characters with so many different ways to be seen.

and That, my friends, is what I love so dearly about Vampires SMP