Scream’s Writing Acc

Here’s where I’ll post promo for my AO3! Sometimes might write some shorter pieces straight onto tumblr but not often. If you scroll you will see my old DSMP fanfic, please kindly disregard that, I don’t support any of the evil ones anymore. You can find me on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/users/Writing_wrxngs/profile Main acc is @generallyunskilled. she/they

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About the author!!

Hi! I’m Scream! I figured I’d do an extended about me since you can only do so much in a bio. Here’s the basics:

My main: @generallyunskilled

My AO3: Writing_wrxngs

Some things about me: I’m in my 20s, I have a creative writing degree and I’m a poet irl. Currently also a receptionist. I’ve been writing fanfic since I was ten years old.

What I write: whatever I feel like for whatever fandoms I’m into. I like Sonic The Hedgehog, alternative music and indie horror games. I like to play around with fanfic so there’s plenty of different things out there. I am, however an angst lover. Expect extremely unhappy fics amongst occasional fluff. I do touch upon sensitive subject matter. I’ve not done it yet but violence and gore are always possible. When I do write fluff, it’s usually very sweet and typically domestic. I don’t know why that happens but it does. I do also write fics of mixed tone. I’m not all sad all the time.

What I don’t write: explicit NSFW. I don’t think I’d be good at describing sex, that’s all. Graphic depictions of abuse. I do write about abuse, but I tend to not have the actual events on-page, so to speak. It’s just not something I’m comfortable with writing. I much prefer to write about the aftermath, anyway.

Disclaimer: yeah, I used to write Dream SMP fanfic. I no longer write Dream SMP fanfic. I am filled with disgust when I think about a lot of the people on that server. I keep them up because I still like the writing that I did, regardless of who it was about. I want people to still be able to find me and find my other works through it, if there’s anyone out there still reading them.

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Can I offer you some Serirei in these trying times?

In a strange twist of events, I have a brand new, hopefully multi chapter Serirei fanfiction! It’s a comedic fluff fic that came to me in a dream.

Serizawa, after a long while of pining has finally confessed to Reigen! Yay! Problem: Reigen won’t date his employee. Solution: quit job.

Now, for Reigen this is good news! He accepts the date! Problem one: he still would like Serizawa’s help at Spirits and Such. Problem two: he is barely out as bisexual and has no clue what dating another man entails.

Problem for both parties, and everyone else they know: they are both stupid in love.

Chaos entails as they seek solutions to every other problem.

Read on AO3

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Supplemental Material: Some of the Other Sylvias

Some time ago, a collaboration between Draagoskan journalists, sociologists and government researchers surveyed women across the country to ask about their careers and callings. When the results were published, a curious few responses were struck out by censors beforehand.

Sylvia J, teacher:

“I enjoy teaching. Shaping young minds, seeing them grow into good people, helping them through difficult times, it’s all very rewarding. I don’t ever ask for more praise or wages because every time I get to see one of my students become proud and intelligent, especially those who have struggled, it is reward enough. It can be hard at times, yes. Children are not always easy, and I cannot be their mother. Every child is different, their upbringing, their temperament. You have to know how to find what works for each child. It takes a certain level of dedication. But I take on that challenge, for their sake. Sometimes, I am the only positive influence they see. Children are our future. I find it a great honor to help them on their path to life.”

Sylvia D, ward sister at Draag State Mental Hospital:

“Nursing is hard work. It is especially hard work when you have not just patients to organize, but also subordinates. However, I would have not chosen this job if I hadn’t felt called to it. I have a sense of duty, and I have to take to that duty. I have a duty to this country, and these people. I’ve worked hard to have a relationship with the doctors here as well. I like being very direct with patient care. We have very sick people here, you know. They require rehabilitation. If they cannot be rehabilitated, then they must be kept. Each of those tasks are difficult. It is dangerous. But to care for a country’s most… damaged, is to ensure we have a healthy populace. I do this not just for their own good, but for the good of the country.”

Sylvia O, housewife and mother:

“Well, you know, it’s the proper thing. Bringing up a family. Not that it is wrong for a woman to hold a job, as a matter of fact I think some occupations are best held by women, but I think being a mother really is the highest calling a woman can have. I’m quite proud to be a mother. I’m proud of my children and my home. My husband would say just the same. My little ones, they are wonderful children. How many? I have four. They say that’s a lot, and I will admit, it does keep me constantly busy, but I enjoy it. Raising them well is also difficult. You have to make decisions for them and choices that are hard in the moment, but are for the greater good. It does hurt sometimes, especially as they get older. Sometimes my eldest will swear up and down that she hates me. She is at that age where she doesn’t know what is good for her, and it does wound me a little when she lashes out, but you have to remain firm in what you stand for. I know she’ll understand someday. I know I felt the same sometimes when I was a girl. I understand now, though. For now, I know I am doing what is good. I have to take pride in that.”

Sylvia H, journalism student:

“You know, a lot of people found it shocking when I decided I wanted to go to school for newswriting, but I think they’re thinking the wrong way. I don’t think they realize that the National News won’t just take anybody off the street. Being a journalist is serious business. I’m serious, about everything. If anyone has the mettle for it, it’s me. There is a certain way the news has to be done, so there’s definitely a lot of education required. I like the education I’m receiving. Being a newswriter… it’s something I’ve always felt inspired to do. The people have to know about what’s happening. I want to be a part of that. The news is a tenet of society, and our news is some of the best. And, not to sound too conceited, but I really do think I could be in the National News, that’s honestly all I want in life. Not to find whatever work I can find, or just settle down if I find a husband along the way. I want to have written news so important that it’s read in all nine provinces. That might sound like a lot, but it’s good to be ambitious.”

Sylvia I, Farm Laborer:

“If you’re asking me if I am proud of what I do, of course I am. You know this is the most important thing someone can do in Draag. There would be no wheat without us. It’s hard work, but I am glad to say we are rewarded greatly for it. It is our lives here, the wheat. It is our lives here, and the wheat is for everyone. Men work the fields beside their wives. The children can help with little tasks during school break, and the young flirt with each other as the days go on. It’s beautiful, don’t you think? Plenty would think I only believe that something like working on a farm is honorable because the government tells me so, but, as someone who has lived this since I was a girl, I know that the government says it is honorable because they have taken the time to appreciate what we do. Perhaps it is not glamorous, or powerful, but there is nothing else like working the wheat. I would not wish to do anything else.”

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Supplemental Material: a rough Draag Timeline for my AU

Pre-War:

Draag is a country known for being a strong military power, as well as a powerhouse of industry. They also are notorious for their scientific research of dubious morality. However, what work done there that isn’t being ethically scrutinized is considered some of the most cutting edge in science. The government is decently strong, but not entirely totalitarian. There is still the pretense of civil liberties among the people, at least from a Dragoskan perspective. The rest of the world has them on human rights watchlists, as it’s believed the government is incredibly corrupt. They are not wrong to think this. However, this leads Draag’s foreign policy to be standoffish at best and hostile at worst. War inevitably breaks out.

During the war:

The country rapidly militarizes in all aspects of life. The country also becomes culturally very austere. The few true liberties citizens had are gradually restricted under the guise of “wartime protection.” Conscription begins early in the war, originally for a term of three years, but as the war goes on, terms become longer and eventually indefinite. Those whose terms ended back when terms were shorter are sometimes re-conscripted. The war is a long one, but the people accept what must be done will be done. Even if the citizens are willing to accept the tightening of control, it is still wartime, with lives being lost, and many are looking for a way out. Conflict rarely occurs on Dragoshkan soil but does happen near borders where the dispute is occurring.

Sometime in the middle, near to the end of the war, the members of The Black Parade are born and raised.

Marianne’s father is conscripted for a large portion of the war, in a non combatant position.

Sometime before the end of the war:

A military backed political party begins propping up a candidate that will become the Grand Immortal Dictator. Their platform is that he will end the war if given power. He rapidly becomes popular after many public experiences and a rousing propaganda campaign. The people readily accept him as their new leader.

A pre-war experiment to create natural born “good citizens” is rebooted as resources can now be re-allocated back into science. What was considered an odd fringe study before the war is now being seriously considered. In the earliest batch of this new round of clones is the future Sylvia Wyrzykowska, who is ‘born’ just before the war ends.

The end of the war:

The war wraps up not long after GID comes into power. He takes the credit, and it is considered a victory for Draag, albeit not one in which their initial goals were achieved, but the retaliation was eliminated. It’s considered a sore win, and rapid ‘reforms’ occur after it is declared. Draag becomes focused on “progress” at all costs. Many new government ministries open up, and some pre-existing institutions are taken into government control. The past is deemed not worth mentioning, especially the war. Very few, if any of the wartime restrictions are lifted. Militarization comtinues at an upward rate. Everything done is in the name of keeping the peace, and the people believe it. Even if the war is best forgotten, the people are told the peace they have is very fragile, and every effort must be made to keep it. By the time complete military government control has happened, the populace has mostly been lulled into conformity. Any inklings of dissent are quickly taken care of in one way or another.

Marianne’s parents marry quickly after the war, having been engaged prior to her fathers conscription. She is born not long after, in part of a predicted baby boom. Propaganda heavily targets her generation, as they will have no firsthand knowledge of the war. She, along with other children of war veterans (of whom there are many in Draag), develop a degenerative eye disease in infancy. The population increase drops rapidly as it becomes increasingly recommended for veterans to not have children.

The Black Parade becomes equal parts popular and controversial for being not overtly against the Grand Immortal Dictator, but willing to challenge the culture of the regime. Their detractors deem them anti-social and government scrutiny quickly follows them. They are allowed to continue for a time, but become swept into the government controlled music program, and imprisoned not long after for their tendencies. Draag orchestrates a stage fire and states that the band died in this fire to quell any followers of theirs.

Sylvia Wyrzykowska is given to a high ranking army general to raise as his own, the second stage of the experiment for the clones, seeing how different upbringings affects their programming.

Marianne develops the ability to see the future when she sings shortly after her twelfth birthday. Draag catches wind of this, and uses her status as a child singing prodigy to sweep her, unwillingly, into government control. She becomes both a government asset in creating propaganda and predicting ‘crimes’ before they happen for Draag.

Sylvia is recruited by the National Music Program at age fifteen in the hopes of being a more satisfactory and patriotic mouthpiece for Draag after it becomes evident Marianne will not comply unless forced. The Ministry of Information and Investigation are aware of Sylvia’s nature as a clone and her intended purpose, and suggest she be kept near Marianne as a “good example”. However, Sylvia is discovered to be a hostile girl in ways not anticipated by either group, and Marianne’s retaliation challenges this plan until the pair must be kept separated at all times.

LATAM tour:

The Black Parade are being conditioned in MOAT, as we see in the events of the concerts. A Sylvia from an earlier batch of clones serves as their nurse.

NA tour:

The reconditioned Black Parade and a coerced Marianne come together for the purposes of creating propaganda for Draag. Sylvia is kept as Marianne’s understudy, originally unbeknownst to her. Over the course of this tour, we see the effects of the reconditioning on The Black Parade, and their attempts at standing up against Draag. Marianne is temporarily suspended due to difficulties with her powers, leading to Sylvia’s introduction temporarily, and Marianne discovering her inclusion on the tour. A short dispute occurs but no further conflict erupts from this. The tour concludes with uncertain fates for all.

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Sylvia centric one shot?!?!?!?!1!

That's right, like I said before, I have a fanfic just about Sylvia! I had so many ideas after seeing that Sylvia was present in leg two of the tour, which appears to be canonically before the first leg. I was really curious as to how to work out Sylvia being present in both legs under different capacities. Especially when I depicted Marianne as knowing Sylvia as a teen in my timeline. The answer? They're clones. That's not a spoiler for the fic or anything, don't worry. Anyway, this here shows the Sylvia we've seen before in leg one, as a little girl, and her origins. Down below at the link, as always!

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Back with more Marianne!!!

Hi, I'm here with a new Marianne one shot, employment be damned. Expect things to keep at this pace while I have a job. Because one thing about having a job is you lose free time even when you're not at work, since the time you used formerly to do housework and whatnot is now being used for work, and the time you used for fucking around now needs to be for housework and whatnot.

But, there is still time to write! Finding time to post is a little harder, since I need to be able to sit at my computer and do it, as it's a bitch on mobile. This one shot is of the first time Marianne met The Black Parade, under official circumstances. You can find it below, on my AO3

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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Supplemental material for my Marianne lore: the cause for Marianne’s blindness

So, for a good long while I debated on how I was going to go about the why and how of Marianne’s blindness. I had one thing in mind, and it was that it either affected her from birth or infancy. I researched a ton of real life conditions and realized a lot of what I’d written would not properly fit any real world diseases, and I would not want to misrepresent any actual disease or disorder. Since Draag is not a real place in the real world, I decided I could use the tour lore plus my lore to create a new disease that could correspond to what was written about Marianne’s condition specifically.

It’s a condition whose mechanism I am shaky of, biologically. I’ve pictured it as something that causes disruption between the eye and brain. It’s progressive and causes significant, painful damage to the nerves. It presents in infancy and can only be corrected surgically. The cause is not known to doctors, even in the present day. It is however, known to be exclusive to the children whose fathers were in the recent war. This fact is apparent to even the general public, but is rarely brought up in polite or official conversations due to the cultural taboo against talking about the war (as I’ve mentioned in other posts about this AU).

The official name is likely just after the doctor who discovered it, but I’ve actually not given it an official name in anything behind the scenes. It’s known casually by a few names, but it’s mostly called by the somewhat euphemistic term “epidemic blindness” or “the epidemic,” referring only to the fact it is a type of blindness that appeared suddenly and rapidly within the country. It’s not an entirely correct term, due to the fact it is not a disease which can spread.

Marianne has what is actually a severe case of the disease. She was born not long after the war ended, and resulted in being an early case. A lack of knowledge of what was happening and medical misogyny meant her issues were not caught sooner. Doctors dismissed her mother as being overly concerned and downright silly for considering that something might be amiss with her (especially upon her mother’s ludicrous suggestion that she might be in pain and require medical attention for it). Further examinations were only ever performed because Marianne’s pediatrician assumed seeing no results from another doctor would finally get her mother to stop bothering him. Results did in fact show that something was wrong, and the ensuing struggle to find out what ate more time, until a doctor read a new article about a different case of this disease. Additionally, due to the fact Marianne was an extremely early case, treatment was entirely experimental and rudimentary. Marianne reports having extreme sensitivity to light and an unspecified ocularmotor dysfunction. Neither of these are caused by the disease itself but by the indelicate nature of these early treatments.

In newer cases of the disease, it would have been caught early, and had more sophisticated surgeries to correct damage. Younger people with it have some or low vision, as opposed to none. They also experience less light sensitivity.

Because of improved treatment, as well as eugenicist approaches for families with an affected member (restrictions on having further children following a child’s diagnosis and restrictions for affected individuals), numbers have gone down significantly after Marianne’s generation. It’s considered in Draag to be a particular marker of this generation.

The idea of this blindness being generational is actually one of the earliest ideas I came up with for this. I found the idea that the first generation born after this war, in the midst of rapid militarization and tightening government control, is one known for being blind an interesting metaphor. The actions of those in power have resulted in a generation made blind in more ways than one. Additionally, it makes Marianne’s clairvoyance and doubt of the government poignant in a way. The blind girl is the one who sees the most corruption and knows more truth than anyone else.

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I return with the Marianne one shots!

Or more particularly, a Marianne one shot. Expect more as I panic write in the wake of new, earth shattering tour lore. Today I give you more Marianne backstory. Something from her nice childhood, but something not so nice still. We get to explore Draag schooling a bit, as well as some info about her condition. Also, I think this is where I debut Marianne’s surname! I gave her a surname. I needed it because I tire of calling her parents “Marianne’s mother/father.”

Anyways, if you’re wondering what’s next, I’m still working on what I promised (mainly the meetings stuff, which OH MY GOD I CANT WAIT FOR), but I am still working on other fics for other fandoms, personal writing and also job finding.

Well, if you want it, here it is

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78449021

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New Chapter!!!

Plenty of Geniuses Sleep with Women they Barely Know has a chapter two now!! I haven't done a multichapter fic in 5ever so like, wow I'm doing the thing. I'm hoping to keep up with it, and I hope if you read it you like it! For followers wondering where the Marianne one shots are, they're also coming, on the back burner. Life is on the busy side rn but I prommy they are being worked on.

You can find chapter two here

or, if you haven't read chapter one, the whole fic is here!

Enjoy!!!!

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New fic, new fandom, new drama!

First, my sincerest appy polly loggies to anyone following me and still waiting for Marianne fanfic. It's coming, I prommy. I have something new and different this fine 12:33 AM. A multi-chapter fanfiction for the game No, I'm Not A Human. To anyone finding this post through those tags, hello! I hope you'll take a peek at this work, if it tickles your fancy.

It's a multi-chapter fic based on a concept I came up with on my main account: a post canon fic in the basement in which the canon plotline for Seductive Woman doesn't happen. She just sleeps with the Protagonist and gets regular pregnant and now its just a big circle of drama amongst the survivors in the basement. Is this a mildly flimsy concept for a fanfic? Maybe. Am I having fun with it? Yes. I'm using this as an excuse to get more character exploration of Protagonist. I'm gonna squeeze him like an orange and get all his trauma juice out. Nothing like a bad, high stress situation to bring out peoples personalities! Also I love Seductive Woman and I think she is able to crawl inside Protagonist's brain so well. Also I wanted something where she is like, a fully formed human being.

You can find the fic here, on my AO3 (Direct link to fic)

For anyone who's been reading my work and wondering where I've been, I have an explanation below the cut!

SO where have I been? For starters, I had finals! Papers and exams. I think I put out a one shot in the midst of this, but work got difficult. Second: I graduated and had to move out of my college apartment! That was very nice but took much work to pack up my stuff and then all the festivities. Third: immediately after I graduated my mother and I fell quite sick with either RSV or the flu. Thankfully not Covid, but it was still an unfun respiratory virus. I was out of commission from about a few days after graduation until after Christmas. Basically, December has made me it's bitch. January I've been applying to jobs (I also need to be submitting to literary journals but I forget) but doing this and my Marianne fics. Unfortunately I do anticipate more delay since the main one shot I was writing was just not working so I am gonna scrap it for a more interesting concept. But, I anticipate I should be able to juggle that and this new fic.

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Why is this meme lowk how I write young Marianne’s relationship with Draag

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Random fun fact about my writing and this au is one of the differences I was thinking of when writing Marianne and Sylvia was how long each of them had been doing choir in school for.

Marianne, having been taken out of school to work for Draag when she was twelve, compared to Sylvia’s fifteen, has less of that mandatory school choir.

Because for one, the mandatory musical participation in Draag is another propaganda tool, one that’s probably more enforced in capital schools like where Sylvia would have attended giving more space for Sylvia to be more heavily propagandized to.

And for two, as someone who did choir in middle and high school, being in choir when you’re a teenage girl kind of makes you become catty as hell. Like, including myself in this, a high school choir is probably full of covert mean girls. (How much of this had to do with the fact we were a very serious, competition-focused choir, I don’t know. All I know is we brought home those blue ribbons every time.) I’m being a little melodramatic here, but choir does always have its intra-clique drama and its own sort of social system. Maybe it would be less so in a place where almost everyone is in choir (as imagine other options are available, you just have to pick one), but I think these kinds of things are inevitable in social groups of teenagers. Regardless, I definitely think Sylvia did kind of internalize that high school choir social hierarchy and bring it with her. Overall, I imagine Sylvia as someone who hasn’t outgrown being fifteen in a lot of ways, and I think this is one of them.

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Working out naming conventions for my formerly unnamed OCs

Something I'd been intentionally doing for all of these one shots where Marianne was the POV character was keeping most characters unnamed, referring them only by their titles. I wanted to emphasize that their role in Marianne's life was far more important than who they were as people. I've recently decided to open the scope of the stories, and with that, I want to name the characters more. I mentioned this a bit in the author's notes in my last one shot, but I know those are rambly and not everyone reads them.

Draag has always been vaguely Eastern European in my mind, because you know, the obvious Soviet influences in the iconography. I've pulled in some of this with the few named characters I did have, Marianne's old friend Nadia and their choir director, Mr. Karas (which, fun fact, I constantly misspelled as "Karras" like the priest from The Exorcist but that's genuinely a different surname). I just grab from different countries to keep it vague, and there's a level of overlap with many. I think those aren't the only types of names, since Marianne is there, but I also like to think that her name is somewhat unusual. Maybe some tiny bit of foreign influence. Some old connections or possibly from occupation. I imagine there's not a whole lot of cross cultural diffusion happening in postwar Draag.

I think I'm going to continue to just pull from various Slavic names, mixing and matching to keep the ambiguity, and I'm also going to say that Draag is a country that uses gendered surnames, as I like them. They're common in many Slavic languages, and I've been assuming Keposhka works the same. I don't know if I'll whip up any naming conventions that are cultural, since I don't know if there are any naming conventions (like naming children certain things based on birth order, number of given names, religious names or conventions regarding naming children after family) to pull from or work out my own. Regarding religious name processes, I've honestly kind of imagined Draag as having enforced atheism, to like, a very significant degree. Also, I am only vaguely familiar with Catholicism (grandfather got excommunicated in the 40s) and know even less about Orthodox Christianity, let alone any other religion. I can research all I want but I'll still be afraid it's wrong so if I can make up an excuse to just not do it I will. Though names of Christian origin will still be up for use because, my god, so many names are from the bible.

Anyway, I just thought I'd post to let you know I'll probably be doing work on that, so anticipate mild delays in writing, as I make these worldbuilding choices in the back. Also, I'm always open to suggestions and critiques from anyone here, so feel free to drop anything if you have something you wanna share.

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I'm alive and I have fanfic for you all.

Hey, so I have been writing in between class, social obligations, and other important things like bedrotting to Circa Survive. This is the second fic of Marianne and The Black Parade's secret meetings. It's Mikey this time, and it's a bit of a look on the past, and memory, as well as what the characters are wondering about each other.

If you want it, come and get it on my AO3 below:

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Sooner than anticipated, a new one shot!!

Half the aftermath of the mysterious “accident” that befell Marianne when she was fifteen, half a piece to sort of spotlight her parents (especially her mother) more! Very excited to have this out already! It’s a longer one shot, too. After this, expect another band member chat. Which one? That’s a surprise :). Anyway, you know where to find it, linked below!

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I'm alive, I've returned, and I have the first of the requested fics!

Here, it's Marianne having a surprise secret conversation with TBP!Gerard, it's slightly pre-canon, as it takes place during tour rehearsals before the first performance. It's rather dialogue heavy, but we get to learn a bit more of adult Marianne and maybe some ideas of what's happening with the band.

You can find it below on my AO3

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Hm. Not helpful /hj.

Since we tied I’ll probably get to these in due time as I come up with something. Not sure when that will be, I am thiiiiiiiiisssssss close to being done with midterms and then I’ve got fall break after tomorrow. But when I’m back from college during breaks that usually means I will be under some level of servitude and also binging tv/movies with my mother so my timetable may be full then, too. However, once midterms are over, that means my ability to slack off will return to normal and I can write during class because I’m a terrible student.