Man most of my OCs come in packs of two or more so it’s hard to pick an individual one 😂 My favorite collection has to be the multiple generations of James’s family, especially his siblings and especially the two oldests Shirley and Bob, but shoutout to John’s immediate family as well, especially his brother William. I adore all of them 💖
But for a single individual, that would probably have to be my man Kenneth Bates, who’s significant to the backstory of John’s parents but is also very important in my favorite AU, Canadian Clarke, which involves the Clarke fire not happening and Dennis going to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft and dealing with being separated from his family and learning to stand on his own and working through Issues and all that good stuff. Kenneth is also in Canada for the same reason at the time, and as both an activist and someone who operates on the assumption that anyone can be a shiny new friend he’s there to give Dennis a much-needed handout and support (and all Dennis has to do in return is share his socks, which is almost too great a price for him to pay 😔)
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Recalling your own headcanons on demand is way harder than it should be but anyway:
The Clarkes had a one-sport-per-kid rule for money reasons. Tanya did tennis through a program in a neighboring town (she still plays for fun sometimes), Dennis first did little league baseball and then quit that before eventually starting football in high school, and Anthony played baseball in the same league. Megan doesn't like sports and never did any. However for a year or two Dennis did try to get in on the tennis thing with Tanya on his own dollar, but he was bad at it and it couldn't last lol.
Also James used to coach the little league team until he got promoted and took on more responsibilities at work in the early '60s. Anthony lost interest in baseball because of that and only kept with it a few more years after that.
Something about Vince and Tanya’s future: on Tanya's mirror there's an ad for a concert taking place in California on a date that works out to be in 1973 (I'm going on memory here but I'm pretty sure it was 1973) and normally there wouldn't be a whole lot of hope of making it there just for a concert, but she and Vince went all in on a cross-country road trip for Tanya's sake and when it was time to go back home Vince proposed and ofc she said yes. They married in 1975 when they were expecting their first (and only) child Suzanne.
And for something else about Vince and the Clarkes, Vince’s only sibling was a much older brother named Eddie (born in 1930) who was in the military and died in Korea before Vince was old enough to even really remember him. Growing up Vince’s feelings about Eddie were more curiosity than anything, especially living with his single dad who was extremely impacted by Eddie’s death and kept reminders of him all over the place. As it turns out Eddie went to school with Anne and James, and, while neither knew him particularly well, once Anne finds out the relation there she tries to remember whatever she can tell Vince about his brother and the two of them get closer that way
I saw someone suggest what would happen if one of the other Clarke Kids survived.
....and while that is a heartbreaking thought, it made me think.
What if Anne or James had survived instead?
Sure, they wouldn't have survived to the present of the game like Anthony. But imagine the angst.
They were just arguing that day about their family before the fire.
They'd been having relationship and family trouble for awhile due to James' worry over his job, the strain of having four children close in age, and their worry over Megan.
And that night in particular... Well, think about it.
Picture it.
Anne somehow gets out of the bathroom and out of the house.
She escapes in a towel with burns on her feet, shoulders, and parts of her back.
She sees her oldest daughter break hanged by her scarf.
She sees her oldest son impaled.
And she sees Anthony run in shouting for Megan.
Her husband is screaming inside.
Megan is quite.
She's stopped from going back inside. She's cold and in a stranger's coat looking at the ruins of her home, staring at where she'd raised four children (only....not all of them were adults, were they? And were the oldest of them even REALLY adults? They were still so young-)
She has to bury her children and her husband, wondering what went wrong.
She's 40.
She married James at 17 and loved him for longer, and now he's gone.
She can't have any other children.
Can she even adopt more? Would she want more after losing four in one night?
She thinks about everything she took for granted.
Anne thinks about how she ignored Megan after her fight with James.
She thinks about how much she and Tanya had been fighting because she disapproved of Vince.
She thinks about how much she and Dennis fought over his band, and over the stupid records.
She thinks about all the fights with Megan and how Anthony was always trying to play peace keeper.
She thinks about the fighting with James and she aches.
She can't start over. She doesn't even know where to start.
And then all the stuff starts coming out about Carver.
And her grief turns to anger.
Anne's 40 years old.
She's rebuilding her life and everything reminds her of her family.
Her heart pangs whenever she sees the brand of alcohol and cigarettes James liked. She can't stand to hear the theme song to his favorite show. She keeps the photo from the factory and one of his history books on her nightstand.
Every time a certain song comes on, she thinks of little Dennis and the afternoons spent dancing in the kitchen back when he wasn't too cool to be seen hanging out with his mom.
She sees his face on posters in town, for a live performance he never gets to participate in. He wanted to be a rock star and in a twisted way, he's remembered as such by what few fans he had.
His band mates grow up. He doesn't. He's forever twenty.
She'll never hear him sing again. Never him whine "mom!" And complain about how she doesn't respect his collection of records again.
His rugby equipment, his guitar, and one of his broken records she'd fished from the fire of the house collect dust in a closet in her new home.
Anne can't bring herself to drive past the diner which Tanya worked at.
She thinks about how little she actually knew about her oldest in her final years.
She thought about every wasted moment, every argument.
She never stops regretting how much her daughter hated the family in that last year.
She wonders where their relationship went wrong. When Tanya stopped telling her things.
She regrets reading her diary.
Anne thinks about how Tanya never got out of little hope. How sh never got to go to the cinema festival she wanted to go to. How she never got married. Never got away from her dead end job.
She watches as her daughter's friends get older, get out of town, and get married. All while hers is stuck at 22 forever.
She misses the days shortly after she adopted Tanya where the two weren't at each other's throats. She misses when Tanya would hold her hand as the weaved through crowds back when she was small.
Whenever a hot rocket song comes on the radio, Anne can't make herself turn it off.
Tanya's tennis and softball trophies are right next to Dennis'. Along with her pink aviator glasses and his green ones.
Anne avoids the area of the park where Anthony used to skate and the museum.
She regrets how mature and responsible he felt he had to be in his last year, and wished that he had just been able to enjoy his youth.
She remembers how she was worried about him when she first took him in, how much of a somber child he was and she wonders when she stopped worrying as much.
She misses having someone to tag along with her on errands.
She misses having someone to scold for reading under the table.
She wishes she had been able to run in after him. She wishes it were her instead.
Her son is forever eighteen and the little boy who's knees she used to patch up, and who she used to fuss over is gone.
His skateboard and a burned book of witchcraft rests in her closet beside Dennis and Tanya's things.
Horses make Anne's eyes water. They make her think of the wallpaper in Megan's room that they'd let her pick out when she was three.
Megan loved horses and she loved dolls. Not as much as she loved playing with matches but she loved them.
She loved art too.
Megan's art teacher approached her with some of her drawings after the funeral.
They're lamented and framed. They're the only things she has left of Megan other than a few pictures and a burnt doll.
Her 11 year old daughter is gone.
And the town is whispering about her.
(She tries to ignore the whispers of the people in town who think Megan started the fire on purpose).
(She could never hate her daughter).
Anne's husband and children are dead.
And she's stuck thinking about all the things she could have done differently if she had only had any patience left.
James wakes up to a burning living room and his youngest son screaming from outside.
He hears coughing upstairs but isn't sure if he's imagining it.
He books it out of the room, getting clipped on the shoulder by a falling beam and heads for the front door out of instinct.
Two of his children are on the roof of his burning house.
One is outside.
And he doesn't know where his wife and youngest are.
(Except he does because it's the middle of the night and there's nowhere else his Anne would be, let alone his youngest daughter. He's just not ready to face the fact that he left his wife and daughter to die, though there's likely not anything he could have done).
He escapes the house with minor burns and a broken shoulder.
Two of his children are screaming for him from the rough.
One is beside him panicked.
And then they hear Megan from inside.
James isn't fast enough to stop Anthony from running inside.
Tanya slips.
Dennis falls.
A man stops James from running back in the house.
And the house explodes with his wife and children in it.
James has to bury the wife and children he cursed that very night.
He has to think about the last thing he said to his wife.
"Maybe if we had kids of our own, none of this would be happening!"
He wonders if his kids heard it.
He knows they had to. He hates himself for it.
He thinks about how his last words to his kids.
"Keep it down, will ya? Trying to sleep here!"
"You wanna try raising a family like this... The Devil himself would struggle with you guys..."
"You need to keep an eye on your little sister... Mom is real worried about her."
James was too drunk and too injured to help his family.
And he'd spent their last night on Earth mucking everything up.
He wonders if Anthony would have still run in the house after Megan if he hadn't asked him to keep an eye on her.
He wonders what would have happened if he'd stopped worrying about work so much or if he'd been more honest with Anne about it.
James spends his days after the funeral at work, staring at the framed photo on his desk and avoiding Vince.
He digs through the rubbish of his home.
And he sees the stars Tanya and he painted on that old tire swing he almost took down that summer.
He remembers teaching the kids how to ride their bikes.
He remembers how happy he and Anne used to be.
He remembers teaching Dennis how to play rugby.
He remembers taking Tanya and Dennis to practice and breaking up fights between the two.
He remembers bringing Megan home for the first time.
James remembers the long sleepless nights where Anne worried over how quiet little Anthony was.
His are gone.
James is 42 and his entire family is dead.
He loses his job a few months later.
And all he can think about is how much he'd rather have his family here instead.
So, you're a Little Hope expert. Let me ask you a question, what music genres each character would like? Just your opinion though, headcanon is fine :D
I don't know my way around music but that's never stopped me from having opinions 😊
Angela: Pop music from when she was growing up, particularly girl groups from the '80s and '90s, like the Bangles and idk Wilson Phillips or whatever, and solo artists like Whitney Houston. I feel like she also has a secret soft spot for Bee Gees disco type stuff too
John: Golden Age rock in general, like the Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, whatever else in between
Taylor: Listen she really wants to be cosmopolitan and always includes world music on her playlists, but she vibes with it less than she wishes she did. What she really likes is modern solo pop artists, and no I can't give examples because I live under a rock
Daniel: His tastes run similar to John's, but he can vibe with any genre when he's in a good mood. He tends to stick with the rock classics on his own but he probably gets more enjoyment out of Taylor's playlists than she does lol
Andrew: He can vibe with whatever here and there, but broadly speaking he doesn’t do music and has no substantial opinions on it (I need someone to project onto and he's my victim)
OK CLARKES TIME
Anne: Frank Sinatra. It's always been Frank Sinatra, and it always will be Frank Sinatra
James: That particular kind of balls-to-the-wall female singer from his era, think Rosemary Clooney
Tanya: Psychedelic music, Jefferson Airplane and the like but also quieter non-rock stuff, especially with female singers. But, as canon has it, she's also into soul
Dennis: Jethro Tull and the Grateful Dead er excuse me, Joyful Dead, as per canon, so ig prog rock is the common denominator there. Maybe throw in some of the other big names of the era as well, but only as long as they’re ones he’s personally deemed valid lol
Anthony: Same as Andrew. Anything he might vibe with is stuff Dennis does not vibe with, because Dennis canonically thinks Anthony has trash taste lol
Megan: Currently her m.o. is just fixating on whatever random song happens to appeal regardless of specific artist or genre, but when she gets a bit older she’ll inherit some of Tanya’s current music and associated taste, by which time those things will be more or less out of fashion
Then there’s the Puritan set, but if they have options I don’t know what they are lol
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How about admitting that we sometimes get it wrong?
what are some of your pre release or otherwise before you played theories that ended up being untrue or never touched on as a concept
I'll go first:
In the lead up to switchback I genuinely thought the cat from Little Hope and tdim would be revealed as a supernatural entity, like the Curator can turn into a raven so perhaps Belial was the Cat, obviously there's no signs of the cat being anything but an animal and we'd have to go earth side to see them again but supernatural or not I do still believe it's the same animal
This is all in good fun of course so there's no shame in these things so have at it, what did you get wrong going in blind?
The Oracle being some kind of antagonist either by going rogue or by being a pawn by an evil Corinth, but highkey I already know not to trust myself to be right in whatever I can come up with so I never genuinely go into the games convinced of anything lol
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I hate when I mention Taylor and people think I'm talking about Taylor Swift. NO!!!! I am talking about the character Taylor from the 2020 choice-based horror game Little Hope!!!!!!
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, the way Angela is sitting on that chair is really funny to me. Knees together, back straight, can't you see her practicing posture with a book on her head lol
