Bruh

OOOOOH, I've answered this before, but I'll do it again! With more flare than last time, I think.

So it was 2023, and baby writer Ghost had an idea - what if her second favorite character, Patty, went on an adventure in highschool with Lila, Jaune, Frank, and Aaron, into a graveyard (well, cemetery, but I didn't care about the semantics), and had a weird adventure ft. a murderer. It was also when I was freshly introduced to the concept of Deadlavender, so I decided, 'Oh why not, make em the main ship'. I was young and sort of ambitious, and I made the document, titled it Graveyard Fatigue, and wrote about 14 pages of the project!

Unfortunately, it was 2023, and I had no idea where I wanted to take the plot, and the project didn't really...stick. There was like, one fun idea in there, that I reused for Dunes Date in a one-off line, and Howard was conceived in this fic. And it sucks that somehow, even though he was an OG character in the 'Ghost OC-Verse', I STILL haven't given him the character and respect he deserves.

(Oh yeah, Skidad was here too, but we don't need to talk about him)

Anywasy, I was also working on another unimportant project, and that isn't super important, except that project proved that I had the ability to write for long periods of time without giving up when the document went over 14 pages. 2023 me was mostly occupied with that project, and the idea of Graveyard fell to the wayside...

Until 2024.

Hollow Sorrows hype was EVERYWHERE, and I was excited for Patty to be given an actual lore-important part of the narrative - like, insanely excited.

So excited, I revisited the old fic.

And I thought, "oh wow, this had potential. Maybe I should pick it up again with my new experience'.

February 2, 2024. I started the project. Called it Graveyard Shift because yeah, that was a reference to a real period of time, and also a more coherent title.

...I wasn't 100% sure where I wanted the plot to go, or how I wanted Lila and Patty's relationship to play out. I didn't really have a solid idea for Atlas (who was named Lucas in early stages of the fic b4 I said 'fuck it' and renamed him b/c the idea of some guy named Lucas committing horrible atrocities was too laughable to me) and Jessie in the earlier stages of the fic. I'm pretty sure the idea was that they were in it for some money - I never thought about who would've paid them or...anything really. I did have a librarian character who cared about Patty, but that was before Hollow Sorrows dropped, so obviously I couldn't have known who that librarian character would be.

And oh boy, when HS dropped.

Dude. I was fucking furious with the fandom. I mean, it was definitely irrational, and I'm still irrationally mad about everything I'm about to mention now, and I know it's irrational, but like. Wdym that the fandom was conflating Moloch-possessed Patty with Patty??? Wdym that nobody was willing to draw Patty with an uwu smile??? Wdym everyone was mad about Lila being an imperfect mother when it made sense given everything??? Wdym everybody was more focused on this golden boy fan service than the Erotoph drama, y'know, the meat and potatoes of the episode???

(Can you tell this was my first rodeo with fandom misogyny???)

And a lot of that spite, I mean a lot of that spite, was how GS was written.

Some of that spite was spite of the source material as well. Hollow Sorrows really shaped the fic into what it is today - I realized what characters I wanted to bond together and how I wanted to bond them together. I thought that HS, while def hitting the beats of an emotional episode, was a little...lackluster when it came to the 'why should we care' department. Like, think of the emotional beats as a well polished, well sharpened knife blade, and think of the 'why' as a 'holy shit this knife handle could've been made of better material'. Me and my now best friend would complain about it together, when I got her into the series. I figured I had a chance to do a little fixing, to tinker around with the way that certain scenes were viewed. So yeah, local fanfic writer doesn't think canon is perfect and wants to change it, in other news, water is wet.

But ofc, there was a lot of love poured into GS, right? I mean, of course I fucking love the SM series or I wouldn't have even considered writing the fic in the first place, I was very inspired by some of the fics I've read - namely Roy Against Society and This is Scary (go check both of them out), and I threw some of Carrie in there because I liked the book and thought the 'they're just kids' theming was relevant to the fic. I liked being able to reference things I loved, whether I threw in in-jokes relating to SM, or if it was other media I was into at the time. I loved these characters and their interactions both in and out of the fic, I loved coming up with all the crazy headcanons I implemented into the fic, (especially for Michelle :D), I loved developing my OCs, and I did grow closer with some of my irl friends while writing this fic! GS was a labor of love and spite and I'm so very proud of this fic,

And clawing and biting and laughing and mentally freezing and everything....

November 11, 2025, I wrote the words 'the end' on the word document.

And I was so so so proud. Maybe it wasn't the end, I ended up editing and writing a little past that, but man, that adrenaline rush...

Maybe it's not the perfect fic, and maybe it also somewhat destroyed my ability to watch HS, but it was fun, it was so much fun to write.

For Bodies I was just tired of seeing Radford x Streber being the popular ship and wanting more good x reader content and decent content for Radford too. So I decided to write it with some TFTGS and no sleep elements into it like with the titles and all. Plus expanding Dale's lore. So I made that where Streber and Radford hate each other because I thought they'd be more interesting as enemies.

For Headhunter I thought I could have written Dale better and as a threat so I basically wondered "what if he was in Bob's role in sm 5?!" And just expanded on that.

And for Arachnid Atrocity I wanted to see how Patty, Ben and Mark would work as some sort of trio and plus expanding on their lore too.

OOOOOH, I've answered this before, but I'll do it again! With more flare than last time, I think.

So it was 2023, and baby writer Ghost had an idea - what if her second favorite character, Patty, went on an adventure in highschool with Lila, Jaune, Frank, and Aaron, into a graveyard (well, cemetery, but I didn't care about the semantics), and had a weird adventure ft. a murderer. It was also when I was freshly introduced to the concept of Deadlavender, so I decided, 'Oh why not, make em the main ship'. I was young and sort of ambitious, and I made the document, titled it Graveyard Fatigue, and wrote about 14 pages of the project!

Unfortunately, it was 2023, and I had no idea where I wanted to take the plot, and the project didn't really...stick. There was like, one fun idea in there, that I reused for Dunes Date in a one-off line, and Howard was conceived in this fic. And it sucks that somehow, even though he was an OG character in the 'Ghost OC-Verse', I STILL haven't given him the character and respect he deserves.

(Oh yeah, Skidad was here too, but we don't need to talk about him)

Anywasy, I was also working on another unimportant project, and that isn't super important, except that project proved that I had the ability to write for long periods of time without giving up when the document went over 14 pages. 2023 me was mostly occupied with that project, and the idea of Graveyard fell to the wayside...

Until 2024.

Hollow Sorrows hype was EVERYWHERE, and I was excited for Patty to be given an actual lore-important part of the narrative - like, insanely excited.

So excited, I revisited the old fic.

And I thought, "oh wow, this had potential. Maybe I should pick it up again with my new experience'.

February 2, 2024. I started the project. Called it Graveyard Shift because yeah, that was a reference to a real period of time, and also a more coherent title.

...I wasn't 100% sure where I wanted the plot to go, or how I wanted Lila and Patty's relationship to play out. I didn't really have a solid idea for Atlas (who was named Lucas in early stages of the fic b4 I said 'fuck it' and renamed him b/c the idea of some guy named Lucas committing horrible atrocities was too laughable to me) and Jessie in the earlier stages of the fic. I'm pretty sure the idea was that they were in it for some money - I never thought about who would've paid them or...anything really. I did have a librarian character who cared about Patty, but that was before Hollow Sorrows dropped, so obviously I couldn't have known who that librarian character would be.

And oh boy, when HS dropped.

Dude. I was fucking furious with the fandom. I mean, it was definitely irrational, and I'm still irrationally mad about everything I'm about to mention now, and I know it's irrational, but like. Wdym that the fandom was conflating Moloch-possessed Patty with Patty??? Wdym that nobody was willing to draw Patty with an uwu smile??? Wdym everyone was mad about Lila being an imperfect mother when it made sense given everything??? Wdym everybody was more focused on this golden boy fan service than the Erotoph drama, y'know, the meat and potatoes of the episode???

(Can you tell this was my first rodeo with fandom misogyny???)

And a lot of that spite, I mean a lot of that spite, was how GS was written.

Some of that spite was spite of the source material as well. Hollow Sorrows really shaped the fic into what it is today - I realized what characters I wanted to bond together and how I wanted to bond them together. I thought that HS, while def hitting the beats of an emotional episode, was a little...lackluster when it came to the 'why should we care' department. Like, think of the emotional beats as a well polished, well sharpened knife blade, and think of the 'why' as a 'holy shit this knife handle could've been made of better material'. Me and my now best friend would complain about it together, when I got her into the series. I figured I had a chance to do a little fixing, to tinker around with the way that certain scenes were viewed. So yeah, local fanfic writer doesn't think canon is perfect and wants to change it, in other news, water is wet.

But ofc, there was a lot of love poured into GS, right? I mean, of course I fucking love the SM series or I wouldn't have even considered writing the fic in the first place, I was very inspired by some of the fics I've read - namely Roy Against Society and This is Scary (go check both of them out), and I threw some of Carrie in there because I liked the book and thought the 'they're just kids' theming was relevant to the fic. I liked being able to reference things I loved, whether I threw in in-jokes relating to SM, or if it was other media I was into at the time. I loved these characters and their interactions both in and out of the fic, I loved coming up with all the crazy headcanons I implemented into the fic, (especially for Michelle :D), I loved developing my OCs, and I did grow closer with some of my irl friends while writing this fic! GS was a labor of love and spite and I'm so very proud of this fic,

And clawing and biting and laughing and mentally freezing and everything....

November 11, 2025, I wrote the words 'the end' on the word document.

And I was so so so proud. Maybe it wasn't the end, I ended up editing and writing a little past that, but man, that adrenaline rush...

Maybe it's not the perfect fic, and maybe it also somewhat destroyed my ability to watch HS, but it was fun, it was so much fun to write.

For Bodies I was just tired of seeing Radford x Streber being the popular ship and wanting more good x reader content and decent content for Radford too. So I decided to write it with some TFTGS and no sleep elements into it like with the titles and all. Plus expanding Dale's lore. So I made that where Streber and Radford hate each other because I thought they'd be more interesting as enemies.

For Headhunter I thought I could have written Dale better and as a threat so I basically wondered "what if he was in Bob's role in sm 5?!" And just expanded on that.

And for Arachnid Atrocity I wanted to see how Patty, Ben and Mark would work as some sort of trio and plus expanding on their lore too.

OOOOOH, I've answered this before, but I'll do it again! With more flare than last time, I think.

So it was 2023, and baby writer Ghost had an idea - what if her second favorite character, Patty, went on an adventure in highschool with Lila, Jaune, Frank, and Aaron, into a graveyard (well, cemetery, but I didn't care about the semantics), and had a weird adventure ft. a murderer. It was also when I was freshly introduced to the concept of Deadlavender, so I decided, 'Oh why not, make em the main ship'. I was young and sort of ambitious, and I made the document, titled it Graveyard Fatigue, and wrote about 14 pages of the project!

Unfortunately, it was 2023, and I had no idea where I wanted to take the plot, and the project didn't really...stick. There was like, one fun idea in there, that I reused for Dunes Date in a one-off line, and Howard was conceived in this fic. And it sucks that somehow, even though he was an OG character in the 'Ghost OC-Verse', I STILL haven't given him the character and respect he deserves.

(Oh yeah, Skidad was here too, but we don't need to talk about him)

Anywasy, I was also working on another unimportant project, and that isn't super important, except that project proved that I had the ability to write for long periods of time without giving up when the document went over 14 pages. 2023 me was mostly occupied with that project, and the idea of Graveyard fell to the wayside...

Until 2024.

Hollow Sorrows hype was EVERYWHERE, and I was excited for Patty to be given an actual lore-important part of the narrative - like, insanely excited.

So excited, I revisited the old fic.

And I thought, "oh wow, this had potential. Maybe I should pick it up again with my new experience'.

February 2, 2024. I started the project. Called it Graveyard Shift because yeah, that was a reference to a real period of time, and also a more coherent title.

...I wasn't 100% sure where I wanted the plot to go, or how I wanted Lila and Patty's relationship to play out. I didn't really have a solid idea for Atlas (who was named Lucas in early stages of the fic b4 I said 'fuck it' and renamed him b/c the idea of some guy named Lucas committing horrible atrocities was too laughable to me) and Jessie in the earlier stages of the fic. I'm pretty sure the idea was that they were in it for some money - I never thought about who would've paid them or...anything really. I did have a librarian character who cared about Patty, but that was before Hollow Sorrows dropped, so obviously I couldn't have known who that librarian character would be.

And oh boy, when HS dropped.

Dude. I was fucking furious with the fandom. I mean, it was definitely irrational, and I'm still irrationally mad about everything I'm about to mention now, and I know it's irrational, but like. Wdym that the fandom was conflating Moloch-possessed Patty with Patty??? Wdym that nobody was willing to draw Patty with an uwu smile??? Wdym everyone was mad about Lila being an imperfect mother when it made sense given everything??? Wdym everybody was more focused on this golden boy fan service than the Erotoph drama, y'know, the meat and potatoes of the episode???

(Can you tell this was my first rodeo with fandom misogyny???)

And a lot of that spite, I mean a lot of that spite, was how GS was written.

Some of that spite was spite of the source material as well. Hollow Sorrows really shaped the fic into what it is today - I realized what characters I wanted to bond together and how I wanted to bond them together. I thought that HS, while def hitting the beats of an emotional episode, was a little...lackluster when it came to the 'why should we care' department. Like, think of the emotional beats as a well polished, well sharpened knife blade, and think of the 'why' as a 'holy shit this knife handle could've been made of better material'. Me and my now best friend would complain about it together, when I got her into the series. I figured I had a chance to do a little fixing, to tinker around with the way that certain scenes were viewed. So yeah, local fanfic writer doesn't think canon is perfect and wants to change it, in other news, water is wet.

But ofc, there was a lot of love poured into GS, right? I mean, of course I fucking love the SM series or I wouldn't have even considered writing the fic in the first place, I was very inspired by some of the fics I've read - namely Roy Against Society and This is Scary (go check both of them out), and I threw some of Carrie in there because I liked the book and thought the 'they're just kids' theming was relevant to the fic. I liked being able to reference things I loved, whether I threw in in-jokes relating to SM, or if it was other media I was into at the time. I loved these characters and their interactions both in and out of the fic, I loved coming up with all the crazy headcanons I implemented into the fic, (especially for Michelle :D), I loved developing my OCs, and I did grow closer with some of my irl friends while writing this fic! GS was a labor of love and spite and I'm so very proud of this fic,

And clawing and biting and laughing and mentally freezing and everything....

November 11, 2025, I wrote the words 'the end' on the word document.

And I was so so so proud. Maybe it wasn't the end, I ended up editing and writing a little past that, but man, that adrenaline rush...

Maybe it's not the perfect fic, and maybe it also somewhat destroyed my ability to watch HS, but it was fun, it was so much fun to write.

haii <3 here's some i may or may not have shared yet:

roy is a “always-socks-on” kid but he irregularly changes them so most of his pairs are really dirty and he's constantly mismatching… much to carmen's dismay. his excuse is that no one would be able to tell anyways because shoes

carmen rarely wears socks actually and often questions why roy continues to wear socks in warmer weather

^ their house has tiled floor and has one of those remote-controlled fences. maybe a fountain. the interior does have a “rich people” coldness to it until you get into the MAIN areas, if that makes sense

whenever it’s richard’s birthday, he often prompts roy or carmen to pick the restaurant; he’s not really one to celebrate his own birthday.

everyone has their own slippers/house shoes. they kinda share it all but carmen’s particular about her’s being her’s only

roy likes pasta… pasta kid… pasta enjoyer…

roy hates eating fish because he hates the skin of it + scared of bones, despite his parents buying boneless fish. he’s okay with microwavable fish though.

when knocking on doors, carmen uses her top knuckle rather than the fist knock thing (???????).

I love this game so so so much 🥹

i understand not wanting to see them if you only want content of canon characters but saying "dni selfship you are all DELUSIONAL" is Ableist first of all (because having delusions is not something to be ridiculed.) but also. WHO CARES!

if a person likes something enough that they take the care and passion to create something that assimilates in the given universe.... I DONT CARE!!! you could be missing out on some great and interesting things just because you think it's "Cringe."