i WILL turn all of Hatchetfield into warrior cats

oh hey this one was in my drafts, posting cause i have nothing else yayy

then one night, he comes home super late, fidgety and nervous. He quickly goes to the bathroom and takes what you believe is the longest shower of his life, but you can still see some red under his nails. He never explains what happened, but you know it was something

then things change. He’s happier at school and at home. He seems to be making some new friends, or at least people look at him better. The bruises stop showing up when he comes home from school, and for once he’s eager to talk about his day.

but something is off. He still seems nervous every time there is a dark space or a creaky floorboard. Sometimes you can hear him tossing and turning at night but never get the chance to ask. He now takes detours to avoid that old house that he never really seemed to be that scared of before, at least not to the point of avoidance

and one night, the night of the big game, he doesn’t come back home. You assume that it’s because of some after party, but he doesn’t come back that weekend either. No responding to texts, calls, or even discord messages. Nothing. He usually stays home all the time, so this isn’t like him.

then the news comes, he was found dead in the school bathroom. You hear from whispers around the town that it was gruesome, making some police sick to their stomachs, but a closed casket prevents you from seeing the body.

you never know what happened the night he came home late, nor the nights he spent tossing and turning. You don’t know what changed in those weeks after that late night, nor do you know why everyone, even the two people who seemed to be his original friends, don’t look like they’re even passing a second glance at his death.

but i'd like to acknowledge really quickly that this layer of tragedy is also present in ted's monologue from the original show, even before we had the added context of peter spankoffski. whenever i see new people reacting to tgwdlm, i always see people in the comments pointing out ted having to deal with losing a brother, and sure, retroactively that's true, but i never see people talking about the person that was most likely going through ted's mind in tgwdlm 2018 during that monologue: charlotte. charlotte who he knew was struggling with her conscience. charlotte who he abandoned in her hour of need, only for the next time he saw her to be with her guts hanging out of her stomach, singing in harmony with a husband that didnt love her, taking pleasure out of torturing him.

Have some whumpy Ted art.

So... The remount turned me into an unironic Ted Stan...

TGWDLM:R Spoilers under the cut!