#askamy

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Never thought i'd get this kind of message...the things happening in Gaza is an absolute travesty. It hurts to know that this is happening to so many innocent people...and for what? I'm honestly so, so, sorry this is happening to you do...but I believe there's still hope...I'm spreading the word, right here, right now.

Ceasefire RIGHT NOW.

Link to the fundraiser: https://gofund.me/0a610ee3

Ok now everyone GO GIVE HIM UR MONEY!!! Or if you can't donate at least spread the word!!!! DO IT DO IT NOW NOW NOW GO GO GOOOOO!!!!!!!!

Well well welp we got our first ask! first of all..aamsnaklwowwoAAAAA THANKYOU YOU GOT ME BACK INTO CANDLE COVE!!!!!!

My lore for Candle Cove is incredibly different compared to the wiki stuff, since I'm most familiar with the Channel Zero version, which I will admit I have a bias since I gree up with it rather than the wiki. As such, my lore for the characters and such is incredibly different than most people's and while some of it is inspired by other stuff, and some fan wiki characters do remaine (despite my pet peeves agains the wiki and me disliking it (if you enjoy that stuff that's great! It's just not my thing) most of it comes from my own head. So now I shall happily info dump for y'all.

If you somehow haven't seen in Channel Zero version I'm talking about, here it is at the bottom. Now go watch it ASAP. You won't regret it.

Let's start off with Percy and Laughingstock aka MY BELOVED BOAT. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH HE IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER. I LOVE HIM. Anyway the lore for them is quite simple actually: so after the attack by Red Mary (who's basically a fire god gone mad here) Thade was spared by Lady Plague and became her demigod and then Skintaker lore happens. The thing between Percy and Laughingstock is because since his parents were killed in the attack, Lady Plague had them possess a ship and grow in some werid anatomy and eventually became Laughingstock to serve as a mentor/guide and basically a father-figure for him

Pretty cute, huh? Well let's get into Horace's aka my sleep paralysis demon...

In my eyes, Horace is also a SERIAL KILLER. He just kills and looooves every second of it and his brain is just "MURDER MURDER MURDER" 24/7. Why is this? Well...

Basically i imagine Skintaker as this deity of death like with Tiamat in dnd. And he has a death cult that worships him. They're called the Rubber Fishes. That wasn't their actual name, of course; they didn't have one, but that was what everyone called them. They seem like they're just some evil human pirate guys, but they actually capture and kidnap people to harvest their skin and teeth for sacrificial purposes. A select few members also learned the ability to reanimate the dead and even create life. Life creation only happened ONCE: they wanted to see if they could in fact create life-or more specifically another cult member-with some of the extra skin and teeth they had lying around...so BOOM. It's Horace. He's a product of a cult. About 5 minutes after coming into existence he just started sharpening his hook absentmindedly to the point where it was so sharp he proceeded to ACCIDENTALLY GOUGE OUT ONE OF HIS EYES (which is why he only has one). Pandemonium broke out. People were screaming. He then just took one look at the blood and then just went "HEY THAT LOOKS FUN" and started MASSACRING EVERYONE PRESENT, USING THE HOOK AS A WEAPON OF CHOICE. He managed to kill a good handful of the cult members, while everyone else fled. The cult after that just sorta scattered, taking the massacre as a sign that the very deity they worshipped had marked them for death for their creation. Thing was, people already knew about the Rubber Fishes and their terrifying cult things and who they worshiped, so as news of the massacre spread, that only made that fear spread further. There were times he would lead a gaggle of a few failed magic-being people from prior to his creation out a few times but that's about it. Other than that, that's why he loves killing people so much.

Think that's lengthy. Let's get into Skin-Taker's...it incorporates a bits of: provides a sort of retake to the Channel Zero Jawbone/Skin-Taker version of him

So remember how I said that the Skin-Taker is the God of Death and Decay in the Candle Cove universe? Well, he wasn't always that way. According to legend, he was just a normal dude named Thade Soben who got selected by the Gods to ascend the throne as the sole Demigod of Lady Plague, the Goddess of Death. It is unknown what exactly caused him to snap the way he did, but according to legend, he fell into a spiral of insanity after pursuing Death Magic aka Necromancy, which made him power-hungry for the role of an actual God, and he planned to usurp Lady Plague.

He gained this power after discovering he could feed on the souls of the living, particularly children, cursing them to be sent to the Abyssal Realm, where they would wander endlessly for all eternity. By that point, he had become so powerful that any resemblance to a human was completely absent...it's difficult to describe, but he looked like a bloody, rotting, moss-covered pirate corpse with black liquid bleeding from where his eyes should be, covered in a tattered attempt of a sort of cloak made out of skin (basically Syfy Channel Zero Skin-Taker played by the lovely Olivier De Sagazan)

He did successfully manage to knock Lady Plague off of the throne and took her place as the God of Death, sealing her inside of a glass bird. As soon as he did, the other Gods took notice. As punishment, he was stripped of the very skin that made up his being and his power, leaving him as the skeleton form we know and love. (So he, quite literally, "shed his skin".) The children who had wandered the Abyssal Realm were set free, and it was repurposed to contain the Skin-Taker as well as various other eldritch beings of unfathomable power. Lady Plague was freed from her prison as took back her throne as the true God of Death, as well as Rebirth and Renewal.

Another thing about early depictions of the Skin-Taker in his skeletal form is that prior to him being summoned into the human world by Horace Horrible, he was depicted with a typical pirate hat rather than the top hat later on. Upon being summoned, all he had was the tattered remains of that and his cloak. By the end of the series, he had an entire SUIT made of skin...a literal "skinsuit", if you will.

Also, occasionally he's refered to as "Jawbone" or "Ol' Jawbone", so when you hear people say that, they're referring to the Skin-Taker.

One more thing: Lady Plague sees death as more of a thing of Rebirth and Renewal, hence as to why the Skin-Taker is the God of Decay.

OK THATS IT *falls over*

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

[The fort is finished. It is far more what Amy was expecting to make, but then, Shadow always takes tasks very seriously. The walls of the pillow fort are the square, heavy couch cushions, fortified by other throw pillows and a few folded towels. Sheets have also been used, draping to form a roof that lets softly filtered light inside where a nest of blankets sit warm and inviting. The fairy lights have been strung along the ceiling of the blanket fort carefully, held in place by where the sheets pin them to the tops of the cushion walls.]

[Amy tries to say something. Her hands come up, gesturing to the fort, but all she can do is laugh. She laughs even harder when she turns to Shadow and finds them to be smiling too, ducking their head with a small shrug.]

[Taking Shadow by the hand, she leads them to crawl inside the fort. By the time Shadow enters behind her, Amy has curled up comfortable on the blankets. Shadow looks around, unsure of where to place themselves in such a small space. Amy tugs at their wrist, inviting Shadow to cuddle. After a brief hesitation, Shadow slowly lets themselves down into the blanket nest, and Amy immediately curls around them.]

[For a moment, everything is still. Shadow takes measured breaths as they let their eyes swoop back and forth along the fairly lights above, and Amy presses her face into their chest with a sigh.]

Amy: ...Shadow?

Shadow: (•ิ_•ิ)?

Amy: Can we talk?

Shadow: About what?

Amy:... GUN.

[Shadow stops breathing. Amy squeezes her arms around him tightly. For a moment, the pillow fort is too quiet. Then, Shadow takes a slow, deep inhale.]