#croun

So colour me surprised when the side quests started happening. Like there is a whole ass shop that sells taxidermied animals but the butch lesbian hasn't been doing so well eversince the animals started biting. Old guy blew up his house due to cheese mice. We have a dangerous mermaid chilling in the pond. Baba yaga might cross your path when taking a stroll through the woods. Multiple cases of vampirsm, ghosts and demons????

This is not me complaining btw, im just so perplexed to how the people to your story react to the supernatural, bc you see them just kinda existing, not particularly accepted by the masses, but also nobody talks shit about how dangerous or weird or whatever they are, and I know thats partly due to the evil mayor wanting to keep everything hush hush. But like everybody is so nonchalant about then but also scared?? but also nobody takes big precautions about how to protect themselves besides "hey dont go there" and maybe wearing a cross

(Im very much aware that all this very much mirrors what is happening to the random cultish killings)

But yeah is this the behavior only of this specific town or is the entire world like this

That’s rather overdone to me, I found it more fascinating for the town to know but simply ignore it. Out of sight out of mind. The town is still standing so why change the status quo? The fear is new, because the killings have been far more frequent and the bodies being found are more numerous.

Before Orla’s death, people died but their bodies were never found in such a way and so close to home. It’d be one thing if the killings remained in the woods, but now it’s encroaching of the very town which is why it’s harder nonchalant about it but at the same time no one knows how to do anything but. You got the parents beginning to protest but if you’re kept out of the dark, you either seek the light or remain in ignorant (sometimes) bliss

I've always thought about that, which leads me to another line of reasoning... In real life, mental illnesses was not studied or known in the past, in which most people believed that it was "demonic possessions" and "this is the devil's work". And even today, some older people still have this kind of thinking (speaking from experience as a latino who has a grandmother who believes depression is a work of the devil, LOL)

So thinking like that, didn't Crowny's family ever think about calling a priest to try an exorcism on them?

note: it's just a tiny pet peeve of mine, so it isn't a city. It's a town. It'd be easier to find if it were a city

the supernatural is completely believed by 99.9% percent of the population, they have encountered it. (0.1 is Nia)

Why would people from Hungary, Colombia, Algeria, Iran, Ireland etc decide to settle in a nowhere backwater on the Pacific coast? The only thing I can think that they have in common is their all having turbulent histories in the 20th century. So... is Croun a place where people who are fleeing something just kind of end up?

Can't wait for the answer to this to be "You're really overthinking it! :)" I debated whether to even ask this, but it's bugging me.

You’re really overthinking it! :)

It will be explained in depth but what I can say is that

Croun is very special. It draws people in. It can be a safe haven for people who don’t want to be found or who want a better chance in a town that is so disconnected from the world they have a better chance at living in it

I feel like Ireland isn’t as egregious as the other countries since so many Irish people come over to the new world, I feel like it’s the least “exotic” of the nationalities found in town

Well they do but it’s not so enforced. Like it’s written into their laws but I wouldn’t say cops spend time really checking as long as no one is speeding

The town’s population is give or take 15K people (I think it qualifies as being called a township)

It’s so small and well — its dimensions are a bit hard to pin down. Sometimes it expands, other times it regresses that no proper route could be reliable.

So yeah no public transport except for that 1 taxi with the hooded driver you see in episode 3 and like it seems they don’t work for a company at all

Actually no this hasn’t been asked before!

So there isn’t any cobblestones streets unfortunately. Croun isn’t that cool 😔

So I feel the town looks very run down. It’s a town in decay. The newest building Town Hall was built in the 70s. Most of the architecture I would say is Edwardian. Main Street is a bit more spruced up with certain cookie cutter 50s elements like the old theatre that looks like last century but has a very 50s marquee

It’s a town stuck in the past in more ways than one

So an interesting thing my partner told me about today’s youth in their sexual activity versus the past. He said that the rate at which kids in high school are engaged in sexual activity is much less than previous generations due to a few factors: the limitations of dating apps, gen z’s tendency to be less social, pandemic, social media

That’s is so interesting because it’s something never had to think about because Sally takes care of the food. Anytime there’s a scene at the lodge, it’s Imre who pays for everything for everyone

I guess it wouldn’t be expensive as Alaska because people go to Alaska to work too. There isn’t much migration to croun and they are near a city