#dililah

The way they can’t stop touching each other.

Alright I gathered my thoughts let’s get to the retellings!

1:35 AM

This generally follows the story up till Dililah first uses the computer to google search Ella. That’s how Mal finds her (malhare is like sort of a scout for the cryptid club, keeping an eye out for recent paranormal shit via the internet) and send her the number for the ‘cryptid help hotline’ emma goes to help but she can’t get there immediately because a) the place is at least a day away by car. And b) she has midterms and can’t miss this shit she’s a collage student man. So Dilaliah has to deal with Ella for a few more days but emma eventually gets there. Though emma quickly figured out this doll can’t easily be stopped by human intervention so she calls in backup. Namely Eleanor who’s kind of chilled out after she ‘went vegan’ and sort of became the witch of the woods. Eleanor is doing wishes/magic bs in exchange for vegetarian food nowadays so dililah gives her a diner salad and she stops Ella. Then just takes the weird doll home since she’s kinda sorta become the doll cryptid mom (she also picked up Freshtrap after he mellow out) Eleanor dips and the cryptid club gets their first actual adult member.

Room for one more

I’m stating this now nobody is eating dolls. Also I already have an oc named Stanley who is in desperate need of a backstory so....yeah I kinda asymilated the story Stanley into my oc. As such I’m taking more light inspiration from this story than a full on rewrite. Anyway so this story inspired me to create a new nightmare animatronic. Nightmare Ballora! She was spawned from some kids fear of the dentist and thus has that sort of theme, but she became a wandering nightmare and somewhere along the line picked up trait of exploiting people’s guilt of a lost loved one. So that’s when she finds Stanley. He’s a bit younger and has a security job, hasn’t gone to jail yet. It’s been a few years since he lost his daughter Susie and he’s uh... not doing to hot, he’s still in contact with his younger brother who’s got a kid of his own now. Anyway nightmare ballora slips into his dreams and torments him, I’m thinking this leads to him getting hurt on the job and she dips out after that since she’s had her fill of this poor mans fear. He kinda spirals after that which probably leads to whatever got him jailed some months later (don’t worry it’s nothing too bad, he didn’t kill anyone) but yeah this one is more vague than the rest.

The new kid

Oh boy I’m excited for this one. Okay so it follows the story up till the truck scene, not much has changed before hand other than Kelsey is very very VERY gay for Devon and has a crush on him. Thus when heather and her possy flirt with him he’s like “uh you’re very nice but uh..l I’m not... interested in you like that” and she gets offended and probbaky calls him some names (because teens suck man) and Devon and Mick support their new friend. So they become genuine friends and Devon gets over heather because he can’t ignore her being that big of a bitch. But you man be wondering, where’s the cryptid? It’s Kelsey. Okay let me explain, Kelsey is a siren like cryptid, he is intended to target outcast kids/teens and gain their trust, then using some mind game bs make them do something self distructuve and probbaky kill him or someone else and then Kelsey kills them. But Kelsey has completely forgotten about his cryptid origins and instincts due to probably ghost intervention and thinks he’s just a regular boy. His abilities include fast healing, super durability, above average strength, probbaky a boost in charisma, and if he looks at someone hard enough he can just know things about them. He probably also should be able to teleport but he can’t since he never practiced, same with he should be unkillable but again, never used it so he can’t anymore. His friends and him pick up on Kelsey not being human after like during some urban exploration he falls and should have broken a leg but he’s fine with only a minor injury and Mick and Devon are like “dude that’s not normal” and Kelsey is like “But I’ve always been like that.... wait it’s not normal???” And this leads to Kelsey having an identity crisis and they find the cryptid club and something something that’s its own story. But yeah nobody dies and they’re all friends!

Oh! And note for the Stitchwrsith, I’m not following that story, but the detective still exists, see the stitchwraith he’s following is actually Nightmare Ennard, he’s kinda trying this wandering nightmare thing but instead of tormenting dreamers he’s just raiding trash cans and living in the sewers. Larson is in for a shock when the “Stitch Wraith” turns out to just be a sewer clown who likes shines things