my love if you are still taking requests could i pls have some hcs on K Company (Sledge, Snafu, Burgin, Leyden, De L'Eau, Ack Ack and Hillbilly) and how they would survive a slasher movie (particularly Scream franchise if you have seen it?) absolutely no pressure if u dont feel inspired or interested in writing this ! x thank uu
I've only seen the first one, tbh, so I'm not as well versed with the whole franchise, but I've seen my fair share of slasher movies, so I think I'll give this a go! But I'll be operating on the idea that they're in a slasher film together, so unfortunately, not all of them are going to survive. Sorry! It might not be exactly what you asked for!
1) Andrew Haldane and Eddie Jones - Oh no they don't make it. In fact, they're the dead girls who haunt the narrative. Particularly Andy. But Eddie, too, because Andy would not be dead if Eddie had not died first. They were each other's greatest happiness, and inevitable doom. Their romance is the tragedy, and sets the stage for all the shit that's about to go down next.
2) Bill Leyden - practical, smart, pragmatic, you'd think he'd survive, but he's too skeptical, you know? But he's too logical. Almost to a fault. At first, he wields it as his own weapon against the fear, but slowly it morphs from weapon to shield. Then slowly, from shield to outright denial, and as the tension rises and rises, he struggles to keep from breaking until, finally, he crumbles beneath it. Not completely, but just enough to give their killer an in. He's not surviving the night, unfortunately.
3) Jay De L'eau - he is though! Jay's surviving! out of pure dumb luck! He's so quiet, so small and so unassuming, that the killer will forget about him until it is too late. He's the last minute save you wouldn't expect, the car that comes crashing against your slasher, sending him several feet away and far enough to buy everybody else some time, or the shadow that brings something heavy down upon the slasher's head, enough to knock him out and pull everybody else to their feet, crying 'Run!'. He's the guy they find at the end, maybe in the post-credits scene, hiding beneath the rubble or tucked away amongst the shadows, safe and traumatized. But generally untouched.
4) RV Burgin - I don't think he's surviving. He wants to get out, no question. But he's not desperate enough to throw people under the bus, and maybe that was his mistake. He stops running because someone tripped. Turns to look back because someone calls out his name, reaches out to him. Or makes it out, but then realizes his is a hollow victory if he can't manage to take his friends out with him, too. Man, he should've just run, but that's not who Burgie is. He might come back in the sequel though, maybe in a post-credits scene added by the producers after the test screening audiences demand that he be alright bc they love the character too much.
5) Merriell Shelton - ok if there's a likely candidate for the 'someone from the original group who was the Slasher all along' character, it's Snaf; turns out he was Ghostface this whole time! but that feels like too much of an out and a little unfair, so I'll just say that he'll make it almost all the way to the end, but he's going to slip up. And it's going to be because he's so tired. He's so afraid under all that anger, but he's just so tired, too, and it only takes one little slip. One little swing too late. But make no mistake, he fights back. He will be remembered very fondly because he fights back, and the tragedy of it lies in how close he was to getting out. He was so close. But not close enough.
6) Eugene Sledge - FINAL GIRL FINAL GIRL FINAL GIRL ENERGY ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? OF COURSE HE'S FINAL GIRL he's standing over the bloody corpse of their tormentor and he's the only one in his right mind to shoot it more than once to make sure it's dead. He's the one whose rage far surpasses that of the slasher. He's the who comes out of this ordeal alive and fully changed, covered in blood, blurring the lines between victim and perpetrator, and smoking his pipe at the steps of the house or the entrance of the summer camp; red and blue emergency lights flashing over his face as someone puts a blanket over his shoulders.
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I was reading your Orpheus and Eurydice AUs for the BoB ship again and I was thinking, ya know, the only popular couple who can succeed at this is either Speirton or Ack-ack/Hillbilly. What do you think?
the Orpheus/Eurydice AU's for those who haven't seen it
I mean... I guess? but if they do succeed it wouldn't be Orpheus and Eurydice, ya know? like. because the point of Orpheus/Eurydice is that Orpheus turns around and will ALWAYS turn around, no matter what. because he Loves Eurydice. Turning Around is an act so engrained in Love that to Not Turn Around is more damning.
simply put: "Eurydice, dying now a second time, uttered no complaint against her husband. What was there to complain of, but that she had been loved?" -Ovid, Metamorphosis
in the post i made, I titled it: "bob ships as orpheus and eurydice, and whether or not they'd turn around and why" and you'll notice that i always reiterated, in both the tags of the original post and in the reblog, that the answer is always going to be Yes, they ALL turn around. because they Love each other. it is always guaranteed that they will Turn Around. hence, the real question i was trying to raise with that AU wasn't "will they succeed?" it was always "WHAT will make them turn around?"
because while the Love is consistent, how these couples might love each other is totally unique to them. for winnix, their love was always marred with doubt, and in order to soothe that doubt, they must always Turn Around. for baberoe, their love was always a yearning to help the other and a yearning to simply be around each other, something they must Turn Around to accomplish. for webgott, their love consists of validating each other, always answering back when one speaks into nothingness, and to do that, they must Turn Around. for luztoye, their love means they gave each other strength and help when they would otherwise never ask it from anyone else. again, they must Turn Around to do that.
Speirton and AndyEddie are no different. under the cut tho, bc it got long:
gonna be real, i already wrote a Speirton version of the orpheus and eurydice au that played massively with Speirs being a Dead Thing From the Beginning ("accept the fact that you're already dead") and Lip Understanding This more than Speirs ever thought he could and that being the reason for Turning Around. I also snuck in references to the parable of the Scorpion and the Frog crossing the river with speirs and lip taking turns being the Scorpion and the frog. not to toot my own horn but I thought it was clever. I just never HAHAHAH i never posted it bc I didn't think anybody would want to read it. but if you do! just ask, and I'll dig thru my sticky notes app for it. it's actually a little happier than the other ones, mostly because i imagine them both being very comfortable in hell. Speirton, to me, are like. a Freak4Freak couple, ya know? there is something fundamentally Wrong with both of them. I played heavily with that in their version.
as for AndyEddie though like. they already ARE orpheus and eurydice? Orpheus and Eurydice's story, at its core, is a metaphor for grief. Orpheus turns around because grief will ALWAYS make you look back at the past, at what you once had. Eddie died before Andy did. and then Andy died. and the general consensus in the AndyEddie fanon is that Andy dying was directly correlated to his grief over Eddie's own Death. Andy let the the grief so consume him, try as he might to go forward for his men, that he's so distracted by Eddie's ghost/the absence of Eddie (i.e. ghost as concrete absence instead of ethereal presence) he makes the fatal mistake of missing the sniper. an action we could read into as his Turning Around Moment. literally. i've read enough AndyEddie fics to know that in general fanon/fics Andy, moments before his own death, is often depicted either turning bc he was so used to Eddie being at his side and was going to speak to him, before being struck dumb by his loss all over again enough to become an open target; or because he thought he saw Eddie in the corner of his eye and, in his deep grief, threw all logic away to catch one last glimpse of him, making him an open target. either way, that split second reaction, so clouded in grief, is what gets him killed in the end. if it's not either of these two, it's always some sort of iteration of Andy's grief over Eddie's death Dooming Him.
the way they died in The Pacific already had the same narrative beats as Orpheus and Eurydice's story. that's why if I ever were to find myself writing a The Pacific version of the Orpheus and Eurydice AUs, I won't need to write anything for AndyEddie because... well. it's ALREADY their story, ya know? they are their own orpheus and eurydice.
anyway. read this whole thing again but this time I want you to read ever mention of Turn Around the same way its sung in Total Eclipse of the Heart.
š„ŗ may I ask for Zombie Apocalypse weapon/fighting style for the K company boys? (Ack-ack, Hillbilly, Sledge, Snafu, Burgie, Jay, Leyden)
OF COURSE YOU MAY
1) Merriell Shelton - oh he goes first because you fucking KNOW he pulls a michonne hawthorne and drags around several zombies with their lower jaw and arms cut off tied to several leashes in order to mask his smell from zombie hordes. also? machete for SURE. man's scrappy as all hell he'll go down fighting. he doesn't do guns, but he does do an assortment of knives.
2) Eddie Jones - I just had this really funny mental image of him smashing up several zombie with his guitar. Not a good choice of weapon seeing as it would fall apart easy, but it does go down the direction I think he'd go down, which is swinging stuff around. A metal bat, for sure. He strikes me as a kind of person whose weapons are extensions of himself. A bit like John-Wick-Throwing-A-Gun-At-Someone's-Head-Once-He-Runs-Out-Of-Bullets kinda vibe, ya know? He'd also have a gun, but just a small one. Backup.
3) Andrew Haldane - Ooof, ok definitely a rifle of some kind, but small. I also contemplated pistol, which I think he does carry, too. But that's like a back-up thing. He has a lot of back-ups on him. Andy's thing, I think, as their leader, is to appear as non-threatening as possible to anybody on the outside, because I feel like he holds true to his morals and belief that there isn't anyone he can't win over? He has his boys to back him up, in case shit goes down, but he's also not stupid, he knows he has to carry something. So I think he carries small pistols, like a revolver or a glock. A knife in his boot. Things easy to hide and are probably last resort use. That kinda thing.
4) RV Burgin - oh definitely the rifle. practical, quick, big enough that even without ammo it's a weapon in and of itself. He fights very by the book, Burgie, as if he's at a war with Geneva Conventions to adhere to and not in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. He's like a well oiled machine, just point him somewhere and off he goes. Also very adaptable, as I said, he can use his rifle even without ammo and he won't hesitate to use anything else around him, too.
5) Jay de L'eau - I just keep thinking Bazooka, since that's what we saw him use in the airfield, but I like to think Bill would get those big ones, ya know? Jay would probably get his hands on a big one and then kinda just ditch it for something smaller and more manageable in tight spaces BUT is also still long distance, like a crossbow! it's long distance, but it's silent and easy to reload. obviously he'll have to scrounge up the arrows, but I have a feeling he knows how to make his own, too.
6) Bill Leyden - SOMEBODY GIVE THIS BOY A FLAMETHROWER not even for practical reasons you just fucking KNOW he'd be fantastic on a flamethrower!! he'd have the time of his life let him have a flamethrower. maybe even a bazooka. it'd be so cool.
7) Eugene Sledge - um. where do you think the nickname Sledgehammer came from in this AU? of fucking course the boy is smashing up zombie brains with a massive sledgehammer. not quite as gracefully or fluidly as Hillbilly, since there's so much weight at the end of his weapon as compared to a metal bat, BUT there's fucking INTENT in all his swings. that's the primal rage. sometimes, I feel like he'd go after these suckers with his bare hands. He'd have something traditional at first, though, like his hunting rifle from his dad. and lowkey? I also think he'd use Deacon as a weapon. I mean, I'm aware that he's a herding dog, but push comes to shove, I think he'd take advantage of the dog's protective nature just a bit? Like he definitely would allow Deacon to go for the jugular from time to time, like if they're cornered? yeah, I could imagine that.
andy is to sledge just like eddie is to snafu, except he isn't gentle or encouraging like andy-- far from it. if he needs to drag snaf by the ear or by the hair to do the right thing then by god is he going to fucking do it. snaf just makes it extra difficult for him because nothing makes his day better than watching eddie huff and work up a sweat trying to get this raggedy ass marine to fucking move.
i know whenever we have some the pacific/bob crossovers we usually get merriell shelton and eugene roe or bob leckie and david webster but i raise you:
merriell shelton and joe liebgott. two "outsiders"-- one a colored man, the other a jewish man. two soldiers who said goodbye to the people they loved, the people they fought with, because all the bad memories far out weigh the good. both hold so much resentment. both were so tired, too. angry at the world and at themselves, choosing to leave every thing behind in an attempt to get away from all the pain, completely blindsided to the fact that maybe it would be better to heal somewhere where they won't have to be alone.
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Hi! i really enjoy your daemon au and i-ve gone and watched the new his dark materials series because of it. i love your take on daemons and was wondering if you have nymore headcanons for the other boys? what's luz's daemon? liptons? how do you pick their names? are there any daemons who Re the same sex as their humans? you dont have to rwply if you dont want to i just wanted to tell you i enjoy your world very much!!
Oh, hi! Iām glad youāre watching the new His Dark Materials adaptation! Itās pretty good, huh?
I do have headcanons for not just most of the boys but for the world itself. Though I also call it His Dark Materials!AU alongside daemon!AU itās actually more the latter than the former. The only things I carried over into this AU from the original world of His Dark Materials are the existence of daemons, the fact that daemons are made of Dust particles, and the existence of witches. The magisterium or any kind of theocracy doesnāt exist. The authority and the angels also do not carry over. Instead, our own religions exist, but thereās just as much emphasis on spiritualism and mysticism as there is on moralism, which I believe would be the natural development of religion in this world where your soul/daemon, the spiritual aspect of you, is literally there for everybody else to see.
All of the boys have small or medium sized daemons, the biggest probably belonging to that of Ron and Tab, who have an Ocelot daemon and a sheepdog daemon respectively. The reason for this being that small or medium sized daemons are easily carried and they, alongside bird or other kinds of flying daemons, are preferred by the airborne. You still gotta jump out of a perfectly good airplane largely undetected. Canāt do that with an elephant daemon.Ā
Ok. This got real long so Iām putting the rest under the cut. tw: mentions of death, trauma, and mutilation.
Some of the younger boysā daemons havenāt settled. Miller, Hashey, Garcia, and Jackson. Hashey and Garciaās settle in Hageneu. Miller and Jackson never get the chance.
Shiftyās daemon, Myrtle, is a Capybara. But he doesnāt know that. Every time somebody asked him what his daemon was, heād shrug, sayĀ āDonāt rightly know,ā then leave it at that. What can he do? Capybaraās arenāt native to Virginia and heās never been out of Virginia. Webster was the one to tell him that Myrtle was a Capybara because heād read about them in a book somewhere that one time. Myrtle was startled by this and said;Ā āI thought I was some kind of dog!ā that was one of the few times she ever spoke out-loud during the whole war.
As Iāve said before in this post, Lewās daemon is a chameleon named Amalthea. For all of the events of episode 9, Lew kept her in his pocket and that scared almost everybody shitless, because it made it seem like he was walking around without a daemon. The replacements assigned to them around that time, like OāKeefe, thought he didnāt have a soul. He never bothered to correct them because that meant letting Amalthea out, and the idea of her being in the open and vulnerable made him especially ill. Heād rather people thought he was soulless than allow himself and Amalthea to get hurt again. Which is soĀ Lewis.
Skip has a hummingbird daemon named Ilaria, which is a name that means happiness and joy. This daemon-human duo wasnāt hard for me to figure out. It just fits.
Malarkeyās daemon is an artic hare with a summer coat named Felis. Sheās settled, but after Foy and after losing Skip and Alex and Buck, she changes again. Subtlely, of course, and not wholely. She stays an artic hare, but instead of a summer coat, she permanently has a winter coat.
Itās not uncommon in this world for your daemon to change after severe trauma. I bet as the field of psychology expands, so does the understanding of traumaās effects on the soul expand. Thereās many studies on the changing of once settled daemons in relation to soldiersā PTSD.
Buckās daemon, a male bald eagle named Romulus, changes entirely. Still a bird, but instead of an eagle, he turns into a snowy owl. Before the war, he was a chatty daemon. After, he barely speaks and only does so to Buck and, very rarely, to those close to them.
Eugene Sledgeās male daemon, Daecon goes from a blood hound and gets turned into a Luzon bleeding heart-- which, I knowĀ is on the nose but itās just. Itās such a cool bird, yaāll. Iāve seen one up-close and ever since that day, I have not known anyĀ peace. The shift would be painful and would happen very slowly. It was actually horrific and was a trauma in and of itself. That was the last time they ever changed, though.
I also headcanon that the longer youāve been settled, the harder and more painful the shift.
Merriell Sheltonās daemon settles in Gloucester. Into what, Iām not sure yet, but a part of me thinks sheās settled into some kind of big cat from the rain forests. Either a cloud leopard or a jaguar. Her nameās Charlotte but he calls her Lottie. Donāt ask me why. It just fits.
That being said, I have some Thoughts about people with big cat daemons. Theyāre usually aloof. Like, they make a very impactful first impression but theyāre mostly solitary individuals who are weird af and difficult to get to know. It takes a really special person to tame a human with a big cat daemon. Once you earn their trust, thatās for life. Theyāre also really self-assured and are very secure in their sense of self. There is almost little to no tension between big cat daemons and their humans, and if there is, it gets explosive.
Ron Speirs has a big cat daemon, a female Ocelot named Aurele. She never talks, not even to Ron. They have this silent gaze/telepathy going on. Ron also takes on a couple of animalistic traits because of it. They could also... stretch their bond really far? Which is scary as fuck. People think heās the son of a witch who, in her desperation to make him immortal, made him go through the ritual that allows a witch and her daemon to part for long periods of time and great distances. This is not true. Ron and Aurele just have really high pain tolerance.
Eugene Roe, on the other hand, isĀ the son of a witch. His maman, however, did notĀ make him go through the ritual because heās not her first son. She knows the pain of outliving her sons well. She loves him all the same but understands that he will die well before her. Eugeneās daemon is a male kinkajou named Louis. Which is both a surprise and also not. For much of the war thereās a lot of tension there. Louis craves connection with others, Roe needs isolation to keep their sanity. It kind of turns into this thing where, if you wanted to comfort Roe or be close to him, youād have to go through his daemon instead.
Babeās daemon is a squirrel. A very chatty female russian squirrel named Abigail. They talk to each other a lot, and Abby talks to other people a lot too. Sometimes, she even answers in lieu of Babe. Theyāre both very blunt and very out there, no hiding with Babe and Abby. It used to get them into a lot of trouble with the nuns at school, who believed that daemons are only meant to be seen and not heard. A+ Catholic repression.
Georgeās daemon was a little tricky to me. I know his daemon is female and that her name is Thalia. I also know that she can fly. My first thought was: Parrot, either a hyacinth macaw or a white cockatoo. But, I also really like the idea of George having a Butterfly daemon. Particularly one that looks like a leaf when her wings are folded up but is brilliantly jewel toned when she opens them. In the end, I opted for George entering the army, having not settled just yet, and he and Thalia are this kind of double-act, where she shifts into whatever form is necessary for the punchline of the joke. She only settles into a parrot (idk still what kind) after their first jump and all the excitement in Carentan. A gradual thing. They donāt even notice until just before the jump in Holland. When they miss someone, Thalia will mimic that personās voice. First, it was Georgeās mama and the voice of her daemon, both speaking in rapid fire portugese. Later on, in Austria, Thalia starts imitating all the friends theyāve lost. Sometimes sheāll sound like Skip. Other times, sheāll sound like Bill. It takes a very long time for her to break this habit. To the point wherein she and George donāt even remember what her real voice sounds like.
Lipās daemon settled really early and is a female Bonobo named Jane. Has been since he was ten and made man of the house. This, like Skip and Ilaria, was very easy for me to figure out.
Dickās daemon is a Caracara raptor bird. Iām still figuring out the specifics so she doesnāt have a name yet. Sorry.
As mentioned, Tab has a sheepdog daemon named Marisa who enjoys keeping him and everybody else in check. Have you met a sheepdog? They will literally herd you. It doesnāt matter if you are not a lamb or a sheep. They will nip at your heels until you go where they want to go. Thatās Marisa. Sheāll nip at Tabās heels, sheāll nip at everybody elseās heels. If you are going somewhere she does not want you to go she will make sure you know her displeasure.Ā
It is also super funny when she looks Tab in the eye and goesĀ āDown, boy.ā It never fails to make Tab go red and make everybody else laugh.Ā
Harryās daemon-- and donāt get mad at me-- but Harryās daemon is a Scottish Terrier named Saoirse. He carries her around strapped to his chest during jumps. Itās fucking cute. Donāt say that to their faces though because they will lose all respect for you. Itās a daemon suited more to a teacher than it is to a soldier, thatās for sure.
Billās daemon is a pit-bull named Darla. Scary looking one, too, with a very bawdy sense of humor. She will growl at you and pretend to bite and you will be very scared but she only does it as a joke. Sheās honestly really cool. When Bill and Babe are walking around together, Abby likes to perch on top of Darlaās head. Itās adorable. Sometimes, when Abby gets too much, Darla carries her around in her mouth. Itās still cute. But only to them, everybody else finds it vaguely horrifying.
I know thereās this taboo of humans not touching other humansā daemons but itās kinda difficult in such close-quarters like theirs. It is also heavily implied in the original text of Philip Pullman, that the no-touching thing is a cultural thing. Like, I think in religions that deal a lot in repression like Catholicism or Protestantism, the touching of anotherās daemon is a no-no and is only reserved for the most intimate of relations (i.e. marriage). But I feel like religions such as Judaism, Wiccan, Paganism, or even some branches of Folk-Catholicism encourage touch/celebrate that connection between two humans. Neither of these two beliefs are wrong, of course. Itās just a cultural thing and they carry with them both pros and cons.
I bet Lieb grew up very used to his daemon being touched by his mother and father or older siblings. Itās not taboo to him, though he recognizes that itās taboo to others. He doesnāt get it though, and is constantly rolling his eyes every time somebody gasps when they accidentally touch someoneās daemon.
A lot of the boys just kinda ignore the touching daemons thing until they get used to it.
Iām not sure what Liebās daemon is or what her name is, too. I know sheās a social kind of daemon-- not solitary like a big cat or a reptile (like snakes). I thought maybe a wolf, but a wolf daemon is too... large and there are a lot of connotations attached to it. I think Liebās daemon is something medium-sized and unassuming. Not a dog. Not a domestic cat either. A part of me thinks flightless bird, but no. Not that either. Give me time. Iāll figure her out. As of now, Iām thinking either a marsupial or a canidae/fox but not quite. Sheās a mammal, that much I know. Just donāt know what kind.
Grantās daemon is a male domestic cat named Saladin. Heās either an Abyssinian or a Bengal. Either way, heās really cool. Like super cool. Theyāre both super duper cool.
And... thatās kinda it. Thatās all I have for now. Iām really sorry it got so long, anon. I get really excited when talking about daemons. Itās character study but with animals! Thank you for giving me this opportunity to ramble. This is where I leave you.
i feel like h-company is all gentle teasing and camaraderie and looking out for each other and insults that all carry an undercurrent of fondness and loyalty
and then k-company is just andy and eddie and, later, burgie working very very hard to keep their four dirty battle children and one crazy uncle from clawing and hissing at each other all day
okay this is basically canon but: he's...really not sure of how to do introductions? hes v polite obviously but just not sure of when introducing himself is right; he can't feel out those kinds of situations very well. so he usually looks at harry until he says something
what is VOLUME CONTROL. also canon, but he tends to talk Very Loudly even if its only to one person in an empty room. this is both an autism thing and an "i work for gordon" thing.
his special interest is crime in general, probably! also nature definitely.
i bet he wasn't super great at figuring out good stims til he started whittling. its good and keeps his hands occupied and also he gets a whistle at the end? sold
he's very literal most of the time, and doesnt really think much of the whole weird visions thing. its just a whole nother Thing to investigate, and hes cool with that!
he doesnt get super overloaded often, but if he does at the station, harry or lucy or someone just sticks him in harry's office until hes feeling Better again. they let him have a shock blanket if he feels up to it. also coffee usually helps
hes not always super sure of what topics are Okay to talk about, but hes generally good about avoiding sensitive subjects! he also has a good amount of intuition for events, but not as much for other people.
he doesnt actually wear the same pajamas every night, he just has three sets of those blue flannel pajamas. its a comfort thing.
this isnt specifically an autistic hc but his favorite hobby is telling diane about all how great and cool his friends are. poor diane has to listen to all of this (but shes cool with it, ultimately. she thinks this audrey girl sounds lovely)
hes good at math, as seen when he counts cards. he has a talent for keeping track of all of them
his Executive Function Skills (tm) arent great most of the time, and he generally uses most of his effort on work stuff. harry sometimes takes it upon himself to wash the poor dude's hair bc hes too tired to do it himself
