Thank you so much for reading and commenting... mega-commenting... It really made me feel great.
I was kind of worried the warning list came off as goofy, but there really is a lot to warn about legitimately here, and then when I finally came up with a way to describe the apartment scene in four words I got carried away and decided to run with letting it be ... amusing.
I almost went with Jenny just finding a shotgun and shells lying around like James does, since in the Silent Hill universe there's a a reason it happens, but I kind of liked the image of her breaking into the store and getting the jacket. (Because yes, "practical woman" and then the James thing.)
I couldn't help it about the chapter titles... XD I went with "Vagina Dentata" and then sort of realized they were going to be there to take the edge off. (As for "teeth in bits," it seemed like the only way to go, and not because apparently there's a movie coming out along those lines... though it did remind to write the story...)
In a way I did want to go with "some damn disease" (or as someone once referred to it in another fandom "coughing up blood disease") because it's a Silent Hill thing, but one of the things that always got to me was that no one asks James how Mary died (because Laura knows, presumably, and the rest have their reasons too) and James never actually has to tell that lie. But yeah, it was meant to add a little sadness and realism.
Mike is a sexy beast? Yay! (I feel a little bad I didn't get a chance for him to say he hates bowling. But I think Mitchell was probably the one who hated bowling.)
The cat thing is sort of a Red Dwarf reference. In that episode where the crew goes to an alternate universe and finds their female counterparts, the Cat is all excited that he's going to meet a female version of himself, but his counterpart turns out to be a (male) dog.
I just loved this prompt to pieces, and I knew there was no way I could pick just one scene or just one ending, so I'm really thrilled you liked it. I had so much fun writing it; I just kept turning ideas over in my mind for days. Thanks so much for offering the prompt!
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I was kind of worried the warning list came off as goofy, but there really is a lot to warn about legitimately here, and then when I finally came up with a way to describe the apartment scene in four words I got carried away and decided to run with letting it be ... amusing.
I almost went with Jenny just finding a shotgun and shells lying around like James does, since in the Silent Hill universe there's a a reason it happens, but I kind of liked the image of her breaking into the store and getting the jacket. (Because yes, "practical woman" and then the James thing.)
I couldn't help it about the chapter titles... XD I went with "Vagina Dentata" and then sort of realized they were going to be there to take the edge off. (As for "teeth in bits," it seemed like the only way to go, and not because apparently there's a movie coming out along those lines... though it did remind to write the story...)
In a way I did want to go with "some damn disease" (or as someone once referred to it in another fandom "coughing up blood disease") because it's a Silent Hill thing, but one of the things that always got to me was that no one asks James how Mary died (because Laura knows, presumably, and the rest have their reasons too) and James never actually has to tell that lie. But yeah, it was meant to add a little sadness and realism.
Mike is a sexy beast? Yay! (I feel a little bad I didn't get a chance for him to say he hates bowling. But I think Mitchell was probably the one who hated bowling.)
The cat thing is sort of a Red Dwarf reference. In that episode where the crew goes to an alternate universe and finds their female counterparts, the Cat is all excited that he's going to meet a female version of himself, but his counterpart turns out to be a (male) dog.
I just loved this prompt to pieces, and I knew there was no way I could pick just one scene or just one ending, so I'm really thrilled you liked it. I had so much fun writing it; I just kept turning ideas over in my mind for days. Thanks so much for offering the prompt!