Everything You Have Ever Felt, Everything Youve Buried... Forget The Bottle. Let Your Chaos Explode.

“Everything you have ever felt, everything you’ve buried... Forget the bottle. Let your chaos explode.”

Amazing! Can't believe I sent this on anon, force of habit I guess but I'm trying to change that! I love Resident Evil too! RE1, RE2 and RE3 are the first PS1 games I remeber playing and is it's my favorite game series since I then. And Steo in a Nivanfield scenario would be heartbreaking but so good!

Steo Resident Evil AU! Maybe they're STARS members? Or maybe Stiles is an FBI agent that gets caught in a outbreak, and Theo is a Umbrella scientist that wants out or stole company data and is now being hunted, and runs into Stiles during the crisis! Or maybe Theo is an Umbrella experiment that didn't turn into a mindless monster, or wasn't experimented with yet but was being kept in captivity as a future test subject, and escaped during the chaos! I would love your thoughts on this AU!

ooooooooooooooooooooh, Resident Evil. Yass. Great thinking, nonnie! 

My mind instantly jumps to Resident Evil 6 because of Chris Redfield and Piers Nivans. Can you imagine??? Theo is totally Chris who went MIA after a mission gone wrong, and Stiles is Piers constantly kicking Theo’s ass to get him back in line. In the end, Stiles sacrifices himself so Theo gets a chance to get free and a shot at a better life. Instead, Theo falls in a hole, much deeper than before. Stiles miraculously survives but not without consequences. Theo hears about it and instantly comes back. Stiles is mad that Theo tried drowning his problems again but is also glad that he came back for him.

But I also love the FBI!Stiles and Umbrella Scientist!Theo idea. Maybe they hooked up? Oooh, or maybe Stiles is some kind of undercover agent, and they fell in love. Theo promises to help him bring Umbrella down but something goes wrong and they are caught in the middle of an outbreak at one of the laboratories. 

And the ‘Theo is an Umbrella experiment “gone wrong”’ one? *chef’s kiss* Perfect. Theo has been experimented on but he was a failure. It didn’t really work out the way the scientists intended. He still has some perks (strength, healing). But he’s broken and tortured and fucking angry. He breaks out, takes a wrong turn and finds a boy in another cell. It’s Stiles. He hasn’t been experimented on yet, and Theo won’t let them. He lets him out (and all the others). They flee during the chaos. 

Sometimes it’s hard, but sooner or later every man shows himself.

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff in AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015)

Hey kate, thanks for reading this! So, partway through the story im writing, my characters are going to run into the main villain. However, at this moment in time, they don't know they're the villain, thinking it's a minor inconvenience, escaping the minor inconvenience, and continuing on their way. What good ways could I foreshadow that this is the actual villain while foreshadowing that the "villain" isn't actually a villain?

Hmm… Foreshadowing is, at its core, meant to be undetectable on the first read and then hit the reader in the face when they read it, knowing the details that haven’t been revealed at that point in the story. For scenes like this, I recommend putting a flag next to it and then coming back when you’ve fleshed out the rest of the story to the point of the 2nd or 3rd draft. This may seem like procrastinating, but you will automatically write it better if you’ve already built up some minor details later on that you can hint at when you edit that scene later on. 

You can’t foreshadow effectively if you don’t know the details you want to include yet, and even if you have everything plotted and outlined down to the grain, the best things you can reference in foreshadowing are the creative elements you add in the moment. So, once you’ve reached the end of your second draft, return to the scene and find little places in dialogue or description where you can insert details that will give the desired effect. 

Here’s a couple articles I think you might find useful if you’d like more guidance:

How To Foreshadow

Writing Good Villains

Editing & Proofreading Cheat-Sheet

Best of luck!

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Or even a RE2 AU were Stiles is a police officer/FBI agent on his first day (like Leon), and Theo is a spy trying to steal a virus/information from Umbrella (like Ada)!

Or a RE3 AU, Stiles also being an agent (maybe a STARS member in a situation like Jill was in RE3) or even as a civilian, and Theo is a mercenary sent by Umbrella (like Carlos, or Nicholai with the whole traitor thing), and they end up having to work together to survive!

Steo Resident Evil AU! Maybe they're STARS members? Or maybe Stiles is an FBI agent that gets caught in a outbreak, and Theo is a Umbrella scientist that wants out or stole company data and is now being hunted, and runs into Stiles during the crisis! Or maybe Theo is an Umbrella experiment that didn't turn into a mindless monster, or wasn't experimented with yet but was being kept in captivity as a future test subject, and escaped during the chaos! I would love your thoughts on this AU!

ooooooooooooooooooooh, Resident Evil. Yass. Great thinking, nonnie! 

My mind instantly jumps to Resident Evil 6 because of Chris Redfield and Piers Nivans. Can you imagine??? Theo is totally Chris who went MIA after a mission gone wrong, and Stiles is Piers constantly kicking Theo’s ass to get him back in line. In the end, Stiles sacrifices himself so Theo gets a chance to get free and a shot at a better life. Instead, Theo falls in a hole, much deeper than before. Stiles miraculously survives but not without consequences. Theo hears about it and instantly comes back. Stiles is mad that Theo tried drowning his problems again but is also glad that he came back for him.

But I also love the FBI!Stiles and Umbrella Scientist!Theo idea. Maybe they hooked up? Oooh, or maybe Stiles is some kind of undercover agent, and they fell in love. Theo promises to help him bring Umbrella down but something goes wrong and they are caught in the middle of an outbreak at one of the laboratories. 

And the ‘Theo is an Umbrella experiment “gone wrong”’ one? *chef’s kiss* Perfect. Theo has been experimented on but he was a failure. It didn’t really work out the way the scientists intended. He still has some perks (strength, healing). But he’s broken and tortured and fucking angry. He breaks out, takes a wrong turn and finds a boy in another cell. It’s Stiles. He hasn’t been experimented on yet, and Theo won’t let them. He lets him out (and all the others). They flee during the chaos.