Inktober Day 22: Open

Inktober Day 22: Open

Art by @2hoots

An Exchange

Raz: “Hey Mabel, have you heard of All Paul? They’re this old mermaid-themed boy band I think you’d really--”

Mabel, shaking Raz furiously by the shoulders: “WHAT?!“

Parallel Curses

The memory played out as though Raz were in Norman’s place—clinging to the side of the old courthouse’s peak, buffeted by a chill fall wind as unnatural purple clouds swirled above. Below, a mob chanted, and what little he could hear sounded... awful. Jeering, goading, they were blaming Norman for all this—the zombies, the storm, their own irrational actions.

They wanted him dead.

And yet, as Raz could feel in the emotions playing out, Norman was more determined to end this than ever. He reached the top of the ladder, and something swirled from the clouds. An enormous, wicked face emerged, luminous yellow eyes splitting the dark--

Raz choked. For a moment, he was frozen in his own fear. Cold water lashed him, he was alone against a foe his heroes had all failed against and she was going to drown him his own family was going to—no, no, get a hold of yourself Aquato! It was cold wind, this wasn’t then, this wasn’t Maligula—this was Norman’s memories. He shook his head out in time to see the wicked face reel back, laughing. He’d missed whatever Norman had said to it, and now—

Now it rushed at him, screaming, and a bolt of electricity struck him from the tower.

...

“Ugh…” Raz woke up slowly, the small bedroom fading into view. His body—at least, the psychic projection of it—ached, and he pulled his goggles up to rub at his eyes. Then, he turned to the other boy. “You too, huh?”

Norman squinted. “...What?”

“Family member with a scary witch form with giant, glowing yellow eyes?”

“Oh. Wait, you too?”

“Guess I know why they gave me this mission. They don’t normally let people go into kid’s minds, but Sasha said you might relate to me better than anyone and I might have better luck. Come on, I’ll explain on the way out.”

Norman followed, wearing a look of utter bafflement.

someonw stop me thisll go on forever if im not defeated

Heya. I was the writer/project organizer for MK: The Nightmare Mirror and, well...

I apologize for dropping the project without so much as a word. I wasn’t experienced enough at the time to organize something as complicated as a group-made animatic, and it fell apart as people got busy or burnt out by other things going on in their life, myself included. I was having a tough time enjoying the fandom after people I had respected trash-talked it, and tbh I still have a bit of a hard time enjoying it fully. but...

The script was completed, and I’ve sometimes considered posting it just so people could see what we were trying to do. I think I still have access to the blog we made for it, but I don’t know whether it’s worth posting there or on this--my main MK blog.

if people are interested in reading it, i’d be happy to share. I definitely think I could have done better now, but hey, maybe it’ll inspire someone y’know? ^^

I was wondering if you have any information about mystery kids the nightmare mirror or if they have been stopped. I checked their tumblr but nothing since 2016. do you have anything to do with that episode?

As far as I know they did completely stop a long time ago. Before we started this project I believe.