#✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. )

[hauntaroid]

shockingly enough i do, in fact, live.

#✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. )

[soullcssskcptic]

you can now find ashley at @hauntaroid! 

#✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #( it's a work in progress cause i just made it but.. yeah!! ) #( i'll reblog this a few times today- )

[hauntaroid]

i’ll probably spend the rest of tonight continuing to work / expand on my blog’s pages, but we’re always in a writing mood, so i’m gonna make a plotting call of this post! feel free to like this and i’ll just hop into IMs to discuss it with you!!

#✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #// plotting call #( i'll make a tag for that eventually i swear.. )

[hauntaroid]

i’m here, laying awake, thinking about how the fact that gizmo is a therapy cat that ended up curling up next to ashley in chapter 5 indicates that ashley wasn’t doing that great mentally during that time.. but that may just be me.

#sally face chapter five spoilers #// spoiler warning #// spoilers #✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #( just to be safe lmao- ) #( cats know a lot.. ) #( whatever ash is feeling was enough to get gizmo to stop sleeping and lay next to her ) #( we don’t deserve cats.. ) #( mobile tag tba. )

[hauntaroid]

it’s about time for me to get more writing on this blog, so i’m gonna make a starter call now! feel free to like this and i’ll go ahead and write you a starter!! do remember to tell me if you want a specific verse or if you're a multi, give me some options for muses!!

#✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #// starter call #( aka wherever my inspiration takes me; i'll write about- )

[hauntaroid]

MAJOR UPDATE GUYS!! I finally updated my theme to something more code-related than my previous one!! On it, you can find more extended rules, a current work-in-progress about page for Ashley, a work-in-progress verses page and an about section for me; the mun!! Do try and avoid the navigational tags for now, as only the visage one works for the time being and I need to add on a study tag for my posts about Ashley’s character!!

If you wanna take something from this? It means check out the rules page; I might’ve added something on!!

#✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #( i spent the last couple of days on it.. ) #( it's not that impressive but i'm proud lmao ) #( gotta work on some verse pictures and maybe a background image but that can come tomorrow!! )

[hauntaroid]

since it’s gonna be christmas morning for me soon, i’ll go ahead and post a christmas inbox call! feel free to like this and i’ll have ash give something to your muse!! multis can specify a muse or i’ll just give a gift to whichever muse i’m feeling more!!

#✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #// inbox call

[hauntaroid]

spectrebrcther replied to your post: shockingly enough i do, in fact, live.

{{ welcome back!! it’s nice to see you again. i hope you’re doing alright ^^ }}

hi again! as you can probably tell from these icons, i’ve just been busy on other rp blogs, but i’m beginning to get muse back for some of the other rp blogs now because of the current situation. it’s nice to be back though!!

#spectrebrcther #✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. )

[hauntaroid]

so i went into the very corners of my saved pictures and i found the dash icon i had for an ellen (the witch’s house) blog i had AGES ago,,, and i kinda wanna bring her back because she’d be very interesting to put into horror rp perspective,,,

#✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #( i think only one person following me will remember the blog briefly.. ) #( it'll also have to include viola if i make it since.. ya know.. ) #( but we'll see :/ )

[hauntaroid]

sb; it’s very dark in here,,,

ash, taking off her jacket; don’t worry, i got this

sb; w-what are you doing?

ash, rolling up her sleeve; you’ll see

*glow from the arm comes through*

ash; now, where were we?

#sally face chapter five spoilers #// spoiler warning #// spoilers #✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #( what do you mean this isn't canon?? she totally would ) #( only special circumstances result in a weaponized arm that can be used as a light- )

[hauntaroid]

me being me and bored, i decided to double-check some of the epilogue images from chapter 5, only to come to the discovery that where i live is where some of the shadows have covered up. i don’t know why i did this, or what to do with this information; but if i existed in that universe / if this had happened irl, i’d have most likely been corrupted by shadows / dead before i even turned 10,,, wtf-

#sally face chapter five spoilers #// spoiler warning #// spoilers #✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #( me + being ill = this. ) #( idk why i find this interesting but i do- )

[hauntaroid]

i know i said i was gonna write, but i guess i technically am with this!! i wanna take the time, now that the game is over, to go over some of ash’s more “questionable” decisions, specifically the ones that revolve around the trial and,,, well, let’s put the rest under a read more, shall we? ( aka this is a spoiler warning to those that haven’t seen chapter five yet!! )

the decision to, i guess offer herself up as a sacrifice in chapter five. or, to put it more bluntly, kill herself in an attempt to make sure everything goes to plan. this was something i meant to talk about on my previous blog, only mentioning the trial decisions, but now i can begin to see some sort of theme between the last decision in chapter four and her more drastic one in chapter five.

we all know that, when she is thinking, ash is quite the smart girl! of course, some of her decisions are more impulsive, specifically the time she decided it’d be a great idea to check down a garbage chute ( but her falling down it was entirely by lack of balance! so not her direct fault- ). however, a lot of people didn’t seem to like her during the trial’s chapter in particular. this is where i’m gonna bring up one of my own headcanons for ashley’s decision making when she is older.

she takes what she knows, and makes a decision based off of that.

some people like to talk about the fact that she chose to call the police on what was happening at the apartments, and yes, it is cruel from a feeling-perspective on it, especially since sal had been opposed to doing so! but logically, it makes sense for her to make this decision. up until this point, all ash really knew about was that there was a temple underneath the apartments used for cult stuff and that there was bologna made of flesh. yes, larry and sal do have a brief discussion about the red-eyed demon during that point, but they never exactly tell ash what it is. in fact, ash was left out on quite a few stuff due to her not believing in the same things as the group.

the first incident that i believe began to change her prior decision to not call the police was when she actually went to the apartments to check on sal after larry’s suicide. she even mentions that he wasn’t acting like himself, and talking to himself about the cult and impending evil. the next incident is her going up into the treehouse and seeing nothing that could imply a death. the third? the argument. ash even makes it a point to mention that they had never argued prior to that, and that would heavily imply something’s wrong to anyone else in her position. she even said she walked away because she “couldn’t be around him like that”.

and then, there was the second phone call she had received that day from todd, the final nail in the coffin. ash has no reason to believe that todd would be making things up ( from what very little she could hear ), he’s one of the smartest in the group and someone else she gets along with. so when she realises that both him and sal are most likely in trouble, and are aware both of them are at the apartments, she makes the decision to call the police.

keep in mind, she had no idea what had happened, just the fact that sal wasn’t acting like himself and something so bad had happened that it got todd crying.

then she gets to the apartments for the second time and sees sal in a much worse condition than what she had left him in. we all know what happened at this point, so we’ll skip over this quickly to move onto the trial!

a lot of people also seemed to be confused as to why ash would be testifying against sal in the trial, but as she was the one who called the police, it would make sense that she’d be testifying against him. it wouldn’t make much sense to a jury if the one who called the police to the scene was purposefully trying to defend the accused! it also may have something to do with the cult’s influence, if it’s not the first of the two options. at this point, ash has obviously gotten to know what has happened, and is well aware of the severity of the crime. so, during her final statement, she makes it a point to say “he just needs help”. this is her attempt to try and loosen up what would be a instant death sentence to him. and sentences are loosened if insanity can be proven! however, either way i don’t think it’d have ended well for sal, as the cult could just make sure he stays in a mental institute for a long time or just give him so many medications that he becomes brain-dead or something similar,,, but anyway!!

obviously, that doesn’t work, because cult. ash tries to protest AGAIN but that isn’t enough. please keep the phrase “not enough” in your mind, it’ll come back later.

another thing people seemed upset about; what ash did in the three years leading up to sal’s execution. most seemed to have the idea that she should break him out of wherever he’s being held, but that doesn’t make much sense! first of all, both the guards within the building and the cult would make sure that sal’s confinement is well-protected. second, why on earth would she stoop to illegal actions?? she might as well just being killing them both, because trying to break him out would get her jail-time or even shot if they weren’t feeling merciful! instead, she takes the logical approach and tries everything she can LEGALLY. another point made was the fact she didn’t act on being told about larry’s death and investigating it. i think that’s because she couldn’t prove that his death was linked to the case, and wouldn’t be classed as evidence.

what can be linked, however, is the existence of ghosts. it would definitely need to have a trial recall to consider the new evidence, as well as gather / destroy evidence for the lawyers involved. this is most likely one reason that led ash to go back to the treehouse to see if there was something there to help. which there is, in the form of a dead friend!

once again, we know what happens. ash takes his photo, drives over to where the execution is happening, bangs on the door with the photo up against it to try and get the executioner’s attention,,,

but it’s not enough. the execution goes on away. this is something i want to emphasise. specifically, this phrase; she was right there, she had done everything she could up to that point, and it still wasn’t enough. remember this, because now it’s time to move onto chapter five’s decision!!

basically, ash tries to do a ritual written up in notes to revive sal in some form to help out with the cult situation, which has gotten a lot worse. everything is going fine, she follows the notes and it seems like it’s going to work!! but then there’s a problem. the final step is incomplete. the FINAL step to FINISHING the ritual is INCOMPLETE. the one thing she could go off of, due to todd not being around to help, and she can’t continue logically. she’s done everything she can up to that point, sal is RIGHT THERE, but it isn’t enough without the final step.

so ash does what is considered REAL questionable to some and decides to cut her arm open to be some form of sacrifice. good thing this actually works, because if it didn’t, then that would be real traumatising!! but some were wondering why she didn’t just make a small cut instead of that large one she did.

and i have a simple answer; desperation. this occurred in her chapter four decision as well. it was the final day she had to try and do something, and she resorts to something that she considered crazy to try and help out. in chapter five, it’s the same sort of concept. this was the only chance she’d have to see the plan through, and she resorts to something most would consider crazy to see it through.

i also need to mention, as of chapter five, ash refers to her past decisions as her “big list of failures”. she has lost confidence in her decision-making, and needs reassurance that what she’s doing is right. this came through the form of the notes, but when she couldn’t use them anymore, she kind of went back to her impulsive decision-making and chose the most drastic and ritual-like thing she could think of,,, which could also fit into some category of logic??

basically, tl;dr; ash’s decisions are mostly based off of what she already knows / what she thinks will work out the best. her decisions only get impulsive when she’s running out of time. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

#sally face chapter five spoilers #// spoiler warning #// spoilers #// long post tw #✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #✧･ﾟ:* 『 ᴍᴀʏʙᴇ ɴᴏᴛ ᴄᴀɴᴏɴ ʙᴜᴛ ɪᴛ ɪs ɪɴ ᴍʏ ʙᴏᴏᴋs 』 ( headcanons. ) #( might revise this in the morning cause i'm tired.. ) #( but i wanted to address this for a LONG time )

[hauntaroid]

ya girl got herself pokemon sword for christmas, so don’t mind lack of activity, i just wanna play the game!!

#✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #( aka i do a gym a day or so.. ) #( just to keep it exciting and not boring!! )

[hauntaroid]

🐻

#✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #( in reference to the previous post.. ) #( cause i'm a curious mun- )

[hauntaroid]

AUs for thought while i go ahead and procrastinate;

ashley dies from the trash chute fall in chap. 3 and is now a ghost AU

ashley is actually a cult member AU

#✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #( if i get a sudden writing boost i’ll write more about these- )

[hauntaroid]

apparently all i need to do to build up muse is make a zepeto based off of ashley and shitpost with friends’ zepetos. aka we’re losing our minds, and i’m ready to tackle asks now.

#✧･ﾟ:* 『 sᴛɪʟʟ ɴᴏᴛ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʙᴀʙʏ sʜᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴊᴀɴᴇᴛ 』 ( ooc. ) #( i'm a serious rper i swear.. ) #( i WISH i could show you all but tumblr doesn't like videos ;; )