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cynopter · 6 months

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Orange Peels on Fire: aka Townsend lore

because someone asked: here's a big dump of stuff about the story Townsend is from, i.e. the narrator of Choker!

Major TW for suicide/hanging, and obviously OCD.

Also, heads up that it's a really silly, REALLY emo story about ghost hunting lol.

Townsend is the deuteragonist of a (really extremely unfinished) story I had, that was provisionally called Orange Peels on Fire (opof). I started working on it when I was watching a lot of Demon Slayer, and it was basically my attempt to create a cast of shounen anime characters who were all girls but look exactly like the typical shounen anime protagonists. (I mention Demon Slayer because I took a LOT of inspiration from that - at times I described it to people as a shitty lesbian Vietnamese Demon Slayer knockoff... wow it's like it was made for me!!!)

A lot of lore is super wishy-washy because I did like the OG concept art in 2021, then I just kinda fucked around until 2022 when I revamped it for a screenwriting class. I don't really consider either version more canon, but I did a lot more work on the screenwriting version so I'll just describe that :P

Setting

It's set in post-apocalyptic US (either Virginia or like California but I couldn't commit because I've never seen California). A lot of the human population is gone - old civilization is being reclaimed by nature and the surplus oxygen means that there are also giant bugs now who take a lot of the niches previously held by mammals (like mice, dogs, deer etc). The oxygen is also how I campily explain away people being able to do epic anime jumps and stuff lmao. This, plus global warming, also means that the middle of North America now has a sort of tropical climate.

The part that actually matters is everyone in the US lives in tiny villages created out of suburban neighborhoods, and they're constantly having Ghost and Monster Problems of some nature because society has forgotten how to properly bury the dead --- and also because that apocalyptic event 100-or-so years ago caused so many ghosts to be created.

Phượng Lê

The protagonist is Phượng Lê, an 18 year old girl who can see ghosts. She's a triplet, with a living brother (Thanh) and a stillborn sister (the titular Cam / "Orange") who she's always seen as just a normal sister because she's a ghost that lives with them.

(All three of these characters are from a depressing realistic fiction short story I wrote, which I personally consider to be their "true" versions, but I imported them into this because I thought it'd be stupid and funny to turn a story like that into a shounen anime lol)

This is what Phượng looks like! (modern on left, old on right)

She's struggled with depression her whole life, partially because everyone thinks she's a sad and delusional pyromaniac for acting like she has a living sister (whose bones she keeps in a box) and for burning stuff to send it to her. Because of that she puts a LOT of stock in Cam's happiness because keeping Cam's ghost kind of cost her everything (including her parents abandoning them etc).

Cam's remains get stolen one day and long story short, Phượng and Thanh end up traveling around the country trying to solve ghost problems, scooby-doo style, in pursuit of the person who stole them. There's like a different category of ghost every time, based on Vietnamese folklore. (And if you're wondering, Cam's bones are valuable because stillborn baby remains can be used for evil magic, which is of course what the evil people in this story want to do).

That finally brings us to...

Townsend! (aka May Hoàng)

Townsend has pretty different lore between 2021 and 2022, but again I'm going with the latter because I've spent more time on that.

In the story:

She's a self-proclaimed "evil ghost" who haunts a tree at the edge of town. Phuong comes to her to ask if she's seen Cam; Townsend is surprised to meet a human who's friendly to ghosts.

She lightly antagonizes P & Th (in what is later revealed to be an attempted suicide-by-cop type thing) and runs away from them a few times before finally deciding to join their team. (In some versions she has to pretend to be human to deceive Irene, the secretly evil lady helping P & Th out).

Originally I had her birth name as Townsend - in the most recent iteration, this is a nickname Phượng gives her through this miscommunication:

She's the only member of the team who can actually, you know, touch ghosts? (Except when Phuong goes all danny phantom on their asses but I don't need to get into that).

Despite this, and despite the fact that she constantly threatens to kill people*, she basically bursts into tears at the thought of enacting violence on people/ghosts, so she ends up just serving as their strategist **(as the only one who isn't kind of dumb lol).

* Her catch phrase is basically "Don't touch me, i'll kill you." This is really emo lol, but what you find out eventually is this is actually a warning and not a threat.

**Specifically, because Thanh is the only one with absolutely no ghost powers, he has to use weapons made by Phuong, and because Phuong is like the main character, Townsend and Thanh have to work together to strategize & fight in the background. That's a whole arc because Townsend is a coward who doesn't want to be in fights, and Thanh doesn't trust Townsend because she constantly threatens to kill him and Phuong. Fair, I guess.

Townsend's backstory:

She's supposed to be this fundamentally irrational character, who eventually becomes a love interest of Phượng (they're both lesbians) but still never brings herself to stop antagonizing her whenever they get too close. After months and months of working together, Phượng finally gets Townsend's backstory:

She was originally a 17-year-old girl named May Hoàng, who lived in a town next to Phượng's. She suffered from something that we would in modern times describe as OCD, but had since been forgotten by society because of the apocalypse (rip). Her family was Catholic, and they didn't think much of her earlier obsessions (except that she was being annoying), but when she confided in them about her newest obsession about dropping and strangling her baby brother, Meri, they confided in the church - and eventually all the townsfolk came to believe she was being influenced by the devil.

May's parents kept trying to work with her, but eventually she ran away to hang herself.* In some versions, instead of going through with that, she conveniently gets attacked by a hangman ghost (which is how I really loosely translated ma thần vòng) right before that, who strangles her and she still dies. Fun!

*This is what's described in the beginning of Choker. In the original version, she runs away on the back of a giant-giant american millipede, as depicted on the cover, and that becomes kind of a faithful steed that they can all ride around on later.

Either way, what she didn't realize (I guess because she's Catholic) is that if you hang yourself and nobody finds your body, you turn into a hangman ghost, and can only pass on if you strangle a living person to take your place.

So..... obviously that's not going to happen.

Phượng & Townsend

May died about a year before the story starts. She was kind of hoping Phượng could just exorcize her, but because it takes about 3 seconds to realize May isn't actually a threat, Phượng refuses to do that.

Instead they kind of fall in love (shipname Phuongsend if you're wondering lol), and they eventually figure out she's just mentally ill and reinvent ERT or something.

Meanwhile, because of both Cam and May, the whole team is looking for a way to turn ghosts back into living people. I never decided if they actually succeed, but honestly I don't think they ever will. May committed suicide and that's just not something you can undo.

As foils

They both care a lot about each other, but that's despite (or maybe because of?) some very conflicting values. There's a little undercurrent of each trying to change the other's morals.

Phượng's mother abandoned her and Thanh because of her obsession with her sister, Cam, who was stillborn and never even got a chance at life. She's only leaving home now to find that sister and maybe even bring her back to life.

From Phượng's perspective, May HAD a shot at life, and somehow thinks she has the right to get it back even after squandering it. May also loves her baby sibling to death, but her idea of protecting him was to run away forever --- and to Phuong, that's just about the worst thing you can do to someone you love.

They were both treated as heretics, but Phượng reacted by getting a superiority complex and starting to hate everyone, while May still thinks everyone is fundamentally good, except herself. Phượng is (technically) a younger sister and constantly pushes back against Thanh's overprotectiveness, something May sees as disrespectful and scary, as an older sister who spent years obsessing over Meri's safety. Finally, Phượng's violent tendencies/occasional anger issues are something May sees as a big moral problem.

And.... that was a LOT. I'm not sure if I'll keep this post up honestly because there's still like a TINY chance I'll adapt this into something. But for now enjoy the lore dump :P

#my posts #my art #opof #townsend #phuong #rch #i really meant to put this on my main blog but oh well #also not to be serious on this post but i finally just got my official ocd diagnosis irl lmao

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streettealee · 9 months

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We as TSC fans are all aware that Emma Carstairs... is not a descendant of Cordelia Katāyoun Carstairs, right? The Cordelia that is Emma Carstair's mother is a Townsend (don't ask why she is then named Cordelia, I don't know the ties there).

Cordelia is Jace's ancestor, his direct ancestor. We can still say Emma and Jace are connected via her through the family tree, because Cordelia's the sister of Zachary, who carries on the Carstairs line, but it feels rather inaccurate to say Emma is descended from Cordelia, if that makes sense. And Cortana easily could have still passed on through the Carstairs if the sword chose one of them over Cordelia's child and grandchildren.

I don't know, just, without Cordelia's descendants, that line of Herondales doesn't exist and I think her tie to them overrides the idea that any Carstairs are descended from her. I'm just voicing this because I've seen a few things that seem to imply Emma is Cordelia Katāyoun Herondale née Carstairs' descendent when I'm not sure it's very accurate. The definition I found of a descendent includes being of blood, and I suppose you could say Emma shares that with Cordelia, but do you see where I'm getting at? Zachary shares Cordelia's blood because they're of the same parents and family, but it's Zachary's line that Emma comes from, not Cordelia's. Emma and Cordelia are family, but not... in the way where she's descended from her. She's like a great great great aunt. Who has her own descendants, especially because she also married into another family.

Then again, I suck at family trees, I probably have this all wrong. Feel free to give your own takes or correct mine, I'm trying to make sense of where we're at with this.

Maybe the only difference is between descendants and direct descendants that I'm getting muddled up and it's not that big of a deal.

#tlh #the last hours #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #family tree #cordelia carstairs #cordelia herondale #emma carstairs #carstairs #herondale #townsend #help #tda #the dark artifices

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unofficial-sean · 2 years

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knuckle puck // townsend

#knuckle puck #townsend #don't come home #pop punk #lyrics

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cammie-morgan-goode · 11 months

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Seeing all the townsend-zach ask makes me literally BEGGING for you to please please please write even just a blurb about some of their dad-son bonding uwu

Zach looks around the campus of Georgetown. He knows that Cammie is in the building by the university’s hospital. Which is on Torndorf Road. Which is approximately 5.5 miles from the library walk.

“You know she’s fine, right?” A voice sounds from behind him.

Zach turns around, noting that he had been sloppy. How long had Townsend been standing there? How long had Townsend been tailing him?

Townsend shoves his hands in his pockets. “Don’t look so shocked. I’ve only been here for 90 seconds.” He says with a shrug.

Zach sighs and then raises a hand to rub the back of his neck. Before he has a chance to speak, Townsend beats him to it. “Walk with me,”

Zach follows him across the campus, following him away from Cammie. He knew that she was taking a test right now which is why he wanted to see her. He knew she had a routine. They’d go north west on O Street. And then on Wisconsin Ave, right on the corner is Cafe Georgetown. She would order a hot chocolate, even though it was 85 degrees outside. And she’d order a grilled cheese panini for lunch. And they would sit and talk and she would ramble on about whatever it was that she was learning in class. And she’d smile at him. And he’d finally breathe.

“Did you even hear a word I just said?” Townsend asks, taking a right towards the statue of John Carroll.

Zach rolls his eyes. “There’s a possible threat in Moscow. Rogue asset on the run from a possible splinter group even though my girlfriend and I have been systematically wiping them out for the past several months. So yes, Townsend. I did hear every word you just said,”

Townsend huffs. Of course the boy is good. Otherwise the CIA wouldn’t want him. Of course the boy heard everything he said. He was Solomon’s protege. He’d been trained for this. He wasn’t a kid anymore.

And Townsend hated that that thought sent a pang of worry through his gut.

“Anyways, it’s your call.” Townsend says. Like he always does.

“And what did Cam say?” Zach asks. Like he always does.

“She said and I quote, ‘you got it but I’m making the calls first.’ Whatever that means,”

Before Townsend even finished, Zach is laughing. Of course Cammie wouldn’t let him live Berlin down.

Townsend rolls his eyes. Those crazy kids. They remind Edward of Abby and him. And he kind of loves them for it.

“Oh Townsend?” Zach says before Townsend can disappear. Townsend pauses and looks over his shoulder.

“There’s a turkey croissant with mustard in your bag. And some cash for a hot chocolate. On me. Learn to take a lunch will ya?”

Zach looks down at his crossbody bag and watches Townsend fade away before opening it. Sure enough there’s a sandwich and some cash in the ziplock bag.

How he managed to pull that off will always be a mystery. But Zach was grateful to have someone look out for him the way that Townsend did.

Even if he could be annoying about it.

(Written by: @cammie-morgan-goode)

#gallagher girls series #gallagher girls #ally carter #cammie morgan goode writes #asked and answered #answered asks #answered #zach goode #zachary goode #edward townsend #townsend #Zach and townsend #townsend and Zach

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annastrxng · 2 years

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@robbiemyboi

#robbiemyboi #turn amc #turn washington's spies #robert townsend #townsend #my graphics #my edits #anna strong #abe woodhull #ben tallmadge #caleb brewster

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roughridingrednecks · 4 months

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Townsend in Kentucky

#townsend #KY #redneck #tats #mustache #cap

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thewalkingplumbob · 2 months

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Previously / Legacy Tag

Transcript below:

Reila was down bad lately. She was always exhausted from working long hours in the lab. Her after work routine was always the same: get home, give Luca a good night kiss, change out of her work clothes and into something comfy, and then plop down in front of the TV. It was getting stale. She was starting to burn out.

*worried*

Emely: Babe, what's going on with you? You're even quieter than usual tonight.

Reila: I'm just...tired. Not just physically. Emotionally. Em--I think I'm burnt out.

Emely, sitting down: I've noticed. I didn't realize it had gotten that bad though.

Reila, sighing loud: I was trying to keep it to myself. Trying to fake that I was okay.

Emely: Why? We've always been able to talk. Did you think I wouldn't understand?

Reila: It's more like...I didn't want to admit something was wrong. And if I said it out loud...then it would be real.

Emely: Your feelings are real. They're valid and you never have to hide them from me.

Reila: I guess sometimes I just need a reminder.

Emely: Well this is your reminder. So, what do you want to do?

Reila: I need to quit my job.

*hiding shock*

Emely: Oh! Okay, um...

Reila: I know it's a big decision. And money will be tight if I'm not working.

Emely: If this is what you really want, you know I support you.

Reila: Thanks babe. I can still do some freelance work on the side. It won't be forever. I just need a break.

Emely: I understand. You do what you need to. I love you and I'm here for you.

Reila: I love you too. So much.

#The Sims 4 #Sims 4 #ts4 #ts4 legacy #ts4 gameplay #Townsend #Townsend legacy #Townsend gen 4 #Reila Townsend Kibo #Emely Townsend Kibo #twp post

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gruntlinger · 1 year

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bodyodyodyody

#art #wip #Townsend

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katssimsdecades · 1 year

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Spring - Townsend

Issac got ready for the Ball for the evening. Almost everyone attended and it seemed to go very well. Issac did find someone he wanted to court which is the lovely Miss Elizabeth Hemgrove.

#sims 4 #sims 4 gameplay #TS4 By George Challenge #Sims 4 Regency #BGC r1 #Townsend

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ambrosebassford · 6 months

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lalalala !!

silly surprise for my good pal @cynopter/@tobyisave (sorry for the double mention,,, sighs i took so long on this)

its TOWNSEND. im her biggest fan. ok. GOD. :3

im obsessed w townsend if u couldnt tell

also um a little note to toby is in the keep reading bit so you dont HAVE TOO but if you want a sweet little note to see then. read. AND TOBY I KNOW YOULL SEE THIS YOU FUCKING SILLY GOOFEL SO YOU BETTER READ!!! /nf

ok so toby HI. youve made my life like WAY better like thank you so fucking much for even EXISTING. ever since i discovered your shit (back in jan of this year) ive been obsessed like i will NOT shut the fuck up about you,,, god i love you so much /p

youre literally my best friend you just dont know it dawg.... each time you talk to me im like "OH MY GOD THAT SILLY GOOFY IS TALKING TO MEE!!!" because like. youre one of the people i look up to... kinda like an older sibling thing??? idk. but. yeah.

oh my god i love townsend so much. i love ALL of your little blorbos.

and i know i havent shut up about this recently but thank you for putting so much love into violet they mean the WORLD to me because it reminds me of you so much youre such a silly billy and i would send you videos of violet if you let me. and also if i had time and effort.

but YAH js saying thank you for existing basically :P youre so kind and idk how i deserve to even HAVE YOU acknowledging MY existance??? like youre so cool and im just a little weasel looking ass,,,, like look at me i have mostly blue hair and pronouns and i have MENTAL ILLNESS!!! oo spooky i know. anyways yah like. youre too cool??? and??? huh???? WHAT!? sorry i forgot words and i cant be arsed going back on that. im gonna squeeze you. ok bye. ramble done.

#fanart #artwork #art #townsend #may hoàng #choker #orange peels on fire #opof #ummmm so blorbo #blorbo #phuongsend is canon idc what yous say #FUCKING OBSESSED

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