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fandomsecrets2012-11-21 06:36 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-11-21 06:36 pm
[ SECRET POST #2150 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2150 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 040 secrets from Secret Submission Post #307.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
N!S, warning, giant headcanon that may as well be canon
(Anonymous) 2012-11-22 07:50 am (UTC)(link)So here's the fandom according to me:
The non-bag-seagull-in-the-first-picture (anybody got a name?) was a lowly worker in the Seagull Conspiracy, which was the real force behind the Pier, a waterfront amusement park/cover for various plot-related happenings which sometimes bordered on the supernatural and/or illegal. (Although technically it isn't illegal to turn your brother's tail feathers bright pink. Yet. But that's another story.) Non-bag had his eye on Bag-seagull-in-the-first-picture-also-tawny-seagull-in-the-second-picture (also needs a name), who was a higher-up, one of the seagulls that flew around for atmosphere and to scout out the Pier from above - a Wheeler, named so because they wheel around in the sky. Non-bag gull was a Stealer (one of the worst jobs a gull can be saddled with - too little pay, too many hours, and way too much danger of discovery or, in a few cases, injury), who nabbed food or items off the ground itself. He did the grunt work, but eventually he showed up on bag seagull's radar, and they started dating.
While all this was happening, a metaphorical storm was going along the coast. A different flock of seagulls, of which the third seagull was a part, was slowly but surely becoming the rising stars of the underground gull world, and were subsequently taking over the beaches, piers, and other places of interest and gaining more and more power. Third seagull showed up and quickly realized that the Pier wouldn't be going quietly, and as part of the vanguard, decided to sow some dragon's teeth. She started trying to seduce non-bag seagull, knowing that non-bag was quickly won over by power (or thinking that), all the while being annoyingly polite to the point of injury to bag seagull. Bag seagull and third gull became fast enemies, while poor non-bag wondered where a bit of joking around with the new girl had gone so wrong.
Non-bag resolved to strengthen his and bag gull's relationship, but the damage had been done, and third was behaving way too antagonistically to let go. Unfortunately, bag had become blinded by the potential love triangle, and didn't see how third was undermining the Pier until it was almost too late.
One of the supernatural predators that has had dealings with the Conspiracy in the past shows up, looking for fun. It wants to live in the lights and electricity of the Pier, and in return it will make the atmosphere echo: all the fun the people are having will reverberate back on itself, making the people even less aware and keeping away... darker things. Desperately trying to hold on to what crumbling power they have left on the Pier, the Conspiracy says yes.
The Flock, however, of which third seagull is a part, doesn't deal with the supernatural. Its business is in cold, hard cash, but unfortunately, that means they have no idea what these predators do or want, much to their eventual detriment. They want power, badly, and they want a coast-wide monopoly. The Pier is one of the last bastions to fall to the Flock.
Bag and non-bag have split up at this point, because non-bag thinks they should fly as far and fast as they can, and bag thinks they must stay loyal to the Pier, protect it, and drive back the Flock. Non-bag, with nothing to keep him, leaves the Pier for the inland, while third gloats a bit and settles into the Pier to stay.
The Flock and the Conspiracy are splitting power about 50/50 now. It won't take much to tip that final bit over into 51/49, and after that there will be no hope for the Conspiracy, or the rest of the coast. It's pretty much only the predator that's staying the Flock's hand, and in talks with the Conspiracy, the Flock leader reveals their plan: amass an army on the coast, then swarm the mainland, gradually taking back their land from the humans. The Conspiracy, with their symbiotic relationship with the humans, is suitably horrified, as is non-bag, who was drawn back to the Pier after all and has been spying on the "peace" talks. Non-bag flies for his life to try to warn bag.
The Flock, meanwhile, with their cards on the table and little to no understanding of what makes the Pier so grand, decide that the way to drive back the humans is to kill one of them. Once the humans are gone, they reason, the balance will tip and they will be in their rightful places.
Third is the one chosen to orchestrate the death. A human's seat buckle somehow becomes unlatched on the Ferris Wheel and he plunges to his death from the very top. The park is closed, and the Flock drives the Conspiracy from the Pier, killing most of them. Except, of course, for bag and non-bag, because bag is a Wheeler and was watching when the death occurred and that was when he finally believed that they could not stay. The two skedaddled.
But the Flock forgot about the predator. The last human emotion the predator fed on was sorrow, grief, anger, helplessness, and the very next thing it got was fear, terror, and then the sort of dark bloody triumph that comes of unwilling sacrifice.
And sacrifice, even unwilling, is a powerful thing.
From the lights and electricity of the Pier, a dark portal reached out. The more negative emotion it feeds off of, the larger it grows, and the larger it grows, the more the emotions echo. The cycle will not end until the darkness has encircled the globe.
Terrified and believing themselves the only survivors of the Conspiracy, bag and non-bag race against time to the generator that's powering the Pier. Turning that off will destroy the darkness, but it might also destroy the Pier, the thing they have worked for so long to build, their home, their survival, their nest and their families.
Our families are dead, says bag, and non-bag nods and flips the switch. There's a moment of rushing wind and then the Pier goes dark, the natural dark of night instead of the crushing dark of evil.
When they investigate the next morning, a bunch of rope and wooden pallet, which was what the Pier started as, are the only sign that anything ever existed.
fuck ^that^ should say N!F
(Anonymous) 2012-11-22 07:51 am (UTC)(link)