Smile Now, Dear. Its Sunrise.byHummingSparrow (TWST Fic Rec)

“Smile Now, Dear. It’s Sunrise.” by HummingSparrow (TWST fic rec)

{Hey, Matchstick. Can we burn this birdbrain’s tail feathers?} The Lord of the Underworld asked. ‘No. No, we cannot, Lord Bonfire.’ You respond mentally with exhaustion while replying aloud to Headmaster Crowley. “Thank you for providing me shelter.” {No, no. Hades, for once, has a very brilliant suggestion. This...Crowley...is going to make us stay at this rundown, pest-infested piece of despicable trash...!} Queen Grimhilde hisses in your head. You want to slam your forehead against a wall, hopefully knocking yourself out in the process. Instead, you follow Headmaster Crowley into the deteriorating dorm while Queen Grimhilde continues. {But we should let him suffer first--slowly. Vessel, you should concoct a poison for Crowley. I shall assist you.} You are so tired at this point. ~~ In which the Reader is from an alternate timeline of Twisted Wonderland, where there was a great war against Chernabog the Devil. In this slightly different timeline, the Reader finds out that the Great Seven are seen as magnificent, respected wizards by many in the land...and there was no war. The Reader just wants to sleep for a decade at this point, but Fate had other plans for them.

its. so good. and enjoyable. and sadly i dont think its being continued anymore, but im sharing it anyway

(btw its reader pov. well its not like '[y/n]' or anything like that, it just uses a lot of 'you')

ALSO!! this is the fic that

made me love hyenas (their playfighting is so cute..)

made me not so scared of moray eels (there was trivia. i was interested. and surprisingly moray eels eating videos aren't as bad as i thought)

ALSO symbiotes symbiotes!!!! (i now understand why the shrimp nickname is interesting. shrimps have a sort of partnership with moray eels cause they get rid of the parasite stuff on em and thus make them live longer, while the moray eels are intimidating so nothing else will try to eat it while it stays close. and then octopuses eat shrimp-- so then the moray eels eat the octopus lol)

wuh woh wooooh

[Crowley: I'll hold onto your magical pens and smartphones. And rest assured--I shall return them to you once Camp Vargas is over.]

yknow. in the event of a malicious intent crowley. like

let me paint the picture:

Crowley is a horrible headmaster or what cha ma call it (I think its headmage but same thing??)

and there's a group of students and so on forming a plan to stop him and remove his influence from the school.

and then camp vargas, and the students partaking who are a part of said squad have to surrender their phones and stuff. for three days (a lot of time to send any and all information on the phone to someone else and then search through the information without worrying about the three-day deadline... or like idk tamper with it who tf knows)

and its not like they can just refuse to hand it over

although im not sure how much evidence would be kept on a phone when while they dont have much proof they'd probably have to keep it on the down low as much as possible until the time is right to expose him yknow? (and because 1. try and fail and that'll just be digging a bigger hole where crowley can easily go and fix any issues. 2. making too much of a racket causes the risk of the place being flooded with like reporters and nosy people and so on and that wouldn't particularly be a good thing while overblots can still happen and stuff yknow?

im kind of thinking more of a time travel crew, or at least one person time traveling and going back and thus plotting to try to 'fix' everything...

its risky. also a lot of people could get pulled out before the time is right. for example, riddle if his mom still has that authority, and he'd probably be more under her control then ever

kalim and jamil. which for one, if news of his overblot and betrayal get out wuh woh. which, its not like they could quiet everyone, yknow???

a bunch of things could be brought to light that they dont need. there's also someone exposing news of, say, azul's deal stuff and deal with crowley or something to keep it in place or something like that. and while that could be a point against crowley. i kind of dont want the octo guys to go. even if they're a bunch of asses sometimes.

it'd just get complicated fast, i'd think and rumors would go brrr. like 'did this person encourage it?' 'did this person keep it a secret?' even if there's technically no reason to think so besides 'they attended'.)

i got distracted what was i talking about?

uh. blink blink

so cause i mean so on and so on

but logically there'd probably be a group chat. even if nothing suspicious happens in the chat they'd need a way to let each other know of stuff. which group chat. (also calls can be recorded, and i dont trust codes. except the ones that you can slip into casual conversation but that'd get complicated fast i bet)

i mean. maybe if they got like idia's help and getting like idk a secure connection that can't be hacked into or something like that?

it goes into complicated tech stuff there (like, ooh some complicated way of figuring out it is you so people cant fake it to get in, etc)

question bout overblot timings

SPOILERS for overblots

question: why do all the overblots (well I've only seen like 4 of them so far) happen around their dorms?

Riddle Rosehearts. In like the courtyard (idk its official name). like the garden area place. which is within the dorm

Leona Kingscholar. It was on like the spelldrive field in Savanaclaw.. i think?

Azul Ashengrotto. Just outside like around the mostro lounge area? or maybe a little farther but still there

Jamil Viper. I think he overblotted like *inside* the building? my memory is horrible im so sorry but he like. flung us all the way to the edge of the world thing. but before that they were inside.

(i havent gotten to the rest of the books yet)

i mean. sure is convenient it happens where there usually arent people from multiple dorms around, to, say, 'catch' the weaknesses of the housewarden (or vice) overblotting and being all vulnerable-y?

maybe its just a weird coincidence.

or maybe its because since it focuses around the dorm (each book i mean) that it makes more sense for it to happen within the dorm instead of somewhere else.

but its still kind of weird. something smells fishy /hj

(anyway also. its interesting that for every next book, the people we met in the last book tend to help.

i mean. we met ace and deuce in the prologue i think?

did we? i forgot.

then we had like the cards (ace and deuce are a given as our first friends. trey got injured. im gonna be honest i cant remember where cater was, oops) involved-ish with the thing with savanaclaw (+ riddle, who was all 'OFF WITH YOUR HEAD' [also ruggie stole riddles pen way back then and there was a chase twistune])

then there was leona and ruggie stealing azul's contracts and destroying them and stuff (and also helping with planning. i cant remember where jack was dont ask me, i honestly dont think i liked him that much first time round but i changed my mind)

and then with jamil, the octo trio or whatever their name is budged on in, and played a key part in revealing that jamil was the one mind controlling kalim and stuff yknow?

..sure feels like we arent doing a lot ourselves.)

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i just realized the screens are literally just of keyboard spam

anyway i think i got a bad ending but whatever haha... (the worst part is that sometimes they kind of just make you wait. so you have a feeling of somethings wrong but you arent sure until later because you dont get consequences right away. agh. and then you hope that it'll be okay and then it isnt)

livestream bluff

TWST SPOILERS (for like. book.. 4. and 5? YEAH)

okay so turns out im wrong and the livestream was actually a bluff so ignore my previous post that i made about it that questioned like why there were no consequences

INSTEAD. let me question:

why do the asims let jamil stay near kalim when he's clearly 'a threat'? after all, he's overblotted, and whose to say he wouldn't do it again?

i mean, i dont know the reputation that comes with overblotting, but i'd generally think that it's viewed negatively and that in some way, that person is 'tainted' after (if they survive), or that they're looked down upon even if they did die (possibly because of any damage they might've caused during so).

like idk man, you lose control after using too much magic & very stressed. id say unstable threat. maybe ticking time bomb or something (or maybe thats too much).

maybe people just dont care that much, which huh. (..there is a startling lack of consequences, after all)