[Action] Being AU Mindy is suffering....

[ghostlygames]

[In this fake!canon update, Mindy returned home to her 'normal' life with her parents. But this time, she refused to hide her ability to see ghosts. Insisting on their existence and becoming more and more desperate to prove it. To make a long story short, this lead her to contact more and more spirits, some of them quite dangerous. But she needed them. To call up the police and give them frighteningly accurate tips on where to find missing bodies. Or to push away bullies. Or spy on people. Anything to convince her parents that she wasn't lying.

But as she became more isolated from her peers, and her behavior became more erratic and confusing, her parents were at a loss to explain any of it. They tried everything. Therapy, drugs, blaming each other. Nothing really helped. And they were both busy professionals who had their careers to think of. At their wits end, they finally committed her to an institution that specialized in helping juveniles with severe psychological disorders. After a year of incarceration, Mindy was pulled back into Mayfield, a familiar if no less scary place.]


[Today, Mindy can be found quietly drawing with chalk on the street in front of her house. She started on the driveway but ran out of room. And far from her usual fare, these pictures are of what appear to various monsters and spectres. Some of which are exaggerated versions of ghosts, or creatures from fairy tales. Others might be familiar to the long time Mayfield resident. These are the half remembered horrors of her 'previous' stay in town and include Hazmats, the Milkman, and the 'monster' from the hospital.(Black Mage) She seems to be totally absorbed in what she's doing. Approach?]

Comments

[ghostlygames]

The hospital monster killed me once....

......What's in your aunt's basement?

[on_bailes_strand]

Oh.

[Then the hospital monster was probably really bad.]

Lots of monsters. She calls them her pets. There's mana draining bugs and this thing with lots of tentacles and this big ball of fur that smells really bad. And then there's these singing sea monsters...

[ghostlygames]

Are they mean?

[on_bailes_strand]

As long as you don't move or talk or breathe around them, you should be fine.

[ghostlygames]

They don't sound like very good pets...

[on_bailes_strand]

My aunt likes them perfectly fine.

[ghostlygames]

....

I think I'd be scared of them.....

[on_bailes_strand]

My aunt really isn't scared of anything. Not even Mother.

[ghostlygames]

Why would your aunt be scared of your mom? Is she real mean?

[on_bailes_strand]

She's...very strong. Very strict. And they've fought a lot. I think Mother is stronger.

[His father is supposed to be even stronger than that, but he doesn't want to think about that man.]

[ghostlygames]

What do they fight about? Aren't they sisters?

[on_bailes_strand]

Territory, I think. And mother always says Aunt Scathach shouldn't keep all those pets. And Aunt Scathach calls Mother's horse stupid. And they fight over teaching method. And...

[He pauses and scratches his head.]

I think they just fight over everything except me.

[ghostlygames]

You're lucky.

......My parents used to fight about me a whole lot.

[on_bailes_strand]

Why? Was it because one of them wanted to give you sweet things while the other one said it would ruing your stomach?

[ghostlygames]

No......

It's because I can see things they can't. And they think I'm lying.

[on_bailes_strand]

What sort of things can you see that they can't?

[ghostlygames]

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Ghosts...

[on_bailes_strand]

But...shouldn't everyone be able to see ghosts?

[ghostlygames]

Not where I come from....

And a lot of people here can't see them either....

[on_bailes_strand]

That's...strange. Maybe it's because there's very few ghosts there?

[ghostlygames]

There are some....

Just.... not everyone notices them. Can everybody see them where you're from?

[on_bailes_strand]

Almost everyone. But...there were also lots of ghosts

[ghostlygames]

There were a lot of ghosts back in New York too. But no one else could see them!

Everyone thought I was a liar....

[on_bailes_strand]

Where's "New York"?

[ghostlygames]

It's a city. In America...

[She's used to people coming from different worlds by now, so that question isn't all that strange.]