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An explanation has been asked of me and so I shall deliver. So here go my thoughts behind Mischa’s doodle in my most recent RTC post. Enjoy :)
So it’s been said that in the (absolutely genius) Ghost Au the choir can and does try to protect Penny from the bullying she receives at school, yes? Well the moment I heard that my brain immediately pictured a certain scenario, one which I had Mischa draw out because it would look kickass and I think he’d enjoy it. Said scenario goes a little something like this-
Penny’s getting bullied and the choir isn’t having it. First it’s small things: knocked over supplies, slammed lockers, a shove or two, things like that. However as they gain more power they’re able to do more. For example, passing whispers telling the bullies to quit it while Penny isn’t around, flickering lights and shadow apparitions, appearing in mirrors, etc. Penny remains mostly in the dark about these things, or at least most of the motive behind them, only really hearing about them through rumors and stories from classmates. Until of course it all comes to a head and the choir full on appears behind her when she’s cornered by two random classmates. I, an avid horror fan might I add, like to imagine that it’s not just them either, but rather a more gruesome image of them that’s in a way similar to how they looked after the accident. Seriously terrifying shit, which just so happens to be the goal. Perhaps they say something along the lines of “leave her alone”, maybe they just stare, they could ever cause some poltergeist havoc by slamming some lockers and popping a lightbulb or something- whatever it is, it terrifies the kids and they take off screaming. It clicks with Penny moments later that they saw the choir and ohhhh shit. The entire school knows about it by the next day, as you’d expect, half believing the two students and spreading a rumor about Penny having some connection to the dead while the other half call bullshit. Either way it’s very interesting for Penny as she tries to A) process what happened, B) dodge the rumors and whispers, and C) deal with a rather excited choir that want to test this “new ability”
TL:DR- the choir goes full ‘horror movie ghosts’ on two particularly bad bullies and Penny has to stop them from causing more chaos before her classmates burn her at the stake