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[clussy]

(Eddie had debated on whether or not to share this piece of information. But what the natives had said weighed on him heavily, and he felt like if he didn't and something were to happen...

He wasn't so sure he could live with that guilt.)

I asked one of the natives if bad things from our homes could come to this place. They said it was possible.

maybe some of you will think I'm crazy. Or the adults won't believe it. The adults in our town didn't believe anything and they didn't want to pay attention to what was happening. they didn't care about all the missing kids. I don't care if you believe it or not. some stuff exists whether or not people want to believe it does. me and my friends took care of it before and we'll do it again if we have to. we made that promise.

our town had this fucked up evil in it. and im not talking hellfire church-evil stuff either. I'm talking like...fear. real fear. maybe even the thing that made Fear

IT knew what you were afraid of. no, not your 'kind of' fears like thinking spiders are gross. i mean the kind of fears you dont even tell your best bud about. the kind of fears you don't even tell YOURSELF about cause the shame's so bad. IT knew you and IT fed off those fears. i guess it liked how kids tasted best when they died in terror

IT ate them too. im not saying it like sucked out their soul. no. IT would

(Eddie has to stop here. To breathe. To focus. He touches his own arm, closes his eyes, and counts.)

i cant explain how you'll know when you'll see IT
you'll feel
like you have to go towards something real bad, real scary
you'll know you shouldn't but you HAVE to...and maybe you'll be lucky like we were
like i was. and be able to get away when the fear gets bad enough.

IT takes the shape of a clown the most when ITS just existing normally. IT only changes when its hunting. IT can come through pictures or sinks or anything. i dont know what ITs limits even were

sometimes IT called ITself Pennywise the Dancing Clown. IT told me its name was Bob Gray when IT talked to me. And sometimes you could hear that carnival sorta music.Sometimes it'd lure you in with the smell of popcorn. IT sometimes had balloons. A lot of balloons. I don't know. It lived in the sewers and

I want to say we beat IT for good but we didn't. i'm not sure if IT can BE beaten.

I dont know if IT'll ever show up here
but don't trust things to be what they seem. don't.

and maybe realize the monsters you know might come here too. please be careful.

Comments

[clussy]

of course im telling you important stuff.
i like you.

thats not super descriptive. mine had teeth too. thousands. what else?

[deadboywalking]

[There's a long pause.]

i like you too.

it was mostly teeth, i mean. it kind of looked like a person with a toothy flower face.
well one of them did, at least.

[clussy]

cool. that's cool.
that we like each other i mean.

(Gaaah why is this HARD TO DO.)

oh. so like. piranna teeth. or however you spell that.
that sounds pretty scary
how did it hunt you?

[deadboywalking]

[Coupla disaster gays, right here.]

i think it could smell me. i was stuck in it's world, so i was the only person there. it chased me for
a long time.



did yours really have thousands of teeth?

[clussy]

Really? Jesus Christ almighty that sounds scary. You really ARE brave. Hot damn.

What was your world like?

I think so yeah. It looked like
nothing but teeth and teeth and..
lights

[deadboywalking]

i'm not BRAVE. i can just run and hide really well.
normal, i guess. just...indiana. 1984. we rode bikes and played video games and stuff. the monster thing was sort of...recent.


lights? bad lights?
could you draw it, maybe? [He's gotta conceptualize this fuckery.]

beautiful art credit: my ass

[clussy]

man i feel like everyones from the 1980s
thats still pretty brave. running and hiding from monsters is still really hard to do.

i dont know. i barely saw the lights thing but i know other people saw them.
um

okay
but im not good at drawing so dont laugh. (Eddie takes a picture of his gorgeous creation.)

i laughed so hard i scared my dog

[deadboywalking]

nah, some people are from the future. like the 90's.

huh. that looks...really creepy. [Will is not judgey of the drawing, he gets the general idea. Teeth and lights.]

mine was kinda like [Here we go have a demogorgon, buddy]

mine kind of looks like a horror vagina lmfao

[clussy]

(Aw man that's not fair at all. Will's good at drawing and Eddie's bemoaning his life again.)

no i know but a lot of people i meet are from the 80s

I guess. thats just the clown form.

yours is really creepy too.

you're really good at drawing what the heck

to be fair...so does the one in canon...

[deadboywalking]

everyone i know is from the 80's. [It's...anyone's guess whether Will is being dumb on purpose, here.

it has MORE faces??? jeez, isn't that one bad enough??

i just draw a lot. i have a lot of practice.

TRU

[clussy]

obviously.

Well yeah I said it could turn into whatever you were most afraid of. It was a shapeshifter, I guess, and it just comes most often in the shape of a clown. Its mouth wasnt always open like that- thats just when it planned on eating you.

yeah well it shows. have any drawings of stuff that arent monsters?

[deadboywalking]

that's terrible. clowns are creepy enough. it was different for everyone, though? how did it KNOW?

i guess, yeah. [Here you go, Eddie, have a nice tree]

[clussy]

i dont know. but it knew about the worst parts about you. like the stuff you never even told your best friends. the stuff you
never really even told yoruself

that was the worst part i think.

Oh!!! it's pretty I like it. I love trees even though my momma never let me go near them

[deadboywalking]

oh. [Haha good thing Will doesn't have anything like that hahahahahaaaa...ha.]

well. you must be pretty brave to have faced it down already.

what's wrong with trees? trees are fun! i have a fort, back home, in the woods. it's like lothlorien there. [Neeeeeerd.]

[clussy]

(hahahahahhahaah yeah....yeah......because that'd make them too similar. in ways.

or something.)

I'm not.

My friends are brave. If it was just me, I probably would have died.

I love trees. But my moms really protective of me and she was always afraid i'd break my arm or neck falling out of them
or that i'd get a splinter and it'd get infected










did you just reference lord of the rings (The fact that Eddie even recognized that means he's just as big of a nerd though.)

[deadboywalking]

you can all be brave. especially if you're making each other braver.

oh. yeah, i guess. splinters kinda suck.

yeah. lord of the rings is the best. [William.]

[clussy]

You don't know me too well. How do you know I'm not the worlds biggest scaredy cat?

(It was not so easy convincing Eddie of his own bravery, okay. This kid...)

I always felt really bad for boromir.
he got fucked

[deadboywalking]

cause real cowards don't care if anyone gets hurt. they just care about themselves.

[SO THERE you're valid, damn it, Edward.]

me too. i liked aragorn. and gandalf. my friends and me called the woods near my house mirkwood, like in the hobbit.

[clussy]

(God damn it. Eddie agrees with this sentiment and literally cannot argue it.

He'll get you back for this one day Will >:|

For now he won't say anything because jeez.)

Gandalf is kind of a dick though. he totally ditches them way more than he has to

aragorn is cool though. i like treebeard.

haha i know what mirkwood is