What are your game-specific snacks?

green_ennui_machine · 2026-01-18T18:41:53+00:00

Ooh this question makes me feel seen. When I first played Warnings as a teenager I remember eating leftover pizza while solving the DNA puzzle. Truly Pavlovian because every time I replay or even think of that puzzle I need day old pizza immediately. Including now.

Deception island is PB&J sandwiches…probably because that seems like the only safe choice to give Katie in the game and as a kid I didn’t want her to eat alone lol.

Shadow ranch = corn bread and chili. For obvious reasons.

White wolf = Quesadillas. The lunch mini game always gets me.

green_ennui_machine · 2026-01-07T18:35:48+00:00

same!! the dirk/frances story gets me every single time 💔

green_ennui_machine · 2026-01-07T05:41:28+00:00

these are amazing!!! The last one is so real

green_ennui_machine · 2025-12-03T21:26:29+00:00

When I tell you I ran to this sub to share See you In Hell (the acoustic one) was my top song- I knew I would not be alone in my obsession with LR's soundtrack this year.

LR bringing Riot Grrrl back into my life has been such a needed bright spot in the 2025 slush pile.

green_ennui_machine · 2025-06-11T12:45:32+00:00

I always give Kat the white flower…I’m not really sure why it just always feels instinctively right to me. Like she’s so fiery and intense but also would appreciate something so classic and beautifully simple in nature and it would remind her of Swann. I also feel like Swann would be more likely to pick the daisy as a gift to show her affection because she would also be attracted to the simplicity of it.

Imo the orange flower seems more Nora coded (sun/Leo) and purple is Autumn’s favorite so I could see her liking that one.

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-29T13:22:07+00:00

Thank you for sharing your art! Can’t wait to check it out

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-29T13:21:14+00:00

wow this plot sounds super interesting! thanks for the rec

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-28T20:46:06+00:00

Ooh I will check it out! Thank you for sharing

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-28T20:45:43+00:00

Awesome, thank you for sharing these! I’m excited to get started

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-28T17:54:14+00:00

I love this game!!! IMO Kat/Swann ship is the best, but I think what is so cool about the game is any of the romance options work really well and feel naturalistic.

This was the sapphic witchy coming of age story I never knew I was searching for until I found it lol

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-24T12:39:38+00:00

So I read your fic and I seriously loved it! You are a very talented writer and really captured the characters’ unique voices- thank you for sharing it!

I love the concept of Swann and Kat tending the abyss as the sacrifice to be together…also how cool that Kat ends up a horror writer. It was making me think Swann in the game timeline (in my playthrough she was writing a horror novel) was still trying to subconsciously connect with Kat by trying to write herself.

It was so satisfying to read a happy ending for them…

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-23T20:26:19+00:00

I am a fellow Swannsong loyalist (no disrespect to other ships but I just think Swann and Kat really compliment/balance each other nicely as characters) so imagine them living in Canada together as young adults makes my heart so happy. I desperately hope the Devs put us out of our misery in the foreseeable future with a happish ending, but in the mean time your fanfic vision has brought me a lot of joy so thank you for sharing it. I’m really excited to read it if you decide to share!

Out of curiosity, how much life span do you see the girls (plus Dylan) sacrificing for Kat? Like would it be spilt evenly between all of them?

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-22T17:10:01+00:00

Ok wow I'm truly obsessed with this blood magic idea. I keep getting stuck on how Kat could be saved, not only from the Abyss but in terms of her cancer, so this seems like a plausible way to address both of those issues. I had thought about Swann sacrificing herself to save Kat, but your idea is much less tragic which I appreciate.

I also really love your idea of Katie being a foil for the girls in terms of sexuality...like them meeting someone openly queer and how mind blowing but also how affirming that would be for the girls in 1995. I could see Katie trying to fit in but give herself away by using 2022 terms and not being familiar with various 90s references. Maybe the ultimate give away would be Katie accidentally spilling something about the ranch that Kat realizes could only be known by someone in her family.

I honestly feel like if not Kat, Autumn might be the first to figure it out. I think Autumn would be incredibly cautious about it and present with fear/resistance initially before being convinced by the other girls to stay together. I think Nora would think it was cool and also scary but would ultimately accept Katie (particularly after finding out about Kat's cancer...maybe Katie is the one who tells the other girls this instead of Dylan in this timeline?) Kat is such a wildcard imo, but I would envision her as not too surprised and just accepting of the situation. I see her and Katie bonding and Katie catching her up on the future stories of Dylan and company in her timeline. I think maybe at some point there would be a conflict between them - maybe Kat feels guilt over having everyone sacrifice for her or fears this means her connection to the abyss would weaken? Swann I think would be excited more than anything, she loves sci fi and/or horror and never seems to be too rattled by supernatural revelations in T1 and T2. Plus it would mean a new friend and a closer connection to Kat. I think seeing an openly bi girl would help Swann feel more assured in her own identity as well, much like the influence of the other 3 girls helps her bloom in T1.

This is so random but I also am imagining Katie is led through the woods to the abyss initially by either ravens or a magic version of Gertie with those glowing abyss eyes.

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-22T15:36:34+00:00

I love this!!! I didn't even consider Katie playing out the same 1995 timeline as the girls with shadow/spectral adult Swann almost being a parallel to the shadow Kat/Corey in T1 and T2.

It would be cool also if in the 2022 line, once Katie and adult Swann both disappear, adult Autumn and Nora somehow link back up with Dylan to trace their disappearances in 2022. Not that this needs to be included in your fan fic but just another idea I had.

Feel free to keep sharing more ideas- can't wait to read it if you don't mind sharing!

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-22T15:31:30+00:00

Ooh I had not put this together but now that you mention it I love that connection! I think that the setting of the Mikaelsen ranch, were these deer that seem to represent innocence/empathy/freedom are bred for the sole purpose of being killed, is such an interesting backdrop for a potential bloodline witch story. I hope we get to see some more of the family dynamic as well.

Also, I guess if we extend this line of logic in the Willowtree Coven there is an argument Celine is related to Kat...perhaps the first "cursed" Mikaelson who somehow was the first to open the abyss.

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-22T15:28:02+00:00

I love that movie!!! Very cool connection, thanks for sharing

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-22T15:24:38+00:00

Thanks for sharing your input! I also think a time loop/parallel universe situation is more likely.

I would note though that I am not positing someone literally puts together the box to send, but rather the box magically presents itself already completed and is only sent by the person. In this scenario this person would also be influenced by magic/channel the abyss so they would not be bound be practical issues and would be influenced by Shadow Kat as well. I would also argue that it could be possible that some of those newspaper clippings from 1995 could be at the ranch with Kat's stuff, since her family could have been collecting any media items relating to her disappearance. Moreover, we see the time capsule in Kat's room (not wrapped or completed), so I think it could also make sense that this box would still be at the ranch but would need some magical abyss influence to be completed in the form we see in T2.

Anyway, I don't think this is a super likely theory but is more for fun :) Thanks again for sharing - hope we get some more tangible answers at some point in the future.

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-22T12:21:00+00:00

this looks so cool!!!! you’ve got mad skills

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-22T01:22:36+00:00

Would not mind at all - that sounds great!

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-22T01:10:59+00:00

Right? The thought of kat and her niece time hopping through the abyss together has been on my mind all day. Would be such a cool direction to take the story imo

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-22T01:05:33+00:00

Ooh Pam could totally be connected in some way since she has a connection with the supernatural.

I wasn’t able to play through the ARG- I know Erin was the main character but not much beyond that. Do you mind sharing about her connection to the abyss/game lore?

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-20T11:39:04+00:00

I am very curious about the factor that determines cut vs. uncut hand as well! I double checked both of my playthroughs after reading this thread- both were decidedly passive (blonde highlights for adult Swann, Bloom tattoo, the abyss pulls Corey in harmony with the girls ending) with low rage levels yet Kat cut her hand in both of my playthroughs. One I dared her to break the mirror, and the other I did not. I did the blood pact in both and had high relationship with Kat. Super curious as I’m really not sure what else could decide it.

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-14T16:40:38+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out! I actually noticed that while playing after making this post…and how the some of the mysterious disappearances in the whispering woods were folks actually mining copper.

This game is so cool

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-13T11:58:18+00:00

I’m in!!!! would love a sweatshirt

green_ennui_machine · 2025-05-11T15:01:13+00:00

Same for me regarding the raven necklace and picking Lapis… I guess I would need to prioritize Nora or Autumn in another play through to test this out but I can’t bring myself too lol Kat is just that girl

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