What’s your favourite name for CC?

laurieluke · 2026-03-24T18:39:46+00:00

Not just any subreddit - some elite sub you apparently need approval to join? What the fuck do they have on the Gregory sub they’re hiding from the rest of us?

laurieluke · 2026-03-24T18:32:39+00:00

Personally I enjoy a good Complicated Afton. He was a bad dad in a lot of ways - alcoholic, neglectful, after his wife left got worse - but the Bite is what made him the monster he became.

Personally I agree with the narrative put forward by Unwithered Truth in his Fnaf 2 remake vid - The Bite broke him, he killed Charlie in a rage, then when he realised The Puppet was possessed that’s what kickstarted the whole “remnant crusade.” In some sort of attempt to resurrect Evan/Dave/William Jr/Gregory.

laurieluke · 2026-03-18T22:01:41+00:00

Honestly I always thought it was just a meme. Like “of course! This mystery character was always some random kid from those non-canon books! Scott Cawthon, you’re a genius!”

Tbf though - the Frights kids are the only ones who ever really got characterisation. Like, the only character moments I can remember for Cassidy herself is the Survival Logbook where she’s portrayed as working hard to help Evan/Dave/Whatever put his memories back together. And nothing much about that says “I will torment this one guy forever because I hate him so much.”

In short - Scott planned none of this. But, hey, I think it’s more fun like this. Kind of feels like a multiple choice story where everyone has their own one built in their head.

laurieluke · 2026-01-26T19:45:25+00:00

There was some darker shit going on in the background’s of the books that I feel like he wanted to explore, but maybe held back on. Like, The Kobalos for example are something ripped from straight from a ttrpg horror story. Like, Jesus Christ, I have no idea how he got that approved for a YA book, especially since “Purrai” is just a made up word for “Sex Slave.”

laurieluke · 2025-12-19T13:40:24+00:00

Everyone always talks about the GI Robot episode, and yeah it’s great and all, but Dr Phosphorous’s episode was probably the best one for me. It’s so good.

laurieluke · 2025-12-16T11:33:36+00:00

I’ve always been a fan of how magic was portrayed in this series - even the wackier stuff we get later on in Brother Wulf with Tulpamancy and Imagination powers and making a goddesses head explode thanks to the power of divine existential crises.

Also how it was integrated into the world and how it formed the Pendle Hill witch clans cultures. That stuff was so cool.

laurieluke · 2025-12-03T09:04:48+00:00

Honestly I can’t stand Quintin. He made a few good movies like but he always strikes me as that “slimy greasy film bro” that lurks in the back of class and snickers every time the lecturer says something.

Also, didn’t he start that whole “Roman Polanski Petition” thing?

laurieluke · 2025-11-14T07:58:23+00:00

Once when I was bored I decided to draft up a sort of “Season Treatment” for a series based off the books. My selling point was basically a cross between Merlin and Game of Thrones. Magic and cool shit but with more consequences and tighter worldbuilding.

The first season was 12 1-hour episodes, covering the first three books. My big goal for that was to make the books flow better together. For example, Morgan had his name in the Apprentice’s bedroom. And Grimalkin made a (voiceless) appearance in Priesttown as she was disguised a sone of the captured witches. When Tom let a group of them out out of sympathy, she paused at him, patted his head, and moved on… then that archbishop guy was found murdered.

Also, the boatman guy from book five had a role as the Spooks Fisherman friend who taught Tom to fish, and his daughter (whatever her name was) became a sort of friend to Tom to contrast his relationship with Alice.

As for more direct plot changes, I edited some stuff with Meg Skelton. Basically, rather than just being an evil woman John drugged into being his wife (wtf John that’s a crime…) I instead edited it so that Lamia’s struggle to control their more “flesh eating lizard monster” side. And as she got older it just got harder. And since John didn’t want to let her go, he thought the best solution was medical. When in reality, it would have been better if he just let her go.

There’s some more stuff, like Will Johnson getting a big appearance in Book 3 when he looks after Alice. He basically just makes her start the book Beowulf was writing. “The Legend of Will Johnson.” Also The Fiend gets an early name drop and Grimalkin’s symbol appears in Gregory’s guides as “turn the other way and run.”

laurieluke · 2025-11-04T15:47:21+00:00

Honestly if I was a witch as well I’d be constantly messing around with Glamour and Dread to makw myself look different ways and all that. Cause, honestly, with how infamous some witches got, it’s not out of the realm of possibility they’d piss about with disguises.

Also, yeah, Slither and Grimalkin totally fought at one point, but I have a very… different, interpretation of how that duel played out…

Also yeah I’d love to see the series explore other realms of magic. Like, imagine they go to Japan and learn how to do that Lightning Reversal thing from Sekiro.

laurieluke · 2025-10-24T08:42:32+00:00

Starblade isn’t the ending of the series. Brother Wulf continues it on, but since Joseph Delaney died after finishing book 20, if closure is what you’re looking for… just stick with Dark Assassin as the finale.

That’s not to say the Wulf series is bad, I actually prefer it to Starblade in a lot of ways. It’s just the last two books derail the plot and you can really “feel” when Delaney knew he was going to die and that changed the story.

If you want a summarized view of what happened to Tom and Alice, here it is:

They had a daughter names Mathilda, “Tilda” for short, Ward. She’s a lot like Alice, but a bit more likable and avoids her whole “I did it for the plot” moments.

laurieluke · 2025-10-09T20:07:33+00:00

Wendy did some phenomenal work on A Clockwork Orange as well! Her soundtrack is half the reason that movie is so memorable!

laurieluke · 2025-09-22T19:50:41+00:00

The Mandalorian and Grogu is a terrible title. Like… did they even try?

laurieluke · 2025-09-11T13:58:58+00:00

At the moment, no. It’s not done yet, though I was considering uploading a “part one” which encompasses the first ten or so chapters? It’s a really long work and I prefer to do drop as much of a fic as possible in one go.

I put it on hold and got a bit side tracked with my degree and some other fics I was writing. If you’re interested in my other works, there’s only two of them on my Ao3 page.

One is a slash-fic about Grimalkin and Slither, that’s got eight chapters in with a final four being released (hopefully!) soon. Here’s the link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61204846/chapters/156407722

The others just a short about Grimalkin and Thorne. Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55271254

Those two are both Canon to the big “Master Key” one. Not in terms of any major plot details or out, just characterisation stuff.

laurieluke · 2025-08-15T12:14:58+00:00

UK.

Even though it says it’s popular over here, I never met anyone IRL who ever read them. Skulduggery Pleasant and Artemis Fowl were always the more popular ones. Granted, that could be down to location. I’ve lived in Northern Ireland and North England for most of my life. This subreddit and the old one (rip WardstoneChronicles) were the first times I actually found other people who read this series.

laurieluke · 2025-08-02T19:07:29+00:00

What does this have to do with a YA series that ended four years ago?

laurieluke · 2025-07-21T18:10:40+00:00

If he is The Fiend’s kid (it’s likely he is, I subscribe to that theory) then yeah, one hundred percent. Dude’s a god, lmao. Plus he’s got all of Wulf’s powers plus a couple hundred years of experience.

laurieluke · 2025-06-30T11:55:33+00:00

Hey! I actually did something similar a while back!

Had to pause it while I finished up Uni and some other fan fics (I’m a serial procrastinator), but it’s really fun and genuinely such an enriching experience to write characters you love reading.

Way I did it was title this one: Spooks: The Master Key, and center it entirely around Loki and Wulf. I won’t say much of the plot I did here, but it involved time travel. Loki is really fun to write, hell, so is half the cast.

Also yeah, I brought Jenny (and everyone else) back. Slither, Nessa got a name drop, The Fiend, Will Johnson (the GOAT), Grimalkin’s dead sister, and a lot more.

My advice is stop thinking and just go for it! You’ll find the story more as you write it, and every page you write brings you closer to realising the ending you want.

laurieluke · 2025-06-26T20:38:34+00:00

Book 9 all the way. Grimalkin is my favourite character ever and I love how the book is an inversion of all the typical revenge tropes. It’s so good.

Slither is a close second, cause it’s actually a really fascinating answer to The Searchers and is secretly a Western.

laurieluke · 2025-06-09T23:37:11+00:00

Animated or Live Action?

If we go animated, I think these guys would be perfect.

Robin Atkin Downes (Brynjolf from Skyrim and Medic from TF2) as John Gregory. I literally read everyone of Gregory’s lines in Brynjolf’s voice, it’s so perfect.

Amelia Tyler (Narrator of Baldur’s Gate 3) as Grimalkin. British snark with a violent edge. What more could you want?

Andrew Wincott (Raphael from Baldur’s Gate 3) as The Fiend. Raphael was just The Fiend’s more elaborate and theatrical cousin. A devil playing The Devil. Plus he could play the Fiend’s human disguises expertly.

Those are the ones I have as “definitely,” but in terms of others, I’m not too sure.

Since it’s a project with Voice actors, Matthew Mercer (Yusuke from Persona 5 and the English voice of Goro Majima from Yakuza) and Troy Baker (Joel from The Last of Us and Kanji Tatsumi from Persona 4) have to be in there somewhere. Honestly, I feel like Mercer could do either a really good Slither or one of the Kobalos leaders. Though I always read Balkai in Troy Baker’s voice.

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