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Hebert Family Values (Addams Family Crossover)

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A few things occurred to me, seeing as this is a delightful AU of a Worm world... If I recall correctly, Tattletale tries to contact 'Bug Girl' through PHO and because of Addams shenanigans that whole slide into the clutches of the Undersiders seems to have failed here. Would Coil have forced Tattletale into looking further into Bug Girl and suddenly come up HAUNTED MANSION?!

Will there still be a bank robbery to be critiqued? Will Lung have another visit from Taylor Addams Hebert after possibly learning of what occurred in the alley two-and-a-half years ago? Will Rachel treat Pugsley like a pug and take him for walkies? Will Alec learn the true meaning of family? Will Grue finally let go of the stupid-ball and become the kick-ass black guy the Bay needs him to be? Will Aisha get into a stalking contest with Wednesday? Will Fester find the Cornell Bomber and grade her work appropriately?

And what is driving Emily Piggot to drink?!

Whatever answers there are, thank you for the words good author!
 
SNS84 said:
And what is driving Emily Piggot to drink?!
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This answer we have... Absolutely nothing, because she can't have any alcoholic beverages. She has no working liver and refuses parahuman healing, remember.

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Wait... This is based on the 2 live action movies version of the Adams Family. In the first movie we're shown just how extensive the estate is. Did Grandmama bring just the manor, or the entire estate? And if it's the entire estate... how did it fit into the plot next door to the Hebert home?!
 
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Obviously some sort of space warping. Since I kind of doubt there'd be some sort of 'always there' retroactive manipulation.

Vista takes one look at the estate and is fascinated by what is managed there. No one else can really register that particular oddity.
 
So, reading this the first thing I notice is that the rewrite is, no offense intended, much much better than the original.

The original felt sorta flat and off, and the rewrite 'feels' much better. Iunno.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
This answer we have... Absolutely nothing, because she can't have any alcoholic beverages. She has no working liver and refuses parahuman healing, remember.
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That doesn't mean she's not being driven to drink.

It just means that she never actually gets to indulge. Which... actually explains a lot, now that I think about it.
Tithed_Verse said:
So, reading this the first thing I notice is that the rewrite is, no offense intended, much much better than the original.



The original felt sorta flat and off, and the rewrite 'feels' much better. Iunno.
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Er, what rewrite?
 
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With that chapter, I really think that the story needs some more exploration of Emma's and Taylor's relationship, both before and after the return of Anette. Hell, we need to see more of Taylor's character I mean the chapter completely puts into question just about every assumption we made about Taylor's character. I am hopefully not too presumptuous when I say that pre-story Taylor was completely normal considering her reactions, but then we are hit with the surgery whammy. I admit we are dealing with a seriously unreliable narrator but with that very emotional ending that part didn't seem to be a part of the unreliable part.

I am very much looking forward to the next chapter because well the story took a strange turn.
 
Well, in the live action movies trauma is shown to be able to cause an Adams to become "normal". Fester was taken in by a con woman after losing his memory, and became a normal (if dim witted) person. As well as managing to grow a full head of hair. An ability he lost upon regaining his Adams nature and memories. And in Adams Family Values Pubert was becoming "normal" due to the trauma of those events. Heck, even Gomez Adams was seemingly starting to regress into being a normal person both times they got evicted from the Adams estate.
 
Drucchi said:
With that chapter, I really think that the story needs some more exploration of Emma's and Taylor's relationship, both before and after the return of Anette. Hell, we need to see more of Taylor's character I mean the chapter completely puts into question just about every assumption we made about Taylor's character. I am hopefully not too presumptuous when I say that pre-story Taylor was completely normal considering her reactions, but then we are hit with the surgery whammy. I admit we are dealing with a seriously unreliable narrator but with that very emotional ending that part didn't seem to be a part of the unreliable part.

I am very much looking forward to the next chapter because well the story took a strange turn.
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The interlude itself does have quite a bit of time passing, and the next few Taylor chapters will cover some of what happened during that time passing. It will also cover Taylor's side of the interlude, what she sees as happening. Plus, well, there are Undersiders and Protectorate stuff to deal with.
 
Ellf said:
The interlude itself does have quite a bit of time passing, and the next few Taylor chapters will cover some of what happened during that time passing. It will also cover Taylor's side of the interlude, what she sees as happening. Plus, well, there are Undersiders and Protectorate stuff to deal with.
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Well it will be very interesting to see Taylor's development to a point where she will start cutting Emma open. Very excited to see it from the other side.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
Well, in the live action movies trauma is shown to be able to cause an Adams to become "normal". Fester was taken in by a con woman after losing his memory, and became a normal (if dim witted) person. As well as managing to grow a full head of hair. An ability he lost upon regaining his Adams nature and memories. And in Adams Family Values Pubert was becoming "normal" due to the trauma of those events. Heck, even Gomez Adams was seemingly starting to regress into being a normal person both times they got evicted from the Adams estate.
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This. Also in the classic live action show, Gomez turns into a normal person after a blow to the head and becomes convinced that Mortica is trying to murder him for his money. So the trauma of events removing the eccentric and macabre nature is well established Lore for the family.
 
James Birdsong said:
Maybe Taylor's mom can use the bugs from Lurch's elbow in the next pancake.
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Hey now, that's just rude and uncalled for. Why would you try and get Annette to cook Lurch's favorite pets? They're his pets and cooking them or not is his decision.

Shame on you for suggesting such a thing. Go through the proper procedure next time, and ask Lurch first!
 
There really is something truly wondrous about adding the Addams to a scene as wretched as Brockton Bay. Where they will actually have to put in at least a slight modicum of effort to truly stand out. Let's just say that my faith in them, and your ability to utilize them in causing the entire community to simultaneously shit themselves while screaming 'WTF?' is absolute. Thanks!
 
It's likely that she regarded it as childish games that she put away when she lost her mother, not thinking of it while depressed, and Emma's campaign to keep her down kept her from thinking of fun things that they could do.

With her family coming along and lifting her back from her depression, allowing closed off portions of her personality that severe depression shut down. Really the bullying stopped her from a full recovery that would of brought out more of her Addams personality traits.

Likely this version of Skitter still had moments of creepiness, like what was she doing with her bugs? Was she sleeping surrounded by them? Or doing things that others would see as creepy....
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
I think the implication has always been that Lurch is some sort of zombie or golem.
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Ah. That makes sense.

MaskedCritic said:
Hey now, that's just rude and uncalled for. Why would you try and get Annette to cook Lurch's favorite pets? They're his pets and cooking them or not is his decision... Shame on you for suggesting such a thing. Go through the proper procedure next time, and ask Lurch first!
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Sorry!

FaerieKnight79 said:
Well, in the live action movies trauma is shown to be able to cause an Adams to become "normal". Fester was taken in by a con woman after losing his memory, and became a normal (if dim witted) person. As well as managing to grow a full head of hair. An ability he lost upon regaining his Adams nature and memories. And in Adams Family Values Pubert was becoming "normal" due to the trauma of those events. Heck, even Gomez Adams was seemingly starting to regress into being a normal person both times they got evicted from the Adams estate.
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That scares me. Normality is strange to quantify anyway. The family is normal albeit not standard or typical despite their insistence that they are a normal average family; but those around them are strange. Setting aside the irrelevant question of if Fester is Gomez's brother or uncle-in-law, in other words the difference between original series and the movies, I can see your point. The two movies do a good point of entertaining despite that. It seems to fit the message they want so I can forgive it and laugh along and be invested.

What I cannot forgive is Wednesday's decision in the recent two films to dabble in rebellion against her mother and family. Am I making sense? Maybe it is just a preference I have for the earlier depictions. Is it meant to be a twist on teen rebellion? I suspect I may be reading too much into it but Wednesday and Pugsley of the television series saw themselves as normal while the two classic films had the children embracing their eccentricities. I admit the age of the character may play a factor (eight or ten versus however old she is in this newest set of movie canon) but I still shiver in fright despite knowing it is just a movie and I should really just relax.
 
Marvelous! Simply Marvelous! Both the base fic and the fantastic Interlude from Emma! Just... The idea of Emma ENJOYING Taylor acting like an Addams is fantastic... And her admitting to herself that she does is also pretty darn touching... Tbh I kinda wonder if now that they're older the pair will be less like sisters however and close in a... Different way...
 
A thought... If as the movies (and apparently original TV series) suggest trauma can make an Adams "normal", could it be possible that Emma herself is actually one of Taylor's cousins on her mother's side? Think about it. Taylor's mom dies, and she starts becoming "normal" in her grief. Then just as she's starting to recover Emma gets attacked by the Azn Bad Boyz (stupid name for a gang, btw) and in her trauma she becomes "normal" (as defined by Sophia Hess). It's already been shown in the movies that a forceful enough personality can guide what an Adams will be like when they become Normal due to trauma. And while she's an insane idiot, Sophia does have a forceful personality.
 
Ellf said:
While this is canon, one thing to remember is Emma is not sane. Never has been. So, what she interpreted as giggling wasn't necessarily actually giggling, since Taylor... well, Taylor doesn't really giggle. Think she does maybe once in canon, if that. That said, yes, this does answer some questions some people had.

Taylor has always had Addams proclivities. And Emma was her best friend.
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So, wait. After however many years as Taylor's best friend, sleeping over, eating Annette's cookies, showing her heart and inner self to Taylor, is she still just a best friend, former or otherwise? Considering how much of her formative years were influenced by the Addamses Heberts I would have assumed that Emma was already an adoptive Addams, and one in all but blood.
 
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