Frescopino
(Verified Air Freshener)
- Location
- The Pit of Hate
She triggered with bug control. Not only will she be raised as an addamned Addams from now on, she'll be a golden twig on that family tree.
Last edited:
Hebert Family Values (Addams Family Crossover)
- Thread starter Ellf
- Start date
- Crossover
Merle Corey
Mostly Harmless
- Location
- Chicago
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
I feel bad for Lung. By Addams standards, rotting his junk off likely qualifies as an expression of romantic interest.
- Location
- In the depts of despair.
I just can imagine the PRT commander in charge of the Addams when Piggot calls him.
"Emily, good afternoon, what can I do for you. Does my petition to be transfered to Alaska is finally being processed?"
"No director Strauss, I need information on some new parahumans who moved from your jurisdiction. So far they only have established a lair and open negociations with the local goverment but I need to know what kind of trouble they are."
"A lair? A mansion so creepy that most horror movies would reject it for scary with a permanent Shaker effect on the grounds that simulate near perpetual storm clouds and withered plants. With a family inside so sadistic that they do a 180° to be the biggest contributors to charities in the East Coast to prevent me for calling a nuclear air strike on their home?"
"Yes, I need a dossier on them"
"A dossier, yes I can give you a dossier on them, not that it will do any good. They are not villains, no matter how hard I lobby for labeling them as such, no matter how much they come at you with their big smiles and their even bigger knives. At least they have good vintage spirits and are willing to share so getting drunk is always an option."
"Don't forget that for me is not one Strauss."
"Even better, then you may commit suicide by alcohol poisoning before they realize it and revive you. No matter how many times I try to eat a bullet after their most recent disaster they never let me stay dead. But it does not matter, the Addams moved out of my jurisdiction. I'm free, finally free. Ha, ha ha hahhahahahahahaha......." BANG!!!
"Strauss, are you there? ..."
"Madam Piggot, this is sergeant Milles, Director Strauss suffered a little accident but I managed to get the gun out of his mouth in time, I'll send the files on the Addams ASAP, no one deserves to meet them without a little warning, not that it be of any use. Just one more thing, if you try to send them back here I will personally fly to your jurisdiction and lock you in a room with Fester and a candlelight dinner. Good afternoon madam, and good luck. You'll need it."
"Emily, good afternoon, what can I do for you. Does my petition to be transfered to Alaska is finally being processed?"
"No director Strauss, I need information on some new parahumans who moved from your jurisdiction. So far they only have established a lair and open negociations with the local goverment but I need to know what kind of trouble they are."
"A lair? A mansion so creepy that most horror movies would reject it for scary with a permanent Shaker effect on the grounds that simulate near perpetual storm clouds and withered plants. With a family inside so sadistic that they do a 180° to be the biggest contributors to charities in the East Coast to prevent me for calling a nuclear air strike on their home?"
"Yes, I need a dossier on them"
"A dossier, yes I can give you a dossier on them, not that it will do any good. They are not villains, no matter how hard I lobby for labeling them as such, no matter how much they come at you with their big smiles and their even bigger knives. At least they have good vintage spirits and are willing to share so getting drunk is always an option."
"Don't forget that for me is not one Strauss."
"Even better, then you may commit suicide by alcohol poisoning before they realize it and revive you. No matter how many times I try to eat a bullet after their most recent disaster they never let me stay dead. But it does not matter, the Addams moved out of my jurisdiction. I'm free, finally free. Ha, ha ha hahhahahahahahaha......." BANG!!!
"Strauss, are you there? ..."
"Madam Piggot, this is sergeant Milles, Director Strauss suffered a little accident but I managed to get the gun out of his mouth in time, I'll send the files on the Addams ASAP, no one deserves to meet them without a little warning, not that it be of any use. Just one more thing, if you try to send them back here I will personally fly to your jurisdiction and lock you in a room with Fester and a candlelight dinner. Good afternoon madam, and good luck. You'll need it."
Last edited:
KChasm
I apologize for the inconvenience.
There's a difference between "accepting" and "uncurious," though. I mean, she has no questions? She doesn't want to talk more with her mom (who, incidentally, is apparently back from the dead after three years)? She doesn't have anything to think on about her mom feeding her poisons when apparently she didn't do that pre-car-crash?
I mean, you can't just say "oh, it's in the blood" and have that be the whole explanation. Or if you are going to have that be the whole explanation, shouldn't there be something in the narration to indicate that the sheer uncuriosity is unusual, and not just bad writing?
Ellf
Apprentice Wizard
- Location
- Virginia
Funnily, the next scene planned involves a talk with her mother without cousins and such around. I will be doing some revision to show more of the obliviousness that the Addams Family has regarding their quirks, but I can incorporate things on Taylor's end too.
- Location
- In the depts of despair.
Knowing them their food, which Piggot tried to eat in a desperate bid to get poisoned and have a excuse to get out of a formal dinner will give her Brute and Breaker ratings with the ability to eat everything again not to mention doing some sweet dance moves.
- Location
- Texas
I'm hopinf Annette's sudden Addamsness is something innocuous, like she acted normal for fear of parahuman response, or something along those lines. Earth Bet would probably assume a lot of the Addams' weirdness to be parahuman in nature.. The actual Addams arriving simply gave her the confidence to be overtly Addams.
Sure. Alternately, showing her with a typically Addams family reaction to a normal situation would do the job of showing that she is weird.
We're still really early in the story. So far we've seen her having a good time jogging with Lurch, and not really thinking much of the fact that a couple of her new family members have maggots or spiders on them. She did react normally to Fester, but at the same time it was the "correct" reaction as well, and it's not like reflexive violence is really outside of Addams family norms, so... could go either way at this point.
Frescopino
(Verified Air Freshener)
- Location
- The Pit of Hate
Feel bad for Lung?
I feel bad for Taylor.
Her newly discovered relatives will push for a date after they discover what she did.
- Location
- Maine
- Pronouns
- They/Them/Theirs
(Upon reviewing this post, I can see I'm not at 100% mentally. Read at your own risk.)
Regarding accepting stuff, I'd like to remind everyone that this is Taylor we're talking about. "My teammate is a body controlling rapist. Ah well." Taylor. "Let's just cover myself in bugs because I forgot myhat mask" Taylor. "We've all got really fucked up things in our past, let's talk about them for something to do!" Taylor.
Someone who makes the S9 look like amateurs without trying because it's just easier. "I could kill them horribly, but that's effort. I'll just use bullet ants, that way they can tell other people not to fuck with me." Taylor could, perfectly innocently, put "Gelding Dragons" on her list of hobbies.
While one can argue that this Taylor isn't that far gone yet, her life is one of casual cruelty. She's survived a situation that probably should have killed her, and small but regular amounts of intense pain. The fact that two people she just met tried to kill her for no good reason is to be expected. People at school do that stuff for no good reason, why shouldn't two kids who have been uprooted by their parents?
She's got the adrenaline from "You just ate poison!" in her system. Probably some bugs on the walls. She literally looks at things from a different angle from everyone else. Addams like reaction time is possible, even ignoring that weird pet theory some people have about Gomez.
That weird theory I've hear is that Gomez somehow endows everyone around him with similar abilities to himself because of his interest in fair play. How often does a guest almost get skewered, but somehow "luck" into avoiding the axes or sword thrust? Either he missed on purpose, or some how, something about being in the house is making random people who say Hi more than human.
On a side note, the kids are generally home-schooled... The Truant Officer tried to get Pugsly to go to school once. It uh... didn't go well. Pugsly couldn't take those horrible stories about knights hunting dragons. Gomez had to explain some things to the school administration. He's such a sensitive young boy, that Pugsly... I loved that episode. I imagine they'll find Winslow less traumatizing than say, Arcadia.
Regarding accepting stuff, I'd like to remind everyone that this is Taylor we're talking about. "My teammate is a body controlling rapist. Ah well." Taylor. "Let's just cover myself in bugs because I forgot my
Someone who makes the S9 look like amateurs without trying because it's just easier. "I could kill them horribly, but that's effort. I'll just use bullet ants, that way they can tell other people not to fuck with me." Taylor could, perfectly innocently, put "Gelding Dragons" on her list of hobbies.
While one can argue that this Taylor isn't that far gone yet, her life is one of casual cruelty. She's survived a situation that probably should have killed her, and small but regular amounts of intense pain. The fact that two people she just met tried to kill her for no good reason is to be expected. People at school do that stuff for no good reason, why shouldn't two kids who have been uprooted by their parents?
She's got the adrenaline from "You just ate poison!" in her system. Probably some bugs on the walls. She literally looks at things from a different angle from everyone else. Addams like reaction time is possible, even ignoring that weird pet theory some people have about Gomez.
That weird theory I've hear is that Gomez somehow endows everyone around him with similar abilities to himself because of his interest in fair play. How often does a guest almost get skewered, but somehow "luck" into avoiding the axes or sword thrust? Either he missed on purpose, or some how, something about being in the house is making random people who say Hi more than human.
On a side note, the kids are generally home-schooled... The Truant Officer tried to get Pugsly to go to school once. It uh... didn't go well. Pugsly couldn't take those horrible stories about knights hunting dragons. Gomez had to explain some things to the school administration. He's such a sensitive young boy, that Pugsly... I loved that episode. I imagine they'll find Winslow less traumatizing than say, Arcadia.
- Location
- In the depts of despair.
Not to mention the time CPS put Wednesday inside a jail filled to the brim with girls waiting for transport to juvie. Let's just say that they had a very practical lesson in shibari without the benefit of a safe word.
Dark Mage
Sanity is really overrated...
- Location
- Out of My Mind
Oh, de-
Dammit, Taylor, that was my line!
Pugsley and Wednesday will find Winslow boring.
"You are Sophia, right? You're not doing it right. This is how you trip some one down the stairs correctly."
"What was that? That is not how you mentally break some one, Emma. For maximum effect you say it like this."
"Ms. Blackwell, I must protest the teaching in this school! The students will never learn the three T's* this way."
Thus Emma and Sophia learn why Taylor never broke.
*The three T's - Terror, Torture, and Trauma.
Edit - Found this for when Taylor visits the Addams House.
Last edited:
We Just Write
Blatantly Plural
- Location
- New England
- Pronouns
- Plural
More.
Problem is that both Morticia and, eventually (at about 12 or 13), Wednesday know that they are weird by normal peoples standards and over the top.
Morticia tries to keep it directed inwards at the family itself and Wednesday actually tones it down for what I think is her boyfriend who is himself a near natural fit for the Addams family.
- Location
- Cyberspace
It'll work better, I think. To me the key trait of the Addams family is how you see their nonchalance at unusual (to you) things happening to them (not just lethal) and wonder, if only just for a moment, if it's actually you that are weird. You feel like everything they say and do is imminently sensible... from some perspective orthogonal to yours. Characters are carried along with them, and it's that conflict between what each side sees as 'normal' that gives the classic "straight man, funny man" vibe.
I think an approach that might work here is to allow the supernatural elements (or most of them) to sort of creep up on Taylor. Not concealed, but, as an example, what if the pancakes were praised and Annette says she's out of practice, but the arsenic helps make up the flavor... and Taylor starts to freak out, only to look around and her cousins are laughing and smiling - Maybe she misheard, or it's a family joke or something.
The initial meeting felt like it was doing this pretty well - Taylor spies a strange vehicle, strangers in the house, one of them being friendly with her father, and then... pepper-spraying another out of surprise only for him to react happily to it. That was very Addams Family to me. Talking about the crazy plane crash - ditto. The breakfast scene... I donno.
The last couple paragraphs felt right though, minus the comment on reaction speed. There's enough that's off in there (the knife attempt), combined with a more banal reaction (scolding), that it fits the theme. And a challenge is enough of a distraction for Taylor to 'skip over' oddities and start acting like an Addams Family member without realizing it.
For hardiness, it's probably best that it's not really mentioned in dialogue - after all, the Addams Family don't really grasp that no, normal people can't treat cyanide as a digestive or a murder attempt as just good clean fun. Instead, Taylor has it creep up on her, and then something happens that makes it obvious... only for Gomez (or someone else) to shrug it off with "we Addams come from hearty stock". Likewise other traits.
I donno how much they really realize - and how much that's taken to heart. It feels more like to them it's what they do to adapt to the neighbors, as it were - being polite or trying to get along.
Last edited:
I'm thinking loves she loves her new family too much to be gone for long. Maybe something about needing to recuperate to her normal self, spend some time thinking in the graveyard?
While buried, of course. Completely lost track of time. Wasn't until last week that she dug herself up.
Don't forget her fashion design, and going for the right proper insects, Black Widows, first.
Last edited:
Should I ask, hilareous misunderstandings occur with Gomez deciding that Danny is actually a mob boss, and thus fully approving of the relationship? You know, "Union" leader, anybody annoying Annette or Taylor can take a long walk off a short pier wearing heavy shoes, all that....
HereticMIND
[happy_robot_dinosaur_noises.flac]
- Location
- Howard County, MD
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Yes. Yes. Please do this. My sides don't need to be on my body anyway.
Now that's outta the way, this fic seems pretty interesting. Annette coming back? And with the Addams Family along for the ride? I'm a bit rusty on my AF mythos, but I believe I know enough to understand what's going on. Cool choice, though. At least this Taylor has the chance to be (relatively) well adjusted, if not outright happier.
That said, I'd love to see how the Addams would react to being on Earth Bet and all the entities within (such as the Endbringers or Scion). Or what the folks over on PHO would think if one of them comes into contact with an Addams IRL, as it were.
Last edited:
This is Gomez Addams we're talking about, master of missing the point
Ellf
Apprentice Wizard
- Location
- Virginia
True. He'll miss the point, over and over and over again as Danny backs away from the sword and improves his riposte.
- Location
- Earth Prime
Yeah, this is mostly the sort of thing I was getting at.
One thing that the "creep up on her" aspect would benefit from, I think, is Taylor using her bugs more and more, while trying to keep it secret, and doing some things that are more and more obvious...and thinking she's lucky nobody noticed that. Promising to herself she'll be more careful from now on. Then escalating further next time. I wouldn't keep this on too long before somebody - possibly Taylor - makes a comment about the bugs. If Taylor, along the lines of, "Did you not see that!?" and her loving family saying, "Yes, dear. That was quite well done! You've been practicing, haven't you."
If it's somebody else, just skip right to the "well done" aspect. In either case, part of the creeping realization should be a realization that they already noticed her thing with the bugs...and assumed it was normal. Even her Dad, by the time he notices, is resigned enough to Addams weirdness that he just assumes she learned it from her cousin or something.
Maybe Grandmama asks Taylor specifically for some bugs. Some of the bugs she's been keeping away. Before or after she's realized they know. Before, she probably is mildly panicked and trying to figure out what Grandmama knows or is asking for. After...well, she may as well, right?
I'd recommend doing it reasonably quickly, though, because Taylor being too slow to catch on would get dull. The weirdness meter pinging can move to school from there, as Taylor goes to school thinking she'll have to keep others from noticing how weird her cousins are...only to discover that she's so acclimated that she's making her acquaintances weirded out by being too Addams-like. Of course, her cousins are weirder still, as she's still learning, but she sees how far she's come from what she does that is her new normal that weirds out others.
Given their attitude towards the Bermuda Triangle? When Leviathan attacks, they'll get out their yacht and enjoy a cruise on the waters he's flooding Brockton Bay with, and comment on the fishing as the heroes battle him. Somehow, nothing he does will inconvenience them, but they'll also not really be any help.
Last edited:
HereticMIND
[happy_robot_dinosaur_noises.flac]
- Location
- Howard County, MD
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Perhaps they would more likely save the city by accident. Probably via Fester thinking he could try and out-swim the thing, leading Leviathan on a merry chase into the bay before Leviathan gives up and just leaves. (Like I said, I'm rusty on the AF mythos and really don't know much outside of their schtick of being creepy yet endearing)
Now how would the PRT respond to someone calling in about the family?