bakerstreet | Early Halloween

ALL HALLOW'S EVE MEME

It's the month of (May) Halloween, kiddies! You know what THAT means. Time for everything great about the best season of the year! It's goth Christmas, so let's celebrate it right!

LOCATIONS

1. STAYING IN You like to stay nice and comfy at home! Maybe you're watching movies, handing out candy, or baking spooky cupcakes!

2. GOING OUT You wanna trick-or-treat? Go to a party? Have fun, guys!

3. NO, WE MEAN REALLY OUT Why are you out in the woods? A graveyard? What the hell is wrong with you?

4. IN BUT OUT We thought it couldn't get any worse, but now you're in an abandoned hospital? Some real haunted-ass house? Y'all gonna die.

SCENARIOS

1. TRICK OR TREAT The purest and truest thing you can do. Whether you're a little kid going to get candy, a parent going with them, an adult celebrator or some asshole not even in a costume, have some fun.

2. COSTUME PARTY Ohhh baby. Is this a regular costume party or something fancier? Can you recognize people or is it a surprise? Is there a costume contest? Are you in the same costume as someone else? Damn.

3. HAY RIDES Ride in a wagon with your friends or family, hanging out and maybe enjoying some treats. Unless it's a scary one, then try not to punch the actors.

4. HAUNTED HOUSES So you went to the cool new haunted house in town, going of your own accord or dragged along? Dragging someone else? Remember, don't punch the actors.

5. SCARY MOVIES Maybe you're hanging out with friends. Maybe you're hanging out with family. Or your significant other. Are they scared? Are you scared? Can you get a snuggle out of it? ... Are you just watching Hocus Pocus, because we suggest Hocus Pocus. Or the Addams Family. Unless you ARE the Addams Family, then watch your home movies.

6. HANDING OUT CANDY You stayed home for a good cause! You love seeing all the costumes people roll up to your house in and you love handing them treats. Or you hate Halloween and have all your lights turned off. Don't run out of candy though.

7. BEING A LITTLE SHIT Egging, TPing, setting off car alarms, stealing candy, smashing pumpkins... What is wrong with you? Like, literally smashing pumpkins, you're not hanging out with Billy Corgan. Unless you are hanging out with Billy Corgan. IS HE TPING A HOUSE TOO?????? I knew it.

8. PUMPKIN CARVING Either you love this or think it's gross. Pulling the guts out of a pumpkin and carving it into an aesthetically pleasing design so you can stick a light in it and put it outside. Fucking rad.

9. LEAF PILES You cleaned up the yard! NOW IT'S TIME TO JUMP IN THE LEAF PILES. Or, well, we hope you cleaned the yard. It'd be a dick move to do it to someone else's hard work, but we're not the cops.

10. CORN MAZE Another option for fun scary times is a corn maze! Find your way out safely, but seriously, don't punch the actors.

11. PICKING OUT COSTUMES YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE COOLEST COSTUME AROUND. Did you find something great? Mediocre? Did someone else take the best one?

12. THE DAY AFTER Oh shit, it's discount candy day! Get all the best stuff before someone else does! Or fight for it. Whatever.

13. DECORATING You have to get your house ready for your favorite holiday! Hang those spiderwebs, fake skeletons, and cute little ghosts. Or set up your own haunted house.

14. BEING A MORON On a higher level than being a little shit, you don't believe in creppy things coming to get you. Using an ouija board, exploring abandoned, haunted places, whatever: you're asking for trouble. That said, don't punch the ghosts. It won't help you.

15. BEING SPOOPY YOU'RE the spoopy one. A monster, a ghost, a witch/wizard (wow, rude), whatever. Maybe you wanna scare people. Maybe you wanna cut people's heads off because you don't have on. MAYBE you just want to be left alone, GOD.

16. SKELETON WAR ... Wait, what?

As always, these are just suggestions. Make up anything you want, as long as you're having fun! Also, stay tuned for an extra-special Halloween meme within the next couple of days.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[early halloween is brutal.]

[Either he's bringing the spooky by just being his wonderfully unsettling self, or he's here to deal with something much, much worse.

The candy's nice though.]

[I am so down for this. LET THE SKELETON WAR COMMENCE]

[Don't worry, just your friendly, floating torso with blood and gore dripping down. Nothing to worry about here!]

[Well he's already a ghost so like...]

[Down for a great many of these options, honestly, and you know his folks were giving out full-size candy bars to the trick or treaters.
Not interested in interactions with Billy, thank you.]

[Costume parties, parades and harvest festivals are all great for the Guard to let their hair down a little, easy to get lost in that kind of crowd.]

[Iggy loves Halloween, costume parties are one of the few times he can have his wings out and not get questioned.]

[Everybody lives AU? Pre-S4? Whatever works, if she's going to a party she's sneaking out, you know Mrs. Cunningham believes Halloween is demonic or whatever. The only exception being the Hawkins Historical Society's costume party, though if Chrissy's there it's probably under duress (she hates being dragged along to HHS to-dos just because her folks are members)
Also available as a dude at

ccunningham, just let me know which you prefer]

[Dante's -the supernatural creature friendly bar he works at- has a Halloween Weekend party, and Zepar will find any excuse for a costume with no shirt.]

[Incoming demon here to steal ALL YOUR SWEETS]

[Everybody Lived AU or pre-S4 - Halloween is both his favorite and least favorite holiday, because it's also his birthday (and about a week before his mom went missing)
It's complicated. But if he's going to a party he's going all out, or Corroded Coffin might be playing at The Hideout. Or maybe there's a haunted house at City Hall, there's lots of options!]

[One (1) entire ghost checking in.]

[You need a +1 for a party? He's your guy!]

[He met the love of his life at a costume party. He could be DJing, or catering, or could be doing something like driving for a haunted hayride. If he's staying somewhere he'll go all out on the decorations, full-size candy bars for trick or treaters, actual lawn decorations and not just stupid inflatable BS from the hardware store.]

(open to pretty much anything. what part demon magikal girl doesn't want to live her halloween dreams??)

[ it's too early for this sinful holiday! ]

[Do I have to say anything else?]

[she will be sideying all those "witches" costumes.]

[SKELETON WAAAAAARRRRRR

But really all except 7 should be fine.]

[her favorite holiday that she's never actually celebrated]

( for the irony. canon point is idk, voicetesting too. )

[skeleton war huh?]

[ let her enjoy the things she never really got to as a kid. Or any aspect of Halloween. ]

[Spoopy option: he hates Halloween. Handing out candy but all he has is condiment packets. Swept up in the fun or skeleton war works too.]

[ Big fan of scary movies this one, so that's her most likely scenario - but she could be convinced to go to a party or haunted house/maze/etc if you're particularly persuasive. ]

[ #10 would be cruel in a very fun way, but all the options would be good! ]

[ Come for the cheeky Hell House they set up every year, stay for the party. And maybe Satanic mass the following day. :) (Or dealer's choice, especially if you're family.) ]

[Oh sure, let's just normalise dressing up as monsters and jumping out from the dark. What could go wrong?]

Colleen will admit that Jon is great to take with her to parties. The invitation had been with the understanding that he would have a good time.

Well, her strong ties to not just the wolves but also the fae had made things terribly interesting. The party had been hosted by one of the noble Unseelie who had reason to invite her. It had been wild and there had been more than enough to keep them busy the whole night.

Colleen is sore from the fun. Still decked out in the remains of the leathers she had worn as her costume. The coat was in tatters on the floor. She wasn't sure where the boots were and frankly Colleen will care when her head stops throbbing.

Apparently she had decided to crawl into bed with Jon. Her arm is pinned under him and Colleen could probably escape but that would require being able to think. She just flops back and closes her eyes ignoring everything saved listening for him to stir. Once he is awake she can beg for a glass of water and maybe her boots. Or she might just roll over and go back to sleep.

Arm wrestling trolls is an ill-advised pass time.

( she hates halloween tbh. )

Early Halloween

mike schmidt | fnaf

Toki Wartooth | Metalocalypse | ota

MJ Jones | MCU | OTA

Ri!Kusuriuri | Mononoke (2007) | OTA

Ruka Kayamori | Heaven Burns Red | OTA

Yomi | Zekkyou Gakkyuu | OTA

Edwin Payne - Dead Boy Detectives - OTA (M/M for romantic-type but anything goes for friends)

Steve | Stranger Things | OTA

Nicky | The Old Guard | OTA

Iggy | Maximum Ride (Canon divergence & AU) | OTA

Chrissy Cunningham + Stranger Things + OTA

Caleb Lawyer | OC | M/F

Zepar + OC + OTA

Ibaraki-Douji | FGO | OTA

Eddie + Stranger Things + OTA

Charles - Dead Boy Detectives - OTA

The Hessian / Lobo | FGO | OTA

Gabreel King + OC + OTA

Miko Yotsuya | Mieruko-chan | OTA (f/f pref)

Joe | The Old Guard | OTA

Wirt | OTGW | M/F

Patrick | Companion (post-canon AU) | OTA

Holo | Spice and Wolf

The Fiend | Juniper's Knot | OTA (f/f pref)

illyana (magik) ⛧ marvel 616

FFNF Saint Louis | Azur Lane | OTA

Dracula | Dracula | m/f

morgan | fgo

aerith ✿ final fantasy 7r

Ainz Ooal Gown - Overlord

ava starr * thunderbolts

Wanda Maximoff (MCU).

Johnny Blaze | Marvel | M/F

laura kinney ✘ marvel 616

John Goblikon | Right Now

esther moreau / original / ota

cole hill | clown in a cornfield { m/m for shipping }

Sister Imperator | Ghost

Logan | Fable 3 | OTA

Dr. Jonathan Crane [The Scarecrow] - DC Comics

Key words

sam carpenter | scream