MASTERMIND MEME

[employeeoftheyear]

Well now that everything is settled, why not be a little evil? In this AU, your character is the one behind all of this! Feel free to stretch things however you like to make it reasonable for your character to have done this! The world is your evil oyster.

And obviously this doesn't have to line up with game canon; if your character would have been dead in the canon, they can be survivors in this AU! Or you can pretend your character died to hide the fact that they're the mastermind if they lived!

Just go wild! There's no such thing as too much gloating and villain songs!

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[sugarlumps]

[It's- not actually a terrible mystery that LSP is behind things, from day one in Gershwin. If it isn't clear the first time she vanishes before "Lumpina" shows up to welcome everyone to their new school life of mutual killing, the first motive "this terrible event in your future will come to pass unless someone kills by Friday or Connor makes out with Lumpina" probably removes any remaining doubt.]

[The Wizard's interactions during trials are wandering and rambling, easily distracted and more capricious than threatening- LSP more than once has to berate him back into focusing on the task at hand.]

[So maybe it's not too surprising when the final investigation comes about with more of a whimper than a bang, with a blue-clad old man in a crown wandering out of a heretofore unseen backstage area.]

Hey guys, I'm not really supposed to talk to ya'll but I'm, like, SUPER out of cheese doodles, you mind hooking me up?

[The investigation itself turns up an office, a utilitarian living area that smells vaguely of desperation and penguins, and- a nursery? Fluffy and child-friendly, like a space for a toddler, but scaled up past adult proportions. A theoretical Giant Tyke or ÜberToddler, if you will.]

[LSP's notes in the office aren't terribly surprising, a lot of notes about possible motives and how amazing her deceptions were going. And slowly devolving into stress and regret, the horrified realization that there were way more people here she actually liked than jerks she wouldn't mind getting rid of? This was a development no one could have anticipated.]

[But she's unable to stop, for reasons that aren't clear from the notes alone.]

[By the last page, it's turned into one frantic note, over and over.]

"BE SWEET TO HIM!!"

[As everyone gathers to discuss their findings, the sky outside the school has grown dark, stormy; no rain yet, but thunder rumbles, and a chill creeps into the air, even inside.]

Guys. Guys. Guys. I don't wanna be a Debbie Downer here but my hands are getting super chafed like this, you wanna untie me and gimme back the crown, please?

[At some point during their sharing and speculation, a low shrieking picks up in the distance, slowly growing in proximity and volume-]

-aaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-!

[Hey everyone, your mastermind is here. Bursting through a door in a complete panic.]

WHAT THE LUMPS ARE YOU DOING, YOU GUYS ARE GONNA RUIN EVERYTHING!

[wanderlusttitania]

.................................

[This--she--]

Please explain this.

[Good lord.]

[sugarlumps]

[LSP pauses and. Takes in the actual scene. There may be, the more perceptive people will note, the slight alien suspicion behind her eyes that her goose may be well and truly cooked.]

H-heeeeeeey, great job everyone! You caught the wizard, yaaaaaaaaaay! We can definitely just go ahead and execute him and get this all over with now, nothing's going wrong, I was wrong before, this is fine.

Wait, is this like a roleplay thing, cause I'm kinda into it but first we need to set up some boundaries, and you said earlier-

GAG HIM NOW BEFORE HE TALKS MORE HE'S CASTING A GROSS SPELL OR SOMETHING!

[wanderlusttitania]

Princess.

[Seriously?]