TLDR; I fucking love Cassie she’s so cool omG. Also, I don’t trust anonymous sources!
This was literally just Cassie doing research with no action, no Kevin and no Charlie. And yet, I was getting sucked into it and I don’t know why-
Oh wait, yes I do. Let me explain.
Up until now, Cassie’s actual methods have been shrouded in mystery. We got little hints here and there about what she does, and we got a slightly bigger picture of her methods in the last chapter (the crystals, the books, her witchy friends) but I feel like in this chapter? We’re finally getting the full picture.
First of all, the first two paragraphs sent me on an unexpectedly emotional roller coaster; I assumed with all my heart that “Frequencies” was referring to some sort of spirit radio ala Fatal Frame 2 (there was a spirit radio in the game that operated on crystals, with the spirit’s last words), so imagine how sad and disappointed I was when I read “Frequencies” is just a regular hodgepodge of radios and police scanners… and then Cassie moved on to an altar she made and my spirits were immediately lifted again 😆
Okay, I’m not really serious about being “disappointed” with Cassie’s setup, I actually really liked it upon a second readthrough. Because it’s Cassie not solely relying on her mystical abilities to get information for her brother, she’s actually using both spiritual knowledge and her military knowledge for maximum efficiency and I just… I can’t overstate how much I like this. It shows Cassie being really resourceful and just plain fucking smart, which also lends credence to her being able to move out and join the military at 17-years-old.
(Also, the idea that Cassie uses machines to ground herself in reality because she’s afraid of being swallowed by her powers is interesting, and I wonder if her potentially losing control of her powers will come into play in the future…)
This is a little thing, but Cassie using Discord servers to aid her research gave me a good belly laugh. Not because I found it stupid; on the contrary, Discord is a good way to communicate with a bunch of people at once and it’s a good example of what year this story is taking place in. I dunno, I just really like it 😆😆
Lastly, that ending segment? I won’t lie, it scared me. Just… it straight up made me scared for Charlie and Cassie, because I thought the anonymous source was being sketchy. I still think Anonymous is sketchy and up to no good, but I have no proof other than bad vibes because they HAVE been seemingly helpful. I dunno, I’m keeping an eye on them…
Putting Anonymous aside, the whole conversation around this allegedly failed ritual is fascinating. It just is; the way you’ve relayed information on rituals and humans’ knowledge on demons is done in a digestible and entertaining manner. It’s technically a bunch of exposition, but because it’s 1) broken up into multiple paragraphs because it’s a text conversation, and 2) there’s an element of suspense hanging in the air. Not around whether Charlie is secretly an evil entity (because we, the readers know that’s not the case), but because we’re wary about how Cassie will lead this confrontation. I do think she’d be able to keep a level head, but who knows…
Actual last point here; I don’t think Anonymous’s story is completely accurate. Whether they’re lying or not doesn’t matter, because I don’t think it happened the way they said it did. If it’s truly a teenager who did the ritual, then how did Charlie get into such a bad shape? Torn clothes, injuries, unconscious and memory loss… That doesn’t sound like it could be chalked up to simple crossed wires in a failed ritual. No, there’s something afoot here. I can see three possibilities:
1.) It’s just as Anonymous claims and it’s a teenager who did it and supposedly nearly lost his life. In which Charlie’s attacker is someone else entirely.
2.) Anonymous is somewhat accurate but is wrong or lying about the teenager’s state, in which the teenager would be the one responsible for Charlie’s injuries. That one, I’m least convinced on but I’m just throwing on here just in case.
3.) Anonymous is outright lying and it’s not a teenager who summoned Charlie, but someone entirely. Perhaps Anonymous themself, who lost the demon they were trying to summon and is fishing for information by pretending to be a third party in this story. “Oh, I didn’t do this, it was a… friend of mine!” This is the worst case scenario because Anonymous would be the most likely cause for Charlie’s state and there is NO good reason I can think for Anonymous omitting their involvement in this.
Phew! This wasn’t a particularly big chapter but my GOD did I have a lot to say. I hope it’s mostly coherent and I will be hopping to the next chapter soon, but in the meantime, enjoy my word vomit! 💜✍🏻
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