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• Bystander by honeyskawa

  Fandoms: The Black Phone (2022)  

  • General Audiences
  • Major Character Death
  • F/M, M/M, Multi
  • Work in Progress

  04 Nov 2022

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Bruce Yamada/Original Female Character(s)
  • Bruce Yamada & Original Female Character
  • Vance Hopper & Original Female Character(s)
  • Billy Showalter & Original Male Character
  • Griffin Stagg & Original female character
  • Robin Arellano & Original Female Character(s)
  • Bruce Yamada & Vance Hopper
  • Vance Hopper/Bruce Yamada
  • Robin Arellano/Finney Blake
  • Bruce Yamada
  • Vance Hopper
  • Griffin Stagg
  • Billy Showalter | Paperboy
  • Robin Arellano
  • Finney Blake
  • Gwen Blake
  • Albert | The Grabber (The Black Phone)
  • Amy Yamada
  • Donna (The Black Phone)
  • Robin Arellano's Mother
  • Period-Typical Racism
  • Implied/Referenced Homophobia
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • (Slightly)
  • Heavy Angst
  • Platonic Relationships
  • Finally an excuse to write the ghost boys and give them substance
  • If no one got me I know tumblr headcanons got me
  • Griffin has an older sister here because I say so
  • Brance if you squint
  • but mostly all the relationships are platonic
  • Bisexual Bruce Yamada
  • So true he told me himself
  • Kidnapping
  • Pre-Canon
  • no one likes the grabber he’s a bitch and he’s getting treated like one !!
  • also Bruce and Vance are aged up to fifteen and sixteen respectively
  • not for smut because they’re literal children but for a narrative purpose
  • you can imagine jackie however you want but she’s still portrayed as a black person
  • so please be aware of that

  Summary

  If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger?

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  4,456

  Chapters:

  2/?

  Kudos:

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