Of Hunters and Rakes and Slender Man, of Time Travel and Strings.
So yeah, I'm gonna review a Fear blog written by the man behind the Mythos, Cutewithoutthe. That's right, this blog, The Hunter, was written by the creator of the Fear Mythos.
WARNING!!! Spoilers ahead.
So the blog starts off with our protagonist, James Hunter, who is hunting down the Rake. He gradually reveals that the Rake killed his family. He is also being followed by the Slender Man, who seems to be giving him advice. A few posts in, he also encounters what appears to be the Wooden Girl, but Slender Man protects him from her.
After a while, he forms an alliance with a man named Maxwell. He steals a pocket watch from Peter Rivers, which Maxwell says can kill the Rake. However, Maxwell betrays him, steals the watch, and runs off. Hunter ends up teaming up with Peter Rivers to try and track Maxwell down. He also briefly joins up with a Willing Doll named Charlotte, but she ends up betraying him too.
They confront Maxwell in an amusement park called The Land Of Make Believe. The pocket watch bonds with Maxwell, killing him in order to give birth to the Manufactured Newborn. Many Fears show up to witness this, including the Rake, but they disappear before Hunter can try and enact his vengeance. They then get into a big battle with the Timberwolves, and Peter dies.
Afterwards, he runs into his old friend Meredith, an SMSC agent, in a cemetery he was investigating. The two team up for a while. Some of her allies from the SMSC side with the Lonely Hearts, and kidnap Meredith. Hunter learns that he's under a form of hypnosis that allows people to control him using a key phrase. He goes to rescue Meredith, and he runs into some confrontation. However, the two of them are saved by Charlotte, who helps them escape through the Empty City.
The two of them continue to flee from the Lonely Hearts. An elite group wearing pocket watches goes after them. Hunter is able to steal one of their watches and uses it's power against them.
After this, there are several post which are taken from Hunter's old diaries when he was younger and posted to his blog, detailing his past. He eventually starts posting again, explaining how he managed to escape the Lonely Hearts
He comes to learn that the Rake wasn't really the one who killed his family, and that Meredith had been working for the Blind Man. He leaves her and sets off to bring down the Lonely Hearts. He has multiple encounters with the Blind Man, who turns out to be the stories main antagonist, with the Rake turning out to be Hunter's protector, who was only pretending to be an enemy.
The Blind Man reveals that his past experiment using Hunter resulted in an anomaly causing multiple replicas of Hunter to appear throughout the timeline, and he offers Hunter a choice to either go back in time to save his family, thus preventing the anomaly, or to save Meredith. Hunter is able to see the ghosts of his family, making peace with them. He chooses to save Meredith, angering the Blind Man.
Hunter then begins travelling to multiple points in time with the Rakes help, in order to eliminate the alternate versions of himself and make sure time moves the way it was meant too. He discovers that many of the events in his past were the result of his currant self's intervention.
In the end, he goes after the man who was really responsible for his families death; his old friend, Michael. It is implied that they both die in the end.
Okay, review time! I loved the blog. Awesome work. It started off slowly, gradually building up to the plot. And the way the back story was set up was pretty good. It was pretty confusing at first, but in the end it all made sense. The time traveling part near the end was nicely done, although a little complicated. Also, the parts where it crossed over with other blogs was a little hard to follow.
So, all in all, I have pretty much no complaints about this blog! It was f@&king awesome! Cute, I don't know if you're ever going to read this, but if you ever do, I just wanna let you know that this is one of the best blogs I've ever read and I've developed a new level of respect for you!
And now, I will insert a random music video for no reason!
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