Young Writers Society

Did Jamil mind-control Kalim so his werewolf performance would be convincing?? His eyes looked like when Jamil was controlling him in the Main Story, plus the Scarabia kids seemed kind of confused by his behavior. Also, when his eyes changed back, he was like, "oh wait, are they already gone?" so that shows he didn't realize they had run already even though he most definitely should have. And the fact that the story kept emphasizing how Jamil didn't trust Kalim to pull off the scare, and Jamil really laid the compliments on thick at the end with that facial expression. Of course, it didn't straight-up say that Jamil used his signature spell, the way that they did for some of the other dorms like Heartslabyul and Savanaclaw, but hmm...

What Malleus did is inexcusable. Yes, he doesn't understand how humans feel about certain things and he really wanted to give the ghosts from far away a good time at NRC. But that doesn't make anything that he did acceptable. Not only did he make everyone believe that the kidnapped students were in danger, he deceived them on all other sorts of levels, too.

Although he wanted to make the experience of reaching the party a fun game for the rest of the students, surprise! NO, it is not fun to go into the unknown and believe that you are risking REAL danger and walking into a lion's den to try to save people you care about. It would have been much more fun, I imagine, if he actually EXPLAINED the whole thing to everyone and spelled out that there would be a game leading up to the party, in which some of the students could play a role as actors in the game.

But instead, not only did he not do that, he allowed the ghosts to possess the kidnapped students. I'm not fond of any concepts of possession to begin with. In this, the students were taken over against their will and I don't think they would agree to it. That is, therefore, violating those students. Like I said, the ghosts and the students could have played in a partnership as actors in the game instead of the students being knocked senseless and imprisoned/suppressed in their own bodies.

And then, Malleus and Lilia have the audacity to make excuses and blame the real victims, the students. OF COURSE they wouldn't know it was all meant to be fun and games, so they would assume the ghosts were out to hurt them and the kidnapped ones. So I think it's a rather reasonable response to attack without asking questions first. Maybe some of them wanted to ask questions after capturing/defeating a ghost? HMM.

Anyways, I think it is good to forgive M & L, but to act like they did nothing wrong is just weird. I'm not saying they should have been treated awfully, but it needed to be addressed that yes, they did things wrong and they should have done it differently.

For good notes, the Twistune at the end was super adorable (I loved Floyd sliding in with his "Yayyy!") and the story as a whole was very interesting and engaging, more so than Halloween I, though that was cute and wholesome.

Also, I thought it was so funny that all the teachers/staff were purposely having a Halloween party all by themselves at Sam's shop without Crowley and that's why they happened to be on campus after hours.