Happy Halloween Hoes!

Happy Halloween Hoes!

Have a determined Nancy Thompson

(Edit because I just realized I forgot her gray streak.)

(Also I post more highly edited and atmospheric versions of my art on Instagram usually 👀)

In Jason goes to hell, Pamela uses the Necronomicon ex-Mortis to bring her son back to life, making Jason a Deadite. However, it's also clear that Before his running with 10-year old Tommy Jarvis, Voorhees was very much alive. His will is his own and, even after going zombie, his personality differs wildly from that of a deadite. So obviously, something is off about this. I'm not fond of the Director, Adam Marcus', "Jason is a deadite" headcanon, but... because I'm contrary, I’ve decided to try to make it work.

Deadites have shown they can transform their host bodies back to their original forms, usually to fool potential victims into trusting them before striking. Ash seemingly drowns before one of his possessions, so there's some canon pre-establishment.Therefore, after gaining possession of Jason's body, I propose that a deadite planned to emerge from the lake and use little Jason to attack his mother. The intention was to turn her into one of them. 

It expected her to be waiting by the lake but she'd started the ritual inside one of the deserted cabins because she didn't trust demons not to deliberately misinterpret her wishes to her detriment. She's grieving, not stupid. One of the deadite's canon weaknesses are sunlight. As the intelligent woman that Pamela was, she'd made sure to time her child's resurrection to less than an hour before the sun began to rise. Consequently, the demon had only managed to lead Jason's body into the woods before its grip was lost. As a result of the demon's decision to restore the body, Jason was successfully resurrected. This wouldn't be the first time their cruelty backfired. Distraught by the seemingly unsuccessful ritual, Pamela searches through the woods to find her boy but fails. Come nightfall, she presents a much more appealing host and ends up nearly getting occupied herself. A strong will and grief can repel Deadites, so Pamela, determined and filled with anguish, delays successful possession, but cannot free herself from it entirely. When Jason woke up, he was lost in unfamiliar woods and unable to find his way home. So when Pamela, unaware her son lives again, leaves the camp, he's left to fend for himself.

In the evil dead tv series, there's an incantation from the Necronomicon that can return a person to normal. When asked, the character delivering the invocation, Ruby, states, "I pushed the evil back, just for a bit…" Pamela, having read the Necronomicon, uses that spell to contain it. Deadites are horrible, vindictive little bastards, and it uses her grief to pretend to be Jason. It can't control her directly, but it can whisper suggestions into her mind. It never tells her that her son is lost in the woods looking for her.Ash was initially an average...ish guy but eventually gained the ability to recover from injuries that would be physically impossible for a normal human being. This suggests power upgrades. So, Jason lived in the woods for decades with a flare of dormant demonic power coursing through his veins. Eventually, the "Ki ki ma ma" becomes "kill, mommy", and Pamela goes on a rampage in part 1. When she's decapitated, the deadite goes and bothers Jason. After so many delightful years spent abusing Pamela, it's grown fond of making others do the dirty work. It uses Pamela's death to encourage him to kill for "mommy". Voorhees has been fooled by actors befor so this feels plausible, especially when considering the demon's supernatural abilities. 

Jason's deadite healing factor kicked in after he was grievously injured in parts 2 and 3, but the damage wasn't enough to kill him. In part 4, the wounds were too severe, and Jason died once again. Preferring to torture people over corpses, the Deadite leaves his remains to rot. In part 5, it has officially embraced the now familiar game of encouraging grieving human beings to slaughter others and began hassling Roy Burns. That's why the sound effect sounds a bit like ki ki fa fa da da or "Kill for me, Daddy". When lightning strikes Jason in part 6, his Deadite healing powers are given a literal jump start. The roaming deadite sees the resurrected body and attempts to possess him. Irritated by how swiftly Roy was dispatched, it's decided humans are weak and wants to play now. To its surprise, the attempt fails. Vampires have been mentioned to be one of the few species that Deadites cannot command. So it stands to reason that some undead species can throw off their hold. As he is now what amounts to a Revenant zombie, Jason is no longer human and can throw off demonic possession on his own.

Unable to rule over him, it again pretends to be Jason's mother. If something works, why stop? If it's disappointed by the Revenant's work, it can always tell Jason mommy wants him to let her possess a victim. The annoyance is lost once Jason killing begins again. He's really such a wonderful murder son. Maybe the deadite will admit affection to a certain level. When Freddy Krueger resurrected Jason, the deadite didn't interfere because it thought the whole ordeal was hilarious. 

For the FvsJ crossover to work both Jason Voorhees and the former Springwood slasher need to co-exist, so we know the Evil Dead is a fictional movie in NOES canon because Nancy Thompson watched the film in the 1984 movie. That said, perhaps the creator in that universe based the story on myths. Or, to use H.P. Lovecraft, who coined the name necronomicon, "it came to him in a dream". The book is discovered in the 1980's at an archeological site in their source material. Mrs Voorhees was halfway across the world and from a lower middle class background in the 1950s with no method of getting there. So this idea isn't compliant with Evil Dead either. To sidestep the issue, I suggest the deadites themselves remain very real, while Ash Williams and company are either fictional characters, exist but their story is different, or the "dreams" are actually visions from an alternate universe where the cast exists.

The murdered victims never became deadites because none of the people killing them were "true deadites". They've just been influenced. The deadite itself remains very satisfied with Jason’s carnage to this day, 10/10 would recommend. For the moment, it feels content to sit back with a box of popcorn and enjoy the action.

Does anyone else have any ideas for fixing this "canon" theory?

Was anyone else surprised that, according to their character's canon birth dates, Michael Myers is 11 years, 4 months, and 6 days younger than Jason Voorhees? For some reason I always assumed they were roughly the same age.

Boys waiting for next Halloween

Freddy being an asshole to Jason off set.

It’s Halloween baby!