History WMG / MyImmortal

Someone will hate the fanfic so much they actively try to find the author's computer and delete the fanfic. And what will he or she find? A 200 page story written by Tara that makes Agatha Christie look like an amateur.

Sounds like it was written on drugs, has a focus on the morbid, takes a negative look at a then-current subculture, has an ending that doesn't resolve the not-really-existant-anyway plot.
It would line up with the interpretation that all the murders happened in Bateman's head, with Tara as the "Patrick" and the fanfiction as her imaginary reality.

Sounds like it was written on drugs, has a focus on the morbid, takes a negative look at a then-current subculture.

* The fic is often held out as the "worst fanfic ever", but there are ''many'' worse ones out there. A modern audience reading this would [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny wonder what the fuss was about]]. The mystique behind the fic isn't in its quality in itself, but rather in how it became an in-joke among Internet people.

It's considered one of the worst things on the entire Internet, and yet everyone's still talking about it. This is deliberate -- it's playing on the Internet's longstanding BileFascination and how it [[SoBadItWasBetter prefers horrendous trainwrecks to actually pretty good stuff]]. The Internet ''could'' be aficionados of [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Incomprehensible True Art]], but more likely they like to point and laugh at each other, and here's someone nearly everyone can use as a punching bag. Whoever wrote ''My Immortal'' was disgusted at the Internet's preference for "ironically" good to actually good and wrote something that would siphon the Internet's attention. Perhaps the author(s) themselves spread gossip about how bad it was to attract the haters.

You ever notice how Enoby, despite being 17, never has any relatives, or how instead of 90s Britain, the story feels like it takes place in America in the 2000s, but with a few Harry Potter trademarks? [[HumanoidAbomination Whatever Ebony is]], she's a huge fan of Harry Potter, and recreated locations and characters from it to act out her strange, hormonal, mostly inaccurate fantasies, creating an [[EldritchLocation odd place]] where people that she either created, or brainwashed can freely maim and murder each other, or commit suicide, and walk out just fine the next day, and it can somehow rain and snow at the same time. If they're really [[AndIMustScream being controlled like that]] than perhaps their [[MoodSwinger mood swinging tendencies]] are them fighting against the mind control she has over them.

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If [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs it wasn't]], it must have been [[AWizardDidIt magically induced]]. And you can still use the Muggle acid as a means of [[BrainBleach excising the fic from your memory]]. Get it at TropeCo/TropeCo!

Wednesday’s visions in the show seem to be a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute to Ebony’s visons around Chapter 23 or so. Eyes rolled back in head, random & uncontrollable, etc. Plus, Tim Burton is well known for films with the kind of “goffik” aesthetic Ebony seems to like. She also references one of his films.

It explains why there doesn't seem to be any kind of logic in the universe of the fanfic. The timeline didn't start bifurcating when Enoby went back in time, though. Rather, Marty [=McFly=] caused the first bifurcation before the story even starts ([[Film/BackToTheFuture exactly the kind of thing Doc warned him about!]]) -- Enoby just made things worse. The fic ends when it does when the timeline became too chaotic to support organic life.

* The random cameos from [[Film/BackToTheFuture Marty McFly]] and [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Tom Bombadil]].

Tara and Raven aren't the only personalities, either. Others are wandering around in there, explaining absences from both Tara and Raven (Tara seems to go to England three separate times over the last few chapters). Tara and Raven share a love for ''Harry Potter'' and "goff" culture, but the other personalities might have different tastes that leak into the fic -- ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. The "hacker" might have been a third personality who didn't respect any of the others. Tara genuinely considers herself a goff, but she's never out long enough to actually experience much in the way of goffness, which leads to her shallow understanding of it.\\

At the beginning of Chapter 35 -- the one where "Morty [=McFli=]" shows up -- Tara thanks someone named "Suzi" for an idea. Except "Suzi" is not one to be trusted; she's a troll. And her idea was the insertion of Marty [=McFly=]. The evidence thereof is that the extent of Tara's familiarity with ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' is that Marty exists and he has a "tim machine", which in ''My Immortal'' is not called a [=DeLorean=] or even described as a car, instead being something that fits in your pocket.

* She can carry [[Film/BackToTheFuture the DeLorean]] around with her because [[BagOfHolding her pockets]] are BiggerOnTheInside.

That's why the concert appears to be playing anachronistic music. Morty downloaded Enoby's favorite music onto his iPod time machine and brought it back to show his friends in the 1980s. And, well, it caught on. As a bonus, canon Marty pretty much did this in the original ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' by introducing rock and roll to his 1955 audience.

* ''My Immortal'' is all about vampires. Its lead character is a vampire, several supporting characters are vampires, and Harry Potter himself is renamed "Vampire". Meanwhile, Tommy Wiseau is compared to a vampire ([[WMG/TheRoom it's a WMG in itself]]), ''Film/TheRoom'' was originally supposed to have a vampire subplot, and Tommy spoke of a future film project about vampires.

[[WMG: Tara is [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]].]]

* Some of the mistakes seem tailor-made to annoy the fandom. For instance, the [[WeAllLiveInAmerica Americanizations]] bother ''Harry Potter'' fans because they suggest a fan so shallow that they don't realize that it's a British series. The random sex is a way to launch [[ShipToShipCombat shipping wars]]. And Tara's claim to have not read the books is a ''great'' way to prove you're... well, for lack of a better term, a "poser".

She secretly has a poor opinion of her [[FanDumb admittedly insane]] fans, and she wanted to {{troll}} the heck out of them. She was particularly disgusted with what she was seeing on Website/FanfictionDotNet -- {{Mary Sue}}s, CharacterDerailment, [[WeAllLiveInAmerica Americanizations]]. She decided that she could not only write that kind of story and get more reviews than anyone in her fandom, she could do it with ''worse'' spelling, grammar, and characterization. It explains how "Tara" guesses some of the plot elements of the last book -- she ''wrote'' it. It also allows her to pretend she's only seen the movies but reference elements that only appear in the books.\\

The other "characters" in the fic's saga are therefore also Tara. "Raven" is a heavily {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed version of the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' character of the same name, and the "hacker" is [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Batgirl]]. Tara and Raven are trying to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt c/o "Trigon", and Batgirl is trying to stop them and save the world from the insanity. She evidently succeeded, given that the fic never actually finished.

Wednesday’s visions in the show seem to be a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute to Ebony’s visons around Chapter 23 or so. Eyes rolled back in head, random & uncontrollable, etc. Plus, Tim Burton is well known for films with the kind of “goffik” aesthetic Ebony seems to like.

[[Series/Wednesday Wednesday’s]] visions in the show seem to be a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute to Ebony’s visons around Chapter 23 or so. Eyes rolled back in head, random & uncontrollable, etc. Plus, Tim Burton is well known for films with the kind of “goffik” aesthetic Ebony seems to like.

Indeed, it's one of many theories that bridges the gap between "earnest work" and "TrollFic". There ''are'' mistakes typical of a young and inexperienced writer, but their goal isn't a straight "goffik" story but rather a parody thereof. The illiteracy and bizarre characterization seem to be deliberate, but there's just something about the flow of the story and the bizarre references sneaking through that seem a bit to genuinely "teenage girl" about them.

[[WMG: Ebony is a fragment of Voldemort's soul acting out her sexual fantasies.]]

Now styling herself Ebony, she travels to Scotland, breaks into Hogwarts, pretends to be a student -- and tortures the students and faculty into playing her fantasy with her. She finds other students to play the roles of Harry and Draco, except they're not ''actually'' Harry and Draco, explaining why they seem to be so different. Some of the staff ''are'' the same characters, though, like [=McGonagall=] and Hagrid (the latter of whom has to play ''both'' "himself" and "Sedric".\\

[[WMG: My Immortal takes place in the alternate universe from the ''{{Series/Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}'' episode "The Wish"]]
Vampires roaming unchecked? Check. Blood ubiquitous due to mass production? Check. Character named Willow wearing corsets constantly? Check. If the episode is anything to go off, vampires do tend to dress in a way somewhat closer to Tara's goff style when they aren't attempting to blend in with humans.

Since the first few Harry Potter books had been released by the time that the Master's vampires were beginning to branch out from Sunnydale (or, at any rate, california), when a school for wizards and witches is opened with the backing of the Watchers’ council to produce new magic users to combat the threat, Harry Potter characters and locations are used as code names for staff members, school associates and any of their relatives who attend the school or ever need to be referred to in official communications in order to prevent retaliation against their families. However, as several years have passed since the events of the episode, the Master has located the Gem of Amara with the help of Spike and devised a way to replicate some of its properties which, in combination with the ready availability of blood, allows vampires to masquerade as humans with startling effectiveness. Although stakes, decapitation and fire will still kill a vampire equipped with a lesser gem, sunlight, holy water and crosses, previously the easiest way to tell the dead from the living, are of little practical use. As such, even some members of the Hogwarts staff have been taken by surprise and turned without anyone's knowledge, including Snape and Lupin, who were in fact spying on Ebony to confirm their suspicion she was a vampire, as the plans involving her had not been initiated when they had last received information, since it is far easier for them to get information out than to receive it. When they are caught spying on Ebony, their crimes are overlooked due to the necessity of every staff member to the cause.

Voldemort is, of course, The Master, and turned Ebony before she even began attending the school; however, she struggled when she was being fed on and managed to hit her head quite badly. As the damage was done while she was still alive, when she awoke as a vampire she had suffered serious brain damage. When he approaches her and orders her to kill Harry, possibly the most promising, but as yet untrained, magical talent in generations, it is because he prefers to keep Snape and Lupin undiscovered in order to continue receiving intelligence from them. His threat to kill Draco is initially empty, as he has now realized that he needs some way to manipulate her since she has gone insane. However, Draco, who has come to care for Ebony despite her mental illness, is hurt when he discovers her feelings for Harry, believing Ebony’s story of Voldemort to be a delusion, and becomes incautious, eventually resulting in him being captured and turned. Ebony, of course, follows in his footsteps, imaging that she is accompanied by Harry, but is allowed to escape with Draco to further the plan, in hopes that only Ebony had noticed his absence.

Dumbledore is immediately suspicious when they return, but decides not to reveal his knowledge of the plan just yet, instead having them both carefully monitored until the opportune moment. Time passes; Draco slowly begins to experience the same weakening of resolve that Spike did when he had the implant, and falls deeper in love with Ebony while Dumbledore’s careful maneuvering prevents him from getting an opportunity to kill Harry. Finally, when The Master crashes the concert in Hogsmede, intended to raise the steadily declining morale of the school, Dumbledore is forced to fight him while the students flee, and after a lengthy battle, is turned himself. Several students, including B’loody Mary, are also turned in the chaos, but are able to rejoin the fleeing body of students quickly enough to not have it noticed or claim that Dumbledore had personally rescued them after everyone else had fled. He returns to school grounds claiming to have narrowly escaped with his life. From this point on, Snape and Lupin’s conduct is actively swept under the rug to protect his fellow operatives.

The Watcher’s Council notes the steep decline in the effectiveness of Dumbledore’s management of the school and takes control, but fails to realize he has become a vampire. Draco and Harry get in a fight over Ebony, with Draco restraining himself from killing him as he now cares more about his cover than the mission, but the fight is interrupted by news of a televised broadcast by The Master, revealing his latest advancement in vampire superiority. Ebony, however, still traumatized from previous encounters and still mentally ill, personalizes the messages and believes it is directed at her. When she begins complaining of visions, she is sent to Professor Sinister (Jennifer Calendar) to determine whether she is having genuine visions which could be of use or if her insanity has worsened. Initially the tests are inconclusive, but then she has a vision which saves the lives of rogue demon hunter Riley Finn and the tolerated-due-to-assistance-in-the-war-but-not-trusted chaos mage Ethan Rayne by not only revealing their danger, but by her somehow neutralizing the gems of the vampires they were cornered by. MUCH more detailed tests are run and her vampirism, her insanity, and the hitherto unknown fact that she has been unconsciously harnessing magic in a way no one had ever conceived of before are fully revealed. This revelation makes her a potential weapon to the Council, and the reason behind her insanity is guessed.

They begin rituals to attempt to focus her powers, which she perceives as time travel. When Snape and Lupin hear of this, they scramble to kill Ebony, Draco (Who has clearly chosen his side after the fight) and Harry, but are stopped in the nick of time by Calendar, Ethan and Riley. B’loody Mary turns Willow. Dumbledore attempts to sabotage the rituals. His sabotage is discovered, but he manages to frame Calendar. As the rituals finally begin to work, enough students and faculty have been turned by B'loody Mary and Willow for The Master to attempt to take the school by force. In the time since they were revealed as vampires, Snape and Lupin have been implanted with the newest initiative technology and are brought back by Britney, the current slayer, to provide intelligence. As Ebony’s powers begin to grow and become more conscious, the defense suffers a major setback when she incapacitates Britney, but she is retained as a weapon as there is little other hope of defending the school. Draco, realizing that he won’t be spared if the school is taken, has sex with Ebony in the middle of the great hall. No one stops them because they are afraid of a backlash from Ebony’s powers. The Master arrives personally to oversee the capture of the school and breaks through the wall of the great hall to begin the battle, but Ebony has finally been pushed too far, and her emotional distress causes her to destroy every replica of the Gem of Amara in the world. As the attack was made during the day, a large portion of the vampire host, including The Master himself standing in the hole in the wall he had created, are destroyed. Seeing victory achieved, Ebony, not realizing that she herself is a vampire and that she has destroyed her own gem, walks into the sunlight, with Draco powerless to stop her.

Due to the way Enoby was changing time, Volderemont's memories were changing in the present. He suddenly realized he recognized Eboby from somewhere and remembered how he started to fall in love with her. He decided to go see if it was truly the same Egogy and when he saw her in the outfit she was wearing from the concert where she jumped in front of the ballet, his fears were realized and he couldn't help but cry because [[StableTimeLoop Taebory has borken his hearth]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero with her deceit.]]

When she went back in tim the final time, Volexmort followed her and took on the form of Stan to fool her and keep her from changing his history any more. While there he realized Tara was trying to hook him back up with Hedwig in order to preserve her relationship with Drago, so he played along, having some fun along the way. When they returned through tim, he had no need to keep up the ruse and just changed back in front of everyone in order to make a good entrance.

[[WMG: Draco never died by slitting his wrists, and that was the author's intent]]
"Snaketail" (who, as a reminder, is sixteen in this universe, and therefore possibly a student) developed a crush on Ebony from afar and kidnapped Draco to get her attention. He then delivered the fake news of Draco's death to Dumbledore. Dumbledore passed the information on to Ebony, having no idea Draco couldn't actually die by slitting his wrists (something the author ''very specifically'' tells us at the beginning of the chapter). The author ''intended'' for this to clue readers (and Ebony) in to the fact that Draco wasn't really dead, but that ''something'' '''had''' happened to him. This is why the fact that Draco is supposedly dead is never mentioned again, but replaced with him being kidnapped: the author meant for the audience to figure out that that's what really happened, and for them to know that Ebony would get that out of Dumbledore's announcement as well.

This would explain why he came back to life after slitting his wrists. However, who he murdered in order to survive is up to debate, although it's possible that ''Draco himself'' was the person who was murdered to activate it: going on his canon interpretation (That means nothing here, but still), he would have been too cowardly to murder anyone else and instead murdered himself to activate the device. All of the previous steps needed had already been set up. Now, the question is, what is his Horcrux?

[[WMG: Hot Topic enchanted their clothing with the Imperius Curse.]]
It explains why the characters act so strangely when they're wearing Hot Topic clothing.

* Nowhere in the HP lexicon is it said that the curse works on objects. Only sentient beings i.e. humans, spiders, etc.

[[WMG: Acid]]
That is all.
* Of ''course''! That's how one can get this awful thing out of the brain! <Sizzle> aahhhhhh....
* The original poster meant the ''other'' sort of [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs acid]].
* Why can't it be both? [[AWizardDidIt It's from a magic school, right?]].

[[WMG: The word "goffic" is a portmanteau.]]
Of the words "gothic" and "fic". You know, like "saffic"? "Goffik" is a misspelling, which is consistent with the rest of the fic and therefore requires no explanation.
* Or maybe of [="GoF"=] (Goblet of Fire) and "fic", and the equivalent of goth culture is actually made up.

[[WMG: Alternatively, the word "goffic" is a entirely made up.]]
A 'goff' is not a goth, but part of an unofficial branch that Tera made exclusively for herself and her friends. She defiantly seems to have the ego to try and create an entire subculture all for herself. She's trying so hard to be unique and special (therefor better), she's doing completely pointless things to distance herself from the rest of us.

[[WMG: There ''IS'' no My Chemical Romance]]
MCR is and always has been Voldemort and the Death Dealers in disguise, and that is the band's proper name. They specialize in rock and Christian gangsta rap.

After getting so many reviews that say her story was like she slammed the keyboard, Tara decided to show the prepz what an actual chapter would be if she actually did slam the keyboard. The result was what we call the hacked chapter, but in Tara's mind she thought, "no1 wil undrstnd dis krp lol its soooo kwaii wht im ding!!!!!!1111111111" and posted it online. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen We can only guess what would happen if Tara mashed the keyboard for the entire story.]]
* If she [[UseYourHead used her head]] it would also explain why it gets even worse after that.

[[WMG: There are no more chapters because the fanfic destroyed itself.]]
There are many possibilites. The first is Ebony became such a BlackHoleSue, she literally became a black hole that caused the universe to collapse on itself. Another is an unintentional Instrumentality occured due to Ebony's ungodly Sue-ness stripping them of mind, body and soul. A third is the cosmos could no longer deal with Ebony's existence, and made war on itself. The fourth is the other characters realised what she really was, and killed her. And finally, its possible the fic gained sentience and killed itself out of horror for what it was.
* This is honestly the best possible answer to why it ended.

Das niteMARE is a goffik tale about a first-generation German immigrant ([[GratuitousGerman Das]]) woman with an interest in horses (MARE) who promised her exasperated daughter that she would learn to understand her LeetLingo (nite, b4) before Christmas (xmas).

[[WMG: A lot of the misspellings of places, products, bands, movies, [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed celebrities]], etc are not typos but {{Bland Name Product}}s]]

[[WMG: A ''good'' version of My Immortal will be written.]]
Written by none other than Tara Gilesbe. What other way to screw with people's heads and prove you've improved/it was all a TrollFic than by writing a decent version of [[SoBadItsGood My Immortal?]]
* How would anyone know it was the real Tara who wrote the improved version? Everyone would think it was written by just another fake Tara.
* Confirmed: [[http://fanfiction.net/s/7444716/1/ My Immortal: Fifth Anniversary Edition]] (though, only spellchecked) was written, and its author was favorited by Tara so that's one nod towards genuineness.

[[WMG: The fake Taras aren't trying to steal her fame.]]
Tara realized that people would come after her after reading her awful fic, so after reading ''The Seven Potters'' she decided to follow suit, and get her friends to make fake accounts so no one would know which Tara was the real one anymore.
* This theory implies that Tara can read.
* Also, how can we be sure they're 'fake' Taras at all? It's not exactly an uncommon name, which is also one of the only things we know about her.

[[WMG: If a My Immortal movies was to be made]]
It would be made in a similar vein to movies like Airplane or Scary Movie, the whole movie plot would basically be a parody and played for laughs, and would make fun of not only this fic, but some of cannon Harry Potter as well.

[[WMG: The story was written while drinking.]]
A few friends decided to write a fanfiction. The original idea was not that great, but as they got more and more drunk the story got worse and worse.

Think about it. Raven didn't get many reviews until Tara wrote My Immortal. To get attention she created another account as Tara Gilesbie and then wrote that atrocious blitzkrieg of spelling, grammar and obscenity, and then subtly pretended that she's Tara's editor. Obviously it made people go over to her stories and review them. My Immortal is really a publicity stunt. Proof: their likes, hatred of preps, even the characters are similar (Mary Sue).

[[WMG: The CostumePorn had an effect on ''Literature/HarryPotter '' canon.]]
You know the Administrivia/JustifyingEdit on the main page that notes that Rowling never mentioned what Hogwarts students wear under their robes? Well, maybe the movie's costume designer saw this fic and didn't like what (s)he saw. Or to put it another way, [[FridgeBrilliance the way Raven and her goff friends dressed caused Canon!Hogwarts]] ''[[FridgeBrilliance to make their uniform policy stricter!]]''
* Wow, yet another theory which requires TimeTravel.

The only way to enjoy it is to be Goff, whic requires goff clothes, which requires being goff.

[[WMG: The Morton's Fork can be gotten around]]
* Tom Rid will only give you the goff clothes for free if you're a goff, but you can still buy some in Hot Topic, it'll just cost you. The formula for becoming a true goff is buying a wardrobe from Hot Topic, learning all the Goffic knowledge, and then moving to somewhere where they don't know your past, and making up a tragic backstory.

[[WMG: [[ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis Its Superboy-Prime's fault.]] ]]
When he was banging the walls of reality, he ended up screwing up the Franchise/HarryPotter universe. Thus, Fanfic/MyImmortal was born.

[[WMG: [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog My Immortal is Tara's application to the Evil League of Evil]] ]]
Needless to say, Bad Horse was impressed at her innovative new approach to torture and gave her a nice starting position under Fake Thomas Jefferson.

If anyone was to ever truly understand the story in it's entirety, well, *tzzew*.

[[WMG: [[RougeAnglesOfSatin "Mastabating"]] means "building a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastaba Mastaba]]"]]

[[WMG: The author of ''My Immortal'' also wrote [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Yet_more_Best_of_BJAODN#From_the_Main_Page_Talk_Archives_.28ghosts.29 this message about ghosts]] on a Wikipedia talk page ]]
"i saw it, it w0z a little girl nd she luked cute... except she woz DEAD!!!" Tell me that doesn't look like it was written by the same person.

[[WMG:A Maru Sue is a Mary Sue whose Suedom manifests in winning the [[Franchise/StarTrek Kobayashi Maru]].]]
After all, the Kobayashi Maru is meant to be unwinnable, so if a fanfic character won at that, she'd probably be a Mary Sue. If a male fanfic character won the Kobayashi Maru, he might be a Maru Stu.

[[WMG: The hacker was connected to the ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' somehow.]]
Think about it-- she makes a lot of jokes, kills a Mary Sue in a creative way, and then after said Mary Sue is killed, canon reverts to normal. Sound familiar?