You Can Run Away With Me Anytime You Want...
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | You Can Run Away With Me Anytime You Want... |
| Author(s): | Ally Kat Tomlinson. |
| Date(s): | 1 Jan 2025 (publication on Quotev) |
| Length: | Ongoing, 8,000 words + |
| Genre(s): | Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Dystopian, Futuristic. |
| Fandom(s): | Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys (My Chemical Romance Concept Album). |
| Relationship(s): | Platonic: The Fabulous Four (Party Poison, Fun Ghoul, Kobra Kid, Jet-Star) and The Girl/Missile Kid. |
| External Links: | Quotev: https://www.quotev.com/story/16845810/You-Can-Run-Away-With-Me-Anytime-You-Want/1 AO3: Work Link, Series Link: "If My Romance Wasn't Chemical, We Wouldn't Have To Do This..." |
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You Can Run Away With Me Anytime You Want... is a Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (My Chemical Romance concept album) Fanfiction by Ally Kat Tomlinson, published on both Quotev and Archive of Our Own.
Work summary
The work takes place in the summer of 2019, a few months before the events of the Danger Days Music Videos—Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) and SING.
Notably, unlike many popular Killjoys verse fics, the work attempts to stick to Canon to a fault, referring to Party Poison is referred to with he/him pronouns among other things.
The heroine of The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys: California Comic Book, often called The Girl, is referred to as Missile Kid and her name is explained to be derived from the fictional Punk band, Mad Gear And The Missile Kid.
Plot synopsis
The metaphorical curtain opens on the Prologue, where The Fabulous Four along with Missile Kid are driving in Zone 5 and happen upon a Cemetery Drive (Killjoy Slang for an ambush site). They stop and check it out to see it was an all-out slaughter except for one girl, known as Diamond Demolition.
Her injuries are serious, but treatable and they take her back to their hideout in Zone 6.
In Chapter Three, she's conscious and stable again that night. There's a banterous scene where her, Party Poison, Kobra Kid and Fun Ghoul play Scrabble. Surprising no one, she won.
In Chapters Five and Six, it's decided that she'll be bunked with Poison, sending them both into slight awkwardness (mostly on her end) and Kobra and Ghoul to tease them (playing with the There Was Only One Bed Trope).
In Chapter Seven, she spirals, telling Poison he's too trusting and that she could be a psychopath:
"Yes, I would. And I'm very grateful, I'm just saying for your sake... How could you be sure I wasn't a spy or something? Or a psychopath?"
"Easy: first, you're the second most colorful person I've ever met—the first being me, of course—and second, if you were a psychopath, I promise you, dollface, I'm a bigger one." he told her as he started unlacing her boots. "Third, you can't even walk, you're in no position to stab someone and run."Chapter Seven: Crisis Averted... Maybe...
Characters:
The work focuses on Party Poison, Kobra Kid, Fun Ghoul, and Jet Star. Some notable characterisation choices include using He/Him pronouns for Party Poision, unusual in the fandom, and writing Kobra Kid and him as brothers, which is unconfirmed but common in the fanon. Kobra kid in the work may or may not be neurodivergent.
The author names The Girl Missile Kid, which is a less common fanon name for the Girl, and introduces an OC, Diamond Demolition.
Diamond Demolition:
Diamond is quiet and introspective, notices EVERYTHING and has the memory of an elephant. She belonged to a gang of Killjoys known as The Joyriders, until their deaths at the beginning of the book. Her hair is dyed cobalt blue but was naturally blonde and she has lavender eyes. She's been an orphan since she was seven or eight and raised herself, hence her quietness and maturity. She's a biker and has an orange Harley-Davidson. After Poison found her at the beginning of the story, he didn't know her name for quite a while so he took to calling her "dollface", and learning her name hasn't stopped him.
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