Finney Blake is a broken system
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Maybe things don't get better as you get older by bright_place
Fandoms: The Black Phone (Movies - Derrickson)
04 Dec 2025
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"That's enough for now, Johnny. Save yourself for later for me, I'll be back. You did good" He slides that hand down to the small of his back where his shirt rides up, slipping a hand up it, thumbing the ridges of his back. Finney presses his forehead tight to the concrete, eyes shut, still sobbing silently. He can't fully articulate how long it takes before The Grabber drifts back upstairs, until his hand is gone. It feels like it's still there. But eventually, he uncurls, redresses, and cries a lung out.
No one can hear him.
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Finn gets high to cope, it's all he knows. But flashbacks, particularly intimate and disgusting ones, flood his psyche as he tries to relax. Finney Blake is a broken system.
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- Part 1 of Finney Blake is a broken system
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Years after escaping The Grabber, Finn just wants things back the way they were. He hates change, but it's inescapable. But with Ernesto, he can pretend. Even if he knows it's fucking wrong, it can all feel right for just a moment.
God, he misses Robin.
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- Part 2 of Finney Blake is a broken system
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Anything you won't...like by bright_place
Fandoms: The Black Phone (Movies - Derrickson)
26 Jan 2026
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A oneshot about life four years after Finn's kidnapping, and how he's still haunted. Luckily, he has someone by his side through it all.
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- Part 3 of Finney Blake is a broken system
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His mother's funeral. Smoking his shit out of his mind. Getting patched up, fucked up. Letting himself remember. Through four snapshots of Finney (or Finn) Blake's life, witness the cataclysm and the pain and the numbing and the mourning. It's a broken system, really. It always is with him.
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- Part 4 of Finney Blake is a broken system
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He was tired, but he was loved by bright_place
Fandoms: The Black Phone (Movies - Derrickson)
25 Apr 2026
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Lying in bed post-meltdown, listening to the sounds of Robin cooking in the kitchen, he finally felt soothed in the slightest. The bed was comfortable, he was hungry, and he was loved. He was tired, but he was loved.
A four-part one shot exploring Finney and Robin's life together in present-day college, who they are, how their life has shaped them, and how they continue to shape each other.
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- Part 5 of Finney Blake is a broken system
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Halfway into breakfast, he started feeling it. Sounds gentled and his chest loosened, thoughts blurring a little bit so he didn’t have to pay such close attention to them. His feet swayed back and forth under the table as he ate bacon and toast, slower than usual but all the more grateful.
The pills helped, they really did. And no one could even tell.
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- Part 6 of Finney Blake is a broken system
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Are you there, God? It's me, Finney by bright_place
Fandoms: The Black Phone (Movies - Derrickson)
27 May 2026
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For a while, he lies on his back on top of the covers, hugging his duffel bag against his chest. His eyes are glued to the popcorn ceiling, appreciating the weight on his chest, an instant soother for him, and tries not to think about his mother or God or the pretty boy below him, or almost anything else. If his head was a solar system, there would be a meteor shower spanning lightyears.
Below him, people are playing cards, laughing, getting to know each other. Some boys are unpacking, others just throwing clothes around the room and roughhousing. He’s glad Robin took the bottom, it seemed a shit ton more chaotic down there and he couldn’t handle that at the moment.
Welcome to Camp Alpine Lake. Yeah, God hated him that much.
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- Part 7 of Finney Blake is a broken system