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* Perhaps, in the My Immortal world, there is a high school by the name of "Hogwarts" in America, named in honor of the book series, which does exist in the world. (This explains why the teachers are "profesors" and Dumblydore is called the headmaster.) Some of the characters, by cruelty of their parents, have the names of the main characters in Harry Potter. In order to not be made fun of, they went by nicknames. (Like Hermione going by "B'loody Mary.")
** [[Jossed]] as it specifically says that the school is in England.
*** Jossing the [[Jossed]]. [[Word of God]] (Rowling, not Tara) states that Hogwarts, the actual school, is located in Scotland. This "Hogwarts" could still have no direct connection to the actual one.
== My Immortal is an experiment ==
It was written by a psychologist to examine people reactions to raping a popular canon. The WMG and JBM pages for My Immortal will be used for careful reassearch about human nature.
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Tara is merely the first vessel of whom it has taken control.
== Tara's account was never hacked ==
Most people assume Tara's main goal was to troll the [[Harry Potter]] fandom like never before. A new account with a very Tara-esqe written sequel, [[X Hot N Heavy Goffz 666 X]], also uploaded the original story, including the hacked chapter. So we may have an amazing Tara impersonator, or we may have the real Tara returned and refreshed after a long break. She's back this time.
* That's what people said last time. And the time before that.
** We just want to hope! Inside we know the truth, but please... let us hope that the lulz are back.
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== ''My Immortal'' isn't bad. ==
We all just think it is because we have no taste in literature or [[Fanfic]].
* This could make it the new [[Trope Codifier]] for [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]
** And it could explain why it's the epitome of [[So Bad It's Good]].
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== The story is a copy of the Daily Prophet that Ron and Hermione's kids accidentally put online. ==
Hermione quickly fixed it with a charm that makes any muggle who looks at the page only see a terrible [[In Name Only|Harry Potter fanfic]].
* No, it's the real ''Daily Prophet'' article. Rita Skeeter wrote it with her usual level of accuracy. We're seeing it before it was given to her editor, so it's full of the innumerable spelling and grammar mistakes she always makes, but which said editor always cleans up before publication. Hey, in her articles from ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (novel)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' Rita canonically referred to Arthur Weasley as "Arnold Weasley" and misspelled the names of the other Triwizard champions. It's not too much of a stretch that her rough drafts would get everyone's names wrong as much as ''My Immortal'' does.
* Um, would computers even work around wizards and witches like Ron, Hermione, and their children? I think Hermione mentioned in the third book that technology (like surveillance equipment) just fizzles out when around magic.
** Firstly electric doesn't work around particularly magical places (ie. Hogwarts) not wizards and witches - otherwise there would be chaos in the homes of muggleborn children and Ron wouldn't have been able to use the phone in POA. Secondly, by Ron and Hermione's children's time wizards could have worked a way around this problem anyway.
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Tara will collaborate with [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] and [[Uwe Boll]] to create the My Immortal Movie. This movie will be released on the 21st of December, 2012 thus revealing the true reason why the Mayan calendar ends on that day.
* A movie so bad it'll split the very fabric of space and time!
* If this is true, then only the brave crew of the S.O.L. can save us.
* Or, inversely, the sheer amount of suck will cause an effect similar to digit overflow and wrap around to being a decent film. Not Snark Bait, not So Bad It's Good, not even So Okay It's Average. I mean a legitamitely decent film.
== Tara Gilesbie is a Time Lord. ==
Honestly, it's as good as any other explanation.
* As long as she isn't [[Suzumiya Haruhi]]. Thinking about that makes me want to keep watching for potentially dangerous changes in reality already.
== My Immortal is an experiment gone horribly wrong that destroyed its creators ==
Some scientists decided to test that whole theory on "if you placed a thousand monkeys with typewriters, they might eventually write Shakespere". As locking the monkeys was considered cruelty to animals, they had to keep everything secret, and decided to post their efforts in the internet so as to have the results of the experiment correctly valued. They decided to make the writings look like a "Harry Potter" fanfic because whatever came out could not be so bad, and to make it look like on, they taught the monkeys how to type some of the names. For more fun, they made the accounts of Ravyn and Tara.
At first, they did run some spell-check. But then, one of them (Ravyn) had to leave for some time, and the other (Tara) was destroyed by their fic, reduced to... well, Tara. But some neuron conectivity remained, enough to remember that there was a Ravyn. And the neurons that still worked became the "Ravyn" personality, That was when they fought.
The whole "hacker" thing is the other scientist, who was trying to destroy the story/work/whatever, to save his friend. The final chapter was when someone from outside found the place of this madness, freed the monkeys, and sent "Tara" to a mental home.
* Alternatively, it was a study that involved teaching [[Ravens and Crows|ravens or crows]] how to type. True, those birds are very smart, but they never read [[Harry Potter]], and they are all dark and stuff, so...
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* As another Troper has said: Good theory I suppose, but most of us were just having fun with the guessing game.
* The artist behind the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131024093335/http://myimmortal.smackjeeves.com/comics/ "My Immortal: The Parody"] comic (NSFW) claims that she knows Tara Gilespie personally and yes, "My Immortal" was intended to be ''a completely serious fanfic''. Allegedly, Tara was only thirteen at the time she wrote it (hence her total lack of knowledge about sex). However, since she has no proof to back up her claims, we can only guess whether she's telling the truth.
== This fanfic will set up the biggest practical joke in the history of literature. ==
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* Draco: 'Nuff said.
* It works especially well with this scene:
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'''Joe Moses as Snape''': How dare you! '''Lauren Lopez as Draco''': BECAUSE ''[fails to strike pose]'' I LOVE HER! '''Joe Moses as Snape''': Fine. Very well. You may go up to your rooms. ''[hammily exits stage]''
* Ebony is musical!Cho. "Ebony" is just her "goffic" name in the same way that "Vampire" is Harry's "goffic" name. Or at least very least, Ebony is "played" by Devin Lytle with the Southern accent.
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'''Brian Holden as Lupin''': Only you wouldn't give them to me!
'''Devin Lytle as Ebony''': ''[flirtily]'' Well, you shoulda told me.
'''Joe Moses as Snape''': You dimwit! }}
== My Immortal is a satire of 21st century teen fantasy fiction ==
At the dawn of 2000, there was the wonderful world of Harry Potter, Lord of Rings and other fantastical places with beautiful adventure sagas and they were good. Then along comes a Vampire Romance novel, ''Twilight'', that becomes insanely popular compared to the other works extremely fast, infecting our book shelves with the genre and knock offs such as Vampire Academy and Vampire Diaries and bloodykiss/vampireangel/suckmylove/what-have-you. In My Immortal, the setting is Hogwarts with the characters we know and love, but as Ebony infects the school with goffik vampire crap, the setting and characters devolve so far we don't even recognize them. Tara Gilspie is telling us this is what has become of todays fantasy fiction, over run with inexplicably popular vampire romance novels that think brazil has a west coast, menestration is dead blood and self hating stalker emos make good boyfriends.
== [[My Immortal]] is a [[Springtime for Hitler]]. ==
[[My Immortal]] is simply a purposely bad fan fic someone wrote for his or her own amusement and didn't expect to become legendary.
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== My Immortal takes place in the same universe as [[The Man Who Saves the World|Turkish Star Wars]] ==
I don't know how, it just does.
** Thin plot thread holding obsessive amounts of self-indulgent gratuity (violence in Turkish Star Wars, sex in My Immortal)? An unstoppable protagonist? Small bits of the source work spliced into a barely-relevant story? Definitely. The Evil Wizard from TSW is Ebony's father. She was sent to Hogwarts after he was cut in half.
*** Snap moonlights as [[Italian Spiderman]]
== My Immortal is a [[Future Imperfect]] version of ''Harry Potter''. ==
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* It makes perfect sense! Rowling frequented Fanfiction.net, where she saw all of the slash fics, Mary Sues, [[Character Derailment]], and Americanizations. So she used all of the Mary Sue cliches to create the ultimate Sue and pieced it all together.
* If this is the truth then J.K. Rowling is my new deity.
* Except how on earth would she know so much about MCR GC and Green Day? Some of the songs mentioned in the fic are very obscure like Demolition Lovers.
** Wikipedia is your friend. You can find almost anything about a band if you want by a quick internet search.
*** How would she even know what bands to look up? Based on the generic rock star look of Bill Weasley, Rowling isn't very up on youth culture, much less youth-culture stereotypes from another country. Stereotypes like "Hot Topic is for goth wannabes" can't simply be looked up because the "knowledge" isn't academic.
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== The story was written as a side effect from meds. ==
Tara suffers from insomnia and nightmares, so she takes sleeping medication. In the middle of the night she would go to her computer and type horrible fanfiction while still asleep. I mean seriously, something that bad couldn't have been consciously written.
== "Tara Gillesbie" is the Internet name for [[Twilight (novel)|Stephenie Meyer.]] ==
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** Tara is a [[Theme Park Version]] of a Satanist. Meyer thought if people thought she was a satanist they'd accept her works better than they would if she was a Mormon.
** Assuming that Stephanie Meyer really '''is''' a Mormon, and not a secret Satanist in disguise. <cue ominous music>
* Tara was her old pen-name before she converted into the Mormon religion. She left her "Goff" look behind but it was always in her heart. Her spelling improved after she completed her education... Then Twilight began. Just look at the [[Mary Sue]] character!!! The laughable gore of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20121021101836/http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/21684/1/THE-DEVIN039S-ADVOCATE-WHY-BREAKING-DAWN-MUST-BE-MADE-INTO-A-MOVIE/Page1.html final book] and the sheer stupidity MUST be from the same author!!!
** ''Twilight'' is older than ''My Immortal'' by a year.
*** It was a old story Meyers wrote and originally had on a different site but when it was taken down she copied it to Fanfiction.net where it became famous.
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* The reason why ''[[The House of Night]]'' has proper spelling is because Kristen's mother P.C. Cast spell-checked it. P.C., by the way, ''isn't'' "Raven". That, or P.C. Cast is actually a spell-checker on Tara's PC—which is still not "Raven".
== "Tara Gillesbie" is an experimental female [[Warhammer
It explains everything. '''EVERYTHING.'''
* Eh? Are Orks even literate?
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*** Given how long ''My Immortal'' was, the subject wasn't euthanized that soon.
** Perhaps she was dictating?
*** [[Monty Python and
** Of course! That's why she kept calling herself a "Goff!"
** Hence why everything in the story's all wrong/exaggerated: Tara has no idea of what Earth culture (or Imperial culture) is like and probably got all her ideas from inaccurate sources-- perhaps a recording or vox of some sort, or maybe a fragmented document on pre-Dark Age Terra. Or maybe, the attempts at gathering info by the Old Ones who created her for the creation of the Ork proto-female have been stymied by the eternal war around the galaxy, and so they had to reference other races' behavior for the creation of a female Ork psyche-- although their references were very much outdated. Why did they choose the female teenage human as their reference point? I will never know.
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She was created so Raven could go all out and be as stupid and [[Ax Crazy|Troll Crazy]] as she wanted without anyone knowing it was her. The hoax became more elaborate as she gained more popularity.
Think about it. The reason people believe that "Tara" can't possibly be a troll is that she and her friend Raven have so many accounts. Accounts that "Tara" ''rarely'' posts updates on. And when she does, it's brief and always the same stuff... as if she can only talk about "prepz" and "haturs" and "goffs" or else [[Wangst]] about the [[Hatedom]] following ''My Immortal''. Her mood on [[
The feud, the shout outs, the (few) [[
It's obvious that Raven is the true mastermind here. She just makes sure to take "Tara" with her wherever she goes...
* "Tara" occasionally [[Glamour Failure|contradicts herself.]] On her second [[
== Raven is the attention-seeker. ==
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== Tara was the inspiration for Gilderoy Lockhart. ==
Rowling has admitted that Lockhart was based on a real person. Who fits the bill better than Tara does?
* But... but it was written way after "Chamber of Secrets"... wait, of course! [[Timey-Wimey Ball]]! It all makes sense now! [[Go Mad
** Building on that theory, it's possible that Tara [[Final Fantasy I|Made an unholy pact with the four trolls of fanfiction.net to go back in time]] and give JK Rowling the inspiration to write Lockhart.
** Or a more simple theory: Tara emailed the fanfiction to Rowling. Rowling was inspired by Ebony and wrote "Chamber of Secrets." Tara locked ''My Immortal'' away until a few years later.
*** The first one is more likely. The second doesn't hold up when you consider that characters like <s>Lupin</s> Loopin and <s>Wormtail</s> Snaketail don't show up until after CoS. So yeah, the Four Trolls must have given her the Ipod [[Time Machine]].
** Of course, Tara herself no doubt existed before writing the fanfic, so it's not too inconceivable that she just knew J. K. Rowling beforehand and was already stupid enough at that point to "impress" Rowling without the fanfic's aid... [[Rule of Funny|but your explanations are funnier]].
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**** What if Tara had the first book read to her (was it published?) when she was young, and she tried to impress Rowling with her own sequel. Rowling didn't respond, and that sent Tara on a downward spiral of illiteracy and hating the HP series, hence later writing a terrible fanfic from a "fan" of the series (proving the fans were idiots!), all the while still subconsciously trying to impress Rowling - by taking the love of mythical species (?) (vampires, wizards, etc.) and dark magic, that sort of thing, only times ten.
== Tara wrote My Immortal ''[[For the Evulz]]
Tara wanted to drive a mass amount of people insane and cause chaos. But due to the fact that she had no power in the outside world, she decided to wreck havoc on the internet. And thus ''[[My Immortal]]'' was born.
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== Tara is a reincarnation of James Joyce. ==
She is superior in every which way to her predecessor. My Immortal is so brilliant that it crosses the critical limit of brilliance and reverts all the way back to puerile stupidity.
* Disturbingly enough I can grasp her having written ''Finnegans Wake'', the previous owner for most insane troll literature.
== Tara Gilesbie and Raven are [[Split Personality|split personalities]] ==
[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. Neither of them are the original personality, but are continually fighting for dominance, surfacing one after the other. Tara surfaces and writes a chapter, and then Raven surfaces and edits it. Later in the fic, Tara gains more control, pushing Raven to the back of the mind for a while. This explains why the writing gets even worse, and why Tara and Raven allegedly become mad at each other, Gerard Way posters notwithstanding. The reason the writing was terrible to start with: Raven was never around long enough to actually edit worth a damn. Tara came back, assumed the chapter was edited, and submitted it. Tara and Raven's supposed absences are one or more additional personalities surfacing, hence why Tara seems to go to England about three times over the course of the last few chapters. Somewhere in the recesses of this dark, goffik mind, there is a personality that enjoys Buffy, Star Wars, Back to the Future, LotR, and Harry Potter. Bits and pieces of this personality seep into Tara's writing, hence the numerous references. Tara genuinely considers herself a goff, but is never around long enough to experience much in the way of goffness, therefore is quite confused on what exactly is goff, and has a very shallow understanding of the goff things she actually knows about. As for how the base person (let's call her "[[Dollhouse|Echo]]") has the time to manage all these personalities, see above re: Time Lord. Raven on the other hand is a seemingly normal girl with some goffik tendencies who wishes she were popular. She couldn't imagine all this crap as Raven, being ashamed of all the crappy grammar and sex scenes. Hence Tara was created. Then there's the third personality. It's been speculated that the hacker in chapter 39 is really Tara. It is her 3rd alter-ego. This alter-ego is a rational funny person who laughs at the ridiculous goffikness of the other 2 personalities.
== Tara might be working on fan fiction again soon. ==
Check out her user page:
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/999831/XXXbloodyrists666XXX
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*** That can be rationalized, however, if you're like the guy who wrote the paragraph above, and believe that Tara's account now is in somebody else's hands.
**** You don't even need to go ''that'' far. Someone above proposed that Tara wasn't a troll at first, but became one later on after realizing how bloody-awful the story was. With similar reasoning, it could be suggested that Tara is a troll ''now'', still has her account, and after she stopped writing ''MI'', is now just messing with people by editing her account information (and may actually be considering writing a new story just for the evulz).
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120128190952/http://myimmortal.smackjeeves.com/info/ This site's] founder claims to know the real Tara, and answers that she was legitimate.
** Think about this: If Tara wasn't a troll, why did she keep writing? By about chapter twenty if not earlier, it was obvious that she would only get mountains of flame reviews. Why would she keep going if she didn't get off on being flamed? When most newbie authors discover no one likes their story, they abandon or delete it -- they certainly don't pound out thirty more chapters of the same drivel. If Tara was writing the story only for herself, she could have kept writing it on her home computer and stopped posting it. The only reason to keep posting it would be because she wanted the flames.
*** Because Tara was stupid, arrogant, and stubborn - none of which are in short supply on internet young people.
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She was created to make great works of fiction but went rampant and wrote this in an attempt to become a god by brown noting everyone on the planet.
* When she went rampant, she lost some of her vocabulary for real: the technical one. The badly written sex scenes actually are attempts to fix her:
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refers to a diagnostic plug and a diagnostic port, for example.
== Tara is Gerard Way himself. ==
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== Tara is a muggle who stumbled across Hogwarts. ==
She [[Went Mad From The Revelation]] and tried to inform the muggle world of what she saw. Unfortunately, the first place she staggered into was a [[Hot Topic]] store, which greatly skewed her memories of the place. She also suffered a head injury on her way back home, which led to the odd grammar.
* In one of the Harry Potter books, it is mentioned that Hogwarts is guarded by spells so that muggles don't see Hogwarts where it should be; they just see a junk yard with over 9000 "keep out" signs.
== The "hacker" is Tara, possibly acting out of boredom. ==
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== Tara is [[Uwe Boll]]. ==
Think about it. He wanted to write fanfic, but also test out his acting ability. so he created the whole Tara character. But he was serious when he wrote this, and his reactions towards haters is his reaction to people not liking his work.
* This explains why ''My Immortal'' is such Boll-ocks.
* You do realise [[Insult to Rocks|that's an insult to Tara Gilesbe.]] Name me one movie [[Uwe Boll]] has made that qualifies as [[So Bad It's Good]].
== Tara is the CEO of the Coca-Cola company and My Immortal is a subliminal Coca-Cola advertisement disguised as a fanfic. ==
Yes... And I have proof...
Multiple times in the story does tara make "spelling mistakes" that allude to said soda. for example:
* "Vampire got out his blak invincibility '''coke'''." -
* "Dra'''cola''' used to be called Navel but it tuned out dat he was kidnapped at birth and his real family were vampires."
* "I put on my Invisibility '''coke''' - (a side note on the "invisibility coke": Perhaps this should be taken literaly. Because the "cloak" did not work. "Mr. Norris" found them and actually made notice of the cloak/coke before even noticing the people under it. Perhaps the "invisibility coke" is actualy a gigantic bottle of coke, and therefore ineffective when hiding Enoby and Draco.)
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== This fic was written by [[Chuck Norris]] ==
Chuck Norris must have thought one day if he could write something so heinous and even he couldn't read. Since he's Chuck Norris, he wrote the fic without reading it. And then, he let the fic to the humanity.
* Mr. Norris is the self-insert.
== A third individual was in on the story. ==
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== Tara is [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Haruhi]]. ==
We know what happens when Haruhi makes a movie: it's disjointed, poorly edited, and has no coherent plot. What would happen if she were to write a piece of Harry Potter fanfiction? It would look a lot like ''[[My Immortal]]''. The "goffick" bits come from Haruhi having some contact with the [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] community and thinking it was so [[Moe]].
== Tara is an advertiser for a clothing store competing against Hot Topic ==
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Tara comes off as a sort of proto-Abridged!Raye from [[Sailor Moon Abridged]]. She hasn't perfected the [[No Indoor Voice]] yet, but is taking steps towards "MUST! PRAY! TO! SATAAAAN!" and has perfected the love of pain and violence. Come to think of it, Ebony's black, waist length hair (which Sailor Mars/Hino Rei/Raye has in canon) is tinted with purple and red- the colors of Sailor Mars' fuku.
== Tara is ''K''ara of the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode "[[Star Trek/Recap/S3/E01
The woman who gave us the immortal line "Brain and brain, what is brain?!" is certainly dumb enough to write this and the names are ''so'' close. And we know she spells her name wrong, so maybe every time she wrote "Tara" she meant to say "Kara". Kara has seen the ''Harry Potter'' films because the Eymorg [[Aliens Steal Cable|picked up TV broadcasts of them]]. The signal forms of the first four movies have only just reached Sigma Draconis VI by 2268, which is why Kara thinks the fifth movie is about to come out. "Raven" is the name of the person whose brain formed the original Controller. Exposure to ''My Immortal'' was what caused the original Controller to be "finished". When Kara absorbed knowledge from the Teacher to get Spock's brain, she happened to be logged into her fanfiction account. After retrieving the brain, she went to her computer, didn't think the story could be hers because she remembered that story being brilliant, concluded that she must have hacked into some idiot's account, and wrote the hacker chapter. After the knowledge faded from her brain, she went back to her account and, not remembering she had written the hacker chapter, continued writing as normal. ''My Immortal'' ended shortly thereafter when Captain Kirk forced them to abandon the Eymorg complex.
== Tara is actually Lil' J, a.k.a. LILSHOWSTOPPA from the infamous youtube video "ME TELLIN YOU MOTHA FUCKERS OFF" ==
You know, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTosQerWBzU THIS video?] Come on. Think about it. The demeanor just... fits, what with the horrible vocabulary and strong tendency to curse out and threaten those who criticize her. This was what Tara was like in real life; she was a white "gangstuh" (I wont use the word "wigger" because the [[Moral Guardians]] will get on to me). However, unbeknownst to those around her, Tara actually had a secret desire: a desire to be goffik. But sadly, do to the cruel world we live in, she had no doubt that she would've lost all her "gangstuh" friends if she all of a sudden became a goff and revealed her love for MCR, GC, Evanescence, and the like. The only person she knew in the same situation was Jenny (a.k.a. Raven), who she would have secret Gerard Way worshipping parties with. One day though, she came up with a brilliant idea: Write a fanfic for [[Harry Potter|her favorite book/film series]] that would feature a goffik protaganist who would also be her [[Author Avatar|Author Avatar/Surrogate]], and employ <s> Jenny</s> "Raven" as the "editor" of said fanfic. Little did Tara know just how <s> [[Gone Horribly Wrong|horribly wrong]]</s> [[Gone Horribly Right|horribly right]] [[So Bad It's Good|things would go....]] Also, LILSHOWSTOPPA posted her video in Feb 2007, at which point in time ''My Immortal'' was still being published and, funnily enough, both Tara and LILSHOWSTOPPA stopped (verifiably) updating around the same time. Maybe Tara gave up on the internet after the second hacking locked her out of her FF account? For further proof, I present this line as evidence:
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** Alternatively, Tara and LILSHOWSTOPPA are ''the same'' '''''troll'''''.
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== Tara's account was really a prank run by Fanfiction.net staff. ==
Someone working for Fanfiction.net read through all the bad slash, authors who didn't care for proper spelling and grammar, unrealistic lemons, and emo-wannabes. So they decided that as a sort of [[Take That]], they would write a [[Stealth Parody]] to beat the badfic authors at their own game. And seeing how [[My Immortal]] supposedly got an abnormal amount of reports, you'd think that the account itself would have been deleted, but it wasn't because they had protected the account, but not the story. Also, the hacked chapter was really a reference to all the reported badfics, especially with the "Fanfiction.net hell" line. And the real reason most rip-offs were deleted is because the trolls spread around the site like wildfire, which was the effect the person didn't want because the story was really to teach people a lesson. It's a stretch, but not impossible.
* Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Fanfiction.net run a large purge against bad fanfiction after My Immortal? Perhaps they were trying to create some evidence?
== The editor is to blame. ==
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== Tara is somehow related to CWC, creator of [[Sonichu]] ==
* The similarities are... uncanny.
** Or its written by the man himself. He takes a female identity [[Armoured Closet Gay|to hide the fact he's gay or bi.]] [[Bi the Way|Likely bi, because Tara fancies girls.]] Ebony is one of the biggest Mary Sues in the universe, but not a [[Purity Sue]]. At the same time, Chris has an [[Author Avatar]] who reeks in Mary Sueness, [[Designated Hero|but at the same time]] is a [[It's All About Me|self-centered egotist]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|who'll kill you even if wronged a little.]] Clearly, Chris found a Twilight book, tried his hand in writing it, [[So Bad It's Good|and failed hilariously.]] If this is true, it means:
*** a) Chris is the biggest, most dedicated troll on Earth, and everyone is in on it.
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*** c) Chris miracolously managed to write something [[So Bad It's Good]], instead of his usual trash.
*** d) Chris created Tara as one of his dream girls/future wives (he creates this type of character a lot) and My Immortal is a story within a story inside Sonichu, created to needlessly pad out Tara's character.
*** e) [[So Bad It's Good]] is an evolved form of [[Bile Fascination]]. After all, Sonichu is so awful you can't help but look away. [[My Immortal]] is so bad, it forces you to enjoy it.
* The troll who hacked My Immortal is Clyde Cash, evil overlord of the internet and Chris's sworn enemy.
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== Two guys trolled us. ==
[https://web.archive.org/web/20130605225646/http://ohinternet.com/My_Immortal/TheBatMan%27s_confession Here's the confession in all its glory].
* Well, if this is true, then this guy is the "real" version of Raven. I mean, he says he got locked out after chapter 15, and chapter 16 is the one in which Tara declared she had fallen out with Raven.
** What is this, the ''fourth'' time somebody claiming to be Tara, Raven, or another insider has shown up with a story? Yeah, but there's ''totally'' a chance it's true this time.
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== Tara is actually an intelligent, well-informed person. ==
Despite the abysmal quality of the characters and plot, there's numerous evidence for this theory. Why are all the funny or dirty malapropisms spelt correctly? "Masturbate" is spelt as "masticate" which is a pretty advanced word for a 13-year-old to use. Sirius' name is spelt alternately as Sodomize, Socrates and Spartacus. The last two names are not the sort of names a typical teenager would come up with. Therefore Tara must be reasonably well-read in some ancient history.
* Alternately, Tara was bullied at school and retreated into books, where she got her vocabulary. She decided to write badly so that she would look cool and not nerdy. Needless to say, it didn't work.
** Well, if you believe [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1413070/XXXmidnitegoffXXX this guy]'s confession, Tara-- or rather, ''Todd''-- actually was bullied in school, and he created "Tara" as a kind of lightning rod to attract people's bad attention away from him.
** Hmm, unlikely. The style and sentiments expressed in My Immortal are definitely the work of a teenage girl. The social battle between goffs and preps and the redundant clothing descriptions for example.
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== Ebony's a lonely Yandere. ==
Think about it. She's uber-upset when Draco said no one understood him. She thought she did, and thought he was as lonely as she was. When she realized that they weren't as close as they thought, she freaked out. Also, thoughout the story she seeks comfort with her friends. Without them, she's scared, lonely and afraid. She's rather serious about killing herself only when she feels everyone has abandoned her (such as when Draco committed suicide or {{spoiler|did it with Snap}}).
The stuff about being goth? A coping mechanism. She feels being Satanicand brooding will make her cool and allow her to make friends, but also make herself feel courageous and strong. My Immortal isn't about a spoiled goth princess Sue, it's a deconstrucion about a lonely girl who has too much pressure thrust upon her and is coping by being goth.
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== Ebony ''does'' exist in the canon Potterverse... ==
...but she's just an average Hogwarts student who is disillusioned about her life. Pretty much everything that happens in [[My Immortal]] is what she fantasizes about. She is madly infatuated with Draco and constantly wishes he'd "[[IKEA Erotica|put his thingy in (her) you-know-what]]", thinks a lot of the Gryffindor kids are actually pretty cool but doesn't want to admit it so she imagines them as "goffic" Slytherins instead, wishes she could be more heroic and imagines fighting the "bark lord", etc. As for all the references to Muggle culture...well, despite being a Slytherin, she's had several run-ins with Muggle culture and is obsessed with the music and movies from it. What about the fact that most of the Muggle stuff she likes didn't exist when Harry Potter took place? Well....[[A Wizard Did It|she got ahold of some sort of device that could allow her to see into the future]], and she realized that her favorite bands and movies happen to be from the 00's. But she forgot which works were from which decade, hence her not remembering that most of the muggle stuff she likes doesn't even exist yet when the story takes place.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101211061231/http://harrypotterfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Ebony_Way This] is the real story.
* Or, possibly, she is a Muggleborn Slytherin in the 2000s and the whole story is her wish-fulfillment fantasy.
** As a Muggleborn, she has been exposed to Muggle culture for most of her life.
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Actually, much of the 'Goffik' cast may qualify.
The symptoms of bipolar disorder, according to this [https://web.archive.org/web/20090615215651/http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/bipolar-disorder?utm_medium=ask&utm_source=smart&utm_campaign=article&utm_term=Bipolar+
Also, "There is a high risk of suicide with bipolar disorder. While in either phase, patients may abuse alcohol or other substances, which can worsen the symptoms. Sometimes there is an overlap between the two phases. Manic and depressive symptoms may occur simultaneously or in quick succession in what is called a mixed state."
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== Tara is really a guy. ==
Think about it: Every time unmentionables are mentioned, Tara gets into all the gorey details of male private parts, but only refers to Ebony's as [[Selective Squick|"my you-know-what"]]. Then there's all the slip-ups like 'he put his dude-thingy in mine' and too many instances of implying that Enoby is a Hermaphrodite. It's too convenient to be a coincidence! My guess is that [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|some dude got really high and decided to right this as part of some sort of prank]].
== Enoby is an [[Eldritch Abomination]]. ==
Her mere presence has driven all of the Harry Potter characters to insanity.
== Ebony is [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Q]]. ==
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== Ebony is the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of badfics in general ==
There is a reason she uses every single [[Mary Sue]] cliche. She is not simply a Harry Potter fan character. She is the entire concept of bad fanfiction in general, given a human form.
** And she's warping the fabric of reality around Hogwarts to her will!
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== Enoby has a twin sister. ==
Her name is Ivory Light Innocence Dove Way. She is the preppiest prep ever. She never swears, is a virgin, and can't stand any of the so-called "goffic" bands. She is a werewolf. She has pale blonde hair with frosted blue tips and braided in yellow streaks. And she can spell perfectly.
* Also, she's a [[Purity Sue]].
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At least two refferences to punks exist, so maybe the goffs and the punks are common allies against the preps/posers. What happened to the punks is anybody's guess.
== Voldemort keeps flying away because he wants to mess around. ==
He does his random threats and stuff; but he's already put the characters into a secret hell, and they're suffering already.
* That would require him finding out that there are [[Fate Worse Than Death|worse things than death]]. [[Noodle Incident]]?
* Nope,he figured that one out after 2 minutes in Ebony's presence
* Voldemort created Ebony, to torture the Wizarding World before he kills them all.
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== Vlodemort/volxemort/Tom Bombodil is actually a time lord. ==
When Ebony returns to the past, Tom "satan" Bombodil seems to function exactly like a time lord. He knows things that will happen in the future as if he has been there I.E. travelled in time. In the last chapter, it says Satan transformed into Voldemort, which sounds like a regeneration.
So my theory about this is that Tom's TARDIS broke in the 80's and he somehow died. Then he regenerated into Voldemort(the guy with no nose). Wanting to have a time machine, he manipulated several people within a grand scheme to get a new one. When he saw Ebony, he knew the girl would be stupid and self-absorbed enough to use in this plan. In the normal timeline she was but a minor human student who wasnt noticed, but Voldemort made changes to the timeline which made Ebony a vampire with the ability to seduce everyone she wanted. Then he posed himself as an evil person, so Ebony would go back in time to prevent his 'start of darkness'. After that, his former self would manipulate Ebony into taking him to the future. After that, he would kill Ebony(for her existence would now be useless and actually dangerous, since her vampire powers where a match for his Time lord powers) and rebuild Ebony's time machine into a TARDIS and use it to take over the universe. [[Timey-Wimey Ball|Because time went all wimey wibbly wobbly]], he regenerated before he was shot with 'abra kedabra', during the final chapter. The story stopped at the last 'abra kedabra' because Voldemort had killed her after that. (probably by holding a barbeque with lots of steak)
To add a more confusing variation to this timey wimey theory, Morti Mcfli is a future regeneration of voldemort. Both Share 'Mort' in their names. He brought Ebony a TARDIS to give to his past self. He had to give it indirectly since [[Never the Selves Shall Meet|the selves shall never meet]].
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Think about it. The Prof. is (apparently) GOFF (Saying "oh my goff" in the later chapters), and is at least once called "Slutborn." SLUT. BORN. And who is a goth ''and'' a slut? Everybody, but Ebony is the star! Plus, she is the only one (besides Voldemort). She's had sex so many times and never seems to use protection. (Lupin asked her for condoms, but she never indicated she had any). Perhaps she gave birth in the past and (since Tara does not want children) abandoned him so he can have a tragic background. Who his father is could be anyone's guess, considering she's slept with Vampire, Draco and {{spoiler|Voldemort}}.
* That...kind of makes sense.
** Also, I nearly died laughing with that theory, great job.
* I'd say Voxymort.
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== Tara is not a goff. Goffs are only a symbol for the downtrodden. ==
It reads so much like a typical American high school novel, except the goffs and violence. Since Tara mentions emo rather than goff bands and makes blunders (saying The Nightmare before Christmas is goffik) she probably googled some bands that put on black and white makeup and labelled them as goff. But why use goffs against the preps then? Angered by bullying from preps at school, Tara retaliates by writing an escapist fic where the dorks rule. But she couldn't just make them dorks or ordinary kids, that would be lame. Why not make them goffs and Satanists instead? she reasoned, and thus My Immortal was born. It's all an allegory for social dynamics really. Besides, at her age she couldn't make the downtrodden resemble real sympathetic characters, so she made them into goffs so readers could identify the rival factions more easily.
* Having an alternate ideology makes you look cool and profound.
== Plot ==
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== Ebony doesn't actually travel to the past ==
She actually just projects herself into the mind of Tom, thus altering his perceptions and filtering the world through her own viewpoint. This explains his knowledge of the future and why she can't be killed. In his new state Tom causes changes to history that make the world into the crazy wannabe goffik nightmare from Ebony's time, thus allowing her personality to be formed into what it is and go back into hsi mind to make the changes. Stable time loop created through the use of the Pensieve ad Time Turner together.
** Did you just make a coherrent guestamation about My Immortal in a way that is actually plausible and sheds light on the story?
** But how do you explain Dumbledore remembering his meeting with Enoby in the past? And he calls attention to them being "stupid goffs." And how she saved Lucian's arm. Unless Ebony is projecting herself into everyone else's mind and the world is also changing.
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== There ARE [[Groundhog Day Loop|Groundhog Day Loops]]! ==
Think about it. Voldemprt (Yes, I spelled that right) could travel though time, and Ebony does so later on. Notice how ''all the Groundhog Day Loops somehow involve Volxemort.''
== Voldemort is grooming Enoby to take his place as the Dark Lord. ==
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== My Immortal is an alternate universe... ==
Where [[John Lennon]] survived being shot by Chapman (December 1980). After the assassination attempt, [[The Beatles]], who were already discussing having one in our timeline, go on a Reunion tour. During the tour, they start jamming, write some songs and eventually collaborate on an album afterwards. Between experimenting with their styles and Lennon still recovering (mostly psychologically by this time) from the assassination attempt, it is a fair bit darker than their previous albums, hence "Goffik" in Ebony's eyes.
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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 [[Troll Fic]] than by writing a decent version of [[So Bad It's Good|My]] [[Up to Eleven|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.
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== 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.
== 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).
== The [[Costume Porn]] had an effect on ''[[Harry Potter]] '' canon. ==
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