Everything Stays

"Everything Stays" is the second part of the "Stakes" miniseries.

Synopsis
Marceline looks back on her life on her last day.

Plot
The episode continues at the part when Marceline was about to get hit by the sunlight of the rising sun, she tells Finn that whatever happens, that he should burn all her diaries and never let anyone read them because they are embarrassing, the sunlight finally hit her strong, thus knocking her out and going through several random dreams.

The first dream she had was about when she was still young, she was laying on her mother's lap, as Marceline's mom tries to convince her to take her nap, but Marceline refuses explaining that her dreams are weird, her mom states that everything's gonna be OK, thus, the two sings the "Everything Stays" song. Her next dream was when she was a bit older, she was packing Simon Petrikov's luggage, as Simon records himself in a VHS tape to later to be re-watched by Marceline in case he goes insane, he leaves right after he records the video, bringing it with him.

Marceline's third dream was when she looked a lot teenage-like, fighting a vampire named The Fool. After she slays him, she absorbs his ability to float by inhales his dust-mist remains; she then scratches one more tally-mark to her already existing 32 on her ax-guitar which strongly suggests that her vampire kill number is at least 33.

Her next dream was when she was hunting for prey as she sets up a trap for the rabbit, she waits for the rabbit to take the carrot so she could wring its neck and eat it afterwards, but after she got impatient of waiting, she lassos the rope as the rope lands on the rabbit's ear, as the rabbit turns around, Marceline notices that it wasn't a rabbit at all, but rather, a human. The little girl got very afraid, then Marceline carefully takes off the rope from her head, reassuring her that everything's fine, then acidently shows her fangs to her which scares the little girl and she runs away screaming. She informs her tribe about Marceline believing that she is a vampire who tried to eat her; Marceline followed her and tried to clam them down and ensure them that she wasn't a vampire due to her still being un-weakened by the sun which she demonstrates by standing in bare sunlight unprotected. The following dream was when the tribe leader started to sing stories for the tribe, Marceline joins in from her hiding spot behind a bush, strumming her axe bass and singing along, the little girl popped up from behind the bush, she offers her a chicken leg and asks her to continue playing, then the whole tribe joins her and listens to her song.

Her next dream was when she and the tribe were very good friends already, as she plays with the little girl pretending to not know that she was following her, disguised as a vampire, with fake fangs, the little girl pounces on her and Marceline pretends to play dead until they arrived at a gigantic ship, she greets the tribe and asks how they were doing, the tribe leader then says that the ship will be finished by the next day or so, so they could leave the place in fear of the vampires attacking them, they invited Marceline to join them, but she says that she already killed almost all the vampires of the land, that they didn't even have a reason to leave anymore, the tribe leader states that it's much more than just the vampires, then someone ringed a bell to inform the tribe that a vampire is close by, the vampire sucks on his hat as Marceline killed it, Marceline quickly informs him to get to the boat, then rushes away to kill the vampires that were following them, she killed all the vampires on deck as the tribe leader informs that her dog, Schwabble ,was not really her dog, but a higher ranked vampire disguised as her dog, she dueled with him,until she corners him and then kills him she gains his shape-shifitng powers, Tom, the tribe leader, tosses her her axe and makes a joke about it, Marceline foresaw the Vampire King and tells them to leave, Tom thinks that it was because of his joke, but it was because the Vampire King was nearby.

Marceline wakes up in pain, the sun evaporates the the vampire bite marks, thus transforming her back into a human/demon; the farmer, Cloud Dance, then wonders if Marceline wasn't a vampire, then what was draining their cows.

Jake wakes up in a cave, as the goo from all over forms into bodies, and then revealed to be the Vampire King and his clan playing a mellow tune with drum, lute, flute, yarn spindle, and harmonica which scares Jake. The episode ends.

Major characters

 * Marceline
 * Human tribe
 * Two-Bread Tom

Minor Characters

 * Finn
 * Jake
 * Marceline's mom
 * Simon Petrikov
 * Schwabble
 * Vampires
 * The Vampire King
 * The Fool
 * The Hierophant
 * The Empress
 * The Moon
 * Fat Villagers
 * Cloud Dance

Mentioned

 * Bonnibel Bubblegum
 * Betty Grof
 * Hunson Abadeer
 * Goo monsters
 * Rainicorns

Songs

 * "Everything Stays"
 * "According to Our New Arrival"

Trivia

 * This is the episode where Marceline reverted back into a Human/Demon hybird thanks to the unvamperized cure from Princess Bubblegum.
 * Marceline slayed the Moon and gained her healing powers in the Adventure Time: 2015 Spoooktacular.
 * The comic was also written and illustrated by, Hanna K. Nyström, one of the storyboarders of this episode.

Cultural references

 * Two-Bread Tom and Marceline sing "According to Our New Arrival," the theme song for the television show "Mr Belvedere."

Episode Connections

 * The the final part of the final tape from "Holly Jolly Secrets Part II" is seen being recorded by Simon.
 * The "Oozers" that Two-Bread Tom mentioned refers to the Goo monsters that first appeared in Simon & Marcy and again in James and James II.
 * The "hungry looking rainbows" Two-Bread Tom also spoke of is a nod about the Rainicorns and their "hunger" for human flesh, which was first implied in Her Parents.

Storyline Analysis

 * This episode confirms that humans did indeed still exist in numbers, and inhabited other continents, at some point after the Mushroom Wars. If they still exist is unknown, Susan Strong and the time-displaced Betty aside.
 * The filming of Simon's final video diary at the same time as his abandoning of Marceline shows that his growing powers and his dwindling sanity eventually reach a limit that forces him to abandon whatever remained of his previous life; by which time he could never fully remove the Ice Crown and it would constantly snow anywhere he went.
 * The remaining humans leaving Ooo on a ship could possibly give credibility to Martin's story on how Finn was born in the middle of the ocean.

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