The Ostkaka MMBC is a Murder Mystery Bachelorette Challenge by tosimornottosim - the one that chronicles a fallen star on an inevitable march to her own grave. It may be read from the beginning here
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Deaths and Survivors
- Caderyn Dewey - thrown over the edge of a cliff
- Hierba Haysi Jade - choking on an apple
- Cynthia Stevenson - drain cleaner poisoning
- Deepika Siddhartham - electrocution
- Purple Rain - eaten by a cowplant
- Auburn Mars, Felicity Harrison -
drowned in paint - Mint Whisp - drowned in water
- Sera Jernigan - buried alive
- Lichen Hara - strangled
- Prosecco Arsenic - shot three times
- Gin Tonic Ostkaka, bachelorette - shot three times
- Venus Flame, murderer
- Jackie Levin, winner
This MMBC provides examples of:
- Early-Bird Cameo:
- Two, circa Episode 10. Tonic's sisters Pride Martini and Moscow Mule appear (as does her cousin and Quartz' brother Bubble) to set the stage for their subsequent sequel.
- Inverted in Episode 10: though it takes place prior to the first installment of Slaughter or Salvage and thus their first appearance, Catherine Axiom's cameo was aired after that episode.
- Expy: Deepika Siddhartham to Symmetra from Overwatch. The mechanical arm kind of gives it away.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each episode is named for a Shakespeare quote, and begins with an Epigraph of the surrounding text the quote can be found in.
- It Was His Sled: The fact that the bachelorette dies is one of the most notable factors of the project... but it also contributes to it being one of the author's most well known.
- Narcissist: Gin Tonic herself, to a pitiable degree. Justified:Nobody has ever loved her. Nobody has ever cared for her. That’s what her brain whispers. So she loves herself. So the love comes in, a poisonous love, that twists and taints and takes and takes and takes-
- Polyamory: Sera Jernigan, technically. She's married, with two daughters, who she leaves behind after her death. Tonic uses this to guilt Venus later.
- Un-Installment: Functions as a sort of sequel to the Powers MMBC, with two of the same characters travelling over from that. Since Powers was cancelled within the first episode and never got off the ground, Ostkaka overlaps this with Sequel Displacement.
- Villainous Breakdown: Iris in the tail end of Episode 14. Tonic sleuthing through his property doesn't help matters.
Word of God states that he's trying to emulate the infamous Cupid in this regard, subconsciously or not - after all, in his mind, it's all staged anyway. - Widowed at the Wedding
