Let's Split Up is an animatic by Liam Vickers. It follows Di and Klied, two shapeshifting wendigos posing as campers at Camp Woebehere. Bloodthirsty Di is eager to eat people, while awkward Klied is more concerned with maintaining their cover and hopes to make friends.
Two videos have been published: one
in 2018, and one in 2020.
Contains examples of:
- Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: The wendigos' limbs can contort in inhuman ways, which apparently led to Di almost blowing her cover.Klied: Human arms don't bend that way.
[Di flexes her arm, then twists it with some snapping sounds]
Di: Which way?
Klied: All of the above!
Di: Well that's just complicated. - Because You Were Nice to Me: After Chadly shows that he knows Klied's name and invites him to his party, Klied becomes protective of him, telling Di that she won't touch him.
- The Door Slams You: When Klied runs after Di to try and stop her from preying on Disk, she closes the door on him, and he runs into it.
- Camp Wackyname: Camp Woebehere.
- Dumb Jock: Both the jocks seen seem none too bright, brushing aside or failing to pick up on blatantly suspicious behavior from the disguised wendigos.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In the earlier video, Klied is bareheaded with tufted hair. In the later video, he has a rounder, puffier hairstyle and is wearing a hat.
- Facial Dialogue: After Chadly leaves, Di rounds on Klied, demanding, "Alright, what the almighty fuck was that? Haven't you ever been invited to a par—", stopping dead as she sees his expression — bashfully smiling to himself and tearing up — and realizes the answer to her question. She looks at him with concern for a moment and glances after Chadly, opening and closing her mouth as if she was going to say something.
- Flat "What": When Chadly invites Klied to his party, Di reacts with a disbelieving "What."
- Foil: Di and Klied stick together, but have very different attitudes. Di is a confident predator on the prowl, while Klied is awkward, anxious, and hoping to blend in rather than eat anyone.
- Hellish Pupils: The wendigos' pupils sometimes appear slitted for a more monstrous look.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Klied is implied to be lacking in friends and longs for them. When Chadly invites him to his party, Klied takes it as an invitation to be friends and looks touched, to the point of Tears of Joy.
- Just Take the Poster: A tall girl rips down the sheriff's notice of a wendigo sighting and walks away with it, crumpling it in her hand.
- Let's Split Up, Gang!: Fitting with the horror theme, the title is a reference to the horror trope of a group splitting up and becoming more vulnerable.
- Literal Maneater: Di throws herself at guys with over-the-top flirting in efforts to get them alone so she can eat them.
- LOL, 69: The back of Chadly's jacket says "69 LOL".
- Lovable Jock: Chadly seems like a stereotypical self-absorbed jock at first, but surprises Klied and Di by knowing the former's name and inviting him to his party, giving him a friendly fist bump to the shoulder before leaving.
- Morphic Resonance: The wendigos maintain their yellow eyes in human form.
- Pet the Dog: Di is callous and largely concerned with trying to eat people, but when she sees Klied's touched reaction to being invited to a party and realizes he's probably never been invited to one before, she softens for a moment. When Klied leaves shortly after, Di glances at the party flyer and softens again, shooting a sympathetic look after Klied.
- Power Incontinence: When Chadly invites Klied to his party, Klied gets so excited his disguise drops for a split second, his face morphing into a grinning antlered skull.
- Reaction Shot: After Disk shrugs off Di's blatant red flags to be alone with her, remarking, "ya know what they say about the crazy ones," there's a shot of Klied with a look of pure disbelief.
- Scare Quotes: Chadly's flyer for his party refers to it as a "study session", quote marks included.
- Shy Finger-Twiddling: Klied pokes his fingertips together as he tentatively asks Chadly if he's inviting him to be friends.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: The wendigos have bright yellow eyes.
- Tears of Joy: Klied gets teary-eyed after he is invited to a party for what is implied to be the first time.
- Too Dumb to Live: Disk follows Di to the party to be alone with her, brushing aside obvious red flags.Di: We're going to go to this party and find a nice secluded room where no one can hear him scream.
[Beat while Disk looks visibly disturbed]
Disk: [shrugging and grinning] Well, ya know what they say about the crazy ones. - Wendigo: Di and Klied are wendigos, creatures that prey on humans and can shapeshift to look like them. In their wendigo forms, they are long-limbed and gangly with antlers, tufted tails, claws, fangs, and yellow eyes.
