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norm

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this still makes me so happy. dad norm confirmed

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THEY SAID IT THEY SAID THE THING

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iconic

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staring at the list of reasons that d.ogman listed for norm never taking his bag off.....allow me to offer my insights

ok first off i’m gonna put the ones i think are more or less “canon” among the misleads / joke answers:

Norm wears a shirt in the pool. It's just a part of that.

Norm is very insecure about his gross human face.

Oliver asked what colour Norm's eyes are once and the way he asked was weird enough that Norm will never let see Oliver see them under ANY circumstances.

Norm is too cheap to buy sunglasses or a sleep mask, and the bag functions as both, technically.

Norm tried to take off the bag off-screen and somehow got a papercut, and he hasn't tried again since.

Norm is afraid that Billy will doxx him. (he totally would, too)

i feel like the shirt in the pool + insecure about his gross human face answers go hand-in-hand, to an extent. also, i just really like the idea of norm being the kinda guy to wear a shirt in a pool. don’t take this from me.

also, oliver asking what color his eyes are and norm being SO weirded out by the way he asked just SOUNDS canon. oliver is forbidden from eye-sight (haha get it). so is little billy, possibly because of doxxing reasons, or because the little shit probably wants to take his EYES (as stated in the relationships section of his profile):

norm taking the bag off offscreen and getting a papercut is just too slice-of-life funny not to include. it’d probably be a regularity if he switched between wearing it and not, too. not worth it.

speaking of not worth it- neither are sunglasses or a sleep mask. why buy those when you can just cover your head with a paper bag, forever??

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my qpp showed me this meme the other day and i KNEW. i had to draw it w/ gingi & norm

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i want the world to know that this is what gingi’s ringtone for norm would be and i’m losing my shit

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IM NEVER GOING TO SHUT UP IM SO SOERY HE JUST ANSWERED AN ASK I SENT

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a FINAL finalized version of norm’s timeline, i’m finally confident this time, let’s go:

norm says that he “had to leave his life behind, TWICE.” this means that he at least had some semblance of a life before mingus exiled him.

having done more research, i assume this implies that norm had some hope to resume his life after he landed. he must have had friends at n.as/a. i’m sure he had high hopes for when he landed (which were subsequently robbed), and eventually, plans for once he recovered. i’m sure that once he returned to earth, there were a handful of people who recognized and were thrilled to have sgt. allen back, and those who only saw his head and immediately feared him.

here’s my proposed timeline for this sequence of events, possibly subject to change:

norm lands on earth. he’s disoriented and in a daze. his vitals are out of wack, since he’s not only been traveling through space, but a WORMHOLE as well. therefore (despite his “odd condition” of not having a tech head) he is given medical attention.

during this time, norm most likely realizes the confusing condition of everyone he encounters and panics. he probably scurries away from people (to the best of his ability) when they approach him and freaks out until he either passes out or is “subdued” by medics.

people realize that this is sgt. norm allen, an astronaut who went missing five decades ago during an expedition.  n/a.sa experts freak out over his return. they want to ask all sorts of questions…now that callum can’t.

side note: i’m now of the mindset that this mission HAD to be secretive, considering that norm was hand-picked by the president and all, so i’m only counting those that would realize where he’d been- i.e. the folks at n.a/sa and, to some extent, mingus.

mingus also hears about norm’s recovery, as callum’s closest relative. she’s clearly not as thrilled that he’s back. her grandfather has spoken incoherently about the sergeant, and her jealousy spikes at the possibility that norm – of all people – might be the one to restore his memories.

norm slowly recovers, health-wise. he can walk around, barely; he experiences vertigo, far-sightedness, and blurry vision, and he’s still stumbling by the time he is banished from dialtown. while he’s around, though, his vitals are monitored closely, and he is studied because of his whole time-traveling wormhole experience. turns out he hasn’t aged a day. he does not fully recover before he is exiled.

norm, in the meanwhile, has the past fifty years summed up for him. callum started up the phone-ification craze, leading to the whole WORLD sporting all sorts of tech for heads. in the midst of his grandest speech, callum wiped his own memories…etc., etc. norm has a difficult time processing the news. his entire life is gone.

mingus forces n.a/sa to shorten his recovery time. although norm should be staying for a good few years (at LEAST six due to his extended stay in the cosmos + his wormhole travel), mingus pushes the narrative that norm is a menace. his initial reaction upon landing only serves to help her cause. everyone outside of n.as/a starts to believe her, and even a good few on the inside start turning.

eventually, everyone follows through on mingus’ policies, and they kick norm out. mingus exiles norm. norm is given equipment to continue his recovery “at home;” however, norm no longer HAS a home.

norm takes his issues up with the mayor, despite not being 100%. he stumbles over himself just trying to barge into her office. obviously, arguments are tough to deliver in that state. she kicks him out again.

you know the rest. he stews in his own bitterness and swears vengeance against the mayor.

a side note: norm went on this expedition in the summer of 1966, making him 33 years old when he left (the korean war started in 1950, 1950-18 = 1932, 1962-1932 = 34 - norm has an autumnal birthday, however, and he mentions leaving in summer, therefore? 33).

tacking on the extra six years (one year of recovery + five years of exile), this would make norm 39 (going on 40) as of the events of dialtown.

kudos to callum for being able to send norm on a successful space mission three full ass years before apollo 11, goddamn.

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one of my friends sent this in the group chat and i gotta say??? MASSIVE phonegingi vibes

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“FOR RESEMBLING YOUR AMNESIATIC GRANDFATHER”......

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i love the confirmation that norm did, indeed, fry up that omelette for god. also “norm gave up on god around the time of his exile,” oof.......

this is SO fucking funny out of context

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also on the note of crossovers i have more thought on the d.esu one i mentioned the other day (im so sorry skhfjdh)

i'm gonna go over both games bc the first one has some vibes to it too but here we go!

ok so the gist of BOTH games is that the world is in the midst of an apocalypse (both of which are caused by demons), and the only hope of salvation for humanity is to kinda "reboot" the world. in devil s.urvivor 1, it's very heavy on religious themes, and not only can you become godly and save the world THAT way, but you can defy god and literally become a demon king. it's a good game.

in the second game, you literally reboot the world however you see fit, which - in-game - separates your party into several "alignments," because none of them can agree on how they want the new world to be.

so! i kinda wanna talk abt where d.ialtown characters would fall on these alignments, since i just think it's Inchresting. i really wish there was a quiz or something for this. maybe i'll make one someday

D.ESU1

the first game has several alignments, divided into the holy, unholy, and three OTHER solutions to save the world that don't involve the protagonist literally becoming a saint or demon.

Kingdom of Saints

just like it sounds, this is the "holy" ending, where you use the power you've accrued throughout the game to become a saint/godly figure who can control the demons and send em back from whence they came.

i feel like it goes without saying that norm would encourage this route. i also think it'd be really funny if this was a "d.ietown" scenario, so gingi going through all these steps while assuming god is dead only to literally BECOME a godly figure (and probably meet god and have him be like "what the FUCK happened") is really funny. also, obviously, were callum in gingi's position, this would be the route he'd go for. that god complex i s2g

karen might also be part of this one just bc she is SUCH a warlord against demons in d.ietown

King of Demons

the "unholy" ending, in which you use the power you've accrued to rule over the demons...as a fellow demon.

the protagonist in d.esu1 has his cousin encourage him to go this route, but i think gingi could fully go this way on their own, considering that they're literally a demon in d.ietown. i also like to think that stabby and shooty would be part of this route, since, yknow, demons. they'd probably try to get gingi to make them their demonic underlings so they could be super powerful.

Desperate Escape

in this ending, you literally just escape the city (which has been barricaded so that no demons escape) and put the whole world in jeopardy iirc.

selfish as they are, this is definitely something gingi would do. depending on the scenario, i think randy might be the one to encourage this ending too, since he is just cowardly enough to do it.

Silent Revolution

in this ending, the protagonist is able to pacify the demons by using their accrued power, and the world as a whole uses demons and their power to advance modern society. in order to do all of that, they also need to "hack the planet," etc etc.

i can say, without a doubt, this would be oliver's route of choice. a way to solve the problem without changing yourself, and a way that uses his technical know-how, at that.

Song of Hope

in this ending, the protagonist is able to drive off the demons by using music (in a complicated way i won't get into rn).

hilariously enough, i think this would probably be a route that you get into with nathan h.anover, because "music"...

D.ESU 2

the original alignments i wanted to make this post about. god this is so fun to think about.

Meritocracy

a world in which the strong eat the weak, basically. you have to work to prove yourself to the powers that be, and if you aren't strong enough, you fuckin DIE. the world is ruled by those who are stronger, better, etc, and the people who "deserve it" thrive.

imo, this sounds like EXACTLY the sort of society mingus would try to build.

Egalitarian

an "equal" society; everyone is treated equally, given an equal share, has equal talents. peaceful to its core.

despite all the shit i give callum, this would be the society he would back. remember: the dial-up was supposed to HELP. he was so passionate about it because he wanted to help society thrive, to help those who had been disabled, just like him. despite all the "bad" that came out of it, he had GOOD intentions.

Restoration

bring the world back to the way it was before, before the apocalypse ever happened...though there is no guarantee it won't happen AGAIN.

with this also sort of being the "coward's way out" (i'm so sorry d.aichi i love you), reverting to a time that might inevitably doom the world all over again, i feel like this would be a randy route.

Liberation

free humanity as a whole from the looming threat of the septentriones (the entities/aliens/what have you that are currently attacking the world and throwing it into an apocalypse), and from the possibility that the "end" will come again. humanity is free, albeit at the cost of how FUCKED the world became during the apocalypse.

a norm route to its core. fight for your freedom and prove humanity's worth. i could also see oliver backing him on this one (boys gettin on!)

A Brand New World

hey, so what if we said "fuck the septentriones" and ALSO gave ourselves a whole new world to work with? humanity gets to be free, and it also gets to thrive on an earth that isn't completely dead. sounds nice.

this is a sort of "unlockable" route in-game, but i can completely see all of the dateables supporting it, so yay! i think it'd be really fucking funny if by some sort of irony, god was the one to propose the idea too. just "fuck it, i'll give you a new planet if you can pull this off"

there's also endings for record breaker but no i won't get into them, i've talked too long akjfkshfs. thank you for coming to my ted talk

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I JUST REALIZED

NORM

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for those of you who have EVER wanted to see norm dab, have i got some news for you

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HELP

welcome to fun with di.altown character bios part 1:

what the FUCK, billy