#Data Analysis — {headcanons/theories}

[madsxientific]

Baxter could in theory compound an antitoxin or an out right inoculation serum to counteract Valentino's pheromones or least the love potion derived from it.

Though either undertaking would require pure samples of the overlord's saliva or the blood of someone exposed to a high dose from kissing the moth. Baxter wouldn't though for a number of reasons.

One he'd rather not put himself on the Vees kill radar by developing something that'd risk the income of two of the Vees and risk being killed or worse given to Val.

And two he gains nothing by creating such a serum.He'd only really risk doing this for someone that'd become special to him and close to his heart.

Angel Dust maybe? @hzbinsouled 👀

[ask-glados]

Man, just thinking about GLaDOS's co-op line where she says:

"You did an excellent job placing the edgeless safety cube in the receptacle, you should be very - oh wait. That’s right. You're not humans. I can drop the fake praise. You have no idea how tiring it is to praise someone for placing an edgeless safety cube into a receptacle designed to exactly fit an edgeless safety cube."

Like, she has a point. Her programming forces her to monitor and motivate test subjects and it must get quite boring and exhausting having to go "Wow, you did it!" over the test subject doing the equivalent of a baby pushing a cube into a square hole. Imagine if you had to do that all day: praise people over doing the same mundane tasks that were already set up to be done a certain way.

It's honestly no wonder she wants to mix things up a bit and mess with people and see them fail and die in interesting ways. It's like playing The Sims and being bored watching them do everyday tasks and being entertained when they start dying in goofy ways.

[seirei-bh]

Jason Mendal's facade. Deep analysis about him: his past, traumas, ideologies and subsequent development -Theories

I'm going to try to do a deep analysis here about why Jason is the way he is and how he became the person he is now. At least the little info que got about him until ep 5. Before start to read, you have to keep in mind that although there is some canonical data here, there is also a lot of speculation on my part, so these theories may be refuted in future episodes.

I am going to talk here about all the possible reasons for how his behaviour is today, applied to his business, as well as to his relationships of rivalry, friendship and romance. About his ideas, mentality, his heart, and everything related to the little we know about his childhood, personality and way of behaving. It will be a long analysis with many points to discuss.

Backstory and possible traumas

To begin with, another theory about Jason that I have after ep 5 that I'm going to add to my huge list of theories about him (you can read them in some of my previous posts, like this one and others in my Jason's headcanons post) is that, regarding the big number of brief romantic partners he had, and why he doesn't want to have a long and stable romantic relationship with anyone, I think one of the reasons to that fear may also be related to the death of his father and with his own actual “perfect” life in general.

First, I mean the fact that his father died when he was a teenager has made me think that perhaps Jason's emotional situation could be similar to Anthony from Bridgerton series, who after losing his father and seeing how much his mother suffered from that loss, that created a trauma that made him never want to fall in love for fear of losing someone else whom he loves again and suffering for it.

Perhaps his mother had depression after the death of her husband, maybe because of this she neglected her son or even lost her job, so they even had financial problems, and Jason having to deal with tons of responsibilities since he was too young. That also made Jason become a person more focused on getting money and power at any price and as quickly as possible.

We do not know how his father died, it is most likely that it was due to a car accident or some serious illness. About Jason and his mother, I wonder if maybe they never got along, or if their relationship deteriorated after his father died. But regardless of that, the death of one of your parents in your teenage years is something that can affect you greatly. This makes me think about what kind of situation Jason would live in high school, I’ve the feeling that he wasn't very popular, or at least not at first, and that he was one of those people who go from being one of those who suffered bullying to those who end up bullying others as a wrong way to show that he could be stronger and thus create some popularity with which he would stop feeling alone and unprotected. I bet his "charming personality" started to come through here, and the death of his father had a lot to do with it. Being a person who did everything possible to try to fit in, even if he had to destroy others to do so.

I also wrote a long time ago in another post that it is possible that other children made fun of Jason at school for having white locks, and that he perhaps dyed his hair all brown for a long time, and that perhaps his poliosis was also a consequence of Waardenburg syndrome, which can have other consequences. Which would only add more insecurities to that little Jason and cause him to accumulate more resentment.

He saw all those popular boys at high school who were very confident guys, seemingly charming (even though they were really jerks), rich, dating with all the pretty girlfriends they want, and who had everything going well in their lives, while him, being a good and nerdy boy couldn't achieve anything and who felt more vulnerable than ever after losing his father, so he told himself that to succeed and be stronger that was the law of the jungle that prevailed and that he had to be not only like them, but better, imitating them and also later going further than them in life, whatever was the price to pay. Succeeding the unpleasant way.

To add here something more: Chinomiko said originally when New Gen was still in the previous High School ideas, Jason was a character like a “stupid comical villain”, so at least we can imagine he ended been being a jerk in his teenage years for sure. Probably the typical pathetic bully who likes to bother others, but since his character had the best glow up I also guess that now he's more complex than before too.

And all this will also manifest itself in being obsessed with the ideal of perfection and in projecting an image of himself of absolute self-confidence. Which would also make him start faking a perfect image not only at high school, later at work, but among his “friends” and with his romantic partners, so it would be exhausting for him and would end getting bored of them and don’t make him feel happy. But by the other hand, he’s afraid that a woman could find out his true self and be disappointed, so he prefers to hide his insecurity and prevent them from seeing them, ending the relationship as soon as possible.

It could also be possible that Jason's father, before he died, was a very humble and good man who had high expectations for his son and convinced him that he had to reach very high levels professionally, either because he positively supported this and had great dreams and hopes for the future of his son so he could have the better chances in life he couldn't achieve, maybe even his father was the one who had the dream about “Goldreamz” and had the desire to start his own company one day, OR on the contrary, because he was a cold man who put a lot of pressure on him to achieve excellence, because he had no expectation that his son couldn’t achieve anything like him (I think it's more probably the first option than this second one because the second one is too similar to Nathaniel's father, but who knows). Both which also led Jason to want to achieve a high professional goal, either so that his father could have been proud of him and make their dream come true, or because he wanted to show him that he could be better than the low expectations that his father had.

Someone may think that Jason getting "daddy issues" and most of his problems being caused because of this is very cliche or simple, but we have seen that before with other Mcl characters, whether due to negligence and parental abuse (Nathaniel's parents), due to little attention and abandonment (Castiel's parents, Nina's father) or due to the death of their parents or one of the parental figures (Lysander, Armin and Alexy's biological parents, or Violette's mother), so I think it wouldn't be so strange for Jason to have a trauma related to that and that a lot of things that he try to goal in his life were in some way related to that, same about why he has that behaviour in his relationships.

Another thing: Jason mentions in ep 5 that his parents were not millionaires, and his birthday was rather modest. He is quite dry and serious when mentioning this, which makes me think that it is a detail of his life that he doesn’t like to talk about, since he may consider it a weakness. And it doesn't surprise me, since Jason couldn't set up the company alone, he needed the help of various private investors to whom he now owes money and favors. Also in his description he says that he likes expensive brand clothes and numbers (I guess this refers to money, not maths XD) So the fact of appearing to be a man with a lot of money is something that probably has him obsessed, and that it has cost him a lot of sacrifice to achieve, and he may also have still debts to those investors, but he does his best to pretend that everything in life is going very very well. He won’t want his rivals, his companions, or any flirt to find out that there are things in his life that are either not going so well or have not gone well in the past. (I’m not saying he’s broke, but I mean he’s not so rich as Amanda, despite of he tries to do his best to look like that, especially because all his company investors are probably rich men of very high category, high social standards you know), basically about this Jason is a bit like Jordan in The wolf of wall street movie, in the sense of someone who started very low in the social scale and ended up climbing to the top, according to him with clean methods, but who knows if he or any of his investors actually have any illegal secrets about his finances, and I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case and Jason purposely ignored this, since he himself said in ep 5 that he didn't know how some of his workers did their jobs and that he "wasn't interested in knowing it." He said this about Danica, but I think it really implies that he applies it to everyone who works with him and for him.

His business ideology:

There is a saying in Spanish that is quite famous in the world in marketing and great finances and that can be applied perfectly to Jason to explain and summarize his behaviour in business and his way to see the life: it is said that in business you need to have a "mentalidad de tiburón" (literally have a mind like a shark), this refers to a white shark, if it doesn't move it sinks, and means this is the mentality that an ambitious man of business must follow in order not to sink and continue continuing with his goals and dreams, the mentality of a person whose main motivation is money, who does not mind jumping the limits of ethics and morality in order to achieve it.

The equivalent in English here is “wolf-like mentality”, it’s similar to what I’ve explain, but includes too the saying of “divide and conquer” and to clarify this even more to understand Jason’s character, here I add all the main points it includes, something that can perfectly fix in Jason’s character to understand him better, a very Maquiavelo-like:

This can also apply to his personal relationships (romantic ones included), this way of thinking can explain it very well too what could be other of the reasons why he feels he cannot have a long romantic relationship: because his business are the first, and also can explain why perhaps he lost the interest in women very quick, because he’s mostly focused in the mentality of immediate results and thinks maybe the other choice is a lost of time + the fear for the previous trauma about the attacked and losing someone I’ve mentioned before.

And about wolf mentality and his rivalry and work…

Now let’s talk about the matter of his rivalry with Devon.

Maybe the answer is just a simple as: Jason was just frustrated for not be able to achieve his dreams for all the stuff I’ve been wrote before, which led him to steal the project from Devon (whether it was stealing it by himself acting alone and by himself in a desperate act or because some third person manipulated and convinced him to do it), but even if those were the main reasons, I still think there's something more here we still don’t know. Something more that happened between them before or during the town hall project thing, something more personal and complex than what we've been told, or at least that there's something more here that Devon doesn't know.

Maybe could be also for envy too. Devon was a good person and didn't have to pretend to be perfect to achieve his dreams like Jason did to have friends or a romantic partner and Devon seems to had a loving and stable family, maybe they meet each other since they were teenagers, but we still have no confirmation about this, so maybe I’m wrong, the only thing we know for sure is that at least they didn’t meet each other since childhood, since Chinomiko said it on Instagram long ago. But still this doesn’t feel enough (to me at least) to explain Jason’s behaviour.

For now, I also keep other of my old theories about there is possible a third person involved in all this problem. We’ll see what’s the real answer to this question.

Although here I want to add one more point, and that is that Devon and Devenementiel curiously represent the exact opposite of Jason and Goldreamz in the business approach, the called “sheep mentality”, and these are the differences between them:

Ironically, today in the competitiveness of modernity in business, it's considered that in reality the best entrepreneurs are neither one nor the other, but a mix between both types of mentality. Does this mean that there will be a time in the future when both companies find themselves in a delicate situation and decide to collaborate in order to mutually triumph against a greater enemy (Ioann and his company, f*ck Ysa's ex boyfriend, I hope we can punch him, that Ioann is gonna be the new Debrah and main villain mark my words) by overcoming their differences? Well, only time will tell...

Now, about Ysaline-Jason:

There is the small detail that Ysaline comes from a rich family, or at least her mother became rich and famous in her work in recent years, and thanks to that Ysaline was able to do private and expensive studies abroad (and Jason clearly knows this, he's an stalker who got her number and email easily XD and other characters like Thomas and Amanda knew Ysaline's mother was rich too just searching some info about her on internet). And that may also cause some insecurity in Jason, fearing that perhaps Ysaline may be disappointed if she finds out that he's not as perfect as he seems or at least that he was not at all in his past. Maybe he even had an ex girlfriend who, after she found out that, felt disappointed about him and left him, and that made him more superficial and cautious with her subsequent love conquests, or maybe since he only get romances once he started to put on his popular guy facade and succeed, he thinks he needs to impress and seduces her in the same way he did it with other women, because he thinks she will only be seduced by him by superficial stuff like his charms, attractive, money and work. Until Ysaline shows him what she wants is really get to know him, with all his weakness, in heart, mind and body, and until he realizes he really wants to know her better just because he loves to spend time with her and she makes him happy, and we know that will happen.

I've read some theories from different people and social webs that some think that Jason wants to use Ysa's family's money to invest in his own company, but I think his intentions are not in that way, but rather:

I think also one of the reasons why he agreed to help in ep 5 her was not only to seduce her or to show her Goldreamz so that she would want to work there with him, but also because Jason is able to see her potential, since a person with her studies, her family money, all the important contacts her mother has, and with the previous experience of having worked in a big important company and who has also shown him face to face that she has a competitive and brave side, she can undoubtedly go very far, and obviously he wants her to go far having her by his side, but of course he will also have a conflict here since I don't think he is the type of person who is comfortable mixing love with business, not like Ioann, the hell with that shitty man.

Obviously he also wants to manipulate her or at least bother Devenementiel somehow with all this. The little we have seen of Danica in ep 5 is that she is someone very efficient and fast at her job, Jason saw that and brought her to his side, now Jason sees that although Ysaline has failed in one of her projects, she still has potential to become a great event organizer. He also wanted to closely observe how she works when she is motivated and has someone guide her in the right path, when she is herself, and maybe even Jason sees in her the person he was before he achieved excellence. And Ysaline has ambition, she herself told Devon in one of the previous eps (if you follow Devon's route) that she dreamed of one day becoming a big star in the world of events and had the goal of being one of the best at her job. Even in one of the dialogues you can get in ep 2, Jason asks Ysaline "Aren't you willing to do anything to achieve success?" Jason knows that they are both similar in that way, and he wants to take advantage of that.

However Ysaline not only has ambition and a competitive will, but also a certain level of morality and feeling of unity with her co-workers, boss and her family and friends. And although it is still early to assume this, it's quite possible that she is the character that represents the perfect mix between the two business ideologies, both the wolf and the sheep. I'll call that fussion "the kitten mentality" because I can.

Of course, returning to the relationships issue, one thing to try his best to seduce her and make her work for him or at least have her as an ally and briefly as lover, and something very different is what we know will happen: that he will fall in love with her and both will want more, but he will feel that he cannot and shouldn't go further.

So we have here all this matter about his fake perfect facade of rich, charming and popular man of business + his humble origins + wolf-like mentality + his trauma about the losing of his father and more people in the future. A perfect cocktail to be afraid to have a stable relationship.

Greetings to all Jason fans like me who have him as a route and loves to suffer. In this house we love traumatized fictional men with red flags.

And let's add of course there will probably be many more problems that will make him fear having a relationship with Ysaline once he falls in love with her, because problems already numbered in more than 2000 words weren't enough first because he will try to convince himself that he only wants to manipulate her so that she change sides and join to Goldreamz, and to seduce her so that she'd end up in his bed (and she maybe would believe that too), but then when he finds out he's in love with her, and she with him, Jason will have to make the decision about whether to go ahead with his revenge against Devenementiel or not, because he knows that will end up hurting her, since she could suffer if her colleagues and boss find out about her relationship with him and distrust her or if that even ruins her reputation, which is was already bad in her previous company because she slept with her previous boss, and above all because she will never forgive him and will hate him if the Devenementiel closes and all his friends and her loses their jobs because of Jason's actions. And having a relationship with him makes her feels more guilty for what happened, like believing she was part of his plans and she helped him in some way, and then she could believe she was nothing except another more of his conquers and everything was a lie (her ex-boyfriend trauma attacking again here), or at least she wasn't as important to him as she thought.

And perhaps, even if he tries to stop those actions, and not harm Devenementiel further so as not to make her harm her, perhaps, by then, it will be too late to stop those revenge plans...

So he will lose another person that he loves and wants in his life. The only person who accepted him and loved him exactly who he really is and who really knows him. His biggest fears making true, again.

but this is an otome game, guys, everything will be solved at the end and everybody will be happy, don't worry!

[cursed-sonic-opinions]

This fandom gotta stop overusing the word "headcanon", it's just trivializing the word and wiping away its meaning, which is: something without confirmation but that as you take into account the data and info canon presents, you may consider it makes sense. So it's not needed a deep analysis to know that if the thing contradicts canon, it can't be called a headcanon.

And also many concepts are cool/interesting by their own and are fuel for countless unique and interesting AUs even when we know they contradict canon: X character being a hybrid, Sonic (or any other character) being trans, Metal Sonic is robotzied Sonic theory, Shadow was tortured aboard ARK -trope, Sonic having trouble to control his werehog form and the list goes on.

Why not just call them something like "deliberate re-imagination" for example? After all that's what we are doing here: deliberately re-imaginating what a character could be, or what scenarios would play if we considered X thing even if X thing means change a lot of the base story

this isn't a confession bestie, this is straight up fact, headcanons are fine but it gets to a point where they're straight up aus

[nothingbeforenothingagain]

ok so I’m about to start a tng rewatch (including picard) and I plan to be posting some analysis for each episode. I just want to know what are some fan theories/headcanons about people have that I can watch out for ❤️

gonna be pretty data-focused but definitely open to writing about any character.

this’ll be my 4th? watch through

comment or retweet with things to look for. Aiming to post one a week. ☺️

[xochitai]

Was thinking of sapphic Lotura again the other night and ran into the question: would fem!Lotor be butch? [ramble below]

This section is partially inspired by a headcanon [or maybe it was a theory; I can't remember] post I saw on tumblr [which I tried to find to link here but I could not] because canon doesn't give us much to work with when it comes to civillian Galran culture. Gist of the post was sexual dimorphism in Galra and links to gender. So traits like being larger and/or more colorful are perceived as feminine [ex. Zethrid, Kolivan] and being smaller with fewer colors is perceived as masculine [ex. Lotor]. The original post has more detail and expands on how fem-/masc- ulinity tie into Galran society, but back to the point. Assuming fem!Lotor looks the same as canon!Lotor, viewed through this hc/theory, she would be perceived as masc. However, just because someone has fem/masc features doesn't mean they identify with that or want to dress in a way that "matches." So we are back to square one.

There was a drawing made by one of the people who worked on the show that featured the paladins, blade of marmora, and sincline squad at a restaurant[?] in winter. [I could probably look this up and find it to put here but I am lazy]. Lotor is walking in, wearing a beanie and puffy coat. Very typical winter clothes in typical winter colors. Not much to work with here. Next.

For this part, I know I have the pic already on my computer so I'll insert it here:

The mix of greys canon!L wears don't seem to be gendered. Whether dress or tunic/overcoat/leggings combo, there's an even mix of dark and light grey. None of the Galra here wear orange or blue, so can't really do anything with that. Lotor's waist cape does resemble what some of the male Galra are wearing, particularly the ones behind Blaytz on the stairs, but those are an over layer being bound by a belt. Similar shape, different construction. Don't really have anything else to go off of though so I will give 0.5 point to team masc.

In terms of actions, I will not lie to you dear reader, it's been a while since I watched the latter half of the show so my memory is fuzzy. Maybe there is some big thing I missed. I wouldn't know; I missed it. Anyways. Ik it's a bit of a stereotype but Lotor designs and builds things. Would it be so far fetched for Ladytor to be a diy/builder wife? With all her little projects? She says she's gonna renovate the space porch but gets distracted and designs a house for the cat and builds a robot.

I feel like I'm reaching the part where I'm grasping at straws. Clothing analysis can only do so much because Lotor wears ONE OUTFIT FOR HIS ENTIRE ADULT LIFE. Not even death can separate him from that damn armor. But does it matter? Do I need canon approval to draw fem!Lotor in dapper fits?

Deleted a little bit because I started to lose the plot. I guess the conclusion is: data inconclusive. Requires further discussion.

As always, hope this was legible enough. I fixed some spelling errors but that's about it. I'm not going through this again to clean up sentence structure.

+ can't remember how many total rambles i have. not sure if it is time for a ramble tag. i don't think anyone reads them enough to warrant one but idk.

[regnantlight]

Finally getting around to posting some thoughts about everyone's favorite little stinker, Puppet Zelda. She's patronizing, she's cruel, she's loves to give Link the run-around—but who, or rather what, is she?

I subscribe to the theory that Puppet Zelda is a creation of Ganondorf's in much the same way that Bokoblin are his creation. He calls her "Puppet" because that's what the creature is—a Puppet that can take on multiple forms. We actually get to see two forms that the Puppet can take: Zelda and, directly following the dismantle of her illusion, Phantom Ganon.

The puppet's form, without any illusionary magic applied, is an ever moving, living piece of malice. It does not need food or water, and any partaken in illusionary forms are purely for show.

When Ganondorf created the Puppet, he designed it to have enough intelligence to make decisions without him guiding it toward every step, but without free will to ensure it would always obey. In modern terms, the Puppet is a program with artificial intelligence that can run on its own within the limitations of its coded purpose.

If Ganondorf wants it to fight like him, it can take his form and imitate his fighting style based on an analysis of all examples of him fighting. If he wants it to look and act like Princess Zelda, it can take on her form with enough data input. This means that, while Ganondorf can't make a clone of anyone at a glance, he is able to essentially make a convincing enough duplication given time to mine the necessary data.

He can tweak the Puppet as needed, and often does, perfectionist that he is (this is becoming a Ganondorf headcanon post as well as a Zelda post haha I guess I'll send it over to the sideblog as well) and he can feed the data to it through a second-hand account, which is how he's able to make his Zelda puppet. It's never quite as good as when the Puppet can analyze for itself, though, hence why Phantom Ganon is a superior copy to Princess Zelda.

You can try to reason or talk with Puppet Zelda and the responses she gives you might even make you think that she has a mind of her own—and depending on how you define such a thing, perhaps she does. But again, she is ultimately bound to a program. She does not have free will. Her responses are merely mimicking what it believes Princess Zelda would respond with given the data it has of her.

[a-la-campanella]

"Campanella, I saw you in a dream."

「カムパネルラ、夢を見ていた。」

My profile picture is from the 1.5 Nameless Medal reward, "Yanqing: Odyssey" in-game profile picture. The username is a reference to the character Campanella from Night on the Galactic Railroad, and La Campanella by Liszt., which you can listen to here.

A side-blog for Honkai: Star Rail. My UID is not up for sharing, mostly because my Yanqing is pitiful and nobody borrows him. (I'm still grinding for better relics and nothing is rolling crit.)

I downloaded Honkai: Star Rail because I've been playing Genshin Impact since the first Lantern Rite (or launch if you want to argue technicalities) and kept playing this game since I was enamored with the space-fantasy elements. The feeling I get from playing and hanging around the Astral Express reminds me of Kenji Miyazawa's Night On The Galactic Railroad, which is a story I'm very fond of.

Futilely trying to learn more about the game's lore. Unfortunately, I'm not particularly invested in most of the characters or going through the in-game readables, but the worldbuilding is interesting enough.

I might write fanfic or draw fanart about whatever catches my interest, who knows. It might be NSFW. Ideally I'll keep in mind to tag for that sort of thing, but I'm not perfect and it might slip my mind. This is your warning.

Fun facts (STC)!

Trailblaze level 70. Played since launch, got bored and skipped out on most of 1.3 and all of 1.4 (not that I missed anything important), and crawled back in 1.5...

Trailblazer: Stelle. I don't care about Caelus.

Favorite character: Yanqing. Runner up: Acheron.

I like reading about lore (sci-fi fantasy worldbuilding goes hard) and, against my will, character meta/theorycrafting.

With a couple of exceptions, I see everyone as bisexual. Do not separate BronSeele.

I'm not picky with ships, but I can't bring myself to say I actively enjoy some of the more popular ones... ships like RenHeng, KafHime, (and to an extent) SamPard, and RatioRine don't hold much weight, the way I see it. That can change in a distant future.

Please don't expect much. I regularly fall off the plane of existence to a vanishing point in the horizon, and I don't know when I'll be back when that happens.

Tags, for my own navigation more than anything else:

ringing forward -> personal thoughts/in-game experiences (reactions, screenshots, web events, things like that)

bells chime in the wind -> offline memories (think pictures, merch, irl events)

strike the bells -> events to add to the calendar

recall and retrieve -> looking back or looking forward on the game's story and events (new version livestreams, myriad celestia trailers, etc. (not actual gameplay experiences))

building an accelerated tree -> theories, headcanons, crack, lore, and the dumpster in the back

a bell strung on -> fanfic-related posts

la campana al mediodia -> OCs

swimming through mountains of fire -> WIPs, which current include:

Journey on Penacony (2/7)

Black Swan Myriad Celestia post (probably)

Sparkle Myriad Celestia post/character analysis

LNY Animation post(???)

Clockie videos (if more of them come out)

Data Bank Update (OC stuff)

Wang Qiming Character Profile

seek the empyreal (Misha x Sunday fic)

[fantomette22]

Hm it is a complex subject and I feel no one can be fully wrong or right on this! but let me try to explain smt.

About cut content I think we need to divide it first but it can get very tricky. Like, can you consider ALL the cut content canon? with multiple re writings over the years? multiple versions of the same characters? (proto Laurence & mico for exemple who were swap etc in the very first draft. And when bloodborne was like demon souls 2?) I don't think you can really consider this, no. Yes it's in the game but very much hidden and not made to be found by the players. + the dialogues are made a lot in advance so can you all consider them canon?

For exemple hm... I don't enjoy when people consider as "canon" and use smt as "confirmed proof" some cut content dialogue that are probably from a very early version of the script. (if you know you know) but they can totally use it as headcanon purpose or for fiction. To fill the gasp to understand a character no prob I myself do that! But pass it as canon to impose an interpretation or discredit smn else? NO.

It's ok that people just made headcanons with those cut content dialogues for exemple but where should you draw the line to take them into account for more serious theory? It's complex.

Like some does feel way closer to canon (dlc cut content & Maria cut dialogues for exemple) because they are the most recent ones! I personally like to incorporate it in my headcanons but you can't really discard smn theory if they don't know about it. And people can say you can't use that as a 100% proof justification either for a theory , because it didn't make it to the final ver as well.

(The only exception being like the Vileblood cord cut content who is canon in 1.0 so like?? I think we could consider it? but if people have other theory from where it came from and argument well like othat's ok too?)

For all the other cut content they are not a very clear date to arrange them in order. And where do you draw the line? It's an never ending problem.

I don't know much on how game development work in details but from what I know they are not going to make multiple versions of the source code and delete things they won't use anymore in case they need it or have a problem later on.

But also I thing data mining is important for multiple reasons! Besides making us learn a LOT about how development was made and make us discover so many stuff there's things thanks to data mining that you need to take into account sometimes.

For exemple well, characters face data (for the ones who have some at least, like in elden ring for exemple). it is something the player will not see all the time if the character have a helmet for exemple yes. But they do have a canon appearance if you want draw them or link them with other characters! Or just know what they look like. It would be a bit of a shame to just ignore it. It's not visible at first but not just straight up cut content lost somewhere!

And what about model references? It's tricky without artwork to have all the details and even in game. Especially when enemies move all the time good luck to take detailed screenshot of Ludwig or smt XD

The items the npc/ennemies have and we can't see are nice details too! (Simon throwing knives smn?? Or even the stats. Even the stats on the armor & their prices that tell lore hello?! I am the only dumbass who look at that?! probably)

People can stay surface lvl in their analysis of game and media, no prob. But if they wanna dive in, theorise, get invested you need to know some stuff.

Like all the item descriptions or notes/ documents you can find in a game for exemple. You can completely pass besides it! Storytelling via environment too (geography of area, same architectures in 2 places who are link but far for exemple). You can not care about it but the moment you got invested and wanna make specific content on the lore and theorise you need to be award of that! Right?

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Ok so in to simplify, people not believing or taking into account some old cut content (can I use the great one beast as an exemple?XD T_T) as canon is ok because it's not revelant but people can use it in headcanon and fiction! (Or like your theory on Loran & the great one beast) you could use it to fill the gasp because nothing in the present game contradict it either 🤷‍♀️ Likewise for the design of the King of Cainhurst for exemple. We know bro did exist and there's cut model we can use to know what he might have look like!

The important is to be careful with "deep cut content" that is probably not canon. But the moment you want to dive in the lore/universe and you get a LOT invested you need to consider face data for exemple. Maybe a little less than text/descriptions you find in game but still. It's complicated and it depend context of the discussion sure but still.

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Lats thing : yes the devs have a "vison" of the entire thing & story probably but sometimes they don't know themself and left blank or want people to interpret it their own way! (coolest thing ever too) So yeah people are free with that.

Like I always say our view on some details can be very far and different but the moment you justify it and argument without contradicting something we are sure of. There's absolutely no problem!

Also recently I've gotten into a debate with a friend that doesn't agree with my approach for deciphering Soulsborne lore (in which I include all pieces on models you can't see in the game and should rip the model, face data, internal filenames, lyrics translations in BB, cut content that isn't actually cut....). Like, his point was that we only should consider what can be observed in the games with 'naked eye' to say so, and everything developers hid and did not intend for players to see by normal means is just a 'fun fact' that might or might not be used, whereas my point is that everything that developers PUT in the game counts and in 95% of the times there is not only thought put into it, but a legit answer to some lore questions! Zullie (the dataminer/youtuber) put it better in a Tweet I can't find right now, that since everything developers put in the game is made with conscious effort, of course there is implication almost always- heck, if you watch her channel and analyzed her datamines, you can see what it all means!

But also, we came to an agreement that he is... kind of right, actually? That videogames should be first interpreted from what experiences developers intended for the players, because it is very unlikely that they created a story with dataminers that will unveil it in mind. Miyazaki himself admitted that as a kid, he enjoyed reading novels written in English but didn't understand some bits because of the language barrier and had to fill the gaps with his imagination 🤔 So even if he himself knows the 'real' story of his games, he wanted to emulate that feeling, so the players would feel the same fun of having to fill the gaps they can't understand. Basically, I am not engaging with the story in the way he intended for the fans. What I am doing using books analogy is dig into dictionary or ask people around when there are words I don't know, so I can decipher everything. This is just how my brain works (no autist is the same blablabla) and I am not having fun using my own imagination...? I am not playing the game by rules, but rather I have fun learning bits developers chose to hide because I want to get as close to the "real" story rather than make my own. So, legit answers on some lore questions hidden deep in game files are same as English words you are supposed to not understand. And yet I intend to (fucking Caryll moment, lol)

In general, I can't really change how my mind works- and, again, by this logic what Zullie or Lance or others are doing is """wrong""" and it isn't, my friend is just right that this is not intended experience. I also found an interesting irony in how for someone THIS passionate about Soulsborne games (mostly Bloodborne), I do not really respect the creator's plan for me as a fan 🤔 Something to think about.. Does that make Lore Council and other particularly hardcore lorediggers type of mad scholars that fall for their hubris? ...or this is just me? xD

[madsxientific]

Baxter is very light framed and could easily just be lifted by someone. Though if you do lift him up all of sudden you'll have a squirming feesh....who has access to all the weapons.

[movedtodykedvonte]

Another theory I’ve always liked is the possession theory with Spamton.

That’s the acid theory happened but instead of it melting his skin and revealing what he’s always been inside, a doll, a puppet, it does indeed kill him. But for whatever reason his soul or properties as a cyber darkener allow him to possess something else and the closest thing he could find in time before his soul(?) faded was an old doll-like mannequin.

It adds the element of choice to his story while keeping his inability to avoid fate or predetermination and the very real factor that Spamton always chooses the wrong or the more damning option. The fact it was the mannequin or nonexistence and so after being controlled/having a lack of control his whole life he has to willingly choose a vessel that embodies that strife. That he essentially damns himself to his own existential hell while still desperately trying to reach a heaven that keeps rejecting him.

[ask-glados]

Old Aperture’s “Red Carpet”

I always thought Old Aperture had a red carpet in their lobby but then I looked closer and realized... it's actually just red paint...

Red paint... on their expensive marble tile...

"Paint doesn't stick well to marble tile"

"You must ABRADE the surface to promote adhesion"

They sanded down their expensive marble tile just so that they could paint a red line on it...

Also! The red paint line CONTINUES into the next room, and the entire floor there is the same shade of red... They painted this ENTIRE ROOM'S FLOOR RED. They sanded down all of that marble as well!

You can see some worn-down paint on the floor right there in front of his portrait. On a side note, someone broke into that display case of his and we’ll never know what was in it. My guess is possibly some portal gun/quantum tunneling device prototypes.

[mage-ical-character-person]

Thank you! Thanks it means a lot when my analysis theory-headcanon things resonate with someone. The name “Sanctuary Zero” just screams “prototype” to me. And it sorta reminded me of those old room-sized computers before the technology was sort of refined and compacted if that makes sense? Combine that with the PDA entries and my brain did things.

and yeah the “Alien Biological History” one is just so interesting. There’s so much world building for the Architects in there and people just don’t talk about it that I’ve seen. The mention of broodlings and the fact that there’s a lower limit for the “temple of research” implies that Architects do have a distinction between the younger and older ones besides just amount of experience, and that they take a long time to mature. Which is notable, most hooved animals spend very little of their lifetimes as a child of any sort.

AND the fact that their research organization is called a temple? Really interesting considering how a lot of what we hear about Architects from Al-An suggests they’re pretty strictly practical and scientific. But they do also have ying yang symbol and art in the form of statues so who knows

and the corrupted data set thing. The cyborg centaurs can catch both computer viruses and regular pathogens and their solution is just to evacuate their body.

Architect Sanctuaries and Storage.

So! I feel like we don’t talk about the Sanctuary caches from Subnautica enough as it relates to Below Zero.

Like. First of all, Al-An, where are you going, your people are here. You’re not gonna check to see if anyone else is trapped in a sanctuary with failing power like you were? Granted, I think the Sanctuaries in The Crater are probably Hooked up to the Alien Thermal Plant so they’ll be fine as long as the lava zone continues to be hot. Probably why Ryley wasn’t getting any alien distress signals. But the threat of Kharaa has more or less passed, and these Architects were part of Al-An’s research team, you’d think he’d do something.

It’s recommended to put them in a compatible medium as soon as possible, you said it yourself get down there and fabricate more bodies!

Also. On the “factory reset” point. I feel the need to point a couple things out.

First of all, in the Dunes Cache, you can download this from the alien terminal

(Side note this entry specifically is so revealing about Architect society and stuff. PLUS entire other Architect character like I have so many thoughts. Might get its own post at some point I dunno)

It seems like they were storing the memories like… separately from the individual. They were probably also backed up on the network if Al-An’s comments in the whole “How do humans cope with the loss of memories” conversation are anything to go by.

I think the memories just end up feeling less like something the Architect actually experienced personally and more like something they heard about. Like they lose some personal connection to the events.

but still. I think if the Architect’s technology had a flaw like that they’d be working to fix it. And that leads me to a theory on why the Sanctuaries in the first game are so different to Sanctuary Zero where we find Al-An.

I think that with Kharaa meaning Sanctuary sites more vital than probably ever, improving the technology behind them would’ve probably been a priority. I think Sanctuary Zero is perhaps some sort of prototype for improved Sanctuary technology. Sanctuary Zero is bigger, despite storing only one Architect, while the Sanctuary Caches in the first game are implied to store multiple. It’s got this big bulky Architect Containment Cube to put Al-An in, and the PDA makes a point of noting that whoever’s stored inside is able to remain fully conscious with “whole brain emulation” something we don’t seem to see in the first game’s Sanctuaries.

I think the Network decided to stick Al-An in this instead of a normal Sanctuary both because they needed to test it anyway, and after what he did it’s possible they didn’t really care if it went wrong and he was lost in the process. If it did work, he’d have to continue to carry that emotional weight even if he got a new body, and he’d be forced to be awake, thinking about what he’d done in the thousand years before then. I think the Network would’ve found that to be an apt punishment, without it being only for punishment’s sake, but also part of Sanctuary research. More efficient that way.

[reconseaweed]

LAYER ONE : THE OUTSIDE

NAME • Chondrus

EYE COLOUR • pale pink.

HAIR STYLE / COLOUR • pink hair that’s generally short, save for the long strips of hair in front of his ears

HEIGHT • six foot seven.

CLOTHING STYLE • he sticks to his basic uniform; plain colors in otherwise conservative fashion. Chondrus’ style may venture into more chic territory...or not

BEST PHYSICAL FEATURE • face. He doesn’t give many people the chance to see much else.

LAYER TWO : THE INSIDE

FEARS • losing control, running into his mother (and her ex’s), failing, loneliness. 

GUILTY PLEASURE • reading horoscopes. 

BIGGEST PET PEEVE • people using debunked facts for the sake of proving their cause, or otherwise not researching into their topic of debate/discussion. 

AMBITIONS FOR THE FUTURE • explore all of Alola and the regions clustered within this world, as well as document what his own has to offer.

LAYER THREE : THOUGHTS

FIRST THOUGHTS UPON WAKING UP • They were memories. None of that will happen here. None of it.

WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT MOST • Do not flinch. Smile to them instead. Learn from the past and trust others.

WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT BEFORE BED • Please don’t come back tonight. I wish to dream of nothing. Is that so much to ask?

WHAT YOUR BEST QUALITY IS • Determination. I complete tasks to the best of my ability, regardless of how taxing they are on my energy and sleep schedule.

LAYER FOUR: WHAT’S BETTER ?

SINGLE OR GROUP DATES

TO BE LOVED OR RESPECTED

BEAUTY OR BRAINS

DOGS OR CATS

LAYER FIVE : DO YOU …

LIE • not if he can help it.

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF • debateable. 

BELIEVE IN LOVE • no

WANT SOMEONE • yes.

LAYER SIX : EVER BEEN …

BEEN ON STAGE • no.

DONE DRUGS • ...once

CHANGED WHO YOU WERE TO FIT IN • no.

LAYER SEVEN : FAVORITES

FAVOURITE COLOR • pink.

FAVOURITE ANIMAL •kartana hold a special place in his heart.

FAVOURITE MOVIE • Interstellar.

FAVOURITE GAME • Cooking Mama.

LAYER EIGHT : AGE

DAY YOUR NEXT BIRTHDAY WILL BE •December 29th, a saturday.

AGE YOU LOST YOUR VIRGINITY • ...twenty-two. It was my choice.

DOES AGE MATTER • yes.

LAYER NINE : IN A PERSON

BEST PERSONALITY TRAIT •eager to learn

BEST EYE COLOUR • brown

BEST HAIR COLOUR •darker tones; browns, blacks, and “unnatural” too.

BEST THING TO DO WITH A PARTNER • talking, such as lengthy discussions in the darkest hours of the night. 

LAYER TEN : FINISH THE SENTENCE

I LOVE the people that I’ve met thus far

I FEEL nothing

I HIDE my childhood, my weakness.

I MISS sleeping without worry.

I WISH I left sooner.

tagged by: @tenderpoison tagging: anyone who wants to! I think I’m one of the few who hasn’t done this ;;;

[theresistanceneverquits]

So this last week was OCD Awareness Week and it got me thinking about how in TMNT 2012, Donnie was “confirmed” to have obsessive-compulsive disorder. (A writer who worked on the show confirmed it.) However, as someone with OCD I have never related to Donnie, and I’ve recently been rewatching the series with this knowledge in mind and still have not seen any good evidence of representation from him.

However, I feel like a character that actually displays themes of OCD well is Leo. I will say that my view of Leo’s OCD-coding is more based on his mentality, as opposed to actually showing signs of rituals or anything. This is me acknowledging that in-canon he does not exhibit Actual signs of OCD (neither does Donnie), but rather that his mentality better reflects OCD than Donnie’s does, to the point where I’ve related to Leo at times because of these themes.

There are also aspects that overlap with Leo possibly having ptsd and/or depression in the series, but I am making this analysis to educate you about how OCD works regardless, as I feel there is still something to be learned from headcanons and theories when it comes to analysis. I will also analyze how Donnie’s traits that can be skewed to represent OCD actually better fit a diagnosis of autism, using research provided to me by some friends who are autistic.

Onto the analysis! Starting with Donnie, there were a few traits I was able to identify that could work as OCD. He’s neat and organized, dislikes change, and hyperfixates on his work. He also had that chart to help him ask out April, which shows his need for preparation. However, his chart was in preparation for the sake of a goal, whereas for OCD the “preparation” is like preparing for a tragedy that will never exist. And the chart is being used to avoid social conflict as opposed to his own internal anxiety. These traits are not caused by a need to satisfy intrusive thoughts and compulsions, but are rather how he processes his environment better. Donnie would feel frustrated, off-kilter, and overwhelmed if his routines were messed with. Leo attaches more of a moral weight to the actions in his routines.

So that brings me to how Donnie shows signs of being autistic. He tends to explain things and volunteer information when the situation doesn’t call for it, and especially during dire situations. An interesting parallel is how in Rise of the TMNT, Donnie is canonically autistic; in the Rise Movie Donnie says, “Data collection calms me down.” In the season 2 finale of 2012, Donnie tells Leo that oversharing and being technical is “how I deal with stress!”

Donnie also stims, such as often sticking out his tongue when he works. He is also very particular about the layout of his stuff in his lab, and shows great distress when someone (Mikey) messes with his stuff. He doesn’t want to feel out of control of his environment in his own workspace. He also tends to take things literally, such as when Raph said “Could we pick a more cliche way to get eaten?” sarcastically, and Donnie proceed to list off actual cliches to Raph’s annoyance.

Finally, Donnie sometimes experiences sensory discomfort. When Mikey spilled “greasy popcorn” all over Donnie, Donnie was enraged, noting the fact that it was greasy in particular. Additionally, at a point where all the Turtles get sprayed with monster guts, Donnie’s initial reaction is to ask for hand sanitizer. While washing your hands and being clean is a common OCD trait, Donnie’s concern here is with because of the texture and germs associated.

Leo’s turn!

Okay so before we get to how 2012 Leo is OCD-coded, I want to point out that Leo actually definitely has OCPD in every version except for Rise and you can fight me on that. “Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control (with no room for flexibility) that ultimately slows or interferes with completing a task;” Leo is consistently portrayed as being a controlling perfectionist. Additionally, “OCPD is a personality disorder, which means it involves personality traits that are stable, long-held, atypical, and problematic in some way. In the case of OCPD, people with this condition may find it hard to relate to others, and their devotion to perfectionism and rigid control can make it difficult to function.” This is Leo to a T. Others around him get annoyed with these traits in him, and these traits make up many of his definitive personality traits across the franchise. This side note aside, we may move on to OCD.

I am reiterating here that my purpose is to show how Leo’s themes as a character and in his story reflect those of obsessive-compulsive disorder and am seeking to analyze and educate based on that. I am not arguing that he canonically has OCD. That being said, his themes align best with the subtype of moral scrupulosity OCD, which has people obsess over the morality of their thoughts and actions and often seek outside help to distinguish the truth.

Some basics of Leo’s character that fit OCD themes: he has several episodes of panic, recurring nightmares about his worst fears, he’s controlling and a perfectionist, and thinks something bad will happen if he isn’t at his best and puts all that pressure on himself alone. People with OCD tend to believe that bad things happen because of certain things that they do or don’t do, regardless of how accurate that belief is (it is not an accurate belief). They also can seem oddly controlling to others as they try to gauge certain no-no actions from those around them. Additionally, in “Fungus Humongous,” Leo says, “I face my fear every day.” OCD is run by fear and paranoia, and we too face our fears every day. Fun fact: I like to watch “Parisitica” and “Fungus Humongous” when I’m feeling low because of how relatable I find Leo’s struggles in them.

FINALE SPOILERS: Finally, a symptom of OCD includes “Aggressive or horrific thoughts about losing control and harming yourself or others,” which I feel parallels in Mutant Apocalypse, when Leo attacks his family in a crazed state. He becomes just like the Shredder at this moment; a direct contradiction to his worst fear of losing them. He becomes double mutated because he chose to save his family over himself.

Examining now how Leo’s struggles line up with the morality theme, it’s like his brain is giving him ultimatums and black and white statements about ‘ok you have to be THIS or else THIS will happen.’ In a smaller scale, he would rather do training “right” than quickly, like in that scene where Leo’s doing his katas slower than his brothers and he makes a jab at them for their ‘poor’ form.’ Another interesting example comes with how he is consistently obsessed with finding and helping Karai throughout the series. He feels an intense sense of responsibility about it, even in situations when it really seems out of their hands, either because of wacky circumstances or because of her own actions. He says he's doing it for Splinter, but Splinter has already reassured him several times that he doesn't NEED to. His obsession conflicts with the interests of literally his entire family; it’s a situation that is linked with his morality. Leo is a very kind person who sees the best in people and wants to help them. Karai is his sister and his father’s daughter; he takes it as his personal responsibility to save her—a savior complex born from this obsession.

Now I wanna talk about Leo’s fears and where he turns to deal with them. OCD thrives off of people “Doubting and having difficulty tolerating uncertainty.” The next few sections includes major spoilers for the season 4 finale as well as talk of Main Character Death, so feel free to skip this section. Season 4’s space arc and events taking place after “Requiem” show intense examples of this for Leo. While a part of his actions here are likely due to ptsd and/or depression, it also parallels well with how OCD works.

Leo often goes to his father for advice. However, in the space arc when he’s separated from Splinter and in season 5 when Splinter is dead, Leo still has a need to seek advice and validation from his father. It is a response of grief, but it’s also his way of feeling like he’s getting guidance in a time when he doesn’t trust himself. This is similar to the reassurance-seeking compulsion, where someone with OCD goes to an outside source to entertain whatever thoughts the OCD has come up with, instead of just letting those thoughts go. Leo talking with Splinter practically every day via hologram in the space arc is his coping mechanism during that time, but even his brothers view it as excessive. It’s as if it’s the only thing tethering him during that time where he has little stability.

Additionally, ruminating is seen in the form of Leo constantly focusing on Splinter’s death, both in the space arc and post-“Requiem.” “OCD obsessions are repeated, persistent and unwanted thoughts, urges or images that are intrusive and cause distress or anxiety;” in “Trans-Dimensional Turtles” in the space arc, Leo is talking with the past version of Splinter and sees a vision of him being stabbed by the Shredder. This flashback is presented as something he is constantly thinking and worried about; very little else consumes his thoughts. The ptsd overlap once again occurs here, but I am pointing out that it is this sort of rumination that people with OCD experience often.

Finally, people with OCD “may try to ignore or stop [their] obsessions, but that only increases [their] distress and anxiety.” In the space arc, Leo is slowly being put through it, until he snaps near the end of the arc, going off on a suicide mission alone when he thinks they’ve been led astray by Fugitoid. No one in his family brought up their concerns for his mental well-being to him, and when not surrounded by his family he expressed his doubts and fears. But most of the time for those 6 months Leo spent in denial, singularly focused on their mission to save Earth and Master Splinter. It wasn’t until that vision was seemingly put in jeopardy that he finally snapped and acted reckless to the point of nearly dying. Leo simultaneously indulged in his obsessions while consciously ignoring their existence while in the presence of others, and that led to him being in great distress.

2012 Donnie is not at all a representation of obsessive-compulsive disorder past being the “smart character,” but he is a good representation of autism, whether intentional or not. Leonardo, while not explicitly being a character with OCD, does carry similar themes that make for a relatable OCD-coded character.

Here’s my contribution to OCD Awareness Week. You are now Aware.

Special Thanks:

@/sailor_the_robot on Insta for practically co-writing this with me. Much of this essay includes direct quotes from her.

@phoenixquill-art for her help as well with Donnie’s analysis!

@mej2235 for beta reading :3

Sources:

[ackerfics]

hi, rory! <3 what majors would the sc veterans take if they were in the modern world?

hi, anon !! thank you so much for this ask, this is heaven in disguise from all my schoolwork. tbh, the whole time i was working for a lab report, my mind will go back to this ask bc i wanted to have the association as accurate as possible hhhajshw

i asked one of my friends for help and thank God for them bc my single brain cell really said 'it's time for you to rest' after staring at one backlog. without further ado, here are the veterans' majors if they're studying in university:

first off, hange zoe, because if you ask me this question in real life, they would be the only one i can answer. every damn time i would think of them in a college setting, being a biology major is really hange's forte. at this point, this is what everyone would associate them with.

hange is all about experimenting and doing brilliant breakthroughs in any field of science but knowing that they have this unparalleled fascination with the unusual and unexpected life-forms (ahem titans ahem), the biology lab would be the surest place where you could find hange. i feel like biology is too broad so i will add that microbiology or bacteriology are just some of the specializations they will be taking in their time in college.

imagine, being lab partners with hange and immediately knowing that you will have one of the highest grades in the class because they're that well-versed in a specific lab report. and if you're partners with them for the rest of the academic year, you might as well have a shot at an immaculate grade. i'm not saying that you should depend on them too much though hHHHH, hange is still a member of the majority of the student body who relies heavily on caffeine to keep them invigorated. who isn't at this point?

so far, some of the biology majors that i encountered (well, more like chatted behind a screen — online classes suck), they have this energy that could drain my social battery too quickly and hange fits that description. (note that this doesn't apply to any college bc i observed this in mine soooo 🤭) they're the type to always go on a tangent on a certain science article or coerce you into joining this org thing. i can imagine levi just looking at hange like they're the one sucking his brain cells out whenever they speak about a documentary in bbc they watched the night before.

and if you're stuck on anything biology-related, hange will be the best person to ask help from. they're the first ray of sunlight you get while waking up. they're that approachable.

okay, so erwin smith.

don't come at me but he just radiates this ceo vibes and with that, one of his probably majors is business administration. i know this is so stereotypical of me but let's face it, erwin is a smooth talker through and through and if he doesn't take up marketing, business is one way to spend his college years. knowing his personality in attack on titan of establishing deals easily with a determined resolve, he fits the broadest description of being a business administration major. (again, don't come at me because my consultant for this statement is google and nobody comes after google sometimes hhhhh)

just for the benefit of myself, i will add what google says about this major, "[they] learn the mechanics of business through classes in fundamentals, such as finance, accounting and marketing ... students find ways to solve problems using data and they develop communication and managerial skills." and i thank you.

he's also probably the most well-spoken and most professional when conversing with others among his friends (and i'm not saying this to drag the other characters but this is what i pick up on) and that is exactly the qualities his major specializes. it is expected for them to strike deals and be a people person and who better character for the job than our very own erwin smith 🤩

now i mentioned 'one of the probable majors' and yes, aside from business administration, philosophy just exudes erwin smith. ngl, when i imagined erwin in a college setting, this major will always come first. his mind is just so sexy to me??? and i hope you guys think the same, too, because i don't want to be the only one who thinks that 👀 kidding aside, erwin is one of the smartest people in attack on titan and every time he speaks in one episode, my brain will instantly go mush, and that's what i feel when i hear philosophy majors talk.

philosophy majors (according to any other youtuber who does lookbooks for various majors hhhhhh) challenge what is unanswerable and analyze questions with no right answer. i feel like erwin, like hange, will talk all night to explain a theory. just imagine a date with him and you just listen to him rant about a topic that they should be making a report on. just listen to this man, okay?? it's adorable when he lets his guard down to include you in his little bubble of philosophies. he would also mention random things that he learned in classes, sometimes finding joy in knowing the philosophies of other people, or even deciphering levi's dream of an apocalyptic world. (it pisses levi off but he just leave him be.)

if you want a man who can do both of these majors, erwin smith is the answer 😉

sigh, mike zacharias.

this man holds so many talents and will forever amaze me.

i assume all of us here watched the movie perfume. and no, i'm not saying that mike is going to be a murderer but just like the main character of that film, making perfumes will be his forte with that sense of smell of his. and here, i conclude that mike will definitely take up chemical engineering.

he gives me the vibes that if it covers the one thing he does best, he will love his major. (mr. zacharias, can you please spare me that quality because i really need that now 😩) being in the labs while experimenting mundane things that can be found in the environment to create different scents is also a likely situation you can find him in, again, very much like hange. he's the type of student who really puts so much effort in staying afloat the honors list, even to the point of topping midterms in his major, for the sake of his dream. there will never be a moment where you will catch him complain about his major and professors.

he's that type of friend in college who agrees to any rant you say but in reality, he's got his life easy 😭

i headcanon mike owning a perfume shop after college just like how levi always dreamed of having a tea shop.

okay, imagine this little scenario if you're dating mike where he creates this unique perfumes as random gifts for you. they're not the typical perfumes that can seep through the room and can make you gag for no reason, they're subtle scents that will stay for the duration of the day. because again, he's got a sensitive nose, so making perfumes according to what his sense of smell dictates will always result in a revolutionary experiment. if you're randomly blurting out that you want a fusion of flowers and fruits as your perfume, say no more, he's your man.

now, the veteran who i find the hardest to associate a major with — levi ackerman.

after much deliberation and a break from plant physiology, i see him taking up law or criminology.

(i asked some of this from my mom because she attended law school :>>>)

levi is so organized and detailed in the things that he do and he fits in either of these majors since they require tedious memorizations and analysis of laws and crime scenes while being assertive enough to defend someone. he's the typical person who blurts out the true situation of a crime scene when watching film adaptations. yeah, he's that person, the one who sucks the enthusiasm out of you while watching a movie because he just had to correct some of the scenes. nevertheless, he means well though, he just wanted you to understand the reality unlike how films portray gruesome murders. movie nights always end up with levi ranting about half-assed mystery clichés.

levi's binder of readings are always too bright for everyone's good. his notes are full of highlighters and scribbles that it can blind someone. for one, he's always up all night studying his readings and cases for a practice court so by choosing neon highlighters, it's a way for him to wake up. there isn't one book in his possession that he doesn't highlight like it's a fricking coloring book. hange once jokingly said that his binder now acts like his bible and for once, he agrees because he was never seen without one. hange had a field day since levi never agrees with them.

when doing practice courts though, his go-to resting bitch face always come in handy when carrying out his role as one of the lawyers. he's just so sexy with his hands in the pockets of his slacks as he tries to justify his supposed client. the way he questions the accused definitely isn't hot because he's like one of the panelists in your thesis defense, the one who just comes up with questions that have you melting on the spot. he's dangerous i tell you. it also doesn't help if you accidentally hurt one of his friends or just landed randomly in his blacklist for being annoying as hell. relax though, he doesn't mean harm other than the fact that he's ready to throw some hands from all the pent-up rage he gathered in his body.

of course, i couldn't forget how he dresses up like a typical dark academia fanatic so look out for eye-candy.

if you want someone who can recite articles from the constitution, this man is perfect for you 😌

i had so much fun doing this !! again, i'm not generalizing every major i've talked about in these little headcanons, this is all for fun and based on the people i encountered in college. if you want more of this, don't hesitate to ask !! 😚