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creechurfoundincheckerboardvoid · 3 years ago

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Hola, i am the headcanon anon, May i have some dhmis or salad finger headcanons? (if not its fine)

hola!!!!!! buenos dias!!!!!!! or noches!!!!!! although that has entirely the wrong connotations if you translate it directly!!!!! i will GLADLY bestow some headcanons upon thee!!!!!!!!! i was gonna apologize for it being so long but no. suffer <3

ok we'll start with sal because there's only one of him

salad fingers

he doesn't have any concept of death. not for others, and not for himself, either. thus the lack of any sort of self-preservation instincts. there's only "going away" and "falling asleep." none of it is permanent.

he has died before, though. several times. several ways. he doesn't have a word for it in his head. it's just something that happens. it never lasts.

at least a hundred years old. i'm unsure what the human equivalent would be. with the way glass mother treats him, it's not entirely impossible for him to still be a kid. i mostly think of him as an adult, though, or ambiguous at best.

not a human, never was. some unspecified monster thing. an alien guy on an alien planet living his best life!! or worst life. depends how you look at it

an aquatic species. he has gills instead of a nose. his fingers are highly sensitive (and long) to navigate in dark water. breathes in both air and water equally fine. he's like a fucked up frog or something

the mirrorland (where glass mother and brother are) is his original home. he was cursed to live alone in the parallel reflection world as a particularly brutal punishment. it has been this way for decades. he doesn't think about it so much anymore. the desert wasteland is just his home now. he likes it that way.

as a sub-note of that, him destroying the mirrors at the end of 11 was him deciding to stay in the parallel land, and never return to where he came from. the desert wasteland has become more of a home to him than the mirrorland ever was.

his finger puppets are not sentient, but he pretends they are. he made them as friends for himself back when he was first sent to the other end of the mirror. it's been long enough for them to have developed personalities and tastes of their own.

hubert the flesh-boy was actually alive, somehow. it's possible that his outer casing died at the end of 11, and it had to be taken off of him so that he could keep living (in market and 12). either way, he's becoming increasingly sentient and i do not know what it means but it's cool as hell

completely unaware of his own peculiarity. it doesn't matter to him, really.

comic-salad specifically though. has been made aware of that. it's messed him up a bit more than he lets on

raptor hands king

i have absolutely no idea how tall he is!!!! i draw him to be just a bit smaller than red guy, which would put him at around six feet tall? 1.8 meters? except i've since noticed that he's only as tall as the shoulders of all those horses, and if they're average horses, that would make him like. my height. 5'4". small

the corpses that just show up in the desert wasteland are reflections of living things in the mirrorland

he and glass brother are not separate people. either glass brother is a reflection of salad's insecurities (or who he could have been, if he'd stayed behind), or salad and everything he does is a coping mechanism of glass brother's to deal with that living situation. i don't theorise as much as i used to but i still think about this one sometimes. yes i have a lot of contradictory headcanons lmao

his organs are all black, and so is his blood in the center of his body. everywhere else it's red.

i've liked salad fingers a lot longer than dhmis, and it was about the same time i was figuring out i'm neurodivergent (autistic specifically, years ago lol) and yeah that's why salad fingers is both the first and most cursed neurodivergent headcanon i have. tbh i was hesitant because "what if people say he's bad representation" but then i realised that i'm bad representation. like me the human person. so

oh yeah last one he is trans <3 lol

and now!! the puppets!!!! yay

yellow guy

okay so i know this is not exactly a popular opinion (and i'd thought the contrary for a while before), but yellow guy is an adult! i could ramble very extensively about the different possibilities for this but boy is this post getting laggy. unspecified exact age, though. he's autistic.

tbh is his imaginary friend he beamed the image into the minds of internet users and that's how it exists

this dude is aromantic that headcanon means so much to me :]

he has a very limited range of clothing that he likes to wear. he found one sweater that he liked and now almost exclusively wears different color variations of it with his overalls

very artistic-leaning. not so good with mathematics or remembering facts, but he's very imaginative and good with art. colors especially.

wants to be a clown someday. probably could

hard of hearing after time happened

mostly sensory-seeking. also when he happy stims he shakes his head really fast because!!! because

wouldn't it be fucked up if his blood was oil lol. wouldn't it be fucked up if roy's blood was oil

he's the most emotionally aware of the trio. unexpectedly good at reading people. he has all those strange fears (horses, eggs, sky, moon, that stuff), but he's never scared of the unusual. the unsettling, uncanny, unnatural. it does not bother him. he is attracted to the dark and macabre with the idea that they are something kind. and he's right about it, too. that's why he's friends with salad. he knows there's nothing to be afraid of.

^ that's my favorite yellow guy headcanon ever actually. if i think about it for too long i might cry

generally averse to touch. really not okay with unprompted physical contact. on the rare occasion where he does want to be touched, he'll initiate.

yellow has changed to be a lot more confrontational than he was in the webseries. he has a tendency towards physical violence and outbursts of that sort. he's a lot more rebellious than he was before. i suppose you could call it "growing up a little"?

i think of clayhill (the show) as taking place after the webseries as a sort of disconnected sequel. a Feltlands 2.0. like they made it out of the original simulation (into the forest), but couldn't make it far enough to escape for real. they've been reset to the awareness they had before, but the events of the webseries have affected their personalities in ways they don't understand the reason for. thus the new confrontational aspect to yellow's personality.

and for comic-yellow specifically, he has got quite the complex around abandonment. kind of easy to see where that came from.

i think that. the whole thing about yellow, beneath it all, is that he craves acceptance. he needs to belong to something, anything. he doesn't have a sense of his identity. he has no idea who he even is, really. mostly because of that is his need for near constant attention and validation, and his standards for where to find that love are very, very low. it's not so much that he can't tell when someone means bad news (he's actually unexpectedly good at reading people), but that he's more than willing to shove that feeling down and ignore it for the sake of someone's attention.

duck

[cups hands around mouth] FREAK (affectionate)

that is the most important thing about them ever

it's probably a little obvious from the way i write them in the comic lol

basically what happened is the mix of neurodivergence and non-binary swag and hubris and also the undying curiosity of a toddler have made them Like That

they're smart. genuinely. somewhere in there. it's hidden under about twenty-seven layers of stupidity but trust me it's there

and yeah it's only intellectual smarts too. there is Nothing up there for other types. social, emotional. absolutely no practical intelligence

also it has absolutely gotten to their head. arrogant as fuck and for what

has got a tendency to get overly attached to objects. most recently it's been that blue notebook. he takes it with him everywhere he goes, along with a couple pencils. just in case he has anything to write down

oh yeah and he always has something to write down. "science," he calls it, but it's really just following people around and making notes of the "interesting" stuff he observes.

everyone in clayhill is very well aware of duck's tendency to do this. everyone has also been a subject at least once. they... tolerate it

regular committer of casual crime. mostly breaking and entering on various levels of criminality. shoplifting and piracy and arson one time but we don't talk about that. it has yet to be confirmed whether they do this on purpose or just. don't know it's illegal

even before entering the feltlands for the first time, duck had never exactly been the best at the whole emotional regulation thing. they feel everything very strongly, and are prone to all sorts of outbursts.

mostly anger. patience is a virtue and there is not a drop of it in their entire body. thus a lot of the conflict with yellow. duck lives on a pace faster than everyone else, yellow is slow. yellow's sensitive and duck's snappish. so conflict is common.

there's no real malice behind it. i imagine them to be sort of like... brothers? yeah, that. being siblings is my favorite relationship in the entire world and especially if it's imaginary siblings that makes it even better. there's a constant, somewhat-friendly competition between them.

yellow can absolutely push back too don't worry he is just as capable of being a troll

non-binary swag lol. has absolutely no clue what gender they are. doesn't really want to find out either. i use they and he pronouns for them :]

pan obviously "everyone who loves me back" i mean

also the fact they said "everyone" instead of "anyone" is special i think

overdramatic as hell. for literally everything

the whole nervous-wreck thing is a new aspect to their personality. it's really obvious (and very easily manipulable) in the pilot, and it doesn't look like that was present in the webseries. it's the unseen affect of everything that's happened to them.

i do think they genuinely died, in five. oh god i could ramble about five so much (my favorite episode) but that would be too much for right now lol

duck is about as gullible as yellow, although not for the same reasons. yellow is desperate. duck just really sucks at reading people.

loves being the center of attention, they love crowds, love being around people. extroverted and overeager. also they're like. the opposite of charismatic.

i mean. they try, at least. they're just. terrible at it.

talks in a sort of oddly polite manner. phrasing of sentences gets mixed up, so listening to them talk requires taking a couple seconds to rearrange their words in your head to figure out the intended meaning. loves to use idioms they don't know the meaning of.

literally incapable of shutting up. not just talking. they are always, always making some sort of noise. mostly humming. various bird noises (squawking, chirping), constantly.

their voice gets increasingly autotuned/scratchy as they become more upset.

unlike salad, they are entirely aware of their off-putting nature, and have been for a long time. in their adulthood, they've shifted from agonizing about it to just. embracing it. be evil on purpose

red guy

literally the most transgender ever

genderless also. that's the word it likes to use. i like to use he it and she pronouns for it, not so much in an alternating way but more like... whichever you feel like using.

the entire town of clayhill has two braincells and they both belong to red guy. he stole them. he's the braincell hoarder

secretly a memelord. farquaad pointing meme Reddit User

blankface i really should draw it less expressive lol

EX GIFTED KID SWAG honestly

she really was one of those kids that. just latched onto the whole need to be smart need to be special need to save the entire world

naturally by the time middle school happened it was just like. Ah. okay then. i suppose i am Stupid

she's not stupid. just very average. lol

the most important thing about red i think is that he is just Some Guy. like he's the embodiment of just a Dude

the oldest of the trio, not by much.

has sort of assumed a leadership role. not exactly the leaderly type, but yeah sometimes that just happens when you are the only one with any scrap of practical intelligence within a fifty mile radius.

it really doesn't like being that.

there are two things that red guy wants, most of all. the first is this indescribable need to not be... boring, if you will. similar to yellow, it doesn't have a strong sense of its own identity. it knows what it is, sure, but not what it wants to be. the second is for its life to stop being so goddamn weird what the fuck

it would like. to live a normal domestic life. in a house, maybe. have a fancy mug or two. go out on walks sometimes. maybe have a pet cat. or a family. that would be nice.

put most simply, red is the embodiment of "the one normal dude in a weird world," and wishes that would be swapped.

not like he'll ever actually do anything to make that possible. he is suspended in a perpetual state of inactivity

has got a "this might as well happen" outlook to just about everything at this point. maybe more like "well i know bad stuff is gonna happen but can the bad stuff that happens at least be funny"

for some inexplicable reason, he is the closest to reality out of everyone in clayhill. he is also fully aware of this. it's this very specific brand of main character syndrome that's like "hm. okay. i might be the most important person in the entire world. sure wish i wasn't."

i think yellow guy is the actual main character though and if red guy were to realize this it would just be like "oh okay. nice" and be a little more surprised than it lets on.

over-prepared for very intensely thought-out nearly impossible scenarios. like being caught in a time loop, or finding a wormhole. she has very complex plans for any of these world-ending scenarios so that, if they were ever to occur, she would be entirely prepared and would not panic in the slightest.

that type of cryptid where, if it was told everyone thinks its a freak of nature, would go, "okay. sick." and never think about it again

this one is more about the trio as a whole, but i think it can stay in red's section because red is the one who thinks about this the most. he has no idea what he and duck and yellow are, collectively. before any of the feltlands stuff happened, they were just friends. ordinary friends that would go out on holiday sometimes, talk about shared interests, get along easily. but after, well, everything, the dynamics have changed. specifically at the beginning of their new clayhill life (where the comic is, timeline-wise) is when its most obvious that they are not what they were before. thus red taking a sort of leaderly role he definitely did not used to have, and does not want to have. what he has left to realize is kind of simple, actually, and he's gonna feel pretty dumb once it hits him. they're a family. a really weird unusual kind-of-messed-up one. and none of them fit neatly into any traditional role, not in the slightest. and red would realize its best that way. he's not a caretaker, he's not a leader, and no one expects that of him. the three of them are friends who went through a collective trauma, and now that each other is all they have left, they are a family.

i just think they're neat.

#oh i did not know i wanted rambling permission until now #''he's like a fucked up frog or something'' best line to come out of this by far #dhmis #salad fingers #headcanons #THIS TOOK A WHILE SORRY ANON i got into an overthinking loop :[#i was gonna have a bunch for the teachers too (because i do like the teachers!! i like them a lot!!! i just. never mention them) except i #kinda. had to just. end it here lol #and stuff for the other residents of salad's desert wasteland too!!!!#let's just put that in the Someday list #UGHH AND ROY TOO #boy do i have some WORDS to say about that guy #but i think it might be. a little bit more fun. if i would just let my comic say those words for me :]#lol a lot of this stuff is pulled directly from the part of my brain responsible for the overanalysis of gore puppets and masochistic #lettuce creatures that led to the existence of the comic in the first place. there is. So Much left for that thing #glad you're all on the ride with me

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