#I neeeeeeeeeeeed it

[kraymerman]

I believe that there is a high likelihood that Alice survived episode 6.

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Well okay, maybe "survived" isn't the right word, more like I believe that there is a high likelihood that Alice could come back from her death in episode 6.

Why do I think that? Well partly because she's one of my favorite characters and I want her to, but more prominently because she's come back from the dead before (if my theory is correct)!

Now, anyone who has spent some time in the Alice fandom knows about the list. She's in it, it deadnames her (evil trans queen), and so on and so forth. What matters to my post, though, is what her status is labelled as, which, chronologically, would have been her status at the time of Cabin Fever Labs's attempt at patching Nori of the Solver.

There she is, number 017, deadname scribbled out for respect. And what is her status? "Corrupted". Now, we don't know for sure what it means to be "corrupted" (trust me, I have spent several late nights/early mornings trying to figure it out), but my hypothesis is that the state we see Mika (032) and Jame (012) in are the result of being corrupted by a bad patch (Mika left, Jame right)

Chained up, sedated, kinda fleshy, and very dead, right? Now, to explain why I think this is what corruption looks like, it's just process of elimination. It can't be a successful patch because these guys aren't anything like Nori or Yeva (plus it does everything except outright say that Yeva was the first drone at Cabin Fever Labs to receive a successful patch).

Athough I could see a possibility where this is the result of a patch having no effect and the Solver lashing out, the part that hangs it up for me is that these drones wrote on the inside of their locker doors, meaning that they weren't killed then chained up inside of their lockers. It means that they were restrained inside of their lockers, then died on their own afterwards. That's not what would happen if the Solver was on a rampage. Also, even if the writing means nothing and these drones had ineffective patches, the Solver fought back, then they were offed, why would Cabin Fever Labs keep the dead bodies? Let alone chain them up and sedate them? They would've properly disposed of it so as to eliminate a potential host for the Solver, there's no reason they would have kept the body around if this was the product of a "no effect" patch.

So that leaves only one option: corruption. And just looking at it, this feels, at least to me, what "corruption" could look like. A sort of halfway between machine and flesh, chained up and sedated so as to get the spazzing drone from catching anyone, and a slow burnout after being confined in their locker (possibly kept alive so the scientists could see what happened). Seems pretty straightforward to me.

So to bring it back to my original point, this short-circuting freak out, a corruption of the mind, followed by a slow confined death. If this is an accurate evaluation of corruption, then that is what happened to Alice when they tried to patch her. What Mika and Jame look like? At the time of Nori's patching, Alice looked like that too. Despite that, though, she was still, through methods unknown to us, able to not only come back to life, but also completely reverse the fleshiness and return to looking like a completely normal worker drone (minus the knife tail, although I always assumed that that was a self-modification on her part considering it lacks any of the fleshiness characteristic of Solver Tails).

If she was able to come back unscathed from such a terrible fate then, then what's stopping her from using the same methods to come back from a simple head stomp? It was just her head that was crushed after all, not her core.

An addendum: "What Methods?!"

After reading my initial theory, I'm sure you're asking: "unknown methods? What does that mean?" Well I'm glad you asked, hypothetical person reading this that I made up in my head, because that lets me get into the biggest reason why I love Alice as a character so much. She doesn't make any sense according to the rules of the Murder Drones world that we already know. But not in a "she contradicts them", moreso a "she works in a different way", implying that there is a whole new set of rules in this world that exist, but we just don't know about them yet.

Anyone who thinks about Alice for more than a few minutes realizes very quickly how her existence as a drone admitted to Cabin Fever Labs makes no sense. She's very obviously been given the Solver, both because of her "corrupted" status on the list and the fact that she's even here at all, yet she also shows no symptoms of being possessed by the Solver or, most importantly, any signs of possessing the telekinesis/regenerative/create flesh limbs abilities inherent to all drones who possess the Solver, patched or otherwise. Not only that, but she also actively distances herself from drones who do, calling them "witches".

Hell, in the case of regeneration, she straight-up proves she doesn't have it when she replaces the tip of her finger that Uzi bit off with a new one instead of regenerating her old one.

In a comment section somewhere, I saw someone speculate that the reason Alice is like this is because she is asymptomatic to the effects of the Solver. This idea absolutely fascinates me, the idea that, for whatever reason, the Solver sits dormant in Alice's code instead of infecting her like it does all other drones. (I suspect that this is the reason why she was able to come back while other corrupted drones weren't. For a moment, something happened to kick her strand of the Solver out of it's dormancy to bring her back to life, before going dormant again.)

Even if my speculations don't end up being true, this idea that, in some drones, the Solver can lay dormant is still an entirely new concept, a new function of the Solver that we never see it display anywhere else. It's a treasure map hinting at a treasure trove of all-new lore waiting just at the end. The sheer promise Alice has is so exciting to me. There's so much there, hiding just below the surface I can feel it.

It is for this reason that, out of all the Murder Drones characters that go underutilized, Alice is the one that, I feel, is the most desperately deserving of an episode/mini comic series of her own. THERE IS SO MUCH GOING ON HERE, I CAN SMELL IT! WE JUST NEED TO GO A LITTLE DEEPER!!!

[kakusu-shipping]

This is peak dynamic to me

[tonycries]

s-sugar baby gojo🥺

Sugar baby Gojo crying and whimpering and shivering when you ask him to go again for the nth time this night if he "really really wants those new designer sunglasses he was talkin' about." 😩😩😩

[moonspirit]

I need to get back to writing fluff again... absolute tooth-rotting diabetes inducing fluff... Aruani washing dishes together, and Armin being the playful sap he is, knocks into Annie with his shoulder. Then his elbow. Then his hip. Then his butt, and she rolls her eyes, amused.

But because he's also a dramatic sap, he pouts because she isn't playing back and poor him right? What's these dishes got that he hasn't? So as a sort of revenge, he dips his head and begins to pepper little kisses on every inch of Annie he can find. Crown, temple, ear, hairclip, shouder, cheek, neck, jaw, earring, hoodie, the forearm she lifts to block him because he's being annoying now, but nothing is safe, not from his kisses!

So it ends up that she complains, tries to move away, splashes him with soapy water, but nothing works and he's kissing and kissing and kissing her and it's kinda ticklish too (?!) - Annie starts laughing through her protests.

All his 101 silly kisses pay off when at last, she takes him by the face, soap suds smearing his skin and all, and kisses him back, slow and long.

[teddybeartoji]

neeeeeeeeeeeed toji to kiss me oooooooor i will dieeeeeeeeeeee

[corky-chicken]

[clingyduoapologist]

You people have no idea how much money I would pay for a shitty live action Shark Tale remake

[that-one-xachster]

chat how many more hours we waiting for bsd 118

[thatlittledandere]

How many people who followed me after 2018 see me post something about Boueibu every now and again and think it's one of my casual interests and not like, a fundamental component to who I am as a person

[lockwoods-coat-and-reids-vests]

So. I live in Denmark and I neeeeeed someone, who has bought the Reckless Barnes & Noble special edition, to either make a post or SOMETHING about the extra/bonus chapters or else I am going to go down mentally.

Like IT IS MOT POSSIBLE for me to get my hands on the special edition BECASUE B&N does not ship to DENMARK! And I am PIIIIIISSSSSEEEEDDD.

I got my hands on the powerless special edition because I went over there, but like. RECKLESS CAME OUT YESTERDAY, and I’ve finished it and I NEEEEEEED to know!

[ddreamteamies]

i need him i need him i need him i need him i need

[hokudraco45]

Hot bowl of tomato soup and grilled cheese by a window with a warm blanket while its raining hard save me! save me hot bowl of tomato soup and grilled cheese by a window with a warm blanket while its raining hard!!!!!!

[teddybeartoji]

toji gives GODLY handjobs btw

[lorillee]

im also vaguely aware that saejima and majima and i believe daigo go on some insane little adventure together (???) Which im really excited to see . if im honest

[welcome-to-green-hills]

If Amy is in the movie, I want an origin story for how she got her hammer

Yes. YES! YAAAAS!

[the-orangeauthor]

I just submitted a PhD application to this programme where I fit the student description to a T and oh my god I want it so bad I feel like I’m vibrating in my seat. I have all the qualifications, the teaching experience, the lab experiences, everything that they want and I need it I need it I need it I need it I-