#I would have loved to name an NPC but I need all of the merch and that tier doesn't come with everything

[smok3inm1rrors]

I was tagged by @igotsnothing over two weeks ago whoops. I saw it went “I should do that” then completely forgot about it. But better late than never!

1. What’s your favourite sims death? Either death by satellite from TS2 or the skydiving one from TS1, entirely because of the “Whee!” at the end of it.

2. Alpha CC or Maxis Match? A mix of the two.

3. Do you cheat when your sims gain weight? I usually don’t even notice when they gain weight.

4. Do you use move objects? Yes.

5. Favorite mod?. Aside from MCC + UI Cheats it’s between Language Barriers by Frankk, RPO and Talents and Weaknesses by Lumpinou.

6. First expansion/game/stuff pack you got? Get To Work

7. Do you pronounce “live mode” like aLIVE or LIVing?  aLIVE

8. Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made?

Kathleen “Kit” Jones (Her name inspired from that "Kitchenaid Whiskey Jones" tweet). She's been around in some form as an OC since 2016.

She is also the sim in my pfp.

I want to do some gameplay/story hybrid with her (and other sims of my own) but that would mean...playing the game and not just using it as a substitute for drawing...

9. Have you made a simself? Back in 2016/7. Probably never again.

10. What sim traits do you give yourself? TS3 traits because I like them better. Adventurous, Love the Outdoors, Brooding, Unlucky, and Artistic.

11. Which is your favorite EA hair color? The color wheel. Dark Brown.

12. Favorite EA hair? This one from Get to Work.

13. Favorite life stage? YA. The only life stage.

14. Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? I liked building in TS2/3 but could never get into it in 4. 

15. Are you a CC creator? I’ve done poses and recolors. I’m currently doing the “Fuck around, Find out” method of learning meshing. I should probably watch a tutorial.

I also know Python (Studied C.S in uni, which means fuck all really) and have confidence that I’ve used enough HTML to figure out XML, so destroying the game from the inside out is something I’ve wanted to do for a while. I have ideas that range from adding “Wish for a baby with…” and “Wish for Pregnancy/Wish for Pregnancy with…” to the Wishing Well for all your magical conception needs and story plot purposes, to figuring out how to add a whole “Spirit of the Wishing Well” NPC for also story plot purposes, to straight up overhauling spellcaster's alchemy to be more like TS3 alchemy.

16. Do you have any simblr friends/a sim squad? Nope. I’m not introverted, shy, or socially awkward (socially incompetent maybe), I’m just bad at using social media hah.

17. What’s your favorite game? Right now it’s Breath of the Wild. I like bullying the guardians for fun.

18. Do you have any sims merch? Nah.

19. Do you have a YouTube for sims? Nope.

20. How has your “sim style” changed throughout your years of playing?

I used to try and be more story focused when the game first came out. I’m one of those TS2 Wants/Fears dictate the game players and while you can do that in TS4, it’s not as satisfying. Now I play it as an unholy mix of "Soap Opera Simulator 2014" and "How far can I take min/maxing the sims" .

21. What’s your Origin ID? I don't have anything of interest on there.

22. Who’s your favorite CC creator? 

sforzcc, Peacemaker, awingedllama, Sentate, Rusty, Johnnysims, simstrouble

It’s not cc but florwalsims and windbrook for their builds/saves as like many of you, I’m tired of playing in suburbia.

23. How long have you had a simblr? Not long, I lurked awhile before posting though..."awhile" being a year.

24. How do you edit your pictures? I use Clip Studio Paint. I’m too lazy to *ahem* photoshop and I have it for drawing purposes anyways. 

Usually it’s just using different blending modes (multiply, overlay, soft light, glow dodge my beloved) and special effect brushes.

25. What expansion/game/stuff pack is your favorite so far? 

Expansion: Get Together. I’ve used the club functionality in nearly every save I’ve played.

Game Pack: Vampires, Realm of Magic, Werewolves. Not because they’re particularly good but because I’m a sucker for occults.

Stuff Pack: Paranormal. Again occults, but this one also has an acceptable amount of gameplay in it. I’m surprised they didn’t try to pawn it off as a game pack. 

26. What expansion/game/stuff pack do you want next? I'll get Growing Together when it's 50% off. However if before then EA gets too goofy with what remains of TS4, (TS5 is going to be ""free"" to play, it's already fucked.) I'll probably just you know what the rest of the game. EDIT: I wrote this last night. After seeing that job opening for the marketing position on Project Rene...haha yeah. Shit's depressing.

I tag: your mom

[tan-yal-son]

Just backed the Armed Fantasia Kickstarter and I get a special mention in the artbook 😭😭😭😭😭😭 This feels surreal right now

[shazos]

Rouxls is Hiding Something Big: A Deltarune Theory

FORENOTE- For some needed context, it may help reading my previous Deltarune theory here for important details that I will cover in this post. (My previous theory provides notable evidence on why Gaster is indeed the “Knight” figure talked about by multiple characters in Deltarune.)

Now, this is going to sound crazy. But after much time of poring over and analyzing Deltarune, I have come to a conclusion. One that I’ve been convinced of for awhile now. Something that’s been lying right under all of our noses without many of us even realizing it. We have all been bamboozled. Hoodwinked. Tricked. Why, you may ask?

Because the comically stupid and inept Duke of Puzzles is actually... not an idiot. No, he’s the complete opposite. He is a downright mastermind.

As collective players, we are all falling into the same trap once again. Putting faith into a character’s preconceived personality !

When their true personality turns out the complete opposite of what we expected...

It is here, my evidence for this claim begins—and we delve into the true identity of Rouxls Kaard. Buckle up everyone, cause this one’s gonna be a fun ride. 👀

So, to spill the beans up front, and get it over with. I believe Rouxls Kaards identity... is none other than W.D. Gaster in disguise.

Now. I didn’t immediately become invested in this theory—I was skeptical at first like everyone else. But, once I began examining Deltarune and all of its characters a bit closer...things weren’t exactly adding up about the Duke of Puzzles.

Point #1: Anagrams

I initially began to become suspicious of Rouxls Kaard because of his odd name. Sure, it is a play on the words of the term, “Rules card”. But it is spelt in such a peculiar way. If it were just simply a play on words, I think that there would be a much better way of going about spelling it rather than just jumbling a bunch of random letters together. There is a very intriguing reddit post found here that goes more into depth about his name that ties well into my theory. The thing that stood out to me in particular, is that Rouxls’s name is actually also an anagram for “A Dark Soul RX”, (with the left over RX typically being used in terms relating to doctors/medicine.) Not only is Gaster a Doctor, but he’s also always associated with darkness and the research of souls. Toby loves his anagrams—so I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if this was intentional. But it doesn’t end there.

I’ve noticed that Toby Fox has a tendency to tease certain things about his games through merch. And wouldn’t you know it—he has in fact, a particular item on fangamer of a “dark heart.” One which description describes the Angel’s Prophecy. Hm...

But let’s back on track onto my second observation, shall we?

Point #2: The Physical Resemblance to Gaster

Now, there seems to be some interesting foreshadowing related to inverted colors in Deltarune. Before Ralsei takes his hat off, he appears black. But once he takes his hat off, voila, his colors are inverted, and he is revealed to actually be a white goat highly resembling Asriel.

In addition, the entire Dark World is literally just. An inverted version of a normal world.

The Dark World could have hypothetically been the created world/experiment that Gaster had fallen into in the first place. After all, his experiment had to do with “darkness”, and “negative” photons--AKA the Dark Fountains, and the negatively/inverted landscapes of the Dark World.

And how does Rouxls Kaard appear inverted anyways? Well, he looks like THIS.

He even has the strange dangling lip thing—which another character said to directly resemble Gaster, Seam, has as well:

In addition, if you look at Rouxls’ text-box profile very closely, his eye colors are actually mismatched which is a rather interesting detail!

Point # 3: His Accent is Extremely put on.

I think anybody that has read any sort of Shakespearean/Old English writing, can instantly realize that Rouxls is as bad as imitating an Old English accent as a high-schooler reading Hamlet for the first time. Rouxls absolutely butchers it. He practically adds eth, and est at the end of any word he chooses, and calls the job done. What is even more interesting though, is when he gets nervous or panicked, he drops the act all together and talks normally.

Point #4: He is Pretending to be Dumb; His Puzzles are Actually Impressive!

I found it intriguing how there are countless puzzle traps in all the forest areas and in the Card Castle prison that were actually very well done. You have to flip the spades, diamonds, hearts, etc to unlock doors, and open secret chests. They require a decent amount of thinking skills, and are actually competent. But who made them?? Oddly enough if you observe one of them in the forest areas, it appears that Rouxls Kaard vandalized one of the puzzles to make it harder for the player to beat it—which further implies that he actually indeed made those puzzles himself. This shows that Rouxls is much more competent than only being able to make a single box shove puzzle that is comically easy. Where else do we see a place full of plenty of rather well made puzzles + traps seen? All throughout the Core in Undertale—a place which Gaster himself created!

Point #5: Rouxls IS Aware the World is a Game--AKA DON’T FORGET TO READ NPC DIALOGUE FOLKS!

I think it is well aware by now that Rouxls likely wants us as the players to underestimate him--and deem him a fool so we wouldn’t bat an eye at what he’s actually up to. But the most biggest give away to this is something that I have surprisingly seen no one mention at all. And oh boy, it is the most damning evidence that Rouxls is no idiot to be trifled with.

To the left of Seam’s shop, there can be found a little group of former puzzle-makers that used to live at Card Castle, until they were fired and replaced with Rouxls Kaard. They are now all out of a job, and are just barely scraping by since the Spade King didn’t give them any severance pay. However, Rouxls Kaard offered them a way to get money--by selling the tutorials he made.

These tutorials go over TP, stats, information about Susie, Ralsei,  and Kris. Rouxls Kaard has never once met any of the players yet--and he knows everything about them. He knows about stats. He knows the world is a game.

HOW??

In addition, when you talk to Rouxls in his shop, he calls you three the Heroes of Legend. He is well aware of the Angel’s Prophecy. He knows.

Whenever any character in the world of Undertale & Deltarune knows that the world is a game, it is an instant red-flag. It goes to show that they know much more than they let on. Flowey and Sans are big examples of this in Undertale. Pure hearted, dorky idiots that we trust earlier in the game--but wind up seeing the real side of them later on.

...So why should we treat Rouxls any differently?

Point #6: The “Control Crown”

Something that I immediately thought was kind of weird, was the fact that Rouxls Kaard was able to control the K. Round with a “Control Crown” device. If he is so stupid, how was he able to create a full on mechanical device that can brainwash a life-form into being violent/cause it to triple in size?! That is genius material right there!

But things start to take on a much darker side when you begin to look at the subtext of this realization, which I will get to in a moment...

First of all, Seam claimed these exact words.

The remaining king was the Spade King-- as the King of Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs are seen to be locked up in the Dungeon. Therefore, the Spade King put the Knight, and his strange son into power. IF it were the Spade King in power, the dialogue box WOULD have said “himself”. Therefore, the Knight, and his strange son were put in place to control the kingdom. And who are they?

Gaster/Rouxls Kaard, and Lancer.

Evidence to back this up:

Lancer calls Rouxls his “Lesser Dad”. And Rouxls calls Lancer, his Strange little darling/son.

The Spade King is not in charge. During his boss-fight, he states that he obeys the word of the Knight.

If you observe more of Lancer’s dialogue in the scene right before the gang enters Card Castle, he states that his dad, (Spade King), recently forced his troops to listen to Lancer instead. Therefore, Lancer is by all respects actually second in command to the Knight.

One of Rouxls main interests is...Lawmaking. Even though he is just supposedly an innocent Duke of Puzzles.

Another one of Rouxls main interests is...Cages, and long strolls in the dungeon... 

There are innocent puzzle-makers locked up in the Prison who are terrified--they were arrested for the simple act of making a puzzle without a license. HM, I wonder who could have possibly locked them up? *Wink wink nudge nudge*

And what ties this all together, is perhaps the most obscure, tiniest detail that no one would have likely observed on a first play-through. If you go to the first floor of Card Castle and click the description tablet next to the elevator to the Prison, it claims that the Prison used to just be a Basement Which Just Happened to Have a Lot of Cages. This is backed up by the caged animals in the basement, who say that they miss the “good old days” when they used to be the only ones there in cages, and not a bunch of people behind bars.

In summary, Rouxls is locking up a bunch of innocent people, and playing nice to our faces. He IS the knight. And he is not to be underestimated.

Point #7: Rouxls’ Plan is Already Set in Place

The part where this theory gets a little dark, ties back to my mentioning of the control crown earlier.

If you observe the throne room, it looks like it was recently torn apart in a sort of...conflict.

Why was the Spade King the only king left un-caged to begin with? Why wasn’t he locked up too?

Well...Rouxls Kaard needed someone to put him in charge. But not only that—he needed a scapegoat. Someone to blame. Someone to be “The Bad Guy” for the Heroes to fight.

The Spade King...is actually innocent. He is obeying the Knight, because he is being controlled by a Control Crown. The throne room is in ruins because the Spade King likely fought against this at first, but Rouxls won and successfully put the Spade King under his command. I thought it was strange how the King was so...violent. So irredeemably evil, and even murderous toward his own son Lancer. Yes, it could be argued that this is indeed his true personality, that he is a complete, abusive jerk. But, the whole ending battle of Deltarune chapter 1 feels so...set up in a way? It feels so starkly good vs evil, black and white. Almost like a play.

And oh boy. I think I was onto something.

If you pay close attention to the fight with the Spade King, there is a brief moment at the beginning where he is completely shrouded in shadow. Except. For. His. Crown. It glows stark white in comparison to himself. Like a Chekov’s Gun if you will.

And even more interesting, in the supposed good/pacifist ending, the Spade King is locked up in Prison, the other three kings are still locked up in cages, everyone else is freed, and Rouxls and Lancer now have full control of the kingdom...

Guys. We just played right into Gaster’s hands.

Point #8: Seam Knows that Rouxls is the Knight...

The final observation that genuinely makes me convinced in this theory, is a small detail I noticed at the end of the Pacifist run of Deltarune. Once you have beaten the game, and all of the prisoners are freed, everyone comes to celebrate at Card Castle for your victory. Everyone, except for Seam. That is because Seam knows what the “Strange Knight” did to Jevil. He knows who the Strange Knight is. And he knows what the Knight’s true intentions are.

Point #9: Extra Tidbits I noticed:

When compared to the other denizens of card castle, Rouxls seems out of place. He is the one vaguely humanoid character among a bunch of card and chess themed Darkners. 

His puzzle is... too easy.

Rouxls is oddly excited about overthrowing the king/taking his place. 

Rouxls is well versed in calligraphy of all things. (Relation to fonts + letters.)

Rouxls “sparkles” have an odd resemblance to the shining save states...?

He makes pop culture references, such as ones seen here and here. Could just be random throwaway jokes, but often times more “aware” characters such as Sans and Papyrus are keen on breaking the fourth wall at times/making references to relate with the audience.

His hair looks strangely out of place. Especially the hairline which is really receded to an unnatural degree on the left side. It’s a wig guys...

He gets a suspiciously new position for no reason at all. In any normal situation, he would be extremely unqualified for it if he were as stupid as he makes himself out to be.

Rouxls is literally wearing armor, akin to a medieval knights.

If you pay close attention, Rouxls has a few very subtle similar speech patterns to Gaster. They both occasionally repeat words twice. They both use the words wonderful and truly a lot, etc.

When Kris and the gang beat the K. Round, Rouxls said it was just to test their abilities.

Rouxls theme has leitmotifs from Gaster’s theme.

End of discussion. Deltarune’s finale is legit going to be Gaster getting his wig snatched.

[ravenquingvax]

Critical Role Season 2 Episode 136 Thoughts (Part One) -

Wasn't in the mood for liveblogging last night, but here are the thoughts I had while watching!

Warning, this is long and loud and busy with little breathing space, read at own will!

-- STREAM START --

Well I just opened the stream and was greeted by a very smooth Fjord.

Hm.

Don't likey.

Just as well that I'm gonna be just listening again, rather than actually watching.

*shudders*

That was a really beautiful piece of fanart tho. 💙

--

Listening to the stream with no video is interesting, I've started learning certain audio cues off by heart now.

Such as when the art reel is about to end, when Matt is about to call the opening sequence and when the raven flies away during the opening sequence.

It's fun.

I've also gained much more respect for Matt's voice acting thanks to listening with no video. Like, I can see these NPCs from just hearing their voices???

I can't.

Matt is fucking amazing.

Love him so much. 💙

--

Sam messing up the name of CR's own book is a mood.

Also not having visuals for this AD bit is… hm.

ALSO LIAM TAKING SAM'S HAIR HDHABBAHSHD

MATT TAKING THE PINK COSTUME AHHDBSBA

TALIESIN TAKING TRAVIS' BITE GUARD

ASHLEY ACTING SO OFFENDED BY THE WHOLE BIT

i love these idiots

--

I struggle forming sentences too, Ash, you're okay 💙

--

I love how Laura's merch announcements end up being such emotional rollercoasters.

--

I'm still not over Vax and every time I see that raven fly away in the animated opening sequence it usually makes me think about him and all those "but what if he lived???" scenarios.

This usually distracts me for the first few minutes of gameplay after the opening.

I'm not okay. (:

--

Okay but Laura and Ashley are so good at singing, I'm feeling v gay rn.

--

Travis' high pitched laughter and wheezing makes me so happy??? Love him.

--

I really hate Cree.

I don't actually know why, but I honestly hate her so fucking much.

I'm still annoyed she wasn't one of the 3 Tomb Takers that got taken out.

But I don't know why???

Hope she falls soon.

--

I'm unsure if I actually genuinely ship shadowgast or if I'm just seeing vax'ilmore crumbs where they aren't.

On the subject of vax'ilmore, it is still my all time favourite Critical Role ship from my first attempt at watching Campaign 1 two years ago.

Shaun Gilmore is also still my all time favourite character from then too.

--

I don't want any more of the Nein to die, it would ruin me, but like… I'm craving it at the same time?

And I don't mean anyone dying to Lucien or Trent or the Sumnovum or any other big baddies like how Molly died to Lorenzo way back.

I wanna see someone die in a really dumb situation and there being nothing the Nein can do for them.

I want somebody to die in a really quiet and mundane way and for it to really shake the Nein up.

Idk why I want this??

I love all of the Nein and want them all happy and safe! Ya know?

But I CRAVE this kinda angst so fucking badly.

--

Laura got a natural 20!!

And so early on!!

--

Gods, I need Matt to narrate the Narnia books so fucking bad, man. His voice???

Ahhhh. 💙

--

Eye stuff??

Better vision??

True Sight??

OOO

I'm thinking of Delilah seeing Trinket in a Percy costume again.

WAIT IS THIS CANON CONFIRMATION????

ARTIE IS SPRINKLE????

ARTAGAN I LOVE YOU

Thanks for bringing this up, Caleb! Theory confirmed!

Also fuck you, Professor Thaddeus!! :(

Also ARTAGAN!!

Poor Yasha. XD

ALSO CALEB HEARD BEAU'S THOUGHTS IN HIS HEAD

also yasha my beloved 😭

ALSO VETH

YCTXRX3rzcyfe63gcfs

This has been a moment.

--

Also fuck Lucy.

Lucy is a bitch.

--

Also Devexion was hot, ladies, you're not wrong.

--

Also it's not even been a fucking hour yet and so much just fucking happend.

Hoo boy.

Also did Travis just say "can't believe the fucking weasel is Artagan"???

Mood, Trav, Mood.

--

Cad, Beau, Caleb???

o shit

Weird growly noises??

Niceeee

Love that!!

"the skinned doggies with the eyeball tails" - Love that mental image, thanks LIAM

--

Minutes have passed but literally all I'm imagining now is a tiny crimson weasel choking out Vax'ildan.

HELP

--

31. Nice, Cay. Nice.

--

Also I love Essek's voice???

I feel drunk whenever I hear it??? I don't get that???

(I've not had alcohol since 25.12.2020, before you ask)

But it feels so good

Gilmore's voice also has this effect on me??? His laugh especially so???

Could someone explain why this happens please???

--

okay yeah I ship shadowgast

--

TIME TRAVEL STUFF

WHA

DID I HEAR THAT RIGHT???

I WAS THINKING ABOUT GAY WIZARDS AND MISSED A BIT

--

CALEB PLEASE USE YOUR WORDS HONEY

But yeah, wowza ma guys

--

SHADOWGAST

"I think he's coming onto you."

JESSIE THANK YOU

"It's complicated."

LIAM O'BRIEN

--

SHIT MONSTER

also wow vethhhh

"don't come out of the closet"

Fucking

Hnnn

--

THAT CALLBACK TRAVIS

poor Kiki 😔💙

She's not even in this campaign and she keeps getting shade

--

I love when the cast actually whisper when sneaking as if the monster will hear them---

--

The cast are self aware

Love these pretty fools

Marisha questioning how they've managed to run an actual real company--

--

"We took 3 minutes to achieve nothing."

--

"I'll stay near the rear in case I need to fill the hallway with death"

Uh, Caleb???

We just gonna gloss over that???

Okay then!

--

"Skyrim Wheels Of Cheese"

I WANNA LIVE IN A SKYRIM HOUSE-

(thanks again Liam)

--

I am struggling to focus once again.

Hnn.

Fun.

--

This stream has already greatly improved my mood, I'm actually grinning???

Thanks Critical Role 💙

--

Sprinkle has murdered The Champion Of The Raven Queen for shits and giggles.

--

SAVING THROW OH FUCK

FUCKING LUCY & CREE

FUCK

--

"saucy DM"

LIAM PLEASE

--

72 POINTS OF PSYCHIC DAMAGE

YASHA IS OUT NO

WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT NOT DYING TO LUCY

FUCK

It's time to spaghettify Cree~

--

Thanks Cad

Clutch Spare The Dying 💙

--

I tuned back into Marisha saying "sexy robot". Nice.

--

My brain is turning into Tubby Custard at this rate.

I don't even like the fucking Teletubbies but that pink shit is burned into my head.

The Teletubbies would so be members of The Tomb Takers, those mother fucking creepy fuckers.

They literally have TVs in their bellies that scry on people???

Fuck that so much

--

I feel nauseous.

So much has happened.

My face is blushing.

My hands are shaking.

Hooooo.

And we've not been to break yet. Nice. Fun.

--

PRESIDENTIAL ALERT:

THE MONSTERS ARE FIGHTING 💙

--

Caleb is the bomb defusal squad. 💙

--

MATT STOP LEAVING THEM ATTENTION STEALERS I'M NERVOUS

--

"Caleb and Caduceus in the caboosus" MATH-CHEW

--

FJORD PANICK THROWING HIS HEALTH POTION TO CALEB GRSVJHRSF 💙

--

SAMUEL THIS SPELL DESCRIPTION

34 STEALTH NICE

AH WAIT

AMBUSH ALERT

OH FUCK

BE CAREFUL VETH

--

ITS MOTHER FUCKING MISS FUCK FACE AND MR WHY-WONT-YOU-JUST-STAY-DEAD-MY-FUCK

--

Hi, Lucy. [-_-] Now would you kindly walk into an Inuit Charge you lil bitch?

--

Essek and Gilmore's voices turn me into goo

While Lucien's voice turns me into a bloodthirsty, tired, overworked, annoyed as fuck parent on coffee

But yeah, I'm having BAD VIBES™ again

--

BREAK TIME

fuxk u math-chew (affectionate)

--

Liam's narration for this Dwarven Forge ad tho 👀

--

"I can't wait to give Taliesin a hug"

"I think you were my last hug, Taliesin"

ASHLEY

DANI

PLEASE 😭

--

Laura Bailey's voice is like a warm hug after a snowstorm. 💙

--

Oh no, it's this Sam Prime Subscription AD

Fuck

GOODBYE

THE HEADPHONES HAVE BEEN REMOVED

--

Can we kill Cree?

Can we please kill-

CAN WE PLEASE JUST GET RID OF CREE

IM BEGGING

I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS SINCE THE TOMB TAKERS FOUND THE PARTY SLEEPING IN CALEB'S DOME OUT IN THE SNOW

--

Lucien is gonna personally kill someone, now, isn't he?

And all because I literally said nobody was allowed to die to his hands-

--

Also yeah CAN VETH SHOOT THIS BASTARD'S EYES PLEASE SO WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE CONE PLS-

--

i kinda want Caleb to flirt with Lucy to throw him off his guard ngl I do still ship lucigast :|

Unfortunately...

-- end of part 1 of 2 --

[fmdtingarchive]

Timeframe: 2016 Characters Involved: Meng Guanting, NPCs, Mentions of Unity members Triggers: Implications of xenophobia and racism (not in detail), bullying Note: Ting realizes that sometimes being different is a good thing (PART 2/2)  Word Count: 789

A large hand rose in the air expectantly, only to be ignored. Or maybe it wasn’t seen, but Ting was pretty sure it was just ignored. Who wouldn’t be able to see his large hands and long fingers in front of their face? He let out a nearly silent sigh as the fan moved onwards down the line, sitting in front of the next group member. He didn’t miss the way the fan smiled brighter at them, and spoke more animatedly. The sight sent a pang through his heart, and he found himself growing a little bitter.

When Guanting first debuted, he figured that he wouldn’t be the most popular member of his group. He was the odd one out, the foreigner. The mixed foreigner at that, so it wasn’t a surprise to him when he realized that the screams for him were a little bit quieter and that he didn’t get as much time with fans at fan signings.

He had to admit that it hurt. Here he was, pouring his heart and soul into performances, opening up to their angels and telling them how much he loved him, but it felt as though he wasn’t getting any of that love in return. The maknae kept pushing forward though, smiling through his hurt feelings and always showing a bright and sunny disposition towards anyone who spoke to him.

A figure moving in his peripheral and sitting down in front of him pulled Ting out of his thoughts, and he immediately smiled as he made eye contact with them.

His smile wavered when he realized that there were tears in the boy’s eyes, and he immediately reached his hand out towards him. “Aigoo, no tears. What’s wrong?” The boy was even younger than Ting was, which was saying a lot because the vocalist was only sixteen years old himself. As soon as he asked him what was wrong, the tears were overflowing and the boy was full on crying in front of him.

“Thank you so much.” The boy said in between tears, and Ting could practically see the confusion on his own face. “You’re thanking me? What did I do besides make you cry as soon as you sat down in front of me?” He asked with a slight chuckle, trying to lighten the mood as he took the younger male’s hand in between his own, wanting to offer him some form of comfort.

It worked, thankfully. The boy laughed and shook his head.

“You’re like me.” Was all he said, and Ting’s brows furrowed. He studied the boy for a few seconds, before he realized what he had meant. The boy’s features weren’t similar to that of the people around them. He was Korean, but it was obvious that he wasn’t fully Korean. Ting couldn’t tell what he was mixed with, but that didn’t matter.

“I see..” Ting was at a loss for words, his lips parting and closing as he tried to find what to say. Luckily for him, the boy continued talking.

“I always felt really bad being different than everyone else.. People would make fun of me and call me weird and ugly and.. Seeing you makes me feel better about being different. It makes me feel good, because if you can do all of this, then I can too.. Right?”

If it was possible, Ting would say that in that moment he felt his heart breaking and swelling at the exact same time. Breaking because no one should ever have to suffer through being bullied for something they had no control over. Swelling because he was overcome with joy and love. He was actually influencing someone? He was having a good impact on someone’s life? It was almost like a dream.

“Right.” His voice cracked slightly and he sniffed, looking down at their hands, before he picked his head up and smiled. “What’s your name? How old are you?”

He learned that the boy, Jinwoo, was only thirteen years old. He quickly wrote out a message to him, a personal one, before his manager was telling him that they had to move the line along. “Just give us another second, please?” Ting asked, looking at his manager. He stared at the maknae for a few seconds before nodding and moving on.

“Jinwoo-ah.. Please take care of yourself. And know that you can always lean on hyung when you need to. Look to me for strength, okay?” He handed his merch back to him, his cheeks almost hurting from how big his smile was.

When the next person sat down in front of him, he was still smiling, his energy and mood drastically boosted from the experience he’d just had.

“Hi! What’s your name?”

[acelookslikeahappyjalapeno]

So, uh, I feel like making a timeline for Ace starting from Powerpuff Girls going all the way to Gorillaz because, well, I have no reason.

(This got way longer then I thought it would so read if you want to)

2002: The Powerpuff Girls movie, it shows the origin of the Powerpuff Girls.

This newspaper gives the date, Wednesday July 3, 2002 placing that year for when Ace is 17 and oh look! Our first mention of Gorillaz (and not the only reference to Gorillaz in the movie) If you get a higher quality photo of this then I did you can actually read the whole article about them going to do a show in Townsville’s music festival. I believe there’s a high quality picture on the Gorillaz wikia in Ace’s gallery. I don’t know when the Townsville music festival was but the news article mentions that tickets go on sale Saterday.

My guess is that the music festival is where the band and Ace first meet somehow.

It can be assumed that most of, if not all episodes of PPG takes place in 2002 seeing as the girls never move on from kindergarden, so that places all episodes with Ace here too. (Though in season two it is implied that a year has passed a few times. They are still in kindergarten though)

Later in the year, but with no clear place in the timeline, the comics show the Gangreen Gang singing in front of a crowd (Unfortunately I don’t have that comic yet) So this shows us Ace taking an interest in music.

Christmas rolls around in ‘Twas the Fight Before Christmas and we see Ace is on the nice list.

I feel like it’s safe to assume that Ace is 18 now, but I don’t know his Birthday.

2003: This is where the reboot of PPG SHOULD be taking place timeline wise, but that show has 2016 technology and is clearly set in 2016. Due to them not knowing how to keep any facts at all and repeatedly throwing it’s own continuity away I am deeming 2016 PPG as non-canon. There’s no where to put it that makes sense, 2003 doesn't work because setting, 2016 doesn't work due to age, how school works, time itself.

Nevertheless, The one instance in that show that Ace is there and it isn't a cameo he’s in a talent show, so even though I'm not counting this show in at all it’s interesting to note that.

2009: This is where things get complicated, so, in Fusion Fall, Buttercup loses her memory in a fight with Mojo Jojo and the Gangreen gang find her and start helping her. Ace is now 24-25 years old and looks like this.

Then, Buttercup now known as Belladonna and the Gangreen gang start a band together, we know Ace plays a Guitar because his idle animation has him do an air guitar movement. 

Their band is super popular and many NPCs all over the game talk about loving them. This has caused the Gangreen Gang to stop committing crime.

Then an sentient alien planet named Fuse threatens to destroy the world. Dexter, from Dexter’s Laboratory accidentally sends someone to 2019 where the world is just straight up, irreparably destroyed, and all that’s left is a few people holding a failing resistance while nearly every Cartoon Network character is MIA and assumed dead.

So, the person sent to the future returns to the past with the tech that the future developed too late and they start using it in the past back in 2009 to turn the tide of war.

So back in the past Heroes and Villains have all teamed up. So what Fuse does is steal items from people to make fusion clones of them, and the tech from the future takes defeated fusions and imaginary energy (related to the imaginary friends from foster’s home for imaginary friends and is a counter weapon against Fuse) and makes a Nano, a tiny friendly copy of whoever the Fusion was a copy of.

Mojo Jojo has sent his underlings to search for Buttercup because literally everyone is worried sick and they are all desperate to find her. Someone finds her hanging out with Ace and she has all her memories back. But even though she has her memories back she doesn't go to see her family or help in the fight.

There is a Nano of Ace but you never get to see the Nano, the only evidence of the Nano is that Ace needs to give up a guitar string so Dexlabs can use it to improve the Nano.

Later, at Christmas, Chowder from Chowder shows up and has a bunch of Knishmas presents (yes, Knishmas) and they all got stolen. One was stolen by Ace who gives it back as soon as he’s questioned, and Buttercup gets mad at him. The present was for Grim from Grim Adventures. It’s food though so Grim is unable to eat it. There is no option to just give it back to Ace.

So that whole ordeal ends and Ace didn’t really participate in the fight at all but! He did make a Rock Band and that’s important because now him joining Gorillaz makes a lot more sense.

2018: Ace is 33-34 years old and joins Gorillaz, I think we all know how that goes. But now it’s not so out of left field because Ace was established as a musician and Gorillaz was established as being in the same universe. (and even going to Townsville) 

Also I feel confident in saying the Ace is an actor can ALSO work in this because if I remember correctly in universe the Powerpuff Girls get a TV show based off of their exploits (They also get a ton of merch, and that’s part of the plot of an episode) and Ace seems the type to 100% play himself on the show.

Who better to play himself than himself? Dude just gives of a loves to act vibe every once in a while in the show. Plus he’s good at acting on the show because he’s experienced it for real. He’d probably give good tips to the kid actors playing the PPG, though the real ones would probably drop in once in a while to make sure Ace isn’t causing trouble or lying about details.

There's also an explaination for the merchandise of ppg villains showing up in Gorillaz. In the old CN bumper Anger Management Mojo Jojo mentions that merchandise of him was made without his permission.