#Q! Theory

[mikaikaika]

Phil had a theory today that the code is a federation experiment gone wrong. He said that the code was originally supposed to be part of the eggs but the Federation screwed up while creating him which led him to being the code and the reason it majorly attacks eggs is because it is mourning the life that could have been and is envious of the others who succeeded. Same reason why it hates Federation or its allies because it holds them responsible for it's failed existence .

[lucabyte]

monologue

[pencildragons]

[rolls over to face you at the sleepover] bro do you think any of the lyctors ever used AD (alecto's dead) as a way to reference the passage of time and nearly gave john an honest to god heart attack because he thought they'd suddenly somehow remembered the christian calendar system. no hey wait stop pretending to be asleep this is important dude

[perplexingly]

I kinda genuinely don't understand this fandom tendency of interpreting things a Certain Way and believing that all else is incorrect

You guys really need to get into some 500 year old theatre play, watch 50 different performances and understand that even the "set in stone 100% acknowledged by scholars" interpretations can be disputed

[jaygeezthechosen]

[kathaynesart]

Wait a minute. What about that little detail from Many Unhappy Returns? The detail where Big Mama mentioned Prison Dimension she 'apparently' has access to and where she 'was supposed to' put Shredder there as 'a part of the deal'? If what are you saying is true how come she access to that horrid place too? Or how does she know about Prison Dimension? I just feel like this detail needs to be addressed.

Very good eye and yes! She did mention a having access to A prison dimension! But she used a completely different mystic item to capture him.

I’m pretty sure these different prison/pocket dimensions can be forged to capture whatever you want through its own personal key. So she probably sent Shredder to her own private Prison Dimension that only she has the key to. The Krang were captured in a completely different prison dimension.

So basically the term "Prison Dimension" is not the name of a single, special place, but merely a designation for a type of pocket prison. At least that's what I can gather from all this.

If you missed the initial post about the Prison Dimension you can check it out HERE. There are some strong arguments for it not having any sort of time dialation which is very fair and I'm totally willing to believe, though I'm still not sure if Krang could normally live for that long. Who knows, maybe they can?

[desualt]

B: It's pretty nice.

P: Yeah, It helps me think cuz I don't get distracted with anything.

B: No, I feel ya. This remains me a lot of what I see inside of my head all the time.

P: Nothing?

B: Yeah, it's just empty.

This guy

[quartings]

I translated and analyzed the leaked Pokemon Theogony diagram!

Here's the non-spoiler version from the Sinjoh ruins Arceus event! The leaked spoiler version with specific and leaked names is below the cut!

Things to note:

1) Tex is Regigigas maybe because it sounds like "Tectonic" + "Rex"? Since it moves the continents? (Dumb joke about how the Regi family can be found below Clay's Driftveil City in B2W2)

2) Despite appearences, the notes say the pink circle is for the god of time, and the blue one is for the god of space- could be cool to see Dialga and Palkia with swapped colors! Also note that Giratina isn't in the original version, but has a circle for it awkwardly added in the final version.

3) Pseudos have their own section- weird that Latias, Latios, and Gyarados are Pseudos but Salamence isn't. They're all bunched up in a section called "Supporting Legendaries". The three gen 4 placeholders for "Dahabu", "Saan", and "Gordon" could be for Garchomp and two other lesser legendaries like Cresselia and Darkrai or something. Or since they omitted Salamence, they could also not include Garchomp and the circle could be for something like Heatran instead.

4) Note that "Supporting Legendaries" are different from the birds, beasts, and regis, which are called "Servant Legendaries".

5) Also "Smilay" (Smile>Gratitude>Shaymin) and "Birthly" (Egg/Phione>Manaphy) are my speculations on the mythicals, but no confirmation, obviously.

6) Also there's a decent chance most of this is now moot since this diagram is from 2005 and we've had over 5 generations since then.

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

A Tribe Called Quest released their second album The Low End Theory September 24, 1991

[softichill]

It's been a while since I last saw you

[dnalt-d2]

So we all know Pomme and Richas disappeared before the testing started, and I remember seeing someone say that they went to Purgatory for the rescue without Phil

But I raise you one better

They went to GET Phil

They are currently dragging his unconscious ass to a boat and leaving as we speak

He's gonna wake up and it'll basically be like

It would be SO fuckin funny

[mikaikaika]

Since we're properly meeting ElQuackity today, I was looking back on some introduction videos and I noticed that in this moment- It is ElQuackity that says that "I can invite all my friends now" while Eng!Quackity is confused af over what he means.

I know we had our doubts over ElQuackity being involved with the federation but after this I guess this kinda cements in the fact that it might be true.

I have a theory that ElQuackity first invited Eng!Quackity along with his friends so qQ would have some incentive to stay on the island and then caused other people to land/crash on the island afterwards to have more test subjects cause he already got the main person he wanted. He might even pretend to be Q!Quackity but I'm not sure since they use different accounts.

[vldunchartedregions]

Season 8, by and large, has been accepted by the fansomto have had massive editing and creative changes; it's been all but confirmed by the crew. Tumblr theorists like Astro_Latte, LeakingHate and others have already pointed to specific original intent for years like Lotor coming back to life or Ezor's death being undone.

Totally aware the team is working on a big BANG of an analysis of S8, but I do have a specific question.

Without giving too much away, can you share some other changes the team has uncovered? Even just as bulletpoints?

Hello, happy weekend. Thank you for the question!

Off note: I haven't mentioned this yet, so I'm putting it out there: I love @astrolatte, truly an icon for the work they've done within the fandom.

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Since you've asked so nicely, here you go!

(These are our findings and all are alleged for entertainment purposes only, cough)

It's not everything but hopefully it's enough to feed the hungry few awaiting our meta:

CUT DIALOGUE: Keith outs himself to Hunk unintentionally on the Clear Day ride. It's a throwback to S8E1: Launch Date, with the Voltron TV show conversation he had with Lance.

Lotor and Allura were in the Blue Lion together at one point.

Romelle is working with Honerva. Dun, dun, dunnnn.

Missing Astral Plane / Time Rift scene right after reality crumbles. (Listen to Dark Heart by Jeremy Shada - one of the many indicators that infers what may have happened in this scene... allegedly *sips tea*)

Shiro was NEVER in the original Collective Consciousness scene in the final episode.

And finally, before I get ahead of myself and spill all the beans:

Lance wasn't alone in the bedroom scene in the final episode.

Isn't it funny when you dig a little deeper and you end up finding the lost city of Atlantis.

We feel like Nicholas Cage in the National Treasure films.

By the way, highly, HIGHLY encourage you all to watch S7E4, The Feud. In doing so, look at everything with "What is the intention of this scene? Why the colours, why this dialogue choice, why the mini golf whale shot, why did Lance get sucked through a tube and into a melting pot, etc." and you'll extract your answers.

Everything has a reason, a parallel, a foreshadow: including dialogue.

Another hint for you:

She-Ra Princesses of Power got the good ending the crew and showrunner wanted, whereas Voltron: Legendary Defender did not.

Thank you for the question! Have a fantastic weekend wherever you are. ☕️

[herrmit]

most ridiculous takes i've seen thus far have been the "ohhhh mark doesn't deserrrveee gemma so its actually a good thing that he walked away" type shit. 😐 its like. hey you care about this character? you care about her agency in the narrative? you care about her happiness? then maybe its time to fucking listen to her when she says she wants her husband back!!!!!! she wants her dead wife!!!!! some of y'all acting like gemma is a plot device that mark does or does not get to have when she is a fully fleshed-out character in her own right! a character who has routinely expressed a desire to a) get out of hell, b) take back the life she was ripped away from, and c) be with her husband!! desires she just so happens to share with outie mark! and its messy of course it's messy this show is messy and thats the point. but some people are all-too-eager to ignore the established character she is in favour of what they wish she was. take the loose thread of "mark dead wife" that doesn't fit into the desired narrative and tie it all off into a neat bow....... absurd.

[trappedinacomputer]

Hey so in my depression about tr!WaterHalo falling apart again I started thinking about why and went down a rabbit hole of angst so if that was Bad's intention , great job :D (/neg but not really, just in a silly way)

Anyways: So i was thinking about how, yes tr!Bad is an oblivious aromantic son of a bitch (I'm aromantic as well, that doesn't explain away his lack of rizz /j) who fumbled the dragon lady for like the millionth time, but there is probably a little more going on to this given him saying "angsty lore is the best lore" so I went down a rabbit hole of where this all goes

Yes this is gonna be a lot and yes it is honestly lowkey embarrassing that I thought up all this because of tr!Bad nosediving a date so hard he might as well have ended up at the center of the earth, BUT I DIGRESS:

*warning: most of this has nothing to do with holywater, it's mostly just !Bad*

tr!Bad has kinda been going through Ultra Depression™ like I've mentioned before due to him losing everything he cares about, which has resorted in him becoming a Gold Medal Olympic Alcoholic but also he's started to push people away a bit more

I got to thinking maybe the reason why Bad botched this date so hard (if we ignore the fact that he is in fact just this oblivious and didn't realize it was romantic) is because he's trying really hard to not actually care about Water, because he knows that people he cares about get hurt/die, even given his best efforts to save them..so maybe if he lets Water start hating him on her own, she'll stay away and live a long life like she deserves

BUT then I started thinking about !Bad as a character and just how fucking depressing he is which led me down the path of thinking about what exactly happened to him/what is happening to him now which leads me to my theories of his character and timeline of events:

Bad is an angel chilling in heaven, doing what he's told like any good angel does when he's given the task of killing the dinosaurs, which he does because it's what he's told to do. However, when he returns he is told this is his purpose, his one task for all eternity is to kill and cause destruction which is not at all something that sounds inticing.

He, along with others, rebel against this idea that their fate and existence is predetermined against their will which directly contradicts their existence. They get thrown out of heaven leading to his fall and being trapped under Euphrates, only being able to escape when he, who would've guessed it, kills the angels guarding him, proving the heavens right.

Like a curse and a constant reminder, a halo continuously hangs over his head even if everywhere he goes, catastrophe follows and every person he learns to love dies by either his own hand or his own actions/inactions, reminding him that his fate is sealed and he can do nothing to prevent it, no matter how hard he tries.

And this gets proven for him when he stumbles onto an island and meets the first creatures in a long time he'd sacrifice himself for: his kids. This was a love that ran deeper than any he had felt before..so when they went missing and he couldn't feel their lives close, he spiraled. Believing he had lost them, he prepares himself to be a catalyst for the end of the world, torturing himself to feel a fraction of the amount of pain he was about to bring. If his kids were truly dead, then the end of life on earth would bring them together again, he would swallow his pride and do what the heavens sent him to do if it meant he could reunite with them again.

But he miscalculated. They were alive, being held somewhere horrible where he had to embrace the killing to potentially save them, but by that time, he was already prepared. When they were escaping from that place and he tanked a nuke to save Dapper, his decay got worse and he found himself in his own mind, between life and death, debating with himself and the different parts of his soul on what to do. He was so prepared to take on his mission, but now what? He was so dead set on completing his purpose to return to his kids, but now they were here with him again, he needed to protect them and take care of them, it wasn't time yet again.

That purpose ate away ate him, but he couldn't risk hurting his kids so when the opportunity to go back to that place of killing arose, he sent the part of his soul that wanted it the most, while the other parts got to stay and protect his kids from it. But his body was still in a state of decay, and actions always have consequences, he suffered for literal months slowly dying but stayed there for his kids, until his body and mind literally gave out, reliving the worst moment in all his lives: the day he lost his son.

When he gets to that desert again, with the scales laid before him and two doors on either side, he didn't even notice they were balanced, not until he looked towards the door "Home", the only place he was ever meant to exist. The door normally locked and chained shut not stood clean, almost welcoming..and he screams "why?" Why now does he get the choice to return home? Why when he finally has something to protect, that he's finally been able to protect, does he get the option to go? He contemplates for what feels like days, but he made a promise to return to his babies, and while it wasn't a deal, he couldn't bring himself to break it.

So he returns to them..but he only has limited time with them before he seemingly does what he does best and the people he loves are once again taken from him. Once all his kids are done, he has carved their memorial into the very earth, and the last of his comrades depart, he does as well. He kills himself seemingly in the only rift in whatever protection the island has and seems..surprised to arrive back in the desert in front of those scales. He turns and sees his kids run up to him from the wide open gates of his home. A beautiful sight, if it didn't come with a cost. Heaven basically dangles his kids in front of his face, knowing these creatures were what he chose over them, knowing the pull they have over him and using it as leverage to push him to complete his mission.. and it kind of works.

Now he finds himself in this new realm, meeting new and old friends, people he cares for, but knowing deep down he's here for a specific reason. He needs to finish this Cathedral to figure out the missing piece to the puzzle of what his mission is/how to complete it. But what's the rush really? He knows his kids are safe in heaven, they can't die again and are out of harms way, he can spend some spare moments enjoying life before he snuffs it out.

I don't think this Cathedral is to contact heaven, I think that's what Bad hopes it does. Bad has made it clear that his mind and memory are all over the place, I've said it before and I'll say it again: I believe that the part of his soul that remembers his mission and is fully prepared to kill the entire planet to see his kids again, is the one he left in Purgatory, and I also fully believe Heaven would trick him into bringing that part of his soul back and forcing Bad to combine it back with the rest of himself. And when not if his mind fails again, maybe it isn't alcohol or a broken heart, but a broken soul, torn between killing everyone to return home to his kids, or never seeing his kids again to buy humanity more time than heaven believes they deserve.

There are some more theories I have that are a lot more eccentric like Bad potentially going through with the apocalypse but betraying heaven to make a new world (maybe with the help of Foolish 👀) but that's not really something I believe is planned lol

[belanova]

Dash active look at my Brainrot actually

Explanation of how I got here! ✨ So in deltarune the person who talks to us in the beginning in the game might be two people

This is because the Japanese translation in the game the person who speaks to us is using the two alphabets of Kanji and Katakana

Which is really weird!!! katakana is only used for loan words so writing like this is really strange

The only other person who speaks like this is in Undertale is W.D Gaster (and queen but that's emphasis that she's a robot... Unless. 😳)

Then suddenly when the vessel gets yeeted the text turns back into Kanji and Hiragana, and refers to you as the player as Omae (which is kind of a distant way to say you)

The only other person in the Undertale who speaks like this is Chara (dun dun dunn) since the rest of Undertale avoids Kanji Chara stands out as using it extremely frequently and uses Omae for the player

Which is why people believe there is two people in the intro and the second person is Chara

HOWEVER I HAVE OPEN MY EYES TO A BIGGER POSSIBILITY .

ITS NOT CHARA!

The reason I don't believe it's Chara simply cause Chara is like.. dead

Lmao ik they can probably access supernatural dead powers and is technically the one you actually play in Undertale, but it seems strange for Undertale to be a game about keeping goodness in your heart and the power of friendship just for the other game to prioritize the geno route like that

but Yk who does have extremely similar quirks to Chara and would make the most sense to talk like them? Kris dreemurr

I think it would be a crazy crazy parallel of the games where in Undertale you get to name the fallen child, in Deltarune your protagonist names you

And frankly I think it just be cool if our protags first dialogue is telling the player that theyre not playing as the vessel but as them