NPMD Tarot - The Star
Others from the series: The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Devil, Strength, The World
A bit of symbolism under the cut, but I'm curious of other interpretations 👀✨
I matched The Star with Ruth based mostly on visuals and the reverse meaning (which among other things mentions feeling like everything is against you, which I thought fit her well).
Elements that represent hope, opportunities and shining bright from the original card are turned into foreshadowing of her death here.
Light - Her Moment, chance, ambitions and wants. The second she enters it, she's dead.
Background - theater seats, empty.
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All I'm saying is if Richie "Anime Weeaboo" lipschitz and Ruth "Scifi Fantasy Geek" Flemings knew they existed in a story deemed the Hatchetverse where practical Gods named the Lords In Black ruled over a dimension called the Black And White?
They'd wanna fuck them🤷
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I don't know where to talk about this but I need to talk with SOMEONE about how NPMD has an ongoing theme (I think it's a theme?) of people getting a taste of what they always wanted before it is stolen from them and they die.
[MASSIVE SPOILERS]
Max thought the nerds actually cared about him and were willing to do something nice for him out of their own free will.
And then he fell and realised the nerds didn't care about him, they only wanted to hurt him (although they didn't actually want to kill him).
Richie finally became friends with the popular footballers (is it football? I'm Australian idk) and they told him they liked + needed him.
And then Max called out and made Richie think they were bullying him again, then told him that he'll always be a loser.
Ruth got her moment on stage and hit that amazing high note, proving to herself that she could be a lead at a musical theatre and be the star of the show.
And then Max booed her, which essentially told her that she could never be good enough to do it, and he killed her before she could ever perform in front of an audience.
Steph's dad and his assistant don't fit this, but they're not main characters.
Pete finally asks Stephanie out for the dance and she says yes, fulfilling both of their hopes for each other's love.
And then... If Max hadn't stopped the bullet, Pete would've died knowing he could never be with Steph, and Steph would have lived on in sadness. And if Grace hadn't called Max away and tricked him, then they both would have died with the knowledge that they failed to save the person they loved most and would never be with them.
In giving up her chastity, Grace stops the cycle from repeating with Steph & Pete, and instead forces Max to die again. Max doesn't actually lose what he wanted most with his second death, because Grace substitutes her want (to become holy again and to have this never haunt her again) for one of his wants (to have sex with Grace).
I don't know if I'm onto something here, if I'm being crazy, or if someone else has already noticed it.
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nooo poor ruth! i'll give her extra kisses so she can brag
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Ruth Connell as Night Nurse in the new Dead Boy Detectives promo
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things i called pandemonium: pandemic, pancreas, pancake, pants, pantaloon, paracetamol (the list goes on)
thoughts on anthropomorphic pandemonium below!
i may have misinterpreted the wiki page (most likely) but thought that it said something about pandemonium being a creature made of unknown substances resembling rotting flesh and mechanisms (?), thus the robotic parts.
my personal ideas:
the beign has mysterious origins. at first it was a blob of matter it erupted from, and as it absorbed organism around itself pandemonium gained their properties. it was a hybrid of various plants, seaweed and fish that resided deep below the surface. the semi-oraganic and partially living beign evolved and adapted at shocking speeds, obtaining abilities by changing and enhancing those that had been absorbed. without external interference it became a catastrophically dangerous and potent anomaly due to its main and only own property: extreme adaptability.
when urbanshade intervened, the amalgamation got access to technology and copied properties of certain machines it consumed, which it manifested at need. unfortunately, proper investigation on pandemonium's nature began too late and the hypothesis about it's adaptive and destructive potential was proven only past the point of no return: pandemonium evolved to be a biomechanical weapon and seemingly artificial intelligence.
therefore, it's behavior was determined by something that wasn't yet consciousness, but which had already developed beyond animalistic instincts.
the worst was yet to come. after consuming human flesh, pandemonium unlocked new branch of evolution and assimilated "mind". no one knows what "mind" is and how it operates, and neither is there information on how it transformed during consumption. one thing is certain: pandemonium became sentient.
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