#Tank Theory

[welcometogrouchland]

Disgustingly messy and crusty sketch dump but I couldn't get my own terrible theory out of my head and ended up making a bunch of sketches about it. Also at the end a bonus dickbats and Damian doodle bc I was reading an issue of their Batman and Robin run (IDs in Alt)

[nekdeverse]

[probablyaparadox]

Shanks’ crew is really out here taking out every punk aesthetic pirate they see what did the punks ever do to you dress better than you???

[konnorhasapen]

I FORGOT NOW THAT IM ON TUMBLR WITH OTHER PEOPLE WHO SHARE MY HYPERFIXATION I CAN TALK ENDLESSLY ABOUT THIS SHIT WITHOUT HAVING TO SHRINK IN ON MYSELF WHEN I REALIZE NO ONE IS ACTUALLY LISTENING/ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT WHAT IM TALKING SO PASSIONATELY ABOUT-

Okay- so- I am a firm believer that Sam was absolutely right (back in the audio where Darlin' and Sam had just been informed that Quinn's work had been spotted out in the open-) when he mentioned that the body that was found could've very well been bait for Darlin'. I 100% believe it was meant to be bait for them. Like,,, as much as I parade around screaming about how stinky and stupid dumb-dumb Little Orphan Quinnie is, I know for a fact that he's not actually that much of an idiot. That being said, he definitely knows about the blood bond, and that body being dropped was basically him saying "I know we're connected, so come and get me." He's absolutely smarter than we all want him to be- I mean, he's a 50y/o vamp who was turned by old blood, we're kinda forced to give credit where it's due. We heard back in Sam's first audio that Quinn tends to clean up his messes pretty damn well—save for Fred and Bright, as Sam also mentioned—so, to me, there is no way in any hell that Quinn just "accidentally forgets to clean up a body." He knows he's being hunted by the Department. And he knows that somehow, Darlin' will catch wind of that body with the hopes that they'll come right to him where he can finally get things done and wrapped up. Whether that be because he's not sure how much of a range the blood bond has, or because they have people helping them out in the Department (which therein lies my fear for Ansel's safety seeing as he's the one doing most of the investigating up in Ferris.)

And I can hear you already "but Koob! Why would he kill them if he knew the Shaw Pack would just hunt him down like they're the goddamn forgotten Gods of The Wild Hunt-" aHA! But that's just the thing! Quinn knows Darlin's back in town, but he has no idea they've renewed their bond with the Pack- let alone definitely stronger than it was before. For all he knows, they're still the lone wolf they were when they met! He doesn't know Angel and Baabe even exist yet, so he doesn't see any places he can get in and torture them emotionally or mentally before he just offs them and calls it a night.

Until Darlin' didn't show up to find him where he left that bait. Now he knows that something—or someone—is keeping them from doing something reckless. And now that he knows,

He's on his way.

Anyway, thanks for listenin' to my little rant :D I've been keepin' this puppy(no pun intended) in my noggin every since that Gregory audio and the following Sam audio dropped!^-^

[messiahofslams]

Won this tank for finishing Hell Week at the gym! I'm gonna crop the bulge because I don't need to be blurred lol...

[asleepinawell]

I could only fit 10 sadly 😔 so I left off Stone Vigil and Haukke because they are the ones I've seen people complain about the least but I could be wrong. please feel free to tell me how much you loathe them in the tags

also left off castrum and prae because lol

[phoenixcatch7]

Security breach's story (including ruin) was super weird, right? Left a lot unexplained, introduced a lot of confusing elements, cleared nothing up, and made it worse with the ending of ruin. Very frustrating.

But.

I have a bold claim - in this essay I'm going to tell you that I think I've found the unifying theory of security breach, INCLUDING ruin. And no, it's nothing that's mentioned in the actual game.

It's 'Remnant'.

Now presumably matpat or some other theorist has made more detailed connections and I just haven't been able to find it, and I'm a casual fan at best lol. But I'm quite chuffed, so. I'm sharing.

Remnant is basically glowing soul juice produced by high emotions - children, trauma, excitement, suffering, death. Ectoplasm, essentially. It gets into physical objects and stores that emotion, like how a stuffed teddy is full of love or a torture device is full of pain. Yay!

Afton, during his killing spree, harvested this remnant from kids to fuel his plan for immortality (or something). He discovered along the way that if it was infused into a material like metal, then it could be shaped and, when combined with any form of intelligence ('even ai', he says!) it acts as a source of independent power 'that translates into movement, which is why things may appear haunted'. Ergo, animatronics. His perfect army of golems and test subjects.

The first round was, of course, fnaf 1, with the children literally stuffed into the suits to power them, which, yikes, horrible, and in a food establishment? Later he figured out how to skip the rotting corpse step and directly infuse metal, which made it temperature volatile and apparently hard to store. Anything is better than the first round. This resulted in sister location with the scooper, which could (as best I figure?) take the remnant out directly and store it for later use. It could also recycle animatronics, to scrap them without wasting all that precious soul juice that could theoretically power something forever.

Anyway, decades later, the same company is still running, and their precious 'animatronics' are now full on artificially intelligent robots with an army of drone cleaners and a dozen well covered up missing children.

You see where I'm going with this?

I think the glam rock animatronics are crafted out of the newest, highest grade remnant metal to bring them to life (maybe a little too much)... and to aid in the gathering of remnant to power Trap/afton, in his little recharge pod under the earth, at vannys direction. (And presumably all that after hour neon lighting, let's be real.)

The animatronics are all secretly equipped with track and destroy technology - roxy with her sensitive ears and x-ray eyes, chica with her stunlock voice box, monty with his metal rending claws and pouncing ability... Freddy with his chest cavity big enough to fit a small child. Like old times!

I swear the daycare attendant has infrared vision and very possibly direct access to the cctv, but anyway. (I also swear freddy collapsing on stage and triggering the safety protocol after hours was the only thing keeping him from joining, even leading the pack of machines to comb the place and take Gregory down to the scooper by trick or by stick, and Gregory almost made a fatal decision when he hid in the chest cavity. No freddy has ever been nice after hours, and there's no reason given why this one is.)

Back to the DA, it gives the implications of their old power core (freddys original upgrade and heavily theorised to have previously belonged to the only 'tronic out during the hourly recharge) a whole new meaning. Perhaps the setting of the daycare and all that happy sugar high children energy making happy memories was a perfect environment for a low level (experimental? Inefficient?) sort of... Emotional photosynthesis? It would explain why one half is the daycare and the other is the security patrol. Food for thought. Obviously freddy isn't able to receive all those benefits for a number of reasons.

(And it might explain the poor treatment of the DA, too, if the core was removed for some reason, and why sun is struggling so hard to keep his hopes up if it can no longer absorb and process literal happiness vibes for the best haunting ever. Poor guy always gets the short end of the stick. Maybe it also explains why the DA is the only animatronic to glow... because of the remnant metal? The extra juice they were supposed to have?)

Yeah, but what about ruin? How does it fit into this?

Well, for one, the new scooper. It's the literal gathering tool and storage place for all this remnant, so it's presumably pretty vital. Afton is parked directly above it in a recharge pod, sucking up all that sweet sweet juice. He's literally drinking children's tears, the monster.

And the mimic. Because there's a second part to remnant that only becomes relevant now. It's the worst and strongest emotion that can only be created through immense pain and suffering. 'Agony'. A black sludge of distilled horrors. And the thing is, it's highly infectious. But agony is useless. Unless it's combined with remnant in a specific way, and the resulting reaction is extremely powerful and dangerous.

The mimic is infected with agony. And it's found itself probably the biggest source of remnant in the world. The battery of (potentially) the whole pizza plex, and every animatronic inside it. (Moon may well have been the first infected... If the patrol animatronic encountered the mimic on its arrival. Ooh, now there's a thought. It's more likely it saw and tried to stop vanny from some unethical activity (it's a purely robot job!) And she... Prevented it from becoming a recurring issue with the glitch code. Ah, but there's no proof.)

Either all that remnant is now corrupted, or converted. My money is not on converted because the mimic is not spreading a plague of suffering across the land, and is instead trying to lure kids in again to replenish the remnant. And the poor animatronics are still clinging to blackened, crippled life.

It certainly would explain why the company just dropped the entire location without either bulldozing it to the ground or trying to scavenge and repair. With the animatronics infected with agony, it's far too dangerous to do either, and of course officials absolutely cannot find out.

TLDR: I think the missing puzzle piece is 'Remnant' to explain aftons presence, the strangely alive animatronics, the point of all those child disappearances Gregory was supposed to be investigating, the scooper, the mimic, vannys actual job as head enabler for afton, the animatronic's violent upgrades, the true goal of the pizza plex and why it was built over the sinkhole, but most importantly... how they're footing that electricity bill.

But hey ;D! That's just a theory!

[bruhstation]

more of the trainsaw man au.... no confusion, no delay, and no bel prize!!!!

[thefluffyrailway-official]

HEY FLUFFY!!! I'mma give you a theory!!

So, i've been checkin' on that tails post you did. And i found out some interesting details.

It's about Arry, Bert, Mavis and Salty's tails.

Them all look similar, as they all have a fish-like tails. But they're all diferent at the same time.

Arry and Bert's tails together have the shape of an arrow (which is very funny to me) and a stripped ribon.

Mavis, for her part, has bigger fins but still a little bent. She has the same ribbon, but slightly looser this time.

But Salty has even bigger fully extended fins. It no longer has that striped band like its brothers, but instead has a kind of loosened rope. It also has a hook in one of its fins.

I guess they represent their freedom and how close to Diesel 10 they are.

Arry and Bert being like his new Splatter and Dodge. They're so close to him, nearly being his servants. So he treats them like pawns in his own game.

Mavis' ribbon is less tied bc of her being Diesel's mate, which is the same, his daughter in-law. And you mentioned he respects her a lot more than other diesels. (I personally think it's because thanks to her Diesel finally will think about having pups. Which may be good for Diesel 10 but idk- Pls don't do that to the pups)

And Salty being the only one without a ribbon, means he doesn't want and has no direct contact with Diesel 10. But still haves something tied to his tail because of something that may be related to his relationship with Mavis. The hook that is still on his tail even though he could just take it off, may be a ref to how he's basically hooked to Diesel 10 after the events of "Salty's Silence". In my opinion, that hook still hurts his tail, but he isn't able to take it off and just says it's like a war scar or just because it's so cool to Sandy and other pups that alread know him and it's a way to hide what he saw and how he feels about it.

Honestly, I love how Salty's character is going on this AU. You're doing an amazing job making characters that became background or secondary characters in BWBA tridimensional characters.

I will find out where you live and kidnap you if you don't make Salty an important character on the main lore between Thomas and 10. 👁👁

Anyway, this was my theory. I'll be sending more Fluff. Don't forget me! I'll be checking all your blog to find some detail i can use on my theories >:)

Gbye!

👁👄👁

i never thought about it that way..... BUT THE RIBBONS WAS INTENTIONAL!!!

(The hook was just bc of he thinks he looks cool as you said. But headcannon accepted)

ALSO TYSM!!!! I really try to make good characters even though most of them is already written, i still try to be careful with the headcannons and all the stuff that describes a version in my AU.

And bc of the secondary characters. I must say. I just like those characters and want to give them more importance (I STILL CAN'T GET OVER THAT HANNAH APPEARED ONLY IN 2 EPISODES!!!)

Anyway tysm (dw, Salty will be VEEEERY important) and i will wait patiently for your new theories<3

[thalwhore]

Vote whatever you play as most, for science.

[mod2amaryllis]

maaaaaan! Sarge died :(( he was fine this morning, then just now went down and he was gone... parameters are ok so idk, it could've been classic random betta death. (i do have a weird theory after looking at his body but it's so hard to know...)

I'm just so sad...i made him his beautiful 10g and he never ever got to live in it. swim in peace little dude i wish I'd known you longer :'(

[alchemicaldesignquery]

Overwatch 6v6: Prelude

So there's going to be some tests establishing what the format looks like in Overwatch. The main contributing problem is the engine isn't designed for it so it's going to take time to figure out. Optimization might well be out the window for half a year or so.

Anddddd I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they just did another Season 9 early next year. A single season of 6v6 to see how it goes with the full population, with intermittent tests of various queue, design and balance decisions.

Ideal, really, but-

-there are considerable problems across a lot of avenues, not just for the format but with Overwatch in general.

Non-exhaustive list

Queue Times are explained and there's no easy fix for how to address that, without some serious re-structures.

Design-wise, a lot of the new heroes are kinda janky for what 6v6 is about.

A lot of the OW2 population has been trained to play the game in a way that is very...off from 6v6 and it's heavier team dependency.

Tutorials are almost non-existent and they would be a big boon for getting a playerbase that has never played 6v6, up to scratch.

Dev knowledge and experience with 6v6 might be limitedd at this point given many of the senior team members that knew it have left.

All that to say:

There's going to be a lot of experimenting, behind the scenes and, hopefully, out front.

and whereas I've got a lot of thoughts myself about what 6v6 is and isn't (and Overwatch in general, really) it is encouraging to think that they could explore it with fresh eyes.

Especially if it means at some point over the next year, they realize the same thing that everyone else is, very slowly, realizing...

That 6v6 would need a brand new game with a new engine and dedicated team to have a chance at anything that isn't just another content drop people will get bored of.

We'll see though...

TBC

[therukurals]

[cute-brainz]

anyone else have a horrendous amount of anxiety waiting for the summit audio. the insomnia is fucking it up in here

[stop-spreading-this-poll]

Round 1 Poll 17: Dark. So dark

Thomas the Tank Engine submission:

Henry the Green Engine (the green train with the number 3 on his tender) died of starvation in a tunnel after being bricked up inside it. HE DIDN'T! HE WAS LET OUT IN THE VERY. NEXT. EPISODE. IF YOU PEOPLE WOULD JUST STOP LETTING CLICKBAIT ARTICLES BE YOUR ONLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON THE SHOW, YOU WOULD KNOW THAT!!!! HENRY'S A TRAIN! HOW THE FUCK CAN TRAINS DIE OF STARVATION WHEN THEY CAN'T. FUCKING. EAT. Anyways, that's my entry.

Phineas and Ferb submission:

The Candace has schizophrenia theory or whatever idk there are variations but the general idea is. Candace is mentally ill and the boys are like dead or imaginary or smth. Total horseshit that Dan Povenmire himself has said is false. But it still gets spread. https://steemit.com/english/@junelinarez/the-true-story-of-phineas-and-ferb here's a version idk if the original

[nostalgicfortomorrow]

mako and bolin parallel each other because:

mako kept everything soft and sweet inside of him, curled into a tight little ball while he trapped himself in a hard casing in order to protect his brother.

bolin kept everything hard and angry and destructive into a pit of lava in his soul, hoping it would never come out. he encased it in layers of softness and naivety because someone has to make sure that people doesn't consume themselves with their own anger but bolin being able to bend lava when there were no other "softer" options, while the fire burned in his eyes and you could see the stone and flames consume him and he knew that theres no other way to do this except embrace this side of you BECAUSE HOW ELSE ARE YOU GOING TO SAVE YOUR BROTHER WHO DID EVERYTHING TO PROTECT YOU AND YOU DID EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO MAKE HIM HAPPY.