#This is all a ramble and pure speculation on my part
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In rewatching s8 i have some thoughts. Why it didnāt work as an ending, and what i think could have been changed.
WARNING THIS POST IS LONG AS FUCK, so strap in if youāre interested.
- The feel of the writing is distinctly off. Not bad, but it doesnāt feel like youāre watching Voltron anymore. It feels grittier and more like a high stakes adult animation than the other seasons. Which, again, isnāt necessarily bad, but the shift is too quick and it could have been executed better if they spent more time digging into the individual characters and their growth during s6/7.
- The issue of āthereās always a bigger enemyā starts to make the plot feel stale. You get bored of a bigger robot, higher stakes, more to lose. They start killing people and planets for a cheap audience reaction when we werenāt all that invested in the first place. It felt like a split second decision by the writers to destroy Olkarion. Something like that needs to be pencilled in from the beginning. There were too many attacks on Olkarion, and as a consequence we got too used to seeing itās people in peril. There shouldāve been a distinct shift where we, as the audience, realised Voltron wasnāt going to be there to save them this time. Whether thatās a writing, animation or atmospheric issue iām unsure. Maybe itās just a me thing.
- The Atlas should never have been able to transform. That for me was the biggest investment turn off. Why do we need Voltron anymore if thereās a bigger, stronger robot on their side? If they were going to replace the castle, they should have made it clear and stuck with the intention. Thatās not a support ship anymore, thatās something else entirely. Iād gladly watch a show JUST about the Atlas, with Shiro at the helm, but itās not Voltron.
- Too many things happen at once, and itās massively convoluted. 13 episodes is not enough time to: introduce a romance, have me actually care about that romance, kill off a main character, form a new version of voltron, redeem three main antagonists, AND cutely tie up all the glaring plot holes of the show. S8 needed to be two seasons at least. If things were spread out and more passion was pumped into the writing, it couldāve worked.
- Alluraās character was ruined. She became a nagging, reckless, martyred love interest. I love her dearly, i have from S1, but they did her SO dirty. Lance, too. They both deserved better.
- I think, personally, that Sendak shouldāve been the final villain. Not Honerva. Her arc was rushed and her CORE motivation made little sense. They used the flimsy excuse of her corruption to redeem her love for Lotor, and his name was literally raked through hell and back for a very mediocre payoff. If that was the plan from the start, it needed to be hinted at more.
- There was too much, as i call it, flip-flopping. The alteans are alive, now theyāre evil, now theyāre not. We canāt get into Oriande, but now we can! Personally, i need explanations, and strict universal rules. If those rules are to be broken for whatever reason - it has to be a show stopping exception and a main event. Everything is excused and explained away when it doesnāt make any sense.
- Now, i actually really likes the subtle art style and animation adjustments in the season, visually it was spectacular so i have no critiques there. If only the plot could have done its outer shell some justice.
AND GET LANCE OFF THAT DAMN FARM.
#odesrambles#voltron#keith kogane#vld#voltron legendary defender#lance mcclain#takashi shirogane#hunk garrett#pidge holt#princess allura#coran#voltron season 8#Odesrevisions#This is all a ramble and pure speculation on my part#donāt take too seriously pls and thanks#i so badly wanted to see this show succeed but alas it shot itself in the foot at the end
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person who voted that Iād like the beginning more than the tri movies: I feel like you should know I am one of the biggest tri lovers there is. that was the least safe bet there. that said I admire your guts.
#tri is not good but there is enough there I like that I think I can fix it. like not unsalvageable.#(meanwhile my thoughts on kizuna is that I think itās premise is broken on a fundamental level but thatās neither here nor there)#i will say part of my love of tri DOES come from bias due to it being what got me back into the fandom and also I just think the community#during the tri movies and all the speculations were super fun.#so like I have a soft spot for it. i am willing to overlook some of the flaws and weird decisions.#the digimon au I have that haunts my mind constantly includes a complete rewrite of tri purely because I would want to share with people#what I think tri could have been. what it is in my mind. a look into how growing up effects the chosen and how the trauma from what they#experienced effects them. how the concept of being chosen is not always a net positive.#the fact I never talk about my au is very funny btw because it is almost always on my mind when I think about digimon stuff.#when I watch the beginning I guarantee you I will be thinking about if I could reasonably slot it into the au the entire time#hi sorry this turned into a ramble. anyway yaoyd au my beloved. once I rewatch adventure and can guarantee I will be able to talk about you#without accidentally mischaracterizing every characterā¦. maybe I will talk about you moreā¦.#dramon thoughts
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āoooh I thought Christians had boring sexā yeah well my Christian friends are virgins but Iām pretty sure theyād spice it up with Silly Songs With Larry or some shit like that
#my ramblings#silly songs with larry#Veggietales#the Christian experience (TM)#this is all purely speculation on my part but#I mean#this canāt be too out-of-box
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No for real would love to know where that little bit of Filipino comes from. My dad's on Ancestry but Ancestry likes to "smooth out" (eliminate) smaller ethnicity percentages, especially with recent updates. I don't "count" as .4% Filipino over there, and site updates took away my bits of Nigerian and West Asian (the last of which, while small, is still more than just trace amounts), all of which are still available on my 23AndMe. But dad doesn't want to do another DNA test and mom doesn't want to do a test at all so I'm over here staring at the things I wasn't expecting my European ass to have going "WHO WERE YOU I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW" with no direction to start looking
#I mean the obvious answer is some form of colonization on part of the European ancestors#the Nigerian is weird bc it's potentially far back enough to have preceded chattel slavery in the U.S so I'm hoping it was a happier story#there than usual#my French-Italian side remains a mystery to me for lack of records. I'm guessing the WANA came thru Italy#the fact that I'm like .3% Indian subcontinent on top of larger WANA and Italian makes me wonder about potential (small) Roma ancestry#but that's pure speculation#and the Filipino is a total wildcard I initially dismissed until I found a half Filipino 4th cousin and other 4th cousins who also had root#none of whom know who the common ancestor is sadly#anyway it makes me sad I'm an atheist bc I know I will never have an answer even after I rest eternal#but I would love to know who all these parts of my DNA came from#the .4% Filipino means roughly 8 generations since the last full Filipino ancestor which was like two hundred years ago#and that's hundreds of great-x-grandparents to go thru#sigh#anyway just ignore me I'm#rambling about ancestry again
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What are your thoughts on ISAT's magic system?
AUTISM BLAST
okay long rambly post incoming. for the record like 90% of this is pure unfiltered headcanon. and almost all of this is about colors. sorry if this is hard to follow!!! i need to get this all out of my system.
oh also! a lot of this is based on a really good post by @/chronologically-challenged that shows off the differences between each characterās craft style! go check that out itās really good
okay!! so!!! colors. this is just my own thing, but i personally like to color code the different types of craft!
donāt worry about those middle tones yet just put a pin in those
thereās still a little bit of color variety within craft types (for flavor), but generally, rock is blue, paper is yellow, and scissors is red. iām not going to lie to you i only did this because the splatoon testfire had these colors. itās also why my triplets designs are colored like that!
i think these colors also just fit the descriptions of these crafts? red feels like a more aggressive and active color, which matches how piercing craft is generally more focused on dealing damage, blue tends to be calmer, which matches protective craft being more supportive , that kinda thing. something something childrenās hospital. yellow is a bit of a wildcard here lol, it just looks nice with the other two.
putting aside the colors for a mo! donāt worry thoseāll come back soon. iāve also been thinking a lot about how dual craft types work, though this is a little more speculative. iām entirely basing this on how mira works. basically, one craft type seems to be more ādominantā over the other. while mira is both paper and scissors, sheās still weak to rock, her basic attack is scissors, and her scissors skill (jolly round rondo) does much more damage than her paper skill (artsy silent burst). she behaves more like a scissors type, with an extra affinity for paper. which i think is interesting!!!
in terms of colors, i think this would manifest as miraās craft being tinted orange, as a mix of both her craft typeās colors! this is partially what those uncategorized colors are for. while her scissors attacks are only slightly tinted, her paper attacks would be a lot closer to orange! and this would apply to other dual crafts as well. a rock/paper type would have more greenish attacks, a rock/scissors type would have more purply ones, etc etc.
i think this color mixing would also apply to single craft types trying to use a craft type that isnāt their own, though itād prolly become less pronounced the more a person āgets usedā to using that craft type, so to speak. in a while rockodile would be pretty solidly purple, while rock bottom is more of an indigo color, and odileās craft skills probably only slightly tinted as well.
ok!!! that was a lot about colors. iām really fucking normal about colors. onto craft styles!! this is still kinda about colors tho sorry. also, again, go check out @/chronologically-challengedās post if you havenāt already, itāll prolly explain this better than i will
for a tl;dr on that post, each country has a different way of using craft. the forgotten island has lightless craft that tends to manifest as stars and zigzags, vaugarde has big, rounded bursts of grey craft (with smaller circles around it), and ka bueās craft is more diamond shaped/triangular and tends to be on the lighter side.
this is also the part iām a little less sure about. i havenāt drawn these out in my normal style!! so a lot of this is subject to change. sorry about that!
anyways. i wanted to preserve the islandās lightless craft while still making it colorful, so i decided to give it a sort of. halo effect? i guess? i wanted it to vaguely resemble the ring of light around a black hole or a solar eclipse, but that is a lot harder to do with the zigzag shape of the craft + my color limitations. and as iāve recently learned, glow effects look really weird with my pixelly art. so this is all just flat colors š
shhh donāt mind the art here iāve totally posted it before š©¶
vaugarde is pretty simple comparatively!! the craft is a sort of midshade ingame, so i just made the main color the normal craft colors. not much to say here!
and ka bue is in a similar boat! i did kinda draw it in my odile sprite redraw, but i didnāt really look at references so itās kinda boring looking there. not much to say here either!!
and!! as we can see from the kingās special attack art, craft styles can kinda mix together. kingās style follows the general shape of vaugardian craft, but keeps the shade and stars from the forgotten island! i think itād be fun to play with that a little more teehee. i imagine these are a lot more variable depending on how engrossed someone is in a culture, hence why odileās craft doesnāt borrow from vaugardeās style. unless she does? itās not like we see other ka buans using craft in game. who knows.
also because i forgot, some extra bonus doodles of that craft color mixing i mentioned earlier! yipee!
and thatās it!!! thereās probably some other stuff that i am. currently forgetting. but this post is absurdly long enough!!! thank you so much for the ask iām so sorry for autism blasting you about isat and color theory. am i still cool. hereās all of my craft doodles as compensation for reading this giant infodump. iām so so sorry.
#do i tag this as marshdoodles? i probably should#marshdoodles#marshtalkin#isat#in stars and time#isat spoilers#āiām just going to make a quick post about my craft hcs this should only take an hour or soā#im so sorry for dropping a category 5 autism attack on you#also sorry if thereās like. typos or grammatical errors in here. i had to rewrite a few bits.#iām so normal and sane about isat. and color theory.#please stick your fingers between the bars of my cage :3#updating the link here since op changed their username!
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skully who r u [fae skully + a ramble on his possible background]
we have less than a day before we get the ending for this event and IM. NOT READY. im not ready to hear about how skully is a person from the past (and we're thinking 200 years or so), nor am i ready to go back to twst to hear that he's dead in our time and he's really the founder of modern halloween that nrc celebrates
... that's assuming he's human tho
and fortunately or unfortunately, there's hints that twst has been dropping that leads us to think otherwise
firstly: ears WHERE
in his live2D, you dont get to see his ears At All. not even a hint of an ear lobe. we know twst to be very detailed and deliberate with their designs so why did they choose to hide his ears
in his illustration, u can see a hint of an earlobe, but it's still very much covered
and as we know, when we look at malleus and lilia ears, we Know that they have pointy ears marking their pure fae ancestry. soooo skully..????? š¤Ø fae skully real?????
i partly market the fae skully agenda bc PLS. WHAT IF... MEET . . .. .. IN OUR TIME. .. .. .. .... . PLS... . ... . .. . ..... š„ŗ WE SEE HIM ALIVE BUT A LIL OLDER AND WAUGHHHHHHHHHHHHH pls i cant handle this yall
secondly: there is still that part in Episode 1-4 of skully saying to us "moshi... ne, moshi" instead of "moshimoshi", and a lot of ppl shared that the belief of supernatural beings not being able to address someone more than once is at play here. which would at least indicate to us that skully is at least not ur regular human being. and that is one thing about skully that we Can be sure about
on what skully may be, myonmyon put out a thread about how skully may be at least inspired by the Fear Gorta, a fae whose folklore was created from the irish famine. it's characterized by a skeletal appearance who wears tatters and rags. it can be benevolent or malevolent, but if u treat it kindly, it will bestow good blessings upon you. Fear Gorta also refers to Hungry Grass, which, if one steps on a cursed patch of grass (which i assume the fae created), they will always be hungry, no matter how much they eat, and will eventually die from starvation
ok why the irish famine? myonmyon and a few other theorists on twitter have speculated on skully possibly being inspired by (or maybe even being the twst equivalent of) the irish immigrants who moved to america, and from there, the tradition of halloween spread, resulting in the modern halloween that we know of today. it makes sense too given skully's character of spreading halloween to his fellow peers, who don't know what halloween is
oh but i don't mean to end this post here, no not yet. because there's a really interesting thread that i also found by Y_wwwsomething about how skully even got his viewpoint of halloween. i do like this thread because they kinda argue against skully's halloween being based on samhain, which a lot of people initially thought that that was his halloween. but samhain, even if it does have its scary side, is still a festival with feasting and noise, still very unlike skully's halloween. if anything, they suggested that the briar valley halloween is much closer to samhain.
my personal conclusion was that skully's halloween is based on all hallow's eve, and he's from a catholic family who celebrates halloween in a solemn manner. however, this thread is suggesting that skully idolizes the victorian british gentlemen and consequently the victorian halloween
let's look into the victorian halloween first. we note that the victorian halloween that was celebrated was often done by the upper class. several online sources will tell you that their halloween parties is, funnily enough, purposed for matchmaking. many halloween games involved girls looking into their futures, whether it's eating apples at midnight while looking at the mirror or looking at whatever object is in their apple or cake to see if they'll marry or die alone. halloween for them is less focused on fright and more on lover's passion.
however! their halloween parties are also dramatic in that they turn off the lights and only leave candles on, and when they greet guests, it's either by putting their own hand on the guest's shoulder or a glove filled with sawdust.
so we could have a situation here where skully, just like jack with christmas, may have observed one (1) party and misunderstood the victorian halloween, taking from it only the scary aspect and mixing it with any prior beliefs he may have had. it doesn't yet explain why he spent halloween alone, and tbh the catholic halloween celebration alone is already a near exact match of skully's definition of halloween, so im not very on board with this. could be that they are also loose enough to be festive? but im not sure
but im very interested about skully's possible reverence for the british gentlemen, which inspired his love for jack skellington! in the victorian era, they were defined by their birth (so if they were born to aristocratic parents), but men could also make themselves into gentlemen by growing their wealth and influence. some men have occupations that are respected enough to call them gentlemen (i.e. army members, members of the parliament). eventually the definition of a gentleman is one who received education from certain elite universities, but this is towards the end of the victorian era, so when trying to become a gentleman back then, it was much harder. so of course men tried to climb to become gentlemen. charles dickens actually wished to be recognized as a gentleman and so he wrote about it in great expectations.
and this is what interests me: during the irish famine, it's noted that british rule still stood on ireland, and if anything, the british elite even worsened the irish famine as they controlled trade between them. irish goods were exported out to britain and other countries while the people had nearly nothing, which either killed them off or pushed them to migrate. interestingly, british penal laws had it that irish catholics especially were suppressedāamong their laws included that their land and home were confiscated by the british parliamentary officials in ireland
so what am i trying to get at here? it's that there's probably a nonzero chance that skully looked up to the gentlemen of britain... or if we're thinking in twst terms, the gentlemen of the queendom of roses. and this may be influenced by whatever was going on in his hometown, whether it's something akin to the irish famine and colonization or something else. a desire to be free? a desire to be more than what he is right now? it would very much be similar to sally and jack: sally, in how she wanted to be free from dr. finkelstein's controlling parenting, and jack in how he wanted to not just be the pumpkin king and tried to take over christmas. it also sort of mirrors leona's and jamil's desires for themselves too, how they want to be free to do the things they want to do and make an impact around them
what's even yummier is considering that if skully is a fae, or at least a nonhuman creature that has a distinctive ear shape, then he might take shame in his fae nature as he may perceive that the ideal gentleman is a human, which is similar to how sebek takes shame in his human nature. hence, his ears would be covered by his hair in order to hide this and mingle among the gentlemen.
anyway. idk how i went from "skully is a fae" to "skully is probably an irish catholic suppressed by the british colonial rule and wants to social climb hence he looks up to the ideal british gentleman, sees jack skellington in that image, and aims to be like that so that he can make something out of himself" but we ball ig
anyway, im cooked for tomorrow, im not ready yall :(
#twisted wonderland#twst#twst jp#skully j graves#twst theory#im cooking yall I SWEAR#I SPENT 4 HOURS RESEARCHING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF IRISH FAMINE AND BRITISH RULE AND VICTORIAN HALLOWEEN#NOW I AM AWARE OF CHARLES DICKENS' GREAT EXPECTATIONS AND WHY HE WROTE IT#IM SUPPOSED TO BE RESEARCHING OTHER THINGS NOT VICTORIAN GENTRY#anyway WHY DID I PUT EFFORT INTO THIS THE BACKSTORY'S PROBS GONNA BE LIKE āmy parents were too controlling boohoo :((ā#im normal guys i swear im normal about skully#(me when i lie)
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okay. the will wood song as vampire childe. a reverse of that oh so beloved fic based off a lil ask of mine.
the way he loves your pure, unadulterated humanity as you breathe down his neck when youāre on top of him. youād have him squeeze his scarred thighs together if they werenāt pinned open from your pounding into his pretty and greedy hole.
he begs for your attention either way. his bratty words as he tries to set you off, wanting to drain you of your blood to have you even a part of his body. he begs and begs, taking in every careful breath of yours between his own moans of pure bliss and his sucking of your blood. the way he looks on with dazed eyes as your own roll back when you tell him to detachā¦ but noćā”ļøćheās not doing that.
vampire childe who is just your silly little parasite! despite his expensive tastes, he likes it when you drag him to some seedy clubās bathroom and take him in the stall where anyone can hear him. his tabās forgotten as he makes up for pissing you off from letting others ogle at him, such lecherous monsters heās much better than, at least, thatās what he says as heās holding onto the dirty mirror, seeing the possessiveness in your gaze as you surely leave bruises on his hips and ass.
IHDSWJHD I can't believe I wrote so much for Bloodied Fangs... something about exploring the different dynamics of vamps I guess idk what came over me. I think your asks just do something to the writing part of my brain. Hmm. Rambling under the cut again, I think I'm losing it
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ANYWAYS! sorry I have worldbuilding(?) brainworms I have to get out first b4 everything else as usual sigh. I think a vamp!Childe is bloodthirsty in ever sense of the word. If we're going by the more popular vampire tropes, he might enjoy the boost to his abilities (i.e. heightened senses, supernatural strength) although I am curious to see how it would affect the use of his delusion and his Foul Legacy state.
Would additional vampiric features manifest themselves in the Foul Legacy state? Sharpened fangs, torn and roughed up bat-like wings?? Would mixing the powers from the delusion and vampirism produce any backlash? If the delusion draws from the user's life force, what would happen to a vampire who's immortal? One can only speculate.
Perhaps it's the genuine concern combined with natural curiosity in your expression when you pose these questions to him that continues to draw him closer and closer to you. How sweet of you to worry over him, he swears he can almost feel his now non-functioning heart skip a beat when your warm hand cups his face. He drinks in your warmth, constantly clinging to your side like some leech.
Which is why he loves it when he managed to rile you up, the contrast you show him is addicting. He knows what he's doing when he licks at the salt rim of his glass, shooting you a coy look as he consciously ignores the way the other patrons of the club are eyeing him. He knows he's won when you're dragging him off to the bathroom, a possessive glint in your eyes. Meanwhile, Childe is beaming when some customers whistle at the spectacle.
You sure that those outside can definitely hear his moans over the trashy upbeat music the club is blasting on the speakers but the man before you doesn't seem to care at all. His fangs sinking into your skin, the familiar taste of your blood settling on his tongue. The flavour is intoxicating, heady, rich. Infinitely better than whatever that drink he ordered just now was, how could it even compare?
He feels you yanking at his hair, trying to drag him off you and saying something along the lines of, "C'mon detach already, haven't you had enough?" The answer could not be more clear to him, how could such a small taste of you ever be enough?
If he drains you of everything, doesn't that mean your entirety will be a part of him for all eternity?
Bonus!! can't really figure out how to link it to everything I wrote above but I think he'd really like it if he could drink your blood while you're fucking him. Something about lapping away at your neck/wherever he chose to bite, acutely aware of your heartrate speeding up when he clenches down on you, your blood laced with the sharp sweet taste of bliss and arousal. He could simply drown in it all.
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my thoughts after the statements provided by mclaren, lando, and oscar about team orders (azerbaijan gp media day)
folks, it's happening.
everyone and their mother is losing their freaking head over the confirmation we've been waiting to hear for weeks: oscar has been asked by mclaren to help lando's wdc chances.
couple of things, in no particular order:
1. the key word is asked. for weeks oscar has been adamant in his interviews about the fact that the team hadn't asked him to help lando. take monza as an example where he was basically told the complete opposite. am i glad they asked? not really. did i know they would? of course.
2. where did the hesitancy come from, you may ask, why did they wait so long? there's a few possible reasons, all of them purely speculative. i for one believe they needed more data to move on with the plan. it wouldn't make much sense to go all the way with the lando wdc agenda if they were unsure about the ratio between lando's performance, the car's performance, annnnnd red bull's shitshow. monza confirmed all three (i would argue we've known for a little longer than that, but i am no strategist). max's performance going down consistently was most likely the final push they needed to make the call.
3. what does this mean for oscar? we'll know for sure on sunday, i think, but i'm pretty positive we'll see same old osc trying to score as many points as possible (think wcc). he will not slow down or make any significant changes to how he approaches the race. there's an a-z list of scenarios at play here, but things will most likely boil down to him helping lando out mid race (think pit order, covering, helping him find cleaner air) and in the last few laps, if he finds himself in a better position, he'll most likely slow down and let lando pass. i don't think this is necessarily a situation that will be recurrent for the rest of the season, realistically. oscar's only ever been in front of lando a handful of times.
4. what does lando say? what you'd expect from an experienced driver like him. he understands that oscar has a right to race him, and he doesn't want him to simply roll over and let him pass every race. plans seem to have been discussed, so in good theory things should work out. as lando said, people on the outside think it's as easy as just telling oscar to help him and bam, wdc achieved. a lot of things are going to play a part here, and even with oscar's help lando's wdc is still a stretch (think race strat mistakes they've made in the past, risky corners, and ferrari's rising performance with charles in 3rd place in the standings.)
5. why are team orders so controversial? they've been around forever. i think most of us just like to romanticize the situation because we like both drivers so much, and thus we want them to succeed equally. that's just not possible in this sport. both drivers know this, and we as fans have to make peace with it.
6. sigh. mclaren, mclaren, mclaren. i've been guilty of cursing them many, many times, but to offer some perspective: i think newer fans might not realize that there are three elements in F1 that guarantee a team's success. There's having a good driver lineup, a competitive car, and an effective team strategy. most teams have been trying to get all three for decades. some have the strat and the car, but not the drivers. some have the drivers and the strat, but not the car. mclaren very recently checked off the car box, and the lineup box, and they've been struggling with the last one. they've only been in this position for months, and they've had a lot of movement within the team. hopefully they figure it out for the upcoming season.
anyways, enough rambling. let's hope for the best, y'all š§”
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You know what I realized yesterday through an event that I desire to never deal with again in my entire life?? Togaās parents really did suck.
Todayās Rambling Thought: Toga, and why her parents deserve hell.
Picture this, itās the evening, Iām getting ready to get on a discord call with my friend because weāve been watching MHA together and we usually chat between episodes (itās their first time watching the show, weāre in season three). I go to use the bathroom and what do I find?? Remnants!!! Of a bird!! Iām not talking about a few feathers here, Iām talking bones, a pile of internal organs, and a half mutilated wing covered in blood and God knows what else. Completely dismembered. Of course, there are two potential culprits in this crime scene, both cats. (I should mention these arenāt my cats, I was watching them for a friend), but Iām pretty sure the one circling my feel and meowing proudly is the one. So, I get to clean up bird guts at like 8PM, trying my hardest not to gag.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT I DID TO THE POTENTIAL CRIMINAL??
Nothing. I patted his head and gave him a scratch.
All this delightful context to put into perspective this realization that came to me later that night, how is it that I - someone who actually had to clean up a mutilated bird - nicer to a cat that ISNāT MY OWN than Togaās parents were TO THEIR OWN DAUGHTER. Now Iām no saint, and I realize a cat and a human are completely different, but come on, for real guys?
I donāt think weāre told how old Toga is in the scene where sheās offering her parents the bird (if you know please share) but we know sheās a little kid. Like Iāve said before, Iām studying psychology in college and I worked with kids in foster care, so if I know anything at all itās this: Children are little sponges, and they automatically want to do whatever it is you tell them not to do. Itās a natural part of development, and actually something we donāt really lose as we get older (the specific term is rebel psychological reactance I think). So itās really no surprise that after years and years of being told nothing but no when it came to these urges she had, she eventually just snapped. The kids I worked with were the same, the longer they were in the shelter I worked at the less they felt inclined to listen when we told them no, and I donāt think I need to explain why thatās dangerous.
Now, Iām not saying that consuming anotherās blood as a child or gnawing on yourself in your sleep is normal behavior or something a parent shouldnāt be concerned about, but thereās a reason therapy focuses on replacing negative coping skills with positive ones. Did they ever go beyond just calling her weird and creepy? Did they take her to a doctor get a blood test and find out if maybe thereās a reason she was doing this beyond just being freaky? Does she have an iron deficiency?? Iām just rambling now and thatās pure speculation, but no, they just kinda insulted her over and over, told her not to, and sent her to quirk counseling which IS NOT a substitute for actual therapy Iām sure. The bottom line here is that you canāt take something away and not add anything in. You canāt tell someone not to do something and not supplement it with something else.
Itās little wonder that once she snapped, she went straight to āI just want to do whatever I wantā, because she spent her whole life being told not to be something. I think itās easy to forget that Toga is still legally a child at the start of the series, one who has not been taught how to safely deal with her urges. No wonder she felt more at home with the league of villains, they gave her what she never got. No wonder Ochacoās actions in the final chapter shocked her so much. She was never accepted for who she was until then. She was never treated like she was a normal person.
The people who were supposed to love her most in the world saw her as a disease to be rid of, and I that disgusts me more than a dead bird ever will.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk, Iām gonna go ramble about how, as an author and a fan, I love her end even if it makes me so sad, and Ochacoās part in it.
#my hero academia#mha#mha spoilers#mha manga spoilers#toga himiko#mha himiko#toga#Lizzyās MHA Rambles#bnha#league of villains
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I trust your opinion on so many things. so if you would, humor me, and explain to me why I find no ācomedicā episode of the X-Files past Clyde Bruckmans even remotely funny. Maybe War of the Coprophages. I find myself irritated when I watch Jose Chungs, Bad Blood. What is the difference you think?
I know Iāve said it on here and Iām not sure if youāve read the post, but I consider the X-Files to belong to the horror genre, and not necessarily even science fiction. ļæ¼
I canāt even begin to describe what this does for my opinions for seasons 7,8, 9 and beyond.
Hmmm... I think it would depend on which episodes you do like.
But let's speculate~. >:D
I think horror has very specific beats whereas sci-fi is more exploratory and loosely constructed. Ironically, the comedic episodes largely fit into the latter rather than the former category, in my opinion.
Do you feel the comedic episodes achieve nothing? Clyde teaches Scully something about herself, imprints that perspective onto her. Whereas Coprophages is more about infatuation and delusion than the truth, Jose Chung slips the truth through the cracks, and Bad Blood is a fun romp in Texas. There's no real "lesson" to be had from the latter adventures. (My sis describes Clyde as "a story that happens to have comedy" whereas the others are "pure comedy.")
Maybe it's Scully: are your favorite episodes more Scully-centric? Or episodes where she learns and grows alongside Mulder? Squeeze, for example; or Conduit, Darkness Falls, Memento Mori, etc.
Maybe the other comedies split she and Mulder apart ideologically but don't bridge the gap?
Perhaps the "nature of humanity" that is explored in the comedic episodes weigh less in your estimation of actual, on-the-ground discovery and investigation?
Or perhaps you like episodes where Mulder and Scully aren't passive observers, where they aren't just "part of this mess that is going on?" (another sis quote.)
But on the other hand, do you prefer horror to sci-fi? Or maybe the format of sci-fi scratches your itch less on reruns?
This fascinates me because I like the comedy episodes. Most of them. (FPS, however....) The only one that didn't make me laugh was Humbug-- except for Mulder's "pose" at the end. But then again, they're all kind of rambly-- which I don't mind-- and are more about exploring the human condition than horrifying realities.
What say you?
#asks#settle-down-frohike#comedy episodes#meta#thoughts#honored to be asked to tackle this#but uh I am but a noob stumbling in the dark#your take fascinates me though
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Oh gosh here we go again- the peak of my hyper fixation on something where I finally post a theory... SO CROCODILE- (Y'all love this guy on tumblr-)I'm going to be very truthful, this started out as a head cannon which I found evidence for in this theory to bring my idea's to completion, and really ties up my thought process together.
What are the key takeaways? 1. Crocodile specifically Avoids having a ring on ring finger, and this could be because he has a spouse 2. Him having lost them in some way, and Iva knowing about them. But why Iva? And why do I say them? Y'all already know- I'm saying Crocodile is gay, and has a husband, well somewhere out there. This makes logistic sense because well, why Iva becomes answered, but we also have a subtle hint in crocodiles overall design. Firstly
Crocodiles Outfit is surprisingly evocative of the victorian dress. Mostly thanks to the vest and cravat look. Additionally, the victorian era began in 1837, very close to when Cigars became popular. I bring this up partially because I think it's cool, and partially because it allows for some implications to come across, as one piece's world spans socially over several decades in terms of atmosphere and acceptance. Mostly that the victorian era was a time where being LGBTQ+ was still considered taboo. So while most of new kama is living in the times of 1970's to modern day, he is very much living in the victorian era. One revolves around being loud and proud, and the other very much around subtleties. What subtleties does he have? Well. For starters, It's a very- Choice colour with the purple vest there. (this is mostly a joke, although purple is associated with signalling, it's usually a different manner as far as I'm aware.) What I actually want to talk about is the earring. Most characters in one piece Wear double earrings if they are wearing them (I.E. Law, bart, Nami, Blackbeard etc.) For those of you unaware, Earring signalling goes like this. Right is gay, left is straight. I could only find three characters wearing a single earring. 1. Zoro on his left. 2. Benn Beckman on his right (Good for him!/hj) and 3. Crocodile on his right. So with this ramble aside. I think his interactions with Iva and the gays TM make much more sense. He's down with the gays because well. He is. They literally give him an entirely new outfit, just like they do for the rest of the LGBTQ+ people they bring in. And why IVA SPECIFICALLY would know that he is married, as per Iva knowing and being all gay peoples parent (/hj). In all seriousness I think it would make sense in this context that he asked Iva to help with his wedding or something of the like, since he (and presumably his husband) likely didn't have many connections to people who could do wedding stuff non-judgementally I.E. a cake or getting someone to do the vows. It's very wholesome, but it's something that I could see as Crocodile wanting to be kept secret, as he's been characterized as someone very secretive. This part is pure speculation/almost definitely false; but. I could definitely see some sort of "held hostage" situation. As Crocodile said "If you want to protect something, do it right." This could be someone who is protecting something, but also someone who lost it. I mean, they've forced the other warlords into similar corners, with the protection of Amazon Lily, or the release of Arlong (and likewise the safe return of all the escaped slaves from the Sun pirates who just wanted to go home.) It makes the "wanting to have a power that can match the WG or any nation in force" goal of his have a much more interesting reason than "KING OF THE PIRATES." We got enough folks aiming for that already, and I feel like if you beat an early antagonist that badly and just keep using him, you gotta have some kind of pay off that doesn't involve him getting beat again.
#one piece#crocodile one piece#sir crocodile#emporio ivankov#one piece ivankov#one piece theory#one piece theories#OH GOD THIS IS LONG#Sorry about the rant guys I promise I'll stop talking about crocodile now#This completely explains why he hired Bon clay besides bon clay being one of the more capable members#LGBTQ+ Friendly workplaces are in one piece are limited to Baroque works kamabaka kingdom and the red haired pirates#Yea Idk about Benn but I felt the need to acknowledge it+ it's funny#cross guild#Cross guild is the ultimate friendgroup of autism/gay/silly#this theory doesn't disprove crocodad#just disregard speculation and it fits perfectly#*looks at Oda*#*Grabby hands motion*#Give backstory
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Something I find really funny is how for all the rumors that Seedās staff/writers donāt like Cagalli, Orb under her leadership just keeps ending up in a better (political) position with each addition - Seed Destiny ends with Logos wiped out, Blue Cosmos severely hampered, and the entire Seiran family wiped out, including Yuna. This leaves Cagalli with almost no political opposition in Orb (since the second Battle of Orb wouldāve flushed out a majority of the Blue Cosmos/Logos sympathizers within the government/military), along with giving her a boost in popular and military support thanks to her actions and field leadership during the battle.
(Cutting for me just rambling on a bit about the in-universe politics after Seed Freedom)
You can tell with how much sheās managed to get done in the years between Seed Destiny and Seed Freedom - in that short year and a half to two years, she was able to propose and found COMPASS, secret away and upgrade the Impulse, Destiny, Strike Freedom, and Infinite Justice, arrange for ties between Orb and Terminal to investigate/exchange intel (Athrun and Meyrin), and put into place all the evacuation/defensive protocols in case of another attack on Orb (as seen vs Foundation and Requiem, even if she needed Kira to pull an āI lived, bitchā to Aura š
).
And it doesnāt end there - thanks to Foundation, Cagalli arguably has an easier time internationally now, because the Eurasian Federation leadership also got hit and the Eurasian Federation, while not necessarily Blue Cosmos sympathizers like the Atlantic Federation, was very staunchly anti-PLANT, which I think wouldāve caused some problems for Cagalli, especially post Seed Destiny with Lacus joining her for that broadcast.
I actually think Orb probably has fairly decent diplomatic relations with PLANT (I think Chairman Lament mostly cut off that call after everything went south in Eldore because of the whole nuke situation), especially since Lacus is COMPASSās inaugural president, plus the time both Dearka and Waltfeld (Iām not sure if heās in Orb or PLANT as of Seed Freedom since his silent cameo has him helping to stop the coup in PLANT in Seed Freedom) spent there. And we have a very prominent all-Coordinator team with the Yamato Team - truth be told I actually wonder how much the Earth Alliance invested into COMPASS because everything we see on screen is either contributed by Orb (Archangel, Murrue and crew, Kira, Mu, and the Murasame Kais), PLANT/ZAFT (Millenium, Konoe and crew, Heinlein, Shinn, Lunamaria, Agnes, Gelgoog, and Gyan), or arguably both (namely, Rising Freedom and Immortal Justice). Unless I missed a minor crew member along the way. Which is possible.
Also pure speculation on my part on this - but the fact Seed Freedom has Athrun going into intelligence with Terminal (which we first see as having a presence in the PLANTS) from the Orb side and Yzak and Dearka going into intelligence from the PLANT side canāt be a coincidence. I want to think the three of them decided on it together because being in intelligence/covert ops gives them the chance to work together without having to force anyone to change their current loyalties - I donāt think Athrun can be truly loyal to anyone except Cagalli after Seed Destiny, and Yzak was always loyal to PLANT, and if Dearka hadnāt been captured and made to realize how extreme PLANT had become under Patrick Zala he wouldnāt have switched sides to Orb/Three Ships Alliance during Seed either. Which also indirectly feeds into Orb and PLANT having better political relations than Orb and Earth Alliance.
Which brings me to my final point - I would be very surprised if Orb isnāt the primary target for the antagonists in a Seed Freedom sequel. At this point Orbās capable of doing too much with the limited resources it has as a small nation with too much military strength at its command. And there is room for a sequel (setting-wise) because while Earth Alliance took another major hit with during the Foundation Conflict, the ideologies that led to the First and Second Earth Alliance-PLANT wars still exist - even if Blue Cosmos lost another leader, even if the believers of Coordinator Supremacy lost another leader (in Jagannath) those ideologies still fundamentally exist. All the Foundation Conflict did was serve to take down the military leadership of those ideologies - even if the public on both sides see those views negatively it doesnāt make them go away.
#gundam seed#cagalli yula athha#I like taking the political landscape of Cosmic Era into account when I write#itās just so funny to me bc Orb and Cagalli just keeps getting more badass every time#like Orb has 2 One Man Armies at its beck and call as it is#Kira and Athrun if need be can and will just take out swathes of an invasion force#especially if thereās no opposing prototype unit#and thatās assuming Shinn doesnāt try to help#and Mu is like ā¦ half one since heād go in the Akatsuki#and Akatsuki is battery powered#I do think AsuCaga going public would cause a shift in power balance#even post Seed Freedom bc Earth Alliance still has some power in its own right#and bc most people will associate Athrun with PLANT before Orb due to his name#it might be less bad if itās after Cagalli steps down as Chief Representative#but I think she would still have some degree of political pull unofficially after#and I think Athrun would have more time to put some distance between himself and his fatherās legacy#I think him going into Terminal is a smart choice bc it also lets him do what he wants while staying out of the spotlight#Iāll stop talking in the tags now#just know I find it all fascinating as a backdrop for AsuCaga fic writing purposes
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hi Sarc!! Iām sooo excited for the next chapters of dolce and misery because you had no businesses writing such masterpieces.
Throughout reading dolce Iāve had the idea of one of Nicoās songs being leaked (something that alludes at will but not so obvious any listeners could understand). More specifically a song that was never meant to be released, something Nico wrote and composed purely because he needed to get it out. (Would also be interesting to see who leaked it considering Nico does all his music by himself rarely anyone else is credited).
Also Iām excited to see how fans may react to Nicoās face reveal cause he was seen sitting next to Will at the Grammys but didnāt accept the reward and it could be interpreted that Nico was his date.
anyways thank you for reading my ramblings itās an honor to read your writing . Love ya have a great day :))))
hi!
Oooh this is such an interesting concept - a music leak was actually part of the original plot that I ended up scrapping (for now, but never say never). So, letās talk about how it would happen!
The biggest thing of course is who would leak it?! Eros seems like the obvious answer, after everything thatās just happened, but I think heās had his moment to wreak havoc. Maybe Leo, I feel like heād be really active on social media and would post behind-the-scenes content on tour that could leak something accidently. There is another character I can think of too, whoād leak something intentionally, but theyāre more relevant to the spin-off fic Iām passively planning rather than Dolce itself so Iāll leave it a mystery for now. I do think Nico is the kind of artist who would plan a leak too, so his fans can go crazy theorising.
I do really love the idea that it was a song that Nico never intended to release, thereās a lot of potential for angst there x
As for reactions to Nicoās face reveal and the subsequent media - I am literally so excited to write about this and for you guys to read it. Reactions to Nicoās identity, speculation about the relationship āEverythingā¦I didnāt sayā was about - Nicoās presence at the Grammys with Will will definitely play a large role - and speculations about his next album when he reveals each song. As well as Nico and Willās reactions to this kind of media.
Thanks for the ramble and for reading along!
Many more stories to come,Ā
Sarc
#solangelo fanfiction#solangelo#nico di angelo#will solace#musician au#pjo#thanks for the ask!#dolce asks
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The beautiful amalgamation of Coraline, adventure time, and the Bible that is your webtoon Broccoli Soup! Has attracted the attention of
LORE FREAKS
Such as myself.
Now I spend several hours every week speculating on minimal and probably accidental/unforseen details.
Those details being: the various dimensions/universes created by Doris and how they function and interact with each other.
Time for most likely wildly incorrect hypotheses:
I believe that the void (the part of it Doris controls anyway) is either the combination of all of the other dimensions or the higher dimension that they are all connected/weaved from
The void serves as the combination of every lower dimension, being pure white because it is simultaneously everything and nothing.
The other dimensions shown are aspects of the void filtered like light through a prism.
Doris may freely travel between these places because she can unthread different universes from the void, with the literal tears in the fabric of reality essentially being like partially removing part of a tapestry so it can be modified.
However, tearing reality like that strengthens entropy, so for most purposes, dimensions are accessed by filtering the (idk what word goes here) of the void to isolate a universe, these prisms being the snowglobes in Doris's room.
Now most of my evidence for this comes from a post you rebloged:
I believe this means to suggest that the void (white) is the combination of the different forms of light (fundamental forces of the universe I think?) while the shadows are the different universes that originate from it.
The source of my speculation about the weaving/light connection comes from the scene of Doris with the godkiller knife in the "polite and good" music video (Which I have a whole lot of unrelated speculation about)
The (symbol?) on the hilt resembles a color wheel surrounded by a web, before seeing this I had both ideas about the light and the weaving, but thought they couldn't coexist, but this seems to imply that both may be true.
Of course, the godkiller knife is significant because it seems to replicate the powers of Doris, and seems to even be able to hurt her. If it does replicate her powers, the symbol would represent the void.
Sorry for this, the only person I can ramble about this to without sounding crazy is the creator of the webtoon lmao.
The scientist in me can't wait for the story to continue so I can find out exactly how wrong I am.
Thanks for the blorbos!
I am so happy to hear folks theories about how the setting works!
Pie is not going to confirm or deny anything, but the white void being āeverything and nothingā is definitely on the right track
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(It's translated from French, I hope there aren't too many syntax errors ^^" In any case, enjoy your reading !)
Dreamtale Theories:
Here's a list of a few theories about the Dreamtale Lore, this story leaving some very interesting gaps to try and fill. Philosophical and scientific thoughts helpt me to concretise these ideas, but although I've been inspired by them, it's not with these points of view I'm going to develop, but rather a purely artistic point of view. Little by little, philosophy and science have been lost in my ramblings, giving way to imaginations that seemed to fit together. Artists imagine. They cheat, they lie, they don't care much for concrete realities. In the end, the only science I get into position on is the elements of the Dreamtale canon, at least those I've managed to pick out. Perhaps I've missed some information that would disprove these hypotheses, in which case it would be courteous of you to let me know.
On a more chill note, say I'm just a teenager with a overflowing mind who loves to come up with crazy theories with whatever I can get my hands on, and I write this mainly for fun ^^
In fact, I don't think for a second I'm right, so I don't know if I can call those theories... Maybe speculation ideas about Dreamtale I wanted to share? Almost headcanons, but still based on concrete elements of the canon.
So let's go, first theory!
āļø Canon/Fanon:
For starters, why do I insist so much on canonicity? Because when it comes to Dreamtale, the boundary between Fanon and Canon is not always well understood, given that there are a lot of preconceived ideas on the subject.
The fact is, I see Dreamtale's Fanon and Canon as two completely separate worlds. And yet, understand that I hate adhering to variants of this and that for anything and everything. The idea of viscerally separating the Canon and Fanon sides of an oeuvre makes no sense to me, especially in an open world where each universe is a piece of a larger puzzle, where the world we're presented with is meant to be a huge playground.
And at this stage, if we do that with this universe, we could do the same for all the existing stories, no? Nevertheless, for THIS world and this world in particular, I think it's important.
For there is a crucial difference between C!Dreamtale and F!Dreamtale, a difference that completely alters the interpretation of the oeuvre. Fanon doesn't just make a few interpretative changes... He changes the very nature of a character: Corrupted Nightmare. And that, well... It's a bit complicated not to separate the two, especially when the Fanon version is so popular... Canon, he is dead and his body belongs to another character who has his own personality and background. Fanon, he's alive. Trapped, imprisoned, manipulated, split into two personalities (Night and Mare) or fundamentally evil, depending on the case, but alive.
Night is experiencing a bit of Asriel syndrome: it was because Undertale fans couldn't accept his death that the first AU's were created. And for Dreamtale, there was such misunderstanding about this (Because reading the Prologue, everyone agreed that Corrupted Nightmare was...well... Nightmare), that the majority think this is official. (It has to be said, it wasn't evident let me reassure you...)
To this we can add the fact that most of the time, in very fanon fanfics and fancomics, the other two trees don't exist or are never mentioned, that Corrupted (I refuse to call him "Nightmare" simply because he isn't Nightmare) isn't a real person or doesn't exist at all, that Dreamtale is an AU of Undertale, so made up of codes like the other AU's, but all that still depends on people's interpretation and knowledge of the real Dreamtale.
To put it more bluntly, and if the boundary's still unclear: F!Dreamtale is a part of the Undertale Multiverse, while C!Dreamtale is its own universe.
Since I like both aspects equally, and in order to get everyone on the same page, I've come up with a mini theory:
Dreamtale Fanon, being the Dreamtale developed by fans based on the belief that Corrupted Nightmare is more or less Night, has strayed so far from its original story (it focuses more on the "broken brothers" relationship of the twins, their mutual development and their relationships with the characters of the Undertale fandom), that over time, by putting down roots in the world of Undertale and through the influence of the creators, Dreamtale would have "split." This double would then have merged with the codes of the Undertale Multiverse, because Dreamtale was so well integrated into it that this version of it ended up becoming imprinted on the very core and codes. That's why, in F!Dreamtale, we don't always mention the other trees, since they never joined the Undertale Multiverse. Even we NEVER mention them in Dreamtale's AU's like Swapdream or the alternative Multiverses like Dreamswap, Swapverse, etc. That's why Dream and Nightmare exist in the alternative Multiverses,AU's and not the rest (Vampireverse, Empireverse, Minuscultale and so on).
The result is two Dreamtales:
The Canon Dreamtale, which belongs to Joku,
The Fanon Dreamtale, which belongs to the Fandom Joku too.
Well yeah, it's still Dreamtale, so it still belongs to Joku, no matter what haters want āėį“„ėā
Duh.
Also, this definitely doesn't prevent fanfics from being based on C!Dreamtale, it's even advisable to give it the prominence it deserves. Hence the idea of completely separating these versions, because fans can make fanfics about the Canon, and although it's fanon, it won't be similar to the F!Dreamtale version at all.
Two worlds taking different thematic paths created on the uncertainty of Night's death (like a "Schrodinger's Night" Ķ”Ā° Ķ Ā· Ķ”Ā°).
Next theory!
āļø Tree of Feelings/Creators link:
This is a question I picked up when wondering about Dream and Corrupted's various attacks. Where Dream needs a body to hold him together, Corrupted has so many black apples that he can physically hold himself together without a body, and more or less correctly. Do positive and negative energies function differently? Is it because Corrupted has more apples that he holds on better? What is positive and negative energy in Dreamtale's Lore?
At the beginning, I'd started from the principle that Energy with a big E, being what makes up absolutely all existing things, humans and monsters alike, could be used by Dream and Corrupted to be converted into either magical energy or physical energy. As Dream only holds one apple and enjoys a body, he'd mindlessly convert his energy into magical energy, which is why he has a soul similar to human's souls and why he's able to heal as green magic does, or cause damage as white magic does. For Corrupted's part, possessing no body of his own and having amassed enough power from his hundreds of apples, he would have to convert negative energy into physical energy. This would require a great deal of power and would therefore explain why, despite he's stronger than Dream, he's not 999X stronger than him. He already uses a lot of his energy simply... Holding on without melting.
I also theorised that if one of them were to acquire all the apples, not only would it have a stable body, but it would also be able to convert this energy as it saw fit. Corrupted could then generate magical attacks AND have a physical body.
The trouble is... Dreamtale isn't actually part of Undertale. So there's no Magic,Physics duality. And even assuming that Dream converts that energy into magical energy because he's unconsciously copying the way his adopted world works, he's still canonically attacking with positive energy and not MAGIC made from positive energy. Energy comes in many forms, but I don't think he can control it in such a pure form...
All this can still hold together, but what bothers me most is that pure Energy would have... A positive side and a negative side? And what's more, related to feelings? Why not, but I'm not really pleased with.
Dream and Corrupted's energy is material, palpable. Of course, we could stop at the fact that it's just a magical energy like we find everywhere in stories and not ask ourselves any more questions.
But I love wracking my brains to find answers to questions that no one wonder, so I'll keep going ĆØwĆ©ā
What kind of energy would this refer to? Not energy in the scientific sense, because that's independent of any emotion, whereas in Dreamtale, positive energy, for example, is directly linked to positive feelings.
Because tree of FEELINGSā
The most plausible thing I found with is that positive and negative energies are linked to the spiritual energy: auras, meditation, etc. Proof of its existence is fairly hazy in the world of creators. But in the world of fiction...? What if? This energy of consciousness exists, whether it's real or not. And if it's not in the real world, as long as there are people who believe in it, then it's in the world of fiction. What if the fruits of the tree of feelings were the material manifestation of this spiritual energy produced by the consciousness of the creators? Just as a world is created by a creative mind, what about Dream and Nightmare were the guardians of the feelings of fiction as the direct embodiment of the emotions that creators instil in their work? This could be the reason why Dreamtale isn't made up of codes, because it's the direct embodiment of a philosophy and not just another fictional universe among many.
I can't decide whether it's too obvious or too far-fetched ^^". It was the concept in Underverse that made me think of it... There are references between what Nightmare implies in 0.6 and creators tearing up their own universes because they're filled with negative emotions. Underverse isn't canon, but there's nothing to stop this idea of the creator,feeling link being applied to Dreamtale.
Especially as it allows us to imagine something even bigger that could work in relation to the three trees...
But before that, a little theory about Corrupted, because the more we learn about him, the more this character becomes... Mysterious.
āļø Something is rotten in the state of Dreamtale :
Ever since I knew that the three trees were part not of the Undertale Multiverse but of all the other Multiverses, I've been wondering why it should be Corrupted who embodies absolute Evil and not someone else. After all, we know plenty of evil lords, don't we? Isn't it a bit pretentious to claim him to be above everyone else?
But one detail, one nuance, makes all the difference.
By definition, Corrupted does not embody Evil, but negative feelings. He embodies them because he has become their guardian, their bearer. What I'm trying to say is that black apples and evil are not linked... Black apples are not fundamentally evil. They have no conscience; they are neutral, they exist for balance and have a purpose of their own.
No, Corrupted is Evil for another reason. He's Evil because he's simply wicked. If the personification of negative feelings is evil, it's not because the negative emotions or the apples are mean, but because they are themselves corrupted, alienated by a consciousness that manipulates them irresponsibly. Why would the Entity feel hatred? Hatred and not despair or dread? Because he was already filled with hatred, or because he has a fighting personality that allows him to exploit this emotion for its dark projects. Is it a sign that Corrupted isn't worthy of being their carrier? After all, he's not their basic guardian; it was Nim, then Nightmare.
In this way, that doesn't prevent him from being THE allegory on the scale of all dimensions (or of a large area of dimensions, if you don't like the idea that Dreamtale is linked to all fictional universes) , because the role relating to negative FEELINGS in a neutral behaviour is rather original. He's an allegory of negative feelings that doesn't need to be, and that gives a false image of what negative feelings actually are; the pejorative and common image we have of them. In reality, negative feelings are neither good nor bad; they mean no harm to others. The one who wishes them harm is the Entity, Corrupted.
He's a simple villain who has got his hands on power that doesn't belong to him and is out of control with.
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Maybe not a 'simple' villain either?
Because, another theory, I think that Corrupted is this fourth guardian that Joku mentioned. Firstly because I don't know who else he could be, but also because he knows about the other dimensions outside Undertale. How would he know if he didn't come from outside? Who else would this fourth guardian be, and why would Joku mention him? What's more, a number of elements fit together with this theory, notably his strategy of manipulating Nim (Nim is far from stupid, and he probably wouldn't have succeeded so easily if he didn't already know a little about her), in order to create Dream and Nightmare, dividing positivity and negativity to undermine the pillars of balance, all with the aim of finding a carnal envelope and taking possession of the Tree of Feelings...
Like a plan that has been fine-tuned for years and years... Add to this the anecdote that the tree guardians are not the original guardians and that Nim learnt something awful about them before leaving for Undertale, and you'd think there was a rotten menace already pulling the strings in the shadows, long before our dear twins were born.
So what is Corrupted looking for? What's his ultimate plan? To spread negativity across all dimensions and reign supreme as a Living God?
A fine programme... But what if we took his ambitions one step further?
āļø Feelings, Life, Magic:
Why three trees? Why THESE three trees? Why place them at the centre of the Multiverse? Why are feelings, life and magic at the heart of the worlds? What link can we make between them?
Feelings, well ok, that works... Life and death, logical... Magic? Why magic? Magic isn't a necessary element in the Multiverse, sometimes it doesn't even exist... Why a tree of Magic and not a tree of Souls, or a tree of Virtues and Sins, for example? Undertale is very closely linked to magic, but that's not the case for all worlds...
This is where we come back to the idea that apples are the materialised forms of the feelings creators apply to their work... Does this also work with Magic and Life? Yes, it does. Trees don't just take care of Feelings, Life and Death and Magic... They reflect what creators need to create.
Feelings, as we've said, are exactly what it takes to find inspiration, to feed the imagination like maintain fire. As long as the feelings remain, so do the passion and inspiration.
Life, on the other hand, is quite simply what enables a work to exist, to remain. Life is the nest in which the spirit bathes, gathering together the experiences of the creator, housing and preserving them. You could also say that the more lives there are to witness a work, the more real a work is.
Inspiration, yes... The environment, all right... But what is needed to create something out of nothing? To make the unreal real? The immaterial material?
Nothing more than a little magic āØ !
Not the kind of magic you find in fiction with wizards and pseudo-scientific logic, no... Magic in the sense of believing in something irrational. To believe that these worlds exist, to have faith without needing proof. Accepting imagination. Not in a religious connotation, but in the sense: Magic = Consenting Suspension of Disbelief.
Feelings: The fuel.
Life: The oxygen.
Magic:Ā The spark.
Fire triangle is complete.
What if these three trees were the equivalent of the Triforce of Creation itself? Feelings to stimulate, Life to sustain, Magic to materialize.
What would happen if, by some mischance, an ill-intentioned person managed to seize the power of these three trees? What would be the consequences? In the end, perhaps this mysterious Entity wants more than just the golden apple in Dream's care?
And if these three trees work very well together, what would the fourth guardian be doing?
Would he be the original guardian?
Or the exact opposite of Creation: Destruction and Nothingness?
(VoilĆ ! I hope theses theories will have interested you ^^ And you, what do you think? Do you have theories about what's going to happen in the Dreamtale sequel?)
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Finally I can share with all you my observations on the Higher Beings yeah!!! I'm not sure if this was noticed by someone but...
Let's talk about Higher Beings, shall we?
Disclaimer: there won't be Unn or WL unfortunately since they're not showing their abilities in full size. Also I count PV as Higher Being since they're basically a child of two deities. Hornet is in the party too with my speculations for Silksong.
So. We have four legit Higher Beings in our review: the Pale King, the Pure Vessel, NKG and the Radiance. Their fighting styles are pretty unique and have distinctive features. Let's analyse every single of them.
The Radiance. She's pretty skilled in the manifestation of things such as platforms or blades from the Essence. Also she have enough capacity not only to manifest but to keep them for some time (look at Nail Shower attack). Her main thing is the fact that she can initiate new attack before the end of previous one, meaning that the Radiance feels pretty confident within the Dream Realm.
The Pure Vessel. Yeah, Godseekers and etc, I know. But let's just agree on how they're focused and powerful. They can to manifest the Soul into the blades, which leads us to the thought that Ghost simply isn't that trained. PV also can to initiate another attack before the end of the previous one (right after Focus attack). Also they can alter their own body (Tendrills attack) which I think came not only from the Void itself but from WL too. We could to speculate that PK, PV, Ghost and Hornet are sharing the ability to withdraw Soul and we'll do it because who else could stop us? William and Ari? Mossbag?
The last one Higher Being subject is NKG. He's different like a lot: he uses Nightmare Essence and body alteration in the same proportion (uppercut ā blade hand and fireballs, pufferfish ā some kind of shield and flames, diagonal dash ā body altering and fire again). The only pure attacks are cape spikes and flame bats, meaning that it's the most difficult form of his magic. NKG doesn't altering the arena like the Radiance does though. Does he have a skill issue or he's simply restricting himself for the sake of the Ritual is unclear for me. I think both of the sentences are equal. NKG also finishes all his attacks (thanks, bruh) and that could mean that he doesn't have enough power to hold two things at the same time.
And now the most delusional part. Hornet.
Yeah, she's semi Higher Being meaning that she's born from usual beast and the God himself. She shares some features with her siblings PV and Ghost: Hornet can to gain and utilise Silk which could be some sort of mix between Herrah's and Wyrm's features. My rough thought is that Silk isn't a manifestation but rather a logical addition or some sort of conductor for Soul which brings us to interesting topic. Could scholars of the Soul Sanctum defeat Silk issue if my theory is correct? Maybe the answer about haunting Silk lies within the Soul???
I hope we'll get the answer in the Silksong. And now I'm finishing my rambling, hope you liked it.
#hollow knight#silksong#character analysis#nightmare king grimm#the radiance#hk hornet#hornet#the pure vessel#thoughts#oste longread
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