#amadeus gloom

[badgloomverse]

Would you date a murderer?

This is about @gloomverse-theories latest post, where one of the point was that either Amadeus has a really solid reason why he shadow banned (killed) Prisma and the colors, or he wasn't the one to do it, because Petunia knows his backstory.

So what do you all think? Imagine that you are Petunia, that your crush is Amadeus, and that you know all about his dark past.

Feel free to elaborate on your choice!

[prompt-verse]

Round 1: Fallstreak VS Amadeus

Propaganda:

Amadeus has lived on the streets eating nothing but candy for months. He's skin and bones.

Stratoversians are very likely to be taught strenght building and combat training

[papier-ciseaux]

Hello! I made an animatic to the song "Youth" by Daughter!

It's an animatic for Gloomverse, which is a webcomic created by @loverofpiggies , and this animatic is about Yellow's past and possible future :3

A lot of the stuff in the animatic are theories, predictions, and elaborations on stuff we know, but the end is mostly for the drama ✨

[blueoctobass]

5 8 7 hobo

5) What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

I tried thinking about it right now and it was "Welcome to the black parade" by my chemical romance. When I was a Young Boy-

7) What’s something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?

I like the dad jokes so much! Also the deadbeat jokes. Also Wallis and Hobo interactions. I like dad hobo very much.

8) What’s something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

Well the fandom hasn't done much lately, so I guess nothing :v

[offscreen-gloomverse-probably]

Petunia: Deedee, get that animal out of here.

Amadeus: Why? You kept saying you wanted a cat, and then I found this little guy! It’s fate!

Petunia: Amadeus Gloom.

Petunia: That is a raccoon.

[gloomverseidiot]

And what do we learn from this:

Dark mode is better

[gloomverse-theories]

(Cross sending this from the gloomverse comic page 42)

So I was rereading and saw people wondering about what the lemon guy was reporting about Harold being at 'risk' of something.

I think it has to do with how Wallis got upset and everything went haywire with the space theming and zero-gravity Because the lemon guy says that after talking, the lowering of Harold's 'unease and guilt' means his risk is almost zero. That means his risk is tied to heightened and stressful emotions. Like what Wallis felt when he thought Petunia's wand broke. So I think Wallis hit that level of 'risk', and with that, Amadeus/Hobo got VERY worried about if it would happen to Harold too, so that's why he was checking in.

just thought it was worth sending in!

Pages for context:

(Page 11 of chapter 27 "Midnight", and page 24 of chapter 13 "The Vanishing Act")

Very likely! It seems magic is influenced by your emotional state if Wallis is anything to go by, and with the special situation of Harold's magic, it could have potentially disastrous effect! Also you can see the Lemon Kids being ""distracting"" when Harold is at a low point in this page too (page 13-14 of chapter 17 "The Waking World") 👀

[xx-gl00m-filled-bl00d-xx]

𝔪𝔶 𝔫𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔦𝔢…. 𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥 𝔤𝔦𝔯𝔩….

those who can't understand my twisted mind and dark heart, do not fucking interact… my partner through bl00d and s4p is a gloom named atropa… don't touch me if you can't understand her mumbllings….,

[actual information below the cut]

hi! my name is amadeus (he/she/xe) and i, as of right now, am running a pokemon irl blog of some weirdo goth teenager. sincerest apologies if this is difficult to read.... i'm committed to the 2010 bit.

please contact me if anything about the blog needs to be changed for accessibility or whatnot! i'm open to suggestions and mostly started this for the bit.

This is an rp blog, in case there were any concerns.

[bunnybunnyblogs]

Starchild

(Enfer Sombre*) Fate skin {LeL EvoX} ( at Anthem Event )

Usagi Society - Luna Hair ( at Dubai Event )

Ersch - Tilla Crown ( at Dubai Event )

:[ Petrichor & Ersch ]:- Kevrys ( at Kinky Event )

Top1Salon - HD Almost Lipstick ( at Equal10 Event )

[Tear] Foxy Eyelashes  ( at Kawaii Secrets )

Sweet Art. Barbi Animations Set ( at The Kawaii Project )

/Vae Victis\ - "Amadeus" - Rose Window Monocle ( MadPea Masquerade of Murder Hunt Prize )

Gloom. - Nightsky Collection ( at Mainstore )

eBODY - Reborn ( at Mainstore )

-Pretty Liars- Ebody Reborn Belly Slapper ( at Mainstore )

Body: eBODY - Reborn

Skin: Enfer Sombre - Fate skin

Hair: Usagi Society - Luna Hair

Eyes: Gloom. - Nightsky Collection

Eyelashes: Tear - Foxy Eyelashes 

Lipstick: Top1Salon - HD Almost Lipstick

Monocle: Vae Victis - Amadeus - Rose Window Monocle

Crown: Ersch - Tilla Crown

Bodysuit: Petrichor & Ersch - Kevrys

Belly Slapper: Pretty Liars- Ebody Reborn Belly Slapper

Pose: Sweet Art - Barbi Animations Set

[majingojira]

Nico's presence in this show is a result of a larger shift going on. First, have a look at this lineup.

Jean Foucault, a.k.a. Finesse from Avengers Academy (2010) Amadeus Cho a.k.a. The Totally Awesome Hulk, Brawn, Mastermind Excello (2005) Lonnie Lincoln a.k.a. Tombstone (1988) Peter Parker a.k.a. Spider-Man (1964) Nico Minoru a.k.a. Sister Grimm, The Gloom (2003) Pearl Pangan a.k.a. Wave (2019) The other two have not been confirmed as far as I know, and there are quite a few options as to who they could be, so I won't speculate for now.

Suffice to say, once again, we have Spider-Man being kept young while updating the 'young' cast around him. Not the first time it's happend (see the last two Spider-Man cartoons) but one of the largest gaps in creation. I can see this being done for several reasons:

They wanted a more diverse cast to better reflect the modern day.

They did not want to repeat the story beats that have been adapted before (IE: Spectacular Spider-Man, Spider-Man (1994)) and bring something new to the table with the new cast.

The creators were fans of the newer characters and wanted a chance to use them in a cartoon.

This last one, i think, is primarily why Nico was placed where she was. She's in that sweet spot where a lot of people would have read her in the 'prime impression' time period and now want to spread her around a bit more. Of all the Runaways, she's probably the most popular (next to Molly Hayes), and the easiest to separate from the group.

However, notice the group they have as fellow Midtown High students. They all become Supers down the road. It would be easy to have their origins be an episode or two and run with that.

And Nico's origin could easily be a multiparter, if they choose to go with her as 'not yet saw her parents die' route, which is implied by the whole 'childhood friends with Peter Parker' thing.

If there is any truth to this production image, then it would seem like Nico and Magic are intrinsically linked. So, something will be done with it.

But I don't want to dive to deep into speculation territory. There are multiple ways they can take Nico in this role, and I'm curious where they will take her.

And I already know people are shipping them. Art's already out there of them together and that was when these photos were first released!

So, Nico Minoru's in Spider-Man Freshman Year... Let's talk about it.

About a year ago, Marvel spilled some details about the upcoming animated Spider-Man series, Spider-Man Freshman Year. There was a lot of discussion about it, what it was, what it wasn't, and whether what it is is better or worse then what people wanted it to be.

A couple weeks ago, a trademark filing indicated that the show was scheduled for Winter 2024. In an era where companies are killing announced and nearly-finished projects, I was honestly thinking the show was on thin ice... but since it seems to still exist, I want to talk about something that I feel has gotten surprisingly little discussion in all the discourse about the show: the inclusion of Nico Minoru, of the Runaways, as Peter Parker's best friend.

Now, from a Peter-centered perspective, I think this choice makes sense in a very specific way? If you flash back to the original 60s Spider-Man comics, which the show seems to be trying to invoke aesthetically from the little we've seen, Peter Parker had a female close friend who was representative of 1960s youth counter-culture: Mary Jane.

The degree to which Stan Lee's own values undercut MJ's counter-culturism is something that people could/do entire academic essays about, but suffice it to say that she was meant to appeal to the zeitgeist of the era and the character's spirit certainly got through to viewers. Like, there is a reason that she the OTP for Peter for so many people, even if Lee at the time had intended to keep the focus on Peter's more traditionally conservative romance with Gwen Stacy.

Nico Minoru slots into this classic pre-MJ-as-the-love-interest MJ role very well, in my opinion at least? In her 2000s comics, she was cast as a edgy goth social outcast who made her own clothes and did her own thing... In her 2010s MCU show, she was cast again as an outcast, but with a certain amount of doomerpilled depression that she outgrows as the show goes on... In the 2020s game Midnight Suns, Nico is still a devoted goth, but also draws from queer youth culture and has a certain semi-ironic peppiness to her (she calls the player "friendo" constantly - she's just like me fr).

So, honestly, I think picking Nico Minoru for Spider-Man's best friend is a really clever move that slots her into this historical role of the foil to Peter Parker - fun choice!

However, from a Nico-centered perspective, I have a lot of questions about what this version of the character will be like practically... The biggest one being: Why is Nico in New York? One of the core concepts of the Runaways as a team is that they are a response to the oft-asked question "Why is New York always under threat? Why are there no superheroes having to save LA?". While the West Coast Avengers do, y'know, exist, the Runaways introduces another answer to this question: Supervillains cannot operate in LA without permission of the Pride, a LA-based supervillain mafia who made a pact with a demon from Limbo and require a cut of all crime committed in the city. The titular Runaways are the children of these villains, who choose to reject their parent's lifestyle and go on the run rather then be complicit in their villainy.

So... How did Nico get in New York and end up enrolling in a New York high school? That's a big change for her and I hope the explanation is satisfying.

Nico and her team also don't usually appear as traditional costumed heroes with secret identities, at least not for prolonged periods of time. They've used several codenames and several costumes, but it's always bit a touch comedic - Nico goes by "Sister Grimm" because they decide they need nicknames to be superheroes as somewhat-cringy-teens while she later uses "The Gloom" partially at the encouragement of her girlfriend, but she's still largely just... Nico. It's worth noting that both Midnight Suns and Marvel Snap break naming conventions to call her by her first/last name instead of an alias - something Snap mostly does with big-deal characters like Jean Grey and Kitty Pryde, with even other characters more known by their real name like Emma Frost and Danielle Moonstar being called by their hero names instead...

So, I'm curious if Nico will be using her powers to fight crime and, if she is, what codename/costume she has... On top of that, I wonder if Peter Parker will know that Nico is a blood witch and if Nico will know that Peter Parker is Spider-Man - or if they mutually uncover that across the events of the series... Doctor Strange is also set to be in this show - will he be a mentor for her as a budding witch, perhaps even more then he is a mentor for Peter? There's a lot of possibilities there too.

Finally, there's the big question of Nico Minoru's queerness. Now, there's basically two lists of Marvel queers - the characters written as queer by the writers and artists at Marvel and the characters Marvel corporate have actually approved as being queer and stamped with a big rainbow stamp of approval. This is what separates your "did a gay kiss once" characters from your "paraded out every June" characters...

Nico is in the latter category and is potentially one of the most corporate-approved queer characters there are. This girl is BISEXUAL and Marvel is uncharacteristically interested in making sure you know it. She got a Pride variant cover kissing her girlfriend when Pearlmutter was still at the company. Her MCU show is full of gay kisses and has not one but TWO fantasy gay wedding sequences (it also got removed from Disney+ earlier this year, funny that).

Now, uh, America Chavez is basically the face of Sapphic Marvel in the comics and her queerness got reduced to a Pride pin in her movie, so I'm not sure if Nico's bisexuality will be acknowledged in the show given that precedent... but I sure hope it does!!! It'd be cute if Karolina pops in too, helping her girlfriend out with whatever antics she gets into... She wasn't in the initial revealed character line-up, but I could also see them waiting to reveal her and hoping to get hype specifically from shippers who haven't thought about the pairing in a few years since the Runaways TV show ended.

ANYWAY. That was a lot of thoughts, but I'm just very curious what's going to happen here... I love Nico and am eager to see her in this show, but it also just feels like such an unconventional choice... to the point where I am apparently thinking about it this hard a year later.

[skyarbor]

Gloomverse and its characters belong to @loverofpiggies.

[badgloomverse]

Proposal to tag every characters without a last name like 'Something Gloom' so we know its the gloomverse character. Not only will it make it easier to tag and find those characters, we can all have a good laugh about the implications of Xela Gloom or Cirrus Gloom

Were they adopted by Petunia? Did they marry into the family? Perhaps they were as creative as Amadeus (or Petunia) and decided to name themselves 'Gloom' after the country.

Also Seaweed Gloom is canon, Petunia has signed the papers already. You can't change my mind. The only reason she doesn't introduce herself as such is because the tabloids would have been insufferable.

[prompt-verse]

Take some time to think about it! Don't just vote for your fav, but vote for the most societally disruptive person!

[papier-ciseaux]

Oh no they've been boxed! Perhaps from being a bad monster....? Nah

Amadeus / Dad Overlord by @cosart !

[blueoctobass]

do purparents 👀 revive the curse upon our brethren

fine, but i didnt have any funny scenario in mind so it's just "draw the ot3" from this post

[offscreen-gloomverse-probably]

Amadeus: What are you in the mood for? Petunia: World domination. Amadeus: That's a bit ambitious. Petunia: You are my world. Amadeus: Aww... Petunia: Amadeus: OH