#but in theory i think i’d love to

[f1nalboys]

keep having dreams and daydreams of me in interviews for my emotionally challenging horror film that i’ve done that propelled me into overnight stardom and it’s beginning to make me feel a certain way

[calmlb]

unpopular opinion but i actually see Kouyou as the possible next Boss of the Port Mafia 👀

like ppl talk abt it being Chuuya but imo… Chuuya : Ranpo :: Kouyou : Kunikida

(Chuuya & Ranpo being the “hearts” of their orgs while Kouyou & Kunikida are the “heads”)

[turtleblogatlast]

Man I wish we got more of the turtle tots especially their “slightly older turtle tots” designs, because they are so cute

[lu-dao-writes]

This is a crack thought… But like…

What if Kuras and Vere are exes?👀

[consumeroflemoans]

I don’t think people talk about the fact Aha knows they’re in a game enough

Like. They and their followers have been shown breaking the fourth wall. Specifically in the Simulated Universe and with Sampo after Belobog.

The simulated universe is meant to, well, mimic the real universe so the genius society can learn about aeons and past events by simulating them. Which is why it’s so fitting that the simulated Aha realized they’re in a false universe so quickly. The real Aha has already climbed the world tree and witnessed the truth of their existence.

I’ve joked about them ascending to aeonhood because they watched a baby fall before, which is true. But a large part of their true elation comes from knowing they’re in a game. Nothing matters so they can truly do whatever they want. Why not just have fun? They can sow plenty of discord. They can turn a worm into an emanator. They can witness wars and just laugh and laugh. They know it’s all meaningless. That’s why watching everyone else try so hard to keep their fake universe alive is so funny to them.

And this is even shown through the Masked Fools. Sampo speaks directly to the camera and both he and Sparkle have referred to themselves as supporting characters. Their purpose is to put on a show and make the game more entertaining. Would Belobog been as fun without Sampo coming in and making us collectively groan at him obviously trying to scam people? Would Penacony’s events or ending be as mysterious or shocking without Sparkle’s meddling behind the scenes? Penacony would have ended with a pretty boring party if not for Sparkle’s antics.

Honkai star rail needs characters you can laugh at, groan at, and poke fun at. The elation is delighted to be the game’s jester, poking fun at their false universe and the ones outside witnessing it.

[koivoid]

Koivoid's Chapter 2 Murder Theory: AM vs PM

After episode 12 I have come up with an insane theory on how the murder happened. It's... really unlikely, but I wanted to share it here anyways on the rare chance that it's right. However, please note that this isn't a guess as to who the culprit is, more of an analysis on how the murder was carried out and how all the evidence fits into the case.

drdt spoilers of course!

I believe that @1moreff-creator’s (hope you don't mind the tag!) pulley theory was the murder method. Please give their post a read, they explained it way better than I ever could. Anyways, this post hinges on the fact that Arei's neck was broken using a pulley formed by the ropes, the carousel, and the ceiling beam.

In the newest episode, Teruko concludes that the murder must have been done in the morning because the body was still swinging. However, if the pulley was used, the culprit could have easily killed Arei at another time, then activated the mechanism to make it seem like she was killed in the morning! Since the fact that Arei’s body was swinging is the only piece of evidence that Arei was killed in the morning, this means that Arei could have been killed at 7:30 AM OR 7:30 PM. 

“Wait, but didn’t the cast spend half the episode talking about how Arei could have only been killed in the morning?” That is true! But they have never considered the method of murder once in the entire trial! The pulley theory could easily disprove the literal only piece of evidence that the murder happened in the morning, which is that Arei's body was still swinging! Either way, her body would be cold, because as J states, the culprit could have poured water on her to cool her off, and the fans would quickly dry her off. So her body being cold cannot be a piece of evidence to prove that she could have only been killed in the morning.

Personally, I think the culprit killed Arei at nighttime, and tried to make it seem as if the murder happened in the morning to disguise her time of death.

But then what about the fish water? Didn’t the culprit take the water from the relaxation room to make it seem like the murder took place in the night when it really was in the morning? Well, there’s actually another possibility as to why they chose to use that water. If you look at the map, the relaxation room is the only room with water on the second floor.

The culprit probably didn’t want to risk getting caught using the sinks on the first floor, because that’s where most of the other students are staying. Therefore, the culprit used the water from the relaxation room to avoid leaving the second floor, where they could get caught.

But wait! Wasn’t David in the relaxation room at 7:30 PM? He would have seen the culprit then!

About that… David never actually confirms the fact that he met with Arei at 7:30. Ace is the one to say that he heard David and Arei talking at 7:30. In fact, David outright says this:

And since David clearly isn’t the murderer, Ace could be lying about the time of their meeting! So it’s entirely possible that Arei could have died at 7:30 PM, because that’s not actually when she met with David.

With that aside, let’s return to the actual murder method. In FF’s theory, Arei’s body was weighed down by the water jugs filled with the fish water, and the motion of her neck being snapped also caused the water jugs to break at the handles, spilling the water and the fish all over the floor. If this is true, then the murder could only have occurred at nighttime. If Arei really died in the morning, then the water jugs would have been broken when she got her neck snapped, which would remove the only source of water for the culprit. J claims that if Arei really died in the morning, the culprit would have used the water to cool down her body. However, if the water jugs broke and the water spilled, then the culprit could not have done that. Because the relaxation room opens at 8 AM, and they would not be able to retrieve any more water. They couldn't have cooled down the body before her neck was snapped, because, well, she wasn't dead then, and her body would probably warm up before she was killed. Then, Arei’s body would still be warm. But if she died at night, there would be no need to douse her body in water, and the jugs could be used in the contraption. 

What if the jugs weren’t used in the contraption? See, that’s the confusing part, because otherwise why would the jugs be broken at the handles? To douse the body in water, they could have simply opened the cap on top. So that’s why I’m inclined to believe that the jugs were used in the contraption.

Wait. If the pulley used to break Arei’s neck was only activated in the morning, then how did she die at night?

And here I steal (/j) another popular theory: Arei was waterboarded to death. 

At night, the culprit could have gone to the relaxation room to get more water, so water isn’t an issue. Or maybe the jugs in the trash were originally filled with regular water, so the culprit had to use the fish water for the contraption after using the original water to drown Arei. A cloth could easily be obtained from the dress-up room. Additionally, this could explain why Arei’s hands are tied; if she was being waterboarded, obviously she would be struggling and trying to fight for her life. Finally, Arturo probably couldn’t diagnose that she was drowned, as it has been proven many times that he does not specialize in analyzing dead bodies. (Also… does drowning leave any physical evidence? I didn’t get many helpful results when I searched it up…)

So here’s my proposed timeline so far:

Arei meets David in the relaxation room before 7:30 PM. They argue, and Arei runs out of the room in anger. David chases after her and leaves the relaxation room.

At 7:30 PM, Arei returns to the second floor, going to the playground thinking Eden needs her help.

The culprit ambushes her, somehow tapes her hands together, and waterboards her to death.

After Arei dies, they head back to the relaxation room to refill the jugs of water. In the process, some fish enter the jugs as well.

The culprit sets up the pulley, taping up the carousel. They throw the ball of clothes over the ceiling beam, hitting a light in the process. (Massively oversimplified, go read FF’s post linked in the beginning lol)

They leave the pulley, along with Arei’s corpse, in the playground for tomorrow.

They rip up the fake note and put parts of it in the trash can, purposefully leaving out the part after “7:30”. The other scraps are disposed of elsewhere, possibly even dissolved in the relaxation room’s pond.

The next day, the culprit wakes up early, around 7:30 AM, and heads to the playground.

They tie the rope around Arei’s neck with the jugs of water, and use the pulley to break her neck. The jugs of water break and spill the water over the ground.

The culprit takes Arei’s body and hangs it on the swingset, then take down the ropes on the pulley, hiding them under the carousel. They also hide the ball of clothes in the changing room.

At 8:00, they finish cleaning up the crime scene, and head to the movie screening room as per MonoTV’s demand.

I’ll admit, it does have some plot holes. But Chapter 1’s murder did as well, so it’s not too big of a deal.

(Update: a last minute thought: I just realized that the culprit could have broken Arei’s neck at night, and simply hung her body up in the morning. Oh well, my point about her being killed at night still stands)

Well, now that we understand how Arei was killed, let’s get into the why. Why did the culprit choose to go through the extra step of breaking Arei’s neck in the morning?

I think this was to disguise the time of her death. The culprit was trying to frame Eden, as evidenced by the note to Arei. But Eden had an alibi in the nighttime. But if the culprit made it seem like Arei was killed in the morning, then she wouldn’t have an alibi, and could then be easily accused. Not just Eden, actually, the culprit could easily frame anyone in the morning who didn’t have an alibi, because they would most likely be asleep. At nighttime, however, the students were all hanging out with each other, making it much more likely that they would have an alibi. 

Oh, and one more thing: since we haven’t had a scrum debate yet, the AM vs PM argument could be the scrum debate topic. There isn’t much else the class could be split on, at least not yet. (hopeful)

In that case, the night alibis are still pretty valid, as well as the morning alibis. This is a bit of a stretch, but...

The people with night alibis are Arturo, J, Charles, Whit, Hu, Eden, Veronika, and Teruko.

The people with morning alibis are David, J, Veronika, Hu, and Nico.

That leaves Rose, Ace, and Levi without an alibi at both times.

Think of this as you will. ;)

But that’s just my own thoughts. In the end, this theory seems pretty far-fetched, and heavily relies on lots of small details that could easily be waved off in the grand scheme of things. We’ll probably find out whether or not my theory is correct this Friday (or maybe next Friday). Guess I’ll see you then!

[fumifooms]

Makima, devils and self-fulfillment

Dumping some Makima and CSM thoughts after a part 1 binge bc I think about her forever and ever. I’m sure I’m forgetting some devil lore, feel free to correct what i get wrong/what’s been confirmed. On the table of contents there’s why & how Makima got fixated on Chainsaw, her revealing liking for the country mouse and discussion of her nature & emotions & desires. Was the scorpion doomed to be a scorpion?

The most of this post was thought of during a conversation with @saccharineomens and I don’t think it makes sense to jump into the spiral it sent me on without first laying down the interesting groundwork theorizing she did:

"Thinking about how makima herself wants to be deified. I wonder whether she recognizes the difference between Love As Worship and the love that Aki, Power, and Denji had. She says she wants to help humanity by having Chainsawman eat the ��bad” devils, but why does she want to help humans? Because she was ordered to by the Prime Minister? No, her drive seems much more personal than that, it seems like she teamed up with the PM for contractual reasons. (In the most recent chapters we see governmental members wanting certain devils to be eaten, too. What was Makima’s relationship with them? She’s too independent to just follow THEIR orders, she’s Control.)

So is she wanting to better humanity for the accolades, or out of the goodness of her heart? She sees the big picture. She sees any small sacrifice as worth it for the end result, and she’s ruthless. Perhaps she thinks that a more sedate human race would be easier to control? But Makima doesn’t loathe humanity. She never acts like she sees all humans as lesser. She loves humanity’s creations, like good food and movies. She just wants Good Things all the time

She says she prefers the country mouse BUT adds a story where she helps exterminate country mice like vermin. She likes the simplicity yet rejects the idea of being simple. Makima the complex individual you are"

~

The story itself seems to prefr the country mouse. Well- it strikes a balance, shows that a risk to live good & fully can be very worth it, but still that stability over ambition is preferable, proning having a simple happy life over fame, a simple job instead of a dangerous one, etc etc. And I do find Makima’s answer on this so so interesting, she prefers the country mouse, but this preference isn’t out of affection or sympathy but because of how relaxing it feels to exterminate them when they cause problems.

Order satisfies her. Her order satisfies her. She likes the action of rooting out disorder. Maybe this is the devil part, like how Power especially wants blood and drinking it, I feel there’s an itch to every devil, and for Makima it’s a very rigid world view/morality/standards & making things follow her rules and submit to her order.

And maybe this is why she’s attached to humans too, why she felt it was worth it to stick with the government- because devils are chaotic by nature (it’s a whole plot point that hell is essentially a free-for-all battleground for example), meanwhile humans are the species that universally rule Earth with systems they invented and instilled. They made then enforced rules, complex and intricate webs of them. She feels alienated amongst devils but she understands the humans’ need for an orderly organised society, and now she wants to be part of it. Control and conquest require social dynamics after all, requires civilizations or groups. War is chaotic while peace is, well, peaceful— Makima resents her sisters for being death, famine and war, things that throw the world in such chaos. She wants a world of perfect order, no matter how much collateral damage there will be if the end result is control.

This is even more interesting if you consider that yes, Makima is untouchable of her own design, she deifies herself with her omnipresent amount of control and the sway over others that she seeks and encourages— There is this urge to dehumanize her for it, that yes, she is the devil of control and that means she was never going to be any different, have any more feeling be any less uncanny. And I love part 2 so much for this, because it shows us the war devil and the famine devil and we see how frankly uncharismatic with poor self-discipline they are, Nayuta too, and it helps us realize just how much Makima’s success was self-made.

She admires Chainsaw Devil, the Hero of Hell, because he had his own code and his own rules and he made Hell, the chaos pit, submit to them unfailingly. Wherever he goes he decides what he does and what happens to the people he encounters but does so consistently, he has his mechanism and his rules that he always obeys, and he fulfills them every time. It’s still a mystery the why of Chainsaw Devil’s behavior back then and how it works exactly, maybe Pochita left hell because he was tired of these rules he lived by like chains, but still, he was a servant to his code. Makima would have been glad being killed and eaten by Chainsaw Devil because it’d have been becoming part of his design, his conquest, his domination, she’d have been part of that —his— order. Through her death she would be shaping his world and be part of a conqueror’s making history. Like how she appreciates the country mice that die for the sake of order. Like how sacrifices must be made to herself, like listing the name of every person whose life was lost to the Gun Devil— All for the ~greater good~, for her vision for the world. Conquest always thinks its reasons are justified.

And she does mention with the country mice thing that she goes out to a friend’s farm every year! She has a human friend?? That she visits yearly and she genuinely likes it?? Ultimately she lives a busy city life because of her goal and drive and her urge & satisfaction with overseeing shaping the world herself, but part of her, like so many characters including Angel and Aki and Reze, wishes she could live a slow peaceful country life. Moviegoing and dogs and mice in a farm- Wouldn’t it be so much simpler if Makima could find fulfillment and happiness in being a farmer, in keeping control of her own farm, getting satisfaction from exterminating vermin and expertly getting everything right, the right crops grown at the right time on the right soil? Here, too, in a way it’s trying to have full control of an ecosystem, but her goals would be easier to achieve and better, without ceaseless sacrifice or much pressure. But Makima wants grandiosity and her goal does matter to her on a fundamental and moral level, she does think she knows what’s best for the world, and with the power to change it why wouldn’t she strive to? Visiting the farm is just a break, just something she does in fall to help out and just in time to see the vermin extermination. It calms her, then it’s back to actual work.

In capitalism, even the one at the very top of the ladder is ultimately alienated from others and often unsatisfied by their lifestyle, always wanting more and more power because surely that’s the extra edge they must be missing to be content— like how Makima thinks she wants to dominate Chainsaw Devil instead of being his equal. And she says it herself too, she likes humans the way humans like dogs…….. And she keeps so many dogs :( Makima prefers the country mice because they’re calming to root out, maybe because she usually mainly deals with city mice. It’s very easy to equate humans to the mice in this allegory because it’s pretty direct and she’s already likened humans to lesser animals compared to her. She’s self-isolating by design for her design but she still craves relationships and contentment, and the dogs are the embodiment or her want for bonds and occasional simplicity because there is no possible ulterior motive, no way they tie back into her wider plan. They’re her personal life— something that feels so alien when speaking about Makima. Personality and individuality and likes and preferences and friends they visit every year. She likes how easily she can train a dog and how they become putty in her hands, at her beck and call, how much they love her and how much she enjoys their love. How simple and straightforward and easy it is. She keeps them because she likes being loved by them and loving them, and she’s gotten and raised so many. A conqueror always wants more and more and more, is never satisfied.

Devils and agency

Like Power the blood devil wanting blood and having a fixation on drinking it like with Denji’s, or how it was shocking that the violence devil was pretty tame and nice and how he himself theorized it was because he was a fiend and possessing a human body… There’s something to be said about nature vs nurture with the devils. The way they reincarnate and always embody their fear makes it seem categorically like nature, that they always always end up fulfilling the role they were named after and born to fill… Outside influence they’re helpless but to conform with. Like the humans accepting their spot in the social ladder and the shittiness of their living conditions and job under capitalism. Makima craved being equals with someone despite being the control/conquest devil, Angel Devil despite claiming to be a devil who likes to see humans dying was haunted by their deaths and wanted to avoid ones like Aki’s. The Ghost Devil being ironically haunted by Himeno, seemingly helping Aki in her memory out of… Lasting affection? Or maybe it was less about being haunted itself and more about it recognizing how Himeno haunted Aki, and acknowledging that, with the memento, paying her respect to the ghost of her. It’s Angel Devil’s devil nature that makes him like human suffering, so then is it his angel nature too to still care about their deaths? Is there truth to this or is that just personality, just our confirmation bias haunting every part of their identity like it might in their own view of themselves too? We do know different reincarnations of devils do have different personalities after all.

Yoru, war devil, is the most interesting one when talking about the nature vs nurture debate with devils. There is how through her we see the perhaps the most the consequences of a devil stopping being feared— we see a horseman for a concept as universal and horrifying as war be reduced to some bird who needs a contract with a human to have any power even just on the situation when meeting Asa. And through the story we get to know her better, and it becomes clear that her goal is fueled in good part by simply wanting to be remembered and respected through fear. Liked, validated, seen a powerful. But what is more isolating than war? Or control? We also see Nayuta accepting others’ house rules. If part 1 shows perhaps the futility of running away from the truth, with Denji’s memory, with escapist coping mechanisms, with passivity and denial under a corrupt system and with abusive relationships- running away from your own feelings and from the reality of things and from all that you are, more complex than simply human or devil or both or neither— part 2 builds upon the theme of cult of personalities, the chainsaw church, etc. The apocalypse is coming, but this celebrity superhero might save us all, or doom us all uh, dunno. The hero of hell reliving the cycle of pressure from responsibilities and expectations, maybe the part will end with Denji running away like Pochita did~

But yes, on the reverse, I think Famine is a very interesting example of how a devil’s namesake may be more innate than coerced by circumstances. One would think that a famine devil would only like inflicting famine upon others, not being famished itself, but Famine has a bottomless stomach that can never, ever be satisfied, sated. I struggle to find a psychological explanation for this, except that maybe instead of her being hungry it’s her feeling empty when she’s not eating, tasting and having that high sensory experience that releases serotonin in humans, sort of like drugs? But I do take this as a step towards the compulsion theory overall, feels like a reach in the consistency otherwise. And compulsion does not mean it’s something that they like nor that it’s something that they fight against, pretty neutral, just a nature that nudges you towards one path. Maybe it’s even just their go-to for entertainment. Maybe it’s the only thing that makes them feel right and whole. But still the debate remains, what is it, a compulsion or an urge or an itch or an active desire or a conscious chosen want? Does it change anything in practice?

And because of all of this earlier, devils being self-fulfilling prophecies with their role is not in unsignificant part nurture, because doing their atrocities is how they stay remembered— feared, powerful, known— hell and devils are a very isolating place and breed after all, and we do see devils can want companionship. Existentially, it’s their purpose and how they justify their place in the world, in the terrifyingly vast and unknowable cosmos.

We still know so little of what makes Chainsaw Devil so special, why his carnage is so self-controlled. Despite a chainsaw maybe being possibly one of the most "nature" thing you can be— a tool to cut things, a human tool that can be helpful for many things, something to be wielding by another at their judgement on what they decide, but mainly something to cut, a tool suited for carnage, to hurt and to destroy. A blade with a toothed chain, spinning around and around and around endlessly on the same road at the same pace. Such a…. Innately circular concept. And yet the Chainsaw Devil is his own, not driven by an urge or by chaos but his very own brand of order, his own unique assigned purpose, a "if you call i’ll come running to help" policy equalizing everyone. He chooses to withhold his destruction and interference otherwise, and then he chooses to be used. If it’s a choice, of course.

Maybe this is what inspired Makima so much, that Chainsaw Devil could decide what to make of himself despite expectations or innate role. Because even Hell he decided & managed to subjugate under his will and whim, with a precise vision and process. When Chainsaw Devil acts like Denji or is defeated, Makima clicks her tongue and loses her admiration and respect. Makima admired and liked Chainsaw Devil, but only as long as he matched her great image of him in her mind, as long as he followed he rules for what she thinks he should be like. She admired him for his unrivaled self-made success, but once he stepped out of that to truly embody self-fulfillment and agency, disappearing from hell to live on his own road at the beat of his own drum… Well. Surely that was a mistake she has to correct. However their second battle ends, the better conqueror will have prevailed and she’s happy about that, all in the spirit of domination and subjugation.

Imo Makima’s biggest tool, similarly capitalism’s most helpful effect for its own purposes, is complacency. Resignation and passivity helps uphold the system and go along the flow of the will of the people in power. Aki and Reze go along with orders even when knowing their job is trash, etc. In Angel Devil especially we see him go along with the flow uncaring about anyhing, and we discover it was in part due to Makima taking away memories that motivated him. If every devil decides this is just how things are and how things should be that’s what they’ll continue to be and do mindlessly, not pursuing a better life like Chainsaw Devil and Denj and not seeking to change the world like Makima. I think even Makima veils herself to a lot of things, she doesn’t like to think deeply about some things, like her desire for connection, or how making bad movies disappear is strenuous and unsustainable and requiring sacrifices at best— how her judgement is as subjective as anyone else. How liking the country mouse and her friend back at the farm and her dogs could be not devoid of sentimality. Wanting bad movies erased is her one biggest show of selfishness, of pettiness and individuality, it’s about her tastes, simple as. About how she can have tastes, and cry seeing a scene of people hug, and want things that aren’t logical, her ideology and mind twisted into a pretzel to avoid acknowledging that she doesn’t live and breathe purely for the mission she’s made a single-minded robot out of herself to accomplish. Nayuta is assertive and selfish and loud, Makima is manipulative and strategically both for her goals and for coping hollow.

Everything in her plans and goals she says is for the greater good, necessary evil, manufactured happiness the way she’ll have decided for people— and that’s the thing isn’t it, like with War, it’s the crack that shows it was all truly about herself after all. Her self-made deification still had the flaw that a self made it. Makima is not omniscient, and it’s not Chainsaw Devil the not-so-fellow-kindred-soul conqueror who gets the best of her, but a city mouse, a dog, someone she would have never thought to respect, Denji.

[mcybree]

i need to start hating other characters besides just scott apparently. does anyone have suggestions

[valewritessss]

Say what you want about thinking Percy only remembered Annabeth because Hera left her in his memory but for the love of everything just let people have their romantic little headcanon

[lightning-chicken]

i’ve been thinking about lloyd’s vision. specifically, this moment:

to me, this vision could be one of two things:

a real glimpse of the future

a hallucination caused by lloyd’s stress/fear

firstly, if it was a prophetic vision, that still doesn’t guarantee that it definitely will happen. some prophetic visions are images of potential futures, that the seer can then use to prevent that future. however, ninjago tends to only show prophetic visions that come true - eg zane’s visions in s11 and wu’s spirit smoke visions in s1. but zane’s also had visions that haven’t come true moment-for-moment (his s1 green ninja vision) and instead it served as guidance for the future. so what i’m saying is that lloyd’s vision could be a warning, not a guaranteed event. and even if it did come to pass, who knows when it will happen? the future is a long stretch of time.

and the other possibility: lloyd’s vision is stress-induced and a result of his fears. he’s seeing what he’s most afraid of: leading his new students and his family to their deaths as a result of his poor choices. what that choice could be? poor planning, freeing the source dragon… there are countless possibilities. or, his fears could be more subconscious: the fact that, due to his oni and dragon blood, he’s destined to live as long as his grandfather, doomed to slowly, inevitably losing his family one by one. this option’s less likely, but it’s still an option.

and while i’m on the subject of lloyd’s vision:

this image here. why, out of all the elements, are these elements pictured? having energy and the main four makes sense, but why water as well? i think this might be hinting at the cause of the merge - that the ninja somehow caused it (as usual) and therefore they’re connected to it. or even - there are leaks talking about “competing spinjitzu dojos” in future seasons of dr, so could this be foreshadowing it? each ninja will end up leading a dojo with their own students. sounds possible to me.

[fisherrprince]

the problem is I’m such a staunch believer in the slow buildup, the earnest enjoyment of meandering through terrible story decisions and weird nothing subplots to build up into a conclusion that explodes out from all that as fantastic storytelling and intrigue based on all that buildup, such that it makes it necessary to get through all that or you’re missing something essential, that I’m also a terrible person to talk to about what makes a story good. I can tell you plenty of what actually makes something tight and well-written and all that technical speak but how could anyone take my advice when I so so so love excruciatingly long unnecessarily complex fumbling and weird nonsense that spirals into, inexplicably, weird nonsense that makes you cry your lungs sore

[boxdstars]

I love how so many peoples MC’s are bad or generally dislike divination 😭💀 if anything this would make Amara so incredibly insufferable about it because it’s something that alongside dueling (but the MC is good at that too) she can boast relentlessly to them.

I think it’s a class that is either extremely easy, or impossible depending on intuition and the like. So Amara is just looking at everyone like:

[noneofchar]

Also, I made a Palia community! We’re still tiny, so if you enjoy Palia, please join 😊

[lyraofthestarsss]

Life series!Desert duo but they’re the Milky Way-Andromeda galaxy collision

[laniidae-passerine]

people think the theories are getting too crazy well I don’t think we’re getting crazy enough. we need weirder shit. Armand wasn’t Alice. Louis was Alice. how does that work? it doesn’t. but it’s only Tuesday and I can’t day drink rn so we’re gonna work with this until the weekend

[m1xieup]

honestly as a resident Will-enjoyer I find my mind plagued with questions after reading the story he’s actually based on- William Wilson (though I’ve heard he’s also inspired by Prufrock though I don’t know if that’s true [it would be cool if it was]). Now the ending of William Wilson is kinda up in the air as it’s highly symbolic, which means there’s a lot of ways it could be used for Will’s character, so I was thinking: is Will based on the narrator or the doppelgänger? How did he die? And thus this poll was born, I’m sorry for the very dramatic and overdrawn introduction to what is essentially just a poll, but I am nothing if not dramatic, so without further ado:

cw: minor mentions of suicide in the context of the original story

I created this poll mainly because I’m curious as to what the community thinks, if there’s anymore theories or official information I don’t have, I’d love to hear about it! Anyways have a great day y’all