#collector is scary

[jakegyllenbaalz]

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[trinkets-things]

A need

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ua g…. collector … im going through the toh illness agains… sorry if this islike formatted weird or anything nobody kill me i bavent used tumblr in 300 years (snd i wasnt even good at it back then)

[xxautumnivyxx]

A Lonely Broadcast Station is back soon.

[horvival]

Silent Hill: Ascension (2023)

[pinkdeath6]

[partartgoddess]

Monster High Haunt Couture - Scaris Fashion Week Finale ✨🪩🕸️ Rochelle Goyle designed by Garrott du Roque

[deathtown]

The Collector (2009)

[sergeantsporks]

Hmmmmmm I remember a while ago I said “maybe we could resolve the Collector problem by just having his parents come down from space and put him in time out” well I would no longer like for the Collector’s parents/species in general to come to the Boiling Isles.

[wake-up-and-face-the-sun]

They show up to your planet to scorch the air wdyd

[ghoulish-skullects]

Closeups for SCARY SWEET BIRTHDAY deluxe doll line!

the more i look the more i love them all and im gonna have to complete this set

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[frankenhoooker]

the police are always off track with this shit

if they'd watch prom night, they'd save time

[misfitdollies]

✨ Once upon a time…✨

[collectors-tablet]

Hi, how would your Archivists react to Belos?

Everyone say "best siblings ever"! 📸

I like to think the star children all collect different objects. Our Collector collects puppets, Yellow Moon collects scrolls, and the ringed-planet one collects music disks. Or, more specifically, vinyls. (Secret: When they were collectors, before they were archivists, they collected picture books and stupid kiddy mp3 players instead).

Here's a picture I made of this one when I was designing them and their siblings 👍

[noperopesaredope]

I am a hardcore Collector apologist, and I will stand by them forever. I do believe that they aren’t truly malicious, they just don’t realize that what they’re doing is wrong. 

But I also kinda like it when fanfics portray them as both blissfully naive and straight up sadistic at the same time. It’s honestly one of the things that draws me to his character. Sure, I adore it when the Collector is just an easily manipulated little kid, but I also like seeing portrayals of them in which they describe how he will violently maim someone. I actually like seeing both portrayals at the exact same time.

One of the things that I like about the Collector is what I call “Terrifying Innocence.” The Collector is definitely a naive little kid and mentally quite innocent and impressionable, but here’s the thing about little kids: they can be really fucked up. Even the sweetest and most kindhearted children can be scary af.

Cognitive empathy is mostly a learned trait rather than an inherent one. Children do not come out of the womb with the knowledge that other beings have feelings and that their actions affect others, and this is clearly the case with the Collector. So they can commit different types of violence with no reaction, as they might not be aware that it is wrong. 

It’s like children who torture ants during recess. They are more fascinated by it than anything, and they don’t fully process how cruel they are actually being. When you don’t understand that other people experience pain, can’t properly empathize with it, or generally feel extremely removed from it, you become fascinated by it. It’s the same reason people like true crime or even slasher horror.

Honestly, as I said, I kinda like it when the Collector is shown to be weirdly playful upon seeing horrific things. It’s because he feels less like a sadistic ass like Belos, and more like someone who is really into slasher movies. Little kids are into violence a surprising amount. 

I have been told that I’m a very compassionate person (I don’t completely believe that I am, but a bizarre amount of people have told me this, so I guess it’s true), but as a kid, around the Collector’s age, I had multiple “disaster” phases

I had an obsession with the Titanic for a while, particularly the part where hundreds of people died. I had an even bigger obsession with Pompeii, and upon seeing a museum exhibit with some of the preserved bodies, I actually took a good few minutes imagining how each individual person died and what their last moments were like. Fucked up, I know, but it happened.

Children don’t typically go out of their way to hurt others once they realize that their actions can hurt others, but they will occasionally watch (from a distance). I imagine that the Collector is like this as well. Maybe they did watch Belos hurt the Grimwalkers and were still playful about it. 

I even brought up a small potential headcanon that they (slightly unintentionally) gave Belos ideas. Kinda like “what if you EXPLODED one of them? Ooh- ooh- or...you could THROW THEM IN LAVA!” Not an evil whisper-in-your-ear kinda way, more like asking a preschooler to describe what they think demons would do to people in hell or something. Kids get creative with it.

It wouldn’t be that he truly meant harm the way Belos did, they would do it because they found it interesting. They don’t understand other people’s pain, and therefore just experiment without realizing how bad their actions are. It’s interesting to me to read portrayals of the Collector where they are still show in a sympathetic light and he’s clearly just a little kid, but he also doesn’t really seem to care about others that much.

It’s realistic in a way that I like and captures the spirit of the messiness that is a child’s morality. They aren’t evil or completely sadistic, they just don’t see the severity of their actions and are mostly self-centered in terms of worldview.

So, in conclusion, we need more fics where the Collector is a blissfully innocent kid with a love for slasher films.

[pinkdeath6]

Dolly 💕