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collecting-dustbunnies · 15 hours ago
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Final tally:
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'Twas fun to do lol. Absolutely wild the Little Ds took over the hard mode entirely.
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Decided to make this bingo card for the upcoming season as a salty and tired Triworlds and trio fan to inject some fun into a season I'm not particularly excited about. It contains things only I, and maybe like two other people, care about.
(Didn't bother labeling it as season 3 because I'll be shocked if a lot of this isn't a concern for future seasons.)
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collecting-dustbunnies · 6 months ago
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The longer I play Obey Me, the more I feel like Obey Me is a story about how the MC, in their quest to seek acceptance by the people they care about, ends up destroying themselves in the process and losing the very thing that made them so special and loved in the first place.
In the beginning of OG, they started off as just a normal human who got whisked away to a weird ass world where literally nobody respects them. Despite this, they recognised from the beginning that these demons and angels were not so different from humans. MC's ability to see the demons as actual people and not just beings controlled by their sins was what allowed them to form close bonds with them. They had good intentions to reunite the demon brothers who had undergone centuries of misunderstanding, resentment, and pent up grief. Even though they were excessively nosy, MC's unique position as a complete outsider allowed them to see just how much love the demon brothers had for each other, and how they can become closer if everybody would just better communicate with each other. Serving as the bridge to better improve the brothers' relationships was what convinced the demon brothers to also see MC as a member of their family.
But as the MC became more involved in the Devildom's problems, they started to adopt the same toxic traits that had created wedges between the brothers in the first place. From relying heavily on their pacts to subdue the brothers, to allowing a curse to control Barbatos (even though they had the ability to break it), to going along with the brothers' manipulative scheme to trick Satan into reconciling with Lucifer when Satan ran away to the human world -- it's almost like MC has unconsciously picked up on some of their loved ones' behaviour. Gone are the days where MC brings in a new perspective to problems. Now, they just embrace the chaos and their more darker traits, for that is what is expected of them to survive in the Devildom. And since everyone within their circle puts them on a pedestal, this further affirms to the MC that this is how they should be.
Dealing with the affairs of the Devildom had also caused the MC to grow more apathetic. In the beginning, they had been actively taking steps to form pacts with the brothers and were generally very invested in freeing Belphie from the attic. They remained true to themselves and insisted that they form a pact with Satan based on mutual trust and understanding, and not just as a means to smite Lucifer. Despite being in a helpless situation, MC never refused to give up their agency. But the longer MC gets involved with these shenanigans, the more they grew... numb to everything.
Solomon bringing me back to the Devildom unannounced? Oh, sure. Diavolo and Solomon hiding the reasons for my sudden return? Not my problem.
Simeon facing a problem to the point of having a quarter of the cast acting as his bodyguards? Eh, I'll just ignore it until I can't anymore.
Watching and waiting. That's what they have resorted to doing.
And that mindset of kicking problems down the line until it lands on MC's doorstep and they have no choice but to act -- that's exactly how they have been acting when they were stuck in NB, hasn't it? MC didn't bother forming pacts with the past version of the brothers until they were given an ultimatum, and even then, they simply relied on the convenient timing of each brother struggling with an inner crisis to swoop in, resolve the situation and tick them off their checklist.
MC in NB seems like an unfortunate culmination of everything they faced so far. They're too apathetic to care about getting sent to an unfamiliar place once again, too desensitised to life in the Devildom to reclaim their agency, and too desperate to earn the love of their former family to even think about anything else. They became so co-dependent to the demon brothers that they seem to think they cannot live without them or their affection, even if the ones they are living with in the past are different people from the ones they grew to love in the present.
The phrase "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" fits way too perfectly for the Obey Me MC. After all, MC keeps getting rewarded every time they try to get themselves killed (or even when they actually got killed). Maybe that's the only way they know how to resolve problems.
So if they can't die as the hero, they'll just learn to live as the villain.
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luck-of-the-drawings · 14 days ago
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OH MY DAYS i cant believe i never posted this one here (originally posted to twitter, JAN20 2023) (hes stabbing his little bathtub bed. is that obvious? i hope its obvious) OLD ART at this point but i still like the way i did expression and movement. also WEEE THE NIGHTMARE ARC WAS SO FUNNNN WASNT IT FUNNN?? WEEEE!!
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audhdgoku · 2 months ago
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OBSESSED That They Have Plates Of Actual Food For Vegeta, Bulma, And Goku, Tea For The Kai's, And Water For Mr. Popo And Piccolo lol
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collecting-dustbunnies · 3 months ago
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Your theory post is really well-written, and I appreciate all the evidence you've brought up showing where Simeon being Nightbringer can fit! I also find it interesting you brought up the Solomon illusion sequence, because I had briefly discussed in one of my theory posts in the beginning that Nightbringer had been trying to push Solomon to pick a side between the angels and the demons... so if Simeon was one of the sides in that illusion, then it tracks that Nightbringer would want Solomon to side with him there.
I just wanted to piggy-back ride off this post to bring up some other tidbits that Simeon and other characters had presented which were left open-ended... perhaps they could tie in to what we're seeing right now?
Whose side are you really on?
Back in Lesson 14, Solomon asks MC whether they will lend him his support in his goal to protect humanity's interests against demons and angels, and if they would be willing to side with him even if it means going against the demons they care about.
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Here, MC can resolve to find a solution where they can protect humans without going against the brothers or promise to side with Solomon regardless of the consequences. I found it interesting that if MC chooses the first option, Simeon's affection bar rises. Ignoring how tf MC's one choice over here raises the affection of a dude on the other side of the realm, the reaction here makes sense, since Simeon in NB had been conflicted about his duties to the Celestial Realm and his guilt over letting the brothers fall (and his affection for them, that still has not faded one bit). Simeon would also want a solution that avoids conflict from both sides. If Nightbringer brought MC to this world to help the brothers' adjust to their life in the Devildom, then perhaps Simeon, MC and Nightbringer are on the same page here? But if Nightbringer really wanted to force Solomon to pick a side back in Lesson 10, then maybe his motives are not as cut-and-dry.
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If we continue along this conversation chain, MC can insist that a peaceful solution exists (by either challenging Solomon or urging him to drop his pessimistic outlook). Both times Solomon alludes to how they should hope for the best but expect the worst.
Speaking of Solomon and Simeon...
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Remember back in Chapter 10 when Lucifer and Belphegor wanted to negotiate with Diavolo regarding Beelzebub's imprisonment? Solomon came up with the excuse that he had arranged to have tea with Simeon so that MC could go with them instead as the "neutral" party.
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We later find out that Solomon and Simeon had a rather interesting conversation during their meeting. Could they have been in cahoots all along?
Simeon's assistance in the "past"
For somebody who has no clue about MC's main goal, Simeon had been surprisingly helpful in guiding MC and helping them form pacts with at least three of the brothers.
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One very under-discussed part about Lesson 30, where MC was doing their angel trial and they lied for Luke, was that Simeon... totally made up the thing about the trial being about "understanding the essence of a lie". Because if Simeon was telling the truth here, why would Levi have bragged about passing the trial by "holing himself up in his room" to avoid having to lie? Why would the bracelet have broken when MC lied? If the point of the trial really was to "understand the essence of a lie" the bracelet would not have broken at all. The original goal of the trial must have been to avoid lying, and the bracelet reacted to that rule accoridngly.
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And if MC remains skeptical about Simeon's explanation here by saying "Really..?" Simeon doesn't even deny that he's lying! He just says "angels don't tell lies that hurt others". But we as the readers know that's something that Simeon himself believes in rather than it being the ways of the Celestial Realm. And once again, picking this option raises Simeon's affection bar. At first I dismissed this as Simeon lying to stop Luke from dying/because he's a simp for MC, but if he was also invested in MC's goal to form their pacts? That puts a new spin on these events.
Not only that, Simeon was also the one to later guide MC to hear Levi out when Levi had found out the real reason MC wanted pacts with the brothers. And Simeon was the one to talk to MC and provide insight on Lucifer's true feelings, when Lucifer tried to gaslight gatekeep girlboss manipulate MC into admitting they do not want to leave him and his brothers behind to go back home.
Very suspicious...
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All that being said, the only way I can reconcile Simeon being Nightbringer with all the other information we have been given so far was if Simeon was working together with Barbatos to borrow one of his old names to act as Nightbringer in the "past". Barbatos is clearly aware of which timeline MC is really from and what their goal is, so it wouldn't make sense for him to not intervene otherwise. And the backstory with Solomon and "Nightbringer" fits more neatly if it was Barbatos that was referenced in the legends.
I will lose my mind if it turned out Barbatos, Simeon and Solomon were all working together at some point. Really drives home the point that you can't trust anyone in this game. Not even...yourself...
🧐 Simeon is Nightbringer and the signs have been there from the beginning! 🧐
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I actually wasn’t sure they were going to go with the, “Simeon falls and becomes a demon” route as it seemed a bit repetitive since it already happened to the brothers. Now that it’s been confirmed he’s becoming a demon, I feel more confident to post this theory.
Simeon has always been on my list of NB candidates so these thoughts have been rolling around in my head for quite some time.
Below the cuts are my thoughts on how Simeon could be NB and why we were sent, “to the past”.
1. Nightbringer goes by many names. Simeon has a pen name for when he writes, nicknames from the brothers, and several different titles throughout his tenure in the Celestial Realm (aka demoted to archangel was a seraphim).
2. Where did Lesson 80 leave off in the OG? It was about Simeon becoming human and everyone finding out. They truly were continuing NB from the OG.
3. Nightbringer created the Fountain. The fountain contains books. Simeon is a writer.
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4. He was literally in that illusion Nightbringer made for Solomon. Solomon’s conversation with NB strongly suggests NB wasn’t always a demon.
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5. The storyline in NB is different from what we know of the past for a reason. This could be due to Simeon’s laments of not falling with the brothers. This is Simeon’s do over.
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6. The ring of light, which Simeon stole and was the catalyst for his fall plays a role in Nightbringer.
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7. Leviathan and MC are transported into an early TSL world in the beginning of NB. This could be a hint that we were thrown into a world that Simeon created.
8. Simeon is prophetic. NB is known to see through the past, present, and future. Simeon’s writings, IMO, reflect a combination of the past, present, and future. Some of them are prophetic.
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9. Nightbringer is invested in MC’s happiness. Simeon stole the ring of light for MC’s survival so it’s not a stretch for him to also feel this way.
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I believe we ended up in one of Simeon’s written worlds. More precisely, an alternate type of timeline where he was able to visit the brothers soon after their fall and be there for them. A world where both he and MC help the brothers to adjust to life in the Devildom.
Perhaps it was a shared dream to everyone else in the current timeline and they don’t remember it.
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collecting-dustbunnies · 9 days ago
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Lesson 58-A in a nutshell (SPOILERS!)
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(Context under cut)
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nebuladreamz · 6 months ago
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The voices are loud and I am WEAK
#nebula rambles#gripping my FUCKING HEAD#i love fnaf sb. i do. i think besides the fucking. INSANE SHIT it canonizes and whips out#it has really cool concepts and actually are giving the animatronics and even the humans (all things considered)-#more personality and theyre so silly#but god. i still remember the confusion and like. befuddlement watching gameplay at last and i watched chaos#bring back the old concepts BRING BACK THE OLD LAYOUT BETTER COMPRESS YOUR GAME STEEL WOOL#and im. grips head.#hey guys im dbs' number one hater#you can hate on dbgt all you want that's. understandable#but GOD NOTHING WILL MAKE ME WANT TO EXPLODE THAN DBS#i know it's definitely for either nostalgia or to bring people back to familiarity whatever#but WHY do you have it take place BEFORE the final episode but AFTER the buu saga#why not just. make it the new gt#why not make an ACTUAL CANON for AFTER dbz???#cause with all the new shit coming in [multiple universes#the gods of destructions and their angels-#NO ONE FUCKING MENTION MAI TO ME IM SO FUCKING ANGRY BY HOW THEY HAVE THE PILAF GANG BUT ESPECIALLY MAI#do i still adore they made broly canon and rewrote him into such an interesting take?#yes#do i FUCKING LOVE the dbs super hero movie?#absolutely#but i cannot look away from the everything else it's attached to#admittedly im an anime watcher bc it's easier for me to digest but i have seen some stuff from the manga after super hero and#anyways this is. long. hi. i have visions i dont know if i'll ever act upon
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omnybus · 1 year ago
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Was thinking about the Don Bluth Anastasia movie and y'know, we need more animated films about real historical figures whose fate was a mystery mixed with wizards and dark magic and other batshit fantasy themes. I wanna see D.B. Cooper robbing a plane with the aid of his magical talking sugar glider friend
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collecting-dustbunnies · 9 months ago
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Of course I didn't trust what Lucifer said lol. He only gave reasons for why demons shouldn't trust him, but no reason for why I shouldn't trust him. As for whether I trusted Solomon... it was more of a, "Don't trust Solomon? Nah, I'll be the judge of that."
And dude is just there to vibe and collect demons. Who am I to fault him on that?
please share after voting! :D
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shannonsketches · 9 months ago
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he's so important to me
#i guess i need to watch the anime but super's manga has just been a self-indulgent fever dream for me from start to finish#100000/10 absolutely perfect so validating so extremely catered to my tastes and headcanons and analyses and humor#so fucking funny and emotional and intense and goofy and beautifully drawn#my beautiful son getting to finally fucking see his HARD won character growth fucking shine and choose love and choose to be loved!!!!!!#Goku just being Goku Vegeta being Team Dad Piccolo being Team Grandpa Bulma being a fucking superstar keeping everybody organized and fed#god i love this squad i love this series i love these dumbasses and their struggles and their triumphs and their stupid childish bonding#I love that Toriyama just spent the last several years reminding the class that DB as a whole has always been an ACTION-COMEDY about LOVE#and I'm SO sad that the z anime really never did it justice in that sense because of having to fill time with dramatic tension but god. GOD#THE MANGA HAS ALWAYS BEEN SO CLEAR ON THAT THESIS.#Just all about Restorative Justice and Community and CARING even when you wish SO MUCH that you didn't care but yoU DO GODDAMMIT!!!#SUCH a great series I'm so sad it took losing mr t for me to finally read it but my god I needed to read it now and I'm so glad he wrote it#and i'm SO glad he wrote it Exactly Like This#once again rip to a legend i'm caught up and crying it's so perfect it's SO everything I've wanted to see onscreen and embedded in canon#and canon isn't everything but it still feels gREAT to be SO 1:1 on the same page with an author re: how you interpret your blorbo yknow???#been rotating this man in my head for 25 years and Mr Toriyama just mWAH kissed me on the forehead about it#anyway enough tag rambles I'm off again aklsjla#bonus for that kenpachi shit and letting him say 'sorry dude I can't be cold and numb anymore but this is still cathartic as fuck lol' like#mr t i hope you see the HIGHEST tier of heaven for that (and obviously for like everything all of it the whole life you led)#dbtag
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audhdgoku · 9 months ago
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I'm Sure This Has Been Done Already But W/e
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collecting-dustbunnies · 8 months ago
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Obey Me Nightbringer Theory Time: MC is an Unreliable Narrator
Part 1: MC is an Unreliable Narrator | Part 2: A Clash of Ideals
What if the MC knows more than they are letting on? What if the MC's motives is different from ours, as the player?
(Disclaimer: Long post. Different from my meme content. Contains spoilers for all of NB and OG content. Also I may wake up tomorrow and cringe at this, but hopefully you can enjoy my delirium?)
OG = Obey Me Original
NB = Obey Me Nightbringer
It all starts from the beginning
We can see traces of this from when we first launch the game, with MC's first text messages with Nightbringer. And I'm not talking about the messages that we saw when the game first launched, but the new re-write of those same messages. You can compare the differences between the old texts and the new texts on @impish-ivy 's post here (thank you for allowing me to discuss it here). I'll include some of their screenshots as reference.
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Let's take a look at the new version of the text exchange. Now, I don't know about you, but I have no idea what Nightbringer is talking about. But Sheep-chan apparently does! If MC answers that they think they understand what he's talking about, they get to keep their memories when they get sent to the past. But if MC says they don't have a clue? The game assumes that they have lost their memories. This seems like a strong indicator that MC knows something that we, as the player, do not know about Nightbringer and their powers. This exchange is very different from how things played out in the original version of these text messages where:
Yes I know them. Really well, actually = MC has their memories.
I don't know who they are = MC has no memories.
[The official reason for this change was "to make the game more enjoyable for new players", but I don't buy that. In the original version, it was quite clear which option you had to pick to signal to the game that you have not played OG. While in this version, it's way more convoluted, since the player will have no idea what Nightbringer is actually talking about. It just causes people who have played OG to accidentally signal to the game that they haven't. Why change the text to be even more confusing, when the original version would have sufficed for newer players?]
Now let's follow this line of thought for a moment. Nightbringer states that the MC has received "a second chance at a fated meeting", and MC has to answer that they think they know what this means if they want to keep their memories during the time jump. If they don't, then Nightbringer assumes that they have lost their memories.
Which leads me to believe that Sheep-chan is not entirely an innocent victim who was unwittingly sent to the past. Instead, they were a willing participant of the time jump. Maybe they have some understanding on how Nightbringer's powers worked and wanted to meet the brothers again. Maybe they too were curious to see what their ideal world looked like. With this idea in mind, let's re-evaluate everything MC has said and done in NB.
MC's interactions with Nightbringer (and Michael, I guess)
After the intro, the next time MC directly interacts with Nightbringer is in Lesson 12 of NB, where they get sent into a coma after breaking the rules at the Fountain of Knowledge. Let's look at what he says here for a moment.
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The first thing Nightbringer asks MC is what they think of this world, a rather unusual thing to ask someone who is kinda sorta dying. If MC says they want to go home, Nightbringer expresses some confusion as to whether the brothers of this world are not to MC's liking. It makes sense for him to be confused here, since he sent MC to this timeline under the impression that they would like this world (or at least, view this world as a stepping stone to reach their "place of joy").
(Then again, if MC responds that they are enjoying this world, Nightbringer is even more perplexed that they can remain upbeat in such a precarious situation. But knowing what canon Sheep-chan is like, why is this surprising?)
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After this, he explains that his motive is to lead MC to a place that will "bring [them] joy like no other". This fits what he had said in the beginning of the game:
"Shall I take you someplace you will be happy? Somewhere that will bring you more joy than any other."
"A world you desire, and where you will be desired."
- Nightbringer, intro text message
He then goes on to emphasise that both he and MC want the same thing. He comments on how MC has done a splendid job getting closer to Lucifer and his brothers. This is where I feel that Nightbringer was never MC's enemy, as both parties have similar goals, and they need each other to some extent. MC needed Nightbringer and other mysterious forces to set the gears in motion so that MC can become closer to the brothers, forge pacts with them, and reach their "ideal" world. Nightbringer wants to bring MC to this place of happiness, and he sees MC forming pacts with the brothers as the way to get there. In this case, Nightbringer is a co-conspirator here.
This idea then gets brought up again when MC sees Michael in Lesson 13, when he saves MC from their coma. He warns MC that the Celestial Realm would be less willing to tolerate their behaviour if they ally themselves with Nightbringer (which, is exactly what MC has been doing so far). Is Michael afraid of the MC trying to forge their ideal world together with Nightbringer? Or is he afraid that MC is getting tricked by Nightbringer?
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This also explains why Nightbringer never interacted with MC again after this incident. Everything MC had done in NB was what Nightbringer had wanted as well. Nightbringer didn't need to intervene because everything was going according to his plan.
Comparison of MC's actions in OG vs NB
When we consider the fact that MC may have actually wanted to go back to the past and meet the brothers again, a lot of their actions (and even their inaction) makes more sense. When Solomon tells them they need to make the pacts to get back to their own time, MC is in no rush to obtain these pacts. In fact, they don't even think about making those pacts until Season 2 when they are faced with an ultimatum to make those pacts, which is, they have to forge the pacts before MC and Solomon lose their connection to their original time. This is different from the usual behaviour in OG, where they were extremely motivated to make a pact with every brother from Beelzebub -> Asmo -> Satan and employed help from multiple people to acheive this goal. They even took the initiative to ask Lucifer for a pact on the day before they left the Devildom, when they had no reason to do so.
This is very different from how Season 2 of NB played out, as MC simply waited around until each brother went beserk (in the case of Mammon, Asmo and Satan) before they even thought about proposing the pact. In Lucifer's case, even though MC (after much prompting) spoke up about needing to go back to their home, it was Mephistopheles advocating for MC that ultimately convinced Lucifer to let MC go. And later on, MC remained on the sidelines and let the other characters take the reign in rescuing Lucifer from Cocytus. Compared to the original game, where MC takes on a more active role in forming their pacts, MC is more passive in Nightbringer, simply biding their time until the opportunity to make a pact falls onto their lap. Is this how somebody who desperately misses their home and wants to go back ASAP would act?
Regardless of how you choose to play the MC as, they always express some hesitation in leaving behind the brothers of the past. No matter how many times you try to make the MC say they want to go back home ASAP, Lucifer will gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss MC into admitting that they do not want to leave. Simeon in Lesson 35 of NB even reaffirms this by saying "I'm sure you really feel that way deep down inside. Even if you don't realise it". Bruh.
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But why? MC should know that their home is with the boys of the present timeline. Why has the MC never considered the repercussions of staying in a timeline that they don't belong in? Or even considered how Solomon could lose his powers for good because of MC's hesitance? Why had MC never once stopped to consider how the demon brothers they had left behind would feel about their absence? This shouldn't even be a dilemma.
Unless... this past was the place they wanted to end up in the first place. That, like Nightbringer had said, this place will bring them joy like no other.
As an aside: One of the few insights we get about Sheep-chan's inner thoughts is the nightmare they have about the brothers trapping them in the attic and preventing them from leaving (in Lesson 33 of NB). Which has horrific implications, considering the attic still did not exist at this point of time. Was Belphegor's imprisonment and the Lesson 16 incident so traumatic for MC that the attic is the place that they associate with imprisonment?
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Note how some of the brothers keep suggesting that THIS is the outcome that the MC really wants. But this also provides another possible reason for the MC's hesitation to leave: The fear of how the brothers' of the past would react. The fear of brothers turning against them, despite everything MC had done to protect them. Speaking of what MC had done to protect them...
MC forging their place in the past Devildom
MC hasn't taken active measures to forge their pacts to return home, but you know what they have shown to be more interested in? Asserting their place in the Devildom of the past, and spending time with the past version of the brothers.
The best example of this is Lesson 11 of NB, where the MC hesitates to promise to Solomon to protect humanity, but with no hesitation, promises to take care of the brothers even with full knowledge that they would be punished for doing this. If we remember Lesson 35 of OG where MC, Solomon and the demon brothers went to the reaper's cave to break Beel's curse, Solomon was surprised that the demon brothers' punishments for breaking the reaper's rules (turning into a Little D) were so mild. It was implied that without MC unconsciously protecting them with their magic, the brothers could have died or been wiped out from existence upon breaking the rules.
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A weakened MC of the past who retains their memories of this incident in the reaper's cave would know just how severe the backlash would be if they make promises in the cave. But this did not stop them from doing so anyway. This shows where MC's allegiance truly lies: Not with humanity, not with any mysterious forces at play, but with the demon brothers. It's hard to tell what the MC hopes to get out of making such a dangerous promise.
The most optimistic take is that they felt forced to prove their loyalty to Lucifer and his family by taking such a drastic action. After all, MC is used to sacrificing their life for the people they love. Throwing themselves at death is nothing new to them.
The most cynical take would be that this bold decision was actually a calculated move by the MC to assert their importance and their role in the demon lords' lives. To show just how bad things can get without them. To guilt-trip Lucifer and Belphegor who had doubted the MC's allegiance, so that they never doubt MC again.
Regardless of their motivation, the MC's actions showed that they are inseparable from Lucifer's family, and this incident served to further cement the MC's importance to them. This allowed MC to strengthen their bonds with the brothers once again. So that they can create a world they desire, and they will be desired.
Putting this all together
Obey Me: Nightbringer paints the image of a MC being ripped from their home and being thrust into an unfamiliar world. Yet, the MC's actions in NB tell a different story. It shows us that Nightbringer is turning the gears so that MC can go to a place surrounded by people that they love, and who will love them no matter what. Because it wouldn't be enough if the characters of the present were hopelessly in love with them, but the characters of the past should also feel the same way. Even if that is a world the MC does not belong in.
All I'm saying is, Sheep-chan is sus as heck.
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collecting-dustbunnies · 8 months ago
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No, no, it's not even that the demons don't want to serve you. It's that, for some reason, the MC DOESN'T WANT DEMONS TO SERVE THEM (with the exception of life-threatening situations and that overused "stay" gag).
Like, this is false advertising, I came here to make demons my bitch.
Obey Me advertising a BDSM sounding premise of being the master of these powerful demons and then you like..... never actually get to be their master or give them orders of have them serve you in any way is so lame lol
where are the boys who are eager to be ordered around i hate this weird tsundere reluctance/having to literally force them with the pacts where's the enthusiastic participation
really feels like primarily male writers who have that shallow straight-dude understanding of domming and think it's all about brute force and raw power and they don't understand the whole appeal of femdom (MC was initially written with a female audience in mind even if they use gender neutral pronouns) is the thrill of something powerful like a demon WANTING to serve you ENTHUSIASTICALLY and WILLINGLY
where's Mammon carrying his tired master to a bath he drew for them after a long day where's Lucifer kneeling down to lace their heels for them and pressing a kiss to their leg when he's done what about Beelzebub flustering as they pluck food off his plate without asking because he'd be enraged with anyone else but he's weirdly turned on knowing he's providing for them and they're taking it from him like it's just what they expect from him
there's such a weird lack of dom content in a game that advertises itself in such a kinky way
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danthepest · 4 months ago
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Videl's inclusion and integration into the Dragon Team is such a missed opportunity for fun interpersonal dynamics and interactions, what with Toriyama seemingly unable to decide where he wanted the story to go until Boo and Majin Vegeta basically derailed the entire thing.
One moment I keep imagining and can't get out of my head is everyone telling her stories of their adventures, how they met, how they were all kind of awful people when they were young and so on. Yet everyone has more than one moment where they displayed immense courage, loyalty, friendship, honor, selflessness etc.
But then they get to Vegeta. Everyone's kind of used to him now but once they try to think of any positives for the guy, they stop dead in their tracks. Pretend Boo and Majin Vegeta don't happen in this scenario yet. Or at all. Whatever floats your boat.
So they try to downplay how much of a scumbag he was or how he never really earned his place with the group or worked off his bad karma like the others did.
So they try to spin a "he helped when needed" tale more for Bulma's sake than anyone else's.
Piccolo ends up being the only one who tells her like it is and forces Gohan and Krilling to tell her the whole truth regarding Vegeta and what he was/is like.
So the three of them tell her everything. All the horrible stuff he did even when fighting on their side. Videl looks horrified at Bulma and Gohan, asking her how she could boink him and how Gohan can tolerate him after what he put him through.
"Eh, he's alright." he says.
Videl goes home and lays awake in bed in a state of a semi mental breakdown and existential crisis, wondering just what kind of insane group of people she's dealing with.
Bandits, would-be assassins, space pirates, alien demons, shapeshifting animals, fearsome castle lords, cyborgs made by a cooky old geezer from a long gone terrorist army, CEO of Capsule Corp who at 16 shot a 12 your old monkey boy in the head with a pistol with no hesitation, bizarre cat deities that live with lazy fat ronin and perverted martial arts hermits who taught math to his students as part of their training.
On top of learning that there was a literal space Hitler zipping around the galaxy, wiping out entire solar systems and was this close to wiping out Earth if not for a time traveling half alien, half human hybrid.
It's a lot to process and she can't even talk to her dad about it because he's still in denial over what he saw in the old tournaments and during the Cell Games.
Then she learns that the Tournament Announcer is a bit in-the-know and goes to him for information only to find that all he knows is what he witnessed at the tournaments and his knowledge of old martial artists. Then he gives her a history lesson on martial artists like King Chappa, Namu, Giran, Bacterian, the Wolf Man and so on. He helps her deal with all the weird and bizarre shit of the world that she was frighteningly ignorant of.
But will forever have a hard time feeling safe with Vegeta around
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sundove88 · 4 months ago
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A Quick Dragon Ball Super Headcanon:
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After the events of the Universal Survival Saga, Beerus and Whis decided to tell the other Gods of Destruction and their Angel attendants the following:
“Go to the earth in your universe or in Universe 7. There, you will find the most delicious thing you’ll ever taste in your life!”
And so they do… and end up in a food coma by the end of the day. Maybe even gain a few pounds or two.
@artisticangel
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waytootiredstudent · 20 days ago
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I was supposed to be home at midnight. I was supposed to be home at midnight. I was supposed to be home at midnight. I was supposed to be home at midnight.
(Currently living the full Deutsche Bahn experience)
(Meaning one stop. One. Stop. Before my stop. Six minutes before we arrived at said stop. They suddenly. Just. Said. "nah not today. Train ends here now.") (No explanation given)(Just a "Informationdesk is open until midnight)
(Currently sitting in a random bus that doesn't even go to my destination. But the only way to get close to my home. So. I'm driving in a random bus that has no signs. To a town. That isn't mine. For like. An hour. Just to go another hour. From the town I don't want to be in. To my town.)
I was supposed to be home at midnight. I was supposed to be home at midnight. I was supposed to be home at midnight. I was supposed to be home at midnight.
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