#dhmis theories and thoughts

[elliotbug]

Ok maybe red guy wasn't living directly in yellow guy's house but perhaps he was a neighbour, that used to spend quite a lot of time with the Gribblestones. I thought about him driving into the lake because he seems really happy/comfortable while driving, but it's just a thought, but yeah deffinitely a suicide.

Those theories are a lot of fun but when you look at dhmis as a whole experience and from a diffrent perspective, the "theory" that makes the most sense is that the creators are just making shitpost from their personal life with a bit of actual story telling. Just look at their older art and you can see bits&parts that made their way into dhmis and I think that's wonderfull. The whole show can be read as experience for the viewer, a great art performance to get our imaginations up and running.

A lot of people tend to forget that the whole purpose of any form of art is to be interpreted in endless ways, it means something else to everyone. That"s the one thing that seperates a simple object(with given meaning and purpose) from a work of art. The ability to look at something and see it in diffrent way everytime you gaze upon it.

Okay so been rewatching dhmis again as I should be in my free time.

And I think red guy represents yellow guys shy older brother before the house/car thing happened. This one is just a hunch based off of the end of episode 3 where red calls yellow "brother" And just his general vibes.

Also, red guy being the oldest child in an abusive household makes sense to me. Red guy sees what's happening with the family dynamic turning them against each other while also forcing them together I. Repeating conflicts with no escape is kind of relatable with that. Maybe I'm just pprojecting.

Makes Lesley's line about them always returning back home in the end very extra fucked up.

Roy is the abusive father clearly. And Lesley is the micromanaging mom. I don't know if she is also abusive or just enables Roy but she's definitely complacent. The doll house thing, the deciding what they learn and how they act, the whole making the family into a production funded by asshole Roy is something a mom in denial of how awful her life is would do.

Not that I've seen it in action.

Duck is definitely the dog mashed together with an older relative probably a grandfather. In the second episode the lamp mentions how sometimes people believe that people get reincarnated as their favorite animal, the grandfather could have loved the family pet a lot. I am hypothesizing the existence of a grandfather due to all the references to a military past for duck and how he's always in a rocking chair. We also always see duck as the one who is constantly being replaced which is common for pets especially for the ones of small children.

Yellow guy being a representation for Lesley's dead son is the one that makes the most sense to me based off the evidence. If you have a better theory please present evidence and talk me up.

I noticed that the agreed upon symbols that are the characters each have a stylized drawing of each of them included in the squiggles and I think that's pretty cool.

Red guy is yellow guys brother is probably adopted.

Roy is probably neglectful if not abusive and I think he was taking care of duck as a pet when he died of dehydration/"forgetting" to drink water. Grolton kinda looks like roy and grolton refused to give hovris any water in episode 4 when he needs to get to his dental appointment for his gum disease, which we also see Roy in disguise with absolutely terrible gums.

I need to go through everything grolton and hovris appearance to figure out any possible theory clues.

If it's not clear I'm dumping things here

I don't know if I put this idea on tumblr but Lesley was probably drunk when she ran over her son. Actually I think I did put it here. Anyway I think she probably started drinking because of either grief of grandpa dying, grief from her first son drowning, or just self medicating from Roy's bull shit.

Maybe red guy is an uncle.

I stopped watching the episodes and started watching bo Burnham and the theories are fading.

Fuck

Yeah I guess I'm done for now

Bye

[dhmis-tinhatter]

“yellow guy is a kid” “yellow guy is an adult” yellow guy is a young adult who is intentionally kept in a child-like state (by denying him new batteries) in order to make him easier to control

[rolex-kaard]

okay here

(wingdings read: "HA HA HA HA" "BECAUSE IT'S SO FUNNY!" "YOU STILL CAN'T SEE THE FUNNY SIDE.")

[the-last-quest]

Thinking about my dhmis au and how it’s kinda ironically twisted for the main trio

(Kinda spoilers for the au???)

Shadow is able to be a brother again.

The ending though is always the same. No matter how hard he tries to save Tails, no matter if, for just one day, he able to stop a teacher it doesn’t matter. Eventually he’ll make a mistake, he’ll be too slow, too weak, and once again he will have to watch his sibling die in front of him. While he can do absolutely nothing to stop it. He tries so hard, so many failed attempts, until he can’t anymore. Sure whenever Tails dies he feels an ache in his heart, that’s one reaction that’ll never go away, but now he doesn’t try to stop it. He tells himself that he doesn’t care, that it’s always meant to end like this. No matter what he does it’ll always end in death.

Tails is able to be a child.

It’s not by choice though. The way he was recreated, running on a pair of batteries that were never meant to be replaced, would always lead to this. No matter how much of his intelligence was a part of him, without the strong flow of electricity, as the batteries died , it wasn’t a surprise that it was one of the first things to drain. Sure maybe he’s happier now, he doesn’t have the pressure to find an escape (if there even is one), but at what cost? Was it worth the process where he had to accept that he was losing himself? When he felt himself slip away pice by piece until there’s only a little bit left?

Sonic is able to see his friend and brother alive again.

Though is this fate better than death? Forcing them to relive the same fate over and over? It’s not like he can even reach them. He can only watch. Well that’s not completely true. It’s his job to make things better at the end of the day. To fix them up and restart the day. The figures though are not the same as the bikes he wanted to bring back though. There’s differences that he made that Sonic didn’t agree with. But even though they’re different, even though what he puts them through is something Sonic wishes he can stop, he can’t bring himself to admit that. He can’t lose them again, can’t lose them forever. So he keeps them “alive”.

[persy-r-bozo]

DHMIS- The Yappining! 2/6 - Yellow

i diddnt know who to fully start with! so i decided yellow was my first victim.

Yellow is a very interesting character. he tends to play into the "Dumb yet sweet" character trope. but the steady reveal that this cannot be farther from the truth is amazing.

I feel him and his reflection could mean alot of things. and i believe it does. a part of me thought it could resemble the two sad sides of neurodivergent Youth. "The gifted" and "The trouble maker" gifted kids tend to be given to much pressure to succeed and troubled ones are ignored or just pushed aside.

i don't think the car killed him, just hurt inside and out. Causing a drift within an already possibly drifting family. (Perhaps this switch disappointed some. or made others go mad.) I think the gravestone and mirror could simply mean that version of him is dead. someone who cant be brought back. He's still the same, just not the way others might have wanted him to be.

The batteries could be a metaphor for meds. or hell he could be a cyborg. I mean his dad made a computer that just spawned bitches so i wouldn't put it past him.

the show or the world their stuck within tried to paint yellow stupidly. However he is quite emotionally intelligent. the world tries to paint him as useless but he isn't. I like the idea that yellow can read people very well. he can understand them in ways that make him super helpful, however he has issues with words and thought, often stumbling over himself.

his kindness and optimism is both a blessing and a curse. it makes him easy to control, but it also makes him a sense of stability and comfort.

he is such an interesting character!. a melancholy character. a sunshine behind a cloud. from a blind and innocent lad within the web series to a more dependable one later on. he has much to overcome, we can only hope he may.

But lets get into the-

-RELATIONSHIP VIEWS-

Red: Yellow and red are a very interesting pair. i feel as though yellow likes red. but he can read him, probably better than red can even read himself. Yellow can sense he is a ticking time bomb. that despite his quiet, he is breaking. so yellow is distant, keeping himself always a few steps away, just in case. He trusts red, its hard not to feel a little protected with a big fellow around. but yellow can just sense it. that red could snap, and that trust might break too.

Duck: THATS HIS RIDE OR DIE RIGHT THERE!. his ride or die! yellow loves duck, and feels a sense of comfort from him i think. I like to believe that duck might have even been a non related uncle of sorts. the brain fog may persist but you never forget that one guy whose never related to yall but still shows up. They are chaotic and i love them. while yellow can read people very well but cannot speak very well. Duck cannot read people for shit BUT BOY, IS HE LOUD N PROUD. They are two puzzle pieces together. pure chaotic opposites. This may cause big fights between the two but oddly enough i feel there's potential for the two to work really well together too. What im saying is PLEASE PLEASE IF WE GET ANOTHER SEASION I WANT TO SEE DUCK AND YELLOW HAVE THIER OWN ADVENTURE AND ITS CHAOTIC AND MESSY AND FUNNY AS FUCK PLEASE!!-

Roy: Roy is more sad. yellow loves him, yet that love is not mutual. and if it was it wasn't true families love, as it never stayed. Yellow flinches when Roy shows up in family. Yet he still wants to believe he came for him. Maybe yellow will realize this. that even though he loves him, He's not a good puppet person.

Lesley: This is interesting. If we are to believe she is his mother. he surely doesn't remember her. He Seems uncomfortable within her presence and skittish. But he stays and tries to be sweet. Maybe the reason he seems so skittish around her is because she might be the only creature he cant read that well. She's a mystery, her minds a mystery her everything is an enigma. Even to him. I don't think he remembers her at all. But one things for sure, even in the face of the unknown my boy aint rude.

EXTRA YAP JUST FOR YOU GUYS <3 !!!!!!!!!!

Yellow and clayhill-

Even though clay hill issnt cannon in the slightest and is played as a joke for all the older fans and the creators themselves IM A FREAKAZOID OK? IM INSANE! (i made a small headcannon weird thingy about yellow guy and clayhill to fit clayhill and its "Inexistence" into the series.) BEACUSE IM A MAD MAN OK!!?

I thought of the idea of clayhill being yellows little fanfiction (Babes first fanfiction!! he's following in the footsteps of his eldritch world building parents / guardians!!! <3 ) Yellow used it as a way to vent his little brain foggy daja vu head away.

Ill go though what i remeber clayhills plot line to be. Key thing is remember because I live in the US and i learned off of word of mouth mostly.

Its yellows ideal situation. hes with the other two. they are safe in a town with neighbors and people who love them and see them. Red is calmer, duck is more joyous. its yellows birthday today!. But a mean key comes to life and the mayor is missing.

Duck follows the key and is manipulated and hurt by steave. Yellows venting his frustrations with ducks blind following of the world even though it hurts him. but he understands, its because some of the objects are just so mean. Red runs away, Yellows venting his fears or daja vu like feeling that red will run away. leaving him all alone. He understands it might be for the greater good (finding the mayor) but he is still scared.

Yellow on the other hand, Gets a make over, he outsmarts an object. he finds a way to rescue duck and find red. to save the entire town and have his birthday party at home!. and i believe someone said the age on his badge changed from 38 to 48?

well if it did that might be yellow wishing to be older. Thinking if he was older he could control more things, talk better. Help more often. So in this world. everyday his is birthday, everyday he gets older. everyday he is seen and in control.

But This level of escapism doesn't really work for Lesley/Roy. so whenever they can they remind him that clay hill isn't real. it never was. and it never will be.

[repugnantbeast]

Started color this last night after I drank vodka mixed with monster energy :)

[eekepee]

Morse code in the Donthugme.I’m.scared ‘About Me’

Since most people have probably already seen this channel and watched all of DHMIS. Then you’d probably know about the channel (I wouldn’t be surprised if people have already figured this one out) from what I’ve heard this was don’t hug me I’m scared ‘s official page, according to a video I saw on YouTube, but this could very well be some random person’s channel who reuploaded something in the style of DHMIS.

As you can see, the channel only has one video, and it has really nothing to do with don’t hug me I’m scared, it might not contribute to the plot all that much from what I’ve seen so far, it’s really just about a crew of people trying to figure out how to make a rhyming song about cpr, the song is at the end and all in all it’s a pretty off-topic video from DHMIS, besides from the fact that these people could very well be the people who made all the songs in DHMIS, because some songs in DHMIS rhyme, like ‘time’

But, if you take a closer look at the channel, you’ll see that the ‘about this channel’ portion of it, looks like nonsense, although I have been learning Morse code (along with German) and could tell that this was in fact Morse code,

I had put this aside and forgot about it for 2 months but I’m getting back to it now that it’s June! It had thrown me off at first with the use of . Instead of • but it also contained / which I hadn’t used when writing or typing Morse code, I had put it inside of a translator but it didn’t go through and the words were scrambled and didn’t make sense, it was something that might’ve had to do with the ––..–– at the end of some of them, because there is no letter in Morse code that has “dah dah di dit dah dah / ––..––“

I did translate it, but the word “beginning” was actually misspelt and was spelt as “begging” and if it was begging it wouldn’t have made sense so I present to you, the translated version of the Morse code in the YouTube channel of donthugme.Im.scared

"This Was Only The Beginning, more is to come, be prepared, be scared"

It is believable that this is an old message and was related to the new episodes that had come out recently, and has not been updated since then, but it could mean that ‘electricity’ was not the end of the series and there genuinely is more to come, I had heard from my brother that companies like Hulu, Netflix, and adult swim, are trying to buy the series, he never said not to quote him, and I hadn’t seen anything that said they weren’t, but I do hope that we do in fact get new episodes,

And maybe don’t get rid of mean Steve?

[gnomeniche]

Any thoughts on Ducks voice always being at least a little bit autotuned? It's like that all throughout the web series. The tv show gave him a less processed, normal voice but then the autotune comes back it "electricity". I thought it was kinda fascinating.

duck’s autotune fascinates and vexes me! i do have non-diegetic opinions and it’s that i think it was a good choice to take it away for most of the tv series. i personally like his voice without it and i could see it being distracting. but that then means it was Very Intentional to have it come back in “electricity.”

(whoa this got long!)

i think i saw someone note once that the autotune only returns once he gets electrocuted while playing the guitar during the song? and i think that’s correct. but i HAVE also noticed that it disappears during the blackout, which is when all the other artifices of the show-world kind of shut off as well. listening as hard as i can, i cannot hear it during any of his dialogue in those sections (including the fridge scene bc i know some of you are wondering).

i saw someone else note earlier that it sounds like he has the autotune when he’s trying to take yellow’s batteries. i would need to go back and confirm for myself, but if that’s so, then it means he’s missing it throughout the blackout but it returns once the light and music come back in. it seems to me like the autotune might, at least in the tv series, represent him being subject to the artifice of the show. autotune does lend one’s voice a rather robotic tone, after all.

but in the tv series, it only becomes apparent when he’s supercharged with electricity, which creates… interesting implications. we know that yellow is powered by electricity, and the world is itself electric, as shown by the house dissolving and all of the characters save the students shutting down or malfunctioning without power. and my favorite theory about the three students’ true natures is that, though they have seemingly gained their own sentience that is being repressed, they were all originally constructs of the world.

that might be a point in that theory’s favor; duck sounds more robotic when he’s filled with more electricity than normal, which has that effect on his voice bc he is already partially electric. and if we believe this, the fact that he, who clearly has a connection to electricity, can still function in the blackout is yet another point in favor of the theory. being able to function without electricity might represent how the personhood they’ve grown allows them to act without the world programming and determining their actions.

+ if you like to connect the webseries and the tv series like i do, you could even say that the webseries characters are at an earlier iteration of their selves, so they have yet to grow as much personhood as the tv characters, which is why he’s way more autotune-y there.

idk! this stopped being about Duck Alone but those are all the thoughts and theories i have relating to the possible significance of the autotune. thanks for the question! it was fun to hash all of this out and i hope this was interesting.

[tertain-the-original]

Hello everyone, I have gathered you here today for another Headcannon:

Lesley doesn’t like Yellow playing the trumpet. Yellow enjoyed playing it, he apparently got really good at it too! But maybe, Lesley wanted him to play the piano. To take after her. Which is why the coffin SILENCES yellow when he is playing the trumpet (despite him being really good). To me, the teachers are all somewhat of an extension of Lesley (at least the most recent ones). So yeah. She doesn’t like him playing the trumpet. Maybe she wanted him to play the piano. Who knows.

[eievuiisms]

local guy gets a free dollhouse from an antique shop, surely this can only lead to good things

[crowleys-right-eyeball]

i think we as a fandom don’t discuss “but this is our… where we are” enough

[emiplayzmc]

Hey anyone realize this in DHMIS?

In Episode 3, when Duck pulls out the pictures in his wallet, there's this picture here - does it not look kind of like Lesley (right - the haircut and the colourful jacket) and some random kid??

Has anyone else thought about if this is Lesley and possibly David, or is this a red herring that's been debunked at all?

[tallowandport]

I like to think that the whole theme of the dhmis tv show season 1 is actually going very off script and causing chaos behind the scenes.

in ep 1, in the job song, the 3 were actually MEANT to find the briefcase teacher pretty quickly and continue the song- but they didn’t find him so they were stuck in this song-created-scenario pocket-dimension. so time sorta warped ‘cause it’s not really built to exist for so long. and then that’s why the song immediately picked back up after they finally found the Teacher.

ep 2, they were actively tryiing to replace Duck with a new 3rd member ‘cause they don’t like him, but that just ended up not working.

ep 3, that apple was meant to be the days Teacher, but those twins butted in as an outside force. Maybe some sort of stalker situation? They discovered dhmis and decided to try and hijack it with their own butchered version and got far enough that The Council sent Roy in to “Take Care Of The Problem” as it were.

ep 4, I think maybe this ep almost went according to script, but the worm “eagle” ended up going off-script due to the threes actions and got emotionally compromised.

ep 5, Well, Red Guy quite clearly tried to break the 3 out of the whole thing, but as it’s said- “The Journey Always Ends Up Back At Home.”

ep 6, They were very much NOT meant to switch Yellow Guy and the Teachers batteries. And maybe Smart Yellow Guy and Lesley had some sort of plan to escape written in that book. But in the end everything’s reset to default.

But that’s ~JUST A THEORY~ And also probably not even close to the actual story it’s trying to tell- I just think it would be funny if they’re unknowingly causing havoc.

honestly, the real story prob has something to do with the Lamp Teachers “The Council” theory.

[bitchliteraria1906]

I really like these 3 silly puppets and the mentally ill woman who controls and torments them.

[persy-r-bozo]

My Dhmis Yapaplooza. 1/6 -"Basics"-

Im calling this the "Basics" even though within this fandom they arnt really basic are they? These are just my interpretations that slightly influence my viewing. The key word here is interpretations, i am fully aware and understanding that others saw these things differently. i am also understanding that these may be "Proven" wrong if the series is too continue. Though i doubt it as the creators seem to enjoy and push the idea that everyone views it differently.

all the main fellows will have their own posts were i yap on and on about my thoughts. but this post is the stuff that's more "augmentative" within the fandom. To be CLEAR i respect everyone's thoughts within this series even if i am the opposite of them.

Dispite these basics. I try my best to make my headcannons, interpretations and theory's "Flexible" Ex: I try to make Some of yellows interpretations non depended on his age. i find Headcannons and stuff like this to be like a potluck. Some folks may skip past, some my grab a piece but pick off the stuff they personally dislike. others may take three helpings.

"Basics"- TLDR these are more opinionated.

World: Puppet world, i don't believe they are humans. Personally i find humans a tad boring but to each their own. I think the idea of puppets living in a world but they act like normal folks is interesting, and what happens when you realize your skin is so fragile that it can become the walls?

Dead or alive?: I think the trio are Alive. once again i find the idea of them being dead or in a purgatory kinda boring. but once again to each their own.- This will be explained a tad more within other post

Ages: Yellow (web) -around 7-10 Yellow (Tv) however i believe him to be a teen around 13-17 (My boy grew!) perhaps even 18-19. Red and duck are about middle aged. duck is most likely a few years older.

Sexuality: i Think the three have issues with their identity's and all three are different. Red: (Gay: MLM) Closeted to an extreme degree. Duck:(Pan) Self homophobic. Yellow:(Aroace) Doesn't even know what "queer" is or that there even is another "Option".

Thats it so far! every post regrading the characters will have- How i saw their relationships-How their pasts might have been like- and how they might have even met. and of course their own actions and mind.

If you even read these, Thank you. And i hope we can talk and enjoy each others views and ideas. like were in an art gallery, or something or other.

The following image is the "Missing " image that is underneeth the first drawing

[vaugarde]

will never understand the idea that “stories that never give concrete answers and only serve to influence theories” inherently means that a story is lazy and cant commit/its only a cop out. like, sure it CAN be that sometimes but the idea of creating a piece of art that exists solely to drive the creativity and passion of people and create a community full of interpretation and discussion? that makes me feel soft