#gerard kaey

[moominmammaonheroin]

Hi guys. MORE Jonathan Sims because he’s probably the best character ever written tbh

[the-lantern-lights]

Tried to post this yesterday it wouldn’t work 😭

Still only have the energy for some collaborative casual drawing sessions and one of my buddies asked for Gerry so here’s the design I came up with :)

[suniihun]

The distortion is so real in doorkeay fics bc I might be a monster that is incomprehensible but, I too, am folding for the emo guy with tattoos

[monarch-of-weird-girlboy-nation]

Micheal Shelly was Catholic and I know this because he told me himself and also because he gives off Catholic vibes yknow? I went to a Catholic primary school I promise I know this stuff. Micheal was Catholic and Gerard uses Catholic imagery in a goth way and so is very interested by this.

[world-fire-entity]

Istg, Jonny and Alexander J Newall are enough of little bastards to see all the people wanting Tim and Michael and Sasha and—

THEN ONLY BRING BACK F***IN JURGEN LEIGHTNER

Book eating selfish inane ponce of an arse Jurgan Leightner

Garbage disposal of a man with a 14 year olds keen obsession with Slenderman Jurrgen leightner

Capricious son of a decimal point of a percentage JURGEN leightner

AND THEN MAKE HIM AN UNCLE FIGURE TO GERARD KARY CUZ IT’D BE FUNNY

[gorfunkled]

trying to get into the habit of posting more than just fully finished pieces </3

[eclipseydipsey]

I visibly gave up on the nose but no master has fallen from the sky so here ee go Gerry

[doodldoot]

Some tma buttons for my artist circle :] (@muismomentje on insta)

Coming to my etsy in April!

[ceaselessims]

my favorite thing about doorkaey as a ship is that it continues the honored fandom tradition of shipping characters that likely never met

[statementlives]

i can't imagine gerard the encyclopedia kaey being oblivious in any universe so i'm choosing to think he might be taking the mike crew approach,,, waiting until sam pushes and then going well. for the record i tried really hard to be polite and normal but if you insist, here are the h o r r o r s

[moominmammaonheroin]

I’ve been so busy my brain is pushing TMA out of relevancy and replacing it with real life important things help me

[murderandcoffee]

hey so uh. has anyone else noticed that there's a kid on the magnus institute list whose name is connor dyer. and who was born october 3 1989.

like. alice is trans. she and sam went to uni together, which means they'd have to be born within 4 years of one another. sam was born october 16 1990--just over a year after connor dyer. well within that 4 year period.

alice acted like the magnus institute was unfamiliar to her, but she has been discouraging sam from looking into it, or any of the other cases.

so... is it possible that pre-transition alice was one of the magnus institute's test subject kids, alongside sam and gerry?

just a thought

[its-your-mind]

11 year old Gerry Kaey - a psychological analysis

[ID: screenshot from a spreadsheet of two columns and two rows. The first column is labeled “First Name,” with “Gerard” listed below it. The second column is labeled “Last Name,” with “Kaey” listed below it. End ID]

Like everyone else, I was of course delighted by the presence of our beloved arsonist on our list of child test-subjects at the World Line 2 Magnus Institute (not delighted that he was having unethical psychology experiments performed on him, delighted by his presence. though it’s possible that this was actually a better childhood than he had with Mary. but I digress.)

(Data set can be found here, if anyone else wants to make a copy and play with it, and this post has my fave analysis of the sheet itself)

The data for Gerard Kaey was absolutely delightful, and it indicated more than almost anything else that some people were in fact the same (or very similar) across world lines. I was going to post about it and then I remembered that not everyone was forced to take a slightly outdated Educational Psychology class recently, and thus the random names at the top would not be indicators of fuckin anything without extensive Googling.

I figured trolling the internet for details on outdated developmental psychology theories and unethical sociology experiments is not most people’s idea of a fun afternoon (tho in the magnus fandom you never know); either way I figured I’d pull out the fun and interesting data on this goth child and translate it into human terms for us all to enjoy.

(QUICK NOTE: Pretty much all of these theories are outdated on account of being No Good and quite reductive and many of the experiments are EXTREMELY fucked up (all of which makes sense, given where these fictional data came from). If you’re curious about any of the actual psychological theories and criticisms, here’s a relatively jargon free summary, with further reading at the bottom. I’m gonna follow the time-honored tradition of psychology professors and say “well it sucks and was bad that this happened BUT it did happen and we might as well use the data to come to some general conclusions and/or ask better questions, especially about the people performing those tests in the first place.” anyway ty for coming to my TED talk ONTO THE GERRY DATA)

[ID: screenshot from a spreadsheet of three columns and two rows. The first column is labeled “Kholberg,” with “Level 3” listed below it. The second column is labeled “Prosocial,” with “High” listed below it. The third column is labeled “Empathy Index,” with “95%” listed below it. End ID]

Let’s start here.

Kholberg’s Theory of Moral Development is a metric for measuring the moral development in children. It has three stages. A child who has reached the “third stage” demonstrates a consideration of the needs and feelings of others when making morality-based decisions and judgements, even above the norms and expectations of society.

Prosocial behavior is behavior that can be characterized as having no direct benefit to the person performing an action; something done entirely for the good of others.

Empathy Index is pretty self-explanatory (as far as I can tell, it’s not actually based on anything and is something the researchers created just for this experiment).

So far, we’ve got a rough picture of Gerry as a kid who has a strong moral compass, who is quick to help, even when there’s no benefit for himself. Who considers what the people around him might want or need. Who is able to throw social expectation out the window when someone else is in need.

Reminds me of that older, slightly different version of himself, sitting alone at a table in Venice, wearing a Hawaiian shirt because he’s “on vacation,” sighing in exasperation at the interruption and telling a stranger to think of her mother.

[ID: screenshot from a spreadsheet of two columns and two rows. The first column is labeled “Milgram,” with “Low” listed below it. The second column is labeled “Asch,” with “Low” listed below it. End ID]

These are my favorite rows. They’re all the way at the end of the spreadsheet, which kind of makes me imagine that the testers had this image of a highly developed child, a kid who seemed perfect for whatever they had planned. And then…

Milgram was the motherfucker who ran the experiment where people were told to press a button, and when they did, another participant was delivered an electric shock. (there wasn’t actually a shock in Milgram’s experiment, just an actor pretending to be shocked. The socks were fake, but the psychological damage was real!) The test was designed to measure how long people would continue to do what they were told by the “scientist” running the test, even as the electric shock appeared to grow stronger. A “low” score is indicative of someone who bailed out ASAP, no matter what the test-runner said.

The Asch Conformity Experiment put a large number of people in the room (most of whom were actors) and showed them a series of images of lines with different lengths, and they had to identify which was longest. The actors all gave the correct answer for the first few, and then all of them started to give the exact same wrong answer (i.e. all of them would say B, even if Line A was clearly longest). The test measured how likely a subject was to conform to the group opinion, even when they knew the people around them were objectively wrong, if they were the only one offering a different (but correct) answer over the course of several rounds of images.

I have this super clear image of little Gerry in a ratty pair of jeans and a band t-shirt, long hair absolutely unbrushed, walking into a room with a dude in a lab coat and someone else strapped to a chair and IMMEDIATELY getting suspicious, and just refusing to press the button again once he realized what it did, leaving the actors just… lost as to how to proceed. And then with the Asch test, he’s just sitting there with a look of incredulity on his face looking at the people around him and saying “do you people need fucking glasses all of a sudden? it’s not fucking B.” and just ignoring them for the rest of the test.

and all of the Magnus people who had been VERY excited about this promising young person all of a sudden realizing that they have accidentally recruited a VERY intelligent juvenile delinquent.

so there you have it! World Line 2 Gerry Kaey was kind when he didn’t have to be, he didn’t give a shit how other people felt about him, he cared deeply for other people, UNLESS of course they were people in authority, in which case he told them to go fuck themselves.

*dreamy sigh* that’ll be our Gerard

final fun notes:

Gerry has the second highest number on the Empathy Index at 95%

The only kid who beat him, with a score of 98%, was 9 year old “Samara Khalid”

10 year old “Conner Dyer” scored “Low” on the Milgram and Asch tests JUST like Gerry. I wonder if they were friends.

Other than that, Dyer is almost exactly average among the rest of the data

Khalid scored “High” on both Milgram and Asch

Wonder how that’s gonna affect things 👀👀👀 high empathy, high value on what other people think

Sam thats so autistic of you I love u

Khalid was also on “Level 3” of Kholberg and had “High” levels of Prosocial behavior, despite being only 9 (super young to have the abstract thinking necessary for that)

[mechanical-v1scera]

TmagP Gerry but his hair dye is actually perfect this time because Gertrude was goth at one point and helped him.

[suniihun]

doorkeay au where everything is fine and dandy. they meet in a little shop and fall head over heels for eachother. think about gerard finding out michael works at the archives and slowly helping him figure out maybe they aren't the best people!!! think about them getting together to find books and get rid of them. think about them getting a little apartment together and getting a cat with each other. (they r also t4t)

[astervoidtheartist]

"if I touch a burning candle I can feel no pain 🎶"

drew some gerry stuff. also, I just HAD to draw him in elsa's dress. Don't ask why but when I see a goth grown man I have the urge to make him sing "Let It Go". It's just so out of character but also so in character at the same time.

I JUST REALIZED I SPELT HIS NAME WRONG IM SORRY IM DISLEXIC OR SOMETHING (I think I spelt it wrong? wait maybe I didn't. I dunno)