#hes so autism coded in the 1st season

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my autistic jonathan byers agenda...........

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Day 8 of the tristamp analysis marathon and jesus christ i am!!! really excited to do these now because people have been adding onto/being nice abt my stuff and that's super cool. Thank you again to @tristampparty for running this! I didn't manage to join in on the book club last year so it's nice to have a fun little event all the same

[But as for next book club,,,, well. I'm extremely transgender about trimax and would love to join in]

As always, spoilers for trigun stampede and trigun maximum! Also some CWs for Vash-typical passive suicidal tendencies and discussion of his psyche

So! Episode 8! I have.... mixed feelings, on how Tristamp portrays Knives. On one hand, I definitely think that we're being lead to believe that Vash has always been a peace-loving kid and that Knives has always had those tendencies, which would set up for season 2 to break that down. I hope.

The one thing I couldn't figure out, ofc, is the Knives not needing to eat thing - My friend millions-dykes theorized a black hole/white star dynamic a little while ago [as seen in the screenshot. I'm Organ, they are Nagito Malmonella]

aaaaaaaaanyway, we still get these little instances of knives just being a kid, and it's the funniest thing in the world to me. Vash is also apparently in tune with him enough to pick up on that and it's such twin behaviour.

There's also just a lot of cases of Knives smiling or being giggly around Rem, which,,,, he's such a mama's boy like we know this but it's so nice to have it reinforced. This theory of Knives having always been cold/standoffish just doesn't track - the only time he usually seems uncomfortable is when Rem touches him or when he talks about Plant stuff - particularly when he's talking about being different to Vash. Knives, to me at least, is a tad autism-coded :]

OKAY TO THE SCENE[TM]

So obviously this has changed from when we first saw Vash tell the story. Vash's sequence of events runs as follows:

Vash walks up to the little hill that Knives is laughing maniacally on top of -> Knives says "I finally did it! It worked! -> Vash confronts him with "How could you do that?" -> Knives reassures him with "Don't worry, I left the Plant ship" -> Knives says "I even got Rem killed!" -> Knives points out that Vash is his accomplice, but does not elaborate why. "Don't get mad. You're already my accomplice, isn't that right Vash?"

Now the sequence of events in this version is provably more accurate (the same audio is used in the black box recording discovered later), and goes as follows:

Vash wakes up from the escape pod and goes "Nai, where are you?" -> He spends some time following Knives' footsteps where he sees the crashed pods and fire and Knives laughing on the hill -> Knives says "I finally did it! It worked!" -> Vash says "I can't believe you killed Rem!" -> Knives says "Don't get mad. You're already my accomplice, it was you who told me the passcode - Am I right, Vash?"

So there are several inconsistencies in these two versions of events, most notably for me is that Vash is the one to bring up Rem. If the 1st telling was correct, it would imply that Knives wanted to kill Rem, but that part is conspicuously absent, because Vash is the one that brings her up.

Vash's retelling also omits the fact that he was the one to give Knives the passcode, shifting more blame onto Knives. It's very very interesting to me. Finally, Knives mostly has his back to Vash when he dissolves into laughter again. Which is a technique often used to hide if you've been crying or are having a hard time keeping some emotional responses down.

And I'm not even done with this flashback! The scene where Vash just lies down and wants to give up is,,, Well, in Trimax, ever since Tesla, Vash has struggled with suicidal ideation - he's the one that asks for Rem to just kill him, and that's heartbreaking, but we also see a bit of that leaking through here again, where he just wants to lie down and give up. It also gives me hope we're gonna see that Tesla aftermath scene in the next season, because that'll be breaking Vash down into his more complicated, messy parts.

Okay so I do think that the subtitles Aniwave uses are... a little bit Wack, I'm pretty sure that they're unofficial and probably a bit wonky, and I'm only slightly conversational in Japanese so I have 0 idea about this, but hey I think someone should inform Wolfwood, for no particular reas- [I am dragged away by security]

[I did check the dub, which referred to Plants giving birth which I think is much more likely to be accurate. But it'd still be funny for Wolfwood to have to sit through Plant sex ed so neither of them get pregnant]

Rem really was very, very young,,,,,

There are four photos here, but only one is given to Vash. I wonder why,,,, Possibly to gauge his recognition of Knives being in the photo, or keeping the other three to learn what they can about Knives.

The night/day progression cycle here doesn't really match up with Vash's little tally, so I don't think it's counting days. Given that he apparently went to say hello to everyone in cold sleep while on the ship, I think it's a little more likely that the tally marks are for them....

Do we ever actually get to hear Rem say the blank ticket thing in a flashback? I don't recall it, but it is said to Vash after the whole Stabbing Incident in Trimax, so that's possibly why they've kept it from us.

Theeee markings under this Plant's eyes match Elendira's, which. Obviously Elendira in tristamp is part plant there's just so many little details that lend themselves to it,,,

The HAIR COLOUR CHANGE AAAA

I like the little wall of Vash baby pics in the background here, but he still didn't get any of his 3 other ship pics back :(

Finally, Vash's line of "an Independent will make up for what an Independent has done" is interesting because his guilt complex really does spiral, huh. The reason Knives telling him "Oh, you just feel guilty for the Big Fall, huh?" in a later ep fucks him up so much is because like. That is kinda true to an extent. Vash is his own kind of self-deluding, but that only really starts spiraling at about this point in time.

Alright, setting up for a Day of analysis tomorrow, because I have many thoughts and feelings surrounding Knives (I love him very dearly and I hate him a lot (affectionate)) and we Will spend some time talking about Trimax Flavour Knives because my understanding of him is fundamental to my understanding of Tristamp Flavour Knives.

Thank y'all for the fun comments and theory addons!!! I'm having a lot of fun and we're really getting into how [normal] I am about Trigun!

[cherrybombfangirl]

So i uh- rewatched the Trollhunters TV show and I... may or may not have created a new oc.

I might make an official bio post on her later when I have more. But for now:

Her name is Astrea (the name is important, it will come in later)

she's Merlin's 1st/oldest apprentice, and is about to have a burntout gifted kid/golden child burnout arc

she has a bit of a rivalry with Douxie (cuz she's pressured to be perfect and he feels like he's always in her shadow and is just the backup or second pick). they do have an arc about it and learn and grow to appreciate and love each other (platonically of course)

she specializes in magic with light (sunlight, starlight, led light, etc)

her wizard staff turns into a pen to make it easy to hide in the modern world

she also uses a lot of rune magic

she has a very bubbly personality

also very smart and an alchemy/magic science nerd, her magical bag is full of spellbooks

she also takes notes in her spellbooks with glitter pens

she has frizzy red hair

I realized she's also pretty heavily adhd/autistic coded (i'm not mad, i have adhd and autism myself)

She's also Aspec (on the aro and ace spectrums)

probably will have a familiar like Douxie i just... haven't figured out that part yet

she first appears in Season 3 when they're trying to rescue Jim from the darklands and Kanjikar tells them in order to succeed they will need the assistance of "Merlin's firey haired apprentice" and they find her hiding out in a small Arcadia bookshop and ask her for help < being the sweet, helpful, and bubbly person Astrea is, she happily agrees to help them, and joins the gang on their adventures since

Also Merlin hasn't told her yet, but he's been lying about her origins and where she came from (i won't go into details yet, but long story short- he actually created her with magic from the help of dragons, and he specifically created and designed her to be a weapon that could defeat Morgana).

^When she finds out the truth, she's pretty pissed with Merlin and very hurt and has complicated feelings about the person who raised her and praised her but also put so much pressure on her and lied to her for thousands of years

She also becomes pretty fast friends with Jim, Claire, and Toby, they're all great friends to her

She is sweet and bubbly but if you hurt her friends ITS ON SIGHT (Gunmar and his goons learned that lesson the hard way when Merlin wasn't present to reign her in)

Protection charms and potions are also a specialty of hers

might have a book variant? idk yet i've only read the first book and have yet to read the rest

Also have a moodboard I made while we're at it:

Will there ever be a fic? I don't know, maybe eventually, for now it's just vibes

[aratinatophat]

Heyyyy anyone planning on listening to the magnus archives spoilerless and is following me SCROLL PAST NOW!!!!!!

Ok so where to START on Jon omfg. Ok so this man gets buried alive, yeah I know insane. But that isn’t even the start. Ok let’s start from the beginning:

Jon sees his childhood bully get taken into a house (and is presumably also eaten) by a creepy ass spider book. It was called mr spider if you wanna look on the wiki probably to read it.

He is autism coded imo and though that isn’t specifically a poor little meow meow trait it makes him more relatable which is a poor little meow meow trait

His entire arc in the series is he gets fucked up by all these FOURTEEN (debatably 15 if you count Peter Lucas’ fake one) different otherworldly entities and throughout the way becomes severely traumatised and has all his friends/assistants at the start taken away from him.

He’s the unwilling avatar (someone who basically becomes apart of the entities) of the DUMBEST one of those entities, the eye, and is actively manipulated throughout the entire series by 1. His boss, 2. This insanely (and goddamn so very pretty) cool and calculated spider woman, 3. An embodiment of literally going insane 4. At times his future boyfriend (but not in a bad way it’s just so everyone thinks he’s like just a silly little guy) 5. His bosses’ probably sometimes ex husband (thrice divorced) because his entity is so dumb. (It’s because his entity is the most curious one so just blindly takes him into the worst situations possible for the sake of knowing)

He gets his hand almost burnt off

The 1st assistant he loses is because she got killed by this monster that replaces all your memories of the person it’s impersonating with the monster’s (seemingly normal) image.

The 2nd assistant he loses is because he (the assistant) blows up this fucked up skin-circus to stop this asshole entity (the same one that took the previous assistant and the 2’s brother) and gets caught in the wreckage. Jon survives the wreckage so yayyyy survivor’s guilt!

The 3rd assistant (the one that later he gets with and the same one who kills him because Jon’s too powerful, his name is Martin and he’s the bitch ever) gets manipulated by the entity called the lonely and it basically makes him distance himself from everyone and it makes Jon so so sad like my fucking god.

He has to die for the sake of the world

There is a furry feline friend that accompanies him in a lot of one season

He stays at his ex’s house for a whole season because he’s in hiding from the police

He gets a load of worms in him at one point and has to get it out with a corkscrew of all things. Makes me itch just thinking about it

Has been kidnapped multiple times

Has to have a guy pull one of his ribs out

He starts out a skeptic because he’s scared and a little derealisation never hurt anyone, right? Oh nvm it did because the old badass lady before you did all that she did to stop the apocalypse oh whoops look at you you brought about the apocalypse oh whoops!!

That’s all I can think of, I know there’s more, Charlie (my friend who lives for the magnus archives @transs3xualmagg0t ) if you wanna add anything to this be my guest (that’s if you see this that is)!!!

Also he’s terrified the entire time lmao

Rat.

you want me to chose a mystery man from something Ive barely heard of OVER CATRA!!!!

sorry but no

catra wins ove r mosr

-petty person (zhep)

[who cant fricking spell]

also is it a book? if so I shall read

maybe...

if you want to try and convince me against catra I shall wait like 2 hour cuz I is nice

Jon is so much more a poor little meow meow than Catra thoughhhh

Also it’s a podcast called The Magnus Archives, permission to spoil it for you to prove that Jon is the most pathetic little wet cat lookin ass man of ever?