#idk I don’t like thinking abt that it makes me sad

[ssruis]

hihi

maybe this is a weird question but i LOVE the way you interpret wxs and everything so i'd love to hear your thoughts

wrt emunene and ruikasa, how do you think the wxs members would react to figuring out their queer identities?

i feel like rui prolly entered this world holding a rainbow flag and saw it as another reason why he doesn't fit in (as a kid), and that emu was just sorta like "huh. that makes sense. okay!" and never thought ab it again in detail (she just loves nene ok and thats all that matters <3).

i feel like nene and kasa could have more interesting reactions/realisations. was curious what you thought ab all 4 of them though c:

LOVE your blog, i am obsessed. keep up the good work!!!!!!

Thank you!! Hmmm 🤔

If you’re looking for a light hearted answer:

> I feel like rui probably knew from a young age that he didn’t like girls like that & very quickly accepted it.

> in my head emu has been telling girls she’s gonna marry them when she’s older since pre k. Gay little thing.

> I don’t think nene ever thought about it in her life until like… right before or during middle school. Sakitenmaenjoyer made a joke about her maining bayonetta in smash bc of the gayisms & it was folded into my world view forever. Alternatively rui has to be the one to tell her (during the early wxs days) & she does the tails from tails gets trolled face. U know the one.

> I go two ways with tsukasa depending on what’s funniest at the time.

1) tsukasa has never once considered his sexuality in his life because he has never liked someone romantically. Kaito & miku had to talk him through the realization that he liked men (rui).

2) tsukasa realized he liked men as a kid, went that’s a problem for future me, and forgot about it until he was in high school.

& I think he gets over it pretty quickly after a little fit of histrionics.

[unordinary-diary]

Seraphina and Arlo: The Brainwashing of High Tiers

Exposition:

— Remi, Episode 50.

There is a heavy implication that Seraphina and Arlo were raised in much the same way. The pressure on Seraphina comes from her parents, so I’ll extrapolate that the same goes for Arlo. This raises the question: how do the authorities create such a strong societal pressure on such a small percentage of the population? Most high tiers will probably not know any other high tiers besides their parents. Take Wellston Private High School for example: it’s the most prestigious private school around, and canonically has the “highest concentration of high tiers in the region”. There are six high tiers in Wellston. Apply this to god tiers specifically, and there are only three. Not to mention that this current group of students is uniquely strong, even for Wellston. In Rei’s senior year, he was the strongest at 5.8 max.

So much of this brainwashing relies on the parents to do all of the work, and it only takes one or two people to break the cycle. So how are the authorities creating this immense pressure? One tactic could be by isolating high tiers. There is a very widespread concept that one shouldn’t associate with those outside their level range. A caste system like this that affects everyone is much easier to create and maintain than an expectation for a small group, and it also means that high tiers are only being influenced by those who are also high level. This creates an echo chamber. I’ve researched cults and how they brainwash victims, and the first step in the process is isolating them in exactly this way.

But, if there are so few high tiers, how the hell are they supposed be isolated from other groups? The answer is that high tiers are just isolated in general. Take a look at Arlo: his only friend is Remi, and even her, he keeps at an arm’s length. Arlo is only close with Remi in the first place because he was close with Rei, who, at the time of meeting Arlo, was presumably close in level with him. [EDIT: I forgot about Holden, which I think says a lot about his relevance. He is kept at more than an arm’s length and doesn’t seem to have any actual influence on Arlo, let alone a deep relationship. He is also not presented as an equal.] Take a look at Seraphina: before meeting John, she didn’t seem to have any friends other than possibly Arlo. Seraphina and Arlo pre-John seemed to have had more of a professional relationship, and while they were not close in level, Arlo did fit the bill of being a fellow god tier, and strong enough to also be brainwashed.

Now let’s look at Remi. In episode 60, Cecile says to Remi: “And yet here you are... Always hanging around those two monkeys, Blyke and Isen. Letting them treat you as an equal even though you’re in a completely different league.” This struck me as odd because, aside from Cecile herself, the Wellston students closest in level to Remi were Arlo, Blyke, and Isen. And who is she friends with? She actually was doing a pretty good job at following that social convention, unless Cecile wanted to be friends with Remi, which she clearly didn’t. But... her friends were still not close enough to her level. Was she supposed to just not have friends at all? The answer seems to be a resounding yes. Can you think of any genuine friends that Cecile has either?

Friendship simply isn’t considered a necessity for high tiers.

But... why is it that Arlo and Seraphina were brainwashed differently? Creating a societal norm for an isolated group of people is one thing, because those people’s mindsets feed into each other. Putting pressure on individual families to keep them in line, but doing it all in different ways? That would be near impossible. My theory is that Seraphina recieved the typical high tier brainwashing, and that Arlo was raised differently because he was being groomed to work for the authorities. Seraphina didn’t have a set career path planned out for her, but if she’s trying to be “perfect” by the standards of those controlling her, she’s bound to end up going in a direction that pleases them. Arlo on the other hand was specifically planned to become an authority figure. That’s why his brainwashing is so centered on leadership. Also, growing up with direct contact to the authorities makes it more possible for them to customize his brainwashing in this way.

But does all of this apply to high tiers in general, or is it specific to god tiers? Let’s take a look at the high tiers in Wellston. We have Seraphina, John, Arlo, Terrence, Remi, Cecile, and Blyke. John is a unique circumstance because he wasn’t raised by high tiers, so we’ll cross him off the list. Terrence was also unique, so we can cross him off as well. Remi was different from the norm as well. Why is that? Well, Remi actually wasn’t raised by high tiers either. Rei said on screen that both of his parents were elites. We can cross Remi off. Blyke doesn’t fit the bill either, but that’s easy to explain. He was an elite for a large part of the story, and he shot up rather quickly. We don’t know much of his family, but he probably wasn’t expected to be a high tier at all, and was raised as an elite. (All of this also serves to emphasize how much of this brainwashing comes from a person’s parents.) That leaves only Seraphina, Arlo, and Cecile to look at.

Cecile does seem to have high tier brainwashing, but it’s not nearly as intense as with Seraphina and Arlo. She doesn’t seem “obsessive”, and she wasn’t one of the examples Remi mentioned in chapter 50. It’s clear that high tiers are brainwashed in general, but god tiers are kept on a much shorter leash. This makes sense, obviously, because keeping a population in control like that is less necessary the lower the level. However, it’s also a chicken an egg situation: god tiers are both more important to keep in control, and also easier to keep in control. It’s important to note just how many exceptions we had to cross off. People like Remi and Blyke aren’t actually that unusual— a lower leveled high tier is much more likely to have non-high tier parents, or to have not always been a high tier themselves, or just in general, to have way more day-to-day interaction with non-high tiers. The brainwashing gets more and more diffused the lower down the ladder you go.

[gio-cosmo]

Every time I think about Kawoshin my heart aches and I have to log off and reconnect with nature and empty my mind in order to stop myself from breaking into tears. Like I’m being so serious when I say I don’t think I’ve ever been so emotionally impacted by a fictional ship in my life 😭

[xbasement-baitx]

I would like to mentally spiral in peace HOWEVER

[mars-ipan]

god i cannot wait to be off these steroids…

[lunarrosette]

For the stampler/marlowes being my fave family they don’t infest my brain and cause it to rot like every other family

[bloodenjoyer]

it makes me sad when girls are insecure about their foreheads because it’s literally so gorgeous when a girl has a big forehead

[johndonneswife]

not a sad ‘woe is me’ post so don’t send me weird messages but: the thing abt cycling through every ED possible and being bulimic for like 10 yrs & making yourself vomit up to 10x times per day on ur worst days is that your teeth and gums will eventually give out on you (bc it doesn’t make a difference if you’ve been good & it doesn’t matter how well you’ve taken care of your teeth for the last x years) and u will be 30 years old crying to your very sweet and kind dentist when she tells you about the 1 million things that are wrong with ur teeth

[edwardseymour]

i’m in a particular kind of mood today but i have been thinking a lot about how six the musical positions katherine howard as a sort of pastiche of britney spears and ariana grande, and the subsequent commentary on misogyny therein. six is aggressively shallow so i posit this commentary is only skin-deep (at best) or wholly unintentional, but nevertheless.

there is something to be said for how the worst might be assumed of these women, simply by virtue of their existing within the public eye—which is itself something they have no control over. katherine’s guilt was assumed because she was already perceived to be the sort of person who could be guilty of adultery: she was ‘damaged goods’, she conformed to conventional ideas of womanhood right up until she didn’t anymore. really, the same can be said for anne boleyn. a lot has already been said about britney spears, so perhaps that comparison is already too obvious, but i am reminded that ariana grande was (and, near as i can tell as someone who doesn’t follow her, still is) held accountable and vilified for mac miller’s death — a horrifically unreasonable and cruel attitude to take about a young woman who almost certainly must have been personally affected by that loss. and the fact that grande is, as a public persona, somewhat off-putting (itself a consequence of misogyny, because plainly she wouldn’t be criticised in the same way if she were a man) is merely used as further justification for that vilification… as if we really have any claim to know this woman. whether criticism is deserved or not, there’s a point to be made — a point six attempts to make — about how the historiography and popular discourse surrounding katherine howard (and other female historical figures) is inherently framed by her being a woman, and with how pervasive misogyny is, that even if katherine wasn’t guilty, she might as well be.

[sickgraymeat]

It’s funny that I can only read/write AT fanfic that’s both (a) canon compliant and (b) not too sad by my (very sensitive baby) standards, bc ofc those things contradict each other a lot

[yioh]

am i the only one who feels slightly annoyed when ppl draw sumeru characters with the canon skin tones lol

[pepprs]

idk how to reconcile my new self with my old self. also i fucking hate waiting. GRAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[train-inthedistance]

haven’t texted him in 2 weeks and just cancelled on sth he invited me to yesterday that’s hashtag growth girl

[spencereid]

thinking abt my dad and getting nauseous fr fr

[handcat]

back to the dating app 🚶

[samuraisharkie]

Going on record to say I can’t stand scoutandcompany *bracing for impact*