#ok demons in general is a good song for her

[darqx]

If you didnt come to party [get the hell out of this club]

In which there's some links to old art - I've been getting a number of asks that are already technically answered so that's just what I'm gonna be doing if i can even remember what RAD they originally came from lol.

❗️For commonly asked qs please see my BTD FAQ

UNFORGIVEN.

Yes he can speak at least two demon languages (commons and a more specialised one).

Not really cos the ichor will eventually disappear if it's not in contact with Rire for a while lol. You ever wonder how someone could mysteriously drown whilst not being around anything they could have drowned in? Yeah.

I have drawn several such instances a long time ago. But it's not really Rire flirting with Ren it's more him being like...subtly condescending to Ren since Ren's submissive level is not very interesting to him |D

I...think you may have possibly mistaken me saying Rire might cry if he was in severe pain to mean that's the only time he could cry XD; To answer your q, yes Rire can cry from emotions - the point is he would choose not to (esp in public) as that would be a weakness.

🤔 You could probably get away with the same dress design but in black, tbh (if it was Lady Rire). Since the outfit design is 1930s/1940s based Rire's equivalent would be like...a 3 piece suit with a long overcoat/trench coat.

Got you covered bro [from a suit meme I did before]

Rire has a very long life span, but he's not immortal XD;

Tbh I don't really have thoughts about any of other peoples headcanons. Like I'm generally quite neutral towards headcanons because I primarily deal with the canon; the extent of my thoughts would be like "hm i wonder how they came up with that" lol.

This is actually in my FAQ :d but good of you to check for permission! If it's your own artwork then yes it is ok to make fanmerch of Rire. Similarly Gato allows fanmerch of her BTD and TPOF characs as long as it's your own art you are selling (and not like, our art/someone else's fanart that they didn't give permission to turn into merch).

It would be in Cain's best interest not to.

Cain is literally saying Olé Olé because i happened to be listening to this song at the time.

I can barely keep up with my ask box as myself let alone do it while pretending to be a charac lol, so no 😅 You can find a bunch of the most common qs in the FAQ pages though.

No and not really - though he is a bit more sensitive to light compared to a human as he has much better night vision than a human. He may also be able to see more colours than humans 🤔

There is technically no "stereotypical" demon in my 'verse, there's a bunch of different species each with their own looks/powers, so if he was another species then he'd have their physical characteristics. Rire's species is considered "plain" because outwardly they can pass more easily as a human than say; Izm's species (who have a really noticeable Glasgow smile-esque mouth as one of their physical features).

Yes he was born a demon...to his demon parents...|D;

He's the king of his sector and his sector is pretty well-to-do, I think you can draw your own conclusions from that lol.

Maybe, depends on what the human in question does with that.

Your second q has two answers depending on what context I answer them in, so I'll reply in the BTD context keeping in mind a charac like EP's Cain :d Basically yes Rire would be able to sense them like he does other demons. It's not a specific sense of "THIS CHARAC IS AN ANGEL" but more like "this charac is not human" and depending on what else he gets from it a "in your best interests to not engage".

Something big with long black fur and yellow eyes, maybe like a Norwegian Forest Cat or a Maine Coon.

[untangling-my-headphones]

A lot of people aren't vibing with Charles and Crystal's romance and honestly i think it's because it's not necessarily supposed to be a full-fledged, endgame romance.

I think it's written to be a fling.

Charles is a flirt; one of the first things he thinks about when Edwin tells him ghosts can't feel is that he would miss kissing, he says himself it's nice to be seen by someone his own age, he calls Crystal fit, etc. Assumably between cases he has a very small social circle of literally just Edwin so it makes sense that this girl who he gets on with and finds attractive immediately becomes a bit of a crush for him.

Then Crystal picks up on his flirting almost immediately, again they get on, etc. She says if he wasn't dead and she wasn't dealing with the aftermath of her toxic relationship with David he would be a good addition to her body count, i.e. just a fling. She doesn't say they'd date or she could fall for him just that they'd probably hook up.

Their first kiss happens when they're both dealing with some heavy stuff, Charles is angry, continuing to push down his trauma with his father and his past, Crystal is annoyed about not being any closer to getting her memories back whilst trying to deal with the trauma her last relationship caused her. They find comfort in each other in that moment. Crystal says she wants something real and the care they have for each other is real, there's no manipulation, no secrets. It's honest and it's innocent.

The song that plays in that scene is called Young Blood (White Sea Remix) by The Naked and Famous and has lyrics such as 'we're only young and naive still' and 'can't help myself but count the flaws, claw my way out of these walls, one temporary escape' and 'we lie beneath the stars at night, our hands gripping each other tight, you keep my secrets hope to die' - It does align with the idea that they're what each other wants in the moment, a distraction, to be able to pretend everything is normal and ok (keep each others secrets)

Crystal in the next episode, the next morning after their kiss, literally calls Charles a 'cute distraction' and says they should be friends. This time both of their issues and trauma are the reason for them not continuing the relationship. Blatantly, Crystal isn't ready for another relationship so soon after David, she wakes up with a nightmare about him and Charles. They bring up Charles fighting the Night Nurse and Charles says that he thought they were on the same page about it and 'at least that's how it seemed last night' which again leans into the fact they were both looking for comfort. Charles and Crystal kissing had nothing explicitly to do with her supporting his actions fighting the Night Nurse and yet that's how he took it because that's what he was searching for comfort from and acceptance on. Which is most likely why he seems to take the rejection harder than Crystal, seemingly agreeing to be friends more out of respect for her choice than the want to call it quits himself.

Charles tells Edwin later on about the kiss (right after Edwin is complaining about having to cancel plans with Monty) and says though he didn't physically feel it, he did feel it 'up here' and points to his head. The mind is generally not the place you feel love, I feel that's a given. (reminds me of the starfish on the beach that Niko says are in love, Edwin points out starfish have no brain and Niko says love doesn't require logic, meaning: love is not stored in the mind.) Charles and Edwin's conversation veers off to being about there own relationship, with Charles saying he wouldn't want to be dead with anyone else - not even the girl you just kissed? No? Ok.

The way that episode goes (The case of the two dead dragons) Crystal and Charles end up arguing about the very reasons they decided to not continue their relationship. Crystal likens Hunter and Brad to David, and Charles defends them saying not everyone is her demon ex-boyfriend which seems like he's projecting and really defending himself. Then Crystal calls him out on his 'rage problem' and what happened with the Night Nurse. So though they comforted each other the night before, their real feelings for each others issues are surfacing and they're not so on the same page. Of course they get over this and apologise soon enough. Though in the end, it's Edwin Charles opens up to and actually talks to about how he's feeling rather than pushing it aside and looking for a distraction. And after that, Charles gives Crystal genuine comfort not just a distraction by listening to her talk about her nightmares/visions about David. (immediately followed by the scene of Edwin and Monty on the swings in which Edwin suggests they don't see each other anymore, then back tracks, they kiss followed by rejection which definitely has... parallels)

After that, Crystal and Charles are still an obvious source of comfort for one another, they talk to each other about their stresses, they stick close together a lot of the time but there's nothing inherently romantic to their actions aside from the fact we know they have kissed which gives their actions a depth that, for example Edwin and Niko's don't, despite them also being affectionate and spending time together alone.

Then in the last episode as Crystal is attempting to leave for London, her and Charles share another kiss. When she tries to say bye to Charles, he says it feels like a 'good-bye good-bye' rather than a 'see you back in London good-bye' and Crystal doesn't correct him, essentially confirming it was supposed to be a forever goodbye. She instead kisses him. It's a good-bye kiss. A (supposed to be) final kiss. A 'we had a good run' type of kiss. Crystal kisses him because she thinks she'll never see him again. It's similar to the first in which the kiss itself is the beginning and end, and it doesn't mean much past that. It's a kiss as a secret again, like their first kiss. A kiss to fill the space left by things they don't want to talk about. She doesn't want to admit she's planning on leaving for good so she kisses him instead, it's a comfort and it's a distraction. (and its consistent)

When Crystal decides to stay in the end, Charles says it'll be great, then specifies that 'solving cases together' will be great, not anything else that could of implied. Which could either be them just being awkward, or a flip in their dynamic that now Crystal is the one more involved in their relationship and Charles is the one setting boundaries.

Overall I think they have a really interesting dynamic. They are exactly what each other needs in moments and then the opposite in the next, they care about each other so much yet are possibly the people that unearth each others insecurities and traumas the most. They're both looking for a new, different kind of relationship and find it within the other but inherently once the novelty fades they fall more into being friends than anything more. I think like most of the relationships in this show, they're supposed to be complicated, they're supposed to be more of a journey than a destination. They learn and grow from their interactions together and I think that's something really beautiful.

[rooks-dagger]

Six(ish) Song Soundtrack: Ember "Rook" Mercar

Thanks for the tag, @dancing--lights @themildmahariel and @litchigaming! 💜 Highly recommend y'all check out Livia Mercar, Euzen Thorne, and Vesper Mercar's playlists for some cool songs!

Rules: If you're tagged, make a post with links to music and/or lyrics describing six things/events about your OC/story.

No-pressure tagging @augustnugs @dudewheresmynug @jouskaroo @fatagenda @thesummerstorms @curiouswisp @grimrevolution and @master-of-the-elements ✨

1. An event that defined your character's past

Gladiator - Zayde Wolf

I'ma give you a second just to catch your breath 'Cause I can see that your heart is jumping out your chest I know you gave it all, 'cause I've already seen your best And it's time you accepted this Gladiator, gladiator, gladiator Picked a fight with the gods, I'm a giant slayer Bone shaker, dominator Freight train, wrecking ball, I'm the gladiator

Ember spent a good deal of her past as a gladiator. It’s where she learned to fight and where she realized the power of a little showmanship in the arena. She takes that same cockiness to her fight against the gods.

2. How others see them

[POV of Rook's Enemies] Don't Get in My Way - Zack Hemsey

You don't want to say no more than a mime you can't afford And you don't want to let this turn into lines of mine and yours And you don't want to press your luck, better back up and withdraw Cuz trust me when I tell you you don't want that tooth and claw And you don't wanna see inside the mind of a savage kind And you don't want that recognition of "Oh, there goes that guy"

Ok, but legit, Rook would be a terrifying enemy to have. I mean, you've got rumors of this upstart nobody and then suddenly she's everywhere. Bouncing across the Thedas like it's nothing. Hunting down Venatori leaders, Antaam generals, and blighted dragons one by one. Then she picks a fight with the risen gods and WINS. Those corrupt magisters are shaking in their boots when they hear Ember's back in town.

[POV of Rook's Allies] Hold the Line - Tom Morello (feat. grandson)

It ain't a matter of if, It's just a matter of time But to get where we're going Sister, you gotta hold the line You gotta stay steadfast Tread lightly 'Cause they're looking for a reason to knock you down But you can't ask too politely In the trenches you gotta get loud Hold the line

Ember's friends see her as someone who stands tall against impossible odds. She doesn't back down. And more importantly, she’s right there in the trenches with them. She’s at their side when they’re facing their own demons. I don't think Ember even realizes how much her presence rallies the team. In her eyes, she’s just doing what she can to hold the line.

3. How they see themselves

Blood Runs Red - 78rpm

I may be under fire, but not burning up I'll come out on top, let there be no doubt I may be on the ropes, but I'm not going down Give me one more day, I'll be wanted all over town As long as my blood runs red Racing through my veins, and my heart still bleeding I will fight 'til the end Even if I'm crawling on my hands and knees and bleeding out

Ember has an... interesting relationship with pain. I’ve always thought her demon would be one of Self-Destruction or Pyrrhic Victory. She will do everything she can to keep her team safe, but she’s the first to put herself in the line of fire. She’ll take the hit because she knows she can bear it. She’ll fight all the way to her death if you let her.

4. Their closest relationship (platonic or romantic)

Hero - Faouzia

If I were your hero, would you be mine? I know this ain't a fairy tale, yeah, this is real life But if I were to save you, would you do the same? And catch me if I'm fallin', fallin', fallin'?

Ember, sap that she is, would absolutely tell everyone that Neve is her hero lol. Neve’s been with her every step of the way in the fight against the gods and has saved her life more times than she can count. Underneath all the playful banter and late-night cases are two people who trust one another to show up and be in their corner. They're partners and each other's heroes. It's cute!

5. A major fight scene

Fire - House of Protection

Doubt can take away All your intention Trust the chase and stay On your direction If you know what you desire Hit 'em with, hit 'em with, hit 'em with... Fire

Ember goes into her biggest battles with intention. She brings chaos to the fight, blitzing around the enemy with poison and explosives, but she’s got an end goal in mind. Plus, fire... ember... get it? lol

6. End credits

You're Where You Belong / Give 'Em Hell - Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe

Ember isn't the type of hero to go riding off into the sunset and retire. She's found a place to belong and people she loves. She's going to keep fighting to create a better world for them. There's plenty of adventure ahead. "The Veilguard Remains Vigilant" and so will she.

[megynonthemoon]

f*ck me up with - a plot masterlist

an age gap, an affair of any kind really, one night stands that end up being something, a best friend's sibling or parent situation, a first responder against a peer or a civilian, cop sh*t, criminal sh*t, bonus points for cartel, bratva, or just mafioso business in general, messy exes, the whole 'i hate you but i love you' trope, a slice of life, any way you want to squeeze it, 'hey we met at this festival and danced all night, hooked up and now i can't get you out of my head', political bullsh*t, sex worker things; cam girls, escorts, strippers, only fans, porn stars, how about some coworker vibes or maybe even some power dynamics with your boss and employee, i've been locked up for a decade and i'm out, you're there to pick me up even though you should have moved on, a true sucker for a man who went to prison for someone they were trying to protect, biker gang shenanigans, rockstars and their problems, athletes of any kind, the medical world, outlaws, law and order type sh*t where you have lawyers and judges fraternizing with each other or criminals or the public, we met in vegas and got married, now i'm pregnant, wtf are we going to do, gamers/streamers/tik tok or instagram personalities against each other or a fan, "i look at you and think, how the f*ck did i land your smokin' hot ass", song plots (bc i am a total deep in your feelings girl, it's my era, i'll forever be lost in it), trailer park trash plots, grew up poor and fell in love with a rich person, we were in foster care together as kinds and now we're successful and reuniting under strange circumstances, trauma bonding, "you feel like home to me", met on a reality tv show, fake dating and omg we fell in love.

werewolf drama, vampire things, a witch and his or her familiar, demons, literally let me play a male or female version of lucifer (not the show, the actual devil ok), incubus/succubus sh*t, honestly just unsavory supernatural things that make you shiver bc there is so much that i know i'm not hitting on, historical royalty, a good greek mythos pairing, monsters, aliens, concubines, shapeshifters, tyrant king and queens, emperor/empress and their slaves or gladiators, fandoms of all kinds, top gun, batman specifically the christian bale timeline, halo, den of thieves because i love a bad man doing bad things, tombstone, 3:10 to yuma, house of the dragon anything - canon or original characters, game of thrones verse, the last of us, fallout.

[callizinc]

Icicles by the Scary Jokes an ENA song, ay or nay....?

Sorry, I'm trying to collect songs for my ENA playlist, but it's honestly. Really hard 😭 to find ones that fit her character and the bizarre world... but we persist!

Do you have any that make you think of ENA, btw? Or if not, you can just talk about what music you like in general (if you want!), I wanna hear it!! :)

OK Heads up this ask got pretty unreasonably long But you can't just give me such a good excuse to talk about music. you can't. You can't do that to me SLASH POSITIVE CONNOTATION

OK SO ^_^ I just gave a listen to that song, and y'know I only knew like, one scary jokes song before now, And i really liked that one actually :D The singer has a very pretty voice but their very plain delivery is also very nice to listen to for me.. I enjoyed it very much AND

I actually have the exact same fucking problem 😭 I love making character playlists, yet almost literally nothing in my entire library I can justify to be enacore, BUT THIS SONG. IS *LITERALLY HER*

LIKE. JAW DROP. STARING HALLOWED AND FLABBERGASTED INTO THE DISTANCE. BRO....

I have only two other songs I can justify as fitting her though: Debt Coller by Jhariah (pictured below), which actually @aroace-elgyem sent to me (shoutout) And i was. So shocked it actually fit so well. AT LEAST *I* KNOW IT TO BE TRUE AND REAL.

Also lastly. Yes i am going to bring up Lemon Demon it's 2025 and lemon demon is literally good. FUck with me. She's literally I Earn My Life and you do kind of have to close your eyes and go Ayy ayoo ayoo a little bit Because she is not a man nor balding nor has a father nor has a wife. BUT IF YOU IGNORE ALL THAT OTHER STUFF....

And. That's all i've actually got 😭😭I WILL 100% LET YOU KNOW IMMEDIATELY IF I FIND ANY MORE I LIKE FOR HER BUT AGAIN. Believe it or not it's not easy to find songs befitting of an extremely abstract character and world with very specific problems. but i know they're out there....

😭 It might just be hardest for me specifically because of my tastes LOL—My primary genres are alternative rock, industrial, goth, synthwave, new wave, metal, and especially any overlaps of those genres :D!!

Lately the biggest artists i've been obsessed with are The Birthday Massacre and Ministry, but i like. A lot a lot of stuff 😭😭 What about you though?? i would also like to hear :D

[eiffelradio]

hi :) lately i've been mulling over the fact that i'm not very satisfied with banica's writing for some reason. or to be more accurate, the way her writing affects the characters around her.

for one, i think it's pretty obvious that she loses some of her complexity as the novels go on (which isn't entirely bad, it makes sense that becoming a demon & living for centuries causes her to lose her humanity) which is kind of its own debate but i still thought i'd mention it.

anyway, at times it feels like banica warps the writing of the characters around her? i like the concept of the graveyard crew, but it feels like being around banica just makes them lose their character motivations for some reason. lich and eater basically have no reason to serve banica iirc, and they eventually come to like it.

but the one i want to complain the most about is Ney. Ney was definitely one of my favorites when I first read the series, and it's pretty disappointing that her entire character pretty much revolves around Banica post-pride arc. Hansel and Gretel suffer from this as Arte & Pollo and I really don't like it. Especially because I don't think we're really given a specific reason for their attachment to Banica besides her looking like Meta (I may be wrong abt this, been a while since I've reread). Anyway I'm just disappointed that Hansel & Gretel are hollow caricatures around Banica and that their goals, personalities, and motivations all revolve around her and jokes after a certain point. They just become her lackeys :/ It's telling that, imo, the best incarnations of H&G are Ney and Lemy, because they are like...actual characters.

TLDR: Ney deserved better mothy please give her a song and a cool assassin novel and an album booklet

OK thank you so much for this ask because i just got out of doing nearly 6 hours of mind numbing training videos for my new job and i NEED something to stimulate actual Thoughts. and coincidentally while i was doing those videos i was thinking about Baum Kuren lol

I agree that Banica's writing gets watered down over time. Her pre-contract characterization is pretty interesting (i.e. the thing about her revolutionizing her country's cuisine, wanting everyone to have access to good food, generally being very kindhearted) but it gets almost completely dropped once she makes the contract and it creates some extreme narrative whiplash in Evil Food Eater Conchita. She's still a VERY FUN, LOVEABLE CHARACTER, just not terribly interesting. The reason I was thinking about Baum Kuren is because I don't know how to feel about her being Banica's alter ego? Pre-contract Banica is so...nice, and her descent into cruelty so inextricably linked to her contract that I guess I find it strange to portray a non-contracting alter-ego of Banica as "evil."

i love the Vibes of the EAT crew but i also wish their motivations and relationships with Banica were more fleshed out. i think it is very interesting conceptually to have a cast of characters all dedicated to one woman, but for it to really work they need to have a variety of reasons for wanting to travel with her and they should have their own motivations--so far this ball has been dropped pretty hard. Outlaw finally gave us a reason why Lich chooses to serve Banica, being that he admires her confidence, determination, ability to make competent decisions on the fly, etc (all traits which he lacks or has trouble manifesting). This detail, albeit a VERY small one within the context of the whole short story, played a big role in my coming to like Lich as a character and feeling like I "get" him. For him, Banica is (potentially) the perfect complement to his weaknesses, and he can similarly make up for hers (by being a bit more grounded/logical and as well as managing the more complex, scientific parts of Banica's goals). I really, really wish this dynamic between the two of them was expanded on more (or, I hope mothy explores it sometime in the future of EAT) and that the other characters had similarly interesting reasons to stick by Banica. (I think Eater stays with Banica because Lich is there, but since Eater and Lich's friendship hardly gets any exploration, it comes off as lazy writing.)

I don't mind Arte and Pollo being the "default" states of H&G/L&N, but again, I wish we knew more about why they love Banica so much. Her looking like Meta is a laughably bad explanation. At the end of Fifth, Pierrot, when Lemy is once more sucked into the wineglass, I believe he expresses some discomfort/hesitance over the whole thing, and then of course that never gets brought up again. I think it's interesting that in the SCAP novel, Pollo chooses to appear to Allen as Lemy, when any of his forms would have been recognizable (since Allen has watched all of Evillious' important history). From these details, I've always had the impression that Pollo liked being Lemy the best...it would be fascinating if the pressure he feels to resume Pollo's identity/cast away his identity as Lemy started to drive a wedge between him and Banica, or him and Arte (who I think probably liked being Arte best).

On the point of Ney, yeah, I don't like how her life gets disregarded either. I think the only time her being Ney really gets brought up again is in SCAP when she's being shy about meeting Allen again (such a shame that scene is so short btw!!!!! could've been very interesting). I say I think she probably liked being Arte best, but we don't actually know. She experienced so much trauma as Ney, and quite a bit as Gretel too, but comparatively little as Arte? From how she acted in the Evil Food Eater novel, I got the feeling she had a LOT of control over her job and how the mansion was run, moreso than Pollo (comparing Ending Boy Hansel and Creation Girl Gretel, Pollo is referred to as a "servant of gluttony, a dimwit in charge of livestock" while the phrasing about Arte's life is more neutral, "an ill-mannered maid of gluttony...she killed [her caretakers]")...Basically, Arte had the most autonomy over her life, with serving Banica being a choice that conferred significant advantages to her vs. having less autonomy as Ney, being subjected to the abuses of Abyss IR and Prim, and being placed as a palace servant presumably on the orders of them (I don't fully remember). We don't know anything about Gretel after the twins scattered the 7 sins, but Punishment makes it sound like she started to become disillusioned with her life/suspicious of her parents long before they were abandoned. All this is to say that, of all her identities, I think it makes sense that Arte would want to present herself as Arte and not as Ney or Gretel--or that she would be more amenable to resuming this identity than is Pollo.

...HOWEVER this doesn't excuse mothy just straight up ignoring the impact of Ney's life on Arte outside of the SCAP cameo. I would think that, after being so thoroughly used as Ney, she might be more hesitant to submit herself to the service of another person again, let alone someone who was directly involved in her life as Ney blowing up (not to the same degree as Irina or Prim, but I'm sure making a demon contract didn't exactly help Ney's mental state). So...it COULD be really interesting to find out why Arte trusts Banica so much! Gosh! Levia's writing in MotHY integrates experiences from all 3 of her lives fairly elegantly, so it sucks that A&P don't get the same treatment. (I wish I could say more about Ney, but it's been a while since I finished the DoE novels...I could be completely wrong about her)

I also want to know more about how Banica feels towards Arte & Pollo. I...will never get over the detail that the three of them are childhood friends. It's wild that this relationship is hardly explored compared to their relationship as master/servants. Remember how A&P purposefully triggered Banica at a dinner, and how that was a catalytic event in her life? Why was this never brought up again? I'm very intrigued to know how that affected their relationship. It seems like Banica exerts some pressure on A&P to be, well, A&P and not H&G or L&N. Why does she do this? Does it say anything about her insecurities? I WANT ANSWERS!!!!!!!!

OKAY, I hope what I wrote was at all interesting. It ended up being messy and only like 35% responses to things you said and 65% me rambling about other other stuff, but I had a lot of fun thinking about everything you brought up. Thank you again!!!

[galax-dragon]

ok it's about time i made a post introducing (some) of my fucking splatoon ocs. under a cut because Long

ok so here's galax. they/them nonbinary agender aroace. literally my pfp. they used to be my sona kinda but then they morphed into their own person with trauma and shit. they're a dragon mutant who escaped from the octarian labs that i decided exist, basically. they're also super silly and ambitious and stupid. i love them <3

oh and they actually have a good ref. here it is

aaand here's my sona but for real this time. his name is mars, they use the same pronouns as me because it literally Is Me. they have many forms and their true form is an eldritch dragon thing. they live in a cave in the forest but visit splatsville often to visit coroikas and stuff. yeah and this is what they look like with their headgear, which actually disguises them as a normal Octoling.

here is xyr ref

next up is victoria, she's just a silly girl and i love her. cringefail lesbian fr. not much to say about her she doesn't even have that much trauma (other than a slight fear of hospitals/general medical environments)

here is her ref which i made just yesterday

here's xavier!! silly guy, he's very good at battles but he has imposter syndrome and doubts himself all the time. even though he's almost at S rank. he also has a big crush on all the S4 but don't tell anyone I said that. also idk why i put him in the side order bg he's not even agent 8. he is transmasc though. and a bi disaster. also i need to remake his ref. the three refs you saw are the only ones you're going to see in this post actually

and THIS guy. needs to die. now. their name is berry blob (any pronouns) and she is the only one who managed to OUTFREAK goggles. wtf. because of this goggles fucking Hates him. congratulations you fucking bitch you got goggles to genuinely hate somebody. anyway xe's legit crazy and bites people. and needs a new ref but the one from last year is actually decent so i'll put it here

ya

aaaand here's berry blob's bestie zed (it/they) and fun fact it is a LITERAL eldritch horror!! from the void!! they originally came to splatsville to Wreak Havoc but they're too nice for that so they just did a turf war with Team Blue. in a stage that's in the void for some reason. and then berry blob came along and zed was like "you're my bestie now. if anyone messed with you i will Kill them." and yeah it's so silly just look at it sip its drink!! it loves bright colors too <333

aaand i think this is the last oc whom i have a picrew for (i have a lot more of these goobers trust me) and his name is telly!! (he/she) fun fact she's literally based off the song touch tone telephone. lemon demon. stupid conspiracy theorist who is So Convinced that goggles is some kind of eldritch horror. speaking of eldritch horrors he's great friends with zed and berry blob is his qpp actually!! berry blob thinks romance is a joke and telly thinks it's an intriguing thing to study. oh yeah speaking of which i did make an oc based off of cabinet man to ship with this fucker (telly feels no romantic attraction except towards a literal Arcade Machine) but it doesn't even have a name yet. also idk if i could even make them in this neka.

speaking of which here it is

i will be back with more ocs sometime maybe. for now enjoy these guys

[johnathanthestupidpoet69]

the most intro post (im really cool istg)

greetings, i am johnathan, man of many names (call me johnny, jay, john, budget beatles member, ect.)

im a minor so pls no asking for money or just being weird

im also pan and transmasc and use any pronouns, you can find my pronouns page here

@johnny_seawater • Pronouns.page

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the life series!! main subject of this blog ngl (minimal understanding of lore tho)

hermitcraft (forever a mumbo, scar and grian stan but trying to watch impulse, skizz and gem more)

empires (watching season 2 from jimmy's pov rn and am going to watch lizzie's of season 1 over the summer)

alien stage (IVANTILL MY BELOVED) (round 6 broke me)

double hearted/ddvau (oh i look forward to this every month)

heartstopper (so exicted for the movie)

moriah elizabeth (rainbowssssss)

cartyn and connie gaming (next time my cat has babies im calling one horchata purcel)

pokemon (my favs are snom and slyveon. i mostly just stare longingly at all the cool 151 on ebay that i cant afford)

rumble pack (ok this is a new one and i dont know the lore but i watch the podcast)

i do not know what the source material for the marauders is but i keep seeing skits of it on tiktok so that (also have read harry potter but fvck jkr)

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musiccccccccc

the beatles, will wood, lemon demon, the rolling stones, the smiths, blur, the cure, sorry ghost (WORLDS COOLEST INDIE BAND) tv girl and the songs from alst (we love kpop with a side of doomed yaoi/yuri/a straight ship that's somehow very gay)

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people i would sell my soul for (if i had one)

@atlas-fennec ATLAS MY POOKIE. BEST EDITOR ON YT (go sub to him he's @FenncEditz)

@gaylorswiftt bestie fr fr (also music recs for DAYS /pos)

@kitab00m101 my pesky bird sibling. wonderful soul all round

@fist-full-of-feathers i am his strange tumblr son

@howmanyholesinswisscheese i believe we are married?

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tagssss

#johnny yaps- a general yapping/random post tag

#johnny writes- when im linking a new fic or writing poems bc why not

#stupid poet indeed- more poems

#johnny and his chesire cat- posts about my cats (one of which is called chesire) (i post about her most)

#good god- i mean i got tumblr to read ddvau, you have to expect a little thirsting

#orbis non satis est- my latin posts

#asktheguyinthefishnets- ask tag

Blinkies I stole from the internet

[glareandgrowl]

(Sorry in advance if you're on mobile. This isn't going to look right but just know it's a three way polyphony. OK? OK cool) To the arms of her ​Angel, Angel or demon? Angel of Music Angel of Music Still he calls her You denied me I denied you Luring Turning from true beauty Turning from true beauty ​her back from the ​grave, Angel or Angel of Music Angel of Music ​dark seducer? Do not shun me My protector Who are you, strange Come to your strange Come to me strange

Angel? Angel! Angel!

This better not destroy itself if it isnt on a full monitor I swear-

So yeah if you haven't read the fic I posted yesterday I'm on a massive "Every-five-years-Phantom-of-the-Opera" kick and am swamped with thoughts of this play 24/7. Not including listening to the entire soundtrack at least four to five times a day. And ofc, as I am wont to do, I am mixing my hyperfixations and present you with THIS! Not an AU, just a very strong imagination of if Class 78 put on PotO and Taka was the Phantom :0

This polyphony, along with the one in Notes before Prima Donna are one of my favorite bits of music in general. Its so good. (Its Wandering Child/Bravo Monsieur idk where the one song ends and the other begins)

[vaggietheangel]

Could you do Platonic headcanons for Alastor and Charlie

Hey there hun! 🩷

Alastors original plan was to manipulate Charlie. A sheltered princess with the attention span of a gold fish? Too easy. He tricks her with magic song and dance. To make sure she doesn't notice the chaos he causes in the hotel.

Alastor uses to enjoy kicking Charlie when she was down. Calling her a gullible fool for believing demons could change. He stopped when she cried. He wanted to make her anrgy not sad.

Eventually Alastor grows to care for Charlie. It's hard not to like her, with her puppy dog like personality. Even the most cold hearted overlord couldn't hate her.

Alastor admires Charlie's positive attitude. Where his smile is fake and cynical, Charlie's is warm and genuine. He likes to make her laugh with dad jokes.

Charlie sees the good in Alastor. Whenever he offers to make jambalaya for everyone at the hotel, she gets excited. It shows that he can be friendly and generous.

Charlie and Alastor bond over old musicals. Charlie introduces him to new Broadway. He thinks most of it is awful pop music. But he dose think Hamilton is ok.

Charlie brings Alastor to see my fair lady. He loves it. She then suggests he take Rosie to see it. She knows what those two enjoy.

Alastor and Charlie get matching suits one day. They ask the other hazbins who wore it better. Charlie won.

Charlie teaches Alastor ways he can use his magic without hurting people. She shows him it could be used for entertainment.

Charlie encourages Alastors jokes no matter how unfunny they are. She hopes that he will become a comedian and give up the overlord life.

Charlie believes that Alastor can become a better person. She reminds him of his mother in heaven that misses him. If he ever wants to see her again then he needs to make an effort to be redeemed.

Charlie is an awful cook so Alastor teaches her. He's patient with her, and super harsh with everyone else. If she messes up he just helps her. He has a soft spot for her.

Charlie was the one who supplied Alastor with his own raido tower in the hotel. She wants all her guests to be comfortable.

Alastor teaches Charlie how to fox trot and the charlston.

[catholic-character-tournament]

Round 3 - Catholic Character Tournament

Propaganda below ⬇️

Gabriel

Well he's an angel so I'm taking him being catholic as canon. There are a lot of themes in the game that point to catholisism specifically.

He's so fucking funny. he listens to nine inch nails and quotes one of the songs in a fight basically "fight me like an animal". he and v1 kind of have this yuri thing going on. he has an official bodypillow. hes a metaphor for being excommunicated and no one gets him like me and my friends do

The *true* Catholic experience is leaving the church and having a gay awakening, ask anyone

its debatable if Gabriel truly believes he's "the one true savior" or is mocking the idea of it

ok im actually gonna write some gabe propaganda bc despite what you may expect from a game called ULTRAKILL theres a lot to be said about his character and how catholicism is represented

Gabriel is a genuinely caring person who struggles to square his desire to help people with his duty as an archangel. He's the only one in Heaven trying to make things better for those in Hell, but his faith is used to manipulate him into committing atrocities against the people he used to protect (see the "TRAITOR" mural in 4-2)

he only realizes his mistakes after losing everything and being sentenced to death, but he still decides with only a little time remaining to try and make things right. for the sake of spoilers i will just say that the measures he takes are... extremely drastic and very enjoyable. i just really like the idea that even facing the end of all living things, no matter how steep your crimes, it is never too late to fix your mistakes. you are never unworthy forgiveness.

hes also SO FUCKING GAY for this dumb little robot. it mauled him so hard he tasted his own blood and he fell in love right there. theres no way this guy has a normal healthy relationship to pain he is soooooooooo fucked. i love him. please vote for Gabriel "patron saint of gay lapsed catholics" Ultrakill !!!!!!!!

Shadow

In sonic destruction (the AI generated fan thing snapcube made a while ago) shadow was catholic or something which I think is reallyyyyyyy funny

Ok listen. I know this is a stretch but hear me out. He says “oh my God” in the Twitter takeovers so we know this is a possibility. I see him as a Christ-like figure because I saw his whole confrontation with Mephiles and was like “this is a thing that happened in the Bible??” and the pose Mephiles shows him in is literally like a crucifixion and Mephiles is meant to be a demon / false prophet reference. And also he’s called a demon in Shadow The Hedgehog 2005 then the guy who calls him that is like “I was wrong I’m sorry” and that also reminds me of a thing with Jesus in The Bible. But the biggest reason is his whole thing with Maria cause I think he’d come to earth and hear Ave Maria once and convert to Catholicism idk he’s like we’re comforted by a female familial figure named Mary sometimes called Maria?? And her color is blue????? Heck yeah I’m in because I Will Cry. Also feel free to share this as propaganda obv even if he doesn’t get in the bracket just. It’s funny.

I feel like he’d battle a lot with being seen or portrayed as a demon and how the aliens he’s related to very much look and act like demons idk lmao- and also I feel like confession would just be good for him I think he needs it for his mental health

There is a debate on the lovely website tunblr that Shadow T. Hedgehog is an allegory for Jesus Christ.

He is Jesus, idk what to tell you. He lived, he was sealed away, he was awakened again and deemed the ultimate lifeforms, he’s angry but not evil, does what he believes is best for people and the world at any given time. Total loser.

[thebunniesgrim]

helluva boss’ humor really trips me up sometimes  

(long post like really long post i go off)

Because sometimes it plays with hell's society and makes funny jokes like the HR joke in Spring Broken. One thing that sticks out like a sore thumb is when it makes jokes or points fun at prudes in the universe. Which btw I don’t think this bad or anything it’s just something that pulled me personally out of the show. It’s still funny at the end of the day but!  

Like the normalcy of death, swearing, sex, innuendos and all that. like jokes that would make you or me pause for a second wouldn’t be such a deal to them and vice versa is funny. Honestly the M&M’s being in a loving relationship in hell as a joke is funny  

But the thing that trips me up is the way some demons in universe react to the jokes doesn’t make any since. I understand their reaction is a joke, but why did they have that reaction anyway? for example  

In the LooLoo Land episode a good joke was when Octavia said she was going to be sick then Moxxie panics going through different medications and pulls out a bunch of syringes full of morphine just to casually throw them into a baby stroller when Octavia says she wasn’t really sick. Hilarious and it shows the human and demon side of moxxie love it. Although in the same episode Blizto says he isn't a day hooker and the lady walking by judges him and he calls her a prude. Funny yes! But why does she care like girl he has a whole gun and that’s what you choose to be concerned about? Ok. I understand her being shocked is the joke but why is she? In a place where being a hooker is possibly the most normal thing to them as being lawyer is to you or me. Why such a strong reaction?  

(Stolas has green screen arms lol)

Even the newest Mammon ep in Fizz’s “two weeks' notice or whatever it's called” song when he say “spending life bent over with your fist in my ‘A’” and the crowed is like shocked or put off by it like sure maybe they just weren't expecting it but he literally says bent over and even shakes his little imp ass at them while setting up the joke. It could have also been that they were surprised he censored himself. I don’t know, do you know?  

Also, I must say hell born demons don’t have to be always ok with sex jokes. A little verity never hurts anybody. just Like Moxxie not very violent or having his limits is fine and also Striker being uncomfortable or not liking that everyone makes sex jokes at his expense is kind of funny it's of the same caliber of funny that the M&M’s gimmick has. I also think he doesn’t like the sex jokes because he doesn’t have control of the situation (or Stolas, Moxxie, and Fizz just aren't his type who knows lol) he was more than ready to diddle Biltzo’s holes if it meant he’d join Striker. Also, he didn’t seem to mind the other imps fawning over him even if he did kick that one girl in the face. Kind of like a you can look but don’t touch kind of thing. He likes or deals with the jokes until he can't control the situation and it's like come one dude, I'm trying to kill you cower before me plz :( you feel me? Like that makes since because it can be explained away with, their character but seeing as it’s not a social norm so when others who we don’t know and are supposed to show the status quo do it, it’s a little bit weird you know?  

This also applies to Helluva Boss in general not just jokes. It’s honestly hard to tell what's allowed in hell and what isn't sometimes even for jokes because you know how a lot of people were weirded out at the kid being at the clown pageant and everyone is like “dude its hell they don’t have the same type of morals as we do” but also have people in the show react to sex or taboo stuff like it's weird you know? Like yes, I expect hypocrisy in the world of hell like a whole “rules for thee but for me” kind of thing. It is hard to stay true to that when the rules aren’t enforced?  because one second, you’ll have Loona and Blizto making fun of Moxxie for being “fat”, but you also want me to care when Mammon calls Fizz fat. I'm supposed to take Loona beating up Blizto as a joke but once Stella raises a hand to Stolas, I'm supposed to be like oh no abuse! 

Speaking of abuse. Mammon is just Blitzo cranked up to eleven. They are practically the same character given what the show tells us. What Blitzo does to Moxxie is the same thing Mammon does to fizz only cranked up to nine. Mammon says things that make Fizz worry I.e. “ready to reclaim your win another year... I saw your competition and it's pretty stiff, right? You are going to have try extra hard” remember in “The Harvest Moon Festival” ep where Blizto says “now just remember your rep with the in laws is on the line here so, no pressure at all you totally will not make an ass of yourself in front of everyone important in your life” he totally did that on purpose. How about when Mammon calls Fizz a “a bit chungo”? blitzo in seeing stars “you know it wouldn’t kill ya to put a salad in your body every now and then” and he says it meaner. He even encourages Loona to also call moxxie fat so while it’s still Loona doing it Blizto not telling her to chill out or something and there by condoning it, but he has the nerve to clutch his stupid little pearls (also blitzo isn't Wareing his mom little necklace thing in ep) when Mammon does the same thing.

The fuck is that face for you slimy little bitch?  

Mammon says sexually charged stuff to Fizz that is very obviously making him uncomfortable but disregards it like its nothing? “The more they’ll want a piece of you they can home and fuck! Don’t you want that Fizzy? to be fucked?” Then Fizz said no, and he disregarded it. Blizto in Murder Family, Harvest Moon, Truth seekers, Ex's and Ohs when he makes a big deal about someone having sex with both Moxxie and Millie and then making a big deal at the fact that he, Moxxie and Millie have had sex with the same person also maybe Ozzie's when he says he watches the M&M get it on but it's hard to gaze if Moxxie’s reaction was surprise, disgust or both. Mammon calls Fizz a “a stupid little [HONK]” Blizto calls Moxxie “a fucking disgrace” in Unhappy Campers but to be fair I make it an active effort to forget that ep is canon so. Mammon puts Fizz in a situation he can't handle, which leads to a panic attack. Blizo in the first ep Murder Family where Moxxie doesn’t want to kill Martha because he doesn’t want to kill a mother and ruin a family and is openly hesitant and uncomfortable about it causing him to have a small panic and mess up the mission at first. Mammon tells fizz to get his shit together with the underlying threat of firing, terminating, or worse. Murder family Blitzo says “But if you ever pull a stunt like this again, I will fuck you and your wife”. Both BLizto and Mammon treat Fizz and Moxxie all buddy buddy when they do stuff, they want but when they don’t comply or might not do something they don’t like they get mean or aggressive. They only main differences is that Moxxie can talk back to Blizto in a way and fizz can't. Also, Fizz actually quits, and escapes his horrible boss.  

I know that the pilot isn't cannon but it’s the blueprint of the characters and Blizto being abusive to moxxie sexually and verbally being a constant throughout the pilot and the canonized show is just... icky 

The show will tell me that imps and hellhounds are at the bottom of society but also have them stand up to the deadly sins like it no big deal. Loona tried to fight Beelzebub, Crimson tried to bribe and blackmail Asmodeus, Fizz stands up Mammon (as he should but Mammon could have literally tuned him into a smoothie) like the deadly sins are the next things to gods and these low-level nobodies are trying to square up. Not only does it make the deadly sins look like total wusses, but it also makes hellhounds and imps look more powerful than they are. Striker saying royals' step all over imps and treat them horribly and other than stella literally throwing Pringles and referring to him as “this one”

but Stolas literally uses Pringles as like a phone stand in Seeing Stars so.... 

The only ones who we’ve seem treat the imps like that on a regular basis are other non-royal hell born demons like the twins in Mammons ep. The lady and her kid in the doctor's office in western energy, the hellhound bodyguards in The Circus and even other imps like how Millies family treat Moxxie because he’s traditionally strong, or how striker thinks that he and blizto are far better then they’re own kind. Sure, the imps are butlers, purse accessories, and work on farms to feed the other rings. Other than the farm thing other demons do too from what we’ve seen. Also, from what we have seen, the royals are so detached from imps it seems like Strikers’ biggest problem is other demons themselves. The only royal we see talk down to imps is Stolas. Stella, Andrealphus, Paimon, never says much about them or even addresses them in any kind of way that’s outright negative, it’s more or less just plain indifference. I mean even the 7 deadly sins (that we’ve met so far) don’t say anything about imps in a derogatory way mammon doesn’t, Bee calls Blitzo “Imp boy” but not in a mean way, and Asmodeus call Moxxie “little imp” which seems more teasing than mean.  

Ok look if I'm to take the hell hierarchy seriously then please play by your rules. I-ok so like are the sins a force to be reckoned with or not? Because they just seem like regular demons but bigger. You're telling me the second blizto get nabbed by the DORK agents Stolas is out here cracking necks and summoning himself in blood to save him 

But nothing was done to save fizz?  

“It was hostage situation” ok and? Asmodeus is a sin he could have pulled a Stolas and posseted one of Crimsons goons and shot or incomposite striker and crimson. You have almost infante power and you can't save your boyfriend and work colleague? And if demons can't be possessed then send Stolas in exchange for the crystal. Crimson doesn’t know about Stolas, and it would surprise him stolas can turn into his big bird form in hell and did in Seeing Stars. ALSO why is everyone just standing up to and trying to pick fights with the Sins? Like guys I get it I really do but please realistically you're going to get smooshed like bug 

I'm constantly being told that Stolas and Blitzo can't be together while Beelzebub and Asmodeus can be with Vortex and Fizz. With no real in show reason as to why? You can address its hypocrisy all you want but you still never gave a reason as to why one is ok and other isn't. Stolas is Royality and can't date outside his rank? And the 7 deadly sins are of a different rank than him so it's different. How so? Why does Asmodeus need it to keep him and fizz a secret? if a god was dating a regular person, what could you possibly do about it? Also, if Asmodeus needs to keep his relationship a secret, then why doesn’t Beelzebub? If it because Beelzebub’s relationship corresponds to her sin how so? How is dating someone not of your rank gluttonous or indulgent? Unless Bee is a serial dater, and I don’t think she is how so? Also, Asmodeus dating Fizz does correspond to his sin he’s the over seer of lust and lust doesn’t stop at rank or class. If them being romantic is the problem, then they could lie and tell everyone that him and fizz are just fuck buddies or they're in an open relationship where they are ok with each other sleeping around but they don’t do it. They’re already business partners; it wouldn’t be a stretch if the literal ruler of lust would want to sleep with someone regardless of their rank and whether or not they work for them. Plus, they do openly say they are fucking each other while Ozzie's workers are near so them having sex isn't the problem.  

Ok so like ya’ll know the live action Grinch movie? And you know that one part where the grinch is the holiday chair mister and the who's are giving him a bunch of food even after he's full and his face is full of food, but they keep shoving more in his mouth? Yeah, that is what watching helluva boss is like sometimes you know?   

It's like a barrage of information or nothing 

Anyways  

this show is ride and then some lol granted this doesn’t really make or break the show for me honestly, it's just that the more the show tells me one thing it’ll go through hell (heh) to make it, so it doesn’t matter anymore, and it only brings up more questions. Like if something isn't allowed then make it so don’t just tell me oh that’s not allowed but is but it’s a problem but I'm not going to tell you why or what the problem is just trust me look at the cute couples don’t look anywhere else don’t worry about it  

I know you’re probably asking yo why are you questioning it I'm just a confused fan and I want the show I like to make since is that such a tall order? 

[starboy-at-the-disco]

hi ccan you tell me more about Subject A and Subject B. cause I looked through their tags on your blog and um. 👁️👁️👁️👁️ interested

Hai this ask got lost somehow but I FOUND IT so hello yes I’d love to talk about my special interest

So subject A and subject B are characters from the idkhow arg/concept albums, they are unwilling test subjects of an evil corporation called tellexx and basically tellexx uses them to invent time travel and then go through time performing propaganda music to brainwash people. There is VERY VERY LITTLE canonical information about the subjects as people but we do know that their real names are Dallon and Ryan (just like the band members) and we know that the white shadow (the ghost thing in the videos) was sent by tellexx to monitor them throughout time. We also know the subjects are being drugged using sugar pills but can presume the drugs aren’t affecting B as much as they are affecting A or B is not being given the same amount as A based on B’s general vibe in the videos. Also it seems B is the one who administers tests on A sometimes (ex. New invention and diatt) which is possibly real to why he’s being given less drugs? Thats all stuff from the first too albums though, uh gloom division gets more complicated. The subjects get separated, A gets moved to a new program called the gloom division and basically tellexx turns him into a personification the sin of pride ? And that’s like all we know. I have a lot of thoughts on gloom div but I’m gonna mostly stick to razz because my gloom div interpretations get kinda out there lol. Uhhh I think that’s all the canonical information we have about them?

So basically I made it my life’s mission to make up elaborate lore for them and I’ve written a ridiculous amount of fanfics about them. Also I have several OCs in the tellexx universe to fill out the cast a little more, and like the subjects are basically my OCs too at this point because their is little to no canonical charactieztion for them (aside from song lyrics which are vague at best). Ok so let’s talk about the subjects.

I stick the subjects around age 20 when they get kidnapped and then around 24 when they start actually successfully time traveling. Subject A was raised in a doomsday cult and had very abusive parents. He was super sheltered and rarely left the house. When he was 19-20 he decided to run away and tellexx found him after that. Subject B’s dad was abusive and he ended up getting kicked out when he was around 17, he was homeless for a while but he was living with a friend at the time of his kidnapping.

Subject A is autistic and gay, he’s also on the acearo spec and genderfluid but he doesn’t find that stuff out until after escaping tellexx. His special interests are stuffed animals, space, and cats (with a big emphasis on stuffed animals lol). He’s extremely clingy to anyone who shows him affection and I play around a lot with the idea that he age regresses on occasion as a trauma response. (But obviously neither he nor subject B have the language to know that that’s what’s happening)

Subject B is bi and also autistic, he is also on the acearo spec cuz I said so :3 his special interest is the ocean and sea creatures. He has anger issues and major major trust issues. Him and A are very codependent and they both have issues with separation anxiety. He has a history of being violent with tellexx employees and it takes a while for them to get him to cooperate but once he does he’s relatively easy to get to do what they want.

Anyways now to some of my OCs, rapid fire addition

Dr. Adalia (aka Dr. addy): the subjects main handler/tellexx issued therapist. Her job is to keep them compliant and basically gaslight them until they act like good little tellexx robots. She’s super fucking manipulative ‼️

Gloom: a clone of subject A (not the mannequin I made up gloom b4 the mannequin existed ok), he’s the replacement they give B after A has to go get turned into a demon or whatever. Gloom has been watching the subjects on security cameras for like a year to learn A’s mannerisms and stuff and over that span of time got parasocially obsessed with the subjects. He looks like Dallon from the what love music video and he’s very special to me.

Mr. Cain: glooms handler. He sucks we hate Mr. Cain >:[

Rose: breezy’s character from gloom division. Subject A was in love with her b4 he got got by tellexx (?) and now she’s involved with tellexx in some way and it’s breaking A’s brain. Yeah idk about her rlly yet

Dolly: A’s new handler during gloom div :3 she, well not actively participating in the tellexx torture stuff, is complicit in all of it well insisting it’s not her fault and she didn’t realize tellexx sucked so bad until she was too far in to quit. Her and A get into a super weird toxic sort of relationship :( it is hashtag bad

Ok so that’s my tellexx universe. I could probably go more in depth but that’s my attempt at giving a basic run down. 👍👍👍👍👍

[nerves-nebula]

I know this might be kinda stupid but. do you have any music recs. specifically of the child abuse variety because I'd be very interested in that.

*sweats* ok so here's the thing- I have a playlist called "Abuse" and its full of music that is either explicitly about abuse, related to abuse thematically, or just has Abuse Vibes to me (some of which is likely inexplicable to other people)

im also kind of self conscious about my taste in music, cause sometimes it's like. i dunno. the steven universe soundtrack or a fnaf song i really like. and thats CRINGE! and really any genre of song can be about Child Abuse so it's like. idk if you'll like any of the things i recommend.

THAT BEING SAID, here's a selection i guess!! because I'm flattered you would even ask haha. a lot of these are pretty well known already tho so idk how helpful this will be. anyway this got hella long so. under the cut!

songs explicitly about or including themes of child abuse/having shit parents/having familial issues:

Guiltless by Dodie

Black by Okkervil River (narrative about a guys girlfriend telling him about her dad sexually abusing her. one of, if not the first, song i ever heard about CSA and it holds a special place in my heart)

The Mute by Radical Face

Ripple Effect by Scott Helman (kinda more about generational trauma & healing if im honest. i dont listen to it as much as the others on this list)

Poplar St by Glass Animals

Daddy Issues by The Neighborhood

Twin Sized Mattress by The Front Bottoms (classic i know)

The Family Jewels by Marina and the diamonds

Family Line by Conan Gray

Christmas Kids by ROAR (ok technically not about the kids but i find the subtext of how the kids are used in this abusive relationship horrific. also, it reminds me of my parents)

Drift Away - Steven Universe (OK I KNOW ITS NOT TECHNICALLY ABOUT THAT BUT TO ME IT'S ABOUT MY MOM. IT TRACKS TOO EXACTLY TO NOT INCLUDE HERE)

Other Abuse songs:

labour by Paris Paloma

This Hurts by Mindless Self Indulgence (my ex wife says i listen to this song to go joker mode and i hate that because i know she means Straight Joker and not Camp Joker but i do really like the song)

I'm your puppet by Gregory And The Hawk

Eric by Mitski (REAL GOOD)

Believe Me by James and the Shame (more about spiritual abuse sort of)

Girl Anachronism by The Dresden Dolls

Thermodynamic Lawyer esq GFD by Will Wood and the Tapeworms

We'll Never Have Sex by Leith Ross (less about abuse and more about, like, a healing relationship. still i think you can easily read into the alluded past abuse or sexual issues going here)

Fuck About It by Waterparks

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want by The Smiths (this is just such an abused person song)

This Hurts by Mindless Self Indulgence (my ex wife says i listen to this song to go joker mode and i hate that because i know she means Straight Joker and not Camp Joker but i do really like the song)

Sex With A Ghost by Teddy Hyde

I Cant Handle Change by ROAR (obviously)

rotting by vivivivivi

rook by sardonica

My favorite "Abuse Vibe" songs (NOTE: some of these songs might be about abuse or toxic relationships but um. im not very smart or good at sorting so. they ended up here):

Take a Slice by Glass Animals (PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS ONE FUCK THE REST OF THIS LIST EXCEPT ANIMALS I LOVE THOSE TWO)

Animals by Stomach Book (SEE ABOVE)

Youth by Daughter

Duck Or Ape by ROAR

Million Dollar Gold Digger (idk what it is about this remix im not even a huge fan of either of the songs its mixing. this is the VIBES part of the rec list i don't have to explain myself)

I'll Be Good by Jaymes Young

Gooey by Glass Animals

Breaking Down by Florence & The Machine

Moby Dick by Jakey

Aurora Borealis by Lemon Demon (hard to justify but this song just brings such vivid "abused kid failing to be normal while hanging out with someone and further isolating themself" vibe. yes im projecting. leave me alone)

The Dismemberment Song by Blue Kid (sometimes you just wanna kill your parents)

I'M GONNA WIN by Rob Cantor (this one just feels like anger and bitterness and being suspicious of anyone who tries to help you. I listen to it when im fucking going through it. its also a bop but you prolly already know that, i think it's pretty popular? idk)

It's Alright by Mother Mother (stereotypical i know)

South Dakota by Jakey (honestly i dunno. i dont even know where south dakota is)

My Blood by Twenty One Pilots (for all you sibling havers out there)

My Play by AJR (my parents arent divorced but man i wish they were. Also, this just brings up very vivid memories for me trying to show my parents things and it is fucking crushing haha)

Best Of You by Foo Fighters (idk just more shit that reminds me of my parents)

The Woods by San Fermin (this one is just very "I should have died as a child"-core to me)

JUVY ft. Julia Bard by Nnamdi Ogbonnaya (this guy is weird and i didnt like his stuff at first but then... i came back... and now he holds a place in my heart)

Grape Gil by Nnamdi Ogbonaya (i think this is my favorite song of his. I nearly made an owl house animatic to it)

Obsession by OK GO

Better Than Me by The Brobecks

ARE WE STILL FRIENDS by Tyler The Creator

Dumb Dumb by Mazie (honestly this one just reminds me of thinking "i hate it here everyone is so dumb" and then maladaptive daydreaming for hours to escape the situation hah)

Stone Wall, Stone Fence by Gregory And The Hawk

Never Wanna Fall in Love With U by Nelward

Another New World by Punch Brothers (this one is such an explicit and straightforward narrative i really can't explain it other than like. the emotions.)

Julep by Punch Brothers (once again, the emotions)

Always Sayin' by The Littles Man Band

A NIGHT OUT ON EARTH by Waterparks

Consequences by Lovejoy

Scum by Lovejoy

SMELLS LIKE TEEN SECRETS by lil boodang (another hard to justify one. idk. it just feels like it ok. sue me)

anyway i'm sure there's more but thats just a quick selection from my Abuse playlist. and by quick i mean you better appreciate this cuz i put way more effort into this than i needed to.

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The other day i was watching how people made fun of the Hazbin trailer and someone uploaded a clip from "Inside Every demon is a Rainbow" to say it was a downgrade and my jaw dropped when i saw that it was true, i always thoght that the "new" H.H had something that made it look worse than the pilot but i couldn't put my finger on it, and now i think i understand the reson.

So, these are the reasons why the new clip looks like a downgrade (in my opinion):

1)The Song.

No matter your opinion on Hazbin, we all agree that "Inside of every demon is a rainbow" is an iconic song. Its not a masterpiece, but it works really great to introduce the show. Maybe its nostalgia talking, but i love this song, i really like how it start slow but then goes into a fast catchy tune as Charlie is talking with enthusiasm about her proyect. The voice actress also is doing an amazing song because she sounds SO energetic and genuine, wich is clearly a sign of how much she loved that job. Its a cringe song, but in a "charming" and pure way, that is very unique and enjoyable when you turn off your brain a little.

Meanwhile, the new one sounds like a generic, forgetable, lifeless Disney song, the only difference is that it has curses and shit. Its like its trying to replicate the other one without understanding what made it so loved.

2) The damn camera movements

The pilot was fast moving, energetic and sometimes there were parts where you couldnt tell what was happening until you paused, but even so, it was easier to digest because the camera was still most of the time, it didnt need crazy movements. There was a million things happening on screen, but at leats the camera had slight movements so your eyes could at least know where your focus should be in (check out the "so all you cartoon porn addictions" part to see what im talking about).

The new one? It shakes and zooms like crazy every time a character takes a step and it makes it hard to the eyes to understand where the fuck they should be looking. Its not even funny, someone WILL get motion sickness.

3) The character designs

Im one of those people who didnt like most of the redesigns, now i understand why: because they dont fix ANY of the problems the original ones had: no less use of red, they still have a shit ton of unecesary details, they still have copypasted body types...

I would say some are WORSE.

Take Charlie, for example; she used to wear a light red shirt with black pants, she would blend a little bit in the background when interacting with it. Now she wears a bright red suit in bright red background and she gets lost EVEN MORE. The only thing they improved was her hairstyle.

4) The animation

Some people say that the animation is good and its just the editing that makes it look bad, but i disagree. Just take a look at the pilot and then the new clip, you will see a clear downgrade.

The old animation was so smooth and expressive, new one is choppy and is afraid of smearframes. Making characters with cartoony propotions look so stiff.

Its like those Sonic games when they used motion capture to animate Sonic and his friends. So they would be literal cartoons animals moving like realistic humans and it sucked.

4) The pilot was visually easier to "diggest" in general

I gotta say, while re-watching the clip of Inside of every demon, the only parts where it was hard to follow were when Charlie interacted with characters with exagerated designs and when she is rapping and there are a lot of fast scenes that ends before you have time to understand what you saw. The rest was just ok.

But in the new clip, it was 90% Charlie jumping around different backgrounds with a drunk camera man and in some part i paused to look at the wall cuz i felt like my eyes were gonna burn if i keep looking.

So thats it, there are some other reasons but these are the most important ones.

Sorry for writting too much, its such that im mad for what they did to a proyect i used to be obssesed with.

Anyway, hope Hazbin gets cancelled in the mid of the first season and the rest became lost media, have a good day 🩷

These are some great thoughts, Anon, thank you. New Hazbin doesn't have much appeal to outsiders, but it looks even worse when held up to the pilot.

"Inside Every Demon is a Rainbow" isn't the best song in the pilot, but it was an excellent song to introduce us to Charlie. It's not an easy one to sing either, but Charlie's singing VA nailed it.

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Y'all ready for my hilariously candid unpopular UMK ranking!

Obligatory preferace that I'm just an opinionated bitch. This selection is overall really strong and I'm very much excited for the live show. I think a lot of these songs will make or break during the live. I also think there is an odd disparity in the obvious budget and set quiality for the 7 music videos. Almost like they had a different line-up and some songs were last minute replacements.

I also did not factor in whether a song would do well in eurovision at all because frankly rn I do not care.

This ranking will also probably change so like who cares, I'm ready to enjoy a great liveshow full of people who give a shit about their art.

Ok, here we go!

7. Vox Populi - Mikael Gabriel

The general sound of this one is fun and easy. Good filler or backgroud music. Like if it came on in shuffle I probably wouldn't skip it. However, the lyrics are like really bad. Especially in context of the seeming general opinion of this man I am seeing. Also, this man is strategically pandering and a. Its not working, b. No on seems to have noticed. The use of Matti and that obviously käärijä influenced face in the music video smacked me on first watch. He is capitalizing and I'm very curious to see what he does with the live. Not excited, just curious.

6. Dancing with Demons - Cyan Kicks

I liked Hurricane better. There its been said. I do enjoy listening to this but I forget about it a lot. It also took me until basically now to kinda remember what it sounds like. Meanwhile I can still think of the Hurricane chorus 2 years later having not listened to it since UMK 2022. I do think Cyan Kicks has a really good fun sound, I just don't vibe with this song all that much.

Also, this bears no weight on my opinion of either song. But I need to call out the hypocrisy I've been seeing online. I've seen so many people comment that they don't like the amount of autotune Sexmane uses in Mania and then go on to say how much Dancing with Demons showcases Susanna's voice. Like...... there is so much autotune on Dancing with Demons. It will not sound like that live. And that's fine, its clearly an artistic choice that fits with their musical style, like Sexmane. But pls just sit with that for a bit before complaining about the, frankly much less, autotune in a rap song. Tangent rant over.

5. Kuori Moi - Sini Sabotage

This is where my ranking will probably swap a lot. This song is really catchy and I ingeneral like this type of music. I call it chill sex. This is also a very fun unserious song and video played straight, and I appreciate that. I am worried about something with vocals this chill live. They're good vocals, but very intentionally monotone and if the staging isn't engaging it might fall flat. This song is mostly at 5th place because I dont have anything bad to say about it, but it doesn't stand out quite as much as some of the others. I adored her interview tho.

4. Paskana - Sara Siipola

This is a great power ballad while still being upbeat. It doesn't drag. The vocals are great. The music video is great even while being very simple. The lyrics and message are really really good too. This song gets stuck in my head a lot and I think it is, on a technical level, the stongest song this year. I really hope the staging supports the song but with how raw and peeled back the vibe of the song is it will be difficult to make staging that is engaging without being distracting.

3. No Rules! - Windows95Man

Pure unashamed 90s nostalgia schlock. This is very much the type of trashy eurodance I enjoy, so home run for me. I think the staging will be very fun, but maybe too much. Or it will be organized chaos like Portion Boys last year. Speaking of, this is definitely this years silly fan fave that will be well received but probably not win, a la Portion Boys and Teflon Brothers. For being trashy eurodance, I do think it is construced very well. It flows and it actually written well, its bad on purpose and it is successful. Is it the most original or masterful, no. It is very enjoyable and fun and low pressure, yes.

2. MANIA - Sexmane

This one gets stuck in my head the most. Good beat, good flow. I really like the sound of the chorus, including the auto tune. The lyrics hold more than I think comes across initially and you can tell Sexmane really connects with this song the way his voice delivers even in the studio version. This is the song that I'm most excited to see live because I wanna know what kind of staging he pulls out. Side note: I think it's really funny that the brother called Sexmane is less sexual musically than the one just called Isaac.

1. Glow - Jesse Markin

This is just a really phenomenally written and positive song. It is really nice to have some good classic rap at a competition like UMK. The flow is impeccable with his rapping too. There's a lot of American artists who can't write that well in english. The message of this song is really uplifting without feeling hollow because it recognizes you gotta actually work at being in a good place. Jessie is someone who knows exactly who he is as an artist and person and that translates into the song. Also Alpaca!

I think the the songs that have the biggest chance of winning are Paskana, Dancing with Demons, and No Rules!

But truly I have no clue how this will go. This is a very evenly matched line-up both in quality and fan reception. The live perfomances will 100% decide the outcome.