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Some reflections about Twisted Wonderland: Endless Halloween Night’s Event

I just finish to see the translation of the Part 1 of the new Twisted Wonderland Halloween event, Endless Halloween Night.

I retake my breath, and rethink about what happened and what could happen next with since the next part will be upload next week (^^!!!!). As a fantasy lover and writer, and also because I love to studies cultures and if, it is possible, to the most ancient roots of the legends, I couldn’t help myself about founding some cultural references in Twst’s Halloween (both last year event and the cards !). I just love this event because of the melting, meeting pot of influence. When I saw the event for the first time, I was amazed by all of the venue, the costumes. All the work, the references, the story... I can only tell a great thank you to Yana (for this event and the all universe ^^). Ins’t just disguises and pretend, it’s about costumes and becoming the ghost/monster/spirit. To make tribute.

I not gonna lie about the fact when I saw the trailers it truly surprised, excited and touched my curiosity at a point that my brain and my imagination had all ready start to imagine what going on  !

The students finally had a peaceful joyful Halloween’s festival and now... What happen to the committee team !? Not like I don’t complain to see one in a while some scary Malleus (he is a dragon and a dark fairy after all!!) but since he literally explose his most agressive side during the Halloween week (Scary Monster main event story chapter and , Cater SSR Scary Costume card)... I am afraid of what will happen, specially we see green lighting in the third and fourth trailer and Sebek look panicked and afraid (?) and Silver is on his guard, ready for fight. Riddle, Ace, Jamil, Floyd... everyone seems to be surprised, unsure of what going on, au aboits... and we see the the committee team members wonderfully scary... 

Something wicked come this way...

So there is some topics and theory linked this Endless Halloween Night’s event that I wanted to share with you...

Okay...so we go....

A meeting-pot of culture and movies 

Right after the upload of the trailer, people talk about that new event will be a reference to Tim Burton’s movie such as Nightmare Before Christmas. Yes it’s quite possible that event will had indeed some Tim Burton’s leitmotifs but it can had also, as in the first event, some Pirates of Caribbean or Mulan’s influences as much to the sequence of  Mount Baltr with (Fantasia 2000) or other scary legends about Halloween. I think, like the first Halloween event it will be a meeting-pot of different Disney movies,  (as exemple, right in Part 1 of Endless Halloween Night, we have a direct reference about the Enchantress’s Mirror in the Beauty and the Beast.)  but also the boys’s respective hometown. The best exemple are the costume itself . Just some exemples: 

 - Sacrabia rewrite the theme of werewolf, a nordic legend. 

- Octovinelle had chosen the exact opposite of the mermaid, the mummy. If there is a lot of kind of mummies around the world, it is more the Egyptian one because of horror novels and movies, and with the mad-scientific’s venue, it can be also a reference to the cabinet of curiosité or  (sorry I don’t know the English word) in the XVIII-XIX where was exposed some strange relics such as dry fairy or mermaid mummies.  

- Diasomnia, which represented, in my opnion the western fantasy with medieval gothic castle, ancient dark legend and western dragon meet the eastern culture with the ryū/lōng. 

- The Pumking Knight is a direct reference to of course Sleeping Hollow’s Headless Knight  and its Irish counterpart the Dullaman but also to Jack O’Lantern with the pumpkin (I will return on that iconic character in few moment) .

 In Jade SSR Halloween card, we discovered who Halloween is celebrate in the Land of Pyroxnese, Hot Sand Lands, Harvest contry, under the sea or in the Valley of Thorns. It’s a true moment of where everyone are gathering, sharing in order to give to the visitors, and for themselves (!) a good and fun week. And it on this different Halloween traditions that I will talk about the next topic: 

About Halloween scary origin and the culprit 

In both Jade and Lilia’s Halloween cards, we see that in their hometown, Halloween is celebrate, at the first look as a joyful feast. In the Coral sea, the merfolk play music, in the Valley of Thorns the fea lit up wood-carved lanterns that represent a ancestor, are dressed at the image of that elders and dancing around a fire of joy in the Royal Castle’s courtyard while a scarecrow is burned (yes it’s certainly make reference to the scene in Sleeping Beauty, where Maleficent’s minions celebrated their victory but ins’t all...). When Jade and the Diasomnia’s boy told about that, everyone think these celebration are joyfull one like underwater festival and midnight costumes party. Well as we discovred longside the others, theses two Halloween are everything but not joyful !

In the Coral Sea, if merfolk are playing music it’s for keeping away and apeace the souls and the ghosts of every sailors whom died on sea and can’t move along to the Other Side. Remember in Pirates of the Caraibean At the World’s End,it was Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman’s first task to take care of theses souls and help them to reach safely the Other World. According to sea legend, their is a lot of scary tales about these tourmented ghosts that died during storms whitout hope to see the shore again. 

In the Valley of Thorns, well, we know Lilia’s habit during Halloween, to become more and more dreadfull and scary every years until this famous night where all the inhabitant of the Valley, including Malleus (whom is the most fearfull magician of Twisted Wonderland ! ), were so scared and horrified that the memory of this dreadfull night give them goosebumps and the very trough to speak about frooze them !  But we know also that the Valley of Thorns is the only kingdom in Twisted Wonderland to not having modern technology such as electricity. Since the inhabitant seems to be in majority bieng  fairies and other supernatural creatures, they use magic for their daily needs and for me, this people, this kingdom represented dark magic. Not dark magic as the oppostion of light magic in the shema of Black/Evil vs White/Good magic. But Dark magic that came form the Dark Ages, where people worship and feared the forces of Natures and belived in the power of the supernatural being such as faiires or fea. The Ancients Ways....

There is a lot of reference about it trought Personal Stories, Voices Lines of the Diasomnia’s boys but just for stay focused on Halloween, I will take the scarecorw that is burned in the Castle’s Square.   

We all saw this image of a flamming scarecrow during Carnaval,  or Halloween but why we burn it ?  Well, it a device for thanks the spirit/gods (?) for the haverst but most of all a way to bannish bad things away.

[note : it’s also why witches were burned alive since the XV century (by the way it’s during that century that the Witch’s Hunt begun, not at the Medieval Age!!!!!)]

During Medieval Age and before, people were most fermers, people who live form the earth by product grain, vegetables or by raise aniamls such as sheeps, pigs or cows. The time where Halloween siting is the same as the end of the Harverst which had began at the begning of Summer. People garthered for return the product and the animas to the stockstore and the stables and the cold days comes more and more quickly. The cold began to froze the grass and the flesh, leafs falls, days became more and more short... With the Coming of winter, it is the return of the dark days. The sun, bearer of life and warm, will dispeare form the sky  until the 21 of December (Yule, Christmas) where it rise again. But until that day, the periode beteween the last days of october to mid december are darkest, coldest moments of the years where in the night the darkest being such as dragons, fae, monsters, witches or werwolf rules over the forests or around the lakes, where the mist invade the moors under the cold wind that annunciated winter. It the time where the nature lament. Yes. it’s the time where the ancient fear and the inhabitant of the World of Night return on earth alongside with the spirit of dead.   

One of the origin of the name “Halloween“ is “All Soul’s Eve/Night”. Every where around the world, every cultures had a season of the year where the spirit of the Other World came haunted this one (in Japan it’s during summer). In Europe it’s in november for the reason that I explain jsut above.    

Most of our modern Halloween’s traditions came form the Britain Island and before that form Irland, (where came also most of the tales about the fea ;-) ). A pagan feast is behinf Halloween. It’s Samhain. During that feast, the Clans gathering and celebrate both the end and the begining of the year, the end of the harvest and the memory of the ancestors. I will not talk about to much about it beacuse ins’t totally the main point of that post, (even it’s one of my favorite topics and may be I will post something about in the future), so let the most important of about that feast and even the moemnt where that celebratin happen. It’s said that during that period of the year, the veil between worlds, the Living and the Spirit Worlds, is the finer. The spirit can easly goes between these to edge, haunting, lamenting, wandering around the humans. During that days, ins’t not recommanded to goes out side, specially when during twilghit where the shadow engulf the world before nightfall and mist invaded the standing stones of forgotten tombs like in chapter of The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring with the Barrow-Wights. An other exemple, the two first episode of the fourth saison of BBC’s Merlin illustrated that two side of Samhain and more in particular the dreadful one. If the ghosts of the ancestors and good spirit return among the living, it is all the case of evil ones such as the wraith and ghosts full hate and lust of revenge... or lost souls such as Jack O’Lantern, the ghost of a man who can’t go neither in the Haven or in Hell and whom is cursed to wandering on earth until the end of Times with a turnip litup with a piece of flamming coal ( I pretty sure that our culprit is a kind of Jack O’Lantern or an other lost souls)   

Will-o'-the-wisp, Church Grim... all of this dark creatures are looking on of the soul of the dead, watching on their forever rest for tomb raiders and avoid that the most evil of ghosts disturb the Balance between the Living and the Other World.

The ghosts, wraiths and other dead spirit are not the only dangerous being to wandering during Halloween Night. According to Irish’s tales, if during the 21 of June and Beltain the fairies are, sad and tourmented. (Malleus confirm it in one of his Halloween’s voice lines). And unlike Good Fairy Mother or Thinckle Bell, ALL the fea are dangerous.  Even the action of the most beloven fairy can still harm someone and at the opposite some fea waiting only that a human feel in their trap... (thank goodness, ins’t the case of our two NRC’s favorites fea! ) 

Theory about what will happen next… 

Warning: For this part it’s just my opinions and theories ! Nothing canon !

So redarding all these fact, I really think that the culprit, is a ghost and may be perhaps several ghosts of dead children (we can see is on the event’s title).  

It’s true that Twisted Wonderland is more a teenager and adult world than a children one (both its characters than the audience). Expect , we didn’t so many children in that story. In fact it’s only during the Halloween’s week that we meet children. All of them are playful, full of wonder and joy, delight the fun and love the “nice“ monsters of NRC. Full of innocence and dream but..   as we know, children (and Grim) sometime want always that the fun never end and in that case the worst and dreadful scenario can happen whiteout realising that it’s hurt. The two best exemple that I present are the character of Lily in Pandora Heart or (and I think it is the best exemple) Skull Kid in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. 

Since Twisted Wonderland, through every characters’s background there alway  a sad, depressing and dark story, it will be not surprising to learn that the culprit/culprits is the ghosts of dead children that are died during a Halloween feast and never finished the party and so can’t reach the Other World peacefully. As we can see in Ghost Marriage’s event, ghost are all-powerful on the livings. Even Lilia had been frozen when Eliza slapped him and we know how powerful Lilia is. So a vampire-fairy and a dragon-fea ins’t a big deal. 

As Ashen-Eye said to Stella in Ancient’s Magus’s Bride, the no-human (fairies, supernatural creature) and the spirit (elemental, ghost, dead) heard all the words and wishes of human. Words had power and who know the true meaning of a word or a name, can use it at his will. [ both fairies and dragons are masters in that domain) The control of the True Name of thing/being is the base of magic in both folklore and fiction (Ursula K; LeGuin’s Earthsea, Tales form Earthsea, Spirited Away etc...). So imagine that these children ghosts, than wandering between the worlds, heard a certain monster-cat and a ginger Heartslabyul’s first years wish that Halloween night continue forever... 

Well... Be careful for what you wish for because the surperatural begins can argued that wish but most of the time, and I will not make a list of exemple because there to many of it, the wish will goes for the worst and turn into a living nightmare. 

If it’s how it’s happen, so why Malleus, Jack, Cater, Kalim, Vil and the other look like (gorgeously) demonic, evil and scary ? 

For some reason, I have the feeling it’s linked some how to what happen during the night where the Halloween committee’s members had chasing away, haunted and scared the Magicam Monsters.

Just like Jade and Vil said, at Halloween there is also scary ghost and a lot people misunderestimated that fact. It’s why, during that particular night where they bannsihing away the foolish Magicam Mosnter, all of them become the monster that they wearing the costume and the plan was a success !

By the way I will said in my opinion it was Diasomnia (they not even pretend to act like monster !), Heartslabyul (being buried alive is a true phobia and  the worst and dreadful death ever),Savanclaw (not being able to move and Leona’s Unique Magic) that was the most dreadful and scary.

So once again imagine that our ghosts culprits see Deuce, Cater, Jack, Jade, Azul, Vil, Epel, Jamil, Idia, Lilia and Malleus, pretending at different degres of acting, being the scary monsters, they will enjoy it and in their wicked desire to keep Halloween night forever they will take “the monsters“ into their twisted, dark and endless Halloween world... for more realism and fun.

Possession, transformation, amnesia and fake memories, I really dunno how/what it could be but I a hunted per sure that  all elven of them, will become the monsters/ghost they pretended to be and during in the previous event they defending that Halloween place/venue that became  a real place, no more a decoration...

AND I FEAR THAT THEY WILL NOT ACTING AT ALL !!!! 

Why I have the big feeling that our recurring team will had to fight the committee members order that the return to their normal self ?

Well it’s true that this Forever Halloween World is in black/white just like the memories after the overboot’s battle but it’s can be just a artistic choice. But what it sure it’s take the same path than both the overbolt and the Halloween’s dreadful night.  The firsts locations we discovered is a graveyard (Heartslabuy Skeleton’s venue), a cove with at the horizon a ship wreck (Savanaclaw Pirate’s Venue, an abandoned lab (Octovinelle Mummies’s venue) and a spooky, haunted, gothic like castle which look like the main building of NRC (may be Ramshackle resident since it is the Main Alley that our ghosts resident, Grim (probably Yuu too) chasing away the last Magicam Monsters). 

Oh jeez...

 If it is really the case... I am afraid about Diasomnia because even as their normal self, Malleus and Lilia are enough scary and dangerous !!!! I mean, when they chasing away the magicam monster they didn’t pretended to be !!    

Truly, except , there is no event in that story where we don’t must save the day, confront bolt monster, a crazy hunter teacher/students (Vargas’s Camp/Bean Day)... without the dorm leader’s overbolt and the invitation to hell ! (Ignihyde and Diasomnia’s arc)

But I love that universe ! ^////^

It’s was a very long post. Hope you enjoy it :-)

Good day/night to all of you :-)

I totally assuming my love for dragons/ryū, Malleus Draconia and Diasomnia Dorm !!! XD ^^