#roleslaying with roman theories

[talldren]

Okay, can we talk about how fantastic all the other side's little cameos in Roleslaying with Roman are??? Janus is a literal snake oil salesman. LILYPADTON. They are wonderful!!

Also extremely interesting from a theory perspective.

I mean. So far they've all been animal themed. If that keeps up, we could learn more of the light sides' symbol animals (since we really only see the dark sides', aside from the Lilypadton Redux Incident). Plus, how will Remus be incorporated into the story? Will he be just an octopus-themed side character? Or will the Sander Sides brother dynamic prevail, and he'll be Roman of Reston's long lost evil twin? If we see an orange, angry character with an intriguing name, I'll riot.

I know that Sanders Sides and RSwR are not connected. But. Thomas seems like the kind of wonderful, evil person to hide little foreshadowing tidbits amidst the Whimsy. So I'll just keep an eye out, for fun.

Also... maybe I've gone off the deep end here... but look at RSwR Janus' design:

A purple potion that doesn't look like any other one and is held far away, a red potion and green potion in the same kind of jar, two blues, one yellow, an Orange, and finally a pink one.

Is the "yellow" potion just a second orange one? From what I can see, yeah.

Does this theory imply a pink side? Yes.

Do I make any sense right now? Not at all, but I don't care.

Here, have a Lilypadton. For whimsy.

[loganslowdown4]

All The Details of Roleslaying With Roman Episode 10 Frogtown, Baby!

Plus! Did anyone else immediately think of Patton giving Roman pasta when this episode is literally about FROGS 👀 who love pasta?? *cough*redux*cough*

[thevioletcobra]

So I realized something when I was coloring in the first few frames for one of my last posts; Dorian has a tail. Which is something that I didn’t notice in my first four watch-throughs. So it got me thinking. Dorian looks like he might be a tiefling. And his skin is purple, just like Noise’s.

Which leads me to this theory; Dorian is Noise’s father.

Now of course, just because there are two purple tiefling in the series doesn’t mean that they’re related, that would be like me assuming Flow and Djembe were siblings. No, I have a few more things that fit together for this.

One, the shapes of the horns: Noise’s horns point inwards in a sort of reverse-arch, crown-like shape, while Dorian’s are also in an arched shape, just pointed outwards.

Two, the other citizens of Reston being reoccurring: first we just had Burgundy Red’s franchise in the beginning of chapter three, but I did believe that to be a coincidence. That is, until chapter four, which was all about the orphans and Tenpenny Samuel coming back into the limelight. I think it’s only fair to assume that Dorian will also reappear for a reason later on in the series.

Three, the star theme: in “The Fey Ballet”, we see that Noise’s outfit is heavily based on the stars, with the pattern over his half-mask, as well as the insides of his sleeves and ruffles. Not only that, but when he dances, it is described as making Noise “[look] like a comet, as he was followed by a streamline of glittering stars”. Now, that may have been to fit in with the sun and moon motif that Roman and Youngblood had, but I think there may be a bit more to it. If you recall, one of the only pieces of lore that we got about Dorian was that, at some point before living in Reston, he had travelled through a place called the Astral Sea, which was shown and described as a sea made of stars and “space juice”. I think maybe, based on this, that Noise may have been born on or even possibly from the Astral Sea.

As for why Noise would have ended up in the college, I have two vague ideas. One, much simpler, Dorian thought that being in the sea would be too dangerous for Noise. Though by this logic, he could have just kept him when he went to Reston. My other idea is a bit more heavy. From what I’ve heard of D&D lore, tiefling are mostly shunned by other communities as they’re seen as demons. I don’t know if that’s true, it’s just what I’ve heard. I think this may have factored into why Noise ended up in the college if it is true, as Dorian may have sent him there thinking that it would be a safe place for him, under the impression that the school would let him come home periodically (it didn’t).

But hey, that’s just a theory. A highly stretched, improbable theory.

[vvvrrroooomm]

I was watching an edit of Roleslaying while I was procrastinating getting in the shower and noticed something.

When the shadowed figure ,that most of us assume is the bard king ( by the theme of purple, the lute and Ryker not liking bards or the bard college ), a ring appears on Romans hand. In this vision thing we can assume that he is supposed to be Ryker. So why the ring? We never see Ryker wearing any rings in any of the shots of him, so where did this ring come from? Roman doesn’t wear any rings either?

Usually I have an idea for something like this, but nothing that has any other real evidence is coming to mind. Every idea I’m having is a stretch.

Until I noticed what finger the ring is placed on.

The ring is placed on the index finger on his left hand ( I can assume the left because of shot previous ). You know what rings are placed on the index finger on your left hand?

WEDDING RINGS.

But Romans mom isn’t here? We can assume this is sometime shortly before Roman was born because Aunt Patty looks the same, and she ( and Ryker ) are out adventuring, which you can’t really do when you have a newborn at home.

Most of us assume Romans mother is dead because she went adventuring with Ryker, or that’s what I thought, so why isn’t she here? Ryker is adventuring. Ryker has is wedding ring on. Why isn’t Romans mother here? If Roman sees Patty in this vision, and even a man he doesn’t know, then why wouldn’t he at the least feel the presence of a woman he doesn’t know. Whatever caused the vision is clearly not him. So it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t know their faces, so why wouldn’t he see his mom!

I’m thinking of anything I can, but I only have one idea, and its that Ryker and this presumable Bard King dated at one point but there really nothing that can back that up. It’s probably the dumbest idea I have ever had, also doesn’t explain why Ryker would have the ring on and how Roman is here so I can probably trash that idea. Any ideas? I’m fresh out. Or is this just another one of me overthinking something? Just weirds me out. There’s a close up shot of the hands, and another where the ring disappears, they obviously want us to see it.

Please send me your ideas and anything that I might have missed in any of the episodes that connects back to this. Maybe I can piece something together? I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed, though.

[yugirl]

Im a few episodes behind but I’m starting to wonder if Riker isn’t just Roman’s dad but also his mom

[hope-star27]

Roleslaying With Roman fan fic I'm working on

Title: Who Is My Mom?

This is a story I've wanted to revise and continue for several months now. Hopefully within the next month or so I'll write a new chapter, but I do want to take some time to create an actual planned plot for this so stay tuned.

Summary: Roman is on a quest to find out who his family is. With the help of Youngblood, Noise, and all his friends, will he be able to find the closure he want? Or will it lead to more heart break?

[casey-complains]

I know the argument could be made that the Sides were roleplaying Inside Out and so technically they didn't need to sound like themselves but ooh boy, I watched newest Asides and when Roman appeared I had no idea who he was supposed to be. And when Virgil showed up I literally would have not known it was him if it wasnt the eyeshadow. Like the Sides in the 2016-2020 vids all have very distinct voice inflections and word usage that helps define them as their own unique characters but the only Side whose voice felt distinct and true to themselves was Remus to a degree.

Even when they were "themselves" again, they didnt sound like themselves. It was so bizarre, it was like watching one of those AI deepfake videos.

And as much as I'd like to see the finale, I'm not sure if I want to see it with these versions of the characters. And in regards to this past year's "content" like, yeah I would've loved seeing some lighthearted filler content with the Sides several years back that were non-main series related, but this current year of Asides content has made it increasingly harder not to feel like Thomas is ready to move on creatively from SaSi, but he isn't willing to admit that to fans. Or at least be honest with fans that he wants to pursue other projects and maybe one day return to SaSi to give a finale.

In contrast to other content creators who are honest with their fans that there was a time they created "x content" and now they find it more fulfilling to create "y content", it just feels incredibly shitty for him to string fans along knowing his Sides content does more views than anything else (and im sorry but my toxic conspiracy theory is that there was a genuine spinoff series featuring Sasi!Roman but Thomas scrapped it and "refurbished" the idea to be Roleslaying and misled fans into thinking it was the spinoff sasi series because it would get the sasi fans in the door) and act passive-aggressive when fans express interest in Sasi content since he hasnt outright said anything about his feelings regarding SaSi.

Something of interest to note, Thomas was on a recent Smosh vid a few weeks back and when they did their usual spiel of "what can people expect to find you", he didnt promote Sanders Sides at all, just Roleslaying and his shorts content, which is like,,,, absolutely wild. I know Sanders Sides is on indefinite hiatus but if that doesnt show that he really wants new people who finds him to focus on his ongoing dnd series than SaSi, Idk what will.

i literally have nothing to add, you said it all perfectly

[pulchrasilva]

Have you ever looked at my posts and thought "hey Lucky, what the hell are you talking about"? Well you're in luck(y)!

I present to you my powerpoint on everything you need to know about Roleslaying with Roman! (in theory. idk if my posts will make any more sense actually).

All art and audio is taken directly from the series

Also. Spoiler warning for Roleslaying with Roman (obviously) like major spoiler warning. I'm about to tell you every plot twist that happens in all 9 episodes.

Also like. Sorry if some of it isn't explained explicitly. Maybe you don't know what "Ryker is bardphobic :(" means. My bad

[yourchemicallyimbalancedromance]

(To preface this, this isn’t directed towards all Fanders, just the ones pressuring Thomas to do more even though he’s been consistently putting out videos anyway, even if they aren’t sanders sides related.)

So, I know me posting this doesn’t do much, if anything at all, but it needs to be said. Your favorite content creators do not owe you anything. You have a parasocial relationship with these people. They don’t know you. Thomas doesn’t owe us anything, especially with all the stress he’s been under with his personal life. for example, Thomas is still consistently posting videos for his series “Roleslaying With Roman” yet semi-toxic Fanders continue to pressure him to post sanders sides content. We’ll get a video eventually, at some point. You need to be patient and also aware of where you, as a fan, stand; and where he, as a creator, stands.

I wish Thomas the best honestly, and have no negative feelings towards any other Fanders but this constant pressure I’ve been seeing on TikTok and (sometimes) Tumblr has just been rubbing me the wrong way.

(Btw this isn’t towards people who say things like: “I wish he would post the season finale because I need to confirm my theories about xyz” this is towards people who are genuinely rude and aren’t grateful that we’re getting content in general.)

[lickoutyourbrains]

Roleslaying with Roman theory.

When we get to frog town we're going to meet an NPC who is a frog that is based off of Patton/Lilypadton.

[loganslowdown4]

I love this episode so much!

Here’s last week’s poll! I’m so happy majority votes Melle Vinne!

This week’s poll I voted for Fast Timmy! I’d fight that brat, he can’t outrun me, he thinks he’s so ‘fast’. 😂

And somehow I got first vote, but I inadvertently learned that upload is at 7am EST every Wednesday—

And this episodes question about who would I ask and what? Well, I know that Roman and Youngblood missed out on another chance to talk to Burgundy Redd and I’m hoping in a future chapter they’ll come across her again. Because I just KNOW (feel it in my gut) she has more information that could be enlightening!

And that’s all my notes on this week’s podcast upload! I’m going to be finishing my thoughts and theories on Episode 10 of Roleslaying on YT (Frogtown Baby) soon!

“Roleslaying with Roman” Podcast - Ep. 3 is out now!! Check out what ridiculousness we get up to this week! And thank you for all the support we’ve gotten so far!! 💘  

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/47nJTPvXqdf6gJAnlu31Jk?si=05b508097e97487b

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/roleslaying-with-roman-a-dnd-adventure/id1707109949?i=1000629375000

[northlight14]

Ok so I have a lot of different theories for roleslaying and I realised today and some of them kinda link together so they’re going in the same post. Enjoy!

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Why does Ryker have a bias against bards (pt 1)/why does Roman not know about music?

I’ve talked about this theory before but recent episodes have given me more evidence in favour of it so imma talk about it again. Basically, I think there was a war years ago between the bards and the people of Reston (although I don’t think Reston existed at this point but we’ll get into that.)

The strongest bit of evidence I have for this is what was said to Roman and Youngblood when they entered Fantabulous Neon:

“The score of life was wrestled away from the fiery hands of evil by our glorious bard king. He single handedly defeated ??? With his legendary musical abilities going beyond what any bard could hope for. He has discovered thought this grand trial that he had ascended to godhood. He immediately set off to fix the problems of the world with this newfound power, taking the old ??? Palace and raising it far into the sky to create his enlightened bard’s collage. From on high he saw our worlds ills and went about curing them and created the utopia that we now live in. It has been many years since our king last descended from the collage but he saved our world and would never let it fall into darkness again.”

It’s clear from this monologue that the bard king at some point in time was able to hone and develop his abilities as a bard and soon became corrupt, wanting to gain more power and started the bard collage as a way to essentially groom kids like Youngblood and Noise into following him and brainwashing as many people as possible into worshipping him.

In addition to this, we also have the name of Reston itself. I’m not a music expert. Quite the opposite, I don’t know shit about music other than it sounds pretty so I’m going off of google and what was said in live streams here so if anyone wants to correct me on anything plz do. However, I believe a “rest” in music is a period of time where no music is playing. And considering this was mentioned in a livestream, I’m assuming it will be relevant as I can’t see why they’re bring it up if it wasn’t. So going by this information, Reston is literally a town without music. It’s basically in the name.

Based on this information my theory is that when the bard king was spreading his tyranny and aiming for more and more power, there were people who fought back and this resulted in a war of some kind or at the very least hid away from the bards. These people at some point I think came together and formed what we now know as Reston, the town without music. This is why Roman has never heard of music and why Ryker is so mistrusting of Youngblood when he finds out he’s from the Bard collage. From Rykers point of view, Youngblood could be a spy or something for the bard king. And yes I do believe it’s possible Ryker potentially fought in this war or was one of the founders of Reston, along with Aunt Patty but we’ll cover that in a bit.

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Why is the name “Roman” illegal in fantabulous neon?

This one is one of my shorter theories and I’ll admit there isn’t loads of evidence to back it up but I still think it’s an interesting thought. Basically I think that the name of the Bard King is Roman. The reason for this is because I think it’s odd that Roman of all names is illegal. I did some Googling and as far as I could tell there isn’t any particular meaning to the name that would make it criminal worthy to the bards. Even Noise admits that he doesn’t know why the name is illegal. The only explanation in my mind is that the Bard King made the name Roman illegal so that he was the only one with that name or something. Or it was the name he was once known as before becoming the bard king. I honestly think this is possible as we don’t hear any characters who would presumably know the bard kings name refer to him by name. Not Noise, Youngblood, Flow or even the talking book. It’s always just “the bard king.”

But then why would Ryker name Roman “Roman” if he was supposedly involved in the war and potentially knows the bard kings name? Well that leads me onto my final theory…

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Who was that bard in Ryker’s memory/why does Ryker have a bias against bards (pt 2)?

Rykers bias against bards is especially strange when you see that in his memory he was clearly friends with a bard. It’s obvious that this person was a bard as well given their instruments and literally just everything about them. Even if there was a war or a corrupt bard, it doesn’t make sense for Ryker to change his mind about bards that drastically if he was once close with one. So what happened? I think a betrayal.

I think that the bard we are seeing in this memory is the bard that later became what we know now as the bard king. I think them and Ryker were close for a very long time and Ryker potentially even helped this bard develop their magic and skills. But soon they started developing a god complex, wanting more and more power and becoming corrupt. Ryker trying to help but it not working and it eventually coming down to Ryker having to fight against the person who was once his best friend and forming a village that bans those who are bards for the sake of their safety.

While there isn’t a great deal of evidence to support this, I’ll admit, I do think it’s interesting Youngblood and Noise’s backstory mirrors this situation fairly well. One person developing their power and in the process hurting the other and running away before things could get sorted out. Then seeing each other again and there being a battle. While this may seem pretty irrelevant and to be fair, it potentially is, I do know how much Thomas and his friends love a good bit of foreshadowing and it wouldn’t surprise me if this was an example of that.

Linking back to my previous theory, as for why Ryker would possibly name Roman after the person who betrayed him, I honestly think the answer is pretty simple. He genuinely cared about that person. Platonic, romantic, whatever, this person was likely one of Rykers best friends and one of the people he trusted the most. Those feelings don’t just disappear no matter how much he likely wanted them to. As a result, Roman was named after the person who Ryker once cared about, even if it ended in fighting and heartbreak.

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So yeah, those are my thoughts and I can’t wait for the new episode tonight!!

[loganslowdown4]

My need to organize and make lists made me write down all the stuff that was in the latest livestream with stuff that I have gleaned from other videos/posts—

Anyway, here’s a list of Thomas stuff to look forward to! (Everything is of course tentative but we can get hyped! 😄)

[the-crazy-theorist]

What if the orange side will be a friend to Logan?

Assuming this new side is Anger or Rage, anger is the part of you that loves you. That defends you and knows you deserve better, that wants to protect you.

Now, who in Sanders Sides has been needing defending lately? Who's not being listened to, or not being treated right?

Logan.

So what if rage will make the others listen to him?

What if Rage and Logan are going to get along better than most of us expect?

[vvvrrroooomm]

Rewatching episode 6 of Roleslaying and something caught me attention.

So AJ says, when we first meet Temp and Arpeggio disguised as the plague doctor, that the costumes in the cart all have a plant vibe to them.

But when we see Youngblood, Roman and Noises outfits they all a specific motifs that repress the galaxy. Why wouldn’t their outfits be plant-ish too? Why instead have them be something so much bigger than plants and life itself? Does it have something to do with how connected they are? Maybe it’s about how they have a bigger role in all this than they believe? I am I just overthinking this? I don’t know!

I do understand that some of the outfits were described as ‘starry more solar looking’ but I just think it’s interesting that they all got put in outfits that all match each others. Like AJ did say that most of them were more plant-y so why didn’t any of them get plant themed outfits? I mean, Tempo and Arpeggio themselves (the people who most likely picked these outfits out for them) were in plant themed outfits with their little butterfly masks.

There’s probably nothing to find from this, but it caught my attention and I thought I’d bring it the Tumblr to see if anyone else thought the same.

[fl1nt-and-st33l]

I’m not even sure if Virgil will show up in roleslaying but one of my theories is that he’ll show up as a violinist :D he might not be apart of the royal marching band but I feel like he would be a member of the bard college. I feel like he would use his magic like Lindsey Stirling in her Shadows music video. He could make whatever he wanted out of shadows using his violin.