#slimecicle but the slime is actually blood?

[lyssified]

GENLOSS TODAY WAKE UP NERDS GENLOSS IS INDEED TODAY

[caesurah-tblr]

Charlie: It’s slime… or is it?

YOU-

[oatmealtheunicorn]

The slime rag was covered in blood. Fuck.

[royalarchivist]

Slimecicle: Oh, hang on, that's actually so cool. Aw man, this is sick.

Ironmouse: A beautiful memorial.

Slimecicle: [Throws flowers in front of the ofrenda] It's actually really cool. I'm glad this is here.

Baghera: Yeah, that's really cool.

[Slimecicle leaves, then goes back to the ofrenda]

Slimecicle: JuanaFlippa, this is- this is Technoblade. You guys never got to meet, but... I only met him a couple of times, but every single time he kicked the sht out of me in Minecraft. You know, we would do mod videos where like, I was supposed to play like a big monster, like a Wither or something, and the whole thing, the whole premise of the video would get upended because he'd hide and destroy me so hard that I needed to be like, "Dude, you're actually popping off too much right now, like– Mods, give me more hearts!" [Laughs] 'cuz he was so fcking good. He was so funny too.

Slimecicle: ...Yeah, but he- he was- he was unbelievable. Still is.

[JuanaFlippa goes up to the ofrenda and throws a blue flower]

Slimecicle: This is cool, all these little things. [Slime looks through his inventory for something to give] Do I have any blood for the Blood God? [He throws some redstone dust in front of the ofrenda] I've got blood for the Blood God.

[knine-nights]

Genloss Theory 11

This is a long one so buckle up.

So that whole thing with slime being blood is weird right? In Episode 1, slime is everywhere. It’s never explained what exactly it is, but everything is covered in it. Charlie is a “Slime Demon”. There’s a Slime Dimension. The food Ranboo “makes” ends up being “slime”.

(Side theory based on that last one, the slime Charlie eats is very different visually from the rest of the slime in the episode, and it’s obvious why from a meta standpoint: it’s supposed to be edible. But in universe this establishes that normal slime is not meant to be eaten. It’s not just poisonous or something, as we know Showfall could just revive Charlie if he died, so it must be just inedible in a different way. I’ll mention this later)

Then in Episode 2, we get the first major hint that slime is actually very different. When Charlie is being operated on, his insides are full of slime. But there’s one moment (in the Founder’s Cut it’s when the camera cuts to security footage in the ceiling corner) where it turns red and Charlie’s chill commentary turns into screams of agony.

We know that things like this were being shielded from Ranboo and the audience because Showfall didn’t want to show them the bloody truth, like how the contestants in the next room are weirdly chipper or calm about their circumstance when the camera turns to them.

And then in Episode 3, in the store where Ranboo and Charlie find weapons and supplies, there’s a bucket labeled “Slime” that is full of an ominous red substance.

So it seems that “slime” is actually just disguised blood right? Showfall messing with our minds as they do, case closed? But things don’t quite add up.

Firstly, why would there be so much blood just everywhere in Episode 1. Especially when they hammer it in that it’s slime. With the Slime Dimension and everything.

Apart from that, why would Showfall choose slime of all things to censor blood as? In Episode 3, a specific employee “bleeds” wires (which I theorized here was actually blood that Ranboo - and the audience - just didn’t see) so it’s not out of the ordinary for them to censor blood but why slime?

And why did they only choose to do so when focused on Charlie?

Well, this answer may be a bit meta, but I think it’s the same as the out-of-universe reason: it’s because Charlie is “Slimecicle”.

Charlie’s main YouTube channel is named “Slmccl”. His main iconic image is a slime. His merch includes slime plushies. Even when he participated in some of his more famous Minecraft series (Dream SMP and Origins SMP) he was a slime creature “disguised” as a human. So it’s pretty obvious why cc!Ranboo would make him a Slime Demon in the first Episode and then run with it from there.

That’s the meta reason. Why, in universe, would Showfall do that though?

Well, Slimecicle is a streamer in the Genloss universe too. It’s not perfectly clear how similar he is as a streamer in universe to real life, but he does have his slime plushies in the background and is clearly being an over the top caricature of himself.

I’m not sure if Showfall intended their viewers to recognize the streamers as themselves and how many of them were YouTubers in universe or how that would work, that’s a whole different can of worms, but it at the very least explains why Showfall would choose slime to be Charlie’s signature “thing”.

But then, why choose to have slime be blood at all? Wouldn’t it be easier to just have it always be “slime”? Well, easier? Yes. But, more interesting? No. And Showfall is more interested in a good show. They want the audience to pay attention. And how better to do so than drawing them in with confusing and potentially scary implications?

More Theories

[r3d-m3dic]

Tw for blood!

So... The slime is blood in gen loss. Like, the bucket of blood labled slime in ep3, and in ep2 when charlies blood and guts swap from slime to blood proves this.

so... Would that mean that ep1 slimecicle is a actually covered in blood?

[iicarussea]

(generation loss sspoilers, unreality/blood/implied cannibalism/death tws)

so like we're all in agreement that in episode one of generation loss charlie slimecicle was covered in blood and liked eating blood... right?

like, charlie made ranboo make him food that turned into slime and was covered in slime. in episode two, his blood/organs get replaced with slime (but we dont see that because of the filter showfall put over the actual events happening for the first bit of the show) so his blood and screaming turned to slime and joking and laughing... and i just think i should get to draw ppl covered in blood its fun to draw sometimes

[nethergreatrack]

Did ‘The Puzzler’ actually say that the answer was on gl!Slimecicle but then the mask altered gl!Ranboo’s perception of what he said? It glitched and gl!Slime was screaming so we know gl!Ranboo’s perception was being altered in that scene and Puzzler seemed kinda disturbed by it.

Also, the fact they got the hat that temporarily freed gl!Sneeg from the brainwashing from gl!Slime. Did they pull it out of him of did he hand it to them? Was it actually covered in slime or blood? Since both gl!Sneeg and gl!Slime are labeled friend, are they all friends outside of the brainwashing? Did they put gl!Sneeg’s hat on him, smeared with his friends blood, for him to be suddenly aware of his friend bleeding out in front of him? Did gl!Ranboo unknowingly butcher his own friend and then leave him to possibly bleed out (I mean they kept talking about getting him help so idk)?

[svtskneecaps]

literally it's 3am where i live and i'm on mobile but FUCK IT i haven't posted any actual writing in like a YEAR on this blog whose description include the words "I WRITE" and i can't tell if i'm even going anywhere with this so fuck it under the cut is the prospective absolute mess of the first chapter of the flipo family time loop fic. (for clarity, flipo family as in slime, mariana, and juanaflippa) this covers loop 0, aka the relevant parts of canon. words: 1630

parts of it i popped off with and other parts i hate; up to you to identify them. also the italics and other formatting got erased when i copy pasted and i'm re-adding all of it by hand so if i missed a spot, no i didn't. if i missed an accent on a letter in spanish that was a typo, if i missed a ¡ or ¿ that may have been on purpose.

oh and for obvious reasons, content warning for mentions and mild descriptions of child death and child murder. no blood, and most of it is a three word mention; i'd say the brief paragraph beginning "Tilín didn't scream" is most of the reason this warning exists.

Charlie Slimecicle stepped off the train.

He’d been hoping for a bright, sunny day to start their vacation, but was sorely disappointed. The portal had apparently taken them pretty far, since they’d gone from noon to night time. Talk about jetlag. They hadn’t even been on a plane.

“What happened to the other guys?” he wondered aloud as he stepped onto the platform.

“Yeah no clue,” Phil said, scanning the empty station. “Thought they’d meet us here.”

“Guys!” one of the Spanish speakers--Vegetta, he’d said, when they’d all met up at the first station--called, from a lectern at the wall. “There is a book!”

They crowded around as he read the instructions aloud--something about pressure plates, Slime wasn’t paying that close of attention. He was a little more preoccupied with making sure it only felt like his brain was dripping out of his ears. That would be kind of embarrassing.

Which was not to say that he wasn’t enjoying the constant onslaught of people talking over each other using words he may or may not understand. In fact, it was the opposite; he was frankly thriving in the absolute chaos that kicked back up around him as a timer appeared in the wrist communicators they’d been provided along with their tickets.

“Como se dice ‘we are going to die now’?” He giggled, chasing Phil and Fit to one end of the station.

“¡Vamos a morir!” shouted Spiderman, echoed seconds later by the black bear in the collared shirt.

Giddy over the high of attempting to use his high school foreign language for the first time maybe ever, Slime absolutely didn’t contribute much to solving the puzzle, and before long the sound of the timer ticking down was accompanied by a loud buzzing alarm.

“It’s been an honor!” he shrieked at the top of his lungs. “It’s been an honor!”

The bear ran past them again, shouting, “I’m going to die!” in English this time.

“Adiós amigos!” Slime yelled.

The countdown ended.

And then his communicator buzzed, and there was a video playing on the screen, showing a cartoonish yellow duck in front of a blurry beach stock photo. He skimmed it absently--some generic welcoming message and another side quest for them--distracted by Maximus audibly losing his shit laughing across the station.

“Come on, I’m trying to take a vacation, I gotta work now?” Fit complained. “This is ridiculous.”

Slime wanted to jump on that bit, but the message cut off with coordinates marred by static and the noise of the emergency weather alert system and he lost his train of thought completely.

“I got the English book!” Spreen called, holding it with two fingers like it had personally offended him.

“English leader,” Vegetta said, seeming to find that amusing.

“English leader.” Spreen laughed and flicked the book away. Slime stepped back but somehow it still nailed him in the chest.

“Guess I’m reading then,” he said cheerfully.

“In Spanish?” Maximus said.

“Um.”

Vegetta called something, backing across the plaza with the book open in his hands. Phil backed up to the wall.

“Here,” Phil instructed, “we’ll read it here.”

“Okay okay.” He flicked it open. “So we have to get water wheel planks--”

Their peace lasted a grand total of thirty seconds as voices suddenly began shouting, overlapping in chaotic chorus.

“What is that?” Fit demanded.

“Is that coming from the other side?” Phil stared up at the top of the wall.

“This is the thinnest thick wall I’ve ever seen,” Slime said, giddy laughter bubbling out of him again. “Is this thing made out of pencil shavings? If I sneeze on it, is there gonna be a hole?”

“Nevermind, we’ll read it over here.” Phil dragged them away again, but the Spanish speakers were dispersing into the trees.

“Forget the book,” Fit said, “follow them!”

(In the end it was explosives that took the wall down, which in hindsight was a precursor to how a not insignificant portion of time on the island was spent. The first day, however, it was just funny, much like everything else.)

(That was to say, the first first day.)

The communicator had indicated that today there was something special planned, so he made an extra effort to wake up.

“Morning Jaiden!” he called to his upstairs neighbor.

“Hi Charlie!” He could hear her farming through the wall. “Glad you woke up on time!”

“Well you know, you know, El Backflipo couldn’t miss it,” he joked, sifting through his backpack. “Got any spare food? I’ll trade you uno backflipo.”

“I have so much toast, come here and get some, free of charge.”

With a quick backflip and some toast to start the day, he popped open the map.

“There’s a lot of people down the wall,” he noted, their green dots so clustered they formed one. “Wanna check it out?”

“Yeah sure.” Jaiden tossed some seeds into a chest. “Do you know what this event’s gonna be?”

“I have no idea,” he admitted cheerfully.

She laughed. “Yeah, me neither. I guess there’s an egg involved, but that’s all I know.”

He dug around in his backpack for a paraglider, nodding along. “Yeah, yeah, un huevo, I get you.” Shuffling the landmine from Vegetta to one side, he yanked out his glider and threw himself out her window. “Let’s go!”

(nothing like getting struck by lightning to wake a guy up in the morning)

Slime fiddled with the communicator as he waited for the line of people to get through the ticket machine; he already had his own, a nice B for Backflipo. The new live translations still boggled his mind. He had to fight the urge to chant weird shit under his breath, just to see what the bubbles would say.

He paid a little extra attention when Mariana walked up to the machine. That guy seemed cool. They’d done that pequeño dormir together on day one, and he had a good sense of humor. Egg parenting would probably be funny.

He was thrilled to see the B for Backflipo on the ticket Mariana stepped away with, even if Mariana was decidedly less so. This was gonna be good.

(it was, and it wasn’t)

So, Mariana wasn’t exactly the coparent of dreams. Then again, Slime was pretty sure Mariana could say the same about him. In fact he was pretty sure Mariana had said the same, but in Spanish, when he wasn’t checking the translation.

It was great. They thought they’d killed a child immediately and then decided to fake their own child’s death to get away with it, and then confessed their sins to a bilingual angel and built a farm and then he buried himself beneath an improvised cross and went into a coma until his sins were forgiven, or something, except his sins weren’t forgiven in time to save his own child’s life.

And then Juanaflippa was dead. Dead at Mariana’s hand.

His bitch wife killed their daughter.

(Everything went faster, after that.)

Slime wanted to kill him.

Slime wanted to kill him for killing their fucking daughter, but of course, Mariana couldn’t even be bothered to be around to take care of her alive, never mind to pay for his crimes when she died by his hand!

(in a better world, his rage started and ended there. in a better world, the anger fizzled out with the lack of a target.

this was not that world)

There couldn’t be an Egg Event with no eggs.

If he killed them all, it would bring her back.

(in a worse world, he succeeded. in a worse world, the Egg Event ended there.

this was not that world)

They held a trial.

If he won, it would bring her back.

(in another world, he didn’t convince them. in another world, they left his daughter in Hell.

this was not that world)

Tilín was still before she hit the ground.

Tilín didn’t scream. Maybe they didn’t have time. It happened so fast. He was sure it happened fast. Almost too fast. But everything went so fast, now, even though Flippa was back. Yet, time slowed down for this, like a rubberneck driving past a highway accident, watching him desperately trying to shock their heart back into motion.

“YOU KILL MY BEST FRIENDS,” Flippa wrote. He begged her to understand. She wrote, “i can’t believe it.”

She wrote, “I HATE YOU.”

(in a better world, the error would have been caught in April instead of July.

this was not that world)

His daughter fell to his bitch wife’s sword. The same way. The next day.

They’d only just gotten her back. And Mariana killed her again.

He only left eggxile for the funeral. She wouldn’t stay dead, but he had to be there.

Time went even faster after that. He was Gegg, or maybe Gegg was him, or maybe Gegg was Gegg, or maybe. . . ?

He went back to eggxile.

He wasn’t leaving without them. Tilín. Juanaflippa. He would do whatever was necessary. He would pray to any higher power. Lil J still owed him a goddamn favor, but the guy wouldn’t pick up his calls. Maybe if he put more shit in the shrine; angels liked shiny shit, didn’t they? He went back to the mine, where the gasses swirled in his head. He built the shrine. He mined. He built the shrine.

He went back to the mine.

He went back to the mine.

He went back to the mine.

“This is where I sit, this is where my bitch wife sits, and this is where my daughter sits, if I had one!”

He’d said that before. No he hadn’t. Yes he had.

No, he just needed to clear his head.

Charlie Slimecicle went back to the mine.

Charlie Slimecicle stepped off the train.

[scucharlie]

now I'm here to bring out the hashtag beast in YOU >:] do you have a favorite scu video? or any headcanons about the scu characters? ^_^

EVILY RUBS MY HANDS OF COURSE OF COURSE. under the cut bc WOW I rambled a lot HDKD

ok so, my FAVE FAVE video ever is the we survived 100 days one it's sso. GOD. scu charlie in this video is just like a guy, he's a guy caught up in a apocalypse trying to survive.. anddggrgrgrrr... he's so KIND!!!!! no matter if tommy had lied to him, had tried to eat him no matter if a bachelor nearly shoots him, no matter if he says to himself I should probably stop helping these people he just is too KIND. he's kind, and Gfod he keeps helping these people, and he wants to help and he's this unwilling protag of this whole story!!!! HES JUST A GUY!! and ggggod I don't have to keep fighting... I won, it doesn't feel like it.. but I won... I won <- charlie slimecicle tried to kill me with these words and these words ALONE.

I LOVE. love, LOVEEEE the modded video with them as gods right? but I'm gonna pivet and actually talk about the we survived natural disasters video becaus I think this one is the least talked abt scu vid and IT JUST. it shows them as mortals... it shows them survivjng jschlatt this seemingly just god... and it shows how grizzly and condi and charlie got powers in this video!!! this is such a cool video to me bc also it shows the threes dynamic and how scary scu schlatt is power wise that he just does WHATEVER HE WANTS. also the infamous poppy line gah gah gah. takes damage. I think its Soo underrated scu talking wise bc it shows literally when they got powers and also show the mortal side :3 and I think gives more context for scu schlatt and also that he is a FREAK ☝️‼��

bonus headcannons!!

scu charlie is a jester for the higher gods after he became god :3 !! he also controls the slime story slimes and they're like his little guys that watch out for stuff!!! I LOVEEE incorporating slime story stuff into Slimecicle stuff I need to start doing that again >_<

also !! scu condis blood is lava, like instead of lava he just has lava there so cutting him is like cuttibg into a fucking dangerous glow stick . shes very warm!! so sometimes the other will use her as a fireplace

[patchesjam]

eugh slimecicle actually boils my blood

i have a really irrational hatred of him. conversely i love slime from the yard so it gets confusing sometimes

[hazellight11]

If anyone would like to tag me in gl!slimecicle (like spirit of the cabin) fanart where the slime is actually blood. I would be so happy please i need more i need to eat it i will be in your debt <3

[poltergeist-coffee]

I don't know how to react to compliments but I'm so incredibly happy:D

About the twilight thing, I actually just watched the movies, but I've saw that it was said for like 3 books I think that vampire can't sweat or cry because they don't have liquids on their bodies. Also is said that vampires can't get pregnant because their bodies aren't able to change to carry the baby

Just the fact that they don't have liquids they wouldn't be able to get someone pregnant neither and honestly, just the fact that they don't have a heartbeat wouldn't help on a sexual act-

SEX FACT NUMBER ONE-

I have this scene stuck in my head for quite a time, if I had a nickel everytime I've got something stuck in my head because of the only and one slimecicle that I remember right nowI would have two nickel, with isn't much but it's strange it happened twice

- because I don't how to explain actually but I think it's something about a... Good amount of blood on the same place- I will just give up explaining. In any case, the reason to it be possible is: the venom vampires have

I won't even get started about how they aren't sterile because I don't even try to understand it

Still, the fact that they just shine on the sun still funny to me

Also, talking about vampires, I have no idea who started saying that vampires purrs, but I love it

Vampires are simply cats

We love characters that have the biggest crush on someone but it's too scared of them in this household

Let slime be happy with his vampire husband, he already suffered too much in canon he deseres to have good things

Poor Juanaflippa tho, doesn't matter in what form she is manifested into, she always get killed by a missclick, poor little girl

Also codeflippa dressed as a ghost was so cute, I love her

- 🍽️

Yeah i know nothign about twilight except for the fact that the vampires in that series like sparkle in the sunlight MKNDIHVJIMW they’re like made of glitter or something, that’s the only reason to explain why they do that (to me)

i think all creature adjacent people should purr WIJIHFINCKMKWMB ITS CUTE!! LET THEM PURR!!!! FOR FUN!!!

slimeriana will be happy in all my aus because i like them and i think they deserve to be happy u-u

codeflippa with a ghost costume was so cute :”(( it makes me sad that the other eggs missed it… i wonder what they all would have dressed as

[serashalala]

Nah I don't think I've mentioned it specifically dw abt it. Some of what I'll answer is just a brief mention at the end of the original post where I say that it likely influences the entirety of the brain when it's in a good state/ when the lights are on and it isn't blinking / some areas I briefly mentioned.

But because I want to sound like a nerd who knows what she's talking about:

Bringing back our beautiful brain model with the brodmann areas, you can see that the areas for audio / hearing are 22, 41, and 42.

41 and 42 are primary auditory areas. Just like area 17, these are the parts of the brain that lets you actually hear something.

Area 22 however is the Wernicke area, where the sounds you're hearing is processed. This area is for recognizing speech and the sounds that you're hearing and then associating it to whatever memory you have associated with a specific sound. Lesion in this area could cause Wernicke's aphasia which is when you can hear something, but not really comprehend it.

Not to be confused with Broca's aphasia where you can understand something but not have good grammatical function / you can't put into words your reply or the summary of what you've heard. (Broca's area is 44 in case you're curious.)

However I have a feeling that the device won't even have to go that deep into the brain to switch Ranboo's response to whatever they're hearing.

This one I DID mention, but only in passing. This is brodmann's area 39 and 40 where it has much to do with memory, emotion, behavior, rage and fear.

And inside the brain itself, is another possible structure that it can strongly latch on, the amygdala

The amygdala is responsible for processing fearful and threatening stimuli. If Ranboo doesn't respond in a fearful manner to what he's actually seeing, how do we know that what he's witnessing is fully changed?

This means that even if the device doesn't reach as deep into the auditory area, no matter what Ranboo hears he can always just respond to it comically if that's how the device programmed him to respond. He's already got the vision/sight backing him up in case he hears something unsafe or threatening when in the first place we know that he's being fully controlled.

We can't say for certain what Ranboo is seeing/hearing/feeling because in the clip where we see the video distort when Ranboo rips slimecicle apart, it's in OUR point of view, not the Ranboo's. What we saw was Slimecicle screaming as well as the 'slime' actually being blood, and the same goes for his screaming.

We also see that despite responding a certain way, there are still signs that Ranboo knows what's wrong despite being mostly controlled by showfall as evidenced by the tapping of SOS in morsecode despite the device having full influence over his brain.

BUT. The question is about CHAT and the VIEWERS and my reading comprehension in the morning is shit so I'm going to answer it after I've written this entire thing LMAO.

Basically the leading theory here is that there's some sort of filter going through the live show. These glimpses into slime's real terror only really happens when we see the glitches at the corner of the screen and when the TV is being intercepted right?

This doesn't influence us as the chat, but the media itself.

I hope your question is answered LMAO I'm honestly also just spitballin LOL

Generation Loss's Mind Manipulation; A theory by a tired college student

OK. GENERATION LOSS. That was a ride and it’s not even done!

Fuckin loved it, by the way. It was so good. I loved everyone's acting and Sneeg's realization part gave me literal fucking chills as well as Slime screaming and Austin freaking out while Ranboo n Sneeg were just chill.

FUCK that was cool. Thank you @ranboolivesaysstuff for sharing this with us.

Anyway, here’s a nerd dump on the entire mind control thing. I’m not exactly a genius but I’m studying neurosci as one of my college units and this is basically the gist of how I understand the mind control aspect that this is showing.

SO. 

You recognize this bitch? This is the device that we think is controlling Ranboo’s mind. It’s at the back part of the brain, and easily this leads to two possible structures that it can influence: the occipital lobe of the cerebrum and the cerebellum. However, we don’t really know HOW deep this device goes considering Ranboo’s lucious locks of hair covering the rest of the mask and the fact that we don’t know if this is the only thing penetrating the brain.

Anyway, let’s discuss what we know which is that it’s likely latched onto the back part and thus likely embedded onto the cerebral occipital lobe and/or the cerebellum

The occipital lobe is at the back part of the head, and as you see on the picture below, it’s the visual area (mostly).

To make me sound more professional and shit let me introduce to you the brodmann areas. Brodmann areas divide the cerebrum by its function.

Area 17, 18, and 19.

Area 17 is the primary visual area. This is where you see shit. If the device’s influence is only as deep as area 17 then Ranboo is either literally blinded by the device OR the device intercepts what his eyes are really seeing. Damage to this area will lead to literal blindness or difficulty to see.

Area 18 and 19 however are the secondary visual area, otherwise known as the visual association area. This is where you recognize the things that you see. Damage to this leads to dyschromatopsia (color blindness), and visual agnosia (inability to perceive visual stimuli.). 

Basically to explain, as an example you see an apple. That’s the job of area 17. However, you don’t really know yet that it’s an apple. To know that an apple is an apple, you tap into area 18 and 19– the visual association area.

The device LIKELY reaches into this area because the entire time, Ranboo doesn’t recognize that he’s on a show set and he doesn’t see the people on the set like the directors and the staff. What he does see is a 4th wall.

Upon deactivation of the device, only then does he recognize that oh shit, that isn’t a wall. 

Does it stop there? Ok, why not go deeper?

Next to Area 19 is area 37. This is the Facial Recognition area. It's self explanatory if Ranboo's mind control device goes that deep.

How about Area 39 and 7? They're both Someasthetic areas. 39 and 40 specifically have a lot to do with memory, emotion, behavior, sex. rage, fear, and pain.

Area 7 integrates sensory inputs-- it draws upon stored memories of past sensory experiences. This area aint that deep tho ngl, it's basically the part that goes: yo, this fire thing burns you, maybe don't touch it. This can be as deep as you want to interpret it being.

HOWEVER, this doesn’t answer WHY he doesn’t see the staff even if the device is turned off. This leads to the second suspected area of influence.

The cerebellum. 

The cerebellum is mostly responsible for a lot of important things (as are the rest of the brain but let me get into it)

The cerebellum has 3 main functions: maintenance of posture and balance; maintenance of muscle tone; and coordination of voluntary motor activity. 

You see where I’m going for here?

The cerebellum is a likely attachment site of the device because it is gunning for that motor activity and posture and balance. It controls the agonist and antagonist coordination of the muscles to make sure that there’s no jerky movements going on. As for posture and balance, it can affect your movements so that you don’t look robotic, and so that you don’t have to voluntarily maintain your posture. Maintenance of muscle tone has the same idea.

It is also the best bet because it has its lapses.

While it controls a lot of motor function, it isn’t the only site of motor control in the body. There’s other areas, like the Basal Nuclei, the motor area of the cerebrum (brodmann area 4 and 6) and the spinalcord (though this is more on reactionary shit).

It makes the device fallible where the fine motor movements (such as in the fingertips, where the cerebellum controls less of) is less prone to influence by the device, leading to this nifty clip right here:

And this here too:

They're able to do morse code with his hands, the fingers.

And, chances are, the reason they have a mask in the first place is because it’s significantly more difficult to reach the area that controls the facial expressions since that is a direct connection from the brain to the face via the Facial Nerve that stems anteriorly to from the brainstem. It’d be hard to reach from behind especially. (unless the device yanknow, snuck around the spine or something idk)

So if the connection is posterior, they’d have difficulty reaching that (to a safe extent, at least. We have no idea how deep it goes.

Then again, we don’t know the function of the rest of the mask.

Now for some close competitors of where the mind control device is attached/penetrating!

"But sera, what if it influences at a lower level than the occipital lobe or the cerebellum?"

Cervical spine C1 Level

Difficult to defend. That leaves the problem of Ranboo's speech control. The lower the level the less things it's able to influence. At C1 level, a person's speech, which is something Ranboo's clearly being influenced over, can't be damaged from this level.

"How are we so sure that it's at the back??"

Because it's the clearest shot we've got.

Frontal Lobe

This one is a good contender. The Frontal Lobe has the Decision and / or Judgement Center of the brain, as well as the motor areas (areas 4 and 6), and twisting that could lead to being able to change what a person does when faced with a stimuli as well as a bigger portion of voluntary movement.

However, this one is difficult to visually justify.

While it's true that we can't see much behind the mask, we also can't see it penetrate towards the frontal lobe. Let's say it penetrates through the mouth somehow-- how is Ranboo's diction so clear?

But the reason why it's a very good contender is that it could possibly go through the nose.

Issue with that though is that Ranboo has a working sense of smell. The Olfactory nerve (smelling nerve) is easy to disturb.

Anything deeper? More anterior?

Any deeper structures are likely too unimportant-- the diencephalon, pons are all mostly on the hormonal / nonvoluntary actions (breathing, sweat, thirst, hunger, etc). Those aren't too fun to control especially when what you want is a puppet.

The most likely candidate is the basal nuclei, which has a lot to do with movement. However it's mostly useless when you target it because it's goal is to make sure that when you want to raise a glass, you don't yeet it to the sky. It makes sure that you have the right amount of output to the muscle without overcompensating.

So what does the device control?

Both.

Well, not both. All-- err, mostly. Ding ding ding! They're all winners.

Only at its best, though, which was during Episode 1 (when undisturbed)-- NOT episode 2.

At its best, the mask is able to take full function of the brain-- most strongly at where it's sourced, though, which is at the posterior regions. Weaker control is evident when you see the finger taps that Ranboo is still able to do. Think of it as some sort of energy gradient-- most concentrated at the back of the head, and weakest at the front.

At its blinking state, influenced by the outsider, Ranboo regains Control of most of the more anterior parts of the brain, but you'd notice it's still blinking-- it never really fully released Ranboo. Its still got a strong influence at the back portion of the brain.

It takes a lot to rip away its influence from Ranboo, as you can see from what the weird shadowy figure from the TV says in the end where he had to do something to disable it fully before Ranboo breaks the fourth wall.

How do we know that? Let's go back to the clip where Ranboo FULLY 'wakes up':

It took some effort by the hacker to fully release Ranboo, but until that point Ranboo hadn't even seen the 4th wall despite being able to gain autonomy of most their function.

Then let's go back to the part where, when Ranboo's device was 'reset':

You notice how the showbizz person isn't someone they interact with? They don't SEE these people. The device is still on, because it's intercepting with Ranboo's perception.

Let's go back to the announcements then.

We don't get to choose a lot this episode, instead we're subjected to puzzles that have more to do with everyone else BUT Ranboo.

I present to you, Brodmann Area 10

This is the largest area in the frontal lobe, and is incharge of decision making (among other things). We, the audience, can't make decisions as flexibly anymore because they needed a stricter control of the device.

The hacker is able to intercept that flexibility and thus the showfall media reduced the extent of which we're able to control ranboo, taking all that control for themselves. It isn't interactive anymore.

Literally being gatekeeped from the audience, smh.

Now what?

A summary of course.

I suspect that when the lights are on (in the mask), it has a stronger pulse and thus influences a larger chunk of his head, ABLE (but not necessarily) to reach the frontal lobe.

It blinks, then it indicates that its pulse is weaker, but still present (the cerebellum is slightly further to reach than the occipital lobe) which is why his sight might still be influenced.

And lights being gone? That's Ranboo's full autonomy baybee. They're back in business!

As for the others' mind manipulation system, I'm not quite sure yet. Probably could reduce it to having already been subjected to being conditioned, not like our 'fresh' protagonist. I'll probably add onto this when something clicks in the future.

This ended up a lot longer than intended...

Anyway, that’s just a theory, a tired-college-student-from-an-allied-health-course theory. Thanks for reading.

[dreamsclock]

Super hero prompt: (I dunno how to write prompts)

Dream and Tommy are teammates, after a mission goes terribly wrong, dream is Injured and Tommy has to protect him while getting away from the bad guys/or heroes. The only reason Tommy and dream escape is because he has sand in his pockets.

Previous. Comes after Tommy following Dream to the scene of the crime, only to find him badly beaten by a group of heroes. Determined to save his friend despite the situation, Tommy runs with Dream. They confront each other in the next chap :)

warnings: blood, injury, violence, threats of death and injury, general tommy swearing

“Take off your coat.”

Bleeding out, half-unconscious, and slumped over Tommy’s back, Dream only lets out a groan, as if Tommy’s lost his mind. “Why? ‘S cold.”

“It’s the middle of June, man.”

“Heatwaves been faking me out.” And then, when it gets a disdainful scowl from his younger companion— “‘S the DNF song. You don’t know it?”

“What the fuck is wrong with you,” Tommy demands, “actually, don’t answer that. Don’t have all day. Just take off your fucking coat, alright?”

Dream complies numbly, lips and face pale, and it’s then that Tommy realizes his companion-in-crime is actually not doing good, like, at all. Uncoordinated hands and clumsy slurred speech are never great signs when dealing with a wound as large as the one on Dream’s shoulder, and no matter how hard he tries to stop the bleeding, blood keeps soaking through the coat Tommy presses against it. With a little moan of pain, Dream staggers, and almost brings Tommy down with him.

(His skin is warm. Clammy. Tommy is struck by a sudden panic.)

Slapping Dream’s face roughly gets him only a grumble in response. “Oi,” he snaps, “don’t go falling asleep on me, dickhead. Not after everything we’ve just been through. Stay focused on me, yeah?”

“I am focused on you,” Dream complains through gritted teeth, as they stumble down a side street and into the shadowy ally, “your breath. It stinks.”

…Tommy debates leaving him behind, he really does. It’s not like he really needs Dream, after all. He can run the bookshop Dream owns downstairs, and he can pay rent, and he can look after Patches just fine, thanks, no matter what Dream says. But his hands grip the supervillain tighter, refusing to let go, and when they round a corner into another street and come face to face with Goldenwings, Tommy’s first instinct is to shield Dream behind him.

Goldenwings only laughs. “What, did you really think you were gonna outrun me?” He asks, amused. “With him weighing you down? Give him up, Tommy. Don’t make this harder than it needs to be.”

Tommy grits his teeth, mentally checks his power reserves— shit. Shit. He’s all out. It’ll take him a few hours to recharge enough to use them, and he doesn’t have a few hours. Dream is unresponsive from behind him, and he can’t help but fear the worst. “Go to hell, Big Q. Just let us fuckin’ go, alright? Or— Or I’ll kill you. I swear to fucking God.”

“How are you gonna do that when you’re all gooped up?” Comes a chipper voice from behind him, and Tommy tries to turn, but finds his feet and legs coated with a sticky green substance he knows with sinking fear is slime. Goldenwings laughs, gold tooth glinted in the light from the nearby building, as Slimecicle comes to his side. “I think my gloop stains. Sorry!”

“Good job, Slime,” Goldenwings grins, but his eyes never leave Tommy, “now, I think it’s time we had a little chat while your buddy bleeds out. How about it?”

Tommy feels cold, and then—

Dream shifts behind him, coughs, once. It’s weak, but stubborn, and it’s enough to convince Tommy that his friend will make it. Dream’s hand pushes fabric and a strange grainy substance into his pocket, and Tommy has to literally pause to stop himself squirming in disgust. What the fuck?

And Goldenwings is monologuing, as per fucking usual — the hero loves the sound of his own voice, almost as much as Tommy loves his own — and it buys Tommy just a few moments. Heart hammering in his chest, the teenager rips the grain from Dream’s pocket and hurls it as hard as he can at Goldenwings’ face. The hero stops, blinking, rubbing his eyes and spluttering incoherently. At least it had shut him up.

“Did you just… throw sand at me?” Goldenwings asks in disbelief. “You’re kidding me here.”

Tommy searches for a frantic excuse. “Was all I had,” he admits, with a desperately cheery smile, “dropped all my big scary knives running away from you crazed madmen with bigger, scarier knives. But!” He adds, improvising. “It’s not just any sand. You don’t wanna know what’s gonna happen next.”

Goldenwings’ lips curl into a mean sort of smile. The scar running through his eye crinkles and squeezes.

“This is what I think is gonna happen next,” he says, “this is exactly what I think is gonna happen next. You’re gonna take a walk with me to meet with my co-heroes about why exactly you decided to side with the greatest villain threat to our city. And Dream…”

Goldenwings crouches, at Dream’s head. The supervillain is barely conscious, but he’s smiling anyway, through clenched teeth and drifting vision. Tommy feels a stab of pity amidst his growing fear and panic. Dream had already been ugly before. He’ll be even more ugly with a broken nose.

“What’s so funny?” Goldenwings asks sweetly, sickly sucrose pouring into his words. It’s clear he knows he’s won. “Laughing at the idea of your own fuckin’ death? You know what— it is kinda funny, I’ll say it! It’s pretty fucking good to have you where you belong!”

“Quackity,” Dream breathes, words wheezy and hoarse, “you’re such an idiot. You’ve always been such an idiot.”

And Tommy has time to watch Goldenwings’ face shift, from confidence to uncertainty to surprise to horror, before the ground erupts. Blue light spills out from under the four of them, Slimecicle and Goldenwings thrown to one side while Tommy finds himself sprawling against a building with Dream, blanketed by the same blue light that brightens up their whole area. There’s the sound of wings fluttering, and thunder rumbling, and Tommy’s heart is in his mouth—

Before it all fades away again. The ground restores itself. The blue glow disappears. All that’s left is a bored looking man hovering two inches off the ground, cross-armed and unconcerned. His glasses are red and blue — a strange combination — but when Tommy squints at them, his head aches, like if he looks too closely, he’ll see something he’s not supposed to.

…Squinting at any of the man has the same effect. Tommy’s unease grows.

Dream is still grinning, wider now, a delirious madman. “George,” he says like a prayer, “hi.”

‘George’ rolls his eyes. What would you do without me? He replies smugly, but his voice echoes with the history of a thousand universes, burrows into Tommy’s brain like rats into cheese. And when he turns to Goldenwings and Slimecicle, something in George lengthens, stretches, breaks open. His smile is a terrible thing. Predatory. Mean.

Goldenwings steps back. His eyes are wide. “George—”

“Quackity.” The word vibrates and makes the ground rumble. Bye.

The two heroes slump to the ground. They’re asleep even before they know what’s happened. Dream wheezes out something that might have been a laugh, under any other circumstance, and when Tommy bends to pick him up, the villain’s eyes are shiny. Fond.

“George—” Dream breaks into a rattling cough, blood staining his shirt and skin, but his grin doesn’t fade. “Meet Tommy. Tommy—”

“Yeah. You’ve got some fuckin’ explaining to do, big man.”

“Tommy,” Dream says, “meet the God of Dreams.”

[theghostofblackbunnymask]

Hey could I get some head cannons of a rabbit-hybrid reader and the Las Nevadas crew maybe yandere?? (Rabbits represent luck and a shit ton of gamblers carry a rabbit’s foot)

Author's note- Yes my boys! I love these boys. I had some trouble with writing Sam and Foolish.

Warnings- Blood mentioned, Violence, attempted kidnapping, threats,

Las Nevadas Crew with a Rabbit Hybrid Darling

Quackity

This man finds you so adorable , your little tail and ears, ugh, your this man's only weakness

Quackity always brings you to the Casino with him since you're good luck, you're rabbit after all. He makes you sit on his lap as he gambles someone.

He doesn't want you to leave his sight because someone tried to kidnap you after they saw how close you are to Quackity and how much luck you bring him.

You're good friends with Fundy, since both of you are animal based hybrids, though the first time you saw him you got a bit scared since you know, predator.

Quackity doesn't cuddle you very often due to his past love life, but when he does he's very soft. He has his wings wrapped around you and tends to fall asleep

If you were to misbehave or yell at him, he would threaten to cut off your ears and leave you for dead in the woods. He wouldn't leave you for dead in the woods, that's just a threat, but he's dead serious about cutting off your ears.

Charlie Slimecicle

Charlie didn't really know what you were to be honest, before he met Ranboo he thought you were a slime like him.

Once you explained to him that you were a Rabbit he went to Quackity for advice on how to take care of you.

Charlie likes touching your ears, they're really soft and he never seen anything like it.

Charlie likes bringing you to work with him since Quackity said it's not a good idea to leave you in some cave deep underground. Charlie would show you how to gamble and is amazed on how many times you win.

Charlie would introduce you to Quackity once he has some trust with you.

Charlie really enjoys cuddling you 24/7. Your hair is just so soft and fluffy, he even falls asleep on you when you guys cuddle

If you were to misbehave or yell at him, his attitude and personality would change completely, his eyes going dark as he pulls on you ears until you crying on the floor and until your ears are bleeding as they slowly get torn off. But then he would go back to normal and patch you up like nothing happened.

Fundy

Fundy likes that you're a hybrid just like him, but due to your instincts he gets upset when you hide from him since foxes are predators, but he slowly gets you to be comfortable with him.

He let's you touch his tail and ears, but you have to let him touch yours, if not, no more touch.

Fundy shows you around Las Nevadas and even let's you go to the Casino with him when the entire crew hangs out in Las Nevadas during the day before Las Nevadas gets open at night for busines.

Loves cuddling you. He normally has his tail wrapped around you and he has his head buried into your neck.

Fundy will try to keep you as far away from Wilbur. Hell, he doesn't even want to hear his name. He doesn't want you to get to like him and deal with him leaving you.

If you were to misbehave or yell at him, he would throw you into a cage and have one of a rabbit's predators tied to a pole, dangerously close to you, but far enough that it won't attack. He would leave you there for a few days so you learn your lesson.

Foolish

Foolish loves picking you up and rubbing your ears (If you're comfortable with it)

I can see Foolish building a statue of you holding a small little rabbit

Even though Foolish is a 23ft god, they're still things he can't reach, so he would most likely have you on his head and have you get it.

Foolish is hesitant to take you to Las Nevadas, due to it being a place full of gamblers, alcoholics and prostitutes, but he would take you there if you beg for long enough.

Foolish would probably introduce you to Charlie or Sam, most likely Sam, other than that he wouldn't even mention your existence to anyone, we all know what happens to people's attachments on the Dream SMP.

Would definitely introduce you and let you hang out with Foolish JR and Finley

If you were to misbehave or yell at him, he wouldn't really do anything, but he would leave you in a small house he built for you, far away from Society.

Awesamdude

When y'all cuddle I can see him make that hissing creepers make before they explode due to how soft you are.

Sam would keep you in the prison in a cell similar to Dream's, but he would decorate it with things you love and things rabbits need.

Sam takes you to Las Nevadas quite often actually, especially if it's casino night with the crew, whenever he gambles Quackity (Since Quackity is infamous for cheating on these nights) he has you next to him since you bring good luck, he wins a lot

Whenever Sam's upset or stressed, he goes to you cell and cuddles you, since your hair and ears are very soft and comforting.

Quackity teases Sam a lot about having a bunny hybrid as a darling, sometimes even saying that he would use you since your so lucky, he's joking, but Sam doesn't find it funny. (Quackity's aware that your being held against your own will, but if you make Sam happy, he doesn't care)

He sometimes takes you out on nature walks if you were behaving that month.

If you were to misbehave or yell at him, he may or may not keep you underground in a 1 block space with lava dangerously close to you, it won't touch you, it's more of a mind fuck then anything, he loves seeing scared, your face just looks so cute.