#theory

[the-one-real-katyees]

Eye opening.

I think an important part of the "D&D is easy to learn" argument is that a lot of those people don't actually know how to play D&D. They know they need to roll a d20 and add some numbers and sometimes they need to roll another type of die for damage. A part of it is the culture of basically fucking around and letting the GM sort it out. Players don't actually feel the need to learn the rules.

Now I don't think the above actually counts as knowing the rules. D&D is a relatively crunchy game that actually rewards system mastery and actually learning how to play D&D well, as in to make mechanically informed tactical decisions and utilizing the mechanics to your advantage, is actually a skill that needs to be learned and cultivated. None of that is to say that you need to be a perfectly tuned CharOp machine to know how to play D&D. But to actually start to make the sorts of decisions D&D as a game rewards you kind of need to know the rules.

And like, a lot of people don't seem to know the rules. They know how to play D&D in the most abstract sense of knowing that they need to say things and sometimes the person scowling at them from behind the screen will ask them to roll a die. But that's hardly engaging with the mechanics of the game, like the actual game part.

And to paraphrase @prokopetz this also contributes to the impression that other games are hard to learn: because a lot of other games don't have the same culture of play of D&D so like instead of letting new players coast by with a shallow understanding of the rules and letting the GM do all the work, they ask players to start making mechanically informed decisions right away. Sure, it can suck for onboarding, but learning from your mistakes can often be a great way to learn.

[the-mercurial-star-o-vesper]

TF2 COMIC THEORY (and Spoilers)

What, did Zephaniah Mann do?

Look, if there's one thing I know about Valve Lore, is that its really hidden, really coded, and TF2 has been fucking TEASING for decades now.

And as far as I'm concerned...

We know who the mystery man in the rip is... That's Gray Mann, the missing brother. Gods knows he's been teased enough over the years.

But here, I'm interested in...

[ Spoilers below ]

... Where the stinger occurs.

Zephy is not an only child.

Because his brother is Silas Mann, the Headless Horseless Mann. Owner of a mansion, haunting that very mansion. Shown in the first picture posted. They ran "Zephaniah Mann and Sons, Quarterly Munitions" Together.

Its a tradition for Mann sons to kill the other siblings. Its why there was such a rivalry between the Mann twins (erm, Triplets).

Our Admin apparently knew already, was already observing the situation...

She was waiting.

What, did Zephaniah Mann do?

Why does the administrator hate him so much?

Does it have something to do with a little girl...

... Who can't remember how her parents died.

The man in the picture wears a Towering Pillar of Hats. While that's just the TF2 Timeline Aesthetic... there is another significant element.

Its in Coal Town, surrounded by Hales. While its the "Booths" hat, it was around, clearly, before Bilious was a baby--in Barnabas Time.

Zephaniah and Sons would become Mann Co, after being given to Barnabas.

What, did Zephaniah Mann do?

Easy.

He murdered the Administrator's father, Silas Mann, and her mother, out of "Tradition", and then claimed that HE was an ONLY CHILD like the selfish self-centered bastard he is.

And Our Administrator ensured, even through vengeance that lasted centuries, to a point where she didn't even remember why she started, that it would Never Continue.

Vengeance of a little girl who lost her parents.

Arguably, in comic lore, the torn picture isn't exactly accurate anymore.

Because that Gray Mann in the center, and our Mann Twins didn't even know there was a Gray Mann, and in fact, most of the people in the picture didn't even know about him. And if they took a picture, then clearly, someone would've known.

So its more than likely, a portrait or lore symbollic only. Only meant for the fans, to know what we're looking for and Who, about the time of the first Halloween Events.

( Look it took decades to get all the comics, mate, its not gonna be a craft masterpiece. We get what we get. )

[vashvana]

[Dun meshi manga spoilers!] do you guys ever think about how Thistle is the perfect parallel and amalgamation of every major character in dun meshi. Everything he did was to protect his brother, his best friend, just like how Laios went to all these extreme lengths to save Falin. However, he lost himself to the better of his fears and to the madness of the dungeon/lion, just like Marcille. Senshi watched his family die, helpless to do anything and Thistle, who spent all of his upbringing, serving Freinag, could do nothing when he suddenly died. Chilchuck has a strained relationship with his family because he lacked emotional availability, and Thistle’s family relationship was ruined because of his lack of emotional control. Izutsumi grew up without a family until the others, and as far as we know, Thistle probably grew up in a similar situation as to her before being taken into the kingdom. I believe this to be true considering he was literally just brought in one day as a bought servant, so he was probably in some kind of similar trafficking situation to Izutsumi beforehand. I 🩵🩵🩵 Thistle guys

[embretheworld]

i swear i'm not delulu but these two are connected somehow. i think its by the illness but it is ringing so many bells in my head, espically since i have a theory that corin's surgery was due to partial ether corruption and in asaba's trailer we are shown numerous hints that he underwent some kind of testing.

[deliciouscollectorcrusadestuff]

Looking back at things, jax might be a character that might be the inverse character of the series, it's just something that come up to me because of a tweet shitposting saying they be mad if they don't see Jax cry. Another thing for this quick random theory is for was from Dexter, (yes that old show that had over 5 season and is having two continuation after it's ending) of that people with mental illness who aren't given proper help would become they way they are if they aren't given the chance.

With the way things are going with each tadc episode, I don't think that's possible and hear me out on this.

I feel like each episode’s issue applies to Jax, except he doesn’t get the benefit of the moral like pomni or the focus character does.

Jax doesn’t go to kaufmo’s funeral despite the moral of that episode being that there’s people that will care even after you’re gone. Kinger tells pomni to hold on to the people close to you, but the cast will tie up Jax and shove him to the side on the adventure.

And the moral for gangle being to not hold a fake mask for too long still applies to Jax as he holds his own version of his mask throughout the whole episode until the end.

Seeing how part of Jax Character lies within toxic masculinity and his treatment of others and how that effected his mental state, I don't think he'll be crying due to how mental state work, if one tells them selves that they are a monster for over years and that been supported by that narrative by other people.

It's going to change people, they are going to have a different psychological then what people consider to be normal.

In order for Jax to continue to changing for the better, not only does he have to revalute his morals and come to that said conclusion but depending on that person, they continue trying to fight off who they once were by internal/external means cause people are a bundle of patterns.

Seeing how there's not consequences in the digital world and how most moral thing a person can do is by external means, Jax is being rewarded by being an ass, the gang are willing to lift each other up but when it comes to Jax, it's out of the window.

I'm not saying that the rest of the episode that Jax would still continue to be an ass, gooseworx statement of him getting worse isn't to say that he's being a plain Disney villian. In the setting of the circus. It's simply not that black and white. Instead what we are seeing as Jax mental well being is being torn down again and again and with no positive help and with a group of people who are in a similar situation as him that also happens to hates him. He's only going to get worse.

This is where I feel like pomni would come in, or I maybe wrong.

This theory came from how Dexter father assumed the worse out of him and instead of treating Dexter PTSD the right way that he'll become a working member of society, refusing to see that light. He shaped Dexter to be a killer.

Any thought? I know it feels crack but can you see where I'm getting at?

There's something that need fixing but can you get where I'm coming from?

[philosophybits]

Any theory, by which we explain the operations of the understanding, or the origin and connection of the passions in man, will acquire additional authority, if we find, that the same theory is requisite to explain the same phenomena in all other animals.

David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

[waywardsou2]

OK OK OK GUYS I JUST HAD A THOUGHT

So, we all know how Viktor asked Jayce to destroy the HexCore, and he didn't right. He used it so save him instead and then he melded with it and turned into Jesus. We all know that right.

But when Jayce comes out of the Arcane the first thing he does is go and find Viktor and fucking blow him up

What if, Viktor's physical body, was the HexCore. What if he somehow knew that Viktor, the real Viktor would be ok and this Viktor. His body, was not actually him.

The HexCore took over and influenced him through his bodily autonomy. It explains why the HexCore "fixed" Viktor and then he went on to say the line "So much senseless pain" and fix (insert name here)'s pain.

I truly believe that was not Viktor, some of the things he did were not things I think Viktor would have done without influence. Which is why Jayce had to destroy that version of Viktor, but it was actually the HexCore as well. And he was keeping his promise.

I don't know if he fully knew the extent of Viktor connection between his body and astral projection form because from where I was sitting those two were not connected at all.

I think when he met up with Mage Viktor, and had all those flashbacks and such I think somehow he knew that that was not fully Viktor. And he had to take the gamble of destroying the HexCore without destroying the real Viktor. Because when he gets back to Piltover he clearly knows Viktor is coming for them. He know Viktor will be back despite blowing a hole in his chest

He did keep his promise in the end...

I'm going to go cry now

[neversetyoufree]

Friends, it's been over a year since this post, but I just fucking realized.

Mikhail's mother made him dress up as a girl when he was little. This has been minimally relevant so far—just another way to emphasize how poorly his mother treated him and how little bodily autonomy he's always had. And it's entirely possible that that's all that detail was ever meant to be.

However, if Misha really was named after Mischa Lecter, a female character, then that works pretty damn well as a subtle way of connecting him back to his namesake.

Christ okay, so for AGES now, ever since I first got into trying to track all the references in VnC, Mikhail's name has been haunting me.

Just about every major VnC character name is a reference to something from literature and/or history, and most of those references are pretty obvious. It's not just some of them; it's pretty much a universal thing for any character of note.

However, for a while now, Misha has seemed frustratingly like an exception. There is a serious dearth of characters named Misha or Mikhail in the historical eras and literary canons that Mochijun tends to pull from. I've been failing to find anything for a while, and I haven't seen any other fans picking out things he could be in reference to either. He's just this apparent weird exception, despite the fact that he's an important and extremely thematically relevant character.

But today I finally realized something. The spelling is different, but there is one decently famous literary character named Misha that works as a decent parallel to VnC's Mikhail—Mischa Lecter from the Hannibal series.

For those unfamiliar, in the book version of Hannibal, Mischa Lecter's entire narrative purpose is to be the younger sibling whose horrific death motivates Hannibal Lecter's violent revenge quest. The rest of the Lecter family is killed before the children, leaving Hannibal and Mischa alone in the world together with nobody else to rely on. Then Mischa is killed and cannibalized, and thus begins her brother's career as a killer cannibal.

It's not exactly a one to one parallel, but "desperate young siblings are trapped together in a horrible situation, and then the younger sibling Mischa dies, leaving the older brother alone and vengeful" does sound rather familiar, doesn't it? As remember, according to Vanitas, our Mikhail is supposed to be dead.

It's a weird and obscure enough comparison that I'm not about to declare I've solved the mystery for certain, but personally I've yet to find a better explanation for our Misha's name. After all, the French version of Michael is usually Michel, so Mochijun choosing specifically the Russian version of the name, then having Mikhail insist on going by "Misha" is a rather conspicuous choice. There has to be a reason for what's going on there.

[catcas22]

Oathbringer Shower Thought

When Jasnah and Renarin have their confrontation at the Battle of Thaylen City, we learn that he used to come to her for comfort whenever Dalinar's thinly-veiled disappointment got to be too much for him. All well and good, but why wouldn't he ever confide in Adolin? Even once? The brothers seem quite close, and Adolin is a warm and extremely protective guy. However, he's also a bit emotionally dense, and we never get any indication that he was aware of the way Dalinar made his little brother feel.

My best guess is that Renarin knew that, if he ever went to Adolin in tears over something their father said to him, Adolin would absolutely end up fist-fighting Dalinar. We get a few hints in the flashbacks that Adolin was starting to lose patience with his father's drunken outbursts and wouldn't have been averse to pushing back. So Renarin went to his older, more even-tempered cousin rather than his hotheaded brother when he needed to vent, because he knew Jasnah wouldn't go off on Dalinar if he asked her not to.

Then something from Dalinar's flashbacks jogged my memory. When the Nightwatcher is showing him visions of what his future will look like if he doesn't change his ways (chapter 114), we get this line:

"He heard a boy weeping, pleading for his life. It sounded like Adolin."

Is there an alternate timeline where Adolin confronts his father for bullying his little brother, and Dalinar snaps and kills him in a drunken rage?

[dailyravi]

theory

so if this story line does end up with eddie leaving for texas it might lead up to ravi coming back. and i feel like if ravi does take eddies place 1 of 2 things may happen. 1. buck resents ravi because he took eddies place, or 2. we fall right back into buck trying to make sure ravi is fit for a-shift. and i feel like if either one does happen it will not have a good effect on the buck-ravi friendship

[mg-dango]

GUYS HELP ME WITH THIS THEORY

spoiler warnings for chapter 7:

One thing I noticed a lot are the symbolic details this issue in particular has.

First, everyone probably knows this already, but usually the TF2 comics take as a reference classic comic covers, “Ring of fire” references Spiderman for example, “Old wounds” reference Watchmen, “The naked and the dead” references Crisis on infinite Earths, and this one, while I’m not 100% sure, I think it references Batman year one, where we all see the classic picture of Bruce Wayne contemplating his now dead parents and all that yadda yadda.

Before I proceed, pay attention to this

Now read it again but check out the different scenarios of the covers

“MY GRANDFATHER, EBENEZER MANN. SHIPPING MAGNATE. YOUNGEST OF FIVE SONS. EVERY BROTHER IN THE GROUND BY THE TIME HE BOUGHT HIS FIRST FLEET.”

“MY FATHER, EZEKIEL MANN. RAILROAD TYCOON. MIDDLE CHILD. A HOUSE FIRE CLAIMED HIS THREE SISTERS.”

But especially the last one:

“ZEPHENIAH MANN. ME. MUNITIONS MAGNATE. ONLY SON, SADLY.”

Now, This is my first hypothesis but I don’t believe that last one part, about him being an only son. I also think there are symbolisms and details on the last cover, we see drawings and sketches or prototypes or patents or whatever about guns and weapons all over the floor, and 3 hats which could mean there were 3 siblings but one (Zepheniah) killed the others, and I think the last one cover are the actual admin’s parents and the other 3 are her ancestors… Probably (I don’t know how to say it in English sorry). I also think something about her having 3 fake identities could mean something but I’m not sure yet (Elizabeth, Helen, Emily).

My hypothesis is this, even though the admin couldn’t remember why she wanted revenge towards Zepheniah and achieving said goal by watching the legacy of his family slowly crumble by making the siblings fight each other for eternity and then forcing him to watch it... I think the admin is the daughter or some family member of one of the hypothetical Zepheniah’s siblings that he murdered because of “instincts” like he said, like it’s a family tradition that one sibling must kill the others to steal their achievements and continue the Mann legacy (I feel like the statue of the thinker made by Rodin and Zepheniah replacing its head with his could be a metaphor of that)

ALSO, ANOTHER THING THAT BACKS MH HYPOTHESIS:

If the admin had no correlation AT ALL with the Mann family, then how did she know about the australium even when she was a child? (note: she probably didn't know what Australium could do, calling it "Fools gold" until Gray Mann told her about the power it actually had and then she had the motivation to continue her revenge, however this doesn’t mean that she wasn’t in contact with the Australium before)

And one last detail and symbolism

The roses that grow up in the grave could symbolize Zepheniah and in general, Mann’s legacy. By cutting the roses and putting the mere stems on his grave, could mean that she is cutting this “legacy” or rather “dooming” to become nothing at the end of it by making the brothers fight and all the gravel wars stuff, not letting one brother succeed over the other unlike the past generations.

Hm, there are more things on my mind but first I want to re-think it better and if everything makes sense. I’m open to suggestions, corrections and or even a better wording of my theory. This is all rushed to which I apologize. 😔

[kellelkallel]

Time to post my hyuluka theory

What if Luka killed Hyunwoo to ensure Hyuna's safety?

To give Hyuna a better chance of escape without worrying about leaving anything or anyone behind? By killing Hyunwoo, he eliminates both her bond with her brother and her bond with Luka himself as obstacles to her freedom.

When I was reading through the artbook, I also noticed a reference that was something along the lines of Hyuna agreeing to participate in Alien Stage in exchange for her brother not being abused. Luka could have easily seen this as meaning without Hyunwoo she wouldn't participate and would therefore be more likely to break out and be safe.

For background, we know escaping Anakt Garden or Alien Stage is very difficult. Ivan only managed to escape with Till due to his knowledge of Segyein technology and his ability to break Till out of his restraints (and most likely deal with guards/locks etc because of this knowledge). However, Till turned back for Mizi, and Ivan turned back for Till.

Maybe he looks so shocked to see her on that stage because he thought he'd kept her safe, yet there she was? Anyways, I've recently been getting Hyuluka brainworms so thought this up. Let me know what you all think.

[the-mercurial-star-o-vesper]

I don't think Laura is as safe as we believed. I think she might've been encountering Groaners and Screamers.

At least, in the SH2R remake. This is merely continuing the idea that SH2R is the prequel to SH1 (or at least, the assumed future SH1R)

And while we run on the OG's assumption that being a child means you're safe...

The difference with these assumptions is:

Alessa is still in Silent Hill, in the SH2R timeline. She won't be leaving for another 3 years. (If the R-timeline keeps with the SH1-SH3 timeline)

Let's assume the default: If your problems are powerful enough, they will manifest. If they're not, then it defaults to the closest strong "Psychic" (Take SH4 for example--plenty of people with problems, an entire apartment complex... But its Walter's world that manifests.) [ Which may additionally explain what's going on with James, Angela and Eddie. When they're nearby, the surrounding Silent Hill shoves you with them. ] [ Thanks to an easter egg in SH2R--it can just as easily Reject you too. James does not like being near whatever is going on with Heather. ]

Laura isn't in a safe Silent Hill... she's specifically in Alessa's variant, which is particularly catered to childhood fears, phobias and worse.

[cosmicanger]

“let us not forget that Sudan has been at war for 26 weeks as of now. half a year in war. half a year with no media coverage and no voice.

pray for Sudan the way you would pray for your own countries. don't forget Sudan.”

[wyxxiee]

can i say something reaaaal crazy rn?

let me tell you something… LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING!!!

edit: It could be either Eve or Roo, I’m betting my sanity on this one 🤣

read my other theory: here !!

EDIT : okayyy, i know i haven’t been answering my inbox (my apologies, i’m really busy rn🥲) but might i just add about the concern about the eyes! PLS READ:)!!