#tokyo debunker cornelius

[danieyells]

Hi! Just out of curiosity, how many characters have crying sprites? Or its only Kaito?

just as a heads up to anyone who wants to investigate deeper, all I did was search for the names of crying expressions I knew off the top of my head. So if anyone has a uniquely named one, it's not gonna be here lol.

Cornelius, Kaito, Leo, Lyca, Peekaboo, Romeo, Yuri, and Zenji all have crying expressions!

Cornelius

Kaito - cry (for layering on other expressions, hence why it's on his default)

Kaito - gyannaki ("screaming fit"; "tantrum"; "[baby] crying hysterically") (this is actually playing the animation because he's not crying in the base version of the expression)

Kaito - negative

Leo (cries on stream for the Takeru mission--since it's only on his casual sprite, there probably aren't plans for him to do it again anytime soon lol. . . .)

Lyca

Peekaboo

Romeo - cry

Yuri

Yuri - gyannaki ("screaming fit"; "tantrum"; "[baby] crying hysterically") mama's boy is such a little brat--

Zenji

[ruslanbelov-darkwick]

Thank you, chancellor!

I will try to do my best! ☺️

What do you think of the transfer (OC) students?

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I have many thoughts of our new transfer students! They all seem to be quite promising with bright futures ahead of them! I’m sure, with their bright minds, our chances of fulfilling the prophecy is at an all time high!

I welcome each and every student who wishes to join in our endeavor to save the world with open arms and warm hearts.

As long as they respect the hard work of our staff and give their due diligence, then I will do what I can to support them and their needs while they reside on this island.

[zomboivex]

Here are some of my unhinged TDB headcanons (please clap)

- Rui loves egg salad sandwiches. Fight me on this.

- There’s a fucking beanstalk growing behind Obscuary waaaay in the back. It freaks Rui out.

- Cornelius has a cat pentagram tattoo.

- Cornelius likes racing.

- Cornelius cannot drive without the help of two cats on the pedals below because his legs are too short.

- Rui had wished for 7/11 to always be within walking distance from him no matter where he’s at. Why? Because I think this is funny and I have trash humor.

[anomaly-076]

Going on a date w/ Tkdb teachers

♦ I don't think I've seen anything related to the professors during my time lurking around in the tags, which is kinda a shame, so here's some love for our wacky adults :D ♦

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The Chancellor

(Ik he looks like a kid, but he literally has a son if I remember correctly)

Even with how busy Cornelius usually is, if he likes you he'll find a way to squeeze you into his agenda

It's either a lunch date during his hour or so that he has for a lunch break

Or a dinner date after which he'll have more freedom to also do something else with you

Like stargazing

Idk why but Cornelius strikes me as the one to love stargazing

Sadly, you can't be up for too long though, since he has to wake up early to work again

But the next day, one of the mail cats drops by with a rose and a note thanking you for a nice evening and invitation to meet with him for lunch

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Professor Dante

Not really a date, but more of a parallel reading session in Dante's private library

He's already there when you knock on the door, beckoning you to enter the room so eh doesn't have to open the door for you

If you want, you two can snuggle up on a sofa that's in the library and he'll read some classical literature book to you

Once your relationship progresses further, Dante wouldn't be against laying his head on your lap while you read to him

He might fall asleep each time, but how can you blame him?

Your voice is so soothing and your lap is so comfortable

Only when the two of you are alone, he's able to fully relax

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Professor Hyde

Clueless idiot alert!

Huh? Him asking you out on a date? That's ridiculous! Unless....?

If he somehow manages to ask you out in person and not via a note hidden in one of your books, his whole face is red to the very tips of his white hair

Takes you out for crepes or something

It has to be something simple

Something that doesn't scream 'date'

You're just two colleagues trying out the new ice cream stand since few of your students talked about it, haha... right?

Prepare to be the first one to initiate everything in the relationship and even then, Hyde is flustered mess

But don't you dare mentioning any of that to his other colleagues or even Sho!

Hyde definitely doesn't get all red just from holding hands or when you peck him on the cheek!

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Professor Moby

The sole reason for how I came up with this idea

I can just imagine Moby trying so hard to make up with his behavior for the fact that the place he took you is a very cheap 2* diner that may or may not have a bit of a mice problem

Worry not! All six of his remaining tentacles will make sure no little critter will get into your food!

He feels very guilty to drag you to such place, but it's the best he can afford

And no, he will not let you pay for yourself so you can eat somewhere better

What gentleman would make you pay on a date he invited you to?

After that mice fiasco, he'll try to find different places you two can enjoy yourselves

Like a walk in the park! That doesn't cost anything and is nice to get to know your date

Maybe, once he manages to find a way to feed The Chancellors cats without getting attacked, he'll be able to buy you a snack or something!

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Professor Nicolas

Talk about busy

Nicolas barely has a time for himself while managing the hospital

If it weren't for Yuri and Jiro, he wouldn't even be able to get any sleep

So instead of dates, you usually just bring him lunch and eat it together in his office

Sometimes, if you don't happen to have a lesson to teach, you're helping him out

By some point, you've learned so much, that you're able to get qualified as a nurse

You don't have to, but it would help Mortkranken a lot to have another person on their team

Plus you could spend more time with him that way

But he insists, that you really don't have to and if you want to spend more time with him, he'll try to find a different way

[potatotrash0]

gramps ik you’re centuries old but can you talk normal. just for a little.

[ruslanbelov-darkwick]

Oh, um...

These are just my thoughts, nothing more! Most likely, this is simply due to the difference in mentalities between Russia and Japan 😅

*scratched his head awkwardly*

I'm confused by how many vulgar things appear in my tumblr feed 🫣

Sometimes I think that chancellor should think about tightening discipline...

[bamboozledbystander]

At this point, Ritsu should just change his name to Rizz.

Any guy who wishes to "form a cudgel" with me knows exactly what kind of relationship I want. Like, say less, babe.

Also, bonus Cornelius (my poor little meow-meow)

[cherriiish]

ed's homescreen voice lines stated that him being the most powerful vampire is just a rumor, but in the newest episode rui calls him the strongest vampire in the world..? Who is telling the truth rn

[0ghostwatcher]

I genuinely thought at some point the principal would have been a cat too🫡😔🙌🏿

[shohaizono]

“Shohei!” The chancellor approached the food truck with a beaming smile and a little army of cats behind him, a hand stuck up and giving a wave.

“Hyde said your foods been a big hit!” A pause before he breathlessly began to go onto a long spiel, every word filled with a sort of frantic excitement, “I came all the way from my office just to try a bit. But then I realized, all of the cats must be hungry too. Would you be able to make some soaked sardines for them? They’re such hard workers and could use a tasty treat. No rush on it! But it’s become a huge pain to constantly send Moby to get the sardines. He always buys the wrong brand. But Hyde says you’re a reliable kid! So can you?” A chorus of meows would erupt from behind him.

@chancellor-cornelius

Sho watches the chancellor walk up. He makes a face at being called Shohei, and it stays after Cornelius mentions Hyde. Still, he listens carefully to what the other has to say.

Humming, he taps his chin, pretending to think about it. "Well... I might, but..." he looks around the truck and behind himself, "There's no one here named Shohei."

He levels a dead stare at Cornelius. "That's so crazy," he deadpans.

[mirae-was-taken]

may do a side blog w/my tdbk oc i thought about earlier in the day...

although their gender is literally [???] so have fun when i bring them to life

say it with me, NOT MY ART, MADE BY THE SAME EA-3 GUILDIE WHO DREW THE REN + TOWA IMAGE

[danieyells]

I apologize if this was already asked or if you mentioned it already, but what are your thoughts on the dynamic between the chancellor and Ed? Ed seems to be able to bulldoze the chancellor and I'm not sure if the chancellor particularly fears Ed for being a powerful vampire or something else.

Gdi something updated and threw out my whole response. OOPS. This hasn't been asked before, no--even if it had, no harm in asking again, anon 💕

I feel like Cornelius is barely maintaining the power he has even over the faculty, let alone the ghouls. It's no surprise to me that he'd get pushed aside by Ed. From the beginning, even Hyde does whatever he wants for the most part, much to Cornelius' complaints. Yes, he can dock their pay and refuse to raise their budgets and maybe even report them to the Institute itself and get them fired or relocated but also. . .he kind of needs all his people. So he's kind of helpless even in his position of power.

It's no surprise that a ghoul, let alone a ghoul who's also the most powerful vampire in the world, would be able to push him aside and run his show for a moment.

I don't know about fear--I think Cornelius knows Ed has no desire to harm humans because if he did he would've done to the entire faculty what he did to that building on his mission and there'd be nothing left of them and he'd go back to fuckin. Serbia or wherever he was before he went on vacation to Japan. But Cornelius is [probably?] just a human. He's a small human at that even though he's like 57. What's he gonna do, call the faculty? Call the Institute? If all the ghouls worked together they'd steamroll them too. Ed could probably do it himself but he cares so little he wouldn't bother.

I love their dynamic lmao. Ed acts like he doesn't care but really I think he does want better for the ghouls and the anomalies and the PC especially. Meanwhile Cornelius sort of acts like he cares and he's not even giving his own staff the budgets they need to do their jobs. Ed does a great job of taking over a situation and saying "you are not doing your job so I will do it for you and make sure everyone sees how incompetent you are--it's up to you if you want to make changes now" which Cornelius really needs someone to do because he is kind of irresponsible or careless or indifferent in some fields he shouldn't be. And I understand that he has a lot on his plate but still, if he wants to stay in charge and not eventually have the ghouls riot against him he's going to have to step the fuck up. Ed is just pointing that out for him. Because he can't punish Ed in any way that matters.

[chancellor-cornelius]

“Until your curse is broken, you cannot leave this academy”

Let me be the first to say, Welcome to Darkwick!

If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to ask!

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Hello!

This is an RP Ask Chancellor Cornelius Blog!

➜ I will respond on my time

➜ NSFW will be put under cuts and labeled

➜ Questions will be answered with the POV of Chancellor Cornelius

➜ I plan to stay lore accurate to game events and will not make up details for the sake of answering things. Expect a lot of dodgy answers

➜ Please be patient with me and just have fun with it

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[luxiaosh]

GOLDEN FLAME REFLECTED .

tokyo debunker ⎯ㅤ haku kusanagi .ᐟ

i was surprised to learn that haku's birthday takes place at hanabi taikai so quick searches, fireworks festival, fluff, happy (belated) birthday haku! ♡♡, gender neutral,

it's a day like any other. 

that's what HAKU tells himself. 

he doesn't expect to receive a phone call from his family or for the peaceful rain on the outskirts of hotarubi to respite as any way to mark the date. but until this morning the weather continued to cry outside, wisteria petals swaying in the damp, muggy wind coming off the darkwick campus. it was like a symbol of spring's hopelessness in the warm sunlight, allowing laughter to ripple like the tide as children build sandcastles and adults relax in the shade, cooled by the wind of traditional fans and uchiwas. 

it's just a day. . . like all the others; but when one of the colorful balloons flashes above your head and the sky is enveloped in a black blanket glowing with tokyo lights on the horizon, it's clear that it isn't. 

and the date was defined as he looked at you. sweet. that's what he thought. it was sweet how that simple blue yukata hugged her small body, her hair, like the finest silk, swayed gracefully when caressed by the breeze. he teases you, saying that you could easily be undressed and hands you cold drinks so you can cool your cheeks hidden behind the fan. how sweet, cute . .

the towel spread out on a narrow stretch of unoccupied sand, steadying them with the weight of their knees and heels. you did everything and looked after it cautiously and subtly, with an irrational fear of harming him by the slightest wrong move on your part; what did haku do to make you resemble subaru so much at that moment. 

when his words, few or abundant, made evident the love – and not just provocations – that he alone had for you? almost as if an adoration of his name was given by all the phrases and pretexts created to make sure what was coming from you.

it leaves a warm feeling, a longing for more loving touch as haku runs his thumb down the back of your hand to soothe and tell you everything is going well. haku had spilled a bucket of words so you could trust him from the start and now it was his turn, wasn't it? even if this is not exactly what he wanted from you, nor is it what he imagined in his head when he demanded so much. . . even if it is speechless, there is even more meaning behind it than the gesture as intimate and different as the time the two jumped together into the void of constellations; and when you blamed the heat on your own cheeks on tokyo's summer temperature – begging once again for one of those cold drinks, the sky heated up and the first fireworks exploded.

the sound reverberated through the bones, a boom that echoed and they both choked back the joy of surprise. colors danced in the air, painting the sky with vibrant hues. fiery red, deep blue, sparkling gold. . . lights were reflected in his yellow irises, shining in a living mirror of colors – “ it's beautiful. so bright. . . ” and the words are lost when haku starts to laugh, the tears well up in eyes but you hold them. that is his day, his alone. haku gave everything he had to convince cornelius that you, subaru, zenji, rui, lyca would be safe, free, and now it's your turn to reciprocate with an enlightened scene; contained happiness, for not expecting to give and receive so much. you still have your hand stuck in his. and he promises to keep that grip and cherish you forever.

he could be the guy who stopped you from being thrown out of a train window, unpredictable and whatever you want to say; but looking at haku kusanagi, it is the lover who loses his undeniable beauty to admire that of others, and you were so determined to worship that you could not refuse to be fall in love one day.

[zomboivex]

Lyca: *growls at a cat*

Cornelius: Lock this bitch up

[yuri-is-online]

Notes on the Prophecy: Tokyo Debunker

Right so the concept of the Prophecy Darkwick is in charge of keeping comes up in the Hotarubi Episode and a few other places. I want to sort of go over a few things about it that I've dug up after re-reading the story so much for my Clash post since it isn't really related to it at all, but still is something I want people's opinions about. Let's start with the text of the prophecy:

"The whisper of the new moon shall lead the champion to the Academy on the solitary isle. So long as the champion resides there, the world shall be sheltered from profound tragedy..."

So, is the Prophecy true?

Yes. It has to be assuming we are following Japanese folklore; Cornelius refers to this actually really pretty looking creature as a kudan, which is a yokai whose entire myth is that it gives prophecies that always come true. I am taking my information about kudan from the yokai guy's public patreon post about it, which is an easy read and I encourage you to check it out but there were two things that stuck out to me. Firstly, the kudan dies immediately after delivering its prophecy. This is likely why it is in a "memory pot" that Hyde has to bring out for the Entrance Ceremony, I don't think what we see is the actual kudan that delivered the prophecy but rather some sort of magical recording of it. Secondly, kudan occasionally give more than one prophecy, meaning that there is a chance that this particular kudan gave more than one prophecy about the Darkwick ghouls, but this one is either the only one preserved in the memory pot or the only one Darkwick makes public. The prophecy does not end with a period, but a set of ellipses which typically is used to indicate a voice trailing off or that there is more to be said but it is being cut off. I think this could simply be a stylistic choice so I don't want people to place too much emphasis on it, but I do wonder if there is more than one prophecy that Darkwick is in possession of.

Do we know what it means?

Kind of. I missed this the first few times I read the Prologue, but Cornelius specifically says that "The whispers of the new moon refers to the tidings that alert us to the birth of a new ghoul." Which is why they know the text of the prophecy is about ghouls and presumably why they assume that it is about the ghouls as a whole but what I can't wrap my brain around is why they made that leap? The text of the prophecy to me suggests champion (singular) as in only one champion. A chosen one if you will, not a chosen group. The way I read it, a ghoul will lead the champion to Darkwick, and so long as that Champion stays there the world shall be sheltered from profound tragedy. If anyone knows the Japanese text for the prophecy I would be interested to know if that helps clear up why Cornelius might think it's about all of the ghouls and not just one person.

Conclusion

I think the prophecy is missing some context on purpose and that's why Cornelius references doing research on it in the Prologue. Maybe Darkwick knows they're missing a part of it, or maybe they are actively searching for this "champion" and holding off on revealing all of it until they find them since they think it is sensitive information. In my cracked head I think there's a chance it could be about the MC, even if she doesn't seem very champion like right now since I don't think her abilities with the Sage's ring come from the curse. I think that's just cope from Cornelius and Hyde... or maybe me who knows. She was lead to the school by Haku after all, and she is currently unable to leave the island.

Anyway I am interested in what you all think about this, please do let me know!