#twst favorite characters

[neoninky]

3 and 5

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Damn right for the really tough ones lol

“3. Who is your favorite House Warden?”

You know, I’m going with the Red King himself, Riddle Rosehearts. I had to really think about this one because I like most of them, and I was torn between a couple of them lol, but I’m going with Riddle.

While he does have anger management issues and, let’s be honest, pulled a lot of unnecessary and messed up shit in Book 1, he’s a guy that sticks to his guns and prides himself on his discipline and knowledge, both of which he gained through hardwork. He also - post overblot - sees potential in others, especially his underclassmen like Epel and Deuce and looks out for them. Also post overblot, Riddle makes an effort to be more understanding and less of a hardass (he still is but that’s just part of his character lol) He also doesn’t back down from a challenge. For all that, I admire him a lot. Well done, king 🤌✨

“5. Who are your Top 5 favorite and/or comfort characters?”

*brain explodes from trying to decide* Ok in no particular order 😂

Lilia, Jade, Jamil, Malleus, and Ortho

Lilia: before Book 7, Lilia was a quirky lil Bat Dad sir that was in no way a teenager but I didn’t care cuz he’s a lot of fun and loves his boys lol….after Book 7, everything I just said plus lots and lots of tears and feelings 😂

Jade: I love both of the twins but Jade especially holds a special place in my heart. I would never want to be his enemy or target lol, but outside of that, I love Jade. What a heckin’ hyper focused nerd. What an absolute force of nature when it comes to holding Octavinelle together yes Azul does a lot too I would go on a hike and take nature pictures and identify mushrooms in a heartbeat lol. Also I read one of his dialogues where he greets you on your birthday and he got you a bougie tea set or something of that nature - sold 😂

Jamil: I love me a good ol’ snek boi what can I say? But no, Jamil is definitely one of the coolest and most relatable characters in the game in my book. He grew up desiring something for just himself, wanting more out of life, but he wanted more on his terms, earned in his own way - not just handed to him. Respect. Jamil is cool as hell, bless him. Plus he is the sassiest boi when he lets loose and it’s hilarious 😂

Malleus: oh Malleus. He’s become one of my favorites and one of my comfort characters simply because I can relate to him in some ways. Some not all. Definitely did not grow up in royalty or even a rich family, but I definitely was an “odd” one that didn’t always connect with my peers or even know how to a lot of the time. I was a latch key kid growing up so I also spent a lot of time alone. On a much more superficial level, I too love gargoyles and grotesques and I collect them lol. I too greatly appreciate quiet, underpopulated places. For Malleus, it’s ruins or abandoned places. For me, it’s libraries, my apartment, or mostly empty movie theaters 😂

Ortho: Ortho is an interesting lil dude who always makes me smile. Or laugh when he immediately jumps to the “blow it up with a laser cannon” option lolol. I like steampunk or technology based characters/designs/aesthetics so that also plays into my love for Ortho. Also as a younger sibling myself, his love and admiration for his big brother hits home ngl. Ortho just has a youthfulness and impish charm about his character that I like a lot. It’s refreshing ✨

Thanks for the ask, Aqua~

[egophiliac]

he did it! 🐍 and it only took...uhhh...well, there probably could've been less punches, but why hold back!

PUNCHES FOR EVERYONE

[hyuckonia]

AAHHHH AHHHHH EVERYONE POINT AND LAUGH!!!!!!!!!! LOOOSERRR!!!! AHHHHHH SOMEONE LOST THE GAMEEE!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 (everyone lost actually (😔) )

AKA a last ditch effort to annoy the shit out of this guy

bonus!

the moment when ortho ace and kalim get inside the playful stage and can see everyone and are deciding what to do next. what easier way to defeat your enemy than completely obliterating them?

bonus 2

my friend said this pic of 2 random people showed up on google when u look up "fellow honest nui" so now theyr in fellow and gidel cosplay 💞

[garliicgun]

girlboss, gatekeep, gaslight (in that order)

[octahyde]

Book 1: Riddle is under immense amount of pressure to live up to the impossible expectations of his abusive mother. When someone stands up to him and calls him out, he cracks.

Book 2: After being demonized his entire life in favor of his golden child of an older brother, Leona snaps at the idea of only being second best to someone else at the only thing he cares about.

Book 3: Azul got the ever loving shit bullied out of himself as a child. As an unhealthy coping mechanism started building himself up to be better than everyone else, only for the shell he made to start rapidly crumbling when things went too far.

Book 4: Jamil was a literal slave and wanted freedom like.

Book 5: Vil has severe imposter syndrome from getting cast as villains his entire life no matter how hard he tries to be more approachable, while his (onesided) rival gets everything he is desperate for naturally.

Book 6: Idia is the princess of the Illuminati who feels responsible for the gruesome death of her 8 year old brother 8 years prior. When she is forced into an authority position she does not want, knowing it’ll be her life in a couple of years, the ghost of her brother speaks to her. They literally open the gates of hell to try to start the apocalypse and rebuild a new world where they are the heroes of humanity.

Book 7: Being isolated his entire life, Malleus has been severely emotionally stunted. When he suddenly finds out he could be losing the two most important people to him, he panics.

[crystallizsch]

GLOMAS BASKETBALL CLUB 💥💥💥

ace and floyd glorious masquerade outfit designs by @cheerleaderman!! i’ve been meaning to draw them bc the designs are so good and so fun,,,

[secondary-colorentimy]

I LOVE UMA DISNEY DESCENDANTS !!!!!

[jangmi-latte]

FELLOW HONEST SHAKES

[midnightmah07]

"I Woke Up as The Tragic Heroine and Switched The Male Lead" or whatever

Also tagging @4necdote bc I told her about this idea!

[cheerleaderman]

More Designs for my Cheer event

Cheer rally - @scint1llat3 @screamintoad @skibidibabygirl @skriblee-ksk @twtysevapr

@prefectrose @oya-oya-okay @angelwishess @theolivetree123 @kathxrat-01

@distant-velleity @jewelulu @jovieinramshackle @justm3di0cr3 @viperbunnies

@clovenoko @karamatsuboy-aj @day-dr3aming

[the-necromancer-wife]

Skully J. Graves and a personal reflection about what respect should be really about:

(And also a not-so-small slightly anthropological analysis about the importance of the work of cultural promotors)

This person was here long before I came to NRC...

A graduate of hundreds of years ago.

Before, Halloween was a minor event, but now it's known all over...

Hes said to have laid the foundation for today's Halloween

His name is Scully J. Graves.

Known as... "King of Halloween"!

(Translated by: @MostroLoungeVIP on twitter - X)

I was wrong. Since the very beginning when i thought Skully was neurodivergent, and also when i wrote about a possible traumatic event. Nothing of it was depicted in the event story and even if my expectations were very high, i am not disappointed. I would like to share my thoughts with you:

Hundreds of years ago, before all of us were born, there was this person known as Skully J. Graves. A young man with a unique perspective, one that no one knew where it was originated.

But a valid perspective nonetheless.

You see, sometimes we don't really know why a person thinks and acts in certain ways. We don't know why people do what they do.

This is what happens with Skully. The truth is that we don't know what happened to him or where his opinions came from. Certainly we can make theories and imagine everything we want. Was it that he was raised in a secluded and conservative enviroment? Was he neurodivergent? Did he lost someone by his own hand on Halloween's day?

Every point of view is valid and we don't really need to know the whole truth to acknowledge how valid his feelings are. Personally, I didn't understand him very well at first and that's why i wanted to justify his actions so badly. Skully was feeling alone, left out and rejected for his different opinion, and my only question was "Where this opinion originated from?" instead of "How can I understand what he stands for?" and ultimately, of course, accept him as he is.

I realized I was trying to make him fit into the reasons I would use to explain myself if I had that opinion.

And Skully himself has (had) a similar conflict. To his eyes, things had certain purpose and that purpose had to remain unchanged. Halloween was about fear, thinking about oneself's actions in silence. There was a post here on tumblr that explained how his idea of a perfect Halloween coincided with different festivities.

But all this was not about Skully only. It was also about every single NRC student that couldn't respect Skully's opinion. About a bunch of people that the first question they asked themselves was "What is wrong with him?"

The same question i was asking myself before, trying to find a source for his "quirkiness" as if there had to be an explanation for his different opinions. Even the act of calling him "quirky" was a mistake itself because i labeled as such based on my own judgment.

This was a story about a kid that learned to see beyond his own judgment and teached others to do the same. Skully teached me a valuable lesson that will be useful to me for the rest of my life. I learned how easy it is to dismiss others even if I think I'm being respectful.

Respect should be about understanding, not about justifying.

Otherwise, I'm just being condescending.

And that's the reason why I was not disappointed in the end, even if i was waiting for things to end differently.

...

When I saw Skully's portrait in the end, I noticed his glasses were missing. I read that they fell after Sebek and him fought. Skully himself was upset about the tainted glasses broke, as anyone would be when their opinions are being judged. But we were able to see his eyes and he was able to see beyond his nose. I mean, it was the moment he snapped, but also what I think it is a very subtle metaphor on changing oneself's point of view.

And this was the Skully that was known years later, hundreds of years later. When there was nothing left of him to remember but the fact that he was the one responsible for making Halloween a world-wide known celebration.

Yes, a celebration.

Another valuable lesson this event taught me, was how crucial are those people with different points of view, historically and culturally speaking. Skully's beliefs were different, yes, but he was also extremely passionate. And that passion was what impulsed him to dedicate his life entirely to promote Halloween culture everywhere he went.

He traveled and learned and shared and ultimately popularized Halloween. If he hadn't, Halloween would be a forgotten celebration, like many others. This happens even in real life. Different cultures, small cultures often struggle as the time passes to keep their traditions alive because there is no one there to pass the knowledge to the next generations. There is no one to promote them outside of the small town where they were originated.

In Twisted Wonderland, is safe to assume Halloween Town was the origin of Halloween. And it was a small town. So small, even the name Jack Skellington dissolved in the modern world.

But Skully's name remained, and was even known as "King of Halloween"! And even if his ideas were a bit (a lot) different from modernity, you can't deny the impact he had on the popularization of Halloween.

Twst managed to explain a very complex historical process that involves not only cultural promotion, but also appropriation. As Halloween is celebrated in many many forms depending on the time and place. A lively halloween or a quiet halloween or a Samahin, they're all valid and unique! And they were all possible thanks to the work of Skully J. Graves, as well as the work of Jack Skellington before him, and many others before and after them both.

It is heritage, cultural heritage.

And seeing this event from that perspective, it is clear the amount of respect we owe to historical figures. Even if their thoughts seem a bit...archaic (or barbaric!!! as Jamil refered).

Revolutionary ideas in the past are often considered normal and "the obvious" in the present, as well as many "barbarics" (yes, Jamil, i'm looking at you) acts in the past are now considered well...just that.

And the reason why modernity is able to see some points of view as archaic /obvious is because those were thoughts that evolved by being constantly analyzed, criticized, modified and/or teached to newer generations.

So, yeah, thank you Skully J. Graves.

There was something breathtaking about his portrait: A young man with a unique perspective, one that no one knew where it was originated. But one that impulsed him to preserve and spread a celebration...

...hundreds of years ago, before all of us were born.

[mawguai]

Knight in the sky

[egophiliac]

well, I can't say I expected the new chapter to feature Idia (metaphorically) going to (metaphorical) hell, getting a pep talk from his (metaphorical) Phantom brother which helps him finally move on once and for all from his brother's death, and (metaphorically) overblotting again to fight his way back out of (metaphorical) hell, only to have his darkest fear (non-metaphorically) come true when his mom goes through his computer and finds all his secret files. but I am glad it did!

also this is all a flashback for the purpose of explaining to our group what the heck is going on (whether or not any of it is getting through is another matter)

[soratsuart]

Doodles

[r-aindr0p]

Aight trying to get back into rolloposting, I draw him so inconsistently already and haven't drawn him at all during art fight month ... :')

[snailsrneat]

Y'all can we just have a honest conversation on the fact that in majority of his cards, Vil doesn't really look happy.

Like for example his birthday groovy,

He looks amused or pleased, not really happy. Same thing goes for his lab coat groovy, he looks more like amused by the situation than he is happy. His ceremonial robe groovy has him yelling at Jack, his dorm uniform groovy has him once again more amused than anything else, and his Halloween groovy is more sly and devious. I think you get the point none these cards really show him being happy.

I think there are only two that truly show when he is happy one of them being his second birhday card and his new years card.

I just think it's interesting cause I know in book 6, Vil briefly says something about "just being himself". Specifically during the kiss scene. I know that a lot of other people who played the games could probably tell, but I think the vast majority of times we see or interact with Vil in game he's masking. It makes sense as to why he would, when you're someone as famous and as rich as him I think it would be foolish to just go around trusting people all willy-nilly.

What especially gets me though is the thought that he's probably been doing it since childhood. He probably learned from his dad too. His father probably taught him to mask all the kind and sensitive parts of his personality out of a fear of that his son would get damaged by selfish and unkind people.