#yh commentary

[yanderehighschool-confessions]

im a sucker for yhs stuff, this was my childhood too LOL also, im not sure who to vote to win since its grian AND taurtis.....

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[reesescuffs]

Salex and chan both being played by the same actor give me scamilton having their eliza actress play both her and Maria reynolds

[give-grian-rights]

did you see the statement against Majo- Ellen's actor, it's...a lot to take in

https://x.com/artistz93/status/1724168049480085988?s=46

i contemplated not posting this, but I know there's only so many other blogs that'd do so.

I am disgusted and appalled by the behavior shown in these screenshots. It is incredibly frustrating to see yet another individual come out of that sphere of people and be horrid. I was already familiar with the depravity of Yuki, and the quiet allegations posed against them.

I do not have my own experience along the same lines (much less with a creator) but I do believe that bringing some of this information to enforcement might be for the best. I understand that this is easier said than done, due to either online anonymity, family, etc., and as such respect and understand the lack of involvement with law enforcement.

I'm so fucking sorry to any of the people who had been affected by Ellen, and I hope that you guys can find some sense of closure from this. Out of my own experience with his lack of maturity and inability to reasonably approach these matters, I would like to say to any of the parties involved that I would not recommend bringing this to Sam.

While I am not saying he would support these actions, I am willing to assume he likely would not care, nor is there any responsibility he could really claim, outside of giving Ellen (and Yuki) the means to start a platform.

really fucking shitty way to end the night. fuck Ellen, Yuki, and Sam How I will go forward with YHS: I have taken a break from posting about Ellen, as both he and Yuki truly do not deserve any sort of positive affirmations regarding their past work. While I'm not sure how long this break will proceed for, any further communications involving their fictionalized characters will likely be altered, and I'll likely change aspects of their characters.

I'm not the most active or frequent when it comes to commentary and fan content involving YHS, due to quite obvious reasons. However, it's still something in the back of my brain and something I don't intend on straying far from with my fan creations. For better or worse, it shaped a part of me. Quite frankly, in ways it never should've.

EDIT: I did not feel satisfied with this my original posts as my thoughts were generally disorganized due to the fact I was beginning finales at the time this situation was brought forward to me. I also broke it up into how I will be going forward with their characters, and my message to anyone involved as I do not want to make this about me. It is not. It's about the gross behavior displayed, and I hope that everyone involved in these situations are able to move forward.

[takitakidancetillthesunriseyea]

Not Ok MV Analysis

When Not Ok dropped, I was floored. It’s so good!!! So, as one does, I watched MV again and again too. At about the third time around, I began to realize that each of the member’s scenes are connected to the original Fever Diaries. So without further ado, here’s my analysis;

Hongjoong is stuck watching a screen, and the words he sees, (missing, alone, loneliness, behind, family, mother) connect back to his original dream; to become famous, like the people on tv, so his family would notice him. So he would no longer be alone. That’s his ‘trauma’. And in the end, the only way for him to break free is to destroy the phone.

You could argue his scenes are commentary on our modern reality, addiction, the horrors of constant media consumption, etc… and they are somewhat, but even more than that it’s about how the ideals of media effected his dreams. His addiction wasn’t the phone itself, but the unrealistic ideal of who to be. The idea that a perfect family exists, or that people are never lonely. That becoming perfect would change anything. At the end of the song most of them are able to break free of their ‘trauma’, and HJ does it by destroying what originally set him on his path.

I think for Hongjoong, freedom is realizing he doesn’t need to be that false ideal to have what he wants. That not everyone is perfect, and that if he doesn’t want to be alone, he needs to run for it in real life, not in some imaginary one.

Yunho sees his brother, flickering, glitching, and eventually disappearing. They’re in a theater, possibly like his brother might have once performed at. We don’t know too much about his brother from the diaries except that he liked playing music, and had a messed up leg, but I think it’s plausible that he would’ve performed at local theaters. As for why Yunho sees him…I think it’s supposed to represent his obsession. The theater itself represents his mind, how he’s constantly searching for traces of his brother.

In the Fever diaries, Yunho blames himself for his brother being in a coma, so much so that he starts following his brother’s dream; music. Then of course, through music, he met the guys and started traveling through time. It seemed like he’d moved on somewhat. Yet, in World Diaries when he met his brother in the past, he refused to leave him. In the end, when he chose to find the members again, his brother got hurt in the collateral. Possibly even killed this time. (Something possibly supported by the flies on the clothes in the MV.) So it’s safe to say that his guilt and fear are still fresh as ever.

(Yes this is a screenshot from YH’s scene. It’s what convinced me that it’s his brother) Overwhelmed with that guilt, Yunho’s been following his brother’s dream, this whole time. This whole time. It makes me think that maybe his brother disappearing at the end, in the same way the other break free from their shackles, is him gaining freedom. In the end, to live free, he needs to break out of his brother’s dream and live his own. No matter how much he loves his brother, to truly achieve something great, it needs to be his own will.

Seonghwa and Yeosang are in the same room, because their original ‘trauma’ was the same. Both of them were trapped due to rules and schedules. Yeosang was trapped in a ‘perfect’ life by an external force, his father, whereas Seonghwa was trapped in the same life, but by his own mind.

Both of them are playing Go, under heavy surveillance. Both of them have heavy, expensive looking watches on, that are constantly flashing with the words: obey, money, do work, fame, success, wake up, control. Those watches are their ‘shackles’ the constant goals, reminders, timers. You could think of it like a smart watch, literally giving reminders, but I think it’s supposed to be a literal watch. Time is counting down, but they only think of it as things they have to do, not as something mutable. Numbers, letters, strategies. Life is a game to be won, not a journey to be enjoyed.

Yeosang is the first to wake up, but there’s nothing he can do about it. He’s in a cage, and can’t escape on his own. (Interesting to me, because he saves the members in the diaries, but he cant save himself.) In the world diaries, when he fully breaks away from his father’s thinking, he attributes it to being with the others. It’s a change that happened in his own mind, but he needed someone to show him there was hope. He couldn’t do it alone. In the MV it’s the same. He wants to break free, but can’t alone. This is the play that triggered YS to wake up. vv

I think it’s significant for a handful of reasons. First, he’s losing, something that shouldn’t happen in his ‘perfect’ world. Second, his piece is fully boxed in (which is overkill). It’s caged, just like him. Third, and most interesting to me, is that the four Xs around a piece in Go are called liberties. So he’s quite literally had his liberties taken.

Seonghwa only wakes up when he sees the clock. In the diaries, SH woke up when he saw the girl dancing, it was a trigger for him to change how he was living. Unlike YS, no one was forcing SH to live perfectly. All the rules and schedules he followed like a religion, he made up himself. For him, deciding to change his life was completely internal, triggered by something anyone could’ve experienced. It’s the same in the MV. Seonghwa wakes up easily, but only after seeing the clock. Realizing that his life is ticking down to nothing, without him ever really living.

After waking up, Seonghwa is able to remove his watch easily. Proof that he had it on of his own volition. Then once free, he's able to free Yeosang who can’t escape on his own.

As for Wooyoung and Mingi, they are both in the same room, yet alone. Their fears were also both incredibly similar, their fears were other people. At first you would think they would be together in the room, but part of what made their fear so strong was being alone. So they’re together, but separate. When the two of them are first shown, they’re both on a little stage surrounded by masked figures. At first I didn’t realize the significance of the scene, but then I realized; The figures are facing different directions. On Wooyoung’s side the figures face him, while on Mingi’s side they face away from him. This little detail characterizes their fears well; Wooyoung is afraid of people’s stares, while Mingi hates being alone.

Wooyoung’s struggle, as characterized in the Fever diaries, is stage fright. While his screen time doesn’t seem very significant at first, it’s clear he’s afraid. The masked figures are looking at him. He surrounded, trapped on stage a tiny stage and they’re laughing (???) at him. I think people who struggle with stage fright and public speaking would agree that it’s a terrifying predicament. At the end of the MV he manages to break free by performing anyway, even with his fear. And he blows them all away.

Another thing I thought was interesting was the short but intense zoom on his necklace. Shots like this wouldn’t happen unless they were 100% on purpose. (Because it’s weird ToT) In his first Diary, WY says that his fear was like a ���chain that was tying my body”. So the chain necklace could represent part of his fear. It’s collaring him in the same way the watches shackled YS and SH for their scenes.

Mingi loved music, but as escapism. He was lonely and used music as a way to hide from how he actually felt. His ‘trauma’. In the beginning, there are a good handful of shots of him standing alone on a stage. Sometimes there are men in black like Wooyoung have, but most of the time they’re either facing away from him, or flickering like they’re not really there. That’s his ‘trauma’; being alone.

His scenes were the hardest for me to analyze out of all the members. Yet they’re what also made me realize that Not Ok is connected to Fever Diaries. This shot of him putting in his earbuds is the reason I was even able to write this analysis. vv

It parallels his scenes in Diary Film so perfectly that it made me go back and reevaluate the whole MV from a Fever perspective.

To be honest, Mingi’s scenes stumped me for quite some time. Like weeks and weeks kinda time. After all that time thinking, I’ve come to the conclusion that the MV is supposed to show him coming to love music more for what it is than for the ability to hide in it. At some point he begins to use music as a way to connect with people as opposed to a way to push them away. (Like how the guys in black join him to dance.) For Mingi music is an unhealthy coping mechanism, but it’s also the path he chose for himself. If used the right way, it can give him strength to keep going and the ability to relate to others. He hasn’t won his inner battle yet, but he’s definitely getting closer.

San is running, (something he seems to be doing every single comeback). I think his running is supposed to be yet another callback to the og Fever Diary Film where he’s being forced to move again, and as he’s going down the escalator he changes his mind and runs back to the warehouse. Back to his friends and dancing. In the MV he’s being held back by two faceless men in a hall full of moving boxes. As the lights flicker the men turn invisible. (More proof that everything in the MV is happening entirely in their minds.) I don’t know who or what the men are supposed to represent, maybe they’re supposed to represent his parents, or maybe they represent his doubts and fears holding him back.

Towards the end he’s being sucked down a tunnel trying desperately to crawl out as something is racing towards him. At first I thought it was just particles, or grains of sand like in the cromer, going to suck him back into his ‘trauma’, but after watching it over and over again I realized; They’re toy trucks. Moving vans. The thing he was originally running from. He’s still trying to run.

Jongho’s is actually the most straightforward, even tho it took me a while to realize. When you see his scenes it’s easy to focus on the screens, because a few of the others have screens too (and they’re strobing so it’s super distracting.) What’s actually important though is what’s on the screens. It all ties back to that original injury in his first Fever Diary. In the og Fever Diary Jongho is depressed because he loves basketball sustained a horrible injury that made him unable to ever play again. In the diary he voices that he’s not just suffering from losing his dream, but also the realization that everyone left him behind.

At the start of the music video they split trauma into mental and physical, and Jongho’s is both. For his scenes he’s lying alone in a bed, in an empty room surrounded by screens. A good sum of loneliness. That’s where what’s on the screens comes in: All the screens are playing videos of people or animals running. Something he can no longer do. He can’t leave, can’t run, and he’s forced to watch other people do what he cannot.

When he starts trying to break away from the screen’s control on his mind, it shows a spider, meant to reflect his situation. He’s caught, stuck in a web, and can’t escape. For him, the breaking of the screens (similar to HJ in drowning the phone) is proof of him trying to break free from his ‘trauma’. In the MV, Jongho never manages to break the screens. He doesn’t escape but he’s trying his best. And the cracks in the screens prove that one day, he will succeed. ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧//✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧

There are some things I noticed in the MV that I didn’t understand, or know where to put. 1) Throughout the whole MV it’s ’snowing’. It could be ash, but it’s in almost every solo scene regardless of whose scene it is. I feel like it’s supposed to be something to show that they're all in the same kind of dream, or perhaps in the same place outside of it. 2) San’s necklace. San is wearing a ring on a his necklace. It could just be a fashion accessory but to me it looks too deliberate to be a purely aesthetic choice.

But I think that’s where I’ll end for now;

In each of the members scenes, they’re fighting themselves. Trying to break out of their own trauma, and gain the freedom to pursue their dreams of their own will. There are some whose internal conflict isn’t resolved, and some who seem to have broken out of said ‘trauma’. Yet all of them are trying, struggling, and helping eachother where they can. Much like real life.

If I made any mistakes or you have anything to add plz feel free to. As always, if you made it this far ily! Thanks for reading 💕

[lizhly-writes]

not sure if they'd be happening in the same timeline, or in what order the events would occur in if so, but i think it'd be immensely funny if not long after his twin brother had a mental break and ran off to a buddhist temple, og yhr then had to deal w the stress of his sister entering the entertainment industry where (WHAT IF!!!) she had to deal w "the unspoken rules" lol. maybe that would distract him from his competition w jmx and yhl and the desire for his parents to praise him/see him as just as good as yhl SERIOUSLY THEY NEED TO TELL HIM THAT HIS AGGRESSIVENESS AND DRIVE IS ONE THING THAT MAKES HIM BETTER THAN YHL RIGHT HE NEEDS SOMETHING OVER HER TO MAKE HIM FEEL BETTER (but also he would probably take that as a "keep driving urself to unhealthy extremes bc it's the only thing you have over your passive yet perfect sister" huh...)

AHAHAHA WOW.

if all of that follows through, this would honestly this would make og yhr's relationship with jmx AND yhl much better because now they're effectively on the same side of "DEALING WITH HIS DUMB PIECE OF SHIT SIBLINGS".

he still wouldn't like yang haoli. he's probably still kind of hostile -- but his rein on his temper is A LOT TIGHTER because yang haoli's working together with him TO STOP HIS BABY SIBLINGS FROM DOING DUMB SHIT.

his relationship with jiang mingxi, on the other hand, is astronomically better. it helps that he's not engaged to her -- any universe in which yang haoyi exists is one where he's engaged to her, and not yang haoran -- but also, even in canon, they have very similar values and impulses. here, it means they react near identically to yhs and yhy going off the deep end, which aligns them even more on one side that either of them are with yang haoli.

to yang haoran, jmx is 1) the only person close enough to the family to actually see everything he's seeing 2) the only sane man.

he ends up ranting to her about THE ASTRONOMICALLY DUMB THINGS HIS SHITTY SIBLINGS ARE DOING a lot. jmx makes shitty commentary. this is the most friendly they've ever been to each other in years. they might actually end up friendly. it helps that jmx is now more likely to actually be nice to him, because THOSE ARE HER SHITTY CHILDHOOD FRIENDS, she gets it.

on an unrelated note: this universe's jiang mingxi is engaged to yang haoyi, but her teenage years were spent in the unenviable but hilarious position of having a crush on all three of these guys at the same time.

they're all too hot. why are they so hot. why does she have to think they're so hot. being jiang mingxi is suffering.

[carronyaflowers]

thank you for the tag dear @xiaoluclair

rule: post the current first sentence of your wip(s)

There is a weight sitting on Max's heart.

This is from atwci chapter 2, and I promise that you'll get this, I just don't know when. This fic is still my baby. And if you want, you can send me prompts about date night for the three idiots, and I'll see if I can put them in the fic because I honestly have all the feels down, but none of the action.

2. Max thinks he shouldn't go home to Charles tonight.

I'm so excited for this one!! It's gonna involve a lot of praise for Charles' hands.

3. “Cheri, will you open the door please? Maman said she’d stop by, maybe that’s her.”

You might recognize this from here. I kinda thought of lengthening it but I've only really added a paragraph or two, but the thing has been planned and plotted.

4. Little Evangeline knew that she should be ahhing and oohing with her classmates when Mary held up her blind cat, but she's still nervous about her show and tell.

You'll never guess what trope this is.

5. Seb knew it’ll be hard competition to run for student body president during his third year, but that was before he learned he was up against Nando Alonso.

Haven't opened this in so long but I don't want to give up on it. Can't believe the chokehold ame's F1lipino Universities AU has on me.

There's some more wips in my folder but they're all really just bullet points and random phrases. Idk yet when I'll have something soon but yh. Idk if I should also have put the commentaries in but I can't resist. You can ask me about them!!

Tagging these people if they have wips they wanna and are happy to share: @f1-giuki @linewire @ruszhou @mcl4r3n @alestire

[molliemoo3]

"Its a transponder related problem" yh that cursed Max mr commentary man, i do not trust it

[dontsayimhere]

ok so I came across a little malcolm bright fanfic (don't worry babes, linked below, go enjoy) and it began a lil bit of brain rot so hear me out:

(spoilers for the fic, go read it first if you want, commentary/word vomit bit is below)

ok so in this malcolm has a seizure disorder which Gil knows about, but not Dani. stuff gets figured out, others are updated etc. etc.

BUT

my lil goblin brain couldn't leave well enough alone so after like the third time reading this i've decided to pen (or rather type) these ridiculous things i can just about call thoughts

SO

let's set the scene, malcolm (yh for some reason my brain thinks the name looks better lower case? sorry if that bothers you but now it's slightly more symmetrical?) has a seizure while Gil and Dani are there.

(also not trying to romanticise anything, just going off what i got)

Dani and Gil are both used to the Complete Human Disaster™ that malcolm is so obviously they both know seizure first aid for future reference.

(also gentle reminder, if you don't know this go find out, there's like st John's ambulance videos that make you a functioning member of society in under 10 mins)

now, based on the confidence that each of them seem to have regarding the situation, they keep looking at each other like "huh, they seem to have done this before"

so they end up each thinking that malcolm must have epilepsy/a seizure disorder that the other knows about but they never got told.

they look after him, do all the things you have by now learned in helpful video format (wink wink) and everything is fine, right?

THEN

when malcolm eventually wakes up, and is told what happened he is understandably eloquent in saying "wtf, how, why etc." and his surprise makes them realise that for once he wasn't just conveniently leaving out information.

i feel like this started out fine and got slightly more unhinged and less logical as it goes on but if that isn't life i don't know what is

the point may have gotten a little lost and it petered out a bit but i said a thing and it's done so woo

[just-here-for-iolaus]

Omg you're gonna watch HTLJ! Can't wait for you to discover the shenanigans lol. Maybe I should watch YH some time since I have it but never got around to it!

Yes! I’ve never actually watched much of HTLJ or XWP so I’m very excited to sit through them in order! I’m enjoying it more than I expected to so far. 💛 I hope you’ll enjoy my commentary haha.

I haven’t seen all of YH yet either, so I’ll definitely be watching it in there too somewhere. It’s a fun show so I definitely recommend it for a light hearted watch. ☺️

[fagkermit]

Anyways heres a general post for my pinned so people know what to expect when following

I would prefer if any CCs Did Not Interact (HC, YHS etc).

As it says in bio I’m 16 Arospec He/Him, Im slightly really crazy and a large outdoors freak

!requests are always open! I ONLY HAVE TUMBLR so my art anywhere else is Not Me, my only hardcore boundaries about my art is that you do not use it in any sort of commentary or theory or video related thing; if it is a post ASK!

I draw fandom stuff like Welcome Home and Yandere high School (Minecraft) but I will probably reblog stuff involving the following

Call of duty (some ghostsoap), Red dead redemption, Spiderman, some stranger things (haven’t watched just love what people do for the characters it’s so interesting), literally anything cowboy, Danny phantom, Night in the woods, Trigun and just odd random fandoms some of which I might not be a part of but have lovely art!!

I will try to tag everything appropriately, but I’m tired 24/7 and my brain is mush; so you may have to ask and i may have to go back to add the tags!! (Never be afraid of asking me to add a tw/cw!! I’m always willing to but I may still forget a couple times after you’ve asked but I try!)

[monalisameisjemetdeparel]

Victor Dica, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160761114503209&set=a.249594943208" target="_blank" title="Facebook">July 8th, 2023</a>:

<blockquote>

Commentary for some mediocres Americans : for the group 'Classic Memes Moderated' :

To understand better, Vermeer expressly didn't paint the eye's brows, to show us, we can't see that. The sensuality of the painting 'kill' our attention, and nobody will notice that, and that, even if you ask people what is strange in the painting. Already did that to a lot of friends. Yh, there is no eye's brows et you'll not notice that. Already seen a critic art's documentary about...

You want one more explanation for your narrow minded soul and "apathic" sexuality? (sterile, nervous, jealous, all the sense of apathic works) :

The meme it's a invitation of low and stupid joke of sado-masochism, to take off the pubian hair with your teeth, make her pleasure and pain in the same time, but also doing that so good that the pubian hair will be taken itself off in the passion and intensity of cunnilingus..

Satisfied the Americans now? Be deep, even in stupid porn things. Your imagination is narrow, dears...

You learned something today... happy for you... And you'll understand better my meme, before you say sh.t in commentary.

And if you have problems with sex, don't comment, just see a psychologist and sexologist to increase your libido. Read also subliminal books to increase your sense of humour.

Cheers my Americans...</blockquote>

[fancyfade]

image: some panels from secret origins 4. we see damian in his white and black league of assassins outfit hunched over a letter. there is narration off page reading "addressed to you from bruce." the letter reads "Damian: honor the Wayne name. Your actions define you and the family. go to the locker besides mine and enter DWR1. you've earned this. father." we see damian and alfred outside of the locker. in the locker is damian's robin suit. alfred says " i would dare say, Master Damian, the suit appears to be too large" damian starts lacing up the boots and putting it on and says "and I'd dare to say that you're wrong, Pennyworth. It fits perfectly." we see damian in the suit with one hand in a fist that he is resting in his other hand. dick grayson as batman (with the cowl off( and alfred pennyworth are at damian's sides. dick says "ready to go for a ride?" damian says "I was born ready." alfred says "I believe you both were. be careful out there." damian goes to the batmobile. dick says to alfred "you sure mastered bruce's distinctive cursive." Alfred says "I had quite a bit of practice over the years." Dick says "I like the kid's outfit, alfred." alfred says "never wise to stray too far from perfection, master Richard." end image

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Yh the only thing i like about battle for the cowl for damian is him saving tim's life b/c i feel like if fans remember it it clearly shows Damian isn't out to get tim or anything and doesn't want him dead.

WRT the letter thing I actually did try to address it in a (super long)* fanfic. not to shameless self promo but P (link). I'm moving it to ao3 as I update some details I no longer like (mostly babs's arc in there) but that part that includes the letter is on ff.net

*the letter is introduced in chapter 2 and we don't see any revelation until chapter 43

I'm not really a fan of DC retconning the way Damian became part of the batfamily from "Damian is introduced to Bruce, Bruce decides to let Damian stay with Talia and not pursue them not once but twice, Talia brings Damian to Gotham again during Batman RIP and leaves him with Bruce again (however exactly that happened, DC never explained it), Bruce gets lost in time during Final Crisis and Damian becomes Robin to Dick's Batman" to "Talia introduced Damian to Bruce and Bruce immediately tried to bond with him, but got shot and send back in time by Darkseid shortly afterwards, cutting Bruce's attempt at parenting short"

I get it's easier to understand and Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul probably isn't canon anymore considering that many of Damian's more recent stories act like Damian grew up around Ra's, which strongly contradicts Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul.

But Damian doesn't really gain anything from this retcon. First of all, it's not a proper retcon, by which I mean an arc or a oneshot that shows Bruce and Damian bonding, a story that truly replaces the original storyline, we only get single panels that promise us that this is how it actually went down now without elaborating on it.

It's also either written with the main intention of making it sound like Bruce was a better father to Damian than he was in the original storyline:

By acting like Bruce had been dedicated to bond with Damian and teach him another way right from the start.

Or with the intention to create a sob story for Tim about how Bruce forgot all about Tim the minute Damian showed up:

Completely ignoring that Bruce made sure to tell Tim that Damian's arrival wouldn't change anything:

Tim is the one who storms away and acts rather childish.

Even though in fact nothing did really change for several months. Bruce did not make Damian Robin, he did not look for Damian after the explosion on the boat. Instead he went on a date with Jezebel Jet:

Feeling possibly sad about what happened with Damian, but basically going back to business right away.

When Tim goes out alone to face a villain that just beat Bruce to a pulp, according to Alfred because Tim is still shaken by meeting Damian:

Bruce goes after him immediately despite being badly injured and high on painkillers to protect Tim and to reassure him that he has nothing to prove to him:

Bruce also didn't tell Tim about the result of the paternity test, probably out of consideration for Tim's feelings:

In fact Bruce did not refer to Damian as his son until the climax of Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul, always choosing a distancing term to refer to Damian prior to that moment.

But that story also ended with Bruce choosing not to pursue Talia who had once again left with Damian:

You know for all the times Bruce complains about Talia raising Damian to be an assassin he sure as hell was not all that invested in getting Damian away from the league during their first few meetings.

In the original canon that was it. Damian and Bruce did not meet again on-panel until Bruce returned from his adventures in the time stream. Somehow Damian became a member of Bruce's household before Battle for the Cowl off-panel.

And I get that retconning it so that Damian moved in with Bruce after Talia dropped him off the first time makes that whole thing easier to explain. But Bruce's rejection of Damian is important to make early Damian's behaviour more sympathetic. Because a lot of Damian's arrogant behaviour during that time was rooted in deep insecurity. By removing the reason for that insecurity from canon Damian's feelings become a lot more unreasonable when he in fact had very valid reasons to feel that way.

[bluemoonnightmare]

I've been sitting on this one for a while so prepare yourselves for a long post and some word vomit:

Third/Last life Hunger Games AU.

"To celebrate fifty years of the hunger games, this years the best and brightest of Panem will be representing their districts. Handpicked by President. Schlatt himself - the seventeen tributes will battle for the half a century Victor!"

This AU would follow a lot of the rules that are present in the hunger games universe, but I've changed a few things around in order to better fit the characters and in order to give the alliances a reason to exist as they do in the series.

All creators from both Last life and third life would be present, but it's a mixture of several key events, alliances and rivalries. I haven't figured the whole alliance thing out yet, but I did do some "maths" in order to figure out where people stood in different seasons, so it'd be a combination of the two. The au would follow Grian's perspective as his cinematic victory in third life is still too good for me to let go of sorry Scott, so he would be the winner of the hunger games.

Also Jimmy would die first. I don't make the rules, Mr.Gaming is dying first in this au, and his is the only death I will not negotiate.

As there aren't enough players in the series to follow the 12 (13) districts with 2 tributes from each, I decided that in order to make it better fit having 17 (18) districts with one tribute picked would make more logical sense.

District details are as follows:

District 1 is Luxury. This is Pearl's district. The architecture of the district would be similar to the style of the renaissance.

District 2 is Masonary and Defence. This is Etho's district. I imagine the architecture being inspired by stuff from the iron age.

District 3 is Technology. This is Mumbo's district. Definitely has modernised Sci-fi architecture.

District 4 is Fishing. This is Jimmy's district. The architecture is definitely more basic English village.

District 5 is Power. This is Impulse's district. Think of Cold war era buildings and architecture here.

District 6 is Land Transportation (Trains and wagons). This is Scar's district. 100% has steampunk architecture.

District 7 is Air Transportation (Blimps and aerial hubs). This is Grian's District. The architecture here is also steampunk.

District 8 is Lumber. This is Bdub's district. The architecture is more rustic here.

District 9 is Textiles. This is Lizzy's district. I like to think the architecture would either be heavily inspired by Chinese buildings or Aztec buildings.

District 10 is Grain. This is Martyn's district. The architecture here is inspired by ancient Egyptian mythology.

District 11 is Livestock. This is Scott's district. I imagine it would be more South European/ Italian architecture here, don't know why.

District 12 is Agriculture. This is BigB's district. Architecture similar to district 4, of more basic village style.

District 13 is Mining. This is Skizz's district. Post war/industrial revolution architecture is a must here.

District 14 is Nuclear weaponry. This is Joel's district. Russian architecture - no I will not elaborate.

District 15 is Brewing. This is Tango's district. The architecture in this distinct is Medeval England.

District 16 is Mob testing/ spawning. This is Cleo's district. Again I feel very industrial architecture needed here.

District 17 is Enchanting. This is Ren's district. The architecture here would be quite whimsical, fairytale-esque.

And district 18 was Exploration. Known as The End. All that is left of the districts architecture is the tall ruins of towers.

This AU would also include the creators from the MCC championship or from former series' Grian has been in, for example an EVO and YHS ensemble in District 7 - to represent Grian's past, and in The Capitol you'd have members of the Dream SMP. The viewers of the hunger games would also be known as 'the watchers', and the Game keepers are known as 'the listeners'.

Instead of focusing on district 12, the main focus would be District 7: "Where you can see the height of success". The main issues in this district being class division of the industrial workers in the Workhouses at the base of the vallies, where downed blimps are repaired and created (known as The Nest) and the merchants who live higher on the mountains and push economic Sales. In District 7, Grian is closest to Taurtis, Netty, System Zee and Tomohawk (EVO cast), and has a history with the mayor's son Sam Gladiator (YHS). Whilst I was stuck between having either Techno or Philza as the mentor, I also thought it'd be cool if Philza was Grian's mentor ultimately as he is known as the 'crow father'. With a group of crows being called a murder I thought it was funny lmao.

Whilst I doubt they'd be mentioned it's fun to mention that if there were peacekeepers they would be the Yakuza, and that Callahan would be an Avox if he were included in the AU.

The DSMP members would be mainly posted in chapters or situations regarding The Capitol. I don't have the details planned to a 'T' yet, but I was thinking something similar to:

Foolish being the Arena Designer.

Jschlatt being the President.

Quackity, Tommy, Tubbo and Ranboo as the Game Keepers.

Karl as Grian's designer.

Niki and Puffy as Assistant Stylists.

Sapnap and Dream as the Trainers.

Bad as the TV Show host.

George and Jack as the commentators.

And finally Wilbur as the Capitol Escort.

Having said that I'm going to further elaborate on the whole "handpicked by the president thing". I honestly think that if the hunger games were a reality, whilst they would be beyond awful, that people would most certainly become desensitised to some degree after 50 years. It would just be a natural thing for the kids and i honestly believe people would become more apathetic, and as such would bend more rules with less fear. Which is where the creators would come in.

The reason the 50th anniversary is chosen in order to make an example of the rule breakers is because it's memorable. It's a massive milestone, and what better time to temporarily change the rules in order to remind people why they should be afraid and obedient?

In each district you'd have individuals deviating from the status quo. They're not doing massive things, but they're getting comfortable despite the fact that 16 children are killed every year. For example, in District 11 Scott encourages community competitions, in District 3 Mumbo builds small robots and sells them, in District 16 Cleo free's some of the mobs and in District 7 Grian steals water and dresses in the capitol's image in order to prove a point. Small things would build up in each district to form the collective sense of a lack of control. These children would be providing hope and would be well-known in their districts - so killing them would act as a sedative AND it would remind all the districts that their actions are being watched.

No volunteers accepted.

This would THEN lead us to why the alliances form despite the structure of the hunger games as a system. I'd have to disregard a lot of the alliances if I followed the regular hunger games system as I feel like I'd either have to add extra unnecessary characters to kill off, or go ham on the blood bath in the Cornucopia. Neither seem ideal, so I thought about what would bring the tributes together. A common enemy.

We know for a fact that people in the third/last life SMP don't take BS, so being purposefully chosen to be put to their death KNOWING that it's to make an example of them would certainly make them less inclined to follow the Capitol's system. So the alliances would form, and it would be fairly realistic. It would also be a way of avoiding the blood bath entirely, which would mug the capitol tf off. Hence the back and forth of explosions, wild fires, desert storms and hurricanes etc would begin.

The arena would be based off of the Third Life world map as it has more biomes to experiment with:

I also have images picked out for what the characters would wear during the tribute parade on those chariots, but I'm not gonna include them here. I will say however that Grian would have either a phoenix motif or a parrot motif. The phoenix obviously for rebirth, and being born of flames (a tribute to Katniss) or a parrot purely for the implications that he still wants to mess with the Capitol's weird fashion patriarchy.

And that finally brings me to Grian and the charactisation I have for him as the person being followed through the story.

(the sketches are shocking I apologize)

Grian is 15.

He's prone to violent episodes when provoked.

He was expelled from the district school for instigating a fight with the mayor's son - but he's still knowledge and intelligent despite the restrictions on his education.

He helped Taurtis with Bullies in the school when they were younger, so Taurtis' parents favour him and they turn a blind eye when he sneaks into their house to refill water bottles.

Having said that, Grian lives in one of the workhouses in The Nest and works in the industrial area, so he and his friends avoid the issue of polluted water by keeping water bottles full of clean water from the merchants area.

Grian's parents split up and wanted nothing to do with him, so he was dumped in the Workhouse.

Grian can become someone else fairly easily and he uses this to his advantage in the games.

He wore one of Nettys dresses to the reaping one year because he was scolded for wearing his red jumper the year prior.

I have loads more I could say about this idea but this whole post is just a bunch of word vomit and stream of consciousness coupled with what I could source from my written notes so I apologize.

[faaun]

my hafez fortune was so funny this year 💀💀💀

[keichanz]

Papa Souta is best

also older kohaku 👀

so are you telling me they couldn't come up with a better name than fucking mistress three eyes.

jesus fucking christ i swear this is a goddamn curse but watching the part where mama, gramps, and mei were tied up by the gang gave me a oneshot idea where mama gets into some sort of danger and inuyasha comes to her rescue because DON'T YOU DARE LAY A FUCKING FINGER ON HIS MOTHER. idk i just love the idea of inuyasha being super protective over her just like he is with kagome because she reminds him so much of his own mother and he couldn't bear it if something were to happen to her aljfkajfe DAMMIT I GOTTA WRITE THIS NOWWWWW

shut up setsuna no one cares

i love moroha

hahahahaa fake sword

shut up towa no one cares

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block the tag "yh commentary" if you dont wanna see whats probs gonna be a long ass post on your dash

finally watching the english dub of yashahime. i can't get over how different all the OG cast sounds despite them all being voiced by the same voice actors.

i'm also still cackling over moroha's "OH SHIT" goD i love that precious feral child so much

[diamontha]

Will she ever admit saying that? Absolutely not. Just smile, wave, and walk it off.