#alex does rant

[alexsorsis]

I fell asleep.

NOOOO NOT THE BLENDER.

Lowkey, griefer can bury himself in the ground 6ft under to be fertilizer /lh (I just a have a personal vendetta against him for how he treated his father while under the Venomshank’s influence. He is a well written character and I can’t deny that.)

Oooo, I hadn’t actually paid close attention to all of the mannequins npc’s dialogue… despite literally looking for the right mannequin to use in an animation. 💔

I think that player is in the “obligation > determination > obsession” dilemma. This is 100% clear for the SFOTH swords but this could’ve been an issue back in the current time for them. Addiction can apply to literally anything if you don’t have healthy habits. The Rapacity Mannequin from what I can tell explains it “You don’t understand. You don’t understand You.”

Ravenousness truly makes me believe that player had to do mental gymnastics to believe that they were valid in their want for power from the Swords. Villainizing Shedletsky just for the sake of a few more moments of power. (I think they’re 100% valid, fuck Shedletsky/hj)

Idk man. Also, It’d be funny as hell if there was a painting puzzle with an interaction from tutorial terry. “Dude. how the HELL did you do that???”

I love the ducks, I don’t like the gigantic pandemonium of yellow that ever so slightly resembles a duck that looms over the gateway to the next room.

it breaks my heart that people assume that “The Present” option is the selfish one. LITTLE BRO IS HOME SICK LET HIM GOOO.

Other things that came to mind when I was showering. I read your other post from your main blog that was theorizing the emotions were safewalls. I was thinking and something clicked. Fear is obvious why Hatred would get rid of them. As for the others… I characterize greed as player’s strive as you are aware. With that being said, Greed being gone ment that Player had no desires that would contradict and oppose Hatred’s goal. Player’s objective shifted from being, “escape from their own mind” to “escape from their own mind to save Builderman”. Without Solitude’s existence, it forces player to rely on It. No longer having independence. These three emotions are all related specifically to one’s self, one way or another.

Bonus: I headcanon that the dream world and all of its inhabitants are actually doodles player has made. (That fuckass F’ella is confirmed to be inspired by those dancing letters that spell autism. Player was like “this lowkey is funny. I’m stealing that” and did) This it includes the emotions as well. They were likely to be in an unstable mindset when they created the emotions designs, or extremely exhausted. They all have (leaning towards edgy) motifs. Hands, eyes, more sketchy. And demonic stuff

tryna figure out the chapter 3 is making me tweak the fuck out. what does it all meann vro. does ANYONE has theories about it. from why hatred chose to become builderman (i actually have a few theories but i do want to hear others opinions). whats upwith each of the "emotions" domain. why the hell did thought lead to personification to GREED?? how terror lead to grayscale to the fear forest. what. what does it all MEAN. begging the darkheart (which devs have said to have aspects similar to chap3) to PLEASE ELABORATE ON THE PLAYER'S MIND....

[alexsorsis]

I would go on a rant for all the details and metaphors here but I’ll save that for tomorrow

Alright, as I promised. Here’s the rant \/\/\/

The first scene: player looks down, seeing the negatives of the whole situation. Refusing to look at Kyoko in the eye. Shadows take up more then 50% of the body to represent how player thinks that they are a bad person despite doing what’s best for the world. The obvious is that the “Maybe in a different universe” changes to “maybe in another circumstance”, showing that despite pushing Kyoko away, player does still care about her and wishes that they weren’t doomed from the start. The text box gets blurry, meaning that their words don’t matter in the end. It won’t change their fate.

The second scene: despite the light being right next to her, Kyoko still chooses to look at player. Even if it means to face the darkness. Her smile is not artificial for she’s not grieving over how this wouldn’t last, she’s just happy to know that player truly cares for her.

The second 1/2 scene: “we could’ve lived happily. Together.” It’s pixelated at first, not holding much meaning. Once it’s more clear, the word “Together” is stretched. Symbolizing how far fetched the whole idea is. They were never mentioned to be.

The third scene: idfk. I messed up writing “drive” instead of “park”.

The forth scene: the “sword” represents the violence and guilt that player holds. “Sword” also means players walls that protect their wellbeing, “drop that sword” = “open up/talk to me”. The word is pixelated to show that it’s out of place in this relationship.

The final scene: whenever I add a scene where it’s a black background with white outline sprites, it typically means a dreamworld/dream sequence or the past/future. In the first half, the ink splatter is representing the cracks that stains between their relationship. The stain is between the both of them to distance each other, showing how their problems separate them even further (or at least, players). At the second half of which the screen turns, it’s black and white. The future that they’re doomed to live through. Kyoko switches spots with player and an empty spot lays where kyoko was, meaning player is no longer with them and now she’s the one that has to hold onto the grief and guilt. If you didn’t notice, she actually wears Player’s scarf in the end.

If you enjoy these types of analysis’s of my own animations, tell me!!!1 I’d be more then happy to show my thought process when making these

[lovemesomeagnst]

What’s team red like in your au? I’m really curious about their dynamic :3

I actually have doodles and stuff planned for this tehe 🤭

So basically,

Dan is their engineer since he can help build stuff like how Ivy is the team’s mechanic

Carla is a getaway driver!!

Alex, which is Shermie’s son in this au, is their residential hacker. (Shermie does not know this.)

They’re still called Team Red because well the El Diablo is red and Stan wears red HAHA also their home base in Gravity Falls is like a secluded area. Basically like the Mystery Shack but with a few changes?

(I would have added soos, Wendy or Mabel and dipper but the timelines don’t match up unfortunately!!)

Alex bugged his way into Stan’s alliance when Stan was seeking quick refuge with Shermie’s family. It was super funny because Stan was busy plotting out his plans to thwart VILE and also not get caught by them in the middle of the night when Alex just questioned him about it.

Basically Alex: Heya uncle that looks hard, need any help?

And the next thing Stan knew he had a nephew on his side with impressive hacking skills to help him with his tasks. In return he teaches Alex some of his minor skills (how to steal and not get caught HELPP)

With Shermie and the rest of the fam not knowing I like to imagine family dinner with Shermie inviting Ford and it’s just Ford ranting about catching the super thief while Alex is off to the side like 👀.

Carla McCorkle and Stan ran into each other shortly after Stan left Shermie’s place and they had a talk and reconciled. After that they discussed further and Carla stubbornly inputted herself into Stan’s plans cause she was curious what he was planning to do. Also since she was concerned over what she’s observed from him when they were having a chat. As someone who had known Stan from his teen years, she’s someone who can understand him well and they became super close friends afterwards! She also smacks sense into him when needed!

‘Boyish’ Dan had been busy looking for a job and he came across Stan and Carla while they were stopping by Gravity Falls. He’s still young in this, maybe a teen? So Stan wasn’t so sure about having him on their team but since Alex was already in it he figured it wouldn’t be that bad. Dan impressed them all with his strength and skills to build stuff and after a whole discussion and a week of staying at Gravity Falls, the team decided to set up base there. Dan helped build their small shack (before it expands over time) and Stan was fine in letting him in the group. As normal Corduroy traits, Dan becomes a loyal and awesome asset to the team.

Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four

[geeky-nightphilosopher]

Okay- but...

Has anyone else noticed that at least with Dean Devlin- Christian Kanes characters all have some sort of ties to each other?

I mean:

Eliot Spencer; A military bred, mercenary trained, with multiple aliases- with a specific skill set, con-artist.

Jacob Stone; An art historian, with multiple aliases, genius brain, eidetic memory (?), librarian.

Alex Walker; con-artist, with multiple aliases, an eye for detail, retired giftshop owner.

The characters might not be the same but there still enough for them to be long lost triplets or something.

[alexsorsis]

To be honest, my first reaction to the badge with player was “oh, so we get diarrhea”

I think it'd be funny that, for the Firebrand, instead of a physical effect on the Player it'd just give them heartburn. And they'd be so confused about it too wondering 'hey I wonder when this sword curse is gonna show up' and then they get heartburn and fall to the ground seconds later.

Since everyone here headcanons a physical effect (ex. Ice and plants showing up on Player's body from demo 1 and 2) I do think that having singed/ lightly burnt hair/hands would be epic, but please consider the heartburn..... it'd be so awesome guys trust me....

My personal headcanons for the SFOTH sword effects are: the Icedagger effects stiffening Player's joints, the Venomshank to drain their energy, the Ghostwalker to make them HELLA paranoid and tired (+eyebags!!), now we can slap heartburn onto the Player. Heh.

[nenoname]

seeing shermie age arguments again and my take is "god damn the writers really didn't bother thinking about this/can't do timelines+maths for shit cos they were going to make him younger than manly dan and the same-ish age as tyler"

[purplecatghostposts]

Thinking about how Hoody!Brian had SO many opportunities to kill Alex but hesitated and couldn’t time and time again. He had the guy captured twice and while you could argue that the Operator interrupted him once, he also HAD him at Benedict Hall. He could’ve ended it there, but he couldn’t.

Hoody!Brian could hate him all he wanted, beat him to hell and back, and mock and threaten him, but he never was quite able to pull the trigger. Even at his lowest, even full of hate and contempt for Alex (and some for everyone else alive too), he couldn’t seem to cross that particular line. Which is incredibly interesting to me.

[alexsorsis]

Tbh, I endorse the ship simply because I absolutely just adore Hatred. But, it’s interesting the more I think about it. Player is in a state where the line between their imagination and reality is blurred, leaving them to have no sense of familiarity. The only thing that could be considered “familiar” would be Builderman. Player is likely to already be home sick due to being forced to go back in time, now home sick even further because of the unrealistic environment. So naturally, Player would need depend on Builderman to be an anchor to reality.

Even if we are talking about Trueform!Hatred, familiarity also plays a heavy role. When HATE is the only thing you can feel, it would be rather easy to be attracted to it. It’s like a comfort zone.

hatred x player is so interesting to me. like you're telling me one's Embodiment Of Hatred disguised itself to be an important figure that shaped a whole company (who also has been kidnapped) (also the person you're trying to save) and leads you on while acting as said important figure. your own personification of everything you hate including yourself was on Layers of faux-flirting

[rottingoranges]

I love opening up Indeed.com to see what future careers I might take up and so far we've got 1 library job (janitor) 13 writing jobs (training ai) and 2 archival (laminating company)

[alexsorsis]

The characterization of the player in Block Tales in the fandom slightly worry’s me. This is more so because a lot of people happen to think that player only cares for the swords and what needs to be done. Did we perhaps forget that Jon(player) had to fight their negative emotions? Of course there will be consequences to this. Without their negative emotions, they wouldn’t be able to differentiate what is truly important. Not without their fear or anything similar. It’s clear that they aren’t selfish due to their wishes mostly consisting of simple things that were in front of them (such as the shovel and the boat in a bottle). Let’s not forget that the player is desensitized to situations that result in death, being forced to witness and be the cause for the sake of the greater good. And with killing their emotions, they won’t be able to comprehend the grief of with the loss of a life. Bringing up demo 3 again, Jon likely thinks that they are truly pure so the shock they must’ve felt to be outed as a traitor likely confused them. Especially since getting the swords is what they thought is best, with the constant pressure of Shedletsky(I HATE THAT THING.)

All in all, they don’t act normal because they physically, mentally, and literally cannot.

[alexsorsis]

The game is not about the relationship. Relationships can be something in the background of people’s (monsters in this case) lives and it doesn’t have to add to the story.

Relationships can be cheesy and corny in real life

When you say “LGBTQ++ people are special and interesting” it gives off the vibe that you’re implying queer people are separate then the average person. (Not that I’m saying that’s what you meant)

Transcript: Honestly, I feel like Undyne's and Alphys' relationship is pretty cheesy and corny. Adds nothing to the story

And relations of two guards in Hotland seems to be gay for the sake of gay.

Toby Fox fails to show the full glory of LGBTQIAP+ community, which I'm really disappointed in. LGBTQ++ people are special and interesting, there was a huge potention for Toby to make a good game with gays. Remember: you can be whatever orientation and gender you want! Happy Pride Month! Love you! 👍🏻🏳‍🌈❤❤❤

[artem1sc0re]

(Somewhat major spoilers for AW2’s story!!)

Just a rant as I play rlly, but it’s spoiler territory so

I now understand why a certain majority dislike Alan in a way, because yes, I too would hate the guy who wrote me and my family into his horror story just so he can escape, if anything I’d be pissed off at him too

I’m scared asf for Casey rn, he’s went “MIA” in saga’s words and it’s got my timbers shaking. I will cry my eyes out if he ends up dying. Not only that, the end chapter song was my favourite out of the tracks, lost at sea. Safe to say I was NOT happy because of that. First you take away my favourite character, and THEN YOU GIVE ME MY FAVOURITE TRACK, AFTER A LOT OF ‘This Road’, with the occasional fire track like superhero? I mean ‘this road’ is fire but it gets a bit tiring when you hear it like 100 times when finishing Alan’s chapters (exaggeration)

On the verge of tweaking out over the disappearance of Casey and how strongly I feel for the character aside,

I LOVE SAGA. Like, the way she found out that Alan wrote her into the story as well as her family but was willing to put her anger aside (or maybe I haven’t seen it yet) to get the clicker to Alan so that way she can save her family, not only that but I love how she’s true to herself too, like how in her mind palace she’s able to ground herself and reassure herself that Logan, her daughter, is still alive with her dad and that this is a written alternative reality where she is deceased. Also also, the way she is willing to continue to take on the case because of the need to find Casey, her partner AND best friend?? Her loyalty is absolutely insane i would 1000% trust her with my drink

Alright I’ll be quiet now

[alaskan-wallflower]

mission impossible 3: outsiders musical social media get your shit together

[princessofxianle]

should be asleep but im too busy falling down the rabbit hole of xl trio analysis written by mq "stans" that are so determined to defend him and his struggles connected to being a commoner they accidentally prove the whole reason why he acts the way he does toward xl & fx in the first place...

i dont come to mq's defense all that often but bro... i want to rn... the whole point is that we are NOT supposed to assume things abt him bc of his social status... RIGHT!?!?

[alexsorsis]

Thank you for specifying the greed thing!!!1

Jop. I love Hatred’s character as a whole god damn concept in its self. It’s so interesting how it manipulates and controls the narrative despite the npcs that warn you.

Interesting point!11! I can definitely see it like that. Adding on to that idea, I don’t think that the swords lie but twist their words. Such as the ice dagger saying that the kingdom will cease to exist in Player’s present. Technically, it will due to natural innovation and technology moving on. And the ice dagger takes advantage of that fact. The venomshank and how Griefer states that “THE V01CES... THEY KN3W THE ENT1RE T1ME THIS W0ULD HAPP3N... THE1R GARB4GE L1ES AB0UT THE FUTURE WERE R3AL...” which I think means that the Voices spoke a promise of paradise and peace to him. But not specifying when.

I believe that greed is the part of player that gave them motive to do something for themselves. Like having a life goal or what not instead of the reason of “Obligation”.

(Side note: I believe Player is in fact an artist. Perhaps a ugc creator even, due to the prelogue and the dialogue spread across the place. also, BRO WAS SO JOYFUL AND WHIMSICAL NOOOOO)

A thought is the first thing that is needed to reach a goal, a plan. The best way to remember something is to write it down so it could represent player’s goals. It’s Npcs are all related to math. Perhaps it’s for the calculation of what is needed for such goals.

Personification. That word with the context of the domain of Avarice make me think that this is where you start to make something true. A start to a goal. The mannequins made me think of this of how they are used to be the support of a new creation, a piece of clothing. There are many mannequins throughout with various of looks, some more destroyed then others. Likely representing how more difficult some goals are compared to others. The mannequins could also represent envy towards others but that’s a more farther stretch.

(I don’t know this guys deal though)

Continuing on with the whole desire thing, I believe that the maze is to show how TRULY difficult and grueling a task is. Hands that creep up and reach for you as an obstacle to bring you right from the start. The only way to push forward and stay determined so you don’t end up right where you started.

I was actually curious on what the ducks represent and with a quick google search, I found out they represent family, unlikely pairings, romantic love, ect. So I think it’s quite obvious on why they are in Solitude’s domain

THEYRE OPPOSITES!1!1!1 (not exactly on point with the colors but that’s fine)

No comment on the fear city because I agree

Without fear, player is likely just gonna accidentally get their hand stuck in a meat grinder

Please do tell more!1!1 I enjoy a good conversation and theory crafting

tryna figure out the chapter 3 is making me tweak the fuck out. what does it all meann vro. does ANYONE has theories about it. from why hatred chose to become builderman (i actually have a few theories but i do want to hear others opinions). whats upwith each of the "emotions" domain. why the hell did thought lead to personification to GREED?? how terror lead to grayscale to the fear forest. what. what does it all MEAN. begging the darkheart (which devs have said to have aspects similar to chap3) to PLEASE ELABORATE ON THE PLAYER'S MIND....

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

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