#idk who the hell this person is

[chronurgy]

Did my beloved mutual simply change their url, icon, and blog theme or is this a totally new person I accidentally followed: a question that will never be answered

[some-pers0n]

I'm always entertained by people doing those "canon VS fanon" memes where both are misunderstanding characters to such a violent degree 'cause like

[symphonyofsilence]

Let the poor man rest.

[knotboy-dean]

I love need you

[askyofexplodingstars]

girldad tenna doodles 💕📺

bonus:

[apocketfullofhobbits]

thinking abt how ronan was the first in class in latin even tho his grammar is shit bc he makes up for it with his insane vocabulary and how adam lacks in vocabulary but his grammar is better bc he loves structure and ronan hates it and how they balance each other out. chaos and order. entropy and negentropy. and then you separate the two and everything goes to shit.

[mymarifae]

so like

how we feeling about leviathan / path of voracity march 7th

[yeekdestroyer9000]

artihunter/cherrybomb if it was timeline accurate

[technically-human]

Hi i'm absolutely in love with the reverse au!!

I want to know, in this verse does edwin still confesses to charles? if so how is it different? i feel if he did he would end it by apologizing, you know, religious guilt and all

There’s a train that goes through Hell.

Its journey starts in Wrath, and it departs already full of souls. It took Charles far too many years to realize that there were separate, more spacious wagons that demons could board. Not that he could understand why anyone, hellborn or not, would want to get into the damned thing. He certainly hadn’t.

Actually, Charles couldn’t recall ever boarding the train. As far as he could tell, he just appeared there one day, and had spent the next tortuous decades trying to get out. It was part of the torture. Getting out was entirely possible. More than that, it was necessary.

The train had no regular schedule that he could discern (not at first, though he had always been good at finding patterns, and was eventually able to crack it) but it would make quite a few stops before finally returning to the Wrath ring. Souls inside the train were already angry and far too close to each other (close, so close not even air could squeeze in) but when they got really violent was when the train made a stop.

Getting out didn’t mean you were free, no matter where you managed it, be it Sloth or Gluttony, Pride or Lust. No, as soon as the train finished its journey, you would appear back inside, in Wrath where you belonged, suffocating once again, getting ready to claw your way out for the millionth time.

Because if you didn’t get out, The Conductor would get you.

If he thought about it calmly, Charles could probably say that he got out of the train more times than not. Still, being caught by The Conductor once was bad enough, as there was no coal in Hell, and something had to serve as combustible. Souls could not burn to death, and the whole journey always felt longer than eternity when he was caught. Once it was over, he would be inside again, and fight with more desperation than before, not caring who stayed inside so long as it wasn’t him.

He couldn’t understand why anyone, hellborn or not, would want to get into the damned thing. He certainly hadn’t. But as the souls pushed and bit and clawed and punched their way out, Edwin boarded the train. And that wasn’t even the most groundbreaking revelation Charles had that day.

ko-fi

[codacheetah]

Tell me your opinions on the stuff. Any stuff.

Grins. Smiles, even

I'm using you as an excuse to infodump my theory about the Island because I've had no in to do that, and my theory is pure opinion. Anyways:

THE ISLAND IS STUCK IN THE FUCKING FUTURE

(SCARE CHORD)

Hi so you might ask me. What the fuck do you mean by that. Well. Let's start with what we know about the Island, the King, and Wish Craft. (long ass post under cut. sorry)

The Island was redacted from the perception of outside world, via Wish Craft.

Wish Craft has the power to enable Time Craft. We see this primarily through Siffrin's timeloops, but also through the King's powers.

One of the King's powers is to show the saviors a "vision of the future."

...And this same attack is deflected back at the King by Mirabelle in ACT 5, in which the King is able to see the Island before being frozen in time.

...So. The King's "vision of the future." We're never told explicitly what this vision is. All we know is that it's apparently powerful enough to wipe the party in one hit, hearing it from a distance hurts your head, and that whatever Siffrin (and Loop) saw, they don't seem to actually be able to describe it. Even the King himself doesn't know what his vision entails.

We don't know whether the party all sees the same thing when struck by the vision, and Adrienne's answer to the question about it in the Reddit AMA is. vague? It's not a "no," and the specific wording makes me think the answer might be yes. But that's me reading into it.

Now. What do we know about the Island's redaction? The Island was affected by the wish recently, as in "like a decade ago" recently. We know that nobody in Vaugarde or the rest of the world is capable of thinking about the Island, anything closely tied to the Island's culture, or people on the Island for very long. When they do recall these things, they slip right out of reach. Particularly, the consequence for trying to think about the Island (or, more specifically, break the wish that forces the Island out of perception) is significant pain, localized in the head.

And that said pain is enough to become lethal, if pressed hard enough.

From here forward I'm running with the assumption that the King's "vision of the future" is not personalized to any individual, and is unchanging throughout the course of the whole story. Now. Remember the end of ACT 5, where the King gets hit with the deflected "vision of the future", and instead of dying, he recalls the Island and gets frozen in time? Very odd, yeah? Why wouldn't the King just die like everyone else does? He even does take 9999 damage when trying to say its name, like Siffrin does, and like the party does when they're hit by the attack.

Well. We know that he has a "true wish" that the ability to freeze Vaugarde in time grants. I don't think it's at all a stretch to guess that the King's "true wish" is to be able to remember the Island. My personal guess is that the King (and Siffrin) brought this "true wish" into effect via the "SAY ITS NAME" sequence- he even tries three times, a significant number in wishing.

The King (and Siffrin's) wish breaks, because it can't be fulfilled in this moment without breaking the wish to prevent the Island from being thought about. However. Consider the conditions at the end of ACT 5- the King sees the vision of the future reflected back to him, and what he sees is the Island. He remembers the Island, fulfilling his own wish, and is frozen in time. I consider this a compromise between his wish and the one binding the Island- the King gets to remember the Island, but nobody alive is able to think about it, because he's frozen in time; it's like the Universe is correcting itself (I WILL GET BACK TO THIS). The wish of all of Vaugarde to defeat the King is fulfilled, since he is no longer a threat, and Siffrin's wish wraps itself up soon after.

MY POINT BEING. The King's attack is a vision of the future. This "future" is of the Island, in some uncorrupted state. The saviors see it when he attacks them, and he sees it when it is deflected back to him.

The logical next question is "okay, so the Island exists in the future, but how do you know time shenanigans are even related to the Island?"

Recall a very odd series of interactions throughout the game, in which you try to interact with a piece of equipment that you already own.

The game rewinds slightly, before the item disappears, as the Universe corrects itself.

This is awfully similar to two particular events: looping back without seeing the death screen, and talking to the Daydreaming One about her sister. The latter is more interesting to me for the purposes of this theory.

In both instances, something is misaligned within the Universe (an item existing in two places, someone remembering something they're not supposed to) and it is corrected through some sort of rewind. Also compare the dialogue above to when you try to give Mirabelle the Stylish Bow when you already own it.

The world glitches, but Siffrin defuses the situation before the Universe has to intervene. Omitted from the screenshot is the fact that Mirabelle's portraits switch to happy from "catastrophically anxious" with no transition after Siffrin shows her where the bow is. Important to note is that when Mirabelle tries to recall receiving the bow, her head hurts, much like how trying to break the Island wish causes a headache.

The Universe leads you away from perception, and you can only follow.

My theory that I keep circling around is that through Wish Craft, the Island has been displaced temporally. The denizens of the Island, as well as the Island itself, still exist, but they are in the future. The Island is still loaded into the world, like how equipment is before you try to interact with it, and the Island cannot leave this quantum state, because it never actually went anywhere. The magnitude of the redaction event is so severe with the Island, because it is so much larger as an entity than a sword or a bow. There are of course things I don't really have pieced together, like why somebody would wish the Island into the future, how far into the future it is, or why equipment behaves this way. But it's the only Island theory I've seen that I have some level of confidence in, so I might as well lay out my cards for it.

[themightymoose]

oh no not me thinking of a swap NPMD au where Max lives while Ruth and Richie die for unknown reasons and now both of them are out for vengeance against all the popular kids but most specifically Max because of course. And instead of "Nerdy Prudes Must Die" it's "Stupid Jocks Must Die" or something like that idk what the title would be

But the ones that would die would probably be Jason and Kyle. Or maybe those cheerleaders that Stephanie is friends with.

Idk I just think the nerds should kill. As a treat :)

[thedarlingmarlon]

Uhhh lbp redesigns I think??

Please ignore how their all doing a variation of the same pose (I suffer from same-hand syndrome)

Anyone else fw with fusions

I have a stupid headcanon that Marlon can twist his body 360 degrees whenever he pleases.

[daringdraconicdeity]

Can people stop doing ai voice parodies and make fandubs instead just as the universe intended

[teyvatairconditioningco]

OH SHIT OH FUCK I CRACKED THE CODE

THE DEAD EYES

THE PURPLE SWIRLIES

THE MUZZLE

THAT'S A ZOMBIE, BABY

[queenlua]

TOP CANDIDATES FOR HOW THAT "RECRUITMENT" CONVERSATION PLAYED OUT:

clea tries very hard to be Nice. because this is Important. she can be Nice and Tactful when it's Important.

-> but it turns out clea being Nice is so awkward and forced that verso ends up straight-up laughing at her

-> and that goes over badly enough that she abandons Nice entirely

alternatively: the conversation is extremely Icy and Pragmatic and Distant. she is not talking with her brother's shadow. she is not even communicating with a person. she is delivering Clean Faultless Logic to an automaton, and said automaton would have to be stupid to argue with her. what, are you stupid? (if you've ever heard a lawyer use their I Am So Right And You Would Be Stupid To Argue With Me voice, you know what i'm talking about lmao)

-> this works because, well. if you've ever heard a lawyer use that voice you know what i'm talking about

-> or, this doesn't work because verso cottons on that it is a Distancing Strategy; if this becomes a conversation between Two People then that could get icky feelings-wise. and he starts pushing things that way just to watch clea squirm

alternatively: the conversation is going great, actually, except Verso gets Weirdly Emotional of his own accord, not as a tactic, just because come on this dude admitted to a teenager that he writes sad poetry, of course he's got a weepy streak, and that throws clea just as badly even if she would drink rat poison before letting it show

aside: it just occurred to me that it would be tremendously funny if real!verso also had a latent deathwish. like, yeah yeah he was doing it to save Alicia or whatever, but also, he'd had some at-minimum idle suicidal ideation going on since he was like five years old. "luck is when preparation meets opportunity" but for lethal house fires yaknow. turns out painted!verso's self-destructive streak is just A Thing You Gotta Paint In Or It Doesn't Resemble Real!Verso

[towards-toramunda]

Here’s my opinion on the current bell’s hells polycule:

If you’d like to make your own here you go: