#newtkey

[ilovecatszsz]

no context to this btw! tehe :3

pangkey moment

Newt moment

[mangofanarts]

I was gonna draw pilukey but then Newt came in with his book

[bzlgrmpf]

A forgotten memory

[kenozumin]

thinking about the meta talks lukey had near the end of yesterday and i keep coming back to lukey talking about his memories as lucas, saying that they aren't just words on a page anymore but actual memories with emotions attached. because, like. do you even know what the implications of lukey having the emotions of all his memories are?

all this time, we were under the assumption that there was this tragic disconnect between newt and lukey. that while newt searched for lucas buried beneath the person who has become lukey, lukey just could not be that same person, and it isn't even his fault!

newt approaches lukey with the intent to find...dividers, to say the least. where his lucas start and where pangi's lukey begin. and while lukey knows of lucas, of who lucas and newt used to be, of all their history, he didn't feel for that part of his life. that he didn't have the emotions of that part of his life anymore, just the meer knowledge that it had happened in the first place. or, that the was assumption!

instead, lukey feels all of it. the sorrow of watching his village burn to the ground, the joys from living with newt within the kingdom, the pain for when newt sacrificed himself to the guards, the horror of watching the kingdom he grew to call home become ridden with terrifying hooded black figures, the agony as he was detained and then forcefully experimented on for centuries upon centuries.

ALL OF THAT. lukey, more than remembers, feels all of that! like does that not change the perception of everything?

it single handedly changes the view of newt and lukey, because it is no longer "lukey isn't lucas anymore," it's "lukey is lucas and lukey has (quite simply) moved on."

and not only for newt, it completely alters the perception of the present: that his life now, his life in the realm, with green faction and the outworlders, with aimsey and bad and pangi. he actively chose that life over what it used to be, over who he used to be.

for so long, the tragedy was that newt clung so desperately onto his human memories of lucas because it was the last human thing that was left of newt to begin with. but now it's more than that. now, it's that lukey is as much lucas as he possibly could be, maybe even more than newt had been willing to realize, it's just that he has simply...moved on. the attachment just, isn't there anymore, and i can't tell if that's worse. that it's no longer "how much is his and how much is mine," that there was just simply nothing for newt to begin with.

[mikaikaika]

"Think before you act"

[milk459]

After today’s talk between Newt and tr!Bad the Investors got together on the Lukey Discord and came up with a duo name for them

“ Night Shades” ! :D inspired by the poisonous flower 🥀

Attached below are all of the cool symbolism we found for why this name works so well for the two of them, happy reading :3 c ✨

[tubborucho]

hear me out,

'It's Over Isn't It' from Steven Universe but Newt about Pangkey

[sharffffff]

Anyway can we comment on the fact that Newt was being a wingman during the Pangkey date today? Ik it was Hope as an admin, but they also left the sign with "Newt is poggers", so nah, that's our boy. What I'm saying is Pangnewtkey is real and strong.

[itsbebebrainrotting]

Thinking about how Lukey spent a while digging through the centre of all the meteorites to check for precious metals and how now Newts job is to investigate them.

Anyway just picturing (/headcanoning i suppose) a young Newt and Lucas stargazing and sharing space facts. Considering where their respective skillsets lie nowadays its clear physics was never either of their strongest sciences but it seems like both of them would have been at least a little into astronomy. They might have even gotten to see a shooting star. I wonder what they wouldve wished for (Newt would probably wish to never lose His Lucas... Now that is ironic. Since he's now investigating meteorites I wonder if he would feel like his wish has fallen out of the sky too)

[hardsellingit]

on a more shipping level. I think newt and pangi should fuck while they both think about lukey. I think they should get horribly messy with it.

[i-use-to-have-a-life]

what if Newt starts falling for Lukey again cause no matter what he cant help but to fall for his best friend

[mangofanarts]

[terezicaptor]

bro hes wearing your clothes

[kenozumin]

okay well....

for anyone who is curious to read the original version of the memory book (the canon version was altered for conciseness as to avoid the more abstract prose writing (don't want people digging for deeper meaning in just flowery words)) you can find thattt, here on ao3!

thank u to everyone for being kind, it genuinely means a lot to me, im so honored to get to be a part of this, even if its just a small bit :D

[mikaikaika]

Thinking about the themes of the mirrored opposites of Newt upon seeing that Lukey is moving on in life - moving on from him, in his goodbye letter where he expressed his hurt and sorrow; he called him Lukey instead of My Lucas that he used to say. Not because the emotions have changed, but because he knows they won't be reciprocated. The name almost written in bitter acceptance.

Meanwhile, Pangi who never even knew Lucas but only knew Lukey took him for what he is. Even upon discovering that Lukey has a past and might be a Keeper — he didn't care. He said "To me you're just Lukey" because it doesn't matter who he used to be.

So now Newt asks "How is it being both Lukey and Lucas? How much of each is there?"

And Pangi never asked this because he didn't need to because Lukey was enough but Newt will always ask this because Lukey's enough is never what Newt needed.

[milk459]

Post date Lore went so hard I had to make a new meme 🥲💀😭