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AVA/AVM Pride Headcanons!

Since it is now officially Pride Month, I am curious of something:

Do you see any of the AVA/AVM cast as LGBTQ+? Or do you have any pride-related headcanons in general?

You can answer these questions in any way: comments, reblogs, tags, art, I don't mind! I just wanted to see the variation of headcanons and fanon interpretations in the AVA/AVM community, and to just see general positive vibes for such a tense year.

Be nice to each other and have a good day!

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...because it literally is that one scene from Heathers.

Someone on the official Discord mentioned Purples backstory in E29 being too abrupt and I couldn't stop laughing over my own response so I made this. Purple really just traumadumped onto Green with 0 hesitation and its brilliant

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Someone on the official Discord mentioned Purples backstory in E29 being too abrupt and I couldn't stop laughing over my own response so I made this. Purple really just traumadumped onto Green with 0 hesitation and its brilliant

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i liked the new mini episode. red deserves crewmates as his new lil guys

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A series of AVM mental health headcanons and analyses

Decided to write down a few of my mental analyses from when I watched AVM. These are entirely headcanon and stem mostly from personal experience and canon material, where episodes relevant will be cited.

Brief summary from mild to most serious: Green, the extrovert, has social anxiety. Red, Yellow and Purple are the ADHD/Autism/AuDHD trio. TSC has PTSD.

Green has social anxiety.

This mostly stems from his overindulgence in performance, his overconfidence, and his tendency to one-up his friends, prove intelligence, and get distraught at losses or accidents (E35). While the Influencer Arc was a slippery slope from the beginning, Green felt particularly sensitive to the amount of praise, and I imagine that it is from an already-fragile self opinion. His confidence is mostly façade, with the idea that any failure, mistake, or otherwise "poor" action ends with others hating him. He attaches hard to kindness and praise as a result of this, causing his spiral in the Influencer Arc. The more attention he received, the more he felt a 'lack' of it meant hatred, and so on, so forth.

Red has mentioned ADHD. Who's the autism?

My favourite thing about AVM or AVA in general is the usage of body language to depict thoughts, emotions, or dialogue. It's with this body language that I identified Yellow as having particularly odd body language.

This started on my second watch of E30 when I noticed that everyone runs pretty similarly except Yellow. The others have their heads down, body leaning forward and arms thrashing harshly, similar to running in anime and other cartoon media. Yellow is an outlier in that he runs with his back completely straight, arms moving with an abnormally stable force. He takes running very literally.

Alongside this, Yellow is the most emotionally dysfunctional of the CG (Colour Gang). This starts all the way back in S1 with the 'death' of Green, and how Yellow is the one who seems to be struggling to process it. He tries to comfort the others, to no avail. In the start of E23, Blue laments about the separated group, and Yellow continues to appear as if he has not processed the panic yet, or that he believes that panic is unnecessary. He seems to process grief or loss differently to the others, in that he processes it either extremely slowly or not at all. He is logical and literal to a fault.

This, among a few smaller details, gave me the idea that - if anyone in the CG is autistic - it is Yellow. From this headcanon sprung other autistic traits: mostly his special interest in Minecraft logic and mechanics. Yellow is the second in the CG (with the first being TSC, hilariously) to use the computer world to his advantage (AVA8), and is the best with the Minecraft code (the staffs past AVMS3, redstone work, coding). He gets incredibly attached to new technical things, such as the staffs, command blocks and lucky blocks, and has a tendency to lose his common sense when indulging in these items (E19). His ability to take in the information quickly (AVE), alongside forming an obsessive fixation on code and mechanics and logic, gave me the idea of this being his core hyperfixation.

Red is ADHD, Yellow is ASD, Purple... is both.

One thing I noticed regarding body language is that, of the main six in the CG; Red, Yellow, and Purple are the most prone to performing repetitive movements, flapping their arms together and doing other odd wiggles.

Purple, like Red, shares an inconsistent drive - going from impatient and controlling (E9/E10) to hyperactive and overexcited (E21/E22) quickly. He is also very attached to particular objects, such as his elytra.

Purple, like Yellow, shares an inconsistent maturity - being a mix of both emotionally mature and immature. When surrounded by older figures such as King, he attaches quickly and hard, allowing himself to regress mentally (E22) and appear more childlike. This is to say that Purple contains both the ADHD traits in Red and the ASD traits in Yellow, suggesting that he may have both conditions, and have struggles regulating them.

Orange/The Second Coming has PTSD.

While this is a common HC from an angst perspective, I'm coming at this from an analytic point of view. TSC's core points of trauma that continue to affect him are the first half of AVA4, the entirety of AVA S2, and many events from AVM S1 - and these all share a common theme in death. TSC, at several points, has seen his friends almost and actually die - from AVA8, to AVM E8, when he's seen visibly dissociating after the accidental 'death' of Green.

This started with me simply identifying that TSC reacts badly to a lot of stressful situations. He is easily the most paranoid of the CG, being the one that directly rejects returning to the nether (E20), and also being prone to catastrophizing (E11). This paranoia also makes him prone to controlling the actions of others (E11, E20, E24) and getting angry when things don't go his way.

Speaking of anger, TSC has very poor anger management, but this mixes with his fear. The fight sequence in E24 has two main sections, separated by when TSC is holding back against Red, and when his anger takes over. Both at the start and end of the fight, TSC struggles to fight Red, mostly due to his own fear that he can go/has gone too far (AVAS2). When he does lose control, this is even proven as he tries to truly harm Red, and ends up frightening him (Red goes from instigating the fight to running away).

This is all to say that I feel TSC still struggles with the concept of death in the form of post-traumatic stress. Among all this, he also struggles with sleep (I identified him having hypersomniac traits rather than insomniac traits (AVM S2)), has issues trusting others (E20), and is incredibly attached to the people he has almost lost (namely Green but also the rest of the CG). These all come under both common and uncommon traits of childhood PTSD responses.

That was a lot.

The topic of my various analyses started in the Alan Becker server as I stuck my foot in there, but I also wanted to pass this onto Tumblr and Twitter. What do you think? I'd love to spark conversations with people, and also talk about more literal headcanons (I want to make a separate tumblr thread for that).

Either way, I hope this no-image, entirely-text post gave you some ideas or at least a look at how I feel about the CG and their responses to various situations. It's all part of how I write them and I would love to do more with these headcanons - but, for now, I merely talk.

Have a good one! - EMO

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so i live in a colder country and it hit over 20C today and i LOST IT. decided to put orange/TSC in my shoes because i cannot go under that amount of heat-induced nausea and not project it onto a fictional character. have fun - emo

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Stickmen art dump

I'll just post em here

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dumb question for ava/avm tumblr users.

what is the official Discord like? I am not someone who joins large servers such as this one, and I'm unsure if it is an active community or merely a bunch of people talking over each other.

if there are other fan communities, i am willing to try those, but i'm just really wanting to make friends without the constant pressure to create art, fight algorithms, and sound like an obsessive fan haha.

I'm simply leaving this on the general ava tag (mostly cause I imagine putting this on the full title tag I'd get blasted) but, if you can tell me what the server's like as a fandom/community space, or suggest any other fan communities, that'd be so appreciated

-emo

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"Damage, baggage, turn savage Do it every day, call it a habit You want problems, I got 'em Keep on sinkin', never hit bottom" - 'Apologies', Three Days Grace (2025)

The second of my little 'AVA x songs I like' series, a sudden TCO for fun. Originally, this was just going to be AVM-specific, but the imagery in the Apologies music video felt too TCO to ignore.

Either way, I had fun with this, even if some elements felt messy or rushed. Art is for the fearless, as they say. Have a good one!

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so fun fact: I am a HUGE Three Days Grace fan. love all the songs, seeing them live, 'animal i have become' is one of my favourite songs of all time, etc.

recently they dropped a new song, Apologies, and it has a whole animated music video, and-

is this not INCREDIBLY Victim/The Chosen One/The Dark Lord coded. I'm especially looking at Vic but the fire on black also screams TCO and TDL.

the lyrics are also incredibly AVA S3 coded i stg PLEASE watch the music video and you'll see what i mean

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End of this week I'll be free to put all hands on deck for AVM art. While I do finish this week, however, an idea:

The scene at the start of AVM S3 where Green and Orange/TSC are last to head into the Nether portal and Orange tries to stop them. All I can hear in that sequence is Green saying, "I love you, bro... but these are my brothers, man" before he heads off.

I need to draw this but feel free to ruminate on the various implications of this statement while I crunch university like a can.

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(TN: "I hugged you without looking to the dark", from iyowa's IMAWANOKIWA)

this is technically part of a series of sketches based on various vocaloid songs. the theme? uh. funny visual effects i like to use on my stickmen. this doesn't have any particular angst story to it, i just thought it'd be fun to do! you can make up stories iyw.

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i've been so busy with university that i have not had the motivation to continue with this batch of avm art pieces i have going. anyways here's this ava rendition of an advertisement i saw on tumblr thats definitely (/j) not been done before

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the grapeduo guy drawing different ships?? who would've thought? haha haaa....

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Some stickmans here...well...humans(?...

Green, Influencer!Green, Víctim, Red and King Orange 💥

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another one of those 30 minute stick comics but entirely based on me yesterday being served an orange juice that was actually orange for once

i mostly just like working with the sticks and their ability to talk while also not talking at all. tsc meanwhile-

also, a bonus:

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Choice (AVM, ep 10)

REDRAW

my partner, @crow-laroid, sketched the Ender Dragon for me 💜 i suck at dragons, but he is amazing at em.

the old one. 01/05/2024 (dd/mm/yyyy)