#Mac's Head Canon

[camthecatchameleon]

ninjago and lmk fandom hear me out: if wu is sun wukong, then garmadon would be macaque.

[macadam]

"It is canon. To me <3"

Headcanon. The word you are looking for is head canon. Because it is canon... in your head. Headcanon. Please just say head canon. The word you are looking for is headcanon. Don't say it's canon. That word was created for a reason. Please don't kill it by using it wrong. Instead try this other fun word created specifically for the exact experience you are trying to describe: headcanon. Because it is canon in your head, not on paper. Headcanon. Please just say hea--

[mac33cheese]

Akechi most DEFINITELY has a giving/receiving love language

He will make him and Saiki sweets purely because he knows Saiki loves them and he loves saiki's little smile while eating sweets

Saiki is somewhat aware of this and will eat any sweets akechi gives him and swear that akechi makes the best sweets on the planet.

[st4rstudent]

I really want to know, how did Mac and the Prethinker meet? Is there a story there?

They actually first talk on the blogpost for the pre 1.3 update! (also where they're first both officially introduced), but if you're talking face-to-face, I always use the social media comic as a point of reference (because i think its funny).

My interpretation of the lead up to the actual meeting goes something like this

[sunnytastic]

I was talking to @nightcrawlerzincorporated earlier about this but I can't get it out of my head. I find it really frustrating redditbros admit they want old Mac and Dennis back but they don't understand that Macden has to be gay now because Mac is no longer in the closet. When Mac was in the closet, RCG got to hide all of Macden's romantic subtext under the guise of plausible deniability, but now, when Macden interact, it is impossible to ignore the undercurrent that there is something more than friendship going on here.

I understand why RCG are nervous to make Macden canon because there is the fear that they can't come back from it, but absolutely nothing needs to change from Macden's old dynamic. If anything, not making Macden canon is actually changing the dynamic more than just letting them be together. They have always been joined at the hip and easily jealous. They fight and sabotage each other and then they remain together, doomed to perform the same little hijinks with each other day in and day out. With canon Macden, we can have more episodes like Macden Break Up and Suburbs again.

In a way, RCG are right too; they can't go back to the old dynamic without calling it what it is, so instead, Macden is stuck in this weird limbo. This is one of the biggest problems in seasons 13-15: RCG have no idea where to put Macden's affection for each other. Keeping Macden the same would be too obvious they are gay, but to make them antagonistic just feels wrong.

I think it's really difficult for redditbros to admit they actually enjoy watching a gay couple be toxic to each other. They hold the opinion that any queer couples on television are just pandering to the audience, so they will twist the Macden dynamic in any way that preserves their heteronormativity. I'm begging RCG not to listen to the redditbros. To preserve the longevity of their show, they need to embrace the dynamic they found worked for 12 seasons. Not to mention, as RCG themselves pointed out, "maybe it won't play in middle America, and maybe it's not even ready for the mainstream, but it'll win a ton of awards, and get a shit ton of attention from the liberal press." Sunny has always been a show that alienates a lot of viewers, and I think RCG need to be less afraid of alienating viewers who clearly don't get what they are trying to do. For the redditbros who will stick around, I think it'll allow them to realize maybe gay people in media don't always have to cater to the audience.

[intertexts]

OK. OK OK OK. HI. IM AT WORK NOW SO THIS IS GONNA BE DISJOINTED AND NOT MAKE A WHOLE LOT OF SENSE BUT IM COOKING SO THIS REQUIRES AN ASK AND NOT A REPLY BC THOSE HAVE CHARACTER LIMITS (cooking both metaphorically and literally because it's 95 degrees outside at 9am and it is so so so so fucking humid) oh god get me out of the kitchen before i start burning things!!!

this could be Nothing. bc again I desperately need 2 learn more about cauldron and their motivations and such. BUT. going back to the tide/leviathan comparisons because they're making me kind of insane and i want to give him a Complex about it. because if we're not going to lobotomize him I need 2 hurt him in other ways (sorry dad)

so. this doesn't EXACTLY work 1:1 because there are only 3 endbringers and only 2 of them seem to be element-focused as far as i know. but if we have tide as a comparison to leviathan, we also have MAGMA who could be a comparison to behemoth if my thoughts are correct and behemoth is . big fire guy (he sleeps in a volcano so. I'm assuming.) . granted we also have like. whirlwind and shockwave and seismic who are the other elementals and they don't actually have an endbringer counterpart BUT IM !!!! going a little crazy thinking about like. if tide + his siblings are artificial capes, what if they (or at least he and magma because I'm kind of thinking abt them as the older ones. havent listened to the oneshot in a while so this may not be accurate) were given their powers SPECIFICALLY to be counters to the endbringers. or at least in an attempt to make a cape equivalent of the endbringers to better like... study their powerset or something. (I keep saying cauldron studies things bc I said that with david too and this really just comes from my inherent need for a big evil science team. in worm it seems like they're more capitalism focused but let a guy dream here)

this also brings up an interesting point with Elle who i know u don't know yet but she could be an interesting counterpoint to simurgh? Who as far as I know now isn't necessarily elemental but . neither is Elle really!! and that creates the big disaster in the oneshot bc she can't control her powers and goes kind of nuts about it.

anyway anyway anyway. tldr; tide and magma were specifically created as parallels to leviathan and behemoth, this wouldn't really be common knowledge to the rest of the capes bc of cauldrons secrecy BUT i think ppl would definitely notice the similarities in their powersets and that makes a subconscious fear response in people who have seen an endbringer attack firsthand (I believe in scary intimidating tide supremacy but then you talk to him and he's the sweetest human being in the whole world) . tide and magma both know this and have complicated emotions about it. I think tide has a very bad reaction to the leviathan attack if we are keeping that as an event that happens.

OR IT COULD ALL BE COINCIDENCE AND THIS IS NOTHING. but until i learn more about cauldron I am choosing to view them as my favorite trope of big evil science corporation <3333

OHH U R FUCKING COOKING DUDE YEAH <333

it is. so hard whenever u r talking about cauldron.... mallard conway ass levels of "oh okay i literally Cannot talk about this or else im accidentally gonna say spoilers." but. i DO think this goes so hard & conceivably makes sense for cauldron to do...... man one day in the far future we're gonna have to sit down and talk about if cauldron even would exist in this au. but. for now. hehehe :33 & i will say!!! i will say!!! research is. involved, in what they do. you are not off the mark.

ANYWAY. love this for him so much..... the way he moves and acts in a fight echoes leviathan.... does he have that water afterimage too??? when he's fighting?? because that shits cool as hell he should have it. i'm always just really ill over someone made to be a weapon who never wanted to be one.... tide you have to be at the leviathan fight but you shouldn't be :(((

i gotta listen to the elementals oneshot i have it downloaded rn.. i wanna know elle's deal because you have just said something unwittingly extremely funny & i need to know What happens to her before i comment on it!!!! anyway!!!! thinking abt tide lambert forever & always...

[cankersaurus]

No cuz dee and the waitress getting together would actually be such a good fun episode because charlie would be freaking out the entire time and while dennis nd mac are spending the entire episode trying to get him to move on dee is just shoving it in his face and then it ends with dee and the waitress breaking up because dee got with her soley to fuck with charlie

[tphartz]

After all this time I finally started drawing them smooching

[fatmaclover]

steps up on my soap box. heres ur nightly reminder!! haha. mac is diabetic please consider this when writing him in fics 😋 *i am shot down and martyred but in such a way that the romans call me a donkey in their graffiti*

[officialbillhader]

Honestly tho giving up on macdennis becoming canon has made me so much more relaxed abt sunny 😭 i swear i was more invested in macden becoming canon than i was destiel during the fan fiction episode. But then they made dennis eat some random dude's heart instead of mac's so i went oh. Ok. Rip </3

[samadhifired]

I will cry happy tears if the future seasons end up giving us a some sort awkward "Brotherhood back together" episode for Wukong, Mac and DBK.

Yeah, yeah. They had a beach party and went fishing together. But they still need to talk things through. Plus we really haven't seen Mac directly interacting with the DBK (or his family) so seeing what kind of friends they were/are would be interesting.

Plus, Mac&DBK ganging up together to snark at Wukong would be hilarious.

[nailgunstigmata]

just got done writing 8k of macden crack angst and then remembered this is how mac canonically reacted

[macadam]

Coming into the fandom from the transformers prime side without knowing anything about any other transformers media was really funny because while many struggle with their nose-less designs, I was and still am the opposite. Noses? Who needs em. Fuck em I say.

To the point where I was upset at learning that most of the time they do have a nose. What do they need it for? Sniffing? Absolutely not

[dennistakesamentalhealthday]

not going to write out the essay forming in my head but it’s so crazy to me like i know my vision of dennis is not universal and is mostly influenced by me thinking it’s fun to woobify him with fellow tumblrinas but it’s like…..how are people watching the whole show and thinking he is actually cold hearted angry and calculated and a genius potentially a secret serial killer and that this extends to his relationship with the gang…like idk it’s just funny to me…..there is so much in the show that goes against that

[garfieldsbong]

i know what i want. i want whatever mac’s ptsdee dreams were but for dennis.

[macdenlover]

not macdennis queerbait discourse on my dash in 2022