#and also added ranboos

[weatherera]

we can just go, right? just find a way out.

[pineapplesaresweet]

cboo missing hours boys (gender neutral)

[mads-is-tired]

Generation Loss Episode Three was Scripted, a short analytical commentary

I don't think Ranboo was entirely in control in episode 3 like we're lead to believe.

I’m obsessed with the set up of “episode three was also scripted by showfall”. Episode one follows a clear plot, there's a few glitches but for the most part you get the vibe that this is what a showfall show usually is. The second episode has more glitches, giving the audience more chances to see “the real gl!Ranboo” and his reactions to the Horrors, before being shoved deeper into the mind control and turning into an NPC in those last bits from the museum onwards. It ends with Hetch breaking through the show and releasing gl!Ranboo. Not completely though, but the audience wouldn’t know that. We are taught to assume from the glitches that when the mask lights are off or flashing, gl!Ranboo is (mostly) in control. So why would we question that now? The lights aren’t even flashing, they’re off. They have a genuine reaction that anyone would have after suddenly becoming aware of themselves in a giant mall. But gl!Ranboo was still under control. Showfall seems to typically control people with accessories, and while that's not always true, the mask is still on him, lights or no lights. 

(i'm putting the rest under the cut because this is over 1000 words and I don't want to be a menace to my mutuals who don't follow genloss)

Ranboo stated that every choice gl!Ranboo makes in the finale was the wrong choice. Saving gl!Charlie, steering gl!Charlie away from the axe, trusting Hetch, choosing the wrong code, walking to the wrong exit, the list goes on.

Charlie has been in every episode. There are theories of him being “Showfalls Favourite”, maybe this is true, or maybe he’s a fan favourite? Maybe the show was set up for Ranboo to find him, and feel compelled to release him from the mind control. Having someone with the main character also prompts dialogue, which we wouldn’t have gotten if Ranboo was by themselves. 

The fateful words “can you run with that?” causes multiple problems for these characters when Ranboo steers Charlie away from the axe. If he had it, they would have gotten out. To me, the most logical explanation is that Showfall could not allow them to escape before Hetch’s grand plan was executed. On one hand, why couldn’t they just have Charlie not pick it up in the first place? Maybe they did actually release Charlie from being mind controlled (but not Ranboo) so his reactions felt real. Why have the axe in the room at all? I don’t have a good explanation for that. But Ranboo saw the TV monster/security, he saw what it did to the employee and Sneeg, why would you risk not having an axe, even if you thought it might slow you down a bit?

After Hetch “died”, he gave instructions to the button. The ratio turns to cinematic. The cameras are no longer being controlled by drones, it’s like a movie. The camera men are no longer acknowledged. Ranboo goes into an almost trance, stabbing the first employee he sees. While I recall Ranboo mentioning that gl!Ranboo was angry at everything and wanted to avenge his friend (or something along those lines), the cinematography from the view’s POV, and just the ‘trace’ full stop feels like a driving point to the plot. This also brings me to the wires that bleed from the employee. I believe that gl!Ranboo’s actions have been influenced by Showfall up until Hetch’s scene, but it was still Ranboo. Now, as the ratio changes, Showfall are back in control. Their filter is back up. The employee we see mauled by security earlier was bleeding, the one Ranboo stabs is wires. I do enjoy the theory that employees who try to escape or try to help cast members escape are killed and filled with wires, as well as the theory that the longer they work for Showfall, the less human they become. It could be any one of these theories, but its definitely important due to the emphasis put on it. 

Charlie’s last moments were spent trying to get Ranboo out, the man was getting gutted and torn to shreds, possibly having wires shoved inside him, and he manages to find the strength to stop screaming in pain and point towards the button. I may be reading into this too much, it's a very plausible scene and it does fall inline with the famous last words trope. I may be reading into all of it too much, as many of these elements could just be creative choices with no real plot behind them, particularly the ratio change. 

Another thing I’ve thought of while writing this, security seems to hang around after its killed. 

We see it over Sneeg’s body, however it must have been there for a while. Ranboo and Charlie were out in the open in the mall, not too far away, surely Sneeg’s screams would have echoed throughout the space, suggesting that he died before they were close enough for them to hear it. Security was also hovering over Charlie, while the other employees were chasing after Ranboo, which you would assume was security’s job. Both of these scenes goes back to that theory of security (re)wiring and reprogramming the employees and cast members. This brings me hope that Charlie and Sneeg aren’t dead, just reprogrammed. But then this goes back to my other post about Ranboo saving Charlie was the reason he died, and the parallel between Ranboo’s choice and the audience's final choice. What's the better outcome? Becoming/remaining a cast member with Showfall Media for as long as they want you to entertain for them, living under mind control for entire lifetimes, or death, right here, right now. The audience, and Ranboo, decided the latter was a better fate. 

As of the last scene with the box, I'm not sure if thats gl!Ranboo in total control or not. According to Ranboo, it is, and Showfall are even putting his memories back. It would make sense he was in control, maybe Showfall were just lucky their 'hero' had so much emotion behind him.

To summarise, there are many details that indicate gl!Ranboo was not in total control in episode three like we are led to believe. We are trusting Hetch just as Ranboo did, and look where that got them.

feel free to add to this in replies, reblogs, tags, whatever! I'd love to hear your thoughts, whether you agree with me or not

[yellowhearther0]

woaugh no way is that THE cranboo in 2023.....

[like + rb mayb?]

[a-sad-moth]

hiii ,,, <3

Ver. Without effects under cut!

[updatingranboo]

Ranboo is in Shubbles twitter post!

[caption: "twitchcon is complete :) had a great time meeting everyone and spending time with friends! feeling full of happy"]

[mesmir-ized]

well meaning fratricide

[cleverpaws]

i wanted this to have more space theming but kleki said Fuck You so instead. boobers!! lots of em. tag yourself

(tumblr is eating the quality!! click!!!!)

[cyncerity]

I love tiny falls into giants mouth while they sleep and get swallowed trope so what if during a work break or something (maybe a sleepover would make more sense?) Ranboos napping on the couch and Tubbo and Tommy are having a war on the backrest of the sofa and one looses their balance and falls into Ranboos mouth? (all depends how heavy of a sleeper Ranboo is though I guess-)

sorry these doodles are a bit shitty i did them in school lol

anyway yesss!!! love this trope and i wanted to practice more comic style stuff anyways so thank you!!

[sp-ud]

... how did gl!ranboo know to call gl!charlie... charlie?

In ep 1 he was "slimecicle", in ep 2 he was unnamed, so like.

Might have to rewatch episode 3 just to see if like, hetch calls him "charlie" first or smthing and ranboo just connected the dots or if this could be used as evidence they knew each other Before

[here-there-be-drag0ns]

Generation loss daemon au anybody?

Ranboo: black-backed jackal

Sneeg: Raccoon

Charlie: ferret

Hetch: Eurasian eagle owl

The Puzzler: rat

Ethan: goldfish

Austin: Iberian lynx

Niki: shrike

Vinny: black-billed magpie

I will be making art and/or fics for this i swear to GOD because i just,, I know exactly how I'd make the daemons work in the showfall media setting.

If anyone's read the original HDM trilogy, you know the eerie description of the nurse and her dog daemon and how they seemed cold and disconnected and stripped of personality?

Think of that for the showfall "actor" daemons. While they're not severed, showfall media's control puts a disconnect between the "actors" and their daemons. The daemons are cold and don't speak and there's just something very off about them, and if you watch them long enough you realize it's because they dont move. They follow their person almost robotically (think NPC-boo) if they're too big to sit on a shoulder or fit in a pocket, but if they can sit on their person they just sit there. Almost like Props.

Of course, when the "actors" break free that connection to their daemon comes back all at once and can be somewhat of a shock as the daemon very suddenly regains awareness and life and personality.

So for Ranboo, his daemon would likely come back to herself in starts and stops, gaining awareness before its stripped away again and again, usually managing only a glimpse here and there, only ever regaining real control for a few minutes at a time. But otherwise she's silent and follows Ranboo around with little expression or input.

[benchtrioupdates]

Ranboo posted on Twitter!

[pineapplesaresweet]

jorts

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What to learn from me drawing genloss fanart:

- i have no fucking clue how to draw a dragon

- the red led lines on ranboos mask reminded me too much of cat whiskers

- ep 1 was probably my fav episode

- and watercolor is apparently lots of fun

[orphanapollo]

me using o!ranboo's new gender status to headcanon her as one of c!ranboo's endermoms

[maze-arts]

So I read Ad Astra by Hellenite and it's so good!!!

I really liked when they were dancing together cause... idk... I just really liked imagining them dancing together to some music...

I refuse to read De Terra for now though. Only fluffy beeduo space au fic.