#iirc it was a headcanon/theory

[alluraaaa]

shiro techically being a zombie is something that can be so personal

[randomnameless]

Even before Nopes I had interrogations about Leopold switching sides, from being a random noble under Ionius' orders, to someone who sides with Ludwig, to ultimately betray him and lend his forces to Supreme Leader.

Then Nopes popped up and apparently his motivation was to support her because he thought she was "strong" enough to finally conquer Fodlan or something?

(or was it only Ludwig's reasoning? Do we even learn why Leopold switched sides? I know he's rewarded with Leicester in CF, but is that it?)

But then, I popped up on those lines by earlier checking the localisation changes and it made me think :

Doro blames the nobles for, uh, ditching Supreme Leader when she dies and cozying up to the Alliance and the Church, and how apparently, by doing so, they only think of themselves .

But then she talks about Leopold, and comparing him to those "other nobles" is apparently supposed to bring him in a good light - but hey, Leopold also betrayed everyone only thinking about himself, first by ditching Ionius, and second by ditching Ludwig!

Also, the loc prettied up the thing, but it's actually a bit more muddled :

Leopold offers his life so his soldiers won't be held responsible/liable and will be forgiven for their participation or "involvment" in, well, the war.

Putting aside real life and how "but I was just listening to orders" never worked in recent history when people are put on trial after a war ends and the general issue of post-war reconciliation - while this is an unexpected nice move Leopold pulled, as the Minister of War, he seems to be the only Adrestian character to take responsability for his actions.

But again, he was the Minister of War - the one who lead armies - so in a way, taking a bullet for his men is the least we can expect him to do, and yet, the game will forever (at least FE16!) remain silent on why he decided to side with Supreme Leader after betraying her father and their Prime Minister.

Was he interested in money? New territories? Just wanted to battle? Did he really believe in Make Adrestia Great Again?

He dies for the sake of his soldiers, but why did he even join the war to begin with?

[eri-pl]

Because why have HCs about the normal things when you ca have HCs about things nobody is asking about

If I were to cast the Music onto human-compatible musical ideas (cast as: casting a 7-dimensional space onto 3-dimensional, something like that)

First Theme would be mostly in F major pentatonic

Second would be mostly G major and/or harmonic major

Third would be mostly something like C Spanish heptatonic? (which has 8 notes despite the name... I wonder why, can't find any info why it's called heptatonic.

[into-the-milgramverse]

U headcanon es as german? Whered that come from? (Not trying to be mean im genuinely curious)

Kinda? Tbh, not proper headcanon by any means, it was kinda jokingly added in there, cause, like

Basically, Es' name comes from the "Es, Ich, Über-Ich", aka "Id, Ego, Superego". There's mentions of Ego in Undercover too.

There's also what Id/Es is considered:

“Id” - refers to qualities, elements, and experiences that don’t feel as part of myself, we typically describe this as “It.” Such as, rather than “I did this,” we sometimes say “it made me do it,” “something came over me,” “it wasn’t me.”

Es is, well, Es in quite literal sense then. Their actions really aren't their own, we are the ones who make them vote a certain way.

"Es" being translated as "It" in German, a pronoun often used for objects, further puts Es as a sort of stand-in for the audience.

But Es is also their own person too. So, with everything above having German roots to their very name, it kinda makes me think of Es as this German teen with amnesia who got kidnapped by a rabbit and assigned a job as a warden.

[nabwastaken]

My personal theory on how Charlotte would've been included in Hatchet Town (as said in a livestream iirc but Jaime was too busy) is her being blamed for the brains being soup (and intestines cut in two) instead of Donna. It makes sense because in the proshot Donna's the only one who stays the same in the digital ticket and soundtrack. So the line would be "I heard that their brains were soup, their intestines were cut in two, it's gotta be Charlotte!"

BUT my other headcanon in this is also that if Charlotte was gonna be blamed, Sam would be the one saying "Yeah it's gotta be Charlotte!" Instead of Dan like the original. Because it wouldn't make any sense for Charlotte to call Dan out for blaming her for murder (unless there was a weird friendship??? Idk that's a fanfic for another day) and cmon, Sam would blame his wife for murder.

AND THEN in the part where they blame Bailey (and Barry Swift in the proshot) they blame SAM instead ("Sweetly's on the loose and he's got a gun, and he's got a motive to kill!"), so we can get both the Jeff cameo and also the "I'm a cop!" Bit

[coleslawedcondor]

my hatchetfield theories/headcanons:

Wilber Cross can just summon green apples whenever he wants. One at a time. The next green apple can only be summoned once the previous one has been fully eaten or has rotted completely. It’s a really weird perk of the job of being close to Wiggly.

Since we know that to make a deal with the lords in black using the black book, one must give up what they desire most, then perhaps what Miss Holloway desired most was to be remembered. It’s (iirc) heavily implied that she was once a famous rock star in the 80s that has been forgotten (the one tree in Witchwood Forest that asked for her autograph, the t shirt being described as being a forgotten pop star). That, and the fact that when things go wrong she is forgotten by everyone, seems to imply she gave up being remembered for her powers.

when Pete tells people in Hatchetfield that he wants to become a chemist, they immediately shit on him. They always assume he means the Clivesdale Chemists and not the career path.

The chemists logo is a bubbling conical flask with green and yellow.

Every real tree in the witch wood forest—ALL of them—are those with a touch of the “gift” that have been killed by the hatchet men. For some reason planting new saplings doesn’t work in Hatchetfield soil, so policy makers are very wary of cutting down any trees.

General Macnamara wears a watch because of Wilbur Cross. Cross inspired him to: still, Cross wears his watch, perhaps some sliver of his consciousness won’t allow him to take it off even though he doesn’t know why.

PEIP is so secretive that no one knows about it in the U.S. government. Every U.S. President has no idea. There is no physical documents of Macnamara, Xanther Lee, or any other PEIP member’s existence because writing anything down would be a security threat.

Grace Chastity came back from abstinence camp and hung the axe on the wall as a treasured memory. Perhaps at some point during NPMD, Steph and Pete congregate at Grace’s house, during which they see the axe on the wall and are further convinced of her eccentricity.

When Pokey “put on” TGWDLM, none of the other LIB came. Musical theater was too nerdy for them.

Whenever the LIB are summoned, they take on an appearance tied to the where/when they were summoned and who is summoning them. In Holloweane they were trick or treaters. In NPMD they were dressed as high school teens.

Ted cherishes Pete the most. In another version of NPMD, Pete would turn to Ted for help, who would then be there for the summoning.

Pokey wanted Paul so bad that it did not matter for Paul to stay in character after being absorbed by the hive mind. Pokey was so overjoyed that he channeled that manic energy into Paul, puppeting him unrealistically.

[emberphoenixisgoingtolive]

how the Nublar Six would swear

CW, swearing (no shit /hj) as in, the swear words are said. i know (??) there are kids here so like. if swearing makes you uncomfortable, scroll past <3

Darius:

mama Bowman did not raise him to swear. Brand taught him the cuss words and mama Bowman got mad at him when seven year old Darius randomly yelled “SHIT!” when he dropped something

was a literal kid in camp cretaceous, so he was partially scared to swear, partially willing to do so anyway to Fit In With The Older Kids

the result was swearing in the worst moments. someone confesses something bad that happened to them and Darius says, completely genuinely, “wow, i’m so fucking sorry that happened to you😥” and Kenji laughs so hard because he did not use it in the right context

by the time the camp fam get back to the mainland though he is better at swearing in the right places

chaos theory however has him cursing his mouth off, usually only when he’s alone but he is prone to a frustrated “what the fuck were you thinking?!”

also calls people a dickhead a lot (he picked it up from Brooklynn since it’s a word more commonly said in britain iirc)

Brooklynn:

swears like a brit (cos of all the time she spent in london and i headcanon one of her dads is british)

the other group tease her for saying shit like ‘wanker’ ‘twat’ ‘bloody’ as well as some words the others haven’t even heard of (wtf does bollocks/bugger/minger/bellend even mean)

however the joke is on the other campers when they call someone annoying a “bloody bastard twat” when they get back to the states and their parents look at them like 🤨

regular cunt user (and cunt server)

says bitch [reclaimed] a lot

Sammy:

refuses to swear

instead she’ll spit out every damn/darn/heck alternative imaginable

or start complaining in Spanish

the nublar six have heard her swear one (1) time and it was something like “what the fuck is wrong with [insert villain of the day, probably d*niel k*n]” or when Kenji’s not–father died and Sammy first heard the news, she whispered a discreet “fuck him” and Kenji momentarily felt better

Yaz:

swears like an absolute sailor but only around her friends

when things are not going their way she will probably start swearing at a tree or something. everyone stands in mostly fear and trepidation except Ben, who is mentally making notes of all the new words she’s giving him

when the nublar six meet Yaz’s mother, Yaz doesn’t swear At All around her and it unnerves them (her mum is fine with her cussing a bit (she’s earned it bfr) but Yaz prefers not to)

her use of ‘what the fuck’ got so out of hand that the others started a swear jar exclusive to Yaz saying that phrase which got her to cool it a bit

swears less in chaos theory; she’s learned to keep it in her head

Kenji:

was raised not to swear because it “tarnishes the kon family name”

of course, Kenji proceeded to swear whenever his dad was out of earshot in every other sentence

he went through that annoying era where people think it’s cool to say fuck every other word a year or so before camp cretaceous

has learned to moderate his level of swearing but will still drop an occasional “oh shit” or “fuck this”

canonically says stuff like “we’re cooked!” but would also say “well we’re fucked” when the campers come across a sticky situation

when brainrot words became a thing he was all over brainrot words for a solid week. someone would put something silly on their group chat and Kenji would reply “um what the sigma 🤓☝️” to be annoying. Yaz gives him three strikes and then boots him from the group chat

says he’s serving kont a LOT. he put it on a t shirt and wears it all the time

Ben:

terrified of swearing before camp cretaceous and all throughout season 1. one of the others says fuck or shit and he visibly flinches

however post jungle boy transformation, he says fuck easily, most predominantly “FUCK YEAH BABY!” when he’s exploded something

the first time he said fuck around the other campers, they all turned to look at him like 😲 and he just grins and says, “i’m a changed man”

goes back to the mainland with so much new vocabulary, he accidentally drops a swear bomb around his mother and she gasps so loud

[kaneidae]

(Art of Ramb and the Mantle boss “ERAM”)

This is both Ramb and ERAM fanart, AND a way for me to propagate my theory that ERAM is Ramb.

We leave Ramb in the controller room where darkners control the NPCs and he’d gone when we leave. ERAM is similar to Ramb and they even share floppy ears

Ramb clearly can move at least a bit as we don’t find him when we return meaning he moves away in that time. Also something I need to explain the second bit to justify

Ramb isn’t from the TV dark world that’s a fact. He is a power strip stolen from the library. However he “fits” because Tenna “hired” him (the game console is plugged into him and into the tv irl). If you don’t do the secret route, Ramb petrifies nearly instantly after Tenna makes that call. However if you do the secret route, he only half petrifies.

I believe this is because his purpose still remains in giving Kris a game to play. Under my theory, playing as the mantle boss gives him a surge of purpose allowing him to play, and then leave before Kris sees him turn to stone

I think this makes sense or at least enough to be my headcanon because Ramb objectively petrifies faster in the normal route, before you even return to the green room and faster than he can leave his shop, and the only difference between them is him helping Kris play the games. Also minor tidbit is Mantle is iirc the only character in those games to not move in a repeating pattern. All the others either are stationary and shoot bullets or move around randomly, or in the case of Kris and Susie follow you. The boss however moves with purpose like fleeing you

[mistress-riddle]

tom riddle x ravenclaw head girl!reader

✧ ˚ 　· . cw + req. some she/her pronouns used. i stand behind tom being a bitch. i was kind of yapping, it's 1.1k words... 'I was wondering if you could please write some headcanons for Tom with a Ravenclaw s/o who is extremely intelligent but absolutely sucks at Potions. They are both Head Boy and Head Girl. Ik it doesn’t really make sense if she’s Head Girl and bad at Potions but let’s just say she’s passing because she does homework and puts lots of effort yk 😭 — anon?'

✧˖*°࿐ i think it’s quite plausible for her to be a little challenged with potions and still receive ‘passing’ grades btw. we know that a pass in general is an ‘acceptable’ and that slughorn requires an ‘exceeds expectations’ to enter his advanced potions classroom (newt level). with that being said, she could be great at theory work (such as explaining the effects of a potion, the suitable uses for ingredients and where to find them…), it’s just that when it comes to actually mixing together the proper ingredients, she can’t seem to get the desired end result (so lets say her potion ends up becoming, i don’t know, turquoise instead of green or something like that). the potion may work, but it’s probably not as potent as it should be or it’s considered ‘toxic’ in the typical suggested doses.

✧˖*°࿐ personally, i don’t think tom allowed himself to be anything less than brilliant, and considering how he was one of slughorn’s faves (got away with asking a ��hypothetical’ question about one of the most obscure dark magic practices, like come on now, that’s peak “english teacher and the athletic popular boys” level of favouritism), i feel like it is safe to say he probably received very high grades in potions, probably an outstanding every time. and if we take into account the cave, where we find the emerald potion (a.k.a. drink of despair) which must be drunk in order for it to disappear (iirc it’s his own creation? or it’s heavily implied that it is) and considering the fact that the potion was most likely not checked on for a while — i feel like it’s valid to assume since the last time he checked on it using kreacher, and did not expire, it could have been the case that the potion was/mimicked an everlasting elixir which means that the potion either never ran out or never became ineffective. and while we don’t have much information about how complex it is to actually create an everlasting potion, it can be assumed that it requires advanced potion-making skills and successful brewing which is hard for people unskilled/average at potion-making. and so, that whole meta was really just my way of trying to say tom is a nerd and probably got really high grades and therefore means he’d be condescending about being smarty mcsmarty pants to our poor head girl 😭

✧˖*°࿐ i imagine he’d make a few underhanded comments here and there like suggesting she should brew something and then following it with a “oh… nevermind!” and then quietly laughing to himself. like stfu mf. no one thinks you’re funny.

✧˖*°࿐ he gives me major ‘i won’t help unless you outright asked (read: begged) for my assistance and if i feel like it, only then will i help you’. i don’t think he’d feel threatened enough by anyone to consider being overtaken, which would have been a reason for him to avoid helping out, because hello? no one could beat him, he probably took every subject available like the nerd he is (narcissistic and a nerd? pick a struggle, you insufferable boy). so yes, if she asked him really really really nicely (i.e. offered him something nice in return which could range from sweets to a whole new wardrobe, his pick) then he would totally, condescendingly tell her to “add the stupid, blasted liver after the brew begins to boil like it said in the book, for fuc— oh, professor slughorn! i was just going over the instructions with…” fake. ass. he’s actually an ethnic dad teaching his kid maths btw, you’re crying and he’s trying to restrain himself from calling you an imbecile and finding 20 synonyms to follow it with. this is why dumbledore rejected you for the dada position, you prick!!

✧˖*°࿐ i think if you were his deskmate/station-mate or whatever, he’d keep his eyes on your potion whenever he’s finished with the necessary steps for his own, purely because he’s bored and is a nosey bitch who likes being an overachiever. “it’s anti-clockwise…” “you know you’re using a quarter instead of a half right now?…” “oh please, you forgot to add the feathers…” like just do it yourself atp. you’re being a menace, even though you might? maybe? possibly? infinitesimally? mean well and don’t want to see the potion blowing up in the poor head girls face or have slughorn walk past her cauldron with a click of his tongue and a disappointed glance of his eyes which in turn causes our ravenclaw’s lips to purse and eyebrows to fall. tom when he sighs and rolls his eyes but charms the ladle to stir in the right direction, adding the necessary proportion of ingredients all whilst looking like he wants to be anywhere but in the classroom he spends so much time in. (tom riddle softie era???? if only he actually wasn’t a dick smh)

✧˖*°࿐ but other than your little potions “floundering”, power couple i hear?? i think when it comes to head boy and head girl relationships it’s either pure love and/or respect or “i genuinely don’t know how you got this title when you’re so incompetent and losery, i think you should kys” which creates for hilarious dynamics ! i think, contrary to popular fanfic belief, tom needs someone who could challenge him a little (not so much that he wants to (and can successfully) destroy them but enough to make him suck his teeth and for his eye to twitch) and i think the most harmless way would be ‘academically’ because god forbid it’s actually magically, then he’s conspiring on how to bring about your downfall because how dare you be better than the most brilliant wizard alive who pushes the boundaries of magic and blah, blah, blah… anywho ! he would definitely appreciate an academic and curious mind who’s imaginative and willing to experiment with him. he thinks the pinnacle of romance is trading books and hanging out in the library so you’d definitely need to be someone who is willing to engage in magical (and sometimes non-magical??) debate with him.

✧˖*°࿐ i also absolutely do think he uses you as an excuse to check out the ravenclaw library because it’s all good and well that he can easily walk into the common room (i mean a riddle for riddle… come on now, it’s too easy) but he would definitely get multiple side eyes for walking in all willy nilly unless he had a reason, i.e. visiting his pretty, intelligent, and amazing head girl of a partner ! tom is not tom if he’s not scheming and plotting to use people to his advantage (even if he likes them romantically, it’s the poor orphan boy unable to make healthy connections in him)

✧ ˚ 　· . return to main masterlist?

[risingsunresistance]

would you believe me if i said this is skyblock fanart 😭

explanation below for anyone interested. it's a bit long 🐖

basic explanation for people who dont go here. or the tldr: the rift is a separate dimension in hypixel skyblock where reality and time itself do not function the same. the other npcs tend to take on different forms in there. this is my interpretation of what might happen to techno if he were to travel into the rift based on some other theories about the place and my own headcanons for him

less basic explanation for the rest of you: ok so. first thing to get out of the way, the rift isnt completely separate from the main reality. SOME of your own thoughts and feelings influence the way you exist in the realm and the way the realm itself behaves. not very many people seem to take on forms ENTIRELY divorced from themselves, save for maybe enigma (we dont know who he was originally, if he was anyone at all)

but i have a theory backed up by absolutely nothing that your rift form is mostly influenced by three different things: your inherit magic, your ability to control and manipulate that magic, and your overall stability. stability will look different from person to person and you dont always know if someone is stable or not just by talking to them. even something as simple as a phobia might change them drastically. still, the rift is unstable itself, so sometimes people get altered horrifically even though they were perfectly fine

my main points of reference for this are that some of our most altered characters are some who check all these boxes, and some who are relatively normal dont check any of them. lathrop/porhtal is split into a bunch of eyes and has one human-looking form that sits motionless at the wither cage and doesnt speak. we know he was incredibly magical, eventually got a great grip on said magic, but was also very very unstable. the wizard is very magical, is a master of said magic, and is pretty well put together. he is nearly unchanged in the rift. barry is the same as the wizard but went a bit nuts before he left, so in the rift he seems just a bit... off

on the opposite side of things, maddox is someone who we are told has ZERO magic in him. the only thing that changes in the rift is the fact that his helmet is red now. kat has never shown us any magic and seems to be pretty normal, so she's also just a different color palette in the rift and happens to have a weird job

anyways back to techno. (btw if you're reading this and happen to not be a regular here this is a mix of headcanons and "canon" but im treating it ALL as real and true facts for the sake of this drawing ok). he could be one of the most magical people here... but he has no idea how to use any of it on command. if you asked him if he possessed any magic, he would say no. his healing ability, while it is VERY strong, is passive, and he was only able to gather magic during the resistance fight with the help of the wands we were given. but he was able to gather a lot of magic during that fight, concentrate it, and release it all on his own. not many people could handle that. he also worships the blood god and has its blessing, and has some connection with spirits in the form of the voices / chat / whatever you wanna call them. there might be even more to him, who knows

so that's already a setup for disaster, but what about his stability? well he's constantly followed by a chorus of thousands of voices all screaming at him and god itself might be hanging around in that mix, led a war against the server staff and a dictator that lasted for 2 years skyblock time, and did the whole potato war thing which was ~70 years server time iirc. i wouldnt really call him stable KFJHG

so what you end up with is a very violent beastly thing, nearly unrecognizable save for the fact that he's still a pig (my first point, you dont become a COMPLETELY different thing under most circumstances). i think he's entirely out of control of himself and would not remember a trip to the rift. a stability elixir might help him in terms of being more aware of himself (i think sirius really downplayed what that potion does lmao it's not just a fun drink, he wanted to guarantee himself some control over his mind while he was conducting his "business" in the rift) but there's no saving the physical form

i wanted him to be beastly to mimic what happens to "dante" in the rift (the memory of dante, it's complicated. but dante and bacte are most likely two different people who are also the same person). yeah he was a big slime in the overworld, but now he's more monstrous. he also doesnt speak, he might not have any idea what's going on. same could be said for techno in a way. of course this is related to dante, what else would you expect from me :P i want to see them fight at the colosseum so bad...

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but anyways THIS WAS SO FUN AAAAAUGH IM SO GLAD I FINALLY GOT THROUGH THIS. MY IPAD FINALLY DIED AFTER AN ENTIRE DECADE IN THE MIDDLE OF LINING IT AND I HAD TO CONTINUE ON A NEW TABLET WHEN I'VE SPENT MY ENTIRE LIFE DRAWING WITHOUT A PEN... THIS DRAWING WAS CURSED KJFDHGK

here's a version without chat and the blood god so you can just see the big hog

and here's my old concept from july of last year for comparison :P

initially in the post for the old sketch i said he was based on what i think would happen if he got a hold of some sulphur. i actually think that would be about the same as his rift form because sulphur seems to do very similar things under certain circumstances. always corrupts your form, can sometimes make creatures MUCH larger (matriarch, kuudra, magma boss), heightens your magic (mage outlaw), and can make you incredibly violent (barbarian duke)

bye i hope i tricked someone into reading a really long skyblock theory post expecting more info about techno FKJHG

[bannock-freak]

It makes my heart ache that Penber starved Naomi of the validation she so rightly deserved so much that the second a freaking kid goes, "I think you're right" her eyes light up and she says, "Really? You mean that?" Honey... Oh honey...

She is a former FBI agent. He is a highschooler. LIKE.

Light's literally not even gassing her up. He's just acknowledging and respecting her intelligence and treating her like a goddamn person, and it has her practically over the moon enough to smile since probably the first time Penber died. She's being told that her deductions make sense. Her brain is worth something after all. Light's not lying when he tells her her theory could become central to the Kira case. It's literally the truth. He acknowledges this to himself. It's basic fact. And he treats it like such, and verbalizes that to her as such after a touch of light skepticism to see the strings she's connected. And she's all for it.

And she has indeed connected them. Every single one. Everything she's saying makes sense, but she's been so goddamn trained by Penber that she was very nearly resigned to not being believed. She's adamant to explain her conspiracy board piece by piece in person because she's so acutely aware of getting swept aside, but she still knows she's right, and that her deduction is important, and she overcomes that fear and goes anyway.

She is a careful, intelligent woman. She IS. All Light does is respect that and she's suddenly spilling fucking everything to a kid she doesn't know, who she knows is tied to the police, who she knows have a leak, who she knows her fiance was investigating. She plays some cards close to her chest but she's just so swept away by being believed for once that. Well. She dies.

Light very quickly falls into honeytrapping and using women as tools but based on this I wonder how much of it is his. I don't know. Headcanon territory alert but. Seeing a reflection of the self in them? IIRC he only does this to women who are blatantly attracted to him. He doesn't seek to use Naomi in any way. Manipulate her, yes, as she's a very real threat but she's also blatantly a person to him even before he learns how much she knows. I very well could be reaching, but I could see Light seeing people who are attracted to him and being disgusted by them. He knows he's attractive on the surface, but underneath...

Does Light see the world as rotting because he's viewing it through the lens of self? Ykno?

They see his face and swoon and suddenly it's like they don't seek to know him at all. He's effectively been a prop his whole life, a model 'good son', and he sees that he's become a prop to these people too. So, too, do they become props to him. He's serving his worth to them by just being there - it's practically reciprocal, and therefore the fair and right thing to do.

Light uses Misa. He's not kind to her. He uses Takada. He's really not all that kind to her either, though he's less blatant about it to her face for the most of it. He cheats on them with each other aaaaand literally doesn't care if they might be hurt. But he still trusts Takada to effectively become his second, and trusts Misa to information gather and write names and follow a plan outside his immediate supervision. He is a two-timing manipulative gaslighting bag of dicks who'd happily sell them to the devil for a corn chip, but I'm tempted to think that's because he knows their worth, their abilities, sees his need of them, and is therefore always keeping that in mind as he tries to seduce them sweetly to where he needs them to be. Light thinks women are easy as hell, his opinion of their intelligence is definitely a hand waggle at best but he still sees them. And honestly, he thinks everyone's intelligence is a hand waggle at best, and he thinks everybody is easy to manipulate, and he's, frankly, not always proven wrong. His dismissal is pretty sex-neutral. Women probably get singled out because statistically she's gonna be straight and therefore attracted to him and that's just another button he can mash. Looking at Mikami, I have no doubts he'd treat men who are interested in him in the same way.

Naomi, obviously, is not attracted to him in this way even though he's able to please her with almost excessive ease. Naomi therefore seems to retain her personhood in his mind. 'She's just a woman', yeah, he thinks to himself as he's freaking out and going over worst case scenarios where he might actually have to assault her. She's smaller than him. Her long hair means she has an easy handhold. He's not really figuring out that she could kick his ass before he can do so much as yelp... he still hesitates, doesn't go for it, and finds another way. He thinks to himself that she's too careful for him to successfully assault her even though she's 'just a woman'. People say he taunts her after she walks away to commit her suicide but I'm not so sure he is. He's ensuring his alibi publicly in every way he can, to anyone who happens to pass them by, to anyone who can see him smile, to anyone who can hear him and register his 'friendly' voice the moment he's not speaking so only Naomi can hear. Naomi is a threat. Naomi is careful. Naomi is very, very fucking smart. Light needs to ensure his victory as much as possible, and is acting to do this from every angle even as Naomi is in the grips of the Death Note's thrall because she's goddamn Naomi Misora.

And Light, though he's only met her very briefly, knows that. There is no way he didn't enjoy that cat and mouse game. Of course he revelled in his victory. She was an exceptional opponent who very nearly had him in checkmate several times in, like, the span of a half hour. L's been at this for months and he's never gotten as close to catching Kira as Naomi did lmao Him being giddy makes sense in that context.

Penber trusts Naomi enough to get him tea and keep house. He tells her as much to her face. All she is, is his fiance. That's all she's good for anymore - whatever her capability, whatever her intelligence, whatever her reputation 'before', they're now worthless. He'd never even think to try and manipulate her to make use of her blatant fucking intelligence because he literally doesn't see it. He dismisses her skills out of hand. What a waste. What a goddamn waste. If Naomi had been the one investigating Light, he'd be in custody before Ryuk even told him he was being stalked.

[morialoe17]

Me rambling on where the hell this novel is going (NOVEL SPOILERS up until chapter 206)

I'll be trying to make sense of all the theories I've seen into this post, and if you're still here to read, I'm about to kill your braincells with this stupid yapping LMAO

TLDR; I was sleep deprived and ended up getting delusional about KSE's identity, Hoisa, along with each factions stances, plus headcanons about the potential following arcs

Let's start with our Hoisa; with the recent chapters, we now know that he isn't human for sure. Things to note about him is that his manner of speaking is same as that of the store clerk from ch1, uses honorifics towards Soleum that implies his impression of him as someone of the same position or higher, and the he and other Daydream executives can't really use a wish ticket--which brings me to the thought that all Daydream executives may not be human, or at least a complete one.

J3 told Soleum that the Cheerful Research Institute(iirc the name; same facility name as old Daydream and the one that made the Happy Fantasyland Theme Park), was actually just under the current Daydream Co. Ltd., part of the same hallway the two passed through when searching traces of Lee Byeongjin. He also mentioned how the time zone(?) changes the further floors you progress to. Needless to say that is suspicious. In addition to that, some readers speculated that old Daydream was actually involved in 'summoning' darknesses, with how a lot of the ones they could access were quite foreign(Tuesday Quiz Show, etc.). Because of that, I got the idea that maybe: old Daydream was trying to perfect the wish ticket through experimenting, something happened which involved summoning darknesses, certain things went wrong because of the involvement of some of these darknesses, which led to the rebranding of Daydream.

Considering that is the case, I was thinking that maybe, the darknesses that were mainly involved in this 'summoning' thing and the rebranding are the current executives of Daydream, which includes Hoisa(not exactly him, but whatever it is that he is tied to).

Since his first introduction, I've thought of Hoisa as something like a 'personified manifestation of the Fox Counseling Room'. But rather than a singular entity, I have this nagging feeling that he's more of 'a part of a collective consciousness' kind of darkness, but one that doesn't exactly share memories, but only feelings and instinct. In which we go back to ch1 store clerk and the summoning thing of Cheerful Research Institute, as well as the goal of current Daydream; Dark Exploration Records has an apocalypse ending, which is mainly why Soleum want to go home as soon as possible. Luminous Church believes in 'Ireum', who knows the 'truth of the world' and is most likely closely involved in the world's ending. And then there's Daydream that possibly summons beings into DER. WHAT IF, store clerk was also a part of the 'collective consciousness' darkness Hoisa is a part of(hence the similar manner of speaking), transported Soleum into DER(as per the will of darkness under Daydream, explaining why Hoisa was barely aware of him until later on), because the Darkness executives of Daydream who took over after the rebrand actually ARE the ones that want to cause the apocalypse ending through summoning darkness into the world?? That's why Hoisa doesn't like the Bureau???

But then, why was Soleum chosen? Was it because he won that roulette that's why he got chosen to be summoned? We know nothing yet. The guy doesn't even tell us about his life in his original world unless it's related to DER. Plus, there's the mysterious points in his abilities such as his unexplained strength(this could just be the work of adrenaline lmao). But to me, Hoisa et. al. feels like a neutral entity. Personally think that his contribution to the Sekwang Technical High School exploration record, and possibly his other works too, made the store clerk choose him; and him winning the jackpot really was just a coincidence. Kinda like, "Oh, you're a perfect fit! Okay, I'll send you right away!" Then bam, Soleum was now in the Daydream new employee orientation lol.

But with ch206 another question arises, will the wish ticket work?? It may or may not. In the Mansion arc, Soleum had to have Go Yeongeun hold the candle instead because the item didn't work on him as a 'being from another realm'. Another instance of something implying that something might be wrong with Soleum was what Baek Saheon saw through the eye he gave him. The novel does demonstrate quite often Kim Soleum being seen as a darkness/contaminated, so much so it feels like a foreshadowing being rubbed to my face lol. Still, do I think he's human? Yes, but not quite. I'd say that his state of existence is a human, but the world considers him as an anomaly because of his origin. He's not supposed to be in that world. He shouldn't exist in it, so anything relating to his origin(family) was wiped clean. Connections to his past peers were maintained, but since Soleum doesn't talk about them, we don't know for sure if those people even remember him(Imagine if he turns out some kind of false memory for them...). WHAT IF, because of Soleum's nature as an anomaly to DER, he became something akin to a darkness?? Imagine a skinwalker but it keeps his existential state the same as his current appearance? Like, just our regular Soleum > human; Solnyang, Special Security Team Soleum, his contaminated versions > darkness/ghost story. However, his existence in DER is inherently anomalous, so it's most likely gonna result to the wish ticket not working. With this said though, it might explain the way Hoisa addresses Soleum--he could feel that they were quite similar.

And then the Luminous Church.

Ireum-nim, Ireum-nim, Ireum-nim, Ireum-nim, Ireum-nim, Ireum-nimIreum-nimIreum-nimIreum-nim

THIS THING, WHATEVER OR WHOEVER THIS IS

4TH WALL-BREAKING BEING THAT KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT DER--That DER is a collection of ghost stories in the form of exploration records(this is speculative)

Copy-pasting from a previous post I made:

Another thing is that apparently, some Korean readers were already theorizing something along the lines of how significant names are in the story. During the roulette scene, KSE was asked for his name; use of own names in darknesses is also not recommended; and then the cult faction, where they worship something called 'Ireum'(Name). From how things were unfolding, it seemed that this Ireum is real and knows that truth of the world--being a collective horror story of multiple contributors, and that it attracts people to be a part of that world, thus KSE's situation. In addition to that, believers of Ireum that want to be liberated from the truth of the world are basically wanting to be chosen, equating to being named in the Records. I don't know if I was able to explain it well, but that's the gist of it.

One thought I have about this is that on the case of the Luminous Church, I think their goals coincide with Daydream on a certain level but might never see eye to eye. Both 'summons', but their purposes were different.

I'd guess that those that was chosen by Ireum were transferred through possession(in complete parallel with their identities from wherever they came from), and those that were transferred by Daydream were mainly darknesses. Something must have overlapped somewhere, causing Soleum's irregular state. I have a feeling that Choi is in a similar case for some reason because of that one theory where a Choi's past identity as Daydream employee 'Lee Kangheon' using his wish ticket to erase his existence in the company for having known too much...

Did this make sense? No, cuz my head hurts now, so I'll stop yapping here lmao

[pancake-umbreon]

mdzs headcanon that might not be accurate to the lore at all but who freaking cares. life is short.

losing your golden core gives you chronic pain! (+ bonus chronic fatigue)

like i'll get to the Other Effects it has on your body later but i think that when you have such a level of cultivation to form a golden core in the first place, it does wonders for your body. however, losing all that in the blink of an eye will be prolonged hell on earth because suddenly your body has to adjust to being without all of those enhancements and protections that the golden core provides.

now, the only people who are shown to have lost their golden cores just Give The Fuck Up - iirc wei wuxian is the only one shown to have kept going in spite of losing his golden core. but this means that a) i can really let this hc go wild and b) i can give wwx chronic pain! i'm not really counting jiang cheng here, because he got a golden core back in like a week. but i imagine that he was also probably deeply spurred on by the prospect of doing anything to get his golden core back, and thus ignored the pain and the fatigue.

i'm also gonna address the theory of the possibility of regenerating one's golden core even after losing it right now, actually. if this were possible, i think that recultivating a golden core would very slowly, very gradually ebb away the pain and fatigue, because your body finally has those enhancements again that were violently ripped out of it. but it never fully goes away. because the more you age before developing a golden core, the weaker it will be.

anyways! wei wuxian, get in the pear wiggler <3 since the golden core grants you more endurance and such, lacking it means that allllll of wwx's scars and more severe injuries are now felt at all times. burn scar from the wen branding iron? Chronic Pain. breaking probably every bone in his body from falling into the burial mounds? Chronic Pain. surgery scar from where his golden core was extracted in the first place? Chronic Fucking Pain-

wwx is just really really good at hiding his problems, as we all know. like it's not a problem when he gets resurrected into mxy's body, which has a golden core, but i like to think it was absolutely an issue in his burial mounds era. and wen qing had to pull him aside one day and say "girliepop i can tell you're hiding. if you don't let me give you some damn treatment right now i'm gonna beat your ass"

in conclusion! at all times i am looking for new ways to make my blorbos disabled /silly

i'm probably forgetting several things but i wrote this at like 10pm while eepy

[mimuta-muta]

A SCARRED HEART // a secret & last life artpiece, minific, and headcanon

dedicated to those desertduo scar-focused angst enojyers 🍷 THIS IS FOR YOU GUYS!! I LOVE YALL!!! I AM YOU. I AM YOU ALL. im going insane anyways,

first tumblr post i think? dropping a more refined version of my secret life / last life scar headcanon/art/minific from twt here, praying that someone as insane as me will see it 🙏

[Based off of Last Life and Secret Life, in which Scar was intentionally permakilled by Grian the season prior.

Minific in italics first, followed by official headcanon transcribed & slightly modified from art ^^ taking this much more seriously than i should hehehe

Might make a full fledged fic on Ao3 if this turns out well though!! Hope yall enjoy <3. - mimuta]

- The desert. The betrayal. It all comes back to him in a dream, lucid and laced in sorrow…

And as he awakens from his slumber, he’s left shrouded and alone.

Again.

Perhaps they were a cruel mockery, these “secret”scrolls. A bitter reminder of the contracts he’d never be able to control. Of the friends he’d never be able to keep.

It’s almost as if some god up above had descended from their watchful throne to spit in his face and show him how it should be done.

Or… perhaps they were a sign.

Perhaps, by experience or some strange instinct, or by insight or spite, he took it as such.

And perhaps that’s why he emerged victorious this time around.

Alone, of course, as always.

Alone, but alive.

-

Following the desertduo divorce arcs in Third and Limited Life that end in Scar’s death by Grian’s hand (double life dont count that was the warden), Scar returns to the next season as a cloaked iteration of his self, doomed to insanity and isolation: first in Last Life, and second in Secret Life.

Cloaked Scar/Scarred Heart Scar’s (i cant think of a better name ToT these sound so bad T_T will take suggestions aldbskshxbsk-) “friendship/ally” contracts in Magical Mountain also inadvertently influenced the secret task/contract of sort kinda gimmick in Secret Life, what with the life reward system for tasks and etc.: only this time, people can’t get away without consequence.

Through the tasks given to him in Secret Life, Scar was outcasted as an enemy to all, loyal companion to none. Similarly, the contracts Scar made in Last Life granted him half-assed “allies,” but never a true friend. Like the one who had killed and betrayed him all those years ago. wink wink. wink wink.

Secret Life Scar, being the second version of his cloaked self, retains an “instinct” or like muscle memory but.. idk how to describe it- hazy underlying memories from Last Life scar, and later realizes this w/ the winner’s theory (or whichever hc out there that says that they remember past seasons upon winning) *kaboom*

TLDR: desert duo divorce arc so bad it results in grian killing scar, and scar’s left as a reclusive cloaked maniac in last life, returns as same maniac in secret life and learns from his mistakes, and wins secret life through nuances left over from last life 💪💪 or something or other

ALSO//side headcanons::

grian’s life given in servitutde to scar + scars life given to grian in 3rd life somehow influenced their soulbind in double life- although this may not be as solid as a hc due to the fact scar was giving hearts away like crazy moneys in last life iirc… buuut it kinda still works either way

lilacs and poppies on scars skin, yet another callback, another reminder of his loneliness, of the desert, of his death, of the desert, of the desert, of the desert, of the desert, of the dese-

if scar dies to grian in wild life i blame it on secret scar being left alive and he cant return as hes permanently stuck in secret life this crap is staying canon to me no matter what trust 🧍‍♂️

theres a similarity in appearance between scar and the secret keeper (hood) ik its watcher evo stuff,,, but… do with thatbwhat you will hehe—

oooh bou that was a lot :,) if you made it to the end, thanks for reading through all of this!! im totally normal!!! please like or whatever the equivalent is and feel free to leave comments or whatever im desperate for traffic interaction 🧎🧎🧎 i might take a bit to respond but KSBDKDBSKSBS

i shall be off to do ap bio work now before i fail my test tmrw WOOOOOO thanks again for reading this far if you have :Df and i hope you have a wonderful dayyyyy <33333

[nopecho]

IIRC Eden and Bailey are childhood friends, and Bailey and Avery are childhood friends, you think Avery and Eden are lifelong rivals?

You are using 100% of your brain oh my GOD

Bailey and Eden definetly still communicate, Vrel confirmed this once + Bailey sells you directly to Eden if you don't pay.

We see Bailey and Avery interact a couple times, especially at the end of the Cafe campaign during the grand opening.

But we NEVER see Avery and Eden interact.

Which begs the question: they probably KNOW eachother from childhood. So why does Avery not reach out to Eden?

Iirc Vrel mentioned that Eden and Bailey aren't exactly in the best of terms. Bailey felt like there was a betrayal on Eden's part, but Eden doesn't see that the same way? (Correct me if I'm wrong guys)

My theory/headcanon as of now is that Eden and Bailey were both orphans, and both of them had to pay rent at some point. Eden just couldn't live that way and decided to fuck off into the forest, leaving Bailey behind to fend for himself. That's what I think the bretrayal is.

Avery probably comes from a rich family, and she's not exactly the cleanest of people. They definetly went to the same school, so Avery might have been a bully for all we know. Her rage stat is very telling on what kind person she is at her core, and she's not above using her status to impose herself.

Bailey probably grabbed some money from her, or made a deal of some kind. Why else is she so keen on grabbing orphans? And she definetly wouldn't care about someone like Eden. She would rather erase any evidence that they have a history, to avoid tainting her reputation.

After all, if she DID bully Eden, that would look bad in the eyes of investors to find out she is that kind of person. If she didn't, it still wouldn't look very stellar to be involved with a hermit from the forest.

So she probably washed her hands clean off the mess, and that bastard better not come looking for her.

[velvetvexations]

Really love how every time I argue with people on here about how actually trans men do not generally have it meaningfully better than trans women, people avoid actually explaining their points or providing sources and start calling me a little boy. Very fun. Love that. It's so fun to be insulted for asking asking people to explain their point

No one can actually explain that.

rhea ripley is so hot. and for what

for me to be all Weird Trans Woman about her

Honestly as an non binary person, I feel more and more pushed out of the community with the serious adherence to the binary. "if you Id as this you MUST be this thing, you're you're a liar and a faker and you're hurting other trans people" that, and the denial of trans men's oppression. It's just cruel and bitter, and seeing other trans people go down this path is pretty disheartening

it's so depressing

Well, you see, it's not like saying they're transitioning from black to white, because OBVIOUSLY, just like race, your soulgender is immediately apparent to everyone as soon as you plop out the womb

lmao so true

(also I've heard soulgender is a Black thing and it should be spelled with like, a space or a hyphen? so I'm probably gonna do that from now on)

"Trans men are the White People of the trans community" Oh okay so yeah this is just "Ace people are the White People of the Queer Community" all over again huh Begging other whities to stop comparing race and gender like this, makes you look stupid as fuck

pls

Fascinated to know if the "All trans women are nonbinary" crowd also believe all trans men are nonbinary

you'd think so the way they insist trans men cling to being AFAB lmao

Went to check /-/'s blog and she's reblogging pro Chat-GPT and anti-copyright posts now

I'm tapping the sign.

as a nonbinary thing i feel like so much tma/tme shit just completely fucking forgets us like im not „occasionally mistaken as a trans woman” its a fucking coin flip!!!!!!!! my „AGAB” doesbt matter 2 ppl outside the the internet!!!!! all that matters is no matter what i wear no one wants me i their bathroom!!!!!

people don't even just hate you for when they mistake you for a trans woman anon they hate non-binary people AFAB too

i kinda feel like the discourse is becoming more mainstream now. im seeing a lot of trans bloggers who dont post much about trans issues making posts about it (usually along the lines of "can we be normal about trans guys please" which is nice)

good maybe the backlash will finally kick in

Idk if this is me generalizing but I’ve started noticing that headcanons of canonically male characters as trans women that get traction are usually skinny and have trauma or coded with anxiety or depression. Like idk if that means literally anything but just a weird observation I had

a lotta people on here literally define being a woman as when bad things happen to you lmao

I was looking at the Patricia Taxxon stuff (funny enough, did actually see you @ ed in deleted replies) and I saw the sentence “However, being discriminated on the basis of being perceived as a manly woman is just an adverse effect of transmisogyny directed towards trans men.” Which. Hey now. What about butch women. Like how does that not uniquely apply to cis butch lesbians, even if we ignore trans men entirely.

MAINSTREAM SOCIETY LOVES TOMBOYS

Man. It really sucks when a popular-ish figure you look up to turns out to be transandrophobic. Should have seen it coming ig. She was intersexist too, and those often go hand in hand.

well I mean it sounds like you shouldn't have looked up to her already lmao

IIRC from old drama, Patricia Taxxon also thinks toxic masculinity isn't a real thing that can harm men because it's just splash damage from misogyny and they should get over it, lol, so I'm not surprised if she's turned out to be weird about trans men

lmao literally just that radfem-libfem feminism-is-for-women comic huh

Tragic: local man forced to actually read Serano's writing for the theory he's trying to make even though the way she talks about transmasculinity and female gender nonconformity gives him a headache

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