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dialup-kin-help · 2 years
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melongraph56 · 1 month
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Yogscast: Tales of Arcadia AU
"god the yogs are so tales of arcadia coded im not ok, my thoughts are on hyper speed"
ok so quick summary of what tales of arcadia is for everyone at home graciously provided by wikipedia. a lot of the current timeline of the au is gonna focus on trollhunters so our main protagonist can have some development even though I thought of some scenarios outside of the current timeline whoops
Tales of Arcadia is a trilogy of animated science fantasy television series created for Netflix by Guillermo del Toro and produced by DreamWorks Animation and Double Dare You. The series comprising the trilogy follows the inhabitants of the small suburban town of Arcadia Oaks, which is secretly home to various supernatural creatures and the young heroes who fight against the forces of evil that lurk in the shadows. The three installments of the trilogy, Trollhunters, 3Below and Wizards, have been released worldwide.
- wikipedia
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia... follows the story of James "Jim" Lake Jr., a teenage boy who finds a mysterious amulet and stumbles across a secret realm inhabited by trolls and other magical creatures. Soon afterward, he and his friends are charged with protecting the world from the dangerous monsters that lurk in the shadows of their small suburban town.
- wikipedia
so basically this au is filled with magical creatures (trolls), aliens (akiridions), and wizards which is so yogs based!!! there are also beings called changelings who can switch between human and troll.
I imagine a lot of the old gen yogs as non-human and older, while the new gen are mainly human and as teens/young adults like kirsty who is human, however there are a few exceptions like briony who is a troll. technically briony isn't a teen because trolls live for a very long time though she is younger than some of the other trolls. I plan on adding more new gen yogs but need to figure out what role they would play in the au instead of them being just bystanders/background characters. I also intend on adding more SOI characters but I need to refresh myself on the lore
in the under cut I've assigned everyone as either a troll, akiridion, wizard, changeling or human. don't mind the extra bits, I'll explain those in another post along with some dynamics between characters
ALSO, quick note I'm gonna try to be very low-key with our resident demi-gods since the arcane order is a big spoiler in the trilogy. I'll tag posts accordingly to avoid spoilers if y'all are interested in watching the series
spoiler tags:
#yogscast: arcane order | #yogs: ao | #yogs: toa spoilers
au tags:
#yogscast: tales of arcadia | #yogs: toa
(while we're here some general tags)
xephos - akiridion
honeydew - troll
lalna - wizard
sips - akiridion
rythian - changeling
zoeya - troll (leader of trollmarket / protector of the heartstone)
littlewood - troll (previous trollhunter, deceased)
nanosounds - changeling
ross - changeling
alsmiffy - wizard/akiridion?
trott - troll
lomadia - changeling?
nilesy - wizard
teep - troll
ravs - troll
zylus - akiridion
daltos - changeling
strife - akiridion
parvis - changeling
boba - human (current trollhunter, main protagonist)
kirsty - human
briony - troll
pedguin - human
sarah - human
lalnable - changeling
echo/five - changeling
fumblemore - wizard (merlin equivalent)
swampy - wizard (guinevere equivalent?)
israphel - troll (gunmar equivalent)
the queen/jean - wizard (morgana equivalent)
mother - cosmic being
ridgedog - arcane order (bellroc equivalent)
kirindave - arcane order (skrael equivalent)
lying - arcane order (nari equivalent)
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autisticlalna · 2 years
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it's been so long since i've done anything with dreamout so here's an overview of stuff i was hashing out and then never did anything with:
wilbur faked his death. and forgot to have philza in on it. ghostbur is just wilbur pretending to be a ghost and also having residual dreamon fuckery because of the mask cracking while he was wearing it
dream gets put in gay baby jail (a box) as time out. later when he's given some rights back he possesses a green sheep nametagged Enemy
ranboo is a system! and also possessed by a dreamon in the "a dreamon physically fused with him" way. except the dreamon got repressed by his system members pulling out sticks and beating the shit out of it. which ALSO led to ranboo losing all memory of being half-dreamon at all
dream adopts ranboo and decides to show him the ropes of being a dreamon. ranboo is terrified and has no idea what's happening, and also ends up getting recruited into the dreamon hunters
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there were some vague thoughts about drista being a nano specimen named micro but i don't know if that went anywhere
puffy does therapy on a mask
exile arc: brick, tubbo, and tommy go camping! dream tags along but not for any Nefarious Reasons he just wants to be included
egg is dreamon-related somehow, dream fucking Hates It and sees it as a threat to the server and his friends (and is. kinda doing the "human emotion called friendship" thing) so he's Way more involved. probably teams back up with brick for the first time post-wilbur to keep him safe from it because brick's immune as long as he's wearing dream's mask
SOMETHING I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THAT GREEN SUGGESTED: eggpire kidnaps dream to get him out of the way but during a Climatic Battle dream hijacks the egg itself to turn the tables and in the aftermath he's able to physically manifest in his dreamon form for the first time
brick and tubbo do science crimes together!! brick snowchester pog. who better to help with the nukes plan than a lalna(ble)
punz was a past dream host
leo: i have.. an interesting problem leo: you know how i draw wilbur looking kinda like komaeda? human karl is just naegi but kingdom hearts solar: interesting implications for their dynamic in dreamout leo: [SOUND]
discussed potential of "what if the dreamout (and dash2) gang met the canon dsmp gang" brick, who is terrible at clearly expressing that he cares about people: [puts hand on tommy's shoulder] im going to give you a knife collection. in case of bears.
"dsmp-2 dream would honestly be just. Stunned at first. that a version of him would stoop so low and havw absolutely no second thoughts or regrets about it meanwhile brick is already hitting canon dream with a steel chair"
brick gets the trenchcoat of mental illness. he's earned it
dreamXD was initially dream fully tapping into his dreamon powers or being his true form / "unmasked". no idea if that's gonna still be the case
quote from my notes: "Ranboo, contrary to popular belief, has a moral backbone. he just happens to have fifty and they're all conflicting"
there was an arc idea where brick became president. good for him
tubbo invites schlatt's adoptive parents to his funeral. his adoptive parents are sips and sjin. This Goes Well (this goes poorly. sips decides to make himself king. dream wants to kick his ass)
lalnable ALSO shows up which is a barrel of fun for brick considering the last time brick saw him was when he was Created To Be Cannon Fodder. the whole "full crossover" arc is just a mess in general. everything happens so much
there was a joke where grian would kidnap brick and then he'd fall out of a nether portal with 10 new outfits
brick decides he's Done during a manhunt so dream possesses the ender dragon and the hunters walk in on him bonking into the obsidian pillars repeatedly
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fluxedbuds · 4 years
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Oh now this is a fun one
The simplest and most likely canon answer is that Nano’s strain of flux just wasnt strong enough to take root in Lalna fully. If we choose to believe that Lalna’s flux did just go away when Nano was gone, it tracks that it’s weak to the point that it needs to be near her to even exist. Probably why Mother wasn’t happy just to let her run free and wanted to just make her a gateway or something. Its not super interesting unfortunately, but it’s highly likely that this is the canon kim and duncan intended- easy answers, easy way out.
HOWEVER, now that I’ve done my due diligence of sorting out what the intended canon is, I can rewrite it to be more fun for me personally!
Funnily enough, my idea is pretty similar to  saphushia‘s, and I think I left a tag wall on their post about it lmao, although it oddly enough wasn’t inspired by it at all! It actually came from some stuff I was doing with friends, where I had a Lalna I could play around with freely without worrying about canon.
Long story short, it absolutely had an effect on him, but it was tailored to him. Nano’s symptoms were strikingly obvious- trances, hallucinations of voices and images, so on and so forth. And Mother could get away with being so obvious because Nano never really outright rejects her (well, until the end of FB4..) She doesn’t have to hide most of her intentions, she can give instructions and advice directly, it’s a pretty sweet gig overall. But Lalna… Lalna has decided he does not like Mother. And once a Lalna decides they don’t like something, they never, ever budge.
So, whats a poor eldritch parasite to do? There’s no talking to him, the second he hears anything he’ll flip his shit. And seeing himself fluxed even slightly makes him panic and double down on looking for a cure. It’s not an ideal situation, not at all. But Mother’s clever, and Lalnas are forgetful…
Just put it all in his blood!
Okay, that’s an oversimplification, but it gets the general idea across. Knowing that any obvious signs are gonna make him fight back twice as hard, Mother opts to fly under the radar. He’ll notice flux on his face, but he can’t exactly see it growing on his organs. He’ll scream and rage against any voice in his head, so lets just nudge his thoughts in the right direction instead of directly speaking. Oh, he’s starting to get some dangerous ideas about curing the flux? Just distract him long enough that he forgets to write it down! He’s already easy to distract, so all it takes is just bumping one of his thoughts a liiiitlle higher in priority and all his chances of getting anything done are gone. Fun symbolism here how the flux grows over his eyes long before Nano’s did!
It also conveniently explains why he never got around to making a cure. Besides duncan just being distractable in real life, Lalna is very, very good at inventing things when hes got his mind set to it, and curing the flux is both an engaging challenge and something very important to him. It’s almost unthinkable how little progress he makes! But with some eldritch intervention, it makes a lot more sense.
Going back to Wizard School, when his flux supposedly ‘vanished’ once Nano was gone… It didn’t go anywhere. He just wasn’t allowed to see it! We know from Nano that Mother is fully capable of manipulating what someone sees, so, without Nano there to remind him that he’s fluxed, it doesn’t take much to twist his fear into denial and hide the flux from him entirely. And thats part of why he’s just so calm and soft during that whole series- even from his edited perspective, there’s some of that flux trance showing through. Gaining warp, letting so much flux escape into the atmosphere… It’s not just laziness or incompetence, it’s all intentional. Its just not his intentions. Once Nano comes back, Mother can’t get away with it, because Nano would notice instantly, but the damage is already done. Lalna even seems sort of aware how badly his tower is messed up, manifesting in the urge to protect Nano from what he did.
So, to summarize, while it’s almost certainly not canon, I think the most interesting interpretation of Lalna’s lack of visual flux involves Nano’s flux mostly being external, and Lalna’s flux mostly being internal. Both because of their respective acceptance and rejection of the flux, and because of how Nano is both vocally and internally more honest with her feelings and problems than Lalna, who intends to repress every emotion he can’t immediately solve until the day he dies.
TL;DR: Mother Knows Worst!
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borderlandscast · 5 years
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the vault hunters go to ikea
takes place during the epilogue. this took a while because i have no idea how normal people behave when going to ikea.
after nanosounds ordered that deep clean crew, arsenal and his wonderful volunteers (i.e., any surviving bandit who didn’t want their stuff thrown out) made a list of everything that could be kept and not kept. they marie kondoed the frigate from top to bottom.
bandit construction is mostly dumpster diving, improvisation, fixing or stealing things from one another. so the vast majority of furniture within the frigate is junk and isn’t space-faring quality (that is, won’t hold together if it accidentally smashes into a wall during ascent or if someone takes a good swing at it).
fun fact: the only objects in vast quantity deemed to pass this test are the bunk beds within the common, shared troop quarters. however, all the mattresses and sheets had to be stripped down and carted off to be deep cleaned as well before anyone felt remotely comfortable using them. in fact, almost all of the mattresses and sheets were donated to the bandits staying behind. after the cleaning, of course.
runner-up objects are lockers, chests and storage containers. for obvious reasons, arsenal let his own troops claim what’s what but they had to do it in a non-violent way or else it goes to him or worse, parvis’ bandits.
when the frigate finally left pandora, the frigate was in short supply of multiple bits and pieces, almost all of them cosmetic. people slept on the floor, in cots or shared beds, even making cardboard box forts.
before undergoing repairs at the planet hecatoncheires, all spacekea furniture was able to be stored in vox’s digistruct system and popped back into place, no big deal. the captains also made another cleaning mandatory so that the repair crews couldn’t be impeded by anyone’s giant stash of snacks kept in a ceiling high locker.
anyway, arsenal gave everyone a thousand dollars (sponsored by sipsco.) and told them to ‘go nuts’ when they finally docked at spacekea. they’d dock for a week or so, and then leave. after that, future visits would have to be by special request.
spacekea is one of the joint markets that’s one of the only places in the galaxy that megacorporations share. all of them manufacture and sell some sort of commodity, not always furniture. for example, jakobs may produce the majority of generators but they also produce the widest range of wooden furniture. maliwan produces the ‘friendliest’ sourced tea and spices. tediore has the monopoly on one dollar items.
everybody bought a new mattress. and sheets, plus sheet covers. there’s a lot of neat designs (all of them owned by one company or other).
arsenal refused to buy a new couch, but he did buy two extendable children’s beds for his kraggons. having two kraggons trying to hog the same space on his bed is exhausting. hence, the beds.
the other reason why the frigate had to make a stop at spacekea is because some of the stuff being sold fills a particular niche called ‘holds plenty, good for tiny spaces’, given that the frigate is big but not exactly spacious in certain places.
martyn (who’s also the safety officer) had to veto a lot of the trophy and wall shelves since they post a safety hazard. he didn’t say no to paintings, holo frames or wall hangings though.
without a doubt, almost the whole frigate’s passengers ate at the cafeteria, every single day. and stocked up in bulk on the snacks and frozen food. this was one of the first stops they made, and everybody loves food that’s not pandoran. in fact, some of the bandits who’d been born on pandora and never left were trying to find their feet via food. they got hooked, very fast.
the frigate’s passengers all became very recognisable, very quickly. everybody has to wear a name tag identifying what ship they’re from for deliveries, troubleshooting, etc. it also meant that parvis’ literacy classes shot up in attendance a week beforehand.
the whole place is divided into multiple sections. first is the docks, which is divided up by ship size and function. thanks to daltos claiming the registration for the blackrock, the frigate enjoyed a cushy space close to the entrance. not many military ships dock at spacekea, so. and they got free parking due to the length of their stay.
sherlock had to give an orientation about spacekea. it‘s one of his best presentations, and his favourite. it was mostly about etiquette, since more than half the crew have never interacted with civilians before (with threats, murder and bloodshed not counting).
the docks are linked to the cafeteria, warehouses, display rooms, hotels and the market. instead of it all being laid out in one direction, the designers went with a much more helpful design: a four way, multi-leveled behemoth of interlocking buildings.
hotels are there to help people who flew smaller ships who intend on staying awhile, or families on vacation, or anybody who wants a bed to sleep in for a day. hotels are divided into classes, which range from five star to one star, even down to rentable capsules.
after the hotels (mostly arranged on the outside perimeter), people enter via main hallway. from here, omnidirectional lifts, elevators, escalators, turbolifts (only for express, staff or richer clientale) can take people to where they want to go.
the cafeteria serves up a massive menu that’s uniform to every spacekea. the menu boasts that there’s always something for someone. the hot dogs, soft serve, meatballs and desserts, to name a few, proved especially popular with the blackrock’s crew. rythian enjoyed the dairy free soft serve.
the display rooms are dioramas that are filled with sample living spaces designed to inspire ideas from those passing through the hallways. they all come with holographic clipboards, a catalogue and a pen. the pens are all chained to the clipboards to discourage theft.
how it works in theory is that if there’s a piece someone fancies, they jot down the item number, price, quantity and name so that they can pick it up at the warehouse or the market.
in reality, sherlock had to lead groups and track every single one of these clipboards since not every bandit could write legibly or in a decipherable manner. he’s never been so well-acquainted before with so many bandits until this moment. don’t worry, minty, hollie sparkles, parvis, ravs, daltos and arsenal helped him out, in shifts.
you can go into the dioramas and display rooms. this the crew did, in varying ways.
rythian wanted a king size bed since he’s tall. and he’s tired of having to make himself fit. also, ravs is buying for him. he also bought the highest grade book storage unit available, and a miniature hammock for junior.
ravs spent an hour testing the display bar, fermenting and barrel rooms, and had five different salespeople attending to him at once, owing to his manners and charming personality. he ended up buying a deluxe suite, and wrangled a fitting service for free since he’s buying so much in one go. he also bought a spacesaving bird loft/avairy for the pigeons and quails.
lalna and xephos spent three days alone in the tech section, pressure testing the hardware and systems in that area. people kept mistaking them for salespeople and customer service. they eventually got paid by spacekea because of their EFFICIENCY. both turned down offers of employment.
honeydew and nilesy performed an impressive interpretative dance within the kitchen and cat rooms. both are no pushovers when it comes to cooking and cat care, and nilesy has about fifty cats to house and entertain. nilesy also brought along lyndon (his own diamond kitten) to test items, and had to have honeydew with him to fend off people who wanted to interact with the kitten.
minty almost got kicked out because people thought thought she was a part of the displays since she kept putting her feet up on the desks. she found a desk she liked, and even bought the display one since she ‘felt a connection with it’, which didn’t impress sherlock when he had to sort it all out.
honeydew also took his gardening team on a serious quest to maintain the grass room and hydroponics (i.e., veggie patch). this took four days to complete from start to finish, involving picking out new turf, chairs, trees, benches, fences, pots and seedlings. the grass room looks like a proper grass room now, and not just a lone field of grass with a sad looking tree in the middle.
lomadia bought a small bed for her still to hatch egg. it was doll-sized, and a lot of people gave her strange looks for buying a bed specially for it, until she pulled out the incubator capsule to prove that she was serious about it.
zylus bought a chef grade bread machine. this daltos tried to prevent since he had deja vu about too much dough being made, and which zylus rebuffed. his premonition proved correct since the crew ended up eating bread for whole two weeks, and didn’t even mind.
daltos bought a portable, handheld hologram kit intended for engineering projects. it’s the one he carries around with him in the epilogue, used for tracking a ship’s condition and status. vox sends him stuff through it. he also secretly uses it to watch movies and a n i m e.
since parvis is staying with will, he tried to buy a water bed to replace his own shoddy bed/cot. will couldn’t stand all the wobbling and sloshing, and had to convince parvis to buy a different bed. parvis bought a fancy bed with hangings and velvet trim. will facepalmed. will also bought a handcrafted tie rack. parvis made fun of him. will bought five more just to own it.
saberial strongarmed panda into buying a lot more organisational stuff since their ship and room is obnoxious to hang out in, given their habit of leaving stuff lying about. panda sticks to organisation for about a month and then goes back to their own haphazard system.
hatfilms act out wine or cheese within the display rooms, which leads to security being called on them twice, one casting call by an agency and many applauds by passerbys. all of them end up in an advertisement, and get a buttload of free goods, mostly food.
lalnable kits out his medical office with an adjustable standing desk. lalna also buys one to be a copycat. lalna also buys one of those stuffed toy sharks. lalnable hates it because it’s so obtrusive to see.
sherlock buys a whole kit of stationary, shelves, boards and office goods. he spends the next month slowly integrating them into the offices. he’s the happiest he’s ever been. bandits dub him the best nerd.
nanosounds decides to renovate the home office in her mother’s place as a sign that she’s a good daughter, but decks the wallpaper and carpet in varying hues of purple. her mother is secretly thrilled by her independence and modern thinking.
teep just buys one of the best mattresses available, and nothing else. this drives all their friends nuts, who then spent the whole trip trying to convince teep to splurge. teep eventually buys...one black coffee from the cafeteria.
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officialgleamstar · 7 years
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Character ask: lalna
y’all need to stop sending me yogscast prompts to this blog, you can just ask me to reblog ask posts to my yogblog if you want to send a question for a yog character i dont mind
general opinion: fall in a hole and die | don’t like them | eh | they’re fine I guess | like them! | love them | actual love of my life hotness level: get away from me | meh | neutral | theoretically hot but not my type | pretty hot | gorgeous! | 10/10 would banghogwarts house: gryffindor | slytherin | ravenclaw | hufflepuff (i cant decide which)best quality: his cheery attitudeworst quality: his recklessnessship them with: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯brotp them with: xephos?needs to stay away from: lalnable probably lmao stay safe purple scientistmisc. thoughts: i am extremely fond of both the character and the youtuber duncan. would be a good best friend. love him lots and lots.
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dialup-kin-help · 2 years
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small PSA!!!: since we forgot to add canoncalls to our request types, a small bit of etiquette just in case:
please don't interact with a canoncall unless the given memories seem familiar!! so that the caller can actually tell who is someone they can/should be asking about this!
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dialup-kin-help · 2 years
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small stimboard update for sea anon
some of the gifs i was using broke and i Literally cannot figure out why so thats seetting it back some :sigh:
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fluxedbuds · 4 years
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can you go off about lalnable
ugly bitch idiot becomes a serial killer instead of going to therapy
But seriously, my take with Lalnable has always been more on the ‘fuck this guy’ side than the ‘poor sympathetic monster’ side. I don’t like seeing this guy woobified, especially because it tends to go some really concerning directions. I won’t get into it, because that’d be like slapping a label that says ‘come have discourse at me’ on my face, but let it be known, this guy ain’t got any excuses.
I’m not touching Lalnable’s potential childhood, because THATS a whole mess with no canon answer, but I do think he started out as pretty much a regular Lalna. Keep in mind, even the nicest, softest Lalna, FB Lalna, thought it was completely fine to repeatedly dunk a live bird in molten metal, because it didn’t die. And I think it’s pretty much still the state he’s in when he gets hired into Yoglabs.
Now, this is where you might start to think, ‘well gee, tumblr user Fluxed Buds, wouldnt it be easy for Yoglabs to twist that lack of moral understanding into something worse? wouldnt it mean its not his fault?’ And you’d be like, five percent right! The thing is, though, even Bird Torturer Lalna wouldn’t be any kind of okay with the kind of shit Lalnable ends up doing- there’s no boiling the frog situation possible, because there’s NO easy transition point into being the kind of person Lalnable becomes. At least one Lalna has quit Yoglabs because it was too evil, theres no reason Lalnable wouldn’t have been able to do the same, or at Least escape somehow. What I think happened is Yoglabs provided an environment where Lalnable could get away with doing horrible things extremely personally, and Lalnable took that and RAN.
There’s no evidence that Honeydew, Xephos, or any of the testificate scientists end up doing the shit Lalnable does. This isn’t an environment that’s forcing people to become like Lalnable, it just doesn’t provide many roadblocks. So, like Xephos lying about Lalnable being a clone, he’s lying about why he got locked up. Employee death is just an inconvenience. Lalnable got locked up for disagreeing with how cloning should work. I’ve had a post about this in the works for a while, but my theory is that Lalnable thought clones should be a brainless workforce, mostly because he Absolutely Could Not Handle the idea of another him running around without being under his control. Which, yknow, isn’t super weird of a hangup, pretty much every Lalna has it, and I’d wager a lot of real people would have similar objections. The problem is, Lalnas are stubborn little fucks, and when Xephos wouldn’t listen, Lalnable went ballistic and started fucking Everything up. So, stick him in a cage, pry him for info until you don’t need him, then put him in stasis for stable DNA.
So, the one thing Lalnable is justified about is being pissed about all that, because Xephos was a jerk and betrayed him, and also fuck Yoglabs. And thats one of three times Lalnable has ever been right in his whole life!
So, yknow, once he’s out of Yoglabs, he’s super got no excuse to kill/kidnap/enslave entire towns and whatnot, so any chance of him being sympathetic is long gone. Dude’s a piece of shit and won’t wash his goddamn clothes. But he does have some interesting psychology I can pry apart at this point!
So, first off- the name and aesthetic change, the color contacts, the voice changer- He’s trying to force control over the clone situation. He knows he doesn’t have any hope of controlling his clones, so he tries to fix it for himself by trying to make it so there aren’t copies of him running around, because he’s now different from all of them. But that sort of evolves into hatred of his original self, his real voice and name and appearance. So, that’s a little sympathetic, but he could’ve decided to be like properly goth or something so I don’t feel bad for him he looks like an idiot
Lalnable doesn’t care about justifying his actions, which does mean he’s a lot more powerful than some other yogs villains. He’s got nothing holding him back, his only setbacks are directly caused by other people fucking with him. Lalnable is legitmately a scary threat! It’s easy to forget that when we get to see so much of him being a complete failure idiot, but he’s good at what he does, and what he does is crimes and evil.
He’s also excessively focused on revenge, which I think is kind of why he ends up abandoning it in the end. He was so focused on the concept that he didn’t even realize how generally impossible and ill-advised it is. Besides the obvious issues of time loops, after he creates Five, if he actually succeeded, he’d delete Five. And for once, he doesn’t Want to destroy someone. FB4 really skipped over so goddamn much of his development, and thats REALLY annoying, but it doesn’t seem like a wholly illogical endpoint. He’s kind of driven by an impossible goal- control over everything about how the world sees him. At some point, he probably realizes that destroying every single one of his clones wouldn’t bring him any more joy than just torturing the shit out of some rando! Or, at least, it’s not worth more to him than Five.
I enjoy the Lalnable-Five father daughter dynamic a lot (because it’s literally canon Lalnable says he’s her father dont TRY me), but it takes a while to really get to that point. When he first makes Five, he’s making her like any other clone he’d make for spying. She’s just another tool, a frail attempt to steal Nano from a clone who doesn’t deserve to know her.
Oh yeah, the second thing Lalnable has ever been right about! He seriously thinks Nano is cool as FUCK. Which she is! It’s not a romantic interest for sure, I’m pretty sure Lalnable hasn’t thought about romance in like 10 years, it’s more of a fascination. I don’t think he’s really interested in friendship, but he wants that kind of power on his side, he wants to see how it works, and most of all, he doesn’t want some clone getting to even be near it. Five offering the side-switch deal to Nano was something both the Baddies agreed on.
Anyways, back to Five. While she starts out as a tool, they do end up growing closer, and for once, Lalnable isn’t a total bitch idiot about it. Unfortunately, he does spend a lot of time pointing out how Five is better than Nano because he made her, and through that making Five obsessed with Staying better than Nano, because if she’s not, Lalnable might abandon her. So, he’s Dad, but he starts out as a truly awful dad that should be dropkicked. I think Five’s confusion and fear over how absolutely focused he is on destructive and impossible revenge is part of what makes him reconsider too, although I guess we’ll never know for sure. They’re both still comfortably evil as all hell, but it’s settling into a weird sort of manageable space for the buddies, and thats probably the best we’re gonna get. Lalnable has no desire to be a good person and he never will.
The last thing Lalnable is ever correct about, is loving and appreciating Five for who she is as herself.
And then he wears those sunglasses and he stops being correct for the rest of his life.
TL;DR: serial killer develops identity issues, gives daughter identity issues, trades identity issues for a second daughter and disgusting sunglasses
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music meme: lalna
still gonna try to put these out! all of lalna’s music is either catchy pop or just very sad songs. there’s no in between for this guy!
1) don’t stop (colour on the walls) by foster the people
this describes lalna’s general approach to life and all its obstacles it throws at him. i especially like ‘i’m a superman and it’s my show’ because you know he’d just flex and pose when that line comes on. 
2) adventure of a lifetime by coldplay
alright, this one’s a doozy since it covers lalna’s whole character arc starting from chapter one of ‘tlvh’.
3) send them off! by bastille
another major character song! this one covers a bunch of stuff lalna goes through, from his relationship with lalnable, what he was doing with the mining rig to his thoughts about pandora, and how he feels towards rythian (pre and post chapter twelve of ‘tlvh’).
4) everytime we touch by cascade
and now for a complete mood whiplash, have this ear worm of a song. also this is the song i imagine starts playing whenever lalna goes into second wind and it’s a mad race to revive him before he ends up dying. the song gets faster and faster and it slows dramatically whenever another vault hunter starts reviving lalna. larry robert also functions as a portable speaker!
5) count stars by onerepublic
if i had to pick a song that describes lalna’s ultimate choice in chapter twelve of ‘tlvh’, it’d probably be this one. ‘dreaming about the things we could be’ is a really sad line when applied to rythian and lalna’s relationship.
bonus:
6) mainframe (that one somg from pre-sequel)
go listen to it here. something tells me that lalna once hit on rythian using ‘you got a good looking mainframe, i like the size of your mainframe’, to which rythian responded ‘thank you????’ and promptly ran away. lalna was very dejected afterwards.
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