#lua lore

[triple-moon-rp]

Lua's backstory full

I went ahead and added the link to her character sheet, but here it is! So if you were interested in that, then buckle the fuckle up just make sure to mind the tags

TW: childhood abuse, bullying, religious trauma, suicidal ideation

[meatball-soup]

aint even lying there buddy, my name checks out

[frameconfessions]

I bet there were entire origin system groups dedicated to no-moon truthers. Moon just never existed, you can't prove it did, not to them anyway. Kinda like flat earthers but in the Warframe universe where they don't believe in Lua.

[aesrot]

i know everyone is into ******, but to me, he's so nothingburger

[poptivist]

metaphorical deaths across trench

the day trench was released, kerrang published an article which contained the following quote: “neon gravestones, tyler explains, is the heart of trench.”

and i just didn’t get it. we’d had jumpsuit, natn, levitate and my blood for months; all in-world, all not having very much detail about death other than showing the literal gravestones lit with neon.

in early 2019 i ran a small poll on twitter asking “do you think this is related to the narrative” for each song on trench, and of 132 voters, only 67% said yes, neon gravestones seemed related. i didn’t then – and still don’t now – know what exactly neon gravestones as a song has to do with every other part of trench the album.

here are some things we do know: ending your life is the goal of vialism. in the third verse of neon gravestones tyler lists reasons that someone might end their life (as a form of legacy, as a form of lashing out) and says as a counterpoint that our culture should glorify old age instead of an early death. in leave the city, the record’s last song, tyler says “in time i will leave the city; for now i will stay alive.” and we know it’s the goal of the vulture/bandito to turn death into life (be a vulture who feeds on pain).

with the “heart of trench” thing in mind, i’m looking for ways that neon gravestones relates to each other song on the album – because before there were articles, interviews, or music videos, these songs existed first on their own, together. i’m starting from here:

the first verse of neon gravestones gives us this:

what's my problem?

what’s his problem? he’s about to explain. excellent.

well, i want you to follow me down to the bottom underneath the insane asylum keep your wits about you while you got 'em 'cause your wits are first to go while you're problem-solving and my problem? we glorify those, even more, when they

(“lost ‘em,” presumably.)

so based on tyler’s description of song structure i’m looking for problem-solving as a point of conflict (specifically, losing wits) and death as a topic.

this is what i’ve scraped together -- i've categorized each song as wits kept, wits lost, and incorporating death into living.

jumpsuit. jumpsuit ends with tyler in a pose that definitely screams dead.

though “attempted escape should be honored,” considering tyler tried (with zero endgame) to run on foot from a bishop on horseback, i would place this firmly in the category of wits lost.

02. levitate “i am a vulture who feeds on pain”. vultures feed on carrion, so there’s some relationship between pain & death. in a sense he’s incorporating death into living.

03. morph. tyler can’t stop thinking about life after death, even though nico is always trying to stop him.

he takes this song to methodically reason out his thoughts about death. for that reason, i would categorize this as wits kept.

04. my blood says “if you find yourself in the lion’s den, i’ll jump right in and pull my pin.” taking the grenade with you is a one-way trip 💀 so i would categorize this as wits lost.

i noticed a bunch of these songs have high emotion in them, like for example jumpsuit's “i can’t believe how much i hate…” if there’s high emotion in this one, i would call it loyalty (but past the point of self-preservation).

05. chlorine. chlorine says "rebel red carnation grows while i decay." decay suggests a death occurring. “i’ll be back when it’s all complete” and “the moment is medical” says this leaving-of-the-city is temporary and necessary; it’s incorporating a death into living.

06. smithereens. “for you i would get beat to smithereens”. smithereens literally means small pieces, which is generally considered pretty dead. if there's high emotion here i would call it most likely rage. you could maybe say what he wants to save he'll kill: in jumpsuit, himself, in my blood, his brother, in smithereens, his relationship. i would call this one wits lost.

07. neon gravestones: is the song we’re talking about.

08. the hype. the hype music video shows tyler and josh getting shot up by invisible bullets, which according to the director symbolized the metaphorical death that took place before the band redefined themselves for trench. this is incorporating a death into living.

09. nico and the niners. this one does say we will win but not everyone will get out. that doesn’t necessarily mean death, but the whole rap verse is a half-assed plan at best. (still better than jumpsuit, which was a zero-assed plan)

10. cut my lip. the cut my lip visuals show the arms of the statues pictured in natn sticking up out of the ground as though drowning. so maybe wits lost? being buried in the ground/drowning is dying, and in the song he says explicitly this isn't what he wants.

(the cement people periodically turn yellow like the vulture)

11. bandito. in jumpsuit tyler’s death is preceded by a fall; in bandito the lyrics say “we know you don’t know to fall”. they also say “i created this world to feel some control; destroy it if i want”. wholesale destruction does seem death-adjacent. i would call both of these things incorporating death into living.

12. pet cheetah. no deaths here. tyler says “no, i move slow, i’ll sit here til i find the problem.” the squealing tires tell us there is an urge to move hastily, but tyler makes a decision to be patient with his problem. i would call this wits kept.

13. legend. during the live show tyler would say during legend “if i my grandfather taught me one thing it’s that it’s worth it to keep on fighting all the way to the bitter end.” he also says “you’re a legend in my own mind” and notably, dema maps have a compass rose, but no legend, so maybe his grandfather is an example for him? either way, “keep fighting to the bitter end” is a clear plan, so i would call this wits kept.

14. leave the city. “it’s only time before they show me why no one ever comes back with details from beyond.” this suggests he’s talking about a final death, a final leaving-of-the-city, the point of no return (assuming people aren’t coming back with anything else either, like cashews or scratch tickets or whatever). this isn’t incorporating death into living then, but it’s a plan to live. i would call this wits kept.

so that's my attempt to see neon gravestones as central to trench beyond what is explicitly said in the third verse. i'm basically full of question marks and this is the best i could come up with. any ideas? what am i missing?

[lunarhorrors]

at this point i beg for help, is o!sunship from onetry smp? if not, where are they from?? what is greenhouse au and where to watch it? i need to be overeducated in sunshipverse

alright. so:

o!sunshipduo is also called con!sunshipduo because they’re from a short-lived little server from a few years ago called Conclusions SMP, but then con!aimsey joined Origins SMP (canonically in the same-ish universe?) and the conclusions server eventually ended, so guqqie’s character is only con!guqqie but aimsey’s is both con!aimsey and, the more universally used, o!aimsey since more ppl know his character from there.

the greenhouse au doesn’t really have any Canon content, other than an offhanded mention of it as a universe from au!guqqie during guqqie’s lore stream “Past Grievances” (vod can be found on youtube) and a little drawing of gh!guq during “Recollection” and some asks guqqie’s answered on tumblr. the greenhouse au is my own au concept that i made years ago for c!tommy, originally, but it became more of a universal au that can be applied to any character! tldr is that a character comes back from the dead and can now grow plants from their body. i told guqqie about it and applied it to their characters and she liked it so much that she made it a little canon easter egg sorta thing!!

@girlboyzone also has a carrd with a guide to the various sunshipduo universes, so i highly recommend checking that out!!

[wolfoftonight]

My partner is experiencing the Operator for the first time, and I am giving terrible advice.

[plasterhound]

TELL ME ABOUT UR SOLEA GUYS!!!! I DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM PLEASEEEE 🥺

(THIS BITCH KILLED MY BLOG!! I WAS WRITING THIS WHEN THEY KILLED ME and also my OTHER blog when i posted her gif. what the hell)

HI LYNXXX twirls hair hehe

Prepare yourself. Wall of text be upon ye

soooo sol is an oc from sky children of the light!! idk if youve heard of it and its kinda hard to explain without spoiling too much, but most of her lore is shit i made up so whatever. In sky cotl you play as a child made by god? A god? you're thrown into an vast but empty world, tasked to help the spirits of the people who used to live there to move on. Entering Spoiler territory, solaria is a skykid born at the wrong time. Her need for attention is a bottomless pit and she had to be born after the whole kingdom fucking died!! And to make matters worse she was born during a time with very few skykids so she was very miserable. She lives in the valley of triumph and protects it with tooth and nail, she gets drunk on the screams of glory that still echoes in the snowy racetracks even though their owners are long gone, and when she's at the coliseum for a moment she can pretend she has an audience and that the valley of triumph's elders have finally acknowledged her. That's all she wants. Obviously she wants to be the best at her job (cleaning the mess left by an entire civilization), but deep down she just wants to be told she's doing a good job, that she's not making things worse while thinking she's doing the right thing. Is hard as fuck you know. The kingdom is empty, god just dropped her there with vague instructions. There's a real tangible Threat still around. She's just a little lost... Just a little. Shes also constantly craving adrenaline, both because it's fun af and because she likes the look on lua's face when she barely escapes something dangerous. That's the attention she wanted. She'd never admit that though.

Speaking of lua she's @dollfunerall's skykid and theyre girlfriends ☀️🌒 wives :) lualeil's one of the veery few skykids who actually came BEFORE the catastrophe which wiped off the entire sky kingdom. She's old af. She's a disciple of teth, the elder of the hidden forest, and sol in turn is lua's disciple. Lua drives sol insane i miss my wiiiiife she left for work i miss her so much. But she's also really envious of lua. Lua was around when the kingdom wasn't just ruins, she lived among people, living people, and teth looked at her. Teth acknowledged her. That's everything she wanted!! And she hates herself for it. Because skykids are hope, are light, they're kind and friendly and envy is not something they should feel. She feels even worse because she's ridiculously envious of the life lua lost, since she survived the catastrophe while watching everyone die. Kinda fucked up, she thinks.

Anyways, I like to slap her in Situations. She's really silly. I care her. Below, an assortment of solarias:

[triple-moon-rp]

If you ever think Lua is sending a bunch of non-verbal "flirty" signals, it is more likely that she wants to dissect you than anything else. Which is something I kinda discovered last night, but it kinda makes sense for her.

The only lust she has experience with is the lust for knowledge. She's always been morbidly curious and just morbid in general while growing up. Whenever something completely fascinates her, she's going to want to know literally everything about that something or someone.

Thankfully, with years of therapy, social experience, and the fact she doesn't want to hurt others, Lua's most concerning behaviors eventually ceased. Still socially awkward and depressed. Before then, however, she was more comparable to Niffty (which is part of why she likes Niffty near immediately). Just because she won't act on them, doesn't mean the urges are gone. They're just under control and hidden.

[simplendelulu]

Random headcanon

After Emberlynn starts visiting the hotel and Lua lives there, Niffty runs a creative writing club with the help of Charlie and Lua as they all shared the same hobby. All four of them have different writing styles.

Niffty - (Natsuki from DDLC) focuses on how the words sound and appears cutesy but usually hides a darker message. writes mostly romance and sometimes self-inserts

Emberlynn - My Immortal style but improves after feedback from the group. writes mostly self inserts and dark romance

Charlie - (Sayori from DDLC) bright and cheery, uses relatively simple themes. Starts out writing stories more appropriate for kids but slowly delves into hurt/comfort territory, they always have a happy ending

Lua - (Yuri from DDLC) heavily metaphorical, uses more advanced vocabulary, writes mostly fantasy/horror

[aesrot]

wish i could be a sims builder sooooo bad so I could create my own save file

[poptivist]

morse code vid & a review of BOOKS in tøp history

so, as everyone knows, ned's cozy fireplace had an ad that used morse code. here is that ad and a visual.

please let me know who to credit as the owner of the screen recording

and because nobody i know has any idea what to make of "BOOKS" -- and they have tried -- here's a look at books as they appear in tøp's body of work. just for the hell of it.

here we go!

2016: the cancer cover.

in the cancer music video, a person narrates their own impending death from cancer, and it's accompanied by an explosion books bursting out of a bookshelf. these green circles are just highlighting that this music video also included repeat book designs, like ned's cozy fireplace does.

that video and this one are by the same animator and designer, chris schoenman, who presumably didn't want to make like nine million different books. (but there could be more than one reason.)

the speaker in this song is consuming this media; there's a couple books on his coffee table.

our speaker is writing their own story with their descriptions and instructions to their family as the video goes on.

among the this person's collection of stories are some twenty one pilots songs. we'll see this later too.

2016. heathens.

these drawings on the wall are not books, but they are related to books, as we will see in just a moment. it's reasonable to say these drawings represent something this character feels or thinks about, in some cases over and over.

nico and the niners, 2018.

next, we have tyler/clancy in nico and the niners packing his backpack. we don't see him physically put this red pamphlet/book in his backpack, but given that the scene starts with a bed covered in stuff, shows him packing, and then shows a bed with nothing on it, we can assume the pamphlet got put in too.

the backpack is left for the kids to find along with the bandito clothes.

we know from The Outside that the kids keep the bandito clothes and presumably the backpack with its contents, including the red pamphlet/book.

the leave the city visuals also make a point to show a backpack left behind.

speaking of leave the city visuals:

these visuals fade from trench as a real place to drawings on the bedroom wall in dema.

like heathens, we can assume these drawings depict something that the person who drew them thinks about. because we recognize what's shown, we know they reflect what clancy knows or believes about his world: the figure of the vulture, the neon gravestones, the cage from hoty, the tree from trees and so on.

next:

2021. the vialism pamphlet, released at the same time as choker. it reads "to live fully is to sacrifice all". this is important because it's the first and only time we know what one of these pieces of media the character is consuming is explicitly telling us.

the black pamphlet is a visual parallel for what josh is reading in choker.

2021. christmas saves the year.

we see here that santa also has drawings on his wall. and -- like the speaker in cancer -- is taking in media that includes twenty one pilots stories.

santa's drawings include things he observes in his world (the snowmen, the noodly skeleton and alien keys) and things he believes -- or at least speculates about (the radiant cosmic rays that defeat the snowmen).

this csty video is actually deep af, and i spent six long weeks making a vid on what i think is happening here if you want to watch it. be gentle. i'm doing my best.

these drawings on the wall are a parallel to the drawings on the wall in other places in that they show things the artist thinks or believes about the world they live in.

2022. tyler owns at least two books. they're right there.

2023: ned's cozy fireplace.

lastly, here's some of those same dema-and-trench drawings on the wall in ned's home, looping him firmly into those shared concepts about the neon gravestones, compass E, etc, and a written continuation of The Outside in the form of a letter.

and that's that on that for books in the history of tøp. i think this has absolutely jack to do with why the morse code says BOOKS, but it seemed neglectful not to at least review the topic and see what we can see. what i see: some as-yet-undefined significance in what we take in and how it informs how we understand our world.

fun little fact: the bourbaki group play a foundational role in modern mathematics and it's likely that some of your school textbooks cited bourbaki in the back of the book. so we've all consumed bourbaki book content at some point.

[storiesatdawn]

Lua Avwena

In the world of Lua Avwena, Witches & Gods are considered to be 2 opposing beings. Making Marime & her siblings no less than abominations- the worst of all kinds of halfbreeds, despised by all who knew of their heritage. Yet you couldn't tell, when looking at them, could you?

Were they jealous, of their unusually long lifespan and enhanced abilities?

Did their religious beliefs lead them to believe that pureblooded beings were inherently superior, despite modern sciences indicating that genetically mixed peoples had a more diverse and therefore more interesting gene pool?

Oh, the potions are boiling over, so let's put a pin in this and continue later.

[purplethecolorofviolence]

hello tumblr

I'm a long time lurker but I decided to finally make a blog to post my art, so let me introduce myself :

Good morning, good afternoon and goodnight people of the earth. My name is Lua, also know as Purple, and I'm here to share my art. I paint, draw, sculpt, sketch, doodle, and do whatever else I feel like. I like to make art about my original characters, my own queerness, any fandom I'm in, and a lot of introspective and fantastical themes – I'm a little bit weird in the head (who isn't). So come on in, sit down, have some coffee, and enjoy the ride.

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[m1dori-eyes]

@bluebstopcat this is a fucking abomination but also so so funny, I mean hell at least it looks easy to mod

Don't even have a witty caption this is hilarious