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olberic · 1 month
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HOWWWWW DID THEY MAKE ANDERS AND FENRIS SUCH PERFECT NARRATIVE FOILS AND NEVER FUCKING EXPLORE IT IN TEXT. IM SO FUCKING SERIOUS like
the classic foil “character arcs mirror each other in reverse” thing. anders starts (in awakening) as concerned only for freedom, ends up retreating into himself, and ends da2 full of rage and desire to strike back at the system that wronged him. fenris starting the game furious and scared and alone, slowly growing into a more open person as he takes down his pursuers, and ending the game in a much happier, safer space
both of them with identities built around what was done to them rather than their own, just for anders thats at the end of his story while fenris starts his whole known memory like it
anders’ close friendships dissolve as he loses trust in himself, fenris gains friends as he finds out who he is outside danarius
fenris’ glowy powers are from something done to him, anders’ glowy powers are from something he chose. both still given under life and death situations
anders having to kill the person he loved despite everything keeping them apart, fenris getting to kill the person who’d given him no choice in — yet still abused! — his given loyalty
even the fact that anders had slept with isabela before even awakening, while if left unromanced then fenris and isabela will get together
both of them are outspoken about fighting oppression in the ways they’ve experienced personally, and value freedom above all else (a trait they share with isabela, which is a nice touch)
previous failed escape attempts for both of them lead to punishments by their oppressors that completely changed who they are (fenris with being made to kill the fog warriors, anders with his year of solitary)
both engage in self-destructive habits when they feel powerless to stop the systemic problems (fenris drinking, anders working himself to the bone)
but anders always seeing suicide as a way out while fenris would never ever consider it
hell both of them can also be completely betrayed by a formerly ally hawke in act iii
and for all they argue, if they could be talked into sitting down and TALKING then theyd realize theyre on the same page, just blinded by their personal histories
im not even making any new points here yknow. and like yeah they share some traits with everyone else in the party (being in kirkwall through necessity, the idea of making personal choices over letting someone else dictate them, general frustration with how the system treats them, being discriminated against for being parts of minority groups, being bi and potentially down bad for hawke, etc) but theres just so many specific ones that are just for them. and ik i play the game from a “everythings filtered through varric filtered through cassandra’s perceptions” standpoint, but still for the absolute lack of effort to make anything of it its frustrating. theres no good doylist explanation of why it wasnt explored beyond “they hate each other bc mage controversy” and even pushing for the watsonian options of “varric never got into the topic” or “they never interacted outside hawke quests ever over 3 years” is fucking flimsy at best. this post doesnt have a concluding point
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wormboytrav · 9 days
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Soultember 11: Self Insert
(@rennikun)
hey i think i would make a decent IT guy for the DWMA! so i drew myself as a death scythe girlfailure <3
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imperial-agent · 1 year
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The Raven Queen's eyes witness those beyond the Shadows, her lost ravens. I have kept her gaze fixed on the Abyss for now, but a heavy, cold breath just behind my head, of source unknown, causciously reminds me of how precious little time we have got left in these lands, my Shiver. Or perhaps it is your absence, a phantom presence at my side that is the cause of this uneasiness. But I remain resolute nonetheless. You will not see me fail for I wish not to see you give in to this sickness. Hasten with your search and do not stray from the course. We shall yet cast a shadow beneath our feet. Together.
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todayisafridaynight · 5 months
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I’m fairly new to the fandom, but I do have a question if you can answer it! Why do people ship Daigo with Aoki / Masato? I tried looking to see if they’ve interacted before, but couldn’t find anything! Sorry for asking I’m just </3 dumb AND I LOVE YOUR ART OF THEM!!! Nerd looking ahhhhhh
hi ! welcome to the community i hope you're having a lovely time so far and ty for enjoyin my stuff :) no need for apologies it's a very fair question to have :]
i cant speak for everyone (all. ten people into masadai anyway) but Personally To Me i just think the idea of them together is very funny. thats quite literally it im afraid..
#snap chats#//twenty page google doc in the background// ignore that. it's mostly for comedic purposes#might also be my fault idk sorry about that. allegedly. idk ive had like three people tell me they started to ship them cause of me 🧍‍♂️#@mementoasts is another person who's drawn masadai and whose stuff i love and am inspod by .. i love their disneyland fic sm ...#there was another artist on twitter who posted a neat drawing of them but i cant remember who they were and i didnt bookmark it //screams//#recently there's been ANOTHER masadai artist ive started following on twitter - @wifekiryu. his account's n/s/f/w fyi before you go looking#he has a tumblr too @foxdies. i say cause i realized as much recently vjeaKLGJALKGJ#oh but I GUESS ill get deeper into why. /i/ personally ship masadai or whatever#first off they're opposing factions yet their character alignments Do Not Match their roles. stereotypically anyway#aoki who leads the 'surface' of society and is meant to be an admirable figure and someone 'just' when really. he sucks LMAO#though that's not atypical of politicians but just from a stereotypical This Is A Respectable Individual perspective of his role#daigo on the other hand leads the 'underbelly' of society- yk comprised of dangerous criminals and outcasts and whatnot#yet as we know him daigo's compassionate and considerate of his men- he doesnt treat them like tools like aoki does#if put in a room with the two daigo would be most people's choice of person to hang out with. probably open a trapdoor on aoki tbh#and i think thats really cool and epic i always love that kinda Subverting Expectations thing#theres also the fact they both started off like. edgy/angsty in the franchise and then brush up down the line#masato does a stronger 180. publicly. obviously but its still really funny they both have to get their act together#if you wanna talk about in-text reasons. there really is none LMAO I TELLS YOU masadai is pure crack#but if i wanted to pull a muscle reaching then there's daigo being on aoki's side while everyone else is on arakawa's during the funeral#im lying of course. mitsu was behind him. rgg tryna make me forget mitsu exist .... put him back in y8 ....#and ofc ichi joins that side to even out the seating but moving on another Goofy Reason is arakawa being like#'the chairman and my son are like p much the same age Surely he knows how he thinks :)'#and then i just think daigo being all smarmy about outsmarting aoki is really goofy and im choosing to interpret that as personal#they both also have issues with their dad. s. dad/s/. anyway.#tbh the google doc tag was a joke but i really could sit here and list every dumb reason why i think theyre funny together#like i started going over the tag limit so uhhhh yeah needless to say i have a lot of. dumb reasons 💀💀💀💀#one day ill use the main text for long rambles like this but todays not that day Point Is my imagination is rampant im afraid#so the short and sweet of it is I Think It's Funny. And They'd Be Terrible Together. Which Is Why It's Funny.#and the unfortunate part is anything i find funny i obsess over for a year so. //gestures to the mountain of bullshit thats my masadai tag/
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acircusfullofdemons · 11 days
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updated. eternal labyrinth's worldbuilding doc. looked at the page count. how did i get here.
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letsplayballet · 1 month
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me: it's just that if i think about it for too long, i *do* start thinking about how they may live forever but the lamb is still The Lamb, ya know? they don't get to be a sheep. imagine being 10 forever because you died. like sure death brought you back but you *died*. liv: and at this point, anyone who knows differently has perpetuated the slaughter of your entire people, and they've been forcibly made subservient to you. which just reinforces the "might makes right" world structure that is all you've ever been able to know to survive. me: exactly! like, we the players pick doctrines based on our own ideals, but what would someone in that situation value? how did they learn to build a community, which you have to do to beat the game, when they've never had one? liv: and you know how kids don't really have a great grasp of death? how much worse is that when you can resurrect anyone at will? me: is it even possible for the lamb to ever understand the power they've come into? can they grow beyond the stasis their body is trapped in? liv, head in hands: ... we CAN'T keep doing this lual with imaginary popcorn: no keep going :)
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Theory on “Welcome Home” by my sister and me
Why we think that Home is the main villain and why we think that Wally is the only one left/his friends disappeared due to Home. 
Includes Spoilers(?) for a lot of the hidden secrets of the Welcome Home website.
I have no idea if someone already came to similar conclusions. We are both still very new in the fandom (we have known “Welcome Home” for three days by now) and came up with this during breakfast so if you know theories which are similar, just know that we genuinely didn’t want to copy anyone. 
TWs: Jumpscare (?), Scopophobia, Horror/creepy themes, unsettling image
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While talking about the currently unknown situation of the characters, we came to the conclusion that Wally is the only one left, that his friends disappeared, that Home is the main villain of the arg and is responsible for the disappearing of Wally’s friends as well as that Wally actually isn’t evil or twisted at all but that he just tries to keep the viewer/”You” away from Home/the truth because he’s scared, but I will come back to that in a second.
This post is structured in (...) parts:
Why we think that Wally is the only one left/that his friends disappeared
The reason why Home let his friends disappear
Why we think that Wally isn’t evil but rather tries to cover up everything
Explanations for the scenes where Wally seems creepy and threatening 
The reason why he sent the old material to the restoration team but still tries to cover up things/Is there a restoration team?
The Guest book (Which plays a main role in this theory since we found the most proof which supports our theory there)
Conclusion
Now let's get started.
1. Why we think that Wally is the only one left in the neighborhood and why we think that his friends disappeared:
One of the main proofs for this part of our theory, is the fact that the character descriptions of all the characters, besides the description of Wally and the hidden one for “You”, are written in the past tense. Wally’s description and the one of “You” however, are written in the present tense. 
Now it makes sense for the description of “You” to be written in the present since “You” is literally the viewer. “You” is you as you are browsing through the website, engaging with the content but what does that mean for the descriptions of the characters?
In this context, it only makes sense, that the others are gone and all that is left about them, is the old material like merchandise and information about them from the show itself. With Wally’s description written in the present tense, however, it implies that he is still there and due to this, the only left. 
Another proof for this, is the fact that under each description, stands “Go back” while under Wally’s description stands “Good Bye”. Clicking on this link will simply lead you back to the overview of the neighborhood. While this can mean many things and while it does give off a somewhat creepy vibe, we came up with the theory that it’s literally just “You” saying goodbye to Wally after leaving his house again. After all, you click on the houses and “enter” them, in order to “meet” the characters and read information about them. 
Now with the others gone, you can’t say goodbye to anyone since the houses are empty. All that is left are the memories about them but Wally is still there, in his home. Due to this, when you enter his house, you can say goodbye to someone since it isn’t empty like the other houses. 
Also the blurry lines here in this picture, could imply that the things said here are only a memory of Wally.
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But where are his friends, and I say friends because the website and Wally’s replies in the guest book make it very clear that he views them as such. 
This question actually leads us to the next part of our theory:
2. The reason why we think that Home is the one responsible for the disappearing of the other characters instead of Wally:
Home clearly plays a huge role in the events and it seems to be a very powerful character too. However, very little is known about it.
The only thing about Home we know for sure, is that it’s very much alive and the only house in the neighborhood which is a character itself. The other houses are simply normal houses without a life of their own. This gets stated in the character description of Wally. 
Now why do we think that Home is the one who let the other characters disappear and why didn’t it let Wally disappear too.
The main point for this, is the portal/void which can be found underneath Home if you remove the image of Home.
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It’s pretty likely that the others disappeared through whatever this black hole is since it’s the only known exit out of what seems like the whole world of “Welcome Home” itself.
 Now since this portal is directly underneath Home, it’s likely that Home has something to do with it or is directly connected with it in some way. 
The portal is also obviously well hidden though so it doesn’t seem like something the other neighbors knew about. 
Wally, however, is still in the world of “Welcome Home” and doesn’t seem like he ever left/can leave.
 He tries to communicate with the outside world through staring at the screen, unlike other characters who usually never directly look at the screen outside of concept art and he picks up contact with “You” and the restoration team indirectly, through letters and hidden messages.
 Also, the cut scene where he tells the viewer that he can’t see them, makes it seem like he is somewhat stuck in that world and is unable to leave for now, even though a portal is right there.
 The other characters, however, are gone and the portal seems like the only option to leave. So why can’t Wally leave and if Home is “in charge” of the portal, why won’t it let him leave too?
The conclusion to which we came is that he tried/did something which angered Home and as a punishment, it took away his friends and made him unable to leave the world, forcing him to live in loneliness with Home as his only company/”friend”. 
Maybe, he tried to communicate/did openly communicate with the outside world (maybe he and the others even left the outside world (maybe they produced the series which was known in our world there) leaving Home who couldn’t follow behind, so now it makes Wally suffer in loneliness just like it did then.) angering Home with this, so this is the punishment for it. 
After all, Wally seems to be scared of Home and a lot of actions he does seem to be done in order to soothe Home, in order to prevent further harm caused by it. 
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This picture, for example, seems like he’s trying to soothe Home in some way/beg it not to cause harm to whoever it looks at here. 
My sister also pointed out that Home looks directly at the viewer instead of at Wally so maybe he’s trying to prevent Home from making the viewer disappear too. 
Maybe it is also a kind of flashback, showing a part of what happened in the past.
Also the audio where he sings a part of “Beautiful Dreamer” to Home partly seems to be an action he might do because he is thinking about the old times, after all he stated that Barnaby taught him the lyrics of the song, but it could also be done to keep Home entertained.
 The part where he stops and asks Home if it liked the song, telling it that he doesn’t know the rest of the lyrics since Barnaby only taught him until this part, also seems like a backhanded reproach for making his friends disappear but it also kind of confirms that only Wally and Home are left, again. (If he were still there, I could go ask him and sing the rest of the song to you.)
After all, if Barnaby and the others would be still there, he could just go to him and ask him to teach him the rest of the lyrics.
In the Guest Book, Wally also stated that he loves his friends and the old art shows that he was close with them so we highly doubt that he was the one who made them disappear. 
With that, we also come to the third part:
3. Why we think that Wally isn’t evil and why he tries to cover up everything:
As already mentioned, Wally genuinely seemed to love his friends and seemed to be close with them so we highly doubt that he made them disappear but if Wally isn’t the one who made them disappear, then why would he cover everything up instead of openly seeking help?
A possible explanation for it could be that he doesn’t want Home to cause any more harm, this time to the viewer so he tries to keep anyone far away from Home and vice versa. 
He also only, as already mentioned, talks directly to the viewer, either in the Guest Book (which doesn’t count as the outside world since the people who wrote in the guest book were in his home and wrote something in it there and he only replies to what they said), or through hidden messages (white font on white background in the Guest Book; in separate tabs;...)  seemingly hiding his replies from people who don’t search for hidden clues and seemingly hiding it from something in his world too, (Home?). 
He also seems to be grieving after his friends. 
A clue for this is the fact that the old pictures of the other character which were sent by the restoration team are completely damaged and drawn over with his paint. 
It has to be his paint since firstly, the colors used are mainly the colors which are usually resonated with him and secondly, since it’s paint and he is the only character who’s shown to be painting/shown to be a painter. 
Messing up old pictures with them but not completely destroying them, seems more like a thing, done out of desperation and grief upon losing them, after entering the stage of grief where one is trying to erase all the memories of a person but not being able to get rid of everything due to the emotional attachment to the person which is still very much present, instead of some kind of a ritual or a thing which was done with evil intent. 
In a lot of messages, he also seems like he wants to make the viewer stop his search for hints and clues about what happened.
 One of the messages where this is the most obvious, is when he tells the viewer that they “wandered off to far” in a separate tab sending them back to the neighborhood seemingly trying to make them stay in the neighborhood instead of trying to discover what’s hidden in new tabs. 
Also the further you come with your investigation, the more creepy and direct his “warnings” get. 
Speaking of creepy, there are a lot of scenes and details, where Wally comes off as creepy and twisted which leads us to the next point which is
4. Trying to explain scenes where Wally comes off as creepy and threatening in the context of this theory that he isn’t evil or twisted:
1. The hidden scene in one of the tabs/Wally’s first time completely revealing himself to “You:
The scene where he seems the most threatening and creepy got to be the one where he asks the viewer if they can see him, telling them that he can’t see them but if they can see them, they have to stay quiet. 
Now why this scene definitely seems threatening and creepy, and while it can be interpreted in many ways, from genuine threat to a warning, here is our theory about this scene. 
If you find this secret scene, it is clear that you are already aware that something is going on behind the happy and colorful facade and that you searched for clues and hints but also that you are already a lot closer to the truth than others. 
Due to this, we think that Wally is now showing himself openly, in a hidden tab, again hidden away from clueless viewers and maybe also hidden away from Home, telling you once more to stop searching for clues or at least to do so discreetly.
 It seems like you’ve come so close to the truth that he is now forced to step fully in action, showing himself directly but doing so hidden away from anyone besides you.
 He is aware that there is someone from the outside watching him and trying to figure out what happened, but he can’t see “You” yet. 
Now it doesn’t make much sense to tell you to stay quiet if you are already so deep in/if they can see him here, if he would really want to find and harm the viewer himself.
 It seems more like one final threat/warning and an indirect hint that not only he is aware of the viewer but also someone else which can only be Home and that the viewer should stay quiet in order not to be found by Home too.
He’s openly informing us about some danger and while he makes it unclear if he is the danger or Home, in regards to all the clues, it seems like Home is the danger of which he is warning the viewer and that they should stay quiet because of Home.
2. “Wally is your best friend.”
This sentence which appears in the hidden character description of “You”, can be read in a neutral manner, it can be read as friendly or as eerie and possessive.
However, firstly it would make sense that he is your best friend since he is the only one left besides Home and if it’s true that he tries to keep the viewer far away from Home due to the danger striving from it, it’s clear that we can’t be best friends with the only other living being left in that world. 
The possessive vibe can also come from him, finally having someone to interact with again after so long and him not wanting to lose yet another neighbor/friend again. After all, he has been alone since supposedly the 70s since this is when the show was abruptly stopped for unknown reasons. 
3. The Barnaby patch on his armchair and the Barnaby photograph in the newspaper. 
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While a lot of people (including me) jumped directly to the conclusion that Wally killed Barnaby, I doubt that he did so by now.
One of the most likely explanations is, that he made Barnaby himself, also in regards of this shich can be found on Clown's website, which portrays Wally and a headless Barnaby where Wally exclaimed that he "made a dog".
(However the pictures on Clown’s website aren’t really canon anymore since they are from when Welcome Home was in its beginning stages and a lot has changed since then and I don’t know how far those pictures can be used for a theory.)
Also talking about this picture, it could also be that Wally tried to make a Barnaby after the real one disappeared and the fact that Barnaby has no head here, symbolizes that he isn’t the real one but rather a puppet resembling Wally’s old friend.
Another theory is that he kept that part as a memory of Barnaby. Maybe he did make him and had some fabric left which he sewed on his armchair as a memory after Barnaby disappeared. 
The newspaper article is probably closely related to what happened in the neighborhood, since Wally has a finger over it, kind of hiding the picture from the viewer. 
Maybe it’s an article about Barnaby missing since the photo looks a lot like those used for articles about missing people.
But I doubt that he killed Barnaby.
5. The reply “You don’t like me neighbor.” to a Guest Book entry saying that they hope that Wally isn’t evil or else they would be super bummed:
If his friends really disappeared as punishment from Home for Wally, it is likely that he feels guilty for what happened and views himself as evil.
Maybe he is the reason why Home turned evil or maybe he is the reason why Home came to life at all so now he blames himself for his actions despite not being what is viewed as evil.
4. Why did Wally send stuff to the restoration team?/Is there a restoration team?
While thinking about everything, we started to question if there is a restoration team since it also seemed likely that Wally is the one who is in charge of the page, but by now we think that Wally just has access to the page in some way but that there is a restoration team. A proof for that is the gloved human hand in the photo which shows one of the damaged pictures. It would be hard to fake this for a literal puppet.
However, it is clear that Wally is the one who sends the restoration team all the material. After all, who else should have all the material and the knowledge of a forgotten show and why should the person stay anonymous and use colorful envelopes, like the ones in the world of “Welcome Home”. Also there is Wally’s hand on a lot of the photos which show some of the material so I think it’s very clear that he sends all of this to the restoration team.
After all these years, he seems to have found a way to communicate with the outside world again.
But why would he send all of this when he tries to cover up the most anyways?
Our guess is that he wants to remind people of the show again, keeping the memory of his friends upright and maybe he wants to send his friends, wherever they might be, a sign that he is still very much alive.
However, he doesn’t want anyone to find out the truth and wants to keep everyone away from Home, either out of shame or because he doesn't want that anything happens again but with people slowly discovering what happened, he starts to take action to scare people away from the secret and from Home. 
5. The Guest Book:
In the Guest Books are so many hidden clues for so much things. 
Not only did we find replies which seem to be by Barnaby which implies that 
Wally tries to act like Barnaby in order to prevent people from guessing that they are gone but there is also stuff like him drawing over replies which suggest that something is going on here/that there are many secrets on this website and replies of Wally which try to change the topic when people ask how’s it going over there (p.ex. him writing stuff like “Apple” to a question like this).
 He also states in the Guest Book that he did in fact love his friends a lot but also him interacting with people who search for clues through white font on white background, asking if they are searching for him, openly showing himself even though in a hidden way, can be found in the Guest Book.
Conclusion: 
All in all, we think that Wally isn’t evil due to him seemingly trying to keep the viewer away from Home, warning them in an indirect way and him hiding from something, even though he does interact with people openly through the Guest Book.
 However the interactions in the Guest Book take place in his own world and every interaction with the outside world, outside of the guest book is hidden in some way.
 He also genuinely seemed to be close with his friends and there are clues which imply him grieving after them, trying to get rid of any memories of them but not being able to do so due to him still being emotionally attracted,  like the pictures of them which were damaged but not fully destroyed by him.
All over the website are hidden clues which suggest that the other characters are all gone and that he and Home are the only ones left. However, it seems like he can’t leave and is somewhat stuck in the neighborhood/his world. 
We came up with the theory that Home is actually the one who let them disappear as a form of punishment for Wally for something he did, probably for leaving the neighborhood with his friends to the outside world where they produced the show in the 70s, leaving Home behind so now it makes him suffer in loneliness as a punishment for this.
A lot of images also suggest that Wally is actually scared of Home and tries to soothe it/keep it entertained in order to prevent any more harm caused by it but he also once seems to make a backhanded reproach to it for making his friends disappear when telling it that he can’t continue singing the song to it since Barnaby only taught him this part of it.
Wally also seems to try to keep the viewer as far from the truth and from Home as possible, getting slowly more and more direct with his warnings until he even seems threatening in the hidden tab where he tells the viewer that they should stay quiet if they can see him in this tab, suggesting that they are already far too deep in and most likely giving them a last warning to stay away from Home and the truth. Most likely he does so in order to prevent Home from causing harm to the viewer. 
It’s likely that he only sended the material to the restoration team after finding a way to communicate with the outside world after all these years, in order to gain some company again, to send his friends, wherever they are, a sign that he is still very much alive and to keep the memory of his friends upright but he didn’t really wanted that people find out what happened so with people starting to get closer to the truth, he is forced to take action himself, scaring them away though interactions which are hidden away from viewers which are unaware of what’s going on and hidden away from Home as well. 
While there is one reply in the Guest Book which suggests that he views himself as evil, it is likely that he might blame himself for what happened but if it’s true that Home took his friends away as a punishment, it’s only logic that he blames himself and therefore views himself as evil. 
Maybe he also is the reason why Home came to life at all or maybe he is responsible for his friends disappearing through Home without wanting it. 
However, all the scenes where Wally seems to be evil and unhinged, can actually be viewed in multiple ways often and could be made like this in order to mislead the viewer into thinking that Wally is the main villain when in truth he is only trying to keep the viewer away from Home out of fear that Home takes them away too. 
Or Wally just got a bit funky in his time where he lived alone with only Home as company. 
However, this is all just one big theory and it’s also kind of messy with a lot of interpretation since there isn’t a lot known about Wally’s and Home’s true motives but at this moment, we do think that Home is the one who made them disappear to punish Wally, that Wally tries to simply keep the viewer away from Home to prevent Home from making them disappear too and that all the scenes where he seems creepy and threatening are only made like this in order to mislead the viewer into thinking that Wally is the main villain but also in order to scare them away from trying to uncover the truth.  
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kiwibirdlafayette · 1 year
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chaos and balance- the capsize
"i don't think you understand what's actually happening here. If you'd just open your bloody fucking eyes, it's pretty obvious."
Chaos and Balance is a narrative playlist that basically comprises, in a chronological order, my headcanon for the progression of cTom Syndicate and cJordan's relationship through the course of S1, S2, the divorce arc (post-canon part 1), Mianitian Isles and the Aftermath (post-canon part 2, aka Gays on A Boat, Aitheaca, etc.) It started mainly because I really love the potential of using music to tell stories, and how lyrics can be representative of feelings seldom expressed any other way- based on both canon moments, moments I've interpreted as significant to their relationship/overall arcs, and little interludes I've written that take place in between episodes/"off camera" that connect things together in my head. All this being said, it is primarily headcanons, and is purely for fun. dont like dont read lmao
This specific being how keeping in the canon nonsense of capsize x jordan plays a role in cSyndisparklez from my pov :] enjoy!
(Red lyrics are representative of Jordan’s voice, green is Tom! Bolded black is both of them)
The shenanigans of Capsize happen just after falling for the villain,
in which Jordan is forced internally for the first time to come to terms with the fact that yes, he is in love with his friend/enemy/however you wanna put it. Despite how much he annoys him, despite all of his questionable behavior, despite it all, he has fallen head over heels for this absolute bastard of a man, and hates to admit it, but deep down has longed for a kind of affection that he could have.
I'll take my timeI'm not the forward thinker; you read my mind-
But a part of him still remains hesitant, and for one reason or another, refuses to give in, to openly admit it to not just others but himself. It’s at this point (I’ve written in) that Tom’s kissed him twice. The first, just a little peck on the lips he was able to brush off as a joke, just a hahaa ok cool bro that's funny. But the second time, as a cheap play by the zombie to get a purge kill having already caught the Ianitee off guard. It's irritating for sure, to have him weasel his way into free points by taking advantage of a distraction that worked a little too well, but why could he not get it out of his head? It hadn’t felt so wrong, actually, and… he had almost hoped it had been genuine. If it had been genuine, maybe he would have returned the gesture.
Better to leave it unsaidWhy can't I leave it unsaid
Instead they dance around it in banter, blathering on and on to one another in often complete nonsense, refusing to address what’s really on his mind. (You know I talk too much) He could confess, sure. But what happens then? All the meanwhile, Tom is scared he’s losing him. (As I hold your face, I can't find the words I need, and soon the opportunity is drowning)
Never someone all that good with words, he kind of hopes that Jordan will catch on. He has to catch on, sooner or later.. Right?Z
And then Capsize and the Ianitee pirates show up. To Jordan, it seems like she’s interested in him beyond him just being another follower of Ianite, and there’s his escape. Play along, play the part and maybe- maybe he’ll get over this.
You know my type, tightrope across the table I can't keep holding my breath
She seems to be into it. She’s responding to his flirting at least. See. He doesn’t need Tom. An Ianitee and another Ianitee seems more acceptable to him in his head, and maybe would be easier. That about, he’s not really sure.
New wave, no time Red velvet under pressure
But what Jordan does know is that he’s drawn to her. To him, it could be a way to forget about Tom. To the varied onlooker, it could just be that he’s happy to have another Ianitee around. Someone who can relate to his experience, someone who’s out to find their goddess just as much as he wants to. But he continues to conflate the two and pursue her in a way that he won’t realize for years is less than ideal.
It sparks my memory when we parked aside the shore, I kissed you there, the ocean air enchanting It escapes me quickly
Tom on the other hand, is for lack of a better word furious. Not in like a “I’m gonna murder this pirate captain for stealing my man” (because if he’s honest she’s one of the coolest people he’s met and he’s gonna befriend her whether Jordan likes it or not, with him claiming it to be ‘Mr. steal your gal’ which is??? Because does it really seem like he wants Capsize, if not as a spiteful thing)
When Jordan’s not around, Tom and Capsize hit it off, as she finds this zombie who doesn’t want to flirt with her at any given moment a lot more of an interesting person. As a Dianitee, he’s supposed to be their enemy, but for someone so supposedly dedicated to his god, he knows how to carve his own path away from being more than his god’s messenger- something she’s always admired in champions.
You call me poison, but you won't stop coming around- No, you won't stop coming around
For the purpose of perhaps getting Jordan to get the hint, Tom plays into their supposed love triangle, pretending to do things to ‘steal away Capsize’, only feeding into Jordan’s confusion. *Now Tom’s interested in her too? Is he trying to move on from me too? *- clearly to dense to realize Tom’s trying to get his attention back. She even admits to Tom that it's amusing that men seem to keep coming after her, when she’s very much more into women (abridged, but direct quote)
All I want is you- Your violet disposition, My unsound intuition
It all sort of culminates in that moment on Jordan’s ship where Tom, annoyed from his perch, watches his friend make an absolute fool of himself over Capsize, and decides to intervene, taking on the role of “fighting” Jordan over her. Capsize in a way is having a good laugh watching them roll around on the deck of the ship (I’ve drawn this, this is where it all started), starting to see it all sort of come together as to where Jordan could be coming from. At some point, Tom’s got Jordan pinned to the deck, and as one last desperate attempt at trying to communicate what he’s been trying to all along, he kisses Jordan, and much to his surprise, he kisses him back. They pull away, to Capsize’s approving nods, and it's all over.
(Jordan’s attempts at saving this are my interpretation of this conversation, aka one of my favorite chat threads of S1)
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In the aftermath of all of that (If I had any semblance of a memory I’d pinpoint when exactly this interlude takes place, but im just ballparking it somewhere after Jordan dies in Tom’s vault bc Capsize doesn’t save him); in which he’s still thinking about what happened that day. Jordan reluctantly confronts Tom who spills it all. He tells him how much and how long he’s been in love with him, and how frustrated it made him that every time he kissed Jordan, Jordan never seemed to reciprocate no matter how obvious his feelings were. He’s tried so hard to make it clear that all he wants is Jordan, he wants to be loved back, he wants to be able to call him his lover. He did what he did in front of Capsize cause the fake ass courting set him over the edge because it pissed him off that Jordan would so quickly go after someone he just met just because she was an Ianitee or whatever to get away from him, because was he really that bad that Jordan had to try to hard to stay away from him? Tom knows he had himself to blame as well, but it felt like a step too far.
Always been looking for something to lose, when I needed something to hold onto.
(This sequence is followed by Pull Me Up, which. If you haven’t seen my CMV that’s the one xD)
Note. For my sanity I choose to perceive that any capsize x jordan moments following are more related to Jordan’s ‘holiest of all Ianitees’ attitude and feeling like he has to be her savior (which is a different aspect of his character arc from the romantic side, which is what I mostly wanted to focus on with this ramble, but i do touch on it a little. It's not as ever present as it could be because I haven’t found the right song to incorporate it into outside of Violet and Talk Too Much) But there is definitely more. This is from what i have notated in my stuff for these two sequences :] enjoy!
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justaballoffluff · 5 months
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Hi! Hello! Sorry for disappearing for a while! I did not intend to do so, but unfortunately, while I do absolutely want to write about Tari, the problem is that my motivation to do so is quite low
to be honest, I have been preoccupied as of late with cataloging all of my characters from different places -- DnD and other table top games; video games like Pillars of Eternity, Divinity Original Sin 2 and the Pathfinder games; my own setting and general ones that kinda don't fit anywhere else -- if I have made a character there, I'm cataloging it
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steelh4ze · 10 months
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god i wanna post about my ocs so bad but i do not want to be known
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natjennie · 1 year
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hrgg I definitely remember writing something that I really want to read now but was ashamed of at the time and I can't find it anywhere, I can't remember if I deleted it or not but if I did that's really sad. anyway this is a message to all creators with anxiety, don't delete your stuff in shame or self-consciousness, future you might be really upset that it's gone.
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ghostsandmirrors · 1 year
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just so yous know, i haven’t died, i’ve just been sucked into a new hyperfixation. i’ve also been editing a fanfic for the past week. help me.
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the-kipsabian · 1 year
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clearing out my stuff from docs and drive and now rearranging writing stuff on my laptop like mmmm
theres so many abandoned things here
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luvsavos · 11 months
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so not only does genki canonly exist in the reboot but it seems strongly implied that he and doc ketchum worked together at some point??? i do not like that concept At All!
#mar.txt#saints row#professor genki#doc ketchum#<- does he even have a tag ik he doesn't even have a wiki page#saints row 2022#genuinely baffled that ive seen quite literally ZERO mention ANYWHERE that a) he does in fact show up in murder circus (well not HIM him#but someone dressed as him and he's talked about + afterwards kev mentions that definitely wasn't the real him because he's immortal,so#apparently immortal in his case not only means unaging but also straight up unable to die)#and b) there's. so many things referencing him on boot hill?? a TON of cat heads that appear to quite obviously be stylized genki,that#appear to have been painted over a different colour than pink,booths that say smthn like 'the doc and professor show',and on the main#hidden history thingy (which i ALSO couldn't find a SINGLE guide for/barely any mention of on google ANYWHERE) that has doc's face painted#on it saying smthn like 'doc says hello' there's a little sign tacked on that says 'genki lives!!!' which. ??????#i wonder if they worked together and doc tried to fuck him over at some point,possibly by killing him#which obviously did not work#anyways. murder circus is fun so is the reboot and i'm baffled at how so few people seem to have put the (imo quite obvious when you see#them) pieces together that the reboot likely IS in fact a direct tie to the reboot ending of gat out of hell#anyways im completely normal about saints row and genki can't you tell i definitely didn't stay up way past my bedtime specifically to#grind out murder circus so i could see genki (he's got some nice Drip™️ btw it looks kind of marshall-inspired)#i'm going to be slowly going ever more slightly insane over pondering wtf the connection between he and doc ketchum is
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fiercelywinged · 1 year
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DIFFERENT KINDS OF KISSES | Accepting @pluviacuratio asked: [ reunion ] thinking they'd never see each other again, sender and receiver are reunited and run into each other's arms, sharing a kiss
When he finally woke up to marvel at the fact that he was alive. Perhaps a bit charred but still breathing even if he was being helped with an oxygen mask. The second thought that came to him was to worry about Bella. Between the nurses and watching the news, since there was barely anything else he could do as he recovered, he had gotten a good gist of how bad things had gotten. The nurses had already told him how overwhelmed the hospitals were and Keigo guessed that Bella was helping out where she could. 
As much as he was worried about her, he had no idea how to approach her. Not after the video that got released and brought to light everything that he, and mostly Endeavor, had done. Already he was seeing the backlash pop up on social media regarding both of them. Comments about him murdering Jin and then how he learned from his dad on how to be a murderer were the ones he saw the most. The latter Keigo found it funny as he didn’t think anyone was aware that the Commission had done that. Or Dabi had decided to change that part of his narrative to suit his own needs. Whatever the case, he was worried about his public image paled in comparison to how he worried about Bella’s reaction to finding out the truth about him.
It was one reason why he was glad that actually searching for her was delayed. At first, it was because he didn’t have any way to contact her. Either his phone had gotten burned or crushed in the fight. He did end up with a replacement, which was good since he needed it actually to communicate, but then he got caught up in formulating a plan to try and win the public over. Meetings that went into the late hours were the last thing Keigo thought he’d be doing right then but it tended to happen as he, Endeavor, and Best Jeanist planned the press conference to start mending everything. Even during those meetings, he would be on his phone and most of the time just staring at the text messages he and Bella had exchanged before he went undercover. He even reread the little messages she had sent him and he couldn’t reply to them due to not wanting anyone to be able to track her down. Those he had already committed to memory for just how often he had read them before everything went to hell. But sitting there while Jeanist and Endeavor discussed things, they tended to leave him be as long as he gave some sort of bodily sign that he agreed or disagreed with them, making the time go by a little quicker.
The downside to doing that was it always made him want to reach out to her. However, he wanted to be a bit better before that. Primarily he just wanted to have fewer bandages and actually be able to hold a conversation with his own voice than have his phone do all the work. Neither of those took that long thankfully. Shortly after he started to meet with Jeanist and Endeavor, the doctor overseeing his recovery gave the okay for most of the bandages to be removed. His back was still healing but he didn’t need the special cooling jacket anymore as long as he changed the bandages regularly. The only reason his neck still needed to be bandaged was just to give his skin a chance to heal a bit more. It was enough for Keigo to go and talk Jeanist into giving him a proper haircut before he set out to find his girlfriend.
One of the bright sides of constantly being in and out of the hospital was he had gotten to know the staff fairly well. He had heard that the hospital had been in close contact with one another given everything that was going on. All he had to do was mention how he was trying to find out where his girlfriend was possibly working and the nurses he had gotten close to were more than eager to help. Keigo sort of thought that eagerness came from actually being able to reunite family, friends, and couples after such a terrible disaster. Even if he wasn’t sure how he should feel. He wanted nothing more than to be with her but given how she possibly found out about his past, well, he wasn’t sure if he would be welcomed back. He knew that Bella didn’t seem to care about it when he had dropped hints. But none of that had included the fact that he had literally murdered someone and was accompanied by a nice high-definition photo of said murder. 
Regardless, the next free moment he got he headed over to where she was working and waited outside for her to come out. Yet again he had thought of at least texting her. But Keigo figured if he was going to be dumped then he wanted to actually hear it rather than simply being ghosted or having texted to him. In the end, he just decided to wait and see. He had his fill of hospitals for the time being too. Being outside was something he felt he needed right then. So he got out his phone to kill some time while he waited. 
Thankfully he didn’t have to wait long. Looking up from scrolling through one of his social media feeds and spotting her was like a shock to his system. The world seemed to stop for a moment as he simply stared at her. It was short-lived as he soon realized that he was running towards her. The whole thing was a blur until he finally felt her in his arms and her lips pressing against hers in a heated kiss.
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hehosts-moved · 2 years
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i love fallout aus, so im touching up my nv and fo4 aus, trying to work on my fo3 au, and added a sole survivor au alongside my standard fo4 au bc idk it kind of works
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