#of course these are technically still theories or hcs

[necrospellbinder]

Self Indulgent Dyvim Whitehart posting:

Dyvim is autistic! Shout out to my friend, @WickedLittleYumi for sharing her insight with me!

Wears his heart on his sleeve and, by nature, tends to take other people’s words at face value. Of course, given the type of world he grew up in, he knows he has to be very careful with who he trusts and shows kindness too. How else do you think he would come to trust and work with the Wizard so easily?

Dyvim confuses Hop for a type of measurement when discussing “How many Horned Limes are in a Hop?” in the Khonda Desert (which to be fair, I would be confused too)

Has a strong sense of justice, which apparently tends to be common among people on the spectrum.

Occasionally, others complain of how loud he is; volume control is something Autistic people can struggle with.

He occasionally misunderstands social queues or when is the right time to say certain things. Most notably, when he decides to outwardly say out loud to Zarozinia that he and the Wizard are her and Zaltanna’s allies in Fort Rachias in front of Umbra Legion soldiers. Of course, he’s worked very hard at trying to not do that over the years (he kinda has/had to in the environment he grew up in otherwise for…obvious reasons).

He may occasionally mutter his thoughts aloud without meaning to.

While before I headcanoned his aversion to meat and fish due to potential fear of eating his own kind, I think that he also has sensory issues related to those food groups, mostly smell (As seen in the siege of Fort Rachias and the Karamelle Prequest). As someone with my own sensory issues and trauma related to foods, it makes sense!

Dyvim’s special interest is in history, mostly with Khrysalis’s old times before the war and fall of Bastion. (I don’t think anyone else brings up the Old Times as much as he does.)

And uh yeah, if there’s anything I missed or anything you want to point out, let me know!

[quishquosh]

hello tumblr. i have not posted in a hot minute. but. god. i need to get this out so

NEW THEORY (by someone insane and is so stupid that it’s just an hc at this point)

what if. peach blossom is actually one of eternal sugar’s followers or citizens……THINK ABOUT IT.

1. while he does hail from the mountains as seen in episode 4 of beast-yeast, he might be staying there because it reminds him of eternal sugar’s paradise OR he might be referring to something else completely that isn’t mystic flour’s area.

2. he mentions building a “paradise.” while mystic flour technically wants a paradise through drowning every cookie in apathy, it seems that peach blossom probably wants a paradise through other means, because if he DID agree with mystic flour’s plans, cloud haetae cookie (mystic flour’s close assistant) would definitely know him. but cloud haetae doesn’t seem to know him, or at least not that well, because haetae didn’t know he was immune to apathy.

3. he is immune to apathy. no explanation for why. there is one thought that comes to mind, though—peach blossoms and peach baos are sugary. sweet. he could be under eternal sugar, eternal sugar’s follower, etc., because the beasts seem to know each other AND are all of the same power level, meaning shadow milk, silent salt, burning spice, and eternal sugar are AT LEAST less affected by apathy.

4. while peach baos, the steamed buns that peach blossom offered to cacao, have flour in their recipe, they also have sugar—more sugar than a regular batch of steamed buns, of course.

5. he is not a peach bao in the first place, but a peach blossom! and peach trees obviously produce peaches, not peach baos. and, well, peaches are sweet…?

6. i don’t know why, but the remark about a cake hound biting him seems… out of place, compared to his other voice lines, and reminds me of eternal sugar’s chapter. eternal sugar’s older followers came to live in her paradise because they didn’t want to be hurt by monsters outside of paradise anymore. plus, most of his voice lines are either about his plans, and something that sounds vaguely suspicious, so…

conclusion

peach blossom cookie might be a close follower of eternal sugar or a close ex-follower/admirer aiming to build his own paradise, which is why he lives far from her paradise but still holds the same values as her—he adopted them from his time in paradise.

PLSPLSPLS SOMEONE SAY THEY GET WHAT I MEAN

[riptidesblog]

Theory about Lilly

In MotM there is a statue of Lilly present in Heart of the Mountain.Now let's take a closer look at it:

Markings.Does it remind you of anything?Here's a clue:who else was close to their elements and has/had markings on their face(and body)?

These two:

There are two explanations for the markings on her statue:

1.Artistic choice of munce and geckles that built it,maybe the face markings are meant to be hair strands and other markings are details like armor and clothing.

2.Lilly almost merged with the earth and markings on the statue are referencing that.

First of all,her statue does not resemble others in the temple:

Their markings are armor/clothing details and are identical,but unlike Lilly's.Not to mention that spinjitsu burst and merging look similar:

Doesn't that look like a spinjitsu?

So,I think Lilly almost merged with the earth. The reason she didn't lose herself?My options are:

1.Gleck,who was her friend,saw that something was wrong and interfered before the transformation was complete,likely using Lilly's medallion to remind her of her family.She snapped out of it and later left the medallion with Gleck as a thank you gift.

2.She wasn't supposed to/can't merge with the earth.This comes from my hc that only those with direct ties to the source of power(water and wind elementals&technically Lloyd but only bc he's just the first to have energy and grandson of FSM) and tame elements have changed hosts many times over the course of history(The hc is in my Wojira lore theory post).Therefore,her mortal body couldn't handle all that power and the connection was cut off.

3.Both of the previous options combined in some way.

Now,as to how it might have affected her.She died from an illness right?The one we never learned anything about.Don't you find it strange that a young,powerful and perfectly healthy elemental master(who are seemingly stronger than a regular human in many ways as we've seen ninja recover from things that would leave a normal person seriously injured if not dead( Cole even had a car drop on him in s5, recovered from concussion in Crystallized and his fall in Oni trilogy)) suddenly fell sick?(that is not to say that I think em can't get sick,they are still only human after all)And doesn't a forcefully and/or abruptly cut off connection between an elemental and their element sound like something that might have negative effects on one's health?

(There are many reasons why Cole and Nya didn't have similar experiences.Earth may not have called to Cole as strongly due to being filled with vengestone/Cole was too busy fighting to listen to it's call/he ignored it/whatever you think.Nya didn't have health problems bc she didn't have the 'can't merge with element' limitation,was already merged and Aspheera draining her powers cut off the link enough for her body to have time to adjust before restoring that elemental connection.)

[quinn-ro]

r-t headcanons, please?

ARRGHAFHFJSK R-T!!

(i will keep using this gif until the end of time)

- Everyone knows his voice as the one for the intercom announcements for Starr Park. Like, “the park will be closing in ten minutes!” among other things, such as the tour guide recordings and help kiosk text-to-speech.

- When he’s bored he likes to watch park drama unfold like a soap opera (brawlywood movies have nothing on whatever the hell Colt has going on in his social life!)

- He rarely leaves the water-tower security HQ. It’s only when he really needs to (aka when Larry and Lawrie are unavailable for whatever reason).

- When he does, it’s almost never when he’s in one piece. That way if someone takes him out, he doesn’t die completely (basically i hc that if one part of him dies and the other doesn’t, he can still function, unlike in game where if u kill one side then both die. Thats more of a game balance thing imo)

- Despite seeing and knowing everything about everyone, and being put in probably the safest position for most of the day out of *every* brawler, he’s still paranoid as hell. Thats the reason he does all this. He can technically quit whenever he wants to, but a.) he has nowhere else to go, and b.) he’s made entirely for this and nothing else. I think paranoia is built into his mainframe, and that keeps him from considering the fact that he and the park really don’t have to spy on the park’s residents as much as they do.

- R-T is actually kinda scary in hindsight. He knows everything about everyone, and no one really knows what happens with that info— not even Larry and Lawrie. On the surface it’s for the sake of “law and order” of course, but who’s to really say?

[Side tangent: I know theres a popular HC/theory in the fandom that R-T is the overarching “big bad” of starr park/brawl stars. Personally, I don’t think he is; if there really is a mastermind behind bs i doubt they’d put themselves in the park as a brawler. Also, even tho R-T’s super morally gray (probably moreso than the rest of the cast) i feel like it’s more interesting for him to be, at most, a pawn for something greater.]

- Okay, the big one: I think he’s Rik. Well, half of him is. The gems absorbed Rik into the bottom tape-recorder part of him, while the top part is completely a inanimate CRT screen that came to life (yknow, like “i have no mouth and i must scream” or… the movie of that one Tom Cardy song…)

Rik himself isn’t fully conscious and doesn’t have full control over all of R-T, but every now and then he might have some influence over his personality.

(I have a random halloween/horror fic in mind abt R-T and this in particular, so stay tuned and pray i actually get it written lmfao)

[the-whispers-of-death]

man oh man wolf Kali and dragon reader fighting over bear Stone is juicy.

i have some thoughts.

reader is actively trying to show up Kali, bringing outrageously big game to Stone like he sees Kali bringing Stone tasty fish and he huffs, smoke pouring from his nostrills and the next thing they know reader brings Stone a whole orca he hunted, brings him the fattest seals too, the blubber is good for stocking up for winter. in theory reader has everything to charm and woo Stone. he's big (well over 7 feet), he's strong (easily lifting up a truck when they don't have a car jack), he's rich (huge hoard as well as old money in banks across the world), he's knowledgeable (knows so much stuff, was around when the first telescopes and star maps were made, was around even before that) but reader knows that Kali has an advantage of knowing Stone for a long time and another thing is that reader is old... like old old and Kali and Stone are far closer in age so why would Stone want some old man when he can have a young, lively mate who has been by his side for all this time. now of course reader won't just give up, dragons are known to be both proud and possessive so reader won't allow that kind of hit to his pride nor will he just give up what he thinks should be his. but a dark part of his brain is always whispering for him to be prepared to loose his dream mate to someone (in readers opinion) more suited afterall reader is old and past his prime (in dragon years) he couldn't even give Stone a proper family (i have a hc that certain hybrids are very gung ho about family and cubs) so despite being all that and a bag of chips reader can't help but be insecure (there's also the fact of it being a mythical hybrid trying to court a regular animal hybrid and considering the fact that reader would probably outlive them both so... yeah)

it ends with all three in a pollycule because i don't like angst lol (if you don't mind that is)

I mean, technically there's already a polycule because dragon hybrid!Reader is also courting lion hybrid!Sarabi. We might as well add wolf hybrid!Kali into it too, yeah?

Wolf hybrid!Kali who has more than one reason to try and one-up dragon hybrid!Reader's courting of Stone because you're courting both the mate he's been courting with for twelve years and his trusted lieutenant. Part of him feels like why should you get both lion hybrid!Sarabi and bear hybrid!Stone?

He knows realistically he cannot compete with a dragon hybrid, a fact that's further proven by you bringing an orca to Stone. But that doesn't stop him from trying.

Kali helps Stone take care of his den, helping him bring back the food you bought Stone so that he's well-stocked up for the winter. He provides Stone with the flowers he knows Stone loves, he shares his kills with Stone. He reminds Stone of all of their good times, he cuddles Stone every night he can with you around.

But Stone still wants you, actually, he wants you both. So he tells you two and you're quick to start courting Kali.

Kali suddenly has more rabbits and deer showing up at his own den, all of them from you. You help him deal with other wolf packs, using your dragon hybrid nature to run off everyone who tries to encroach on his pack's territory.

Kali's confused but eventually, he accepts it. He's not used to...submitting, to being taken care of, but at least Stone and Sarabi are happy. And he doesn't mind having help with keeping his pack safe.

[orchardverse-blog]

INTRODUCTION

I've never written an introduction to a blog before so bare with me and stuff, okay? Got it? Good. Great.

This blog is fairly new so there won't be anything big or new and if there is you should check the intro (* which will be pinned) for anything new since I immediately update this post whenever I post something important.

What is OrchardVerse about?

Orchardverse takes place in a whole separate multiverse, at least, that is what is presumed. It is theorised that OCV and other UTMV's alike are linked together in one big spiderweb, but those are just theory's. Completely and utterly different from the main multiverse where most things are held. (* basically a multiverse filled with my headcanons which are technically canon in my verse)

There are the same Timelines and AUs as the UTMV like UnderSwap and UnderFell, it starts to deviate when Maple shows her face in the multiverse. Maple is an outcode who was never supposed to exist, if Cross and the rest of the gang never found her, she would very likely never live through the deletion of said AU she was in.

Things wouldn't have gone so far off the main UTMV and created its own separate multiverse, OCV, if Maple didn't go crazy and Nightmare didn't die and... If things were better. Maybe in another life, huh?

SPOILERS DOWN BELOW

Before I let you know the gist of things I need to make some facts clear first

Core!Frisk is seen as Dream's pupil or understudy of sorts, like a kid who finds you cool and wants to follow you around, while still taking care of the omega timeline

The Nightmare in this universe follows canon really closely but still has most of the hcs the community and myself follow (* because screw canon)

There is a need for balance but the stars and many other sanses are oblivious to it

Nightmare is a cruel person but good father

Core!Frisk looks like a teenager but still acts and behaves like their usual self just with an extra hint of angst

Maple isn't good nor bad

Core!Frisk isn't good nor bad

Basically, most people in this multiverse are neutral rather than black and white, despite how hard they would try to make others believe it.

This story is centred around Maple and Core!Frisk a lot, even going through some dark themes.

Okay now with that out of the way I can start summarising the beginning.

Nightmare and Dream die in battle by their brother's hands. Most mourn, others celebrate, what some don't do is plan a way to make those who are celebrating suffer.

Maple was lucky enough to live under Nightmare's care for the past 3 years without any hinderance until now that was. Seeing and even hearing people cheer on live television as your hero was now gone forever. Never will she be able to see him again and tell him about her day as he did his work. Gone were the days where she could watch as an AU was milked for its negativity. Compared to Dream, Nightmare barely got a proper urn, it certainly sucked but better than nothing. Living for 16 years on this earth has taught her many things but nothing could ever prepare her for the loss she would feel without her father.

Core!Frisk wasn't used to this uneasy feeling in their chest. There were other Dream's of course out there in the multiverse but it didn't feel the same. No matter how many different lenses of themselves they saw through nothing could make them feel the same because every universe had its different dynamics. Always a slight change in things. After all, something, even if it was too small to catch on, must change for a timeline to exist and that misplacement of an object could lead to anybody's death. It was risky for their mental health.

Sure, they saw deaths practically everyday at any moment but as long as they didn't think too hard about it, the memories will slip out of their mind eventually. Most of them do but some don't. It lingers. Waiting until they were at their most vulnerable

Maple wasn't having it. She wouldn't allow her family go down like this. They all were sulking, giving up, mourning. But she couldn't sit still any longer. She was always a bit of a problem child, doing bad things to get any attention she could get. This was her last selfish act. She needed her attention now or else she will just be another snuffed out flame.

When Nightmare died his soul was long gone but it solidified into a black apple which oozed negativity if you took a bite of it. How could she know that? Well, how else other than taking a risk? When her teeth sunk in she immediately lost consciousness. Finally waking up she saw where they had kept her father's remains, his office, was in ruins. Her back felt heavy and there was... Black goop dripping from her... Face?

That's all the spoilers you get since I'd hate to give you all the content right here for free without you working for it! >3<

What is Maple like?

Maple is described as unapproachable and scary with a crazy grin permanently etched onto her face. Anyone can tell she has been through a lot and is obviously mentally ill. Most rumour that Nightmare has forced this idea into her head. To take over his business and follow in his footsteps. Although, that is just her in public and rumours are only rumours.

Simply more propaganda.

Maple, out of the public eye, is still as mentally deranged as they make her out to be but she is much calmer since she can be herself. There aren't many people who can make her come out of her shell like that so nobody really knows how she acts without the pressure on her back.

What is Core!Frisk like?

Frisk is described as cheerful and child-like. Always so ready to help and kind. Has a sweet and warm smile that could melt anybody's heart if they flashed it at them. Many have claimed they are as energetic as usual but lately, nobody has seen much of them except for a few who see them on the streets.

Safe to say they aren't looking as good as they once were. But who would ever dare say something like that about their saviour?

Frisk, outside of the public eye, is much more troubled than they put on. Usually, they take a stroll or something to calm their nerves but it doesn't always work. They didn't expect how much of a weight everything would be on their shoulders.

Main character(s)?

Maple belongs to me

Core!Frisk belongs to DokuDoki

Side character(s)?

Reaper!Chara by Ren

Arius by Akii

Fresh!Sans by LoverOfPiggies

Ink!Sans by Comyet

Swap!Sans by idk jshdjdman

The entirety of the Bad Sanses but Nightmare and Error

(* might add more later on)

Relationships?

No canon relationships

Comics?

None at the moment, visit another time.

Genre?

Action, Adventure, Drama, and, Fantasy

The story flips back and forth from Maple to Frisk and back again, usually starts with Maple then goes back to Frisk. So if a comic of Maple came out already expect Frisk's to be next unless they are both in the same comic strip.

Sometimes it might go to a side character but it will go back to one of the main characters after a bit. The stories right themselves I can't help it.

Art?

I unfortunately haven't finished any...

Moral?

Moral of the story is... I don't know... Keep trying? Don't ask me bruv idk either.

That is all there is for now, there certainly will be more soon so stay tuned, after I finish comic con and my other projects then I will hop straight to OrChardVerse!

[cq-studios]

Haven’t posted in a hot sec and the brain rot never left, so how about some UX magic headcannons/theories (def leaning into HCs tho) with some evidence?

Before we get into the meat of this post, a quick disclaimer. I made this post with my own knowledge from playing the game (in 2020 and later) and the KHUX Wiki. I tried my best to check as much as I can but there’s just so much there’s no way every attack animation for every medal level was archived and watched by me. If I get something wrong let me know so I can make addendums.

And with that out of the way…

Have you ever noticed how flashy all the spells (and special attacks in general) in UX are? Like these kids are constantly throwing explosions and other big magical displays around. Almost all of them are akin to endgame spells in other games. Think Trinity Limit, or the BBS room clearer spells.

On top of that, from what it looks like on the KHUX Wiki, out of the levelled (-ra, -ga etc.) spells we see in other games, Cure is the only one that is stated to have different levels. The rest (Blizzard, Fire, Thunder, and Aero) are all in the “-ga” level, even on 1 star medals

^ Source ^

(Raging Blizzard isn’t actually magic, just a physical attack, still flashy tho)

So what point am I trying to make?

Well, all of this seems to point (to me at least) towards the fact that magic during this time was less controlled. And when you take into consideration the fact that it was very unlikely these kids were properly trained it kind of makes sense. It’s very likely that a lot of the magic here is figured out by the wielder themself or by another wielder who had figured it out and showed them how.

(Which is fun, since the longer the game was up the faster you got powerful spells, which in a way kinda makes it like you are learning the more impressive spells faster because other people had been wielders longer and had more time to figure things out)

The flashiness of everything can be explained by that too. I mean, they’re all kids after all. You mean to tell me that they’re not making everything as extra and explosive as possible to show off? Especially in the power centric place of Daybreak Town?

And if you’re thinking “well what about the other high level spells then? The ones in the other games”, I have an answer for you too. I was thrown a loop for a bit with that too because it doesn’t make much sense. Like even in Dark Road, in the same app, has the proper spell progression. But that got me thinking, what if the -ga versions of those 4 spells are the default and the “basic” versions of the spells are ones toned down for training.

Because when you think of it, we’ve never actually seen/played as a wielder who hasn’t had proper training, other than Player of course (and Roxas/Xion, who are exceptions, I’ll get to them). We’ve already touched on DR. The Wayfinder Trio are all trained by Eraqus, Vanitas by Xehanort. Sora is taught by Donald, Riku by Maleficent presumably (Dark Firaga is a tell for me). Roxas and Xion, while technically not being taught magic by anyone, already had some subconscious stuff from Sora.

So, you know, it’s possible.

Anyways that’s my thoughts. Probably not organized well because my brain’s not organized well today lol

I tried

[querldyke]

@vampiregokudera I’m so glad that someone else is interested in this because I’ve been dying to talk about it. Buffy has been very important since I was little and so Kon loving Wendy is also very special to me.

Kon uses Wendy as a way to get caught up with pop culture since despite being technically 16, he has no real experience in the world (and I sincerely doubt the scientists at Cadmus were concerned with pop culture) and how to act like a normal teenager. This means that sometimes he would try to emulate the characters in order to seem more normal, but anyone who’s seen Buffy, would know that the teens don’t really talk like normal people, so he gets a lot of weird looks especially from Tim, Cassie, and Cissie.

I have this theory/hc that Cassie was redesigned in TT’03 with Buffy/SMG in mind and the in universe explanation being that Kon had a crush on Terri Jewel Jackson (aka fake SMG) who plays Wendy and in order to seem more attractive to him Cassie tried to copy her appearance. (I know the first one is from YJ but it’s so similar I had to add it).

However, I do feel like Kon’s crush on Terri was less a crush and more a projection of his own want. Kon as someone created in the shadow of Superman often feels/felt that he had to be just like Clark. This led to him dating Tana Moon, and shaped a lot of his personality and choices, however having an icon like Wendy who is a hero but also is so set in her ways and who directly defies the feminine/masculine hero dichotomy that a lot of 90’s shows had would give him someone he could connect to, someone he could aspire to be. Wendy who also comes from a line of of heroes and holds up that responsibility (even if she struggles with it at times) while still being herself would absolutely be someone Kon would idolize which is why I think his ‘crush’ is more hero worship than anything.

On a lighter note: Wendy is without a doubt his favorite but when Luella and Clover get together he is beyond ecstatic and loves them in a ‘totally normal, just supporting one of your friends as an actress don’t look into that much way’. He refuses to watch that episode whenever he rewatches the show. He also has an insane amount of WTWS merch including the box set (collector’s edition of course), those weird CD card things, t-shirts, buttons, and the official handbook.

[goddessofroyalty]

Hey weird question what do you think the kids' jobs are when they grow up in your au's? I mean in Zaun family I guess they technically don't have to work, they could just live off of Silco's income lol but they don't strike me as the type to mooch like that

I think Vi, like in the games, takes up some kind of Enforcer role WITHIN the Lanes rather than in Piltover, cus on one hand acab but the other, she cares ABT her home. I wouldn't say she's like sheriff or anything, but definitely plays a vital role in the Enforcers functioning in the Undercity (helped there in no small part by Wifey Caitlyn)

I actually think Claggor is the one most likely to end up running the bar once Vander steps down, just cus he's like. The most normal and well adjusted (and in part cus of a theory I read ages ago, saying he was the one meant to take over the Lanes as a whole because he was levelheaded and mature, while Vi would have taken a more hotheaded second role like Benzo. Idk it's all alleged). Also idk why but I can't get it out of my head that Claggor becomes a carpenter for some reason. Lol

I'd reckon Jinx/Powder does engineering work, either for the Firefights or her own thing, or maybe even as a part of Hextech. Bombs are still her special interest ofc but she's got a wide variety of skills now that she puts to use

Now Mylo is where I'm stumped, lol. He so has the vibe of like, a kid who wanted to join a gang cus he thought it was cool, but Silco and Vander would never allow it. I defo think he goes travelling for a few years but after that... Zilch. Maybe he's just a chill stay at home dad/partner, the exact opposite of everything he wanted growing up lol

Idk why I made this so long. Half cus I want your thoughts on my hcs, and half cus I wanna hear you're own I guess!

While yes they could live off Silco's income I do think Silco a little bit saw (and therefore raised) his children as a future investment into Zaun's leadership. They aren't fixing all the problems in one generation so in his mind it was always going to be passed down to them to keep going. He absolutely plays to each individual kids strengths (for example he was never going to even try to make a politicial out of Vi but he did probably contemplate trying to get Viktor to go down that path before Hextech) but yeah they were all going to end up with Important Jobs. Plus, you know, I think they all would feel bad if they didn't have jobs - too much like the Piltites who lived off Zaun's labour - they want to help their people as well.

Vi I completely agree ends up in an policing-style role however I think she ends up in charge of Zaun's equivilent to the Enforcers. It's their "see we don't need you here as a our police force because we have our own that will work with you (until we gain independence and then it means we don't have to create a whole police force)". It gets the Enforcers and their antaognistic presense off their streets while also keeping Piltover happy as at least Zaun is still being policed (and, you know, being the group people do call when there's an Incident who will actually help de-escalate it). Which of course means once they're older her and Caitlyn (who ends up Piltover's sheriff) solve a lot of situations that could blow up between the two cities at the dining room table. Is that technically corruption of both police forces? Absolutely. But much like her parents before her it's corruption that mostly helps Zaun so she isn't losing sleep over it.

The bar does get inherited to Claggor's branch of the family tree but I feel like it's more a... his family gets it after Vander passes (probably because they had been working it at the end before Vander passes). But by that point Claggor's kids are like adults themselves so it feels weird to say Claggor inherits it because it's kind of all of them (including Claggor's mate) and it's almost a semi-retirement job for Claggor himself. Claggor definitively goes into some construction trade in my head. And whichever of those trades he goes into there's a lot of stuff in Zaun that's built by him (so if he goes into plumbing for example most of the main sewage system is his work, if he does into infrastructure a lot of the buildings during that period are his work). There's a lot of infrastructure that gets build during that time generally (Zaun finally having the money thanks to Silco + Hextech plus Silco and Vander's ideas of an independent Zaun needing a things built to achieve) and it feels right that one of the kids ends up having a big hand in it.

I have to do Powder and Jinx separately because in this verse she very much creates two identities under those two names. 'Powder' is the excentric mate to Ekko (who takes over Vander's spot as kind of politically recognised leader of Zaun) which makes sense to Piltover seeing she was very much Silco's Princess growing up and while they know she does something as a job nobody can pin down what it is (although they do probably all assume Hextech because she is clearly mechanically minded). Jinx is, at least until Silco dies, the Eye of Zaun's (favourite) agent and generally is involved in the more criminal/terrorist parts of gaining Zaun's freedom. Silco tries to groom her to take over as Eye of Zaun when he passes but I don't know if she ever fully proves capable of that specific role (but she's like 40+ when he passes so she might be). She's a bit of a wild-card in the family - sometimes she's helping build the new infrastructure Zaun needs, other times she's building new weapons to ensure Zaun has the firepower it needs to protect its interests, and othertimes it's Hextech she's working on (so yes I agree does engineering work just a bit via whatever has her interest at That Exact Moment than having one group she specifically works with).

Mylo is probably the child I think Silco most actively grooms. Like I said earlier he was a little eyeing off Viktor to go into politics (to take over as Zaun Representative) but then Viktor went hard on the science and created Hextech and Silco decides that that is an even better option for him. But then he kind of scans over the other kids and settles on Mylo as the new possible Zaun Representative. Which, if Mylo clearly had no interest in it Silco would drop the plan and find something else for him (and someone else for the role) but... Mylo doesn't really have a strong pull in any other direction so he kind of just falls into falling into line with Silco's want. I will add that Silco doesn't give up Zaun Representative until he dies so Mylo has a lot of years to travel and probably represent Zaun's interests more broadly before taking on the role in his 40s.

There's a bit of a joke that Crisis in Zaun = Family Reunion because of how much all of them end up being the Top Dog in their respective field in Zaun.

I also got long there haha. It's interesting how much we lined up on a lot of things.

[accidental-host]

I have a hc that windarcher and whipped cream are siblings.So millennial was probably the one who created wind yeah?I also heard it somewhere that sugarswan was also part of his creating(maybe from her tears but im not sure)And whipped cream was prob created by sugarswan.So yah theyre a family if only devsis cookiefied sugarswan :(

Anyways just wanna hear your thoughts if you dont mind

Oh this actually has some interesting canon evidence

Some thoughts: The divine offspring of Gods

I’m gonna split this into two parts because I want to talk about the canon stuff you may not know first, and then go into headcanons

What’s canon:

I know most fans don’t know the older stuff, but Millennial did not actually create Wind. Wind was created by Sugar Swan, as stated in Wind’s character description in LINE

“In order to save the paradise in peril, the Sugar Swan, blew life and power of purification into the wind. Transforming the wind into the Wind Archer Cookie, the protector of the forest from the darkness.” (Snippet)

His LINE description is very similar to his Ovenbreak one, but in OB the Sugar Swan isn’t mentioned directly and is only described as a “mysterious being.” And it’s only stated that Wind protects the forest, but Millennial himself described Wind as his guardian, so we can assume that protecting Millennial is part of the job for him too.

We have SO LITTLE information about Sugar Swan that it’s difficult to go into anything specific to them, but we can tie Whipped Cream into this. Whipped Cream has a lot of swan related motifs, especially in his own description from OB.

“This Cookie spends days looking at his own reflection on the surface of the lake and practicing fouttés and pas. It is said that Whipped Cream Cookie has learned the elegant ballet movements from the beautiful white swans.” (Snippet)

Technically, we can say that those can be just any old swans or any random lake. But that’s lame and boring. So with the matching color schemes and all of the swan connections, we can say that lake is most likely Sugar Swan’s Galaxy Lake.

And we know Wind Archer and Whipped Cream at least know each other from some Wind Archer dialogue in Jellypop. This theory is taking us through every god damn corner of the CRCU (Cookie Run Cinematic Universe)

(Screenshots from @/whippedcreamcookie, I did not make it far enough into jellypop to unlock him myself I didn’t have the patience)

I don’t know what this means. There is no other explanation. But this is certainly a thing he says!! Take it how you will

What’s less canon:

I think about Wind Archer very often, but I am not usually a subscriber to this theory. HOWEVER I do still think it’s really interesting to consider

If they had been both created by Sugar Swan they would be siblings just by technicalities, but I doubt they’d be able to interact often. Because we see him appear in events like the Butter Painting Affair, Whip probably lives somewhere like the City Of Wizards, while Wind doesn’t appear to engage in actual civilization at all. And of course Wind was created for a very specific purpose, practically just a guard dog, while Whip seems to just do whatever he wants and dance around. Good for him, honestly

I feel like they’d get along well when they do interact though. They both seem pretty mellow personality-wise, besides when Wind gets serious about anything in relation to his divine duty to protect. I imagine Whip would come to visit him in the woods sometimes, take a day to hang out with his older brother, bring some tea and snacks.

And back to canon stuff just for a moment, we can see a glimpse of the kind of relationship Whip may have with Millennial through Whip’s relationship chart line about him.

[Friendly] “The Millennial Tree watched my first performance!”

I think Whip may see Millennial as a father figure, not bound to the same responsibilities of protection as Wind, so he’d be able to have a more casual/natural kind of positive relationship. No doubt that Wind also cares about Millennial, but he definitely seems to prioritize the job aspect of what he was created for, and he rarely speaks about Millennial outside of protecting him.

As for Millennial and Sugar Swan’s relationship, it’s unfortunately hard to say anything. We have so little info about Sugar Swan I can’t even imagine much, we’ve only seen them talk once and it was in Kingdom, where they didn’t mention Wind or Millennial at all. Which honestly sucks really fucking bad but yknow how it is.

I could go into my own Sugar Swan ideas, but they’re honestly pulled out of thin air with no canon to support it because there isn’t any canon to work with at all. Which is totally fun, I do love going outside of canon, but I’d rather just leave that part to you or anyone else reading this.

Thank you for the ask, this got VERY long but I do love talking about this!!

[votederpycausemufins]

Alright, the hc hiatus is getting to me (because other series have also gone on pause and i'm suddenly starved for content) and the other day i was thinking things over and I had a bit of a theory regarding season 8 and its ending.

Starting off by saying I haven't watched every hermit and their videos for the season in depth (though i have started because it's Content(tm)) so if there's stuff in other videos that heavily goes against this, whoops, my bad.

but onto the theory:

Evil Xisuma was the virus

The ending to season 8 was different depending on who you watched and we won't really know how canon some of them are until we get to the next season. If we go along with Doc and Ren's endings, Season Eight was all a simulation to help the hermits fight off some sort of virus.

Where it came from:

The virus is mentioned as being a trojan virus, meaning it obviously came through a supposedly trusted source. While we don't have any in depth knowledge about how the hermit stasis or hermatrix works, I don't think it's too out of the question to assume that the virus came through another hermit. That hermit being Jevin.

Before season 8 started, Jevin had an Evil Encounter (roll credits) with EX that left his appearance changed. This would likely be the origin of the virus. When all the hermits went into stasis, the virus had the opportunity to start infecting other hermits. Since Jevin wasn't the only hermit to change their appearance and there were new hermits joining the group, Renbob and the Goatfather couldn't easily figure out the source, so they started the simulation to give the hermits a way to fight against whatever the infection was.

Making the Evil Empire:

When making the evil empire, EX started to influence a number of the hermits, one of which being Beef. Specifically, Evil explains he was the one who planted the canister of the mysterious substance (it even has his name on it). Technically, planting it beforehand should have been mostly impossible since the world itself wasn't real, but if the Evil Xisuma we were seeing was actually a virus, it would have been a way to spread it that was planted in the virtual world.

That's also how EX was able to mind control Xisuma, since it was more of a virus infecting him. Meanwhile with Welsknight, the appearance of Helsknight would poke some holes, but he does appear again with the hels kitchen bits with an altered voice, so it is likely part of the virus.

Derpcoin and the Octagon:

Outside of the Evil Empire, Derpcoin was most seen in Octagon, so much so that there were derpcoin expansions made over there along with the octagon pair proudly showing their derpcoin. This seems like it would be the opposite thing to happen since all the octagon buildings were made to fight the virus. The opposite is mostly true as the only visual we have of the virus (at least heavily implied) appears in octagon, that being the pairing of warped vines and amethyst. I'll go a bit further into that part later.

Losing his powers:

The first time we really see Evil Xisuma losing his control over Xisuma is when they were at Octagon. Though this was after moon's big had begun and the moon was featured heavily in the background, it did still take place at the octagon buildings which were, of course, made to fight the virus.

After another visit to octagon, EX's power weakened even more down to just being confetti.

Moon's Big:

Now I just said that the moon wasn't the cause for EX losing his powers, but that doesn't mean it didn't have a part to play in everything. With the crashing of the moon in Ren and Doc's videos, the scene changed to show the fact everything was a simulation. The first words to go along with it all are the Goat explaining that the Hermatrix Defender Firewall was successfully installed, followed by a video showing the crashed moon. After that, the simulation was shut down, so the last thing to be done was the firewall being implemented, which again, points to that being the moon.

Because of that, the moon really should have only affected one world, so in Evil Xisuma's escape, he left to a different world. But instead, he was surprised to see the moon was falling there too. Since anything outside of hermitcraft would also be a simulation, it would make sense that the moon would fall there too if it was really just a symbol of a firewall, especially if part of the virus was there.

Back to Reality:

With the end of the simulation, all of the hermits are shown off in stasis. Upon showing them off, there is no sign of Evil Xisuma anywhere among them, meaning his appearance would have to come through other means. Technically, one could argue that it was something made up by the hermatrix, xisuma specifically, but that doesn't feel right.

Another thing to happen with the scene on the hermitcraft ship was a message of an intruder, which is explained away as the it being from the hermits just waking up, but that likely wasn't the case. Especially with the appearance of a physical form of the virus having attached itself to the ship.

When running a check on the ship after the report, nothing is found a second time, so either there was an error and the virus has hidden itself, or there was an intruder there that left, possibly Evil Xisuma having planted a back up with the original failing.

I will say that part has less proof, but the appearance of the virus was made to be a bit of a cliffhanger so there's not much to go on for that.

Other details I'm not sure how to otherwise fit in:

The whole moon's big arc was planned by Grian and Doc, meaning that the hermatrix ending is likely going to be pretty canon. That along with the fact that putting it altogether would need Xisuma's approval, him being the server's admin means he would have been in on everything and could make Evil Xisuma act to fit.

I don't know too too much about the early days of all the hermatrix goings on, but I do recall that Xisuma was pulled into the arg portion when Doc and Ren had him help look for the cave that was filled with axolotls and a code, giving more of a connection with the hermatrix and the goings on of Xisuma and his connection to the evil empire.

The first appearance of Helsknight does leave me a bit unsure, though he also said he had plans and then only appeared again in the EX animations, so maybe he was somehow part of the virus that got killed off and remade or was just weakened or what.

In Evil Xisuma going around and showing off the derp coin to the hermits, he never went out of his way to visit Zedaph's area. Evil Xisuma has worked with Worm Man in the past to the point that EX claimed to stop being evil and the fact that EX was very excited to get Worm Man themed items as a gift in the past. While many of the hermits have had some interaction with the hero in the past, Zedaph seemed to have the closest interaction based on the interview he managed to get with WM. This is a slight stretch, but possibly EX knew about this connection and didn't want to hurt WM through Zed so made it so Zedaph wouldn't be hurt.

aka, EX knows Zedaph is Worm Man and wouldn't want to hurt his hero/person he looks up to.

Conclusion:

I'm not sure how to actually conclude this other than summing up that I think the virus that was affecting the hermits and the hermatrix was made to fight against was Evil Xisuma as he appeared in Season 8.

[theoristsden]

Theorists Den revival

Welcome to the Theorists Den 2.0

What is it? A blog dedicated to archiving all the major JSE community theories, observations, and “what if”s. Yes you’ve read right, community’s.

The blog has been inactive between 2019 and 2022, but still it contains over 400 links featuring all the JSE community’s discoveries and ongoing hcs/theories I managed to gather since the beginning of ego lore on the channel till my hiatus. And as the title says - I am intending to revive it.

Ever wanted to get into theorizing but didn’t know where to start? Want to catch up with all the lore and ideas that have been in the community since the start? Well this is your lucky day. The archive of this blog is separated into:

fully fledged&lengthy theories,

shorter hypotheses&thought dumps,

observations&confirmed hints,

masterposts and full timelines of videos, posts, and literally everything ego.

This is not a personal blog and will not clutter your dashes with spam, but will only be a place for theories and operate whenever there’s new discoveries.

Can I use this archive for my theorizing needs? But of course. This archive is fully accessible on both desktop and mobile and will be updating as the lore progresses.

How can I contribute?

Reblog. Either this post, or the archive itself (in the description). The more people know this archive exists, the more it’ll evolve, the easier it’ll be for people to catch up with events and find theory material! You don’t find this archive useful? Well maybe this is exactly what your followers need, let them know it’s a thing.

Submit theories! Asks, submits and dms are open. Think you’ve noticed something new? Have a theory you think others should read? Tag @theoristsden . The posts will be added as soon as I get the time.

See a “broken link” or “link gone” note in the archive and have a reblog of the post you think was there? Maybe the OP renamed their url and you happen to know what their url is currently? You’re welcome to contact me. This blog has been open for a while and a lot changed on the platform since...

As an ex theorist myself, I know how disheartening posting theories can be- especially when your blog is new and your audience is small. Hopefully this blog can become a platform for those wanting to reach the community but lacking the means :) especially when this website is so broken.

All opinions are welcome! If you disagree with someone, feel free to provide your opinion and ideas. But no bullying of others for having different opinions than yours will be allowed here. An opinion can’t be right or wrong, same way a theory can’t be right or wrong. (assuming it’s not denying existing canon, of course… then it’s technically not even a theory…)

You might notice that I never took any theories down, even if they ended up being “wrong”… That’s because we don’t write to be “right”, we make theories for fun. An idea that you think is dumb, might be exactly what someone else needs in order to finish a theory. Sharing our thoughts and findings are the only way to understand the overly complicated hints that are being thrown at us.

Do not contact OPs of old theories intending to prove them wrong and definitely not to call them out over “freaking out” over something that turned out to not be a hint. This community existed for years, of course not all theories are correct, we used to jump at shadows back in the day and the current attitude might be completely different... even the ones who wrote the posts might not even believe in them anymore so remember to stay mindful and check what dates posts were posted on before contacting OPs.

Don’t want your theory to be in the archive? No problem, pinpoint the exact post you want me to take down.

And lastly, @therealjacksepticeye hasn’t been active here in years but its a tradition to write this so: if you end up stumbling upon this blog- feel free to use it. This can be a good place to check what the community has discovered so far or look for new ideas! *whispering* the community doesn’t need to know if you use it… It can be a secret y’know…

Signal boosts are extremely appreciated, again- this is not a self-gain personal blog. This is a community blog. I may be operating it alone, but the entirety of this archive wouldn’t exist without this community... 

- @aceofspades-lena

Old notes:

Update 18/01/2019: An experimental theme is now up!

The archive should be back to being fully accessible on desktop. This theme was checked in advance, but I’m human too and could’ve missed something so if you happen to see posts appearing on top of each other/images that seem to be in the wrong place/or just random havoc and broken pages- please let me know!

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Update 14/01/2021: Activity.

As you might have already noticed, the archive has been inactive for a very long time and unfortunately it’s probably going to stay that way… But it’s going to stay up regardless so that current theorists who might want to get into older theories that existed in the community in the past :3

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Update 24/06/2022: Revival + theme bugs

I’ve went through the archive and double checked how many links are still working… Seems to be somewhat okay XD Added a few new posts to the archive but there’s still a p huge gap between 2019-2022, which will likely stay forever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’ve also noticed a few visual bugs in the blog’s desktop theme but that’ll have to wait. It should be usable for the time being regardless… just sometimes shows the wrong avatars on posts.

[amelia201]

Thoughts on Ango and Dazai

Many a spoiler, up to chapter 95

Did I talk about Ango already today BECAUSE I’M GONNA AGAIN!

Ah, Ango Sakaguchi, Port Mafia’s sad boy (he is, and you can’t prove me wrong), triple agent, informant, and, of course, Dazai's... frenemy? To everyone in the PM, but especially to Dazai, Ango's actions must feel like a double betrayal. Yet, I have a theory that Dazai might have already forgiven Ango, despite what the quite poignant rhetorical question of his would suggest otherwise.

I actually half seriously think (and in the spirit of chapter 95, too), that Ango misses his times at the PM. He misses is friends, and he hates the role he played in Oda’s death. His dedication to his work has been established so early in his life that there isn’t anything that can really replace it for him (no proof just me doing jibber jabber). It doesn’t mean, however, that the consequences of his actions don’t hurt him, or that he doesn’t fell shame and regret.

Maybe since childhood his value has been placed only on academic prowess and not on personal relationships.

I think he learned to prioritize his work and intellectual development above all else. His perception of friendship is that it is, too, a distraction, and his work is more important. Yet his desire to rid himself of the sense of guilt is more than just THAT.

I felt deeply Ango's deal with Chuuya in Dead Apple, when the former basically exchanged his own life for latter's cooperation (even though Chuuya would never collect such a debt, but that's a topic for a diff post). Ango's self-worth, in my opinion, stems from his value to the others around him. The Japanese Gov-t takes precendent, but not without a high cost - Oda's life and Dazai's friendship. 

It's no coincidence, too, that it was the three of them, and not just Dazai and Oda. Ango is a balance for the two of them, a grounded medium between the two.

A side-ish note, but the few times when we see Dazai act impulsively or at least following his own emotions is when it comes to his friends. First thing that jumped out to me is that Dazai let Ango go (Dark Era). The whole "Did you really think you would leave here alive?" and then five minutes later "leave before I change my mind". Dazai is conflicted, and for a good reason -Ango, much like Oda, is his friend.

Then the ordeal with the car. It is ~technically~ unclear why there was a car accident, but I think, even basing just on the manga, it is ~relatively~ safe to assume that Dazai had something to do with it. Somebody expressed their opinion earlier by replying to one of my Ango hcs, that Dazai didn't want to kill Ango in that instance. I actually agree with that. I think he still is acting on, if not impulse, but at least emotion, when it comes to his friend. Dazai is manipulative, yes, but there are no bullets in Ango's gun that Dazai grabs. Sakaguchi KNOWS what Dazai will do, or at least try to do... and he gets in the car anyway. Moreover, I think Dazai knows that Ango can predict his moves as well, and that's why we see his terrified face seconds before the accident (ofc, it is also a normal human reaction that I doubt even Dazai would be able to control). Maybe in that instance, Dazai realizes the depth of Ango's shame.

In the later BSD chapters Ango and Dazai are working together again, and as much as it would be out if necessity for Dazai, the chapter 95 demonstrates Ango's devotion to his friend. Not only does he betray the gov-t in order to stop Fukuchi, and potentially detail his career, his future (did he mention death sentence?), Ango doesn't even know if it will work out. "Are you laughing?", he asks Dazai's photo, as if he already knows that he would, at the absurdity of Sakaguchi Ango finally acting not out of sense of duty, but on his emotions too.

[primordyalsoul]

Thinks about how despite being a person with the capacity to feel, think and interact with the world around her, Rei’s still an imitation of a human that’s defected in many ways. She’s a clone of a different person entirely and is the spitting image of her, but even as a copy she’s pale and sports unnatural hair and eye colours (I’m certainly no biologist but I’d argue its a result of both her Angelic soul but also the fact her body was created from “salvaged remains” of a deceased person, so there’s no longer melanin production) . And even though she’s technically alive - she breathes, her heart beats - her body’s so unstable and at odds with her soul that it will literally fall apart unless she has those regular LCL baths, and it doesn’t quite function how it should. Although she can eat and digest food, she doesn’t need to and rarely actually feels hungry, and although she’s around the age where she should, she doesn’t menstruate. ( I also hc that she’s a bit colder than a human should be but that’s just me balling )

Plus there’s the implication that she doesn’t dream, which is so interesting. Of course there’s no concrete reason why humans dream in general, just different theories, but if we go with the idea of the brain processing things subconsciously, then I’d argue that the presence of Lilith is part of Rei’s subconscious, but because she’s literally Divine, Rei’s brain doesn’t have the capacity to process that part of her. We do see though that Rei’s very introspective and chooses to mull over and process things consciously, so perhaps that’s how she makes up for her lack of dreams. 

It’s just so heart breaking really to think about how she was never meant to exist in the first place and it shows in things like this, which only further causes Rei to believe in her own worthlessness. 

[gaybarbiegirl]

1, 3, 6, & 12 for barbie, any movie ❤️

1 - Which character do you relate to the most from your fandom?

Alexa from Diamond Castle. She's kind of an underrated character, but I love and relate to her a lot. Like, a cottagecore lesbian who loves flowers and dogs, has a bit of a coldness to her despite being a mostly sweet person, and is quite pessimistic at heart but still wants to dream big and to believe in magical things? That's me, baby!

3 - What is your favorite ship?

Alexa and Liana, of course. I've already talked about how much I love them in this old post of mine, and everything I said there still stands. They're one of my favorite ships from all fandoms and I love them a lot.

6 - When you first think of the fandom, what image comes to mind?

Even though I've been in love with Barbie movies since forever, I never really engaged with the fandom before I made this blog, so the image that comes to my mind is just all of my Barbie mutuals and the cool posts they make. It's a nice image.

12 - Your favorite hc for a ship, character, etc.

I mean, technically Alexa and Liana being girlfriends is an hc, but they're as canon as most Barbie ships, so I'll go with something else.

I really like the hc/theory that Elina having the rainbow in her eyes means that she's meant to be the future queen of Fairytopia. It's really cool and makes a lot of sense. I don't remember what post first brought this up, but if anyone does remember and wants to link it, I'd really appreciate it.

Thank you so much for the asks!

[randomnameless]

This "truth is more important than anything else" thing really pisses me off too. Of course we don't learn what happens to the surviving nabateans after Rhea's reveal at the end of claude's route, and we don't learnt what people might want to do to flayn, or to the sleeping macuil when they learn they can craft golden weapons from their remains

Yep!

I've watched a really... odd movie, once upon a time, where a Mother dies and tells her twins to search for two people their long-lost older brother and their father.

Things happen, and, iirc, the daughter says at one point usually 1+1 = 2, but in their case, 1+1 = 1 ; the son raging at their dead mother, asking why the fuck did she tell them to discover this truth.

What is more important, truth or peace?

Rhea picked "peace", and hid all of Gloucester's actions under the rug, even if it meant hiding her culture, her family and, well, herself for 1k years. Her "peace" breaks when, mostly, the "truth" she hid was distorted and used as a fuel to send a red emperor at her doorstep.

We do not see anyone picking "truth" and living with the consequences in the game - given how Fodlan's humans since to be cut out from the same material as Jugdral's humans, I don't think Flayn, even if she ends up being Queen of Faerghus or Queen of Almyra, is never going to be worried about some schmuck wanting to cut her arm to make a new zweilhander.

It started as a random thought/theory, but became a headcanon - as with everything regarding that guy - but I HC Wilhelm erased some clans, in his "conquer Fodlan" operation more willingly than others, instead of assimilating them in his Empire, if the clan, or anyone from that clan, knew how to "craft Golden Weapons".

It'd be a nice opposition to Rhea, who lies but still hopes, if a human discovers the Truth, she isn't going to be murdered because humans will stop seeing her as something to be looted (that priest in the Abyss Library certainly did) - even if the cons of her lies is to remove the tree hiding the forest, and acknowledge some people have super powers. Humans being Humans, they use this to discriminate and ruler over people they deem inferior.

Willy, the human (and Birdie!) would slaughter instead of lying, so technically they are not "hiding the truth", they are making sure no one knows it and lives long enough to share it. The Fatal Mistake (tm) would be Wilhelm himself, as his descendants were not trustworthy enough to know this secret, and they were used by Agarthans.

Honestly, I would have thought Ao3 might have had more fics about a post FE16 Fodlan where Hanneman (or someone else) built technologies and materials making Nabatean body parts obsolete, no one would need to slaughter them if you could buy a shiny toothpick at your local Walmart !

but it wasn't meant to be