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[kijosakka]

alejandro,,, so fun <3 OKAY I HAVE MANY AN IDEA SO TO BEGIN WITH: panopticon

as established, panopticon is a Thing in this au mainly as a theme (but also a very very big influence in the creation of this in the first place).

panopticon itself refers to an institutional/prison design wherein a central guard tower and the construction thereof makes the prisons unable to tell if theyre being watched at any given moment; thus, self regulation.

^ dramaturgy, as an AU, focuses on noah acting ‘in accordance’ with the cameras in a genre-savvy adjacent manner; he self regulates. the ‘central guard tower’ to him is the audience.

to alejandro, however, the audience is not a variable. his competing does not factor in the audience and public the way noahs does; instead, his focus is shifted to his castmates.

to slot it in now, im talking about alejandros perception of the audience and the perception of him thereof (which, this and the above will be compounded upon with the stuff below further explaining alejandros facade/masking).

^ again, the audience just isnt a necessary variable to alejandro (at least, beyond *his family). playing in the manner he is, orchestrating and manipulating, you just cant fit in the time to placate the audience to make them love you. the more important thing is the opinions of his castmates, who are the real variables impacting his win.

and so, in short, alejandro is polarizing. people love a villain, but there is still the in-universe distinction of it being a reality show. it is real people; so, some part of TD’s audience will account that and denounce alejandro for being so comfortable in manipulating his peers so shamelessly.

[*his family, as seen in canon, seems to be something he is acutely aware of. he would be aware of how he presents himself, and would do so in a manner pleasing to them.

this is not to say hes unaware of the audience. he knows theyre there and speaks directly to them in the confessionals in a shifted manner (exaggerated/nitpicked for the purposes of this AU).

< where most characters speak about their competition to the audience, alejandro often speaks directly to the audience. tiniest distinction but i feel i should make it and emphasize it]

and now,, his actual facade; what it portrays, what it hides, and the reasons/motivations.

^ restating another post (ty ophe), alejandro has a mask of a person hiding antagonism. he acts like an idealist version of his actual person; kind, sensible, intelligent, considerate. athletic, helpful, goodhearted, compassionate, attractive to boot. taken to an extreme, holier-than-thou and patronizing. diminished, way overcompensatory, or maybe doormat-ish.

while this version of noah comes off as uncanny valley because no real person is so detached and lifeless, no real person is so perfect either. alejandro would trigger the same bells but to a much, much lesser degree. more like there were pieces of a puzzle missing rather than something distinctly wrong.

because alejandro seems like a person, he portrays depths and facets to himself (while all positive), and interacts with his castmates like how people interact with people.

it is, again, a the veil of an idealist person hiding antagonism. i don’t think alejandro is a cartoonishly antagonistic, unremorseful supervillain character (and hes not really portrayed as such in canon, but just to say), but he is absolutely not the perfection he portrays himself as.

now is a great time to add that alejandros mask heavily relates back to the expectations his family pushes on him; not only is it good socially (for the purposes of the competition) but theres probably a sense of validation there aswell (if shallow, because its still not an appreciation of the ‘real’ him).

^ and thats a Thing as well, the ‘real’ alejandro. flawed and imperfect, able to be irritable and snappy and meanspirited with arrogance hiding the cracks of overwhelming inferiority. as a person, that is, in intent for the game hes, well, an eel. conniving and slippery and manipulative and sly and vindictive and unapologetic.

and as for reasons,, staying in line with the burromuertos ‘high society’ position in this AU, maybe it was something like a way to prove himself; he works the social game and shows business promise because of it, and brings a hefty sum of money home to his family that he earned.

and his facade is an easy one, not only a way to show a sense of professionalism and keep the burromuerto name ‘untainted’ by blatantly unsavory behavior similar to someone like duncan, but a way to keep his castmates none the wiser while the steals the money from under them.

BUT within the au itself things umm do not go to plan as noah makes it his mission to unmask alejandro as just as fake as he himself is.

which brings about the topic of a very specific cast relationship: noah and alejandro

as,, yk,, the backbones of his entire au (ok its more like nervous systems. noah is central and alejandro is peripheral) i want to save a full digging into their relationship and developments for another post entirely (probably going episode by episode until pre london focusing mostly on alejandro, and then another post after i figure out the actual events of WT going through the changed canon)

but to just go through it very quickly; noah doesnt trust alejandro and sees through him. alejandro eventually catches wind of the fact that noah doesnt trust him, and i imagine it would trigger a wondering of how? spurred on by noahs whole ‘no substance’ thing.

and besides, nobody has anything on noah despite him being their castmate going on 3 years now. and now that he’s thinking about it, what does he himself really know about noah in the same way he knows things about the rest of the cast? that’s interesting. *

^ i imagine alejandro would be wary but not worried about noah knowing, simply because of the passive nature he’s read of the other. < poor alejandro. it is not nearly that easy.

[*interesting,,, i will cover that more on the actual post going ep by ep for their relationship. because i do have Thoughts]

[shadow-and-purgatory]

Begging my roommate and his gf to go to sleep bc they are so fucking loud and annoying and keep slamming doors as they go from our room to the kitchen

[beigetiger]

Personal favourite rambles/analysis masterlist

Vault of Knowledge lore

Sky cultural headcanons (slightly outdated)

Skulduggery and Valkyrie's phase 1 dynamic

Resurrection rambling pt. 1 (phone call scene)

Resurrection rambling pt. 2

Resurrection ramblimg pt. 3

Fascism as shown in Skulduggery Pleasant

Technomages

Core theme of Murder Drones

Personal Sky lore

D&D, Florence Gaillard, and god manifestations

Melancholy and the spotlight symbolism

Don't baby Breadhead

Breadhead knows already theory

Shrike and Jawbone's dynamic

Disco Head-Shrike are lab creations theory

Imagine being Ghastly

Imagine being Ghastly pt. 2

Fletcher escaped, Valkyrie did not

The three faces of Valkyrie Cain

Skulduggery Pleasant and detachment from POV

Skulduggery, Vile, and trope subversion

Cadaverous Gant

Some Valkyrie headcanons

Valkyrie's relationship with femininity

[waywardwizzard]

River stared up at the ceiling of the shuttle, watching as bubbles of colour drifted past each other, throwing a beautiful rainbow onto the rusty metal.

She giggled when Orange and Turquoise bounced off each other with a soft popping noise. Blue and Purple chased each other around the outskirts of the group, Pink making gentle whooshing noises-

Something wasn't right.

She frowned and counted the bubbles.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8-

No.

No.

Frantically River counted and recounted, each time ending up with 8 instead of 9. What happened to the Green bubble?

A rush of noise made her flinch and scream, Yellow diamonds falling down, tearing into her skin, cuting, cutting, cutting deeper until she bled bright red (didn't look beter in red or blue, she had always been purple)

Seven, seven, lucky seven but why was Serenity seven if seven meant luck? Luck was fickle, good and bad in all ways but one, the only one that mattered (they weren't meant to be 7, why were they 7?)

"Why won't it stop?" she wanted to say but Yellow diamonds mixed with Green emeralds and Violet cried and drowned out her voice until nothing was left but air. Purple shrunk and disappeared and Blue cried too (simple blue, sad blue why would no one listen to you?) and where was Pink? Orange got bitter and turned red and Turquoise ran and burst and Red got redder and Orange-red (wrong wrong wrong- ) got Red and not Orange and everything fell apart because the rainbow, the beautiful rainbow (hope and love and the dawn of a new day and Serenity had been all of that and none of it) shattered and died, refracting into 9 different pieces neither of which could function (survive?) without the other 8 and wasn't that the problem?

A rainbow wasn't a rainbow without all of it's colours and a family wasn't a family without all of it's pieces-

Blue tears like sapphires rained down around her, gentle, loving, alive blue turning grey, grey, grey-

River woke up with a scream that echoed through Serenity, startling 8 heartbeats that were so intertwined with her own that she couldn't tell whose was whose anymore.

Glancing up at the rusty metal ceiling of the shuttle River saw 9 bubbles gently floating and flitting between each other, all of them throwing their own colour onto the wall, creating a beautiful rainbow.

She smiled and closed her eyes, letting her family's voices wash over her as she drifted off, the bubbles quietly following her into her dreams.

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Author's note-

I am insanely proud of this one for some or other reason. I hope I wrote River ok-ish and that her ramblimgs sort of make sense (if they don't or something doesn't make sense, please let me know and I'll try and explain it)

Also, can y'all sort of tell which colour is which crew member? Let me know who you think each colour matches with.

(Am I making sense? I'm sorry if I'm not I'm so tired)

Set pre-BDM

[ilovechainmail]

TELL ME UR AUSIMSEY HEADCANONS NEEOOOWWW

AGAHAHHHG

au!aimsey cd collection (see last post for my ramblimgs on that topic), they have raccoon tails that they dye different colours almost like a mood ring (based on bun mailb0xbunii’s au!aims design :3) but they were blue at the beginning of s2 for guqqie bc they missed her, also on the cd thing they had a portable cd player they take everywhere (maybe they found a broken one or something and fixed it up), i’m realizing most of these r cd related but i probably have more these r jusy off the top of my head

[thatonegaybastard]

I hit post limit but sure you can show me those dudes that remind you of me!

YESYESYES HAHA OKAY THERES TWO THAT REMIND ME OF YOU AND COINCIDENTALLY THEY HAPPEN TO BE IN MY TOP 3

also by the time i post this you should be frew of post limit

the blue one eith the headphones is the JAMMER and the purple one wi the shades is the NIGHTSHADE

they only appear during blackouts and they glow in e dark!!

the jammer, when they have headphones, has a cosmetic ability called "Diversion" where they headbang to really sick music coming from their headphones. you can listen to the song here

yhethe nightshade has too cosmetic abilities: Wear, where ey move their shades ro either over their eyes, and Stare where they do this (loud warning)

theyre both equivalents of eachother theyre like a pair. and they also are rhe blackout versions of the Fed and the Shade respectively

but where they REALLY remind me of.you are there VIP variants! occasionally when you become one, theres a 1/30 chance ypu get a special vip variant! this comes complete with a cool rainbow glow and in jammers case a vool new song and microphone, anf in nightshades case a fucking sweet boombox

ill put them under the cut though i couldnt find an animatipn of the jammer singing specifically. FLASHING LIGJTS WARNING KIND OF

so cool

theres also another goo that KINDA reminds me of you but not as much as the jammer and nightshade and thats the KAIJU

its a ggiant fucking lizard that has electricaly charged crystals comin out of its back though having some kind of electric poerr would make this guy so much more unique in cool. tangent here i think more gootraxiams should have unique attacking abilities its all just grab and attack like look at fuckimg mochi im sorry but thwres nothing special abo mochi its just a brown dragon thing. give it some uniwue ability i am literally begging

it reminds me of you because i associate yoh with crystals and electricity!!! especially red crystals but these are blue so

thank you for listening to my insane ramblimg

[cerubean]

ok i tried that daycare mod out for the first time and o_o

it spawns so many sims at once! i couldnt even fit them all into these two pictures, and it also spawns about 4 daycare workers which is a LOT for such a small space and they all try to cook something at once.

i think this was brought up already with the modder who adopted this mod so im sure it’ll get fixed whenever they get the chance. i think for now i’ll just pretend and spawn in a couple toddlers and coworkers, which is what it’s designed for anyways. (here’s a link to the mod if you do wanna try it out! just make sure you have a lot of space bc it spawns toddlers and kids)

[tortured-poets11]

I love lesbians they are so great

u go lesbians proud of u

[mangotiger-draws]

possessed by the spirit of dnd at this wonderful 4am and drew a tiny falka

[shadow-and-purgatory]

I am putting him in your care

I will protect him with my life

holds him gently

[wingedbeings]

Good lord get some help ok :-)

i amn. so sorey 2 break it to u my love but i hav been receivimg help for so long </3

[was-holy-ground]

Personally offended unbelievable didn’t win anything

[dontbe2cool]

Q. The most dangerous enemy in AC Odyssey

me: Chickens

[yarnshoes]

heyyy i'm the one who sent you a few manga recommendations some time ago, i hope you don't mind me checking in once in a while~ what manga are you reading lately? or is the classic manga binge already over?

HI SORRY this was in my draft for almost a week now?? And i gotta retype stuff coz a lot chnaged dhdndkdjs ok so yeah.... Im not rly reading any classic mangas lately...... Im stil keeping my list tho. Stuff i recently finished r magi and t&b, and ya neither r old.

Lately ive been watching kids stuff to ward off stress instead (not working but i luv it). Like toddler anime. Baby stuff. Its good. Xtra answer in the tags :)

[lokixme]

@gingerwritess this applies to you too because hdkaheisvsiawowjevdkwjw i can and will die for you.

@lokissoul @trashpanda-barnes y'all have me body, mind and bootay because i'm just fhdjshaoahsvhzso i'm just so grateful for all of you!!!

*reads a gorgeous line in a fanfic* oh my god. how is this possible. how did they even fucking think of this. the symbolism is spot on. the planets are fucking aligned, everything is one and all and the world is complete, my soul is at peace

[omoriboye]

I LOVE THIS MAN ‼️‼️‼️ WE R

dATINGBAHHSHDJSJSBABS

i can't believe my partner relit my love for this goober and now I gotta make a sona JUST for him ANYWAYS RAMBLIMG HI BYE HERE'S THE ART SPRRY AHSHQSH

then here's just some misc art of him <:)) (btw these wont b posted on twitter besides like one img so!! yay tumblr exclusive bc im shy)

tHAS ALL CLOSING SAYIG HERE BYEEEE RHSHS💜💜

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