#tonny marionetta

[ladytrist]

I’m also lowkey kinda dreading if school bus graveyard will go on hiatus again 😭 if so, then I feel like it’ll take another year.

I don’t know what to read anymore.

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they've been on my mind a lot lately 👼

[imprisoned-marrionetta]

Y’all what would happen if we trapped these guys in a room together.

(Also known as my three favorite characters from my three favorite webtoons)

[floralcavern]

Same vibes

Except Marionetta is more Ghibli aesthetic, but.. they kind of remind me of each other

Also, the Ringmasters, Cain and Tonny, are extremely different (ones absolutely coocoo and the other is a wimpy loser /affectionate)

[starburstfruitch-ws]

Did I just make a new blog so I can post this one Marionetta thingy 😱😱 yes 😐

He is Kenough. 🫡🫡

Bonus:

[todosmeiape1an]

I like to think that Sahed loves headpats

[justaghostingon]

Marionetta Theories:

Do you want to know if Tonny is evil or not? Do you wonder why Julia was chosen to kill him? Have I got the two connecting theories for you!

I don’t have a lot of evidence, since we’re only 28 chapters in, but i wanna get these out there to see if they come true!

@jay9marie this is for u. As only other mutual i know reads this comic.

Theory 1: The Custodian

I do not think Sahed is right about Tonny. I don’t think Sahed’s completely wrong either, but he’s missing an important detail: Tonny is not their jailer, he’s the custodian.

When we first meet him, he describes himself as the manager for someone else, not the one who supplies the magic. And this has been true since before the circus even existed:

If you notice the language here, he’s called custodian. Which means he takes care of the one who is truely in charge, the monster in the attic.

Now there’s a lot we don’t know about Tonny’s position. By the wording “allows” he seems to have limited power to invite others to join the castle. Which given how horrible it is inside, is not a very good deal. But we honestly can’t tell if the contracts is something he was told to do or not. We just don’t have the info.

My guess is Tonny has an awareness of the price of his contracts. Look at his face when he makes the contract with dotty:

He’s exhausted by the bags under his eyes, and clearly unhappy, but his set expression tells us he is still going to do it. He’ll doom them to eternity with him, with only the fine print to warn them of what that really means. And again, we don’t know how much of a choice Tonny has, but that’s still not okay.

But! Dotty and her husband bring new life into the castle. And Tonny starts to change.

He’s smiling, leaning against the door in a relaxed posture. His arms are still crossed, suggesting he’s not completely at ease, but he’s happy to see his people smiling again. He’s thrilled his people can be happy in the first place. And when Rainah speaks up and points out it won’t last, he’s willing to bring Dotty and her husband into the very secret that keeps this place running, something i don’t think he’s supposed to do given how even the ever talkative Dotty refused to mention it by name.

And now in the circus, we can see the contract has changed. They still have to stay in the circus, they still live eternally, but now they have to work - which keeps them focused and active, stopping them from falling into the despair of before. But most importantly:

Tonny is no longer confining them to the castle to waste away. He is actively trying to make this situation the best he can. He’s no longer just a monster’s puppet, but a leader dedicated to his people.

And yes, he’s still trapping people in these contracts, which is not good. Sahed (who i suspect escaped whatever research center/prison was keeping him) has a reason to be angry. But now where he can be, Tonny is kind. He’s taking care of his people to the best of his abilities instead of leaving them to rot. All because Dotty and her husband taught him he could.

Which leads me to my second theory:

Theory 2: Julia’s fate

So i’m pretty sure that Julia’s contract was made with the monster in the attic, not Sahed. When we see Kamela go through her contract signing, she is physically near both Tonny, whom she is making a bargain with, and Sahed, who helps her enter the spirit realm.

Given her smile, her trip is pleasant and short, she frays a bit, but nothing like Julia.

Her experience is terrifying, nothing is explained except the contracts own words, and if she resists she’s punished with a nightmarish experience. Neither sahed nor tonny’s deal with kamela goes like this. It’s frightening and inhumane.

But most damningly of all, when Julia wakes back in her body, she is directly under the monster in the attic.

There’s the contract, directly before Julia, but Sahed is nowhere in sight, unlike how it was when he was helping Tonny. This makes it pretty obvious that while Sahed definitely wants Tonny gone, he’s not the one who struck the deal. It was the attic monster.

By why would the attic monster want to get rid of its custodian? Especially when he still takes care of them and provides contracts.

The answer, i suspect comes from theory 1. Tonny has been putting the people of the circus first more and more, adding new clauses and promsing to make their lives pleasant. With all this attention diverted, the attic monster is no longer getting what it thinks it deserves. It is no longer first in Tonny’s priorities, and the priorities of all the circus folk.

It wants a new custodian to focus all their attention on it. To feed it with despair and contracts, and prioritize it alone. And it has chosen Julia.

[3am-cheerios]

icons for you and the guy you have to kill 😊

[thepumkinmoth]

this is a throw away theory for Marionetta

Sahed has killed someone but I was wondering who i think it’s definitely someone important to the plot at the end of episode 46 we see a picture of Sahed when he was a kid in the research center, he seemed really close to Steinheimer but after Mr Finnegan’s story Sahed and tonny mention not liking Steinheimer I think Sahed killed Steinheimer to escape but I don’t know how tonny ties in to the story

[f3r4lfr0gg3r]

When they're silly >>>>

AHhhh-

I love him sm 👁👁👉👈❤️

Would anyone want me to open my reqs for Marionetta....I'm so tempted to despite already having other things to do

[ely-ciel]

[mantarobin]

my thoughts on that love triangle thing

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[imprisoned-marrionetta]

Haven’t been here for a while but…

[floralcavern]

I like my men silly, cringe, and pathetic (they can be one and not the others, idc)

[puddingkingu]

I love them