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assholism does transcend severance

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Severance Show is here! Presented by our dear Mr. Milchick!

Sketches and initial stage

Band template, if you wanna have fun composing your own Lumon Band :D (tho do not use them as a template for your drawing nor make profit with these)

Purely a fanart and for fun! Not official or what just had this idea. Also listen to “DEVO - Puppet Boy” in background while looking at this!

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he cannot be contained by lumon

I hope seth milchick leaves the cult soon his swag is too great for them

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i think if the severance universe had the option to turn yourself into a tree after death, gemma would’ve chosen that over cremation. she would’ve asked mark to plant her in their backyard so that she could provide shade to their kids on warm summer days. so that mark would still have something to hold in the event of her untimely passing.

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Irving doodle from when I went to the beach a few weeks ago :] It was really fun and such a privilege!! I didn’t get to swim much though because there were three sharks and we saved my gf’s cousin from almost drowning. The waves were all square shaped it was so freaky. No one was hurt by the sharks btw even though two guys came into direct contact with them. Sharks were also not hurt. Two bulls and a hammerhead all on separate days, just squishy guys lost at sea.

Anyways this is warmup for when I draw Irving with Gemma and Petey and Reghabi. Still trying to get his face right

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Severance Text Posts 48/?

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FAN THEORY THURSDAY: What is Megamind’s Name?

Yes, alright, I know you’re all waiting to hear me say it.  SPOILER WARNING!

This may seem like a slightly odd question to explore.  I mean, obviously Megamind’s name is Megamind because, well, I literally just called him Megamind, but that is the moniker he chose for himself upon becoming a supervillain.  Does the blue alien have a real name, and if so does he know what it is?  Does he at least have a legal name? What is it?  The bad news is that there’s no definitive answer, but the good news is that fan theories offer some compelling ideas.

The first, and probably most popular, headcanon is that Megamind’s real name is Syx.  Featured in multiple fanfictions by several authors, the concept has become widespread in the fandom, yet it sprung from an unlikely and seemingly innocuous detail in the film.  During a press conference, when asked by Roxanne what he plans to do with the city he’s taken over, Megamind, clearly at a loss for answers, responds with: “Imagine the most horrible, terrifying, evil thing you can possibly think of, and multiply it by six!”  

Many fans felt that this was an odd number to choose.  Why six?  Most people would have naturally defaulted to a nice, round number with unit digit of 0, like 10 or 100, or at least to the divisor 5.  Those are, after all, the numerals that, thanks to being both easy to calculate and the bases for many ancient number systems, tend to pop into mind first.  The resulting fan theory is that Megamind must have had a specific reason for choosing the number 6 instead, and many fans agreed that this was because it somehow connected to the only thing the blue man could really claim as wholly and rightfully his own: his name.

There are two major suppositions connected to this idea.  The first is that Syx is all or part of the name Megamind’s parents called him. (After all, if, at only eight days old, he could remember details such as his father telling him he was destined for something, he should be able to remember his own name, right?)  Some claim that this is his real name, but others, citing the fact that Megamind never actually uses the epithet in the movie, instead theorize that this was more like a pet name.  He wouldn’t go around calling himself Syx any more than one of us would call ourselves “Cutie-Pie” or “Little Angel.”

The second is that Syx is another chosen name, one based on either Megamind’s prison number or the Cell Block where he spent his childhood.  Both are interesting concepts, but neither has even the most tenuous support from the film or other canon.  The back of the blue alien’s prison jumpsuit only displays the word “prisoner” without a number, so we have no way to determine what his prison number actually was. Although it’s clear that Megamind was raised in a different cell than the one he occupied during his brief stays in prison as an adult, and it’s possible that that could have been on Cell Block 6, the number is never shown on the screen, so again, it’s only a guess.  In fact, the only cell block we do see clearly associated with Megamind in the movie is Cell Block 9, where his high-tech, ultra-secure cell is located near the beginning of the narrative.

Vying with Syx for the spot of Most Popular Epithet in Megamind Fan Theory is the name Blue.  This is something which many agree is more like a nickname, most likely one used only by the former supervillain’s “prison uncles” and, perhaps, a few close friends.  When Megamind escapes prison near the start of the film, listen very closely and you will hear something interesting.  At nearly the same moment that we hear one prisoner yell: “Hey, Warden!” another inmate says “Hey, Blue!”  The origin of the name is obvious, and it’s doubtful whether the alien genius would have reacted well to any but his friends calling him by it, especially back during his villainous days.   At any rate, this is obviously not the former villain’s legal name.  (That doesn’t stop me from liking it, however.)

Another theory concerning Megamind’s name comes from what Metro Man calls him: Little Buddy.  Some fans suppose that this may be what the prisoners who raised Megamind when he was small called him, and that Buddy may have been accepted as his name.  Perhaps that is what he called himself for the short time he attended elementary school. After all, it would be better than being known as Nobody or Prisoner Number Whatever.  It would also make sense that, as he grew older, the future supervillain would have rejected a moniker that sounded so friendly and cute.  It certainly wouldn’t have helped him maintain the tough guy image needed to survive in a jail filled with adult criminals.

Next is a suggested name based once more on an aforementioned small detail from the film. When the Warden is unwittingly disguised by Megamind’s holowatch,  at almost the same time a convict yells “Hey, Blue!” a second one calls: “Hey, Lee!”  (Again, you have to listen closely for it, but it’s there.)  This brings up a important question: who is Lee?  Obviously, the prisoners wouldn’t call the top official of the entire facility that, but they might call another prisoner by the name.  This, along with the fact that the man shouts “Blue” first, has led to the fan theory that Lee may be part of the name Megamind was assigned as some point, perhaps when he was registered for school.

Finally, we come to what, on the surface, appears to be the most likely and obvious fan theory: Megamind’s legal name is John Doe.  This is, after all, a common epithet used for any unknown person, living or dead, throughout much of the United States, where Megamind is supposed to take place.  There’s just one problem: Metro City is located in Michigan, and that specific state’s laws differ from the norm.  It took some research, but I finally learned what the Michigan State Government does about unnamed children, and the answer is: nothing.  That’s right.  Nothing.  According to the website Today I Found Out, in Michigan, it’s possible for a baby to be given a birth certificate with no name on it, and a name can be submitted later.  Not even a surname is required.  (This must make life far easier for indecisive parents!)  However, due to state and federal regulations, there will come a time when the person must be named, such as if they wish to obtain a drivers’ license or a passport.  This is where things get really interesting.  If a name is never submitted for a person, it may be possible for them to legally choose one for themselves.  This means that Megamind may literally be the blue man’s only moniker, as well as his legal name.

So, in short, the answer to the question “what is Megamind’s real name?” is: we don’t really know.  Thanks to the inventiveness of all those who love this film, however, there is a plethora of options to choose from.  With so many fan theories, the possibilities are nearly endless.  If you can find some sort of evidence, or at least a plausible idea, to back it up, our favorite blue hero’s name can be whatever you want it to be.

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Been meaning to share some more gems from the MJF Scrapbook I had posted about a while back. Here's one of my favorite articles in it.

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listened to golden so many times i think my ear canals permanently changed shape

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Here's a fun little detail about "This is what it sounds like". Mira and Zoey start in their "Golden" outfits, as they've had no time or reason to change since all that went down. It's a bit militaristic, spikes, fringes, and the main fabric seems to black sequins.

We get a closer look at the sequins during the start of the fight, when the girls are all coming together along the three stages.

And then the three girls hug, which recreates the Honmoon and rebuilds their magical alliance, and to signify that, Mira's and Zoey's outfits turn white, showing that they've been sanctified. So far, so good.

But crucially, the white outfits don't have sequins anymore. They have something else:

Patterns.

It's subtle and easy to miss, but the post-reunification outfits of Zoey and Mira are both smooth, but feature some subtle pattern work. Zoeys are a bit more playful, Mira's a bit more angular, both unique to them and their styles. But crucially, they match the demonic patterns on Rumi's skin.

The outfits are telling us that not only have the three reunited, not only have they forgiven each other, they're telling us that these girls are a unit. If one of them has patterns, they all will wear patterns, and be proud of it. They're 100% on Rumi's side.

Of course this is also what the text of the movie is literally saying anyway, it's not exactly subtle, but it's great to see it reinforced in subtle ways like this. I'm sure many people noticed it right away, but it took me several watches of the movie and the promotional Youtube videos to notice it.

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Look I'm sorry to anyone who thought the Saja Boys were a real band, but it was obviously fake from the beginning.

Huntr/x has been doing this gimmick for years where they'll put on a performance and some actors dressed up like demons will "interrupt" it or get into some choreo fights on stage and stuff. If you're a fan you know, the demons usually symbolize things like industry corruption, Mira's struggle with her family, Rumi being in the closet, etc, and there's lots of hints and secret messages to the fans in what they're wearing or how they show up. Check out huntresx5evah on blsky they've got an extensive examination of the "demons" over the years and what the messages to the fans are.

In the concert before Golden was released, the demons were dressed like flight attendants. That was the indication that something new was about to take off. @/queenhuntrixdontmiss and I speculated that it was going to be a new single and low and behold, it was.

But then the live performance got cancelled. It's an open secret that Rumi was having vocal issues, so that was probably not planned. They needed to buy time for her to recover, so, enter the Saja Boys -- a fake band of guys really clearly pretending to be demons, they release ONE single, do a bunch of b-tier variety shows for a week, nearly all of their public appearances have Huntr/x right there, keeping the hype and energy up until Rumi can get her throat polyps removed and furthering the routine where Huntr/x are supposed to be secret demon hunters and the Saja Boys are supposed to be secret demons.

Then the whole thing culminates in the Golden live performance at the idol awards, the big act with Huntr/x fake "break up" and the subsequent theatrics to make it up to fans for failing the first Golden performance. Huntr/x takes their obligation to fans very seriously, I've no doubt that they all felt terrible about having to cancel, so a free show was the obvious recourse to try and make it up to people. And they pulled out all the stops!

But the Saja Boys were never real. I mean they got real guys to pretend to be a boy band and do the dancing and lip syncing obviously, but come on, most of them didn't even have names.

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Very important behind the scene of Saja Boys production 🙂‍↕️

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yeah

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my bias 🙂‍↕️

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new saja boys concept art just dropped and YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THEY COULDVE BEEN SLUTTIER??

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anyways i just love the way kpop demon hunters stayed true to its roots in korean/asian culture, especially around the core theme of community vs individualism

the fact that it's not a single chosen one but a group of three

the fact that the honmoon is not powered by the hunters themselves but by the energy and love of the fans

the fact that gwi-ma turns people into demons by promising that he is the only one who can help them when he is in fact reliant on his army of demons to collect souls for him

the fact that "your idol" is about surrendering yourself to a single higher power while "golden" is about soaring to new heights together

the fact that gwi-ma preys on people's individual insecurities and shame to get inside their heads while rumi, mira, and zoey set them free in the end by encouraging them to embrace their differences and reminding them that they're not alone

the fact that you can see the audience cheering individually and even pushing into each other to get closer to the stage during "your idol"

while they're linking arms and cheering together and hugging during "what it feels like"

i have not seen the live action lilo and stitch but it feels like that movie sits on the opposite end of the spectrum from kpop demon hunters as a case study for how to tell a story in way that is culturally authentic and still resonates with a broader audience

and i think given that the core theme of the movie is all about community over individualism, the ending, particularly as it relates to rumi and jinu's budding romance, is really the perfect culmination of that broader theme

rumi and jinu's connection has all the hallmarks of that all-encompassing, all-consuming, borderline co-dependent first love where you keep your relationship a secret and sneak out of the house to meet up and feel like the other person is the ONLY person who really gets you

i'm the only one who can understand you, i'm the only one who will love you is the kind of thing that sounds romantic when you're 16 until you get older and realize how toxic it actually is and i love that the movie counters that in "what it sounds like" with rumi realizing that she had that love and support all along from her girls, and later, from the fans who continue to cheer them on through their comeback

it's about connection and sisterhood and love and sharing your fears and lifting each other up and becoming stronger and better together

and as compelling as i found rumi/jinu and as much as i would like to see their relationship explored more in a sequel/series, i just really love that this movie, which is clearly targeted at young women, ends on the message that romantic love is not the end all be all, that friendship is just as important if not more so than a romantic partner, that single women can lead successful, fulfilling lives, that true happiness and freedom start from within

it's crazy that this message still seems revolutionary in 2025 but given the current state of the world, it feels more necessary than ever