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asoulwithadream · 8 months

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ANALysis and THEORIES- OFMD EDITION #1

Objective: PROMO GIFS

Time to analyse these bad boys, because I think I may have figured out what they are. They're lines from the show. Each individual little subtext to the official gifs are something which someone will say in the new season, and I'm determined to find out what, when, where and who (I determine that 3/4 would equal success).

I) "I've never seen Blackbeard like this."

This is the same shot from the trailer, possibly either before or after the infamous "Fuck you, Stede Bonnet." However, there may be a Clue in the second shot which may be able to somehow place this on a timeline (not by myself—this has drained my powers). I can't really tell, because of the low quality and high contrasting shadows, whether or not the side of the Stede topper has been smudged with Ed's make-up yet.

It was clear in the teaser when Ed played with the toppers that he'd caressed fake-Stede against his cheek as if he were some rather exquisite cashmere because of the smudges, but we couldn't tell during the teaser if this has already happened by this point because of the angle of the toy. But if anyone manages to get a better picture or spots something I missed that may contradict or strengthen this little thought, do let me know.

I'm pretty sure though that the person who says "I've never seen Blackbeard like this," is someone who has seen Blackbeard enough to know how he was. Someone that perhaps served by his side? So I think that the speaker in this context may be Izzy. There are two options of who he's saying this too: either Stede, once they team up, or to the crew of the Queen Anne's Revenge, this being the old Revenge crew (Frenchie, Jim, and we count Fang). Maybe even Lucius in the walls.

II) "I should have just told him how I feel."

I just want to take a moment just to appreciate the fact how much this gif resonated with me personally. This was the entire basis of all stages of grief I went through after the season finale, the bottomline of all my thoughts: "why couldn't he have just told him how he felt?". Brilliant delivery and shot planning from the designers of OFMD.

Anyways, let's get on with it. This gif is similar to the first one, in it having the potential of being also shot before or after the Vanity Fair picture with the crew (minus Swede) standing under the bridge(?) in the rain. I do think it's before the scene where Stede takes Blackbeard's poster and very confidently elaborates on Ed's goodness. He has his red cravat on, and is looking so pathetic in the rain looking at a wanted poster of his ex-boyfriend, that the scene is loveably laughable in it's entirety.

It's a bit obvious as to who is the speaker for this line: our very own Stede Bonnet. He's regretting on his actions back at the sailor academy, where he chose to keep quiet about his own opinions on Ed's willingness to leave to China, fast, because of his own deep-rooted issues with speaking up about what he thinks about serious, possibly life-chaning topics. Or maybe he's thinking of why he didn't tell anyone, especially not Ed, about the happiness he felt around him, how great he felt in his company, and how much love he felt for the man.

I can imagine this pretty early on in the season (as we know they reconcile or at least get a long decently early, from the leaked promo), and for some reason I have a picture of Stede laying slumped down on some form of furniture, ragdoll-style, whining about this to someone he knows: either Oluwande (probably the most probably option) or, hear me out, Spanish Jackie. I think she's going to become better friends with the Genital Pirate this season, and be a prevelant character to the narrative.

III) "Feel's like a storm's coming."

This happens during the rapid, quick scenes which we were just able to catch from the teaser. Where Jim is half submerged in water trying their best to reach for someone which I may think might be Ed, and Frenchie working the capstan for whatever purposes needed to hoist something heavy in a storm (don't look at me, I don't sail 18th-century ships). But look, Edward has his cravat on, the cravat given to him by Stede. Why he's kept this eludes me, since this should in theory be before their reconciliation, but we all know that Ed still loves Stede, and perhaps this is his way to hang onto him close to his heart while still matching his new aesthetic.

I would like to think that Ed is the one saying this. After all, he is an expert navigator and weatherman, proving his skills during his first appearances in the previous season. (However, I don't particularly trust his date-keeping skills. He messed up the first one, and then let his other date be held at gunpoint and scared into leaving. Tut tut tut) Another reason as to why I think this is because there is no pronoun indicating that he actively feels the storm, but more passed as a backhanded quip just thrown onto the crew and/or Izzy to alert them.

This could also be interpreted as a metaphor: symbolism for something, foreshadowing to the main plot or villain of the series, which will most likely result in some form of cliffhanger at the end, I tell you that.

I wonder if they're going to have another cloud scene though, talking about how they might show signs of storm. However, instead of shape I'd assume that they'd be commenting on a rather large-scale, dark rain-cloud, and connecting it to perhaps winds stronger than usual.

I also saw someone saying that it was possible that Edward, when he falls off the ship, looses the cravat amongst the waves, and that is why he doesn't have it to what I'd assume is after this scene.

IV) I love a good pirate's tale We can see from this scene that Stede is currently fighting on the beach in the same outfit which he had during the teaser, and if one looks closely you can see that he's excellently accessorised with a beautiful looped earring. However, what we've also learn is that the shot where Ed washes up on the beach is probably in the same scene as this, and by the look on Stede's face (probably augmented by the surrounding chaos) this may be the first time that he's seen Ed in a long time.

I think, as I've said before in previous posts, that Ed has been thrown off the ship in the storm mentioned above. He's been thrown off, and has happened to wash up on this same beach where Stede is fighting, which we know to be possible because of the automatic gaydar in OFMD. (What would be funny though is that he spotted Stede off the shore and decided to make his entrance super dramatic and kraken-like, but ends up just swallowing a shit ton of sea-water and gets his leather ruined, which is why he gets new clothes.)

Why he's fighting? I don't know. But I'm still sure that it's Ocracoke that they're on, because I'm convinced that it'll make an appearance this season—it has too, or else I will send in a formal complaint with our dearest Mr Jenkins.

Now, back to the main bit. The text. Who is it that says "I love a good pirate's tale?" I think that it's either said genuinely, but by someone like Stede, eager to hear about the adventures of experienced and famous seafaring pirates, OR flirtatiously, to insinuate something directed as a romantic quip to get Stede or someone else (a pirate) to talk more about himself. By who, I can't be sure, but I have a list of possible speakers:

Edward Teach

Spanish Jackie

Anne Bonny

Anne Bonny's campy friend

Lucius Spriggs

Stede Bonnet

If there's anything I've missed that you want me to add/change, which I find suitable, do tell.

I'm not sick at all. I'm a normal functioning member of society. I have a life.

#well #those were my thoughts done and dusted #it's really late now #just 17 hours more to go #time for me to SLEEP #i procrastinated so much to get this done #i have so much work to do #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 speculation #ofmd s2 trailer #ofmd s2 teaser #ofmd gifs #stede bonnet #edward teach #blackbeard #ANALysis and theories #asoulwithadream

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aakaneeee · 10 months

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⋆alnst theory⋆

i know im not the first one to have this feeling, but I do not think Luka is "the antagonist". I look at ROUND 5 over and over again, trying to get even the smallest details. and i think I caught some interesting stuff.

this is the most noticeable. hyuna and luka made eye contact, and even tho we can't get what any of them is thinking from their facial expressions.. I think it could be a sign of an alliance of some sorts. Afterall, Luka is "the prince", "the greatest performer of alien stage", and maybe that helps? Why would the aliens suspect him?

another thing is how he acts. it's clear he wanted to provoke mizi, to get something out of her. but there was something more to his attitude. he only smiled when looking at the audience, going back to his lifeless look whenever they couldn't see his face. perhaps, trying to make the aliens think he's the same "oh yes, humans are totally pets!" guy he was during season 49. trying to entertain them so they don't see something more, something hidden.

at this point, we've all noticed luka's purple fingers. could be design. or could be this phenomenon, called "raynaud's phenomenon/raynaud's syndrome". to put it simple, it manifests as low blood circulation usually in fingers, due to cold, STRESS or EMOTIONAL UPSET. if the purple fingers really have to do with this syndrome, then it's probably not from the "cold". If it was, probably other contestants would have it as well. saying that he is just extremely cold 24/7 is kind of a reach. we can see that in two of the official arts, he doesn't have purple fingers. and the two seem.. a little more.. like if they happened on earth. or just generally, earth-stuff themed. maybe this purple-finger thing started after he won the first time and earned the title he has. or maybe I'm just over analyzing a simple design choice.

we saw how he kissed the dead contestant's hand. said contestant actually looks a lot like the person he competed against in round 4. which we know was the easiest win in the history of alien stage, having the biggest point difference ever. I think it was out of respect. like a way to say.. "sorry. but it had to be done."

out of context, but I wonder what the very close birthdays of Luka and Sua mean.

(if you are not aware, sua's birthday is on the 22nd of December, and Luka's is on the 23rd of December.)

to be honest, luka is really hard to read.

another thing is how he only has a little sparkle in his eyes when he's getting punched. It's either that he is a little happy that his plan to provoke her worked, or his facade just broke for a second there.

this is all that I have for now. yes, I did write this extremely late at night. and yes I need sleep. and yes I'm living off HELL latte's

great life brothers

#alien stage #luka alien stage #vivinos #luka backstory when?#theory #analysis and theories #i need sleeeeeeeeeeeeeep

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rosecoloredboyxox · 1 year

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I’ve got a theory about Hades’ avoidance here, and it comes back to Kronos.

So remember when Kronos first took over Hades, during his talk with Thanatos? It occurred at the revelation that Thanatos saw Hades as a father, something that’s always been a source of emotional turmoil for Hades. (There’s also the implication that Hades realizing he was an emotionally neglectful father to Thanatos was a revelation, not something he considered before.) This revelation was emotionally impactful and caught him off guard.

Enter Kronos, upstage center.

We can see that Kronos’ possession only gets stronger from here.

I won’t go further back into 216, but I think this chapter supports the hypothesis that Kronos possessed Hades by taking advantage of moments of emotionally vulnerability to “hijack”, for lack of better term, his body. Hypnos even calls Hades out on this.

(Granted this is the day after this abrupt-makeout-stop, but it still is info that supports the connection of emotions and possession for the reader)

So how does this relate to Persephone’s interrupted make-out sesh?

My suspicion about this pointed avoidance by Hades is that he’s (consciously or subconsciously) realized the relationship between emotional vulnerability and possession. I think on some level, Hades is worried about or residually traumatized by having Kronos take over his body during vulnerable moments, and that may be part of what inhibits him here. If this is true, I’m curious to see how it will play out in later chapters

#analysis and theories #lore olympus #lo persephone #lo hades #lore olympus persephone #lore olympus hades

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dead-city-warm-sun · 11 months

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Cursed Energy and Reversed Cursed Technique

I have many ideas and theories related to cursed energy and reversed cursed technique, and while I've successfully initiated a friend into the JJK cult, I want more people to see this and maybe give feedback on some theories (that stray into headcanons) that I have.

First off, how the hell does reversed curse technique work?

Ignoring the whole healing wounds and health related issues that come up with being able to bring someone back from the dead, how does this concept of "multiplying" even translate to an actual particle theory?

And how does cursed energy turn into positive/blessed energy in the first place? What differentiates them?

None of these questions need to be answered to enjoy the manga at all, I just love overthinking.

Let's start with the whole cursed versus positive (from now on referred to as blessed) energy thing.

I personally think that they both have the same base 'particle' because a) you can turn into/give the same properties of one (blessed) to the other (cursed) via RCT (reversed curse technique) and b) while I may not be a physicist, I'm pretty sure things with mass and volume are made of particles. Even if they're called "energy".

So the question is what differentiates them.

I considered a "vibration" of the particle, or a wavelength of sorts, to differentiate them, but this unfortunately contradicts with my theory of "multiplication" for RCT, which will be explained later on. And if we use vibration to separate cursed and blessed energy, we cannot use it to differentiate one type/source of cursed energy from another.

Now if it turns out that different sources of cursed energy don't actually change the flavor of it, and that residuals just show general cursed energy rather than a specific source, then vibration still wouldn't work for this because of my theory of multiplication for RCT.

Moving on from vibration for now- I landed on rotation or 'spin' to differentiate. Where the hell did I get that from? Videos on string theory. The idea is that while you may have the same string "shape", particles having that "shape" are differentiated by a "spin" on the string. My neurons did some connections and here I have arrived.

Cursed energy particles "spin" in one "direction" and blessed energy particles "spin" in another. Done. Easy differentiation.

So now we have the particles, it's time to figure out how to turn one into the other.

It's quite simple- you make it "spin" in the opposite direction.

How the hell do you do that?

Multiplication.

Well- now I'm not really following canon (as if any of the above is not blasphemous in some way) because I don't think true multiplication is happening.

How the hell would you multiply actual particles in the first place?!

Maybe you would split particles or something? But how? Where would it even come from- anyways. My brain went "this isn't logical" and moved on. If someone could explain that would be very helpful.

Perhaps you make cursed energy a source of cursed energy? Like how you can get stressed over feeling stressed? While that idea has some merit, and I might explore that later, that is not my current thought.

My current idea is... interlacing. Instead of multiplication, which I cannot process as an actual physical idea, interlacing, or crossing stuff together, makes a bit more sense.

My thought process went- multiplication -> arrays -> grids -> interlocking shit? -> interlacing cursed energy.

The idea is a bit messy, but you just take two... bits? Pieces? Handfuls?... of cursed energy and you smash it together, so that they go in between- interlace- each other.

How this relates to spin- when you push these particles against each other they turn the other direction. Nothing fancy.

This works very well and fits into many parts of canon, I think. First off, if RCT requires large amounts of cursed energy, this can be explained very easily using this theory- if you have a MASSIVE SHIT TONNE of these particles and smash it into another MASSIVE SHIT TONNE of those particles, interlacing them is much easier because there's more opportunities for them to interlace, and properly change the direction of the particle's spin.

And if you have very good observation and control of cursed energy, like, for example, a six-eyes technique, you could become even more efficient by placing the particles in the exact right way to interlace them properly.

So interlacing is how you actually make RCT make sense (at least to me).

To conclude, I'll answer the three questions that no one asked-

i) How does particle "multiplication" work? ANS- Interlacing, changing the particle's spin.

ii) How does one differentiate between cursed energy and blessed (positive, reversed cursed energy) energy? ANS- A particle's spin. Cursed in one direction, blessed in another.

iii) How does cursed turn into blessed energy? ANS- When you interlace, they push against each other and change the spin.

And a bonus fourth question-

iv) How would one differentiate shamans/sources of cursed energy? ANS- The vibration of a particle. I read in the book The Body by Bill Bryson that certain particles smell different, from different sources- even if it's the same particle. One theory was that it was the vibration of a particle that changes the smell, so I took that and ran.

If you made it this far, thank you for sticking through my ramblings. While the thing about interlacing is REALLY out there and doesn't even fully match the ACTUAL AUTHOR'S explanation, honestly, this is just some random person's attempt to make a fictional power system seem logical.

Honestly, this whole thought process and everything started for fanfiction.

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DISCLAIMER TIME BBG LET'S GO

This is literally just. Headcanons and vague inferences that aren't even serious. I am NOT trying to say that my ideas are better than the originals, or that I'm trying to "fix" canon. This is just a fun logical exercise that I did for a fanfiction that is never going to see the light of day.

I hope no one mauls me for this.

Also, if I get any information wrong, just know that this was all done off of memory around midnight.

If you want canon sources just, idk, send an ask or something.

Any questions or logical inconsistencies? I'm begging you, bbg, PLEASE send them. I don't care if you just outright say that nothing I'm saying makes any sense (as long as it's not baseless hate), I really love debate and logic and shit. So please feel free to correct me or suggest changes to my "Cursed Energy Particle Theory".

Thank you all and have a good night.

#jjk thoughts #jjk theory #jjk manga #jujustu kaisen #cursed energy #theory #ramblings #rambles #headcanon #jjk headcanons #analysis and theories #media analysis

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random-ln-stuff · 2 years

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The Pretender is a prisoner at the Nest just like the Craftsman and Butler.

In very little nightmares the main theme with the enemies are that they’re all trapped in the nest by some other person.

The Craftsman’s legs are broken and he’s restricted to a wheelchair, making it impossible for him to leave the Nest, and based on how his feet are literally facing the wrong way it’s obvious that someone else did that to him.

The Butler’s hands are locked behind his back, making it impossible for him to do things without his powers and most importantly, leave the Nest.

But I’ve never seen someone apply that theme to the Pretender. Because while the thought that they’re the one in charge of the Nest is nice, they’re a child. There’s a good chance they don’t even know where their dolls come from.

The Butler and Craftsman are obviously trapped in the Nest, but the Pretender is trapped in a more subtle way. It’s a gilded cage. The Pretender is spoiled beyond belief and has the Butler tending to their every need, but it’s all to distract them from the fact that they can’t leave the Nest.

Just consider this for a second. The Pretender may be a spoiled brat, but they’re still a child. They’re still a child in this world where the adults view children as pests to be exterminated at best, and food to be cooked at worst. The idea of a child in this world where children are universally hated being cared for with no strings attached sounds laughable at best. So surely the person that put them here, the same person that twisted the Craftsman’s feet backwards and locked up the hands of the Butler, has some sort of ulterior motive for caring for this child.

And I have one possible explanation for this whole thing.

The Pretender is a being like Mono.

Let me explain.

Mono is destined to become the Thin Man. Mono is a child with incredible power that’s destined to become an adult with incredible power that keeps the signal tower running until it’s their turn to die and be replaced by their past self.

The Pretender also has incredible power. They can literally disintegrate a person by touching them. So it would make sense for them to eventually grow up to become a being with incredible power.

Now I can’t go any further without talking about the Lady’s connection to the Nest and the Pretender.

First of all, the Nest is directly connected to the Maw because children are stored in the Nest (in the attic, as far away from the Pretender as possible, might I add) before they are taken to the Maw.

Secondly, the Nomes. Aka what is left of a child after the Lady consumes their souls. The presence of nomes usually means the presence of the Lady, and they’re everywhere in the Nest.

There’s also the fact that both the Pretender and the Lady have a connection to dolls, with the Pretender playing with them and the Lady being seen holding one like a child, brushing it and even humming what sounds like a lullaby to it…. …Wait a minute…. The Lady was acting motherly with that doll. In a world where that very act goes against how adults work. She even seemed to be experienced in doing so. So if anyone were going to actually care for a child in this world, it would be her.

Plus there’s the picture of the Pretender’s father in the Nest (or at least his legs) along with a picture of that same man now hanging from a noose in the Nest as well. And we see that man physically in the Maw, hanging from a noose in a faked suicide (it’s fake because the chair is directly below him and not kicked away, but he’s somehow still several feet off the ground.) So the Pretender’s father was definitely aboard the Maw, but what about her mother? To be honest, she’s probably the one who killed him and made it look like a suicide.

Plus someone pointed out that the Lady and the Pretender have similar hairstyles. The Pretender’s hair is just a bit longer. If her mother is the Lady, that would make sense. The Lady does her hair when she’s at the Nest and while she’s away, the Pretender’s hair grows longer because there’s no one in the Nest that’s able to cut it (The Butler can’t use his hands, remember?).

Plus, when RCG tries to sneak past the Pretender, it resembles the Runaway Kid trying to sneak past the Lady. Think about it. The main characters accidentally surprise them in a moment of vulnerability (the Lady viewing her face and the Pretender mourning her doll), the antagonists let out an ear-piercing shriek that affects their surroundings in some way (When the Pretender screams, RCG is frozen from pain/shock for a couple of seconds and the surroundings briefly distort and the when the Lady screams, the lights shatter and RK is left cold and in complete darkness) and then the main characters get chased.

There’s also the fact that the Lady is the owner of the Maw, a restaurant occupied by only the wealthiest of individuals. She could definitely afford the Nest and everything in it.

You can try and refute this by saying that the Pretender looks nothing like the Lady, with white hair instead of the Lady’s black hair, but the Pretender is most likely albino. Of course they don’t have the Lady’s black hair.

So the Pretender is most likely the Lady’s daughter, but what does that have to do with the Pretender being like Mono? Because if the Pretender is the Lady’s daughter, she’s most likely supposed to be the next Lady of the Maw. Six was never meant to be the Lady, and based on how the first thing they do upon gaining the Lady’s powers is leave the Maw, they most likely will never be.

The Pretender is destined to become the next Lady. The Pretender is a child with incredible power that’s destined to become an adult with incredible power that keeps the Maw running until they have a child of their own that will one day replace them.

Hell, the Pretender’s disintegration powers might be a variation of the Lady’s magic. What if the Pretender wasn’t actually disintegrating the people she touches, but rather turning them into nomes? It would certainly help explain why so many nomes can be found in the Nest.

But Mono had the time loop guaranteeing that he ends up in the signal tower and doesn’t die somewhere along the way, which is very easy to do when you are a child in a world where everything wants to kill you, but there’s no time loop involved with the Pretender or the Lady, so how do you make sure that your child, in a world where children are hunted for sport, survives to adulthood and still wants to run the Maw as an adult on top of that?

You keep them in the Nest, away from the chaos of the outside world and make sure that they’re kept happy and unaware of things like what this world is truly like, what exactly her mother does for a living, what happened to her father, where these perfectly lifelike dolls actually come from and what she will one day become.

#little nightmares #very little nightmares #analysis and theories #the pretender #the lady #mono #‘’the pretender is evil!’’ sir that’s a child #her role models are literally a man with psychic powers who’s first response to seeing a child is to hit it with a fucking chandelier #and the lady.#who twisted her own employees feet backwards and permanently disabled him to prevent him from leaving #consumes the souls of children and adults alike #and is a literal cannibal #i’d be a pretty violent child too if that’s who I’m learning my morals and behaviours from

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anthurak · 3 months

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You know the more I've thought about it, the fact that Charlie and Vaggie do a romantic reprise of 'More Than Anything' feels like a strong indicator not just that Chaggie will end up being framed as a thematic parallel/foil to Lilith and Lucifer, but also that Charlie is specifically meant to be the counterpart to Lilith; the (half)human woman who inspires Hell through song, and Vaggie the counterpart to Lucifer; the fallen angel who fell in love with her.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin theory #charlie morningstar #vaggie #hazbin vaggie #chaggie #hazbin lilith #lilith morningstar #lucifer morningstar #character parallels #character foils #character analysis

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inafever · 9 months

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Oh my god I've been so stupid

GIVE ME COFFEE OR GIVE ME DEATH

It was an outright goddamn death threat

You either take the coffee, or take the death

Metatron you nasty little piece of shit

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ignominious-scoundrel · 4 months

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Donnie's shell cover

People introduced to tmnt through rottmnt think it was the first one for Donnie to have a shell cover. However, i think it was actually the 2014 Bayverse movie to first show Don with a shell cover of some sort. It was a partial cover and was more like a backpack than protection. (I have not read IDW 2011, so it is possible there were earlier representations of Don with a shell cover that I am not aware of.)

The second representation of Don with a shell covet was in an animated short by nickelodeon. It came out in 2016 after 2014 Bayverse and showed Don with a metal shell cover. The shell cover resembles rottmnt Don's because it is complete, looks to be protective, and contains parts that can fold out and be hidden such as the speakers.

However, the parts sticking out gives the same shabby, homemade feeling that 2014 Don's shell cover does.

PLEASE BE AWARE that the animated short has a scene making fun of transgender people and drag queens. It seemed transphobic to me but idk. In the scene, Don and Raph dress in drag and Mikey chooses the winner. Raph is made to look dumpy compared to Donnie. Raph wins and shows excitement with stereotypically-feminine gestures like fanning himself and squealing. The short is called "Don vs Raph" and it can be found on youtube in Nickelodeon.

#exclude reblog #analysis and theories #donatello #tmnt bayverse #tmnt 2014 #rottmnt #tmnt screenshot #tmnt gifs #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt screenshot #bayverse donnie

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crowleys-hips · 6 months

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ok i know everyone's analyzed the shit out of the Job minisode. but i think everyone has overlooked this Very Important detail, and it's this:

do you see it?

golden kermit collar

thank you for listening

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omar-rudeberg · 1 month

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ok but the way they've been on again off again for three seasons specifically shrouded in the colours of the swedish flag - showing us the monarchy has intruded on their relationship. even the good, even the private, and always, always the bad and the ugly.

💙💛

makes this white flag moment of surrender even more powerful. they're stripped of this blue and gold brushed over them by society, colourless and allowed to create their own existence - together, a blank slate. themselves, again and only - forever.

🤍🤍

#I know you've missed me xoxo colour theory lili #young royals #Young royals analysis #Colour theory #Young royals s3 #Young royals season 3

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angelltheninth · 3 months

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FUCK! I gotta talk about Charlie's power!

She stopped Adam at his full strength here, and he seemed genuinely scared and confused by her. Charlie is fairly young compared to Adam and her dad so it's very likely that the demon form she showed in this fight is just a part of her power and not the full thing. I man look at her arm!

Also no angel wings yet but Viv did say Charlie has them too. We could see them in season 2! And see more of how powerful she actually is. Now it makes sense why she's only bested by her parents. She's a powerhouse of character and we've only seen a fraction if it.

#hazbin hotel #charlie morningstar #hazbin hotel charlie #hazbin charlie #hazbin hotel analysis #hazbin hotel theory #hazbin hotel spoilers

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risestarkiss · 5 months

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"This Whole Situation"

Rise Ramblings #1

So as you guys know, one occurring phrase in the show between the boys and April is “This whole situation.” Although vague, and used in many other contexts, sometimes the family uses the phrase to refer to their mutations.

However, once finishing the series it’s hard to miss that Donnie never says the phrase. Now, I could be wrong (and If I am, just comment and let me know!) but I have a theory as to why Donnie doesn’t say it… Donnie never says “this whole situation” because in his mind, there IS no situation.

The Evidence:

I started noticing something interesting about Donnie’s state of mind about himself.

He never really expresses that he’s different from other people, he’s just…him. Obviously, he knows that he’s a mutant, but it’s not something at the front of his mind. I associate it to if someone has a certain attribute, that person is just that, a person first. I believe it’s the same for Donnie. He’s a person, that just so happens to be a mutant turtle, and I live for it.

What made me solidify my theory was the use of disguises in Rise, specifically the use of disguises in April’s school.

All of the boys have visited April’s school, and all of them decided to wear disguises, except Donnie.

He just shows up in his regular clothing. One could argue that the hoodie is his disguise, but then why did the rest of the boys wear actual (silly) disguises while our boy Donnie is just like, “Hoodie? Check.” And not only that, but for the whole episode, all eyes are on him, and he just. Doesn’t. Care. It’s glorious!

Later, in the episode Donnie vs. Witch Town, we see that Donnie showing up all willy-nilly pell-mell at April’s school was not a one-time thing. It’s literally been happening for years!

Therefore, I believe that canonically Donnie doesn’t care about “this whole situation.” And if someone does, as far as he’s concerned that’s their problem, not his.

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Part Two: On His Own Terms

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OK OK OK OK-

Ok is ANYONE else talking about the “evil coffee” theory yet??? Or is that just the discord I’m in

Cause like…. Who the FUCK puts THAT much emphasis on a RANDOM CUP OF COFFEE??

I mean Aziraphale literally says “I made my position clear” and then Metaron is immediately like “aAAH, but I brought you.. an OAT milk LaTé 👹” with foreboding music and ominous shots like some scene straight out of a fucking Disney movie, OH Kay… I see you you Jafar sounding bitch 😭😂

#PLEASE rewatch that scene #he sounds so hilariously evil #it is so obvious on rewatch #good omens #gos2 spoilers #season 2 #episode 6 #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #Mettatron #Disney princess aziraphale #biceratops #analysis #meta #evil coffee #coffee theory

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My thoughts on the other masks, Aka: The true purpose of the Masked children and the Pretender:

I believe that the owners of the other masks were definitely ASSOCIATED with the Lady, but aren’t previous Ladies. Six isn’t the next Lady either. And I have proof.

In Little Nightmares 1, Six can wear five different masks (not counting the switch exclusive pac man mask); A Scarecrow Sack, a Teapot, a Tengu Mask, a Fox Mask and the Rascal Mask/The Lady’s mask, and a common theory is that the Masks belonged to previous incarnations of the Lady. In Very Little Nightmares we can even find jack-in-the-boxes containing these masks, connected to bodies that are presumably what the previous mask wearers would have looked like.

But I have some small problems with this theory.

First of all, we see jack-in-the-boxes of all the previous mask wearers as children…

….except the Lady, who does have their own jack-in-the-box, but is instead shown as an adult.

The Lady in the jack-in-the-box is bigger than the other mask wearers, and her arms are longer. This is the Lady as an adult instead of a child like the rest, which begs the question of why this is the case. Why is the current Lady the only one shown as an adult?

And this isn’t the only time where the Lady is shown as larger and more prominent than that other mask wearers.

There’s also this picture of the Lady and a bunch of other figures in kimonos that (presumably) represent the previous Ladies.

Just like in the jack-in-the-boxes, The Lady is shown as being much taller than the others. She’s the oldest one in the picture, which doesn’t make any sense if she replaced the previous Ladies. If that was the case, she’d be of equal height or even shorter, to show that she’s the newest Lady that replaced the older ones.

So the Lady most likely never replaced a previous lady, but instead predates the other mask wearers. She’s older than all of them.

There’s also the fact that in-game, Six cannot acquire any masks except the rascal mask. You can only use in-game them if you pay for them out-of-game. Six isn’t supposed to have these masks. She cannot acquire them herself unless YOU, an outside, non-canon force, gives them to her. She isn’t supposed to be able to acquire these masks.

There’s also the secret apartment you can find in Little Nightmares 2:

This apartment contains (among other things); a statue of the (current, geisha masked) Lady, a paper covered in Japanese symbols, a Glitching Remain, and a picture of the (current, geisha masked) Lady.

If the Lady was a child like Six, who entered the Maw and killed the previous Lady, becoming the new one in the process, How is this apartment here? It shows the Lady as an adult, mask and all, and it’s miles from the Maw. It even contains stuff that can only be found on the Maw (the statue). The Lady would never willingly go to the Pale City (they view the Pale City and the mainland in general as “chaos”) and they definitely wouldn’t bring stuff like that statue with them if they did. This apartment implies that the Lady came to the Maw not only as an adult, but as they currently are, mask and powers included.

This apartment single handily throws a massive wrench into the entire “The Maw has a constant cycle of Ladies” theory because it implies that this cycle started with the current Lady, who came to the Maw as an adult with their powers and mask already available to them, completely invalidating the existence of the “previous four Ladies”.

So who are the previous mask wearers?

Well. Tell me. Where we find these jack-in-the-boxes that show the full bodies of the mask wearers?

That’s right, The Nest.

And guess which child lives there. A child that the jack-in-the-boxes were most likely made for…

That’s right, The Pretender. Who we already know is the Lady’s daughter.

The other mask wearers are children that have a strong connection to the Lady, and can be found in the exact place where her daughter lives. The other mask wearers were most likely children of the Lady. The other mask wearers were Pretenders.

But there’s more evidence that previous mask wearers were directly related to the Lady. There’s also the pictures of the Lady’s daughter. (A different one).

(I know that the model used in the picture is the same model used for the flashlight girl, but I think that’s a red herring. They share models for the same reasons as the Lady’s true face being the same as the Granny’s. They only use the same model because of Tarsier Studios themselves having time/budget constraints and using already available material. You aren’t supposed to get close enough to the flashlight girl to see her properly. You aren’t supposed to get close enough to the Granny to see her face. Etc.)

We already know that the girl in these pictures isn’t Six or Rcg, but instead a completely different character with their own story. They were the Lady’s daughter, the original owner of Six’s raincoat before even Rcg found it, and died long before the events of the games, quite possibly to her mother’s own hands.

Now, if all the previous mask wearers were the Lady’s own children, it would make sense for her to be one as well, but where’s her mask and jack-in-the-box?

Starting with her mask, the most obvious answer is that the Pretenders are given masks at a certain age, and she just happened to die before she got one. This would explain why the Pretender doesn’t wear a mask either.

There’s also the possibility that the switch exclusive pakku mask was her mask, but I’m still hesitant to call it canon given how it’s switch exclusive, unlocked via an amiibo and also a reference to Pac Man.

But the best answer here is that we’ve been seeing that mask the entire time. It’s her raincoat. More specifically the raincoat’s hood.

Whenever Six and Rcg are wearing the raincoat, the raincoat’s hood is shown to do a pretty good job of covering their faces, and I’d compare it to something like the Scarecrow Hood. All Six and Rcg need to do is wear it a bit differently and their faces would be completely covered.

As for the jack-in-the-box, we can find it in Very Little Nightmares just like the others:

And it’s right here.

Now you may be saying, “That’s obviously Shadow Six!” but the thing is, that can’t be Shadow Six because Shadow Six doesn’t exist at this point in the timeline. Shadow Six is created when Six gets captured by the Thin Man, which judging by the marks on the wall in Six’s room in the Hunter’s cabin, happens more than a month after the events of Very Little Nightmares.

It can’t be depicting Shadow Six because they don’t exist yet.

It can’t be depicting Six in general because they don’t have their raincoat yet.

It can’t be depicting Rcg because this is their first time in the Nest and they have no connection to the Lady.

This is a jack-in-the-box of the Girl in the Pictures. Shown wearing her raincoat, which she used as a mask. The Girl in the Pictures was a Pretender just like the other mask wearers.

There’s also the area that we find the jack-in-the-box of the Scarecrow child.

[I can’t show the picture because the picture limit on tumblr sucks and I need to only show the essentials, so here’s a link that shows the picture instead.]

Anyways, right behind the jack-in-the-box you can see a picture of the Pretender with her head missing, the area where it should be instead being ripped away until you can only make out their chin. It seems strange for a picture of the Pretender to be here, especially in this damaged condition, but what if I told you that that isn’t a picture of the Pretender, but instead the Scarecrow Child herself? And she’s wearing the exact same dress as the Pretender, drawing an obvious connection between the two of them.

The picture is in this back room because the Scarecrow child is long dead, and pictures of the current Pretender have been set up in their place. It’s damaged for possibly the same reasons. It’s been here in a back room for ages, and age has taken its toll on the picture.

There’s also a chance that it was damaged because of who the picture contained. With no (completely canonical) depictions of previous pretenders besides the jack-in-the-boxes, it’s clear that someone is covering up their existences after their deaths. The destruction of this picture is proof of that. If a pretender that came after the Scarecrow child found this picture in its damaged condition, they’d see a damaged picture of themselves. After all, all they can see in that picture is their dress, and they can’t see the face enough to realize that that isn’t them in the picture.

If this damaged picture is a picture of a previous pretender and not the current one, it explains some things about how this all works. One, the pretenders start off all wearing the same (or at least an identical) dress, and two, given how both the Scarecrow child in the picture and the current Pretender wear this green dress but no mask, while all the masked pretenders wear a face covering but no green dress, instead all wearing unique clothing, there’s a point where they trade in the dress for a mask (and clothing) of their choosing.

But what about Six being able to wear the rascal mask? Simple. That mask isn’t meant to resemble the Lady’s mask, it’s meant to resemble a Shadow Kid.

Shadow Kids have masks that resemble the Lady’s mask (which also gives us more evidence that the Lady predates the other mask wearers since Shadow Kids are only ever seen with geisha masks). The rascal mask is also the perfect size for a Shadow Kid, since they’re Six sized and need a Six sized mask.

Plus think about how you get the rascal mask. You smash ten of these statues of the Lady.

When smashing these statues (which once again are shown to only resemble the current, geisha masked Lady) , a small cloud of black smoke is produced, which resembles the same smoky-shadow-stuff that Shadow Kids are made of. It’s possible that by smashing these statues, you’re releasing something that becomes a Shadow Kid. Every time Six smashes a statue, she unknowingly creates a Shadow Kid, and upon smashing all of them she receives the mask of a Shadow Kid as a reward, possibly from the Shadow Kids that she’s released.

As some proof of this, we can go back to the Lady’s apartment in the Pale City. A statue that’s completely identical to the ones found in the Maw can be found there, but this one has one major difference; no black smoke is created when you smash it. However, a Glitching Remain can be found directly in front of the statue, and judging by how similar Glitching Remains and Shadow Kids are (just compare Shadow Six (who is a Glitching Remain) and an actual Shadow Kid), it’s possible that this Glitching Remain in front of the statue is (or at least WAS) a Shadow Kid, which formed when the statue cracked in some way before Mono found it, which released the stuff inside and created a Shadow Kid, which then got “caught” by the transmission, losing its free will and ability to move around and gaining the glitchy appearance of a Glitching Remain in the process. By the time Mono finds it, it’s completely indistinguishable from a Glitching Remain.

So just to recap things:

Six’s geisha mask is the mask of a Shadow Kid, not the Lady’s mask like we all thought.

The “Previous Ladies” were all actually the current (and only) Lady’s children, Pretenders. There’s only ever been one Lady, who came to the Maw as an adult with their geisha mask and shadow powers and took it over.

The Lady has had six children in the past; The Scarecrow Hooded child, the Teacup Wearing child, the Tengu Masked child, the Fox Masked child, the Raincoat Wearing child (not Six or Rcg) and the Pretender.

The Raincoat Wearing child is unique in some way. They’re the only one depicted in the Lady’s quarters and strangely enough, have their eyes crossed out in one of the pictures, implying that they did something that resulted in the Lady despising them and quite possibly killing them herself. Something that resulted in Rcg eventually finding their raincoat on the mainland, far away from the Maw and the Nest.

Judging by the fate of the Pretender’s father (he’s confirmed by a bunch of pictures in the Nest to be the Hanging Man found in the Maw), the Lady uses a man to have a child, and then kills him once the child is born and he’s no longer useful (the Hanging Man is a faked suicide, as the chair isn’t kicked away, yet he’s high above the ground). This means that all of the Pretenders are stepsisters.

All of the Lady’s children start out wearing the same green dress, and at some point they ditch the dress and choose a face covering of some sort, along with clothing that isn’t a dress.

Based on how we only see these pretenders as children and never as adults, they all somehow die before adulthood, only for the Lady to cover up their existence and have another child. And they always seem to die AFTER receiving their masks, with the current Pretender being an outlier.

But two big questions remain now.

How is the Raincoat Wearing child different and what did they do?

WHY!? What is the purpose of all of this? Why does the Lady keep having children and giving them Masks, only for them to die? What does she get out of it? Why is it HER children specifically when she has an entire building AND an entire submarine FULL of children?

Answering the second question first, I’ve come to a horrifying conclusion.

The Lady is the one killing her own children. And she’s using them to stay young.

What if the reason the Lady is so distressed about her own appearance in Secrets of the Maw is because she HAD a way to keep her face looking young with the rest of her body, but because of recent events, ie the Pretender’s death in VLN and whatever the Raincoat Wearing child did, she’s lost the ability to use it twice in a row now, and without her way of keeping herself young, the effects of her age are finally showing up because she’s been cut off from her ability to restore herself.

[tumblr image limit sucks, here’s a link to a picture of the Lady’s real face, courtesy of the Little Nightmares Wiki]

As for why she’s using her own children instead of any other child in the Maw, the current Pretender may have the answer. The Pretender is shown to be capable of vaporizing anything she touches, and I’ve brought up in other posts that she may actually be turning them into nomes instead of vaporizing them, but you can’t tell because of the limitations of the VLN art style. Point is, she has powers similar to the Lady, and most likely inherited them her mother. So what if in order for the Lady to make her face younger, she needs to kill/consume/absorb a child with similar powers as her.

And since the only other way we see for children to gain the Lady’s powers is by killing and consuming her, which the Lady definitely wants to avoid, she instead has a child, knowing that they’ll inherit her powers and waits for them to grow to a certain age, before giving them a mask and consuming them, making herself appear younger in the process. Then she has another child and does it again.

Moving on to the first question, I think the Raincoat Wearing child somehow figured that out and tried to escape.

Just a small list of we know about the Raincoat Wearing child and what sets them apart from the others:

They seem to have been raised in the Maw instead of the Nest.

The Lady doesn’t really try to cover up their existence after their death, unlike her other children.

They did something that resulted in the Lady despising them, possibly leading to the Lady killing them.

However they died, it may have prevented the Lady from consuming them or otherwise using them to appear younger.

Other children in the Maw know about them, and they don’t exactly have the best opinion of them. Six was originally turned away at the campfire by the other children, with them saying that she “doesn’t belong here”, until one of them got a good look at her and presumably realized that she wasn’t the Raincoat Wearing child, but rather a completely different child wearing the same raincoat.

So it is my theory that the Raincoat Wearing child was a pretender that was raised in the Maw instead of the Nest for some reason that I can’t quite nail down. While they were there, they somehow learned about the Lady’s plan for them and attempted to escape the Maw, encountering other children and becoming infamous among them in the process. But in the end, in didn’t matter. They failed to escape the Maw and the Lady killed them, but not in the correct way for the Lady to consume them and rejuvenate herself. Maybe she was too young, maybe she needed to die in a certain way (possibly involving the obsidian mirror that Six uses to kill the Lady), maybe it was a mix of both, but the Lady couldn’t use the Raincoat Wearing child in her ritual. Upon her death, her raincoat fell into the ocean and was lost.

The Lady never covered up the existence of the Raincoat Wearing child like the rest of her children because they were raised in the Maw, where no other pretenders have or were ever going to be raised. There was simply no point in doing so.

But that’s not the end of the Lady’s problems. Her downfall starts with the Raincoat Wearing child’s death, because her raincoat comes back. It’s eventually found on the mainland by Rcg, who ends up being responsible for the next Pretender’s death, meaning that the Lady has lost her chance to rejuvenate herself a second time now. And after that the raincoat ends up back aboard the Maw, now being worn by Six, who manages to kill and consume the Lady just like she had done to all her children.

[The Little Nightmares franchise is a story about a raincoat, which originally belonged to a child who got murdered, and eventually ended up being worn by the person that ended up killing its original owner’s murderer.]

#little nightmares #analysis and theories #the Lady #the pretender #the lady’s daughter #THERE IS NO CYCLE OF LADIES #THERE IS NO LADY SIX #AND THERE IS NO QUEEN OF ENGLAND #I slowly lost my mind as I made this #because stuff just started clicking together and #I had to get my ideas out #anyways the Pretender is a glorified anti aging skin cream for the Lady #I was slowly drawing more parallels between Belos and the Lady as I made this #turns out she fits as Belos in my Owl House AU more than I originally thought #This started as a post where I tried to disprove Six becoming the Lady #just thought I’d give you all that bonus fact #the Raincoat is the true protagonist of all the games

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