*deep breath in*
the fears 👏 have always 👏 been (in one way or another) 👏 parallel 👏 to 👏 desire 👏
let me explain.
so many of the statements given by actual avatars center around some sort of need that was met by their entity. Lots of them even had a positive relationship with the fear that drove them.
Jane Prentiss is an excellent example - the Corruption has always been about a form of toxic and possessive love, but she personally has a deep desire to be “fully consumed by what loves her,” and finds a perverse joy and relief at allowing herself to be a home
Jude Perry is another - she fucking loved watching people’s lives be utterly destroyed. The Desolation only offered her a power of destruction on a grander scale, and then gave her a more intense rush of joy as she did its work. When she tells Jon that he needs to feed the Eye before it feeds on him, it’s almost as an afterthought; she was happily feeding the Desolation long before it burned her into a new existence.
Simon Fairchild. Every time that old loose bag of bones wanders into the picture, he is having a fucking EXCELLENT time playing with the Vast. He loves showing people their own insignificance, and he loves luring them into situations where he can throw them into the void as he smiles and waves.
Peter Lukas (hell, the whole Lukas family (except Evan. RIP Evan.)) hated. people. all he wanted was for them all to go away, to leave him alone. The Lonely only fulfilled that desire.
Daisy, Trevor, and Julia, all devoted to hunting those things they deemed monstrous.
Melanie, holding tight to that bullet in her leg because on some level, she wanted it. It felt good, it felt right, it felt like it fit right alongside the anger and spite that drove her to success.
Annabelle Cane first encountered the Web when she was a child, running away from home in order to tug on her parents’ heartstrings in just the right way to have them wrapped around her little finger. Later on she volunteered to be the subject of an ESP study. Hell, she’s the one who dangled the “Is it really You that wants this?” question over Jon’s head in S4.
And that brings us to Jon, beloved Jarchivist, the Voice that Opened the Door. Ever since he was a child targeted by the Web, he was looking for answers. He joined the Magnus Institute’s Research Department looking for them, he stalked his coworkers in search for them, he broke into Gertrude’s flat and laptop out of desperation for them. And when he realized that all he had to do was Ask to get truthful answers to his questions? It was only natural for him to jump at that opportunity.
Elias told S3 Jon that he did want this, that he chose it, that at every crossroads he kept pushing onwards, and the inner turmoil that caused was one of the focal points for Jon’s character through the rest of the podcast.
There’s a certain line of thinking in many circles about the power of the Devil: he’s not able to create anything new. All he’s able to do is twist and warp that which was already present, making it something ugly and profane while still maintaining the facade of something desirable.
Jon didn’t choose the Eye. But he did wander into its realm of power, exhibiting exactly the qualities it was most capable of hijacking and warping to its own ends. Jon didn’t choose the Apocalypse. But Jonah picked at him little by little, pointing him towards each Fear individually. Jon didn’t want to release the Fears. But the Web tugged on his strings just so and laid a pretty trail for him to follow until he reached its desired conclusion.
Jon didn’t choose ultimate power, or omniscience, or even his own role as Head Archivist. But he said “yes” to the right (wrong?) orders and kept on pushing for the right (wrong?) answers. He wanted to succeed at the work he had been assigned. He wanted to protect his friends. He wanted to rescue them when they were lost. He wanted to prevent the apocalypse, to save the world. He wanted to know why he was still alive, when so many had died right in front of him.
The Great Wheel of Evil Color that is the Entities might not fit as neatly into categories in this universe - maybe there was no Robert Smirke trying to impose strict categories on emotional experiences, or maybe the ways they manifest in the world has turned on its head (goodness knows many of them have been showcased and blended in some very fun and new and horrifying ways so far) - but their fundamental foundations seem to be the same. Hell, in episode one we learned that there had been enough individual incidents to create a distinction between “dolls, watching” and “dolls, human skin.”
Smirke’s Fourteen isn’t going to be relevant as common parlance, RQ said that already, but I don’t think that means the Fears themselves (and their Dream Logic-based rules) are different - I think it means that the levels of understanding, language used, and personal connections among people “in the know” are going to be entirely unfamiliar
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I love looking at people putting Natsu in those "fire user anime characters who wins" and not saying Natsu.
He literally eats everyone else's fire
I mean yeah but there's a lot of fire users who are also immune to flames so unless the opponent has a extra ability, like Todoroki from mha has ice as well, then the fights gonna come down to who hits best/ who's more resistant and that's not always Natsu
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heyyy thunderon, i wasnt sure who to ask about this so i figured I'd go to you cause you seem to pick up on a LOT of things in tlt. Do you have any idea of the significance of the icons at the start of the chapters in NtN? It's really killing me that i have absolutely no clue why certain skulls show up when they do.
im very flattered you thought of me!! and ill give it a go. i haven’t gone through every chapter and im not confident, but i think a lot of the headers are meant to sorta signify a character/event in that chapter? this is potentially me giving meaning where there is none, but here’s me tentatively picking at some examples:
the 3rd House skull appears as the chapter header on chapters 8/13. chapter 8 is when nona makes the fake radio call to crown and chapter 13 is a crown-centric chapter where she takes care of judith.
chapter 16 (tower symbol) is when ianthe + gideon (aka the Tower Princes) appear on the broadcast.
chapter 20 (1st house skull) is when ianthe arrives (on God’s behalf) and reunites with crown. chapter 21 (3rd house fractured skull) is when we find out crown bugged ianthe.
imho each symbol sorta corresponds with a major event of the chapter, and i think particularly the split house skull image holds a meaning of its own. i think it could sorta symbolizes that tear between allegiances and identities (and identity is a HUGE theme in the novel.) and it actually repeats:
chapter 5 is when we get a HEAVY hint that it’s harrows body. chapter 22 is when nona disguises herself as harrow. chapter 24 is when nona finds gideon. chapter 25 is when gideon wakes up, and we kinda get that sense that she’s not quite what we left with. continuing on:
chapter 23 is when camilla and pal duel (and defeat) ianthe. chapter 28 is when they die and become Paul.
chapter 14 is a regular nona chapter with some hints about her identity thrown in. chapter 19 is when nona has her tantrum and part of alecto’s old memories (fighting with a two-hander) are unleashed. the open tomb symbol also appears again on chapter 32 (when the tomb is actually opened).
maybe its a coincidence or im just forcing it to have meaning, but that’s kinda my take on it at the moment. i might think some more on this later… very interesting!!!
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welcome to the yohaji guilty or innocent case!!!
(Yes there are typos, Yes my class also got the typos, No I don’t care anymore)
Prep!
Here you, the yohaji fandom, will vote whether or not Ranmaru has done the crime (since everyone here isn’t impartial I have high expectations of you all). I also have some puzzles for spice. I will indicate which clue had been originally linked so you can understand how it was made (yes one of the clues doesn’t really work in this format but I’m giving you guys an experience).
Unfortunately, I cannot link the actual form we have to complete since it will be used to grading purposes (and would dox me) so we will be using the tumblr polls system (it will last for a week since I want to make sure everyone in the fandom has a chance to vote since some of us don’t check the tags everyday). And remember
THERE IS A RIGHT ANSWER
(all those who vote wrong get bonked)
(no third option you all must vote, I will not vote so that the results are accurate, references and better quality photos for clue 1 below the cut, you can give your reasoning if you want to further emulate what my class is doing)
RESULTS
(If anyone wants to see the in-depth case file I can post it as well, after I alter it to be postable, just let me know *a little treat to see how bad I am at characterization T^T)
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am i the only one who feels like alex(the world ender guy) was kind of a missed oportunity in vide noir? like, he was set up by johnnie to be a badass gang leader just for him to never even appear in the end, we just got a close up to his face scar
i feel like buck's encounter with the psychic would've been way more powerful if it was alex instead. its implied that johnnie and moonbeam had a relationship ig, but its barely even hinted at, and he never even mentions her. but with johnnie and alex, johnnie actually mentions him and speaks highly of his brother, and says alex will help buck if he sees the red cloth that belonged to johnnie
the fact that all that build up led to buck not even TALKING to alex kinda irks me. imagine how much better the payoff would be if alex had received the cloth instead of moonbeam? if we had seen his reaction to johnnie's death? if he would've helped buck like johnnie said he would? if we saw what johnnie implied alex would do to the guys who black brained his brother? idk man i think we were robbed
im new to the fanbase, so im gonna be very embarassed if this is a topic that already came up here LOLL but i still wanted to get it off my chest💀sry if this ask is messy, i suck at writing down my thoughts lmao
No I gotta agree on that. Like I LOVED seeing Moonbeam and getting know her as her and having all this new information about her (her being part of the World Enders is still wild to me and I love it) and it’s a good scene and all, but I’m still confused as to why they built up Alex so much, especially since this is the first time we’re hearing about him, and he never even got the chance to speak. If it were Dale I’d be a bit more understanding as we know him already (tho not by much cause I would have loved to see more of Dale). But it’s Alex, whose not only the leader of the World Enders but also Johnnie’s (and Dale’s) brother. I would’ve have loved to, you know, actually meet the guy. Especially with how much build up he got. And I GET IT Lord Huron’s lore is meant to be weird and vague and hard to pin down but like. Didn’t need to tease me like that come on
The only reason I could think of was maybe they needed to get Buck on his own again? Like having this the beginning of a war between the World Enders and Z’Oieasu shown or having Buck work with them consistently might have thrown off the tone. It is supposed to be Buck’s story and his own descent into madness. The whole album has this isolated vibe to me, like being alone in a city of people Hard to get that when there’s other people around, especially a group as lively as the world enders. Or maybe they just wanted to include Moonbeam back into the story again lol
GOD I would have loved to see Moonbeam’s scene with Buck done with Alex. I can only imagine how that scene would’ve played out and his reaction to Johnnie’s death. Contrasting Buck’s scene with Johnnie with Alex’s own personality, the possible dynamics, the anger and grief that could arise…..ough
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