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krakenator · 5 years

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CHAPTER 1 aka “Stranger Danger”

I’m rereading The Property of Hate by @modmad and overanalyzing it to hell and back because i can’t stop thinking about the story and getting madder and madder about the PUNS I keep finding. I’m scratching the itch and trying to find All The Details. Current plan is just to go chapter by chapter, feel free to chime in with stuff I miss! There’ll be a masterpost up soon linking everything in one spot

SPOILERS are sprinkled around extremely liberally. Masterpost

Okay, so just a million things right off the bat on page fucking one

‘The Hook’ is of course a term for the beginning of a story. Grabbing one’s attention and convincing them to go off on an adventure, so to speak

Speechboxes! Everybody’s got their own distinctive ‘way of speaking’ in this story. RGB’s are rectangular, but those straight edges are offset by these really loopy, meandering, and elegant speech tails. It’s just. Such immediate characterization.

Like, even the pose. The way RGB introduces himself by crouching on her drawers like an incredibly dapper gremlin. It creates a similar contrast to his speechbubbles- prim and proper existing simultaneously with fae and kinda ridiculous

So considering we’ve got a fairly detailed picture of roses up on Hero’s wall on the comics opening page I think we can assume this is some type of Important maybe. Just off the top of my head, isn’t the rose Englands national flower? IDK how relevant that is outside of RGB being incredibly, incredibly British

Oh god damnit I just scrolled down to go to the next page and fffFFFUCKING BLUE ROSES ON THE BUTTONS okay. Blue rose symbolism! They don’t exist naturally. You won’t just find one in the wild outdoors, so they represent the impossible, the mysterious and achievable.

Seeing blue roses right off the bat = important story theme probably. Impossible dreams are my first thought. RGB’s seemingly hopeless plan to save a world everyone else has given up to be doomed. Hero’s wish to go the fuck back home please after she’s had her fill of deadly adventure. RGB and Hero are setting out to achieve the impossible, defeat Her, and save the World of Make Believe

Last point for the first page; RGB’s drool. Except it’s not drool, we later learn it’s equivalent to blood, and he bleeds emotions he’s feeling. While recruiting Hero, RGB’s prominent feelings are, unsurprisingly in hindsight, a fair load of sadness but tinged with a dose of cheer. His last Hero failed, and every single one before that, but he’s still daring to have hope, the absolute madman. What he’s actually dripping most though is what looks like curiosity- it may be mixed with a bit of anger, which I wouldn’t begrudge the guy. Angry that he has to start over, again, angry that his world is dying, angry that he’d the only one doing anything about it

Ok but imagine you woke up to find a man crouched on your bedside table smiling this super-wide “TRUST ME!! :)” smile and blood dribbling out of it and welling up between the teeth. Like, I’m laughing, but I’d be screaming

OKAY BUT FINALLY WE’RE PAST THE FIRST PAGE. We get a clear look at Hero’s drawings taped to the wall, and check it- one kinda looks like the Idea they run into a few chapters ahead. The other picture might also be showing the House of Paint? I mean, there’s a sun there so that’s off, but the clouds and steps leading up to Madras’ door look right

And now we get Hero’s speechboxes! They’re circular in contrast to RGB’s boxes, and colored orange. The balloon tails don’t loop-de-loop all over the page like RGBs but they’re not ‘standard’ either- there’s always this little jag to them closer to the text

RGB’s speechbubbles are actually one of the plainest/most conventional in the entire story

Excluding the tails of course. Those never ever take the most direct or efficient path to his face. Yeah, it adds an impression of silliness, but also speaks to the fact that RGB takes creative and weird solutions out of situations. I’ll laugh about the entire Click arc later but like really. REALLY. RGB DID ALL OF THAT

I love how Hero’s first actual words to RGB send him immediately into ?????????????. He keeps up this huge grin for most of The Hook and this is the first time his “I’m your friendly neighborhood TV nothing to see here!!” demeanor gets shaken up

the ladder hurts Hero’s feet, so why does she sleep on the top bunk? The bottom bunk doesn’t have any bedding on it so it’s not like she’s regulated to the top by any kind of sibling dibs

Weird... weird detail to be showing us modmad.....

“Are you a monster?” “the very worst one” that’s a lotta blue dripping off yer chin there, stop crying

The mom is a character for two (2) seconds and even she gets her own unique speechbox; blue, fuzzy and barely connected, which does a really great job of communicating that she’s basically still asleep without ever having to see her

‘happy boi about to bring newest kidnapping to the sky world’

That’s a Mary Poppins reference, that is. RGB exclaiming ‘spit spot!’ earlier also got be thinking of Poppins

Clouds look so fluffy out of airplane windows, I’m honestly jealous

Doors! Gotta wonder where they all lead. Gotta wonder if they’ll get more use past this outside Hero’s recovery Time

I’ve just spend like 15m trying to figure out what the symbols above the doors are and I THINK it’s alchemy? “libra sign upside down” is luckily an easily searchable term, and that symbol in particular is for gas becoming liquid

I think the door beyond that has the alchemical symbol for gold? I’m not having luck on the others, including the door they actually go through here/its sister door Hero opens after the Elastic Valley fiasco.

RGB are you pissed that you had to tell this kid your name yourself? Are you upset about manners?? She’s like 7 dude cmon have you met a 7 year old. Thinking about it, possibly not, all the confirmed Other Heroes are definitely older- they all come across to me as adults

well, actually, who even knows how old Assok is. They might be the exception

The little ‘peephole’ eye popping open when the right key is close is nice atmospheric detail, but it kinda makes me wonder if there’s a person like. Seeing out of that eye. Whether someone gets a little notification every time one of these doors is opened

It’s the World of Make Believe! Stupendous! Break-taking! Modmad is exceptional at colors and beautiful environments full of personality! Hero’s last chance to turn back is gone!

Hero only being awake for 20 minutes before becoming Instantly Tired = biggest actual mood, my god. Me too sweetie

Except I can’t blame trees. And a sort of magical jet-lag effect. Yo, are sleeping tree’s making you sleepy the same sorta thing where when one person yawns everyone yawns

I just really like how this tail loops around RGB’s physical actual legs. It makes it seem like speech is a tangible thing that interacts with the world and that you could, like, touch or something. all it’s missing is a shadow

God, fuck me. That’s the yellow brick road. God dammit. Son of a bitch.

RGB, pg 14: do not touch me, do not look at me, don’t speak to me, you have tentative permission to breathe

RGB from the Market onwards: carries her multiple times (admittedly, almost always exactly like you shouldn’t), picks her up, swings her around, hugs her when she’s scared of the dark, ‘I Have Longer Legs, Hop On’ piggybacks, protecting her by putting his own bod in harms way, general Manhandling of Child

I kid, I kid, it’s more complex than that. For one, RGB doesn’t want Hero getting hurt cause she’s Important and has Heroing she can’t do if she’s injured. Second, that whole “don’t get attached” thing gets thrown out the window on like day 2

“I’ve only known Hero for a day and a half but if anything happened to her I’d kill everyone in this room and then myself”

RGB is honestly... super bad at not attaching to people. honestly, actually terrible at it

Ooh! Those flowers! I didn’t realize those always happen when Hero’s sleeping. They also look like she’s drawn them herself! That’s honestly… lethally adorable

Fun fact technicolor dream shell snail changes colors every panel

RGB bleeds static? What emotion is that? I dig it, unconscious is an emotion and i feel it in my soul

w...white noise.... god DAMMIT

ey, the tree’s look different in the light of day- all those blurry fairy light ‘leaves’ are gone now.

!! Hero glows the exact same way when she’s asleep! RGB, however, is not. Tree’s have leaves when they dream, huh

oh god tree’s have LEAVES when they DREAM

...we’ll come back to this thought when we get to the sick sun tree cause that thing is a whole other can of Lore worms

In a different direction, there must be some sort of difference between Tree Dreaming and People Dreaming, because dreaming trees do NOT trigger RGB’s weird stuntman nightmares

these particular trees are also see-through; i can’t remember if they’re all like this throughout the world? will have to pay attention and see

oh- OH. also just made the connection for why trees provide a saf(er) haven- bottled nightmares will very shortly be used to dispel fears. Dreams repel Fears! It’s best to sleep near tree’s because just you dreaming might not be enough to keep things at bay while your rest

And the chapter’s finished off with a new character and new speechbox to go with it! It’s the first to use a different font and text color to our main characters

Honestly though, what is UP with the Butterfly? It’s clearly keeping close tabs on them, and only speaks to Hero when RGB is unconscious or otherwise occupied. It clearly doesn’t wanna be seen by him, which is shady. It shows up like twice? And the other time RGB and Hero don’t even know it’s there and listening. Between that and the Eyes, like… does it have it’s own agenda and interests or is it an agent of Hate? Idk man maybe I’ll pick up on more Butterfly stuff on this readthrough

*notices that the plant it was resting on withers once it flies away* ... that’s no good. especially if that butterfly can do the same to trees

...... ah. it kinda can. Consider, please, Hate’s likely role in the demise of the Sun, and Her confirmed ability to smother them in [-----]

Butterfly’s parting words: “be wise”. Hero’s next and immediate action: doodle RGB’s face

And that’s the Hook! Join me next time when Hero has a fun play date with some new friends everything goes wrong almost instantly.

#tpoh #the property of hate #tpoh meta #the specific tag for this adventure will be...#tpoh time with Gill #i assure all of you i make these posts out of love

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krakenator · 5 years

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CHAPTER 12 aka “Stop n’ Shop 2: Electric Boogaloo”

SPOILERS are sprinkled around extremely liberally for The Property of Hate

Masterpost here

This one might just be my favorite 4th wall lean in the entire comic honestly

This page in general man. RGB you have UTTERLY failed in the “don’t get attached” department. That’s your child now and you just gotta accept it

(squints at Miss Cell-Any’s) (says it out loud) … >:|

Also …is Cell named Cell because it sounds like ‘sell’ and she sells things? fuck

There has to be a carousel pun in here somewhere and I am not yet grasping it. My third eye isn’t open wide enough

Cell keeps on snagging fabric onto her quills lmao

… is her face a pencil

WELP alright, Assok confirmed for the Hero just before, uh, Hero

Tailor is the Fashion Police

Gotta appreciate Cell and Tailor speaking in my personal favorite color, porble. Cell is spikey with quills, while Tailor is deeper purple and shaped like a flag/fabric

Something tells me Tailor and Julienne would get along excellently, to RGB’s dismay

I like how Tinker’s another composite character like Melody- he’s got hammers, awls, and crowbars for feet/hands and rulers/drills for legs. His arms are saw and his head is a plier

On that note how do his sleeves not get shredded?

The puns. The puns, this entire chapter is an overdose of puns

“Rabbits foot” har har

Now… that’s interesting

We saw with Watcher that RGB’s traded hand morphed to fit his aesthetic and body immediately. Here, the rabbits foot certainly transforms to become the hand RGB needs, but its color remains. Considering RGB is able to change his colors at will, and does so to his shirt a few pages later, this means the foot hasn’t, like, fully integrated. Like a new organ rejecting him

actually, in light of this entire chapter RGB entire OUTFIT is weird. His pants and sleeves are constantly rolled up because he’s short, but wouldn’t they have adjusted to fit RGB’s body? You could argue that this is just RGB’s aesthetic and he likes it this way, but now we find out that treating your clothes like this is bad and even detrimental to your safety. And there is NO WAY RGB would purposefully compromise his own safety like this. Not when he KNOWS he will find himself in dangerous situations trying to get his Heroes to their journeys end. Maybe he wouldn’t need to be so reliant on nightmares to counter Fears if he had better amour

In fact the only clothing (outside of shoes/suspenders/gloves) that seem to fit RGB perfectly is his jacket, the outermost layer and presumably his most potent amour. As far as I can tell it is well tailored BUT I don’t know anything about suit fittings so its possible its ALSO not fitted well to him

He certainly wasn’t keen to let Cell & Co know he’d been wrinkling his shirt something awful, so he knows what he’s doing. Theoretically, if RGB was purposefully sabotaging his outfits ability to protect him… why? What could be more important?

Yeah okay and the rabbit foot is also a “caught red-handed pun”

Going through modmads asks on her tumblr, her answer to someone asking if Hero/RGB would ever wear a dress or skirt: “Of course he would, he just has very particular taste and there might be other complications but we’ll get to that”

GODDAMNIT THE CAROUSEL PUN IS THEY’RE PUTTING THE [—–] THE CARE-O’-CELL

Aww, love and care are what makes clothes into amour, which is also French for… love. I didn’t actually read it right until now, I always assumed it was armour. That’s a whole extra letter, dumbass. it didn’t help that Hero heard RGB say the word and thought “KNIGHT ARMOUR” so this was… on purpose on modmads part damn her.

The audio in my head for this page is the Mii shop theme with the occasional bloodcurdling scream

On that note why can’t RGB take his shirt off for ironing? Is he physically unable to? Or is Tailor just doing it this way for maximum petty revenge. Ironing just a little hotter and harder than she technically needs to? For his own good of course!

Also his scream-text is dripping up a little, like, oh I don’t know, a certain negadark TV head we’re acquainted with. I know its water+vents=Neggy and this effect is mostly for conveying SHEER BLOODCURDLING PAIN AND VOLUME bc RGB is a bastard baby boy, but. Could you imagine RGB kicking up such an incredible fuss that Negative shows up just to check on things anyway??

Ok MEANWHILE, Hero’s jumper adjusts to her instantly- you can actually see it gaining an outline here to match the rest of her!

“it becomes you very well” this section of the comic probably has the highest pun concentration of the lot and i’m >:|

omgfds the INSTANT Cell is like “huh that’s like how Madras wears” Heros like I LOVE IT

Assok using Melofy’s sforzando as a noise of distress o no

Hero wanted to show RGB her outfit and RGB complimenting it fsggafjkgdffff

RGB’s struggle with sleeves is the exact same one I have with pants. THEY’RE ALWAYS TOO DANG LONG

In another world where RGB didn’t whisk Tailor away to another reality to ultimately get trapped and torn apart they would be BEST FRENEMIES. Just having dumb fun at each others expense with puns

Hero gets in his personal space bubble to fix his problem and he just! Lets her! No comment, no shying away, he lets her and he leans in to give her better access once he realizes what she’s doing and he THANKS HER. This is truly the most blessed of sequences and my heart is so full

First a rabbit foot, now horseshoes- honestly, im on board with plying RGB with all the luck-affecting objects one can possibly think of. The guy isn’t Gladstone Gander, he DEFINITELY needs all the luck he can get

On wearing wood shoes to get through the elastic valley- at first I was like ?? bc we KNOW Nothing is stronger than trees, but we later see that their shoes, RGB’s wooden horsehoes especially, get worn down and chipped. That its meant as a TEMPORARY measure to get them through and not a permanent protection makes more sense

RGB is doing the most DADLIEST of DAD POSES HERE. Look at this guy! Smiling genuinely, open body language, offering to carry Hero’s beloved galoshes for her. (bangs fists on table to the rhythm of DAD DAD DAD)

click next to see RGB get nails jammed into his feet, as you do

#tpoh #tpoh time with Gill #the property of hate

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