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unma · 1 year

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Just watched Manly's playthrough of The Coffin of Andy and Leyley and perhaps I should be worried that I can see a bit of myself and my sister in that.

#I don't hate her #and she's not really manipulative #but man I just #can't shake off that feeling #especially with the Andy's tired of her shit #and Leyley's just #I can't put it into words #the coffin of andy and leyley #unma rambles

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fala-alfredo-pasta · 6 months

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It's that time of the year again

#the coffin of andy and leyley #ashley graves #andrew graves #tcoaal #shitpost #meme #tis the season #BEFORE ANYONE SPAMS MY DMS #It's a horror rpg. Messed up crap is gonna happen that's usually how it goes #this is a joke pls don't take it seriously #thank u #a e i o queue #scheduling this on thanksgiving because it just seems right

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sukei-dot-exe · 7 months

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#little robot thoughts #the coffin of andy and leyley #gravecest #guess who got access to the episode 2 assets #why are we still here #is it just to suffer #shitpost #coffincest #ashley x andrew #mrs graves #tcoaal meme

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nukkibunni · 6 months

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i am going HAM w the art today. one from a couple of days ago 🖤💞💕💝💘💖

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double--blind · 7 months

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(SPOILERS) Ashley, self-esteem, and starvation

So, I adore Ashley. She's this intensely toxic, vicious, cruel, manipulative girl, and her psychology gives me hella brainworms. Andrew's not the only one whose head I wanna crack open and root around lol. She's thrown away the world just to keep her brother by her side, and she'll continue to do worse and worse for the same reason. She's pretty awful! I've been thinking about why, though. How did things get so bad? How did her soul get so dark?

We don't know everything (I'm waiting for those new eps patiently aND CLAWING AT THE WALLS AND FROTHING AT THE MOUTH but whatevs y'know whatevs I'm normal. I'm fine), yet what information we have been given is bumping around my brain like a DVD screensaver on hyperdrive

It's clear from the start that the roots of Ashley's issues lie in her horrible, neglectful upbringing, but it's hinted that even those outside of her family felt the same abt her. I'm lowkey even betting we'll learn later on that she was ostracized by her peers somehow. However, what's most disconcerting, I believe, is how little she was when the results of this alienation are first made apparent to us (bc kids aren't dumb; they notice this stuff oftentimes instinctively, impossibly young, before they even know what it means to be hated), and how devastating the consequences were.

(There's something decidedly childish abt her dream sequence in the "questionable" route—filled with crayon scribbles and rabbit plushies, the metaphors simplistic yet profound—which really hammers in how these sentiments are things that have made a home in her since childhood. Formative subconscious truths.)

Growing up unloved and noticeably unwanted by virtually everyone around her likely left her with a gaping hole in her heart that she'd spend the rest of her life trying to fill. She'd make friends, but she'd always worry that they'd leave her, that they'd betray her, nothing tangible or weighted enough in their connection to trust in its persistence. Why should she expect otherwise? Not even being bound by familial ties ensures affection if her parents are any indication.

Every lesson she'd ever learned had always taught her this: you are easy to abandon. You cannot love and be loved by virtue of your own worth.

You have to rip their affection from their clenched hands if you want it so bad.

This understanding carries with it an undercurrent of degradation, instilling within Ashley a constant, biting inferiority complex which will never fail to be a source of insecurity. She will always be put last. She was difficult to raise, so her parents gave up on raising her. She was difficult to get along with, so her friends gave up on getting along with her.

It's an odd cycle. She's difficult bc she needs to be to get attention, but bc she's difficult, she can't keep it. Not without having whatever fondness she's managed to cultivate within someone fray at the seams, volatile and prone to collapse, bleeding toxicity.

Hence, her relationship w/Andrew.

By being the only reliable constant in her life, caring for her and keeping her company, Andrew essentially became her only source of happiness, and she's since learned not to bother with anyone else. Still, it's dangerous to keep all your eggs in one basket; since he is all she has, she must protect her place in his life with even greater ferocity, which becomes a torturous ordeal when coupled with her damaged self-esteem.

It's apparent in her quarrels with Andrew that she needs constant reassurance that she is wanted in some capacity or perceived in some positive light (getting pouty when Andrew says he's "stuck with her", needing to hear that she's pretty, needing him to "choose her", wanting him to say he loves her back, etc. etc.), yet her insecurity remains, bc unlike her, he's got options. She doesn't think he needs her like she needs him. He's got a gf, their parents love him, her friends love him. Why would he settle for her? What if someone better comes along? Someone she can't scare away?

Wouldn't he just leave her like everyone else?

Even before getting locked in the coffin of their apartment, starvation's been a constant theme in Ashley's life. She's constantly aching for love, and Andrew's the only one who can feed her. When you're forced to fight for a bite to eat or suffer every moment you hunger, you become ravenous—covetous—when faced with food; you don't want the hunger to return, so you lock down the source of your sustenance, wary of its retreat. Ashley's in a permanent state of intense insecurity, always anxious that the love that gives her life will leave her.

Andrew knows Ashley better than anyone else in the world, and it's obvs to everyone and him how desperate Ashley is for him, but I don’t think Andrew has truly, consciously processed the depth of that desperation. It's there buried in his head somewhere no doubt, but rn, he doesn't operate w/the direct awareness that he is everything. He is brother, mother, friend, and soulmate. He is life and love, air and water, everything that is good in the world—everything that there is to justify existence.

It's heartbreaking, in a way, that it's so difficult for Andrew to convince her of his loyalty. This goes further than his tendency to hide his true feelings, bc when push comes to shove, he's at her beck and call. Objectively, he's hers. She doesn't see that bc all she sees is all the ways she can lose him.

So, she gets bratty. She gets pushy, possessive, territorial. Manipulative. Gets under his skin, guilts him to exhaustion, bc she can't see him staying any other way, bc he doesn't get it, bc it works. He bends to her will, for her sake. For now. It's always "for now", bc he'll start slipping away again, and then it'll get worse. She does worse.

Becomes worse.

#honestly??? it's bc he's everything to her that the decay ending where she shoots him is so messed up #so much sadder #I've got something abt that in my drafts somewhere #it might not see the light of day so I'll just say:#imo she isn't shooting Andy‚ she's shooting Andrew #bc if he's so far gone he'd kill her #then her beloved is already dead #the coffin of andy and leyley #tcoaal #ashley graves #coffincest #character analysis #txt post #this is all my interpretation btw hope no one presumes I'm pushing these analyses as fact #to the ppl who read these ty.... you have my heart...... 🫶

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our-shared-coffin · 7 days

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so how do we feel about furries-

#tcoaal #the coffin of andy and leyley #andrew graves #ashley graves #sprite edit #⚰️.coffincollection #i was going to edit the plushies too but i just did not feel like it #furry au #do with this what you will

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dystopia-incognito · 3 months

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Forgive me Tumblr, for I have sinned.

And oh, btw, I might've written a fanfic as well. 👉👈

(please, for the love of everything, let the tags be a warning, okay?)

#the coffin of andy and leyley #andrew graves #ashley graves #im finally drawing again #but at what cost #tcoaal #you guys are so sweet #thank you #im not a writer #i just needed to get this out

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your-favourite-plague · 6 months

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What if little Leyley has so many hairpins because her mom wasn't taking care of her hair and Andy was the one who had to do this, but he didn't really know how to?

#random thoughts #maybe it's refuted/confirmed somewhere idk I still didn't finish the game I just run with my headcanons lmao #the coffin of andy and leyley #tcoaal #ashley graves

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ashleys-coffin · 2 months

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Can’t keep up with the food! (Rip from the latest progress report)

#the coffin of andy and leyley #tcoaal #ashley graves #andrew graves #gravecest #coffincest #rip #these are for the people who think andy isn’t into me tbh #omg it’s just Ashley who’s obsessed with him #we’re mutually obsessive

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momentsofamber · 3 months

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#the coffin of andy and leyley #tcoaal #tcoaal memes #gravescest #coffincest #proship safe #proshippers please interact #okay to reblog #I saw this convo and I just HAD to do this alskjd

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the-grave-of-andrew · 2 months

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I fucking love the new Hozier EP

Based on Hozier's Too Sweet

#andrew rants #andy's art corner #the coffin of andy and leyley #tocaal #andrew graves #i've also made an edit of Leyley and I to this song but i just dont post edits here #also i've decided I'm going to start drawing me in clothes i actually own and wear because why the fuck not #cw: alcohol

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ladynicte · 6 months

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I think the major reason that Andrew doesn't take his mother's "Olive Branch" even on the murder-suicide route is because he's aware that at the end his mother doesn't actually care for him

A lot of the horror of TCOAAL comes from seeing the consequences of completely alienating two individuals and giving them absolutely nothing else they can relay on except each other.

The main theme is codependency and these two's codependency comes from very deep within. They need each other.

It comes from seeing the fucked up lengths human beings will go through just to try to mimick and fulfill that basic necessity.

And seeing the "Anti-social" behaviours people start taking onto when isolated from society and other people.

How individuals behave when constantly othered.

Seeing how if a child cannot associate into society and not even their closest social circles help them integrate they will start dissacosiating from society and showing these anti-social behaviors naturally.

How they will cling to anything and everything possible to try to fulfill this primal need.

So, of course Andrew's going to stay with Ashley, even if apparently this makes no logical sense.

Ashley is everything he has, and Andrew is everything she has.

And of course Andrew loves her, and he has Ashley filling up every social role in his life, that family, and community, and partners, should have fulfilled, regardless of whether he has sex with her, or not.

Ashley is doing the exact same and constantly expecting even more.

They are fulfilling for each other, both, the role of siblings, and of partners, and Andrew specifically fulfills the role of parent to her.

Andrew cannot accept their mother's olive branch because it's not real and it has never been real.

And she taught him that a long time ago.

#i was just thinking yeah of course hes in love with her and they both want to rail each other stupid but its not because of that only #the coffin of andy and leyley #andrew graves #ashley graves #ms graves #thinking coffincest thoughts

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beevean · 6 months

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There are so many wonderful essays in the TCOAAL tag, about all the shades of fucked up that Andrew and Ashley are, but there is one thing that gnaws at me.

Where did Leyley learn all the stuff she says? Not only to swear, because that's something she could have picked up from older kids (or her own brother), but to call women "hussies" and "floozies"? Even Andy questions her, and doesn't get an answer.

That is very deep, ingrained internalized misogyny. Ever since she was a child, Leyley slutshamed with frightening ease. So much that when she hears that their parents have been befriending the neighbours, she calls them "a bunch of whores". (And I'm not even counting the voicemails she left to Julia in Andrew's dream, since we don't know what is reality and what is Andrew's subconscious)

Then you remember that she seems to view sex as transactional - as a way to gain food, money, Andrew if necessary. She's, of course, not above making jokes about banging her brother (if you give her the soda she wanted, she jokes about rewarding Andrew with her virginity), but she doesn't display the... genuine attraction Andrew seems to be harboring for her. It's a "might as well". It's a "yeah I'd do that". Sex is a way to get what she needs... which might be a reason she flips when she thinks that Andrew is getting it from someone else. Because if Andrew is getting what he wants from someone else, well, what is Ashley good for?

And then you remember how Mrs. Graves not only accuses Andrew of "fucking" Ashley (notice the wording, it's not "you two are fucking", he is fucking her - she has no agency, which is weird since Mrs. Graves is all to happy to blame everything on her "bad" daughter), but she seems to think this is the only reason Andrew could ever want to do anything for his sister. Keep in mind that she knows about the Nina incident. The idea that it might be related to Andrew's obedience doesn't cross her mind. She'd rather think that Ashley is manipulating Andrew through sex, and Andrew is such a horndog that he'd do anything for his sister's pussy. Because, well, isn't this what women and men do?

Mrs. Graves may be the dom to her spineless husband, but she sure has some... views on sexuality. Who seems to have been passed on to Leyley since she was very young. One can only imagine the stuff the kid has internalized.

#the coffin of andy and leyley #ashley graves #i'm not an expert essayist lmao bear with me #but yeah i did not expect gender to be this engrained in this game #it's not even blatant it's not preachy or anything #it's just there to activate your almonds #gripping writing

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mesperyiandevotee · 2 months

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#im not good at meta dont ask me to explain i just thought of them reading that post #tcoaal #the coffin of andy and leyley

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gamerleyley · 4 months

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Of course Andrew was the "pleasure to have in class" kid

#gamerleyley.txt #tcoaal #the coffin of andy and leyley #he just like me fr fr #not really. i got kicked out of my gifted classes pretty early on lmao

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synvelesow · 7 months

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then i'll see you in a bit

#synvelesow art #tcoaal #the coffin of andy and leyley #ashley graves #andrew graves #andy #leyley #tw blood #me seeing every tcoaal scene: THAT'S MY FAVOURITE ONE!!!!!#no but seriously this one is chefs kiss.#i just wanted to make something quick to show my love for batshit crazy andrew

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