Is Mr. Snake single?

I don’t like minimizing the importance and gravity of Laios and Toshiro’s fight into just being a childish squabble, even if to a degree it is framed that way, because to both of them it has a lot of personal significance and emotional weight and runs very deep to their characters… The fight isn’t nothing it’s a LOT, they made up but it’s not something easy to express and to get over for either of them which makes it all the more meaningful! I’m on both sides but there very much are sides, there’s no "they’re both having a ball, Toshiro and Laios hand in hand yay" side to the fight, that comes after

The fight with Toshiro WAS very scary to Laios, almost existentially so, but it’s moreso the "I thought I’d made a friend!!" bit and my god. My god actually

Like it’s not "just" about oh his friend liking him less than he thought, THAT IS SO MUCH. It’s a bond he thought he had being a lie it’s all the time and moments spent together either being a lie from his perspective or marred now looking back. It’s not only being upset at Toshiro for lying but upset at himself that he’s so easy to fool, it’s being upset that there’s something so wrong with you that you can’t even tell if your "close buddy" even actually likes you or not, it’s like. Holding my head. He can’t trust his own vision of events that happened do you see. There’s always this film of distrust that it could be a lie that should be there when he interacts with people there’s always this sense of cloak and dagger to expect backstabs out of nowhere because you CAN’T see it coming you CAN’T you CAN’T there’s something about you which makes it impossible so you CAN’T-

He’s so scared of not being able to read people. He knows it’s a weak spot he has, he’s always known. All of these bits are centered around social expectations and betrayals, the assumption that he doesn’t belong either in society or with other humans.

And Laios’ level of awareness is actually sort of complex to analyze, but it’s there, there’s how out of him and Falin he was the one sensitive to the ~aura of hatred~ he felt from the townspeople, there’s of course his nightmares whispering to him about the mocking looks, and how yeah actually he realizes that his gold stripper coworker was taking advantage of him. There’s of course the Winged Lion speech about his trauma and how he fundamentally mistrusts/dislikes humans to some deep seated degree, this distrust that he still keeps under control always. There’s how pre-canon he often wanted to suggest eating monsters but never worked up the courage to bring it up with the others. There’s how he gets across as stoic when he isn’t being enthusiastic…… We don’t know how aware and wary he is exactly in the moment but we do know he has some anxiety around social stuff, and looking back he does notice and aughh augh, the sense you have to hide yourself to not get hurt and be on your guard and shit and.

When you don’t know what to look out for and when to look out for it, the general ‘common sense’ of not always trusting people or noticing when someone’s messing with you becomes hypervigilance in social settings

"Man they really know what you hate huh". Being socially unaware literally plagues him, he knows, he knows it so well.

It’s so quick that it’s almost hard to digest how literal and blatant Laios summoning his monster to crush all the people who’ve hurt him is. His literal go-to coping mechanism for comfort in his literal monster-induced emotionally intense nightmares, saving him by taking away the upsetting element (the humans)

"Monsters are his coping fantasy, where they can whisk him away from humanity, all the hurt it’s caused him and its arbitrary rules" with the subtlety of a brick. Monsters are his comfort safe zone "because they kill humans" yes but no it’s because he pits them as the guardians against humans who to him are in the role of the agressors. To him they represent freedom from the shackles of what it means to be part of humanity, a fundamentally social species

spill the milk

My cousins made their own troll Ocs and I drew them in my style.

They were very excited about it

WHATS UR FAVORITE RYOMINA MOMENT FROM THE MOVIES I NEED TO KNOW!!!

HI FELIX!! thank you for the ask i am always happy to take more opportunities to talk about ryomina they are so special to me o7

it is VERY tempting for me to answer, "every fucking time ryoji showed up on screen!" ok this might be an exaggeration, i like 90% of his screentime, december 2nd ryoji should've been portrayed more like a pathetic wet dog imo but i digress. but hm... favorite moment.

while the helper's club montage has a very strong place in my heart (it permeated my braincells without my permission)!! i think my favorite part of ryomina's portrayal in the movies is the whole sentence finishing thing they got going on. i feel like that's a cop out answer but like.

there is something so so gut wrenching to me about how they start off by making it so that ryoji is the one finishing minato's sentences. always ryoji. BUT THEN!!! when they meet again at the top of tartarus to do battle on judgment day!! they turn it on it's head!! and it's minato!! who finishes the sentence!! and fuck man does it make me feel like i'm being kicked down a staircase.

and to have the sentence finishing happen again for such an important day?? god idk im gonna tear up and someone needs to like. give me like. a chew toy or something this makes me so fucking insane (blows up) (blows up).

so basically my favorite moment is really like, january 31st, but a lot of my attachment to it is BECAUSE they have that set-up in november with ryoji being the silliest fucking guy to have ever walked at gekkoukan. and oh man oh man the fucking. THE. when. WHEN THEY FOLLOW IT UP WITH MINATO SUMMONING THANATOS AFTER THIS?? yeah man. that's the fucking shit.

like i don't think the english language is enough to convey how much i love the artistic choice to have the flash frame of ryoji when minato summons thanatos. it's the hesitation and rebellion babey!!! the whole scene afterwards is so fucking juicy as well.

honorable mention to when ryoji jumped off the fucking roof at iwatodai station to tell minato that he has kindness in his eyes and that he doesn't like seeing him alone. what kind of guy does that. that's so fucking hilarious to me like actually. he was insane for that.

anyway that is my answer i HOPE u enjoyed reading it, god, ryomina still makes me eyes watery (it's been almost 2 years since i've met them??? what the fuck). i feel like others have echoed this sentiment before but nevertheless i was super happy to type it out :D

I absolutely adore all of your analysis so far, they are so indepth and it feels like you’re able to explain stuff that I’m only able to vaguely think in an abstract sense when it comes to ddlc and dhdhdj so so good

I do wanna say that for you mc analysis, there’s one thing missing. I’m someone who got into ddlc cause of plus so I have hyperfixated on all the lore. While the employees imply that Monika made MC, I don’t think that’s actually true based on what we know about Monika. If she could make a whole character then why couldn’t she make herself a route? Heck in one of her act 3 convos, she can barely change the music before saying “well I just break everything anyway”.

So I believe based on other emails, that it was Ive Laster who made MC since they were the one who wanted to make ddlc a game. In the first meeting notes, we are told that Ive tends to ramble a lot. But in the next one when MC is mentioned in a meeting, they are silent. Another thing is that in one of the ddlc plus trailers, ive is the name of the MC.

It could be said that Ive based it on the stuff in the control group, but the control group was made AFTER the main vm (That’s not how a science experiment should work but ya know, I don’t think they are smart). So really the control group is based on main game first. Honestly so much of the issue of the plus lore is how it’s so convoluted to get, but reading it all on the wiki helped me alot.

Plus seemed to add a new sense of horror to the og, the horror of knowledge that one plagued Monika is now plaguing the player as we have all this information but can do nothing to help them. I think the idea of MC being made by someone else adds this new layer to him along with this new layer of horror. But that’s more just my own thoughts on it that I thought you may find interesting along with all the lore from above.

Anyway, I hope you have a good day! Your post are great and I’ll make sure to keep up with coil more!

aw, thanks anon! i often find it difficult to find the exact way to explain what i'm thinking when i do analysis like i have on this blog, so i'm glad i can at least help to put it into words for other people who have even more trouble with it than i do.

as for the rest of your statement...i think you make a compelling point. full disclaimer; a lot of my knowledge on what's presented in + outside of the full text of the side stories is secondhand, and when talking about the original game, i think it's important to keep in mind that my reference for most of this is my playthrough with my friends back in like...2017-18ish a little after the game came out...? aheh, i won't lie, though i am rather obsessive in the course of scouring information i remember via the wiki/elsewhere to verify i'm not just making it up, putting off my replay of the og game has not been helpful for me.

i think it's very much up in the air as to how much influence that Monika actually has over the game, which is something i talked about in my analysis of Natsuki in the Side Stories. in my opinion, what + demonstrates more than anything is that in whatever she DID do in the main game, she mostly worked with material that was already there to make things easier on her. one of the things i based that claim on was the reference of the Protagonist in the Side Stories, but it's not a necessary claim, and in fact, i think you do make a good point in how it's unlikely that she'd be able to do this (at the very least, by herself) based on what's been shown of her ability in the game.

i think, in regards to your comment on the reference to MC in the Side Stories, it's important to consider the wider conceit of DDLC--i have a deeper analysis i'm tinkering around with on terms of it as an exploration of fiction vs the concept within the "universe", but that's another story--namely, all of the girls aren't (or at least, are heavily implied not to be) just static fictional characters following a pre-written script, they're genuine artificial intelligence!

this is part of what i meant when i said that the Side Stories demonstrate the raw character of each of the girls independently of any 4th wall shenanigans--within the world of Doki Doki Literature Club, they're essentially just people living in the confines of a computer, and therefore have essential, largely immutable character traits which exist within some fundamental essence of what makes them who they are. i think there are a shitload of really, really terrifying things this opens the door to if you really think about its nature (independently of DDLC, i've personally had longform discussions with a friend about the morality and potential horrors which would exist within a similar universe concept, and it's somewhat ubiquitous in a lot of sci-fi universes), but like i said, that's a different discussion entirely!

what i'm trying to suggest here is that it's likely that Sayori's relationship to the Protagonist is something inherent to her character, so it doesn't necessarily have to be something gleaned entirely from the Side Stories.

of course, this is all post hoc reasoning with what we're given! occam's razor suggests that it's actually just likely that (given that DDLC was written and released a long while prior to the Side Stories) they didn't necessarily plan every part of this from the outset, so some things just naturally seem to fit together a little weirdly, with little details added here and there just for flavor! i think that given the nature of the entire thing (and how Dan Salvato has talked about DDLC and the statements he's given with about in universe details in the past), it's unlikely that every single element of this was planned out from the word go.

this might be a bit of a controversial opinion, but there's a lot about how + handles the lore of ddlc that i didn't really like, just because it adds a whole new layer of lore and context, which soured a lot of my impressions, because the original game really flourished in its simplicity. that said, with all that's been given in the Side Stories and the deeper layers to the actual horror which are now visible in the original game, i think it pretty well makes up for it!

awa, i didn't plan for this to become an entire essay in itself...but i do appreciate this kind of thing! i really like digging deep into what's explicitly provided in canon to get a deeper understanding of the characters and universe as it's actually been shown, so any encouragement and correspondence related to either my analysis or my opinions in general are welcome! honestly, i'm also welcome to read others' analysis like this, because i like to see when people read deep into it like i do! typically it ends up reshaping how i see the entire thing, and it sorta just makes my heart happy to get people thinking about this stuff!

i think, as a last thought, if MC is actually conscious in any way similar to the other girls (which I think is a definite possibility, given his ability to respond in contexts impacted by Monika's manipulation, even if barebones), it actually makes him a very interesting character in his simplicity. i know that Dan Salvato doesn't see him as one, but i think it'd make for an interesting study in a fanfic or something.

i hope you also have a good day anon (even though it's 2 am here as i'm writing this...) and you BETTER KEEP UP W/IT I PUT MY HEART N SOUUL INTO THAT BABY (/lh /hj i'm just glad other people are liking it, even if it's just silent kudos :))

Buddy should have been at the club!! (They'll probably hate it so much and just awkwardly stand in the middle holding a glass of water lmao)

A few months int staying with znahor buddy gets the brilliant idea to go to a club to try and unwind a little but this fucker is NOT used to loud music or being in crowds or alcohol and yeah they end up having such a bad time that they dont set a foot in another club for YEARS.

Alternatively they couldve also dragged tashi soup and stickbug with them and then instead of one guy having a terrible time, FOUR guys would be having the worst night of their lives.....

Buddy should NOT be at the club, they should be at a small local art club making shitty mediocre art and having the time of their life<33

thank you for asking bestie:]

letting white boys spiral your life... is so real. every mclaren driver (both indy & f1) is my type and it's terrible for me as a known mclaren hater. (unfortunately i am not immune to zak brown's twink farm or alex rossi)

god really testing us by giving zak brown the cute twink detector and not somebody else (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)

Looks wise to me, Otto looks like Mithrun from dungeon meshi. I mean, just look at him! He even has a green cape! (Sorta spoilers but you can focus on the image instead). https://savaralyn2.tumblr.com/post/649235974973472768/dungeon-meshi-bio-and-stats Fun (spoilerish) facts about Mithrun: he is an elf who is so dead set on working on a particular goal/desire that he neglects to eat and sleep (that is, until a certain dark-haired boy comes into his life). He is also a guard of another elf named Otta. Despite his lack of self-preservation, Mithrun is incredibly intelligent and perhaps the only person who is capable bulldozing through a particular maze. And because of said intellect, is said to be the defacto leader of his elven team.

Anyhow, I know this is a rezero blog, but read Dungeon Meshi. Starts out as a simple fantasy cooking, but then makes you question the importance of death and dying when its perspective and fulfillment is… a little different.

anon.................................. i owe you my whole life because i read this ask then went "ive known exactly NOTHING about dungeon meshi until this moment but this sounds SUPER fascinating i gotta check this out a bit at least" and then i look at. mr mithrun dungeon meshi. and then i spend a whole two minutes straight wheezing because he does look exactly like otto. literally i gotta put their photos side by side right now.

literally laughing and crying looking at them why do they look the SAME.... THE HAIR WAS WHAT I FIRST SAW AND I JUST LAUGHED TOO HARD MAN... anyway the contrast with black-haired guy in his life is so. um. i like Too many of these black haired and light haired types i swear.

anyway!!! anon perhaps you know me too well dungeon meshi and. and mr mithrun. ( i i i i i i dont have a favorite character type. i swear. i dont have a favorite character type i dont have a -) anyway this sounds like stuff id like very much. i will definitely see about checking more of it out when i can :3 thanks for sharing!!!

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this whole sequence breaks my heart in case you were curious

Happy Halloween!

testosterone meeting complete?!?!?!?!???!!!

Ooo...

I don’t care what these idiots say about Barça, but what’s annoying is Dembélé having no reaction. Like I’m not expecting him to fight them for making a stupid comment, but he could at least say something. I can’t imagine them saying that to Neymar for example who has only been in Barça for four years and left six years ago, Dembélé has been in Barça for six years and only left a few weeks ago.

Oh, then I get your point. But tbf - as sad as it may seem - I'm not so surprised by that. He's been brought to PSG because he was one of Mbappé's best friend, like Hernandez. When you claim "My biggest dream is to win the UCL with X 😍" then leave 2 weeks after and battle to get millions from the club, well. Ig Neymar was just the exception - he truly loved the club. For Ousmane, it seemed to have been a pit stop. Which is an absolute shame considering the pit stop lasted six years, cost us millions, brought fans 0 positive memorable moment, and wasted Xavi's and the fan's dedication on him. It's giving Ferrari at Zantvoort — classless, but I'm just glad someone like him is gone from the club tbh. Get some space for others.

What are your favorite male characters?

anon this was actually a very difficult question. i have not read a ton of male-centered comic runs, and haven't done deep dives into any men outside of one or two, so.... this is gonna be a short list lol.

oliver queen - my one, my only. i adore him. i'm not interacting with anything written by winick, but like, other than that. he's the guy ever.

wyn from g.o.d.s. (2023) (marvel mention!) - wyn is endearing himself to me so quickly. the run is only six issues in, but i loved him by the second page of the first issue, and nothing has changed that. he's my sad wet cat and i love him.

jason todd - i need to add the world's biggest asterisk to this. jason got me into comics, under the red hood is one of my favorite runs, and i have a lot of love in my heart for him because of it. but i do not at this point engage with much of what he's in past that, and i have no interest in doing so - despite having read quite a bit of it. i love him a lot, but in a limited scope.

those are the only ones i feel comfortable listing as favorites in any capacity. i've read the most of ollie, but even then, i haven't read everything.

honorable mentions (a.k.a., i've read one or two runs, and i enjoyed them in those runs, but i have not sought out more/don't know anything else about them): jaime reyes, ted kord, constantine, scott free, vic sage.