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king-magppi · 1 year

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Some more DHMIS humanizations I did of a few background characters for fun! Enjoy!

(Also a bonus doodle I drew of Yellow and Claire bc I ❤️ them.. They are cuddling!)

#dhmis #dont hug me im scared fanart #dhmis fanart #dont hug me im scared #dhmis yellow guy #dhmis claire #dhmis human #dhmis gijinka #humanization #dhmis death #dhmis jobs #dhmis electricity

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ultimateloserboy · 1 year

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hey sorry your boyfriend is dead. yeah he forgot to drink water. what do you mean it shouldve been you? are you alright? no he isnt coming back sorry. yeah youll die in the lake but that isnt for ages. but listen your boyfriend hes picking a tie and- why the hell are you baking? this is serious hes dead! yes im sure its not you! just go to the damn funeral already!

#dhmis coffin #dhmis tv show #dhmis tv series #dhmis #dont hug me im scared #dhmis death #dhmis duck #dhmis red guy #fluffybird #dhmis fandom

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justherefor000 · 1 year

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It's our pink blob kid! Just some simple art for him

(Reblogs if you like)

#dhmis #dhmis fanart #dhmis human #dhmis tv show #stain edwards #dhmis stain edwards #dhmis stain #dhmis death #don't hug me i'm scared

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inbarfink · 8 months

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Among the various readings and interpretations of What the Hell is Up With the Ending to the DHMIS Web Show - one of the more interesting ones (from my perspective, at leas) has always been that it’s all a metaphor for repeating patterns of trauma and/or abuse.

As in, most of the narrative of the DHMIS Webshow has been some sort of surrealist metaphor for Roy being an overcontrolling and manipulative parental figure for his son and his friends

And then the ending shows them finally escaping his influence -

Only that without a frame of reference for just how screwed-up their upbringing really was and without any healthy way to process their various traumas, they end up being in danger of just replicating his abuse on their own. Either on each other or maybe on the color-swapped characters who can, like, represent their own children or something.

And so the vague ending of the Webshow is an open question, yes, the trio might’ve gotten physically away from Roy’s influence - but are they free from it mentally?

Or are they doomed to snap back into their old familiar world?

And the interesting thing about this is that like… that could be what the Web Show is about on a metaphorical level. But in the TV Show, with its greater emphasis on interpersonal conflicts and the characters - the idea of our main trio unknowingly replicating the abuse they live under is not just something we can hypothetically ruminate on. It’s something we can actually see, something we can actually feel.

Like, the first thing that made me think of Yellow and Red’s interactions with Stain Edwards.

This is basically the closest the Three of Them can get to being parental figures within the confines of the Format. He starts out as such a sweet and curious child-like being, his title for himself is literally ‘the Forever Boy’. And, well…

Red and Yellow are just so uncomfortable with his curiosity and thirst for adventure that they basically immediately try and stomp it right out. And that’s like a whole big thing about DHMIS, isn’t it? The way that children’s edutainment and the education system actually curbs children's curiosity and desire for learning so they can better memorize easily-digestible simplified concepts and Respect Their Authority Figures.

You know, it’s the whole thing with…

And that’s kinda how Red acts with Stain? He’s a lot less violent and more subdued about it - but he also discourages the little guy from asking questions and wanting to explore the world.

And he is trying to push him into fitting more into the Format. And, like, managing his life like the Trio’s own life is managed by the Format. First more generally into what being part of the DHMIS main trio is supposed to mean (‘just sit here and something will happen’) and then eventually literally turning him into something he didn’t want to be.

And from our more familiar perspective, it’s clear that Red Guy really just genuinely thinks at this point that sitting passively and Waiting to Be Taught At is how things are Supposed to Be and can’t really imagine things going any other way. He is honestly just trying to get Stain to understand how their life is supposed to work. (Well until it starts becoming about making a new Duck)

And it’s also clear to us how much Red Guy is motivated by just unaddressed grief about Duck and wanting to avoid conflict with Yellow Guy, who's a lot more explictly lashing out at Stain in his grief

"What's the matter with him?" "Nothing. Just don't look at him." "What? Where can I look? I can't look at him, can't look over there..." "No, if, if you want to look at stuff, just tell me and I-I'll make a list. Of where you should or should not look..." "Seems like a weird system..." "Yeah, well, you seem like a weird little...thing with...and you don't even... the other guy at least had his own clothes"

But looking at it from Stain’s perspective, taking aside our understanding of Red’s character and motivation. This is just an authority figure giving him a nonsense set of rules and then lashing out at him when he questions it. Never giving a deeper explanation than ‘this is how it’s supposed to be’ and basically punishing his curiosity.

Kinda like, well, how the Teachers tend to interact with the trio.

And then there’s Yellow Guy who’s just totally lashing out at Stain through the whole thing, because, again, he can’t process the grief of losing Duck. Because his environment did not give him the tools to properly process that trauma and he has no healthy frame of reference to grief and that’s kinda...

Yeah, that’s just what I was talking about. Stain’s subplot in ‘Death’ is just Yellow and Red having not interrogated their abusive environment and not really dealing with their trauma and thus repeating the patterns of the Teachers on their new child-like figure.

Which then culminates with either Duck killing Stain in the name of preserving the status-quo of the format (“there’s only supposed to be three of us”) or with Stain having internalized so much of what Yellow and Red (but mainly Red) taught him about what he’s supposed to be that he was willing to kill in the name of the Format - and then slotted in perfectly in the unadventurous, unquestioning role of Duck.

And this lil narrative is especially interesting if you believe any variance of the David Theory. Because Yellow and Red were mainly motivated in their mistreatment of Stain by their Grief about a ‘dead’ family member. Which could mirror Lesley's trapping and mistreatment of the trio and her own motivations.

But I think this idea of mirroring and repeating patterns of abuse are reflected in more than just this one episode. It’s also reflected in the way Red and Duck tend to mistreat Yellow.

Because while Yellow doesn’t slot as neatly into the Child position like Stain did- his simplistic naïveté does mean he often plays a Child-like role in our favorite Forced Family dynamic. And the way that Duck and Red can often condescend to him can… very well mirror the condescending way the teachers address all three of them.

Especially when you also consider the similar manner both the Teachers and Red + Duck react to Yellow being fully charged in ‘Electricity’. They are all so nervous about Yellow breaking away from his supposed ‘role’ as the Stupid One.

And they especially all seem so very insecure about the idea that Yellow might be smarter than they are.

And that’s, you know, also an aspect of children’s education that tends to actually harm children and their curiosity. This desire for ‘respect’ towards authority figures and this egotistical need for teachers and parents to always be smarter than their kids - causing them to subtly or bluntly punish children for just being clever or inquisitive.

It’s, you know “I’m the adult, you are the child. I am supposed to be the Smart and Knowledgeable one and you are the one who must be taught. And you need to play your role!”

Again, that seems to be the whole thing in ‘Time’.

Here it’s a lot more subtle and less openly hostile, but Yellow can tell that just like that Insurance Teacher, Red and Duck’s egos have also been hurt by the fact that they might not be smarter than Yellow Guy anymore. And he considers going back to the role he’s ‘supposed to be’, even though being fully-charged seems to feel better for him (‘this doesn’t feel wrong’), just for them.

That’s almost literally a child giving up on a pursuit of knowledge just to placate his parental figures.

And then, you know, his refusal to do so and his assertion of his own ability to make decisions for himself (his own maturity, "they're not in charge of us anymore" "Maybe they never were") is directly what leads to him ascending and disassembling not just the trio’s dynamic but the very structure of the Format.

And I think, it’s not just that Red and Duck’s treatment of Yellow mirrors the way the teachers treat the Three of Them - it might be a result of it as well. With how condescending the teachers are towards them in general, bullying Yellow is their way to assert some sort of maturity and intelligence for themselves. It's super-fucked up, but this is how they internalized expressing what ‘intelligence’ is supposed to look like. And they have no frame of reference for a way of feeling smart or in control that doesn’t involve shutting someone else down. Because that's what literally every authority figure does for them all the time.

Now, do I think that means that our trio is doomed to mirror those patterns? That they will always inevitability repeat the horrors they go through on each other and others? Well, just like with every ‘cycle of abuse’, it can always be broken. But it will take some actual understanding and self-awareness and personal healing from the trio.

And without this, they’re not just trapped within the Horrors physically, but also spiritually as well. Without it, no matter if they do manage to run away, on some level, their journey will always end up back at home....

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the-worm-wiggles · 1 year

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#dhmis #don't hug me i'm scared #dhmis death #polls

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raventriquolist · 2 years

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actually in love with this song

#most song of all time #dhmis #dont hug me im scared #dhmis tv show #dhmis death

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myshredda · 1 year

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also I'd just like to point out that whenever people talk about Yellow talking to the Lamp in the death episode they refer to the bed Yellow's sitting on as his own, but it's not. It's Duck's

So when he's singing the memories song, he's still sitting on the same bed and remembers Duck yelling at him to get off, which means he likes to sit on Duck's bed and has done it enough in the past for it to become commonplace for Duck to bitch about it

Which makes the fact that it's DUCK'S bed he's sitting on the entire episode, even leaving to go make Stain Edwards and coming back to sit on it again later, singing the memories song while holding Duck's picture, and trying to comfort himself with memories of his dead friend SO MUCH SADDER

#dhmis #don't hug me i'm scared #dhmis yellow guy #dhmis duck #dhmis death #he's so fucking cute in this btw I can't get over how LITTLE HE IS #also also the composition of all these shots is SO beautiful like the channel 4 series is so incredible compared to the youtube vids #my posts

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sadistiva · 1 year

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Just three of them 😅

After all these years, they came back, I was waiting

#dont hug me im scared #don't hug me 2 #don't hug me i'm scared #red guy #duck guy #yellow guy #dhmis #dhmis redraw #dhmis fandom #dhmis fanart #dhmis yellow guy #dhmis red guy #dhmis duck #dhmis death

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dinosauremojii · 2 years

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Ppl trying to say red guy isn’t affected by duck’s death have no critical thinking skills oh my god. He and yellow are grieving differently and THATS THE WHOLE POINT!!!!

yellow goes and digs him up bc he can’t stand losing him but red is trying SO. HARD. To fill the duck void in the house. Red is immediately looking for a new clump mate, and he turns stain edwards into duck!! Directing stain to hold the newspaper, “I really think he had a beak” !! Bc yellow’s actions are more dramatic he’s the only one who cares???

Like give red a lil more credit his grief is also making him a lil bit fucking crazy

#dhmis #dhmis death #red guy #duck #yellow guy

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ultimateloserboy · 7 months

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my favorite fun fact about any of the main three is that duck has VERY sharp nails. borderline claws. you cant see them but considering the way he scratched tally marks into the coffins wood, i dont think you can argue against it really. scraping wood isnt too hard i guess, but with the ease and speed he did it at i doubt he has human nails. he has to have some serious claws on him to casually rip the coffin a new set of coffussies like that

#he takes good care of his nails canon #duck dhmis #duck guy #dhmis duck #dhmis death #dhmis tv show #dhmis #dhmis fandom #dont hug me im scared

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inbarfink · 9 months

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‘Death’ really is one of the coolest episodes for Character Analysis of Yellow Guy and Red Guy. Both because it has them dealing with the uniquely difficult emotion of Grief and because it has them in the rare position of actually being kinda-authority-figures themselves to someone else - Stain Edwards.

Because Yellow, usually the friendliest and kindest of the three, is so mean to Stain! But this meanness IS born from his usual friendliness, he’s lashing out at Stain as a result of his grief over his lost friend and the idea that he can be ‘replaced’.

And meanwhile, Red clearly also misses Duck. If nothing else it’s clear from what he did to Stain there at the end.

But he’s also the one trying the most to move on as quickly as possible, to try and deny he misses Duck.

"it's not that bad, we didn't really like him anyways. Remember how he used to bite you?"

And I think more than anything that probably comes from his conflict-aversion. Like, his resistance to the Teacher’s lessons and to addressing the fact that he misses Duck both come from that aspect of his character highlighted in ‘Jobs’ - he would much rather Not Do Stuff most of the time. And actually confronting his own emotions feels like kind of a lot of effort, doesn’t it?

So from his POV, ‘just moving on cause we didn’t like him anyway’ is just the easiest solution for both himself and Yellow Guy to deal with the problem. But the fact that Yellow Guy can’t see Red Guy openly share the same sort of grief that he does just makes him feel more isolated and thus has a harder time dealing with his own grief.

And Red is kinder, or at least more polite to Stain Edwards then Yellow is but I think that is driven less from his kindness as much as it's also come, at least partly, from his desire to Not Cause a Fuss. And he can also kinda lash out at him with his Unresolved Grief, he’s just more subtle about it.

"Well, you seem like a little... thing with.... and you don't even... and that other guy at least had his own clothes."

And since he’s so driven in this episode to Take the Path of Least Resistance with his grief, he naturally discovers that the ‘easiest’ way to deal with Death, the ‘easiest’ way to move on is…