HAPPY SUMMERWEEN!

This year, continuing the GF 10th Anniversary celebrations, I decided to do a kind of tribute to some of the show’s minor characters through the group’s Summerween costume choices!  I’d be surprised if you can’t guess all of these, but I’ll put the key below a read-more below.

Also, bonus:

From left to right, above:

Fiddleford as Tyler Cutebiker (the “puma shirt / panther shirt” returning in the next season is one of my favorite little sight-gags in the show).

Ford as Dreamboy Craz.  (Going the extra mile with the dyed hair! Mabel helped.)

Stan as Dreamboy Xyler.

Wendy as Deep Chris from Sev’ral Timez.

Melody as Bud Gleeful.

Soos as Bats Biker.  (Annoyed at myself for this one; realized way too late that the pose I’d chosen for Soos and Melody would block the actual “BATS” tattoo.)

Below:

Grenda as Manly Dan.

Candy as Toby Determined.

Dipper as Farmer Sprott.

Mabel as Quentin Trembley.

Pacifica as the Mattress King.

(Background is a screenshot-redraw/adaptation.  Xyler and Craz are, obviously I think, based directly on their fun dance in Dreamscaperers.  I have a real soft spot for those boys.)

Fuck Alex Hirsch for creating the perfect men

everyone keeps showing me who Craz and Xyler remind them of but I'm not the only one who thought they were very obviously pulled from these guys, right?

Imagine what you could do with $500! Dipper, I am one million percent on board with this.

GRAVITY FALLS 1.02 - The Legend of the Gobblewonker

speaking of alex brightman i need to draw my billtlejuice au sometime

Something i never saw anyone talk about was how the trial in “Escape from reality” wasn’t only for Mabel, But also for Dipper.

People tend to brush the trial off as “Dipper reasoning with Mabel” but isn’t only that, it isn’t that all in my perspective.

The trial serves as a way to remind both twins of everything they’ve been through together. Reinforced by the fact that it shows bad moments from both of their lives.

Yes these were shown in Xyler and Craz’s speech to prove their argument that fantasy is better than reality, but it proves the exact opposite to Dipper.

I actually think this speech was constructed in a way that would allow Dipper to reach the opposite conclusion, probably influenced by Mabel’s subconscious — her subconscious desire to go back to reality weakly fighting against Bill’s hypnosis — as we know it affects the entirety of Mabel-Land

No matter if that’s true or not, it still helps Dipper build his own case, as we know he didn’t even have an argument ready previous to being put in trial, as it was completely unprompted, and even worse provided him no attorney ,leaving him to fend for himself.

We know for a fact that Dipper’s argument was constructed based on Xyler and Craz’s case as it shows him holding notes, ones that he probably took mid-speech.

Being faced with these memories reminds Dipper that whenever reality got rough they were always there for each other. I think that at the start of the trial Dipper still intended to take Ford’s apprenticeship, and this is the moment he decides otherwise.

This is the moment he realizes that he doesn’t want to be holed up in a lab, that he wants to grow up alongside Mabel.

After that he shows his conclusion to Mabel, which subsequently brings her back to her senses. This trial was meant for the both of them, to bring back both of the twins from their own respective fantasies by making them realize how much they actually suck.

Mabel realizes that staying in Mabel-land would mean never actually growing up, being trapped inside a dream-like state forever, leaving all her friends and family behind. It would mean never being able to see her brother again after he loses the trial since he would be banished.

Dipper realizes that taking Ford’s apprenticeship would mean growing up too fast, being trapped in his studies for his entire life, leaving his friends and family in favor of acquiring knowledge. It would mean losing his sister.

They both leave these fantasies behind in favor of each other, and yes they might be scared, terrified of what’s coming after since weirdmaggedon is still going on after all. But they know that they will always be there for each other, it’s the one thing they’ve always known.

They know it will be okay because they are together, since they will go home together, no matter what.

You know, sometimes I think about how Mabelland had the things inside have four different reactions when Mabel decided to leave

1. Most of them became nightmare monsters.

2. The two dreamy boy lads stayed the same.

3. The Mabel copies just disappeared.

4. Waddles was just put in there and reverted to normal.

I wonder why they were so varied?

my explanation is:

They WERE nightmare monsters right from the start; they were a part of Bill's bubble, psychically influenced by Mabel's thoughts but separate from her.

Xyler & Craz weren't part of the bubble. Bill created Xyler & Craz back in Dreamscaperers; Journal 3 has Mabel reference going back to sleep so she can see her "dream boys" again; they were drawn out of Mabel's own mind and thus, during the weird conditions of Weirdmageddon, could be projected from her mind out into the real world. When the bubble turned on her, they didn't because they were never tied to the bubble.

Most things in the world are just there; but Mabel summons up her clones with a clap. This may means that they're more akin to holograms rather than physically constructed out of disguised nightmare monsters like most things in the world. Once their job was done, they poofed away just like they came. On top of that, the Mabel copies were made to directly reflect Mabel's identity/thoughts. How could they turn against her? So of course when the bubble turned on Mabel they couldn't stay.

That was just Waddles.

I think it's hilarious/adorable that at some early point in all the carnage and chaos of Weirdmageddon, Bill must have just,, run across Waddles and went "Oh hey! That's Shooting Star's raw pork chop! Sure, I'll toss him in her bubble, she'd like that." Like he didn't have to do that, the bubble could've made a dream Waddles.

Some doodles from my Wonderland AU (which I nicknamed Wonder Falls). This is the first time in a long time I’ve drawn a majority of the main cast together! 

Cast List:

Dipper as “Alice”

Mabel as the Hatter

Stan as the Caterpillar

Ford as the White Rabbit

Grenda as the March Hare

Candy as the Dormouse

Waddles as the Pig Baby

Fiddleford as Humpty Dumpty (Because he’s an egghead who cracked. Get it? ... I’ll see myself out.)

Xyler and Craz as Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Gideon as the King of Hearts

Ghost Eyes as the Executioner

Pacifica as the Red Queen

Melody as the White Queen

Soos as the White Knight

Wendy as the Gryphon

Robbie as the Mock Turtle

Special shout-out to the-vorpal-one; Wendy and Robbie’s roles was their brilliant idea. You can see their lovely drawings here and here.

Not pictured here:

Bill as the Cheshire Sphinx

The Shape Shifter as the Jabberwock

Quentin Trembly as the Dodo

Lazy Susan as the Duchess

Toby Determined as Bill the Lizard

Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland as the Walrus and the Carpenter

Chutzpar as the “Lion”

The Multi-Bear as the “Unicorn”

Lilliputtians as croquet balls

Various denizens of Gravity Falls as other animals, cards, flowers, chess pieces, etc.

Can you figure out the pun in the riddle? (Die-hard Lewis Carroll fans already know the answer, lol.)

Mabel: We've gotta stop Bill!

Dipper: *Having an internal crisis about whether or not his uncle hates him*

Craz and Xyler in the background:

finished my rewatch of gravity falls today so here's some random thoughts i wrote down over the course of the last few episodes (sure most of this has been mentioned already but eh. no harm in repeating things):

-could you imagine how differently things would've gone if any of the pines members knew about ford's nightmare (especially stan)

-ford visibly shaking from how hard he's digging his fingers into the floor (referring to the security droid grabbing him)

-ford almost dies three times before bill actually captures him

-'i haven’t been able to find grunkle stan anywhere' was stan not at the shack at that time or did you just not consider checking his house

-a full limerick for 'man from kentucky' wasn’t allowed, but onscreen death is??

-shapeshifter wink + mabeland fake wendy wink

-why is the unicorn half petrified? what caused the gnome to be mostly petrified, but not quite? how was woodpecker guy able to keep his petrified woodpecker? so many questions about these guys. what occurred here

-first time ford gets turned to "gold", he appears cracked. the second time, he’s free of cracks. implication: either the stone/"gold" people get turned into cracks over time or bill roughed ford up a bit even before the torture

-bill disassembles ford and reassembles him on the other side of the room. interesting to consider for. y'know. torture

-speaking of bill, WHY DO YOU HAVE EIGHT EYELASHES NOW. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE SEVEN

-love fiddleford so much. and also zanthar. and craz and xyler. and soos. and-

-manly dan hugs wendy more gently than soos does

-'(strangely genuine) good to see you too bro >:(' i'm sorry stan did seeing your brother trapped in a horrifying gold-ish statue change your tune a bit

-i agree with the circle actually. the fuck are you doing, stan. 

-i feel like the stan twins were strangled in different ways. it seems like ford was literally being strangled and bill was doing something directly to stan's lungs, based on the way they reacted to it. or i'm looking way too much into the animation who knows

-the way stan kneels on the ground :((((

-actually every scene with post-deal stan in it

-ford ultimate depression

-waddles was waiting for them :(((((((((

-stan lies in different ways depending on what he remembers (referring to him lying about the destroyed house being a nice place to be polite)

-'someone get waddles off of me!!' ford: :0 :D

-this also implies that ford learned waddles name at some point

-was wondering why pacifica seemed to have a bit of a character regression. then realized that she had to live with her abusive parents after the party. they uh. they need to be obliterated (heck you can even tell there's a sort of distance between them based on the fact that pacifica's parents wait for her to come to them, as opposed to the corduroys running to wendy immediately. it's not even a durland + blubs situation, they are fully aware of their surroundings at this point)

-pacifica's still trying her best though!!

-ford sings happy birthday with everyone else :)))

-ford's hair grows out really quickly

-'heh' resulting in an immediate :0 until ford keeps talking, at which point stan smiles again

-stan did you think that laugh was intended to be a 'that's ridiculous stan why would you ever think that' type deal and not a 'wow i love talking to you this is great' type thing

-'SHUT UP FOREVER'

-'CAN IT SOOS' in sync (hey ford you learned his name!)

-stan's 'don’t test me >:(' implication vs ford's 'i have killed and i will do it again' implication

-ford comforting hand on shoulder. stan looking shocked until he sees ford smiling at him. grgaggasgg

-fucking love these two

-stan writes in print in all caps (this might mean nothing to you but trust me there is a reason i'm pointing it out)

-ford doing the hand thing in the credits

-'ford hates mabel' DID YOU MISS THE FUCKING TURKEY

that's it that's all of the thoughts

it can go in the tag cause. why not, y'know?

Cast ! :: 2019 - 2026

If a piece of media already exists in this reality and I do not include the entire cast, all is the same besides the mentioned roles, or I have not chosen the rest yet.

Gravity Falls live action (2019)

- Mabel Pines : Me - Dipper Pines : Lily Athena (my sister) - Wendy : Sadie Sink - Robbie : Finn Wolfhard - Candy : Haerin - Pacifica : Leena Scobell - Ford : Dad - Stan : David Harbor - Bill : Alex Hirstch - Soos : Rico Rodriguez - Abuelita : Rico Rodriguez (in a wig) - Lazy Susan : Jennifer Coolidge - Durland : Paul Rudd - All of Sev’ral Timez : Justin Bieber - Gabe Benson : Walker Scobell - Hot Elf : Luke Eisner - Xyler : Christian Martyn - Craz : Logan Lerman - McGucket : William H Macy - Grenda : Daniella Baltodano

A-Force (2021)

Dazzler : Sage D'Lynn Captain Marvel : Alexandra Laurie Medusa : Me female Loki : Aleah Covington Nico Minoru : Megan Liu She-Hulk : Dior Goodjohn Singularity : Emmelyne Laurence

Percy Jackson Series (Season 2 & 3)

Rachel Elizabeth Dare : Me Thalia Grace : Aleah Covington

Infinity Train live action (Season 1 : 2024 + Season 2 : 2026)

Tulip Olsen : Me Mirror Tulip/Lake : Me The Cat : Kate Mulgrew Atticus : Ernie Hudson Jesse Cosay : Aryan Simhadri Grace Monroe : Yara Shahidi Simon Laurent : Nico Greetham

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Ok i know this has probably been said before, but I kind of just realized something.

I watch reaction channels, and I’ve seen people react to lots of things I like. One of those things is gravity falls.

I’ve noticed a lot of people get really mad at Mabel for trusting Bill disguised as Blendin and giving him the science doodad (y’all know what it is; the rift in the universe or whatever). They’re like “wow the end of the universe is all Mabel’s fault” and “yeah she’s 12 but she should know better” and “Mabel is so selfish and” you get it.

but Mabel is a naturally trusting person. It’s why she didn’t immediately dislike Pacifica when she first met her. It’s why she’s never really been mean to Robbie. It’s why she falls in love with so many people so easily.

it’s why Ford was able to come back.

if Dipper was at the button, he definitely would have pushed it and prevented Ford from being able to return to their world. Dipper also probably would have been more wary of giving the rift in the universe to “Blendin.”

Plus, Dipper already has experienced being tricked by Bill. I guess when we first meet Bill, he fools Mabel (and Xyler and Craz, if we are actually counting them) into thinking he is Soos, but she was never tricked like Dipper. Which I’m not blaming Dipper for what happened in the sock opera episode, he was incredibly exhausted and no one makes good decisions when that sleep deprived. And maybe I’m remembering this wrong, but I don’t think Mabel even knows the rift in the universe is what it is. It’s just some science junk to her.

Ultimately her trusting nature can be helpful or harmful, which the show demonstrates very well, imo.

"i thought you believed in love at first sight"

Triangle Bill trying to seduce Mabel.

Writing whilst half awake.... Will add title later for now I must sleep.

She was having pleasant dreams involving herself, Xyler and Craz driving through the city streets in a shiny convertible. Mabel was seated in the back, a pair of large sunglasses propped on her head as she enjoyed the breeze in her hair. Xyler was driving whilst Chaz sat beside her painting her fingernails.

At least, that had been the case.

'Neon yellow and green, huh? Talk about bold.'

She snapped her head around to find that Chaz has been replaced with a certain triangle who was holding her hand as he examined her half painted nails, the varnish pots floating in the air beside him.

Mabel gasped, and her attention went to Xyler. Maybe he-

Nope, he'd also been replaced with the triangle who was driving the convertible rather haphazardly given his legs didn't reach the peddles. There was even a third version of him in the passenger seat playing with the radio and changing the channels.

'Arghhhhh!' she yelled, snatching her hand back. 'No, no, no! Get the hell out of my dream!'

The Bill besides her blinked. 'Whoah there, no need to freak out, little lady.'

'Don't call me that,' she snapped, jabbing a finger in his direction. 'I've had it up to here with you letting yourself into my dreams.' Her dreams were her special place! Nobody else allowed. 'Just leave me alone already! What do you want?'

The dream demon beside creased his eye in amusement. 'Oh, well that's pretty simple.' He snapped his fingers and a second later a large bouquet of roses was in her face. Mabel found her senses suddenly overwhelmed with the nice smell.

'Here ya are. Now, what d'ya say I take you on a dream date?'

Mabel's mind buzzed like static. '....Say wha?' She glanced between his various clones nervously. 'What kind of prank is this?'

'No prank. Cm'on, I thought you believed in love at first sight, Shooting Star.'

'Wait- what!?' Her eyes widened in alarm and she stood up just as the car came to an abrupt holt. She grabbed hold of the driver's seat to keep her balance just as the three versions of the demon amalgamated into one and Mabel met his gaze. 'Okay now you're definitely messing with me. That's not gonna work, Mister.'

'No messin, nothing up my sleeves, see?' He pushed up a black sleeve(?) on his right arm to reveal another identical black limb underneath it. 'So what d'ya say? One date? I can take you wherever you want, you name it.'

She stared at the demon. '....This is weird.' It screamed trap. Ever since they’d met the demon in Stan’s Mindscape, the talking dorito had been bugging her every chance he could get. Super annoying. 

But now he was saying he had a thing for her?

Dang, her irresistible nature really had gotten out of control, hadn’t it? Her cuteness truly was a curse.

But maybe she could use this. The demon obviously knew things. If he actually liked her, perhaps she could lure it out of him with her womanly wiles? 

Considering all this with folded arms, Mabel eventually spoke cautiously. ‘Okay, sure. Let’s go on a date, uh…. big guy.’ 

‘It’s Bill,’ he replied, looking mildly annoyed that she'd forgotten his name. ‘Bill Cipher. I’m kinda a big deal, so it shouldn’t be hard to forget.’

‘Yeah, yeah.’

He huffed, dropping the bouquet in her lap. ‘Alright, prepare yourself for the best date you’ll ever have, kid.’

She grinned. 'Bring it.'

Not!propaganda for Eye Round 2:

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls): “I know lots of things…LOTS OF THINGS.” A triangular inter-dimensional demon, formerly existent only in the mindscape before succeeding in gaining access to the real world. He is nigh-omniscient and somewhat clairvoyant, apparently because he can spy on anyone through their mental worlds. He claims to see a "kaleidoscope of temporal probability with fluctuating range" and infinite alternate universes as well as alternate versions of himself. He often flaunts his abilities by offering to tell a person the exact time, date and cause of that person's death. He can also read the minds of other beings in the mindscape, as demonstrated when he summons Xyler and Craz from Mabel’s imagination. Bill made a deal with Stanford Pines, offering to be his muse and help him create an interdimensional portal in exchange for the ability to possess Ford’s body, which was actually a ruse to enable Bill to merge the Nightmare Realm with Ford’s world. Unfortunately for Ford, Bill’s powers let the demon to invade his mind until he resorted to surgically installing a metal plate in his head to keep Bill out. Furthermore, he can spy on the physical world through any image of himself, and he’d influenced Ford to collect triangular memorabilia, convert his study into a place of worship to Bill, and integrate representations of him into his house’s architecture, allowing him to spy on the Pines with impunity. A page about him in Journal #2 has a picture of him on the -$12 bill that says "Semper vigilantem", "Always watching.” Bill is an expert in using the many things he knows to push just the right buttons to get people to agree to his deals: he manipulates Dipper through his desperation and desire for knowledge, the Author through his intelligence, and Mabel through her fear of the future.

Santa Claus (Christianity): The traditional explanation for Santa's ability to achieve his annual deliveries is that he is a magical being. In works that think about or play with the implications, this may involve his being The Omniscient: he personally knows where everyone lives, what they want, what they have been doing, and whether they live up to his personal standards of “naughty” or “nice.” According to “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” a central piece of Santa lore, “You better watch out / You better not cry / You better not pout / I'm telling you why, Santa Claus is coming to town,” indicating that children must be on guard because Santa watches their behavior The directives to neither cry nor pout might be attempts to stop him from feeding on their fear, although the lines “He sees you when you're sleeping / He knows when you're awake / He knows when you've been bad or good / So be good for goodness sake”--already deeply disturbing in and of themselves--suggest that he searches for any visible sign of fear in his victims and punishes it by branding the unfortunate children “Naughty.” He also employs the services of the Elves on the Shelves, who surveil children under the guise of being innocent children’s toys, teaching them to be perpetually afraid of Santa’s watchful spies condemning them to his judgement.

The DoctorDonna (Doctor Who): The DoctorDonna was a composite being created when Donna Noble touched the Tenth Doctor's regeneration energy affected severed hand and sparked a "two-way biological meta-crisis". She retained Donna Noble's personality and physical appearance, but also had all of the Doctor's memories and intelligence. Jubilant at the abilities at her disposal, the DoctorDonna quickly used her new-found intellect to deactivate the reality bomb and disable the circuitry on the Daleks' controls and helped use the magnetron to bring twenty-six of the planets back to their rightful places in the universe. However, the DoctorDonna's brain overloaded, with her and the Doctor both recognising that the reason no human-Time Lord meta-crisis had been recorded before was that they were not viable, and the DoctorDonna's overload of cognition was slowly killing Donna's human body. The DoctorDonna begged the Doctor to let her die as she was, but the Doctor chose instead to lock away all the information relating to himself in Donna's brain — restoring Donna's original human mind and allowing her to survive, but also wiping away her memories of her pre-meta-crisis travels with the Doctor, and meaning that their travels together had to come to an abrupt end lest the extraordinary things she saw, and the sight of the Doctor himself, reawaken Donna's locked memories and, with them, the DoctorDonna and the death sentence threat she represented. The Doctor also implanted a "defence mechanism" inside Donna's mind in the form of a shockwave of regeneration energy that would put her and everyone in her vicinity to sleep if she started to remember, before the DoctorDonna could fully awaken and kill her. Despite this, she continued to "fight for [them]", sending Donna's conscious minds hints which helped the Doctor and Wilfred Mott foil Joshua Naismith and the Saxon Master's plans.

Raphaella la Cognizi (The Mechanisms): The science officer of the Aurora (who calls her “the with the weird look in her eye scientist”) and pianist of The Mechanisms, known for her metal wings and her thirst for knowledge. She is “as cruel and brutal as she is science” (“The Mechanisms Episode III: Revenge of Spaceport Mahon”--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eYALygp32w) and is is canonically wanted for unlawful human testing (https://the-mechanisms.tumblr.com/post/35778726288). She was not given a mechanism by Dr. Carmilla, which leads many to speculate that she may have mechanised herself. However, much of her backstory remains unknown--her crew profile doesn’t even say anything about her origins. She was in The City during the events of Ulysses Dies At Dawn, working on scientific experiments with Athena (not exactly known for ethics herself), and wanted to keep some of the brains from the Acheron when The Mechanisms destroyed the planet because “‘A few minds from the Acheron would make fine specimens’” (Eskhatos--https://themechanisms.com/fiction/eskhatos/). According to “Death to the Mechanisms,” the song revealing how The Mechanisms die for the last time, “There is so much to know in this universe, so much to learn. But when her research has become monotonous and her observations are dull, Raphaella will decide to partake in one final experiment. Taking a fragment of the ship once known as Aurora, she will cast herself into that black hole. Beyond the event horizon there, maybe to die, maybe to learn something new one last time.” Also, she likes magnets, which isn’t really relevant but is neat (“The Mechanisms’ Tour of the Pitt Rivers Museum”).

Drumbot Brian (The Mechanisms): Pilot of the Aurora and drummer of The Mechanisms. According to his bio and his scrapped origin song, “Indistinguishable From Magic,” he crashed onto a primitive planet with no memories and practiced science to mixed responses--some believed he was doing good for the people, but the religious sort, led by a priest, thought he was messing with things best left for gods. Brian used his advanced mechanical prowess to revive the priest from death, but he was branded a witch and launched by a mob into space to die; Dr. Carmilla made him immortal by replacing his body with mechanical parts (save his heart), and gave him a morality switch with the settings Means Justify Ends and Ends Justify Means. He has prophetic abilities (https://lucky-sevens.tumblr.com/post/628480002206351360/drumbot-brian-and-prophecy), which have resulted in him acting as a prophet on multiple occassions. During Ulysses Dies At Dawn, he works as a consultant for Tiresias’ near-omniscient Oracle database as the Oracle of Delphi: he “would give good ‘moral’ advice to assuage the guilt of atrocity wreakers: everything was excusable as long as the ends justified the means. He also provided fascinating glimpses of future technology, which were always useful for investors” (“Orpheus, Dionysus, Muriatic Acid and the Strange Whirring Thing”--https://themechanisms.com/fiction/orpheus-dionysus-muriatic-acid-and-the-strange-whirring-thing/). In High Noon Over Camelot, he is the Hanged Man/Merlin, who gave Arthur advice that enabled him to take control of Camelot. He gives prophecies to the main characters to try and guide them toward saving Fort Galfridian, but his efforts either fail or only cause madness and death, and he’s forced to watch helplessly as the fort goes into the sun.

Hansel and Gretel (The Mechanisms): King Cole's scientists who work on the Rose Red program, creating the clones of Rose who serve as the king’s unstoppable army. According to their backstory, “Gingerbread” (https://themechanisms.com/fiction/gingerbread/), “From [Hansel’s] earliest memories, he remembered the expression on their faces when he asked what the inside of a cat looked like. Such inquiries, he now knew, were not proper for three-year olds, but when his sister Gretel arrived with her own set of idiosyncrasies, he finally had an accomplice willing to indulge him in finding out.” They murdered their parents for abandoning them and eventually were found their way to the lab of Doctor Totenkinder: “Its every surface was covered in equipment, computers, apparatus. Simply put, the place was made of science, and had presented an irresistible temptation for the pair.” Totenkinder offered to let them help with her experiments, then imprisoned them and performed experiments to increase their intelligence. After a few doses, Hansel was smart enough to realize the doctor was going to kill them after the experiments, so he feigned idiocy to get Totenkinder to try and kill him, then had Gretel murder the doctor with her own concoctions. Afterward, they claimed the laboratory for their own to do science: “‘Now? Why, dear sister, we have a laboratory” Hansel replied without hesitation, “so we experiment.’”

Kyoko Kirigiri (Danganronpa): The “Ultimate Detective,” whose powers of deduction are so great that Junko felt the need to wipe her memories to try and stop her from interfering in her plans. Despite this, her analytical skills allow her to correctly identify the crux of each case way ahead of the others, all without remembering herself as a detective. During the second investigation, Kyoko sees past the crimescene setup and both notices Mondo refer to Chihiro as "dude" and discovers Chihiro's secret, two details unnoticed by everyone else; her classmates comment on how “frightful” she is for this. During the third incident, Kyoko was entirely not present from the start, yet instantly identified Celestia's plan to mask her killing behind a separate first killing, all from reviewing the crimescene and the evidence. The fourth investigation has Kyoko guarding Sakura's body, and despite her constraints she still works out every single person's involvement, and uncovers the deceptions that even Byakuya fell for. She explains her methods to Makoto in the final investigation by telling him that she actually has several outcomes/variables/possibilities/situations/scenarios running through her head at any given time, and in turn will be slowly ticking those probabilities off her list as the facts pour in (always on the lookout for inferences she can use). Besides her knack for exposing people’s secrets, she also has a deep fear of being known herself. She always has some theory for why someone can or can't be trusted (coupled with the same kinds of trust issues typical of abandoned children), and the amount of time she entertains these theories causes her to withhold quite a bit of information under fear of losing her only advantage against the Mastermind. Pretty much any time she's asked to explain herself she gives a cryptic and unhelpful answer, if she gives an answer at all, and her need to keep secrets results in her being suspected as the traitor and almost getting Naegi killed. School Mode implies that this is just a general habit of hers with or without a deadly game to justify the paranoia, where she tends to dodge questions that would require her to talk in-depth about herself.

Odin (GOW: Ragnarok): All-Father of the Nine Realms, King of Asgard and greatest of the Aesir. Odin's quest for gaining knowledge and preventing his death in Ragnarök in Norse sources — such as giving up his eye in the well of Mimir in exchange for wisdom and imprisoning Fenrir to prevent the wolf from devouring him in the future as it had been foretold — becomes his main trait and motivation in the series, in which he obsessively pursuits new ways to gain and hold more knowledge about the machinations of the world and his own fate at the cost of causing harm to other people and even himself. His ruthless cunning and charismatic leadership enthralled many gods and mortals over his lifetime, allowing Odin to exploit his subjects in his growing hunger for life's hidden wisdoms. He's very good at spreading this amongst his enemies to divide them and turn them against each other, rather than himself, using his vast knowledge to say the exact right things to cause friction and divided loyalties whilst appearing as a reasonable mediator on a surface level (think Elias’ shenanigans). He doesn’t appear in God of War (2018), but he spies on Kratos and Atreus through his magical ravens (the Eyes of Odin). He once hung himself from a branch of Yggdrasil, impaled himself with his own spear, then bled to death over the Well of Destiny so that he could plunder the secrets of Yggdrasil and the undead realms. Aside from defying fate, his biggest life's work has been trying to gather the pieces of a mask that would allow him to look into a green void that's supposed to house the infinite knowledge of the universe. He's convinced himself that everything he does, whether it be enslavement, filicide, fratricide, or outright genocide, will be worth the answers he can get from the rift. When Atreus breaks the mask and seals the rift in defiance, Odin's infuriated and cannot comprehend that everything he's done has been made completely meaningless; Atreus even tries to makes one last offer to him to give up, but he insists that "I have to know what happens next. I'll never stop."

Charlie Cale (Poker Face): A cheating gambler turned casino cocktail watress who has the power to tell when someone is intentionally lying. She exposes her boss’ attempt to cheat a whale in revenge for him murdering her friend, who was going to bust the whale for what is implied to be involvement in a child porn ring; however, exposing her boss as a failure to his father drives him to suicide. Her boss’ dad comes after her, so she goes on the run; wherever she goes, someone gets murdered, and she ends up having to solve the murder using her power and deductive skills to expose the criminals. She also accidentally drives another person to suicide by publicly exposing her as a murderer, causing her to have a guilt-induced breakdown and jump to her death. She’s an Expy of Columbo, being a shabby looking investigator who’s very good at picking up important, contradictory details at a glance and withers down suspects through obfuscating stupidity and annoying persistence.

The Ancestor (Darkest Dungeon): The living embodiment of “fuck around and find out.” As a young man, he tried to murder The Countess at a party and ingested her blood, granting him a vision of the Heart of Darkness beneath his manor and the horrifying true nature of the world. He began searching for forbidden knowledge, learning from the Necromancers and the Hag and hiring mariners to retrieve artifacts and relics for him. Using blood sacrifice and summoning rituals, he put dark spirits in the bodies of pigs, creating the Swinefolk that he left in the Warrens. He also sold a village girl who had a crush on him to the Pelagics of the cove (who turned her into the Siren, their monstrous queen/breeding slave) because he needed jewels to finance his search and her following him around was bothersome. When homeless man started preaching that The Ancestor would bring doom upon the world and turned the people against him, he tried to kill the man multiple times, then lured him to the dig site: “There, I showed him the THING and detailed the full extent of my plans. Triumphantly I watched as he tore his eyes from their sockets and ran shrieking into the shadows, wailing maniacally that the end was upon us all.” The Ancestor finally unleashed The Heart, bringing cosmic horror to The Hamlet, and killed himself after sending a letter to The Heir asking them to come fix his mistakes (or possibly to lure them in, depending on whether he was actually serving the Heart at the end). His foolish quest to unearth The Heart of Darkness and all of the immensely horrible things he did to everyone around him to make that happen left The Hamlet in shambles and the surrounding lands infested with all sorts of nightmarish monsters.

The Protégé (Darkest Dungeon II): The Protégé was a savant of the Occult who crossed paths with the Academic as student and teacher, a bond that would soon melt into a genuine respectful friendship. Together, the two would feed each other's enthusiasm for the dark arts, finding comfort in each other's company. The Protégé that found the Iron Crown, a symbol cemented in the oldest cultures of the world. They pressed the Academic to present their findings to the larger University and faculty, but the Academic chose caution and forbade his student from sharing their research, fearing it would be stolen or dismissed without the proper evidence. The two would spend the next few months studying day and night, the Protégé's resentment towards their mentor building with each passing day. This would eventually fall apart, as the Great Library where the two researched was burned from an unknown source. They then received a letter from the Ancestor, inviting them to his manor. With no other leads on the Iron Crown, the duo followed the directions on the invitation, finding themselves at an abode with the Ancestor himself alongside a throng of Occultists and Necromancers. The two stayed at the home, engaging in various dark rituals with the other members to the Ancestor's delight; while the Academic continued to advise caution, the Protégé was enthralled by these activities. It eventually transpired that the Ancestor had murdered the other guests and prostrated their bodies on the points of the Crown, a failed ritual to summon the full strength of the Crown--a cosmic entity embodying madness, despair, sorrow, and pain--for himself. While the display disgusted the Academic, it lit a corruptive fire in the Protégé, who replicated the ritual with the Academic as the final sacrifice. Doing so imbalance the cosmic equation and summoned the Crown, turning their body into the malignant’s power host. Their faults--denial, resentment, obsession, ambition, and cowardice--were embodied as titanic monsters while the Crown’s power brought the end of the world, driving humanity mad with the horrible eldritch truth.

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