ARE YOU ON THE LEVEL?

this is my hyperfixation sideblog. theme will change w/ hyperfixations and/or when I decide to change it ✨for now this is my Ghost themed blog✨

[smallpwbbles]

They don’t fucking know how much they mean to each other in a different world FUCK.

[greenteacryptid]

[mleelunsford]

I don't need to explain myself

[jorongbak]

So if Caine and Kinger finally have a father-son relationship… does that mean Kinger calls him by his first name, all three middle names, and last name when he’s about to unleash the full force of his parental wrath

[spoonfight7]

Apparently

[kinger-offical]

I love my funky kids +:)

[bog-teeth]

hello mechs fans i got to storyboard for if they made a high noon over camelot animated movie for class. have at ye

[madame-snail-smooches]

Hot take, but Galahad was the best character in HNOC. He's a subversion of a subversion trope. Back in the day when the Canterbury Tales, etc, depicted preachers as sinister, lecherous, hypocritical characters, it was shocking because people were used to the clergy being glorified despite their flaws. Nowadays we've got all kinds of Religious Zealot characters who are intended to be hateable. At first glance, Galahad seems like he's going to fit this category. He's got a gravelly southern preacher voice and his theme is this sinister-sounding minor key. His main song is called "Hellfire", and he tells everybody that their sin has damned the world.

But he's not a bad guy.

The more you pay attention, the more you see that Gallahad is literally the only person in the story who never wavers from doing the right thing. He tells the Hangman that he'll do whatever it takes to free this world "from the hatred in their hearts." He takes the most direct course of action to prevent any more death and sacrifices himself for the possibility that the others might live. Galahad completely subverts the Sinister Religious Zealot trope, and I think that's awesome.

[rolypolyjolllly]

save me hnoc

[wreegis]

propaganda for the Galahad Gets Mechanized au that lives only in my mind

[21angryfrogs]

bitches talk about lyfrassir edda joining the mechanisms. what about galahad joining the mechanisms. here is my case:

- bastard - loud - dramatic - ok but am i the only one who heard “the hermit” and thought “huh so he could be mechanized”? what if carmilla swung down to check on her drumbot and found the world on the edge of being thrown into the sun with a barely alive man torn to fucking shreds? what if she took him back to her ship, turning him into her last mechanism? what if when he came to consciousness he thought that this was his purpose and accepted it? what if she brought him back to her crew (a crew he wouldve only known as the group who outcasted the woman who’d saved him) only to see the prophet he trusted among the traitors? - hehe brian/galahad good

[anonymouscringe]

"I asked chatgpt-"

Ok well I asked the man made of brass who hangs upside down in the town square, and he said that I should go sit in the insanity chair that shows you visions that makes you go insane

[cleanslicedbread]

Hear me out, a fanfic set in hnoc, where Galahad somehow finds an old photo of Merlin…as the Oracle of the city in UDAD.

We know how everyone loves drawing Oracle!Brian hardly wearing anything.

It’s also a HolyMetal fic.

[the-lyf-incident]

Tiresias [EPIC] and Merlin [HNOC] meeting would be so funny.

Merlin: "and so I told him that his son was alive even though he thought he was dead and he was all 'I don't have a son, my daughter's dead though' like dude?"

Tireseas: "Yeah I told Odysseus that his wife would be with a man who was haunting and he had the audacity to ask who. My man, have you looked at your reflection since you threw that baby off that tower? You look like shit."

Misunderstood prophets who aren't even cursed to be misunderstood the people they're giving prophecies to are just fucking stupid gang rise up.

[the-suns-a-tube]

Drumbot Brian's Morality During HNOC

The Drumbot has two modes of morality, Ends Justify Means, where he will excuse any unjust actions as long as the intended outcome is justified, and Means Justify Ends, where he can not do an action he considers morally unjust, even if it is for the greater good.

I believe that Brian is on Means Justify Ends in this album, as he is (most likely) physically capable of getting down from the gallows to more actively assist the Galfridians, but considers the action of freeing himself unjustly.

Personally, I think he was an accomplice in a crime the Lady of the Lake committed, which he morally justified with the love he had for her. He was the fall guy (by choice or by force), given full blame, and hanged. He considered this judgement to be just and escaping his just sentence to be immoral. Even if he was incapable of getting down by himself, the rest of the Crew of the Aurora had once roamed Fort Galfridian. It seems unlikely that one of the less hostile crew members wouldn’t have offered to help him down at some point, especially with how long Brian was hung there.

Another likely series of events is that Brian was hung by another of the crew as a practical joke. The crew of the Aurora know each other's limitations and abilities and would be able to sufficiently prevent escape. Not wanting to ruin a good prank or entertain the risk of getting pranked in return, the rest of the crew ignored any plea for help Brian may have had. The rest of the crew eventually left Fort Galfridian, and Brian was promptly forgotten while the crew committed atrocities elsewhere. When their hangovers wore off and they remembered to retrieve him, the space station had fallen and they spent a few decades fishing the melty Drumbot out the sun.

Though not as humorous, I prefer the first explanation, as it ties in nicely with the original legends. Furthermore, the whole ‘Brian forced to watch a world full of people he grew to love end in a manner so obviously preventable to him, unable to do anything to actively stop it due to an artificial mental mechanic inseverable from his neverending self-questioning existence’ thing is rather tragically poetic, adhering well to the Mechanisms 'there are no happy endings; misery is unavoidable; existence is purposeless; death comes to us all; not even those who believe themself Immortal can do fuckall to stop that; let's do a karaoke and dress up in funny hats about it.’ motif.

[wheresmyfuckingchair]

Yo who took this image of me listening to them whistle lost in the cosmos lonely in the opening to HNOC. Not cool bro

[fruitisthenewvegitable]

I love peoples drawing of DBB as Merlin being tied upside down and giving his cute little death prophecies

And I also know that he’s a robot and therefore his hair probably doesn’t grow…

But hear me out…

“Merlin” has been there for likely centuries. And his hair is the only part of him that still grows despite his mechanism. His hair is incredibly long. It pools on the ground below him and makes an unsettling circle around him, nobody dares step on it, even if The Hanged Man is only a statue, they still do not step on his hair as to pay respect (and possibly out of fear of what may come of it).

As Camelot is being consumed by the sun. Brian looks out one of Auroras windows into space, he looks upon the firey ball of destruction taking something he had grown to care about.

And he cuts his hair.

He cuts it shorter than he’s ever worn it since he became mechanized. He always liked it a bit long, but he is consumed by sorrow, and a part of him died that day with Camelot.

So he braids his hair (a young child had once braided a part of his hair. But the braid had fallen out long ago. He still thinks of them, no matter how much it hurts…). And he cuts it with a blade, one he had gotten from Camelot before he was rescued by the others. It’s uneven and scraggly, but he doesn’t care.

Camelot is gone. It is dead. The Hanged Man’s Merlin’s Brian’s hair is cut.

(I’m ignoring that (I think) Brian was thrown into the sun for a bit and then saved. Let’s pretend the others got him out of there right before Camelot went up in flames)

[lakemojave]

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

[lakemojave]

Tumblr users will read a post complaining about normalized misogyny and hyperfocus on your claim that it's ok to dislike dogs