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ZD & teecece art :B

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intro post yay

⊹ I'm alex or lex

⊹ he/they

⊹18

⊹open to chat about cases/ making friends!

Cases I'm interested in

⊹ Dnepropetrovsk maniacs, Academy maniacs

Hobbies

⊹ art, edit, write, literature/books, movies

Fav movies/shows

⊹ZDay2002, Klass2007, Elephant2003, Ginger Snaps, The VVitch, Saw, Sinners, Martyrs, Carrie, The Shining, Yellowjackets, Iwtv, Severance, + Horror genre in general

no DNI, I block freely

disc - guttedslop + open dms (not if ur -17 tho)

[rvscherub]

Refuse to go a day without quoting this.

[ketsu-kitty]

they're playing DOOM II

[kitacure]

[ edit by me!! ,, not my best edit ]

[macherstew]

Happy pride month everyone! If you’ve seen this before, don’t worry it’s not stolen. I posted it on my TikTok a few days ago. Yuri Caldre for the win am I right? 🤧❤️ Art by @jerbobaa, @gr0anedd,@apyrrhaa, case63, Ena/ @yorioshi, and someone from Pinterest (I am not sure of the artist) Yes I will be color coding my posts to make it easier to read. All art mentions in blue.

[mawxir]

dnepropetrovsk edit ig :P

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[guttedslop]

what nikita does in his free time 😳😳 (real not clickbait!!)

[izzybites2001]

hold on white boy im easyyy 😂😳😳

finding these clips took me one hour goodbue

[codyswarm]

ok people talk abt the mischaracterization of cal, but what about andre????

i kinda went on a tangent not that long ago abt this. some people see cal as a little sweetheart, which is not fully true, and they also call him completely manipulative, which is not fully true either. kinda a mix of both???

but andres mischaracterization is that hes just an angry guy. like obviously yes he has canon anger issues, but some of yall see him as just always angry. and SOME people see him as an egotistical dickhead.

he obviously feels sympathy, he obviously has human emotions, hes not always angry. and nor does he just flat out not care about anyone and only himself. i know a TON of people who think hes just a cynical bastard.

and its kinda sad too, because both andre and cal are complex characters in their own respective ways. but some people just water them down to the most likeable or useable aspects.

like tropes are fun and ideal, obviously, but CONSTANTLY making a character to their one memorable and likeable trait is just bleh. cal is not a little sweetie cutie, and andre isnt an angry hateful bastard all the time. thank you for coming to my ted talk (sorry if this made no sense and is a bit short, its just a brain dump)

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[evilspiderkitty]

caldre Yuri animation 👀👀👀👀👀👀

[guttedslop]

artyom what r u doing there even ❤️

[maniacotaku]

I created this work with reference to the second picture.

[operationandre2]

Do you think Andre feels any affinity to Germany ? Does he identify as "German" or does he consider himself as American as apple pie ? Could his German origins have anything to do with why he decided to pursue Zero Day, or some parts of it, such as the swastika burning scene we see right before the shooting ?

i think it depends on the day! when he was younger, he definitely felt a lot more connected to his heritage, but as he grew up and got bullied more for being an immigrant and not being purely american, he began to distance himself from his home country. he keeps up with traditions and popular cultural parts of germany, but he pulls away from it closer to zero day. he doesn’t want to be labeled as a foreigner or anything that would ‘taint’ his image in the press after the shooting.

some parts of growing up absolutely had an impact on how he views his background (like parent-teacher conferences when he still had to act as a translator for his parents and kids at school making fun of him and his parents for being different). also, his brother might have something to do with it. andre’s brother is probably in the military (or at least that’s where i believe he is as it would explain andre’s military fixation and how he rarely sees his brother), and andre sees him being a ‘proud american’ and wants to share that sentiment.

he’s very easily influenced and sensitive, even if he doesn’t want to admit it. his heritage is a very tough topic for him. he rarely even mentions it to cal.

[theleandoer]

can't fight the homestuck

[laceboundd]

something i think about each time i watch zd, and a topic that i haven’t seen many people touch on, is the conversation of cal and his religion.

when we see him burning his bible, he mentions he went to catholic school, and as someone that went to a religious school those ideologies are so easily indoctrinated in you and they leave roots deep in your mind that don’t just go away. especially at a young age, research shows children are most impressionable in their first 7-10 years of life. so this proposes the question: did cal feel any guilt or remorse for what he was doing? and i don’t mean for humanity, because a big part of cal’s character that the movie demonstrates is he doesn’t feel real, genuine human connection outside of andre, the persona he puts on at prom and with rachel is a front, it’s an act to him. (i also believe that rachel is representative of the small part of his religion he does hold on to, and how homosexuality is a sin. because she looks like andre, but she isn’t andre, she never will be. and that makes cal uncomfortable.) he sees zero day as sort of a twisted social experiment, he treats other’s lives as a game because they’re beneath him, but what is there to say about someone that’s always been above him; what is there to say about the God he was trained to love, to worship, to give himself up to because he is lesser than?

in their manifesto, cal says that him and andre will be more powerful than God, noticeably he doesn’t say that they’ll be Him, i believe because he was taught that no one could be God, no one could reach His level of divinity. andre corrects him, saying they’ll be God, while andre’s family is religious (jewish), it seems like andre wasn’t as conditioned into his religion and into religious spaces as cal was in adolescence, because it’s never mentioned. cal definitely has a distaste towards his religion, and he tells us this, but no matter how much you hate or how much you disconnect from that part of yourself, it’ll always be there deep down in the darkest parts of you, it’ll always be something you think about. cal burning his bible along with the crosses burning at the end of the movie to me seem like symbolism for cal’s hatred for that part of himself and his desire to fully sever from it, which you can only achieve in death. it also gives more reason to why he was so adamant on killing himself, why he knew his fate from the beginning, the act of suicide is notoriously a sin, cal doesn’t want to go to heaven, maybe because he doesn’t want the life everyone around him wished for him, maybe he feels like he doesn’t deserve to.

not to mention his name is cal, which is very similar to the biblical figure cain, and the same as the character cal trask who is a representation of cain, which means “acquired or possessed”, and his last name is gabriel, who is one of the few named angels in the bible, and represents God’s strength. so his name quite literally means possessed/acquired God’s strength. it’s insane

just something i wish more people would explore about his character!!!