Hi! I yap and I draw things sometimes, so hope you enjoy! Proud member of the alphabet soup mafia, and I use any pronouns. I’m in a lot of fandoms, so don’t be afraid to share stuff with me, I won’t judge :)
First post after months is a slander shitpost, great to be back 🙏
Ok ok, look, headcanons aren’t bad, but it’s very clear that some of y’all just wanna draw a twink with horns 😭🙏 Even the more canon adjacent art still lack a shit ton of features the original form in an attempt to make him more conventionally attractive and its low-key disappointing (Give him his chin, he can’t breathe without his chin 💔) . Will I draw oni form Lloyd anytime soon? Probably not, maybe, Im a lazy fuck, but you bet your ass that if I do I’m giving him his fuckass goblin ears, cos I stand on business 😤😤😤
Maxed out Teddie's social link. Category 5 "He Just Like Me Fr" event. Zero survivors
I am forever disappointed with the localization and some of the other stuff they do with his character because I otherwise find some major aspects of his story/social link deeply relatable and interesting. Especially to me as a mentally ill and autistic person who spent most of my childhood entirely cut off from the outside world (thank you longterm residental 'treatment' facilities 🙄) and then was suddenly thrust into adult life in a world I wasn't familiar with and didn't know how to engage in. It's like you just spawned into the world lacking all the social development everyone else around you has and are expected to somehow magically adapt and connect with people.
Started rambling about those aspects of his story so I'll throw it under the cut.
Idk, he is just so crunchy to me in this way. Guy who has never been a human before and whose main influence that he models his behavior around is a perverted teenage boy who routinely shoves down his darker emotions and smiles and jokes for the sake of others, two traits Teddie is routinely shown to mirror and exhibit after exiting the TV world, even to his own emotional detriment (re. Rise's dungeon, the hospital scenes, etc.).
Guy who canonically falls into an existential crisis and dissociates and becomes suicidal when faced with the potential of being useless and disliked because the need for human connection and approval is baked into his very existence. This desire to be liked and accepted is, in itself, a very human trait even if he views it as something to the contrary.
Which I think explains a lot of (though not all of, obviously since he does some highly disgusting and inexcusable things) his behavior. Speaking in what we can assume to be TV quotes, failing to read the room, trying to force himself into a comic relief role even when he's in mental anguish, complimenting himself arrogantly despite showing in other moments how little he thinks of himself and his abilities, repeatedly fearing being sent away even after reassurances to the contrary, seeking out approval from women and pushing buttons to (unfortunately) no consequence which further validates the idea that he is wanted around despite everything. And so on and so on.
Like yeah you are entirely out of your element and view every single relationship around you as conditional and dependant entirely on your usefulness, transactional promises, and being charming/the center of attention and have no reason to live outside of those things but who cares, stay silly, right?✌🏽😋🎉
The game doesn't touch on this next bit at all so this is gets into some personal headcanon territory now, but I always like to imagine that the time will come when he must face the reality that, in forfeiting his status as a mascot and a being from the other side, he must come to realize that charm and shticks get old and the "he's not from here, he doesn't know better" defense wears off fast. Soon he will have to abide by societal expectations and socially acceptable behavior. Soon he will see the end of girls brushing off his harassment and Yosuke tolerating his slacking at work and his overall demeanor. Soon he will learn the difference between being tolerated and being liked and need to decide for himself which is more important, because the latter requires a degree of authenticity yet authenticity requires a degree of knowing and understanding yourself. Even after his rank ten, we don't really see Teddie ever fully make peace with being a shadow, merely he accepts that despite being a shadow there is still "something he can do".
I think the truest version of Teddie we see is the one who has private, vulnerable conversations with Yu. The one who works himself to exhaustion looking after him when he's sick and the one who cares and worries deeply for Nanako and the one who opens up to everyone on the Junes rooftop. You can audibly hear this (at least in English, I haven't played in Japanese) in his voice acting and the word choices he uses in those moments, trading out the flamboyance and flippancy for a very sober and relatively well spoken and honest demeanor. And you can hear/see the moment he flips it back off too (very evident at the end of his social link scenes or when he's silent and hanging his head in the hospital but then makes a joke but then immediately goes back to looking miserable).
Butzeven up to the very end of the game (and also in the spinoffs where they unfortunately flanderized him to all hell) we still see the obnoxious, horny, silly aspect of his personality take center stage. I do feel like that is also a genuine part of him, but I would love it if one day he did manage to stop forcing and playing up those aspects in moments where he could instead be showing his true self. Overall, I think that would greatly benefit him both in the sense of not masking his suffering but also in being able to realize that the people who love and care for him do so for him.
I think that's why I really like that scene on the Junes rooftop when he returns from being lost in the fog. He is honest with everyone and expresses and cries over his own fears and insecurities and in the end everyone is able to address them directly and reassure him that, like every other human sitting at the table, no one expects perfection or extraordinary skills from him and no one views him as anything other than who and what he is right now. I know some of the dialogue around this scene (including them talking about his usefulness before he returns) can come across as cruel but I feel like really it's very honest. The people who truly love and care for you do so unconditionally. His presence will not magically fix the situation and he IS someone who gets on their nerves at times, but the same could he said for any of them because that's just how it is being a human.
I really like this because, despite first playing this in junior high school, this is something I really only started to learn and accept about myself these past few years. I am aware that there are many things I can't do and that I too can be obnoxious at times, but the people in my life already know this and do not only want me around when I can solve all of their problems or when I can smile and be silly every second even though I have long operated under that sort of fear and self-pressure. I will never be able to socially catch up with my peers because many of my fundamental brain development years were spent under constant supervision with very limited access to world outside, almost no access to the internet, and everything done for me for years and years. I learned about the changing outside world through movies and video games and books and nothing else and this shows a lot. But in accepting those aspects of myself I have been able to have deeper friendships that I no longer view as tenuous or transactional if I didn't maintain a certain "I am 100% normal and know what's going on" front at all times. I have also developed and discovered a little bit more about who I am as a person even after having those formative years of self-exploration stolen from me.
I really do see a similar story and structure reflected in Teddie's character arc and I just really really like it for that reason.
Idk, this is all over the place and got away from me but yeah I really just like him!! Horrible tropes and questionable localization be damned, that bear got me feeling feelings. I genuinely think his social link, even if lighter than the others, is one of my favorites in the whole series.
I should really post more on here, I guess I’ve been tired for a long while. This school year is going to be a real pain in the ass but whatever, we lock in
My character’s name is Jamie and I have a chicken named Texas. She’s playing as two girls named Shiny and Ruby and they have a dog named buffalo and a cat named Starlight
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