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welcome to the object show THEORY CONFESSIONS blog!
the idea is simple: submit any theories you have for any object show—plan entire future episodes, analyze what your favorite character might become, declare your headcanons and back them up with fact or fib! any overanalyzing you’ve been doing can go right here!
this blog is run by me, lemon writes! 🍋🍋🍋 i use she/her! mod apps are not open now but may be in the future :)
submissions are open!
RULES! under cut…
there's a cool theory i have that revolves around lifering and his awareness.
as seen in the exit interviews and other times where he seems to know the viewers, he is definitely aware of the audience watching and that might possibly drive some of his actions like being mean to poppy and being a goofy man. all for the audience. my idea of lifering is him being aware of all but still being a good person at heart, just with a quirk that can drive some of his actions.
you can actually see this in action with "Seas The Day" where lifering actually gives the viewers a lesson on safety because of pickle pretending to drown (that lesson involving a shark however, but it's lifering it's okay)
lifering is good at heart but he might be more aware of the audience than the others (like monika from ddlc) (i would love for him to appear on screen and see what the audience wants via reading the comments)
i actually would like to say something else about the floatie man and that is his humor when it comes to danger. he often uses "sus" and other cringey vocabulary when it's not needed, but it could be used. what if lifering learned that from the audience and used it to be like them. so i have one question that could drive this theory in an interesting manner.
what if lifering wanted to be like the audience?
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i saw a an ask somewhere about misogyny in the osc, do you know what they were talking about/can anyone explain ??
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hi im claiming this blog as my stomping ground now. OVERANALYZING TIME!!!!!
so i was just rewatching the beginning part of iiiv ep 2 cuz im using it for something, and i noticed a lot about poppy's behaviors that i don't really see anyone talk about...? i hadn't even registered it myself, but their expressions and the way they speak during their introduction scene is very interesting to me
like, i often see headcanons of poppy being very young and very explicitly new to the world (not being able to read/write, not understanding social nuances, not knowing how to take care of themself, etc)
and i think these hcs are super super cute, but it never occured to me before just how deftly all the content of their introduction scene refutes this perception of them. they're characterized very clearly, but also very subtly, and i think this characterization was so overlooked because of the general excitement of the scene
but poppy is WAYYY more intelligent & competent than i see recognized in the fandom---it kind of reminds me of lightbulb's intelligence being ignored because she's very goofy, but for poppy it's ignored because they're new to the society/world, and people tend to assume that their youth = inexperience
rewatching that opening scene in ep2, i noticed that their intelligence is clear in a lot of ways---most notably them fixing up bot so quickly, but also in the way they talk about it (they literally mention a soldering iron offhandedly)
they definitely possess good linguistic skills & are even pretty charismatic/animated (no pun intended) with their storytelling skills, considering the way they begin to tell the story of where they came from
and, in the same shot (and continuing throughout the scene!) they express a strong sense of cognitive empathy (not just being able to infer what others may be feeling from their cues, but understanding them---'thinking' alongside the 'feeling') with offering to show the islanders where they came out of the ground, seemingly immediately understanding that people were uncomfortable with *specifically* them being present
+ sense of humor (joking with test tube), danger (dodging toilet, not completely just instinctual as they made a verbal exclamation acknowledging it), and guilt (their expression after being held down/restrained by paintbrush...they looked so sad -m-")
they also already knew how to read, write, and spell!! they clearly needed to be able to read & spell in order to participate in that episode's challenge (seeing as cabby helped spikey, but poppy apparently didn't need any help), and they have written on their own vote cards in each elimination ceremony they've been in (with rather nice handwriting as well!)
it's interesting to me how they seem to have formed all of these more complex cognitive abilities without any prior social interaction, even including literal social constructs like names and soldering irons ("nobody's ever called me anything before, but i thought poppy would be a good name for me...") and although it's obvious that these were written in mostly for simplicity's sake because we don't want to spend the whole season teaching poppy how to read or whatever, it was still a conscious choice by the writers to make poppy more capable than they needed to be---they did choose to highlight the issues box has gained from spending so long in mephone's void
so they went out of their way to both acknowledge that poppy has about the same competence & intelligence as a fully mature object, and that poppy had been living alone until they showed up at the island
side note: we don't know how long they'd been living on their own or where, though, and i REALLY hope we learn later on!! but we do know that it was long enough for them to make themself their own hairband, even if we don't know exactly how long it took for them to progress developmentally... but we CAN infer from their behavior, physical appearance (specifically height), and the way the others act toward them that their mental and physical development has probably just about completed by now, making them effectively an adult in ii's world
BIG GRAIN OF SALT we don't know how or even if objects actually age in ii's universe, BUT we can take poppy as a sign that it's probably very fast---they've been alive for at least a week and at most a year
anyway oops i kinda went off from my original topic here which was that poppy is way more capable & smart than most people in the fandom assume they are!!! i do really like hcs/stories with poppy being super new/inexperienced with the world, but i fear that people will start to take that as their actual canon state and ignore that they're definitely pretty much fully grown!! I LOVE POPPY!!! yay thats it
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lifering is suuuper likely to die and nobody talks about it!!! or at least theyre setting him up for a death or something bad i think
he's the only one left who is specifically still being unfair/rude to poppy, considering paper stopped in episode five and test tube is at least more reasonable now
and since theyre obviously setting poppy up to be the likeable character of the season, theyre slowly setting up lifering to be a significantly dis-likeable character
i think being mean isnt really in his nature so hes probably gonna get a redemption arc w poppy later down the line, but then that will be when he dies (for extra sadness, if anyone would be sad over lifering dying)
uuuh yeah thats my theory
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aging in ii follows th same rules as wings of fire
newborns learn communication, motor skills, and gather new information extremely quickly (looking at how peril from wof could speak in broken sentences like 30 seconds after hatching, and how poppy was already apparently fully physically + socially capable when they showed up to the island even though they’re canonically only like 2-6 months old)
and they reach adulthood/maturity at only a few years of age (though i guess for ii people it would be even faster, like 2-3 years or so?)
meanwhile bfdi has no aging at all and everyone stays constantly at one set age (apparently, according to the way they act) like if we’re assuming grassy is on the younger side, even if all the characters may be canonically the same age they all have different mental ages and so it’s kinda just a free for all
thank u for coming to my ted talk
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saw a twitter post about how object characters always seem to sleep in piles (the eliminated contestants in tpot, iis1 on idiotic island) and it seemed SO cute to me like. i love when objects are just little critters in the middle of nowhere doing little critter things
and i think it would be funny but also interesting if that was like. an actual thing they did? i like thinking about what objects' biological traits would be, and "sleeping/huddling in packs for warmth" is a very dumb but endearing one
it kind of reminds me of cat/dog packs, and i think it would be funny if the ii contestants treated poppy like a newcomer ... like in eps 1-2 when they've just shown up, people haven't warmed up to them and they don't get to sleep in the Big Sleeping Pile so they have to sleep alone or just next to metag
and then later on they get to join<<3333333333 i love those dumb little critters doing dumb little critter things THEYRE SO LITTLE 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 OBJECTS DOING ANIMAL THINGS THEY R SO CUTESY 🥺🥺🥺🥺 BABIES................🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
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ok wait i just realized
we call Steve Cobs “Cobs” for short because it’s his last name right
and poppy is his child, so that means that poppy’s full name is Poppy Cobs
doesn’t that mean that
technically
poppy IS cobs
like, we can literally call them “cobs” as their actual name in the same way we call steve cobs “cobs” because it’s his last name
im gonna start saying “omg its cobs!!1!” to refer to poppy themself this is great
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wait CONSIDER: ii x alice in wonderland au, but specifically focused on the season 4 newbies
alice is poppy, the cheshire cat is jack, and the queen of hearts is teddy
i dont . know what any other characters would be, nor do i remember the full story of alice in wonderland BUT i FEEL like this idea has merit... somebody do something with this ok bye
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th queue is almost empty… submit some theories! tpot theories can be posted now as well 👀
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this blog just started and 90% of the confessions are already just “what if this one specific character from this one specific show had the worst time of their lives”
and personally i’m all for it. TORMENT THAT CORN WE LOVE THEM
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Hard theory, at least one half of each popular ship is going to die because Adam hates us /silly
Either OJ or Paper is gonna die, either Fan or Test Tube is gonna die, either Taco or Mic is gonna die, either Lightbukb or Paintbrush is gonna die, and/or either Poppy or Bot/Metag is gonna die. All the deaths that happen will be in some popular pairing to make it extra painful. (Or MePad comes back and then dies again, but that counts for TacoPad)
Not all of these ships will be destroyed but if anybody dies I guarantee you it’ll be a part of a popular ship. This sounds silly but honestly all these characters have the biggest potential of dying this season so don’t say I didn’t warn you
I mean I guess basically every character is shipped with somebody but still-
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Everybody talks about how poppy will interact with the purple corn later in the season, but I think we also need to talk about how they’ll potentially interact with cobs/their relation to cobs.
They don’t really seem to have fully realized that they are indeed cobs’ literal biological child (I think they only had one line about it in episode 2—“this is the guy everyone thinks I spawned from”). I’m hoping the show will explore that more as they learn more about him, flint corn, and meeple.
My theory is that this will show up in the form of visions/hallucinations like suitcase had in season 2, with poppy hearing cobs’ voice in their head/seeing him in mirrors. Maybe he’ll actually haunt them & try to get them to do evil stuff, or maybe it’ll be all in their imagination like a manifestation of their guilt for being related to him.
Either way I really hope we get to see how poppy handles the idea of actually being related to him in the future
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theory there will be ONE (1) more romantic relationship becoming canon in ii EVER and it WONT be fantube
it’ll be some obscure rarepair with only one fan and adam will select it randomly after scrolling on tumblr for 30 minutes. i think it’ll be nickel and bfdi nickel
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charger block lots will be a twist villain i’ve held this belief since the first episode and i’ll continue to hold it for the next million years or however long it takes the average object show to release an episode
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SILVER WILL INNER FLAME AGAIN IN S4
SILVER WILL INNER FLAME AGAIN IN S4
SILVER WILL INNER FLAME AGAIN IN S4
SILVER WILL INNER FLAME AGAIN IN S4
SILVER WILL INNER FLAME AGAIN IN S4
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the theory about poppy hurting themself makes me very very sad but i recognize that it has merit so here’s my kinda-counter theory
i think this would all probably never happen but if it did and adam/brian wanted to have a character’s arc seriously touch on suicide or self-harm, it would probably be with poppy (or teddy ….)
but they also always tend toward pretty optimistic endings to character arcs, even with the especially miserable ones like mephone’s, so i think if they did this it would focus more on recovery and the character learning how to feel better after they do whatever they do :)
and i think poppy is good for this because they have a lot of potential to be lonely but also a lot of potential to form really meaningful friendships with the others when they’re given the opportunity (like with paper just last episode!!! before that, people thought they’d hate each other forever and now they’re pals!!!)
so i think even if they were displayed hitting a really really dark place mentally, that the highlight of that part of the story would be the community helping them out of it, and it would be cute and nice and stuff :) #hopecore
i don’t have an anon send off yet. um im hope anon im gonna be corny
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