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So you take requests for character specific headcannons? Do you have Austin headcannons?
maybe…….:.:
HERE WE GO!!!!!
—-his rock throwing thing has been around ever since he could grab things. he’d be 1 and throwing around whatever he could. Only as he grew up, if turned into a rock-throwing thing specifically. Though he will still throw other things like you know…other things idk.
—-he didn’t grow up in an abusive home so to say, but it definitely isn’t a good household. He rarely gets his parents attention, and when he does it’s never really positive. Austin never really knows what he did wrong, just kind of assumes he deserves the treatment. He just sits out back and throws rocks over the fence when he gets home from school. Then he walks around the fence, collects the rocks, rinse and repeat.
—-Austin is really scared of dogs because —as seen in every good comedy movie—a dog once scared him up a tree. And he was up there for a long …LONG tine. He’s also been bit on multiple occasions. Owie.
—-he *does* like the color purple but the main reason he dyed his hair purple is actually just because Alice is always wearing her purple dress. He figured she must have liked purple, and ba-bam! Purple hair! Why is his hair such a bright shade? It’s the only color that would have taken to his dark hair.
———that being said, he also dyed his hair himself, because his parents wouldn’t help him. He was completely stained with purple. On his neck, on his face, on his hands. He was most certainly purple.
—-hes a waffles > pancakes kinda kid
—-the worst thing Austin ever broke with a rock was Alice. It was a huge accident. He was aiming for a very specific spot on the fence, and Alice walked like right in front of him. Neither of them saw the other, and it ended with Austin thinking he had killed her..there was so much blood. Genuinely EVERYONE was out on the playground trying to make sure there wasn’t a dead kid on the lawn. Austin still never quite recovered from the experience. Alice did though, she got all patched up and then just walked it off.
——-he’s become WAY more tentative about throwing rocks since then. As in he looks every single way before throwing. More specifically making sure he knows where Alice is before throwing.
—-he has one specific blanket that he loves dearly. It has a specific scent that just makes him feel safe. He keeps it in his room all the time and sleeps with it every night.
—-his favorite animal is a raccoon. Random, I know. He likes the way they hold things and run. They so cute.
—-he bruises really easily. Why? I don’t know man. That little slap fight him and Davey have in K3? Oh yeah that fucked him UP. Poor thang
—-Austin was the test subject to finding out Emmy’s blue flowers were poisonous. She originally figured they were unsafe, but then Austin asked for one once (to give to Alice) and Emmy hesitantly obliged. But then he was fine for a minute! And she was relieved! And then he wasn’t. Austin tries to stay away from every plant Emmy cares for in the school, even just the carrots & cabbages. He does not enjoy being given seizure inducing flowers.
—-he cut the sleeves on most of his shirts with a crappy rusty pair of safety scissors. Just ‘fixing up’ 3 shirts took him almost 45 minutes. Stupid crappy kiddie scissors……..
—-Austin is sent to study hall so often, he actually had a little chair with his name on it. Just a harmless joke from David. Austin did think it was kind of funny. He enjoys his chair.
—-he was the one who suggested Alice carry around protection if she was so scared of the school. Imagine the look on his face when she didn’t show up with a rock, but a whole ass knife. Who keeps giving these kids weapons?!!!!!!!
I know it sounds ridiculous to write that, but I feel like I need to clarify that. Kids are not adults.
All the molality, understanding the consequences, understanding that others' feelings are important and not just my comfort?
All these things have evolved over the years. Littles kids don't have those. 5 years old don't have those, or have like, less than a year of this, they are still learn all these things.
Judging little children as adults is not just inefficient, but also can be dangerous. Treat little kids as adults can ruin them and traumatize them for life.
From now on more detailed kind of childs ab*se/neglect:
Cindy's behavior stems from her mother treating her as an adult. This 5-year-old child knows things she is not supposed to know at all. She's exposed to inappropriate content. The fact that she is treated as an adult IS the reason she behaves as she does.
Felix is also a precise example of it. All his cruelty stems from the fact that he is 5 years old and is raised like is adult man. He and Ted, WHILE THEY ARE 5, are spending their time trying to solve their family's company's problem. All the reasons Felix acts as he does are because his father treats him as an adult instead of a child.
Treat children as adults? Don't gasp when they do horrible things. That's what happened. Those kids need to learn and develop their empathy, morality, and understanding of consequences. They don't have this. You can't expect them to act, think and absorb reality like you are. As long as you are not 5. No matter what is horrific to you. They don't understand it.
Yes, even Felix is trying to k!ll Ted. He is 5 years old and he doesn't understand what de*th means. Is it bad that he wants to end his brother? Absolutely. Is Felix bad? Absolutely not. He is a little kid who needs to be educated.
Who is bad? Mr Huxley treats his little kids as adults and encourages them to compete with each other. Cindy's mother, who exposes her to an absolutely inappropriate content. Almost every other adult character in this game, those we met and those we didn't.
The kids? None of them is bad. Each of them is a victim.
You can't expect the kids to think like you do, you really can't. From the moment you treat kids as adults, you become part of the problem, you are part of them doing bad.
I know we are all very excited about Joel and Lizzies baby announcement, and I am too. But I think it is a good time for a friendly internet etiquette reminder.
Please for the love of the watchers do not include the baby in any of your fan content. This is a child who does not have the ability to consent their image being on the internet, unlike Joel and Lizzie who have and actively encourage fan content about their characters. That means I don’t want to see anyone including their actual child in any sort of fan art or fan fiction. If you want to create an empires fan child, go ahead, but don’t make it about the actual baby. Now if you want to make a celebratory piece of fanart like I do, keep it about Joel and Lizzie themselves. I know we are all excited, but we need to remember the internet is a dangerous place especially for children.
You may celebrate, but going forward remember that it the parents decision to share or not share certain details of their child’s lives on the internet. Do not get angry about it please for the love of god. Just remember to be a kind individual and respect the boundaries of the parents and leave a small child out of your fandom spaces.
I just had to get hyperfixated on the ONE Kindergarten character that literally no one cares about; Kevin. I LOVE Kevin he is my awful mutant SON I will protect him with my LIFE.
Also I apologise to the various artists I sent asks to requesting they draw him because I am STARVED for content--
ANYWAY--
So I've had a long running theory since pretty much the second game, that these schools are specifically for children with additional needs. Children with mental health issues and disabilities and troublesome home lives. Every single character has at least ONE quality making them unique and fitting to the game.
Cindy being the most obvious example. I can't stand it when people say they HATE Cindy, or call her a bitch. I feel like sometimes this fandom forgets she's literally FIVE. Her behaviour is very blatantly copied from what she sees at home, and yeah, it's incredibly messed up. A five year old doesn't recognise that. They aren't going to think "wow, this is problematic. I am going to heal despite all odds and grow as a person". They're going to think it's normal and they're not going to look too deep into the issue. The same can be said for Buggs, who often talks about his deadbeat dad being an alcoholic. It would not shock me at all if his dad was also violent, hence why Buggs is like that.
And Nugget. Nugget is so explicitly autistic oh my god. And I love that for him! But as an autistic person who was once an autistic kid, he would NOT do well in a posh neurotypical school. Don't get me wrong, he's shown in multiple occasions to be actually quite smart. Even Ms Jigglytits can admit to that! Nugget is very very weird, but he's clever. He's the only other kid from the original class who can actually read and write, he's creative at writing riddles, he understands a LOT more about his surroundings and the things happening around him than the other children do, he's trusted to handle important tasks by Billy and Lily and does so with great success, etc. But he isn't neurotypical. He's unapologetically odd, and it makes sense that despite everything I just mentioned, he would still end up in a school for troubled kids.
While the second school appears to be more like a regular school, just with a 'special' class (I fuckin hate that term--), the students there have issues too. Penny, namely, for... obvious reasons. But also the Huxley twins. Felix and Teddy aren't subtle about their home life being less than ideal. While their family is rich, they're placed under a distressing amount of pressure and neglect, to the point where they feel the need to kill each other and other kids just to earn affection from their father.
Also, talking of the second school, one thing to note is how all the students from the first school are just sent off to a new one the very next day after their principal was attacked and killed by a MUTANT he was experimenting on underneath the school, where he also experimented on children and gave kids pills. Yet none of the parents seem to worry about that. They just send their kids back the next day. Even Jerome's mom does! Which kinda backs up my point that a lot of their home lives are shitty.
"But Corpse," you ask, "what the fuck has any of this super obvious and unoriginal rambling got to do with Kevin?" I'm getting to it.
We finally move on to my son. Kevin. Granted, there's very little content regarding Kevin in the game, but if you're autistic like I am, you can gather up enough dust to form lint.
We all know the story by now. Kevin was underneath the school the whole day, from even before you step into the grounds. The fact he's sleeping in a tiny patch of hay already implies he spent the night, which yeah, that checks out, he's been missing for days. Although I do find it odd how he's left with other things in that cage. Alice's diary for one, perhaps intended to be torn apart as some kind of chew toy, to destroy any evidence Alice left behind, AND to keep him entertained for 5 minutes. Also, the goo core. I find it weird how Regis would keep an explosive power source IN the cage with Kevin. I'll get back to that in just a second.
There's one thing I picked up on in particular. Specifically in The Grate Escape. When Nugget has "gone full Kevin", as Regis describes it, the nurse explains how the breaking of bones speeds up the process greatly. And what's the first thing we'll find out if we step on the hay around Kevin? His claws are INCREDIBLY sharp. But... they don't actually look like claws. On the previous mutants we saw, they actually had full on claws, like mantises. Even on Regis, we see he has clawed hands. But Kevin's are more jagged and asymmetrical.
Personally, I think they aren't claws at all. They're bone. They look very splintered and uneven, as though someone had broken both his arms and left the bones poking out of his wounds. Knowing the breaking of bones greatly enhances the transformation process, I really, really wouldn't put it past Regis to snap Kevin's arms just to get faster results, AND prevent him from having hands he can use to escape.
Which brings me back to the goo core. If it's moved out of place, it will explode. It seems stupid of Regis to actively keep it there with a large irritated mutant, but actually, I think it's a power thing. Kevin is smart. VERY smart. He memorises the code to the gate. He calls out to Nugget once he realises he can hear him, likely because the goo listening goes both ways. He recognises you as a friend immediately after a token of respect, so much so that he trusts you with a remote he can't use due to a lack of hands, to free him with it. He knows what door Regis comes from, and immediately goes to it to ambush him, because he knows Regis will shoot him if he doesn't use the sneak advantage. He understands when Regis tells him to stay, and doesn't try to escape or attack even after Regis moves away to put in the code, because he recognises that it won't work. As the other mutants don't really show this level of awareness, I'm going to assume it has something to do with his undeniably unique mutation, and the fact he looks more human than any of the others.
Kevin is definitely smart enough to realise the core will explode if moved. That means he can't touch it or bump into it. Which means he can't go running about in the cage and risking damaging the bars. The goo core is there as a threat to not jump about. It's to keep him sat still. That's also probably why he was given the diary as a chew toy, just so he doesn't go stir crazy. I feel like that's also why there's Linda's water tunnel. Kevin's mouth can't close. The reason we need Linda to get down is because the water is too deep. The water tunnel seems almost like mockery, because Kevin would be far too heavy and disfigured to swim properly, but he would also be constantly inhaling water through his mouth. So while escape is so so close, he can't take it, and Regis KNOWS that must be frustrating.
But another thing I noticed. As the opposite to Regis' cruel and inhumane treatment of these kids, Kevin is truly empathetic when calm. It's ironic that Regis says "it's Kevin who's the monster now" when Kevin is more selfless than he is. Yes, he swiftly attacks us if we're in proximity, but given what we know about the pain he must be in, the fear he must feel constantly, the stress and inability to really move without risking knocking over the core, and the lack of memories and understanding of what's happening, it's no surprise his first instinct is to attack whoever comes near him. Like an abused dog. It won't think, it will just protect itself first until proven to be safe.
There's two instances where we calm Kevin down. The first is in Nugget-o and Liliet, when we offer him some (probably) non-human meat food as a gesture. After all, we DO know he's the one that... disposes of things dropped down the hatches. Once we've gained his friendship, he immediately entrusts us with a controller he's kept hidden from Regis, as he can't use it himself. And the second this abused, injured, traumatised, emotionally broken, forced cannibal child is free from his prison? He doesn't run. He doesn't try to get out and go home.
He stands guard for Regis.
He actively STAYS in the lab as the self destruct sequence kicks in. His first instinct was to make sure Regis doesn't come through that door and hurt him or anyone else, and he fuckin delivers on that promise at the risk of his own safety. He doesn't even try to find the non-Linda exit. He just stays, and sits there by the door with the principal, watching us leave without them, unhurt, and waiting for the lab to explode once and for all.
The second time is in Paging Dr Goolittle, of course. He attacks us the second he leaves the cage, but that's kinda understandable. He doesn't remember the loops. He doesn't know we're friendly. In his eyes, we're just another person waiting to hurt him. And after we hit him with enough cure to revert his mind back? Does he freak out as he regains consciousness? As he regains his memories? As he sees what he's become? Does he get scared about where the hell he is or what happened?
No. Because once again, his first instinct is to be KIND. He gives himself only around 5 seconds to process EVERYTHING, before he's immediately sidetracked with saving the principal. Not because the principal was in active danger, but because he was chained up and distressed, and Kevin immediately wanted to use his mutation to help. It's not until afterwards that he actually sits by himself without doing anything further, just staring into space and likely processing what's happening to him. Again, this child is FIVE. This is all WAYYY too much for a five year old to bear. Yet he's still unreasonably selfless first, which you really don't see often in little kids.
It reminds me of Emmy. How she uses taking care of her plants to cope. How her entire daily routine revolves around tending to them and looking after them, and if anything hurts them, she freaks out to the point of murder. This obsessive behaviour makes me wonder if Emmy is neglected at home, if her parents don't look after her properly. And I cant help but wonder if the same went for Kevin. I mean, considering every other child in the school is troubled in some way, and he takes it upon himself to protect others around him, I wouldn't be surprised. The fact he doesn't even think about going home until AFTER everyone is visibly safe... Man.
Maybe that's how he even got captured in the first place. We know Alice went first, down the slide. Did he go after her to protect her once he realised something was wrong? Did they both mutate in that tube? Did Regis just give Alice, an 'ordinary' mutation, to Penny's mother, while keeping Kevin safe for "HER" because of how unique his mutation in particular was?
My personal theory until proven otherwise is these pills are supposed to cause immortality. These loops are happening in every school using the goo and will only stop when the source and the person in charge is destroyed. It's possible these pills are being used as a way to test a small loop inside a person, reverting their death without resetting the whole world around them. That would also explain how the 3 kids came back to life at the end of the second game, despite very visibly dying, and yet not resetting the entire day. But these mutations are a nasty side effect of this goo. Perhaps that's WHY Kevin was such an important asset. Why Regis refused to just give him up without a fight. Because he's FAR more human than the other test subjects were, both in appearance and nature. He could give a hint to what it'd actually take to keep a person human while also creating the mini loop immortality effect.
Buuut I guess we just gotta wait and see!
Okay so I GUARANTEE no one read this far but if you did, thank you I love you-- /p
Something that always struck me as strange in the Kindergarten games is how many parents continue to send their kids back to school. Look at Lily and Billy for example- Billy went missing for an unspecified number of days and Lily continued to go to school. Then when he escapes from the principal's lab on Monday in torn clothes and clearly sick, both kids are sent to school the next two days. Maybe Billy had been missing for a long enough time that they didn’t think that Lily was in danger by the time we come along, but the next two days? Especially with the fact that BOTH of the next schools got shut down for the same things as the first.
Alice is another kid I worry about. Scippio mentions another kid Timmy having gone missing with Alice, and Kevin is clearly being experimented on under the slide. That makes three (possibly two because we don’t actually see or hear of Timmy aside from Scippio) kids who went missing at the latest on Monday. Yet Alice is sent to school on Wednesday, after coming home covered in genuine proof of the experimentation that Tuesday's Principal. At least if Ron and Maddison were sent to school on Wednesday, they didn’t have to immediately go back to an evil principal(or janitor turned principal in Regis’s case). Alice deals with amnesia as focused on in her mission ‘What Happened on Monday?’. She should not have been sent back to the same school that she disappeared from, but she was.
Jerome found his dad missing his head under his office after school Monday, and he had to go to school– a new school, the next day. He was made to go to a new school right after his dad was murdered, and– if not given any tissues– he cries the whole day. It’s hard enough to have to switch from one school to another in one day, but it’s even worse when you have to live with the fact that your father is dead.
Honestly it’s insane that any parents of the first kindergarten even kept their kids at that school with who the Janitor is. There is a bleeding bag in the janitors closet, he’s on probation as mentioned in the third game. He has absolutely no problem straight up murdering kids who ask too many questions or get in the way of his own sick war. He beats Monty into losing the ability in his legs for correcting his spelling and he gets nothing sent his way. He can easily get away with murder as shown in ‘The Tale of Two Janitors’ and he knows it. Kids are brats who tell their parents anything and everything they think is important, there is no way that not a single parent knows that he beats children. I mean, look at Monty and Stevie.
Monty has been in all three games. He buys things from the Janitor, and he honestly might pay more than whatever the Janitor gets. Yet, the Janitor nearly kills the kid when you let him know that he spelt the word ‘biscuit’ wrong. His parents should have just homeschooled him after the first game, but he was just sent back in a wheelchair. Then sent back in a pair of robot prosthetics. No sane parent would send their kid back to school the day after their kid had their legs broken. Especially not with the same staff who was responsible for breaking their kid’s legs. However we see him in all three games.
It’s honestly even more remarkable that Stevie was sent back to school after Tuesday, especially in the state we see him in. He looks to be in his early teens and he is definitely a rule follower, so there isn’t a reason to not believe him when he says why he comes back from school looking how he does. The Nurse genuinely worries over him and calls him to the examination table when she sees him, it is definitely bad enough for him to not be at school. However he can’t drive and someone had to drop him off and leave him there.
Dr. Danner has a nasty habit of shooting kids in the heads with a ray gun, imagine how many students have died because they accidentally sneezed in study hall or said that they understood when he said no talking or moving. There is a reason that he hates the PTA, and it's not because of their incompetence, it’s because they stop him from endangering his students. The fact that he genuinely doesn’t care for the wellbeing of his students should make parents take their kids out of the school, or at least the science class.
Plus, according to Carla, all the kids know that Penny is a robot, they know that she gets them killed when they make mistakes, but their parents don’t take them to wait until first grade. No, they send them to the same school for however long they’ve been there, and with Carla and Ted (technically Felix but it isn’t meant for him), they are sent into another school that has yet another murdery teacher, and another principal who is willing to murder them for being a bit too curious.
The Nurse knows that Ms. Lovelett isn’t a saint, and when we tell her that Felix got his eyes gouged out, her first thought isn’t wondering how it happened. She asks if Ms. Lovelett put on King Lear again, not if she put on King Lear, but if she put it on *again*. She has had to fix up kids from our new teacher’s plays at least a few times. She isn’t fazed by the fact that a kid is bleeding out from his missing eyes, which leads directly to the brain. Not to mention the literal goo antidote that she only has one dose left in. The goo is in almost every room inside the school, which should be a cause for concern to the parents of these children.
Honestly, none of the parents of the kg1 kids should have their kids, Carla’s parents shouldn’t have custody, the Huxleys shouldn’t have custody (though for more reasons than just letting their kids go to schools where they can freaking die), Ozzy’s mom is on a tight watch, and the most of the kg3 parents are very close to losing their kids. I think Bob and the Nurse should adopt the children separately and the kids should go to a school where they learn their numbers, and how to read. Instead of learning how to avoid being murdered by their teachers and janitors and each other.
(I drew this on my mobile because my computer needs fixing…)
Lily is my personal favourite kg character. I enjoy her mini arc throughout the games where she becomes more confident in herself and her intelligence. Also Nugget and Lily are peak. (It’s like the trope? of all the popular kids having drama and such while the two oddballs in the corner are relationship goals… that’s how I write it anyway)
I know Wu said he caused the Merge, but what if it was really Nya? Not directly, but what if her actions were the catalyst that eventually resulted in Wu needing to cause the Merge in order to save all 16 realms?
Back in Season 5, Nya used her powers to destroy the Preeminent, the physical manifestation of the Cursed Realm. Then in Season 6, Djinjago is shown to be falling apart. As Khanjikhan says, "The Sixteen Realms are interconnected and the balance affects us all. When one falls, another falls apart. Every action has a consequence."
Even though most of the events of Season 6 were erased, nothing would have stopped Djinjago from being destroyed (and Dragons Rising shows us that it was). But did Djinjago have another realm it was connected to, other than the Cursed Realm? And did it start a chain reaction, impacting all of the other Realms in turn?
What if all 16 realms were interconnected? According to the Ninjago wiki, we still don't know three of them. What if they are already destroyed, and Sensei Wu had to cause the Merge so that "united" those remaining could stand together?
What if Wu's two Wojira empowered students came the closest to destroying Ninjago? Morro by allowing the Cursed Realm access, and Nya by destroying the Cursed Realm and inadvertently impacting of the others as well?
Can you confirm July 2025 episodes will be uploaded on Saturday? 🙏 (besides your member benefits)
Fridays. This Friday in fact 👀
I plan on uploading my extended cut for members a few days afterwards, to give the main video time to breathe (I obviously can't publish it a day earlier like Misadventures as that'd go against the agreed time)
uhhmhmhmhmhm small thing on what happened on Monday mission so if you haven't seen it don't look under the cut xP
SOO. i love that mission with all my heart!! Austin and Alice's interactions were super CUTE!!
i don't know if alot of people have seen this, but if you drop Alice into the pit Austin actually asks where she went and fuckin cries when he finds out!! he even wants to help,,, my poor baby booyyy ;;(((
I HOPE he gets to tell her one day, MAYBE IN KG4 OR KG5 PLEASE!! i want him to feel loved
HE SHOULD OF BEEN ALLOWED TO LEAVE </3333 wahahghahggaehahgah,, let him go HOME!!
hi davey.
I feel TERRIBLE but i was so curious about what would happen I'M SORRY AUSTIN!!!! Thank god she actually survives at the end of the mission!! I have nothing but good hope for them!!
HE LOOKS SO SADD!!! AAUUGGGH
Idk what the ship name for them is, I think it's alistin? I've seen someone use it so I think it's that but whatever!!
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