Who do you think is the most mischaracterised character in Dandy’s World, for me it’s either Dandy, Bassie or Vee. Like the community agrees that it’s either Delilah that caused the ichor operation (bringing toons to life) and made Dandy a twisted, which first off why would you do to the star of ur brand, cuz what if things went wrong, or it’s that Dandy is completely evil. I personally think that the show ending is what caused him to snap because he has started to value nothing else in himself, because he didn’t think he was that good at everything else, and when Delilah and Arthur left he tried fixing things himself. Vee is meant to be a little blunt but idk if I see that often, could just be me. And Bassie, Omd bassie, l8e why would she want to kill, also these are just my opinions remember that. Ye I kinda just wanted to have a gap about this 😅
I also think probably Vee and Dandy and maybe Bassie.
In regards to what you mentioned with Delilah earlier, I think what happened that makes Delilah "villainous" was that she knew that the ichor could turn the toons into bloodthirsty monsters, but she still chose to use it anyways. She was also just generally neglectful towards the toons. It seems like in mid 2002, Dandy, or whoever the 'he' Arthur mentions in his note to Delilah is, "malfunctioned," (probably turned twisted or hurt someone,) which lead to the center being shut down. After that, the humans left, and Dandy created the ichor operation. Judging by Bobette's gossip about Brightney, it seems that the ichor operation was made to convert ichor to an energy source to keep the train going for supplies. This could also explain Dyle's gossip about Sprout, where he mentions needing to do something crazy for some
I don't see why people think Delilah made the ichor operation. The ichor operation was quite literally the effect of Delilah leaving. I think the ONLY way the ichor operation could be because of her is if she came back to Gardenview (which is a possibility, looking at all the weird "find me" messages, blocked off doors, and foot prints too big to be a toons) and manipulated Dandy into getting her ichor (which she’d need for some reason) and was LYING that it was for power, while in reality Delilah is paying for power.
Does that make sense? Idk, lol.
Anyways, done with that lore rant, onto the mischaracterization talk!
As for dandy, I feel like people can never really write him as a morally grey character. He's always turned into a heartless villain, or a sweet baby boy angel. I've made a couple posts about this already and being ! personally see his character. I don't think he deliberately manipulates Astro for the fun of it, I don't think he goes out of his way to ruin people's day, and I don't think he wishes harm or death upon people. I think he's selfish, greedy, cocky, and self absorbed.
That's not evil, just a jerk. I think that being the "one and only star of the show" got to his head, and he grew an ego because of it.
Actually, I want to talk about another thing related to Dandy and Delilah. I really hate the headcanon that Delilah abuses Dandy. It makes no sense to me. From how I see it, I imagine that if anything, Dandy was Delilah's favorite. He was her first toon and main mascot, after all. She probably spent the most time with him before the other toons were made and when she was less busy. I think him being her favorite makes a lot more sense and works as a better plot device. It could explain why he's so egotistical yet praise driven at the same time (unrealistic praise from Delilah,) why he trusts her so much if it's true that he lied about the ichor operation, and overall makes Dandy more complex and Delilah a more important character.
Now, onto Vee! Vee is my favorite toon and I love writing about/analyzing her. I feel like by far, Vee is one of the most mischaracterized characters that I've ever seen in fiction. First of all, 2024 dandy's world.
Sigh. Ok, I don't know why, but everyone in 2024 was either illiterate and lacked reading comprehension, didn't care about anything outside of ships, or super emotional, because wtf. I joined in September/October of 2024, cuz I'm just super OG like that. I've seen everything basically. Anyways, holy shit, if I didn't read and understand Vee's interactions, I would've thought she was the main villain of the game from how the fandom described her. I swear, yall fucking thought she was evil.
In my opinion, she reads as a blunt, straightforward, and brutally honest toon. She cares, but she doesn't sugar coat things. The interaction I see people get upset over the most are her interactions with Shelly and Looey. In every argument about how Vee is lik a toxic villain or whatever, these interactions are brought up to show how she's "rude" and
"dismissive." All these interaction show is that she's blunt and honest. In her interaction with Looey, he asks if she would like to see his circus act, which she responds to flatly by saying no. In her first interaction with Shelly, Shelly asks to tell her about dinosaurs.
Vee says that she already knew everything since it was in her data base, a declined. In their interaction, Vee does up to Shelly, which excites her. In the end, it ends up Vee just needed help moving stuff, not a new best friend.
I don't see the problem with any of these dialogues.
She's just being straight forward? She doesn't sugar coat things, she just says what's on her mind with no filter. That's just how she is? She isn't going out of her way to make Looey sad by not coming to his show, she was just genuinely busy and didn't want to go.
She wasn't telling Shelly she knew all her data already to upset her, she just getting already knows Shelly's facts, and not only did she not want to sit there and listen to things she already knew, she didn't want Shelly to waste her time educating someone who already knew everything. Wheres the point in that? As for her second one, she didn't purposely get Shelly's hopes up that someone wanted to hang out and be friends, when in reality all she needed was help moving stuff. And then don't get me started with ppl misunderstanding her interactions with Glisten and Sprout. THEY'RE FRIENDS!! She's teasing them, not bullying them.
I really can't believe it took this fandom so long to suspect that maybe Vee was insecure? Maybe she had something going on? Maybe she just had trouble talking to people? Her dialogue with Brightney and Teagan clearly explained that she doesn't mean to be rude or back handed, but yall don't bother to read those.
Obviously, I didn't expect the entire
fandom to predict Vee's lore, but it was really obvious that she didn't mean to be rude. Am I saying Vee is perfect? No. She has lots of bad traits. Shes performative, arrogant, competitive, cocky, over confident, praise driven, insecure, inconsiderate, clingy, overprotective, and envious. Does that make her a monster though? No, not at all, but that's what fandoms do anytime a neurodivergent coded female character exists.
Personally, I think SOME (not all don't cancel me pls) of Vee hate is rooted in ableism and misogyny, but that's a whole other post. I could go on about that for a while.
Even with the lore we have now about her and Vee version two, I wish people would dive deeper. I wish they would study her relationships with other toons, with her handler, her attitude, her response to her issues, etc. Once again, not going to dive deeper into my opinions on all that, because that will make this post wayyy too long. I love talking about Vee, if that's not clear.
Now, Bassie. Not going to lie, I don't like Bassie, I think she's basic and annoying, but I feel like she's severely mischaracterized. Yes, she does kill Cocoa canonically, AFTER she goes fucking insane and turns twisted. Even then, you can see her angry/corrupted/insane side taking over her sad/guilty/more sane side. She quite literally fights herself to not do it, and in the end, the eye on her guilty/sad side close as she attack Cocoa. She low control. She didn't want to kill Cocoa, but she was literally turned into an insane, bloodthirsty, monster.
Her own mom forced her to.
I think twisted Bassie killing Cocoa was honestly very interesting to the plot. It added more character to Bassie. As I said earlier, I find Bassie uninteresting, but this really caught my attention. It made her feel a lot less like a boring, copy paste “I’m sad :((” oc. I don’t know why yall be acting like she thought every day morning and night about killing Cocoa. She cared about Cocoa. She literally hugs her in the music video. Yes, she’s jealous, but she didn’t genuinely want Cocoa to die.
I wanted to add a little theory I have about Cocoa and Bassie and the whirring flower but this post is already huge and probably a mess too ngl. Sorry I took so long to respond, btw. I had been saving this one for a time when I was free and ready to talk because o knew i was going to type up a storm. I get really excited when o get to talk abt lore and characterization and kind of hop around too much, so sorry if this is confusing. That’s all thought, I’m tired.
