#alternate interpretation

[acidhydraart]

"The Demon, whatever it is, is suspected to be hollow. It is not known what lies within, but some suspect lightning. With the storms that herald its coming, and the way it moves and appears, this is not entirely unlikely."

my take on how Master Chief might be seen by the Covenant, with his reputation as the Demon

inspired by this tweet by Rythaze

more ideas/details/context below the cut

one thing that got me thinking was that the few of the Covenant who ever saw her probably see Cortana as a ghost (which is not entirely untrue considering her origins), perhaps a vengeful spirit of something they killed, and considering the blue blood of many Covenant species, they probably see all those lines & patterns as gory drippings. as for Chief himself, the way he can just show up out of nowhere, move at unstoppable speeds, and disappear without a trace, even as far as once having suddenly appeared within the heart of High Charity, right in front of the Prophets, probably lends a lot to his demonic reputation, (and it'd add even more if they knew that was with the Gravemind's help!), and I'd imagine it causes them to specifically fear him in the same way that one would fear lightning

[kaliade]

Twisted Wonderland Headcanon- The Villains Were Right

  I’m really, really into Twisted Wonderland right now and you all have you suffer for it.  If you don’t know what Twisted Wonderland is, it’s a gacha style Disney game with Twisted versions of the Classic Disney Movie villains all attending an all boys college called Night Raven College (herein referred to as NRC).  There the Great Seven (the Disney villains) are revered.  There are 2 different ways of interpreting NRC’s reverenace of the Seven that I’ve seen so far. 

1. The Villains were villains and this is a school for villains so no one cares 2.  The Villains won instead of failing in their respective movies and thus are still respected.

I propose a 3rd option.  The Villains were in the right even if their actions were seen as extreme.  Allow me to elaborate.  Beware, Spoilers ahead!

The Queen of Hearts In my re-telling/re-imagining, the Queen of Hearts is the uniter of her kingdom.  The Rose Queendom did not always follow a single ruler, instead being made up of a bunch of smaller kingdoms that were in a near constant state of war.  This war state would represent the madness that keeps getting brought up in regards to her.  The Queen of Hearts managed to untie the entire area of what would become the Rose Queendom under her banner.  The 800+ odd rules of hers were her way of uniting several cultures.  Feeding the flamingos while wearing pink?  That’s from one group who believed the similar colors would make the animals stronger.  No eating hamburgers on Tuesday?  One group had a religious observance on that day that forbid it.  And yes, the Queen did sentence many who broke her rules to be beheaded, but that was mostly because those breaking the rules were rebelling against her in an attempt to break the kingdom apart.  This is the main part where I think the Queen’s a bit extreme in her punishments, but my version of the Queen of Hearts was a traumatized general who definitely had PTSD as well as other mental health issues.

Scar United the hyenas and other downtodden folk against his brother King Mufasa.  Mufasa was giving positions based on blood ties and, in essence, racism by not allowing certain animal species to hold rank or even employment.  The hyenas were banished.  Scar saw that things were going to go bad with the spark of rebellion just waiting to be lit.  Wanting to save his kingdom, he allied with those who the Lion King scorned and banished.  Scar was successful in defeating his brother and took over as king, even saving his nephew Simba from being kidnapped by Mufasa’s loyal retainers to make the prince a puppet ruler.  He was aided in this by a meerkat and a warthog that had found the injured cub and taken him in.  Both meerkat and warthog were rewarded for their actions.  Scar ruled fairly over the Savanna until Simba, who had been taught how to be a ruler by his Uncle, was ready to take over.  Scar then retired and enjoyed the life where he didn’t have to make decisions that could affect the whole country, even if he did stay in the palace to act as a source of wisdom for his young nephew.  His extremeness comes from being the killer of his brother.

Ursula Triton’s sister who left after being treated horribly by the tailed merfolk (Basically like Azul was)  She does learn her magic and to create contracts and, yes, did start out as she is in her movie.  A scam artist, power seeking, etc.  Then her sister-in-law dies at the hands of humans (see the Little Mermaid prequel for details)  As much as she despises her brother, her nieces need a female role model.  Triton is busy and grieving and takes little notice of his sister’s return until he eventually does and she’s banished again, but now the mermaid princesses know her and have heard stories about what she can do. This is also a turning point of Ursula.  She’s been bitter this entire time and being treated kindly by her nieces and getting respect for the other merfolk with how she was helping the princesses made her change her tune, slightly.  She still makes deals, but the consequences of the deals are less eternal servitude and more indentured servitude with a stated end date.  This brings us to the Little Mermaid movie events.  Ariel still falls for a human prince but this time she knows her aunt has the power to give her legs and there’s less screaming all around from Sebastian and Flounder.  Ursula is hesitant on giving Ariel what she wants.  She remembers how her sister-in-law died.  So, in order to keep the existence of merfolk quiet, her price in her niece’s voice, which she also uses to test the human boy her niece is in love with.  Triton does find out, but the man has mellowed over the years, especially with his many daughters asking why he’d so mean to their aunt.  He is angry, but the siblings do talk it out and he appreciates Ursula looking out for his daughter on land.  There is no stabbing of the giant cecaelia or any stealing of a trident and Ariel eventually works out a treaty between the merfolk and the humans after getting her voice back form her aunt after Eric proves he loves her.

Jafar Took over Agrahbah because the sultan was an  idiot and the princess nearly caused a war with having her pet tiger attack her suitors.  It was the only way to keep his home safe.  After the princess was nearly tricked into marrying a street rat with a genie at his side, Jafar deposed the sultan and his daughter.  Life in Agrhabah grew better under his rule as he made several advances using magic to bring comforts to his people.

Beautiful/Evil Queen (Trigger Warning:  Rape allusions, Abuse, Assisted Suicide) Married to the king less than a month after his first wife died of mysterious circumstance,  Grimhild age age 17 became the new Queen and stepmother to a 5 year old Snow White.  While she didn’t spend much time with the girl, leaving her rearing to nannies and tutors, the Queen did not have any animosity toward the girl.  No, her hatred was focused on the King, who liked his women beautiful and young, the younger the better and they didn’t necessarily have to be willing.  Grimhild put up with this, trying to help the girls as much as she could with her potions but having no actual power to stop her husband.  Then Snow turned 14... Before the king’s eye could turn to his daughter, a prince from a nearby kingdom visited and was besotted by Snow.  Grimhild became enraged, not because he did not look at her like that, but because the man was in his 30s!  The king agreed to betroth Snow and the prince.  Fearing for the girl, the Queen sent her loyal huntsman to take the girl out to the woods to gather wildflowers for a gift for the prince.  In truth, she ordered her huntsman to take her into the wood and get the girl to run away on her own or make her.  After scaring the poor child with tales of what awaited her and what her mother and stepmother had suffered through, Snow fled into the forest and came upon the dwarves, who took her in and protected her in exchange for some housework and cooking.  The Queen would later, after events, give them royal fiat to mine magestones and sell them at high profit with the royal seal.  Unfortunately, Snow fell ill one day from the plague and never recovered, dying at the age of 18.  Nothing her stepmother or the dwarves did could save her.  Grimhild, taking pity on the girl’s suffering and inability to heal her, offered Snow poison to make her miserable death easier, which Snow accepted.  (Meaning assisted suicide) Now, while Snow was safe with the dwarves, the Queen decided enough was enough and with the help of the castle staff, who were also sick of the king’s ways, poisoned the king and took over the kingdom.  Snow came back home after a year, but she missed the dwarves home and would visit when she could.  The prince that was courting her never made it home and no one (save for an eagle eyed huntsman and a viciously protective queen) know what happened to him...

Hades (Admittedly my weakest of these) The Titan Class Phantoms are phantoms of half-gods that attacked Olympus.  Hades, being the only god who didn’t have residence of Olympus, was the only survivor and managed to trap them in Tartarus.  He set himself, and his descendants, to watch over the gate, which did eventually come to be more like a curse than a true calling.  Due to his connection to death, it was very difficult for him or his descendants to accumulate Blot.  Their magic tended to have a life draining effect which is why the family prefers to use tech over magic.

Maleficent The only one out of the whole bunch that I do not blame her canon counterpart for her reaction.  Listen, you are dealing with the Fae, a ruling Fae to be precise.  THat shit of not inviting her to a christening (which  for the sake of TWST i’m renaming a Naming Ceremony), which for a royal is a very big, public event, is just asking for a curse.  Seriously.  And if we take the fact they invited 3 light aligned fae to the party but not the dark fae, then that adds another layer to the situation.  In short, that could have been cause for war with a human nation, let alone a fae one.   So yeah, not much change in this one for me personally.  Maleficent was in the right. 

[ponds-of-ink]

Charlie’s First Fate (A Rough Sketch Interpretation)

This idea hit me while I was in the shower. A literal shower thought.

What if Charlie had this combo of building pneumonia from the rain, pure stress from the fact that this man that her father trusted is unnaturally angry (and doing a terrible job hiding it), and a very fast heart rate for someone her age?

So, from William’s perspective (kind of), her “transformation” from the FNAF 2 minigame looked like this:

Could explain why Will’s sprite looked like it didn’t do anything while Charlie’s sprite just… turned into a ghost right in front of him.

[cheshire-cat-talks]

You know, I’ve seen/read most interpretations of the Deputy from Far Cry 5 as being on the side of good or even just a tragic character put in a situation they were not prepared for/didn’t sign up for.

I’ve also seen that there are some interpretations of the Resistance where they’re just manipulating Deputy to wipe out Eden’s Gate for them (interpretations that often lead to Rook joining Eden’s Gate from what I’ve read).

But could you imagine? An interpretation of the Deputy where they don’t actually care about the Resistance’ cause nor the beef they have with Eden’s Gate or even wishes to prolong the war for as long as possible?

And the Deputy is just manipulating and taking advantage of the Resistance to further their own goals and/or for their own entertainment? (Or just being a stereotypical sociopath in general)

I’ve never seen such an interpretation. It’s actually quite fascinating to think about.

It leaves a lot of interesting possibilities open.

Like how would the Seeds react to this? Would they warn the Resistance only to be ignored? Or would they simply not care?

Or even the GFH. How would the react to being manipulated by someone they considered a close friend? To someone so apathetic towards the lives under their command? To be played like the fiddle? Do they try to warn the rest, only to be ignored with little evidence (with perhaps their word not being as strong as the word of the “heroic and selfless” Deputy)? Or do they roll with it?

I’m quite curious how this could go. I might write something about it if I get the time.

What do y’all think?

[queensparklekitten]

If you really listen to the lyrics of “Without Me” by Halsey, it can have a darker alternate interpretation.

In the song, the protagonist talks about her ex-boyfriend, who she says took advantage of her, and in the bridge, she says “you don’t have to say just what you did, I already know, I had to find out from them” implying that taking advantage wasn’t the only thing he did. 

She also asks him how he feels “sitting up there” and says she’s the one who put him “up there”. Up there being heaven. If you think about it, the song could be saying that her boyfriend used her and took advantage of her among other things (maybe he cheated on her) and then dumped her, and when she found out, she killed him. 

“thinking you could live without me” interesting word choice. Maybe because he ditched her after he decided he didn’t need her anymore, and he didn’t live. 

“tell me how’s it feel sitting up there, feeling so high but too far away to hold me

you know I’m the one who put you up there, name in the sky, does it ever get lonely

thinking you could live without me, thinking you could live without me

you know i’m the one who put you up there” 

She killed him, and now she’s thinking about him and what might happen after death. But then the line after that

“I don’t know why” 

She now regrets killing him for what he did, and isn’t sure why she did it. That’s why she’s wondering how he’s doing in heaven. 

TL;DR the song “Without Me” is about a girl who killed her boyfriend after he repeatedly took advantage of her and then ditched her, and now she regrets it. 

[fr-ersatzlace]

Bad FR idea: those horses with photoshopped dog mouths as a dragon breed

[namesisfortombstones]

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[marmot-bee-person]

Guys Zuko’s birthday is either the end of summer or leap day or the winter solstice (one of those doesn’t matter which) but if its the solstice then he spent his birthday returning to his country after three years and meeting his great-grandfather