I would absolutely love the khr AU!! I’m always up for more khr and for more of your content. Also I love how Tony adopted the Winter Soldier and how Tony’s alignment is mostly chaos.
[Tony’s alignment is chaotic neutral and nope, he doesn’t give a fuck that alignments are a thing for supes, just watch him.]
Alrighty, in that case I’ll work on a post for the KHR AU as well :) I’m so glad that there’s interest in that AU as well tbh because I’m still fascinated by how different they’re turning out.
Part of that is that I just see Tony and Tsuna as two so fundamentally different people. I don’t think I’ve ever written Tony as someone who isn’t made up of sharp edges and biting smiles [and it doesn’t help that I always lean towards morally grey characters I guess], whereas I headcanon Tsuna as someone inherently kind -- or perhaps gentle would be the more fitting description -- in a way that Tony isn’t.
Also, well, they’re both broken, but Tony is confident. Not in himself as in a human being worthy of being loved perhaps, but he’s confident in his abilities, in his intellect, in his ideas. Tsuna is not. AU!Tsuna didn’t have Reborn at 14, didn’t have someone who raised him up and ripped off all the soft, kind-hearted pieces, leaving razor-sharp edges behind. This AU’s Tsuna never had that support, nor any of the harsh lessons, and so he’s still that lonely, bullied boy that everyone considers useless. That Tsuna is broken, but where Tony wields his sharp edges as weapons against the entire world, Tsuna would rather cut himself to pieces than hurt someone else.
Where Tony doesn’t hesitate to question the system, the alignments, the meaning of villains and heroes, it doesn’t occur Tsuna to fight a system that’s all he’s ever known. He’ll do it anyway, but who says only violence and BAMF-ers can change the world? What about Dame-Tsuna? Doesn’t he also matter? Doesn’t he deserve better, even without secret super powers and awesome friends and some great destiny to make up for his forefathers’ sins?
the one thing I always loved about eddy’s bedroom, was that little green tv. I’m surprised he never used it to watch fishbowl 2, or to watch anything in general…
what do you think?
submitted by angusyoung2
Ooohhh same here, I’ve been extremely jealous of Eddy’s portable TV since childhood! Looks yellow to me (although color varies in cel episodes and the far right one does have more of a green tint), but I think the most they ever did interact with it was Ed painting it green and blue and trying to hang it as Earth in a solar system when Edd was moving into Eddy’s room in ‘Momma’s Little Ed’.
I also wish he would’ve used it, but Eddy really had a problem with ignorning tons of cool stuff around his house. Then again, my grandma used to keep an old portable TV, that didn’t seem to work, as a decoration in her kitchen, so maybe he’s just keeping it as an antique? Not to mention all the evidence in these images that the Eds have already destroyed that TV a number of times.
In general, I wonder how much of his 70s stuff is hand-me-downs and how much he got himself. Eddy’s parents seem like they’d share most of his tastes, especially judging from their hoard of outdated knick-knacks in the attic, yet Eddy’s mom has canonically tried to make Eddy throw out all of his kitsch! Blasphemous.
Oh and one last thing, I just remembered another post I did on the TV (another submission from a fan who had noticed the TV!) where I had some theories as to what kind of TV it would be in reality:
heeeeeey! here’s a couple of retro space age portable TV designs that eddy’s TV is based off of. More accurate to the shape of course. one of which is a JVC Videosphere Space Helmet TV. which was introduced in 1970. saw one in an antiques mall once in my hometown a few months back. *bottom pic below the 2nd pic*
now the one in the big photo is a Panasonic flying saucer TV from 1971. which looks even more like eddy’s tv in the show. minus the greenish/yellow color of course.
it makes sense that eddy would keep it outta respect for his parents being collectors of a lot of cool antique stuff.
submitted by angusyoung2
Ooooh, I too want to watch TV out of an astronaut’s helmet someday....
I’m not sure if other people look at cartoon backgrounds as much as I do, but just in case you need it for a fan project or something, I’ve started collecting references for all the houses in Ed, Edd n Eddy. (I will eventually edit these to include links to all the other posts, but for now, please check my house references tag)
I’ve completed the main characters’ house reference posts, but now it’s time to start getting into a few other major areas of the show. The Candy Store is the Eds’ ultimate goal on any given day and yet it is a surprisingly rare sight in the series, making no appearances in season 2 at all!
Exterior
CANDY is a candy shop on what I refer to as Main Street. It was opened in 1978. It is a tall yellow/orange/peach-colored building with a sparkly sign, 3-4 windows up top (one top floor window stretches the building a little past the right ground floor window), a gumball machine out front, 2 large windows looking into the shop, stocked with candy jars, a glass door with a bell and a curtain, and a brick bottom half.
All we see of its neighborhood in season 1:
The show is VERY inconsistent about where the telephone poles are in Peach Creek. They don’t even need WIRES.
Only the bottom half of the store appears in the second half hour of season 1 and that’s it until season 3!
In season 3, we finally get a better look at its location!
Meet THE KITCHEN SHOP
Meet the usual bus stop!
Meet WOOTIE’S CAFE
Meet A ROUGH SKETCH OF WOOTIE’S CAFE, DANNY’S MEAT SHOP, AKA SHOES, TWO CREEKSIDE STORES (not the same creek that’s by the cul-de-sac)
So it looks like this area Eddy flies through is the corner after Danny’s Meat Shop.
Wootie’s is REALLY far down here.
Meet HARDWARE and AN UNKNOWN STORE
In season 4, the Candy Store owns a rocket ship ride for one episode.
In season 4, we finally start to get information on how the Eds get to the candy store street. Route #2 is through a nondescript lane next to a park.
And past a street with a lane against the sidewalk:
Route #1 (I imported these into the post in the wrong order and didn’t feel like fixing it) is through a lane that seems to run along the road going up to the right of the cul-de-sac.
China Palace makes its first appearance, in rough sketch not-purple form:
We also get a cool look at it during a storm:
Houses along the road leading to the candy store
Kitchen Shop’s trying two signs, Hardware’s still around!
Is this the first time they name AKA Shoes and Danny’s Meat Shop?
AKA... store..? China Palace is a lot more interesting.
Its final cel animated appearance, in the final major cel animated cartoon:
Meet HARDWARE #2, Underwood Pet Shop (Exotic Pets), and what may be an apartment building.
Route #3, an unfamiliar street with a lane that leads to the cul-de-sac, like any lane on any street apparently. PERHAPS these are the buildings facing a forest/creek behind Wootie’s Cafe and that district has grown since season 3? Or maybe this is along that street from the cul-de-sac, which usually just has houses and woods.
In season 5, before seeing the candy store at all, we are introduced to ANOTHER new street in the Peach Creek Shopping District. I think this one must be the street directly behind the Candy Store, further down the road from the cul-de-sac (Route #1).
Meet LIH’S SUPPLY CO and ...BUILDING 210 (maybe it’s looking to be rented)
We even get to see inside Lih’s!
Lil’ Poindexter brand backpack
I can’t read what that one sign says (SHOES?), but there’s another “MEAT” shop and “JAVA HUT”-- seems like this street copycats a lot of Main Street’s businesses
Hiya LAUNDROMAT
Hey CAFE FONDUE ~FANCY SNACKS~ and SHOP (SINCE 1998), I guess that’s the closest grocery store? Rolf doesn’t come from this direction with his groceries in ‘Ed or Tails’ though, he seemed to be coming from the school’s neighborhood.
Hello LIGHTBULBS!
Oh, there’s a SHOES, and what’s that other place say? HALL? I always imagine that as the theater the Eds were trying to bike to in ‘Dawn of the Eds’, though they were biking, again, in the school’s neighborhood since they ended up in the junkyard.
We also get one of our first good-but-low-detail looks at that road to the candy shop
Next episode, buildings start disappearing-- China Palace gets eaten by a lane that is also a driveway.
It is at this time that I should mention Main Street is a highly unstable location (like pretty much any location but the cul-de-sac) that seems to get retconned every episode.
The Kitchen Shop briefly switches to the “one sign” approach.
Route #4: Eddy is coming home from school, so this scene makes no sense because he’s walking from the complete opposite direction of the school (in more episodes than not). Eddy is walking from where Rolf’s chicken stampede was, i.e. the road to the Jawbreaker Factory town.
Hardware tries out a yellow paintjob:
Apparently there are fences that need painting down the rest of that side of Main Street
Ah, a couple episodes later and now the street’s looking a little more like its old self:
They finally named CHINA PALACE (CHINESE CUISINE)! I suppose it’s worth mentioning the implication that the Eds passed through here on the way home from school.
...Um... Wootie’s bus stop jumped across the street, fed Hardware to yet another randomly-occuring lane and revealed this whole wall of the candy shop that’s usually barely visible as a crack between buildings, so it’s a little confusing that there’s so much stuff there:
That yellow poster says “CANDY: Fine Purveyors of Sweets (Est. 1978),” so are the Jawbreaker Factory and the candy store actually part of a larger “CANDY” corporation?? 1978 was also the year that the Lemon Brook Gag Factory had apparently closed in Big Picture Show.
This resembles Route #3, but with different stores and this lane seems to be behind Edd and Rolf’s houses, very far from the shopping district.
Today this street includes ANTIQUES, DELI, and BONNI’S TAXIDERMY which I assume is where Eddy’s brother got his stuffed camel
Route #5 from the school:
In ‘Run Ed Run’, it’s not directed with a clear map in mind, but it would make sense that the Eds follow the bus down the street from the school, make a left at the street revealed to have a Fire Station in the movie (which seems to be a new addition cutting through the field behind the cul-de-sac in the movie), and then make another left to wrap around the cul-de-sac and go down main street:
Wootie’s Cafe makes its final appearance, in ‘Run Ed Run’. Hardware has been replaced by a gray building with nothing but windows. AND there’s a nondescript purple building!
A surprise aerial shot reveals those randomly occuring lanes have thankfully been replaced with a more logical parking lot (imagine that separating Main Street from Lih’s street). We also get a little more look at the area behind AKA Shoes, but those season 3 bonus stores are nowhere in sight. Maybe Route #3′s shops are on the street from the cul-de-sac instead?
Apparently Main Street lines up with those woods that border the cul-de-sac and the electrical towers, and Main Street also leads out of town and into the barely developed Jawbreaker Factory town.
In the final appearance, we finally get confirmation that the right turn out of the cul-de-sac is the street to the candy store, but it is very long and uphill, which suits its depiction in ‘Don’t Rain on My Ed’.
These shots seem to confirm that the Route #3 buildings were on this street, and the location seems to have grown a lot over the unseen winter and spring before the series finale’s summer.
After a park/some woods, you enter the shopping district. There’s a PRINT SHOP...
COST-LESS FURNITURE featuring YOGA...
and DANCE on its second floor...
there’s yet another CAFE (EST. 1955)...
THE WIG BOUTIQUE...
........and ~B...
this next background loops inconsistently so interpret this street as you will:
another CAFE...
yet another SHOES...
a building identical to the 1955 cafe...
Finally Jonny arrives halfway down Main Street, at Danny’s Meat Shop. In the unseen winter and spring that passed through Main Street after ‘Run Ed Run’, Wootie’s Cafe moved out and was replaced by Toomey’s Tattoos, and the bus stop park that once filled up the corner has been filled in with new stores.
Such as BAIT & TACKLE!
Candy, The Kitchen Shop and the unmarked China Palace seem to be up to their usual hijinks...
So normally this scene is directed in a way that makes it impossible to track Jonny’s movement, but allow me to slip in this shot from a later scene:
On the right, that is Toomey’s Tattoos, Danny’s Meat Shop and AKA Shoes, meaning that this bus stop is over on the corner Rolf brought his stampede of chickens from, rather than the one that used to be by Wootie’s.
So in this shot, Jonny must be getting dragged past China Palace, and Garcia’s Antiques is one of many new stores that have popped up on the path to the Jawbreaker Factory.
I guess Underwood Pet Shoppe has changed locations. Love those background buildings!
So this means the bus probably turns right at the corner, and makes the next right in order to actually go the same direction everyone else went. This would most likely mean going through Lih’s street. The confusing thing about mapping the movie is that the Eds, Rolf and Jonny’s bus head south of the cul-de-sac to the jawbreaker factory and the desert (suggesting that dead), but Sarah and Jimmy head north into the trailer park, Kevin and Nazz head north through the farm to the gag factory, which suggests everyone ends up going north eventually.
Assuming we haven’t missed a million turns during Jonny’s hallucination (which, if you need more bus references, is pretty thoroughly capped in this post), it looks like further up Lih’s street (heading north of the cul-de-sac, or rather, east to the coastline), the buildings start getting a lot bigger and streets finally get signals and traffic direction. Seems like Peach Creek has its own little strip of city life on the way to the highway. Unless maybe this is Lemon Brook at this point? How far do you think Jonny traveled during this scene?
The rest of the space between this location and the city look more barren, and is most likely near the swamp town.
That’s it for the Candy Store’s neighborhood, but the evolution of the inside of the candy store is pretty interesting as well:
Interior
There’s a fridge in the back, peach-colored walls, green ceiling, green floor with orange lines separating the tiles, and consistently a big bin of jawbreakers to the right (sometimes the bin is big enough to reach the center of the store).
In its first appearance, ‘Will Work For Ed’, the inside is much smaller than usual with the counter in the center of the store, in front of the door.
When an Ed finally gets to enter the store, in the season 3 finale ‘Brother, Can You Spare an Ed’, it is much more spacious:
And the last time we get a good look inside, we get to see it with storm/after hours colors.
Last and least, there’s a shelf of extra jars above the counter. I hope Eddy knocks those over on the owner’s head.
I’m not sure if other people look at cartoon houses as much as I do, but just in case you need it for a fan project or something, I’ve started collecting references for all the houses in Ed, Edd n Eddy. (I will eventually edit these to include links to all the other posts, but for now, please check my house references tag)
I’ve completed the main characters’ house reference posts, but now it’s time to start getting into a few other major areas of the show. Where better to look next than the series finale’s new character, Eddy’s brother?
Exterior
Trailer shaped like a blue whale. Torn basketball net over the door, satellite antenna on roof (also seems to be covered in rust and bird droppings, or just fading in the sun). Located in the center of the Mondo a-GoGo Amusement Park’s employee trailer park, in the back of the park by the truck entrance. Lawn chair, bucket and grill out front. Neighbored in the front by a blue trailer with an outdoor bathtub and a pink trailer with rusty oil tanks, a yellow trailer in back (perhaps belonging to the boss?), and various striped tents.
The Roof:
The back:
All over Bro’s front yard:
Meanwhile back in the park:
Interior
Very little is seen of course, but the more we have to go on, the better!
Lots of locks on the door, light green walls, dark green ceiling, wood panel floors, brown desk/coffee table, blue arm chair/couch (maybe couch since it’s visible from both the left and right side of the door, which would mean Bro most likely has a TV next to the door)
What do you think the silhouette is in Bro’s one framed photo? Looks like.. Pac-Man..
Mondo a-GoGo
Implied to be located at 160 Downtown (by Plank’s bus and the highway signs indicate that Mondo is downtown) in “The City.” Mondo is surprisingly accurately mapped throughout its brief appearance, very unusual for such a large location in Ed, Edd n Eddy.
Bro's parking lot is off screen, in the back to the right of that “Mondo” roller coaster
also, just noticed: the foreground rollercoaster is the Maneater-a-Go-Go, you can see the shark-shaped ticket booth at the bottom
Park entrance:
Ferris wheel, left/center of the park
Love this view of the ocean, complete with a lighthouse and buoy
Wild Prawn, Squid Dogs, Booty from the Sea, left side of the park, along the boardwalk
That pier with a gazebo (or could it be a merry-go-round?) was not in the big overhead shot.
Maneater a-Go-Go, front right of the park
Sorry for snipping some of these screenshots poorly.
Imagine having to be the guy who works in this flimsy, tiny-doored ticket booth.
Fun House, Trinkets, Clam Catcher, Human Crab truck, Employee parking lot, back right of the park, next to Mondo roller coaster.
Downtown
The little bit we get to see of the Downtown neighborhood that Sarah and Jimmy walk through to find the employee parking lot of Mondo a-GoGo
Crummy Apartments, where I headcanon Kevin lived before moving to the cul-de-sac
Vic’s Slop Bucket (24 hr eats) and Seat Cover World
Doze Inn Motel, and 3 or 4 other unnamed motels
I... do not understand how different Doze Inn looks between these two shots
Seafood Snack, beneath the Lake Garcia State Park cliff, and across the street from what must be some sort of small marina.
Some Concept Art of the Inner City
Highway into Lemon Brook, the swamp town,and the City
A closed road out of the swamp town that leads to the highway/downtown
Pear Street Exit, from the highway to Lake Garcia State Park
Lake Garcia State Park (located Downtown, across the street/up a cliff from Mondo)
owmylasagna said: I thought the TV in Momma’s Little Ed is painted like that to look like the earth, because Edd is rearranging Eddy’s room? Edd has a little (but hardly complete) solar system hanging from his ceiling so I thought this was an attempt to replicate it.
I didn't think they had time to paint it but that makes a lot of sense now that you mention it! Although Ed mentions the ant farm, I figured he just had a weird decorating sense, not that he was trying to replicate Edd's room.
I was always fascinated by Eddy’s TV. I like how it’s such an unusual shape compared to some of the other TV’s featured on the show. I wonder if this was based off real tv’s that actually resembled Eddy’s.
If my memory serves correctly, I don’t recall Eddy ever using that TV. It looks more retro compared to some of the other tv’s on the show, which makes me wonder if it was passed down from Eddy’s bro.
submitted by madlou22
Me toooo, I'm under the impression it's one of those rounded vintage portable televisions (which I've always wanted):
I can only remember the TV ever being interacted with to get knocked over. In the movie it flies out of Eddy's suitcase and breaks:
In 'Dear Ed' they drew a face on it and it was one of the many things Ed tossed around in the room (though it still looks in-tact at the end):
In 'Momma's Little Ed' (and I feel like maybe another season 3 episode?) the TV is colored blue with green blobs for some reason, but I like it:
