hi sam its been a while!( ´ ∀ `)ノ, the reason being i was nominated by the WHOLE FRIGGIN CLASS to join a 3 CONTESTS(╬`益´),it was stressful but i did have fun learning more! And tomorrow well be having our christmas party and then finally a break from school! which got me thinking what party games are the tot boys good and bad at? thats all, have a wonderful day sam!!! (♡°▽°♡)
heyo cute nonnie! honestly i've been busy af too with all this finals nonsense, so don't sweat it!! i hope you had fun in your contests tho!
but, party games! i don't go out often enough to say i'm a party animal, but i know my way around musical chairs (i'm, surprisingly, much more familiar with baby shower games! the woes of an older sibling)
anyway!
Party Games with the NXX!
Vyn would be very good at cup pong! he's got the aim and he's got the alcohol tolerance to go with it. Dr. Richter will not hesitate to demolish you in cup pong and make you drink your weight loss in beer. he's really bad at telephone. he just can't understand when someone is whispering super low, it sounds like mumbles to him! he always fucks it up.
Luke would be very good at musical chairs! fucker would get hella competitive tho. will pull the chair right from under you so you fall on your ass just so he can sit on it. once yeeted a chair just so someone else wouldn't have gotten to it. he's bad at tug of war, not bc he won't win, no. it's bc he doesn't know his own strength. the opposing team will go flying and eat shit. no one wants to play tug of war with him like that.
Artem is strangely good at charades/heads up! i think it only took him like, a singular try to guess 'Ash Ketchum' once. people thought he was cheating. he's really bad at hide and seek, though. he just always picks the obvious places and he has this... air about him. the vibe always changes when he's in the room, he's too intense sometimes. you can point him out in a room LMAO.
Marius is stupid good at limbo it's unfair. he's so tall he should've toppled over ages ago, but he can drop low. like sir, are your ankles okay? he's really bad at aiming, though, so add a blindfold? he's bad at trying to hit the piñata. he genuinely wants the candy tho, so that's a problem. oh my god he has the worst luck with piñatas too, once got whacked with the stick someone let slip. he was so far away from it too!!
I only wanted to tell you that you're amazing, this fandom it's so lucky to have you and you don't have enough people who tell you this, it's a shame! Keep the awesome art and being an awesome person! <3
Today i had the worst of the days but this ask mad me smile so hard… Sometimes things like this are the ones that push me to keep continuing creating art for fandoms when I feel insecure about my art [that’s like 90% of the time xD]. You are the best ♥ Thank you for telling me this I really need it today. Thank you, thank you!
To the parental!Robbie anon: do you have a tumblr by chance? If not, that’s fine! I really want to discuss all of these super cool ideas with you, but I don’t want to spoil it for anyone in case I decide to write what you’re sending. (ie; you have amazing ideas and I want to write every single one that you’ve sent me thus far!!!)
Again, if you don’t, that’s fine! I can reply like normal or hold onto the asks you send in! Otherwise, don’t be afraid to message me. I don’t bite! In fact, I’m probably one of the most awkward people that you’ll ever meet ^^’
Hi Sam! (｡･♡･｡) hope your doing very well! Cause im not hahah ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ im doing some very tedious work here, i feel like my feet are gonna explde hahhaaha Do you have a theory/interpretation on tot's prologue or have u already talked about that? Always here waiting 4 watever fic u write!♡ have a good day!
CUTE NONNIE HELLO!!! im sorry you're having a bad day hopefully this'll make it better! because holy shit you got me hella thinking about the prologue. honestly i've done stuff alluding to things in the prologue like how i thought vyn could've been the most likely candidate to betray the nxx (which, honestly, i also need to revisit bc i don't think so anymore) or maybe in the theory chain relating to artem, but i haven't properly introduced my ideas in a singular post. and now that it's been a year, let's dive back into theory city, shall we? i, for one, haven't thought about the prologue in ages so i am so ready to revisit that. put on your tinfoil hats, cuz here we go!
sam's prologue theory extravaganza
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okay so the first thing we see is Rosa. they are your stand-in for this universe, the person you control. there's this chime we hear at the beginning when the camera zooms in which i'm attributing to entering a state of hypnosis. because that's what's happening IMO, rosa is in a hypnotic state. u know how some hypnotists go 'now sleep' and snap their fingers? that's what that little chime is to me, a kind of trigger that makes rosa fall asleep.
the first person we encounter is luke who is surrounded by the fog and shadows. this is literally so indicative of what's happening with rosa, especially in this event current event (entwining hearts). this is a person rosa knows but because 8 years have passed, do they truly know who he is? luke, being hidden in the shadows, represents that duality of 'i know you, but do i?'. luke drops his key once he disappears with the ravens (which, you know, ravens are omens of death but also of wisdom). this key is incredibly important to him as it opens a box of treasured memories he has. i don't know if i recall this correctly but didn't rosa give him the box (and by proxy the key?) either way, rosa opens the key at our choice (but is it really a choice when it's the only option?) this segues to the next male lead and then to the next, but let's take a detour to what vyn says at the end when he was holding luke's key.
"The key to the chest of memories... Did you see the answer inside? Was it what you wanted?"
in the end of his chapter 4 we actually do see (or, well, read) what was inside of his chest. and it was right, it did hold memories. so why is he pointing this out to us? here's my (new) interpretation of this.
each male lead represents something within the hypnotic state. luke, obviously, is memory. marius is the image you give to society (or the mask), artem is career, and vyn is the self. why is vyn the self?
think about the standard types of hypnosis for a second. there are two ways to take you out of a hypnotic trance: the hypnotist slowly rouses you out of your state of hypnosis or you get the classic 'wake up' with a snap. what i'm arguing is that rosa, when they wake up, wasn't really out of the hypnotic trance. this is purely my own experience with hypnotism (yes, i have been hypnotized before) but i wasn't... that receptive to it. i 'woke up' mid-session and kinda just walked off stage.
but here's why i'm saying this: vyn may have put them into an inception-esque hypnotic trance. some people just have a natural resistance to this, so why not go deeper and deeper until there's no way you can resist to it? it would explain why vyn knew about the chest and was able to materialize it, same with the other mementos the rest of the male leads had. its why we don't hear another chime as rosa wakes up, and why they're being hypnotized again. but why is vyn the self? because vyn is known to analyze situations. in this case, vyn is the representation of analyzing rosa and their attachments.
now, let's move on to another male lead: marius. marius' whole thing is about painting rosa as he sees them. i couldn't really,,, find what flower rosa is holding in the painting but i'm going to go on a limb and say that they're lilac bushes. lilac bushes represent spring and renewal, which seems about right as marius sees rosa as something new and, frankly, refreshing. he doesn't have to hide his 'true' nature around them, he can just be himself. but why the change to the crying picture?
i dont think that you have to interpret this literally, as like luke's introduction. i think that the painting, as much as it represents rosa, it also represents marius. you have to peel back into the layers in order to get to the trauma/the thing people don't want you to see.
"Using a painting to conceal the truth? Perhaps you can fool the eyes, but not the heart."
honestly, you can kind of see this in marius' personal story 4 with the cautionary tale marius' uncle. the guy tried to shield his wife from the public because he truly loved her. in the end, marius followed his heart even tho he tried to contain the truth.
artem's is... one i really like for theory stuff, mostly because of the graveyard. if we keep following the pattern, artem's gravestone isn't really in regards to a person, but rather a thing. i honestly think this one is about the fears of losing a case, or maybe the career rosa has tried so hard to obtain. it's also very linked to artem's second story and beyond. artem, in the beginning, and overall as a character, is a very rigid person. he's a very black and white person, right? that's why the balance fits him so well as a character, his whole shtic is learning how to be in the grey. no one is truly black or white, you know? but it also ties into his indecisiveness regarding rosa in the entirety of the year before he confessed. in his phone call before anni he's like 'i don't wanna live without regrets', tying back to the what-ifs and how in that instance, that was a moment where he had to choose. the flowers themselves represent abundance, elegance, and royalty, but focusing on abundance here. if the flowers that represent abundance are left in a grave, what does it mean?
"Ironic, is it not? Adhering to your convictions but betraying your heart... In the end, it was all for naught,"
in the end, it means indecision leading to regret. something happened that rosa now regrets, and we know that happens too in episode 6.3, who's to say something similar in regards to a case that hasn't happened?
and then... vyn also analyzes himself, why he is there.
"Even if the world were against you... Would you still stand by your choice?"
honestly i think vyn's is the simplest to explain: do you trust yourself? because vyn represents the self and reflection of actions, he is able to pinpoint and ask questions about the things he is able to materialize. vyn is there to ask 'why do i feel the way i do'?
tl;dr and as a recap to yall at home:
rosa is in an inception-like hypnotic state
each boy represents a part of herself
marius represents the way people perceive rosa
luke represents the memories that make rosa... rosa
artem represents career and opposing forces
vyn represents the self and analyzes all the boys + HIMSELF
now, that's just what i can gather through the video itself. if i want to start going into why rosa is in this state, that's a whole other post if yall want it. i do have theories for that! they have to deal with repressed memories and stuff, possible betrayal, and other stuff that involves theorizing about the future of the main story :D
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OH MY GOSH THATS SO SWEET BUT DID ANGEL TELL YOU ABOUT THE GUY IN MY SCHOOL WHO LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE YOU. LIKE HE NO JOKE LOOKS LIKE YOU AND HES SUCH A BIG NERD (I don't mean it offensively) AND HE WAS IN MY EOC TESTING ROOM AND I WALKED UP TO HIM AFTER TESTING AND WAS LIKE "Hey are you Cisco Ramon? Cause I'm really vibing you *wink and finger guns*" AND HE LAUGHS AND HOLDS UP HIS ID WITH A STAAR LABS LANYARD AND HIS ID SAYS Cisco Ramon I CANT I WAS GOING TO SCREAMMM -The Cute Anon❤️
Another doppelgänger?! Man, this is getting old. There’s only one true Cisco Ramon and he’s right here. *points his thumbs at himself* I’m the king of the nerds. But I’m glad you found someone like me though! That me seems pretty cool too.
