#drawtectives theory

[anxious-chaos]

I’m so normal abt what’s happened.

My notes undercut if u can’t read my handwriting or if u want a more organized and concise list of what I noticed

Obvious differences

Hair

Eyeliner

Clothes

Newgene is sluttier

Necklace

Sleeve

EXPOSED SHOULDER???

Subtle differences

No nose ring

Newgene has better posture

Newgene lacks a giant ass collar, which is a iconic part of Eugene

Newgene skirt is longer

Subtle differences that could be attributed to Julia's style growth

Newgene has no nose line

Hair is slightly different (though the silhouette stayed the same)

Chin slightly pointier

Eyes bigger

Face to head ratio different

Nose end is slightly, so very slightly, different

Newgenes lips r fuller

Newgenes earring is slightly shorter

Similarities

Long skirt, long cloak, no shirt combo

Earrings are the same, down the the style of piercing

Wrinkles and face lines are the same (eyebrow crease, dimple, etc)

Unconventional eyeliner

Green/turquoise black and yellow

Star motif

Expression is LITERALLY THE EXACT SAME

SO IS THE FACE

THE FACE IS THE SAME DOWN THE THE LINES

straps? Newgene has a harness and Eugene has his chords

Both wear heels

THEY LITERALLY STAND THE SAME. LIKE BESIDES THE POSTURE THEIR FEET R IN THE SAME PLACE AS EACH OTHER AS THEY STAND

Miscellaneous thoughts

Didn't Julia once say she thought Eugene would have tattoos? Like did we ever actually see Eugene's arms in S1???

@/bardace's post abt inverted Eugene

Newgene seems a lot more tucked in if that makes sense? Like his waist is more highlighted and his harness makes him seem tighter as opposed to Eugene, whose cape makes him seem a little hidden and chords are loose

WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON

WE DONT EVEN KNOW WHO WAS MURDERED

OR WHAT THE MYSTERY EVEN IS

Also

JANCY KNOWS SMTHIN???? LIKE HUH

I know we've all had this thought, could this newgene be the snake? Is he evil? Is he a twin??? Evil twin?

How many people in the drawtectives universe have a passion for unconventional eyeliner, giant cloaks and skirts with star motifs????

WHO ARE YOU NEWGENE

The brief discovery that if u write who r u without a lot of space (whoru) it looks like "whore" (which he is. Not that I'm complaining)

Various little doodles of me thirsting over newgene. Sorry.

Various little doodles of me being SO CONFUSED????

[dawneetay]

I watched @nathanlongs drawtectives s3 ep 1+2 breakdown and they pointed out the slug man, and I KNOW WHATS UP WITH THE SLUG MAN.

So I have supplied context!!! For the slug man!!! I remembered!!!

Nathan long doesn’t seem active on tumblr but I hope they see this cause I feel proud for remembering 🫡 maybe someone already pointed this out lmao

This clip is from Drawfee’s Zillow video btw!

[allthecastlesonclouds]

Hey, chat, does The Animatronic usually rhyme its words? Because I thought its speech was pretty stilted, and as i finish up the transcripts... there's a rhyming scheme that's going on that reminds me quite a bit like The Snake's in the newest note...

okay i'm back! this is brief and messy but. we see The Animatronic only speak a little bit. I'm going to provide screenshots of largest speaking moments below:

first rhyme– with Rosé, an immediate you/who scheme

to be honest, i'm not sure if animatronic has a slant rhyme with department, but there's something odd going on between those words. i'm not an english major. i plead the fifth. but there's a lyricality to it!

and then here, again! he does it twice, with No/though, and then too/you! with these two, interestingly, he breaks up the rhyming scheme with an extra phrase or word– and where do we see that next?

The Snake.

the snake, in this note, has some pretty good rhymes– but they immediately break up the flow with the inclusion of Spots and It (despite there being ways of phrasing this that makes it rhyme! like or should i market off my list of spots for relaxation?) i wonder why this happens, and i'm fully pulling at straws, but the animatronic's speech sounded off from the last we've heard him– which is odd if they're all the same make and model!

so. noted with some other theories this handwriting looks slightly different. could this not be from the animatronic? could the animatronic be working with the snake? i dunno bestie. i’m just putting things together and thinking :)

[aroace-elgyem]

Okay so I wanna talk about that big snake statue from the new drawtectives ep because I feel like it was kinda glossed over and will probably be important for next ep (if the warning they got at the end is about it, which... it has to be about that, right?)

(Long post, so it's under a cut)

So, first a cool detail I noticed that I don't wanna shoehorn into the end:

This snake statue was actually first shown in episode 2, during the midnight alley opening ceremony.

It looks so cool! Although it looks like metal or something, so how the hell did it catch on fire? I have no ideas for that, plz sound off in the replies. This is also a much closer look at it than the one we get in episode 4, which is nice. It's cool to finally know (some) of what the deal is with this statue, it kinda stuck out to me back when I first watched episode 2. Although the info we got only really gave me more questions.. cause like...the statue just showed up one day??? How???? It's so big! Also no one knows who made it? There's gotta be some crazy conspiracy videos on Bootube about it I just know it.

Anyway, I wanted to talk about this because I feel like maybe the creator of this statue and our elusive snake are one in the same.

Here's my evidence

1) snake motif (duh). But really, sea snakes were released into a flooded midnight alley at some point in the past to literally hunt people down, I imagine the citizens of midnight alley don't like them very much... The snake using that as their alias obviously shows how they're an antagonist to midnight alley (..cause they wanna flood it) but also kinda sticks out. Maybe they just chose it on purpose to be scary and like... reference the alley's history but idk, there could be more there

2) art motif. This might take some explaining but hear me out. In the art gallery, the snake not only vandalized Skeet's paintings but also drew a big snake on the wall.

They also wrote these sort of.. riddles? I guess? Maybe poems? Idk.. but those are also art! I had a theory after episode 3 that maybe the snake was some kind of disgruntled artist who was like, mad that Skeet got a spot in the gallery and they didn't, which maybe holds less water now but I still think it could be on the right track. Also, Fleur notably says the statue was 'installed' one day, like an art installation. Lots of art installations (especially the... less legal ones) just kinda show up overnight, so it being viewed as some art installation by the people of midnight alley makes sense. Anyway I mostly just wanted to say this cause I think the idea of the snake being an artist is REALLY compelling. It gives them a cool contrast/maybe even like a foil dynamic with the drawtectives, ik the drawtectives arent like, career artists in universe but they are good at art and they keep having to draw to solve mysteries so... they count. Also, it provides a sick as hell opportunity for some social commentary on the art industry or the art world or whatever which would RULE, that's the thing I most want to be right about with this theory haha

Anyway if I think of anything to add I'll put it in a reblog, thanks for reading my rambling lol

[fangirl-nadir]

Animatronics seem to be a running theme in all three seasons of Drawtectives. Maybe just because they're cool, but I wonder if there's an overarching storyline going on...

[starful-emporium]

as interested as I am in the Eugene twin theory (twingene?), I do have to throw in that Julia LePetit really really likes animatronics and it would totally track for this to be like, an awakened animatronic Leland made to cover up Eugene's disappearance

[chanceofbrainstormz]

Y'know all the snake and rat imagery in the trailer for s3? What if Newgene over here IS the snake and he's pretending to be Eugene.

Furthermore, what if he did the murder.

If he represents a snake, and snakes eat rats, what if he murdered a "rat". What if someone ratted him out (revealed his identity), and so he killed them.

[noelle-the-sleepy]

if blonde Eugene IS a secret twin, i vote we start calling him twogene.