#jinxed asks

[jynxedshapeshifter]

Theres a line in storyteller where if you say the wrong thing to owen simon comforts him and tells athena off for being rude to a six year old so yeah its 100% canon

hes so big brother energy

[jinxed-ninjago]

Dare you to end the compilation with the

“uh cole you don’t argue with a man who’s navel is that close” from Jay the first time he’s in vengestone since Skybound (SOG Game of Masks)

I FUCKING FORGOT ABOUT THAT LINE

[jinxed-sinner]

I often see people claim that alastor is someone that wants to presents himself as a good person, but I find his character to be a lot more complicated than just that. Sure he has his moments in which he states things he doesn't actually mean to manipulate others and make himself look better than he actually is (for example in ep 5 when he claims he sees charlie as a daughter, just to annoy lucifer), but even with the hotel he never tries to claim he is there to help, in fact it's quite the opposite "For the entertainment! I came here because I love seeing wasteful souls struggle to accomplish something meaningful, and fail spectacularly.'' There is also his whole radio demon persona that he carefully created. Overall it feels more like alastor tries to present himself as way more dangerous than he actually is (with this I'm not trying to say alastor isn't dangerous or manipulative).

People definitely act like Alastor is less complex than he actually is. It's something that makes me kinda sad actually. It's not that he's not manipulative or dangerous, as you said. It's that his motives likely aren't black and white (whether they actually are is yet to be seen, but considering Viv has described his morality as similar to Dexter and he won't physically attack anyone without reason, I am quite sure it's more likely his motives aren't black and white), and he's willing to do whatever he needs to do to reach his goals.

One thing I'm tired of seeing is people saying that we can't use A Day In The After Life as a basis for his morality because it's not canon. Aside from personally not being able to find any evidence of it not being canon anywhere (be it contradictions between the comic and the show or Viv stating that it's no longer canon), claiming the portrayal of his morality in A Day In The After Life isn't canon directly contradicts the series, where he's shown to only physically attack people if he's provoked/sees a reason. He verbally attacks people to fuck with them (which I say because this seems to be the case with Stayed Gone and Hell's Greatest Dad; both songs are basically Alastor messing with Vox and Lucifer because he thinks it's funny to annoy them), he saves physically attacking people for when it's necessary in his eyes (such as when he or something he cares about is threatened).

Speaking of him caring about some stuff, the first analysis I posted on this blog was that Alastor cares about the hotel, he just refuses to acknowledge/admit it because he either sees it as a sign of vulnerability, doesn't want to acknowledge that his facade is crumbling, or both. If he didn't care, he wouldn't have sent Mimzy away. He wouldn't have defended it on multiple occasions. He only looks panicked in Finale during the "Great Alastor, altruist, died for his friends" line, indicating to me at least that he realized he was growing to care about the hotel and its residents and that scared him.

Alastor also obviously cares about Charlie, at least in my opinion. I'm not the first to bring this up but I'm like 99% sure one of the reasons Alastor took Charlie to Rosie is because he knew she was having relationship troubles and Rosie specifically mentions that romance is her specialty (something Alastor likely knows by virtue of him and Rosie being best friends). Basically, "I don't know how to help you and don't want to, but I know someone who CAN help you and she's a romance expert!!" is a mentality I wouldn't be surprised if Alastor has. Like even if he does mostly care about what Charlie can do for him and he's protecting her for that reason, he still cares enough to specifically take her to a romance expert (I do recognize he probably had other motives for taking Charlie to Rosie; for example he's closest to Rosie out of every other Overlord, and they're best friends. However I think it's noteworthy that Rosie also portrays herself as a romance expert and is an expy of Dolly Levi from Hello, Dolly!, who is a matchmaker. Hell, even Alastor realizing Charlie needed help with her relationship with Vaggie and taking her to Rosie for that could have ulterior motives).

I've actually wondered a few times if Alastor trying to look more dangerous than he is comes from his demon form. He went from a predator (serial killer) in life to prey (a deer) in death. Deer aren't usually seen as threatening, unless they're provoked (and even then people are probably more likely to find the situation funny until they're either gored by a buck/bull's antlers or kicked in the chest). For a few months now I've kinda thought that Alastor can't control certain deer traits he has, or at least has to try incredibly hard to hide them. This is a conclusion I came to after trying to figure out when he makes deer noises (elk bugles and fawn bleats), and every time they seem out of his control, or like he can control it (or at least stop it) and just forgets to. This even extends to his ears — most of the time they're upright, but when he's particularly upset, they'll flatten. The thing that made me think he's constantly trying to keep his ears upright was these two screenshots from Finale, where they're half-flattened instead of straight up like they're usually seen:

It looks like he's struggling to maintain control over his ears to me. The lack of total control over his more deer-like traits would probably be a massive insecurity for him, especially if I'm right about his deer noises being involuntary (you cannot convince me this man who has built a reputation for being one of the most dangerous sinners in Hell would enjoy spontaneously bleating like a fawn. I doubt he'd mind the elk sounds as much because elk bugles are, under the right circumstances, chilling, but fawn bleats are something I can't see him enjoying because it would, in his eyes, make him less intimidating if people knew about it).

Interestingly it's implied that either people don't really know he's the Radio Demon, despite admitting he's the Radio Demon (according to Mimzy), or people know he's the Radio Demon and don't give a shit. Nobody panicked in Scrambled Eggs until Zestial showed up, which holds the implication, to me at least, that Alastor's nowhere near as intimidating as Zestial is (which makes me wonder what Zestial's done).

[jynxedshapeshifter]

i thought simon's VA was kind of a mystery? is that just a very confident guess or is it confirmed somewhere?

Tbh I'm mostly going off of IMDB, where Simon is in Troy Baker's credits with a note adding that he was uncredited. I will say that during the Spirit of Justice prologue, where Simon has a few speaking lines, I can hear some similarities between Simon and Troy Baker's voice for Espio the Chameleon (who he voiced in Sonic Generations) which has me inclined to just assume IMDB is accurate unless I'm proven otherwise lol.

Hilariously, Matthew Mercer voices Nahyuta, and Matt Mercer is also the current voice for Espio the Chameleon, and like Troy Baker, I can absolutely hear Espio in how Matt voices Nahyuta.

So I don't know exactly where the information comes from, but both Troy Baker and Matt Mercer have voiced Espio the Chameleon at one point or another and Simon and Nahyuta both sound similar enough to Espio that I'm just going to assume Troy Baker and Matt Mercer voice Simon and Nahyuta respectively lol

[jynxedshapeshifter]

WAIT HE'S IMPLIED TO DO *WHAT*

So I don't actually remember if Excelsius burning Eustace is implied per se (which is funny to me because. I'm literally playing the case where it WOULD be implied), however, I do think there are a few things that make it a very easy conclusion to come to:

It is at least implied that Excelsius physically abuses Eustace. When Excelsius approaches Eustace from the witness stand, Eustace's chibi shock sprite is used, which makes it look like he's flinching away from Excelsius and protecting his face (something I seriously doubt wasn't intentional and that genuinely made my stomach drop when I got that animation). At the very least, this implies Excelsius hits Eustace on a regular basis.

While definitely not definitive, Excelsius has a tendency to play with fire. He has a lighter on his person at all times. I also think Excelsius having a decorative burn scar on his chin is notable, although again, not definitive.

While this is more to do with the specific sprite used for the associated dialogue (which, to be clear, was a very intentional choice), Excelsius's sprite where his lighter looks like it's emitting a small campfire combined with the "Be careful what you say to me, boy! You might live to regret it!" is. Certainly suspicious. He has other sprites that are used when he's angry. They very deliberately chose that sprite. Combining that dialogue with that sprite makes "You might just live to regret it!" an absolutely horrifying line to think about for longer than two seconds (and there is absolutely no way it wasn't intentional).

So basically in my eyes it's less that it's necessarily implied and more that it's a combination of an incredibly easy conclusion to draw and the sprites used for certain dialogue/interactions. I absolutely think Eustace probably has some burn scars from Excelsius though.

On this note, I think people sleep on how much the sprites used in association with specific dialogue can tell us about a character's intentions. I don't know if the intention with the third point mentioned above was meant to imply that the reason Eustace would "live to regret" standing up to Excelsius was because Excelsius was planning to burn him. Considering literally everything else about Excelsius though, I wouldn't be surprised if it was meant to imply that.

*also just to note, when I think of something as implied, I generally think of it being something that was intentional. Little clues toward a specific conclusion, if you will. Which is why I don't know if I'd call Excelsius burning Eustace implied or not. He can still fuck off to hell though.

[jynxedshapeshifter]

in my head apollo does not use pet names At All. he will still call him klavier. or at most shorten it to klav but that's all he gets </3

the other possibility is something in khura'inese that klavier does not understand at all, but by the way apollo goes red as he mutters it under his breath he can kind of put the pieces together

second option is absolutely adorable tbh.

[jynxedshapeshifter]

Actually hold on. I know I said that probably Klavier doesn’t greet people unhinged in canon, but his first meeting with Phoenix involved getting him disbarred, so there are actually two points of evidence in favor of that being canon. Maybe more I haven’t played it yet.

This had me curious about how he greets people when he first meets them canonically, so here's how he greets people canonically:

"I was just thinking, is this what all the fuss is about? Bit of a buzz-kill, really." is how he greets the judge at the start of Zak's trial. sir this is a murder trial

"I know what you're thinking: 'You're out of your league, rock-boy.'" is implied to be how he greets Phoenix; it's not exactly made clear if he's referring to Phoenix specifically, but Phoenix does think "You're out of your league, rock-boy" right before Klavier says this so

"I must say I'm used to being inspected by the ladies… But this is the first time I've felt this way with a man." is how he greets Apollo when he first meets him

"Ah, Fräulein. What is a sweet morsel like you doing in such a dismal place? Can I help?" is how he greets Trucy when he first meets her. I don't know if it's relevant but this is immediately after he greets Apollo

"Why, I do believe we have a fresh face here. Greetings, Fräulein. I am Klavier Gavin. Some know me as a prosecutor, but I'm most famous for my former rock band. We were quite popular you know, but regrettably, the band went kaput. Perhaps you've heard of us? The Gavinners? I was the lead vocalist." is how he greets Athena when he first meets her. Athena almost immediately asks for his autograph so I guess they're equally unhinged (Apollo even points out that she's asking for his autograph despite having met him "like three seconds ago"). Klavier then proceeds to tease Apollo about Athena being "his type"

I would personally say how he greets Apollo is the most unhinged and every other way he greets people is slightly less unhinged. Like honestly Klavier's just a bit unhinged generally. I think it's funny to imagine the most unhinged possible ways he could greet people he never canonically meets even if he doesn't canonically greet people in the most out of pocket way possible though lol. I'm thinking if he ever had the chance to meet Clay he'd greet him with a space pun or something

[jynxedshapeshifter]

So, how did you feel about the dhurke plot twist :)))) its my favorite

I actually cried the second it was even suggested that Dhurke had been dead the entire last case. I don't usually cry when it comes to stuff like that, but Dhurke having been dead the whole time is going to make replaying Turnabout Revolution that much harder I think. The fact that not even death could stop him from seeing Apollo one last time puts him firmly in the good dad camp for me, I love him.