#lorekeeper post

[taruth3mighty]

It's my birthday!

Art by my best friend @senselessdecisions

I love it a lot, I had to share 🥹 💖💖

[taruth3mighty]

I was talking to my friend about something and my mind fell to the Faceless because I had this food for thought about it.

Such as the idea that it's a literal, metaphorical and figurative mirror of Player.

Like technically Player has no face of their own and so they take the face of our avatar.

They're faceless.

Just like the entity they're facing against. They mirror them in every way.

An entity that directly reflects them and the face they have on.

Even in the cutscene I am showing.

Player is quite literally looking at a mirror of themselves, because we are in THEIR perspective in this moment.

From the shift of the top head view we usually get to the same level as Player.

Since I'd like to tell y'all that the Blue Strings' perspective is over top head.

Because from the Blue Strings perspective, it is showing off their entire appearance to the Faceless due to the camera being in third person.

For example, Player in the first ever cutscene doesn't show their appearance, because the Blue Strings hadn't fully kicked in yet.

They are in first person during their conversation with their mom.

They were a regular person who is in first person, you can't see what you look like unless they're in front of a mirror.

Until the Blue Strings came along and gave them third person perspective and allowed them to always see what they look.

But the only way the Faceless can see Player's appearance is because of the Blue Strings.

Keep in mind that the Faceless' whole gimmick is that it quite literally mirrors your entire team—so the fact that it has so many elements of mirroring Player has to be intentional.

Even if it isn't, it's some food for mind 🫐

[taruth3mighty]

Just doing a very thick essay on how accurate cults of Doodle World are, and how they work and why they work

My mind went to the theory of Suzie being manipulated by Joseph to betray Zavier

Alongside the idea that Joseph is using Charles to get the keys to start the Second Doodle War

Imagining that Zavier would straight up murder Joseph he ever found the truth, all of his suffering and pain can all be traced to him after all

Suzie would've never betrayed him and Charles wouldn't have ever started the Key Hunt and caused the Second War that killed everyone he else he knew and loved

[taruth3mighty]

I find it funny that in the span of the Oasis meeting between Ellen, Portia, Quincy and TJ.

Suzie and Player managed to go beat the shit out of Zane,

Find out the truth and come up with a plan to free Zerura,

And have Suzie get her hands on explosives and bust into Oasis Energy Secret Lab through the sewers.

All before TJ and Quincy could finish the meeting 😭😭

Player stopped just as they entered the sewers to watch them start the meeting, so technically they're even faster than that.

As Player managed to beat up Zane with Suzie, figure out a plan, and get into the sewers before they started.

Also, TJ and Quincy took even longer as by the time they arrive—Player has already gotten all of the four numbers for the code to free Zerzura 😭✌️

No wonder Suzie came later, otherwise getting the key would be so easy.

[taruth3mighty]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but...

During the episode "I think I am a clone now" where an evil copy of Wordgirl is stealing everyone's thesauruses.

For a brief scene we see Tobey in his rocking chair, reading one of them.

Unlike the others who are in class or in a library—he just has one at home that he reads during his free time.

I find this a nice bit of character continuity because it makes so much sense for him to be reading one—but why?

Well to find out we need to know, what is a thesaurus?

A thesaurus is a reference book used to find different words that have the same or similar meanings.

Consider that in the Wordgirl shorts where he meets her for the first time, he describes various synonyms.

Such as when Becky says she doesn't want her house "demolished" he proceeds to use various other synonyms of demolish, such as:

Destroy

Wreck

Smash

Annihilate

And decimate

Or when he fought Wordgirl and he said,

"What about tussle"

And Wordgirl agrees and says,

"Tussle's good, I prefer brawl"

He knows his stuff when it comes to various words, not as much as Wordgirl considering she specializes in it but certainly enough to keep up with her.

It's nice to know that there's at least one person in the show that could match Wordgirl in terms of well... terms.

Makes them bonding in "Have you seen the remote?" even sweeter in my opinion because Tobey genuinely does like reading as much as Wordgirl.

[taruth3mighty]

Y'know I was just thinking about Wordgirl as I usually do, and I stumbled across a video mentioning the Oxford English dictionary.

And that made me think, is Becky's last name a pun on the Oxford dictionary?

Think about it, Oxford - Botsford

They sound similar enough but Botsford sounds better with Becky's name since they both start with B.

And I wouldn't put it past them considering the names of the other villains like Victoria Best or the Butcher having that kind of obvious naming convention.

Her name having the word Bots makes Tobey say it all the time makes more sense, he does love his robots.

[taruth3mighty]

I'm not sure if this has been talked about before but Zavier having his Horbeast use Magic Attacks is so fitting to his chatacter.

Like yeah, it's not as good as it would be because his Horbeast has Slash Expert and it has higher physical attack.

And I feel like that's on purpose.

Zavier would purposely limit himself like that. His main form of damage being magic attacks to keep distance rather than risk getting close despite the potential to get more damage.

Even his only physical move is to make the opponent flinch, making them unable to move for a turn.

Symbolically representing how he doesn't want to get hurt again by getting close to anyone.

And only getting close if he guarantees he won't be hurt.

It differentiates him from Quincy in that regard.

Where Quincy is still open to get close with people—hence Quincy's Horbeast using the most out of its ability and moves.

Sure you're more vulnerable when you get close, but that means you have more potential to do more than if you didn't.

Battle knowledge does come in handy when it comes to lorekeepin' 🔎🔎✨

[taruth3mighty]

I am currently awaiting the final stretches and results of the two polls on Reddit and Tumblr, just two days.

Not sure if it'll suddenly change but the poll results at the moment are as I predicted,

I will go into full detail why each result could've ended up the way it has. And why it's so... consistent across the two spaces.