if i had a nickle for evertime there was a card themed ship between two guys named ace and duece where ace was red coded and deuce was blue coded id have two nickles which isnt alot but its weird that it happened twice
i think i might have cracked the twst wndrlnd code
ok so this is gonna be pretty long because it's my thoughts on the twisted wonderland characters and why theyre suited for the dorm theyre in. im not sure if someone has done this already but its 1 am and i was trying to sort a character i like into a dorm and i was like wait what does it mean to be assigned a dorm. what is the quality of their soul. so in this essay. (there will be spoilers even for jp server stuff)
basically this is my abstract. the quality of souls as the mirror describes it is what sorts people into dorms. I have determined the quality of souls as a character's main driving force, there is going to be character analysis in this for the twst characters and the 7 villains and why each character belongs in the dorm they belong in. I will not be going in order
lets start with the mc i will be using yuu for convenience. yuu is the reader, shapeless, featureless, whatever the reader shapes them to be in their head like the mirror describes. suited for no dorm. the reader has no personal motivations. the story and happenings around them is what drives them as they never reveal anything about themselves except for a few responses that add almost nothing to the story. they have no motivation, nothing to shape their soul meaning theyre meant for no dorm. pretty easy yeah?
pomfiore. the dorm of tenacity - the act of gripping onto something very firmly (like the title of most beautiful). determination. something like holding onto an ideal and building a lifestyle around that ideal. vil's being the most beautiful like the evil queen. and loosely, rook's being a perseuant of beuty however a synonym for tenacity is persistence which is a quality of savanahclaw but well talk about that in savanahclaws section as that is where rook was originally from. on the surface level it does not seem like epel fits but he actually does. he has a personal ideal of aesthetics which is his (although sadly toxic) idea of masculinity. this is his driving force and the shape of his soul that sorts him into pomfiore. remember i interpret the mirrors meaning of shape of someone's soul being their motivation in life, the essence of what drives them. this very much does apply to vil which really shows as dorm leader.
savannahclaw. funnily enough the two dorms that are most opposite of each other are the most alike to each other in their qualities although there is a slight different between them. persistence - being the pursuit of something in defiance or regardless of opposition which is a slight difference as it is not a firm belief in something like pomfiores tenacity but a determined or persistent fight towards a goal.
leona very much does have a wish or a goal despite the obstacles in his life also seen in his book where he does try to win the spelldrive tournament despite the seemingly impossible task of defeating malleus. there is of course the fact of being second born although i am not entirely sure if he truly wants the title of king or if he find the constant comparison to his brother just because he is second born annoying. I think its more of a i should have a chance at the throne and not be denied it just because i am a second born son. you know what i mean. i am not the biggest leona enjoyer so if anyone wants to add onto this feel free because although the example with malleus does show some of the traits of persistence it does not really talk about why he was sorted into it in the beginning as this is an example after he was sorted. continuing on with ruggie. someone who truly strives to achieve what he wants despite his situation. he really does fit into the quality of persistence and i could not see him fitting into any other dorm except for savannahclaw. nuf said.
jack. hes a tough little nut to crack. what is his motivation that shapes his soul and his beliefs. I have the personal headcannon that hes the wolf from little red riding hood even if there is no disney story like that there is still the fairytale. but thats a headcannon so take of that what you will. he is definitely very persistent in his ideals and his personal sense of justice, willing to betray his dorm for what he believes is right but i feel like these reasoning might not be strong enough although its the beginning of something.
ok rook. like i said savannahclaw and pomfiore are very similar in their ideals so i can see why rook was sorted into savannahclaw yet still fits into pomfiore. he is very obsessed with his ideals of beauty in everything and persues those ideals to the greatest extent. he is a persistent and tenacious little bastard, his unique magic sure is unique and dawg jades pe vignette with rook just stalking him the entire story was something. another source, rooks lab vignette that little homosexual like yeah ok you little funky freak go wild have fun get freaky with it.
diasomnia. i really ruminated on this one. i am not entirely sure of the characterization of the diasomnia gang and they are not my fav dorm. however i think i got it. nobility - literally just being nobel and aristocratic. which does not give one alot to go on but i thought of one thing they all have in common which is their loyalty to each other and most importantly malleus, while malleus is loyal to his people of briar valley as the heir. i personally am interpreting nobility as like in the sense of a noble cause, a wish to serve something greater than oneself as that really is a trait that can define all of them. i dont want to keep talking about it in fear of repeating myself but i think i make what i mean pretty obvious. if you have any questions or need clarifications go ahead and ask me.
scarabia. little bit of a special case because of kalim but lets define this first. mindfulness - being conscious or aware of something, a mental state described and used in meditation. (i am getting these words from the official twst page and defs off google then adding my own understanding) i say this because i have heard different words used for scarabia and the definition for mindfulness does not really describe the character of jafar to me. I have heard the word forethought being used to describe scarabia as it was an important part of alladin, jafars forethought and careful plannings for his take over of the throne which i find to fit the dorm better. and also is what defines jamil very well. the fan wiki even says careful deliberation and planning which is funny because the fanwiki for the previous dorms just say like their stereotypes like sc is buffheads, pf is potions nad curses, dm is strong magic users, which dont really give you a peek into the students characterizations. anyways jamil definitely fits careful deliberation and planning considering hes had to live his whole life that way to accommodate for kalim and it is apparent in his book and whole plan to overtake the dorm the amount of planning that had to go into it. ok now kalim while it is heavily implied he payed his way into the school instead of getting accepted through the regular way and entering by a coffin i am not 100% sure of he got sorted into scarabia so he can be with jamil or if he got sorted by the mirror. if you have anything about that please tell me.
ignihyde. diligence - devoted and painstaking work and application to accomplish an undertaking. very much characterized by the story of hades and his undertaking of ruling and maintaining the underworld and in this game styx. i did say there would be spoilers i have seen the jp stories already. idia is in fact very diligent in the work he takes as long as he cares about it enough. i think a very defining feature of his soul would be ortho and his care for his brother, (huge spoilers for book 6 seriously its impossible to talk about idias motivations without talking about spoilers) even going as far as taking years to develop a robot just like him. he had resigned himself to taking on the task of maintaining styx for the rest of his life until he died simply because he had to and was born into it as a shroud. were it not for ortho caring more for idia than styx idia probably would have stayed at styx for the rest of his life. while it is not really a motivation it is a big part of what defines him and really shows how he fits into the dorm of diligence.
octavinelle. benevolence - from the latin root of wish (fun fact). well meaning, kind (and we all know that these fish boys are anything but). another fun thing i found benevolence also means a compulsory contribution or tax levied by certain English kings with no other authority than the claim of prerogative (another word for the power given to them by the british throne or for no go reason other than i should get money from you). of course ursula was not truly benevolent but this is a twst story where the "bad guys" win and are the ones to rewrite history as themselves the good guys. (at least how i interpret the world of twisted wonderland personally) so considering the twistedness of this world there is one thing that this dorm has in common, their selfishness and wishes and desires that benefit themselves. i am not saying this in a bad or negative tone, i absolutely adore these boys but am simply finding their motivations behind their actions. and they are very self serving. floyd who lives by his own whims and does whatever he desires, and i do know he has a very boyish and teenagerish softer side to him where he does care about others, even being confused in why sam would participate in a deal that is not beneficial to him. (god i am so scared of octavinelle stans attacking me) jade who desires entertainment for himself and only acts if its something beneficial to himself. and of course the man of the hour himself azul who is very self serving, granting wishes in exchange for power or money or his own personal goals (like erasing his past) and all his silly little contracts, what a silly little guy. i know this really does not fit under the lable of benevolence but i mean it kind of is benevolence to oneself????? idk shout at me if im doing this wrong.
heartslabyul. strictness - i think we all know what strictness means. heres the thing i left this one for last because there is just one character i cannot crack which is ace so lets stall on him a little more. riddle we know, we all saw the story maybe read the manga and saw his backstory. his mom and we get his character motivation, what shapes his soul and why he was sorted into heartslabyul. i love him but i am brushing him aside because we understand his character already. trey i feel like there are already alot of character analysis on him and if youre reading this then youre the type of person that likes analysis and have probably already seen one. he is pretty strict, on himself especially after what he beleieves he let happen to riddle and his unresolved issues that he never touched for all his childhood because of what happened to riddle. I believe trey believes it to be his fault which is why he makes no actions against riddle in book 1. so he does his best to discipline himself and make him the best vice warden he can so that he doesnt put riddle through trouble again. even if he seems lax and not that strict with his underclassmen, its himself hes strict on. also his teeth thing...yeah hes pretty strict with that. deuce is such a good boy. he wants to be a honour student to make his mom happy, hes turning over a new leaf, hes doing his best. hes pretty self disciplined and really tries to follow the rules hes set for himself to do the best he can and in that sense what drives him is his self discipline which is why he really fits into the heartslabyul dorm
ok now the not so easy characters. cater and ace. i supose for cater there is something to be said about how well he navigates social situations and how his home life is with always complying to his older sisters' whims. there is for sure complexity to this character the game has not truly tapped into but the onions are so layered and im simply just a tired child who has been writing about this for two hours when i have to wake up in 5 hours. i might add onto this but drop an ask if you got anything about caters personal motivations and desires that shape his soul and place him into heartslabyul. ace ace ace what to do with you you little munchkin. fr this dude is easy going (kind of) and only said he would get into the dorm because his older brother got into it. what motivates you ace, why do you do what you do? ace be the typa guy to wiggle his fingers and say dont mind if i do. ace be the typa guy to giggle when hes flirted with. ace be the typa guy to...can you tell im tired. yeah these are my only problem children pls help me.
