f*anfares trumpets marches parades*
LISTEN TO ME TALK ABOUT BOOK AND PIN SYMBOLISMS AND FOILS!!!!!!!!!!
uhmmmmnot to show off but. hi ‼️‼️🥰 ive been invested in them forYEAARSSSS and bfdia has been doing them SO WELL but NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT THEM ONLY ME AND MY WONDERFUL OOMFS. so today i want to talk about something specific. and ITS HOW the technically coincidental(?) yetVERY CLEARRRsymbolisms in each of their shockingly comparable and paralleled stories in bfdia createABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL foils in the story that top right over their already delectable character foils on their own and make everything absolutely yummyyyyyy. lets go lets go under the cutPLEASEcare about them they ARE allat i believe with the power of eloquence you will see how pin’s arc is uhm ahem not actually 100% coinycentricI SWEAR TO PINN FACTO
both girls are obviously extremely overlooked, with the mass simplifications for both in their respective fanbases either sounding like “such a loserrr babey i feel bad for her im only rooting for her and understand that shes the way she is because youre supposed to feel bad for her for losing so many challenges :< (see the lack of any freesmart mention?)” or “cool girlboss shes such a girlboss shes only like this because shes a strong independent conpetititive conventionally attractive big tiddy woman what do youMEAAANNNNNN she’s not just girlbosslop???” (hi i will find yuo)
so in order to explore the point i want to make, let’s start with debunking our fandom’s oversimplifications one unfairly ostracized, silenced and excluded loner at a time!
book, as we all know her, has a gigantic, big heart and seems to incredibly value friendship and belonging. her favourite shape in bfdia 1 was a house, remember? in early bfdia, she wasnt snarky and uptight like pencil or match, or bold and outspoken like golf ball, or just plain rude like fries. look at everyone! look at who this game likes to reward and punish from the start! bfdia is all about pushing and biting, fighting and hurting. but book isnt like that. book is friendly, amiable, and only really kicks back in any way when pushed to, and even then, she’s fair.
but she’s fair for a reason. its not for the competition, book’s ideals are past the competition. she wants to belong.
book joins pencil’s alliance for the sake of wanting to belong somewhere. covered in grimy bugs and walking away from aaauuhm unconventional team, she goes out of her way to reach for a home where she can be loved for who she is. and she gets that! (...sort of.) even if she’s an alternate, she becomes attached to her friend group, and with that attachment also came loyalty. book is an undeniably loyal person at heart, both to her friends, and soon to see, her ideals.
when book becomes the last remaining stander of freesmart, that does mean that she has to stay loyal and represent them, but that also means another thing—she has to deal with being alone. at first, her reason to keep going is to remain loyal to freesmart and win for them. win for that home of hers. …but. when it starts to grow cruel to her. when she starts being more exposed to bullying, to exclusion, when nobody, not even her own teammates think she’s capable of anything and dont want anything to do with her because she’s perceived as stupid or weak. when her ideals and mindset going past the competition has her punished by the competition for it. when she’s really, finally, all alone, her biggest nightmare, her utmost peril, what is she supposed to do? what’s loyalty to a cause if that cause becomes nothing of what you stand for? pushing and biting, fighting and hurting, is this really a home after all? when she’s being tossed aside rather than pulled in. when she’s being used rather than loved. then what is it? what is it? what’s is any of it? why is she being treated like such an unloveable alien? what’s wrong with her? what made her so different and undeserving of what she yearned for most: friendship?
her home is gone, and now she needs a new reason to keep going. so she looks inside herself. she sees why she was treated like this. she stands up. she finds it, and she makes the choice herself.
book defends herself by staying kind.
bfdia broke her, but she doesnt let it destroy her. her strength is in her resilience and her forgiveness, something she personally wasnt given and something that she wont let sour just because the competition is in her way. she continues to help everyone in need, even at her own expense, and she values love in a world that wants it squashed in the name of useless competition. because book’s ideals extend past the competition! she’s not doingANY of it to win the game, she’s doing it to survive mentally! ON TOP OF THIS, she was ON TOP OF THE WORLD ONCE. freesmart, the most powerful team in bfdia, she was in the skies!!! yet when she was beaten down, in her heart she remained in those heavens; book is an angel.
now for our next buge
pin, who is surprisingly way more overlooked for reasons you wouldnt expect, wasnt always the same girl, remember? after her dreams of being a strong, heroic leader were denied very harshly after season one, the confinement certainly did things to her, yet her dream remained pure. (at first…) pin comes back into the show having learnt from season one to become a lot more mellowed out and…vulnerable. she is clearlyTERRIBLE at socializing (think: bfdia 5a) and sticks out due to her awkwardness and abnormality. she’s weird—everyone wants her to switch from their team immediately in bfdia 1, whether its from the memory of how she used to act in season one or purely for the fact that she was a natural outcast—she’s weirdly outspoken—she’s always had her sense of justice instilled in her, to the distaste of the push-and-bite, fight-and-hurt behaviour that bfdia seems to reward (think: bfdia 7)—she’s weirdly confused, with how slowly she adapts to the overwhelmingly different and confusing new environment of bfdia as a whole (this one might be a stretch (to the disdain of 2023 me) but ehhhi love autism). She’s an outcast.
and—you remember book, right? you remember what this show does to outcasts?
it punishes them. book was ostracized and silenced, pin just happened to land on the crueler side of that.
bfdia messes with pin’s sense of fairness, her fairness of right-and-wrong. and she gets punished for her outcasty way of thinking more and more cruelly the more her differentness offends bfdia’s line of norm. the first time was tame, with her logic on why teardrop (her supposed “best friend”) should stay being shut down by her being eliminated anyway, but it grows more. pin’s sense of justice led her to throw the knife at leafy (number one justice offender according to like.everyone pin wasnt exempt from that one lmfao), and just for a mistake she got a large part of her autonomy removed, her limbs. (and while we’re at it, let’s remember that pin getting her limbs lost wasn’t random; pin’s limbs were a way for her to express herself, her differentness. She was being silenced and squashed for standing out.) pin gets ripped apart just for feeling bad that they were destroying the real spaceships for the challenge, proving that her ideals and morals extended far past beyond the competition, which bfdia punishes more than anything. OHHH OHH AND LET’S NOT FORGET OH MY PIN FACTORY I FORGOT THIS OH MY PINFACTORYOMPF when pin’s desperation for friendship AND BELONGING (THINK HER CALLING TD HER BEST FRIEND, THINK HER WANTING TO BE WITH BUBBLE AND BOOK ON THE SWINGS SO BAD, THINK HER LOYALTY TO WOAH BUNCHH) slaps her in the face over and over and over again like in bfdia 10 and (soon the beginning of bfdia 18 for the same reason), when her sense of justice has her speak out on the cruelty of everyone leaving for something that was wrong morally, with the fact that it aligned with that the competition wanted not mattering, when her crime of speaking out and being herself isCHASTISEDDDD IN AND OUT IN THE MOST TRAUMATIC FUCKING WAY POSSIBLE (DOES ANYONE EVEN THINK ABOUT HOW SCARY FACELESSNESS IS???????????WHAT THE FUCK)and she’s left to die and rot all alone when all she wanted was to be herself and have friends (and maybe even a leader now that she’d have friends; something she lacked in season one hence that failure) and be loved and cared for—when she is crushed down in every way possible, completely against all her biggest dreams, what is she supposed to do? she is punished for being herself, her mere existence being against the competition, what is it? what is it? what is any of it? why is she being treated like such an unloveable alien? what’s wrong with her? what made her so different and undeserving of what she yearned for most: friendship?
her home is gone, and now she needs a new reason to keep going. so she looks inside herself. she sees why she was treated like this. she stands up. she finds it, and she makes the choice herself.
pin defends herself by embracing her evil.
that’s why any of this happened, right?!?! (pin thoughts) that’s why she was treated so unbearably cruelly and heartlessly, right?!?!?? why she was squashed?!? why she was isolated!?!? why she was left to rot!?!? its because she was evil, her heart and everything in her was inherently evil and nasty and horrible and unloveable and no matter what she would never be anything. that had to be why she was treated so terribly. because she was just inherently like that, so abhorrent, so lonely. and anything she did to combat that inherentness got her punished, obviously.
so. if she was a monster, then she ought to be a monster.
thanks to trauma and paranoia, violence becomes the only emotional release she is allowed. she is 10000% percent convinced that absolutely everybody is about to get her (especially freesmart, who is the utmost highest and perfect unlike her who is utmost imperfection and lowest) and therefore pushes everyone and everything away, no matter how “loving” it seems. because no one loves her. theyve proved it time and time again and they continue to prove it fucking anyway with how everyone in the competition ever continues to harp on pin having no friends. she’s angry and she’s hurt and she’s paranoid and she just wants to burn this horrible world to the ground, she’ll push and bite and fight and hurt if that’s all she’s really good for!!! and if this really made her like everyone else and therefore not an ostracized loner then maybe the competition would reward her a little! as if advancement in challenges is any sort of fucking reward—if it was she would be getting better but obviously its meaningless! because pin’s ideals extend past the competition! she’s not doingANY of it to win the stupid game, she’s doing it to survive mentally! ON TOP OF THIS, she was RIGHT AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE WORLD ONCE. underground, the most lonely part of the world, she was in those flames!!! so when she was beaten down, in her heart she remained in those hells; pin is a demon.
do you remember these episodes? do you remember how its also kind of a coincidence(?) how bfdi ITSELF emphasizes these symbolisms? has smal made it clear that sheFUCKINGloves symbolism yet/silly
book’s angel wings… pin being in the depths of hell,..,. im not really pulling this out of my ass, right jnj? book’s body being free… pin being trapped in her body… are you all listening?!!??! book being able to change her definitions, yet she remains kind, pin’s sharp sense of justice (and also her ability to hold grudges lmao) being unchallengeable, yet she turns evil—LAALALALALALALAALALALAAAAAAA
i just think its incredible. dont even get me STARRTED with their interactions im obsessed. im genuinely fucking obsessed. im obsessed with the stars. im obsessed with bfdia 18. im obsessed with bfdia 20.YOU DONT UNDERSTANDDDDDDTHEYRE FOILS THEYRE FOILSSSS YOUR HONOUR PIN AND BOOK ARE BOTH OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE SAME STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IM NOT JUST FUCKING AUTISTIC AND WEIRD I HAVE A DEGREE IN SAD WOMEN STUDIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
good girl bad girl whats it gonna b
THAAAATS WHERE WE END 2DAY THANK YOU FOR TUNING INTO MY ANALYSIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THEYRE SO COOL THEYRE SOOOOO COOL TH. PIN AND BOOK BFDI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SEE YOU OSCBLR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BYE BYE THANK YOU FOR READING AND PLEASE STOP REDUCING PIN TO COINY’SHOT GIRLBOSS WIFE GGOGODODDDDDGOOODDDDDDDDD OH MY PIN FAC
