pov: its buddy's birthday and chase makes him a (chocolate) cake, but he doesn't actually know how old buddy is...
+ extra doodle of what happened after (ib: @h0llyw0lly)
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@toallthingscinderellaboy
pov: its buddy's birthday and chase makes him a (chocolate) cake, but he doesn't actually know how old buddy is...
+ extra doodle of what happened after (ib: @h0llyw0lly)
full image after the line ->
Goth Freckle? Freckle Goth?
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AC: ???
Song: Breakin’ Dishes by Rihanna
Media: Cinderella Boy
Dedication: My cousin who doesn’t have Tumblr but this is the kinda energy we pull up to the family function with and I need everyone to know that
Comments: I heard everyone is shipping Deacon and Buddy now? This was supposed to just be an iconic duo edit, but if y’all want it to be a ship edit, I won’t stop you I guess lmao
Am I the only one who thinks Violet is going to absolutely ADORE Grandpa Ralph in the future? He’s a gentleman, takes care of his family, he’s got a variety of hobbies, & an ongoing vicious rivalry with some old bat named Diane. Violet is going to eat that uppp, especially that last one. Like “Oh my dear man, let me help. How should we terrorize her first?” Like that is going to be the unexpected friendship of the CENTURY. Vi taste-testing things for future bake sales along with her siblings and nodding in approval; Ralph setting her up some kind of way to get up on the bathroom sink on her own so she can look in the BIG mirror when she wants, because we all know her ego would HIGHLY appreciate that. Just this little purple woman and an older man being bffs and it’s a total accident. I can’t stop thinking about it. Ralph scolding Chase while Violet scolds Nox and it’s FOR THE SAME EXACT THING. I would lose my mind already have
how to explain to mutuals that while yes you can have my discord, and i wanna hang out! my response time is anywhere between 3-7 business days
stray cat that's very affectionate and enjoys spending time on the porch with you but disappears once a week and after a while you think you'll never see them again until you open the front door and theyre sleeping in your boots
Violet💜
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AC: Me (but nothing is changed)
Song: Pride Drive by Peach Riot
Dedication: @buddyschocolatebar After Chicken dedicated a Violet edit to me it's only fair I dedicate mine to her
Comments: I'm sooo normal about Violet I swear (I'm not)
Happy Birthday Month to Chase Hollow🎉🎂🎈
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AC: Me
Song: Dance (end of the world) by Mxmtoon
Dedicated: To all of you born in the month of July!!!
Comments: I was planning on a Chase birthday edit for this month, and thought why not on the last Monday of the month? Here's the most iconic, icon of them all. Chase Hollow the man that you are, I love you and aspire to be like you.
Party Crashers Arc 🎉
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Comments: I completely forgot to post this last week.....oops. Here is my edit of the Party Crashers Arc. What an amazing and brilliant way to kick off season 2 to.
Audio: Move Your Feet by Junior Senior
AC: Me but there's not really any changes that were made
Dedicated: @crownprincesspb to our Cinderella Boy Summer!!!
“La la la la look at her, fallen angel”
HERE’S A VIOLET EDIT FOR YOU ALL! I really wanted an excuse to use this song and I found the perfect audio for it, so now this exists. I hope you all enjoy 💜
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Music: In Your Fantasy - Ateez
Audio: beymibo on twt
Ib: beymibo on twt
dt: @toallthingscinderellaboy @shepherdofstarz
Chaz, my guy🤸♂️🩴🌊🐬🏄♂️
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AC: Me
Song: My Type by Saint Motel
Dedication: To all those who wanna steal Chaz’s girl ( @inc0mple )
Comments: Bro Chaz is innocent and has done nothing wrong. Ever. Besides totally falling a scary cult scam and potentially endangering himself and his entire family. Besides the lack of competence he’s totally fine.
“Everything changed between us, I shout alone, blue”
Sorry for disappearing for 5 months!!! 😍 The Cinderella Boy Season 2 premiere gave me some editing motivation and I made this a few weeks ago while the episodes were still in fast pass. Now I can finally share it with you all! I have some more ideas for season 2 edits, can’t promise they’ll exist soon, but they will eventually.
I really love this song and I recommend looking up the lyrics 🙂↕️ I hope you enjoy ❤️
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Music: Blue Side - J-hope
Audio: softchix on yt
dt: @shepherdofstarz @oliolivetreeee @toallthingscinderellaboy
Cinderella Boy Women <3
All artists have given permission for me to use their art
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Artist credit (in order of appearance): @sunflowerpastels art link here/// @heavilypregnantmarkiplier art link here/// @karabel art link here/// @jthealien art link here/// @lonelylilspider06 art link here/// @lili-bi art link here/// @lolabp7 art link here/// @v8wr art link here/// @ak-jira art link here/// @s0urcandy112112321 art link here/// @basecbdubs art link here/// @tre-corde art link here/// @schrodingers-dan-named-critter art link here/// @sooyoungwifee art link here/// @jthealien art link here/// @sinksby art link here/// @pimptik art link here
Dedicated to: All the wonderful artists who let me use their art for this edit! Thank you so much!!!!
Comments: I wanted to create a special Cinderella Boy edit for pride month featuring some fanart of the Cinderella Boy women! As a women myself who is sapphic and has been able to be more open/accepting to myself because of this community, I wanted to thank everyone, and thank our wonderful artists for always delivering such beautiful art!! Happy Pride everyone!!!🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Song: Let it Happen by Tame Impala
AC: 853F30 on Soundclound
The Real Slim Shady💅
‼️Spoilers for S2:E3‼️
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Song: Slim Shady by Eminem
AC: Isenphobic on instagram
Dedicated to: @yvessaintlowrent Pretty sure Arn was Violet’s og simp. He was begging to see her serve looks and drama since day one.
Comments: God if I didn’t already know I was gay seeing Violet would’ve turned me gay. I’m not even joking rn.
Playlist for Violet
Hey y'all I went and made a playlist dedicated to the girls, the gays, and all those who love Violet.
I am linking the Spotify playlist below
Cinderella Boy Character Analysis
Buddy: The psychology of being a scapegoat (1/4)
Y’all. I wrote this character analysis wayyy back in December, days before the season 1 finale aired. Then because of the last line and the excerpt used, I decided to not post it because I was worried about non-fastpassers seeing the line and having the finale spoiled for them. So here we are 6 months later, and I am suddenly remembering that I had this in the notes app and decided to post it LMAO!!!!! I did add some slight changes to some of the wording because we have been knowing Buddy is a key now, but just know that a majority of these points were made before we knew he was a key.
This is going to be a four part post about the psychology of Buddy, Chase, Buddy/Chase being different sides of the same coin, and then Deacon.
Now let us begin with by far my most favorite character: Buddy.
I personally believe Buddy to be a scapegoat. For those who are unfamiliar with scapegoats, it is often an individual, or group of people, within a dysfunctional environment who are unfairly blamed for any wrongdoings wether they are to be truly at fault or not.
Dysfunctional families will have a scapegoat child in order to deflect any of the internal/external issues at hand and presume that the conflict is due to the scapegoat. Many scapegoated children tend to have many of their physical, emotional, and mental needs neglected due to the blame they are forced to carry. With this comes unique personality characteristics that can be seen in scapegoated children. I am going to go over some of these personality traits with Buddy and share why within the Ex-Libris ranks he is a consistently considered the scapegoat. We can also assume, that this has to do with him being the villain key and that by him being the villain key, it has allowed him to take on a scapegoated role.
Character Trait #1: Trust issues
Scapegoats tend to have trust issues. Due to everyone around them assuming they are a consistent problem, they feel as if they cannot trust others with their vulnerabilities in fear it will be used against them.
In episode 32 we see Buddy tell Chase “My life usually depends on not trusting them. So you’re absolutely right.” The reasoning as to why is because he has been unfairly placed in a scapegoated position. He believes that his life quite literally depends on not trusting others, and considering he is a key, then yes, his life very well depend on not trusting others.
Character Trait #2: Strongly Defensive
Scapegoated children often are the only ones to ‘fend’ for themselves. When everyone points a finger at them, there is no one left to defend the scapegoat but themselves. Because of this Scapegoats are very, very defensive, believing even well intentioned constructive criticism is an attack.
In episode 31 we see Buddy immediately get defensive with Chase. While they are fighting Buddy states, “You smug brat. As if you didn’t try to weasel your location out of me? You’re just as self serving! You’re not better than me!…You think you’re some kind of hero? You’re only here for one thing: narratonin....Don’t ever say that! You arrogant, self absorbed-childish little brat!” When called out for tricking Chase, Buddy immediately becomes verbally/physically defensive. (He’s also projecting but that is a whole different post.) Even though we all know Buddy was in the wrong, he chose to become defensive rather than calmly listen to what Chase was saying.
We see this again in episode 53 when Deacon makes a jab at Buddy’s “baby teeth” Buddy immediately starts to say that “my teeth aren’t baby.” Rather than letting the statement go and realizing Deacon is making a half-hearted joke, Buddy starts to say that he would bite Deacon. Buddy can’t let even a small baby joke go without getting defending himself or attempting to prove that ‘no my teeth aren’t baby.’
Character Trait #3: Tend to speak the truth/point out lies
@Jthealien already made that the most amazing post about Buddy and his tendency to speak the truth, so please go check it out here
I will add to this by saying that scapegoats are often scapegoats because they tell the truth. A dysfunctional environment/family can only remain dysfunctional if it remains unlit (aka lies only). Scapegoats often attempt to shed a light on the issues at hand by speaking out, only to be punished for it. This doesn’t mean they stop speaking out though. They continue to shed a light on the lies, manipulation, and cruel treatment.
Although Buddy does not share a lot of information about himself or may lie through omissions, he never truly outright lies to Chase.
Character Trait #4: Perfectionist
Scapegoats tend to have a perfectionist mindset. They believe that if they are ‘perfect’ they may finally be able to gain approval from the dysfunctional family.
We have seen Buddy place emphasis on completing the books ‘perfectly.’ In episode 4 when Chase tells Buddy he found a shortcut to completing the books Buddy yells, “That’s not a shortcut! That’s cheating!” In episode 6 he challenges Chase saying he has to do the book with “No cheats, no bookmarks, no shortcuts. We also see Buddy practicing his lines beforehand in episodes 43 and 52. Placing an emphasis that he wishes to complete the books ‘in the correct way’ or ‘perfectly.’ Buddy most likely has this perfectionist mindset because he believes that if he can complete the books perfectly he will be able to gain someone’s approval, complete the book the ‘correct way’, or because he has been taught doing the book any other way is ‘wrong.’
Character Trait #5: Struggle to control emotions
Scapegoats tend to struggle to control their emotions for various reasons. When raised in an environment where emotions are constantly running high, scapegoats tend to struggle handling their emotions and react disproportionately to any given situation.
In episode 25 when we have a flashback to the first time Buddy and Chase met. As Chase was explaining to Buddy that he found a key, and rather than hearing Chase out, Buddy chooses to grab Chase and verbally belittle him. In episodes 20/21 Buddy goes as far to smudge the dirt Deacon had been writing in and then dropping a rock on Deacon’s head. In both instances he had already insulted Deacon, but took things a step further due to him not knowing how to handle his anger/frustration/jealousy. In episode 31 Buddy begins to verbally/physically attack Chase on the island due to Chase simply calling out Buddy’s crude behavior.
Final Thoughts
With all of these traits being shared, and with the knowledge that Buddy is a key, it is safe to assume that he has been scapegoated within the ex-libris ranks. We are not yet aware of the specifics, but for him to be placed in this role would greatly affect his self esteem, outworld views, and mindset. We see this throughout season 1. As we know, ex-libris is a shady group of people who value themselves first and foremost, it would make sense that as a result by treating the keys lesser than, it would create a scapegoat out of the keys. And if Buddy was once human, who then turned into a key….well what did he do as a human to allow them to turn him into a key?
My guess is that Buddy was already a scapegoat within the ex-lirbis ranks. I am willing to bet that he found out how horribly himself/others were being treated, spoke against it, and as a result was punished for it by being turned into a key. The villain key no less.
“The creation of a villain necessarily implies that of a hero, even if both are purely fictional. Sometimes it is the villain, or villains, who are in need of a greater villain. Especially in a time of crisis, unscrupulous leaders and politicians can cynically exploit the ancient and deep-rooted impulse to scapegoat to deflect and distract from their own inadequacies and evade, or seek to evade their legitimate burden of blame and responsibility.” (Excerpt from The Psychology of Scapegoating by Neel Burton.)
“No. No, I’m not. I’ve never been the hero in any story. Not even my own. But I think, I’d like to be your hero. Just this once.” (Buddy, Episode 61, Cinderella Boy)
I’m alive and well y’all as I’m editing once again
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Song: Outside with the Cuties by Frankie Cosmos
AC: @toallthingscinderellaboy (but I didn’t change anything)
Dedicated to: @wistaliia For putting together the wonderful Zinerella before season 2 airs!!!
Comments: Bro I had this edit idea and suddenly got motivation to finish it once season 2 aired….wild.
Me rising from the grave as Cinderella Boy season 2 airs tomorrow
Chapter 2 of my Grandma Hollow and Diane fic is up!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/65625439/chapters/169578697#chapter_3_endnotes