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it’s occurring to me that i have to be the Very Loud Skizz Enthusiast i want to see in the world.
so, here’s a bit of skizz character analysis for you: throughout the life serieses, when he’s presented with a license to kill, he’s torn between two competing desires: bloodlust and mercy.  he mostly acts on the latter, but it’s crucial to understand that both are there.
for instance: in third life, episode 7, he got those two permakills and rushed into a doomed last stand in the crastle, but he also inadvertently spared scar and very deliberately and knowingly spared bdubs.  in last life, when cleo was on red and hassling the snow fort, he acknowledged that them setting him on fire meant he could technically attack her, and continued to really want to attack her throughout her whole presence there, but decided against it.  he spent last life episode 7 full of rather bloodlust and wanting to kill, but never succeeded at it.
all this is to say: skizz on yellow, with full authority to kill any green lives, could go any number of ways, and frankly any way it goes would be very fun to watch.
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The “I’ve watched/listened to/read this thing so you don’t have to, here are my comments/analysis” thing is for movies etc, it is not for political pieces. I cannot stress how important it is to consume those things for yourself and make up your own mind. Do not let other people think for you
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paintbrushnebula · 2 months
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Ghostflower headcanon: Whenever Gwen gets injuries, big or small, Miles always kisses them, not caring about whether they're bloody injuries and getting his lips stained with her blood, because his mother would always do that to him as a child.
Gwen doesn't do the same with him (she feels too weird about doing it herself lol) but whenever Miles cries, she plants a lingering kiss on each teary eye of his. The kisses always manage to clean most of the tears and yeah now her mouth tastes all salty but she doesn't care. His eye lids are warm and his long lashes are soft and damp. She just hates seeing him cry, y'know?
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(Sorry for the poor quality of the wording/weird sentence structure of these analysises, I'm not very good at explaining my thoughts heh)
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hdusa · 12 days
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Zam, thank you for actually using tumblr
Like I'm not being silly. I genuinely need to keep away from twitter, and it's so fun goofing around w/ you and the community on here.
yaaaaaa tumblr superior website 💪💪💪
I like the vibes here like 10x more it’s so fun fun fun and asks are such an awesome feature like oh my god I love asks
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mettywiththenotes · 2 months
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Momo holding Mina as she cries in the hospital. Helping Kaminari out of UA, and again having to watch and hold one of her friends as they cry over someone they care about
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I think about Momo being the good vice class president she is, being the caring friend she is, and then I remember this
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For all we know, maybe she did get that comfort she needed after discovering Midnight's body. But there's 2 things I'm thinking about, 1) The way she's been known to dismiss her tears as nothing (probably back in the final exam arc is the best example) and the way she curls into herself here, hides her face from everyone, and 2) How we see this panel and the next time we see her, she's comforting Mina. Concentrating on someone else's sorrow, which to me seems like an effort to be strong for herself and therefore for others around her
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sheebadukiiiii · 2 months
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hey guys. nothing new. just. just trimax. on the brain. again. and again. and agai
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sorry if the text is unreadable vdshbjsn its just notes abt their lives post canon AND r subject to change bc i read a fic recently for post canon and it wasm.. .. yeah ti was ogod im going to make fanart for it i think idk
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papakhan · 1 month
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I feel like a lot of people forget/don't realise that the citizens of the NCR don't have positive opinions of the Followers of the Apocalypse
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fizzfags · 2 months
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so essentially emizel and gabriel are the same character but one just got lucky (and the other unlucky.) they're both members of opposing gangs, they're both pretty violent people, and theyre both motivated by status and power, specifically when it relates to climbing up the ranks. however, gabriel climbed just a little faster, and was looped into what was going on and turned. and then emizel bit back, and OH NO! he's fucked up, on his one opportunity to prove himself. they're both pieces of shit. yeah, gabriel killed people, but emizel did too. yet emizel, the one who got lucky, walks away with no consequences. gabriel, however;
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decidedly not so. every single thing that could have gone wrong did, and it was completely outside of his control. and he died, all because he was in the wrong place, he stayed a little too long, emizel got lucky, and he bit back.
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This might be the smallest of nitpicks i had with Moffat's era, but my mom is a nurse and I was constantly irritated by the implications that being a nurse was less than being a doctor. Nurses do twice the physical work for half the money/praise. They have to have a good bedside manner and should have a certain kindness to them that a Doctor doesn't necessarily have to have.
There was an angle that could have been played in the actual show if the writers were interested in Rory as a character rather than a prop. We got it occasionally like in the doctor's wife with Rory asking how the doctor just moves on from death/closes Idris' eyes, but most of the time it was just played as him being a lesser version of the doctor which irritates me because there is something gendered about the concept of nursing being lesser even though nursing is not a women only field (my uncle is also a nurse).
And I know that Moffat/the writers thought exactly on those lines, like nursing somehow emasculated Rory instead of being a strength, and it would have been SO EASY to make his skill useful (which I think is why I liked the handling of Rory being a nurse the most in 7a which is ironic because I mostly hate 7a but he got to help heal both when it came to his Doctor and in the hospital). There could have been something INTERESTING in the concept of Rory as a caretaker, Rory as the one who heals hands-on, Rory finding a purpose. This TARDIS team could have been equals, but because Rory was only ever a stand-in for the “right sort of man” for the writers, he was never going to be fully-fleshed out & never a true equal to 11amy.
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The Nandor Knows Theory™ has actually started to look really convincing. Before episode 8 I wouldn't have agreed, but Nandor's behaviour at the end of the episode seemed kinda off to me.
So first of all, Nandor appears quite down and quiet after the threat of Guillermo's life becomes more of a sure thing (in the eyes of the other vampires) and he doesn't even seem to recover to his full self after finding Guillermo in the coffin. He's initially surprised and pleased to see Guillermo is still here, but after establishing it's the real Guillermo he's dismissive, immediately brushing him off and going straight to his coffin to sleep. This implies all is not right, no?
There's then the way Nandor keeps asking him questions this season that allude to Guillermo keeping secrets, which Nandor then turns into a joke when he doesn't get an answer straight away. Prior to episode 8 I was in disbelief that Nandor could get even stupider, but now I'm starting to think it's an act..
ALSO Nandor repeated about how he knows Guillermo better than anyone. It's like he's waiting for Guillermo to tell him the truth, and as I mentioned previously, Nandor has been asking many times if there's anything Guillermo wants to share with him. I could be reading into it too much and I most definitely am, but I feel like he could've suspected Guillermo's vampirism for a while but wasn't certain until today, hence his overall sadness. Idk his personality just seemed flatter than usual after all that shit went down with the Baron.
Idk I'm not completely sold on this theory, but I just read a post by another Tumblr user suggesting Nandor could've given Guillermo blood instead of coke to test him, and how after figuring out the truth, Nandor realised he couldn't turn Guillermo to save him from death via Barron Afanas.
His behaviour just seems off at the end to me!! Like he just realised his friend is alive and safe and still with him. Like he CHOSE to stay and Nandor still seemed depressed and or unsatisfied??
I'm definitely overthinking this but I wanted to share my take on it. Sorry if this is incomprehensible I'm really tired
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WAIT a second, folks, I found a new layer to another bit of Skizz-related iconography that I am, of course, very very normal about.
Let’s talk about golden apples.
In Skizz’s Third Life episode 1, Ren gave him a golden apple in return for Skizz giving him some leather.  This was their first interaction!
I would need to track things more closely to see if it was the same gapple or a different one, but when the desert explosion happened six episodes later, Skizz ate a golden apple while regrouping.  A few moments later, his arrows found their mark and Jimmy became the first permadeath of the series at his hand.
Later that same episode, Skizz set out on his own to try to get some gunpowder from the desert, but realizes they’ve probably used it up and heads back.  Along the way, though, he stops by Skizz Point and makes five golden apples, and reflects a bit on his bloodlust.  Then he distributes those gapples among the rest of the Red Army (one each for Martyn and Etho, two for Ren, one for himself), and almost immediately charges the Crastle.  He forgets entirely about the one golden apple he has, and permadies with it in his hotbar.
There are fewer golden apples of note in Last Life, unless I missed any.  However, Skizz’s permadeath in that season is while he is midway through trying to eat a golden apple.  He does not get to finish it, and so once again permadies with a golden apple in his hotbar.
Skizz is not in Double Life.  Coincidentally, no golden apples are eaten in Double Life either, since they would break things.  They are uncraftable, but there are numerous found in various dungeon chests anyway-- I know that season winner Pearl found at least two.
We are currently two episodes into Limited Life, and Skizz has just resolved his qualms with Bdubs via good old-fashioned arena fight.  And there were golden apples involved in the arena fight, because of course there were!  Of course there were!!!  Skizz eats one before the fight, and gifts one to Bdubs when they reconcile (compliments and all) afterwards.  This means that Skizz has also eaten a gapple before the first non-permanent kill he has made in this series.  It also makes this a very powerful symbol of an alliance.
In conclusion, Skizz has always been associated with golden apples, and that trend has continued!
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generalsmemories · 8 months
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i am kindly asking you to please elaborate your discussion about dan heng's past bcos it's really interesting
Oh bestie buckle up then-
Dan Heng's past is very complicated. If we only go from the character stories from Dan Heng's character screen we get to know that he was on the run since as long as he can remember - and that he was essentially born in prison - That is the past that Dan Heng REMEMBERS.
But if we want to dig deeper, we go to inner turmoils and dipping down the very essence of Vidyadhara's - which is the route I'm going here.
Here's an overview that I'm going to go explain about Dan Heng's character as a whole:
An explanation of the short animation: "Ichor of Two Dragons" which can further explain the last point below:
Dan Feng and how Dan Heng is a continuation of Dan Feng. As in: Dan Feng is Dan Heng's past, but Dan Heng is Dan Feng's future.
literally settle down and grab some water while you read through i'm pretty darn sure this is going to be a long one although i'll try to just say the main points - if there are anything within this post that confuses you do ask me and i'll elaborate further!
A few things you should know before continuing: I will most likely mention leaks and I will talk about religion (buddhism in particular) So this is in no way spoiler free so read with own caution, thank u <3
I hope we can all agree on the fact that Dan Heng is a chinese character with heavy buddhist themes. As such I do want you to read through this post with that thought at the back of your mind (speaking from a buddhist myself, the way how hoyoverse incorporated the various aspects of it with the Vidyadhara and to that extent, Dan Heng is very beautiful)
As such, the saying that: "Dan Heng and Dan Feng are the exact same person." and "Dan Heng and Dan Feng are two completely different people," are takes that misses the point of his entire story and thus also downgrades his final resolution as well.
That will be all from what I personally want you do to, enjoy the rest of this HAHA
1. Explanation of the animated short: "Ichor of Two Dragons"
The animation starts off with the High Cloud Quintet drinking together, this is inherently Dan Feng's memory re-experienced by Dan Heng. This memory is something he actually accepts without complaint, even smiling like he's personally there experiencing it.
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Conflict however soon breaks out between Dan Heng and Dan Feng - which marks the start of Dan Heng's internal conflict - thus all of his fears, traums and doubts resurface in the form of his past self.
NOTE HOWEVER: that the Dan Feng portrayed throughout this entire animation isn't actually Dan Feng. It is instead a reflection of Dan Heng's own thoughts and beliefs that causes him inner turmoil.
It's not meant to be interpreted as a literal battle against Dan Heng and Dan Feng.
Everything that "Dan Feng" says up till the point where they clash are Dan Heng's own thoughts and what he's been taught to believe since his rebirth in the Shackling Prison - where he was subjected to indoctrination about Dan Feng, his past life's sin and the punishment he must bear.
Which also in hindsight does tell a LOT about how Dan Heng himself perceives Dan Feng: An arrogant and unfeeling person - and thus is so different from himself. Dan Feng is to Dan Heng the very reason everything bad has happened to him in his life, and as a result fiercely wants to detach himself from him.
It's understandable really, when you were taught that your very existence is a sin in itself because of the narrative surrounding Dan Feng is that of a villain - and then your very own identity feels threatened because it's associated with said "vilain."
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This line in particular tells a lot about how Dan Heng is very much aware that he can't keep running. It's a reflection of the harsh truth that Dan Heng himself is aware of. Joining the express while not having a clear aim or destination of his own is never a permament solution for his desire to escape the past.
Speaking of said clash, a direct fight doesn't happen before Dan Heng asserts the fact he is not Dan Feng.
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This is the obvious instance that Dan Heng rejects an integral part of himself, and it's the very same rejection to said identity that generates both chaos, conflict and inner turmoil that takes the form of a fight. A fight that goes on until Dan Heng eventually gets submerged by Dan Feng's waters and the dragon after he's told he has nowhere to run.
"Nowhere to run" is mentioned a lot throughout Dan Heng's story. The saying itself is a reference to Dan Heng's karma that he refuses to confront the consequences of. Karma in this instant is something that transcends the cycle of rebirth (samsara) and in thus reflected in the line of "a past life's sin must be repaid in this one"
NOW. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T LIKE THE LAST SENTENCE. CAUSE HE'S A NEW PERSON, WHY MUST HE REPAY HIS PAST INCARNATIONS' SIN IF HE HIMSELF DIDN'T DO IT?
Let me tell you! From the perspective of a buddhist!
In modern times, the usage of the word karma has really wilted down to saying that "Karma will come back to bite your ass" etc. In a way saying that if you don't try to fix a fuck up that you did recently, you would get consequences for it later DOWN THE ROAD.
Meanwhile, in buddhist tradition, karma refers to actions driven by intention. Samsara and karma are so intregrated that the karmic intentions and accumulations of the actions you've done in one life wil be the determining factor in what kind of rebirth you will have in the next life.
Karma will come to bite you in the ass yes, but especially in your next lifetime if you continue doing actions with ill intent - going as far to being the one determining factor if you're gonna live a peaceful, nice life or be reborn as a bug.
Why should that matter, you ask?
You remember Blade telling Dan Heng that he has NEVER experienced death? Because it is indeed true. The Vidyadhara molts themeslves to essentially fix their bodies and enter a new rebirth cycle - as such, avoiding death.
It's a different body, but the soul - their essence is still the same.
I'll come back more to this later, but for now let's continue explaining the animation.
It's ONLY when Dan Heng asserts the fact that Dan Feng is right that a change happpens. In the english translation given he says: "You're right. You are my past, but you won't follow me into my future!" it's only when he accepts that fact that he's able to stop being suffocated by the water - even embracing the same thing that tried to drown him and using it as his own power, able to manipulate it and even turn the dragon back on its first caster.
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Now, the most vital part (and also in my opinion, the most beautiful one) is the fact that the fight doesn't end with Dan Heng striking down Dan Feng.
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It ends with Dan Heng passing by Dan Feng and dispersing the dragon into rain instead. It ends with Dan Heng accepting that past. Accepting Dan Feng as a part of himself.
Now, a thing I realized with the english translation is that it goes a different way than what both the chinese voice and jp dub had said. I listen to the JP dub, and I do have better listening comprehension to the spoken language than written. While the english version goes with the: "You are my past, but you won't follow me into my future!"
Both the chinese version and jp version says something more akin to: "You are my past, but you are by no means my future!" It's slightly the same, but this final resolution said in that way instead holds a lot more weight and nuance.
The fight starts with Dan Heng rejecting Dan Feng, but ends with the opposite. Dan Heng is accepting that yes, he was once Dan Feng - but he's not going to let that define him entirely as a person or let that define his future entirely.
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Another difference in translation that english has compared to the jp dub that I noticed (can't speak for chinese voice here) is the ending with Welt, March and the trailblazer appearance.
While ENG Welt asks if Dan Heng is alright. The JP version rather asks: "Did you remember something?"
In ENG, Dan Heng responds the question with: "Mm. Just reminiscing," in JP, he answers something along the lines of: "Something from long ago."
(i would like to also point out that march noticed him smiling and wasn't just like: "GIVE ME A SMILE!" out of nowhere to ease him, but more like: "Oh you're smiling! How rare, hey do it one more time!") ( ´ ▽ ` ).。o♡ oh my dear express family.
In a way, phrasing a memory from your past self in that way just holds a lot more weight with Dan Heng's acceptance of his past, by referring to Dan Feng's memories as memories from long ago rather than labeling it as something separate.
In conclusion, the animated short is only the start of Dan Heng's story (as I very much hoped it would be) and not a conclusion. With this animation, it has established Dan Heng's goal as a character and sets the stage for the future of his character (AND THUS MORE DEVELOPMENT YEEHAW!) It's a great starting point for Dan Heng to find a way to reconcile the past and the present to finally be able to face his future.
2. Dan Feng and how Dan Heng is a continuation of Dan Feng. As in: Dan Feng is Dan Heng's past, but Dan Heng is Dan Feng's future.
Now, here is where some leaks actually comes in (Moreso one leak of Jingliu's voicelines-)
Remember how I mentioned earlier that we would come back to the essence of the soul and how Vidyadhara have different bodies after every rebirth, but the same soul. Yeah, WE ARE BACK TO THAT AGAIN TOO!
The clash between Dan Feng and Dan Heng in the short animation wsa an emotional one, it was a clash between Dan Heng and his inner turmoil that essentially ended with no true winner. Rather it showed Dan Heng's slow acceptrance with coming in terms with his own past and accepting continous nature of his identity.
Because if you look at it this way with the knowledge that the same Vidyadhara will forever bear the same soul - Dan Heng would be considered the cumulative result of all his past lives and his current one.
There is a continuity of identity as it undergoes the cycle of rebirth, where each new incarnation is an augmentation of the previous one. As such, in the world of Star Rail, identity is not fixed, but fluid. It changes, but it's still the same soul from the very first one.
The new identity changes and evolves with each incarnation, with information by the experiences of the previous one. Most Vidyadhara have belongings that their previous incarnation have left behind, notes left behind them - and the few I've met in the open world of Star Rail do also come to love whatever their previous incarnation loved.
And as mentioned in an older post (that i'm way too lazy to dig up at this point lmfao) A newborn Vidyadhara usually gets pardoned the sins of their past life - but Dan Heng is a special case because of the emphasis of a FLAWED rebirth - as such he more than anyone have gotten the treatment of a life's past sins must be repaid in this one because his very essence and soul is closer to a continuity of his past one than other Vidyadhara.
Again, I desperately want you all to view this through the lens of a buddhist and understand that Dan Heng is written from an asian perspective. The complexity of karma and samsara in buddhism is the fact that it's flexible, fluid and a dynamic process - There is no set linear relationship between an action done and its result. The effect of the deed is not solely determined by the deed itself as well - but rather by the nature of the person who commited the deed and by the circumstances in which it is committed.
Because Karma in itself is not a judgement imposed by some God, we don't believe in a god after all. It is instead the results of a natural process, a result of certain experiences in life which were the results of previous actions. Unjust behaviour can lead to unfavorable circumstances which makes it easier for the person to commit more unjust behaviour, but again. You're free to commit more unjust behaviour, but you're also free to not do so.
Which means that the journey of the soul isn't linear by all means, it's cyclical with each end of one being the beginning of the next cycle: The result of what happened in one life becomes the starting point for the next life.
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Dan Heng's major character points is the struggle of identity. And the character stories from his IL form shows the evident struggle with identity again - Mind you, these character stories for Dan Heng: Imbibitor Lunae are just a recollection of important point in Dan Feng's life being dreamt about when he was forced through rebirth)
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Jingliu's leaked voiceline about Dan Feng gives us the confirmation that to become the High Elder means losing your own identity to a certain degree - even to the point that your very physical appearance morphs to resemble the Primordial Imbibitor Lunae (the very first one)
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I want to preface as to where we stand as of right now, the current perception of Dan Feng is of an unfeeling, aloof and arrogant person. Someone who caused suffering to his next reincarnation - But by doing Dan Heng's companion quest alone it raises so many arguments that's so far from the truth. (HECK EVEN BAILU MANAGES TO SEE THAT DAN FENG COULD'VE BEEN A GENTLE PERSON)
Because as much as the fandom want Dan Heng to be separated from Dan Feng because he's his own person, it wouldn't be wrong to assume that Dan Feng yearned freedom too, no?
What if Dan Feng also yearned for freedoom amongst the stars, maybe the reason why Dan Feng severed the High Elder succession like he did - maybe he wanted his future selves to not be bound by the same shackles like he was? It wouldn't be farfetched, right?
Dan Feng is indeed Dan Heng's past. His memories, experiences, abilities, powers and EVEN PERSONAL items were once Dan Feng's. It is now Dan Heng's, but again. Dan Heng was once Dan Feng too.
As such, Dan Heng is Dan Feng's future - a future where he's able to attain the freedom he wanted.
ANYWAYS. I FRIED MY BRAIN CAUSE I WROTE 80% OF THIS IN ONE SETTING, SOME THINGS PROBABLY DOES'T MAKE SENSE AT ALL BUT YEAH! DO ASK IN THE ASKBOX AS I'VE SAID BEFORE. IF YA READ THIS FAR AND STILL RETAIN YOUR BRAINCELLS THAN WOW
I APPLAUD YOU HAHA
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sso-maev · 3 months
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Came to a realisation that I interact with every piece of media in one particular way
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insert-neologism · 3 months
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cornflower blue by flower face
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beeejayy · 6 months
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It's so weird talking to people here . Especially blogs that I like and look up at like... What are you doing why are you talking to ME that's weird....
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i have loose thoughts i wanna relay about the faceless old woman's behavior back when she and hiram were trying to kill dana
in the voicemail she leaves cecil in ep 65, she says something along the lines of "say hi to carlos, i always liked him" and then, despite the fact that she's been actively threatening cecil, she says she wants him to get the dog park bc she wants him to be happy. now, i know that's probably meant to be interpreted as a lie (to disguise the fact that she wants him to get to the dog park so she can finally kill dana), but stick with me because it fits my concept so im using it as evidence anyways
both those statements are stereotypically maternal. passing judgement, positive or negative, on your kid's partners. telling them you just want what's best for them because you want them to be happy. et cetera. now add to this the fact that cecil's mother was a neglectful and threatening figure, and that the faceless old woman's words have been accompanied by trying to inspire fear (albeit a more direct kind than cecil's mother inspired). now add to that again the fact that the faceless old woman and cecil both explicitly live outside of time.
im not saying I think the faceless old woman is cecil's mother (although I think that would make for an interesting situation), but i do think she probably fills a similar role in his life as his mother did
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