#uru chan just give them last names

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Unordinary last name hcs

90% of these are me stealing headcanons from different people Something i always wonder about: do children typically inherit their last names from their mother or father? i personally don’t think john counts as an example because he didn't grow up with his mother and we don’t even know if william and jane were married. (+ i don't think we hear him be referred to with william’s last name) i believe that last names are based off of a family’s abilities? like, families with defensive abilities will have a last name relating to defensive stuff or whatever. anyways. i have specific nitpicks with last names, the letters they start with, and the way they roll off the tongue.

skipping JOHN for this post since DOE fits him well enough already. for ISEN, i’d have him have his last name be JAEGER. its a German surname that means ‘hunter’ and i think it just rolls off the tongue well too. i saw a couple people use it and i was like !! wow. that fits really well.  ARLO would probably be a French last name or something vaguely defense-related. imo names starting with A go pretty well with B last names, so, ARLO BASTION (a kind of fortification tower) or ARLO BEAUFORT (beautiful fortress).

BLYKE, i think would have a Chinese/Korean last name (personal hc that he’s Asian lmao). a few surnames i think that sound nice / sort-of fit him are: YUN  (korean - meaning governor), ZHU (chinese, meaning crimson) and lastly, LIANG (meaning a bridge or a beam). i tried to do some vague symbolism & references ot his ability on the last two !! was quite indecisive with blyke gfghj

SERAPHINA is the character i had the most trouble trying to find a suitable last name for, like, its just so hard. kept trying to find last names relating to ‘time’ that sounded right with her first name and it was atrociously difficult. some other hcs of other people were “levin” and another, “albrecht” that fits better but they didn’t ring right w me. i eventually ended up with KAIROS (meaning the exactly right time to do/say a certain thing in ancient Greek), and/or YULE (celebration of the winter solstice, doesn’t necessarily fit with the “time” theme but i thought it sounded nice) REMI i think would have a Japanese last name, since rei and remi are both Japanese names (rei meaning departed soul and remi meaning heavens, sky) A few fitting surnames i found are: AMETSUCHI (meaning heaven & earth) or TENKUBASHI (meaning heaven sky bridge). yep, lots of symbolism on the lightning ability.  tag w your uno last name hcs . i am hungry ;

#unordinary #unordinary headcanon #unordinary arlo #unordinary blyke #unordinary isen #unordinary seraphina #unordinary remi #episode 177 when arlo is called mr. arlo #uru chan just give them last names #its Not that hard #flourspeaks

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Episode 168

Honorable mentions:

I once had an ongoing list of the UnOrdinary world like a research page but then it disappeared somehow in my google docs (still dunno how), but I’m thinking of recreating it if only for my list of places in UnOrdinary because I can’t remember if Newside is a new place or if we’ve been there before in the story. And that upsets me.

I just want to bring back that time about a year ago (yes I’m old) when I did an analysis on the superhero posse when they were just becoming the superhero posse. If you search up #episode 117in my tags, you’ll find it, but I remember putting the three into a small ladder hierarchy based on how much authority they were giving off and I said 1. Blyke, 2. Remi, 3. Isen. I’m very happy that even a year ago, Blyke was displaying signs of leadership. I put his name down as having the most authority within the group, but I was kind of surprised when I did that, even then. Past me knew, past me could tell the future (AN: I suggest looking at that actually the lineup if just so good)

the flow of this post is kind of choppy I think so sorry for that

Blyke: 

    So: yes, I’m finally talking about Blyke again. Sorry about not mentioning him last week, I just really was focused on John for that one and the post would’ve felt less cohesive if I wrote about Blyke too. Also, there wasn’t much development on Blyke’s storyline in that episode except basically telling you that, yeah, it’s confirmed that Blyke is going to attempt to become a “superhero” (actually kind of a big deal but you all already knew so eh). I’ve been closed too much for initially thinking that Blyke would dabble in ability enhancement drug use, and someone even agreed with me :(. But yeah I was wrong (sadly. Think of the potential). Anyway, moving forwards into the episode, it was obviously very Blyke heavy and, along with the whole superhero things, there’s some other stuff I want to talk about. 

    Something that I noticed being throughout the episode was that there were a lot of Blyke/King comparisons. First of all there was Blyke putting both him and Isen into Arlo’s perspective when Isen was complaining about Arlo. That was definitely pretty obvious to me that Uru-Chan is trying to compare the two often, because these have been often lately, so that the readers catch on to how they are becoming more similar in personality and thoughts, stuff like that. Almost entirely, though, how Blyke keeps thinking of Arlo and what Arlo would be thinking. Arlo is literally the representation of power and authority in this comic, his personality is almost defined by being king. Blyke slowly thinking more and more like him is suggesting the fact that Blyke is becoming more and more king-like, probably due to his inevitable crowning as Wellston’s new king (maybe? I’m not sure how that works with John and all?)

    This is close to another example of Blyke being compared to authority/the king/Arlo (?) in this episode because Blyke, around the middle of the episode, starts talking about how Arlo won’t be here next year and the other high-tiers will need to take over. He says, “So, whether we want it or not… I think we owe it to the school to take some responsibility… And start treating our roles more seriously.” The leadership jumped out. Anyway, he’s obviously very aware of the high-tiers’ responsibilities and seems to just decided that he needs to carry them out. I don’t really know what I’m saying but basically: Blyke has been paying attention to the school’s status, assessed how best to handle the situation, and has just taken the responsibility on his shoulders without anyone, a.k.a. the king, telling him to. He is acting like a leader, more so out of any of the other high-tiers.

    There’s a bit more things that connect Blyke and kingship, or general authority, in this episode, but most of it is just in like way of thinking or vibes, and that’s difficult and unnecessary to explain in this post. Just, the comparisons are obvious pointing to one outcome: Blyke’s crowning as the new king of Wellston. I already said in this post that it’s inevitable. And everyone pretty much knows that it’s going to happen. Even all of the characters. This is just important to be aware of because of where his storyline is headed. Blyke is trying to become a superhero to become stronger, to grow more powerful, and yes it’s because he wants to take down John, to feel like he’s competent enough to be king, but it is inherently a very risky decision. There’s a lot of things that could go wrong and I just want to remind everyone of Rei, who was also a superhero and king. And we all know how that turned out. I do think that Blyke wouldn’t continue to be a superhero forever, maybe even no longer than a few episodes, so what happened with Rei is unlikely to ever happen with Blyke, but there are still those possibilities that could occur because of this decision.

    Finally: superhero. Blyke has decided to become a superhero, and lowkey I’m really excited. I know I was just talking about how risky it could be, especially for a future king, but guys I just want more Blyke fight scenes don’t you? We are being fed okay? Anyway, he’s made it clear he’s doing it to get stronger and that he’s made sure that he’s taking less risks than Remi did (which is very great thank you Blyke 100% leader material). I don’t really have much to say about this because there really isn’t anything to analyze or anything, I just have to say that I really appreciate how you can just tell that this was thought through by Blyke so much more than Remi thought about her plan, she was really all about instincts. This new take on the superhero mantle is very ‘Blyke’, you know?

    Anyway, the whole superhero thing being reintroduced into the story isn’t just for Blyke’s convenience because I am 100% certain this is a way for uru-Chan to show us again the world of EMBER and that storyline because it has been a while. And this is a very efficient way to expose some of the inner workings behind all that, so I am very excited to see that next week.

    Isen:

    Poor, poor, poor baby Isen. He just wants peace. And then people keep involving him in their messes, what a shame. 

    There aren’t really any new developments on him and things basically stand the same as when I last talked about Isen (about his and Arlo’s drama) but there’s a few things I want to talk about concerning Isen and things that happened in this episode helped me decide to talk about them so yeah.

    First thing I want to talk about is Isen’s new anger towards Arlo. I know anger is a harsh word and I think I mean something closer to irritation, but still, I like seeing this from Isen because Isen really has been taking a lot of Arlo’s shit, of everybody’s shit. And I’m kind of intrigued by the possibilities of where this might go. Now, I know Isen is a more docile character, he likes to keep his distance from drama (I actually talk about this in the second thing I want to talk about), but his drama with Arlo is literally about Arlo not letting him be. And I realize here that I could make an entire rant about how this is a parallel to what John and Arlo went though, and how Arlo keeps pushing people into the light and causing issues, but I won’t, even though I easily could with what I’m gonna say. Basically: I’m looking at the possibility of Isen truly rebelling against Arlo, even though we got a big blow up last week from Isen at Arlo so that was nice. I want more tears, fighting, betrayals. Okay? I want Isen to join Joker and Cecile (whaaat you did not hear me say that). Anyway, I’ve always been interested in the idea of normally calm characters going absolutely berserk, and I think everyone has. Plus I think it’s likely what with all of Isen’s sleep talk of, “GET BACK HERE AND SAY THAT TO MY FACE, ARLO!” 

    Second thing I want to talk about is how Isen is obviously anti-responsibility. His whole thing with Arlo is that Arlo dragged Isen to do work that Isen didn’t want to do, and even this episode, Isen interrupts Blyke, who was trying to say that they would have a lot of future responsibilities, because he didn’t like the topic. Isen is so obviously ill-suited for authority and he’s been saying it throughout the comic. I remember that I went through of phase of literally only liking Isen and thinking he was the best character ever, so I can’t speak for what I’ve said during that time (don’t remember), but I know that Isen wants as little to do with the hierarchy as possible (which is why he’d side with joker people, joker wants the hierarchy gone too im sorry). Anyway, this is just something I want to establish as something I think. Isen wants literally nothing to due with responsibility, and honestly, same. This is kind of a big deal, but because this is pretty recurring and I don’t really know how to explain why this is a big deal, we’ll just stop here.

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[unordinary-analysis]

Episode 131

Honorable mentions:

In most of the panels, both of Seraphina’s hand visibly have black nail polish on them, but in  a few later panels, she doesn’t.  Hmmm

Arlo and Elaine definitely think that John and Seraphina have a thing for each other

Remi is probably feeling really excluded right now

I’m excited for Seraphina to finally look into things she should’ve been like Tuesday.

Isen is a m o o o o o o od

I can’t wait for Arlo to yell at John knfkjbdnmbvd

First up, I would like to say how much I loved this chapter. I know I say this often, but sometimes there are just those really good episodes that I just have to give proper credit too.

Second up is

Sera’s redemption:

    This episode really redeemed Seraphina in my mind. All my grievances that I’ve had with her (it’s a whole post if you wanna look for it) are being addressed by Seraphina herself. I have to say that my biggest problem with her character is that she tends to believe that everything revolves around her and tends to ignore the bigger picture, and therefore, many of the problems in her school and her society. Her self-involvement has really ruined her potential of being an influential high-tier. People say it’s because of her sudden disinterest in school, her apathetic mindset. Don’t get me wrong, it is, but even before she met John, Seraphina’s thoughts have always revolved around herself. The whole time we were in the Sera flashback, she was worrying about how others saw her. She’s almost paranoid of slipping up, of ruining her facade of perfection. This isn’t because she wants to be a good role model, however. Seraphina just gave herself high expectations and guidelines. She’s worried about how others see her, not the impact she might have on them. My specific annoyance with this was that she never really notices the troubles of others. While she worries about the smallest slight that might have something to do with her, low and mid tiers are being bullied and harassed daily, well past the point of the natural hierarchy. Some more examples of things she’s overlooked are; Tuesday, the beatings, John’s change in personality, Isen/John/Arlo new dynamic (I was really looking forward to seeing her look into this), The whole EMBER thing, e.t.c... But now I’m really happy because in this chapter, she admits it (and explains it better than me). Here’s what she said:

   “I’ve been ignoring the problems around me for the longest time. It was selfish.” E x a c t l y. Sera is finally realizing that not everything is about her, not every whisper contains her name.

    In this episode, Seraphina also accepts that she is a cripple. Before she was dancing around, telling herself that her powers will probably come back. Now she understands who she is and where she belongs. She even calls out Arlo for helping her when she’s the cripple and technically the mid-tiers should be allowed to prove their authority over her (redeemed Sera is the best. Agreeing with my points and all ;)). Here’s all the dialogue from Sera on this topic:

    “Elaine. I’m not the ace anymore. It’s just as they said. I’m powerless now. You’re not obligated to treat me any particular way.” (then later) “Even if it’s for forever (referring to her ability loss)? I don’t want you babysitting me. Especially now, since I no longer bring any value to society. There’s really no point.” (next one is last one) “Hey you (at Arlo). You said it yourself, I’m a cripple. I should know my place.”

    I’ve mentioned already the first and third quotes when I said that Sera was agreeing with me. With all that I’ve said. Now that I think about it, she agrees with Illena (I forgot about her till now lol). Seraphina no longer has hope, no longer has any belief that she might get her ability back. She’s trying to help everyone else understand too so they embarrass both her and themselves. And, again, she agreed with Illena, her captor. She’s really lost her faith.

In regard to the second quote, I’ve actually been wanting to talk about Sera’s ability loss. Whether it’s temporary or if it’s permanent. I’ve asked this question on websites before and it seemed like most people thought she would get her ability back. I’m going to list my own reasons why she will and won’t be getting her powers back

Coming back:

Uru-chan is mainly a plot writer. She plans out her story and most things she includes in UnOrdinary serve some sort of purpose. Once Seraphina’s ability loss has served its purpose, Sera will likely get her powers back to fulfill some other plot  point.

Power-therapy idk

Sera’s powers are some of the most inspiring and influential we’ve seen. To take away such godly powers permanently would be a real loss

Gone forever:

It’s been so long since the drug was put in her system, the chances of it wearing off now is unlikely

Uru-chan might honor her decision to take away Sera’s powers and commit to it.

Sera herself to being a cripple. Uru-chan wouldn’t change her view of herself again so quickly i don’t think

    Alright that’s done. Personally, I believe that Seraphina’s powers are coming back. I feel like they’re too big of a loss and that it would really slow down the plot. And i trust uru with her plot. However, I really think that if Seraphina’s powers come back, it won’t be because of the drug wearing off. The drug has been in her system for months, if Sera’s getting her powers back, it’s going to be from some outside source. Most likely John or maybe her parents are going to pay doctors to find a cure (seems like something they’d do…). So anyway, that’s my take.

    The last point of this section (it’s been a long one I know) is Sera’s doubting why she was even queen. This is a big one because Seraphina questions the hierarchy, something she’s stood for time and time again. But in this episode, Seraphina says:

    “The amount of authority I possessed before my ability loss… I took it all for granted.”

    Now this quote doesn’t exactly say what I’m trying to explain, but be quiet I really want to assume it does. I want this quote to mean that Seraphina is questioning the hierarchy system. Because a big part of her presence in the earlier episodes was disagreeing with John about the book UnOrdinary. She believed in what her parents taught her; that the powerful are in charge. I really think that if she doesn’t trust the system now, it is the ultimate redemption. I don’t know. I feel I had a lot to say about this because this is huge, but I guess I don’t. Think of this as food for thought I guess.

Something i want to say really quick was that Seraphina is honestly slipping into depression. She’s lost hope in regaining her power, she is disappointed in herself for not being a strong as John, and she honestly believes that Illena was right. And that because she is a cripple now, others can walk all over her. I really like redeemed Sera and hope she gets into a better mindset.

FINALLY we’re moving on

FRIENDSHIP

    Yay, best topic.

    As I’ve said in other posts, I absolutely love John and Sera’s friendship (I will never ship them though). Their whole dynamic really warms my heart and in this episode, we get to see this friendship pull through. Before it’s just been buddy-buddy light hearted jokes and bits. Now for one of the first times, we get proof of how much these friends really love each other. We get to see John and Seraphina in a truly sentimental moment.

    I can’t even explain how much I love their friendship sbnkjsbsdjkbeedkfk

    I don’t want to make this section so short because I love it, but I can’t think of anything else to say ;-;

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I was going to put Isen in here, but I realized I didn’t have much to say… ;-;

Anyway, here’s episode 131. Sorry it’s late I’ve been having some

t e c h n i c a l  d i f f i c u l t i e s.

Again, I love this chapter.

If you read the whole thing please comment (I want to see who actually reads lol)

And goodbye

Please comment your opinion on anything I’ve said I like hearing other people’s thoughts.

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[unordinary-analysis]

Episode 127

Honorable mentions:

So is pink haired girl Abby? I must knoww

Even if she’s not, she’s gotta be the cutest character yet

Is Illena pronounced eye-lena or ill-lena

While writing this and doing the necessary research, I realized that in my analysis of episode 125, I had some incorrect info. It doesn’t affect the theory at all, but when I said that Arlo made Isen head of the newspaper in episode 110, it was actually 109.

Im dying at the fact that the whole school left Isen bleeding on the ground because they were so s h o o k by John’s powers

Meili is so strong wth, she just picked up Isen

Arlo progressively gets more and more guyliner throughout this episode

Arlo is mad that John is a nuisance after refusing to help him… -_-

The pictures of Illena, Krolik, Wenqi, and Hower… who the heck takes school pictures like that. Smh haha

First up: CECILE

    Cecile basically said she was going to team up with John in this episode. I’m really excited about this because I predicted this last week ;). Also because that is SO COOL. I’m imagining Cecile and John working together and oh my god they would be the BEST DUO. I can really see them working together though. Cecile understands why John acted up. He did it because Seraphina went missing. She gets his motives and still wants to help him. Nobody has done that yet, granted most people who know about John’s powers have gotten beaten up or threatened. Cecile’s mindset works like John’s does. They believe only people who are worthy should be in charge. Cecile said (about Arlo), “He keeps preaching about order while sitting on a throne he doesn’t deserve.” John and Cecile really have complementary morals.

    The main difference between the two is that John doesn’t want to be a royal, which is understandable as he doesn’t deem himself worthy after what went down when he was king. Cecile wants the throne, she feels cheated out of hers. This doesn’t drive them apart, this is actually a perfect solution. When they defeat Arlo, Cecile can become queen and basically act as unofficial king, whilst John, the king, just does what he wants. Cecile gets to be in charge and John gets someone he likes in control of the school. Of course it would work better if Cecile could just be king and John is nothing, but due to uru-chan’s desire to make fun of anime tropes, only a male can be the main leader.  So otherwise, great solution.

    So basically, I’m all for a John/Cecile team-up

Next up: Why did Abby speak up?

    Before I get into this, I want to be clear. When I refer to ‘Abby,’ I mean the pink-haired girl with pigtails. I’m too lazy to explain if you don’t know :/

    Elaine is asking around about Seraphina, right. So she asks this group of probably low-tiers and all of them say that they haven’t seen her. They probably lying, but that’s not my point. Right after this, Abby approaches Elaine and says that she saw Seraphina yesterday. She gives Elaine some helpful info and later, figures out who the four students that took Seraphina were. She’s helpful and informative, which is actually very strange. Here’s why:

    Abby is a low-tier. Along with her peers, she was treated close to trash by anybody higher up. She was mocked and made inferior. Also, if she’s a low-tier, there’s a good chance that she knows what’s going on in the abandoned house. I would say most low-tiers were present, even more know about it. Giving up Illena and friends’ identities is betrayal. So why does she want to help Elaine and Arlo? I have three reasons.

    The first one is that I think Abby feels indebted to Seraphina somehow. Sera was helping her when she got into that fight. Abby told Elaine of this. Later when Abby is talking about her experiences as a low-tier, she makes the point that most high-tiers don’t pay attention to what happens to lower ranks. Seraphina was probably the first high-tier to help Abby out (even though she’s technically a cripple now). Abby seems to treat Arlo and Elaine with awe and blind obedience, probably out of fear. Due to this, I think that she would feel, more than any other low-tier, obligated to helping Seraphina. She could possibly be worried that if she didn’t Seraphina would smite her or something, but yeah that’s possible reason 1.

    My second reason is that Abby really hates Illena and company. This reason probably has the most support. In this episode, Abby is real clear about how the stronger mid-tiers mistreat the low-tiers. She says they gang up on weak kids and make others do their assignments for them. She also says that anyone that complains is basically punished. So basically how the high-tiers treat the low-tiers but the effort it doubled and it’s intentional. Abby could see this as an opportunity, a way to escape the abuse of the mid-tiers. If she tells Arlo and Elaine, she could sick them on Illena, Krolik, Wenqi, Hower, and everybody else. Nobody would know that she was the one who snitched and she would be free. Probably why she looked so nervous in that panel of Arlo confronting Hower, she didn’t want Hower knowing about her helping Arlo. So yeah, that’s about it for reason two.

    I would like to apologize in advance; this theory is completely reliant that the pigtailed girl is Abby, a reporter that has been mentioned only in name. She was the reporter that wrote the article about seraphina returning from suspension. So yeah… ;-; (I know I said I wouldn’t explain, but I feel I owe you some explanation).

My FAVORITE REASON (and probably most unlikely): reason 3. Abby actually isn’t aware of all that is happening to Seraphina. This sounds simple enough, but the reason for my reason is the real reason (I lost brain cells writing that).

    So Abby is a reporter. She writes articles for the school newspaper and stuff like that. Because she’s written about Seraphina drama in the past, there’s a chance that she could do it again. The low and mid-tiers probably know this, hence the exclusion.

(before writing this, I was certain I would rant about this for like a page, but honestly, that’s all I have to say)

Moving onwards

Isen

    I decided to make this a whole section even though there’s not much. I feel that the honorable mentions don’t get read all the way through.

    WHEN MEILI FOUND ISEN HER FIRST WORDS WERE, “ISEN, HEY WAKE UP. WE STILL NEED YOU.” sksksksksksskskskksksk

    She has no regard for Isen’s actually wellbeing haha. Even when she carries him, she is like so nonchalant. She even has her phone out.

Btw sorry for missing this meme Monday, I was pretty busy. I won’t forget this week though

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