#bishops of dema

[tobythetrashyartist]

"My creativity's only free when I'm playing shows"

#twenty one pilots #top #21 pilots #the icy tour #scaled and icy #sai #bishops #dema #bishops of dema #tyler joseph #blue door #clique art

[shreysheep]

Did a deep dive on TØP lore today to prep for the final album and there is SO MUCH. Like I knew about dema, nico, the bishops but the clancy letters and ned are new to me and SO awesome! To any casual listeners who want a quick timeline of the lore, I recommend this video :

It basically covers the 3 main eras so far in 12 minutes. You are welcome 💜

#twenty one pilots #twenty øne piløts #top #tøp lore #tøp clique #tøp #josh dun #tyler joseph #blurryface #trench #scaled and icy #dema #lore deep dives #keons #bishops #clancy #nico #skeleton clique #Youtube

[neon-merrick]

head empty

thoughts only plagued by him

holding him in my arms

tragically cradling him even

#skeleton clique #twenty one pilots #dema #trench #dmaorg #bishops #banditos #i am clancy #i could make many very morbid connections with the state of the body but i shall not

[theheadlesshat]

so tøp released a new video and uuuh

(sure i know they are passé for the common presumptious tumblr user within the post-emo scene but. sucks for you guys this is the most fun i've had in a long while i'm going fucking insane)

#ITS SO FUCKING GOOD #IT MAKES THE LAST 3 ALBUMS COHERE IN A SINGLE STORY AND ANSWERS SOME OF THE OLD RIDDLES #BUT NOT SO MANY THAT IT GETS OBVIOUS AND STOPS BEING FUN #AND THE SYMBOLISM HOLY FUCK THE SYMBOLISM!!!!!!!!!! #dema is the city where self destruction is the key to paradise where he keeps getting dragged back to #by BLURRYFACE which if you remember from that era is meant to represent all the worst parts of himself and his insecurities #he made an in universe metaphor for depression and i'm LIVING for it #and scaled and icy!!!!!!!!! the album that didn't make any sense style-wise for them #is the era where he was dragged back to dema and forced to just mindlessly entertain (which explains fucking SATURDAY) #BUT NOW HE'S OUT!!!!!!! #AND HE HAS THE BISHOPS' POWERS #AND HE'S GOING BACK TO TRENCH I'M SCREAMINGGGGGGG #holy fuuuuuuuck #twenty one pilots

[aurum-rays]

Twenty one pilots - Red tapes

Revisiting the lore to prep myself for what's coming made me realize I need a book. I need the twenty one pilots lore to be a book with the album names as chapters and from Clancy's pov. The whole story of Dema is nothing short of a cinematic saga and I need it as a book.

#twenty one pilots #Dema #the bandito tour #scaled and icy #blurryface #vessel #Clancy #Nico and the niners #red tape #Yellow tape #Ned #Keons #Bishops #Trench #skeleton clique

[ichthustent]

will always always always find it so mind blowing exactly how many parallels there are in the dema storyline between the bishops and the banditos. they’re actually quite similar just with very different end goals and ways of operating, and i love sitting and trying to piece their counterparts together. i just love this story. <3

edit: FURTHERMORE!!!! one of the major things i cant get over is how badly each “side” wants tyler. how no matter what, he’s extremely essential for either to get what they need done. boggles my brain.

#twenty one pilots #dema #twenty one pilots lore #trench #torchbearer #bishops #i need to step into tyler joseph’s head since he’s always in mine #ARGH

[certifiedrude]

we get bodies every day

#spooky #how'd they get in there? #bishop behavior #art #artists on tumblr #digital drawing #procreate #portrait #clique art #twenty one pilots #blurryface #tyler joseph #scaled and icy #josh dun #nico and the niners #dema #clancy

[res-no100982978]

024 02MOON 29

We got more entries yesterday. Letters, unsigned, that filled me with a level of dread I have not felt in ages. The words read like a new cycle of bishop, but the thing that scared me most was the mention of the uprising starting within the walls. If they know about us, why be so lenient with it? Why not stop the rebellion starting in the walls instead of focusing on who resides out in Trench?

My friends outside have kept me updated the best they can, even while I disappeared, but there's still so much unknown to them and myself. So I went looking in the only place that might hold any answer.

Walking through the streets, a smiling corps stopped me in the street. Seeing him made me want to run knowing it was the kind of trickery the bishops could do, however, something about his familiar warm smile and way he held himself made me stop. He spoke of collecting all of those in the FPE underground, of teaching them ways of the outside. Needless to say, I did yap his ear off for making me think he was dead, but he explained things to me. His new ability, the strange dreams he was always vague about, and how those momentos of hope used to seemingly appear in my cell when he was away. Keeping hope alive even in death was very like him.

I didn't learn until the end of the meeting that he had been seized by another old friend. im still unsure how to feel about it

He asked for my help gathering the FPE's ready to be free, a strange thing coming from a face we both knew and loved and voice that wasn't his, but I eagerly agreed. We found the people and a place to meet, a place he could quietly teach them of what lay beyond the walls and ways to leave. He shared a plan, something I can not share here, with the wrong prying eyes and perked ears.

Overcompensation was a word he used a lot, something not many had considered before. Overcorrecting to stop from falling off the deep end at the bend we are quickly approaching. I hadn't considered it before, but he's never steered me wrong before.

My mind is still running with everything that happened during the meet. I want to stand by his side once more, but something in the back of my mind tells me to hang back just a bit. Wether it's just precaution, Reisdro's teachings trying to tug me back, or something more is unknown, what I do know is that we will need to push hard in a direction we have never pushed before and do so without fear of what if's. Maybe I'll find where I belong in the process.

To any on the fence who are unsure of what side to fall on, may this push you one side or the other.

Let this be a message:

It's time to act.

It's time to be brave.

For Clancy.

-Echo

#dema #dmaorg #skeleton clique #top #twenty øne piløts #clique art #trench #banditos #bishops #reisdro

[polarized-disguise]

sorry . pilotbrained and using this blog to ramble

i love the bishops so much i think their designs r so funny . like .

imagine hearing ur bishop’s gonna be on tv so you start watching w/ the expectation of seeing red robes and dead black eyes and instead hes just … literally cunt . LIKE

giant imposing concept made of pure energy . essentially formless until it finds and seizes a vessel . vs . the most stunning woman you’ve ever seen . miss america 1965 .

#do you get me . #do you understand #i love the livestream period #but also like #i LOVE their designs #the bishops imean #i hope we get more of them during tøp7 #every day i grieve #over good day dema #and how it was never fleshed out #so much potential #and they never took advantage of it :/ #twenty one pilots pleeeeease #im begging you . tyler joseph .

[tobythetrashyartist]

Happy birthday to Trench!!

#twenty one pilots #top #21p #21 pilots #josh dun #tyler joseph #trench #trench day #trench anniversary #ned bayou #dema #bishops of dema

[blurryface-never-left]

Ya know, I think I'm lost on something regarding the lore...

Idk if its been confirmed, but what do the people of Dema worship??

Is it the act of suicide? Is it the Bishops? Is it the Neon? Can you even worship an action? If its the Bishops, is it just the one they work/live under, or is it all of them? If its Neon, do they believe the Neon is sentient, like a deity?

Or is Vialism more of a lifestyle rather than a religion? That suicide is just to be expected in this type of living, and no actual worship of anything takes place? But that begs the question, why would a lifestyle need religious authoritative figures like bishops?

#ive written fics where I have it as the Neon is the figure of worship because of how prominent it is #but I also have done the same for the Bishops #is it both? #demaverse #Dema #Trench #twenty one pilots theory #twenty one pilots lore #top #textpost

[hildegardladyofbones]

I think i finally got why people back in 2016 used to criticize top for "overusing" autotune. they were complaining about the Blurryface parts in blurryface. and let me just say that is idiotic. it's like complaining about Hannibal Lecter killing people. that's the whole point! Some bits in blurryface are unnerving and distorted because Blurryface himself is unnerving and distorted!

#twenty one pilots #top #blurryface #nicolas bourbaki #dema bishops #dema

[neon-merrick]

sometimes i get sad and then suddenly remember

i took these

and then i get sad again because i wanna go back...

clancy tour is going to be fuckin insane i'll tell you that!

#skeleton clique #twenty one pilots #dema #trench #dmaorg #bishops #takeover tour #icy tour #bandito tour #banditos #tyler joseph #josh dun

[kiitchensiink]

ohh okay i love trench stuff i love lore stuff so tell me. Do u have any very specific headcanons u would wanna share on trench or dema. Whether that be the characters or the actual world im curious

since we're loreposting today let me roll up my sleeves and answer this lol

- Thoughts on the Inhabitants

It's said in Clancy's letters that the bishops mandated Vialism as a belief system, and the way he speaks of it implies he remembers it happening, or at least it was shortly established within his lifetime.

I think that one round of population control was enough for many of the inhabitants of Dema, especially those who knew nothing beyond the walls of their city. Many of them likely didn't need overt re-education, and just passively absorbed obedience through the constant buzzing hum of propaganda being plied into their minds. It's in the water. It's in their blood.

Tyler describes his waves of emotions, negative and positive, as seasons, and the way the albums currently established to exist in demaverse follow along this theme to me; Trench feels like the desolation and stillness of winter, and SAI feels like it exists in a perpetual summer.

However, the significance of this to me is that though Trench is cold and hostile, it's real. The chill on your skin is something you can really feel. Whereas SAI, and by extension Daytime Dema, feels like the commercialism of the perfect summer, the type you see in advertisements on TV; Ones of people dancing and smiling and surrounded by warm colours and pastels. But it's all plastered artifice upon a cold concrete structure.

We've seen both sides; First we saw the cold reality of both Trench and the city, Dema, itself. But the difference is that within Dema, there's this sense of coating this reality with a saccharine overtone.

The inhabitants who are allowed to live within the outer regions of the city itself get to experience "normal" things. They can go to bars and clubs, Clancy speaks of reading about descriptions of a "home" in books which leads him to his awakening, and they are seen to be living in comfortable homes.

However, the only time we saw this depicted was in the livestream, which is clearly shown to be a set. And even moreso, it exists within Tyler's mind as he dissociates during an uncomfortable interview with Sally and Dan... Whether or not this is the actual reality of what living in dema is like, we can't actually know for sure until we see more in the new era.

However, if we look at the previous depictions of dema, such as the VR bandito experience... The city is harsher and colder. If we rewatch Nico and the Niners, the place Tyler is held is dilapidated and brutalist.

Whether or not the world depicted in the livestream is real or not is up for debate but, operating on the idea that it IS real...

The inhabitants likely don't much realise they are being limited. They believe they have a certain amount of free will, despite the fact that propaganda meets them at every waking moment; That they are kept obedient in their comfortable lives... A happy populace has no reason to rebel or escape. Smart dictators know this.

Still though, once a person brushes up against those limits and meets the walls of resistance, they start to realise how small their allotted circle of "acceptable" existence is. They either return to the comfortable centre and keep navigating their known... Or they push up against it, and attempt to break those walls.

Which is what all of us should be doing.

#mine #tøp #sfw #letters #hope u enjoy!!! i have so much more to say on the bishops and the banditos and trench and what day to day dema is like #but this response is already so long lol so pls ply me with more questions to get more answers :3 #demaposting

[thekadster]

cliquetober day 11: antlers (a twenty one pilots drabble)

Fandom: Twenty One Pilots

Word Count: 315

Trigger Warnings: None!

Author’s Notes: Something a bit more lighthearted for today KJDHSFG

❝ After the events of The Outside MV, Tyler finds out he has antlers on his head.

“They’re going to notice, aren’t they?” ❞

also read it on ao3!

Josh froze, his eyes widening. “Uh…Tyler?”

The other man turned to look at him as he waited on the beach. “Yeah?”

Josh didn’t know what to say. He glanced at the top of Tyler’s head, then back to his face. “You kind of…uh…”

“Kind of what?” he asked.

Josh motioned to where his beanie sat. Tyler mimicked his action, but immediately paused. Something was growing from the top of his head.

He felt around more and found a wood-like texture. His fingers met pointed ends, branching out from a single stem.

His eyes widened. They were antlers.

He looked at Josh. “Dude, what the– How did–”

“I don’t know!”

At that moment, Tyler remembered the ritual. If there was one thing he knew about the Neds, it was that he didn’t know much at all. He never knew they could grow horns, let alone be used to intercept the Bishops.

“Where’s Ned?” he asked.

“I don’t know,” replied Josh. “He’s not in the cave.”

Tyler’s brow furrowed as he sighed. The two of them had only heard rumors of the ritual, with the Glorious Gones and their glowing eyes. “Do you think this ever happens to the Bishops?”

“They don’t have antlers, as far as I’m aware,” Josh said.

“They could always cut them off. Seems in character for them to have horns.”

Josh laughed. They kept their torches raised, mirrored by distant lights from the opposite shore. The other Banditos would be here in a few minutes to bring them back to the main continent.

Tyler felt the antlers on his head again. He paused for a moment. “They’re going to notice, aren’t they?”

The other man tilted his head. “...Yeah, they probably will,” he replied. He tugged his friend’s beanie to somewhat cover the pointed tips. “That might work. They won’t see a thing.”

Josh couldn’t help but smile. Tyler sighed.

#twenty one pilots #twenty øne piløts #twenty one pilots fanfiction #clique art #clique writing #skeleton clique #cliquetober 2022 #cliquetober #cliquetober day 11 #tyler joseph #josh dun #twenty one pilots bishops #banditos #trench #dema #scaled and icy #twenty one pilots the outside #drabble #sulat ni kad

[banditosong]

The Number 9.

Like yellow dandelions and sunflowers. It's similar to the number 8, but hotter, and more excited. I don't know how to describe the sound other than pure, innocent joy.

#it's weird cause i feel like i should associate 9 with the bishops of dema #but it's quite the opposite #i dunno why #it's just always felt this way #numbers #synesthesia #number moodboards