#shadow theory

[offtorivendell]

The "sunshine" Elain needs may not be the assumed heir to Day, after all

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Disclaimer: once again, this is just a parallel I've noticed, which may or may not be important.

In the ACOWAR quote below, Elain mentioned that she needed "sunshine."

After Lucien's paternity was called into question - Feyre and Rhys strongly suspect that Helion, High Lord of the Day Court, is his true father - this may appear to some to be foreshadowing Elain and Lucien becoming involved romantically, and even accepting their bond at some point. Respectfully, however, I'm not so sure I agree.

Not only was Lucien unable to tell what was going on with Elain's yet to be discovered Sight, which was causing her trouble at the time - Madja said a mate should be able to sense this, and he was unable to do so (please don't come at me as if I'm suggesting this was some sort of moral failing on his behalf, it's simply canon, and not his fault) - whereas Azriel could, whether by inclination or simply by taking the time to figure it out, but... if "sunshine" is code for "Lucien," why did Elain react the way she did to his presence, sidling away from him towards Nesta?

Should she not have been comforted by their bond, rather than describing it as "strange"? I agree that Elain being uncomfortable around Lucien at that point in time could have been due to his presence with Tamlin at Hybern, and maybe she will move past those events, but it seems telling that Elain's own words identified sunshine as a requirement, directly after which she moved away from Lucien, the person who is most likely to be described by such a metaphor (behind Mor and Elain, of course).

Conversely, Azriel - the Night Court's shadowsinger and spymaster - spent quiet time with Elain in the garden, during which she appeared to be at peace, and discovered that there was in fact nothing wrong with her, that she had been Made a Seer, thereby allowing Elain to drag herself up from the murky dream world in which she had been trapped. I think it's key to note here that Elain's confusion seemed to stem from a lack of understanding of her new and unknown magic, not that her mind needed to be healed (though obviously she had a lot of trauma to work through at that point, and it'll be interesting to see just how far she has come in the meantime, with the help of family and friends).

Setting aside the question of how Azriel knew that nothing was wrong with Elain's mind, he was the only one, apparently, who took the time to figure it out, and didn't write her off as her sisters and mate had done; and no shame to Feyre and Nesta for not registering this, because they're in the same boat as Elain and probably didn't realise that being a Seer was even an option, but Amren, who is 15,000 years old?! Surely she should have suspected something, if being a Seer was common. But instead it was Azriel, who gave Elain not only knowledge about her newfound power - and don't forget that knowledge is a form of power, which is essentially the function of a Seer to begin with - but he acknowledged that she would be useful - that she was needed! - which is something I doubt Elain has heard very much in her life, as it appears that she is frequently reduced to her good looks and marriageability, rather than any skills she may have. I would not be surprised to learn that it meant quite a bit to her.

But I digress... in a fun twist of events, Azriel's shadows have even been likened to sunshine...

I've spoken before about the text not describing Az's shadows as running from Elain - rather, they simply seem to disappear (the language described has no negative connotations) - and hypothesised that the shadows may actually become invisible, if they can transition, chameleon like, along a spectrum* from dark to light, with see-through being a true neutral in the middle, and used the passage below in that discussion, but it struck me that Feyre described Azriel's shadows as having lightened into "sunshine" specifically.

* As an aside, could "shadows" be affected by mood, similar to patronus charms, and could this be potentially relevant to any differences between shadowsingers and lightsingers?

Could this be a hint that Azriel - who both took Elain into the sun that he also values, and whose shadows (or whatever they truly may be) are capable of becoming sunlight - is who she really needs in the end? How poetic is it then, that a happy and smiling Elain can cause Azriel's shadows to brighten from all the way across the room? Very.

#elriel #pro elriel #elriel theory #elain archeron #azriel shadowsinger #pro elain #pro azriel #acotar #acotar theory #shadowsinger #shadow theory #light and dark #anti el*cien #not anti l*cien #two mate theory #true mates #light and shadow #sunshine

[hugsandchaos]

You guys know how Shadow was created to be the ultimate life form? Well, I have a theory about his biology. I’ve recently learned that some scorpions have something called “book lungs”, which helps them hold their breath for up to six days. Most can only hold it for two, but of course, there’s a few try hards. If Shadow was created to be the ultimate life form, then it’s extremely likely he was created to survive as many scenarios as possible, including drowning, so maybe he has these “book lungs” as well. I don’t know if this part is true, but I think these lungs also help the organism breathe through their skin. If this is true and Shadow can also do it, then suffocating him would likely be very difficult.

If my theory is true, it makes me feel a bit happier about my idea of Shadow taking naps in bodies of water.

Edit: I realized there’s a possibility he might’ve actually been created to hold his breath for longer…

#shadow #shadow hedgehog #shadow the ultimate lifeform #shadow theory #fan theory #shadow’s biology

[spiritofwhitefire]

There is a deep gulf between what a man is and what he represents. Between what he is as an individual and what he is as a collective being.

Carl Jung, Psychological Types (1921)

#carl jung #psychological types #jungian shadow #shadow theory #mirror dynamic #quotes

[brodiestreetmusic]

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#music #singer songwriter #christian #new zealand #festivals #music festivals #rockmusic #christian music #pop music #indie music #indie #oceanview #shadow theory #mythologic #musicians from new zealand #musician

[ghostbsuter]

There was a teen in the cave.

A teen no one knows and looks like he could be a wayne, stands in the cave.

"Actually, I'm a wayne." He says with a shrug.

Bruce, Batman, carefully thinks of the implication.

"Not yet," The teen, Danny, doesn't say anything. Simple smiles. "You're not a wayne, yet. You will be. But not yet."

Then Bruce sighs, dropping the batman mask in order to take in the teen.

"Does future me know of the time travel?"

Dannys smile grows into a grin, deciding to take pity on the man. "You, grandbat, have..." He makes a vague gesture. "Theories, which none of your children ever confirmed."

The bat's mind short-circuits at the choice of words

Dick is sputtering incomprehensibly, there are Baffled expression all around.

Because.

Because that child isn't Bruce's, but one of theirs.

"Who is it?" Jason demands, hand clenching his gun uselessly.

Danny continues to smile, a hint of mischief now peeking out.

The cave is filled with theories, some yell, some sob, yet all eyes leave danny.

All but one pair.

She had known the moment his body language switched just enough for her to read.

She had known the moment he disappeared before the clan.

Had known when his hand found hers, shoulders bumping.

Her heart clenches, throat dry and memories of her childhood flooding to mind.

So she asks, voice soft and hesitant.

"Am I a good mother?"

And danny looks up at cass, adoration and pride laid out plain for her to see and accept.

"You're the best."

And so they both watch the clan together, silent and comfortable.

(Cass doesn't question when she finds him, how and why. All she knows is that she's more attentive when out on patrol, looking and waiting.)

(This is how Cassandra Cain-Wayne returns one night from patrol, a child, barely out of toddler stage and clinging to her form.)

(This is how the Batclan officially meets one Daniel James Cain-Wayne, freshly washed and clothed, a cookie in hand and hiding shyly behind Cass.)

(When they meet, all they say is "Welcome home, danny," and "Good to see you again.", Danny doesn't necessarily get it, but that's okay. Maybe his new mom will explain it one day when he's bigger.)

#dcxdp #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc #fic prompt #writing prompt #dc x dp prompt #cassandra cain is dannys mom #time travel shenanigans lead to conspiracy theories #half of the batclan think jason is the dad #or dick #damian and tim are outruled just bc age and tim denying it with no one protesting #alfred knows #danny moves like cass #he gave them both a cookie in the shadows #danny won him over by calling him great grand bat #he tells him of all the mischief they got up to bc no one would believe the baby had alfie wrapped around his finger like that #theyre just in denial #theyre all wrapped around the finger #danny “i mastered how to wrpaonize my cuteness” cain-wayne

[umblrspectrum]

hi heres art so you pay attention to me now go read the tags

#ive been rewatching episode 7 like its the only thing on youtube and made note of many things #first off. the solver can only have one host. nori mentions skyn wants to kill off all the other solver hosts (with the dds) and disregards #the idea of both uzi and doll being its current host when they get chased #plus the main solver possessions only occur when skyn is out of the picture (the fightt in ep 7 is only after n decapitates “tessa”) #solver uzi is possible too but i dont count her cause she doesn't have the yellow #personal theory is that its more an instinctual response to overheating or something and not full on possession #second off nori calls the solver cyn. how does she know that name #cyn was on earth and only showed up to copper 9 recently and i presume nori's been here her whole life #it probably wasn't the other dds cause none of them made it down and they're all more savage beasts #since cyn specifies n's team retained their personalities and that makes me think the other teams didnt #also also we should've immediately questioned tessa arriving in the same type of pod as the mds when they were revealed to not be sent by j #im running out of characters also the people who dont like when i use tags like this can bite me #murder drones #murder drones nori #artori? that sounds cool #ill probably just stick with nori though #i have so many solver heart refs now #art #episode 7 #murder drones episode 7 #murder drones episode 7 spoilers #using the same black for shadows as my lineart doesn't work when i have to draw thin things over it #murder drones spoilers

[snowgloberoundandround]

If Taylor Swift told the swifties to solve the Kate Middleton mystery we would have complete answers by midnight.

#y’all give me your theories #unfortunately my darkest ones seem the most plausible #taylor swift #kate middleton #shadow rambles

[omaano]

Had a bit of a crisis over trying to draw Boba, so I did the adult thing and did some face studies. Learned a lot, hopefully some of it sticks

#mainly I learned that contrast-y shadows freak me out; I muddy up my colours super fast and easy #and that I REALLY need to learn some colour theory for good this time #also sketching needs to happen more. MUCH more - that was supposed to be the point of this exercise -.- #temuera morrison #boba fett #commander cody #captain rex #I really liked the lighting on that Cody pic but if I were to draw him before Rex I'd never live it down okay?? #face study #star wars fanart #my art #the clone wars #tcw fanart #I'm still not any better at drawing Boba with hair and keeping him looking like himself... which I should have seen coming but... #gotta double down on work now I ran out of my warm up paintings #clone portraits #Tem clones

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

M'lady, doth this harlot bother thee?

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #yu ziyuan #wang lingjiao #jinzhu #yinzhu #I just want to take a moment to shine a spotlight on YZY's maids. #I fully admit to forgetting about them until I was looking up female characters in mdzs for the Six AU and saw their names. #For characters who play a small role in the story I sure do rotate the little morsels of info we know about them in my head. #We know they came from the Yu sect along with YZY and described as 'young women' so did they likely were young when they left #And we know that YZY favours them immensely (to the point she lets them speak a lot more freely than she does her own children) #And they in turn are extremely loyal to herand very skilled fighters. #So what's up with that dynamic? Who are they to her? Who are they to each other? Who are they as individuals? #My theory is that they were initially servant girls YZY took in and trained (hence the whip proficiency) #I also very much love the idea of this double standard; that YZY has these surrogate 'children' she favours over her own #to shadow JFM's affection for WWX (child who is not his own). #Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli just keep losing!!! #Anyways I just think we should hoist jinzhu and yinzhu up more. I think they have minor character swag and potential.

[st7e]

So, this spell we see in the Shadow of the Erdtree trailer:

It appears to be a mass version of the same effect as the Bewitching Branch item, it even has the same particle effects.

The Bewitching Branch, of course, is an item associated with Miquella that turns enemies into allies. It appears that the spell in the trailer is doing the same thing. This spell is likely a version of a power that Miquella has.

Now let's compare this dialog from the beginning of the trailer:

"He wields love to shrive clean the hearts of men. There is nothing more terrifying."

To the description for the Bewitching Branch:

The Empyrean Miquella is loved by many people. Indeed, he has learned very well how to compel such affection.

We already know that Miquella was good at "compelling" love from others, but now we're being told that this power is terrifying and dangerous. We hear of many people who love Miquella in the base game, the most important examples being Malenia and Mohg. We must wonder, then, was this love genuine or compelled?

What if Miquella is the one who compelled Mohg to capture him? What if Miquella being torn from the Haligtree and bled dry by Mohg was actually part of his plan to reach the Land of Shadow? The YouTube description for the trailer says:

It was to this land (the Land of Shadow) that Miquella departed. Divesting himself of his flesh, his strength, his lineage. Of all things Golden

What if Mohg's fucked up ritual was a necessary step in Miquella's "divestment"?

What if instead of the tragic victim we all thought he was, Miquella was actually pulling the strings all along?

#elden ring #shadow of the erdtree #miquella the unalloyed #mohg lord of blood #elden ring lore #elden ring theory #elden ring dlc #elden ring spoilers

[towboats]

a little too familiar

#warrior cats #my art #art #warriors #splashtail #frostpaw #mothwing #hawkfrost #shadow spoilers #asc spoilers #asc #dont tag as ship plz #if the theories about splashtail meddling with things are correct #please authors remember how hawkfrost meddled with things #and faked signs for power #and how it affected mothwing #please let mothwing and frostpaw have a chat about it #please

[spiritofwhitefire]

I think we are all someone else’s shadow. We have a shadow and are shadow to another. The dark image of someone else IE those traits that they want desperately but can never have because it would destroy their self image, we have those. And then someone else has those for us as well. We are attracted and repulsed to these people all at once. It can be romantic or sexual but it doesn’t have to be, it can be violent or toxic but it doesn’t have to be. The point is that evermore we must be near them and keep them close, because they could complete or destroy us and then there is another who we could complete or destroy in turn. 

That’s what attracts me to the theory of the shadow by Jung, the Double by Dostoevsky, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein. We all have a monster and are a monster in turn

#writeblr #shadow theory #literature #if you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw his projections #then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick #shadow #carl jung

[brodiestreetmusic]

Welcome to Brodie Street

Hi there. Welcome to Brodie Street. Or if you followed us back in the day Welcome Back. It's been a minute since we've been active (and never really embraced social media) but we're here now and we're getting back to business. As some people know from following us on Instagram and Facebook, we're playing Festival One in a couple of weeks. It's our first show back in quite some time and we're excited, nervous, blessed, and roaring to go all at the same time. Five years away has been very weird (and most of this was not planned, but life happens) and we've never been more ready but also never been more nervous about a show in our lives. Even with all this said, we still can't wait to kick off this new era of live shows and craziness. Last year, we released our first album since 2017 "Shadow Theory" (stream at the link below) but never got to really tour it due to a few factors (most of them are too heartbreaking to talk about) but that album has captured our journeys up until that point (covering the pandemic years and some of the things that happened during it- such as losing the ones you love, the fear of love, the burning of bridges you thought would always stand strong, and that somehow love exists in the chaos). We're still figuring out how to play some of it live (pandemic albums seem to be like that), but we hope that you enjoy what we've figured out so far and that as we continue to flesh these songs out on the road you'll enjoy them too. Five odd years later, we're back and we're ready to play for you again. There are plans beyond the festivals we're doing this summer for new music and more shows but can't speak on that just yet. For now, onwards with Festival One and the adventures to come. See you soon. Brodie Street STREAM SHADOW THEORY: https://open.spotify.com/album/0f92l6kOOPncBrjqtotn7Z

#music #singer songwriter #christian #new zealand #rockmusic #christian music #pop music #indie #indie music #oceanview #shadow theory #mythologic #musicians from new zealand

[wanderingmausoleum]

the opening lines of the shadow of the erdtree trailer remind me a LOT of a certain quote from another game:

and with this in mind, i really hope that the direction they go with miquella is less like the manipulative griffith-esque archetype some people are theorizing, and more like N’s characterization in pokemon black and white: someone very intelligent and powerful but naïve, whose honest attempts at creating a better world might bring about more destruction in the end.

#there’s also miquella’s curse of eternal youth vs N’s trauma and abuse keeping him stuck in a childish mindset #but idk how to fit that in here so it’s going in the tags #(and yeah of course i’m an N enjoyer it came free with the fucking neurodivergence) #and tbh i don’t think miquella’s goals will innately lead to destruction #i just think that would be an interesting direction to take it #but having him actually succeed in making a better world might be even more interesting lol #i just used what i did as an example for comparison purposes #elden ring #shadow of the erdtree #elden ring theory #miquella #pokemon black and white #n harmonia #natural harmonia gropius #speaketh #greatest hits

[cottoncandysprite]

Another thing I noticed on rewatch: Laszlo stops laughing in the dinner scene way before the others do! As soon as Guillermo starts the bit about dracula, his mood shifts. He repeats "dracula?" In that inquisitive voice and you can see him solemnly tapping the table waiting for the others to catch on. I know he says he didn't know thats what was the case in episode 2, but i like to think he at least considered it seriously before the others did and just hoped it was actually the stomach issues thing

#i know theres theories that the vamps know and are just trying to teach him a lesson but lbr they're too dumb for that #or at least nadja and nandor are #wwdits #what we do in the shadows #wwdits spoilers #wwdits season 5 #laszlo cravensworth #guillermo de la cruz

[puppyeared]

I just skimmed through the art part of your blog and holy bajeebus your LMK art is so beautiful and the headcanon ideas you come up with are so good I wanna steal em-

Kinda wanna see like a part 2 of the little angst you did between MK and Macaque a while ago. It's so interesting and I wanna see Macaque's reaction in your art style. (You don't have to of course, it's just a suggestion [idk if i spelled that right])

Thanks for reading and hope you have a good day/night!

Hope this is to your liking ^^

Part one here

#I’m sure there are some character nuances im forgetting but well 🤷🏽 #I want their misunderstanding or whatever they have going on between then come to a head. literally just going ‘wait what’ #for me I think it’s entirely possible that there was an actual fight and maybe tension leading up to that point #cause I feel like macaque is not just bitter about thinking he died to wukong but maybe some stuff that built up to that #maybe the fight was just the breaking point. maybe they’re idiots who don’t talk about it because they think they’re on the same page idk #chipper-smol wrote a cool theory abt them using macaques ‘you’re nothing’ line in s4ep1. from what I understand it could be a direct parall #parallel to when he said that to MK right before MK regained his nerve and hit macaque in the eye.. since flying bark foreshadowed monkey mk #waaaay back in season 1 (where his shadow is his monkey form in the opening) i think that could be deliberate #and they could have gotten billy to voice an entirely different line for that scene. but they reused his line from s3 #in a very specific scene with wukongs narrative foil. hm #that aside I would have liked to hear billy voice the ‘you abandoned me’ line that would have killed me. but that’s just me lol #also looking at this I should have shaded the last frame to make it look more dramatic and serious but I ran out of time :( #if anything I want to see MK try and help them get back together. poor kid tries so hard to understand people so I think it would be cool to #see that happen. that’s what I like about him.. he asked macaque why he was working for LBD instead of accusing him of dooming everyone bc #he wants to and he tried to comfort spider queen by admitting he was scared of LBD too 😭😭 #my art #myart #Lego Monkie kid #lmk #Monkie kid #lmk spoilers #Lego Monkie kid spoilers #lmk macaque #six eared macaque #lmk sun wukong #lmk swk #lmk MK #lmk xiaotian #lmk season 4 #Lego Monkie kid s4