“Chester” seems to be getting more powerful as the episodes go on, and I have an idea as to why.
To start he was only reading out (seemingly) random statements that OIAR staff had already been sent, but now he seems to be directly responding to what’s going on around him - first sending Sam the email with Gerry’s address, and then reading out a statement regarding The Magnus Institute just after Sam had been talking about it (two important things to note with the second example are that Sam was not using his computer before this, and that Jon only started talking after Celia left the room).
And I wonder… is Jon feeding the Eye to gain this power?
Regardless of if you think the Fears are the same as they were or different now, there have still been statements centred around that voyeuristic fear the Eye specialises in, indicating that it is still around, new form or no. Is Chester reading these stories having the same effect as Jon reading statements in TMA - he is feeding his patron and in return it is making him stronger. Will it be enough to bring him back completely?
And what does this mean for the popular theory that Augustus is actually Jonah?
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On my way to the Inconvenience Store, where I will exchange money for bads and disservices
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^ random but I’ve thought about this and I think it would be pretty metal if it was bone.
like clearly illumi can handle enough pain that if he broke a leg bad enough and the bone was exposed, why not take a shard and make it an organic needle kind of thing? like a quill or something … bet the nen on that would be strong as hell, def enough to control killua in such an intense and long term way like it did. plus as an organic material it would get through the NGL sensors…
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Hmmm just gonna spit this headcanon out in text post form since A. I don't think I could exposit it well enough in image form and B. It's not actually textually/thematically substantiated and I don't like actually staking my stuff on just vibes alone*
But anyway. I'd say it's pretty evident that all the islanders forgot their names, right? King obviously. Because why the hell else would he do that, but also Siffrin No Middle Names No Last Name.
They're 'pretty sure' they've 'always' been 'Just Siffrin' 'as long as they can remember'. It's a pretty cruel twist of the knife to say that they don't even get to keep their birth name as a memento, which is why I'm saying as such.
My utterly unsubstantiated claim is I think it'd be cute to say that Sisyphus *is* the name Siffrin initially picked, assuming the myth of King Sisyphus is recontextualised as idk, just a play or something in the setting. But I like the idea of Siffrin going 'oh shit 🫵 he's just like me fr' at a tortured fictional character long before the irony kicks in.
As for how Sisyphus -> Siffrin. I think that chronic mumbler and emotional doormat Sif just did not correct people who misheard the name during their time travelling, and went through enough places with incompatible phonologies (pronounceable sounds in the language) without ever really writing it down that it just got kinda. Changed until it was unrecognisable, and Siffrin just went with it until the earlier pronunciations slipped out of their swiss-cheese brain. And they just kinda don't remember any of that.
Also, something something the horrid realisation that Siffrin also named themselves after a King. Just not as blatantly.
*(though I think there's something here about Siffrin, a guy from a belief system that seems to thoroughly disincentivise autonomy and self-motivated choice continuously having their hand forced to make changes/choices they don't want but have no choice but to... It's not solid enough to really back this up tbh, but it informs it.)
Anyway.
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OKAY BUT
the way ofmd says "No, trust me, you really don't want to die."
Again. And again.
With Stede in s1, who doesn't have an answer when Olu asks him if he wants to live, who faces execution twice and both times says "I deserve this". It takes a literal gun to his head for him to realize that no, he does not want to die, and it takes going back to the environment that suffocated him - it takes killing his chance at happiness - for him to realize that YES. He wants to live.
And now we get this terrifying, heartbreaking spiral of destructiveness with Ed. He has a lot more insight into himself than Stede, he knows he wants to keep living, but not like this. Hasn't for a while, and when he tried to change, thought for just a moment that maybe life could be better - well.
It all came crashing down, didn't it. He thought Stede could love him, but he couldn't; Stede left. And he thought, maybe he could still build something new for himself, something away from the violence, a space where he could find safety, community, healing, maybe; but that failed, too. Izzy made sure of that. Because it takes just one well-aimed knife to kill the greatest of men and Izzy has plenty, and Ed doesn't want to die.
He just doesn't want to keep living like this.
Before he knew Stede, he may have been unhappy, but he was coping. But now that he knows how all that stuff feels like he thought he could never have - friendship, community - he can't cope anymore. He doesn't want to keep living like this, and he can't change his life into something more bearable because Izzy is standing at his back, knife at the ready.
(Oh and I do believe Izzy regrets that, wishes he could take it back and not just for his foot, wishes he knew how to ask Ed's forgiveness, wishes he knew how to tell him You can trust me)
So. What is there left for Ed to do?
Ed is increasingly unsubtle about what he wants, to a point where he literally hands Izzy a gun to shoot him, where he's practically on his knees begging to be mutinied. He realized change is impossible, so does he want to die now?
No. It's worse.
He wants someone to give enough of a shit about him to kill him.
If murder is the only intimacy he can get, his death is a price he's willing to pay. But he's not even getting that, no one will even kill him, what the fuck.
And. ofmd makes us look at it, all of it, all the self-loathing, the fear, the heartache. The pain. Makes Ed look at it, so he understands, so he can heal. Tells him,
That's a bit silly, eh? You don't even want to die! And people want you to live, you dummy.
Keep going. You have no idea how much better things are going to get.
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i have a theory that the amazing devil will announce a new album on the anniversary of the horror and the wild, which is february 29, because they announced that they were back in the studio on the anniversary of ruin being released AND since it's a leap year we actually do get a february 29
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something something the revenge versions of mcr all grew old except for mikey, he is young and covered in blood. Something something gerard wrote brother cause he was scared of losing mikey. Something something there’s an alternative version of the story where they all didn’t make it to this tour, where mikey dies young. Where someone dies young. Stuck in limbo.
Alternatively he saw them being covered in makeup and said ,, lol have fun w that not me though, hand me that bottle of fake blood.
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