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templegate · 22 days

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Last two hyperfixations ive had had these main character trends

-inferiority complex because they are surrounded by talented people. (Which they are not)

-got brain surgery to make them smarter/better or to cure some kind of imperfection

-repressed memories cause of brain surgery

-has an alter ego (or just alter) that's literally just the main antagonist of their story

-terrorists

-responsible for apocalypse

Like damn back to back.

#Danganronpa #insignia #danganronpa goodbye despair #sdr2 #insignia trilogy #hajime hinata #tom raines #back to back huh #s.j. kincaid #sj kincaid

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bookwyrminspiration · 2 months

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my dad: I like that Tom is an idiot and a main character because it means I could be the main character of someone's story :)

also my dad, every three seconds: GOD Tom is such an IDIOT

#the insignia trilogy #tom raines #he's partway through vortex currently #and he's complained on 4 separate occasions that tom's an idiot

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duaghterofstories · 27 days

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Plurality in the Insignia Series: Tom's Dissociative Identity Disorder

If you haven't heard of the Insignia Series, I recommend reading it, because it is incredible. It's a trilogy about kids who are drafted to fight in World War 3, which takes place in space, and is piloted by kids. It's also about the horrors of big corporations, and humanity. I really love it and I find each character very compelling, along with their arcs.

Now, if reading it doesn't matter that much, there will be spoilers for the series in this rant. So either read it, or don't, I can't stop you. But I do recommend reading it, because it is amazing. However, becasue I know this is a niche series, I will explain as I go along (Sorry to those who have read it).

In the third book of The Insignia Series, Tom, our lead character, is kidnapped and taken to a floating space station by the lead bad guy. Why Tom is chosen is because he is special. He, along with a girl on the other side from China, a girl named Yaolan, aka Medusa, have a special ability. They, unlike everyone else, can bypass any security or firewall, and in fact form a friendship by secretly meeting in book one.

Now, while he's trapped up there, our lead bad guy uses this power by getting into his head and affects worldwide technology. And using a form of mind control. However, throughout these events, Tom stops being Tom and becomes a boy who goes by Vanya. After Tom stops resisting, Vanya takes over.

Vayna is quite different from Tom. He has a pet bunny that our lead bad guy gives to him, goes along willingly with what our lead bad guy has said, which is how he gets things to survive, such as food. Hpwever most notably, Vanya is completely cut off from Tom. Not to say he doesn't know about Tom, he seems aware of his headmate on some level, but he and Tom are completely cut off.

And, in fact, when Tom goes back to Earth after getting rescued, he is considerably less affected then one would imagine being if you were trapped in a space station being tortured for, I believe 18 straight months. This might be because there is a time skip and he gets therapy, but right when they take the chance to kill the lead bad guy, he seems mostly unaffected to see his torturer. Granted, not completely, but not as if he's been tortured and controlled for over a year by that guy.

So obviously, Vanya is a trauma holding alter who was created when Tom was kidnapped, as he appears to have been named by our lead bad guy.

The question is, however, was Tom already a system prior to the creation of Vanya? I suspect he is. And given that I have claimed that he has DID and DID is formed through early childhood, though other systems can come to other formats or times, this shouldn't be a surprise.

Now why do I think he was plural prior to these such a series of events? There are hints. In book one it is mad very, very clear that his life is not happy. When he was a kid, his mom left him. Well, to be more specific, she was kidnapped and mind controlled by her new husband after divorcing Tom's dad. Tom's dad forcing him to gamble using video games in order to get money and miss school frequently, which was luckily online since they moved, staying in hotels above casinos. Tom's saving grace was that he was very oddly good at video games.

So, a young child who was forced to move a lot, lost his mom, and was abused (emotionally at the least) whenever he visited his mom, and had to do all of the work to get money for his family for a very young age? It only makes sense that his brain would form older, non-human, or just other alters, in order to protect his little kid mind.

There are other pieces of evidence.

Tom has seen his mom in the past. However, he doesn't know much about her. As if he doesn't actually see her as much as his apparent memories tell us. And given that all these memories seem to be negative, it would make sense that one of Tom's alters would have taken over when they visited their mom.

Also, a lot of the time, there are things that Tom doesn't act completely normally. Tom is a very impulsive guy, who never really makes the right choice because he's an act first kind of guy. However there are times when he acts differently, seemingly without any reason.

There are a couple times it makes sense. In one part of book one, there is a program in his brain that made him the model kid.

However, other times, it's completely out of place. Even with his impulsivity, there's a scene where he is given a fear of scorpions. When he is coded to see and feel a scorpion, despite there not really being one, he feels something come over himself. Even though his first instinct is to run, what he does instead is biting off the scorpion's head. As if someone else was reacting to the fear. Someone who was trying to keep him safe, even if a bit oddly.

And we know it's not the teacher who was programming him, because he was fucking pissed about it.

Now, there is other stuff in the books, but I will need to reread them in much more detail, and also this has already gone on for pretty long.

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Credits:

The inspiration for this series comes from @sophieinwonderland, a wonderful tulpa who, like our Host, loves to analyze media and over analyze it.

The first time we considered the plurality of The Insignia Series comes from this post by @gnome-minion. Please check both of them out if you liked this.

#insignia series #the insignia series #endogenic #endo safe #plural community #plural system #plurality #plural #traumagenic system #traumagenic did #plurality in books #tom raines

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notasomp · 6 months

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PLEASE READ INSIGNIA BY SJ KINCAID I AM BEGGING YOU

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gnome-minion · 5 months

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Mama's boy

#insignia #s.j. kincaid #insignia trilogy #tom raines #insignia series #thomas raines #delilah nyland #art #my art #avis's doodles #avis's videos #animatic #animation #i cried like 8 times drawing this.#in fact I've been crying since I finished it.#delilah fucks me up so much. she fucks me up. I can't not cry when I think about her because everything is just so tragic and awful #crying as i type this #she never got a chance :(

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the-thunderhead · 6 months

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Unwind doodles

Plus a crossover with my insignia blog. Turns out both of my favorite middle school books have blonde suicidal terrorists with a bad relationship with their parents.

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icantsaveyou · 1 year

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my FAVORITE characters. my favorite characters are the people with so much potential. SO much potential. they could easily achieve their goals and even more if they could just. if they could just KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT AND STOP TRYING TO TAKE DOWN THE SYSTEM. but they'll never shut up and they'll never stop fighting for what they think is right!!! those are my favorite characters

#naming a couple examples #tom raines #insignia trilogy #tim drake #red robin #jim hawkins #treasure planet

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mockingjaysnakes · 1 month

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"why are you staring at me?" | billy the kid.

#tom blyth #billy the kid #william h bonney #scene #tv shows #season one #bar #rain #gifs

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manitat · 3 months

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Anton Corbijn: Tom Waits

#anton corbijn #tom waits #rain dogs

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giddyaunt425 · 1 month

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This has been in my head for years, so here it finally is irl.

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bookwyrminspiration · 7 months

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How do steak boobs function?

#the insignia trilogy #tom raines #I’ll take most relatable character ever for 4000 #he’s just like me fr

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aintinacage · 18 days

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Grief and love are conjoined, you don’t get one without the other. — Jandy Nelson Rain | @monthly-challenge

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notasomp · 7 months

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should I read Insignia?

if so, three reasons why

FUCK YEAH YOU SHOULD

it’s literally one of the funniest books ever i cannot tell you how many times i wheezed

it’ll make you think. A LOT. especially catalyst that book fucked me up, it makes you feel things. you know a book is good when you feel emotions!!

tom raines (not giving further explanation)

PLEASE JUST READ IT ALREADY I AM BEGGING YOU

#insignia #insignia series #tom raines #books #books you should read #add it to your tbr pls

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gnome-minion · 5 months

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Tom you're scaring the hoes (yuri)

#insignia #s.j. kincaid #insignia trilogy #tom raines #thomas raines #insignia series #art #avis's doodles #my art #insignia saga #yuri sysevich #headcanon

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vandaliatraveler · 1 year

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Part 2: After the Rain - Life in an Appalachian Temperate Forest.

From top: Wild ginger (Asarum canadense), also known as Canadian snakeroot; Philadelphia fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus), a lovely spring aster deserving of a more dignified name; white wood violet (Viola sororia albiflora), a white variation of the common blue violet; woodland phlox (Phlox divaricata), also called wild blue phlox; creeping phlox (Phlox stolonifera), a mountain native and the most delicate and beautiful of Appalachia’s many wonderful phlox species; and Allegheny blackberry (Rubus allegheniensis).

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ai-yo · 19 days

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The amount of foolishness I have seen on social media relating to Jamie Lloyd's Romeo and Juliet and then Rapunzel is so annoying/funny weird that people making fun of older people believing everything they see on Facebook and WhatsApp group chats need to shut up.

They believe everything they see on tiktok and twitter getting their info from people who don't read and/or spread misinformation intentionally.

White People getting upset over the casting of Avantika Vandanapu as Rapunzel in the Tangled live action. But wait a Tangled live action was never announced. Meaning white people and others were getting mad that a Avantika Vandanapu fanpage I think made a fancast video and photo edits of her as Rapunzel

Now with Romeo and Juliet so many people think that it's a movie, and a remake and are talking about Hollywood. When it's actually a stage play happening in London West End and is set to go to Broadway too I think.

Even the ones that do know it's a play are still doing the most, they don't care about theatre because they are unaware that colourblind casting and even genderbent casting in Shakespeare plays happens all the time look at the posters for upcoming productions at the globe theatre

Twelfth Night in central park starring Anne Hathaway and Audra McDonald

The only reason they are paying attention is because of the stunt casting of Tom Holland and the only media they consume is superhero movies. People from different countries saying they won't watch, you don't live in England and you're not rich you ain't flying here to watch a play. You do not even watch plays.

So much racist stupidity over the past few days I had to rant

#francesca amewudah-rivers #avantika vandanapu #racism #romeo and juliet #Rapunzel #misinformation #go outside and see if it is raining dont take someone elses word for it #tom holland

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