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Incredibly random but I've been having this thought for weeks and I NEED to put it out to the Wick fandom:

Tom's favorite Batman villain would be the Scarecrow. Like. Look at this kid and tell me the fear-obsessed man with family issues and (sometimes) religious trauma WOULDN'T be his favorite.

#wick #wick game #wick hellbent games #wick horror game #wick 2015 #wick no way out #hellbent games #tom weaver #wick tom

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Hroo hrah

I think its funny that the Scarecrow keeps showing up in Batman villain team-ups because I honestly think he causes more problems than he solves for everyone involved.

Couldn't figure out which versions of these characters to use so I just mashed stuff together.

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Here's another Rogues tiktok I made 🖤 I'm gonna start posting fanart of them soon 😚

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it's the 24th of april and I haven't even started working on another theory post HAJKSDJFKGLOBH

the batman fixation hit me too hard sorry guys 😔

I hope y'all know it terrifies me when I get a notification and it's someone liking a post I made before like... late 2021. The first two years on Tumblr are not my proudest memories.

Well, everything before 2022 aren't my proudest memories but you get the idea.

Anyway, I swear I'll post another wick theory/analysis sometime in April. Until then feel free to maybe give me some asks about wick or other media I'm currently into

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Batman Gotham Adventures #37

#jervis they could never make me hate you #(I just hate the writers that make him a gross freak in some versions)

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Me the whole time I watched S1 of The Batman (2004): Why are the episodes like "villain of the week"? Why aren't the villains interacting with each other? There's one Batman, but there's like six villains. They can't all avoid each other every time, can they?

Penguin in S2 of The Batman (2004):

Now I'm just imagining a Gotham villains' group chat where they try to schedule their evil plans.

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Fun Fact: Vampire bats also have grooved tongues. Have fun with that.

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i just genuinely love how much fun n fashionable the designers got to be in this series i could literally just talk abt their costumes all day

#I LOVE THE DESIGNS SM #they were such a delight for kid me

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So I'm revisiting/rewatching The Batman 2004 and even reading some of the comics that were released for the show and these particular lines of dialogue from one of them basically destroys any Twitter argument against Batman, lol.

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you all know the meme i’m not adding text

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I think about this clip at least once a day

#sorry to all the wick fans following me rn I'm on a batman fixation now #AND I JUST REMEMBERED THAT PEOPLE STILL TALK ABOUT MY CHILDHOOD BATMAN SHOW <3 #the batman 2004 my beloved

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I hope y'all know it terrifies me when I get a notification and it's someone liking a post I made before like... late 2021. The first two years on Tumblr are not my proudest memories.

Well, everything before 2022 aren't my proudest memories but you get the idea.

Anyway, I swear I'll post another wick theory/analysis sometime in April. Until then feel free to maybe give me some asks about wick or other media I'm currently into

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*if your voice has changed to your satisfaction through hormones/training, you can answer for how you felt prior to that change

#sometimes #because to me my voice sounds deeper than it actually is #(aka how it sounds in recordings. etc) #but it's not exclusively gender dysphoria that I get from my high-pitched voice either #'cause I have a complicated relationship w/ feeling like a child (though I'm not) & being mistaken as one

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Overanalyzing The Juniper Tree concerning Wick

HELLO EVERYONE! This is my second Wick theory posted here and I'm glad that I decided to do The Juniper Tree because Oh My God. There's SO much packed into this fairytale.

Long post ahead.

Anyway, for some context: what is The Juniper Tree? Well, it's an old, dark German fairytale that is featured in Journal Page 29 (aka the one related to Caleb)

Well, technically the actual fairytale isn't word-for-word written like how it is in Wick, but still. It's literally a variant of The Juniper Tree. Most people assume this is a poem made by Hellbent Games themselves just to be like “Yeah Mary killed Caleb lol” but it's a full fairytale published by the Brothers Grimm.

So, what are the themes, before we get into all the passages? Well...

Child abuse, murder, CANNIBALISM, and biblical symbolism. Very much in line with Wick, especially Caleb. Be warned, however, the cannibalism thing is an absolute jumpscare if you're reading it for the first time.

Anyway let's get started.

Alright, first things first is that the mom dies during childbirth and another woman (the stepmom) takes her place. Do I think this has any heavy relevance to Wick? Not really. It could be symbolic with Mary, as in once she had Caleb the past her “died”.

The next part about the stepmom loving her daughter but hating her stepson to the point of abuse suggests something not many consider... Caleb, like Tim and Tom, was abused by Mary as well. You'd think for seeming to be the golden child of the family, Mary wouldn't do that to Caleb, but expectations aren't always reality. I mean, none of the items relating to Caleb mentions anything about Mary caring for him, and Old Man Edwards even talks about how Mary seemingly neglected all of her kids. Of course, it'd extend to Caleb.

Another thing is that “the Evil One” is referenced throughout the story. This is a title of, obviously, the devil. Considering that throughout Wick, there are implications of another supernatural entity, likely a demon, haunting the Weaver family before their deaths... yeah, this is just more evidence.

And now we come to the son's... very fucked up death. This reminds me of how it's sometimes theorized that before being buried alive, Caleb had been struck in the head by the shovel. Like, the “DIG THIS!” achievement's picture shows Caleb being hit with, you guessed it, a shovel. If you look closely at Caleb's model's face, he looks to have some scarring on his face.

Another thing about this scene is the son saying “Mother, how angry you look. Yes, give me an apple.” almost feels... defiant in a way? Even if he's always afraid, he still fights back in his own way. This could be how Caleb was as well.

We now have a name for the daughter: Marlene. Or well, in the original English translation, it's Marlinchen, but I'll still use Marlene for simplicity.

This part of the story possibly gives insight into the aftermath of Caleb's disappearance/death. Caleb was likely not fully buried but still died, which left Lillian (who is obviously in the place of Marlene, she is the only daughter after all) to find the body. Being younger, and also the closest to Caleb via the version of the fairytale in the Journal, was devastated.

And then comes the... really fucked up part.

I don't have much to discuss for this, since this part was seemingly removed in the Journal's version. But seriously, this is actually messed up. The dad, largely absent until now, unknowingly EATS HIS OWN SON. The absence of the dad certainly fits with John being absent during the war.

First off is Marlene gathering her brother's bones and tying them up in her (best) scarf before lying them beneath the juniper tree. Like the stepmom killing the son, this matches up with the Journal's version of the fairytale. Lillian likely reburied Caleb, but while Mary was malevolent in burying him alive, Lillian put thought and care into burying Caleb's body as seen in the rags he's wearing in-game. (Another thing is the “crying tears of blood” which makes me think of Lillian's design in No Way Out.)

Second off is the firey entrance of a bird (specified to be a crow in the Journal's version). Fire obviously reminds us of Mary's death, which we will get to later. The bird, if it isn't obvious enough, is the son reborn, and sings atop a goldsmith's house his sad tale. This brings us back to the start of our journey, the Journal's version of this line of dialogue.

I'll skip some of this, but in short, the bird goes to three locations. A goldsmith, a shoemaker, and a mill. Each time, he sings his tale to the people there, who want him to sing it just once again. He's defiant, telling them he'll only do it if they give him something in return.

The goldsmith gives him a golden chain, the shoemaker gives him a pair of red shoes, and the mill workers give him a millstone. The first two are easy, but what in the world is a millstone? Well, it's a stone used for grinding grain and apparently corn. We'll see what it's used for in a short bit.

The bird returns to his father's house! As shown, the dad is happy while the stepmom and Marlene are upset (for different reasons). After this, the bird sets himself on the juniper tree and sings his tale again.

Of course, the stepmom is practically losing it due to the presence of the bird and his singing, but the dad thinks otherwise. He decides to go out and see the bird despite his wife's anxiety.

Quite an interesting line, considering Mary's fate.

Once the bird finishes, he drops the golden chain as a gift to his dad. In response, the dad goes back inside and despite his pleasant encounter, the stepmom is terrified to the point of falling onto the floor. Holy shit. Anyway, the bird sings once more.

Marlene decides that she'll go out and see if the bird will give her something as well. And as the bird finishes, he drops the pair of red shoes down to her as a gift. Marlene became content and happy, putting on the new shoes and going back into the house.

In response, the stepmom...

The stepmom goes out to see if she'll be given something as well. Technically, it did happen. The bird dropped the millstone onto her, instantly killing her. We're back to Mary's death. And even after this, everything related to fire rises, and from that appears the son, no longer a bird, stew, or a corpse.

I don't think this is a “Caleb set the fire” type of thing. There's more evidence for the twins and the pastor anyway. What I do think this could lead us to is that Caleb at least saw it as a ghost.

Besides that, the line of the dad, son, and Marlene happily going inside and eating is the ending to The Juniper Tree. Which marks my ending to this post!

Thank you for reading my (probably over) analysis of the fairytale concerning Wick's lore. What do you guys think? Do you have any other thoughts about how the story could connect with Wick's lore?

#wick #wick game #wick hellbent games #wick horror game #wick 2015 #wick no way out #hellbent games

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The adhd urge to use parenthesis in every sentence (because every thought comes with additional bonus content)

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something they don’t tell you about being autistic is that every character you write WILL end up autistic/autistic-coded whether you like it or not

#god. yeah

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I feel like some people have a weird romantic fetish for aromantic people because I swear I've had multiple friends confess their feelings for me after coming out as aro.

One even said "I cAn MakE yOu feEL lOvE" like bitch no, no you can not.

#legit #alloromantic ppl leave us aros alone :/