Lsoh Headcanon - Blog Posts

okay i was just about to get in the shower when i was thinking about how exactly twoey’s physiology would work. so i started thinking “well, it’s gotta have some sort of tougher outer layer of ‘skin’ almost like an exoskeleton…but it also has teeth too??” and then i was stumped. like yeah, it’s an alien…but then it struck me:

what if twoey wasn’t a plant at all? like whole ass flesh and bone plant-looking monster? that to me sounds like a very terrifying concept! but all of that aside, i do still want to collaborate on twoey’s anatomy as an actual chlorophyll-haver.

i’m genuinely curious: how do you think twoey anatomically works? i get that her design kinda doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when you think about it, but damnit! i still wanna try!

so yknow, if the botanists of tumblr wanna collab with the lsoh fandom then…by all means…

This idea literally just occurred to me (by that I mean a few hours from when it's being queued, ignore the fact that it was queued for 7 in the morning) but what if Orin was reworked slightly to be Audrey's shitty abusive father and by killing him Seymour achieved the dream of every queer person ever to kill their best friend's shitty parents? I'm imagining that he left to get the milk when she was a kid like she describes in Suddenly Seymour and then took advantage of her kind nature and societally mandated obligation towards him to be able to crash at her apartment after she became an adult and not have to pay rent after his crimes as a dentist finally caught up to him and ruined his career and sent him looking for the solution to the suite of problems he now has at the bottoms of beer bottles. And his abuse towards her still has a sexual component because he sucks. And he 'justifies' it to himself by telling himself and her that her mom probably cheated on him anyway (and therefore she wouldn't be genetically his but is still apparently obligated to let him crash at her apartment and put up with his treatment of her for... reasons?)

Also the parallelism of Seymour killing Audrey's abusive father and his abusive father is nice. It'd be even better if she was the one to kill his abusive father, but I can't think of a way to make that work without significantly restructuring the plot. There could also be some parallelism with Seymour x Twoey considering that there are some jokes based on the premise that Seymour is a father figure of sorts to him (he gets mad at him when he curses and tries to sneak out on him with suitcases like a deadbeat dad and does midnight feedings with blood.) I would probably introduce Audrey's past at The Gutter through her saying (in very different words than the ones I'm using) that her very creation cursed her to be awful and not worthy of a good life (because her mom was a sex worker at The Gutter who Orin solicited the services of), which honestly sounds cooler than her having met him there and plays into the theme of the characters' lack of agency under capitalism that is explored throughout the movie.

Two doodles of Seymour and his Audreys. He gettin a smooch from one of them, but definitely not his preferred one 🌿❤🌿❤🌿❤🌿

The bass riff to Suppertime is friggin sick, if you don't think so, turn on your location, I wanna fight.

The dynamic between Seymour and Audrey II

Since I’m ALWAYS thinking about musicals, especially horror-comedy ones, I was thinking about how Seymour interacts with Twoey and came up with something interesting I wanted to share!

So, the plot hinges on Seymour being bullied/persuaded by Audrey II to do its bidding. This got me thinking about how something as simple as who voices the plant could affect the relationship between the two.

The role is, of course, traditionally male. Seeing as the only vaguely parental figure Seymour ever had was Mushnik, who constantly berated and verbally abused him, it makes sense that Seymour would feel inclined to obey the giant baritone monster plant barking orders at him. 

With Twoey having a male voice, Seymour likely operates in a place of fear and submission, feeling like he has to obey because that’s what he’s always done with the authority in his life. He convinces himself he deserves Mushnik’s abuse, and carries that attitude on to Twoey. 

But masculine-sounding Audrey II is not what I wanted to focus on today.

I don’t know if you guys have seen any bootlegs of productions where Twoey was voiced by a woman, but hot damn are those ladies amazing. I brought this up to my drama teacher recently and she questioned how the would affect the dynamic between Twoey and Seymour.

So here’s what I think:

I believe it would be easier for it to manipulate Seymour if it had a more feminine voice. As I mentioned before, Seymour had no parents, and his only caretaker was Mushnik (a man) who contributed a great deal to Seymour’s inferiority complex and fearful nature.

So imagine, if you will, Seymour taking care of this plant, nurturing it in a way he never was. When it speaks to him for the first time, with the voice of an adult, human woman, imagine how this boy would react? This boy who grew up with no parents, riddled with fear and guilt towards the only guardian he has, suddenly having some sort of female authority in his life, promising him everything he wants? Of course he’s going to listen!

With a masculine voice, Twoey taps into Seymour’s fear of letting people down. I think a feminine voice would prey on his eagerness to please. They stem from the same place, of course, but the subtle differences are what I feel define the possible dynamics between Seymour and Audrey II.

Neither is better or worse, they’re just different. They’re differences the audience would pick up on, even subconsciously, and I think it’s a fun dynamic to analyze. 

TLDR; Masculine Twoey manipulates Seymour’s daddy issues, Feminine Twoey manipulates his mommy issues.

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Kill them with kindness? WRONG nitrous oxide

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Pretty much all of Audrey's coworkers at The Gutter ship her and Seymour after the chorus girls have spent many an hour aggressively peddling the ship between them.

Since Orin is a workaholic for his job that doesn’t involve much strenuous physical activity, he is ironically not that strong. Audrey is probably stronger than him (I can back up the idea of her being physically strong with the fact that she canonically pushed his motorcycle while he was on it.)

Audrey's father left to get the milk very early on, and she barely remembers him. Her family had been middle class and living in a good neighborhood before this happened, but her mom wasn’t able to find a job that paid well enough for them to keep the house after her husband left (sexism yay), and they ended up in Skid Row. Audrey was just old enough to kind of understand what was happening at the time, and she has some vague memories from before she ended up in Skid Row. This is why she is the only character who has a Brooklyn accent.

Orin didn’t actually die from his gas mask just happening to break right at the exact moment that Seymour tried to kill him. What actually happened is that Seymour initially chickened out of killing him, tried to convince him to leave Audrey alone, and got laughed at because Orin was high on nitrous oxide. Orin suddenly lunged at him to get his gun, and he shot him due to an itchy trigger finger, somehow managing to kill the worst person of all time in an incredibly cowardly way. He then blocked out the memory and pretended that he had actually died because his gas mask broke. This isn’t that implausible when you consider that he clearly backed Mr. Mushnik towards the plant on purpose for several seconds and then pretended like he didn’t mean for that to happen (sure, bud.) When this is combined with the extreme convenience (and, let's be honest, lameness) of Orin just happening to die right at that exact moment, the interpretation that he actually did kill Orin seems surprisingly plausible.

Audrey has prosopagnosia (face blindness). Why do I headcanon this? It would explain her not being sure if she thinks Seymour is cute or not, and it would make the leather jacket scene more interesting if Seymour actually looked like Orin to her for a second (parallels between Seymour and Orin as Seymour spirals with guilt and wonders how alike they are we love to see it.) I also like the idea of her primarily associating him with things like the way he carries himself and his characteristic hand gestures in her mind. Like, when she hears his name she thinks about those things instead of his face. She developed prosopagnosia after falling off one of her boyfriend’s motorcycles, and she can compensate for it well enough that she doesn’t realize that she has it, although she sometimes gets a vague sense that something is off with her ability to recognize people.