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Theories on the outfits.
Well mostly the ribbons and masks.
First Jack: His ribbons are tied to his wrists and have bows. This shows being controlled or puppeteered (is that a word?) but obvious because we can see the bow. (Also seeing the bow means easier to untie aka loosen the control.) But!... His ribbons are the only ones that aren’t flailing around. They are tied to his back. This gives me the vibe that he is still somewhat in control of himself. Not to mention harness and suspenders like he is constraining himself. It fits his tsundere personality. Also he is holding the one ribbon in his hand and the other looped on his arm, making it hard to grab and gives him more control over it. If the boys are being turned into puppets, Jack is most likely the last one they are turning or he is able to fight back against it… probably both. His mask is barely visible. Yes, because of the angle, but like most of the others the branches are thin and mostly around his eye. Slightly poking over his nose. If you squint or really zoom in.
Jade: Interesting! His ribbons, while flailing about, are not tied around his wrists but forearms. And the big ribbon and bow on his shoulder and almost like it’s going across his body. Given Jade’s personality and unique magic, it is not unlikely he is somewhat aware of being controlled or pretending to be (ribbons not on wrists) and still has somewhat control over himself (ribbon on shoulder). And his mask… looks to me has the least amount of branches trying to grow and is just around his eye. (Note: it’s around his yellow eye that he uses for his unique magic.)
Lilia: Ribbons loose thus easily grab-able and around wrists to control. Now his bows; fit into his cutesy vibe but the black spots tell me he has lapses or moments where he sees through the illusion – moments of consciousness (being in control of himself). His mask though small, is creeping over his nose – a sign of being more under control.
Trey: He is a difficult one. His ribbons aren’t on his wrists but like Ace and Ortho, his bows aren’t visible. So I am a bit stumped on what exactly this means. But his mask does have more obvious creeping branches.
(Fun little note: Trey and Jade’s outfits match, especially the sleeves and wrist cuffs. Also Cater and Vil’s outfits and Leona and Floyd’s.)
The SR cards give me tin soldier vibes. While R cards more booth workers. Trey looks like he sells popcorn, peanuts and cotton candy. Jade looks like the people that take your ticket or advertise shows outside the tents. I can kinda hear the “Step right up! Step right up and try…!” Y’know?
Now Leona: He is the only SR that doesn’t have tassels. It is in your face like the other SRs though. And I will explain what I think the tassels mean with Cater. Ribbons around the wrist and bows visible. Also the ribbons hanging from his clothes. Kinda in the sense of Lilia’s – there is control over himself but it’s hard to grasp and can still be grabbed by the “Puppeteer”. Also worthy to note his mask is almost not noticeable. Yes the angle and his hair but it’s still small.
I think there are degrees as to which they are being controlled or turned into puppets. Leona a little less than the SR but a bit more than the R.
Cater: The tassels! I think these are meant to be a distraction. They are more eye-catching than the ribbons and like I said very in your face. Trying to grab your attention. Trying to distract you from what is actually going on. It also matches that Cater, Floyd and Vil have the tassels because it matches their more attention grabbing presence and personalities. While Leona (no tassels) is more reserved and he is usually more in the background or shadows. Again, on the wrists and bows visible. They also are reaching for us. Either to grab us or be distractions which fit the tin soldier vibe. His mask does have some creeping branches.
Also Cater and Vil are the most neat and presentable while Leona and Floyd’s jackets’ being open fits their more lax personalities. But that is just their personal style.
Vil: Matches Cater. Tassels are around the wrists and bows visible. Also very in your face. And his mask has very noticeable branches. And may be just because he is Vil but he is very attention grabbing. (Also those stilettos! Damn! Kinda envious. I look like a baby giraffe learning how to walk when I wear heels.)
Floyd: Now Floyd is also very interesting. He has four tassels on each arm (the others have two tassels or ribbons) and two on each leg! His mask is also smaller with less branches. And around his yellow eye. This tells me the Puppeteer is controlling him but it’s difficult. They had to use even more restraints on him. Also it’s over his wrist cuffs not under like the other three SRs. This does match Floyd’s personality, that he’d be harder to control.
And finally the SSRs!
Kalim: I’d like to point unlike the other two, Kalim has his bows showing. Since he is used to Jamil’s unique magic and fought of Jade’s, while the other two are ‘almost completely puppets’ Kalim is a little less than them. Will maybe be the first of the three to gain back control over himself. His mask is thick! The other’s branches were thin. Maybe it is the close up but his definitely looks bigger but again less than Ace and Ortho’s branch-wise.
Ace: He has no bows showing! Thus making it more difficult for the control to be untied. The SSR ribbons are also in your face but more performative than distracting. They’re puppets on stage putting on a show. And his mask is very thick and creeping over his nose and under his other eye. And I think (kinda hard to see) by his left ear.
Ortho: Very similar to Ace. No bows on the ribbons. And his mask is almost completely under his other eye. He also got the tin soldier look. Not quite sure what it means but worthy of note that it matches Vil and Cater.
If I had to rank them on almost completely controlled (turned into puppet) to not as much:
Ace and Ortho
Kalim
Vil
Cater
Floyd
Leona
Trey
Lilia
Jade
Jack
So that’s my theory. I could absolutely be reading way too much into it but it felt like the ribbons and masks have to mean something.
Added little things I noticed:
All of them have red feather on their hat like Pinocchio.
The SSRs background look like Geppetto’s workshop but trashed.
The clocks with Ace. Like the whole clock music score while Jiminy Cricket tried to sleep.
The piano in Kalim’s. Maybe ‘dancing to the tune’ but its kinda broken, so broken control maybe.
Cleo the goldfish’s broken bowl in Ortho’s and the birdcage which Pinocchio was in when trapped by Stromboli.
The hidden characters in their clothes:
Figaro the cat on Ace’s belt.
Jiminy Cricket with Ortho (he is very noticeable)
And maybe I’m wrong but on Kalim’s ascot there a vague fish shapes that look like Cleo the goldfish. Which could be the reason for the gold jacket (we don’t see Kalim in a lot of yellow. It does look good.) And his train on his jacket looks like her fin tail.
And the wishing star images on everybody.
Especially Ortho who kinda gives me Blue Fairy vibes.
Other people have discussed it but very fitting that it’s Ace, Kalim and Ortho that are the SSRs. If I had to compare to the other half of the cast in GloMas. If Fellow and/or Giddle (?) “are” = Rollo; Ace = Azul, Kalim = Idia and Ortho = Malleus. (Ortho and Kalim could be switched.) They are to Fellow and Giddle as Azul, Idia and Malleus were the foils to Rollo.
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Happy Halloween
Yes yes I know am back from the dead can you blame me tho there’s so much going on and am absolutely unmotivated to do every fan art I can like I used to now huhu 😭😭
Halloween week at NRC bb!
Have a Mailo having fun. Also have a full body
A fancy lad!
AY YO...SCULLY J. GRAVES ' UNIQUE MAGIC ?! HIS UNIQUE MAGIC IS SCARY NIGHT OR OCTOBER 31ST ?! NO WAY
This song is the bop. I really love this song even though tomorrow is Halloween. I mean look at the twisted Wonderland dorm leaders singing.
pov: getting burried alive
Pumpkin king caterrrrr
First of all Leona is absolutely unnecessarily ethereal. The sole reason I started the game plus the way u drew it omg. The Fictional man so beautiful, I shed a tear. The suit Leona already had me going FERAL.
zero really likes him
I JUST FOUND THESE IN PINTEREST AND THEYVE PROBABLY BEEN OUT FOR A WHILE BUT I DONT CARE I HAVE TO POST THEM
LITERALLY LOOKS AT THEY ALL LOOK SOOO GOOD ESPECIALLY MY MAN JADE LIKE THEY MADE HIM SERVE SPECIFICALLY ALSO THE DYNAMIC ANGLES AND THE LIGHTING???? EAT DOWNNNN KINGS AUGHAJSHDJFBJSDJ
y'all.. this event is SENDING me it's so funny- there's so many funny moments in chapter 4 so here's my favorites:
the mental picture of sebek lifting up idia (who's only like 5 cm/2 in shorter than him-) is SO funny
like imagine seeing some random green haired guy who's tall asf RUNNING through town SCREAMING while carrying an EQUALLY tall, skinny asf guy with FLAMING blue hair ON his back 💀
Poor Trey getting dragged into this shit- even he don't wanna deal with Leona and Malleus's gay petty asf bickering 😭
riddle's tantrums are NOTHING compared to them 💀
Sebek (accidentally) SLAMMING Idia with that comment is also the greatest thing ever-
"hermit" is wild 💀 and the worse part is sebek met it with 100% sincerity, this is the nicest he's been all event and he literally told idia he doesn't go outside enough 😭
(in order to fit the 30 photo limit, i combined the first screenshot with the rest of these screenshots, Vil didn't immediately say the plan after insulting Sebek)
Vil slamming another freshman as a "unwashed, overripened vegetable” never gets old, atleast Sebek isn’t another potato (HE HAD THE CHANCE TO CALL HIM A CABBAGE BECAUSE OF HIS HAIR BUT HE DIDNT AND ITS SO TRAGIC-)
Idia trying his best to escape Sebek also is hilarious but unfortunately, he's not brave enough to challenge Vil's authority- and Epel finally has a reason to be grateful about being in Pomefiore 💀
Idia saying he regrets being a dorm head is also extremely funny because i just KNOW he’s thinking “dude I would’ve never been the party leader if i’d have to team with these annoying noobs..”
Leona cheering on the little girl and mocking Malleus cause he knows DAMN well Malleus can't actually hurt her is also hilarious-
Malleus is also petty enough for Leona to be WRONG about this, but atleast he got some sense knocked into him before the poor girl got blasted into smithereens- Malleus was actually gonna magic blast her into oblivion like 💀💀
(side note: leona looks SO handsome when he's actually laughing with a big smile, it's so unfortunate that we don't see this sprite often..)
Malleus and Leona getting along in order to gang up on Trey is lowkey CRAZY cause what is Trey gonna do to them 💀 mf was about to be bodied if he hadn't run off to talk with Shock in order avoid them-
(legitimately will never understand why they decided Trey was an enemy for trying to mediate their arguements by agreeing with both of them- dude is trying his best and yall dont stfu with your gay ass arguments like i would be tired of that shit too 😭)
laughed particularly hard after seeing these three reblogs that were all within 5 notes of each other in my inbox
my guy started tweaking out and DRUGGED jack skellington, turned US into a pumpkin (unclear??!?) and KIDNAPPED grim (also unclear?!??) and poor zero witnessed it all- 😭
CRYING laughing while watching the translation of the new jp halloween event because they put the big 4 (housewardens) into a room and told them to collaborate with eachother-
it played out exactly how you imagine it would 💀💀
THEY SPENT THREE WHOLE MINUTES ARGUING ABOUT THIS BRO 😭 ABOUT AN EVENT THAT WAS A WHOLE YEAR AGO
craziest fever dream ever 😭
Note: I just found a fanart of this scene on pinterest and it's the GREATEST THING EVER IM CRYING
THEIR FACES ARE SO GOOD- JAMIL LOOKS SO DONE WITH THIS SHIT AND GRIM IS JUST A LITTLE GUY CLINGING TO SEBEK WITH ALL HIS MIGHT 💀
(this art is NOT mine, credit to @5vyqMf2ItTU936W on twitter)
(even though all the cards are already old news)
(also why is azul the only one with a vest/blazer that looks like a vest? it's easier to see in his sprites but he lowkey ate that-)
I just KNOW that Vil internally cringed when Skully kissed his hand with those crusty lips of his, even with gloves on- 😭
THIS MAN. THIS MAN FR JUMPED OUT OF SOME DARK GOTHIC ROMANCE OTOME GAME- BC THIS HAND KISSING ACTION IS LOWKEY CRAZ 💀
this man is so bold to be doing all that to some randos he met in the woods 😭 genuine gojo behavior (note: did he kidnap them??)
Here's all the other characters reactions btw: (credit to fleurism on yt)
i feel like i've been pretty good at restraining myself in this blog, but that being said..
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ONE CHANCE JUST ONE CHANCE PLEASE HES SO FINE OMG KICKING AND SCREAMING AND CRYING HE LOOKS SO GOOD IM GONNA THROW UP LORD HAVE MERCY PLEASEEE HIS HAIR???!?!?!?!?PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ONE CHANCE IM BEGGING ON MY HANDS AND KNEESSSSS
it's the way that all the posts about the new halloween event are about gojo or yassifying jack skellington 😭