Soldier, poet, king. The taken, the villain, the hero.
I was listening to soldier poet king by the oh hellos just now and realized how it fit gen loss surprisingly well, down to the religious imagery.
Soldier = the taken
Sneeg was the first to “fight back” in the sense of he broke through showfalls filter first and tried his damndest to escape. His character overall is blunt, judgy, and shielded. He fought until the very end, when he was taken down by a security monster trying to break free again. Everytime sneeg “dies”, he doesn’t go down without a fight.
Poet = the villain
Charlie’s character plays the widest variety of roles. It’s still the same guy, the same “actor”, but he’s thrown between being the demon, the patient, and a streamer. Sneer’s character is almost the same between day one and two, but Charlie is drastically different.
King = the hero
Cmon. “There will come a ruler, who’s crown is laid in thorn”. That lyric almost definitely references jesus and ranboo is essentially crucified. The entire show rested on his shoulders, he was the hero. They were the center of everything even though they never wanted to be and it ended up being his downfall, his death.
It just all makes sense in my head ya know? Anyways, soldier poet king makes every piece of media sadder thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
When the doctor randomly takes someone's hand of course it is fine but when i do? Apparently i am 'weird' and 'why are you doing that'
Ranboo but Gwen Stacy and also aimsey cause yes :D
happy Thursday the 20th
I think one of the weirder things from generation loss that i haven't seen anyone mention is that, when ranboo's running from the shark-pickle-lobster-thing and he goes into the basement with the cage, he reaches into the box in the corner and pulls out a hoodie that looks EXACTLY like his. He then uses this hoodie to distract it by placing the hoodie in a cage. The shark-pickle-lobster then goes into the cage, because it thinks the hoodie is ranboo. This also seems weird to me as I'm pretty sure Slime mentions that the shark-pickle-lobster can't see very well (i could be misremembering I'm writing this from memory) meaning that it's probably going off of scent and sound. So not only is there an exact copy of ranboo's hoodie it also smells like them. Idk what this means if anything but it's such a weird detail it really stuck out to me.
EDIT: So first off slime said "once he gets your scent it's over" (at around 1 hour 20 minutes into the YouTube vod) which confirms what I said originally. And here are two photos of the hoodie( slightly shitty because I'm on mobile)
They’ve just got to roll with it!
NEW HYPERFIXATION TIME
Am i having a sensory overload in this fucking museum or did i just not sleep enough except i actually slept for nine hours last night
OH BY THE WAY DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO RUN WITH A FULL BODY CAMERA RIG? CAN WE PLEASE GET A SHOUTOUT FOR THE CAMERA PEOPLE THEY ARE THE REAL MVPS HERE
i voted live bc i was panicking and wanted to have another chance (however slim) to get them out of there somehow, but looking back it definitely was the right decision
it was a mercy they deserved. we saved him, though through death it may be.
thoughts on different rbgtrio combination escape au's:
charlie + sneeg + ranboo: most stable probably. no surprise that when your support system is larger you do better. this does not mean they are normal they just are more balanced. ranboo's inclusion cuts somewhat through sneeg and charlie's relentless codependency and fucked up family dyamic. charlie + ranboo: most common escape au. probably the most possible (would require the least canon divergence to happen) but i need people to recognize the loss of sneeg in this one more. charlie's the older brother now and he doesn't know how to do it. charlie's the older brother and he has no idea how the outside world works. ranboo is fucked up but desperately emotionally clinging to the fact that they managed to get charlie out alive and trying not to think about everyone else the two of them left behind. charlie insists they have to go back and save them, but ranboo doesn't want to risk them being captured again and never making it out. charlie + sneeg: stable mostly by mutually assured destruction. i Know these two are both repressing their emotions but get soo upset when they realize the other is also doing that. both of them feel like they should have saved ranboo and failed- this + the fear of losing the other makes them spiteful over the other's attempt to save them (charlie calling sneeg selfish for trying to leave without going back for anyone, sneeg calling charlie stupid over not trying to save himself) sneeg + ranboo: don't think i've literally ever seen this one and it's a shame. even moreso than charlie+ranboo (since ranboo has less interaction with sneeg) this is an open wound of a duo. sneeg is repressing his emotions by being Useful and ranboo doesn't know how to recognize it and is too caught up in his own rock bottom mental state. ranboo wants to go back to showfall so bad but sneeg won't let them. sneeg keeps cooking ranboo's eggs how charlie liked them. ranboo solo: genuinely the most untenable. they harbor so much guilt over everyone's deaths i truly believe that the best outcome from a ranboo solo would be them returning to showfall. charlie solo: also would probably return to showfall i think. not as fast as ranboo because i think charlie feels less at fault for people's deaths, but he would realize at some point he had absolutely no idea how to interact with the outside world sneeg solo: this man is a hammerhead shark if he stops moving he will Die, and he would probably rather die than return to showfall, since he left everyone else behind and showfall was so so cruel to him personally. unsustainable but takes longer to fall apart than ranboo or charlie solo