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Typically, stories have a hero and villain, but there being a heroine and villainess in Cinderella Boy makes me feel like the sides of Good and Evil reflect each other.

There’s the GOOD main female character and the EVIL main female character.

So if Deacon is the GOOD sidekick character, I think Buddy might be getting a henchman sooner or later.

#cinderella boy webtoon #cinderella boy

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so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

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I blame Martyn Inthelittlewood

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#goodtimeswithscar #secret life smp #trafficblr

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Chemical overreaction / compound fracture

#traffic smp #trafficblr #traffic life smp #pearlescentm

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Later:

Wow Buddy, what brought on this sudden change of heart?

But besides for shipping reasons, this change in language is very interesting.

Buddy formerly excluded Chase on account of not being among the group of people he believed deserved a key. Now, he sees Chase as part of a group with him, hence, “OUR keys.”

Buddy can’t be trusted to tell the truth, but he is angry in both photos, and probably isn’t watching what he’s saying. This is at least some shade of the truth, and I can think of several reasons why he might now see Chase as part of his group (aka Ex Libris):

Buddy probably played out stories alone before Chase. That’s long periods of loneliness. Chase - in all his emotional glory - was probably a breath of fresh air that Buddy came to rely on.

Building off the last point, Buddy was in the stories alone as the VILLAIN. He had to act horribly to simpering princesses who just took it. That would lead to major guilt, or at least a blurred understanding of emotion. Chase, again, provides a break from that, fighting against Buddy’s maltreations.

Chase is a human connection that would do Buddy some good. While trying to grt the key, Buddy only strengthened their connection.

Buddy does recognize the importance Chase holds to him, with accounts for the shift in language. He values Chase, and he doesn’t want their interaction to be limited or shared.

(And maybe Buddy also has a crush on Chase. But that’s something to tackle another day.)

#cinderella boy webtoon #cinderella boy #chase cinderella boy #buddy #chase hollow

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repeat after me: i am a sexy bitch and no one ruins my 2014

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dust to dust

#hazbin hotel adam #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel lucifer

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Hi! I love your theories about Cinderella Boy :)

Have you ever wondered why the keys got lost in the first place? Ex Libris sounds like a powerful organization, so it bewilders me how they could have lost multiple powerful artifacts.

Oh! I actually have a bit of a theory about that!

Buddy says, he “has to get the key back before the old man realizes it’s missing.

So some of the higher ups might be blind to the Heroine Key being missing. That book is probably the source of the page that Chase found with the Key in the library. My guess: Someone betrayed the Ex Libris (especially Buddy), and grabbed a/some keys on their way out, along with some instructions. Unfortunately they were nearly caught, and had to hide the Heroine Key in the closest location possible, before they continued running - Silver could have been cracked in thr panic.

As for the other keys, did you notice how dirty they were?

They look like they were burried for 20 years. Which might mean they were stolen/removed separately from the Heroine Key.

So I’m thinking that whatever spell is letting Buddy find Chase was initially developed to catch whoever initially stole the Keys. As for whoever made the story-tracking spell, either they didn’t know that the Keys worn inside the stories aren’t the real Keys, or the person who took the Keys never used them, and was never identified using the story-tracking spell.

But whoever did the initial theft managed to get away with it.

Third theory (im on a roll)

Ex Libris is falling appart. Look at what Silver remembers of it from a while ago(left), vs how Buddy, a current member, veiws it(right).

Grand library to dingy cave. I suspect that there was a downfall in Ex Libris (from the initial Key theft), leaving members scrambling for power - without the ability to make a wish to fix things. Ex Libris is trying to cling on to former glory, but half of the Keys have been lost to the winds, with more being stolen every day.

So basically, TL;DR: Ex Libris lost a number of Keys, so they started a downward spiral, unable to make wishes. The worsening condition makes it easier for more Key(s) to be stolen.

#cinderella boy webtoon #cinderella boy

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It Spreads Chapter 9 [END]

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I blame Martyn Inthelittlewood

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So there’s a webtoon called Cinderella Boy by Punko, and I’m hooked. There are some spoilers about the plot up to the 17th episode, so if you haven’t read that far: continue at your own risk.

The plot goes like so; there’s a boy who goes by Chase, and his mom is sick. He wants to make a magical wish to save her, but to do so, he needs both a magical liquid called Narration, and a set of 12 magical archtype keys. Each of the keys can turn into a little person, but also allow whoever is using that specific key to enter a story, and seemlessly take the place of whatever character holds that specific archtype. There’s a dangerous group called Ex Libris that wants the keys (assumingly to fulfill their personal goals with the wishes) and has most of one, but Chase is on a mission to find all of them.

My big question is this: What keys are there?

So the plot kicks off with Chase finding Silver, the Heroine Key.

So she then tells Chase thst the last thing she remembers is being held by Ex Libris, and dhe refers to the other Keys as her family, and she encourages Chase to find them.

While trave Ing through stories, Chase meets “Buddy”. He wants Chase to stop using the Heroine Key and hand it over to him. Buddy has a Key of his own - but he hides it under his shirt.

Buddy holds the Villainess Key (who’s name Silver tells Chase, is Violet), and is implied to work for Ex Libris. So that one will definitely be hard to get.

In a recent storyline, Silver spots two Keys at a flea market, but by the time Chase runs away, grabs the money to but them, and comes back, one of the Keys has been sold. Chase buys the remaining Key.

The Key that Chase does get turns out to be Bronze who is the Helper Key. The archtype of a sidekick.

And that’s all the know Keys! The Heroine Key (held by Chase), the Villainess Key (held by Buddy/Ex Libris), and the Helper Key (held by Chase/Chase’s cousin).

You get the idea. 3 known, 9 unknown. 2 held, 10 with unknown locations.

And Chase wants to find them.

One of the Keys got sold at the flea market, so it’s likely nearby.

(Left Picture: The lighter colored Key is the missing one.)

And there’s another Key mentioned on the paper that Chase found.

(Right Picture: We can see symbols on 3 of the Keys. From what we can see, the top left is labled “Hero-”, has a rose on top, and a heart shape on the bottom. The top right’s lable is obscured, but we can see the sun on top and the circle shape on the bottom. The bottom left is labled “Villa-” before being cut off, has a gem on top and a curved diamond shape on the bottom. There are no visible details on the bottom right Key.)

The right picture tells us more about the unknown Keys. We know about the Villainess and Heroine Keys that match up with what is seen on the bottom left and top left respectively. But the top right Key’s name is unknown.

So aside from that, we can also guess what the rest of the keys are, because they said to represent the 12 archtypes in stories.

Chase initially mistook the Heroine Key for the Hero Key, which is a good guess for one of the archetypes.

But things get interesting if we look at the 12 Jungian archtypes: The Innocent, Everyman, Hero, Outlaw, Explorer, Creator, Ruler, Magician, Lover, Caregiver, Jester, and Sage.

Breaking down these roles, they are:

The Innocent - The dreamer or a romantic

The Everyman - Kinda background character

The Hero - You know this guy, he’s the warrior, the dragon stayer, the HERO

The Outlaw - The rulebreaker, or revolutionary who dislikes the status quo

The Explorer - The wanderer/seeker, they like their freedom and seek to keep it

The Creator - they seek to bring their vision to fruition as an artist or innovator

The Ruler - The big boss who wants plwer/control (maybe the VILLAINESS)

The Magician - They seek to make others all happy and are charismatic leaders and healers

The Lover - The HEROINE; goal is to be in a relationship

The Caregiver - The HELPER

The Jester - The fool or the trickster who lives for fun

The Sage - The smart one, often the mentor

We do pick up some potential archtypes from this, but we can’t really be all that sure of the names for some vauge ones. Some new ones I feel more sure about might be: Mentor, Trickster, Fool, Leader, Wanderer, Artist/Creator, Rebel, Everyman.

But what do I know? Do your own research, or share your own opinion on the future Key archetypes!

#cinderella boy webtoon #cinderella boy #webtoon

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dust to dust

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel adam #hazbin hotel lucifer

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I want to start this by saying I never wanted to canonically make my characters bad spellers

but because I am a bad speller, and I write the notes for all the characters, then all the characters must canonically be bad spellers

it’s the only reasonable solution

#writing

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So here’s something that might be crazy, but i thought was interesting.

In the webtoon Cinderella Boy by Punko, after meeting two of the key characters, Silver is more confident that Chase will help all of the key people, while Bronze thinks that Chase is going to show a nasty side, and they’ll get the short end of the stick.

Now this may be because Silver has spent more time with Chase, but this can also be a reflection on their personal experiences in stories.

Silver is the heroine key, a person who traditionally suffers at the start before earning a happy ending. Of course she would think that her life now would be her happy ending, and brush aside years of hardship - it’s what she’s used to seeing.

Meanwhile Bronze is the helper key and describes his role as, “traditionally a confidante, aid and sounding board fir the protagonist.” Or as Deacon so aptly describes it: the sidekick. Not really as much as a desired role: one that often gets pushed aside at the end for the hero and heroine to take their bows, or is sometimes turned into a slightly antagonistic figure who works against the hero (he’d have to continueiously hurt his siblings) [this is all based on my experience with these archetypes]. He’s probably jaded by that, and is much more cynical about Chase turning out to be all right - after all, isn’t Chase just another hero who’s going to get his happy ending and throw Bronze aside?

Anyways, go check out Cinderella Boy by Punko on webtoons, it’s really good.

#cinderella boy webtoon #cinderella boy #webtoon

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me when i need to sign in with my work email and password: clicks forgot username and forgot password multiple times

also me, seeing a game i haven’t played in years and clicking log in: ah yes, how could i forget Robotman34, password cangoroos$&

#no seriously this just happened to me #and you definitely remember your password for club penguin so don’t even lie

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are Helen and Mark Blackthorn both allusions for the amount of pressing responsibility that gets dumped on you the minute you turn 18 and no one cares to help you because you're an adult now? parents can kick you out (helen getting all but exiled) you can get conscripted in the military (mark in the wild hunt) and you're supposed to make sure you follow through even though you were just a kid a few days ago; you had your parents and you had your siblings and now they're all gone and you're all alone - you don't know what to do and no one's willing to help you. damn

#helen blackthorn #mark blackthorn #helen and mark blackthorn #blackthorns #shadowhunters #the mortal instruments #tmi helen blackthorn #tmi #tmi headcannon #i’m probably looking too deep #but I just thought of this #and I really liked it #What more excuse do I need #because lets be honest #why else would we be on this site #tmi headcanon

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okay, I know that someone’s probably realized this before me, but i’m really proud that i just figured it out: according to some interpretations of Genesis, in shadowhunters, warlocks are what humanity would have been if Adam and Eve hadn’t eaten the apple.

Let me back up. So, there’s a lot of interpretations of the Garden of Eden scenes in the Bible, as there’s bound to be for a book with so many translations and so much analyses. But this is one interesting interpretation that I remember being told:

*just a little warning, I’m talking about the bible and sex, so skip if you don’t want to hear about either of those*

When the snake tempts Eve to eat the apple, she learns “knowledge of good and evil.” And the whole idea is that the knowledge is of sex. Or reproduction. Let me explain.

Before the apple, Adam and Eve were happily living in the garden, blissfully naïve, set to go on forever, with acces to the tree of life; but then after they eat the apple they are aware, aware that their nudity is odd, and being able to converse with God. Eating the apple teaches Adam and Eve what reproduction is - why private parts should be kept private. In return, God kicks them out of the garden - stopping them from ever again accessing the tree of life (and the ability to live forever).

Adam and Eve trade immortality for the ability to reproduce - keeping the human race going in a different way. Humans can die now, but because we have “knowledge of good and evil”/reproduction we can give birth.

Back to Shadowhunters!

Before Adam and Eve took the apples - before they knew what reproduction was - they were the same as warlocks: Humanoid, unable to naturally die, and also unable to reproduce.

It’s a choice: immortal and barren (warlocks, vampires) or only having a human’s life span and the ability to give birth (werewolves, Nephilim). The same choice of Adam and Eve.

And also it’s funny how how it contrasts Angel creation and Demon creation.

#shadowhunters #the mortal instruments #tmi #biblical references