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Who is Clancy and why is he important?

So I know there are a lot of fans at the moment who are confused about the storyline involving Clancy and Dema and who the Bishops are, and in this essay I will try my best to explain who everyone is, why they’re important and any details that might be missing to explain the situation a little better

I think the best place to start is with the first Clancy letter

Let’s start on the contents before we talk about the secret message.

The first line “The perplexities of the Dema horizon didn’t occur to me till my ninth year” seems to be a reference to how many years twenty one pilots has been a band The rest of this paragraph deals with Clancy’s disillusionment with what Dema used to mean to him and what it means now. He also recognizes that Dema isn’t his home, and how the home that he knows now feels like a trap.

The second paragraph deals with what the Dema day in day out looks like. Everyone has a job to do and everyone does it, they delight in accomplishing the easy tasks and it gives them enjoyment. They all do this to please their Bishops.

The third paragraph gives us our first look at what Dema looks like and who runs it. Keons is Clancy’s Bishop. Each Bishop rules over their section of Dema. (we’ll get to that in a second) Clancy describes Keons as being no nonsense and stoic and the most put together of their region. Clancy also mentions that Keons, compared to some other Bishops who are needlessly cruel, makes them proud to be under his leadership. Clancy doesn’t say anything bad about Keons and praises him for his steady leadership.

So now let’s talk about the text on the side of the letter. The text fully reads-

“West wall blocked East is up”

This seems to be how people are escaping Dema, one could also assume this is also why the phrase appears so much in the music.

So after this letter appeared people were finding this image of a failed perimeter check, (or this might have been before the letter, I don’t remember)

above the text it looks the like the FPE logo but cut off, the ‘violation of section’ led to a new part of the website. This image is titled ‘ba_dge’ which could mean it’s almost like a badge of honor.

After this came the images of

The tower of silence, and the image of a little boy, which we will talk about first

The tower of silence is a tower where the Zoroastrian people put their dead to be eaten by the vultures because they believe that dead shouldn’t touch the earth or fire. (Be extremely careful when looking up this subject because google will pull up pictures of it in use)

We can assume this is why vultures seem to be a very important part of this album.

The picture of the little boy I have less of a story for.

People who are way smarter than me google image searched both of these and found out their meanings, this one is an image of a child from the world war 2 era, linking it to the play All My Sons by Arthur Miller. (Or at least that's what I remember people talking about all those months ago) This image was titled se__elf (Self maybe?)

The third image that was posted that day was the most important one in my opinion.

this one is titled _ti_su_p (east is up) now

So let’s start breaking down this image

if we zoom in closer, we can see a few different names for what were seeing. The outermost section of Dema is called Necropolis, we can assume this is a reference to the actual towers of silence. It also seems to have a similar structure with it’s pattern as the picture of the towers above does, Moving in from there the other inner circle is called the glorious vista, this also seems to be the city limits, now lets zoom in again

So here we can see the names of some Bishops that look familiar. Both Nico and Keons are here so we can assume these are the names of the Bishops, each represent a song on the Blurryface album. The Bishops from left to right are, Andre, Lisden, Keons, then Nico, Reisdro, Scarver, Then Nills, Vetrono, Lisdo. (Thank you to this post which helped me out with the names)

Their districts that they are the leaders of can also be seen in the image above, and then in the Nico video

another interesting thing about this map, is that if you do something to it, you get a compass in the upper left corner where the map appears to be torn, I haven’t been able to find it, but it is there, this corresponds to the text under the image,

“ sev_ering__tiez gEt out. the compAss lies. they don't control you. get out. the compaSs lies. They don't control you. get out. the compass lIeS. they don't control yoU.get out. the comPass lies. they don't control you.”

This is the only image with text under it.

it also stands to mention that since we talked about a compass we also have to talk about what this means from the first letter, if east is up then we have to move our map around right?

which matches

Which would make Nico and Lisdo touched by the red, and the only one that the red couldn’t be rotated to would be Reisdro, which doesn’t mean much of anything I just find it intresting, that’s about all I have for the map, so let’s move onto the next update, another letter from Clancy.

In this letter there are missing letters that spell out “You are still sleeping”

So in this letter Clancy is talking more about why Dema no longer seems like his home. Clancy would listen to a storyteller talk about what home was supposed to feel like and while Clancy used to be content he now longs for the romance and adventure that he feels Dema does not provide him. There is now a part of him filled with wonder at what could be behind the colossal walls of Dema he longs to escape towards.

So I’m going to skip or gloss over a few code breaking mysteries just because they’re important to unlocking the Dema mystery but not to understanding the story

though I will mention that there was a gif that was the image of a cheetah running and letter flash by at the top spelling out “You don’t know his real name do you” People have concluded that this is either about Blurryface’s name being Nico, or Nico not being Nico’s true name

This is the next image we saw with the caption “ __n_ot_myo_nly_fri_en d” under it.

the next image was the gif of the vulture

So the next letter talks about how Clancy’s eyes are open and he watches everyone go through life with no hopes or dreams. That the Bishops have stolen their trust and their dreams, that everyone walks around like a mindless zombies. Then Clancy mentions the single most interesting thing in any of the letters so far. That the only people who seem to have any light in their eyes are those who have been smeared, and once their punishment is over they forget that they were ever hoping for something else.

The next image seems to be of the HeavyDirtySoul car driving along the mountains. After we get another letter.

This is the first time Clancy mentions we, everything else before this has been talking about himself and only himself, this letter makes it seem like he has a small group of people with him. This letter informs us that there is a huge Bishop event going on inside Dema. The assemblage of the glorified. Clancy mentions that they’ve had no contact from the outside but are hoping that the ‘other side’ will be able to find a way in. They know that they have to travel lower and wait for the torches. They don’t even know where they’re escaping to and they’re willing to be smeared in order to get out. He ends the letter by saying hes terrified yet excited, and the final words of “They don’t control us”

The next Gif was the images of the torches in the tunnel, signifying Clancy’s escape.

This is Clancy’s first letter after getting out of Dema

The first paragraph tells us how long it’s been since Clancy escaped, three nights. The second informs us that Clancy is thinking about Dema and he wishes he could turn the fear off, and that if he ever went back he wouldn’t be able to look at it the same way again. The third is talking about all those back in Dema who were so focused on the task at hand they never took the time to examine what was around them. They stayed asleep. The last paragraph on the left side talks about how glad Clancy is to be in Trench, that the walls back home used to seem massive but natural wonder of this place is huge to, he also said that Trench can be precarious and easy to grow weary of, but that he’d rather be here than in Dema, a mindless zombie.

The first paragraph on the right talks a bit more about the natural beauty such as new flowers and colors Clancy’s never seen before. So the next paragraph confuses me, Clancy talks about being alone and wondering if there are any others out in Trench. Which strikes me as odd seeing as how the last letter exclusively uses plural pronouns. Maybe this is used to connect to the reader in a way that is meant to excite? Clancy also talks about seeing things that aren’t there in the corners of his eyes. The last paragraph conclues with the fact that Clancy is scared but excited for the future and with the final line “Cover Me!” the letter ends

The next image is Tyler lying in the river which leads us into the last Clancy letter we have so far, but it wouldn’t surprise me if we are given one soon now that Nico is out

Just to preface this one, this letter came after Jumpsuit.

So now, lets start off with the first paragraph.

Clancy starts off by saying that a few days into his journey he spots someone else. This person is out right in the open, as if he had been here before, while Clancy has kept to the caves entirely hidden from sight. This makes Clancy happy because now he knows that he isn’t the only one out here, but wonders how the stranger could be so unfearful to be out in the open. Clancy follows alongside him inside of the cave system.

The second describes what happens in the video. The banditos appear out of thin air, which Clancy is excited about because he thought they were just a myth. Clancy describes Tyler as having stopped to look up at them, and not being able to tell if Tyler felt encouraged or frightened by their ominous presence.

So then Clancy, overwhelmed by not only seeing another person, plus the banditos, sees the Bishop riding in on his white horse.

The Bishop seems to look up at Clancy in the cave before focusing back on Tyler. Clancy then describes that Tyler, paralyzed by the presence of the Bishop is then smeared. This frightens Clacy, “Keons always seemed gentle and warm - this bishop, at least out here, seemed something else.”

This frightens him so much that he runs, are far and as fast as he can. He leaves his note as a sign that he’s not the only one traveling through Trench.

The last paragraph is Clancy hoping for rest. Now this place feels like a mistake. Dema is somewhere he knows and understands, that at times like these he misses a lot about what he knows. “I’ve witnessed the presence of others for the first time today, and I feel more alone than ever.” He ends his note with another Cover me.

So, in conclusion what do we know?

Clancy ≠ Tyler Clancy ≠ Josh Clancy is a new charcter Clancy is giving us a very important pov due to the fact that he’s alone in Trench, and he’s a character that doesn’t seem to be Tyler or Josh. I think Tyler, Josh, or fellow residents of Dema will use the letters the escape Dema permanently

Nico ≠ Blurryface Nico is using fear to control people but is not Blurryface himself I think it might be logical to consider that Tyler lived in Nico’s district which is why it’s so important for Nico to get him back. Because to Nico it seems to be a big power trip, he can’t have anyone escape his clutches but Tyler keeps escaping, keeps getting smeared, but keeps holding onto hope.

Hope this helps!

#If you took the time to read this I just really want to say thank you #Twenty One Pilots #twenty øne piløts #Josh Dun #tyler joseph #nico and the niners #clancy #dema #jumpsuit #the bishops #nic writes #I hope this helps at least one person

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