evil yapping: the blog

Boombox has sort of skyrocketed into a fandom favorite and I CAN SEE WHY. He is ADORABLE, he’s handsome, he’s funny, he likes music, but most importantly, he’s a juicy character. He’s happy on the surface but deeply depressed and lonely deep down, his masking represented by the LITERAL mask on his face. He’s deeply relatable from multiple angles. Whether you’re depressed or autistic or have a personality disorder or, hell, if you’re just KINDA LONELY, he’s great!

But despite his many similarities, Skateboard has not taken off in the same way, and I rarely see people appreciate him. SOOOO…

In all fairness, a good 89% of Skate’s dialogue is skating related. At a surface level, this is ALL he has going on </3

Like jesus. DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER HOBBIES BRO.

However, the first of Skate’s traits makes itself clear when we examine his history with Windforce.

Boombox was exiled from Splintered Skies and his trauma, and ways of COPING with said trauma, are very clear. We know he:

Is deeply depressed and has low self esteem

Zones out a lot

Uses music as a way to express his feelings

Masks his emotions to appear cheerier and okay to others

Among other things!

For Skate?

He must be distracted CONSTANTLY and is restless. This may be another reason for his constant skating; he needs to MOVE.

He’s always working to make things better for others. Although he’s not exactly earnest to a corny extent (see: Sword) he is very caring, just in a quieter way. His letting Coil stay with him whenever he wants is him caring for his friends. He is VERY loyal.

And there’s one more thing. That I find. Really interesting.

Now for those of you who are unaware, every single piece of dialogue in this game is so so outdated. We really can’t learn a lot about the characters from their dialogues because it’s been a WHILE since they were written, and a LOT has changed. These lines are from before the splintered skies lore came out.

But it’s interesting when you think about the fact that Skate WASN’T accepted into Splintered Skies. He was the one who FAILED to prove himself, and was subsequently thrown away. Like he was useless. While his best friend was accepted in…

Of course Boombox came with him and they lived happily ever after, but this. “Chill guy” persona. The way he’s always talking about “going with the flow,” the fact that he is seemingly quite braggy and overconfident. Doesn’t it kind of seem like he’s trying to overcompensate for something…?

shoutout to irl oomf who made me draw this btw

OOC POST

been feeling generally anxious recently so. me

ref/og meme below

Witness the GRAND REOPENING of the Glass Bubble!! A PHIGHTING! dating-sim where you serve bubble tea to inphernals, and hopefully warm your way into their heart ;)!!

You probably saw this on twt and that's because I completely forgot to repost this on tumblr-- so here's for the tumblr audience if you haven't seen it already!

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yeah.

I can't stress enough how Carol Holiday is literally the perfect antagonist for Susie! Not just because she's such a complex and multilayered character in her own right, but also because she embodies the opposing themes that Susie embodies!

Susie has always been a person with destructive and disruptive tendencies, and she still has them even after her little arc in Chapter 1. But while before her acts of destruction were because she believed she couldn't do anything to change things for the better, now she's doing them TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE AND BECAUSE SHE KNOWS THINGS CAN BE BETTER NOT JUST FOR HERSELF BUT FOR THOSE SHE CARES ABOUT.

She's the revolutionary who throws down the old regime so that those under its heel can actually prosper! She's the spring thaw that melts away the long, brutal winter. And that's what makes Carol's character all the more compelling! Because she embodies said long, brutal winter! She embodies the old regime!

She's dissatisfied with things as they are, just like Susie is! But unlike the RADICAL Susie, who embodies going forward, the REACTIONARY Carol wants to return things to a certain point in the past (and you can't blame her, given how that past was a happy one with her family and the Dreemurr family still intact). But just like all reactionaries, she can't or won't acknowledge that it isn't possible and that her attempts to force everything back are hurting everyone, especially her loved ones!

And we can see the conflict between Susie and Carol, and what they embody affects their relationships with Kris and Noelle. Both Kris and Noelle's struggles parallel each other in how they are both being forced to be people who they aren't. Forced to play roles that they don't want to play and are hurting them both! Forced to accept that the powers that they submit to know what's best for them, even more than themselves! And then Susie, being the great disruptor and revolutionary she is, comes into their lives and shows them that they don't have to!

They don't have to accept what's been imposed upon them! They don't have to be people who they aren't! They don't have to let Dess's guitar stay in her room never to be played again, or keep being a puppet for some heart-shaped cosmic horror! They can be true to themselves, and they should be true to themselves! They should be free to let loose and embrace their weird, unorthodox, and freaky natures! They should because...

...despite everything, it's still you!