vox-clamantis-in-deserto:
oh no notebook you said the magic word
(in their language they dont say âi love youâ they just violently stab each other to death and i think thatâs beautiful)
You know, Iâm kinda surprised that so many people jumped on the bandwagon of the murderous lovers thatâs been going around. I see the Notebook and the Clock not as psychopaths, but as careless gods. That is, they have a lot of power, and itâs gone to their heads. The Notepad became viciously controlling because of it, while the Clock just ignores everything that doesnât fit in with his version of reality and doesnât understand the consequences of his actions at all. True, theyâre a bit messed up, but not murderous.
In the first Donât Hug Me Iâm Scared video, the creepy stuff with the hearts and the freaky dancing happened after the Notepad left the characters to their own devices. She didnât mean for that to happen, and thatâs why she said they should never be creative again at the end. Although her messed up views were indirectly responsible for what happened, she would never have instigated that directly herself. As for the clock, in his video, he seems to find peopleâs wishes and opinions funny, and when something that could be bad happens (the dead guy) he just ignores it because he doesnât care. Heâs not making anyone get old and die, he just thinks itâs funny/doesnât care when they do.
Either way, I see them as a lot more passive than theyâre represented here on Tumblr. I love the character designs that so many talented artists and cosplayers have given them, and theyâre a great fandom to be in. But Iâd like to see different interpretations of their personalities too. After all, the point of the videos was that people tend to go along with the opinions of others too much, or do as theyâre told too much.
Iâm not saying that the murderous interpretation of them isnât valid or anything, Iâm just saying that I donât see them that way, and Iâd like to hear other peopleâs thoughts on different ways they could be interpreted. I think that would be pretty cool.
I think those are some really good points, and I had a slightly different interpretation too - though not quite the same as what you said. But it still paints them as something other than psychopaths.
I picture them as immortal/invulnerable beings - perhaps some ancient witchcraft-gone-wrong - who have been alive for a very long time and who are really fuckin sick of living. Death, to them, is the ultimate goal. Theyâve been around so long that theyâve forgotten that mortals find death to be scary. The DHMIS incidents are really just them trying to have fun and remind the three mortal puppets of the wonderful âgiftâ that they have - the ability to die - but inadvertently end up scarring them.
So when I ship them, I picture them sparring and staging each otherâs murders repeatedly and having a lot of fun stabbing and mutilating each other. Itâs almost like roleplaying. The fact that they want to kill each other so badly is a sign not that they hate each other, but that they love each other so dearly. They want each other to be happy, and if only one of them could die, they would each want the other to get what theyâve always yearned for. So theyâd end up trying to kill each other.
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