They're puppets first and foremost.. designed around personality, performance, and visual appeal. A lot of the assumptions about their identity come from audience interpretation, and those perceptions are then applied to the characters as they take on their recurring roles in the future production. As the story develops.. they may realize that these assigned roles DON'T accurately reflect how they see themselves

Mechanics are simple When the key is turned (clockwise) Belavia becomes fully aware, alert, and awake. Turning the key (counterclockwise) sends them into a deep sleep leaving them unable to hear, feel, or respond to anything around them. It not only emphasizes their doll construction but it represents the gradual erosion of their autonomy and loss of control

I still can't believe how well this song fits with Cortex and Wyrinth I'm just going to put it here for the sake of (myself) It might get me to draw something with them sooner than later

I haven't had too many thoughts lately, I'm trying to think of what to share for the other characters who I don't often talk about but my mental health has been in the gutters

Cortex was never particularly social because he kept his distance to analyze and piece together the future system. Most of his time was spent with his cousin (Elvonix) who kept him company during the tests that evaluated their intelligence and their behavioral interactions with the assigned puppet for assignment. Lesley and Roy were trying to identify the future actor most susceptible to attachment? They needed someone who could embody emotions that weren’t inherently negative but weren’t entirely healthy either... That's where Wyrinth came in

The actors feel emotional numbness but they're also hyper aware of how unreal their reality is - The surroundings are uncanny, empty and still frozen in a state of abandonment. None of them have learned how to exist outside this state of stillness which is meant to symbolize how trauma does not vanish the moment a catastrophe event ends or a person reaches adulthood ... Not everyone is able to separate the past from the present and the future that follows

There’s a lot to go over in this song, but I think the most important thing to point out first is how it’s set up from an "I’m the victim, I did nothing wrong" perspective.. as though the singer is completely blameless and unfairly viewed as a monster. This stance puts the fault onto the actual victim who is RIGHTFULLY calling out the behavior while still being gaslit and manipulated into staying with the singer (whose actions they dismiss as "not bad at all" and are completely "fabricated")

The singer (Misgeryguts) displays growing paranoia and becomes increasingly incoherent as she realizes she’s losing control of the situation... She becomes visibly shaken when she realizes that her facade of being the one who’s "hurt" is beginning to slip. Miseryguts blames the victim for the abuse they’re experiencing really saying "You made me do this to you, I never wanted to hurt you because I love you"

THERE IS SO MUCH. MORE. I feel like I might actually get a headache if I dissect everything but the song is a terrible trip of guilt tripping, gaslighting, obsession turned stalking and the entire character herself is supposed to look "unthreatening" on purpose I'd assume. Little details in the music video like the subtle shaking in the hands/pupils really put a light on how ANXIOUS Miseryguts truly is.. Trying to appear as fragile, as innocent and as vulnerable as possible

The twins begin to view adults with immediate distrust and hostility, treating every interaction with suspicion to resentment. They're incapable of putting on the cute or friendly appearance for the audience instead whispering grim remarks about abandonment, neglect, warnings about family and betrayal

I'm not sure I can actually explain the entire story to anyone because it's consistent with several different timelines and details but that's just why it fits Dsmit. The story centers on an actor who is stuck in a play that never seems to end - Everything "resets" at her death and she is left over and over again looking for an answer on how to stop it

If I'm not mistaken, She turns the knife on the other actors as well but the "true ending" happens when she ends her own life. There is 4 songs and it's just REALLY the closest I'll ever get to my AU that's in a set of songs for Vocaloid. Everytime I remember it I get happy again

Also some of the lyrics are very! Telling to the AU in general.. SOMETHING ABOUT. SCRIPTS. AND ACTORS. AND A PLAY. Also the characters are represented as PUPPETS I'm. crazy

With the little I had shared about Marina becoming physically destructive, I want to clarify that it’s less therapeutic and more a form of self harm. Everything ALWAYS feels newly wounded and impossible to settle to the point where the overload becomes unbearable.. She’s constantly trying to quiet the noise of everything her systems are attempting to process, while more and more keeps forcing itself onto her until she starts to break under it..

Lucid is as real as he can possibly be. He isn’t following a script, he stands outside the artificial boundaries of the studio’s liminal walls. Once Wyrinth started to take hold of the Digital World wire by wire - he relentlessly stalked Lucid through studying his behavior, his relationships, and everything about him whenever he was on set..

Everything is cataloged in the Digital World and connects directly to the control panel responsible for restarting the episodes (1900s into the 2000s). There isn’t really a concept of time for the puppets but they do recognize June 19th whenever the calendar changes to June. To them it's a memory, a warning and something traumatic they can’t escape

Marina is the experiment, the exact puppet the other three analyze and regulate more than the producers themselves ever could. They study whether Marina (As a puppet without a proper episode) can still develop an identity, understand morality and properly function alongside the other actors. She is intentionally placed into situations that would test how she adapts whether it's in isolation, something that overstimulates her senses or forces her to sit alone with complete darkness