Look Alive Sunshine

I love the symbolism of the mask being the "true" identity of a killjoy ... normally masks are used to shield a person's identity , but in Danger Days its one of the truest forms of self expression . When you leave battery city BL/ind. owns your face and your identity, so by making yourself a mask you're expressing your individuality in a way BL/ind. can't take from you . You die with your mask on because its the identity you crafted for yourself instead of the one better living bought . Which complements the fact that BL/ind. uses the drac masks to take away your identity . When they replace your mask with their own they literally take away your soul . You can take this headcanon from my cold dead hands

they stopped dressing like vampires by the danger days era because vampires no longer represented being on the fringes of society or being deemed an unlovable dangerous monster and an outcast by collective mainstream ideology. they were instead popularized and completely thematically overhauled to no longer carry that meaning to the cultural climate of that time. to add insult to injury, edward from twilight was inspired by gerard themself while being the complete antithesis of everything gerard stood for aesthetically and ideologically. vampires instead became the villainous members of an oppressive government in the killjoys universe (the dracs), and took on the role of the ongoing systemic soulsucking and brainwashing of the masses in gerard’s own stories. dressing up as the thing that he was rebelling against in this era, on the night of this album’s thematic show, is nothing short of artistic genius.

danger days is so funny. mikey and ray canonically fucking die halfway through and then it's like. SAD! anyways. this ain't a party‼️ 💃💃 get off the dance floor‼️ 🕺🕺

na na na is such an insane song. the moment I hear "killjoys, make some noise" I black out and wake up 5 hours later in a pool of blood