Kat

re-rendered this piece because I hated it and now I am much happier. reblog this one please support trans artists by reblogging this one

At first, I wasn't completely on board with the idea. I thought that maybe the Lima show came after the North American shows and the Black Parade was being punished for their behaviour. However, I realised a few things that made me fully believe without a doubt that the South American shows come first in the chronological order of LLTBP shows.

The Black Parade arrived on stage as if they had just woken up. They're in a mental hospital (the MOAT), surrounded by nurses, doctors, and fellow inpatients. The four band members are wearing exactly what they were wearing in their final days back in the OG Black Parade era. Mikey is covered in ash and dust. Frank's sleeves are torn. Ray's pants appear to be shredded at the bottom. Gerard's jacket is ripped up. They burned in Mexico City and Draag took them to the MOAT. They're prisoners here.

They have no idea where they are. Not until This Is How I Disappear, when the eyeball prop shows them a picture of themselves. They see their old uniforms and the memories start to come back. This is when Gerard and the others start to get angry that they are trapped here.

Later on, the eyeball says; "In recognition of your progress, here is a gift." Gerard's gift is the Gentleman. At the North American shows, Gerard says that he met the Gentleman in prison. THIS is the moment they met. And the Gentleman seems to be a character on a TV show, Gentleman Castle, which I assume Gerard watched in the MOAT, enjoyed, so the MOAT staff gave him a doll of the main character.

So after the Black Parade is taken out of the MOAT by His Grand Immortal Dictator, their punishment or "reconditioning" is having to perform each night for something they don't believe in. They're given fresh new uniforms and a new boss. And the boss looks suspiciously a lot like a fellow inpatient who Gerard murdered…

During the 2025 shows, Gerard was being haunted by his past in the form of the Clerk, and later the Clown. 

And I still believe that the Clown is a figment of Gerard's imagination; a confusing combination of his old friend from the MOAT and his beloved teddy bear. And when the Clown kills Gerard out of "revenge", it's really Gerard committing suicide because of the guilt of killing his friend.

Swarm tour’s stage is of a war torn city. The costume changes in the backward narrative perspective may be more as callbacks rather than foreshadowing.

Then comes the first iteration of LLTBP where the nation is still very much alive and at its peak (not to mention, the city looks exactly like the war torn one in Swarm. And the narrative of that one ends with the launch of nuclear missiles, the start if the very same war that will eventually wipe out the nation.

drew another one! Really liked rendering this

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