#conjecture

Spoilers under cut.

Let’s start with what we know from in-game:

Billy can read and understand about 25 languages, but his attempts to speak them and be understood are undercut by his speech impediment.

Pete is legally blind (common with oculocutaneous albinism). He wears contacts (and prescription sunglasses) that help a little bit but the prescription isn't nearly strong enough so pretty much everything is a blur to him.

The theory that holds the most water for me is that Thomas Astruc never got over having to turn his original dark/teen concept into a lighter more kid-oriented concept in order to get Networks to back it.

The man reads so easily as someone who wants to be recognized as an 'Artiste.' You (don't often) get that from kids media. It was a choice between financial success and sticking to his 'vision'.

Remember ML began as comic concept art labeled 'The Mini Menace' Ladybug, with one cover strongly implying Ladybug's parents had been murdered, ala Peter Parker(ish).

So, the first two seasons were what was promised. Light, kids level episodic stuff. After they gained some traction(and were renewed so more $$$) It feels like TA began to slowly steer the show towards his original desires; darker themes, more drama, and almost 100% Marinette-solo focused.

While in a general sense I understand the desire for artistic integrity, bait and switch it not a proper solution. I think there's a good deal of the feel of bait-and-switch in the grumblings people have about the show.

That man was like 18 when his whole political path started and it was after he was rejected at an institution and after that suspiciously went from a more liberal/central ideology to Christian nationalist, but not automatically, he did really like trump and was slow to side with him. An 18 year old which we all had agreed at some point was legally an adult still in a mental developmental state of transitioning from teen to adult, and the biological fact that men usually are still mentally developing till 25, that’s 7 years of conservative Christian trumpology before his brain was biologically fully developed mentally. Also noted he was from a wealthy family, and in my experience with the group in question that celebrate his murder, yall don’t respond kindly to one- white men, two, he was from a wealthy family which yall have been notorious for ostracizing. So let’s recap here, an 18 year old liberalite is rejected from something he wanted and also felt slighted and not too long after was used to strengthen trumps shamble of a political structure consecutively for years and the likelihood he was not very well liked cuz he’s younger than me so I know bullying and cruelty was a huge problem during that period in schools all over the country and with the way people been attacking that man’s appearance I know that ain’t new commentary.

What I’ve learned about social psychology is this is a prime breeding ground for social influence and manipulation, conditioning and indoctrination and if I’m right about this he was bombarded as a shit person by his former political party meanwhile was a hot commodity in the republican trump era as crutch for trumps poor presidential skills and lack of social likeableness and relatability and after being rejected was overwhelming loved and praised by trump and his posse at a still young age, and he wanted success and trump gave it to him.

I do believe some of us are born with evil in our souls on occasion but with all this reasonable doubt I refuse to blindly settle that he was by default a shit person. This does not in any way mean I excuse his behavior and views or actions and not a support of his decision to go that direction and continue the hateful warpath into his 30s

But as a white person who was conditioned into conservative Christian beliefs I almost didn’t switch political stances and learn because how hostile the political environment was from the other side I only did cuz my love for human beings and facts was stronger than my hatred of the cruelty and disrespect coming from them.

This take is not to make or convince people to forgive him or mourn him or forget the damage but I’m simply stating that as I don’t have all the facts I refuse to in good conscience slander him as wholly a POS.

He is responsible for his actions but if the republicans are in full belief that the left is using universities to indoctrinate students who are commonly 18-19 then it’s a perfectly reasonable argument that Charlie Kirk was in fact indoctrinated by trump and the Republican Party which if people stand by their word, should be outraged at that thought but we’d rather just be happy he’s dead cuz that’s the humanitarian thing to do 😒

Im not stating any of this as facts, just conjecture on possibilities

Just holding everyone accountable for their actions and something about an 18 year old child who has a talent and ambition hanging out with some perverted ignorant old billionaire with an agenda just doesn’t sit right with me. I wouldn’t let my child if I had one be near that man even at 18 years old.

And lowkey kinda mad that he will never get the opportunity to change even if he likely never would have.

I had a change of heart and I ain’t even sorry

Rumi's father?

Hear me out for a sec—

Yeah, they're a popular ship, but even in the movie their relationship never crosses into the exclusive territory of Romantic; ergo, it remains plausibly platonic or even familial. They feel at ease around one another and can be vulnerable about themselves with each other. In a story with a cosmology that includes souls as a metaphysically real thing, a parent-child relationship can create that feeling of refuge…especially when the other parent has made a mistake in her childrearing and become someone the child can't feel open with.

Jinu is four centuries old and hasn't aged a day over his early 20s. He's the sort of demon who keeps in touch with the Light in his heart because he still grieves his (accidental and coerced, I think) betrayal of his family. Because of this aspect of his personality I would say he's the most likely demon to form a relationship with a Hunter where the line between them blurs into a space needed for honesty and self-acceptance and the core human need for love.

Were this conjecture true:

The relationship likely ended when the Sunlight Sisters brought the Honmoon to its strongest during their career, likely having a bit of gold showing up here and there, suggesting it was time to turn their focus to training the next trio. Jinu had been cut off from the living world without the knowledge he'd fathered a child; maybe he never thought it could be possible and quickly let go of the memories of the relationship. Maybe Rumi's mother never told him she was a Hunter, and their meeting had been by chance, perhaps facilitated by Derpy and Sussie, beings who appear to be not demons but something else, capable of passing through the Honmoon freely. After the relationship ends, and then Rumi's mother dies, Rumi grows up never knowing the identity of her father, only that he was a demon.

Then, after Jinu comes up with a solution to Gwi-Ma's problem on a whim, he finds himself again in the living world, and drawn to Rumi until he finds out that she has Gwi-Ma's brand ("brand" as in the ranching symbol burns, not as in Lay's or Mr. Clean). Perhaps he suspects. Perhaps Gwi-Ma suppressed Jinu's memories of the relationship because it could give Jinu an advantage against him, and that's why Jinu never makes the conscious connection between his tryst with a human woman and a half-demon girl's existence.

Any way it may have happened, it resulted in an uneasy alliance that serendipitously gave Jinu absolution and an end to his suffering, destroyed(?) Gwi-Ma, and created a new Rainbow Honmoon built upon self-acceptance-&-unconditional-love instead of joy-in-spite-of-concealed-suffering. Those things could not have happened without Jinu sowing the seeds of self-acceptance in Rumi. Again, the fact that Celine failed/refused to do that as Rumi's adoptive* mother makes room for the unwitting father-figure role of Jinu to fit rather well.