#python nu kappa

plus some angst bc you need it fr

This took me forever 😭😭

Oh boy here we go with the tags... (some of the last names are misspelled but idc i'm tired 💔💔)

(EPILEPSY WARNING (just in case!))

“When the nights were peaceful at Monsters University, four anomalies of unknown origin trespassed onto the campus after escaping the Monstropolis Research Facility. As if things couldn’t get worse, the next morning after the anomalies took shelter at MU, it was revealed that four monsters from three frats and one sorority disappeared without a trace last night. Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan, along with Randy Boggs, Johnny Worthington, Carrie Williams, Roy O’Growlahan and a new monster named Hayley Bennett work together to solve the mysteries behind these strange anomalies, labeled Doppelgängers, and to find the missing monsters. But little did they know that the missing monsters would be the victims of these anomalies and would become the disguises for the doppelgängers. While the doppelgängers are identical to the missing monsters, the real ones would remain missing, their whereabouts unknown.”

NOTES:

Hayley Bennett is an OC of mine (one of many lol)

The monsters blacked out in the video are the hosts/victims of the doppelgängers (If your favorite is blacked out then I am so sorry lol)

I will put the hosts/victims in the hashtags so you don’t have to look and see who is affected or not.

Adding a MonstersU.avi hashtag bc I kinda plan on writing a fanfic on both here and maybe AO3 (when I finally create my account ahhh)

hey! this is actually something i've thought about quite a lot before so here's how i see it:

since monsters are so diverse in the monster world, there are a vast amount of factors that are considered beautiful. some monsters may like 1 eye, some like 3 eyes and some like 8. some like feathers, scales, or fur. it just comes down to preference. but for monsters, generally, scary = beautiful

firstly, for the teeth thing, i imagined that just like human beauty standards, monster beauty standards can change. perhaps yellow teeth used to be the standard, but then it was discovered that whiter teeth made them more visible and gave them a scarier appearance. also, maybe they discovered that poor dental health caused monsters to lose their teeth sooner, which is a problem if you rely on them for scaring. proper dental care allowed you to stay healthy and kept your teeth in good condition, keeping you in the scaring career for longer. like when sulley is brushing his teeth in mi, mike really emphasizes getting rid of plaque

this change could also be why randall's teeth in mi are visibly whiter than they were in mu

as for female monsters, i see it sorta like how jessica rabbit from who framed roger rabbit is in toon town. she's regarded as very beautiful, but not as desireable or successful (to other toons) as roger rabbit, someone more cartoony and goofy looking

so though the more humanoid looking monsters could be considered beautiful, since being a scarer is known as the biggest achievement a monster could have, if you're scary, you're considered beautiful on a whole other level.

another idea i had is that scaring could be considered as a male dominated career, so the scary/beauty standards for female monsters aren't as scrutinized as much as male monsters. this could be why there are more female monsters that aren't necessarily as "scary looking"

this could also play a role into why the pnk's are so cutthroat- with a more conventionally beautiful appearance, they might not be considered the most successful in monster society. sure they could be models and movie stars

(though i can still see """scary/conventionally unattractive""" monsters being just as viable as models and moviestars in the monster world, maybe even more so),

but since scarers are the creme de la creme, "prettier" monsters could sometimes be seen as beautiful but maybe not typically the image of someone "successful" or "desireable" (my oc lia is a scarer and has a body type similar to the pnks so i made this an insecurity of hers hehe)

but monsters can combat this by showing their scariness through their glowing eyes, teeth, claws, etc. this could be valuable as well as there's a scary/surprising factor to appearing "innocent" at first, which could be advantageous in scaring, if you know how to use it (like the pnk's in the toxicity challenge or terri and terry in the scare simulator)

also considering the movie poster seen in maw; it's about monsters in space, likely referring to aliens. humans could be considered aliens/alien-looking to monsters because they come from another world, and heather has a more humanoid appearance

on the other hand, hss is more favored as "one of the most powerful, scary monsters in campus, and they have a more traditionally "scary" appearance. and in monsters at work, of the female monsters in the mu sororities, rosie levin was the one who made it to the same scare/(laugh) floor that sulley/(mike) are/(were) on, at monsters inc.

so really i think beauty is subjective in the monster world since everyone is so different. conventionally beautiful monsters are still beautiful, maybe even some monster's preference, but scary monsters are generally favored most, because of how much monster society is centered around scaring. after all, "scariness is the true measure of a monster."