#twst thoughts

SILVER WITH MOCHI!!!! Omg he’s so cute 😭😭💚💚💚💞💞💞

Look how happy mochi isssss awww 🥰🥰💞💞

SEBEK!!! He’s so cute!! I hope Baymax gives him a hug hehe

GRIM HAS A NEW OUFIT 💞💞💞💞

Adorable!!!

In the recent Halloween update 3 Ace and Ortho end up alone with Swing and during this Ace steps in front of Ortho to protect Ortho behind him. this kinda made me wanna go through the story and think about how Ace typically acts in dangerous situations in the story.

Tim Burton Halloween Part 3

Ace and Ortho decide to follow a train in Christmastown to see where it leads and end up isolated back in the forest and eventually caught by Swing. I find it hilarious that Ace takes the initiative to step in front of Ortho considering that Ortho is a humanoid and is actually infinitely more physically durable than him. it kinda also reveals how generally protective Ace is of his friends despite the fact that he usually avoids more troublesome confrontations.

In this confrontation Ace does avoid making it physical and prioritizes buying time for them and looking for an exit but the fact that he purposefully places himself between Ortho and Swing reveals that in this moment he is willing to be the distraction that allows Ortho to run and get backup.

Other Moments of Danger and Patterns

typically when there are upperclassmen in combat he takes a less active role (obviously because he is just less skilled in comparison lol). but when its just the first years in battles he usually steps up and even takes a more protective role when it comes to making sure that they get out of the dangerous situation. but this protective role is actually only reserved for three freshman: Ortho, Grim, and Yuu. for example in Book 6 during the attack on campus by Styx Ace, Deuce, and Epel all take a backseat in the fight until they see that Grim is danger.

(screenshots + translation from Otome Ayui on Youtube)

A similar moment of proactiveness happened when he believed that Grim and Yuu were in danger in his Stitch Event SR story, where he placed himself between the threat and his friends and encouraged them to escape whilst he buys time.

(screenshots and translations from Ekala on Youtube)

honestly I don't know why its only with these three characters that he has this protectiveness with but it is pretty fascinating that those three are the only ones who don't have a unique magic. could it be that subconsciously he sees them as weaker due to the lack of unique magic.

i don't know how much i believe that but it could instead be the fact that these 3 have clear weaknesses in life experience or battle experience. when you're up against a more threatening foe you're options are usually to fall back on tricks that rely on being able to quickly take advantage of hidden knowledge or the environment which is his specialty and is something that Grim/Yuu/Ortho can't rely on because of their lack of experience either in the world or with their "heart".

Synopsis: after getting isekaied into Twisted Wonderland, the only item left in your possession is your phone - great! you can call for help! nvm - every other app except spotify isn’t working. but hey, at least you get to share some stuff from your world with your new friends, right?

Featuring: Heartslabyul, Savanaclaw, Octavinelle, Scarabia,,,,

Warnings: gn!reader, reader is prefect, reader is implied to have spotify before arriving in twisted wonderland, specific artists are mentioned, reader is cool with multiple people sharing their spotify acc

Heartslabyul!

this probably happens at one of the many unbirthday parties you get invited to after Riddle’s overblot.

freshly baked and frosted cakes are getting sliced, the tea is just right, and the roses are all painted ruby red.

so, all you need now is some nice music to liven things up - hence, appropriately opting for Short n’ Sweet by Sabrina Carpenter.

this is a grave mistake.

for starters, the album isn’t exactly PG.

you can see Ace snickering at a few lines, Trey hiding his laughter slightly better but not really, Cater gushing about how Magicammable the music is, Deuce’s ears flushing pink whenever Sabrina says something that simply can’t fly past his head.

oh, and Riddle?

he may have been a sheltered child, but he most definitely knows what Juno means. (probably through overhearing his mother say atrocious things about teen pregnancy, but still.)

so combine that word + position? his face is practically burning red, flushed all the way from his neck to his hairline.

unfortunately for you, you don’t get to play any more music for unbirthday parties. :(

unfortunately for Heartslabyul, Cater convinces you to share your spotify with him, and performs some black magic trickery(internet blackmail)to get Idia to create a one-to-one copy of spotify on his phone.

congrats! now Cay Cay’s got full control of your world’s music! I don’t see how this could go wrong!

did I mention that Cater’s a repeat listener? like the type to listen to the same song for hours on end? and probably likes to blast his music?

no one is spared.

Trey’s baking? cool, let him play some songs that totally fit the vibe! (just searches up ‘songs to bake to’ on spotify and ignores Trey’s look of horror when Cake By The Ocean starts playing.) Riddle’s studying? nice, let’s listen to some lyricless music to help him focus! (which does sound promising at first, only for Cater to stumble upon the Undertale soundtrack. Megalovania is played on repeat twelve times. Riddle is about to burst a vessel.) Ace and Deuce get into trouble? sweet, he has a full sound board for that! (it’s just a sound board with stupid sound effects he plays <\333)

Adeuce practically runs to you to beg for you to change your spotify password, but to no avail - they even try to bribe you with food from Trey, but that doesn’t work either.

Riddle can’t really do anything about it either, ‘cause there are no rules opposing this. you don’t need to check. he’s memorised all eight hundred and ten.

but hey, at least they’re not completely ruined - in fact, a few good things has come out of this.

for starters, Riddle has gotten from listening to some classical music from your world to full on punk, now! (you don’t really know where he discovered it, but he seems calmer recently, so oh well!)

Trey has discovered his affection towards true crime! (yeah you don’t really know where he started listening to those either don’t question it) It really does come in handy whenever he has to bake for long periods of time.

Ace and Deuce get way too invested in Weezer for a bit. (another mystery. things escalate when they try to get some of the first years to do their album cover poses for a photo unironically.)

how Cater convinced Idia to install the app on the others phones will forever be shrouded in secrecy.

yay you now have six people sharing one spotify account! this action will have consequences.

Savanaclaw!

similar to Heartslabyul, the first instance of you using spotify is when you decide to abuse it during book 3 to get Leona’s lazy ass to help you.

and so, you play the most grating, eardrum shattering, migraine inducing song you can humanly think of - baby shark on loop for an hour.

things go over well because Leona folds after twenty minutes and seven death threats - hooray!!!

afterwards, you don’t really use spotify much.

Leona thinks of it as the noise making app, Jack has his own PoisonPod, Ruggie’s always been more of an ambient noise kinda guy…

until Ruggie walks up to you one fine day, asking for a favour. Oh?

turns out when you blasted the-song-that-shall-not-be-named woke Leona up faster than Ruggie’s ever been able to, and you still owe him for that time he snagged you a sandwich during lunch rush, so if you could just hand over your spotify password, shyheehee…

since then, every morning for Leona is an absolute nightmare.

It got even worse when Cheka, that insufferable little fur ball, somehow learnt the song and begged him to sing it. (Leona caved to get Cheka to shut it. It didn’t work because Cheka ended up begging him to sing it for a second time. Then a third, then a fourth, then a fifth. Suffice to say Leona wasn’t very happy.)

Ruggie can and will abuse your free spotify subscription to its fullest - also somehow getting it on his worn out phone(though thievery or bullying Idia with social interaction, I bet).

listens to those saving money and food podcasts while working, opting for someone like Odetari to listen to during warm-ups for spelldrive.

at some point, Leona just walks up to you, brows furrowed, staring you down, before asking “how much?” (To change your spotify password because he can’t take it anymore <\333)

you end up giving it to him but he can’t change it because he needs to verify it with your email, and that sounds like too much effort.

gets you spotify premium instead.

only ever listens to lo-fi.

tried to listen to something else for once but found it too noisy and switched back.

also k.k. slider, for some reason???

just know his favourite song is k.k. lullaby.

Jack is the last person to use your spotify, after much raving from Ace and Deuce. Admittedly, he’s pretty curious.

listens to those motivational podcasts - y’know the ones with titles like ‘Five ways You’re Holding Yourself Back In Daily Life’ yes those. Quotes them and everything.

music wise, I don’t really think Jack’s much of a music enjoyer, but he can appreciate some Fall Out Boy from time to time.

(they all probably scared the shit outta my poor boy Idia asking him to install spotify on their phones.)

wow you now have eight people sharing one account! ahahahahahahahahaha are you feeling it yet?

Octavinelle!

probably would happen in book 4, after you run to the lounge after being held hostage in Scarbia for a bit.

listening to music with the shitty wire earbuds you bought at Sam’s Mystery shop while walking to Scarbia when the Tweels come to badger you.

Floyd legit just rips one earbud off and grins. 

“Whatcha’ listening to, shrimpy?”

jams it into his own ear and walks along, while Jade just gives you the most polite shit-eating grin you’ve ever seen in your life next to you. Asshole.

Floyd basically demands you to give him your spotify password, which wouldn’t really be a problem if he didn’t ask for it mid-fight with OB! Jamil. Azul was not pleased.

is the most inconsistent with his music on this list. 

like seriously, he could go from metal to pop to break beat to rap in less than an hour. 

(how did he even get into so many genres… did he listen to the others playlists?)

plus, he’s made at least forty different playlists by now, which has garnered multiple complaints from the other members abusing using your spotify account.

Jade got curious and you know what that means…

You got cornered after class and he very politely inquired for your spotify password.

you caved because he shoved you in a corner and it looked like he’d cannibalize you if you said no.

listens purely to Nat Geo podcasts. that’s it. smiling eerily about ‘learning more about nature’.

at least he’s having fun?

also oddly knowledgeable about the others choices in music now???

(yup, he definitely snooped through the others playlists.)

azul was the last one to give in to the hype that was sharing your singular spotify account.

inviting you to his VIP lounge, bringing out a contract, face flushing pink when you started snickering at it.

a full document, written entirely in legalese, penning down what time he could use your account, how many playlists he could make, etc etc…

you just give him your password and leave. (as well as snagging a free drink on your way out. score!)

azul probably only has one playlist, comprising of mostly just jazz - Micheal Bublé and the like, classy stuff he can play at the lounge. (secretly has a soft spot for Laufey and beabadoobee. almost got caught listening to them by the Tweels once, fully dropping his phone on the floor, fumbling with it for a good twenty seconds before shoving it into his pocket. Jade wishes he’d filmed it.)

(They all used some form of intimidation to get Idia to install spotify onto their phones. poor Idia.)

Eleven people using one account. This… is… so… fun!!

Scarabia!

you first used spotify in front of them during the after Jamil overblotted party.

playing fun music is necessary for a good party, after all!

and things turn out pretty well!! you play the all-time classic macarena and it’s a smash hit!

you even end up teaching the Scarabian students how to dance the macarena and they even form a conga line!

in fact, it’s such a hit that Kalim keeps inviting you to his parties to play more music for them!

you end up teaching Scarabia a wide array of 2000’s dances, all to their respective songs.

Jamil eventually asks for your spotify because he’s aware you can’t show up to every single party Kalim hosts.

he creates a playlist to play at each party, with the appropriate songs.

it takes Jamil finding out that Azul uses your spotify account for the Monstro Lounge to really pique his interest and start using it for himself.

listens to hip-hop tracks if he wants to practise his street dancing.

probably listens to those cleaning hack podcasts too… and maybe those parenting a toddler ones too, as well as the psychology ones.

tries a lot of the parenting ‘hacks’ on Kalim. pleasantly surprised when a few work.

like Trey, yet another true crime listener.

Kalim asks if he can join in the fun, and you let him!

he probably falls down a rabbit hole of bright, cheery K-pop - Red Velvet, TWICE, Boy Next Door…

got so sad when he learnt he couldn’t collect photo cards or albums, but settled for printing out photos of the album covers and using them as makeshift posters instead.

masters way too many choreographies, but hey, Jamil’s mostly fine with it - after all, Kalim can’t cause too much trouble for him if he’s just dancing in one of the many dance studios that Scarabia houses. 

Kalim almost immediately follows like twenty different artists, causing complaints from the other like eleven people using your account.

In total, there are now thirteen people sharing your singular account!

vil doing your makeup, maybe you aren't very experienced with it or maybe you just asked him to help - but in any case, vil is very attentive, he's careful.

his gaze is focused as he dabs the concealer on your eyebags, he's even squinting a bit, doing his best to not accidentally poke your eyes. but his mouvements are precise, experience.

once vil is done with a step he leans back, grab your chin and move your head to see his work. you can see a small smile make it's way on his face.

vil get close - perhaps unnecessarily close - when he does your eyeliner. you get to see him up-close - it feels a bit foreign to get to see his face so close to yours. perhaps you blush a bit at that - or maybe you don't. vil doesn't notice anyway - he's focusing on drawing the wing as well as he can, it's a bit hard, when if he just lean down a few centimetres he could put his lips on yours. thoughts of how it could feel to kiss you, your lips do look a bit chapped, but he doesn't mind. or what could be your reaction if he did kiss you right now - could you blush, could you push him away ? or could you kiss him back ?

he bits his lips for an instant and shuts down his daydream.

To physically see how exhausted and overworked Jamil was honestly a gut punch, it really puts in to perspective how MUCH he does for Kalim. It makes me sympathize with him more.

Yes, I understand that they did most of the work, but… YUU AND GRIMM WERE WITH THEM THE WHOLE DAMN TIME. It would be possible to make an "honorary title" like beast tamer or those who give light in the dark. Come up with any one. Those who provide important support.

Did they deserve at least a public commendation?!

If this had happened at a party and Malleus Draconia had publicly given his official monarch's thanks for the non-magical child and the fire-eared beast, it would have been enough to acknowledge that they had tried their best too.

These two have been through so many Overblots, they've seen so much horror, pain, tears, and despair. Would it be possible to at least thank them for really trying to reason with the guys and help them based on their strengths and abilities?

Even a short mention would be enough!

Why couldn't one small line be made to involve them in history, in this long, exhausting battle?

I understand that they only play the role of a guide for us.

But still, it's not fair for the two of them.

These two have been through a lot, and they don't have super powers like the others, but that doesn't stop them from fixing guys' brains when the situation requires it.