Shrimp fixations

• Yuu who’s very confused on the naming conventions because Jack, Kalim, Jamil, Jade, Floyd, Trey, and even Lillia and Leona are normal for the most part but Ace and Deuce??? One and two??? Then Azul who they can’t help but think …blue? His name is just..blue?? Yuu who snorts a little when they learn the evil queens house leader was named Vil which is just a bit on the nose. Who has a similar reaction when learning Rooks last name is Hunt which is just so obvious it’s almost embarrassing. Don’t even get them started on Riddle…they sometimes will laugh and say “Riddle me this Batman…” and Riddle doesn’t understand what they are saying but does NOT appreciate their tone.

• A Yuu who makes money tutoring because they already finished high school before being whisked away to Twst.

• A Yuu who is complaining about how much worse their world is compared to twst and says “But that’s what you get when you elect an actual Nazi rapist as the president!” Who then has to explain the socio-political and economic state of their world and country going from 9/11, WWII, The Civil War, and even the titanic somehow. Ace and Deuce who had been over watching a movie and stopped to question what the hell they were going on about are now deeply concerned with the nightmare Yuu seems to be from. Who can’t keep their mouths shut and tell Cater and Trey about the craziness Yuu just told them. Word spreads quickly and Yuu is now getting water too many questions about their world that they are NOT qualified to answer.

his speech pattern isn't fancy or flowery at all, he uses pretty simple vocabulary and the things he does and says have seemingly no rhyme or reason. compared to everyone else who's deliberately shown as intelligent in the cast, he seems dimwitted in comparison.

but floyd's words hold way more weight than first meets the eye. something like this line from book 3 SEEMS like he's just throwing fuel to the fire:

but we know octatrio's relationship is built on deep trust and believing in each other's ability. floyd and jade genuinely believe that they should wait for azul to realise the situation and stop first. where jade goes for a more direct "azul! stop this at once!" floyd intends to show azul how ridiculous he's acting in hopes of getting him to stop. this line sounds pretty crass of floyd, but in the context of the octatrio's established relationship, it's very specific and intentional.

floyd has complex ideas, but he expresses them in a simplified way that can be very easily misunderstood. floyd's habit of dumbing down his thoughts is a trend with his behaviour. maybe because he thinks faster than he can catch up with, maybe he just couldn't be bothered to explain himself to others. either way, it's clear the dissonance between how he talks and how he thinks is what really creates this illusion that floyd is dumber than he actually is.

his "mood swings" are also an example of this. he switches from one emotion to another for seemingly no reason at all, and he doesn't care to give an explanation to alleviate that confusion either. best you'll get is "i'm just not in the mood" or "i just feel like it right now".

he says very little about what he's actually thinking. he's very laidback, and he lives in the moment. so when complex emotions present themself to him, he can't be bothered to explain these emotions long enough for him or for other people to understand him. if he's upset, he's upset. if he's happy, he's happy. he's not going to bother telling you exactly what is making him upset or excited, because HE knows, and that's all that matters.

(on a side note, i really appreciate how family members like georgina and jade are extremely accepting of floyd's mood swings compared to everyone else. it's very sweet to me.)

actually if you break down the things he's doing/thinking subconciously, he's VERY smart. stuff that automatically happens in his brain that he doesn't have to say out loud, you can see where his intelligence really shines.

floyd is very observant. but he doesn't come across that way at all to people around him (unless they already know how he is). we've seen how sharp he really is, picking up skills and clocking people's personalities relatively immediately even though he's never done/met them before. we see this with stuff like him having legs for only, like, 2 years or less and already he's pretty adept at footwork heavy stuff like dancing and parkour and sports, as well as (a little less noticably so) with how he assigns nicknames to people based on things about them that he notices.

jade and floyd's intelligence types (if you could call it that??) contrast so interestingly imo. unlike jade who is analytical and will dig deeper and deeper on his subject of interest until he has a complete understanding of it, floyd will leave as soon as he thinks he's done with something and rarely does he come back to it (including things like emotions, skills, opinions, so on and so forth).

the REASON why floyd becomes easily disinterested is because floyd's first guess is pretty often the correct answer. being able to notice small details or pick up on techniques is part of his natural ability, to the point that he can do basically everything effortlessly. so where jade has to stay back and really analyze what's going wrong to be able to get the right answer, floyd is already moving on to the next thing. as a result, failure is intriguing to floyd. he gets excited when his abilities and skills are challenged, and he thrives off of challenging people ten times stronger than him and then getting his ass beat because NOW he's got something to work towards.

and it's not just physical skill either. floyd is good at reading people and has fairly good intuition when it comes to people's nature or strength, that's why he often doesn't dig any deeper and assumes things based off the things he already guessed about someone. he comes off as insensitive or shallow because to him, that's how it objectively is (for example, how he talks to epel in his beanfest vignette).

and he isn't going to think any differently until you literally PROVE to him that he's wrong and that you aren't just barking without any bite. add on top of that, his simple vocabulary and how he presents his ideas in a very non-complicated way, it's pretty understandable why people think he's arrogant and that he himself is all talk and no show. (again, see his interaction with epel in his beanfest vignette).

Do as you will with this

The pop music club is made up of those who come off cheerful on the outside to hide their inner turmoil. Kalim, Lilia, and Cater all fit this.

The basketball club is made up of those who are rebellious and do not fit the standards their surroundings set for them. Floyd, Jamil, and Ace are all people who go against the norm.

The board game club is made up of those who will destroy themselves in order to get what they want. Idia and Azul have both sacrificed their own well-beings for their goals.

The equestrian club is made up of those who are strict in themselves, and often times others, as a result of their disciplined upbringings.

The track club is made up of those who give their all to be their best selves.

The spelldrive club is made up of those who strive to be stronger/on top.

The science club is made up of those who are deemed too eccentric to fit in.

The film study club is made up of those who are selfish and therefore misconstrued as cruel, when they actually care deeply for those around them.

The gargoyle study club and mountain hiking club only have solo members because they both represent isolation. Jade is isolated even amongst his peers due to being deemed untrustworthy and having strange hobbies. Malleus is isolated because of his upbringing and his long lifespan.

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