HC Of The Hour: Since All The LIB (and Webby) Are Based On Animals, They All Have Certain Traits That

HC of the hour: Since all the LIB (and Webby) are based on animals, they all have certain traits that their animal counterparts have.

Pokey- in my silly little headcanons he is NOT AN INSECT, he is a bird, he's a bird boy, let me deny canon - tilts his head at things, usually when he doesn't understand what they are.

Wiggly likes opening things. Jars? He'll open them. Boxes? Consider them not closed. He just likes opening shit and fiddling with stuff.

Nibbly likes to engage in silly play fights with his brothers. Usually only Tinky and him play fight cause goats like play fighting as well. Nibbly is also a sandbox kid, he will dig holes to the concrete (me too Nibbly, our concrete was blue??)

Tinky headbutts people to convey what he wants. He won't say it, he'll just headbutt them until they guess right.

Blinky will fall asleep to playthroughs of games with the brightness all the way up and volume at one. He likes his bright lights and warm, fluffy hoodie.

Webby likes bottle caps. Spiders in captivity are usually given bottle caps as water dishes cause they're tiny. Webby probably has a collection of those metal spiny tops on those glass jars.

Guys guess who my favorite LIB is, you'll never know

Paul Headcanons cause I have an obsession

• Paul is an only child. He just acts like one, idk what to tell you (I am an only child)

• He's the type of guy to carry a breath spray with him everywhere because he's so paranoid about his breathing smelling like coffee (he also has altoids in his purse 24/7)

• Paul has a purse that he refuses to call a purse. He puts extra stuff in it and carries it when he goes on walks

• He doesn't like listening to music anymore, but when he did his favorite songs were California Girls and Wrecking Ball (I will NOT explain)

• He owns a DS and still plays games on it (once when Emma was over she found it when looking for something she misplaced and laughed at him as like a "lmao this is silly," way and Paul hides it in his room under his pillow when Emma comes over to prevent that from happening again)

Sighs I have doodles of Ted but I'm lazy, you will get them tmrw, tonight is hc

bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

emma is the villain of tgwdlm

I need to talk about this oh my god

because it's told from the hive's perspective. paul is the protagonist because he is the one who resists them but must ultimately come to accept that they're right. emma is the one who must be beaten through force.

the difference between the hero and the villain is that the hero must change, while the villain cannot. (I'm not speaking in universals here, just generalizations of how the narrative structures work that tgwdlm uses in parody.) the hero and the villain both hold a belief that represents the thematic evil; by the end of the story, the hero must undergo apotheosis, which is to say, ultimate unity with the thematic good. once this is achieved, he can defeat the villain, who represents the thematic evil completely and is incapable of change.

to the hive, "good" is unquestioning conformity to the group's ideals, specifically, singing and dancing in sync with everybody else. "evil" is refusing to sing and dance along when, clearly, you want to.

paul is the perfect protagonist because he resists song and dance, but largely because it makes him uncomfortable. getting out of your comfort zone is necessary for change! it's a good thing to let yourself go through something uncomfortable in order to come out the other side better and stronger for it. (that much is true; however, sometimes discomfort is a legitimate sign that you should stay away from something.) paul has never really tried singing or dancing, and deep down, is afraid that if he tried it, he might like it. exactly the sort of person who can be converted and used as a shining example of the hive's righteousness.

emma must be the villain because her refusal to fall in line is a choice. she can sing, she can dance, she was in brigadoon in high school and she fuckin killed it, she is even taught a whole ass song with choreography by the hive on their first morning in hatchetfield (emma's comment about how they have to sing "all the time, apparently!" and zoey's implied presence at the theater when the meteor hit - because she was with sam, and sam was there - strongly suggests that nora and zoey were zombified all morning and she had no idea). it's stated by hidgens and suggested by nora and zoey that getting a human to sing/dance along with them is supposed to be a sort of mesmerizing tactic that the hive uses to start synchronizing a person to the hive mind, but emma refuses. she sings and she dances, just like they want, but she chooses to actively hate it the whole time, on principle. she can't be convinced; they have to swarm her, surround her on all sides. let it out is meant to win paul to their side; inevitable is just to gloat.

in the bar scene in hidgens' bunker, emma says that she must be the villain to paul's hero because she was in the musical that got him to hate musicals. on the one hand, she had it backwards; she's the villain because according to the hive, the all-encompassing narrative power, he's not supposed to hate musicals. on the other hand, she's kind of right: paul is the protagonist because he is the guy who didn't like musicals, while emma is the villain because she has the capacity to like musicals as well as experience in them, but has chosen to reject them.

who is the hero and who is the villain all depends on who is telling the story. and the hive is telling this story. don't forget that.