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starlitDaydream

trans lesbian. best known for regularly spewing out pages of self-aggrandizing purple prose and passing it off as media analysis. dukesaw's strongest soldier

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Adding Onto This; I'm Getting More And More Certain About Brian As A Mind Player By The Second.

Adding onto this; I'm getting more and more certain about Brian as a Mind player by the second.

Not only does it create that interesting dichotomy with the main cast as I've stated before, but the more I look at totheark in relation to this the more sense I realise it makes. Mind has so many ties to disguises and a fluid sense of self which makes perfect sense for Hoodie, Tim is animalistic and feral in his masked state but Brian doesn't have a split-personality at all. It's the id-superego dichotomy that also makes sense with Mind when you consider Brian's (probable) ultimate goal of bringing Alex to what he perceives as justice.

He just... everything he does seem to relate to getting into people's heads, manipulating how they think, using them as pawns to get what he wants - I'm sure you could argue him bringing out Tim's Masky state counts for something. Plus, Mind incorporates a lot of consideration about possible outcomes/offshoot timelines which makes sense especially in relation to TTA.

Brian is difficult to fully speculate on because he has such little screentime compared to the other main cast members, and even less of that screentime is spent getting to actually know him as a person. All we really know is he was a fun, cheery guy who Alex tried to 'dispose' of, and he donned the Hoody mask and started conspiring to take out Alex & The Operator. We don't even know how he knows what he knows, we just know that he knows it.

That's all I've got for now.

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Jay is definitely a Light player, constantly motivated by a search for the truth and largely kept alive by his own dumb luck and fortune; plus there's the whole 'bringing attention to everyone involved by posting everything on fucking YouTube' thing.

Tim is a Heart player, which seems pretty obvious given his alter-ego of Masky. A great deal of his angst comes from his lack of self-control and his fear of what he does when he dons the mask; the crux of Tim's arc is rejecting his other personality and trying to get a solid grasp on his own emotions.

Alex? He's a harder one to pin down, but I'm gonna say Void. He does begin his arc as fairly Light-focused (a pretentious college film student who wants to put himself out there into the spotlight) but when you consider his primary role in the narrative? Alex is the one desperately trying to spread obscurity and obfuscation because he believes the mere knowledge of the Operator is dangerous - he's motivated to create secrecy and destroy truth & relevance in the name of covering up the cognitohazard that is the Operator.

Brian is really fucking with my head right now. I feel like he's also somewhere on the Light-Void dichotomy? He operates in shadow & secrecy but at the same time he's obsessed with spreading the truth of everything and taunting Alex with the knowledge he holds. His constant tendency for mind-gaming also makes me wonder about Mind? (Which would work quite nicely alongside Tim being a Heart player to place both them and Jay/Alex as opposites.) Also arguably more tied to knowledge than Light, and I did just mention he's fucking with my head.

No strong thoughts on Jessica yet either, but my gut tells me Breath? I'm not too sure, but I guess there's an argument to make that her arc is about freedom from the Operator and disconnection from everything else going on around her.

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Adding Onto This; I'm Getting More And More Certain About Brian As A Mind Player By The Second.

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