That’s It, The Professor Is Truly The King Of Sass

crying about cave paintings at 7:51 pm is a good exercise that i recommend

pink in the night

currently really into making these things

oh to be a statue of a goddess covered in moss, somewhere in the garden of the enchanted ruins the castle left behind, for birds to take rest on my shoulders and for animals to sleep in front of my feet, for no ordinary humans to be reached

This is literally the most bomb-ass D&D story I’ve ever read in my life oh my god.

no such thing as wasting your 20s your 20s are for recovering from whatever the fuck happened to you as a kid so that youre ready to get weird with it in your 30s

i’m just a lost boy, lost boy

How to say I love you without saying I love you

Phan version

Who is Nico?

Each of the nine bishops match up with a pattern on the Blurryface cover. (turned the bishop’s image to the left. East is up now.)

Keons - HeavyDirtySoul // Savarver - Tear In My Heart // Listo - Ride // Lisden - Polarize // Reisdro - Doubt // Vetomo - Lane Boy // Andre - Fairly Local  // Nico - (supposedly Stressed Out) // Nills - Goner

The names are random chunks of lyrics. Example: Sacarver is taken from “she’s a carver”. All the bishops do follow this rule, all but Nico. There are no lyrics in Stressed Out that make “NICO”.

So the the first time a spotlight was shed on Nico was the cheetah gif with the phrase “U STILL DONT KNOW HIS REAL NAME DO U?” hidden between the letters N I C O in the place of spaces. We still don’t know Nico’s real name.

My two theories are: 

1. Nico is hiding his true name for some reason. 

2. Nico is replacing an old bishop. (Perhaps he overthrew the previous bishop. Or the old bishop died/stripped of his title and Nico was elected as the new bishop. I don’t know how Dema’s politics work lol)

I am very interested as to why Nico is called out specifically in “Nico And The Niners”. What makes him more significant than the other bishops? The only other bishop that has been name-dropped is Keons. Clancy wrote about Keons in a positive light, and the other eight he considered to be ruthless. (this could be due to Keons brainwashing his personal region or he’s possibly just not as bad of a leader as the other 8.Clancy seems to be too enlightened to believe Keons to be good if he really isn’t) 

Nico may be especially ruthless and a bit of a leader among the bishops. (whether he is a new bishop or has been around a long time will be an interesting detail in the story.) That’s why Tyler addresses them as “Nico and The Niners” instead of just The Niners. Nico is leading them in the chase. 

I am not sure if the cloaked man in the Jumpsuit video is even a bishop. He appears to be a direct representation of Blurryface. From his black fingers and face paint. The veil literally blurring his face, and of course the red cloak. If he is meant to be Nico (Stressed Out), we could take the line from the song “My name’s Blurryface” and perhaps that is Nico’s true identity? 

Probably not, but it’s something to think about. I have gone through all the lyrics of Blurryface and none of the songs explain Nico’s name. So whether Blurryface is just Nico or a combination of all the bishops’ control would be very intriguing. I’m a believer that Tyler doesn’t portray Blurryface, but simply portrays himself “possessed” by Blurryface. So that cloaked figure might be the real Blurryface in the flesh. 

Hopefully we can get more lore and letters to satisfy us till October 5th. I absolutely love the way they are telling this story and I can’t wait to read what everyone else has to say. Please add any thoughts you have! I have so many but the puzzle still isn’t complete! (totally call me out if you have plain and simple answers to any of this. I’m dumb and miss things in plain sight.)

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