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Yapping about Ash and Lexi

Did you notice! In Ashley's depression playlist, every song relates to his relationship with Lexi in some way and his stages of letting her go. When he's speaking to Denny's, the last song that plays before Risk by Metric is A Pearl by Mitski and the order was very intentional. Listen to them side by side and pay attention to the lyrics! You'll see both Ash and Lexi's mental progression play out between the songs.

The previous two songs that play before that (while Denny's is listening to Ash and Lexi through the door) represent Lexi's point of view. They are Don't Speak by No Doubt and Baby Teeth by Flower Face. You can see her perspective through there, and you're meant to empathize with her. It's the first scene where you see that under all her malice and her seemingly unbreakable confidence she is human and vulnerable and filled with regret. You start to understand why Ash had such a hard time letting her go when you see that there's more to her than the antagonistic and manipulative side of her that you've been exposed to. There are layers of unseen complexity to their relationship.

She really was a bad person, but she also really loved him. I might do a flashback sometime depicting them pre-breakup to examine her more. Her downfall came from getting a taste of the feeling that she possessed and controlled him, and enjoying the feeling of pushing the edges of what he would tolerate a little too much. When she loses Ash, she pretends not to care to uphold her image of control, but in private she grieves. When she greets Ash with a smile at the audition, she feels actual pain when he groans at seeing her, but she hides it to keep appearing confident and in control. She's terrified by the idea of someone taking her place by simply deserving what she wants more than she does. She cries in secret to the exact same songs Ash does and checks her phone waiting for a missed call or message from him that never comes. After their breakup, she grows and changes for the better, but it's too late and she still has to suffer the consequences and regret of loss.

Anyway I love Lexi. Partly because I have a soft spot for humanizing the glittery mean girl stereotype, but also because she's so ripe for character work involving becoming a better person just for the sake of it and not because you have anything to gain. She will be back in Thad's series playing a very different part in the story, but still being her iconic self.

Relistening to Scythe Audio’s entire works again (FOR SCIENCE!!!), and seriously, the Alpha guy (does he have a name that isn’t Alpha that I missed somehow???) is SUCH a diva. He must’ve been such a fun hang back before he went crazy.

Behold

The Cheekylution

Featuring my headcanon that Light Magic lightens the user’s hair the more they use it. It’s in my Blade design too, just less prominent because I don’t draw her

So, as yall know, it's been a hot second since @scytheaudio posted 'villain' latest episode I really was just toying around with this for a bit too long lol so here's Cheekys flash back feels! Hope yall like it, love youuuuu!! 💕💕💕

reblog for a bigger garden :)

Cheeky will only lay on the left side of V so she can hear his heartbeat.

If she holds his hand, she makes sure she can feel his pulse point.

It’s not intentional

She just wants to make sure he’s alive.

Ok hear me out

AND DONT JUDGE ME

This with V and Cheeky:

More white VAs need POC side and background characters. I understand why they don't want to make POC characters that they personally voice, but all their character line ups for one series always look so boring just being white, white, white. It's okay to add color to your side characters, it's okay to collab with a VA who's a POC for your POC character!

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Having to clean the shower is so fucking annoying. It’s clean in there. That’s where I go to get clean. It’s clean dude trust me. Stop fucking growing bacteria and stuff man this is the clean locale. You’re embarrassing me in front of the sink

I like to think for the first couple nights of Cheeky sleeping in the hideout from the early videos, it was really hard. The sheer stress and worry that something bad was going to happen to her and everyone else in the hideout was strong.

V took notice not too long since they shared a room and thought it was slightly irritating because she was always just awake which lead him to shitty sleep.

It’d be another night of little to no sleep for cheeky and so she’d get up and walk around the living room/kitchen area just making sure the doors were locked and that the windows (if there even were any) were locked and covered. Cheeky would pace for a while and maybe make tea (yes. Via the microwave so they didn’t wake anyone up).

mind you, this was when V was still learning to trust Cheeky so he didn’t take to kindly to her wandering around the place. That and the idea of Cheeky microwaving tea and accidentally leaving a spoon in the cup was frightening enough.

I don’t have a forward answer about how Cheeky eventually slept, but I like to think V would occasionally come out and talk to Cheeky and take her back to bed in attempts to get her to sleep, and after a while, it worked.

fast forward to now, she still finds it hard to sleep. If she can’t sleep, she’ll get up and walk around and sometimes find people training in the late hours of the night.

There’s always worry for Cheeky no matter what.