The Save The Earth Fandom Theories and Opinions Meme

[paradiseshrinemaiden]

Since we haven't touched on the Meta Fandom in a while I figured we could give this a shot.

You know how lots of fandoms like to make up all kinds of wild theories about the shows they watch and the various story arcs, especially the personal arcs of their favorite characters. They also have various thoughts and opinions about those characters that might influence those theories. Well, then, what do you think are the most common opinions the fanbase has about your characters? What are the most popular theories about them, their past lives and the possible future directions the story will take them? Post in the comments giving me your answer.

You're also free to comment on other people's posts to talk more about character relationship opinions and the like. Because shipping is the life blood of fandom, and there would much talk about that too.

Bonus points if you can think of anything about what the fandom thinks of the show and plot in general, though it's probably easier to just talk about our characters really. XD;

Comments

[blastiaobsessieanonymous]

Britany Ruff is a confirmed tsundere. For absolutely everyone.

[part_time_overlord]

Most people who speculate about Sam's story wonder just what kind of horrible atrocities he committed as a demon.

Absolutely none of them suspect that in his past life, he ALSO worked at McDonald's. The very worst atrocity of them all.

[paradiseshrinemaiden]

Well... Reimu's only just showed up, so most people are still not entirely sure what to think of her. There is a lot of curiosity about how she's connected to Marisa and Sanae, especially because of how the memories she got about both of them were of her fighting them. Some people think they were past life enemies, and whether she or they were the "good guy" is already being debated upon, especially thanks to that time she revealed that her past self accused Marisa's past self of various crimes.

They're also torn between whether she's a bitch or a low grade tsundere. And a few people are a little wary of how soon she's gotten back a useful power, but since it's not as flashy as what Sanae got in the same scene, it's probably a little over shadowed by that.

People might also be shipping her with both Sanae and Marisa already, but there isn't enough interaction between them yet for either of these to be popular ships. There might be people who are wrongly seeing potential Belligerent Sexual Tension between her and Jovan.

[amberhearted]

For every "closer than acquaintances" CR of Alex's, there is fic or manips of Alex turning the other person into ~his fledgling~ ooh, aah.

[espigeonage]

danananananananana bat bird

Theories about the show/game as a whole

[paradiseshrinemaiden]

I should've posted this before anyone else responded, but post here to talk about what you think think the fandom thinks of the plot of the "show" as a whole and what's going to happen at the end of season one and the like.

[von_uberwolf]

After this thread, everyone and their dog falls into one of two camps about Angela:

1: Angela and Shou are totally gonna bone.

2: Angela is just a horrible no good bitch who kicks puppies.

Some people fall into both camps.

[ursoreckless]

Considering that Shou's actor is very open about his sexual preferences and past relationships, it's not very hard to find fanfiction of even the actors totally boning after their angry on screen preformances.

[von_uberwolf]

(They don't.)

[ursoreckless]

(Though not!Gackt does like to troll anyone that asks him questions about anyone new in his life.)

[dominateartimus]

Everyone is probably wondering how well Xander will take the news that he's becoming the opposite of what he thought he was or how 'beautiful' his breakdown will be and why he has an odd fixation about being handcuffed. Even his cats have a few speculations, like Connor's name starting with the same three letters as Conleth's and if the cats are feline depictions of his preincarnation.

As for shipping disputes, some people want to see Nick and Xander back together, others would like to see him with Ravindra, Ray or Zelos. Then there's a small group who seem to adore the 'big brother instinct' that has been shown to a few younger characters.

[youngestone]

Killian has at least two shipping camps. One ships him with Chloe and the other with Aaron. A few people ship him with Julien because gods forbid two guys can have a regular friendship XD

Story wise, half the fandom totally expects something bad to happen to his mom. There's also bets that he's going to wind up being a bad guy.

[amberhearted]

Fandom also speculates if he and John Mitchell were previously twins or a single person reincarnated into two different people.

[youngestone]

Oh, totally. Or clones.

[espigeonage]

Part of the fandom does still believe Julien is an angel. Basically no one believes "the Apostle" is a bird bird, they think he's some kind of shapeshifter with a six-limbed angel-looking form. Which is part bird. There is little consensus on wtf his denial of it means - sometimes that it means he's definitely getting birdy, some that it's something entirely different, either way he knows subconsciously. All of his memory echoes have been carefully shot to avoid showing his body, or really anything but his wings.

He gets shipped with a lot of people. There's still a dedicated Aarlien fanbase which keeps on keeping on, and they still explode with excitement whenever Julien mentions him, as he's done fairly regularly. And they get into ship wars with other fen, but really there's no following quite as strong as that one.

Julien's usual portrayal has changed a little over the months. He's still pretty variable, he's often the self-insert or goes along with everything, but fandom has caught on to the spy skills. So there's a degree of works where he is some kind of badass and Neo-ish, and does parkour. Naturally he wears a lot of black in those.

The pigeon hospital thing is a sign of saintliness, though, and a lot of his portrayal has become extremely softhearted. So the weepy, endlessly caring version is rising.

[doomedtheworld]

A few parts of fandom are still at war over Vanessa. There's plenty of fanfic and art shipping her with Alex, Banagher, Mamoru, Chris and others and the plague of hurt/comfort fics continue. She also tends to show up in the background of some fanart in a steretypical burglar costume and running off with bags of money or other items.

Since the reveal of her preincarnation's home world, coupled with the fact that she's the only reincarnate from it, some parts of fandom has begun speculating that she was involved in or directly responsible for the destruction of the planet. "God of Destruction" Vanessa is on the rise among fans.

Helping matters along is the fact that Kristin, Vanessa's actress, has become a bit of a fandom troll recently. Not long ago she tweeted an article speculating on Scadrial's fate and commented "This guy's on to something."

[chalicejoker]

Since Hajime's been having issues with his horrible bugmonster instincts lately, fandom has latched onto the idea that he needs to be ~tamed~. They frequently ignore what sets Hajime off in the first place and every instance during which he hasn't been a crazed bugmonster and portray him as a simmering pot of raw anger, at which point someone comes in and gets him to settle down. Discussion of who needs to be doing the "taming" usually spills over into shipping wars of some kind. Bakura, Thomas, Shou, and Lyall are all very popular candidates here, although the latter usually sees more play in bonding related to mutually being monsters.

Thomas's efforts to get Hajime a date was clearly a bit of misdirection on both their parts in fandom's eyes. The shippers here are very enthusiastic, especially after Hajime almost killed Thomas that one time. Hurt/comfort fics are a very definite thing here. Hajime and Shou at the Halloween party are a very popular topic for fanart. Some suspect that happened just to appease the shippers.

Fandom is also convinced there has to be some sort of connection between the cards and monsters that both Hajime and Bakura are remembering, but what? Most of the more serious theories focus on this.

[ursoreckless]

The speculation grew about it totally being just for the shippers after a few blooper scenes from the party episode were posted in G's weblog in which both G and Hajime are being overly hammy with their 'characters', including one scene in which they try to dance the tango to Madonna's Vogue.

[chalicejoker]

The shipwars that erupted after this video started to circulate were the stuff of shipwar legends, especially after the Hajime/Shou fans started claiming that these bloopers were canon.

I should probably be sorry

[italktofish]

Fandom is pretty sure Arthur's turning into some sort of merman. He may even be some sort of fish shapeshifter, even if he hasn't attained full-on fish form yet. Discussion about exactly what marine creature Arthur may become often gets pretty heated, with pages upon pages of forum discussions going on about different sorts of marine life. Whether or not he'll stay a mammal or become an actual fish is one of those hot-button fandom topics, seeing as how he apparently has to stay in water and has some sort of gills somewhere. Arguments like "But he doesn't NEED air AND DOLPHINS NEED AIR YOU NOOB!" are common.

That he talks to the silverfish in addition to other fish is confusing and not fitting in quite as neatly with the rest of their fan theories, in part because they're overthinking it and finding Arthur's "a fish is a fish, even if it's a bug" explanation a bit too simplistic. There's a popular theory that Arthur is actually eventually going to get the ability to communicate with all animals, and possibly to become them as well. This hasn't been helped out by Arthur's actor tweeting something about bats being involved in Arthur's arc later on. It has, however, led to an flurry of fic where Arthur is having misadventures with Batlex.

Some fans are absolutely convinced that there are IMPORTANT SECRETS hidden within the mystery that is Arthur's tattoo. Fans will sit there and argue for hours on what the three mermaid wolves REALLY MEAN. There is one big, long, convoluted, 100,000 word fic called "The Moon of the Moon of my Immortal Heart" that goes into loving detail of the few months over which Arthur got his tattoo not unlike that one episode of Lost that goes on about Jack's tattoo. It's full of horrible melodrama, Arthur being a brooding young guitarist full of angst, and the most sue-like heroine possible. It's riddled with spelling errors and inconsistent details, and it ends with the sue pregnant with Arthur's baby but leaving for a "small European country called Parislondonistan" because there was a surprise reveal that she was actually that country's long-lost half-dragon, half-elf, half-weretiger princess. No one is sure if it is a trollfic or a legitimate production by some thirteen year old somewhere, but it actually has a small fanbase of its own. They're quick to whine about roleplayers and other fic writers not treating the fic as canon despite all its glaring problems, and they're ignored by fans with any sort of sense. Mocking this fic is a popular pastime among the more reasonable fans, and there are many YouTube videos devoted to dramatic readings.

Arthur's Party Bus is an endless source of amusement for the fans, and it too has sparked no end of fanfic and fanart. Road trip stories are very common, even if the fans seem to forget that everyone will forget everything when they leave the city so that the fic may go on. There's a popular subgenre in which Arthur drags someone, usually a reluctant Wheatley or a humanized Cinderella, to Vegas. Many of them end up in marriages officiated by an Elvis impersonator. Sometimes, the Party Bus returns to Locke full of showgirls, glitter, and white mermaid tigers.

[talktothedoll]

Between Mort's concerns that he was an alchemist in a past life and the fact that he created a monster out of nothing but a baseball and a weird coin, fandom is absolutely 100% convinced that the creepy little doll will fully come to life at any moment. It moves when the cameras aren't on it to the point that the fourth wall was brushed up against when the characters noticed it moved when no one was looking at it!

If a character has sought him out for therapy, that character has been shipped with him. Because fandom.

[originaloddcouple]

With the recent reveals of A) Miria spotting a dead body in her past and B) Isaac's... memorable breakdown upon remembering that he had a stint in Alcatraz, the fandom thinks there's more to the Dians than meets the eye.

A majority seems to think that Isaac was responsible for the boy's death and was manipulating Miria to commit crimes before and after the event. It's a popular fan theory that Isaac will suddenly become an evil jerk and Miria an innocent victim. Many treat this has a horrible tragedy that will affect the Dians' buddies, while a small minority think Miria can be shipped with others because of it.

People also think the Dians stumbled upon something really important in their world. They use the Comic-con trailers as evidence, noting the blood red goo and Isaac's mysterious reveal. Which I will probably get to eventually.

Still, an optimistic bunch think the other characters are right and there is a completely normal reason for what was in their past. These consider the Dians to be in a Reincarnated Romance. Which is awesome.

[wannabered]

Lately, focus on the Thomas fans has moved from speculation to more shipping focus. This being mostly fueled by his situation with Pia and the dating episode with Hajime. Thomas' polite nature toward Cinderella and growing interactions with Lina not exactly helping change this new focus.

Most of the Bakura/Hajime shippers just hate him, viewing him as in the way and purposefully being a dick to Bakura to get in the way. Some just view him as a thirdwheel, this being mostly after him being helpful during the Dead District visit.

Those that are speculating, with the appearance of his car, the memories of it transforming, and the superhero action figure, have gone into overdrive. The most popular idea is to tie him into Hajime and Bakura, as a hero that exists in whatever monster world they're from. Most tend to just gloss over the tonal difference between his situation and theirs.

[shiromadoushi]

The Wild Mass Guessing page also hints at the fan belief that Thomas is actually a card from Hajime and Bakura's world, explaining away the differences that way. Bakura's actor, ever the troll, sometimes tweets hints of utterly made up things to rile fans up and feed fuel to random theories.

He also made sure a fan picture of him bro-hugging Thomas's actor got around to fuel the shipping fights as well.

God I love this meme

[wannabered]

Thomas' actor definitely didn't mind and has been doing his best to generate more shipping fuel in respects to Bakura, Hajime, Shou, and Enter. There is also talks that Thomas' actor and Hajime's actor are going to try and pull Bakura's into their on set prank war.

The meta game in this game is awesome :D

[shiromadoushi]

All he has to do is ask, man. All he has to do is ask~

XD

[ursoreckless]

It doesn't help that Shou's actor has made some guest appearances in the on-going Karate Bugman series in which the writers had did some tongue-in-cheek play on the Japanese language that can be - if squinted at - refer to Save The Earth.

[not_good_not_wicked]

Marisa fans generally portray her as an explosion addict, which isn't entirely inaccurate. They also aren't quite sure what to make of her fake romance with Bakura, though a popular (and wrong) theory is that after a while they actually WILL fall in love.

Hell, with how friendly and forwards she is, there are probably fans of just about any ship with Marisa. Bakura, Reimu, Tavia, Alex, and just about anyone else she is friends with.