parts were written at different times sometimes months apart, not everything is coherent, not everything is complete either....
epic rant startigning now virus and trip from the hit series virus and trip are ""OH-KAY-I-GUESS"" (pronounced in strained monotone voice air quotes between each syllable) i say this because theyre funny as shit if you remember how they are insane freaks of nature it is so comical and funny but then you remember "oh. that was their intention the entire time. THATS.. ,.,/;;. CRAZY./'.@#!-'!!." and you will never look at them the same ever again in yopure entire life
pause intro over i think i should actually describes virus and trip now erm
so unfortunately i had to watch their story from dmmd re: connect and its terrible it is so hard to wtch but it taught me something about them that is so interesting and why they are somewhat sad just a tiny bit tho but incredibly scary
when aoba recounts when he was getting taken by them he says that when he tried to use his scrap ability it didn't work because they had no hearts. they didnt have any hopes, likes, fears, or anything so scrap couldnt do anything which 1) is an interesting look into how scrap works and 2) is terrifying and a tiny tiny bit sad
when trip was a kid in the toue labs he used toget into a lot of fights and basically bit every person who he came in contact with except for virus who was the only person he respected and started following him around and started trying to belike him (imitating him dying his hair etc)
in the virus AND trip story from re:connect aoba flashes back to when he wad a teen and when he first met virus anf trip anf a couple months ago i was making fun of trips outfit from then
i noticed something it was just how funny his sprite was but also the fact that the twin gimmick is alithey have they're the only people they understand and the only people who can understand each other they have nothing else no fears or likes or anything so they just do whats interesting in the moment and hats why they're kinda sad i think
that reconnect flashback trip sprite is so. he looks lost. he looks like he lost sight of virus in a crowd and he doesn't know what to do because his entire existence is built around the "we're not twins
"purposely becomes virus' mirror image*"
gimmick and if they arent doing the gimmick then he just doesn't know what to do
also some other things like their songs omfg their songs idk if any of this makes sense what i find sad is hard to explain to someone who doesn't have complete knowledge of everything dmmd anf also because its just hard to explain kinda like i might interpret things differently
thier character designs i really like them i like how simple they are and how they complement each other
if you look closely you can see that they arent just mirror images theres clear differences in their face hair etc that drive home the fact that they're different but trying to be the same like how trips eyebrows are longer and more angular and how virus' hair is rounder and kinda pointing outwards while trips hair it slicked back and pointing up and he also has a mullet also trip has a lower lip for some reasons while most of the time virus doesn't
ok trip segment i think i like trip a tad bit more ig since there more depth to him and ive spent a lot more time thinking abou thim than virussssssss yea
so a moth ago i 100% speedran re:connect in a day and i read trips story from re:connect for the firs time. previously i had only scene the stuff prefore the route split/when youre asked to pick a hand becasue i didnt want to see that shit so yea. i actually ended up fully reading this one, for some reason in reconnect you have to keep holding ctrl to skip so sometimes i pause and read but yea
this was very interesting because i have gained more information on virus and trip hurray.
trip is an actual child. this story is he only time hes been alone i think i mean he was with aoba but he wasnt with virus and he acts like a child like he hasnt grown up. the way he played with his food and how he treated aoba was exactly like a child it was described like that in thw story which confirms my impression that trip does not know what to do without virus because he never grew up
and then i skipped through it the moment that fucking lion appeared you cannot male me watch that shit
masculine devil is their ending song from the original dmmd. holy fucking shit how does any human manage to concoct masculine devil anyways idk i might be high but part of this song sounds sad to me i know nothing about actually music shit but its what it sounds like to me but anyways anyways its a banger in my humble opinion
i dont care if the lyrics have no meaning or aren't meant to be thought about ILL MAKE CONNECTIONS!!!! i just hate when people refuse to see meaning no matter what
to me it sounds oike its about 2 people, 2 people because virus and trip obviously but also because it sounds like 2 people singing which is a very simple but nice touch, who live life constantly wondering only stropping to do what catches their attention for a brief moment before going back to wandering alone together without any direction or anything to look for
"lady! a fine edge! -- walking along the highway -- be frightened drifters -- anytime weak head"
- theyre drifters just walking around with nothing else to do, anytime they feel like it, anytime weak head whatever that means, until something catches their attention, a lady with an intriguing edge or somethings else like just the concept of stimulis or aoba who knows but i'll just be refering to it with she/her
"lady! a torrid dance"
- again calling out to her now that theyve decided its what they'll persue. an intensely hot dance refering to the act of pursuing her or mayube wht they want to do
"a taking eye line -- Stop a wink for a moment"
- they put on their most gripping looks, and to lure her in, stop and wink at her
"with your waiting -- crazy indiscretion"
- with the last bit of hesitation, she goes. a crazy lack of care on her part for falling for it, but also virus and trip's a crazed lack of care, lack of care for anything. the world or the pain of others. th ecrazy indiscretion part feels like a "gotcha" moment because its the last line before it goes into the sick instrumental part but also because its the last line relating to this story i made in my head like the crazy indiscretion is always the last part of whenever virus and trip pursue something like sealing whoever's fate.
"woah, woah, woah -- send word -- woah, woah, woah -- embellish naked word"
- so mad at myself for forgetting it was naked word and not naked world like i wrote somethig for it but WHO CARES the meaning still applies. we'll decorate this boring word that was given to us. youre sending this word? fine, we'll take it and make it our own. they do what they please because everything is just bland to them. "word" can mean a lot of things like it could be a phrase like "be normal conform to society" or whatever or it could genuinely be anything else
virus' song from reconnect, holo ghost, its another one of my fav dmmd songs and i like the lyrics as well theyre more straight forward than masculine devil tho
"as it continues to dry"
- his boring meaningless life continues to go on with nobody who he can connect with anymore anywhere
"brief time instant moment flicker"
- the brief moments of stimulation or excitement quickly fade and hes left with nothing again forever "eon immortal undying"
"songs that melt in different emotions, the answer is im wrong at any time"
- no matter what he does, no matter what songs he experiences, its all the same and inconsequential because its wrong. it doesn't bring him any joy or sadness. nothing
"shadow play wire dance"
- different means of stimulus that are all pointless in the end because no matter what hes still just a "holo ghost"
-skipping a bit,,
"you already dont have anyone else but me"
- hes talking to aoba who has to accept that he will have to spend the rest of his miserable life with virus and that he might as well become a "holo ghost" as well
this immortal is straight forward and idgaf about it i think its mid but same thing as holo ghost basically idgaf
actually i dont think its mid anymore just chill compared to holo ghost and masc devil
"Immortal pig"
"Immortal rain"
"Immortal word"
"Immortal boy"
"Immortal blood"
"Immortal heart"
"Immortal soul"
"Immortal girl"
-but yea immortal like i mentioned in holo ghost is refrence to them being unchanging and forever, immortal also being th efact that they are immortal kind of since they are immune to both sei and aobas scrap powers makig them invincible.
naming different things that are immortal and unchanging in the wprld too yknow. you could say death is the most important part of humaity one of the most important things that shapes life, so without it, so by lacking any restrictions from death, by being immortal, virus and trip lack that someyhing
"This people That people"
"People are people"
-people are people there are many types out there in the world including virus and trip. that fact, like virus and trip themselves, is immortal as well. there will always be cruel people in the wor;ld. there will always be people who feel unchanging unmoved by anything. people who desire but have an unfillable hole in their heart. people who dont feel like they belong anywhere. some are all, none, or a mix of those, but pray that you dont run into a person like virus and trip because there is no changing them they are immortal. because people are people. they are immortal but at their core they are still people. some people just lack the thing that makes them mortal
im writing this "This immortal" sectiion after basically everythging else and i think its a good explaination why i think theyre a tad bit sad like their virus and trip so of corse who give a shit but yea. some people just dont have anything. i think thats what i felt after hearing the explaination for why they were immune to aobas scrap for the first time. a subtle but deep saddness that made me go "...huh." before it goes into the rest of the virus and trip reconnect story and i instantly go "OUHFUCKTHESEGUYS GET OFF THE STAGE NO ONE CARES" but even after that i still look at the booklet art for holo ghost and this immortal from the "dmmd period" album and feel that same subtle sadness
and thats the conclusion of all the serious shit i have to say about them we will now talk about how they are freaks of nature that are funny as fuck of all time.
white day drama track is like a not so scary alternate virus and trip bad ending because they take aoba to a place hes never been to and they do the same thing as in their bad end stories
likw when aoba is left in the dark
they make direct reference to their individual stories when virus offers aoba wine and trip tries to feed him cake like omfg😭its like thwyre mocking it lmao
then ask aoba to feed them like their baby birds these fucking freaks GODDDD whoever writes for the virus and trip department is fucking insane i fucking love it i say department because i lioe imagining specific headquarters designed to manage different aspects of dmmd like a lab like whenever they come up with a new scenario its liek
*guy running into labs slamming door open* I FOUND IT THE PERFECT CONCOCTION!!!
other guy: ...my god. its almost 99% pure freakiness and absolute poppycock.... by god we've done it .... th efujoshis will positively combust with this one!
uhm other freak moments idk rn play the fucking game and find out i totaly havent seen dmmd more times than i can count or know of in more mediums than i can count or know of
hmm how old do you think they are i think theyre older than aoba and sei because they were seis caretakers that doesn't necessarily mean theyre older but thats what i think anyways say trip is like 25 thats 2 years older than abober and sei if thasts true anf factual that would make virus 31 years old which sure
we could reverse it and say virus is 25-29 which would make trip 19-23 and i do not belive trip is 19 i literaslly refuse so we could go wuith 23 which makes him the same age as sei and aobenjermen how do i know this you ask in the re:connect virus and trip stoy flashbackt o teen aoba during the sly blue era viris and trib look very younger and i think trip is a teen at that time because he looks like it hes standing awckwardly anc looks like one so i think hes a teen beacsue i think so during that flash backs wich leads me itno my next point. RE:CONNECT FLASHBACLK TRIP OUTFIT. for this harrowing expedition i will be using my prior testemonies as proof
look at him,. this trip sprite is so. he looks lost. he looks like he lost sight of virus in a crowd and he doesn't know what to do because his entire existence is built around the "we're not twins *purposely becomes virus' mirror image*" gimmick and if they arent doing the gimmick then he just doesn't know what to do. look at his fucking stance.
PAUSE before we get into real for fucking eel vrius anmd trip shit let us talk about the outfits themselevs swag right 2013 harujuku fashion which is so them so despite the need for the shredder they get swag points for real for being cool he has a pin of his lions eye which would be. cute. i guess if it werent for the fact that. also virus a tad bit p[astel goth to me tho idk aboyut yall but i think so because i used to be super into [astel goth and it makes me happy seiing some of thast woah holy shit i miss spelled seeing but that kinda looks luike sei asnd sei has eyues that litterally insane.
back to the asge thing NAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH nah trip aint the same age as sei i refus e but i still think he was teen during sly blue era m,aybe liek 18 when aober waas 16 who give a shit i literally dont fucking care.
wthis video is so good it is one of the highlights of humanity's progress over the past 2 million years
however... just a day or two after finding it i learn that virus and trip,..,., are in fact.,,,..., GHK..! UGEH... ., ., .,half... british.,, UEEOUGH.,,.,,!!!
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UUUEHEHGGHG UGEGEHGG GHHH virus was obviously british trip makes sense too but NNNAANANANANAANA NAH NAH i know trip is american or half american or a poser he would pretend to be american virus is just british SPECIFICALLY in his teens when he looked like this this is without a doubt him in usa form it couldve been just a phase like he looks british in current times but here he looks straight out of 2016 american white boy youtube
(virus and trip fighting people back in the day during his usa phase)
trip: get away from us FAGGOT before i smoke you like one bitch
virus: fantastic show, trip! now let us show them our profound authority
trip: haha thanks man
(nowadays)
trip:
Greetings bruv, allow me to communicate with you momentarily. Why are fellows conversing that you're going around conversing that you've had sexual relations with my boss and the likes?
mizuki: Are you by any chance the employee of Tatsuo Toue jr. casually known as little Toue?
Trip: indubitably I'm little Toue's freak.
mizuki: Therefore are you referring to Toue whose buttocks is fascinatingly enormous?
trip: Oi why are you disrespecting me bruv?
mizuki: My mistake original ribster.
virus: No this cannot be forgiven, now empty the compartments of your pantaloons.
mizuki: For what purpose?
virus: And discard of your fadora as well.
mizuki: For what purpose?
trip: In fact, I am equipped to summon the one casually known as sly blue on your buffoon self. His scrap is sure to deal a heavy load of damage.
STAGEEE PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
STAAAAAGGEEEEEEEEE. PPPPLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
QUEENCARD IM HOT MY BOOB AND BOOTY HOT SPOTLIGHT NAL BWA IM STAR STAR STARRRRRR QUEENCARD IM THE TOP IM TWERKING ON THE RUNWAYYYY ouegh had to look up those lyrics i only know virus and trip from dmmd stage
like YYEEAASSSSS KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ignore the blue fuck in the background KYYAAAAAAAAA fantastic edit
BUT FOR REAL this is still the most insane idea they couldve gone with imagine being aoba and havinh your life ruined by virus and trip and right as youve given up all hope the LIGHT STICKS ON screen comes on OOUUUEEEUEGHHGH
aoba: ...I hope that i'll die soon. Praying deeply, deeply to god, wherever he is, with that thought... i close my eyes..
trip: HURRAY! we did it virus!
virus: indubitably, trip! i think i feel a song coming on!
video i made because trips actor's face omfg
that reminds me of how i first learned of trip cake fiasco way back when i first got inot dmmd i
awww playing with the hexagons
pics i think are quite silly