Nea: you look nice. Who dressed you, the Great Depression?
Cross: you look lonely, Nea. I’m so sorry I couldn’t attend your funeral 35 years go.
do I think these dgm characters would survive the wilderness (barring immortality lmao)
Allen: of course. I’m almost sure he’s had to do it before (cross *cough cough*)
Link: no? The streets sure, but the true wilderness? Probably not, unless the crows get that kind of training
Kanda: no. He’ll survive a fight, but he’s not going to be able to scavenge or he’ll eat something poisonous lmao. If the order had wilderness survival training, he probably did everything wrong on purpose
Lenalee: no. She’ll also survive a fight, but she doesn’t strike me as someone who was taught those skills. If anything, I think the order would have intentionally kept her vulnerable in that way to further prevent any running
Lavi: probably. The bookman clan has to have training for that.
Miranda: FUCK no lmao (I’m so sorry, my love)
Alistar: Nope
Timothy: no, sadly. Any education he was given on the subject went in one ear and out the other.
Cross: Yes.
Mother: Yes, she gives old woman who mysteriously survives everything vibes
Klaud: yes… even though she seems like a lady accustomed to finer things
Tiedoll: no… maybe? He seems like a prepared man.
Road: yes. She’s older than she looks, and I think she figured it out because she was bored.
Tyki: yeah, but not because of any actual skill. He survives as a comedy gag.
Sheryl: no, richboy
Apocryphos: unfortunately, yes.
the Earl/Adam: yes. That is one OLD motherfucker.
Mana (no, I’m not explaining): he’s either like Tyki or he absolutely thrives. You go looking for him, and you find him with a fully functional cabin and a garden. It’s been only two days. He didn’t make either, nor did he find them.
Neah: I feel like the answer is no.
gotta be infuriating to be one of the people involved in the plotting/secrets of the Holy War in dgm.
you picked random guy one to be the Guy Who Dies (he even agreed!) and he’s just… so hard to kill. Everything that you’ve done to kill him has backfired and he’s harder to kill now.
your choice to use him as your memory vessel extended his life temporarily. that other guy’s attempt at killing for this decision failed miserably, now he has a weapon and is years younger. the weapon is no longer responding to commands and won’t kill him. yet another person tries to kill him, but because he’s a kid now, he feels bad and spares him. you feel bad when you try to kill him, even after he’s grown up a bit—he’s just so nice!
when he tries to die on his own, he’s super durable.
now you’re just waiting him out, but he’s making everything so difficult. you think you’re getting somewhere, and then he comes back, clinging to life and sanity by the skin of his teeth.
he’s dying at a rapid, unstoppable rate and he’s unkillable.
big fan of characters whose first and greatest indicator of something being deeply wrong with them is how chill they are and how quickly they rebound
allen is better than me because if that many people apologized or expressed remorse for trying to kill me and/or fucking me over royally and then continued to try to kill me/fuck me over, I would have a body count. I’d be swinging. all the time.
I haven’t read the alma karma arc recently, so I could be entirely off base, but does anyone else think that the second exorcist experiments might have been trying to recreate what happened with past!allen? like I don’t remember if there was a given reason/inspiration beyond “need more soldiers, why not revive old ones,” but the basics seem rather similar to me.
a person is revived after being killed (or as good as) in the body of a child with no concrete memory of who they were before (or so I assume in allen's case but that could have happened later).
injuries are unnaturally healed by using the helix of life—in the second exorcists’ case by taking it from their future/lifespan and for allen using someone else’s life.
I think the timeline might match up, too. I don’t know exactly how old allen starts out as, but we do know that present!lavi is older by like 3 years. I think allen looked between 5-8 (terrible at estimating…), so if we go short, that’s ~8 years for the final result to be revealed to apocryphos. And kanda’s been alive for 9 years chronologically, which would put allen’s age at like 6-7. That seems like adequate time to get weird fantasy sci-fi experiments up and running.
and with the way apocryphos was looking at that light cocoon allen was in, I wouldn’t be surprised if he took some inspiration, one way or another.
modern (no powers) au where crowned clown is a tapeworm that Allen formed an emotional attachment to
god rest his soul. he’s not dead, he just needs a break and only god can get him out of that shituation.
please god, put him down (for a nap)
allen: what’s with all this “chosen one” bullshit? Chosen by who? Why me??
allen, upon regaining his memories:
allen: son of a bitch
can’t imagine how Allen’s conversation with the Bookman clan is going to go upon waking up. They’re pissed at him because they couldn’t find past!lavi’s body. Past!lavi didn’t leave a body because he basically absorbed it into past!allen’s.
Imagine having to explain that. How do possibly explain that.
*actively attempting murder*: his compassionate nature and aura of tragedy have captivated me
this is entirely a crackpot theory as I haven’t reread all of dgm in ages, so I’m likely missing a lot of relevant information, but:
is the reason for the earl making akuma to prevent new accommodators? Like, if I’m interpreting past!lavi’s words correctly, innocence feeds off of/attaches itself to people of particular suffering and tragedy, right? And mana won’t let himself grieve/cry because it will attract the earl (I think) and Allen is the same. So is the earl intentionally going after people who experience great suffering and just… nipping them in the bud? if the innocence is hostile, or even just keeping in mind the Noah clan’s hatred of it, then preventing it from getting stronger from feeding or gaining the ability of fight would be a smart move.
I’m not sure why specifically going after people in deep grief is a qualifier outside narrative themes, but it would make some sense to me, especially if the Noah’s past world was destroyed due to something relating to the innocence.
shout out to past!Allen Walker for being some unfortunate rando who came into contact with the narrative and then almost instantly became doomed by it