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been reading school bus graveyard lately

I LOVE YOU AIDEN

Aiden Clark is a complex character in a variety of aspects, from symbolism within his design to how his attitude changes throughout the course of the entire comic, and events that predate even that. A majority of this essay will be comparative, looking at the differences and similarities between his child, and current self. I will delve into the significance of certain design features that are the most obvious as they are an outwards symbol of his personality, but also some deeper subjects that may not be as apparent as on the surface. Take this as a guide to understand the character, or my interpretation of him, a little better!

The first, and the most obvious topic of conversation to symbolise this, would be his outwards and physical appearance. I find there’s such a stark difference between him when he was younger, compared to a majority of canon time. Younger aiden generally appears darker. His eyebags are more apparent, making his facial structure seem older than he should have at such a young age, making him appear worn and tired. His hair is black, and eyes are dark too. These aid to the symbolism of his darker hair signifying worry, fear or depression. His clothes are a lot stricter, being seen in a suit in one instance and very drab, plain coloured clothes when alone. If we compare this to how his in canon clothes are bright reds, and yellows and filled with vibrancy, we can see where the two sides of him seem to diverge from one another. Aiden is consistently smiling now, there being very few instances when he’s seen without a smile dressing his face. He’s brighter on the outside. Even his hair is brighter, dyed blonde and his eyes fake red with prescription contacts. A lot of the time we see this was when life began to go his way. Aside from the phantom dimension, his life was looking up. He had friends that were more like a family, and seemed to be healing from the depression he was once fighting off. Though, near the end of season 2 we begin to see how his past self haunts him in more ways than one. Though the main way will be explored in more depth in a few paragraphs time, we see how his hair begins to grow out, leaving black roots. It’s symbolic of his old self clawing its way out the grave it was buried in as his life deteriorates again. We see this in his eyes too, as his prescription begins to irritate his eyes- leaving him with the dark eyes we saw when he was younger.

The next topic would be how he acts, and presents himself. When younger, we can presume he was incredibly withdrawn and antisocial. His parents say, in episode fourtyfive, “It’s weird, Aiden used to be such a quiet kid.” and we see this when he’s lying on his bed in the dark with a grim expression on his face, something we couldn’t easily think of our current Aiden doing (at least, on the surface). Though, a reason for this may be how he was dragged around from place to place by his parents, treated almost like a pet or accessory instead of their own child. The relationship they had with him seems almost fake, as they didn’t take into consideration the way he acted or any worries that should have given them. Though, Ben began to join him, and we can presume that's when he started to open up, once he was shown love. In the beginning, he appears to be the over the top, annoyingly bubbly character, but as we progress we see his arc not take away all his joy, but instead we see him adjust the levels of his love, and extroverted exterior to make the people around him comfortable. Aiden is happier, and more outwardly kind. He now goes at the pace of the group, because he cares about them and doesn’t want to make them uncomfortable in any way

As mentioned previously, Aiden is heavily haunted by who he once was. While other members of the group, like Ashlyn and Tyler, have nightmares about the phantoms it's only them currently that are ‘possessed’. We see both of them have a current reflection of themself, showing that they’re scared of who they really are, or who they are to become. Aiden, however, has a younger version of himself. He’s strangled by himself from back then, and we can tell this from both the hair color, and the fact he’s smaller than Aiden. It’s like he’s choking on denial, the words to communicate those problems are stuck in his throat and that's why his phantom stands on top of him, choking him out. This also shows the complex layered view he has of his past self, how he views it as a demonic thing parallel to the horrors of the Phantoms. This is his hidden secret worry, this is what he wants to bury because he finds who he was, and what he went through, so terrifying that it's the weakness the phantom in his nightmare preys on.

The final core difference I think stands out the most is his friend group. Before, Aiden lacked real friends. He’s told us himself the most he ever really had were what I would describe as “proximity friends”. Essentially, people he could never be close to. People he talked to because they were near, not because he liked them. He had no connection to them, unlike when he moved to Alto, Georgia. He has a social life because of his friends. They’re an incredibly close knit group, and that helps him from spiralling into a sort of depression like one he had fought before. Though, this came at a price. I’m sure he wouldn’t trade his friends to leave the phantom realm, after all they’d been through, they live as an extension of each other. I firmly believe Aiden would not have been able to be who he was, if the phantom realm was not involved. Before Ashlyn, Tyler, Taylor, and Logan, he only had Ben. Before Ben, he had nobody. His friends have shaped him into who he is today.

In conclusion, there is strong evidence to support the similarities and differences they share and divert at. On the outside, Aiden seems to be slowly but surely reverting back into who he was, but we still see how his loved ones have truly changed him, allowing him the peace of mind to heal faster than Tyler or Logan. Although he may begin to appear like he did when he was younger, his friends are a sort of light that keeps him stable.

(for more on that, see THIS post for an example)

for making it this far, take some cute lil photos i found of him while doing a lil research

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Definitely did a bit much with this but that’s alr I’m still learning 🫶🏾 this is my School bus graveyard desired reality !! Gonna try my best to make this look cute so ya 👍🏾

Enjoy :) !!

(Will have to post more about it soon cuz it wouldn’t let me add anything under my face claim 👎🏾)

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MY APPEARANCE AND GENERAL INFO —

Name ? Flare Golin

Age ? 15

Birthday ? Sep 12th

Backstory ? I grew up on the more country side, lived in a pretty big house as my parents are very successful. They didn’t name me till I was 3, decided that I should have a meaningful name, the called me little light for 3 years.. until they came up with ‘Flare’. When I was 13, we moved to where we are now. School was never tuff for me, I loved it, loved putting my knowledge into my every day life. Sadly lost that spark when I turned 15, highschool can definitely be as harsh as middle school teachers make it seem.. the stress is real. Or is it?

Signature color ? Sea teal

Signature scent ?

Face claim ?

It is complete!

Working on some of these with the SBG peoples [Ashlyn & Aiden] - [Taylor & Ben]

around 300 words each

I'm working on it

No…. No, he would never miss

me when I'm being haunted by my past literally and figuratively

Taylor, on the phone: What’s up, Aiden?

Aiden: I’m sitting in a pool of blood.

Taylor: …Um, is it YOUR blood?

Aiden: I think so.

Taylor: Do you know where the blood’s coming from?

Aiden: Probably the stab wound.

Taylor: YOU’VE BEEN STABBED?!

Aiden: Oh, yeah, definitely.

Logan, hungover: Please tell me I'm imagining that I claimed I was king of the ducks.

Ben: I would, but then I would be lying to the King of All Ducks.

a StarCube interaction I thought it'd fit

I started sketching it in an online class but u can tell by quality when it ended lmao

also came to realise that we didn't see that much of those two together but I bet it'd be fun ( "normal nerd with a crazy nerd how would it end ?")

GUYS THIS IS NOT A DRILL, SCHOOL BUS GRAVEYARD IS BACK

yk I wanna assume that all of the kids will die at least once, because we had Tyler die first, and then Aiden, I think it would make sense to have it that way 🤔

(School bus graveyard has taken over my brain)

Some Ash and Aiden art I made🫶 sorry if the art looks a bit dodgy, im trying some things with my art style<3

It already has writing cause I posted it on Pinterest and don't know how to add text-

ANYWAYS- has anyone else noticed this? Like, who is that outside??? Plus the cranes???

Both logan and taylor being taken together by the facility was SUCH a good choice by Red.

It's a well known fact that logan is one of the most developed characters in the webtoon although this development never changed his overall outlook on life, just his confidence in himself, he is still the same person he was during the start of season 1, which was a over kind and sweet person

Taylors character (despite not having much development throughout the series) is one of the most 'innocent' or one of nicer characters despite the adversity she has been through, as she is the person that is essentially keeping her family together.

So these two are taken together back to the facility, two most open and generally happy people in the webtoon (yk what in saying) being put back into their oppressors hands would be horrible for them.

Their experiences from just getting kidnapped in season 2 would have already been incredibly traumatising, and being put back in that place that took you and keep you from you friends and family would be even worse.

But this doesn't end there. I have seen many people theorising that season 3 is going to be set a few years in the future. meaning if logan and taylor don't escape on their own during this time they could be in the facility for YEARS.

if this were to happen, they would change so much as people, this incredible trauma as well as probably torture over this long time would make them become different people altogether.

So if the story chooses this route, some of the kindest people in the series would become some of the most cruel or least caring.

Red you are diabolical.

Where is sbg set???

For the longest time, I have wanted to know where the most part of sbg is set. Idk if the location has been released before and I'm just dumb but I have never come across it in the webtoon, tumblr or red's insta, (edit i also checked the wiki and they only knew of the sorrel weed house) so I assumed it was never stated.

i never was able to try and find it until i was scrolling through tumblr and saw this picture.

Despite seeing this multiple time I had never noticed the bus route map in the corner, so I took a screenshot of it and went to google lens in hope that it was a clue to where it may be set.

To my suprise something did show up! If this is correct than sbg is set somewhere called harrisonburg, VA but to confirm i compared it to the other only real world example in the sbg universe, the sorrel weed house. (btw the sorrel weed house is real haunted house)

according to mr thomas it takes eight hours to get to the savanna (which is two minutes away from the sorrel weed house) so i grabbed google once more and compared those times on google maps.

and according to google it does take about an hour to get to the savannah so it safe to assume that sbg is set in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

(Edit: after I got few comments that sbg was actually set in alto Georgia I looked into it and oops I was wrong. sbg is set in alto Georgia.

Still it's a bit odd because between alto Georgia and savanna Georgia, there is a four hour travel time and also the bus route is set somewhere eight hours away.

Like sbglover4ever said in the comments it might be some sort of foreshadowing, otherwise this is wrong, still it was fun researching this!!)

A while ago, when I was rereading sbg, I noticed that there is a rly good chance that Baron and his friends might be in the phantom dimension.

Rly early on in the first season when the main group go to the arcade, they get into a fight with Baron and his friends trying to help Noah.

During this scene, a small rift to the phantom dimension is opened while they are fighting.

This rift is almost the exact same as the rift that was created in the episode where ashlyn was attacked by an infected human. A few episodes later, it is confirmed that she did pull a few workers into the phantom dimension from this rift.

So from this, we can safely assume that ashlyn can pull people into the phantom dimension. So what if she did end up pulling someone in earlier? What if this person was none other than everybody's least favourite person, Baron?

Like, imagine if later on in the story the two groups bump into each other in the phantom world and have to either fight it out or become allies and work together.

Idk, but I think it has just too much potential for red to not do anything with it, and this would be a rly good plot point seeing the kids are out of the facility now.

I was rereading sbg, and I noticed that there were only two gifs in the whole webtoon.

This in itself isn't much, but both these times happen when a rift to the phantom dimension opens up, or more specifically, when ashlyn opens a rift up.

If you reread the scene where the kids first get dragged into the phantom world in the sorrel weed house, there are no gifs to be seen, but both times when the group was fighting Barron and co and when ashlyn was attached by the phantom person in the facility, there was a gif.

This could be showing how powerful ashlyn is becoming, more powerful than the place that brought her to the phantom world at the start.

I rly don't like it, but I'm starting to think that the parents are going to have to die or get separated from the main six at some point in escaping the facility for the plot to continue.

A big idea of sbg is people who don't know each other, having to work together to survive and become friends alone the way. It becomes an entirely different story when you add parents to the mix.

Also, it would really inconvent for them to have to move around with an extra ten people.

Either way, I just can't see the plot continuing with the parents joining them in the escape.

(Btw I'm not a fastpasser so I have no idea what happens when they do escape 😅)

Are the sbg kids immortal?

Just a quick theory that's been plaguing my mind for a long time, enjoy :)

To start off we all know that based on both tyler's and aiden's deaths you probably can't die in phantom world, but what if that was the same for the real world too?

When the change to the phantom world happens the groups' bodies change from the one in the human dimension to the one in the phantom dimension (into something that may or may not be a human) but their conscious stays the same throughout this process.

So when ashlyn first got scratched by the phantom in the sorrel weed house, her phantom dimension form was injured, but her (real) body was not affected, also in both forms she can recall what happened.

So going off this we can assume that anyone who goes into the phantom world has 2 bodies and one mind that gets transported between both of them.

So what happens when one of these bodies die?

When tyler had the tree accident we know that his phantom dimension body was probably not operational (considering most of his organs were ripped apart) but his human body was, and although it took awhile for him to regain consciousness he woke up after sometime in his human body.

In this situation essentially tylers mind has no choice but to give up on his phantom body and go back to his human body. Even though the phantom body had some magic healing powers and tyler's conscious was able to go back to it later in the story, at this time that body was not able to be used, so i'm theorising that without his human body for his conscious to go back to Tyler would be very dead.

Based on all of this, my guess it that if someone were to die in the human world and had a phantom body in a stable (not dead) condition, they would not die but would just be stuck in the phantom world in that body.

Or if the phantom world is rubbing off on their human form, the human body could regenerate and they could use it again later.

Overall making anyone who has a (in use) phantom body, more or less immortal (if we forget about old age).

Or maybe this is all just 3am brain rot, your choice.

WHAT????

some sbg fan art I drew 🤯🤯

plsplsplsplspls sbg writers never stop ilysm pls

I love them

the physical touch love language

Physical touch refers to expressing and receiving affection through touch, physical closeness, and other forms of physical connection.

Holding hands

Hugging

Sitting close together

Resting your hand on them

Playing with their hair

Most specifically, having touch as a love language means that small physical gestures matter a lot more than things like gifts or saying "I love you."