The Twenty One Pilots Universe: How Dema Explains Everything 

PART 2:: the potential identity of who clancy is. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zwVgm4gEbLg.html PART 3:: the finale. a 35-minute documentary about the entire album "TRENCH" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qj5iYgRe-Kk.html

I am convinced it was Nico that stole the car radio.

TØP isn't just a band its a concept

You forgot: In Morph, a dude called Nicolas Bourbaki get mentioned. Tyler said himself that Blurryface’s real name is Nicolas Bourbaki. Nicolas Bourbaki was a pseudonym for a group of nine mathematics that gave out books and music. One of the persons behind this pseudonym is named Andre. According to the map of Dema, Andre is also the name of one of the bishops of Dema. Nicolas Bourbaki mentioned “509 Clancy” in one of their books. If you google this, you will come to the house where “Stressed Out” was recorded.

past: what is a blurryface now: what is a dema what is a bandito

Wow, this makes me appreciate this upcoming album so much more. I'm a fiend for concept albums, but this is taking it to another level

nothing but respect for MY twenty one pilots detective

Inception: I'm the most complicated and puzzling script. TØP: hold my guitar...

if u put nico and the niners on backwards it says 'we are banditos, you will leave dema at true east, we renounce violence.

Another thing I want to point out in defense of Heathens being a prequel to Jumpsuit. Tyler has the exact same cut on his nose in both videos which to me is the biggest visual confirmation that both are linked and are meant to follow each other.

This is a perfect video. - Perfect structure - Clean editing - Humor when needed - Fitting visuals - Fitting use of music All of this made it have an amazing flow which makes the video interesting. Good job. It's obvious that you're really trying to make it look as good as it does. This video from you with "only" 200 subscribers greatly outshines a lot of other channels I've seen (especially when it comes to TOP-channels). You've just earned yourself one of hopefully many more soobscribblers.

The fact that a band created a universe within their songs is mind blowing to me.

Blurryface (Aka Nico, aka Nicolas Bourbaki) is Tyler's alter ego. He paints his neck and hands black to represent this alter ego taking control. The hands, because it represents stopping him from creating. The neck, because it represents stopping him from breathing entirely, like suffocating.

Dema refers to an ancient burial process most commonly known as the tower of silence. Bodies were placed into an open air structure, where scavengers and the elements were allowed to remove the unclean elements of the body until only the bleached skeleton remained. The skeleton would then be covered in wax and placed in a trench. I always wondered the significance of the skeleton suits they would wear in concert...makes sense now.

Also, In the end of the Heathens music video, Tyler's jumpsuit turns yellow, and In the Jumpsuit music video, Tyler has the same scars on his face like he does in the Heathes music video

If you notice, in the Heathens music video when Tyler is performing his neck goes from black to normal skin color.

I think it all starts at the begining with "Holding On To You" _Now that I write and think about it, and the story unfolds, You should take my life; You should take my soul._

DEMA stands for Doubt, Expectations, Materialism and Anxiety

Tyler's a GENIUS

A brilliant video mate :)

Does anyone else notice when Tyler sang in ''Goner''; ''I've got two faces..........Blurry's the one i'm not,''?

The reason why the nine bishops don't like yellow is because, the color yellow means happiness, positivity, clarity, energy, optimism, enlightenment, remembrance, intellect, honor, loyalty, and joy. But it could also represent cowardice and deceit.

Jumpsuit: a (burning) car Nico and the Niners: a torch (in the music video) A Car a Torch a Death JSJSJSWHAT

The answers to the lore being answered now, officially after 5 years is insane omg

THIS IS JUST LIKE DANGER DAYS (MCR/KILLJOYS) *has flashback of NA NA NA*

i want to propose the theory that this whole thing goes back to car radio. i know i know it’s not likely but hear me out. in the video for levitate tyler shaves his head as he does in car radio. this may have something to do with the fact that this is some rebellion from the dema and i think when tyler talks about someone stealing his car radio it’s a metaphor for someone stealing his joy and expression. music is often used as a form of expression and his is gone, stolen by someone (dema) and now he sits in silence, or is forced into silence with his thoughts and demons thinking about how “we’re all battling fear” quote car radio. battling fear is the equivalent to fighting demon, or what dema represents, our fears and insecurities. if i missed something please let me know. edit: in nico and the niners you can hear a sound that sounds REALLY similar to the beginning of ode to sleep so this could potentially go back to vessel itself. In songs like Run and Go you hear him say how he’s killed a man, blurryface or at least what the bishops represent, and in Fake You Out he says, “our brains are sick but that’s ok” sick being a mental illness. I think vessel might take place in the future after tyler has escaped dema and is experiencing almost a ptsd state where he doesn’t know what he is or what to do without dema because it’s all he’s ever known. I just realized that the last note of leave the city is the same as the note at the end of truce.

Let me add something: The red/yellow is a reference to a movie called "the village", or so it seems like, at least The people in the village are terrified to go outside it during the night because there are there "monsters". The monsters are actually the elders, dressed in red. The one colour the villagers used to scare away the monsters, was obviously yellow. I think it fits well, as it is someone from the inside holding them captured, not from the outside, as well as we see in the video that Nico, at least, is very old. It's also obvious that the yellow rose petals makes the bishop and his horse scared and uncomfortable.

Bandito Lyrics: "I created this world, to feel some control, derstroy it if i want"

At the end of heathens when Clancy gets caught his jumpsuit is yellow and slowly fades into orange,so I think you're right about orange being a mix of the 2 colors

No idea if this common knowledge or not but just thought it was interesting. In the song “Doubt” on blurry face one of the verses go: “Gnawing on the bishops Claw away at the system” No idea what the second line means but the first line might be a reference to the 9 bishops. “Repeating simple phrases Someone holy insisted” Dunno really what this means but maybe it’s like propoganda inside dema. “Want the mark he's made on my skin To mean something to me again” This seems like a strong reference to the black mark on Tyler’s neck during the blurry face era. Also the second part might be him saying that the bishops what him to embrace dema again like during the blurry face album. “Hope you haven't left without me Hope you haven't left without me, please” This is again a direct reference to what was said In the video about Clancy being left behind. Anyway sorry if this is old news just he didn’t say it in the video. Thanks. ||-//

I was a little skeptical about the Heathens music video being tied into the DEMA "cannon." However, when you tied the lyrics of NATN to the music video, it started to make sense! Thanks man!

I've been a fan since I was 8 when he himself produced that one album with kitchen sink

2:30 looks like neon gravestones thing...... Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!!!!

seriously impressive editing here.

In the Trench album Tyler has the same cut on his nose as Heathens

"...He'll always try to stop me, that *Nicholas Bourbaki* He's got no friends close but those who know him most know He goes by *Nico* ..."

I like that improvised jumpsuit.

Thank God someone has the free time to figure this shit out lol. Love your theories man I think your spot on.

DUDE RELATING TO HEATHENS: I JUST REMEMBERED THAT TYLER SAID THAT IF HEATHENS WAS GOING TO BE ON THE NEW ALBUM IF IT DIDNT GET ACCEPTED INTO THE SOUNDTRACK. HE WROTE IT AS A REGULAR OLD TWENTY ONE PILOTS SONG AND NOT A SONG SPECIFICALLY FOR SUICIDE SQUAD.

I think the reason that Tyler has a cut on his nose in jumpsuit is to show the resemblance between it and heathens.

This is actually really interesting. I am a new fan. Like I've always liked TØP and I've listened to them but I never really understood the lyrics meaning and I've only just gotten back into the music; post tour :(. This is handy because I'm too lazy to actually go figure out the order to watch the videos and go to all the sights ao having someone explain it to me is good. Thanks :)

Dema is theword for tower of silence in latin

Ok . I cannot be the only one loving the diy jacket and messy hair 😫🔥 thanks for the update tho

Wellll, I think I know why they use yellow. The color yellow symbolizes hope and happiness, so they use that to drive away the demons. *spreads love peace and happiness* BEGONE FOUL DEMONS!

The moment "overcompensate" came out I knew i needed this video and I was kind of sad that you wouldn't post THANKS FOR THE COMEBACK, WELCOME BACK TO -TRENCH- RU-vid

Hello! While I’m on a long car trip I decided to make a compiled list of all the Bishop names and parts of the songs they’re tied to, since I couldn’t seem to find one! Ride - “Listo” - “We have a list of people that we would take” Tear in my heart - “Sacarver” - “She’s a carver” HeavyDirtySoul - “Keon” - “I hope that they choke on smoke” Laneboy - “Vetomo” - “Will they be alive tomorrow?” Doubt - “Reisdro” - “Temperature is dropping” Polarize - “Lisden” - “All I feel is deny, deny, denial” Goner - “Nills” - “And beaten down, I’ll slip away into this sound” Fairly local - “Andre” - “And repeat yesterday’s dance” Stressed out - “Nico” - Blurryface You could potentially spell Nico from the line “Used to play prete(n)d, g(i)ve ea(c)h (o)ther different names” But that might be a bit of stretch hahaha!

Perfect videos don't exi-

I don’t even have words. Tyler Joseph is an absolute genius

The new secret message. WEST IS DOWN Doesn't have the same ring to it does it?

before i get comments about it. YES, i know there's a new clancy letter. i wrote this before that, so chill! what do i think it means? well i think it shows that clancy might not specifically be tyler in this storyline. however, i do think tyler is some sort of nameless character anyways, someone we can all step into the shoes of. it's a heroes journey at the end of the day. so who is clancy? well i hope to elaborate more in a follow up video once we get some more music from the boys, but as of right now i'm seeing everything about this world being metaphors. i think everything about this universe is representing an internal struggle of someone fighting mental illness. being pulled back into DEMA is being pulled back into a darker state of your mind, rebelling into the banditos is where hope lies, the trench itself being a metaphor for the struggle of escaping your anxiesties, as we see one of the embodiments of these anxieties actually catch up to the character tyler is portraying and draw him back towards dema. CLANCY seems to possibly be a metaphor or a representation for a more rational side to the mind of our lead character, the rational mind wants to help and support you but sometimes it will just watch from afar, unable to offer that support you may need internally. i think the turn of events in the story will be clancy learning to come to terms with the past and how bad dema truly was and try to get tyler, or our hero character, out of the trench and with the banditos, where hope lies.

Also about why yellow and why east is up. Yellow represents the rising of the sun. As we know, Tyler fights his battles and struggles with his thoughts mainly at night and is relieved when morning comes. You know where morning comes from? East. The east and yellow represent & remind Tyler not to give up because the sun will rise again. They may also represent different things within this universe they are creating but it always comes back to this. The sun will rise and we will try again ||-//

You called Clancy was Tyler 5 years ago

HEY NEW FOLKS!!! new music video is out for nico and the niners! i've been working on a follow up for a couple days scripting and this new video is helpful for that! just wanna say, i hear you. this video was made way before this new video, but the next one coming up will be bound to get everyone thinking. way more analytical ideas and less theory based! HOWEVER! i really do like taking time with my videos, there's no chance i'm rushing this one out, at all, i'd already started writing it before this music video came out and i intend to maintain a standard of quality! I AM NOT A BREAKING NEWS CHANNEL, I DO ANALYTICAL VIDEOS AND I'LL TAKE MY TIME! i hope thats okay!!!

Yellow symbolises happiness. It’s really fitting that that’s the colour of the rebellion

Here me out, now the have their new single "level of concern" PaNIC On the brain NICOOOO lol

I've only been a fan around 2018 when my ex took me to one of their concerts "Trench" it slapped. I just wanted to say the 21 pilots fan base are sweet hearts :^) almost everyone who is a fan of them is such a sweet bean.

Matpat is *QUAKING*

I have another theory to add to your heathens one. Tyler says “all my friends are heathens”. The definition of a heathen is “an unconverted member of a people or nation who does not acknowledge the God of the Bible”. What if Tyler and his “friends” are heathens to vialism (the religion created by the nine bishops of dema). In the first few lines of nico and the niners is reversed. It is josh saying “We are banditos, You will leave Dema and head true east, We renounce Vialism”. Josh is possibly the leader of the banditos. The first of the banditos to pop out are his friends/family. So what I’m saying is that the banditos are the heathens Tyler is referring to

every time he calls tyler clancy i burst into tears

WOW. im actually impressed and overjoyed there was this whole other layer i thought i understood but didnt until now. YOU did all of this 5 years ago crazy.

My theory on the petals and yellow and all that is not that nico/dema is scared of the color yellow but that it was all a bigger metaphor, Tyler was getting pulled backed into his anxiety and then the rebellion showed up showering him with these petals- or their reassurance and affections, yellow is seen as a happy color and so it would make sense that a rebellion against dema would use it, they are fighting for happiness and freedom, something Tyler is trying to find in spite of his insecurities

Please update this now that the Nico and the Niners music video is out. Theres some insane references in it and I have a ton of theories and I need this

4:18 everyone joining the Area 51 storm

I'm in the clique only for month or so, and I suppose it was too early for me to discover this video, for real, my mind was blown away by first 5 minutes of it, too many info to process 😅anyway great video..I watched it with a big pleasure as a new fren 😁

This is far one of the best theories ive heard

I'm really new to the TØP fandom and I keep hearing about "dema" and stuff and was confused for the longest time... Thank you so much for the explanation!

Nico and the niners. Nice. Wait, NICO IS BLURRYFACE?!

I'm REALLY new like really here in the fandom, and i heard a lot things about dema & clancy n stuff. I didn't know what all that means, but this explains almost everything, thankyou :)

THIS IS DEEP WTF. NEVER BEEN INTERESTED MUCH WITH THE NEW MUSIC AS MUCH AS THE OTHER ALBUMS MADE ME FEEL BUT THIS MADE ME THINK THAT MAYBE I SHOULD GIVE TIHS ERA A TRY

ALSO TYLERS JUMPSUIT GOES FROM YELLOW TO ORANGE IN THE LAST SCENE

WELL CHEERS MATE YOU'VE GOT EVERYTHING CORRECT!! (here after watching I Am Clancy)

The sound tech people of Suicide Squad finding this all out later: “But imagine how tired we are. Imagine how tired we are.”

You are brilliant

i kind of want a Tewnty One Pilots reacts to this video...

Only 2 years! I'm 12 and have loved them since I was 7

In reality he took a really long bath

All 9 dislikes are the bishops

theory: it's actually just them recreating the forest fic

Omg guys I'm onto something Isle of Flightless Birds is a little random, right? But is it possible that it connects to Trench? Yes! "They fly around while we are walking and mold our emotions just to please them" He's talking about the bishops molding his emotions to make themselves happy. Also, I think that the bishops are the vultures. "The light will set us free" Yellow? That's a light color, right? And the torches/fire make light. Also, that would explain why Nico is scared of yellow, because he doesn't want Tyler to be free. "I will fly with no hope, no fear" Tyler is going to "fly" with the bishops (cause they're vultures), even though he doesn't want to. No hope, no fear? He doesn't see any hope of escaping, but he's not afraid of them either. "His time-we're wasting" They're wasting Nico's time by capturing Tyler. "While we repeat the same routine" Tyler escapes, gets captured, repeat. "It's time you pick your battle, and I promise you, this is mine" Tyler's battle against the bishops and/or his depression/anxiety. I think I'm on to something...

the editing in this is INSANE i’m in luv

Im literally the intro when i heard jumpsuit and nico and the ninners

7:04 did you notice his jumpsuit turns from yellow back to orange? (symbolising his hope dying again i think)

I watch these in my spare time instead of doing homework. This is my 17th viewing and i still think this style of content is way better than anything else. I wish you had thousands of videos that i could just spend my time watching but i understand that its not really what anyone would want to do for their whole life. Love ur content tho!

Trench also goes back to car radio. In the song levitate tyler says “I got back what I once bought back In that slot I won't need to replace” referring to the lyrics “To replace that slot with what I once bought 'Cause somebody stole my car radio And now I just sit in silence”

I think "Bishops hate yellow" 10:19 is not the answer... but those yellow petals mean a change. As used in cinema, yellow means: wisdom, knowledge, relaxation, "joy, happiness, optimism, idealism, imagination, hope, sunshine," dishonesty, cowardice, betrayal, jealousy, covetousness, deceit, illness, hazard. Sunshine could also be related to "East is Up", where sun rises. Makes me think more of a color that mean an optimistic change for the band which is leading to happiness and "killing their own DEMA's". As we could see on your video was already used on Heathens for that exact purpose, for a CHANGE, a change for "good".

Not to mention that nine officers go up to Tyler at the end of heathens

I watched these when I was getting into tøp years ago, now revisiting them to share wit my cousin cuz we're both going to see them in concert 🗣️ can't believe this

OMFG I'm so happy you made this ahhh

You’re cute, you’re funny, you’re really good at explaining things, you have great hair, you like twenty one pilots, like wow how is it possible to be this great?¿

one little nitpick: i don't think Tyler/Clancy was captured again at the end of Jumpsuit. He's flowing down a stream with a yellow flower on his chest, and Nico watching from a short distance. i think it means more of a narrow escape of sorts, seeing as yellow represents the rebellion

I've been listening to TOP for a while, but only recently I've started to look up all those references and connections. So these videos are really helpful. Thanks mate.

i already knew about dema and i had all the pieces but this video just pieces everything together and my mind is boggled

Did anyone else notice the lyrics from Doubt- the 8th song on Blurryface. - Gnawing on the bishops, claw our way up their system Repeating simple phrases, someone holy insisted Want the markings made on my skin To mean something to me again Hope you haven't left without me Hope you haven't left without me, please ------Dema much?

The one thing he never put together is that dema probably doesn’t like yellow bc yellow is the color of happiness

Really great job I thought that your execution and theorising was spot on and very easy to understand. Thank you.

Loved this so much. Thank you 🌸

May I point out tyler also has scars on his face in heathens and in jumpsuit he has the same scars. This comment might help your theory so that helps link them!

Your editing is seriously top notch, and your theory is really well researched and thought out. Mad props (there’s a joke somewhere in here about that sick jacket being a mad prop but ???) .

Dude I appreciate this breakdown so much! Trench is becoming more and more incredible every day

Awesome video! I've been so confused about this new album, and watching this video helped me begin to understand what this is all about.