#(everyone else: 'gdi remus - why you gotta get another angry mob after us?? ? what is yOUR DEAL?')

[an-organized-confusion]

I now have the goofy-ass image of Wretched!Remus carting around a wagon of unlit Molotov cocktails, one hand on wagon handle, the other holding a Molotov and using his Pyros / Spark of Life to ignite it. He’s blithely humming “Burning Down The House“.

“I’m an ordinary man~“, he sings, as his neck bolts be arcing with terrifying intensity.

What crimes will he commit.

Besides serial arson.

That’s a given.

Janus is probably involved somehow. Pretty much everyone else is facepalming.

Okay, this lead to an amusing/thoughtful convo thread with the co-conspirator:

Me: ngl i love how fandom be honed in on connecting trash goblin with arson

Him: fire is a common appreciation / desire for all humans arguably hearkens back to stone age behaviors we're honestly not much better than moths in that regard we're drawn to flames as much as we're repelled by them

Me: yeah - i can see that being the case - tho we couch a lot of symbolism and shit into the concept of fire

Him: remus is unfettered desires sure, he'll start a bloody fire cause he wants to see a fire but he'll also escape from a burning building even if we take his "self destructive" suggestions in DWIT at face value he doesn't expect his ideas to result in thomas’s death not even the self immolation one this can be understood by how he expects thomas to be calm enough to dance to "shake it off" there are ways that you could do remus's suggestions while surviving without much if any harm there are stunt performers who specifically do on fire scenes so yea, as much as remus is a fucking uninhibited pyromaniac, he's got the self survival aspect going strong

Me: indeed like fire resistant gels for pyro stunts yer still on a clock to get the fire put out but it certainly makes it less a deathwish

Him: or fire suits

Me: yeah... the whole survival aspect of it has a few dovetails i see one: for cognition systemic approach - attenuated / in-conversation with the Sides who do the Self-pres thing specifically ("whoah, wait. I don't want you killing us all") two: in individualized AUs, he does strike me as the kinda guy that generally doesn't want to snuff it because he won't be able to witness people's reactions to his stunts