#also i JUST noticed the dead pixel

[stari-hun]

I get having an issue with a lot of “good” ending AUs in Mouthwashing ending with murdering Jimmy or something, but I think the issue should be more with how heavily needed he is for the plot. Like as a fictional story he’s still very important to the message that Wrong Organ wants to tell and the story they wanna show. The point of having no autonomy as a player is to force you to sit down and listen because let’s be real if we had even 2 canon endings then people would go even more stupid than now. Mouthwashing is inspired by real stuff that happens (SA, “holding off” on getting justice for it for the sake of the group, people who ignore the actions rape culture perpetuates then becoming victims of violent acts on their own, etc etc).

We just saw a CEO who’s indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people being murdered and the public response that followed. As a society we’ll literally always question whether or not the death of someone bad is a good thing, but we’re much more likely to have outcry with it when it’s so blatant. Someone dying behind closed doors or “softly/peacefully” , generally a non disruptive death to the general public, it’s held with significantly less outcry. A lack of tension doesn’t guarantee the presence of justice.

I think that Jimmy being killed to save the group should also be recognized as an equally viable option in the same way Curly’s decision to hold off on angering him more until they got back to safety was valid.

Curly holds a very important role as the Captain of the Tulpar which at the end of the day means that no matter what any and all mishaps ARE on him. Being a leader means taking on the responsibility of care for others, and considering him being the sole member kept by the Pony Express, Curly was GOOD at his job. With all the fights we see between Daisuke and Swansea with him trying to chase Swansea away? Keeping them together for months was a pretty great feat. Anya asking Curly why there’s no locks on the doors of the sleeping quarters is a very significant moment, and there’s a reason why the majority of women who do playthroughs instantly understand the implications while men don’t. It’s also a big part of SA culture. Despite the very real chance of men becoming victims too, it’s something they just aren’t taught to fear or think about as a possibility. It never crosses their minds that that will happen to them or someone in their general vicinity if they “know” everyone. It’s the concept of every woman knowing a victim but no man knowing a perpetrator. Curly genuinely and fully believes in Jimmy’s potential and personhood after knowing him for so long even though logically he’d have the most exposure to Jimmy’s aggression and seeing the way he treats women. As a Captain, it’s Curly’s fault for not connecting the dots or noticing what was going on, or taking more action from the start with the way Jimmy treated Anya despite the fact that Jimmy was more than likely passive aggressive towards Curly as well. Albeit for extremely different reasons with Jimmy looking DOWN on Anya for being born a woman while he dislikes Curly when he perceives Curly looking down on HIM for having more success in life. It’s no coincidence that Curly’s narrative “punishment” is being robbed of his autonomy and choice like Anya was.

The role of taking leadership and looking out for the bigger picture as a whole and ignoring a dead pixel or the unimportant things until perceived bigger issues are taken care of is the JOB of the Captain. For what Curly knew, Jimmy was a problem but hadn't escalated past what he had ever directly seen of him doing, he was in check. When he's a potential threat it makes sense Curly chose to wait until they were in a safer location than closing in on an asteroid field, but ignorance is also a sin especially when you're proven to be a good leader in all other moments.

[hakugreenfinch]

i actually firmly believe that even if for the wrong reasons, curly was right to not give anya the captain gun.

im basing this on the assumptions/readings that a) jimmy was abusing both curly and anya in different ways, b) he assaulted anya in her sleep (i have several reasons to believe so) and as a consequence c) curly did not realize things were that bad until it was way too late (obligatory "even though yeah he should have taken anya seriously from the first report of 'hey jimmy was in my room last night'") but neither did anya really grasp just how badly she was being abused until after the dead pixel conversation (i think this is important because it shows just how careful jimmy was in his machinations).

the thing is we want to believe that oh sure if anya had a gun it would have been fine. but the other thing is that if you have a weapon in self defense - your attacker also has that weapon. giving anya the gun would have been as good as giving jimmy the gun and cocking it for him too - not to mention we actually experience that the gun isnt easy to fire, thus making it less reliable in the case of an emergency than one would think.

anya assumed curly wouldnt have given her the gun because she knew his relationship with jimmy, she knew curly would be worried she would hurt herself with it and she knew the company sucked and would have penalized them all if the gun got out of its case for reasons they dont deem "justified" - they didnt put locks on the sleeping quarters, i doubt they would rule anya's personal safety as reason enough. i think her assumptions in that were correct, curly isnt super strict as a captain but hes not "sure heres the super locked safety gun" lax. he trusted swansea with the axe because he trusted swansea to use it appropriately, he wouldnt have trusted anya with a firearm if she was in mental distress.

i dont think those were the good reasons to not let anya protect herself in this way ("corporate/jimmy will get mad" just is not it). but i do believe if he did give her the gun it would have been a matter of time before jimmy gets ahold of it and shit goes south a lot sooner. i believe jimmy isnt brave enough to do anything to anya while she could ask for help - his entire tactic is based on only letting anyone else notice small things that he could make excuses for. he probably would have taken it from anya while she was asleep, when she didnt have it right in her hand, when she looked away for a moment. it doesnt really matter, he would have found a way, boom, jimmy has a gun now.

why i think that would have been a lot worse than him acquiring the gun as late as he does in the game is that jimmy is pretty much fueled by a hunger for power and control. he gets those once curly is out of the picture as someone capable of running the ship but before the crash? hes very sneaky about his manipulation. he goes after anya physically when nobody can catch him because he can overpower her but he wouldnt try something like that with curly who is likely physically stronger than him (curly weight lifts in his free time!) which is why he puts pressure on him emotionally. the crash is actually very convenient for jimmy, he gets to usurp the title of captain without having to actually do anything to curly himself (as in, with his very own hands and with the intent of getting him out of his way). i just truly think if he had gotten his hands on the gun while curly still fully believed he was his friend and could fight back things would have gotten very ugly a whole lot faster.

tl;dr i think "anya should have had the gun" is something we want to believe would have saved the entire crew but considering jimmy's methods of exercising power over his crewmates proves otherwise. curly had the wrong reasons to not arm anya, but ultimately the longer the gun is out of jimmy's view the better.

[swyrlwyrxx]

NEW HYPERFIXATION 🗣️🗣️🗣️ (the crowd screams in horror and scatters like mice)

tw gore possibly? od, sa, and general horror elements || mouthwashing spoilers :))

soo i js watched a full playthrough of mouthwashing (as a gay person on tumblr does) and WOWWW i have sm thoughts. nothin super groundbreaking n im sure more things i noticed will come back to me as i ponder but some things i liked/found interesting were:

curly's eye. he had his eyelid blown off so he physically couldn't turn a blind eye to what was going wrong with his crew anymore. as punishment for mostly ignoring anya's concerns he was forced to watch her OD, see his crewmates's corpses seated around him , and js generally witness jimmy's spiral into insanity, and after it all ends he is LEFT ALIVE, with absolutely no autonomy to boot. (this is also supposed to reflect how anya felt when curly didnt take her sa seriously.)

i also saw someone say that curly IS the mouthwash and YESSSS makes sm sense. mouthwash kills 99% of germs, but he missed that 1%- he wasn't able to see that one dead pixel, only the shiny bigger picture. wouldnt do anything about jimmy assaulting anya because he didnt want to rock the boat too much, disrupt the gears in the machine that was their crew. anya also mentioned that the mouthwash had too much sugar to work as a disinfectant; curly was too nice and neutral to effectively stop jimmy's abusiveness.

speaking of the mouthwash not working as a disinfectant - jimmy tried to use the mouthwash to disinfect dai's wounds !!! even though anya, the NURSE, had said it wouldnt work !!!! this just shows the player how little jimmy respects anya as a human being; there's a lot of moments like this i js find that detail particularly interesting

[blissfulrain12]

The Dead Pixel Convo Isn't About Jimmy

So I've expressed how I have a different interpretation than the common theories. And now I'm even more convinced the dead pixel isn't about Jimmy or red flags.

I saw this post of a transcription of the scene and I noticed some things. Thank you @familiarartistname for taking the time to transcribe this!

https://www.tumblr.com/familiarartistname/768986384951328768/the-dead-pixel?source=share

So what I noticed is that Anya and Curly parallel each other in this conversation. My thoughts are in purple cause Curly just had to speak in white lol

So it starts with Curly checking in with Anya. She says she can't sleep and Curly empathizes with her.

Anya then brings up that she likes the screen. Though she says it as if liking the screen is something unusual. Like it's something Curly wouldn't believe.

Then she brings up the dead pixel.

Curly responds by believing her, looking for it, but not being able to see it.

Then we get both of them commenting on how the dead pixel weighs on their minds. Anya can't stop thinking about it and Curly will go crazy looking for it.

And then Curly mirrors Anya's earlier words. He likes the screen but doesn't think he should.

It's this parallel that struck me reading the transcript. If this is supposed to be about Curly missing the red flags/Jimmy's true nature why does Anya give the same sentiment? She already knew about the pixel when she says she likes the screen and that she deliberately comes to look at it. Curly is aligning with her. The pixel doesn't ruin the screen, it's peaceful. They even both express doubts that they shouldn't like the screen. Anya anticipates disbelief while Curly feels he needs to justify it. We know Anya isn't ignoring or missing the Jimmy situation so if Curly is aligning with her in this conversation this can't be about him missing it either.

The only significant difference between them is that Anya can see the pixel and Curly can't. But this difference isn't due to dismissal or denial of the pixel. He believes her and once made aware he starts looking for it and then aligns with her view of the screen. Which just doesn't match the popular red flag/Jimmy interpretations to me.

It also strikes me that if this conversation was about Curly missing/ignoring the red flags that Anya isn't asking Curly to do anything about the dead pixel. She's telling him how it effects her and then he shares in kind. And then there's the nature of a dead pixel. You can't fix a dead pixel because dead pixels are permanent. To get rid of it you have to get rid of the whole screen. Anya and Curly still like the screen.

So yeah, I think the dead pixel conversation makes more sense to me as representing abuse. How Anya can see her abuse clearly while Curly can't. How it's always on the back of Anya's mind while Curly will go bonkers looking for it. How they both don't let it ruin things for them even though they have doubts that it should. And now after looking at the dialog again it also represents how paralleled they truly are.

There is one thing I was initially wrong about though. Curly doesn't change the subject.

Anya changes the subject. This is our first hint about her pregnancy. And also tells us how much longer they're trapped with Jimmy. Of note is that Curly speaks as if he's unsure ("Off the top of my head" and "Around") but then gives a very specific number, 237, instead of something like 235 or 240. Is he counting down the days?

Then there's the part about the locks. Of course it's a cue towards Anya's rape but it also tells us about Pony Express' priorities and gives us another parallel between Anya and Curly. The answer to Anya's question is safety but not the crews safety. The locks that are on the Tulpar are for the safety of Pony Express' property. Despite Anya and Curly having access to the locks in the medbay and cockpit due to being the Nurse and Captain neither of them are safe. They are both being actively abuse because the safety measures on the ship aren't for them.

[chevvy-yates]

Sending out kudos to everyone who has shown their love towards Ryder for the past two years.

I love u all very much and every engagement, be it even just a like, means a lot to me.

I've intended to sorta make a cool post of some older vp of him as of today, September 17th, exactly 2 years ago I have created Ryder,— back then as a supposed supportive character for Vijay, very unsure if I would like him as Ry didn't visually turn out as I wanted him to be in the first place and he never went that way either afterwards — yet I find myself writing those lines instead.

I've accepted his look and his imperfection started to grow on me with each picture I took of him. Unlike my other ocs he went his own way leading me along to discover his personality. That's what makes him so different compared to my other blorbos and has me so attached to him.

I did not plan to make him a raver (he was supposed to become an 80s goth punk, a total different style than he's got now) neither that he would end up with a rogue AI controlling him. Only his name, basic info and the toxic family story was planned right from the beginning but that's pretty much it – Ryder showed me the rest of it.

Within the year 2023 I noticed more and more that Ryder has slowly but surly turned out to be my main character.

He turned out to be the most expressive and photogenic one of them all. I don't see him as the prettiest looking either yet he's my most precious and I love every pixel about him.

He's the one thing in my life I am actually truly 100% proud of.

Almost all my ocs exist because of him. They are his support characters. Without him half of them would not even exist. There would be no Thyjs. Even Garnet exists so Ry can live out his passion (that was not really put into the game but exists as lore: Technoise).

I am beyond happy to have created him.

He helps me in a lot of rather personal ways too I do not need to address here.

I got so much to tell about him (also about my other ocs) yet idk if I should continue or not as I find myself stuck with overthinking about it bc of lack of public response literally everywhere (this excludes private chat talks with close friends). Maybe Ryder's too intimidating (not the first time I would read that), his lore gets overlooked easily, or it's to much (confusing) text.

I cannot make anyone force-like him. Tastes are different. Minority is into others oc lore. Less time to read it all. The list is long. I'm aware of it all.

But I cannot underline it enough: do never hesitate to ask me questions about him. He's on my mind 24/7 and my biggest wish is to get this story out and done some day (whenever it will be) and receive some actual feedback on it what was liked.

Just a tiny detail is enough. <3

Another wish I have ever since I joined the CP77 fandom: that people would go back to comment each other more. We all do have little time for it, we all think "oh no so much text to read", we all are in our own bubbles rarley coming out to explore another bubble within this universe. It takes a lot of effort to do. people do seem scared on top to write anything at all for numerous reasons. I have all those problems as well. But I try to sit down and read the one or other lore chunk others wrote down and give a tiny comment as best as I can to make the creator have a smile on their lips. I truly wish we all would do this at least once a week to one person. once a month would be also fine. But if we don't this fandom will be dead soon enough and all thats left is just liking vp with characters on it we know almost nothing about. And maybe even those characters won't have lore anymore bc people stop creating it.

[three-dee-ess]

hiiii 3DS tour!!!!

from the day i first got it, i knew to name it Happiness..... nothing deep about it i just wanted to say "my mom took my Happiness away for exam week :("

a bit of a reveal but i'm the anxious sticker placer anon haha it's still plain to this day if not for a few scratches (a lot actually but it's not that noticeable, right? qwq)

the barcode and numbers are super faded i can't read them!! plus the scratches are much more noticeable, im not sure where most of them came from but i remember one of them is when i accidentally dropped a screwdriver on it oops

the cartridge is pokemon black 2!! i've had this game before Happiness. yup i have a metallic rose DS lite that's sooo busted up, (well i had a coral pink DS lite before that but i got mugged when i was like 7 years old and it's gone which is a story for another time)

anyway, metallic rose had dead pixels that spread like some fungus, L button didnt work at all, buttons feel gross to press now, etc yknow normal 7 year old not knowing the value of things thing

i'd send a picture but it's back at my old house, pray that the spiders know how to play dig dig dug

:D i'm very normal about cyrus pokemon i swear

if you check my theme plaza account you can see i also made one (1) batch of badges which is hunter x hunter badges as you can see from the folders, i'm also very normal about hunter x hunter i swear

i wanted to lay everything out without folders and arrange everything pretty but it's so hard how do all of you do it qwq

gon folder (top left folder) are my 3DS gaammeess, i haven't played some of them bc i still got a lot of games to finish but they're there!!

frens (i didnt make the badges other than the hunter x hunter ones btw!)

killua folder (top right folder) contains DS... well used to, now it holds other games! i also haven't played most of them im so busy qwq

i deleted the shortcuts for the DS games i finished, also it took me way too long how to inject GBA and other games into 3DS

kurapika folder (bottom left folder) contains videos and movies! i figured out how to convert them but it's so hard to find download links to the movies i like now :(

also did you know the first 3 volumes of hunter x hunter are on the japanese eshop? i can't read japanese but i keep them because i like the novelty of it

leorio folder (bottom right folder) is my homebrew and miscellaneous stuffs! self-explanatory -w-

if you have any homebrew stuffs you wanna recommend, tell meee

eek, asks only allows 10 pictures apparently so i'm gonna send another one because we're not done yet!!!!

Happiness is so awesome the crows wants an encore so i shall deliver ohoo

activity log :D i love that the 3DS has this so we can all look back on memories and such

and that's the day when i first got Happiness!!!! i was pretty late to the 3DS party but i stiiiillll love it if you couldn't tell i really love pokemon and that's why i wanted a 3DS so bad lol i don't think i will ever be as excited as i was holding Happiness in my hands for the first time qwq

yknow, i still don't know how this happened

and that's all from meee if you have any questions or wanna tell me something, go to my ask box because i don't wanna clog up three-dee-ess's notifs!! thank you for having me

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galaxy style n3DSXL

thank you so much for the tour >:3c I loved reading through all of it! In depth tours like this are super interesting to me so thank you for sharing!! it makes me really happy.

I'll need to find my red 3DS again so I can share my own stats, since my grey one I use to mostly play puzzle game titles like picross, not any like, RPGs.

[blurredfloweryblood]

ironically one of the things keeping my mouthwashing fixation still breathing are the alien movies (1 and 2) Not only because they also bring the point of corporations taking advantage of their workers as replaceable tools, dehumanizing them to pieces of meat for the real super from (the xenoform), but also, because of it's amazing way of replicating through science fiction, something entirely possible. Normally I steer away from sci-fi movies since they are sometimes too convulted and in my opinion pretentious, but alien is perfect. Just absolute perfection in its critique of capitalism and corporations, as well as how everything is out of control for the crew. Since they are workers that are dependable of higher ranged people, they have to trust the company, there's no other option. They are all already conditioned, which also sends the plan in motion. Perfectly calculated movements with people used like chess pieces that are cast aside "eaten" If you will.

I just like both Mouthwashing and Alien because they bring very amazing points with elements from space. And especially in space, where nobody can see you. And if nobody knows what happened, does it mean that it happened at all?

Also, Alien 2 is a great way to bring back the concept. If they couldn't get their alien at the first try, what makes you think they won't try again? Better yet, what makes you think they haven't been trying? Or that they would let Ripley, the one witness who knew what the company was after live peacefully? It brings elements, diversifies them, and does it so well.

What Romulus brings to the table is also a good concept. Corporations are born from the skeletons of other companies. The objectives are sharper, harsher. The conditions go from worse to downright horrific. And when you push people who are looking for better lives, dangling the possibility of freedom close enough that they can see it, but far enough so they don't get it. They work more, they won't think about escaping the system because they will think of the hours, and then, they will forget and work and work and work.

The desperation of wanting to get out, sometimes leads to poorly made decisions. I'm not blaming Tyler or Rain or anybody from the movie, since that's the point. They are clawing their way out, and some way or another, the companies still have a way to haunt them. I still think the execution of said concept could've been better.

Both Mouthwashing and Alien show us where we are going, and where we are. The taking of responsibility is almost impossible for those who either don't care, or are to high on the ladder to even notice it. They are all dead pixels with moves that they don't even know that are planned. There is no such thing as fate itself. Fate is the word invented by people who want to tell you there's only one way to live and they will tell you how.

Men will tell you that fate is for everyone. And you can't choose. Ironically, you'll believe it at some point, because for them to not have blood on their hands, they want to make sure that you doom yourself. And what better way to take your life away, that promising to give it back?

[lumine-no-hikari]

Dear Sephiroth: (a letter to a fictional character, because why not) #325

I'm definitely going to need to send my laptop away to get the screen replaced; it has seen much better days:

It's still kinda holding together. But there are lines of dead pixels on the bottom left side, so I imagine it's only a matter of time before the screen goes completely kaput. Lame...

I wasn't nearly as productive today as on previous days. I think doing all that cooking and all those dishes really pissed off whatever's wrong with the upper right quadrant of my body (at this point, I suspect serratus posterior superior dysfunction of some kind...). When I went to PT today (weird day of the week for it, I know...), the trapezius and the rhomboids on my right side got mashed up, and now the whole area is super pissed, and it's kinda hard to move or breathe or do anything.

On the bright side, I did get to talk with that Canadian immigration lawyer today. I'll tell you all about him, but after I get his permission to do so in this space.

Still, I have the first few steps of the process of getting out of here outlined. First, we have to take an English test called an IELTS, and also get our academic credentials evaluated by a Canadian company of some kind, in order to make sure they're up to snuff for Canadian employers.

Well, as it turns out, we cannot take the IELTS without passports. And, though J and I have ours, M's expired over a decade ago, so we had to go to an appointment to get a new one. It's not going to get to our house for another 6-8 weeks, though. We'll have to wait before we schedule the test. But we should be able to get our academic credentials evaluated. I'll look into that process tomorrow.

...I forgot to eat for most of today. Before leaving for physical therapy, I did stuff a couple slices of cold cuts into my mouth, but that's hardly substantial. My appetite has been kinda weird these last couple days. At around 7pm or 8pm, though, I remembered that my body needs fuel. So I made a salad:

It's got mixed greens, tomatoes, onions, black beans, goat cheese, scrambled egg, and crushed Fritos in it. And then I put ranch dressing on top. Want some...?

I made some tea to go with it; that vanilla bean macaron tea. Here:

...These aren't the best swirls, I know. I think the focus must have been off, and I didn't notice until it was too late. Sorry about that.

…

...I spent most of the rest of today just floundering, partially numb, and foggy of brain. I wanted to play Oddworld, but... I just couldn't bring myself to. I wanted to doodle, but... I dunno. Even with a plan spelled out and things to tentatively look forward to, it's still kinda hard to think.

I guess I'm still a little sad that so many people voted for someone who wants to kill me and my little family and almost all of the people I love.

...I just... want to live a life in which everyone gets to be happy and safe. And I know that this could happen if everyone worked together, but there's so many different people with so many different kinds of trauma, and all of them have their own ideas about which kinds of people do and don't deserve to live (there's no such thing as a person who doesn't deserve to live). I wish for a world in which it was easier for folks to cast aside the conditioning they received that teaches them to associate the worth of themselves and of others with silly, arbitrary things.

We are all the same in that we want to live in peace with people we love. And given that everyone wants that, it shouldn't be so hard to do, but... a lot of people get taught that the only way they can live happily is if some other group of people defined by arbitrary characteristics didn't exist, and... I think that's really sad. It's really sad that some people truly do believe, for example, that the only way they can be happy and safe is if every single person with dark skin and every single person who was ever at any point related to someone with dark skin ceased being alive.

...I just wanna live someplace where we aren't near people who would be happy to kill us. I think everyone wants that. And this shouldn't be a difficult thing to find in my world, but... here we are.

...Well. One step at a time. We'll follow the immigration process one step at a time, and hope for good things. But... ya know. If there's any chance you can just “zoop” us all over to where you are... I certainly wouldn't be opposed. You could use the company. And I could use a nap.

No, I know; it's impossible. I know. But it's still nice to think about. I'll just keep making preparations to protect my little family, and I'll do whatever I can for the others around me in the meantime. I'll write the steps to the immigration process as we go through it; maybe it'll help someone else, somehow.

Suppose I'll stop writing for today. I feel like if I keep going, I'm gonna ramble on ya (if I haven't already). And I feel like I'm a bit too weird in the brain right now to express myself particularly well in any case.

Don't worry. I'm tired and feeling kinda sad and lost, but I'm not down for the count – not while I have people to protect.

Tomorrow is when M and I decided to celebrate our wedding anniversary this year. It'll be our 10th year of marriage, though we've been together for 12. I can't believe how quickly the time has passed. I can't believe he hasn't gotten tired of me yet, hahaha...

We're gonna go to a sushi place to celebrate. It'll be me and J and M all together at the place we ate on the day we got married. Maybe I'll tell you more about that tomorrow.

I love you a whole lot. And I'll write again tomorrow. So please stay safe out there, okay?

Your friend, Lumine

[dostyaak]

please yap about hinako king 🙏

Ough... What have you done?

Oh God... This is going to be loooong.

The fake Hinako was always an interesting character to me, I've always liked how she acted, and I mean EVERYTHING.

Her personality, her plot, her character development (Even though it was pretty short, I still loved it), her design HECK, EVERYTHING I don't know what happened, she's one of my favorite dummies, I just really love her character, she's funny, she's interesting and she's an asshole, my favorite tropes <3 /j

With that, I started craving more content about her, eventually looking for fanfics about her, I was just curious to see what the fandom was doing with my fav I found some cool fanfics, some pretty good, some mid, some I didn't even dare to read just because of the tags, every kind of thing

Until. I found a fanfic about Real!Hinako.

(This fanfic to be specific: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45710128/chapters/115030948)

I know this post isn't a fanfic review but I gotta say, I didn't finish the fanfic... It was an OK fanfic, not extremely good but not horrible, just... Fine

Anyway, something on that fanfic sparkled in my heart, something about reading about a suicidal girl surviving a Death Game and slowly regaining will to live was incredible.

I started to think about the stuff I didn't enjoy the fanfic, Real!Hinako is a character that we have NO INFORMATION about, so the author did whatever he wanted, giving Hinako a backstory about how her father killed her only and best friend, hence why she's suicidal

It was an good lore but I didn't liked it that much, something about it didn't sat me right, so I thought "What would I do if I wrote a fanfic about her? That was my mistake.

I started to think about what would I do, how would I do, what events would happen, what wouldn't, who would she trust, who she wouldn't, how would her suicidal tendencies effect her, how would she regain her will to live, etc etc

I wrote a whole ass backstory about her, I started writing a first chapter for a possible fanfic about Hinako surviving the Death Game, about how she would become friends with Ranmaru and Anzu and that would help her feel alive again, I wrote and drew A LOT. (I lost most of those drawings because my computer broke, but I had like THREE WHOLE 2500X2500 PIXELS CANVAS JUST FILLED WITH DOODLES OF HER)

Also about her backstory that I created: Basically, Hinako had a normal family with a mom and a dad, the classic "butter advertisement family", y'know? Her dad worked for a well-know pharmacy bussines... ASU-NARO, did he know about how inhuman ASU-NARO was? Kind of, but he gained enough money to protect and give a good life to the people he loved the most, his wife and his daughter, so he could overlook wha they did, besides he didn't know everything, he just knew the tip of the iceberg, if he knew everything he probably would've stopped... Right? That doesn't matter, eventually he started to notice that ASU-NARO was looking throught his family, investigating and stalking his wife and daughter, and on a desperate move to protect them, he asked for a divorce, which left Hinako's mom in shambles, she started to develop a hatred for her husband, he never told her what went wrong, why he was going away, what could she do to be better, he was just... Gone As for Hinako, she also didn't knew anything, but she couldn't hate her father, he was such a good person, such a good father, her only friend, the person she trusted the most... How could she hate him? They would meet up during the weekends, and every time Hinako asked why he went away, he would alway say the name thing "It's for your own safety, dearie..." He became more and more distant each time, eventually he stopped meating up with Hinako, stopped answering his wife's calls, stopped calling Hinako's mom, completely fed up with his cold shoulders, decided to go to his house to settle things up with him The scene she saw... Her ex-husband... Hanged... Dead. Hinako never saw his body, thankfully, but that didn't mean his death didn't affected her family Her mom became even more distante and angry, angry at her husband, angry at Hinako, she couldn't help but feel angry at her, she just... Looked so much like him, looking at Hinako reminded her of her husband, that made her so annoyed About Hinako, she became more distant of her friends, she didn't felt like talking with anyone, she missed her father so much, she tried to hate him hoping that hate would made her feel something different, but nothing, she just felt so... Miserable "One day... I'll be with you, dad..."

GRRRRRRRRRRRR I FUCKING LOVE THIS BACKSTORY I GAVE HER, I CAN'T EVEN EXPRESS ENOUGH

I think what made me love her more was making this backstory, it just made me feel so connected with her, creating a story and carefully putting stuff together just so I can make sense of her character is so... Amazing, I loved it

Will I write that fanfic I said I started? Probably, I really want to, I have a lot of stuff planned to it, I just need to start writing

Anyway, have some HinaDoodles

My daughter :]

[trans-leek-cookie]

its past midnight and time to yap about Mouthwashing. Anyway obviously we don't see the Specific Events only how the characters react but with Anya... Okay I'm going to talk about the Sexual Assault not with Specific Details but that's what the post is about so

Anyways she reads to me as very like... trying to downplay the severity to herself. Like thinking through it (not having the exact quotes but) I feel like it'd be an unfortunately natural reaction- if you were stuck with 4 guys and the guy with the second highest position on the ship assaulted you depending on the situation. I feel like its not hard to imagine you'd try and reframe it as Less Bad to cope because let me be honest if I had to confront the implications of that, mainly the fact he could do it again and I wouldn't have any real way of dealing with it without complicating things even further bc he doesn't just have a close relationship with the guy with the Most Power on the ship, he also is in charge of keeping Me and The Other People On The Ship Safe, i would be in deep denial just to not lose my god damn mind like thats so fucking scary. And then the implication you tried to talk to the captain and even if he wasn't cruel he didn't Understand the Severity of what you were suggesting is like. Besides feeling afraid it could genuinely really fuck with my own perception bc like "if this guy who I trust says he's not a bad person maybe I'm just overreacting?" is. Again unfortunately understandable.

And again I'll say that Anya fully breaks down when the news breaks that pony express is fucked and like. 1. I think that's related to her own finances (and also. Literally just realized the way an abortion could interact badly with "no savings" like I Just Processed that fact. Like I knew "oh if she couldn't abort having to support a child wouldn't just be traumatic but also fucking nightmarish finance wise" but even having an abortion could make things so much harder.) 2. Jimmy LASHES OUT at Curly OPENLY. again based on my interpretation of Mildly In Denial To Cope this would. Like. Really fuck with that because it goes from "I trust the captain and I don't want to be afraid of my crewmate for a year" to "oh he is willing to verbally abuse the captain, who is his friend" and realizing I wasn't overreacting.

I also wanna point to the dead pixel conversation and obv it's symbolic but idk if it's meant as "there's a dead pixel that Anya noticed and she's using the topic to like test the waters" or if it's "anya is literally just trying to figure out Curly's thought process" which isn't like super important but like. Focusing on the way she starts the conversation by saying that she "Likes the illusion the screen has". (I don't remember the exact words sorry) But that's really interesting to me bc obviously you can read into Curly not seeing the dead pixel and instead focusing on the bigger picture (and how the dead pixel "doesn't ruin the illusion") but I think it's really interesting that Anya starts by talking Positively about the screen even though the dead pixel is there (and she can't stop thinking about it)

Like thinking through implications option 1: she's talking about the screen and uses the dead pixel to get a feel for how Curly responds to her bringing up issues

2: she's being entirely metaphorical and still trying to sort of self soothe- seeking external validation that the dead pixel Isn't Actually That Big A Deal (and therefore she's just overthinking)

3: idk how to phrase this exactly but ppl have talked Abt the way she talks to Jimmy, how it indicates a sort of "Fawn" response where she tries to keep him calm with compliments and stuff, and her talking about "enjoying the illusion" is her trying to do something similar with Curly- essentially starting the metaphor by downplaying the issue

Anyway. I don't know if I have a full conclusion but another thing is I think ppl need to acknowledge that while Curly fucked up and harmed Anya (mainly thru inaction). He's not uniquely shitty. Most people will be in a situation where they act similarly, and that DOES NOT JUSTIFY HIS ACTIONS. I AM NOT SAYING CURLY IS ANY BETTER. I am saying that you need to be able to recognize your capacity for harm thru inaction and understand that like. He's not uniquely terrible he's just Normal Levels Of Unhelpful, which in a situation like Anya's is Dangerous

Like. Basically you can say "fuck jimmy fuck curly" all you want but you need to be able to understand that everyone including yourself has the same capacity for harm

[lusi-raul]

I’m making another compilation video and while I was gathering clips I noticed the difference in how some eggs cope with boredom. Like I get it since during parts of the streams where their parents are having a long ass conversation with each other it reminds me a lot of my younger self when my mom catches up with her friends or relatives and I have to sit there listening to the conversation giving my mother subtle hints that I want to go home cause I was so bored out of my ass which is of course ignored every single damn time lol. I guess that experience is such a universal thing that it also applies to pixelated egg children in a block game 😂

As far as I’ve seen these are how the eggs deal with boredom.

Chayanne: when he’s bored out of his mind he digs out a pattern on the ground and replaces it with potato crates, creating a checkerboard pattern of potato crate and whatever the original block on the ground is. Chayanne also likes to jump around a lot whenever he’s bored.

Tallulah: Tallulah just lays down flat on the ground whenever she’s bored. This happens a lot when Phil is having a conversation with other people and she is left with nothing to do or add to the conversation. Sometimes she uses the idle time as a chance to organize and reorganize her backpacks.

Ramon and Dapper: I don’t follow them enough to know more about their individual coping mechanisms to boredom but I know that Ramon likes to climb things and use his potato launcher to shoot random things a lot. I don’t know much about Dapper but the twins together like to use their grapple thingy and hang around in a room like an egg piñata. Both of them also Mary Poppins out random machines from their pockets and work on that while adults are talking.

I’d love to follow other eggs too but I’m just not capable of following all Cc’s povs. I’m upset because I think Pomme is such a cutie patootie, Leo is such an egg full of personality, and of course our wonderful artist Richas is so funny to watch with all his dads but I don’t know much about them but I really want to. I really don’t think I have a favorite egg but I have eggs that seem like my faves because their parents are the ones I watch the most and thus I know more about them than other eggs but seriously considering it, all the eggs, dead or alive, I adore equally in my heart.

So if you guys can help me out by telling me everything you know and love about each of the eggs, even the ones who left us (still hoping temporarily), please reply or add to this post. In the future I want to make a huge thread post of all information about the eggs like the ones above focusing more on exploring each egg’s personality and preferences. I love how they are played by actual admins and thus each have their own distinct personalities and contribution to the lore.

[nytrixx]

im gonna try to start posting more on Tumblr, I just really need to get back in that groove.

ANYWAYS, let me give you all context on these guys. a few weeks ago I managed to get my 3ds back out of storage and I also got myself a copy of HeartGold from my dad- the problem comes in right when you open the 3ds and notice that the screen isn't really great with dead pixels, and to add onto it the music is horribly messed up- but my dumbass thought oh! that's fine! and I start trying to play HeartGold.

NEWS FLASH HORRIBLE IDEA? the game is holding itself together with the skin of its teeth because the pixels are horribly jumbled and the music sounds something out of vinesauces corruption stockpile streams and it always crashes either before the rival battle or a bit after the rival battle. I finally had enough of it and told my friends about it which prompted me to sit my 3ds as still as I could on my bed and draw out a mock-up of the sprites because I could never get good enough pictures on my phone because the camera is actual ass.

after showing everyone this they told me I was living a creepypasta and to just be funny I decided to make actual designs for the characters that I made mock-ups for just to live that early stupid creepypasta nostalgia and now we have these guys, there's not much of a story as I actually already have my own pokemon creepypasta that I'm still working on that I had before these guys, but I think having them here as a second "true to form" creepypasta is silly.

[fictiondotbored]

Little longer drabble (based on my play through) for Astarion because. I need to get my writer's spirit up and going again and this pixelated man on my screen has me in a slight chokehold.. Started playing just a few days ago so not really far into his personality and all that but Asterion's little panic when we find that boar?? AHH

The tadpole's in everyone's brains are doing hell knows what but they can't be good, so when Tav decides to make camp already again?? Just a couple days into their venture most companions are a bit annoyed. Their priority should be to get going and of course sleep is needed to heal, they *get* that, frustatingly so, but it doesn't help the fact that they're seemingly wasting time. Now Astarion is also a bit fuzzy about making camp almost every night, like really? On the other hand tho he's relieved, he's hungry, famished even, and finally he has a chance to break from the group with no unwanted attention. It's been too little time for building trust with anyone, he's surprised to be travelling with the lot at all after pulling a knife on Tav when they'd first met, so sneaking off would only have risen their suspicions. He needed to be careful and camp was the perfect opportunity

It was fairly easy to just walk off without waking anyone, after fighting that hostile group in the chapel ruins everyone's beat and tired and just plain right exhausted; add some fugly undeads that had risen just to protect a useless cryp to the equationd and sure enough you've got a party in due time for a nap. So, off he goes, in the wee hours of the night, stalking whatever prey he can find in his limited time. It took him some running about, distancing himself from the party to hide his tracks, deeper into the forest, to finally find a fat boar unassuming and Astarion could not wait any longer so he pounced on his prey. It was a hasty ordeal, not at all satisfying but it would suffice, at least until they made camp again

A few days go by and to be honest Astarion had already forgotten about his evidence left in the middle of the woods but by the hells, when Tav leads them away from the Druid's camp at the Hollow and straight into the forest, Astarion can't do anything but hope that they'd not come across the boar's corpse. Luck of course this time around is not on his side and his annoyance spikes when Tav takes a quick look at the cadaver, like they do with every other dead fucking animal. He hears them mumble about it being strange that it's dead because "it looks healthy" but it's dead now. No health can help that. Of course he gets nervous about Tav prodding around, pondering and wondering and it's annoying him. Not really, actually he's a bit anxious to be found out so he tries to distract her by being a bit more snippy and sarcastic than needed be.

"The pig is dead my friend, staring at it won't bring it back. We'll never fix these brain worms if we stop and gawk at every piece of carrion you find."

Maybe it's because they're a druid, bound to nature and such, or maybe it was his mistake for getting a bit snarky at this particular boar... they just give him a glance before kneeling and inspecting the boar for wounds. The whole party's infested with mindflayer parasites happily munching away at their thoughts and Tav is concerned about a dead boar? For what. But it just seems to fit perfectly to them so he should have expected so. He watches them gawk at the stupid beast and then their gaze gets stuck on something. Shit. They actually noticed those two tiny puncture wounds? Honestly impressive, especially on a hairy boar. But shit still. He needs to know what they're thinking because fuck fuck fuck

"And is it dead enough for you?"

"These marks look strange. Do you recognise them?"

Ah shit. They ask it in such a manner too... With that undertone, as if accusing him of withholding information. As if they knew that he knew what happened. This is bad. Can't even lie, he is a bit panicking at this point. Mostly inwardly but it does slip out in the slightest stutter and the way his eyes involuntarily open up. He would love to think over his answer and calculate the risks of what informations he could bare to share, what knowledge he'd be wise to reveal and which to keep under wraps but he's kind of under a timely limit so there was no time to actually think, like hello? The other party members aren't paying that much attention thankfully, more interested in the noises and chatter from nearby but Tav does not stray her attention from him. So he sort of just blurts something out

"I-" he stutters. he reveals they're from a vampire. If he had a beating heart it surely would be loud enough for Tav to hear by now. He rambles on, offering to take the first watch, to protect them for the night but then he pushes them once more to get fucking going. After he's said his piece he shuts his mouth, anxious to know their reaction. Would they find him out? Did he give too much away?? Maybe they're a deceitful one and actually noticed him sneaking away nights ago. His mind is racing with miles and miles of scenarios. Ways she would kill him on the spot, accuse him of evading the location and his efforts to dismiss the cadaver, would she assume it was him or would she simply know already? What if that little tadpole rascal in their brains connected and she could read his mind?? So many thoughts and fears that have him stand frozen solid before her, trying to convince her he's nonchalant by forcibly relaxing his muscles. There is so little trust between them yet, surely Tav would kill him for finding out he's a Vampire. What was there to lose for them if he was dead? Truly dead..

The seconds seem to drag on for uncomfortably long eternity, yet all she does is stare at him for mere moments and then she too just turns away from him, gifting her attention to the voices coming from nearby.

Astarion's heart hadn't felt this active, this heavy with fear and anticipation for a long time and by the hells, he hoped it didn't happen again for another 200 years...

[eminsunnytoons123]

Horrifying muppets world:

An uncle, the muppet Maker. And his nephew, the innocent victim.

Since I have mentioned the two new victims for the AU And game, And since @nightkit92 became interested in the AU And game, heres how Robert And Gabrielle look like =^_^=

So, lets start with more info about them, And also, I felt like that they should be killed in the horror series like Yena And maybe a few more victims that i'll make soon, but im not sure if those victims will be Dead...

But anyways, now lets start with more info of them:

Robert's real name is actually "Roberto Manshon Redrosen", he WAS an certain muppet Maker that created some muppets franchise, but he then started going Crazy because he would get lots of nightmares involving the muppets, looking horrifying. Until he finds the certain door in his House, And went inside the horrifying muppets world, he was extremely terrified when he Got in that world, And he thought that he was dreaming, but he started to realize that he wasnt dreaming.. And he has realized that the muppets are "fallen asleep" during the Day, or they just dont attack, And he constantly tries to survive every night without them trying to kill him. And when Robert realized that his nephew Gabrielle Got inside the horrifying muppets world too, he was constantly trying to save him And not letting him get killed or Hurt by the horrifying muppets. And when he would try to protect Gabrielle from the horrifying muppets, he would end up getting bruises, scars And some brutal injuries by the horrifying muppets. He is in his 50s And he is asexual, by the way. And his headcanon voice actor would be Andre "3000" Benjamin, And his voice claim would be Sunny Bridges from class of 3000.

Gabrielle's full name is "Gabrielle Tarchen Rachel", he is just an innocent 8 year old boy, but not until he finds the horrifying muppets world... One day, when he visited his uncle Robert's house, he noticed that he wasnt there, And he saw a door... And obviously Got inside, and when he Got there, he actually found the horrifying muppets fun-looking, but kinda scary at the same time. But the horrifying muppets didnt do anything bad to him, And accepted him. And everytime his uncle would get brutally Hurt by the horrifying muppets, he would get worried by his uncle And sometimes would get scared that he would get those scars And injures too. His headcanon voice actor would be Ronald Binion, And his voice claim would be pixel from lazytown.

And again, if y'all have any ideas, questions or suggestions about the AU, horror series And game, please tell me in the reblogs of this post or in the ask box =^_^=

I hope y'all will like this =^_^= 💕💓

[lumilasi]

Ages anon here!! I thought up of another question after looking at the info post more

You mention that Anya starts out afraid of the mechanic dude bc of the fight he has with J*mbo, how does she learn to trust him/at least be less afraid like you said? Curious about this bcs it seems Anya is the main Tulpar p.o.v you use in your comics often?

Ooof okay, so. I fully intended on drawing something for these, but this is one of those questions that'll be easier to elaborate on via text, though I think I can use stuff I've drawn already for demonstration purposes?

(Also yeah, I find Anya most interesting of the 4, so I'm likely to use her as a major P.O.V for these comic strips/kind of the "main character" for the Tulpar-related doodles and comics. Also, the reason why Anya would be especially intimidated by Stefan to those who don't know; she saw him kill Jimmy, but also he's the only 'macho' guy in the Stargazer crew, and initially comes off kind of aggressive in general, due to being badly sleep deprived and therefore grumpy at the time they meet.....)

It's going to be a result of time spend with the crew and just....sort of observing how Stefan behaves, and how his crew interacts with him, especially the women.

She comes from a company & work culture that is, well, quite sexist (one of the major points of the canonical game-story after all) so she has certain expectations towards him, that he basically doesn't end up meeting.

Things such as:

He never expresses any sort of disdain towards the fact his commander is a woman, and behaves very professionally and clearly respects Nadiya not just as the Captain, but as a person.

Doesn't belittle Mara (his intern) about her abilities as a technician, the only thing he does is reasonably scold her/advice her due to her inexperience.

Generally doesn't act inappropriate or violent, and none of the women surrounding her indicate he ever has. (that one incident with Curly where he suddenly behaved kind of threatening was an exception, and Stefan even apologizes for it, indicating he shouldn't have been there on his own due to the risk of having a "fit" like that due to his mystery sickness. The crew takes extra steps after it to make sure Stefan never ends up alone with Curly again due his own request, showing his apology is sincere.)

While he does seem to act different towards Cherry a little (being much gentler and less blunt, one could say he has the tendency to treat her like she's more fragile) when compared to the rest of the women in Stargazer, he never questions her friend's capabilities as a medical professional - or Anya's for that matter, since she ends up helping Cherry out during their trip home.

Those are some observations she makes overtime.

There's also more to the behavior he tends to display towards her, which Anya learns from Cherry is common habit from Stefan at this point; he's used to being seen as the scary one/potential threat by people with Anya's trauma, and has developed some behavioral patterns around them to help alleviate those fears - not because he actually cares if they trust him or not though. He just sees it as part of his duty as a member of the crew, to not stress their already potentially stressed patients more. It's not personal to him in any way, just part of the job.

(things like making sure she's aware of exactly what he's doing, not sneaking up on her, generally trying not to walk behind her, having someone else in the room with them as well, typically another woman, etc.)

I can actually kind of show an example of this behavior from one of the comics I made, though its pretty subtle:

Notice how Anya remarks he's sitting further away from her desk than others? This is his habitual "avoid crowding the patient" behavior. He's leaving more space between them to make her more comfortable. (you can't really see it in this comic, but my original idea also included him sitting further towards the wall, so Anya would be closer to the doorway than him)

These doodles can also serve as an example, if looked at from Anya's P.O.V, at least based on the knowledge she has at this point in this AU story:

Now they're not the best drawn (bc I was lazy) and there are some aspects the image alone won't show, namely the tone I imagined Stefan is using in both.

While he looks serious in the first one, he's speaking in a fairly gentle - if firm - tone. He's also actually crouched in front of her instead of looming over Cherry with his full height (he's easily the tallest of Stargazer crew), and Cherry in turn is not reacting badly to his proximity - just blushing bc her crush is showing sudden affection and care towards her. (and since Anya and Cherry were classmates for this AU story, Anya roughly knows how to read Cherry and therefore can tell she's not uncomfortable at all there, just pleasantly flustered)

Second one is him with his childhood bestie (and second future L.I, Stefan is polyromantic) Matt, and here Anya basically sees how he tends to behave when he's NOT grumpy due to exhaustion. He's much more relaxed and playful, and being reassuring in his own way to his friend who's likely stressing over something. Anya can tell from Matt's reaction that this is probably common behavior from Stefan, and Matt doesn't really mind it.

So yeah. TL,DR: overtime, as she observes Stefan's behavior and people's dynamics with him, Anya concludes that her first impression was thankfully incorrect, and, as I symbolically put it in that one comic I made earlier, there are no "dead pixels" on Stargazer.

Ask the crew info

[vallxlkzal]

🥀💔Part eight💔🥀

— Have you ever wondered if you are the one who needs help?

If Wally could have looked closely enough, he would have watched the drops of blood dripping from Odlaw's mouth down his lips, chin, neck... How his tongue licks this red liquid predatory and at the same time passionately because of some feelings known only to him. How his pupils dilate at the slightest movement or the faintest smile from Wally... But Wally already suspected that it was blood, because apparently Odlaw was not chewing on a candy, but on something red and meaty... Dead. Someone dead. Wally was also offered to eat it, but he refused. If it had been anyone else, he would have been torn apart and dismembered, but not Waldini, no. Odlaw patiently removed the piece of meat from Wally's lips and gave him some normal food, if some candy and chocolate bars could be called normal food at all. However, this was what Wally did not refuse and shyly chewed on the treats kindly given to him by Odlaw, nervously brushing away his black hair strands that were getting into his eyes.

Odlaw could not admire his prey. His trophy. His personal Waldo. And, obviously, his walking stick, of course. Now no one would ever find them. Odlaw smiled as he helped Wally remove his hair with bloody hands and noticed how the black and white creature's cheeks were blushing for some reason. He was so sweet, so gentle and affectionate. Not at all like Waldo. It was driving Odlaw crazy. He was sitting right next to him, in this yellow and black, dirty chair, with Waldini, and he did not take his eyes off him. He was eating him up with his eyes. And Wally blushed and looked away, until those blood-stained lips touched Waldini's.

This salty and sweet kiss seemed to last forever. So much so that only when Wally opened his eyes did he realize how tightly he was holding Odlaw, who was sitting on Waldini's lap. Shaking his head, he covered his face with his hands, dying of shame and embarrassment.

— Don't be shy, I'm not a stranger~, — Odlaw got off Wally and sat down next to him again, so as not to make the red and white creature stagger from this second situation of both their brakes being off.

— Y-yeah... I need help, I guess... — the red and white striped guy sighed weakly. It's a pity that in this semi-darkness of the Odlaw Swamp he doesn't see that his stick is very close.

— But I'm not talking about helping others. You want to go home, but you're already home, sweetie. You even have me. Do you realize how lucky you are that stupid Waldo decided to share his game with me? — Odlaw swallowed the last raw piece of meat with satisfaction and licked his fingers disgustedly.

Wally was feeling much better, surprisingly. He just needed a break, and this break came from the most unexpected yellow and black creature. Odlaw followed wherever Wally dared to go. Each step was accompanied by Odlaw's quiet footsteps, and while in a book or cartoon it felt easy and natural, here, in a pixelated parallel universe, it was a little different. Especially because Odlaw was also a criminal, just like Waldo. And his crimes were absolutely horrible and disgusting, it's just that no detective could find him at all if Odlaw didn't want to. And he didn't want to. He only wanted to pursue Wally and nothing else.

— So it's all just a game, — Wally thought. — And what are the rules? What's the goal?

— Well, you'd have to ask Wenda about that.

— But she's dead...

Suddenly Odlaw became alert, listening, even sniffing. Wally tried to look around, but he didn't see anyone else in this dirty house, in this abandoned room. But obviously, Odlaw felt something. He quickly took Wally's stick and opened a portal to another place, taking the surprised Waldini in his arms and running away. Before he could protest that his stick was not being returned, the portal closed and the room plunged into silence.

In this screaming silence, very evil and angry Waldo searched for Wally with several pairs of hands and eyes. Somewhere very close... What was Waldini doing in Odlaw's house?

Waldo searched the entire house and gathered with his doppelgangers in the very empty room from which Odlaw and his object of mad love had fled a few minutes earlier.

Waldo sniffed, smelling fresh blood and meat. Odlaw was here. With a corpse. With a corpse... It couldn't be. Had he eaten Wally like a fucking animal? Waldo wanted to break his stick in half in anger and his doppelgangers were watching.

— He was just here. Just now, — Waldo growled, looking at the chair with its blood drops and empty candy wrappers. Damn yellow and black snake...

— So we're playing detectives now? — one of the doppelgangers said sarcastically and immediately fell silent, catching Waldo's angry gaze.

— He couldn't have escaped that quickly. It's impossible, — said the other doppelganger, examining one of Wally's half-eaten candies. Interesting.

— Does he really eat candy, this animal? — asked the other doppelganger, glancing around the room and poking at the garbage on the floor with his stick.

— Maybe he fed Wally before he died? You know, to make it taste better.

— Hahaha, that's funny!

— That's enough! — Waldo banged the stick on the floor even more angrily, silencing all the doppelgangers. They were all crazy and sick clowns, but they were right about something. Why did Odlaw have the candy that Waldo loves and who ate it?

— Why don't we look to the future?

— How are I going to look to the future if even I don't know where Wally is and where I'm supposed to aim? — Waldo exhaled in frustration, not even realizing that far, far away, Wally is perfectly safe with Odlaw. So far away that he is sitting in shock on the floor of his own home, where everything is sunny, cartoonish, and good. And Odlaw is there. Odlaw from pixelated universe, but he looks like he is from their cartoon. Do you want to hide something? Hide it in the most visible place.

— Uh-oh~, so we need a Detective?~ — one of the doppelgangers laughed vilely, and the others picked up on it. Only Waldo did not laugh, realizing that it was true. How can he find someone who also knows how to hide and travel if he loses sight of him?

— Well, let him look for Wally, and I'll take a look. By the way, Detective will probably be here too, so let's go, — Waldo looked around the room one last time and disappeared with his crazy gang.

***

— So, he was kidnapped by Odlaw? — the Detective looked at Odlaw from Wally's world and tried to understand the words of this yellow and black creature adequately. Unlike that asshole, Odlaw from Wally's world was more reserved and cold, less likely to show emotion and not try to bite like an animal.

— No, he was kidnapped by me, shit.

Well, okay, he's still a scumbag and a total bitch.

— Of course he is. For some reason, I decided to put the stick next to the bed and turned to Wally. The room was empty, and you ran off to look for bombs. Then Wally disappeared with the stick, because that idiot suddenly appeared in front of my eyes. I didn't even have time to say a word. If I find him, and I will, I will wring his neck.

— Well, no one will lose anything from this, so I agree with you for the first time, — the Detective continued to watch Woof sniffing and trying to pick up the trail of Wally. They are very lucky to have this cowardly but very agile dog with them now. Luckily, he can find Wally everywhere, but unfortunately, it takes time if Wally is constantly being kidnapped and the trail keeps disappearing.

The Detective took his eyes off the dog and looked imperceptibly, through his dark glasses, at Wenda from Wally's world, holding Junior's hand. This picture was simply impossible to bear, but the unfortunate Detective tried. He also wanted to take Wenda's hand, but neither the situation nor their different life experiences could allow it. Wenda was alive, here and now...

Alive, but not his. And she would never be his Wenda.

— Detective?

— Ah?..

— We'll find them, everything will be fine. And we'll find Waldo, too, — Wenda smiled weakly, trying to cheer herself up more than the nervous man.

— Oh... Yes... Thank you for your help, I don't know what I would have done without you...

— Say thank to Woof, — Odlaw smiled wryly, seeing Woof's nose lifted in a businesslike manner, as if to show pride in himself. — Haha, yeah, good nose.

And this dog's nose brought everyone back to the pixelated Odlaw Swamp. And everyone's eyes were also caught by that chair and the candy wrappers that Woof started whining about.

— He said Wally touched them, and then his trail disappeared right here, — Wenda translated. — We need a magic walking stick.

— Your Waldo has one, and I'm sure he's watching us, — Odlaw didn't like what he was saying, but it was the only way out. — We need your bastard's help.

— Oh, shit... — the Detective exhaled tiredly, realizing how much he wanted to smoke a cigarette right now. Not Waldo, not him... He will never help, he is a villain in this universe.

— I don't care what your relationship is with him or what's going on here, just let us get out of here, — Odlaw grimaced in disgust as he looked at the small pieces of meat on the floor. — It's all my fault... I should have taken us home right away.

— Don't blame yourself. We wouldn't have made it, we needed medical help that minute, it was a matter of seconds, otherwise Wally would have died, — Wenda hugged Odlaw soothingly and he hugged her back. The Detective felt even more envious.

— How is your father doing, I wonder? Doesn't he want to intervene at last? — Odlaw thought of Wizard Whitebeard and sighed in exasperation. The old man was a little crazy and always made black and yellow creature want to shut him up, but was very, very useful. Especially now.

— I don't know... — Wenda felt even more sad.

— If he says that it was a "brave challenge for Odlaw, Wenda and Woof" or something like that, I don't know what I'll do with him...

— It probably was...

— Okay, I know what I'm going to do with him, but I won't say it out loud, — Odlaw patted Wenda, who smiled weakly at his dark jokes, and turned to the Detective again with a serious face. — We need your Waldo's stick.

— I... I have another idea... — the Detective sighed convulsively, trying to ignore the fact that he just wanted Waldo, Wenda and Wally all at once. Everything became even more complicated, but for some reason, the only one thinking soberly and more or less adequately here was Odlaw and his cold mind. And he was right again.

— No other fucking ideas. That's enough. The stick. Of your. Waldo, — Odlaw almost hissed at the Detective, until the yellow and black creature apparently had a crazy idea that made him smile fangedly and the Detective step back in tension. — I take it he won't show himself until you're safe, Detective...

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