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thegreatyin · 6 months ago

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1 and 25 for Mr Eaten

1 - Favorite canon thing about this character?

the fact that he exists at all is honestly so cool to me? it's all kind of defunct nowadays (and for perfectly fair reasons) but the original idea of SMEN as an omnipresent mystery, a self-destructing sidequest you can never complete nor talk about... it's really really cool. it's sort of what drew me to the game in the first place. just the idea of that is exciting to me

25 - What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

at first: so is this guy like. the final boss of london?? the secret mastermind??? how does this work. what's his problem. why is he whispering to me with a single bloody finger (referring to the SMEN icon)

now: gee this guy is a GREAT narrative vehicle in the scientist's arc about killing himself!!!!

#eaten is odd to think about as a CHARACTER to me bc he sorta serves more as a narrative entity. like.#he's the core of SMEN for obvious reasons but he's not really There. he's gone. the entire point is that he's gone #as a point on the metaphorical narrative and lore conspiracy board he's fascinating but i wouldnt call him a proper character #idk how to put it #he's literally haunting the narrative. he's not a person. he's a force driving people forward. usually forward into madness #ask #fallen london #that all being said i love reading people's headcanons on candles and what he used to be like #i love all the fanart of him as a honduran white bat. that's just what he looks like to me now #there's some great potential to get out of imagining what his relationship with veils was like before the. Yknow. everything.#but at the end of the day it's all mostly fan interpretation and headcanon and basically making up your own idea of a bat #the entire point of eaten is that he's Gone. he's Gone and yet he's Not and there Will be a reckoning. yknow??#candles is a lovely corpse to dissect and theorize and headcanon about but eaten is a grave. and that's all he'll ever be #candles died a long time ago. he's a posthumous character. eaten is just the shell of his body that moves things along but isnt really here #ahhh im rambling about things in the most incomprehensible way possible again. you can get it. you can picture it. gestures vaguely.#Stuff.#fallen london spoilers

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