#because their codependency mess is so fuckibg much

[irregularbillcipher]

thinking about kryptos post bill death again and honestly i gotta explore that at some point because it’s such a juicy scenario for this little freak. like he knows bill has to still be alive in some form because bill is the only reason he and the other henchmaniacs have been able to live so long since none of them exactly have the power to live for millennia and they’re not withering or dying or dead so like. bill has to be alive. and that isn’t denial, it isn’t denial because kryptos is still alive and he wouldn’t be without bill so it can’t be denial

and since it’s not denial and he knows for sure, with absolute certainty that bill is alive he just has to wonder what bill thinks happened to him (and the rest of the maniacs he guesses but who cares about them.) because he doesn’t know how to start finding him to help him (he definitely needs help no matter what happened and this isn’t just because kryptos Does Not Know what he would do if bill didn’t need their stupid eons long codependency)

and like the natural conclusions are “maybe bill thinks i’m dead because of whatever happened to him” and “maybe bill thinks i just don’t care enough to find him” and he’s not sure which one would be worse but he thinks it would probably be better if bill thinks he’s dead, for both of them. at least until he can find him and Fix Everything. he doesn’t think bill would cope super well with the idea that he’s dead (because he certainly isn’t coping well anytime he entertains that idea about bill) but he knows neither of them would be able to cope with the idea of kryptos being a traitor