#goodness.. buddy finding the confusion funny is a very specific detail. reminded myself of what the comedy mask laughing sounds like

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regardless. pangolin what if I GOT you. This is genuinely so interesting to contemplate. And I ran out of tags to use. the dynamics. both the same and inexorably different. Goodness Gracious . it’s very interesting to try and contemplate what buddy would do because, before now, it was just ‘the masked, buddy’ in my head. Now there’s this whole person, fully aware and ‘human’, starting off in the story as not an entity but rather an individual. I think I could work on the phrasing of that, but the thought is there I think. it’s such a strange and interesting flip of the dynamics. Buddy taking care of them (even still) and the masquerade taking care of it (even still). both different and almost the same. i am NOT surviving the winter

on a kind of related note; contemplating buddy as a creature and as a human are two comparisons that are so fucking . Nuts to me. i need to be able to study buddy beneath a microscope

mildly crack AU for Four Of Them verse, roleswap. enby employee who lost it's crew but finds them again but oops they're all Masked now!

this is so funny to me. instead of one masked trying to claw its way into a ship, it's three masked trying to convince an employee to stay with them in a facility (in the most terrifying physically-grabbing-it way possible), and reluctantly tailing buddy back to the ship. likelihood of random death via mask the first week increases by 80% in this au at minimum. buddy goes off the deep end faster than the default four of them crew because its only company are the giggling rotting corpses of its team and it knows they watch it sleep. it forgets how to communicate like a human in two weeks. when the bodies give out it joins a team of three and kills them all in their sleep with the masks it snuck on board. the masked are all remarkably more calm and content in company life because they're around each other (other masked). they love their weird non-masked masquerade member very much. meanwhile buddy has cracked like a thin pane of glass and doesn't know how it's still alive