#he's a puppet puppetmaster. I am literally going to pass out good NIGHT

[thewertsearch]

AA: i believed the fragment was gibberish from a lunatic AA: after completing his rampage through our session

I guess Gamzee’s rampage wasn’t a one-off, then. He’s turned to murder in other timelines, in what appear to be substantially different circumstances.

Is this LOPAH, or Alternia? Just how early can Gamzee snap?

Edit: She does say he rampaged through the troll session, so I'm assuming the former, given that Karkat was the first one to Enter.

AA: and discovered the text which the code was recorded in AA: i decided to return to the alpha timeline with the text […] AA: in the alpha timeline this text was destroyed AA: in an explosion caused by a computer virus AA: this explosion did not take place on my timeline AA: i identified this event as the difference prompting the offshoot

Why would Karkat’s virus affect Gamzee, though? As far as I can tell, its only material effect was to kill the lusi, and I don't see why that'd cause him to snap.

...hmm. Let's see if we can work this out, actually.

OK. In this hypothetical timeline, Goatdad didn’t die at sea. He would have returned to Gamzee’s hive, and, ...potentially done something that caused him to snap early, I guess. But what?

It is still piping hot but you can't help yourself. You sneak a taste of the SOPOR SLIME PIE. You aren't supposed to eat that slime. It does funny things to a troll's head. But you were never taught that on account of a lousy upbringing. Your custodian was always out to sea.

...aww, man.

Gamzee was on the slime because Goatdad was an absent father. Maybe, in this world without the curse, Goatdad returned to his hive, decided to be a parent for once, and cut him off.

It fits extremely well, but I really don't want to dwell on the possibility. It would mean that this Gamzee became a killer because someone cared for him - and that his first victim was probably the old goat.

‘Hey, that’s a weird colour palette. Why did he....

...oh.’

This is.... I don't know what to call this. Gamzee took out all of his team's heavy hitters, completely solo. He killed Sollux, he killed Kanaya, he killed Vriska...

How? How is this guy so ridiculously fucking dangerous?

I see Snowman w-

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!