#like idk itd be freaky seeing someone who looks exactly like you but if they were a perfect you

[lume-ish]

Spoilers for ep11 AvA

something something AvA TCO and AvA Victim look identical something something-

Imagine escaping from your creator and finding a home, a community, people who care about you and you care about; and while it doesnt change what happened, you begin to heal, you don't flinch at every triangle shaped object anymore, and of course you have your bad days but you know that your best friend/partner will be there for you. You create a whole cool company from your talents and smarts, you find a home and its safe and everything is looking so hunky dory right?

And then in flashes of green everyone you love gets painfully ripped away from you. and who is the source of this? Who caused all this pain? Who else could it be? Who else has this kind of power? Did he come back for you? to finish what he started?

You don't find out and are stuck wondering for hours, maybe days, maybe more. But you're stuck in a too big building with too empty halls with nothing to fill it with besides your own thoughts.

And when you do find out? It's you. That's you on the screen, you before you changed, you back when you were just a victim. It has to be a message. they have your face, they even look younger somehow, their lines cleaner, and they're strong so strong. Stronger than you ever were and could wish to be. Did Alan do this? Cleary. Who else could've made them. They look just like them. In a way no one else here in this tech-world(??) does.

why? To mock him? to show how strong he could've been, to tell him that no matter how far he gets, no matter how hard he works to move on to be happy. He will always be one step behind, ready to drag them back the second they so much as slip.

And maybe that adds a certain hint of envy to Vic's anger and grief, cause as much as Vic hates TCO, they're also a reminder of why they were created. But not just that, that they could've been TCO, they could've been strong too, and Vic is strong, Vic's smarts probably outrank all of the hollowheads. But what part of that is their natural genius and what came from a desperation to survive no matter what?

Maybe if they were stronger, or smarter, they couldve saved Mitsi. If they had been created stronger . Or they couldve defeated Alan instead of running away. And then none of this would've happened.

Anyyyway just funny little thoughts I've had about what Vic might be thinking/feeling since watching Episode 11. Like the work Alan and the whole team put into AvA and AvM is just mind blowing, like broo the emotion and story theyre able to tell with these stickmen is incredible.