#lots of 413s in that moment with Rose- everytime i see it i feel like ive gotta crack some sort of secret

[tenaciouschronicler]

December 2 2024 2009

Time for timeline trickery!

Further left of the pink furniture is an arcade machine fitted with Appearifier tech. Its unclear which was created first but this one has the ability to see exactly what you would be appearifying. In this case its locked on to Jaspers. Im kinda surprised he was not put into the suit specifically for his funeral but that this seemed to be par for the course for him.

The timestamp shows 3140 days before 'today', April 13, 2009 making it September 7, 2000. Yes I did the math. It was actually very unecessary since I could have just googled it but Im always creating more work for myself.

On this day Jaspers and Rose were having a therapy session wherein Rose learned a Secret of Jaspers. How you could understand him is astonishing, Rose. Rose knows removing Jaspers from the timeline at this point would cause a parodox, the secret was not shared yet, but tries anyway in the name of Science. Much like when WV paradoxified a pumpkin, Jaspers is nothing but green sludge. Next to the Appearifier platform is another machine. This one processes the sludge to form a clone cat which would sadly not be viable outside of the containment unit.

Whoever was operating this machine in the past may have been making unsuccessful attempts to perfect the science of ECTOBIOLOGY.

I need this here for two reasons. First, the added emphasis on ectobiology by making the text color green. Second, which ties into the first a bit, who have we met so far that makes a reference to ectobiology?

Our main protagonist himself, John Egbert. Not only is it his chumhandle, his shirt has a green slime ghost. While we normally associate blue as his color, I feel like that plus this hints that somehow, someway, John WILL perform ectobiology. The only question is, given his track record, will he be successful?

Shortly after telling Rose his Secret, at 4:13:14, Jasper is appearified by an unknown person. Where/whenever he goes, Jaspers ends up visually untraceable for two weeks ending up back on the beach September 21st. Since the apperifier is still locked on Jaspers, Rose fast forwards to the present to find where he had gone after landing on that other platform. The music that plays genuinely unsettles me, probably because of the meowing.

For a very brief moment, in the lower right hand corner an upsidedown pink horseshoe flashes before fading away. I learned my lesson since that one Dave flash so Im constantly looking there to see if i miss any play buttons. Now, I thought you had to click when the horseshoe was visible, but no the hitbox remains active even after it fades away. Once you click on it a western version of Jaspers piano song, done by whistling, plays while Rose finally rides the pony as the scarf flutters in the wind. There are three cymbal crashes that flash a poorly drawn photo, one where Rose hugs the pony, one where she feeds the pony an apple, and one of John dressed in western wear infront of a saloon.

I genuinely dont get the purpose of this aside from an easter egg but its hilarious none the less.

Back to the story, since Rose was able to track Jaspers to his new location, she appearifies him back to her. With thirteen seconds on the clock she jumps on the Transportalizer, kitten in hand and hightails it out of there.

We switch to Jade who is out looking for Becquerel. A difficult task since for some reason he is immune to Jades precognitive powers. We get to see Bec appear in the background with a flash of lightning, which may be the source of the lightning PM dealt with earlier, as he looms behind Jade.

And just as quickly, disappears when Jade turns around. Jade being Jade, she pays no mind to the ominous aura her pet excudes and moseys on down to Johns package that 'arrived months late. And yet, right on time.'

Today we find John in his dads room. Prepared for Clowns and Secrets John finds...

Wait a minute. These are just boring business documents and spreadsheets.

In a hilarious upset, absolutely nothing!

'Kind of a boring room' is an understatement. Here the only flash of color comes from the cake mix in the left corner. While Dad is still into magic, there is no sign of harlequins anywhere amidst the polished shoes, black ties and fedora hats. The whole flash is just John having a breakdown as all his preconceived notions shatter under the ralization Dad is just a normal man. This begs the question, why all the harlequin decor? Did he think John was into it, even if Johns stated otherwise? Or is this his inheritance from Nanna, who I can 100% see being into clowns? Ive got a feeling that this moment for John will become the norm for us. Building up ideas for our characters and then 'shocking' us as what we thought we knew gets turned on it head.