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anena-enthusiast · 9 months ago

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sigh I’m decoding my own lore now. codes under cut

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(Restart?)

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(GUILT)

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(TAKE THE GUILT)

im going to touch it — 🍎 anon

((loads of glitched texts and unreality ahead. murder-ish mention

what-? WAIT DONT

.̷̨̺̬̜̥̥̙̠͙̯̥͈͇̳̰̼̄͑͜͠-̸̢̙̻͈̦̥̩̙̫̙͔̞̑̏̀͒̔͒̕ͅ.̷̛͉̭͚̐̑̊̆͗͋̄͊̓̋̆̏͠ ̵̧̧̧̯̣̺̫͈͓̤͚̖̫̉̊̚̚.̴̭͖͈̙̞̮̟̅̕ ̵̧̡̨̛͇͓͈͚͕̹͖͍͔̑̒̇́̉̑̅̀̽̈̏̂̈̕̕͠.̴̫́͐͌̒́̔̓̓͆͊̊̒͑̕͝͝.̸̨̖͈̲͑̿͒̓͋̏̐͂͘͠.̸͇̗̺͔͕̩̝̞̾͂̄̅̍͐̀͂͊̇̋͘͝ ̸͎̮̭͉̮͂̋͑̅̓̽̎͒̇̌̏̔͘̕͝͝-̸̺̗̣͖̬͂̆̈̊̒͂͐̆͠ ̸̢̯̰̣͙͙̣̟̳̺̳̩͇̫̠͋̊̐̈́ͅ.̷̡̛̯̜̀͋̓̉̿̏-̴̢̠̮͕͎̱̼̜̭͚̮̻̹̼̾͜ ̸̢̡̫̳̼̹͇͍̣̜͕̑.̷̧̝̘͇͖̞̹̲͓̟̺̦͇̲͐͒͛̑̔̇̅̉̀̊̈́̀͌̋͒͘͜͠-̸͓͉̟͚͖̭͗̅̈͋̀̈́̾̿̂̽̅̉̌͊̋͝.̶̢̣̞͗̉̇̿̑̀̋̆͐̀̓̚͝ ̶̢̥̘̲̊̓̚-̶̛̳̺̑͋͐̈́̍͆͒͆͂̈́͆̾̀͑͘͝ ̵̗͔̪͍̜̩͓̽̍̐͆͋̆͋̐̈́̆̃͘͘.̵̨̨̨̡̢͖̻͈̜̖̼̗̩̻̻̙̜̈́̓̈́͋̓̽͆͛͗̔̃̇.̷̨̼̠̺͓̯͈̹͙͎̺̹͚̗̬͚̈͒͋̃̾́̄̎̕-̴̨̧̛̛͎̳̫̼̻̹͉̖̺̼͉̫̗̠̀̋̋̀̏̈̓͐̀͒̏-̶̰̳͉̱̣̫̝̱͎̮͙̊͌̈́͆̋̉̇͒͊̚.̶̢̰̞̼̻̤̒͒͂̾

DID YOU NOT HEAR MX PHARMACIST. HOW DARE YOU. THEY SAID NOT TO TOU-

-̸̢̢̢̼̗̬̳̱̭̜̝̲͕̈́̅͌̍̿̌͂̓-̴̢̧̰̦̲̗̙͇͉͖͍̺̜͔̭̳̣͇̀͜.̴̧̝̮̝̼͕͚̰̒̔̀͋̉̒̑͂̑̏͊̾́̒̀͆̄̌̕̕̚̚ͅ ̴̘̮̥̭̺͖̱̻̬̖̮̘̜̗͍̰̟̱͚͍͓͚̒̀̌̍̉͐̑̓͛̋̿́̐͠.̶̡̼͎̯̫̥͛̾̃͌̅̚̚̕.̶̢͖͖͉̪̩̰̗͙̠͗̊́̉̇͛̒͗͜͝ͅ-̴̧̨̞̻͈̱̫̯̥̹̯̳̯̹̆͐̏̒͗̅̈́̾̏̈̈̍͝ͅ ̸̧̨̡̨̯̥̫̜̻̱͂̉͗͂̚.̶̛̙͖͇̖̠̼͚̩͇̜̻̳̫̖͓͚̟̼͉̺͖̉̉͊̒̇͊̽̃͝.̶̡̨͍̻̝̜͔̣͔̰̰̥̖̻̠̺̟͚̹͙͊̈́̃̌̎̅̒̒̑̓͛͂̃ ̷͓̪̗͖͂́͐̇̇͐͗̄̋̈́̈̋̔̈̓͐̐́̋́̚͜͝.̶̯̰̥̔̓͐͐̀͒̋̾̊̽̀̒̌̎̕-̸̨͎̟̜̋̓̇̉̌͒̈͌̕.̷̪͍̩̩͍̳̞͉̱͎͇̹̜̱̓̿̓͑̕͠.̸̨̢̪̱̭̮̮̄ ̸̳̯̲̅̓͐̓͂́͛͒̾̊͐̔̚̕̕͝-̶̢̧̫͕̼͍̺̻͚̳̯͈̮̳͈͌̃̔̆̏̿̂̈́̀̑̚͝

Help. Please. They’re killing m-

-̷̡̛̺̼͚͉̳̩̦̭̘̟͇̼̾͊̇͊͐́̌̌̀̃̿͊͗̄̇̌͂́̂̾̃̅̀́́̅̅̅̃̓̐̂̾͋͋̇͊̐͒̎͋̌̆͂̈́̅̿͑̀̒́͋̚͘̚͜͠͝͝ ̴̡̢̢̨̨̢̧͙̦͚̖̯̞̥̝̮͙̞̩̝̗͔͈̤̠͔̘̘̪̯̠̘̟̠͍̞̩̰͔̝͍̯͈͙͖̫͉̝̻̩̥͕̖̟̖̮̞̖̖̘̫͑̍̽̈́̒͂́̈́͌͆͋͑̕͜͜͜͠ͅ.̵̧̧̡̧̨̧̢̯̺̤̼̗̳̯̣̙̘̻͔͎͕̟̱̝̲̜̺̼̯͔̙͖̺̪͖͉͈͇̫͎̫̲̥̪͓̗͕̞͖̻͚̺̱͔̣̹̞̩͉̭͙̗͓̫̩̩͔̫̘̫̋͌͊̊̒̾͋̅̋̽̾̍͛̈͌̐̈́̽��̾̌̕̕͘͝͠͝͝ͅ-̶̧̨̝̖̜̠̹̻̞͕͍͎̜͈̙̻̙͈̘͙̳̬̞̝͙̺͚̦̻͔̲͍͍̫͍̙̺̹̜̤͚̟̜̣̲̀̓̊̽̇̈́́͑̔̓̆̾̈́̋͊̇̂͛͑̽̀́͛͑͋̒͐̚̕̚͘͘͘͜͠ͅͅͅ ̸̛̯̜̣̣̱͙̤̮̜̦̥͎͕͈̀̋͊̅̾͂̍̿̄̆͒͐̈̂̒̔̅͊̍͂̔͐͋̑̈́̿̓͒̎̀̇͆̑̔̅̐͋̅̋̿̓̄́͗̊̂̔̍̅̊̚͘̕͘̕̚͘̚̕̕͘̚͝͠͝͝͠͠-̷̡̢̨̧̛̛͓̣̳̞̻̻̰̙̠͓̭̞͓̞̗̱͎̦̅͂̓͛͂̆̈́̎̄̈́̆̐́̊͗̔̈̂̓͛̊̈́́͌̅̈́̎͋̇̎́́̀̋̿̐͑̏̓̀̎̈́̇̿͐͊͌̕͘̕̚̕͝.̸̢̡̢̨̧̧̢̰̥̘̣̳̥̥̖͔̖̦͔̯̩͈͖̟̩̤̳̞̯̻̬̙̪̻͉͉̫̥̦̮͚̦͙͇̖̟͙̪̪̰̟̭̪̠̙͇͎̝̞̭̻͎̟̱̫̗͓̲̜̥͚̘̅́̍̋͆̃̆̐͜-̸̡̧̻̲̺͖̦̮̬͉̹̞͕̩̯̞͙̳͓̰͒̓͗̅̊̀̒ ̵̨̧͓̟͖̫̪̮̘͚̜̩̯̙̭̪̰̤̦̪̳̹̮̣͖̹̖̣͍̞̘͔̮̪̯̰̘̺͈̗̦͙̣̲̙͉̻̩͔̤̣͉̯͔̯͎̭̻̬̙̜̜́̅̒̓̅̓̊͌̍͒̈́̈̈́͋̎̓͌̿̿͛̐͊̇̒̍̌̇̐͂̍͌̚̚͘͝ͅ.̵̧̨̨̢̨̛̛̛̻͎͓͓̺̖̲̪̲̳̗̭̩̘̬̟̙͕̝̹̟̥͎̦͎͚͖͍̞̥̜̤̤͇̝̬͈̱͕̻̠͇̣̻͓͖̘͓͚̟̳̜͇̮̦̎̐̿̎͂̍͋̆̅̌̔̏̈́̑͊̓̃͋̈̎̎̂̀̋̋̓̀͆̈́̄̌͗͂͛͗͒̌̊̾̾̀͐͗̈́͊̀͐͛̎̇̀͑̀̕͘̚͜͜͝ͅͅ ̴̡̡̢̛̛̛̛̣̣̣̳̥̘̤̫̲͓̜̯̬͔̹̪̝̬̗͉͓̬̞̤̳̠͍̰͔̥̩̣̘̦̤̭̬͎͓̙̖̰̪̟͕͕̦͙̹̘̦͉͋́͌̑̇̀̈́̎̀̏̈́́̀̓́̀̓̑̄́͑̔̓̉͂́̆̀̃̽͋̆̿̇͋͛͆͗͂̇̎̀̏̔̋̈͌̈͐͗͆͛̆̔̅͌̾̂͘̕̕̕̚͠͝͠͝͝ͅͅ/̶̨̛̛̲̙̣̪̪̯̲̖̟̪̼̯̬̗̬̺͇̹̱͈̠̪̤̯̤̹̞̼̝̲̤̼̖̙̍́͒̆́͗͋̈́̒̌̉́͑͋̈̔͗͒͛̈́̍̏̍̈́̽͑͊̿͒̽̀́̾͊̈́̊̈́͑̎̍͆̇͌̉̇̀̔̌͆̍̎̀͆̃̾̿̏̓̕͘̕͝͠͠͠͠ͅ ̷̢̡̡̨̢̛̛̪̘̠̙͙͉̫̻̗͈͔̼͚̪̻͚̗̱̹̩̲̜̺̮̘̠̣̬͓̫̦͚̮͇̤̞̙̳̞̤̘̙̽̎̿̄̏͂̋͐͗̾͆̎̉̒̆̍̇̾̏͆̆́͊͒̈̍̾̇͑̀̅̌̓̂͂̇͗͆̑̆̍͗́͋͐͂̽̍́̊͂̒͛̇͆̿̌̚̚̚͜͝͝͝͠͝-̵̧̡̧̼̼̺̝͖̝̭̳̩̥̟͔͔̗̳̦͚͔̰̦̺͔̟̝̯̺̩͉͈̙͕̬̫͖̤͙͈͔̲̟̦͖̞̖̱̘͈͕͍̄͛͂̈́̄̊́̄̈́̎͊̓̉̄́̔͑̈́̇͊́̏̂̿̐̆͋̽͋͐͛́͐̀̐́̕̚̕̕͜͜ͅͅͅ ̷̧̛̝̰͔͇̺̤̦̼̳̣̟̩̥̃̅͋́̄͐͋̎̈́͋̽̀̈́̑͐̃͗̎̿̀̂͗͒̉̈́̆̒̓̌͑͆̐̔̽͋̅̈́̽͐͛͛̆̋̈́̾̈́͑̉̕͘̚͘̕͜͝͠͝͠.̴̧̡̬̺̗̩̤̼͖̰͉̫̯̻̪̎͆̔̋̿͂̂͋̐̔̔̇̀̌̓̊͗̓̊̀́̂̉̆̋́̐̐̍̍̋̈́͑̾͗͋͊̃̈̽̓̒͘͘̚͜͝͝͝͝͝͠.̵̡̢̧̛̗̤̟͍̠̰̼͍͇̣̮̤͇̣̺̭̯̞̗͎̜͈͚̘̹̔͐̄̋͒̏̿̈́̊̌͂̈́͐̇́̆͆̾̈̈͂̑̈̈́̿͌̀̓̎̇̋̎̓̿̚͝͝͝͝͝͠͝ͅ.̶̢̧̢̡̧̧̨̡̹̤͉̙̘̼̘̳̠̣̭͈̤̠̙̮̥̱̟̻̳͖̝̜̦̼̤̼̲̱̫̖̜͉͙̺̦̼̱͙̹̭̘̫̻̮̠͔̞͔̬͔̥̫̫̘̬̒̎͗̑̿͒͂̔͒̃̀̓́͐͐̑́̎́̚͘͘͝͝͝ͅͅ.̸̨̨̧̡̡̡̨̛̛̛̜̮̮̼̮͚͓̘̜̮̜̹̱͔̲̮͈̝͍̩͎̮̹̮̫͉͔̟͙̯͇̭͖̝͔̜͇̺̳̘̰̠͖͍̥̱̬̠̺͚͎̝̤̖̬̖͖͙̯̗̲̳͕̒͂̌̈́̊̎́͂̆̑̐́͌̓͊̔̈́̏͆̂̾̇̎́͛̄͑̊͂̅͑́̀̈́̃̊̈̊̎͗͐̽̈̾̐͋̓̋͒̉̈͌̓̉̒͒̊͒̏͊̃͘̚̚̕̕͝͠͠͠ͅ ̶̛̼̹̀̾́͛͐̋͌̐̍̈̇̾̒̈́̈́̈́́̈́̌̔̕̕͝͝.̷̬͇̳͚͈͕̯̳̰̼̟̃̃͘͜ ̴̛̛̖̭̥̟̭̬̞͈̼͍̠̽̐̊̑̊̈́̊̑͂̅͋̿̅̒̔̇̉̐͌̈́͊̐́̓̇̈́̃͒̂̐͋̋͂́͌̔̈́͑͋̊̒̌̃͘̕̚͠͝/̵̧̛̛̛̮̝̝̫̳̗̪̻̫̯͍̝̱̠̮̼̬̜̜̩̟̪̅̊̅̎͌̍̌̉̒̎́͂͒̇̀̿̍̑̊̇̎̓̓̔͛̊͒̋͋͂͆̀͐̆̀̕͘̕͝͝͝ ̷̡̡̧̛̼̱͍̻̝̮̥̩̮͚͎̥̬̻̟͖͓̜̱̣̙̯̹̮̪̰̙̻̼̙̫̜͕͖̪̲͍͇̝͚̱̙̩̝͔̭͉̹̖̯̹̺̮͇͙̝̤̙̪͈͌̀̃̎͒͊̋̿̍̓̉͐͂̉͌̍͒̏́̒͂̄͊͌̃͘̕͜͜͠͝ͅͅͅ-̶̧̢̢̧̡̧̛͙̠͙̻̭͕̫͙̮̼̫͍̦̠̺̼̬̰͉̺̝̮̲͓̱̥͖͇͖̜̻͔̻̦̱̹̩̥̻͕̪̥͖̟̤̬̗͖̯̟͓̘̈͛͛̾̇̈́͊̽̈́̀̇͋̔͗̅̌́͊͋̔̍̈́̈́̌̂̓́̍̏͐̓̄̀̀́̀̏̎̑͑̈́͛̓̃́͂̆̂́͑̊̃͂̾̍͗̚̕̕͘̕̚͘̕͜͜͝͝͝͠-̷̢̧̢̢̢̢̣̟̥͙̞̫̟̯̘̺̙͓̗̝̫̯̤͇̗͙͍̟̯̤̮̯͇̘̙͎̳͔̜̟̘͈̥̜͒̈͛̓̓̔̓̒̉̐̃̉̀́̔̈́̒͛̽͐́̋̐̽̉́̑͗̆̌̏̿͌̿̊́̓̉͑̇̓̿̚͜͝͝͠.̷̢̛̛̛̛̪͙̹̟̮͙̭͔͈̙̉́̇̏̎̍̄̍͂́̈́̂̓̈̎̊̽͐͂̆͜͝͠͠͝ ̵̨̢̧̤̜͖̣͔̖̖̱̬̘̟̝̤̲͕̺̲̰̣̻̱̪̩̣̺͕̅̄̉̒̆̅̏̽̾̾̉͊͝͝.̷̨̧̧̖̲̫̝͈̯̘̝͎̮͉͚̺̺͔͉̩̯͓͔̱̹̪̦̘̣̘̳̜̬̜͎̺̦̙̜̯̗̥͍͇͉̱̼̙̯̠̝̩̖̙̭̗͙̟̫̪̲̎̌͋̓̇̍̎̃͆͜͜ͅͅ.̵̨̨̧̧̧̨̢̛̜̗̭̩͍̜͎̭̩̙̩̥̻͈̞͚̣̩̰̝͍̖̜̝̘̻͉͇͓̠͓̗̤͍͈̫̪͓̲̫̦͈̭͓̗̜̰̼̲͚̞͖͓̹̣̻̹̟̑̀̈́͐̍̓͊͊͆̂̏̎̀̎́̋͂͋̽͊͊̿́̈́̽̄͑̈́̈́͒̈́̔͐̽́̈́̔͘̚͠͝͠͠-̸̧̢̢̢̢̯͇̤̰̲̯̩̙̲̺̹̰̮̝̫͈͇̳̩̼͇͓͈̟̖̼͈̥̯̺̜͖̖̻̗̟͙̼̳̂̈́̈́͂̓̈́͌̀́́͆̇̀̐͋̀̃̄̔̄̅́̾́̆͗̏̏̆͌̅̀̆͌̾̀́̏̆̐̇͑̽͗͂͗͆̏̄̊̔̈́̑̿̿̂̕͘̕͘̕̕͜ͅͅ ̴̨̡̡̨̡̡̢̡̝͔̭̱̭̬̩͓̤͈̤͙͕̤̙̟̞̞̝͎̼̺̻̰͔̰͎̘͔̱̤̭͔̦̗̬̬̼̜̣̲̝͇̲̮̝̭̝̼̙̞͖̥͕̦͕͈͓̜̟͈̪̩̳̊͋̆͊̐̈́̓̒̈́͑̎͊̐̽̽̆̃͋̍̀̋̈́͊̂̾͌̊́̅̔͐̍͊̏̊͛̽̍̓̔̔͗̈́͛̍͘͝͝͝ͅ.̷̢̨̮͉̜͇̰͎͕̟̮͕͖̀̔.̵̧̢̢̡̧̢̨̢̡̛̛̦͙̺̙̠̗͇̤̖̲̫̰͎̹̭͎͙̘̯͇̲͓̥͚͚͕͚͚̱̮͕̤̺̳̣̗͎͚̳̠̱̳̖̹͕͚̭̣̥͚͎̘̹̗͚̜̫̭̫̘̭̰͚̞͙̫̄̋̔̃̐͑̈́̋̔̈̿̀́͊̋̒̌̂͂̆̈́̐̄̀͆̂̀̃̅̈́͆̎̈͐́̿̀̿͗̂̾̅̅̾͒̈́̃̎͘̕̚̚͜͝͝͝ͅͅͅͅͅ ̴̨̛̣̭͇̘̞̹̤̠̠͕̲̲̦͈͔̟̠̟̻̱̟̟̮͚̻̊̓̀̈́̓͛͌̃̃͋̆̎͑̃͊̓̽̇̓̂͛̓͒̊̃̔̊͊̓̋̐̄̍̈́̀̌͐͂͆̽̒͒̓̓̈̈͒̏̆͌̒̒̒̓͆͊̾̓́̍̃̓̽̕̚͘̚͘͜͝͠͠.̷̨̡̢̡̢̨̛̰͔̭̼̼̘͍͉͉̝̳̱̙̰̼̭͓̣͙̤͕̙͈͔͖̣̪̺̹̳̰̝̖͎͙͙͓͉̠̤̤̗̟̤̝͍̥̱͉͖͔̮̞̜͖͔̠͉̤̮̻͔̗̜̍͑͛̈́̔̍̋̇̊̅͆͆͆̀̋̌͋̉̐̈́̌͛̀͆̍̎͆͛̉͘͘͠͠ͅͅ-̷̨̨̡̨̨̛̥̺̣͇͓͈̯̯̭̪̙̖̳̟̖̱̼̯̝͉̺̇̋́͊̏̓̔̏̉̐̎̀̾́̇̌̉̈̚͝͠.̴̛̛̛̛̜͕̯̫̭̖̮̝̥͔͍͈͐̂́̅̍̈̌̽́̋̾͒̓͑̑̓̑͑̂̌̐̊́͋̑̑̐̏̈́̋̆̀͘̚̕͜͠͠͝͝͝.̶̢̧͎̲̳̖͉̟͈̺̱̼̟͇̝̖̬͍̤͖͖̞̗̘̤̜͚̜̭͔̖̺̝͓̼̥̗͎̩̖̲͖͚͔̱͔̫͍̪͉͕͌͋̑͐̐͒̂͌͗͂͜ ̶͙̰͖̥̱̻̞̮̄̀͘ͅ-̷̧̡̢̨̧̡̡̡̧͕̯̣̪͉͇̘͎͚̱̜̲͕͓̼͚̣̝̜̭̺͈͉̹͉͓̯̺̩͙̲̖̲̠̭̲͈̥̜͍̩̜̣̹͉̬̪̫̭̘̯̝͙͚̙̠̘̝͙̠̘̦̤̣͍̺̠̦̒͐̑̆̋̓̚͜͝ͅͅ

This isn’t the afterlife I wished for.

… Restart?

Yes No

WOAH my train of thought just rammed into a wall. Sorry about that.

I would ask you how it felt like but it’s probably just a shriveled grape.

#rbs #decodings #kai talks random stuff #tw unreality #unreality #arg

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polliewoggers · 2 years ago

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so there’s this wonderful fan content creator in the welcome home community by the name of @nonomives who posted this picrew with her lovely oc, and i have been playing with it for awhile to figure out a design for my own WELCOME HOME OC!

her name is POLLIE WOGGERS.

( i’ll be making a separate post with more information about her that will become my pinned post uwu )

#welcome home #welcome home oc #welcome home arg #picrew by hellosunnycore !#i hope y'all like my girl !#here's some lil treats for anyone interested:#she is a frog #she is a transgirl #she has adhd swag #and will talk ur ear off about random plant facts #like what plants are edible and aren't #for example water hemlock and american purple stemmed angelica #they look similar but #one is bad for you #the other is used as an aromatic #but it's also famously known for it's sap to burn ur skin #so uhhhh #eat at ur own risk <3

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tjodity · 2 years ago

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Scrapped lore bits from the Dream SMP I'm still mad we never got:

-Whatever lore Nihachu had planned for the day Doomsday happened

-The Egg finale scheduled for immediately after the Red Banquet

-Jschlatt's Las Nevadas resurrection (heavily implied by Quackity trying to get the Revival Book after gambling with Glatt and cc!Schlatt saying he'd be coming back to the SMP)

-Any further development of Puffychu

-Ranboo getting resurrected (cc!Ran saying he was meant to be revived two weeks after the prison break)

-Hitting on 16 in livestream format. Like I know we still got the lore but cc!Wilbur simply could not fit what the format brings into written form. The long periods of characters just talking to each other, body language, random impromptu moments, etc.

-The Manhunt Arc (slight speculation but the streams where Tommy reinforced Tubbo's old house and convinced Eryn, Sam Nook, and Phil to help him track and kill Dream after the prison break felt like it was setting up something)

-Cyberknife lore (cc!Techno planned on having his character leave and acting as an antagonist for the syndicate)

-Ranboo's ARG (never properly finished)

-Ranboo and Slime in the multiverse (I have no context but I swear cc!Ranboo said something about this and if I had to guess tftsmp!Ran and O!Ranboo could've had something to do with it)

-whatever Connor had going on (I know his SMPLive stuff I'm referring to him knowing Karl could time travel)

-Tubbo's ending of growing old and raising Michael (planned but cut for the nuclear ending)

-Tommy's soft ending which would apparently resemble Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad. (this is secondhand information but I've seen people talk about it. I assume this to mean he would escape the SMP and we wouldn't see what happened to him. Cut for the nuclear ending)

-Captain Puffy being the main antagonist of Season 2 (as seen by her being the vessel for the fully powered Egg in the finale and having a skin ready for season 2)

Feel free to add your own!

#dream smp #tommyinnit #tubbo #wilbur soot #nihachu #ranboo #captain puffy

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Everybody asked c00lkidd why he never just used his sword everytime, at what he responded that it was too heavy for him.

As much as he hates to admit it, 1x actually cares about his minions and LOVES to play the boss around them just for fun. It just amuses him at what point these guys can be dumb and silly at times.

Noli and Taph tried to see what would happen if they mixed the white Void Star with a subspace tripmine base. The round ended because everyone died.

John Doe's spine is a bit out of his body because he stretched while he had corruption on his back, which just carved it open and regenerated with his spine in-between.

Noob is has an extremely high opinion on Guest and once tried to ask for an autograph, but by the time Guest turned around, Noob had already fled and he couldn't talk for the entire next round.

Rochas313 never left the game, he just became a random tree in Planet Voss because he had enough of getting looped.

Uuh yeah have a great day, byeee

-[] anon

I'd do the same as 1x if I had a bunch of stupid zombie minions that went "Oi, oi!" Also for some reason I had the image of 1x lining them up to give a stupid speech like idk TF2 Meet the Soldier. something something "TONIGHT... WE STEAL THE MOON!!!" scene im sorry

I'm surprised Noli and Taph didn't blow up the whole Forsaken realm or create a black hole with that /silly

I imagine John Doe would have a lengthened tailbone with spikes, giving him a little tail-like thing connected up to the spine if that's the case.

I wonder if Noob would think highly of Guest 1337 because he's a guest... just like their bestie...... something something they bestie looking up to 1337

Considering the original ARG, and the skin? Yeah that seems like the most probable result for Rochas313

#forsaken headcanons #roblox forsaken #forsaken roblox #forsaken #[] anon #c00lkidd forsaken #1x1x1x1 forsaken #noli forsaken #taph forsaken #john doe forsaken #noob forsaken #guest 1337 forsaken #rochas forsaken #mod taph 💥

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prettyinpwn · 9 months ago

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Bill and Ford and Adult Grooming - Why Gravity Falls is a Metaphor Champion for Abusive Relationships (GF Writing Analysis Pt. 4)

GF Writing Analysis Series:

Pt. 1 - Ford Pines: A Masterclass in Writing a Good Flawed Character Pt. 2 - How Gravity Falls Could Have Been Better + Poor Ford and Wendy Pt. 3 - Mabel Pines: How Well Was She Written... Really?

Hello and welcome to the fourth post in my GF Writing Analysis series! Though the title is self-explanatory, I still want to warn folks that this post will contain dark content relating to adult grooming AKA abuse. If that is content you'd rather avoid (and for some reason your filters did not catch my trigger warning tags), this is your heads up that this post will contain that type of discussion.

For those of you who are not sure what adult grooming is, no, it's not the sexual grooming between an adult and a minor like we typically think of when the term "grooming" comes up, nor does it have to be romantic at all, although sexual acts can be a part of this form of grooming. It is defined as:

"-the predatory act of manoeuvring another individual into a position that makes them more isolated, dependent, likely to trust, and more vulnerable to abusive behaviour. The goal is to prepare the other person for abuse (for example, sexual or financial) later. Therefore, the groomer’s first step is to establish friendship and trust." (Source).

It is my belief that the relationship between Bill and Ford in Gravity Falls - which The Book of Bill helped illustrate even more - is one of adult grooming. This post will explore how the concept of adult grooming applies to the relationship between Bill and Ford, how it changes our perception of them as characters, and the value of showing metaphors for abuse in media for all ages - like Gravity Falls is - to help bring to light this very real and underdiscussed issue and help victims recognize it themselves.

Defining Adult Grooming Further + Who Bill Really Is

We already visited the definition of adult grooming above, but we haven't explored the psychology behind it yet. Namely, I want to explore who partakes in adult grooming on both ends. There is the abuser, and the victim.

The abuser is described as often being:

"Narcissists, Antisocial predators, con artists and sexual aggressors practice grooming to target and manipulate vulnerable people for exploitation." (Source).

Well, very obviously, we know that Bill is the abuser. But... why? He could be a narcissist, an antisocial predator, and a con artist, just like the above description. But which? Why is he an abuser?

Well, our first inclination might be to turn to The Book of Bill and think about his backstory; how he could see in the third dimension in a two dimensional world, tried to "liberate" his dimension to see what he could see, and... then slaughtered them all. He implies it was an accident. He just "wanted the best" for his people. But... drumroll please... get ready for a U-turn into some literary talk...

The Great Gatsby references surrounding The Book of Bill were more than just a "lol random" joke. Infamously, the narrator of The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway, is what's called an 'unreliable narrator'. This is a writing technique defined as:

"-any narrator who misleads readers, either deliberately or unwittingly. Many are unreliable through circumstances, character flaws or psychological difficulties. In some cases, a narrator withholds key information from readers, or they may deliberately lie or misdirect." (Source).

To me, after understanding just how much more Hirsch has tied The Great Gatsby to The Book of Bill's release (e.g "TJ Eckleburg" being the password to get into the associated ARG website, offering a free PDF of The Great Gatsby on said website)... I think what Hirsch is trying to say, is... Bill is an unreliable narrator, as well. Not that that wasn't already well established throughout the series.

Let's ask ourselves this question: is there anyone Bill hasn't lied to? Tried to gain sympathies from? I'll wait. Because the answer is no. Bill lies every time he opens his mouth. Even the god of the Gravity Falls setting - the Axolotl - calls him a liar in the Dipper and Mabel and the Curse of the Time Pirates' Treasure!: Select Your Own Choose-Venture book.

So as a small aside to the main point of this post: I don't think there's anything in The Book of Bill that we can guarantee is proof or canon. If I'm honest, I think The Book of Bill is the mad rambling of a monster trying to justify to us as well as himself that he's better than he really is. He's an unreliable narrator to himself because he needs to save himself from mentally shattering upon the admission that, yeah, he's really that horrible of a person.

If I were to define what The Book of Bill is, is it's a sad attempt to elicit sympathy for a monster, by a monster. It's a masterclass in how he - as an abuser - grooms someone. If you read The Book of Bill and walk away feeling bad for Bill, then congratulations! You would have fallen prey to him just like Ford did. And just like everyone who ever fell prey to him before that.

The metaphor Gravity Falls and its extra content illustrates through Bill is how charming, funny, and enticing and sexy according to Tumblr for some godforsaken reason abusers can be in real life. Because the worst of monsters are the ones who do everything to convince you they're not.

So what does this say about Bill as a character? Don't be fooled. He really is that monstrous. He doesn't have any redeeming qualities. Everything Bill does is with a goal in mind, a person to be used or manipulated to get there, and with a complete lack of conscience to stop himself from doing it. And that's what makes Bill such a strong and terrifying villain: He really is that evil. He really is that soulless. He's not a villain of great strength or power that can be easily defeated with might. He's a villain that underlines something very real beyond a screen or book page, something that we all likely have experienced in real life: an abuser.

Bill and Ford: Abuser and Abused + How Bill Does It

Getting back to the definition of adult grooming, let's explore how it works. There are typical steps abusers like Bill use. We'll list them, then list examples alongside each step that show how Bill used these tactics on Ford for the sake of both exploring their characters more, and illustrating how well Gravity Falls depicts actual abuse.

Please note that I'm using this source as my guideline on the steps of adult grooming.

Step One: Targeting the Victim

The abuser first looks for someone they can target. They learn all they can about the victim. Typically, they look for victims who are:

Unpopular or have family problems. Gee... who does this sound like?

People who have low self-esteem. GEE... sounds familiar again.

People who have mental/physical disabilities. Although Ford does not have either, at least not proven in canon, it is possible that his genius could be considered a disability in how high IQ individuals typically are more socially isolated, depressed, anxious, insomnia-ridden from overthinking, and can have troubles with making friends due to likeliness to correct others (*cough* "Grammar, Stanley." *cough), different senses of humor, and being misunderstood. (Source). Plus, we know his polydactyly caused people to outcast him.

People who have already been through abuse. I - and many others - have made the point that it's common fan interpretation that Ford's father was abusive to a point. At the very least, I have argued in previous posts that Filbrick taught Ford that "value = what money you make from smarts". He was, after all, supposed to be "their ticket outta this (New Jersey poor neighborhood) dump", right? Assuming this is true, well... Ford was already taught from a young age that his value was in how others could use him. Filbrick may have primed him to be abused by Bill, unintentionally.

Okay, so we've established step one of adult grooming, and how Ford fits 99% of these criteria at least for the type of victim an abuser targets. What about step two?

Step Two: Gaining Trust

Honestly, I don't need to elaborate much on this part. I'll just quote the article I sourced before, because any Gravity Falls fan will instantly know how this applies to Bill and Ford:

"Groomers can be hard to notice as they will do their best to appear safe and genuine. This makes it hard to identify them. Over time, they will gradually manipulate the victim to be dependent on them."

"While gaining trust, the groomer may use flattery like offering gifts, admiration, and sharing “secrets” with the person to make them feel special. The groomer may do favours for someone. The groomer may gradually begin asking for favours in return, generally starting small. This may be the start of a romantic relationship or a simple friendship."

"Groomers may share secrets with their target in order to make them feel special and trusted by the groomer. This also may make the target feel they need to share secrets of their own, which the groomer may later use to increase their power over the target."

I mean... *gestures at all of Ford's journals and interactions with Bill in The Book of Bill*. Bill couldn't get any more textbook abuser/adult groomer than this. He praised Ford, shared secrets with him, made him feel so special, etc.

Step Three and Four: Filling a Need and Isolation

These steps are quite self-explanatory. The abuser (Bill) convinces the victim that they need them. "You need me to complete your portal project, Ford.". "No one else understands you, Ford.". And then comes the isolation, and where we'll touch on Stan and McGucket.

"Groomers will likely try to isolate the victim from their loved ones. This may be evident in the way they refuse to meet family and loved ones. Or perhaps they bad mouth them, or try to point out to the victim that the groomer is the only one who really and truly cares for them. Being isolated from friends and family makes it harder for the victim to notice warning signs."

Bill convinced Ford he didn't need anyone but him. He convinced him to isolate more and more; to push his brother away, to push McGucket away, until Ford had literally no support network, making him prime prey for Bill to take advantage of.

Step Five+: The Real Abuse

This step can manifest in many different ways. After reading the article sourced above, there are so many similarities to what Bill did to Ford. I'll list them here:

Continuing isolation.

Destroying self-esteem.

Physical abuse (leaving Ford with bloody knuckles, making his body hurt, leaving him on top of the Shack in the freezing cold, etc).

Seek to take control over victims (in Bill's case, the fantasy/supernatural metaphor of possession is just that: a metaphor for control).

Normalizing behaviors that aren't normal ("Here, I'll just possess you more and more, I swear giving me complete control is normal!").

Making the victim feel helpless.

And many, many more. Folks, I'm not going to lie: I would not be surprised if Hirsch and other writers involved in Bill's creation read a manual on how abusers work (or maybe experienced it in their own lives, but hopefully not, as I wouldn't wish that on anyone) to write Bill. Because Bill does these steps on cue to Ford. He is a textbook abuser.

So... What Does This Say About Bill and Ford?

The dark humor in Bill's writing is that he portrays his shadowy side as lighthearted, but there's a very, very dark underbelly of abuse in everything he does. Even the way we interact with Bill as viewers/readers in real life is a microcosm of his abuse. Look at how he's written:

"Oh, I look like an innocent, funny little triangle guy. Don't mind me. *Does something horrifying and awful.* Oh, I'm just funny, trust me, look how sad I am for losing Ford, and how I drink about it, and I'm all sad here in interdimensional therapy, and I kept a speck of dust from my dimension in my hat! I swear I'm really regretful!"

Text in point: "I'm just a rascal! A funny little guy! But everyone seems to think I'm "evil" or "a sociopath".

He wants to be a hero, or a star, as he calls it. He shows himself on a magazine cover, as someone talked to in a live show, as the leader of the Henchmaniacs (which I'd argue are also either are abusers or victims themselves based on how Bill describes them in the book), etc.

But he's a liar. He's a conman. He's a dream demon; a demon that has power over dreams, but dreams are just that: lies and illusions. Like I said, even the Axolotl thinks so:

"Saw his own dimension burn. Misses home and can't return. Says he's happy, he's a liar. Blame the arson for the fire."

What that line and this screenshot means, is that Bill is 100% to blame for the destruction he wreaks. He didn't "show people the truth". He burned them alive because they didn't worship him as the hero he wanted so badly to be, and he blamed it on, "Well, they just didn't GET what I was trying to tell them.". And the worst part about Bill, is he knows deep down he's to blame; that he has the blood of millions on his hands. But he literally tries to describe it as "liberating" his kind. Ford knows this, too, and tells us directly in The Book of Bill that the book itself is a sham:

Key quotes being: "It will become whatever it must to deceive you, to pull you in." and "DO NOT BELIEVE A WORD".

Honestly, there's only one line Bill ever said that was truth:

Yet, even though Bill knows he's a monster, he never stops. He's had millions of years to change, yet he hasn't. And I doubt he ever will. That's why the Theraprism is effective: it's a jail of his own making. He could get out if he wanted to get better and worked at it. He's always had the key to unlock his cage. But he won't. Because he can't admit fault.

So instead of fixing himself, he keeps wanting to drag others into his cage with him. Like a man drowning who'll grasp onto anyone else struggling, pretending he's helping them float together, only to push them down to keep himself above the water. But in the Theraprism, he has no one to pretend to. He's a "theatre kid without a stage", like Ford said. A little emotional leech without someone to latch onto. He's just alone, like he was after he destroyed his entire dimension.

As for Ford, he champions the story of a victim who regained his power and heals through the love of his family. If you read his and Bill's story from the perspective of abuser vs. victim, it's the story of a man who was isolated, taken advantage of, nearly destroyed... but then wrests his power back and chases after his abuser for thirty years for revenge. However, it's telling that it's not through his thirst for vengeance that Bill is defeated, but through his brother's love for him and the rest of their family.

I mean, look at the main villains of Gravity Falls: someone who sacrificed his family (Bill), someone who was selfish and didn't give a crap about his family (Gideon), etc. And the heroes: people who self-sacrificed for their family. All the Pines wrestle with this theme, from things as small as Dipper giving up a let's be honest very minimal chance at Wendy to make Mabel happy and win Waddles at the fair, Mabel destroying her puppet show to save Dipper from Bill, Ford self-sacrificing and getting tortured for I don't even know how many days locked up with Bill during Weirdmageddon to protect others, and Stan performing the ultimate sacrifice in the finale for his family and world.

Bill is the antithesis to the Pines: a selfish abuser who killed his family. And the Pines are heroes because they learn the moral lesson of the story: to give up pride and selfishness to forgive, self-sacrifice, and love your family and do anything for them, despite your trauma or prior disagreements. They could have just as easily ended up like Bill: awful because of a refusal to admit fault or self-sacrifice. But they don't, because they learned what Bill never did.

That's also why this show focuses so much on the theme of past vs. future and letting go; the Pines learned to let go and accept change, Bill never did. He's stuck. Funny how time stops whenever Bill shows up in the real world, huh? /symbolism wink

And that's why Gravity Falls - and Ford and Bill's story especially - is a champion metaphor for abusive relationships and healing from them.

#gravity falls #the book of bill #the book of bill spoilers #ford pines #stanford pines #bill cipher #tw: abuse #tw: grooming #gravity falls analysis

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fricc-darn · 4 months ago

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Subject 423 - Sarah

She's really just trying her best. The epitome of "Go white girl, go!"

Hc that pre-ascension, she was a fairly unassuming 21-year-old. She works at a lame part-time job at some retail store. Sara is a bit of a loser, in the nerdy sense. In her downtime, she plays video games. Though she is a nice person to be around when befriended! Sarah has a certain charm to her that makes her easy to work with and comfortable to talk to.

When she ends up in the hotel and the cartridge, she speaks drastically less (side note: I love how the only word she has ever spoken in the arg is fuck😭😭). There's so much on the line, and the situation she's in is genuinely confusing and stressful. Sarah goes quiet in order to concentrate.

Sarah isn't a fighter; she never got into one prior to the cartridge. She absolutely had to lock in when fighting the Moon Children and Jadusable. When she got resurrected, some marks from her battle were still there. On her face and some rips in her clothes.

Random hcs:

Sarah wears earrings and also has a stone ring on her right middle finger (fun fact: she actually wears a ring in that position in Methods of Revolution)

She likes older music, super big on The Beatles; Hey Jude is her favorite song! Golden Brown by The Stranglers is also another song she likes.

In the cartridge, Sarah can see without her glasses. Technically, the glasses shouldn't even be on her face still, but they are! (anomaly things)

She's bi and has feelings for Rosa. Rosa is on her mind a lot. Matt's kinda cute to her as well. (Also sarah x jad seems cute?)

Circle and Sarah are 4Lifers! Best friends!

#also theres like a 50% 50% chance Sarah is Tyler's mother i went down the route saying she isn't for variety sakes #tho her being a mom would be so cool #behavioral event network #ben drowned #ben drowned arg #sarah lawman #jadusable

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fridayyy-13th · 10 months ago

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gonna be honest, feeling very conflicted about this episode, lads. i've been really hoping Protocol won't explain away the (NARRATIVELY IMPORTANT) mystery left at the end of Archives, i.e. Jon and Martin's fate, so seeing as they're the next thing Sam and Celia are gonna be investigating, this is kinda gonna be the thing that makes or breaks Protocol, for me.

i do think there's a solid chance Chester and Norris are the Jon and Martin from Protocol's universe, and that is something i absolutely would not mind. but i haven't actually made a post explaining why i think that, and i should probably do that before it's explained, just so i can mayyyybe say i called it.

(for the record, i'm pretty sure i came up with most of this before the series even officially dropped, when all we had was the ARG and the trailer. i haven't done much to connect this theory to the further information we've learned, so it's probably not fully accurate (if accurate at all). and quite a bit of it is kinda baseless conjecture; i'm just throwing my thoughts out there. just a little disclaimer.)

so!

in Archives, Jonah's primary motivation is fear of death. turning to the Eye is what allows him to body-hop as he does for 200 years, trying to create a world where his Patron reigns supreme, where he is seated upon its throne and cannot die. assuming his motivation is the same in Protocol, this new universe is (likely until recently) untouched by the Entities. if Jonah wanted to evade death, how could he do that without the help of an eldritch fear god?

easy—alchemy.

i'm not particularly knowledgeable about the subject as a whole, but i'm certainly familiar with the Philosopher's Stone (the symbol of which is also present in the OIAR's/podcast's logo, though it seems the OIAR is more focused on balance than on experimentation).

i also know that the seven metals used in alchemy (gold, silver, mercury, copper, lead, iron, and tin) are all components of computer chips. i've been thinking Jonah, or maybe his successors, saw that and began turning their research to how it could be utilized to extend—or preserve—life.

to cut to the chase, bc frankly it's hard trying to sound like i know what i'm talking about and this post would take forever to write otherwise, i think Jonah tried to Sergei Ushanka himself into a computer, because metal and plastic are a hell of a lot longer-lasting than a human being.

but he wouldn't shove his consciousness into some random motherboard without making sure it was safe, what do you take him for?? he is a man of academia. obviously he had to test it on others first, and then he'd do it himself.

cue the thought experiments the Institute ran on kids. the things the experiments quantify are empathy and obedience to authority, which to me screams that they were trying to find kids who were easy to manipulate into more dangerous experiments.

and who are two characters who were kids in the 90s, with circumstances that left them lonely, isolated, and who, even as adults, are desperate to please (whether a parent or a bad boss)? Jon and Martin.

i posit that Jon and Martin were both victims of these experiments, perhaps the first (and only) successful subjects, and Jonah uploaded his consciousness to the computer soon after. their records could have been stricken from the spreadsheet to hide that they'd even been part of the program, and given the Institute burned down soon after, and there were no survivors—it could have been assumed that they'd died in the fire. it isn't like they had the most doting guardians to worry over them.

...but Chester and Norris's voices are those of adult Jon and Martin.

best i can figure, Jonah's plan might have worked in the short term, but computers have had date/time hardware in them since the 80s, so they—and Augustus—are still aging. so they've been trapped in computer software since 1999, and now that Sam and Celia are digging into what happened, they're desperate to catch their attention and find a way out.

(and lastly, a fun little thought—given Jon and Martin were both born circa 1987, they would have been twelve in 1999. they didn't even get to be teenagers.)

#i could be way off base with this!! who knows. but i'm throwing it out there anyway Just In Case I'm Right #and if i am i will never shut up about it for the rest of forever. just so y'all know.#if this isn't what happens i do in fact already have notes for a fanfic lmao. childhood best friends anyone??#friday chats #the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #tmagp 22 #tmagp theory #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonah magnus #chester tmagp #norris tmagp #augustus tmagp

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bobthetacocat · 3 months ago

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There's a note on the ground...

This is something I wrote for google-drive-submit, the final capstone in the Susie ARG project, posted on my Tumblr by request. It's a collection of a few thoughts that had crossed my mind since the project ended that I wanted to share. This is something I could talk about for a lot longer, so I promise to not take up much of your time.

I think this is obvious, but the vast majority of things discussed in the Susie ARG do not relate to CCC 12 at all. Susie says as much herself.

This naturally brings up the follow-up question: why do this at all? If none of this matters to the canon, why put so much time and effort into it? And I guess that's a question you can realistically ask of all of SiIvaGunner. Rips take time to become as high quality as they are, right? Why do it at all?

The artistic process is kinda mean like that. It's a lot of hard work for something that feels so… ephemeral. Dust that falls through your hands when moved wrong.

Susie had a few things to say about the channel, the overarching canon, and its people. She said almost everything she desired to say… except she left one straggler she didn't wrap up in time. Kind of a shame really, I think it's one of the more important ones. It's hard to say what that piece would've looked like if it was finished, but after consulting with Susie, I'm sure it would've looked something like this:

"My father said to me that that things tend to repeat themselves, given enough time. Sentience creates understanding, and understanding creates symbols, repetition, abstraction into things we can understand. How fitting, I suppose, that there are plenty of quotes like this…

Have you ever thought about where that lighthouse shows up? It's different every time. To SiIvaGunner it's a landmark of his home, to the AI universe it's a connection to the AI mainframe, to all those other little universes it's one thing or another; and of course, to you it's iconography, a picture to be adapted. Endlessly exploitable, as the deftest symbols tend to be.

I can't help but notice these types of things everywhere… somebody says a random phrase here - "intriguing", "nice", "reverb", there's a million examples - and it manages to travel across the universe and back again. A character talks over here, and their idea shows up somewhere else. Mr. Rental exists in one world, and a place is named after him a universe and half a planet away. Ideas conglomerate, and reform, and repeat; and one domino can add onto what anything means if it's the right time. This isn't a unintended side effect of the system, that's just how these things are here, a world of repeating and combining ideas together.

Then again, in the real world - your world - SiIvaGunner himself is a repetition of symbol, no? His better half. And he, in turn, is a repetition of someone else, who probably was inspired by someone else… so I suppose this was inevitable, in a way."

Out of a morbid curiosity, I decided to go back and look at my first reaction to the release of Prologue and Episode 1 of the CCC in 2016, since I'm lucky enough to still be in that Discord server. It was the kind of reaction you would expect from a 13 year old: making jokes, making unrelated jokes, bad jokes, jokes, so on. But don't misunderstand me - I was excited, and I was glued to the screen.

Fast forward, now - it's 2024. I just turned 21. Episode 11 has finally released, and it's a stellar job, genuinely. I'm in the middle of conceptualizing the Susie ARG, a project dedicated to the nuances of this thing that's been a part of my life for so long... and here I am, making the worst joke ever about how Haltmann couldn't just get Susie with a piano from Super Star Symphony. And putting it onto my pitch document! What am I doing?! Am I stutipd??? I feel like the "what would you tell your past self" thought is pretty cliche, but I'm not sure how I would tell my past self that I'm just doing a higher caliber of the same stupid shitposting he was. I think he'd find it funny, though.

SiIvaGunner's lore has never been the most popular thing on the channel. It feels almost condescending to explain the main reason why in detail - SiIvaGunner's main export is high quality rips. People aren't really coming for the story. But I think there is a second reason worth addressing: SiIvaGunner lore is hard to follow. This is also obvious, but I think the reason it started getting hard to follow is more nebulous and interesting. My current reasoning is that the characters stopped having predetermined story arcs and started living lives, if that makes sense.

Wood Man is patient zero of this. His defection from his predetermined box was relatively simple - an offscreen penchant for movie making. This turned Wood Man, an otherwise dumb side character completely fabricated for the sake of his master's bidding, into, like, a guy. Wood Man & Robbie Rotten turned him into a more complex person, with something from him that we hadn't seen before and he hadn't told anybody. He discussed the time dilation, and everything that implies, and how the world's time moves along. Then he got teleported to The Lost Rip, and the whole predetermined box fell apart completely. He escaped being a dumb side character, and got to do his own thing. He started knowing people offscreen, he started filming more movies, having the chance to hang out and be somebody and mature. He started living. Until… well, you know.

Wood Man's whole deal is emblematic of the tricky thing with the wielding of the passage of time in correlation to real life - the longer time has gone on, the more opportunity our side characters in the SiIvaGunner world have had to live their lives outside of the script and break their boxes. Dr. Andonuts spent so much of his time working, being a character behind the scenes, until he was compelled to come into the light. Joke-Explainer probably spent years wandering Grandiose, doing her own thing, living her life, interacting with people; checking in once a couple of years until we caught up with her for channel host. Haltmann had way more time than he would've to become committed to finding his daughter, and Susie had pretty much her entire existence as a Figment to watch from behind the scenes, until… well, you know.

And it's like, how do you condense that? If your 6 year old nephew turned 15 when you weren't looking, how do you compartmentalize the hundreds of off-screen stories in your brain? You don't, right? These type of things reward being around from the beginning, in a story that has broken its predefined end, and with characters that have had the chance to live autonomously. And that's probably bad for some of the newer viewers, but maybe that's better for some of the characters.

By the tail end of the project, I realized I was a lot like Susie. Not in the literal sense, duh, but in the metaphorical, as a watcher of the story with a lot of opinions, who suddenly got to have those opinions known on the grand stage.

Susie started to sound more and more like me as time went on - or maybe I started to sound more and more like Susie? I'm not sure - as the character got situated in her place. I hope that hasn't been too obvious as you've been reading this document, but it probably has.

Susie and I don't agree on everything. We probably disagree on most things, realistically. But here we had one shared goal - to walk forward with this thing we've been watching for so many years.

All we had to do was try and find the right words.

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