#the game was play therapy for Crispin not for Fred. the point was to get him engaging with others again and it worked!

[whistlingstarlight]

I think Crispin should've been able to escape Thorney Towers with the other inmates. Don't like the possibility he didn't make it off the island.

[coolthudethecoolest]

So I heard something about a Fred rewrite in the tags of that one post? I am here for a Fred analysis if nothing else

OH YEAH THAT yeah I have a Fred rewrite in a doc that also adds details to like the inmates and shit if you want I could DM it to ya if you're that interested. Its more of a backstory than a rewrite idk

Anyways I'm just gonna summarize it here tw for physical abuse, child abuse, themes of war, and neglect

Basically Fred's parents were pretty wealthy and pretty well liked. They owned a museum that archived a bunch of Napoleon shit. One distinct thing they did was do plays that reenacted certain events in Napoleons life. Fred was forced to be a part of these plays and he hated them, due to the overstimulating amounts of noise. Unfortunately, Fred's parents did not have patience to accommodate for his needs so if Fred didn't do it, Fred's dad would beat or threaten to beat him while his mother would gaslight him and show disappointment. This led to Fred not only developing DID but also gain extreme amounts of difficulty with talking about his feelings and fear of asking for much needed accommodations because he doesn't want to be a burden. (I imagine he never got diagnosed for his mental conditions and he never talked about them with his parents because of y'know them being awful and shit. I think this is also fueled by Fred already having Treacher Collins and like scoliosis or chronic pain or some shit and he just didn't want to "inconvenience" his parents more than he already does.)

Time passes by and Fred's parents didn't support Fred's desire to go to medical school and become a nurse, thinking that it was too "soft" of a career to have. Ironically, they were fine with Fred gaining a calligraphy degree, which he used to get his parents off his back until he could get a medical degree next while also doing something he actually liked doing. Later on Fred becomes the head orderly for Thorny Towers and things are looking kinda bright. He was well liked among the patients and he enjoyed doing his job too, hell, he loved it. However things started to turn bleak once he realized the most of the nurses were neglectful towards the patients and didn't care about their job one bit. Fred, being the kind person he is, overworked himself because he was trying to clean up after the other nurses' messes. Sometimes he couldn't clean up everything because he was so exhausted physically and emotionally and lets just say, Fred ended up seeing some terrible fates that the neglect towards the patients led to. Additionally he was doing therapy with Crispin and the consistent losing at Waterloo-O ended up triggering him a lot. Both of these factors led to Fred developing a delusion where he thought he was a war general and there were was a big war going on and he was responsible for every death caused by it. It also caused Fred to split Napoleon, which was caused by the pent up rage he had for his entire life (losing at the board game so much was the breaking point).

Thats pretty much the backstory I wrote for him summarized there's a bit more but I don't wanna write it rn because I want to go to bed because Ive been sleeping like shit recently. I might rant about how fred still wears the straightjacket after beating Napoleon and what that could mean tomorrow but its a lil uncertain. Okay I will include one silly lil fun hc as a lil dessert for you reading all of this: Alongside doing calligraphy, Fred also likes to draw from time to time! Fred isn't bad at drawing, and he draws in this fun geometric minimalist-esque art style with lots of circles and everything looks like the fucking white rabbits from the shaun tan illustrations for the rabbits. Also LOVES geography, but mostly likes looking at the maps and drawing them too. The guys got an impressingly steady hand and the guy just loves fucking around with compasses.