#the real evidence that crimson isn't all bad is that he wasn't beaming psychically damaging video content into peoples heads 24/7
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Thinking about the different levels of awareness different characters have (or seem to have) of Spectrum and the Script in the nccts
Theres characters who are perfectly aware of its existence and their collective nature as the crafted playthings of a gestalt god of their fictional reality and what it is capable of to some degree but have no ability to percieve it innately, like larry or cobalt,
theres characters who have a little bit of a sense for it, but no name for it or even cognizance of what theyre picking up on, like the grunk (prism attempts to change his words/actions and he resists fairly easily, is faintly aware that something happened, feels it ebb away and doubts what he felt shortly after,)
Theres dani and danthony who are (normally) like the previous but also have a little bit of power to change it theyre not particularly conscious of, mostly takes the form of capitalization and spelling changes when under Emotional Stress or when expressing Emotional Intensity, with special mention to dani understanding and speaking rat partly in the form of emoji,
There's J0hn who can sense and process it due to his machine nature parsing everything as the text of the script, emotionally percieves his text being changed as anxiety, processes things like smiley emoticons as changes in tone, and can consciously mimic and iterate on unique text formatting, like percieving the prism smileys and working out how to send winky faces on his own, but emojis and images are just static to him,
Google or Mac's exact levels of awareness are not clear iirc, though we do know google can feel it (see green,)
Theres Quad who has been very aware his whole life, percieves spectrum and the script they act through as a feeling of mist in the air and everything between the tournaments like being half-asleep, and Prism's edits as being Painful, like the mist turning to needles, and has full capitalization of his speech, although whether that's a conscious choice or just a TOJ type thing or part of his programming is unclear,
Speaking of, TOJ does not know the script or spectrum by its name and has never consciously altered text but nonetheless is eagerly guided by their whims to embody himself and HIS every whim at 2000% at all times in a way that shows in his very text as a constant capitalization and in his bombastic actions following the 'hand of fate' leading him to often being an unconscious vessel of spectrum's will, a powerful conduit and devotee for forces he does not understand in any technical way but does trust absolutely, capable of bizarre and incredible feats through sheer commitment to the bit,
Theres barry (susanverse) who has no innate sense for this but the life experiences he was created with and the clues he can percieve lead him naturally to questioning the apparently *consciously* created nature of the world he inhabits, and barry (neraverse) follows this curiousity to his psychological doom, becoming mentally unseated from time and an observer of his own nature as a mere pawn of a tragic backstory existing only in flashback for his daughter who would mean more than him, BE more than him, dreadfully aware of his own diminished life,
Then there's the gods who are not cobalt, who can read the script, speak in the script, have a natural awareness of when somethings amiss about it and thus a natural knack for learning to resist it (but not naturally perfectly resistant, crimson describing himself as having gotten better at it with time and peppermint being aware that she'd 'lied' but not being able to stop herself from saying it and not knowing why she said what she'd said,) have found loopholes and workarounds for communicating in it outside prism's notice, cosmic and crimson even communicating through thought-narration without being heard by anyone else in the room like a kind of telepathic connection,
Theres the prismatic, whose high level of awareness is dependant on their connection to prism and fades with release but may be able to get inventive enough with the awareness they temporarily have to innovate and create new avenues of communication that circumvent the conditions of their surveillance, like prismatic shadow's quickly adopted pastebin strategy,
Theres Jack, who is new to this and was struggling a bit due to a lack of guidance but has a very high level of ability- can parse individual names and voices in spectrum's gestalt and it doesn't take long for cosmic to show him how to send video (see: jack does a flip,) which is described as Advanced,
And then there's prism and cosmic, who are able to successfully temporarily (kind of. Its a fiction and ryan did sorta both let them do that and made them do that and is in control of all this when we stop engaging with the performance layer of the metaphor but we move,) usurp the author himself and can engage with it at the highest level with cosmic even being able to teach the especially sensitive how to communicate particularly 'advanced' things in it like video.
#barry 🤝 the guy from lemon demon's Stuck#the real evidence that crimson isn't all bad is that he wasn't beaming psychically damaging video content into peoples heads 24/7#ncct spoilers#im not making a point really im just writing this all down because i think having all these data points next to eachother is interesting
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