#threeandahalffold bullet lore

[meirimerens]

Hi I saw you posting about 3foldbullet and I want to ask if it's like a name for the dynamic between Daniil and the Stamatins or is it something else? I've heard conflicting information

hiii darling so the term "3fold/threefold bullet" comes from a line in day 11 of pathologic classic hd bachelor route, from andrey. the #lore is that, after going after andrey to try to save him from the mutineers who have gotten him [they actually hadn't] and gotten shot, dankovsky going to speak to andrey will uncover that he was believed to be Andrey himself [actually peter because they mixed the twins up][don't worry about it just know they thought it was andrey(peter)][this makes sense]. this absolute banger of a conversation will then happen:

"Andrey Stamatin: There's also a rumour that Andrey Stamatin, the architect that had murdered every soldier in his studio yesterday and set fire to a stone stairway later, was just executed by the mutineers. That's when the assault began. What is that supposed to mean?

Bachelor: That was me.

Andrey Stamatin: So I am you! The furnace of this catastrophe has molded me, my brother, and you into a single person… The fire of war has molded us into a threefold bullet. It's natural. We are one. The three sides of a single process."

i don't know what kind of conflicting information you've been given, but that line refers explicitly to andrey, peter, and dankovsky. it can be interpreted in multiple ways [which is the point of symbolism], for me personally it's part of andrey's [& by extension peter's] desire to like Encompass dankovsky into being the third side of a single coin, in the same way he and peter are "both side of a same coin". it's andrey insisting they see eye to eye, are a same, can and must be as a unit (as during these days, the Mystery of the polyhedron is slowly being uncovered).

tldr:

dankovsky andrey peter Dynamic (or Static!) (however you want to interpret it) from one of andrey's most banger lines. sometimes it's a name to shorten the group and talk about the three of them all at once [as a unit = denomination, in the same way you'd say The Utopians, or The Oneirotects], sometimes it is used to talk about the precise dynamic between the three (typically the Three Make One / desire to Encompass).

[meirimerens]

hi im also stoned separate follower. threefold bullet meta has always been interesting to me because i love the idea of two guys who are one guy (but are also two guys) and sometimes theres a THIRD guy. MY two guys are one guy thing (but they are two guys) (but theyre not) is jekyll and hyde. not at all the same but the connection is mirrors. in my brain. anyways i think there should be more examples of guys who are 1 guy but not really. or are they. i wonder if there are more. so cool ok bye

hello Also stoned separate follower... i'm dad... you get it... now get this... the twins are one... want to be one/conjoined so bad... peter's "you can also call me andrey and it will not be wrong", andrey's "Twins are the two sides of a single person"... and yet they can't be. peter's "i've been suffering for ten years because of [andrey]"... the rift... the drift... continental... pangeaic in nature. earth-shattering split. the third guy is to be the glue. the third guy is here to make them two, which is to make them one. a threefold bullet is a single bullet. same gun. same barrel. they tried once already, and instead of getting a third guy-which makes two-which makes one, the third guy became a fouth and stuck the blade of him in the rift, making two, then making three. FUCKED UP! OH YOU DONE FUCK UP NOW! and then with dankovsky they try again. three to become two to become one. to become one threefold like Janus is twofold. like Janus is bicephalic. become tricephalic, like Cerberus was written to be. but dankovsky's "we're not birds of a feather, you're absolutely mental", "keep your dumb head cool," and "You are also absolutely wild. A pointless atavism, evolutionarily speaking. I've been looking for a reason to tell you this since university" -> the rift. not pangea parting, now, but continental plates smashing. subduction zone, burying. collision zone, pushing one then two then three which becomes three-in-one towards the sky. (polyhedron. also mountain.)

you get it? you know what i mean.

a twin coin has a head on both sides. you're fated to lose or you're fated to win.

a coin is a three-sided object.

[meirimerens]

Hey Grigri it’s deeply important to me that I share this with you. Anyway. Yesterday I got violently high, as one does, and found your post where you talk about Daniil being the third Stamatwin. (Fucking excellent post btw) It gave me THE most galaxy brained takes, but most importantly, led to me texting my twin brother “we gotta find the third twin and Eat him” with no context. So, in some small way, you played a part in the ongoing ordeal of terrorizing my brother.

this easily goes in the top 5 most powerful asks i've received i am choking with laughter. now that's the spirit. now THAT'S the spirit. and you know what since you liked it that much i'll add:

had andrey and peter eaten one of each other in the womb they'd have been fine. they'd have lived. you know that bad david cage game where a character has like a dead twin(? it's been a while since i heard of it) living in their mind and that dead mental twin can do telekinesis and shit. that would happen to them. and they'd be fine with it no like anguish or anything. in fact that would probably have been better for them. right. so they'd be fine. consumption is fine for them. as i've mentioned it's either consumption (not. literally. not in a cannibal way. i mean it as in like a... subsuming way. covering way. melding the person in their lives until all three are intertwined. as i've said: andrey's Threefold Bullet line, SO I AM YOU! etc) or elimination (they wouldn't Consume farkhad. he was like a bone in their throat. he was too tough to chew. so the other option...)

right? consuming farkhad they think would have given them balance. continuation. the bridge between the two of them. but he wasn't that. he was a thorn in their side instead of a bridge of flesh. they feel like they are/(should have been born) conjoined, and that third half is the bridge of flesh to bind them. and dankovsky. he does that, know? in a way he does. by his ending "Keep a close eye on Peter. You'd become desperate and turn into a villain without him" / "Hold Andrey's hand—or he may do something bad…" right. they're mental_asylum_pov_tiktok.mp4 about it.

they gotta eat him. it's a missing-piece trinity. the binding agent. digestive juice. you gotta eat him. it's the only way. what if they were hungry... would you keep food out of their mouths? would you starve them? look at this fucking thing.

would you dare keep him from eating a person? you dare? you STARVE him? you STARVE petya? you'd do that? you have to let him. or he will be so so sad. his misery will increase. you STARVE petya?

gotta eat the third twin. there is no other way.

[meirimerens]

hi im such a big fan of ur farkhad content. i noticed a lot of farkhad Haunting Themes in ur art and was wondering if thats your own interpretation/headcanon of whats happening? and maybe more about that? :0 . orrr i just missed something in game and im being silly goofy stupid. also thoughts on ponies

HELLO DARLING aaah farkhad he's like a best friend to me etc... i have so many thoughts and ideas like brrrr yknow i'm gonna try to be like coherent because it's 2:30AM and also (starving white woman voice) i'm sooo hungry. i'm sure i've talked about what i'm boutta respond in more Coherent forms in my #farkhad lore or #farkhad pathologic tags but basicallu

the twins are haunted. within the game, it's plain as day to me (and others might not agree!) they are haunted. hauntings can be about grief, or about guilt, and peter specifically makes numerous mentions of it weighing on his mind. he hints (in p1) at how andrey killing farkhad (for his sake) makes him suffer, and has created a rift between them. i've also talked about the twins and like assimilation-or-destruction but Basically because they couldn't Assimilate him, aka Making Him See Their Ways, what was left was destruction. this destruction was supposed to bring them closer together, but instead it tore them apart.

farkhad haunts them: he lives in the rift between the two of them, whole body, lying there.

farkhad is endlessly replicated: he is replicated in the cathedral, which he had built, which you, the player, cross everytime you go through that part of town: farkhad's presence, ever-reminded. he is replicated in the grave the twins built for him: farkhad's presence, ever-reminded. ever-reminding them. they could have dumped his ass in the ground and pretend he had vanished, but they erected a monument to him. he is anchored in their body of work. he is endlessly replicated through their work. they have given him the name Farkhad, they have givenhim a tomb: they have given him a presence. and the presence of a dead man is called a haunting.

The endless replication of a dead thing is called a haunting. The unshakeable presence of a dead man is a haunting.

from that, my headcanon is that the twins Physically see him, everywhere, often. in the cathedral. in dark corners. i think when they still liked each other one of them might have painted him, and that portrait haunts him/them. i think andrey stole one of his rings, and one day a hand reaches out from the darkness and yanks on his wrist until he feels like his finger is getting snatched off, but in the end the ring is still here, but he has finger marks around the wrist. you know?

i'm just taking the haunting present in-game, in-text, this endless replication, this neverending presence even beyond his death, shaping the twins, and having shaped the town, and i make it... physical :3

[meirimerens]

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