#u know when u get so tired and stressed that all ur lightbulbs explode and your phone starts melting

[albatris]

one plus of having a psychotic protagonist is that tris's ability to take weird bullshit with a grain of salt is already maxed out and it's not INTENTIONALLY comedic but u get scenes like

he's just vibin in his room when he is suddenly overcome with an all-consuming sense of impending doom and feels the floor move from under him and starts hearing voices screaming and he's like Oh Sweet A Panic Attack and then every light bulb in his house shatters one right after the other and his phone receives 37 calls from the same number at the same time and overheats so bad it burns scorch marks into his floorboards

and like. he has no fuckin idea where to even begin unpacking all that. what the fuck, y'know?

and like, his logic in this scene is solid, 'cause it's like. well, sometimes when he's overtired or super stressed out his brain starts interpreting Perfectly Ordinary Events as strange and frightening, so even if that all seemed terrifying and confusing and Very Very Deeply Wrong in the moment, this is just par for the course, and often there's a perfectly reasonable rational explanation that he's able to access once he's cleared his head a bit and calmed down

but the scene itself is just like. this all happens. and tris is just like "ah! I'm sure I just need some sleep. yeah, that must be it :)" which is extremely valid