So, I was thinking about Epsilon and Caboose and how Epsilon is so used to being abandoned that I just realized.
Caboose never left. He stays with him.
He stays with this supposed memory of his dead best friend, who, for all we know, is experiencing the worst time of his short life inside the unit, reliving memories of lives that aren't even his, and then that memory just hears someone talking to him.
Telling all these stories, treating him like another person, and always coming back.
And I can't help but feel that it was a grounding point for him, to be distracted by these stories instead of the painful memories that he'd soon repress until there was no other way than to remember.
Or I'm projecting.
Anyway, Caboose is awesome, Epsilon is my blorbo, and I am reaching hard to excuse my personal headcanons.
obligatory “someone else has probably pointed this out years before me” but i will NEVER get over how the beat in the beginning of “hateglue” sounds like a panicked heartbeat that stops when grifs says he quits, never picking back up after that. like his life (with the reds and blues) is over and dead
First, he's tortured to the point of fragmentation and amnesia, then he's isolated with "idiots," next he sees Tex and she "dies", twice, then he is transferred to an empty base to be left alone for 14 months.