As a goth, I know from many years of experience and knowing others that you can be happy, healthy, creative, not-traumatized AND alternative (i.e. goth, punk, etc) I'm begging you guys not to take away his gothboy swag
fun story, I knew there was going to be some kind of surprise returning voice so I deliberately did not look at the credits or transcript to not spoil myself, and I almost didn't recognize gerry when he showed up. I heard his first few lines and thought "is it--wait, I'm not sure. that doesn't quite sound like him?" and it was because he sounded happy. he sounded happy and well adjusted and just a little manically frazzled from having surprise visitors so early, and that sounded so different from the ghost gerry we know that I almost thought he was a different person. and gertrude sounded exactly as wary and grouchy as usual 💖. the alternate timeline may have gifted gerry the chance to be the friendly peppy painter he never got to be in a past life, but in every lifetime gertude "gee gee" robinson is destined to be a bit of a motherfucker.