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"The Gift"

So I haven't seen any pieces addressing to this specific event from Shamura's quote, so I decided to take it into my own hands. With angst of course. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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Scared of Lightnings. His first time wasn't a good experience, it brought him bad memories. 🌩️

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decay and feeding new life—

kathiann kowalski // hozier // kobayashi eitaku // cyrus martin // friedrich heyser // gail potocki // william shakespeare

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Mundane things that feel like TMA entities

The Buried - When you cover your entire body in blankets but have to poke your head out a few minutes later bc you can't breathe.

The Corruption - Being anxious about opening a tupperware from the back of the fridge, the contents of which have probably been rotting in there for months.

The Dark - When you turn off the lights in a room and walk just a bit faster than normal back into the light.

The Desolation - Burning paper, tossing something into a bonfire just to burn it.

The End - Trying not to think about how the elderly people you know won't be around in a while.

The Extinction - Anxiety about not recycling a singular plastic bottle.

The Eye - Looking at yourself in those little surveillance monitors that show customers in a store what the cameras are seeing.

The Hunt - Playing tag or any other chasing/being chased game.

The Flesh - Picking at your skin, in any way.

The Lonely - Driving at night through the suburbs.

The Slaughter - Killing any sort of bug, stomping on ants just because.

The Spiral - Losing something small, upturning everything around you, only to find the thing in a pocket or a place you don't remember putting it.

The Stranger - Not liking your voice in recordings because it sounds different from how you usually hear it.

The Vast - Looking out the window on an airplane, watching the world fade away beneath the clouds.

The Web - Going through a bureaucratic procedure like renewing a passport or filling out banking paperwork.

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I like to think at least some of the choice options are by Kris's influence. You click on a dummy. All you are doing is viewing the dummy. Even if the caterpillar is eating the dummy's clothes, there is no reason to think we should start eating it too. Maybe the player just wants to see how eaten they already are. But then we get the option to bite it ourselves, presumably because that's the internal choice Kris would be making if they were faced with this on their own.

Also, the actions taken after the player chooses to interact with something. In the NEO Basement fight, all I did was click on the machine again to see if anything have changed. Kris was the one who took that opportunity to start shaking and hitting it with increasing desperation, and the one who after that just gave No Response to clicking on it if I clicked on it after that. When you click on the book in the library, Kris is one who licks it, or closes the human book after you choose to open it, and has those responses to their journal. You're piloting them and choosing to interact with an object, prompting <something to happen> The player can't do Every Single Action In Existence like in real life, but once we've exhausted the extent our ability of choice by choosing to be there, Kris can <make something happen> of their own accord.

Like in the post Chapter 2 bathroom! once you click on the sink, the extent of what you can do, Kris's <empty action opportunity> move is to go through with the steps to remove the soul. (and then after that, our control doesn't resume after their <free response action> ends, so they can take movement/plot-scale choices that would be up to us otherwise, and then it resumes again in normal format after the SOUL is back.)

Also, circle back to the initial point, the "(Better not)" dialog box if you click no to eating dungeon moss after the narrator goes on that whole long thing about continuing the cycle reads to me like my *gets denied the opportunity to do something I wanted to do* *reluctant trying to make it less disappointing voice* "I mean it's probably for the best,, I'm not technically loosing anything by not doing it,," +maybe I'll do another playthrough and eat it then which was also kind of my internal dialog when I realized it wouldn't let me go back and eat it after clicking no.

Oh! Also, I think that some of the choices we don't get to make have to do with how thought the responses are. Flushing the toilet without using it is not more important than licking a book, but in our place they'd have to actively decide to flush the toilet, while you can make Kris pick up a book and they can just Impulsively Lick It to be funny without much thought on a yes/no choice.

And ACTS, like the toast! I choose to give her a toast in the versus Queen battls, but Kris was the one who made it a big "emotional" trucie-to-trucie for their <Give A Toast Action>. Like, yes, we made them do it, but they're the one actually doing it, and they could've done it however they wanted.

Something something we're piloting Kris around the story, but Kris The Person is actually experiencing and responding to what's happening within the confines of and while we're moving them.

lol this was originally just supposed to be about the this-or-that decisions where the choice you're making isn't one most people would think of a default choice in the first place being because it would be the internal choice Kris would be making in your place, which is also why the questions are what they are, even if one yes/no response is obviously one they wouldn't take, as opposed to, like, "Set the moss on fire" because that's not a choice Kris would think to genuinely think about in the first place, even if it was one they'd have a hard and obvious yes or no. Doesn't necessarily mean they would always see moss and pick "Yes" to eating it, regardless of the circumstances, but it is something they'd honestly consider.

(ex. They definitely didn't act like they wanted to take Asriel's five dollars, and I def don't think they would have gone through with it on their own, at least without feeling Big Guilt about it, but it was still a Choice That The Could Conceive Of, And As Such Had To Make, even if the choice only exists in thay they would choose no. By result, the player can make that choice, and, if that player wants, choose Yes.)

Obv, I think battles might be exempt from this theory to A Degree, I haven't thought about that aspect long enough to know if there's any holes there. It seems like they'd be aware on their own that they can Attack/Act/Item/Spare, and some of their Act options are different enough from what I'd do that I think maybe the Act choices might have to do with what they've considered as Possibilities Could Do in this situation, once again regardless of whether they'd actually do those things. That said, I don't know enough about the details of the weird route yet to know how consistently it holds up There, but!

anyhow I also ended up talking about to some of my other headcanons for Kris's agency placements and such because I find that genuinely interesting so. bit of a messy ask! it's more of a concept/theory sharing than actual question though.

yeah i definitely think that kris is the one offering the options we can choose between, and in light of that i've actually for a long time thought that the "nice to see you again" thing with sans was a trap kris set for us, to try and get help - kris has never seen this guy in their life, but they have some idea that we don't really know shit abt town yet, so they throw us off and try and get us to act Noticeably Weird in front of others

they definitely find a lot of room in the gaps we leave to do things, and it's interesting watching them like. actively find new ways to subvert us, like offering "choices" where if you take the one they don't want they just do it sarcastically djgklsdjgsdg

i love them a lot.

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Of course this turned out entirely inaccurate. I suppose I was partially right about Ineffable Bureaucracy though.

GO Season 2 checklist! (edited with more ideas)

(based on my previous post)

Sip some red wine like the husbands might, if any of these predictions come true.

Aziraphale and Crowley will share an umbrella

They have actually spent the entirety of lockdown with each other, the “Lockdown” audio recording actually being that Crowley was upstairs

The ineffable husbands will finally become husbands proper.

The tone of the entire season will be Christmassy

Heaven and even Hell is ridiculously hyping up the Christ

In Gabriel’s stead Metatron took power over Heaven, and in Beelzebub’s, Lucifer became the sitting king once again. Both want the war to continue.

Lucifer is actually pretty scared of Beelzebub because, aside from appearing as the big Devil-as-stereotyped-by-humans and looking intimidating, He really can’t do much else in terms of powers. Beelzebub is not aware of this because of how charismatic, clever and graceful He pretends to be is.

Baby will be constantly switched between Christ and Unchrist (not to be mistaken for Antichrist) but Anathema doesn’t physically feel a thing. Just her aura turning on and off and on and off like a flickering disco light.

God will narrate again and She will make two cameo appearances

One as the doctor who will deliver Anathema’s non-Christ, perfectly human, baby.

One as the officiant for Crowley’s and Aziraphale’s spring wedding.

Amnesiac Gabriel looks at Beelzebub as if ze hung the moon, because before the fall Selaphiel was his close friend. (Not really, ze did not hang the actual moon, that one was Crowley when he was an archangel after Crowley was inspired by Aziraphale’s pale hair, Beelzebub just made the butterflies and bumblebees and spiders and every nice insect)

(Gabriel made flowers)

And he absolutely couldn’t remember that his previous, non amnesiac self, and Beelzebub, had been assholes to each other since Eden so he innocently wants to reconcile with this demon whose magical aura screams “friend”.

(Gabriel, but actually make him a himbo this time)

Before the Fall, Gabriel loved singing and especially singing for Sel.

Ineffable Bureaucracy /p is set to Beatles songs like how Ineffable Husbands is set to Queen songs.

Pollution had replaced Pestilence since the eradication of measles, so, fairly recent considering the 6000 years timeline.

Pestilence and Pollution fighting but pettily, with little slaps and immature insults. Eventually they share the seat after Death bonked their heads together, forced them into a get along shirt, and made them apologise.

God : *wakes up after a 6000-year-Metatron-induced-sleep*

God : oh my Me. I have to fix this.

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Defending Aziraphale cause I KNOW y’all are gonna come for him:

1. a lot of people say that him deciding to go back to heaven is a character regression and doesn’t make sense- but it does! aziraphale has 6000+ years of repressed trauma from doing what heaven tells him! and even if he does seem to be taking steps forward (shades of gray), he never fully takes that big leap away from heaven (very LIGHT shades of gray). you can’t just recover from it!

2. also, we never actually see him get over the demons bad angels good thing. crowley is the only exception to this rule, in his eyes. he still views the Fall as a bad thing, which is why he wants them to be angels together!

3. people are also saying that it’s crazy ineffable bureaucracy got together so fast without too much internal conflict, unlike the (now divorced) husbands. but it makes sense because GABRIEL AND BEELZEBUB RAN THE SYSTEM. AND CROWLEY WAS CLEARLY A HIGH RANKING ANGEL WHO FELL VERY EARLY ON, MAKING HIM VERY DISILLUSIONED WITH THE SYSTEM. aziraphale mever got that chance- he was a lower ranking angel that was beaten down by this system, and as such doesn’t see that it’s the system that’s corrupt, not just the angels within. he still believes that heaven is a GOOD place filled with BAD angels, because he has literally never had the chance to learn otherwise.

and this is why it narratively makes perfect sense for him to become the supreme archangel- he’ll finally be able to see that the idea of heaven is corrupt because he’ll be in charge of it!

4. aziracrow have also been shown to be a direct parallel to nina and maggie. in the last episode, nina says that they’re not ready for a relationship because she just left her incredibly toxic and abusive partner. aziraphale and nina are in very similar situations! he literally just left heaven, which was incredibly toxic and abusive, and might not be ready for a relationship with crowley yet! however, unlike nina, he doesn’t fully believe that his previous situation was toxic, so he goes back- because he hasn’t seen enough to understand!

5. he clearly wants to FIX the system, not just be a part of it, because he is intrinsically such a selfless being. he still hasn’t learned to put what he actually wants before what he thinks everybody needs yet, because, again, he doesn’t understand how heaven works!

in conclusion i love aziraphale and i haven’t slept because i’ve been thinking about the finale so lmk if this doesn’t make sense but i will not be changing my thoughts about aziraphale

ALSO KEEP REWATCHING GOOD OMENS WE NEED SEASON 3

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More reasons it'd be really cool if Kittypets are fae

Gives Tigerstar more motive if it's seen more that his dad was stolen by the fae and he doesn't want Rusty to bewitch the rest of his clan or something

Tallstar and Jake are now even BETTER because Jake gets to show Tallstar kittypet tricks and Tallstar is like "wow i love my powerful fae boyfriend"

FAE SKYCLAN

I just really like the phrase pet-touched in the same vein of fae-touched

FAE SCOURGE FAE SCOURGE FAE SCOURGE TIGERSTAR SPENDS THE WHOLE SERIES TRYING TO DEFEAT A FAE FIGURES THAT A FAE MIGHT BE THE ONLY THING THAT CAN BEAT A FAE AND SCOURGE MURDERS THE SHIT OUT OF TIGERSTAR AFTER TIGERSTAR BREAKS THEIR DEAL WHICH JUST FURTHER MAKES THE CLANS CONVINCED KITTYPETS ARE FAE

I think Berrynose should be even MORE insufferable as a treat

I feel like Ashfur would accuse Squirrelflight of using fae magic to manipulate him and while he's a dick for doing it and I hate him it could be a really interesting scene

Graystripe having to deal with being pet-touched and people being very suspicious of his new fae girlfriend

Cloudtail using pretend fae magic to help Brightheart, putting like a flower in her fur and using her belief to be like "yeah this flower? ive imbued it with courage" and its very cute and then they can have a reveal that the courage was in Brightheart all along and yeah I know its cliche but dammit its CUTE

Does this make dogs also fae? Are dogs the Unseelie to the kittypets Seelie? Does this make people even more "hey what the fuck" about Millie when she reveals she can speak dog

Let Purdy learn about this and tell even WILDER lies because no one can tell him that he can't do a thing because fuck you he's a kittypet he can do lots of things you can't actually.

Firestar gets to say the word fuck and everyones like "gasp a kittypet word of power" which is hilarious to me

Jayfeather threatening people with fae magic and medicine cat knowledge sounds really funny especially if he uses his dream walking with it to scare the shit out of them

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Uncle Goosefeather protecting his niece no matter what

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Hc that leshy often clings to his siblings to get around the cult and avoid others

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BEEEP BEEP BOOP IM BACK WITH THE SAD SHIT AGAIN.

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Cult trait: Respect Your Elders

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so that new game huh

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I notice that looking at the very first broadway designs for Cats, before they were refined over time, they have this scruffy, almost dirty look. To be honest they almost look a little terrifying, especially Timothy Scott’s Misto, and also kind of like sewer rats. A lot of folks think it’s scary looking and they r happy w the changes, but to me, the scariness is part of the charm.

Like jellicle cats aren’t your normal housecat.

For example, when you walk past a group of them in the streets, they turn to you with glowing eyes and hiss with too many teeth.

You see a white cat watching you inside your house with black eyes, and you think you see it stand on two legs and bring it’s leg up into an unnatural bend. When you blink, it is only licking it’s paw, barely glancing at you.

You kick a cat aside with the toe of your boot on your way to work. It has red, mangy fur, and it glares at you, throwing it’s head side to side like an angry snake. The next morning you wake up in pain, and you watch in the mirror as scratches appear on your back in jagged lines.

You leave a saucer of milk out for a small black cat with a white face, that seems to look directly into your eyes as it accepts your gift and quickly scampers away. Later, you find your mother’s bracelet on the table, which she had lost years before.

You slow down your car as you see an old, fat cat cross the street at a leisurely pace. You will be late for work, but you stop and let the cat go on it’s way. You think you see it wink at you as you drive. You tip your hat at it.

An old and grimy cat sleeps under your overhang. You let it stay there, it’s not harming you. The next day the old cat has disappeared, and an adolescent kitten is in its place. It seems to nod it’s head at you. It has the same eyes as the old cat.

Two identical calicos scurry across your lawn. You think you see them carrying little bags.

A grey cat appears once a year at your door. It waits paitiently as you go inside and come back out with a fish. It seems to bow at you as it accepts, and you have strangely good luck for a while after.

A fluffy brown cat listens to your record player just outside your window. It yowls with the music, and you turn it up louder so it can hear.

Sometimes you hear singing during the full moon. When you look outside, however, you only see golden eyes peeking out at you from the junkyard.