#in taking on a 'fake' identity python discovered his real self separate from from its identity as a god and as a part of his old family

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ok achievement got i'm brainrotting about c+ so hard

#SEE CUZ CALLING HIM C+ IS WEIRD TO ME NOW but anyways #i think he's so so silly but he's also profoundly sad but like. in a new way #his story is like. weirdly the inverse of python's???? like they left their families and began to indulge in new identities #so as to not be found #but. ohhhh my god okay buckle in #python did so because he didn't want his old family to find him. c+ did so because he'd be jailed for working age restrictied jobs #python hates its old family. everything c+ does is for his family #in taking on a 'fake' identity python discovered his real self separate from from its identity as a god and as a part of his old family #meanwhile c+ so frequently loses himself in the fake identity he has to wear in order to help who he loves #that he genuinely forgets his real name sometimes #and it crushes him so much when it happens. it crushes him that java's friends with a stranger instead of him #because he connects with java so much. they're just two kids who lost their way and now they're here when they don't even want to be #and it crushes him that he can't embrace who he is because if he gets too comfortable if he tells the wrong people the wrong things #the fragile web he's built under himself will collapse #and yet. he's more himself than he knows. and he finds new things that he works into both his c+ persona and the person underneath #and by opening up to his best friend about all of this he finds out that c+ and him aren't really that different after all #and while he's ready to start embracing the real him with more people... he doesn't regret his time as c+. #after all. he wouldn't be the real valentino without him. #(valentino is his real name) #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #I LOVE YOU PARALLELS I LOVE YOU ACCIDENTAL FOILS ILY ILY ILY #anyways #<- i wanna experiment with calling him c+ but until i make a final decision i'm keeping his tag as c4 #c+