#milligan describes something already pretty horrifying

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do you ever wonder, even with how fucked up it already is, if milligan sanitized his story for the kids

#on one hand show curtain seems a lot more.... #less the type to straight up torture? like his reaction to the straitjackets and all #he's the more type to convince himself he's doing them a kindness #even as what he's doing is actually arguably worse #but its like. you know. mental manipulation/brainwashing. #ANYWAY but like on the other hand #a) whatever the case unless milligan is lying/exaggerating which seems very unlikely to me #milligan WAS tied up and interrogated--could be like hildegarde billingsley not too alarming right?--BUT #he was also hit/beaten #and 'what do you remember? what do you remember?' while being hit is pretty different than the interrogation of hildegarde who was all #loopy. and plus their techniques have probably developed and smoothed out over the past decade #b) i have this little idea in my head that i havent properly developed into a fully rounded thing #maybe once curtain DID have more vicious henchmen #like mccracken. and maybe it went too far and he learned his lesson #or maybe it just made him a little uncomfortable and he ended up phasing them out (or making them helpers which. actually constitutes some #worrying issues now that all the helpers have been freed/remember everything) #and now he has people like jeepers #ANYWAYwhatever the case #milligan describes something already pretty horrifying #waking up with a metal contraption on his head. strapped in #being hit and interrogated and chained and jailed #escaping . running. falling off a cliff into the ocean #barely getting to shore alive #living off moss and nature #being treated like garbage on the streets--shunned and unbelieved #do you ever think it might have gotten worse than he said? things he wouldn't have told a group of kids? #he still told them most of it didnt sanitize it entirely bc he wanted them to understand the danger & not treat them like idiots #but like. what if. what if #milligan wetherall #the mysterious benedict society