pov you're roman roy, and you have a body that has reactions you can't control, and those reactions are pathetic and freakish and prove just how much you've gotten it wrong. you can't laugh, you can't talk, you can't even cry at your father's funeral without everyone seeing what a failure made flesh you are.
Just a preview but heavens these guys make me want to animate (and suffer by virtue)
(Psst, I would appreciate if you check my now official twt post of this, as it's also been reuploaded by someone who isn't me!)
In Elias Hodge's mind, his attention (Anastasia Tension) is wasted on menial mundane tasks he doesn't care about, their potential wasted, while his impulses (Imelda Pulse) guides his hand for better or worse.
His curiosity (Hunch Curio) is stuck on the small things in life, craving money and questions. His conscience (Conrad Shintz) is considered childish, every other part of him trying to squash it down, framed as an inconvenience.
His hyperfixations (The Fix) keep straying to everything he abandoned in his childhood (the Orphanage), which he hates and refuses to treat those memories with any sort of kindness- bar one part of his mind which longs for kidness on the child he used to be.
His lust (Daniel Fucks) and pleasures are supressed, believing himself unworthy, and every time he is close to gratification he self destructs, punishing himself for not being enough.
Now there are little thoughts, tiny intrusions, that used to be quiet growing louder. He doesn't want to do bad, not really, but what does it matter anymore? If he can't let himself be happy, why not be malicious? He's not listening to his conscious anymore, his impulses and... something else has a control over him. His 'mental switchboard' is broken, so to speak, and certain parts of his brain are no longer able to communicate.
There is no predicting what that man, that horrifically smart man, might do.
Some of my favourite descriptive closed captions from this season of Dimension 20: Mentopolis
It's truly such a great season; filled with film noir tropes, that the Prefrontal PIs parody in the most hilarious way, but also inspired by the concept of Inside Out leading to incredibly touching moments, clever psychological/biological/sciency processes, oh and also so. many. puns! :D
Realizing that Elias Hodge, after finally settling down and taking the time to relax at last, is hyper fixating not on his job, but on his passions, and finding a place for them. Realizing that his Attention can be allowed to Fawn over himself for once, but that a little Impulse and Hyper Vigilance won’t do him any harm either. Realizing that his Conscience can easily Justify a little Pleasure for himself for once, and that his Curiosity, while it works just fine on its own, could always use a helping hand. Elias Hodge becomes a detective, always prioritizing the truth, and doing the right thing.
“i think you might be the butterfly” is genuinely one of the most gentle and generous and beautiful things anyone could possibly say about someone else