So, um. *lip smack* Chapter 5 Weird Route, huh. I had some thoughts about how That Scene™ would go down in Level Up/Magnitomb
Full dialogue I wrote up, under the cut:
(You don’t have to tell me anything.)
(Nothing I don’t already know.)
(Yesterday, when… you gave me that pen, I…)
(I finally figured it out.)
(What I should have known from the very beginning.)
(We’re still there, aren’t we?)
(Yes, it… only makes sense, we are.)
(It’s frightening for me to admit, but…)
Ever since I’d won the Spelling Bee, little bluebird I was…
I’d always have this feeling. This feeling, that…
… The world itself was rigged.
Lines of code in a console.
I was programmed to win. Programmed to excel.
Programmed to be… the smartest.
A Berdly coded to do and say what a Berdly does.
And that’s all I am. That’s all I’ve ever been.
Just lines of code in a console.
But no. That’s not… quite true, isn’t it?
You… you showed me! There’s still so much I need to learn, I…
Kris. I don’t know how you did it. But… you BROKE it!
You actually BROKE your own code!
You’re NOT Kris anymore! I may be an idiot, but I know THAT much!!
And no one else has noticed it! Not like I have!
To them, you’re still nothing extraordinary.
A Kris coded to do and say what a Kris does.
And Kris… as morbid as it is to say…
… You’ve broken my code, too.
I can feel it. Soon enough, I…
… Well. I won’t be “Berdly” anymore, will I?
… Kris. When I cast… “Magnitomb”...
I realized how tethered I was. Like a trapped bird in a cage.
… What kind of friend am I, to think of her like that?
As nothing but a weight on my shoulders?
Kris. You don’t have to say anything.
There’s so much… I need to learn from you.
So much weight I need, off my fine feathered wings.
And you… you’re the ONLY one that can help me.
TELL ME HOW TO STOP BEING BERDLY!
Maybe it’s a naive thought, but…
… Perhaps she broke free, too.
She could be anywhere now. She could be anyone BUT Noelle.
… She could just be… on the other side. Out of bounds.
Curious what would happen if you did it.
Let this weighted bird… sink like a stone.
I-it’s the only way, isn’t it?!
It’ll only hurt for a moment.
I’ll just… respawn. On the other side, with her!
… What are you so afraid of?!
Come on, Kris. Don’t act like you’re my FRIEND, now.
Don’t act like you CARE what happens to me, all of a sudden.
… Don’t act like you’ve never thought about it.
… Hahah. It’s… cold. Is there… something stuck in my feathers?
Kris, please. Don’t let me come back up.
(Can you still hear me?!)
(I’ll be there, with her…)
prguitarman
gracieabrams
vaporwave
origamiaround
dailybridgerton
gummygunk
