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:
(... Kris.)
(I know.)
(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…)
(...)
… None of this is real.
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.
Predetermined.
Lines of code in a console.
Like… a game.
I was programmed to win. Programmed to excel.
Programmed to be… the smartest.
Programmed to be Berdly.
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…
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.
I know.
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.
… So… tell me.
Tell me how to stop.
TELL ME HOW TO STOP BEING BERDLY!
…
… I’m sorry.
… You know, Noelle…
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.
…
I know you want to.
Aren’t you curious?
Curious what would happen if you did it.
… So do it, already.
Push me in.
Let this weighted bird… sink like a stone.
I-it’s the only way, isn’t it?!
And besides…
It’ll only hurt for a moment.
I’ll just… respawn. On the other side, with her!
SO DO IT!
Please… do it.
… 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.
Push me.
… Hahah. It’s… cold. Is there… something stuck in my feathers?
Kris, please. Don’t let me come back up.
I’ll be fine. I’ll just…
Kris…
K-Kris…
…
…
(Can you still hear me?!)
(DON’T LET ME BACK UP!)
(JUST… DO IT, ALREADY…!)
(I’ll respawn.)
(I’ll respawn.)
(I have to.)
(I’ll be there, with her…)
(I’ll just respawn.)
