well this is a different post and well. I feel so awkward going into peoples dms and i well i want to not do it x'D. . So you know i am autistic, hyperfixated and arrived late to the party. Im very active and social.Im sorry if i come across as creepy and weird but well. I know most people who fixated on caligosto are gone and moved but i wont lose faith when it comes to bringing some back .. So i ask this in this post. To please not hesitate to send me a dm because i am looking for friends to info dump about loboto. I would love to rant for ours and make a lot of art and. trades . My heart breaks because since i arrived here i havent found caligosto simps to befriend besides from one who i cant keep spamming . You can send me a Dm and ask for my discord if you want to talk with me about #caligosto loboto. Sorry for the weird post. Im just losing motivation. Need fuel back. I feel wrong when im one of the fews posting in the loboto tag and i would LOVE making friends who also love the same character. I keep info dumping to my friends who arent into him and it feels so yucky
Continuation of my redemption AU. Here I wanted to showcase a mental world I created a few years ago. I mentioned it in the original post, but the premise is; Dr Loboto is in denial about being psychic and wants to believe he truly was cured because he's too ashamed of himself otherwise. This mental world follows an archetype Loboto developed as a child to cope with his medical trauma, where he roleplays as a doctor performing the exact procedure that was done onto him. Raz has to help him make the mental connection from Psychic to Acceptance, and on the way things get bumpy.
After Raz finally makes the connection, Loboto freaks out and the mental world collapses, cue the first images after the cut from the original post. This, alongside him regaining his moral compass from RoR, help start his journey to redemption.
One thing I imagined is Cassie helping him to revisit and befriend his archetypes again.
A thought I experimented with is Loboto's whole Doctor persona. I wondered if the only reason he became a makeshift doctor in the first place was to cope with his medical trauma by being in control of it— not to say he didn't develop an interest for it in the process, but that it's a part of himself he overexaggerates. After Raz helps him make the mental connection, his Doctor archetype is left helpless, rethinking his entire purpose. A part of his healing journey is getting the Doctor archetype to calm down and fully accept being psychic, and unpack exactly which parts of his passion for medicine are actual passions, vs just trying to cope and survive.
And then there's first-mate loboto. I know he isn't stated to be an archetype in RoR, but he would make a damn good one, so it's my own headcanon. First-mate Loboto is a manifestation of Loboto's love for the sea and oceanlife, as well as his more goody-two-shoes side. He developed during childhood and grew up with Loboto, but Loboto was ashamed of him, and tried to shut him out, which is where the whole bathtub fight scene manifests. He learned to loathe himself, and his first-mate archetype learned to fear Loboto as a whole. Part of his healing journey is learning to get along with his first-mate archetype again and accept his control over his actions.
The road to recovery on this front is bumpy and long, and Cassie often has to force Loboto to confront these negative feelings, but it eventually gets around, and is some of his most effective therapy. First-mate Loboto, now seen less as a shameful part of his identity, is given the reigns more often without consequence— the truth is, first-mate Loboto had always influenced Loboto's decisions, he just never got to fully bloom without being shut down. Now he has more room to roam free, and Loboto is able to indulge in the sweeter, more wholesome, more exploratory parts of his identity. His doctor-archetype, however, learns to take less control, and learns to take breaks and rest. He learns to calm down, and indulge in his interests in a healthier, more self-advocating way, rather than doing it because he feels he has to. He also learns to take more advantage of his psychic identity.
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Thinkign about himb,,,, 😚 Hoping to draw him maybe with the booles next. Also need to consider Oleander's therapy more. Yadda yadda yadda. I have a bunch of doodles i still need to post, sooo,,, expect those later!
Im also considering making yet *another* mental world for Dr Loboto that explores his first-mate archetype again— specifically the scene from the boat in RoR where maybe he finally lands it and then something happens from there? Dunno. Will contemplate.
I know a lot of people like to assume Dr Loboto meant Bobby Zilch when he mentioned he had a kid in PN2, but I always liked to imagine he meant Linda the Lungfish, since he helped create her into the monster she is. I mostly just think this because I can't imagine Dr Loboto having an ACTUAL kid, especially since the Psychonauts said they need parent permission in order to stay at the camp. I dont think they'd be able to get it from him without him blowing his cover— unless? 👀 Idk. It's possible!
I AGREE also why would he take his SON to there and then take his brain lmao, i think linda is because she has the same heterochromia while bobby's reversed? and loboto has no wife figments
If a fantasy world has an ancient tree of wisdom, that means it must also have young trees that are dumb as shit. Just giving terrible advice like, "the evil wizard is kinda hot"'
