9 years already holy MOLY!!
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@lumalaise
9 years already holy MOLY!!
For the character study prompt thingy... Could you do either 🤫 or 👪? Your pick! (👀👀👀👀 Oooh, the amount of Pain™ stored in one muse.... )
Naught But Mist
Fragmented self 👁
Mono and echoes of his deteriorating mind
Or just his alternative descent routes inside the Tower, who knows teehee ;з;👉👈
I am cringe but i am free 😔✊️
We have to recognize the passion with which Eggman makes his monlogues.
He might loose the point halfway through—it's part of the charm!
exciting tumblr experience
*Water balloon hits him in the back of the head.*
Belled tips flop over their eyes with but a wet splat- at which he hastily reaches up a servo to toss them out of his sight.
Hey, it's been a while since Ruin came out, but I'm still rather confused by Eclipse's existence. Is he a separate ai personality from Sun and Moon, or is he a merged 'default' version they split off from? Like... Is the daycare attendant a legitimate case of DID where separate personalities form due to stress or something? You probably have a theory of your own, so I'm curious!
Ahh, Eclipse. I have bad news: I am in the same boat as you! 😖
At first, I presumed Eclipse was the safety mode persona, but since he's active before registering the daycare as unsafe for Cassie, thattt doesn't really work.
And I know Fazbear Entertainment's whole thing is employee/customer neglect, but if they always had access to the Eclipse persona I feel that they would have permanently locked the DCA in safety mode, y'know?
What I tentatively decided on was influenced by two quotes from Sun:
"We need to be whole!" when he is begging Cassie to reboot Moon and "Not me! The other me!" when you put on the mask and try to use the Faz-Wrench.
Sun referring to Moon as "other me" instead of saying him made me tentatively conclude that there's just the one AI. Moon is some type of fragmentation that decoupled.
This upcoming analogy is probably... Very coded in mental illness. If it doesn't make sense I am so sorry: the best way I can describe it is like moments where the conscious you "detaches" from the bodily you—so you're stuck as an internal voice yelling at yourself to stop doing ABC or start XYZ or avoid 123; you do it anyways. Even though every action and inaction is still You, the supposed disobedience of your body makes you feel like a passenger trapped inside of a familiar stranger. Now, replace the conscious you with Moon most of the time and Sun rarely, and then you have the Daycare Attendant. ToT)
Gosh, this is a lot of words to circle back to what you said: Eclipse as the default/original whole.
That being said... I haven't read the books or touched the spinoff games (are the VR games considered spinoff or mainline?) so for all I know they're confirmed to be two separate AIs and Eclipse is a secret third thing.
(The secret third thing in question is trucing because being conscious and unable to control your body while aware someone else is using it and can ignore you fucking sucks idk)
My take is very similar to yours. I think that, while Eclipse is the default personality, Sun and Moon were intended to be specialised 'personality modes' from the same AI, much like a controlled 'safe mode' that activates depending on time of day. I also think that a combination of overworking, negligence and stress, as well as being corrupted by a virus, made these modes become more fractured and dysfunctional, eventually overtaking the Eclipse mode.
At first they'd be less like separate people and more like that mental switch someone does when working on specific jobs and interacting with specific people. These modes are accompanied by their physical appearance changing to match their mood. Eclipse could be the general overseer, watching the kids and making sure they're safe and together where they're supposed to be. His Sun mode is made for more active interaction and play, entertaining them, while Moon gets them to rest on time.
Maybe there's some flaws in his AI that made his switches more extreme over time, due to a lack of down time overloading his processor and having the unintended side effect of splitting. Developers often "stress test" functions in their applications, overusing them intentionally to see if they can find other bugs. The Daycare Attendant is basically always being overused, and for an extended period of time, so it makes sense that he's as unstable as he is.
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A full scan of the OFF prologue comic, OF by Mortis Ghost.
Aww, I don't want you to go back to being inanimate 🥺 will you be okay? Wait! You can take the chance to tell 06 about some stuff you'd like before you go back! Like... Wether you'd like a heat lamp, a little bed, or some slop!
(!!!) (19/20) - It's Alive!
"It's... ookay. We... I, m-mean--" A clawed servo braces the doll's back, touch cold as Hell's deepest abyss... only so tender.
type freak shit i wanna be on.
@lumalaise so! about that
I really like your posts on REANIMAL and wanted to add something about the whole cult aspect of the story. (slight content warning for female oppression).
I think it's significant to point out that many, many cults and sects (both current day and ancient, both obscure and massive) were designed around men being able to wield power over women and their reproductive capacities. They create a whole belief system around justifying this abuse and thus draw in their male followers with promises of power over women.
Very often were women and girls taken as brides by the cult leader and then used as servants to have sex with and birth their "legacy" (just think of any significant prophet. Chances are he'll have had a group of wives, some of whom barely old enough to bear children themselves). I feel like REANIMAL's Girl sacrifice and the manifestation of the Lamb is a reflection of the collective rage and despair felt by so many female victims of cults.
i hear you, but i feel like that’s too specific of symbolism with very little evidence to support it. when you look at everything in the game, there’s like two things that could MAYBE show the existence of a cult- the idols and the rabbit statues. but that isn’t enough imo.
there is one hundred percent symbols of female oppression in this game. but oppression in a cult setting? very little, if any at all.
i still don’t believe that there is a cult—at least an active one that the kids were engaged with. i think they might have found the remnants of this ritual and followed it, but i don’t think they were involved at all.
Reanimal’s storytelling is subtle, but if there was a cult as a main antagonistic force, i doubt Tarsier would make it so hidden in the subtext.
sorry, i just REALLY don’t like the cult theory 😅
i enjoy hearing your thoughts, though!
Thanks for the response, but I wasn't really trying to theorise. 😅
I wasn't trying to say there was an actual cult in the story that the kids were involved in per say, merely that the existence of a ritual involving a rabbit/human sacrifice was meant to invoke cultlike and religious imagery, since those are often forces that drive oppression against women and girls, which is relevant towards the game's themes.
Rituals in pop culture are very heavily associated with cults, so that's something a lot of people's minds will go to. Stories invoking certain imagery can be used to make a broader point without necessarily trying to imply anything about the actual world building (especially in a game like this).
In this instance, the Lamb being so demonic and twisted isn't necessarily the game trying to say it is a literal demon, but rather showing how victims, like the girl, are perceived. Corrupted by what was done to them, their rage is something ugly, violent and disturbing. Their despair and desire for retribution is, quite literally, demonised. The Lamb (representing the girl's pain and fury) is thus never understood as the terrified and wounded creature that it is.
Sorry if my ask wasn't very clear. I guess I got too caught up in describing the worst aspects of cults themselves.
Obsessed with how the CG5 songs for the Prototype and CatNap play off each other.
The first verse for "Sleep Well" opens with the premise of community:
Come along down with me
You're not alone, you will see
The children, they have each other
And each other is all they need
CatNap first shepherds the listener to follow his lead. He identifies them as one of The Children only to later reposition himself as a fellow child, switching from I's to we's.
In "Wrong Side Out," the opening verse is individual:
I made us a home
From what was once a prison
So if you share my vision
Thank me, dear, for paradise
Like CatNap, the Prototype's introduction starts from a position of authority. However, the Prototype does not identify himself as a member of society the way CatNap does. He introduces himself as the founder of paradise, as God, and remains elevated above the listener and his fellow toys for the entire duration of the song. This individualism is oppressive as the entirety of "Wrong Side Out" is dominated by the Prototype's voice.
Compare this with "Sleep Well," where the mini Critters readily and openly voice their desires for freedom. CatNap harmonizes with them and makes space for their grievances. He acknowledges their yearning in lines that read as gentle pacification:
We want freedom, freedom
Freedom, freedom, freedom (we all fall down)
We'll sleep well now, dream dreams knocked out
New blooms when playtime sprouts
AND
Though life in the shadows isn't much
It's better than living in a cage
When other toys sing in "Wrong Side Out" it is in clear distress. There is no playful back-and-forth or safe atmosphere. It is tense, desperate, and immediately cut off by the Prototype:
Tell me who I am, don't put me in the box
I'll be good, I'll be good (but a child's what they made you)
The Prototype does not entertain the other voices. He is swift to penalize and minimize them as juvenile. Their requests are painfully silenced.
Compare this with CatNap, who does not treat the mini's wants and inability to make peace with their reality as punishable offenses. He relates to them and tries to assuage their unease using his individual power and through group support.
Note that when the minis call out ("Can you see us? / Can you hear us?")
CatNap responds with:
Artificial facade from a fraud of a God
All due to the path that we trod
We just wanted to heal, but now our nightmares are real
And now we'll never wake up, for we've torn apart
He identifies what ails the minis and the source of said ailment, but interestingly he frames it as a collective wrong. In this way, he also absolves the Prototype of culpability by positioning his deification and creation of Paradise as the direct consequence of the Hour of Joy. The Prototype, conceptually, is a deception created by the toys. The tone of the song is resigned as a result: CatNap and the minis (which we can safely presume to be his Somniferous Flock) are painfully aware of the falsity presented to them. They are not content with this so-called Paradise. However, CatNap perceives their shared nightmare as the result of collective sin. The Prototype, who is just as much of a jailer as he is their God, is a punishment they designed for themselves. The toys, therefore, must endure by finding solace in each other's company or through escapism.
This clarity is entirely absent in the Prototype's song. A point of great interest is that the Prototype, unlike CatNap, appears to hold genuine belief in his godhood:
This is the start of my immortal perfection
And I'm your God
This contrast is one I am particularly fascinated with, because it inverts our understanding of the dynamic between the Priest and the Judge. It is not CatNap that acts with an unshakeable belief in the Prototype, but instead the Prototype buying into his own hype. It presents an interesting relationship in which the Prototype's delusions are held by himself alone and his Paradise is only comprehensible when repackaged and disseminated by the children to the children. Thus, what was meant to be a statement of power by the Prototype instead support's CatNap's assertion that their "fraud of a God" is a social construct. The Prototype can only be as strong as the toys allow him to be.
Another difference between CatNap and the Prototype is how they relate to others in their song. CatNap is able to connect with other toys on an emotional level while the Prototype cannot. He does not offer solidarity, comfort, or awareness of why toys feel the way they do. Instead, he pathologizes their feelings and turns to procedures to eliminate the "ailments":
I can make you better
I can make you right
Maybe now you'll see reason
From the wrong side out
I'll stitch you together
And you'll get lost in the white
Maybe now you'll feel freedom
From the wrong side out
Note how reason is equated with sight—which we know is damaged or outright removed from the Outimals. Freedom, which was external in "Sleep Well," is internalized here as something gained through one's loss of self.
What the Prototype reveals within his song is ignorance. He believes himself to be better than a child, yet he readily buys into fantasy and treats it as reality. When friction threatens his Paradise, the Prototype silences his dissidents so as to preserve his dream. He is alienated through his refusal to connect with the others and failure to recognize that his godhood was not decided by his biology.
Thus, if "Sleep Well" is a lament meant to soothe the masses, then "Wrong Side Out" is the pomp that sparks regicide.
I always thought CatNap was a true believer, a zealot (which is why he decided to willingly offer himself up to the Prototype and die after his boss fight and why he was praying before the shrine he made)...
But this made me realise that we only really know anything about CatNap through the Prototype/Ollie's exposition. So, did we ever know what he was actually thinking? I like this angle that he was much more aware of what was really going on, playing into the Prototype's God complex while understanding it was a facade.
The Blood Inside of Ewe
It is enormous beyond comprehension, its body swelling and contracting in slow, rhythmic motions. Red fleece hangs from it in soaked, matted coils, dripping thick fluid that drops into the darkness below; faintly, Girl swears she hears a very distant splash. Its multiple limbs—some human, some hooved—bend at wrong angles, joints too numerous, too heavy. Its ribcage expands and compresses like bellows, each breath rattling through the chamber with a low, thunderous vibration. Its mouth hangs slightly open, strings of saliva stretching between rows of dull, grinding teeth. How had she missed it standing there?
Its head turns.
Eyes ignite in the darkness—burgeoning, glowing pits filled with something deeper than anger.
Recognition.
Its long tongue lolls outward, slick and dark, tasting the air before slowly slurping back into its mouth. The sound echoes wetly through the chamber. When it exhales, the breath that washes over her is hot and fetid, carrying decay and grief and something ancient.
“Little one,” says the Lamb.
Down in the guts, the Lamb and the Sheep Beast talk.
Was there ever any difference between them?
so tiny 🤏
If you want to, could you elaborate on some of your favourite titles for our scary spider fella? I'm particularly interested in the flower related ones, like carnation and spider lily. And Newmaker. That one sounds really cool
on god and zilla you have no idea how excited I am that someone asked btw
the spiderlily one is specifically so dear and interesting to me (not to mention ominously lore-relevant what with ch5 now hinting at a secondary factory IN japan) thanks to a bunch of cool stuff I've seen in regards to japanese folklore (or superstitions if you will) about those exact flowers- most notably belief that they bring misfortune, and may or may not be "capable" of "making the dead rise".
as for the carnation one- its somewhat simpler enough. (in)carnation, basically alternate term for a deity made in flesh, yet also a flower with potential links to birth and death alike. (re)incarnation- what it says on the tin. being reformed into a different body with the same soul after death. also apparently the flower can change its color based on whatever dye its fed so. environmental mimicry✓
oh and newmaker? cheap reference to petscop. playing on the idea how proto kinda essentially "grew" up into an evil toymaker akin to how Elliot lowk was. only 06's like. a descendant/inheritor of the whole craft so he's the New maker. and then look over at petscop's earlier themes of "rebirth" and being a "quitter"
Oooh, the Spiderlily symbolism is really cool, very similar to Poppy symbolism. I'm wondering if the Spiderlily is going to the flower of choice in the Japanese sister location, where they'd undoubtedly also be doing their fair share of dubious flower related experimentation. I'm now wondering if Elliot's obsession with Poppies is related to WW1 (and/or WW2) specifically and wether or not he's been personally affected by war.
Also, don't be afraid to elaborate some more on those other titles, if you like. Yapping about this stuff is fun
What if chapter 6 will have the Prototype try to manipulate you again by talking to you in Poppy's voice using Glowby as a phone... 🤔
how many pieces Of Mascot Horror Media That Are Essentially Just The Plot Of Security Breach: Ruin Again would that set us at though i wonder
Lmao. I wanted to add, though, that if we do end up teaming up with AI Sawyer (and if he's inside Glowby as a companion, much like how fanartists like to portray) it'd be a really good opportunity to have him immediately see through the Prototype's ruse. It'd be hilarious. We could have them talking smack to each other (please, MOB, please give it to us)
IMAGINE they do a multiple endings type deal and make us essentially pick our poison in terms of which of the two of them are we going to listen to (IF they even dare actually commit to and let the sixth be the final chapter)