I've been wondering for a long time why people say that the pipis of spam and tenna will hatch something; I thought they could only hatch many mini spamtons.
To be fair, we don’t know at this point if that pipis is capable of hatching or not, but it does seem to be somewhat different from other pipis. (It’s also possible that there are different types of pipis — battle pipis, edible pipis & egg pipis, or that the ones Spamton uses in battle with his mini-Spamtons are just unfertilized ones.)
First of all, Tenna’s pipis literally chirps, and it even is conscious enough to chirp more often when it’s in Spamton’s old room. And the sound it makes when it chirps? It’s glitchy notes from Spamton & Tenna’s shared leitmotif, “HEY EVERY !” If this pipis was just made by Spamton, it would more likely use notes from his own “Spamton” leitmotif, not their shared one.
We know Tenna is aware it’s a living creature:
And both Spamton & Tenna refer to having a kid; Tenna dramatically tells Mike to “tear down my set, tear down my kids!” in ch3, and Spamton says something pretty similar in his Valentine to Tenna where he asks why Tenna is throwing away everything they made together (which Tenna is very much not doing; instead he’s desperately clinging on to it all, but Spamton doesn’t know that at this point).
Tenna even has the Mikes sing the pipis lullabies!
I’ve talked before about how the pipis is a near perfect representation of Tenna and Spamton’s relationship & their love — Tenna is ashamed of anyone finding out about it, so he hides it in a literal closet; it’s been in a kind of stasis for ten years ever since Spamton left, but it’s still alive in there; Tenna has stubbornly held on to it and nurtured it in private, because it will always be one of the most important things in the world to him no matter what; Spamton literally expected Tenna would have gotten rid of it by now, but is overjoyed to find out he kept it instead; in the version of the game where Spamton is either killed or left behind in chapter 2 (so he’s not there to talk to Tenna), Tenna will be ridiculed for keeping the pipis, and will leave it behind when he runs away out of shame, where we can then kill it as we killed any chance of Tenna & Spamton’s love surviving. This metaphor is a big part of why I think the pipis could possibly hatch when they reconcile and find love again.
A lot of people also overlook this post from the Spamton Sweepstakes’s importance to the discussion:
This implies that the pipis will probably either stay the way it is now, as a glitchy little egg, or hatch into some kind of “freak of nature.” The pipis’ Light World form could even be an actual mod to the Cat Petterz game, like the one Spamton was able to send to Noelle over email (shown below). Either way, it is alive and sentient as a creature in some way, and may very well actually be Spamton & Tenna’s child. (I also believe the above post has implications about the Benefactor’s reasons for separating Spamton & Tenna — because they were technically “incompatible” Darkners, and they were both trying to break the “rules” of the world/the game that say “you can’t choose who you are,” because of their love for each other.)
(My own personal theory for how the pipis came to be — in the Dark World, at least — is that it probably wasn’t much different from any other at the start, but when Spamton gave it to Tenna, Tenna’s strong love for it combined with his reality warping abilities, & made it into a real living being that now contains both Spamton’s and Tenna’s magic. If it is capable of hatching, I think it likely needs both Tenna and Spamton’s love & magic to do so, and that’s why it’s been in stasis since Spamton left.)
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