wanna quickly state. i do not know anything about DBH. respect to you and blorbo!! he seems interesting!!
i was gonna be normal about this but!! you put this tag!! and now i have to say something because holy shit there is SO much more to these guys and this moment than you think. they are my blorbos and now im gonna ramble because i need to talk abt them again. (also btw they're from newgrounds first and foremost but thats me being nitpicky :shrug:)
here's the thing about Spooky Month: every single character is affected by the world around them EXCEPT for these two young kids. these kids (skid and pump, both less than 10 years old btw) seem to attract danger. paranormal monsters, eldritch beings, the cult that looms over their town- all drawn to them, but never affecting them. Skid (skeleton) in particular seems to be straight up IMMUNE to the eldritch entity i mentioned - Pump isn't, but it seems to like him and help him. Every other character has been traumatized to hell and back because of the antics these kids get into. and the kids?
they have. NO idea they're causing problems whatsoever for 90% of the series. it's only in the episode the possession scene is from where someone (father gregor, the priest) finally confronts them and tells them that they hurt people! they thought it was all fun and games, but when they find out what they were doing, they have an entire episode of going to apologize to everyone.
meanwhile, moloch (the demon) is lurking in the B plot, straight up KILLING people - way more murder than we've had in previous episodes, even the directly previous one about a literal serial killer (who's victims from that episode all survived). this isn't his first appearance, though!
this scene with moloch (the demon possessing these kids) has been set up and foreshadowed since episode 1, before the show was even planned beyond being a shitpost. the demon possessing them was summoned in that episode and has remained present, looming over everyone, for the ENTIRE SERIES. a threat, sure, but a mostly contained one until episode 3 when he escapes- but his host dies. he's gone, right?
he comes back here, in episode 6, and by god he goes from "kinda a joke villain tbh" to "GENUINELY THREATENING". and he has a MASSIVE grudge against the kids (WHO THINK HE'S THEIR FRIEND, BY THE WAY) because THEY were the ones who trapped him for something like 2-3 years based on the continuity! they had no idea! and all of it builds up to this final confrontation between gregor and moloch... with the kids still there, not taking it seriously.
moloch possesses many of the side characters briefly as he chases gregor and the kids across town - kevin, roy, patty, all beloved side characters VISIBLY AFFECTED by this. the kids? fuckin clueless. gregor keeps throwing moloch out of people's bodies only for him to continue pursuit of the kids. and when he finally catches up to him?
they still think its a game.
they willingly let him possess them.
this? this is the first moment at ANY POINT in the series where the kids are actually hurt and heavily affected by one of these entities. the literal ONLY time they have EVER lost plot armor! the only paranormal thing that ever comes even close to genuinely harming them!!!! this is the episode, the moment we learn that no, the plot armor is not permanent, people can and will DIE, and the kids? they're gonna have to learn that this isn't a game. they're possessed for less than a minute, but it's such a major point of importance to the series that the runtime doesn't matter.
moloch ends up expelled from their bodies and exorcised by gregor, effectively killing him. the kids? devastated, crying for the first time in the entire fucking series, because their "friend" is gone - and it's their fault. the entire EPISODE is about them taking accountability, but it's only after this that we see them break down. they are affected. they are changed. pump opens up to his sister. skid apologizes to his single mom because he thinks he's a burden. this scene? this death of a monster? it's the single thing that we've ever seen break the armor. get through to them.
staying possessed is the ultimate bad end for them. not just because they're controlled, not because it would mean gregor would die and the town be destroyed. because they would never learn. they would never change. they would never understand.
this scene quite literally changed the dynamic of the show forever. we know the next episode is going to focus on the kids and some of the other teenage side characters. one of whom is pump's sister. these kids are going to keep learning the consequences - because now they can see them.
im not normal about this show. vote spooky moloch kids. 👍