#!!!exigency

[solidwater05]

Do you have any Exigency theories?

Nope. I kinda gave up theorizing about Saint's characters. And I'm pretty sure that 'believing something that is heavily implied' (in this case that Gabriel was the Exigency's abusive dad) doesn't count as a theory

If this turns out to not be true somehow I'll jump out of the window. /silly

[solidwater05]

Epprbcu characters who you'd like to put in therapy go

I was gonna answer seriously but then Digi started wanting to date the Exigency so um. there is something wrong with them

[solidwater05]

I think it'd be fun if you did an in character interaction with the exigency. Maybe as nuclear ghost you. Or maybe you could get radiation poisoning and become a nuclear ghost as a result of it. Idk.

I'm afraid I have too much stage fright for that :(

(As for the second option, I don't know how to write pain, much less agony. )

[solidwater05]

Favorite part about the exigency? Also do you think it has a name outside of Exigency?

The radiation poisoning of course

And idk, it probably had a name before becoming/getting trapped inside the robot but we got exactly one hint about their life before that and it was 'they threw up blood'

[solidwater05]

Wanting to fuck a nuclear reactor be damned saint can write fun nuclear robots

Those are not mutually exclusive but yeah!!!!!!!!

I'm pretty sure that she follows me also (too lazy to check) so. I can imagine him maniacally cackling every time I react to anything. Saint you have been preparing this huh

[solidwater05]

new exigency lore dropped btw

!!!!

Welcome back Saint but you cannot keep coming back with lore drops I'm going to explode

[solidwater05]

I think they're all different kinds of sad. The Exigency is purely miserable. There's no comic value to it. It's saddening and disheartening and that's what it's supposed to be. I don't think there's been anything remotely resembling a joke on that blog, which is fine! Like I said, that's what it's supposed to be and it's doing a very good job at it.

John and Unskilled are more on the line of sad/funny, or to use the official word, tragicomedy. I'd argue Unskilled plays into tragicomedy more whereas John is so sad it's entirely hilarious, so for the sake of this little thing I'll use Unskilled as the example.

Half of what Unskilled says and does is a joke. And a lot of said jokes are very self deprecating and self referential. It's impossible to ignore. Then of course there's the copious amounts of dark humor, or to use Mewo's term, gallows humor, which is arguably more fitting in an ironic fashion, as the term originated from the kind of humor made by death row prisoners right before execution. The kind of humor on the blog really hammers home the fact that even when being lighthearted, the misery is always palpable. It's sad and disheartening, but in a way that makes you think This really shouldn't be as funny as it is. I'd argue it's made to be relatable. Most people don't express sadness like the Exigency, but in the form of coping jokes tinged with tears.

Comparing the two is like trying to compare Bojack Horseman to Hamlet (sorry, they're the only two that came to mind), They're both incredibly sad and depressing. One's just funnier about it than the other.

I don't have anything to add here. Good analysis