you know i was thinking briefly about uu!ash and those spare pixels on his torso that people don't really know what they are. are they a rose? are they military decorations? and running with the military decorations thing, it made me think about this tweet again...(see some awesome q!ash art by yuzuleaftea!)
...about the legitimacy of these decorations, specifically. because it feels in character for uu!ash to decorate himself with medals and accolades and awards like that one meme of obama giving a medal to himself
and it made me wonder, does q!ash play pretend with himself? does he do the same- as in, give himself fake or unearned decorations and medals and so on- not to boost his ego, but just to give himself a life, or a backstory outside of being a federation experiment? because after he escapes he is a boy turned into a thing out on his lonesome. he is quite literally a glitch in every system. he is nothing. so why not invent a character for himself? why not say he was abroad fighting for some grander cause, why not say he was anything but a glitch to distract himself(as well as everyone else) from that ugly reality
after all, he was meant to be beautiful. he can at least try to be now
it's kinda like that one scene in the great gatsby when he's driving nick around and telling his obviously fake backstory about how he was an oxford man and he was soso courageous during the war. he even got medals from all these different places. like montenegro. who gets a medal from montenegro except only the most legit of people