i just want to give everyone a horrific reminder. spoiler cut for those who don't have the tag filtered and haven't seen session 4 yet o/
guys. guns are powerful. I'm sure all of you already know this, but like. I feel like we're forgetting it
so, the specific type of gun that Schpood/Jonathan uses is the Springfield 1873 trapdoor rifle. cool !!! but this means it is also, you know, the, uh. the type of gun that is sort of.,, notorious for being a long-ranged gun. a gun that you are supposed to shoot. at distant targets. it is a rifle
what I'm trying to say is that shooting somebody close range with a even normal gun, like a pistol, is going to be messy. like. even if you're not shooting them in the head. so imagine shooting someone's head, that is less than 5 inches away from you, with a RIFLE ???
anyway. what I'm trying to say is that 4c probably wasn't just sitting on the beach. I think, after Spidey pulled the trigger, he was kind of probably. all over it, too. and also probably all over her. and also the gun. and probably her face. not even in a slime splattering way because I'm talking about humanized/humanoid
what I'm trying to say is that 4c's death was certainly merciful. but it would NOT have been clean 😭
making this its own post because I haven't seen anybody else talk about this and. maybe I'm just stating the obvious but I feel like it needs more recognition
beware of session 3 spoilers below !!!!
so. I've been watching session 3 n realized this, but this is also a behavior I noticed in session 2 as well. all talking about the characters by the way, not the content creators
at certain points when talking to people, or when talking to himself, 4C continues to mention the fact that he's hungry. that he's running out of food soon, or that he needs to get more food
he even goes so far as to ask others for food, saying that he's starving— when we can literally see this isn't the case. he has like 14 bowls of ice cream on him, he has a decent amount of carrots, a pork chop, etc., so why is he doing this ?? is it just the Concussed Confusion ?
well. I think NOT
I think that 4C is hungry. however full his saturation bar is, however much food he has on him, I think he's still hungry. I don't think he's lying about that or exaggerating it
I just don't think he's hungry for what he has on him. he's also mentioned being thirsty or parched (and I imagine the infection is similar to rabies in a sense), but talking specifically about hunger, I don't think he's hungry for carrots or pork chops;
I think he's hungry for brains. or whatever it is that the infected eat. and I think he just doesn't know it
VAGUE SPOILERS FOR SESSION 4 OF DECAYED AND DECREPIT !!!! THE ANIMATION MEME IS HERE AT LAST 💥💥💥
THE FORMATTING IS WEIRD ON TUMBLR,,, SORRY,,,, YOU CAN FIND IT ON YOUTUBE TOO WHERE THE FORMATTING IS JUST AS WEIRD AND WHERE THE QUALITY WAS EQUALLY AS BUTCHERED LOL
small spoilers ahead but I've been having DaD session 3 thoughts .........
tbh, I don't think that the zombie (ish COUGH COUGH COUGH) that said 4c's name was because it recognized him. if I'm being entirely honest
unless someone's come out with some behind the scenes info/trivia and I'm being entirely incorrect, I don't think that who the zombie used to be knew 4c well enough, nor cared enough about him specifically, to carry the memory of him into the infection
peerrrrsonalllyyyy........ I think that the zombie knew he was infected somehow. whether it's like a hivemind thing (not all controlled by one organism but like. where they're all connected to each other, in a sense) or if zombie could smell it on him, or if they somehow just knew, I dunno for sure
but they didn't attack him, they called him a friend, they told him to come towards them, they completely disregarded him in favor of chasing after Jonathan(schpood) and Spidey; who were, as far as I know, both uninfected at the time. they treated him, almost, as one of their own. a zombie
those zombies could tell he was infected. I'm almost CERTAIN !!!! I'M NOT CRAZY I SWEARRRR 💔💔
4c's DaD page on miraheze is finally updated !!!!!
I've been periodically checking to see, and at long last we finally have the summary for session 4 ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹 I don't know who wrote it but ur actually so beautiful, person I'll never meet
they also have his final words in the quotes section, though last time I checked it said session 3 rather than session 4 lolll
anywho. HURRAAHHHH !!! on a related note, are we ready for session 5 tomorrow ? 🤨
simulation swarm is actually so sunset trio's song. like without a doubt
spoilers for. basically all of sunset trio, but leaning mostly towards 4c because I am slightly ashamed to admit that I am biased, below. I'm analyzing lyrics lolll
"I tried to tell you, / I didn't know how to stay. / You believe she can see through. / Cutting at the silent clay."
This lyric would be from Jonathan's perspective. he doesn't know how to stay, how to form meaningful connections (or so he thinks), and doesn't know how to be honest with his emotions. he runs— both from physical danger and from emotional vulnerability
the mentioned 'you' would be 4c. he firmly believes that Spidey would never lie/he fully trusts her. so when she says that Jonathan has a big heart, and that he cares for them, 4c fully believes her. and she's right. she can see through him, even if it's just the most miniscule amount
"Eat the gun as it feeds you, / Spitting up the oxygen."
This would be more of a reference to 4c's death and the circumstances of it. we all know how he died, of course, and one of the main symptoms of infection is coughing, ie; 'spitting up oxygen'. a loose tie, but one I found nonetheless x,D
"Once again, empty horses,"
Honestly just a reference to the fact that both Spidey and 4c had horses somewhere outside of Paradise City
"Crystal blood like a dream true, / A ripple in the wound and wake."
This is me being very poetic and metaphorical and whatnot, but the infection is the 'ripple' within 4c's bite wound. his blood is 'clear', grounded in reality, because what he's experiencing, what's happening to him, isn't a dream. it is the waking world.
at one point, while he's alone, 4c goes on a small monologue about how everything feels foggy, he can't tell reality from dreams, and he feels like this is all one bad nightmare. not even the infection could 'wake' him from this, or perhaps it was making it worse, but it certainly did wake the others into a sort of horrible reality. a reality about what they had to do
while he was having this monologue, actually, Spidey and Jonathan were talking about who would shoot him. awful, right ? :,D
"From the 31st floor of the simulation swarm,"
31st floor, 4c fell from a very tall building and got a concussion, you get the picture. this meaning, though, could also parallel the fact that 4c had to climb some pretty tall scaffolding to find Spidey after they were separated
"I'd fly to you tomorrow, I'm not fighting in this war."
4c was training to be a pilot !! the mention of war also connects back to the fact that the army did seem try and fight off the infection in one way or another
"I remember building an energy shield / In your room, like a temple. / Swallows in the windless field. / Very thin, with your mother, / Tall as a pale green tree; / Very wild, bright as winter, / Rising with a prism key. / And a child to deliver, / Taken with the blood and vine: / As the first little angel."
I couldn't choose a specific lyric from this part of the song because they all connect to Jonathan so well. the child to deliver; Jonathan, when he was young, was taken with the blood and vine. the blood being the infection, the vine being the overgrown city/the city becoming overgrown as it is abandoned
I'm not sure if he's ever mentioned anything about his mother specifically, because I've only ever watched session 4 of his POV thus far, but there's many mentions of angels and temples and such. I feel like this could all tie into his religious trauma in some way, if you were to look at it in the right light, but I don't know enough about religion/the religion he used to worship to be sure 💔
"Little Andy, soft in your newborn skin. / Only one, little Andy, will you return again? / I believe we can renew, / And you could be my brother. / Once again, fall asleep with our backs against each other. / You believe, I believe too, / That you are the river of light who I love, / That I sing to, in the belly of the empty night."
Another full section of the song because, again, all of the lyrics were just TOO GOOD !!! this part, specifically, feels like Spidey talking either to or about 4c.
'newborn skin' could reference the fact that every time a new session starts, a more considerable piece of his memory seems to be wiped as opposed to just overtime within a session. Spidey so badly wants to believe that it all might be a sick joke that he might come back fine— we see, in the session, that she goes out of her way to ask him if he's joking or playing a prank on her
this is why she believes that they can 'renew'. become new again, that he could become her brother. the reception of the dynamic between the sunset trio has always been dependent on just,, how you feel about it, I guess— but the way I see it is this:
Jonathan acts like a father figure both to Spidey and 4c, despite the fact that he acts like he doesn't care for them. as for between Spidey and 4c, I don't necessarily view them as siblings dynamic-wise; but considering they're both considerably young compared to Jonathan, and very close, I could definitely understand how that (them being 'siblings' under Jonathan) would carry over as a meaning
"I wanna drop my arms and take your arms, / And walk you to the shore."
..do I even have to say anything?
Spidey talking about 4c. his final moments. watching the sunset on the beach. raising an 'arm', a firearm. walking him, gently, to the shore. do I even have to say anything
