If Tenna ever managed to land a good enough scratch on the player (whether in self defense or as a last ditch effort during his solo escape attempt), would they consider declawing him as punishment?
I can’t stop thinking about how it would affect Tenna’s sense of touch, one of the last senses that aren’t screwed up by his broken antenna.
Fun things to make Spamton do after making him experience the horror of feeling himself burn away and leaving him with the understanding that nothing is stopping the player from doing it more :)
Yes, this is definitely something I could see the player doing to him. I feel like it would be more of a show of power than anything else-- I think Tenna's magical attacks would pose more of a threat than his claws and fangs. But it would make a very effective point.
Oh. Oh no I just thought of something evil.
What if Tenna lashing out at Kris/the player was pretty common, but one day he gets Kris pretty harshly, and the player decides to lay on the guilt? Maybe this happens after Tenna loses his arm, so he's pretty subservient already, but he can't really help himself from lashing out in panic.
And the player decides to lay on the guilt.
"I can't feel it, you know. Only Kris can. They are the mechanism with which I interact with this world. I see what they see, but I do not feel what they feel. Your attacks only harm them."
Maybe this is the first time the player reveals they cannot feel the world, or maybe this is the first time the significance of that truly sinks in for Tenna.
He feels horrible. He keeps hurting the people he cares about, while those who actually seek to hurt him remain untouched (hurting his employees and the gang instead of the Knight, hurting Kris instead of the Player...).
The player offers to "help" him. Make sure he can't hurt Kris again. Not like this.
"The biggest consequence of cat declawing is chronic pain. And this could last the cat’s entire lifetime and result in a change in gait."
https://www.rd.com/article/cat-declawing/
In the aftermath, Tenna struggles to get used to the pain that now comes with touching and holding things. It fades over time, as the wounds heal, but never goes away entirely.
I think it's the Mikes (particularly Battat) that first notice that, when Tenna screams at them in panic and anger, baring his teeth... he has no claws. He's supposed to have claws. Tenna. Has. Claws.
(Shout out to invasive procedure by lycankeyy on ao3 in which Spamton's benefactor declaws him to make him more presentable)
