Oct 22, 2024
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mr squarepants, in the flesh.
Still find it so very interesting how the concept of authority is tackled in the Half Life/Portal shared universe. The recurring idea of institutions so grossly all-encompassing and malign that not a single entity subsumed by them has any real agency, the top of the totem pole instead occupied by the monolithic structures they erect. Neither Caroline nor Breen have any real freedom left in the last years of their lives, even though both by all means were "at the top of the world" in the human sense of the concept. Both have been reduced to mere components of the machines they helped construct, at most granted the privilege of being levers instead of cogs. Both lose themselves in these uncaring ever-growing faceless "greater wholes" because they think it's the only way to avoid being crushed into nothing by their unstoppable expansion. And both still end up vanished in the mass because their monoliths account for nothing else.
How are you friends with that... thing? The one you call Dr Breen or some shit.
It's an anomaly! It should stay in a fucking cell! Not have a position of power! Who knows what it would do if left unchecked and unchained!
Thing? Fuck is wrong with ya to say somethin' like that? His name is Dr. Breen, and you aught to stop calling him it. Or else this is gonna get messy.
Ya think I give a shit that he's an "anomaly?" Ya know what? I AM TOO. I WAS IN THOSE CELLS. I used to suffer the same goddamn fate yer tryna give Elias. Yer complainin' to me of all people, when ya should be more concerned about an anomaly like me.
'Sides, we're not some kind'a animals. Sure, I act as if I hate anomalies soooo much, but ya should know I only hate what's dangerous. What harm has Elias done to ya, huh? What has he ever done aside from bein' a normal fuckin' guy?
He's never done anythin' wrong. He's never abused his power, never hurt an innocent soul. And yer actin' as if we're puttin' some insane reality bender in O5. Calm yer tits and get the fuck outta my face.
I think ya would benefit from talking to Cimmerian 'bout this. He'd have a good thousand things to say to ya.
"Ah, well, hello there, me lad! Grand ta be seein' ya here! How's the craic?"
@ask-dr-breen
Hey there, Breen... nice to see you too. And how's the-- what? I-I'm sorry, man, what do you mean?
"Serena. Answer me. Why did you threaten to harm the members of thr Void."
@ask-dr-breen
"...In my defence, I spent half my time around the Foundation in the CI. My first reaction is always to fight. It was a genuine threat, not just something I was saying. I wanted them to know that whoever's watching me shouldn't be afraid to die. I don't take kindly to surveillance, you know this."
"Simon, me darlin', I'm thinkin' I might be needin' a bit o' boyfriend time... or just go ahead an' book meself a session."
@ask-dr-breen , who looks quite stressed out.
Oh, of course. A patient just cancelled on me anyways, so I have a lot of free time.
Come down, please, dear. Talk to me. What's up? Anything happen?
"Welcome to City 17, and I'm not just saying that because I have to!"
(via https://comic.studio/s/27443)
Skit 4: I want my breakfast! (the parody of scene in Falling Down)