What do you think of the Think Tank?
Full honesty? With no hostility towards you, Anon (because this is just one of those topics that gets me hot under the collar instantly): I think they're a group of antisocial, unfuckable, egotist losers who are all an unimaginable level of war criminal to boot. Nightmare blunt rotation, nightmare polycule, nightmare DND group. Nightmare everything. I would dread each and every second of interaction with any one of them like I would dread passing a kidney stone. Each of them, in their own unique way, is a textbook example of letting one's intellect or ambition trump their humanity.
Come the end of Old World Blues, I typically let Mobius live, as he's not much risk to anyone anymore, and he's already being punished quite a bit by living in squalor with a decaying body. He also appears to feel some modicum of guilt over the history of Big MT, a quality you don't see in the rest of the Think Tank. Sometimes I give him the Old Yeller, because he's just as culpable as the rest of them at the end of the day, but it doesn't feel good, because he's so feeble, and all he remembers is what he doesn't remember. He made some effort to fix things, to stop his friends from inflicting themselves on the world, but that can't take back the things he's already done.
When it comes to the others, however, I often can't resist the urge to straight-up clean house. They're a danger to the entire world as long as they continue to live. You cannot instill the kind of morality these people lack, and they often don't even have to try to hurt people. Their innate curiosity quite literally kills.
They need to pay for their crimes, if you ask me. The entirety of Big MT is strewn with the corpses and disembodied brains of those caught up in their whims, their personal insecurities.
In terms of the sort of takes people usually come to this blog for, Dr. 0 and Dr. 8 have mild potential, as I do like wormy patheticalness and isolating perversion in their own ways. I guess Dala could have a certain appeal to the "stab me and play in my guts", "gouge out my eye and literally skullfuck me" crowd. The whole gorecore thing isn't really my jam, though, so I'll leave that to the experts.
TL;DR: fuck 'em, but not literally.
