how did star shield jesse feel when they saw the fred hologram in terminal space or whatever that acid trip was called
in a word, Bad
in more than a word,
so my project changes or tosses a lot of story elements and the gauntlet is one of them bc like
the admins were not created equal in this verse and as far as fred/xara knew at the time the only one that could take/give administrative privileges would be the op(erator), which is romeo, and there also wasn’t (as far as they knew) any way to deop him/op someone else
given what the admins broke up over n how/when it happened here, fred wouldnt have had time in between learning that romeo might actually need to have his silence bought, Permanently and like. dying, to come up with anything
thooough even if they Had known, given their two biggest flaws- their hesitation to act and their determination to see and bring out the good in people- well…,, things couldnt have ended any other way than in their death (or that’s what romeo tells himself for a long time, anyway)
fred never stopped loving and believing in romeo. never. this has nothing to do with whether the gauntlet was made or not i just felt it important to share hhHGLKSHD (also if ur wondering why that last point sounds familiar its bc i ripped some of star shield’s ‘character points’ straight from my list for fred s o.)
HOWEVER to answer your, actual question,
there Is still a ‘hologram’ of fred in terminal space and while all jesses are like “Yikes…” star shield in particular suffers from a very big Oof bc not only is this “hologram” absolutely nothing like fred, but he does NOT want romeo to get better and does NOT want him to lose his powers and it’s not even like seeing a ghost, it’s like seeing a zombie, bc at least ghosts generally act vaguely like how the person did while alive but zombies are just totally fucked up, who the hell is this. oh god that’s someone i once was? ok! that’s cool! that’s sexy! this is Fine
he’s actually the very last boss battle in ng+- jesse fights him alongside romeo (bc u dont have to do things alone and esp not wrestling the personification of all your fuckups and emotional issues for control of the universe) (i kind of envisioned it like the pacifist final boss fight from undertale but tbh i havent rly thot abt this whole thing in a while BUT ANYWAY that is probably another post basically star shield is just feeling not very good about this whole business. it’s tough being a kinnie)
anyway to thank u for sitting thru all that. here are some of my first thots on that whole business
imagining the other admins having jiggle physicsfred solmenly telling ‘xara’ (jesse) how to use the gauntletbut every time they take a step they jiggle and likefred has to repeat the instructions likethree timesbc everyone is so entranced by the jiggle