#inevitability

[msmile48]

Truffle starts as a coincidence. Apo’s chosen food source just happened to be carrots and she walked near enough to a pig for it to follow her around. This could have been the end of it. Apo threw the carrots in the pig’s direction, intending for it to leave. But Pyro stepped in. He took the carrots and said he was going to take the pig. At some point during the journey Apo, Pyro, Legs, and Abolish were on, the pig got a name. Truffle.

The group ran into Scott, which was where the ultimatum was set: Truffle had a name, so now Truffle had to stay alive. This was the nail in the coffin. Truffle had to stay alive, so of course he was always going to die. Especially because it was Scott saying this, who didn’t care if people had names so long as killing or turning them could benefit him in some way.

Truffle, a randomly generated pig who wouldn’t even be significant if Apo hadn’t chosen carrots as food and if Pyro hadn’t decided to keep it, was now plot significant. It gave Apo and Pyro a shared purpose, a connection which strung them together even when them being roommates quite literally went up in flames. This pig was theirs to keep alive.

There’s what Truffle represented. She was Apo and Pyro’s shared humanity, something they got when they were both still human and fought hunger off for when they were vampires. She’s their innocence, their capability to care, their life. The last remaining tie.

And because none of those things mattered when Scott turned them—whatever innocence, care, life, humanity, names they had—it didn’t matter enough for Truffle to stay alive. Truffle was them. If Apo and Pyro had to die for nothing, had to be turned into something they never wanted to be for nothing, then Truffle had to die for nothing too. Truffle had to have the choice made for him, for someone to stand there and say he wanted it, just like Apo did. Truffle had to be killed violently with no one there to hear his protests, just like Pyro did. That was the way it had to be. There was no escape. Inevitable.

The death of Truffle, the death of Pyro and Apo’s humanity, inevitable.

[dmcfadzean]

[fortuneaday]

[mouthtapedguy]

The patience of God and the malice of fate

[toavoidtherush]

this is an old story, one anyone can tell.

1, matthew stover - revenge of the sith. 2, david lynch - twin peaks. 3, tory adkisson - anecdote of the pig. 4, aeschylus - agamemnon. 5, homer trans. emily wilson - the illiad. 6, david leviathan - revisiting mockingjay ahead of the hunger games prequal. 7, richard siken - planet of love. 8, taylor swift - exile. 9, mike flannigan - the haunting of hill house. 10, iain reid - i'm thinking of ending things. 11, hadestown - road to hell (reprise). 12, anne carson - h of h playbook. 13, ts eliot - four quartets. 14, craig howell and chris nielsen - the last magician. 15, ethel cain - ptolemaea. 16, aeschylus - the oresteia. 17, joan tierney - how to draw a circle. 18, yellowjackets - flight of the bumblebee. 19, eula biss - the pain scale. 20, jean anouilh - antigone. 21, richard siken - the worm king's lullaby. 22, a series of unfortunate events - that's not how the story goes. 23, john darnielle - wolf in white van. 24, leigh janiak - fear street 1978. 25, joel anderson - lake mungo. 26, markus zusak - the book thief. 27, marah in the mainsal - leviathan. 28, dave filoni - twilight of the apprentice concept art. 29, terry pratchett - reaper man. 30, matthew stover - revenge of the sith.

[sonic7ischaos]

Thinking about Gamoverse again.

So if Snappers had won, if he'd KILLED Flappers, would flappers get a game over and have to restart? Would he respawn just outside the boss level, start over from the first level in the boss world, or depending on how old the game is, start from the first level?

Because if he starts out from the boss room, or even from the boss WORLD, Kit & Kaboodle can never leave. If they want to save Flappers' world, they have to keep making sure he loses until he gives up and then stay there to make sure he never tries again.

But even if he starts over from the VERY beginning, they still have to keep coming back, because if Flappers can get to the end once, he can do it again, and considering the genre, assuming it's not like a torture platformer like Ghosts n Goblins, they have to do it frequently, because platformers like Flappers are typically designed to be VERY beatable.

Which brings me to my actual observation about Gameoverse and its apparent theme: It's about the inevitability of death. Kit & Kaboodle, and Gobbles & Flappers now, are stuck delaying the inevitable encroaching end, something they can only EVER delay and not truly prevent. They're doctors, thematically speaking. They can slow the end down, but so long as the rules of the world are in place, that's the absolute limit of their abilities, they can't stop the end entirely. Given everyone's narrative connection to grief it makes sense, in order to conquer their loss, they need to help others prevent or overcome their own.

If the hero is already on their way to beat the villain, that world is doomed.

...Assuming life & death even works that way in Gameoverse. If Snappers killing Flappers just KILLS Flappers, it's a whole different thing

...GOD this show is so good.

[ohblonn]

This is not on you because I felt this way since that valentines post but I feel anxious for both of them and really want them to be able to weather this storm. But it’s making me nervous for them, this idea that they might pull apart, if that makes sense?

Makes sense but...

My advice for you not to get anxious because you cannot do anything about it and they have to learn from this. If it's a storm, is one that they must pass and get through against the currents of whatever this may bring.