TLDR: MJR ghost feels like he’s being abandoned by his friends, and believes he’s the reason they’re getting sick and falling. Cue angry depression. Meets Alphys in a mostly canon way, human/anime forum online, but refuses to meet her irl without barriers (BOX). She later shows him the Amalgamates, which she views as failures, but he views them as successes. They’re alive, aren’t they? Surely this determination serum would’ve work if I hadn’t previously infected them. They build EX together and use him like a giant test tube, feeding him amalgam discard to see if they can produce antibodies (can’t because he isn’t actually sick). Canon Asgore plan, MJR pretends to be a working artificial soul and core protector. < Current end time stamp. When a Player comes through on a pacifist route, NEO erupts as a desperate attempt to make sure his new friend doesn’t leave him again. Genocide route is typical, Player needs to be stopped before they kill anyone else.
Is it even a tldr if it’s still kinda long… “Abridged version” is more fitting, perhaps.
Idk his ghost name yet, Major is his robot name (for now). I’m sure I could add more scarecrow/explicit skull kid imagery but mm. The abandonment of the giants + Majora imagery is what I have for now. Also adding to this blurb half way through, where tf did the transgender go. Grrr…
Hmmm I am thinking… Major is somehow friendly with the amalgamate victims before and as they become sick and disappear. But as they disappear, he gets an “I am the cause of their sickness” complex and isolates himself heavily. Loved being friendly, was nervous, but still. Ghosts can’t die so it’s not completely irrational to think that he’s some rare disease carrier that doesn’t affect him but is devastating to corporeal life. Hashtag A Host <3
Enters a very angry depression. Why did they leave me, why didn’t they tell me, what did I do wrong, why do I make everyone around me sick, etc. Becomes reactive at home so the other blooks also just. Leave him alone to wait it out. Abandonment again and againnn (but not really because he still has his folks checking in on him, but he just stops responding). Maybe runs away from home for some time, idk yet.
Meets Alphys in a similar way to canon. Major is so removed from meeting other monsters irl because of his “contamination” that he goes to online forums that are separated from monster kind. Human/anime fan club :]]. Craves a connection but refuses to meet her without some kind of barrier. This likely leads to mtt box form + their deal for Asgore’s plans (underground defending/child killing robot/proof of an “artificial soul” (but he really wanted to die at the time bc he was “killing all his friends already,” so he wouldn’t have minded sacrificing himself Real Style to break the barrier)). Is extremely sweet to Alphys, like she’s in hospice care. Yk the episode of spongebob where squidward has a lovely “last day” with him because they think sponge ate a pie-shaped bomb and is going to die? Yeah. It’s her timer ticking down because surely this metal casing isn’t enough to contain my poison. He knows he will kill her eventually (incorrect boy you are not sick, just very miserable).
Okay then obviously he has his little shows and fun on stage. Major thinly views himself as some sort of criminal, infecting poor innocent monsters n such, so the showman persona is a mask until it isn’t. This persona is the metaphorical illness of the Majora chest plate, infecting him and completely changing his personality. Taking advantage of his awful mental state to make him powerful (self sacrificial/vessel). The chest plate isn’t a separate entity in this case tho, just a physical + metaphorical weight on his chest from the guilt of his friends “dying.” This guilt becomes manic once he gets to meet the Almalgamates, his old friends.
Although Alphys’s thing is that she’s hiding her failures from their families, Major views these as successes. They are alive! Surely they would’ve been normal again after the determination injection if I didn’t infect them first! Dissect me, doctor, so we can find the roots of our failures. My life is in your hands, make of me what you will (new body wip!!!). Combine our test tubes to create and isolate antibodies, make them whole again, I lay my life in your hands.
THE TUBES. Would be Majors actual chest tubing. The horns of the mask chest plate are tubes. So he effectively consumes parts of his old friends, the discard that drips off of them. Yk how when you get a big ass vaccine and it makes you so tired and sick for a few days after as your body fights the live virus? Especially being corporeal now, he is full robot mode and runs off of a lot of electricity and not just his ghost puppeteering the body. This weight and sluggishness does not lessen his guilt, but he doesn’t realize that until it later hashtag panic attacks and that rolling boil depression creeping back in. This is the current state, where a Frisk-like player would meet him and get past him.
I think the both of them believe Major is sick until their amalgam experiments lead to nothing. Then the finality of “we need to tell the families” feels like another death/abandonment to Major because I’m another one of her regrets and guilts and she’ll bury me soon. Will she tell the families about my involvement? Do I want her to? The end of their secret little play date. Are the amalgams kept in the lab after their families are told??? If not, boom Major losing his friends again.
Guhh I need to design box + neo. I have ideas for neo, whip-like arms, amalgam acid starting to corode his body (canon very low defense, very high attack) since neo takes up way more electricity than box/ex. Maybe scary moon face (corrosion would lend to this).
Him getting his ass kicked by The Player as ex in a pacifist route and going “you’re going to leave me, too? My new friend.? …I won’t let you,” and becomes NEO out of desperation.
