been thinking more about iron lung/psychonauts again and a thought:
so, in psychonauts canon you have the collective unconscious, the metaphysical realm where everyone's minds are. and in people's minds you have representations (objects, characters, etc.) of concepts, different going-ons, in someone's mind. you alter the representation, you change the person's mind.
what happens if you extend that logic to the entire universe?
what if all the stars, the habitable planets, are gone-- because the concepts of them were killed?
and the blood moons-- so things normally go into the collective unconscious. namely, the psychonauts, in a sort of "out of body experience". and it's a realm of dreams, a realm of surrealism and symbolism. what would happen if something came out instead?