making a separate post for these replies fdghjk
cause they were originally on what was supposed to be a joke post but i got excited and wanted to yap and share my more serious thoughts on some headcanons i've had for the void!!!
you know, without derailing the other post.
not that anyone else is!!! but i feel like with the way i can't ever shut up, i'd probably take the whole conversation for a loooong drive.
Because yes, I DO think Mr. Plant is just accustomed to burying his crimes and that the Void has normalized certain things to the point that most residents are desensitized to it.
Or that certain things are so ingrained into the culture that if you tried to question them, you'd just get strange looks from others.
Manipulation as part of a healthy relationship in the Void!!1
I've ALWAYS hung onto that and I have been and am absolutely OBSESSED with that idea!!!
One could argue that maybe it's just the ideals of one (1) fucked up therapist, but I also think it's just fun to think that beliefs like this are just very common place in the Void overall.
Or how about the fact that voidfolk just casually eat human meat???:
Or at the very least, it was a popular menu item before humans decided they also wanted to be residents of the void!!! I mean, Argos himself knows what human taste like.
Me and another friend always pictured the void being- not necessarily lawless, (it definitely has a police force...) but chaotic and backwards.
Everyone for themselves for the most part.
It's definitely a caricature or critique of the real world/our world. Though some of it may just be for punchy, shock value type jokes.
I'm here for both of these things and I think Ashur puts these things into the series well!! And it really gives you a taste of the kind of world you're in.
Just look at that Void police- to be fair, we've only ever seen them ONCE in the show, but we know they exist, but god, they don't feel very effective. And maybe the fact that we only see them once is a true testament to their overall effectiveness.
You can argue up and down that it's just how good Mr. Plant and Argos are at covering up their crimes- and like i said before, I don't disagree!! I think they know what they're doing and they know it VERY well!!!
!!! BUT !!!
At the exact same time, I also feel like the other force at play here is a lax justice system.
Nobody gives a shit, and any criminals they do pull in are low effort and just enough to meet some kind of quota to keep the pay cheques coming in.
In most parts of the Void, nobody really cares because like the tags above say: (@myosotis-elinora) it's so common place.
That makes living in the Void unpredictable and very dangerous.
WHICH BRINGS ME TO ANOTHER THING:
There's a part of me that likes to think that there are places in the Void that are more... Structured? That are more in-tune with the needs of the members of their community?
A type of community that raises people with clearer/stronger moral compasses compared to most voidfolk.
This is why I gave Mr. Flower the role of "straight man" when it comes to placing him next to characters like Argos and Mr. Plant. I think it's fun to play with that concept and compare two different belief systems here.
I think that Mr. Flower grew up in a Void like the one i described above- where if a human were to live there, they wouldn't find things to be all that different than living among humans, culturally and morally.
There'd still be questionable things happening 100% since it is STILL the void, but compared to most places, most people wouldn't have to worry about being murdered or kidnapped and not even end up on the front pages of the weekly paper.
Background news and all that.
At least in those little pockets of the Void people PRETEND to care, just like humans do!!
Obsessed with putting a character who has to adjust and cope with the rest of the void, versus characters who just... feel like that's how life is.
But at the same time, we see Argos doing things like, seeking therapy and taking up jobs that largely revolve around the care of other living things, children, plants.... rocks.
I do think that makes him stand out similarly to the way I view Mr. Flower standing out. And maybe that's why Mr. Plant was drawn to Mr. Flower and subsequently, Argos.
They do things differently.
At least compared to the rest of the void.
I've always obsessed over Argos' desire to be doing his best and to be doing "good".
For the most part, in the past, I always ranted how it came from Argos' deep desire to be needed, a desire that also fuels his obsessive habits. (Plants and children cant take care of themselves all on their own as well, so they can't reject Argos' intervention on their lives.)
Just like humans do a lot of terrible shit but aren't inherently evil, the same can be said for voidfolk.
So it's really fun to think about where voidfolk draw the line, hence my joke post a little bit.
I like to think things like stalking (argos) or settig up scammy business (moon man) or just things people sometimes do in the void. What are you gonna do about it?
Sometimes its frowned upon, sometimes its whatever, sometimes its illegal.
Is it a case by case basis? Is it a generational thing?? Location based??
Lot's different parts of our world view different things as acceptable and unacceptable, so the same could easily be said for the void!!
What if where Mr. Plant and Argos (and Mr. Flower) live, certain things are just better overlooked than wherever it was they might have come from before??
Like... Maybe some people are there to avoid some things? Or are running from things??? Or want a fresh start in life??? What better place to go to than fucking NOWHERE.
You have Voids that are beaches and voids that are casinos, and then Mr. Plant and Argos live in a blank white space.
But that's another discussion for another time.
In short, the Void is a fun enigma to play around with and poke at, like a corpse you found in a dumpster.
