"We have veeeery slowly come to realize that this is a symptom of some extreme sort of neural damage." well, I guess that's good. He's admitting he's very susceptible to suggestion, at least as far as furnishing his headspace goes, hence all this concern about starting a new video game. Also promising that he knows when he "destroyed Lewis's Silver Chair" it was just in his mind. Or "for real."
There's a lot here of him playing as Frisk and Chara, explaining "their" dysfunction to each other. It's like a really obvious epistolary novel.
Kris:
"it has been very very difficult to get Chara to seek medical or psychological care reliably. they are aware of the need for it but...well their mind gave way rather than confront the terror. what does that tell you?"
Frisk:
"Chara really has been...trying. I don't think people quite understand how fully and thoroughly and completely Chara tries to keep things calm and civilized.
Whatever Chara roars about, it's almost certainly my fault. What worries me is that all of a sudden, I suspect tha I may have been curious enough to glance at a #CSLewis #Narnia book. I mean, they are EVERYWHERE and the printings are getting coarser and coarser."
Some of this could work well in a horror story, with editing. "Frisk" alludes to "Chara" being much smarter, still being full of pieces of C.S. Lewis, and having had a "beatific vision."
Then Chara pops up, says he might be "deweirded enough,"that he's been "repair"ing a "deeply buried Spanish/English language barrier (which has affected Frisk)." Followed by Frisk reporting he's no longer afraid of birds.
Ernest stopped taking one of his medications "three months ago maybe." Some furry agrees that he probably should talk to his doctor about that.
Hey, he remembered that he signs different headmates' statements with different circle emojis! And then forgot again.
Tantalizing piece of a story: either in his head or IRL, Ernest was horribly traumatized by the American Chemical Society.
Big admission here on June 13th:
I feel like a lot of folks have a very bad impression about what the Pnictogen Wing has wanted for themselves and for everyone, but to be fair, WE have given the bad impression. Our talk has been self-contradictory. We speak of reconciliation and smoothing everything out towards a happy and relatively "normal" equilibrium, and then all of a sudden someone will emerge from within the system with a voice like fire and thunder and scare everyone away again.
We have been the channel for unhealthful powers, ones that an ordinary human being shouldn't be messing around with. And yet, *in the event*, when everything was as bad as it could be, messing with those powers always seemed like the ONLY option, the only way to avoid total disaster and destruction.
#plural #system #fictive
~Chara
This goes on forever. For a moment I thought Ernest was going to align with reality enough to lay out his plan to apologize to Bluesky and practice better netiquette, but it veers back to his personal cosmology and ends on a boob joke.
Explicitly admitting that he's confused real historical figures and #FateZero figures, and that "Frisk" "introjected some Arthurian figures without even knowing who they were!" (Oddly for a #very_smart person, Ernie does still fall for the English propaganda about Napoleon being short.)
Don't worry; watching the non-MST3K version of
Space Mutiny will help Ernest to atone for these mistakes (not joking; he basically says this). He pats himself on the back for understanding psychotronic cinema, then takes the same shots at the movie as MST3K did (and Ernie has seen) but without humor and with an eye to reminding you he's #smart.
Another important admission:
BlueSky is just Good Cop Twitter, Chara knew that and thus they decided to...make sure of it, in their special way. They needed to run away from the place, they always hated it, so they...decided to GET NUTS a la Michael Keaton in Batman. trouble is, when Chara does that, it's always terrifyingly convincing. Chara's very much the "are they acting? that's not really acting is it" sort of person when they're passionate
~Kris
There's been a lot of in-character talking about how he's lost passwords, or one of the "spicier" headmates is holding them hostage.
And he's trying to start a #FateGrandOrder guild, to test if he can use magic to change probabilities. Ernest admits he used to spend money on gacha, but "Chara managed to stop playing #FGO for money pretty easily but they've had more experience fighting addiction."
He's using his headmate "Kris" to try to start a guild because
"Frisk is too traumatized, Mono is disabled for now, and Chara simply cannot handle the pressure AND they simply refuse to ask anyone's help in such things. They would...rather die. I have seen it countless times. Anyway, that's my proposal."
I dunno about you but that sales pitch doesn't inspire much confidence for a fun-times video-game guild that's optional to join. The only reply captured is one of his socks, the two dragons who share an account.
Rando furry: Gen Z doesn't like small talk at work.
Ernest explains that when he "was still forcing myself to work day jobs" he hid at lunch to avoid socializing, and "tended to get fired." Except when
"at the biodiesel job, and they found out I was studying occult stuff and I had #tarot cards sometimes, and I think.....I think those fuckers thought maybe I was on their side."
Old Twitter thread note: Ernest says he wasn't raised Christian, "I went through a period of greater belief in Christianity and even Catholic conversion. it didn't *last*, however. I went the opposite direction as #CSLewis, you could say: I rejected Christianity for paganism and feel better off for it."
