Wait?? When does Doc Scratch talk to Joey???

The Hint System. Whenever you’re Jude or Xefros, it simply doesn’t work, but when you’re Joey, you get messages from Doc Scratch, mainly saying how “Were you expecting this message to change if you kept clicking?” to “I sympathize with your situation, but you’re simply outside of my sphere of influence right now”, but culminating if you try to use the Hint System right after warping to Alternia, where it tells you something along the lines of, “Ah, I see you’re finally in my neighborhood. I’ve got plans for you” or something like that.

And as we know from Vriska and Rose, he has a predilection for bothering young, Lightbound ladies.

Fucking creepy.