So I was watching MSPA Reader: Mental Breakdown and I was wondering if you wouldn't mind giving a little run through like you did with cascade? I know it's supposed to be explaining Cal but I'm still a little lost. Also I know Gamzee does like something??? With Cal??? But what???

There’s not much to explain in MSPA Reader: Mental Breakdown though! Rather than there being any big events of importance, it’s mostly a recap of everywhere Cal has been to, chronologically, but there ARE some details.

For instance, we see that after Roxy banished the Lil Cal Doll into the Furthest Ring, Gamzee materialized it on Dave’s Dream Room by making him have nightmares about Cal with his Chucklevoodoos, just like how he used his powers on John to make the doll that’d eventually lead to Jack’s uprising. The acolytes of Lord English aid in his coming into the Universe.

After that, Hussie mostly toys with the idea of it being an astonishing revelation by making a bunch of ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED memes, but the few things of note the revelation does bring us are as follows:

1) Sollux’s red-black Gamzee Confusion staring at Lil Cal during the 5x Showdown could be parsed as him being able to sense Gamzee’s half within Lil Cal, rather than him being blind and looking the wrong way.

2) The ‘Vast Honk’ from Lord English is because Gamzee is part of him. It also plays into his almost berserk-like destructive tendencies- Caliborn is a murderous machine, but even as far as we see he has a smug arrogance. Lord English’ destruction seems to lean more towards the wantonly berserker, just like Gamzee when he goes completely fucking nuts. Not a confirmation of any sort though, since both Caliborn and Gamzee have proven to be murderous and crazy a lot of the time.

3) Being mostly ARquius but bound to LE’s service, Doc Scratch being Rose’s ‘Creepy Uncle’ is actually kind of right.

4) The MSPA Reader’s Classpect is the Stump of Gun.