2024-03-09 1:15:39 ¶ ●

this. this entire sequence from the nightmare -> moment of clarity…

“Like a creeping mold, the complete reality of your existence threads its way through your mind. Birth, death, birth again. Decay and bloom. A million stitches from a million microscopic wounds you’ve inflicted on everyone you’ve ever met with every muscle you moved and with ever word you’ve spoken.”

“Your existence hurts them.”

“A lonely soul in a room by itself weeping. It lives for eighty years and then it’s gone. And then it’s there again.”

“A reprieve. A good life. Love, children, a steady career. Recognition from your peers. Here one moment, gone the next. The worms have found their orifices.” (this line has no right being this good)

“Diagnosis. It forgets everything it is. Anger. Rage. Distance. Poverty. The lonely soul is lonely again. Love turns to mockery, It die. It is reborn. Worse. Lonelier.”

“This is all too much. I… can’t keep going.”

idk what exactly it means, but it feels like the narrator is speaking from the heart about how he feels towards death and all… but this time it’s a lot more sympathetic towards the princess for some reason?? why

i just can’t figure out what exactly this means, but together with the fact the nightmare/moc “desires only companionship but the only thing she knows is how to hurt” and the narrator’s constant dehumanisation of the princess thorough the entire game… it hits hard. seeing it again for the second time made me feel a lot of indescribable things.

2024-03-21 22:32:58 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

cymatile:

> birdmitosis:

> > tai-janai:

> > > why does this sound completely unironic. damn right ya cold bitch youre the specialest little guy around.

> > reminder that if you choose to do nothing in the moment of clarity chapter and just fade away…

> This scene is honestly so terribly sad. Cold’s entire logic is built on the foundation that emotions will hold you back and make you unable to act efficiently when the time comes. So he dulls himself the most he can, both physically and mentally, to be able to move forward to something else (really interesting how he goes against TLQ’s very nature of stagnation). In a way, this does kinda work, as he is the only voice whose influence is able to kill the princess without her putting up much a fight.

> In MOC’s fade away scene tho, Cold unfortunately comes face to face with the truth that his lack of emotions, this mastery of the self he so prides himself on, will not save him. He thought the others would be dragged down by the emotions they could not numb, that he would be able to survive and keep going as long as he numbed everything, but then the world unravels and he unravels with it, realizing that all his efforts, all his mental fortitude, all that suffering he put up with, was for nothing. Everything he represents, was for nothing.