my 8-year-old cousin got a spiderman pinata for his birthday today and he hit it so hard that he removed spiderman’s cardboard head from its shoulders and my cousin’s 11-year-old friend goes, without missing a beat, “I don’t feel so good Mr. Stark” and i lost my shit. kids really are our future.
i’m re-listening to the suffering game, as you do, and in the first episode lucretia goes “oh yeah i have no fucking idea what the animus bell does” which just seems WILD to me
like logically i get that griffin was trying to build suspense for what would eventually lead to magnus losing his body,
but in-game i don’t really think there’s a good reason why she’d have lied to them about that part specifically? why wouldn’t she tell them, if she knew? so she must have been telling the truth, right? she just… genuinely didn’t know what it did???
did barry just roll up to the starblaster one day after creating his relic like “hey guys. what’s up. check this out. it’s a bell. sick, right,” and when someone asked him what it did he was just like
I have Theories about this. Because everything about the animus bell is freaking weird. It even has Barry’s voice. (I’ll never get over that! it’s so unsettling, it really jarred me on relisten)
I think that Barry made the bell to preserve the lives of the mortal crew and straight up told no one. Like, when the crew lands in their forever home this is the future he and Lup have to look forward: outliving their family, turning into monsters as their bonds decay and/or eternal punishment in the stockade. That’s HORRIBLE.
So what does Barry do? He makes a thing that can fix that problem for good. Can’t go insane because all your anchors are dead if your anchors can’t die.
You know what the OTHER weird thing about the Bell is? The fact that Edward and Lydia have it in the first place. They’re reclusive and in hiding from the Reapers. They aren’t going out for much except to advertise. (And it’s questionable whether they could reliably do that before they had the bell in the first place)
So…yeah. I think Barry ultimately gave them the bell willingly, to keep it’s damage relatively contained and keep it in a place where he could come back for it later. Once he’s explained the situation to everyone and has convinced them to stick around. Everything will be fine!
….I think Lucretia probably tried to ask him about the bell when she was redacting everything, getting ready for the big wipe. And Barry was just. Vague. Necromancy things. You know, necromancy, Luce. The thing I do? Yeah.
The whole situation must have been weird too. Everyone is seeing the damage their relics are doing and meanwhile it’s total radio silence on whatever Barry’s thing is and he won’t talk about it. Fucked up.
yeah! big agree, especially re: the idea that barry gave the relic to lydia and edward directly. a pair of ostentatious, magically-gifted twins? of course they gave barry the right vibes.
OH GOD THOSE POOR BABIES i am sobbing i am laughing so hard
In the last pic the cat is all “oh thank god I found ground NO WAIT COME BACK GROUND”
THOSE POOR BABIES OMG WHY AM I LAUGHING AT THIS
Astronaut: We need to fund 1.4 billion dollars. NASA: FOR WHAT?! Astronaut: We want to put kitties in space and have them float around in zero gravity. NASA: Here is all the money. God bless.
Those cats are just ?????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!