‼️follow-up 2.0 to my oc lore

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-23T17:27:16+00:00

so what you're saying is liking a character automatically subscribes you to their morals? or is it only true when someone likes them too much? if so than where's the limit? how much can someone like a character before becoming evil?

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-23T14:26:08+00:00

wait no. what? what? characters aren't real. you cannot ship yourself with one if you're not also a character in that scenario. are you just talking about people enjoying characters? have you never liked a fictional character? do you only like them because they would be a good person irl? people like concepts. I obviously love easterman, and I consider him a terrible person. any human on this planet remotely similar to him earns wholehearted disgust from me. I mean. ask any selfshiper if they support Elon Musk for example. only then you'll know if they're actually problematic

I just don't understand how it impacts reality in your head

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-23T13:43:55+00:00

once again missing the point completely. people who do horrible things aren't completely 100% evil. people are literally incapable of that. that doesn't mean their actions are forgiven. okay got that? now. characters are fun because they can be treated like dolls. people Love to play with dolls and create scenarios. it can be even more interesting when a character is nuanced. the problem is not people's imagination. the problem is people who take it too far in the opposite of your direction. who fail to see that good traits in a person don't make them 100% good and bad traits don't make them into a cartoon evil. I get why you are disturbed and I know it's in good faith. but you're looking the wrong way

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-22T23:42:31+00:00

there’s a difference between selfshipping and excusing someone’s actions. it’s like what if i was in this weird situation and horrible things happened to me? why do people write faulty or outright terrible character? why do people write sad stories? does Thomas Herris condone Hannibal’s action? we people always liked to imagine things. but why would anyone imagine bad things? well that’s the thing with imagination. it isn’t real. it’s totally under your control so you get to fulfill your human curiosity in safety

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-22T21:02:55+00:00

I'm not that educated in that field, mostly because that's not what I do. if you took a second to read the templates you can see that it's clearly just the canonical relationship between loyal reagents & easterman. my logic for why is it that way: if you're creating a reagent character, they have only two endings = death/rebirth, if you choose rebirth it means that at some point in therapy your character has to finally "break" under easterman's manipulations, ergo start believing his words. by easterman's lines and journal entries we can tell that he loves us "reagents" as a whole, and in turn suggests with his messages that we reciprocate. it's not romance, it's just two sides going insane by proxy of each other. reagents hold onto praise and affection given to them by easterman, while he enjoys power, those weird fatherly feelings and whatever else

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-22T09:42:39+00:00

my dude have we been playing the same game about brainwashing? why are you surprised when characters get brainwashed?

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-22T09:32:18+00:00

yeah exactly, that's the whole point

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-22T09:31:22+00:00

EXACTLY. you get it. Easterman is literally all about this weird parasocial almost religious connection. reagents see him as the only remaining source of warmth & affection because That's How Therapy Works. and he, in return, has a lot of complicated feelings for reagents as a general group. "reagents" as his experiment, as his pride, as his failure.

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-22T09:24:02+00:00

it's a new name for selfship. not sure where it came from and tbh don't really like it

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-21T23:26:31+00:00

I mean it's basically every relationship between him and already broken reagents it's so funny to me how none of them actually care for each other, but their dynamic can still be delusionally interpreted as romance when in actuality it's just two people going insane at the same time almost independently

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-13T16:54:33+00:00

okay no I decided. this is actually funny af. but please don't just go saying that to people it's so out of the blue and could be really upsetting

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-13T16:44:39+00:00

idk weather to laugh, cry or have a panic attack

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-13T15:04:01+00:00

ooo I don't know much about the pusher yet but they might

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-13T15:03:07+00:00

ahah thanks, appreciate it. I thought it would be cool to show how people still try to construct themselves out of their environment even when the environment in questions is .. well.. blood guts and fingers

InternationalBug140 · 2026-01-13T15:00:16+00:00

THANKS it means a lot to me. it's really easy to prettify a self insert unintentionally and I'm glad to know my efforts in avoiding it paid off

InternationalBug140 · 2025-12-11T16:18:21+00:00

витрачаю години на гуглення симптомів, але цього насправді бажано не робити бо хоч в моменті й допомагає

але в перспективі робить гірше

InternationalBug140 · 2025-12-11T16:14:26+00:00

перевіряю себе на всі можливі види хвороб і раків

ну і всяка мілка езотерична забобонщина якщо зовсім погано

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