miss lily pie

Michael: Hey didn't you said you went inside Freddy's stomach hatch-

Gregory, lying: I PERFECTLY KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING AND I WAS 100% SURE IT WAS SAFE, YUP, HAHAHA-

I was just a bit confused about how Sun and Moon communicate with each other in your fic. Sun said Moon didn’t know where he was when he woke up and he was scared. But, then later Sun says Moon said ‘thank you’ (referring to the hat gift) Also Sun retells a few other statements from Moon.

I just wanted to know if they can talk back in forth with each other in their headspace. Or are they completely unconscious when they go off line? If so how would Sun know Moon said thank you and that he as great full for y/n’s effort)

(Side Note, I really love the way you represent the way Y/n talks to themselves in their head. It is very realistic, idk just reminds me of myself when I have doubts) 

oh no worries! sure I can explain :))

Sun and Moon when taking the backseat aren’t aware of their surroundings. (Think of it as being in a dark limbo, if you will) but they CAN still talk to each other. (Though it takes a bit for them to be able to do so just after waking up in Chapter One. If you want a direct time stamp, they started communicating when Sun locked himself in the garage in Chapter Two!)

I’ll use these to bits from the hat scene as an example:

its important to note that there will be moments in the story where Sun and Moon will be communicating away from Y/N’s ears and this is one of those moments! Keep a lookout for lack of moment or reaction, and there’s a good chance the boys are talking and exchanging information :)

If we took the bit from the right, we can concur something like this happened:

[Sun: Moon, they’re serious.

Moon: they are?

Sun: yeah. I don’t… what do I do?

Moon:

Sun: Moon?

Moon: Take it.

Sun: … Are you sure?

Moon: yeah. I’m… yeah. Yeah, I’m good. I like that.

Sun: alright.]

And in those moments where they don’t feel like sharing information each other (see: Moon keeping Sun out of the loop about Y/N not knowing about his little “Bear” jab), or can’t (see: Sun being unsure whether Moon was happy or not after meeting the kids due to him being too overwhelmed to tell him himself) they can still garner one another’s emotions!

They’ll be more hidden exchanges like these in incoming chapters! Hope this helps :’)

i actually have a scene that tackles exactly this and is fully fleshed out in my notes app. (And, I shit you not, was developing dialogue for just last night. we love a brain rot sync <3) Two words: hospital scene.

Point blank, Michael is the hardest victim to save out of all of them. How can you save someone who doesn’t want to be saved? Without spoiling much, it is much more complicated than their usual rodeos with their prior attempts with the rest.

The Young Michael and Older Michael interaction does happen and Gregory steps aside for it. It’s a mess. The internal turmoil within the younger looking at who he grows up to be, and the elder defeated after incessant subjection to the horrors of his father’s work. Add the youngest, this little kid whose whole world had been thrown over its head and, after finally gaining a safe constant in the middle of it all, has it crumble before his eyes.

An angsty scenario overall lmao.

(And yeah, that one art post you’re referencing also makes a comeback. Have you been stalking my Notes? 👀)

As a treat, have this bit from said interaction:

oh absolutely on point.

i think what really affects him is the fact that as the events of the story transpire, Michael becomes Gregory’s best friend. This big brother/protector figure that time and time again sticks his neck out to keep Gregory safe. It’s the first time he’s ever had the chance to befriend someone like this and the knowledge that Michael is in fact Glamrock Freddy’s identity attaches Gregory even further to him.

So seeing Michael, alive yet so different, a mere few months away from the events at the Pizzaplex really… destroys this image Gregory constructed in his mind. His perception of him completely changes and instead of seeing his best friend or his dad, he sees someone he’s lost. Someone unreachable. Broken and defeated to a point of no return. Halfway dead.

“He’s nice to you.”

“Yeah… But only sometimes. He’s a bit of a jerk for the most part.”

“Sometimes sounds nice. We didn’t used to get ‘sometimes’.”

“Do you think he hated you?”

“I once did. Now, I’m not sure. I… don’t think so. I don’t think Mike hates me now.”

“He doesn’t, he said so. He says he misses you. Do you hate him?”