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Like, yeah, as a dream the creator had, I can see why it would be haunting and striking, but if you were to actually do a Weird Route with Spamton in Noelle’s role, Spamton wouldn’t be just a meek submissive who just went along naively with whatever Kris (you) wanted. 

Like, imagine a Salt Route with Spamton’s canon personality. 

Spamton is, at first, thrilled that Kris is helping him, just like he is in-game. He goes along gleefully with you because he has an ally—or maybe even a friend—for the first time in God knows how long. 

Even the eliminating his fellow Darkeners in the name of “getting stronger” would give him a thrill. Don’t forget, this is the same guy who sells you the Thorn Ring in the canon Weird Route. What makes you think he’d object to murder? 

And these are the very same Darkeners that rejected him, so he could even view it as a twisted form of retribution. Take the moment where he kills the Addison, for instance. Why wouldn’t he be positively giddy at being given the go-ahead by Kris, to finally be strong enough to hurt the people who hurt him? He would be elated.

Or…so…he…thinks…

Somewhere along the way, he realizes just how tight a grip you (Kris) has on him. That he isn’t he one making these calls to [kill or be killed], he isn’t the one calling the shots, it’s you deciding everything and controlling him. And he realizes he’s been made into a puppet all over again, except it’s not the Voice on the phone pulling the strings, it’s Kris (you), the kid standing right next to him, the kid he thought (in some twisted way) was his friend.

That’s what drives him to despair. Not the killing but the fact that you’re the one making him do it. And when he tries to resist you (like Noelle does in the Weird Route) and realizes he has no choice but to obey, that’s when he regrets the horrible things he’s done. In the most twisted case of reverse psychology ever, he now desperately longs to take back the things you told him to do, and even feels sickened at his earlier glee. Because when he crashes down from the emotional high of that sweet, sweet [Revenge Sauce], he realizes that not even his own emotions are safe from your influences. Even what he feels is determined by you.

And when he realizes the Lightener he thought was giving him his freedom has essentially enslaved him, that’s when he just breaks. And at some point, his demeanor changes from railing against you to worshipping you, praying to you like he did to the machine in the basement. He goes full-circle, and you become his new voice, his new heaven.

Essentially, in this route, he replaces his old god, the Voice on the phone, with a new one, the Voice in his ear.

And this time, no one’s ever hanging up.

EDIT:

I have written a fan fic based on this post. Links are below:

Gerard gets asked about his artistic inspirations and he goes on a rant about Joan of Arc and squid. In lotms he had a perfect replica of some Lord of the Rings sword in his room and a notebook labeled 'Star Wars Notes'. There's literally too much to list.

Mikey is a shivery chihuahua of a human being who got more ass than anyone else in the band and got his first bass by stealing it from Gerard's ex and used to tuck his hair under his glasses and stalked his favorite band up and down the east coast. After he got famous he would invite random dudes he met of WoW to his real life house. His favorite book is IT, and as someone else who's favorite book is IT, that's not a hallmark of a well adjusted human being. He got asked for a joke in an interview and the best he came up with was "a man walks into a bar... and says ouch! :)"

Frank dropped out of a psychology program at rutgers to live in a van with 2 dudes who didn't shower. He's a perpetual motion machine of a man who said in some interview that when he got bored on tour he started reading the hotel shampoo and toothpaste ingredients list for something to do. He posted his whole ass on instagram and cries after shows. He wrote a song inflammatory enough to get the secret service on his ass and his dad drummed on tour for kiss and was maybe the last person to speak to John Lennon.

People like to act like Ray's the normal, well adjusted, cool one. He carried a spider-man action figure with him for like a year. He collected Pokémon plushies well into his 20s. He went to fucking film school and got an alfred hitchcock tattoo and made a movie abt a guy who ate eggs and went insane. We all saw the mr. Pea(Nuts) thing he posted like last week. We've all seen the pictures with James Dewees.