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/crawls out of sewer

Riggins did not give a fuck and his head was so far up his own ass about getting the projects being the ultimate good and building up his wunderkind Dirk that he let everything else go.

Bart is the only one not terrified of him for obvious reasons but he was also smart enough to know how to handle her. Vogel starts screaming and Dirk shuts down, automatically writing his friends off as dead. Not 'they're going to capture you, too' a la Friedkin run Blackwing but dead.

Because people can make shitty decisions and still be good people. Todd bankrupted his parents after lying to everyone for years and Bart never felt like killing him. Ditto for Dirk “it’s not stealing if it’s something I really want” Gently. Apparently she’s never even tried to kill Priest, someone who canonically beheaded a child. If she killed everyone who’d ever done something dumb or misguided or cruel, she’d be killing literally everyone she comes into contact with.

Which means that the stream of creation has looked at Ken (ambitious Ken who just wants to understand things) and has decided that the universe is safer without him in it.

What’s confusing me about this decision in-universe is that Bart has had access to so many other Blackwing people that she’s never felt the urge to kill. Riggins, Friedkin and Priest are all still alive and kicking. Blackwing was never a threat until Ken took over. It really makes me question whether Ken is being singled out by the stream of creation as a threat to the Blackwing subjects (the universe’s chosen tools) or a threat to the universe more broadly.

I think Bart was supposed to kill Ken when they met in the desert.

It’s established in the IDW canon that Bart wasn’t told to kill Dirk by the universe, but by the Men of the Machine. Bart only stops trying to kill Ken when she learns that he isn’t Dirk Gently.

But Bart was still lead by the universe to the desert to kill Red. Who’s to say she wasn’t supposed to kill Ken as well?

It’s commonly accepted that Ken is the one that was supposed to fix the time machine, but who’s to say that’s true? Who’s to say it wasn’t supposed to be someone else, and when Bart didn’t kill Ken, the universe just rolled with it for a bit?

Bart kills everyone she meets. I just think that after the events of S2, the universe had to make it explicit to her that Ken had to die.

Disregarding the fact that DGHDA is a show with writers, in-universe I don’t think that the ‘stream of creation’ or the universe is omniscient or omnipotent, or else it wouldn’t have any use for the tools of the universe. So it just replanned to account for a temporary Ken, which got out of hand.

Supporting this is the almost complete irrelevance of Bart in S1 to the case. Bart contributes three things- killing Red, killing two other MoM in the Spring mansion, and delivering Ken. The universe simply accommodated Bart into the long plan.

you guys remember that episode in season 5 when dirk opens up about his true feelings regarding the universe? yeah? me too.

This is my first time attempting a full background, and I’m ever so slightly proud of how it turned out, all things considered.

Todd: We are NOT married.

Dirk: Relax, it's just pretend.

Todd: I don't wanna pretend.

Dirk: Scared you'll like it?

Todd: Okay, if we're married, I want a divorce.

Hobbs: Are those two like this all the time?

dirk is the most well adjusted out of all of the ones we know of and even he climbs into this random guy's apartment through the window, immediately calls him his assistant and then declares that he lives there now. he's clueless. he wants friends but he doesn't know how to talk to people, even after 16 years lived in freedom

and then there's bart and the rowdy 3

bart doesn't know how radios and tvs work, nor what hotels are. all she's known her whole life is blackwing labs and the fact that she's supposed to kill people. so that's what she does. she doesn't know how to talk to people, she just goes with the flow

and of course the rowdy 3, the absolute icons. unlike dirk, who wants to be a part of society, and bart, who really doesn't care, they actively reject social norms. they saw punk culture and ran with it. they're rude, violent and, well, rowdy. and they like that. but they're also stupid in the way that you would be if you grew up in a lab with (probably) next to no real education. none of them have any functioning braincells or social grace and that works for them