Saw your post about Alfred and cults (definitely has been in a few throughout his life, generally just susceptible to it - a combo of how his gov interacts with him and I think he had some significant life events in puritan colonial America.) and it also reminded me abt how you said cult psychology and mass hysteria is one of Lud's special interests and we all know America has no shortage of that. So just imagine Ludwig infodumping presenting what he recently researched about some cult or event and Alfred just pops up like "I was there."
YOU ACTIVATED MY GERAME TRAP CARD. YES THEY SHOULD BOND OVER THIS. i think lud wants to join a cult so bad. he cant because he has a job and also thats an unreasonable thing to desire but he Wants To. just to see. he thinks hes built different and he wouldnt fall for it but he would like to experience it maybe. so al is telling him abt his branch davidians era and lud is just staring at him and furiously taking notes. nodding and asking all the right questions and al loves the attention
lud then lays out everything hes ever heard abt scientology and al is like damn dude u did ur research. wanna go into the scientology building with me. and lud goes. c. can i
