#dbhc etho

DW! Ghost and Monsters on Doc’s playlist is actually supposed to represent the post-Destruction and early season 9 era for Doc, so it’s not anything y’all don’t already know about, in theory! I imagine Doc struggles a lot with self image after Etho dumps all of those memories into his brain (and then dies/gets shut down while still connected to him), sometimes not being able to differentiate his own thoughts, feelings, and memories from Etho’s. I really like the narrative imagery of Doc being haunted, both metaphorically from Destruction+Dont Let It Reach The Heart and literally physical in his system from Etho, hence the phrasing of Ghosts and Monsters—

(Lyrics like “did I leave that door open, is my mind gone?” Make me think of like. Doc, whose comfort and self identity come from having complete control over himself and knowledge of the things around him, is looking into his code and realizing that he doesn’t recognize these bits of code that have been dumped into him. Very scary and unsettling for him I think. ALSO. The lyrics “Stay awake / ‘cause i’m afraid they’re comin’ for me when I / close my eyes” make me think of DLIRTH when doc tries to go to sleep in chapter 3 when, as he begins to go into sleep mode, Etho’s memories resurface in his subconscious and send him into a near-panic attack. ALSO ALSO, I think what really solidified this song for this part of the playlist for me was the scream after the song’s bridge. It always gives my really intense and vivid imagery of doc like. Reliving etho’s death and gripping his head. Something something waking up from a nightmare and knowing that it was all real)

OUUUUGH HOW UNSETTLING. I'm sure he's in complete "control" over his body (by the watcher's design), but not registering his surroundings the way he normally would is definitely giving me the image of his first few hours spent kinda wobbling around like a baby deer LMAOOOO

I'm sure its either like. A.) It starts out very wobbly and awful and nauseating (is this a sensation he can experience? if so, is he experiencing it more genuinely than the android-equivalent? if so, that probably makes things much worse), but he improves fairly quickly because he's smart guy etho (and by the end of the week he's feeling more like "himself", which maybe prompts the fun adjustment period for the next version change and he gets inevitably shunted back into a more current version of his normal functioning android body) OR B.) He starts out fine (letting muscle memory and instinct carry him to try and ignore how strange this feels), but the more he truly processes that he can't process anything the way he's learned to, the more mentally worn out he gets, meaning he becomes more and more disoriented/out of it and that by the end of the week he's in shambles </3

Also! I checked your Spotify profile and it looks like the other wip playlists are private D:

OUGHHH YES. Move Me honestly. Very often moves me (haha) to tears. It’s just full of soooo much emotion and longing and it feels like the epitome of everything they’ve been through and. And. Augh. <3333

- An invested Canadian 💪

YAY tysm!!! android etho for you as my lil warm up today 🤲

[dbhc flavored] Hermit A Day May ‘25, Day 31: Etho!!

I imagine, when Etho comes back from his Finding Himself Get-Away mid s9, things are kind of awkward between he and some of the hermits he used to be closest with—but I also imagine that it only takes a little moment like this for them to fall back into step with each other :) <3

[dbhc flavored] Hermit A Day May ‘25: The Horse Course, my favorite build!

RRAUUWURWAURRARRRGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!! <3333

First of all, thank you SO so so much for the kind words;; but oh mannn dude what a beautifully written description of the insanity of the fic!!! "hallway full of the haunted and holy frames of people he needs to fix" freaking SLAPS DUDE, you so get it ahrguaherufgsehrfgh