What exactly did… purple clown boy (i can’t remember his name, I’m sorry…) do to endanger Sprout and their daughter? Why did he betray all his friends and family? I’m getting vibes that it was a self-sabotage. (Bet Azarel has some strong feelings on the matter)
sorry for taking so long to respond! The Horrors hit and I just now started feeling like a person again! Yippee!!
Anyways!! It's more what Pikipiki didn't do
Actually to explain this I need to talk about Pikipiki a little- so uhhh let me go find an info dump I did on him
1 AM Pikipiki lore that just came to me .
He was born in a pretty regular lagohop family. A mom and dad who owned a mattress firm or whatever the fantasy/sci-fi equivalent is. 8 siblings the same age as him because lagohops have even bigger families then Felinoids it's awful
He was the middle child, but from the moment he was born it was evident he was different. While all his siblings snuggled together and slept peacefully in their infancy Pikipiki was always up and awake, even before his eyes were opened he was playful and even a little troublesome for a baby! He was named Insomni after how he almost never slept.
Of course this playful nature continued into his childhood, and one day when he was around... 6, he played a little too far away from his village and got kidnapped. He only spent a month in captivity before he was sold off in secret to Lab Horizons as test subject.
His time in the lab was traumatic. He was treated more like an animal then a child, and the things they were testing on him... Well it changed him. He was no longer a lagohop- well, maybe on the surface he still looked like one, but these people damn well killed and reserected and remade him. He's like, some kinda goo creature under all that bunny now. And it hurt. It did nothing but hurt. The poor thing was living in pain for years before he escaped
How he escaped? He probably snuck into a workers car with his goo creature stealth [Saytrshe are developed enough at this point where they have cars- Lab Horizons of course is located on Sheffaba]
He jumped out in the middle of nowhere. He was lost, in pain, and alone. He kept walking though, until he came across a traveling circus who called themselves the freak show, who took him in. Treatment there wasn't good either but it's leaps and bounds better then what happened to him at Lab Horizons.
Insomni coped with everything with humor, he made a great clown. He was flexible, strange, and funny! What more could you want? Kid was a natural.
He was SO good at his job, he even earned the favor of the god Raver! Who made him immune to all pain- which fucked him up in a DIFFERENT way so that he's really detached from reality now.
But eventually, the freakshow arrived at his home planet, and he once again fled back to his family. They were happy, overjoyed even to have him home at last!
And Insomni tried to be happy too. But he didn't belong there anymore. These people... They loved him. But he was so far from the rest of them in terms of... Well, everything. Development- Insomni never went to school, never had friends his age, was constantly traumatized and just listening to his siblings talk about their normal boring lives.. He didn't belong there. Not anymore
So he ran away again. Back to the freakshow, the only place he felt he really belonged anymore- he even changed his name to Pikipiki as a final send off to his previous life. He's only 15 at this point, and eventually the freakshow would travel to Majalon, and he would meet Sprout, and Sprout would get him and some others out of there
Anyhow, at the time where they're both adults a few cracks have been starting to show in their relationship. They were first drawn to eachother because they were both so similar- reckless kids who liked to have fun and were cursed by the gods and uave fucky bodies because of it.
The thing about how Pikipiki copes with his curse though, is that he just doesn't take anything. Seriously. He can't feel pain, so nothing really matters or holds any weight to him, he'll just get back up like nothing ever happened. This, unfortunately, also bleeds into how he handles stressful situations.
So their daughter got kidnapped by the very same Lab that tested on Pikipiki, and. Well Pikipiki kinda didn't. Looked like he cared literally at all. He didn't join Sprout in helping break her out, he didn't even seem like it was such a big deal and was kinda being rude to Sprout over how anxious he was over it, Goppoki would just break her own way out, it was fine.
It wasn't fine and it was the last straw that forced Sprout to cut him out of his life, because Sprout for all his talk and nonchalance- is a deeply caring person. He is aggressively loyal to everyone in his family and would literally tear apart the stars before he would let one of them slip away from him. He cares so much despite his halved lifespan, he wants everyone to be safe, and happy.
And Pikipiki showed in that moment, that he did not share the sentiment.
They were incompatible, despite seeming so in sink when they were teens... It's a classic case of young love turning sour as you get older. Unfortunately for them, there was a child involved. Luckily Goppoko didn't actually get hurt [bc Sprout and some other help got there before Victoria could do anything] but yeah
Child endangerment IS a pretty big deal breaker
