#inevitability

The group ran into Scott, which was where the ultimatum was set: Truffle had a name, so now Truffle had to stay alive. This was the nail in the coffin. Truffle had to stay alive, so of course he was always going to die. Especially because it was Scott saying this, who didn’t care if people had names so long as killing or turning them could benefit him in some way.

Truffle, a randomly generated pig who wouldn’t even be significant if Apo hadn’t chosen carrots as food and if Pyro hadn’t decided to keep it, was now plot significant. It gave Apo and Pyro a shared purpose, a connection which strung them together even when them being roommates quite literally went up in flames. This pig was theirs to keep alive.

There’s what Truffle represented. She was Apo and Pyro’s shared humanity, something they got when they were both still human and fought hunger off for when they were vampires. She’s their innocence, their capability to care, their life. The last remaining tie.

And because none of those things mattered when Scott turned them—whatever innocence, care, life, humanity, names they had—it didn’t matter enough for Truffle to stay alive. Truffle was them. If Apo and Pyro had to die for nothing, had to be turned into something they never wanted to be for nothing, then Truffle had to die for nothing too. Truffle had to have the choice made for him, for someone to stand there and say he wanted it, just like Apo did. Truffle had to be killed violently with no one there to hear his protests, just like Pyro did. That was the way it had to be. There was no escape. Inevitable.

So if Snappers had won, if he'd KILLED Flappers, would flappers get a game over and have to restart? Would he respawn just outside the boss level, start over from the first level in the boss world, or depending on how old the game is, start from the first level?

Because if he starts out from the boss room, or even from the boss WORLD, Kit & Kaboodle can never leave. If they want to save Flappers' world, they have to keep making sure he loses until he gives up and then stay there to make sure he never tries again.

But even if he starts over from the VERY beginning, they still have to keep coming back, because if Flappers can get to the end once, he can do it again, and considering the genre, assuming it's not like a torture platformer like Ghosts n Goblins, they have to do it frequently, because platformers like Flappers are typically designed to be VERY beatable.

Which brings me to my actual observation about Gameoverse and its apparent theme: It's about the inevitability of death. Kit & Kaboodle, and Gobbles & Flappers now, are stuck delaying the inevitable encroaching end, something they can only EVER delay and not truly prevent. They're doctors, thematically speaking. They can slow the end down, but so long as the rules of the world are in place, that's the absolute limit of their abilities, they can't stop the end entirely. Given everyone's narrative connection to grief it makes sense, in order to conquer their loss, they need to help others prevent or overcome their own.

If the hero is already on their way to beat the villain, that world is doomed.

...Assuming life & death even works that way in Gameoverse. If Snappers killing Flappers just KILLS Flappers, it's a whole different thing

this is an old story, one anyone can tell.

Makes sense but...