#joeyverse

THE MAGENTA REFERENCE

It's the final day!! And the theme is Fate!

So, enjoy some thoughts about the Joeyverse. Might get a little meta.

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Sometimes, Freckle wondered about Fate.

It was something he'd thought a lot about ever since discovering the multiverse of other Joey's and their stories.

Was it fate that they all seemed doomed to self-destructive spirals? He had seen so many Joey's follow similar paths. Even the best of intentions went awry, always leading to the same conclusion. The studio in ruins, employees hurt or worse. The horrifying past of the studio and all its pain preserved in ink like a bug in amber. Their roads burned. Henry always left, and their roads burned, leaving them alone with their mistakes.

Was this just the fate of Joey Drew, the man who was referred to colloquially as Freckle often found himself wondering. Even the kindest among them, the ones with the best of intentions and the best relationships with their employees, were doomed to have their intentions go awry and have pain and suffering follow their footsteps.

There were exceptions, of course, but those were few and far between. Freckle often found himself eyeing those worlds with a great deal of envy. He wished his studio hadn't fallen and his employees hadn't been hurt, but he knew exactly why things had turned out the way they had. He knew it was his fault. The fate of Joey Drew was always in his own hands. Those who fell, fell by their own hands. It was always their hubris, their own personal demons that dragged them down.

It wasn't Fate.

And yet... perhaps it was, in a sense. They had all come from somewhere. They had all sprung up as branching paths from a single canonical line. In a way, it was fate that Joey Drew always fell. It was how the story was meant to go. If they wanted to get to the point where Henry entered the studio once more after his departure, something had to go wrong. Joey Drew had to be flawed. The studio had to fall.

And Freckle was no different.

For Henry to free the inhabitants of the studio from their inky prison, Joey had to trap them in the first place. For the inky studio to exist in the first place, Joey had to create it. The stories were created from the horrors Henry created. Freckle tried not to think too much about it, because if he did, it would give him a headache. Not to mention, he didn't really want to think about the fact that he owed his existence to someone else.

But that was beside the point.

The point was... if one wanted the horrors of the ink to exist, then it was the fate of Joey Drew to fall into the role of the villain. And Freckle had certainly fallen into the villain in his own right. But he was going to be better. No matter what the point of his creation had been, he was going to choose to do better. He would write his own future.

HUGS FOR almost EVERYONE!!!!!!

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