#leo rants

and I'm not talking perverted stuff, I'm talking more isolation, control, gaslighting, building dependence on Wifies, telling Parrot how Wifies is the only one who can get him out. then those markers of childhood abuse like telling them the outside world is dangerous - constantly and with proof (something Wifies lacked), they're only safe here inside (remember them covering up the exit together - would be cool if someone like died in front of them, or burned the forest, or they saw that the world had been already ruined), making them feel incompetent (by rigging mini games so they lose every time, even when it's not necessary...), weak (by countering their every move). imagine if Wifies destroyed the outside near paragon's exit to make him believe there was a war. imagine if Parrot was punished for trying to escape - make "but I'll kill all your friends" start coming true; make him repeat "I give up. I can't put my friends through this anymore". He's not begging anyone in the current universe because there's no single party responsible for his curse so there's no one to ask to stop. Make Wifies wear the director armor when he executes his friends, heck, make him invis, too, so Parrot doubts if it's even Wifies at that point and compartmentalizes so hard he gaslights himself into thinking Wifies is not doing anything bad and it's someone else.

like, arguably, Wifies did all the mind-controlling stuff correctly (i am not normal about the rigged hide&seek and making Parrot cover the exit even after leaving him unattended, which aims at making him think he's doing this to himself, too. and all the activities to make parrot attached to Wifies as the abuser and to Paragon itself. i am. blffrssrhhvllr rsgggnlhhhvvrlnnghf ghvddllrrsghhh foaming at the mouth)

correctly. just. not enough. Parrot would be so fucked up if this lasted for additional several weeks / months after he'd given up.

then let's make Parrot do chores. so many of them that he has no time for whatever he wanted to do of his own accord and with time he forgets what he wanted in the first place and loses grip on his sense of identity. Bonus points if Wifies enmeshes with Parrot's private space, always walking in his house, unprompted, taking his stuff, changing his surroundings.

make Parrot take part in abusing his friends. make him wear their armor and use their items. make him feel like he himself is the curse. turn him actively suicidal. then, fast-forward to the pressure plates, there's no spyglass this time, and Parrot decides to step off first. but because this was a suicide chamber for Wifies, he tells Parrot to run and he instinctively listens and escapes, while Wifies is left to die. Parrot can't believe this, so he returns to the death scene and looks for Wifies only to find like 1 belonging of his. However, the knowledge that Wifies has sacrificed himself messes up Parrot even further because not only can't he feel happy about it (we've seen this in canon and in eb100 Wato), but his whole world shatters in many ways:

he doesn't have anywhere to go really

he doesn't have the good Wifies anymore, and it's indirectly his fault; generally, Parrot's lost another person he was attached to

there's no evil Wifies anymore either, but this happened at the expense of the good Wifies; but was there any evil Wifies to begin with, if this seemingly bad guy has just saved Parrot's life with his? if he gave up that easily, then what has this all been for? was all of this struggle completely unnecessary? why was this senseless and merciless abuse happening? who for, if not for Wifies? who's now dead at that