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Jim was REALLY nervous about conducting cart kills via skynet 3.0. And I don't think (from a character perspective) he remembered everything, but...

it's hard to focus on pushing the carts the correct amount, and laying down tracks, and keeping an eye on the people below, when your instincts are SCREAMING that you're going to fall you're going to trip you're going to plummet and its going to hurt dont let it happen (again?) and it feels like your body remembers a fall that happened in another world and you keeping getting flashes of memories that seem almost the exact same to now except someone else was there.

And Joel's right behind you- much closer than he should be, really- (you commented on it earlier, and he said "it's to keep you from-" and then he stopped and told you it was nothing) and he's egging you on but his hands keep fluttering just around your shoulders, grabbing onto your arms when you squeeze past each other on the tiny causeway, and he won't stop reminding you to watch your step, and you're certain he remembers the same thing that's making you so afraid, but you don't say anything because you're pretty sure that's something you shouldn't remember.

Lizzie and Joel are lovers, reincarnated and reunited in every life. It takes a bit, but eventually in each life, they remember all the ones before.

Jimmy is reborn on a similar time scale to Joel and Lizzie- but completely unrelated. In fact, he justs starts noticing the two of them, over and over again, and in one life finally approaches them. And as the lifes and deaths keep ticking by, the three grow closer, until it's just Them.

But there's more to it.

Lizzie is fated is to always forget at some point, for her mind to grow foggy and for her to go- in some lifes, the more traditional sense, but sometimes she straight up vanishes, never to be seen again- until the next life, of course.

Jimmy is cursed to die young. To never see it coming, to be wholly convinced that this is his time, just to die once more in an ill fated accident.

And Joel?

Right. Session seven of past life is a thing that just happened. And now that Jimmy's been cooking for no real obvious reason, I figure it's finally time to bring back my old personally beloved idea for his celestial symbol.

Black Hole Jimmy.

Essentially, this whole concept revolves around the idea of Jimmy KILLING. Dragging people down with him, showing blood lust and and anger but also fear. It's the idea of something that is dead and has been dead for a long, long time, but is still alive, in the most tortured of ways. If you want a deeper look with a lot of rambling and explanation, I recommend you look here :) - and also here as well for a shorter yet more insane bit.

While this concept does play into his death motifs and a lot of other common themes with Jimmy's character, I especially enjoy the "event horizon" detail.

In a black hole, the event horizon is where you, and everything else, even light, can no longer fight against the immense gravitational pull. If you compare this to the original idea of the Canary curse- Jimmy's death being a point of no return for chaos and following deaths- (and even some of the more modern interpretations)- you can draw some dots real quick.

However that's. Actually NOT what I wanted to talk about.

See, the whole thing about black holes is that they consume. They drag in everything around them- light, gas, stray celestial bodies-

... what was that last one?

I've seen a screenshot or two of Pearl, shortly before her final death in Session 7, standing eclipsed against the night sky. The moon is rising behind her- a new moon. Where the sky appears void of anything but clouds and stars.

The moon is absent from the sky. And maybe it will remain that way.

What the hell am I getting at?

Jimmy killed Pearl. We know this. No one was expecting it, not even him.

A lone moon, long gone from a safe orbit around a sun or another planet, wandered in space, seeking revenge upon a star.

And then, she happened across a black hole- once a star, now held in a state of limbo.

There was... an altercation.

And the moon got too close, getting caught up in the immense gravity well of the burning orange dark singularity, and was pulled in. She was crushed in seconds by a strength not even the black hole had known he possessed.

Black holes draw in and destroy any and all celestial objects. As mentioned, moons- and other stars, and suns, and comets and planets and everything. They draw in- maybe with an almost magnetic gravitational pull, or a well known charm and kindness, and then dispatch and consume.

Maybe they don't want to be so ruthless. Maybe the black hole is just hurting from what happened to it (how it was forced to be something else, something verging on death and life and constantly burning and freezing and heralding an end for all). Amd maybe it's reaching out for anything to fill the hole and the hunger.

The sun looks into the void, and the void looks back, with an eye that seems golden brown and burning orange.

Anyway yeah I really really like blackhole Jimmy :) come on guys we can give him a halo that looks like an event horizon! We can do so many cool things with this!!!!!! :D