#ratt

what's the point of being able to perfectly mimic your friend's voices if not to make fun of them (its not like you could reasonably trick them into believing its not coming from you, being in a blank room and all)

out of the four of them rattling around in that head of theirs, i think edd would be the most likely to kind of dissociate and retreat away from their shared head space. He's the leader, he's the one who everyone looks to, he's the mediator, he's the subject in which the world used to revolve around.

he's the quickest to become overwhelmed by the change in everything.

the pedestal redd!edd stands on is a lot less dizzying than the one edd prime stands on. he's also confronted a lot of the issues that go unsaid by the main gang just by virtue of being unable to ignore them, you know, sharing a brain and all. but the pedestal still feels like its there, the luxury of privacy is gone and with it the ability to deal with his own feeling without burdening his new fellow headmates, his hands are awkward and cumbersome, he can't leave. one moment a shift happens and

edd is gone.

In the way its hard to notice an absence, they probably don't even notice it's happened until some time has past, but when they do it's almost a "need to call larry" situation. eventually they just realize that edd is just dissociating, tomatoredd explains that they just need some time to themselves, and the rest is history

(how redd!edd got away with ignoring his issues? well he's still the "leader" to the rest of them at this point, he just told them "don't worry about it" lmao)