#thayneart

ligmalis.

seriously tho if i had a nickel for every game with a pair of doomed lesbians where one has unearthly powers at the whims of incomprehensible forces and the other is really physically strong but has communication and emotional issues oh and also it’s the end of the world and there’s a lot of snow

stubit beasts

damn we back on the rain world train this week

I think the iterator puppets should be treated more like “puppets” - they act like faces and names for otherwise incomprehensibly large beings. When the slugcat listens to Five Pebbles speak, they are being catalogued, analyzed, and archived by a relatively minor and to my knowledge unnecessary part of a greater whole (since the world of RW is so odd and even has its own laws of physics (that’s another post I don’t feel qualified to make yet), it’s possible that iterators have personalities as a byproduct of creating such a large biological computer system). 

I would also like to think that, unless they are simply a byproduct of their size, the iterator puppets and personalities were created by the Benefactors/Ancients/Creators/Whatever You Call Those Guys to carry some symbolic weight, to make it feel like another person was going through the all-important struggle to reach ascension so they could rest in their luxurious cities without fear of treading too far over the lines of their beliefs.

I believe this is why the iterators have faces and not faceless masks - to symbolize their sacrifice, taking the ABCs’ place in the cycle so the ABCs could feel more distant from it. An iterator was a surrogate person, a necessary sacrifice to separate the ABCs (both symbolically and literally) from the physical world they detested so much