I’m about to get really autistic in your messages but thank you for showing the affect Henry’s abuse has had on mellow/rodger
especially given the fact like, it’s likely Henry is showing kindness he hasn’t had before from his family properly
I do want to know what your views on surgeon is, because he in my mind is just as abusive because ending C feels implied to be pre planned and he didn’t love mellow enough to not go thru with his plans in ending C. Being vague in case it’s spoilers for you, but please be woke about surgeon the Henry art and the lines of “why do I hate you” hit home to me as a victim and it genuinely is the best piece of fanart I’ve fucking seen its incredible
please forgive me I'm typing on my phone so this might be a little scatterbrained
unfortunately (?) i'm not as attached to the surgeon As Much as i think most other people are so yeah i look at ending C and go The Fuck Is Your Problem HDHSJSBHS I don't hate him like i do henry bc like. my Primary Experience Of Being Childhood Abused just felt very similar to what henry does, in that I was hit for basically no damn reason and was otherwise neglected in the way that 'there is no use in being grounded bc i was just As A Baseline not allowed to do much' (mellow seems to be not allowed out of his room, given henry presumably heard him fall into the kitchen, and if he finds him, Hits Him and puts him back in his room, no death screen) so I uh. relate to that kind of abuse and so Henry is my number one enemy HDBSBSBSN
and like. I think the surgeon does care about mellow and Wanted to spare him from the ritual of ending C, i'm pretty sure that's Why he made mirror rodger. i forget what question but he responds with something about how the clone doesn't compare to the real deal ans that's why he's resolved to put mellow through it. and i thiiink if you ask him if he has any regrets he says "I only wish I had done this sooner" which. he is definitely saying that as in 'i wish i had done this before I could get attached to you' right. double edged sword of 'aw he cares about him' and 'aw and it will not stop him from killing mellow( and themself) for 'the greater good' '. which, (looks at how abusers can absolutely love you and still abuse you) even if i'm not sure i'd call it abuse in the traditional sense
and then there's the [open mouth grimace] instilled in me about how he made a clone of mellow with the intent to ritualistically sacrifice him(and themself). nice of the surgeon to bring mellow back to life and i think in doing this is what made henry's violence against mellow to be Cartoonish now given that hitting him with the mallet at one point killed him but now just cartoonishly dents his head and does not kill him. but still. there's also The Clear Clear agony the bride is in and seems To Have Been In for years and years and years but we are talking about their relationship to mellow and ability/lack thereof to be a good parent-figure to mellow. but I mean leaving the someones you romantically love to be in Copious misery maybe doesn't reflect well on how you treat The Kid. i guess my thoughts are as ending C describes, Maybe he could've been a good dad, in another life. but not this one !
also with ending C i'm not too sure how to like, think about it ? the overall Outcome of it for The World i mean. I know expressly the ritual is to keep the god alive(replacing the body with the bride) and something i've been worried about is. does the ritual not going through mean anything for endings A and B ? I know the surgeon says something about how the desert is kind of all that's left of the outside world, it's not Inhospitable, just unpleasant, but them and the parasite seem to imply the god is dying, given that the parasite carves itself out of this 'sinking ship' in ending B, and the surgeon is doing the ritual in ending C. I have to worry if that implies that the world outside will be ending soon. also the surgeon says with the ritual everyone inside the god wont even know anything happened and their lives will continue as normal but, while it think it's implied there is more to the inside world than what we see, they were kinda just left stranded. i was worried from the start that ending A was "too good" to be true but if that's the case at least then the world can end with mellow in a happy home safe and surrounded by people he cares about and who care about him.......... i unno..........
☝️as a ms mirianne Fan though, i do think it necessary i also point out Her flaws as a parent figure. she does not let mellow finish talking when he tries to voice legitimate concerns and scolds him for what he Does manage to say. you can have him try to tell her about the imitation crab monster that looked like catthew that chased him out of the graveyard and she doesn't hear him out and gets upset with him for going to the graveyard at all, saying "you're lucky a scare was all you got". she has a couple other lines like this for other instances you try to report but I'm forgetting what they are. I know to one of them she says she would ground mellow if she could. which is why in that one drawing I said 'congrats on being the one mellow parent-figure to make it to ending A. Use It Wisely' i am trusting you can turn this around now that you aren't in charge of a whole village dealing with a serial killer don't fuck it up !!!
