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something happens to where kit has to spend time in some kinda game hospital and kaboodle is STRESSING TF OUT over it because what if she dies!?!? so gobbles has to comfort him

kinda a similar flavor to the seperation anxeity thing, just slightly worse in a way :)

I love making the lives of my blorbos slightly worse!!

This is under the assumption that healing items are finite, and that Kit has run out of her own brand.

I feel like if Kit suffered an injury that wasn't fatal but still sucked, like, say, a broken arm, Kaboodle would be like "walk it off, we gotta get a move on" and try to smother his own worry for her (worry doesn't fix the problem), but would silently do a bunch of nice things like take over her jobs, get her a hot cocoa, etc. He'd verbally be cold because inside he's incredibly nervous and worried, but does the small things for her.

Now, if it was something like a head injury, back injury, or a lotta blood, he can't smother THAT much worry. He's pacing. He's cussing out whatever or whoever did it (if she fell off a high ledge onto the ground, he's cussing out the sidewalk). His mind is hard at work catastrophizing. He could not be pried away from the hospital room she's in with a crowbar.

Gobbles is nervous too because Kit is one of his best friends and he's never had a person close to him get so badly hurt before, and fiddles with his tie to the point he accidentally bound a few fingers in it. Still, watching the normally unbothered Kaboodle pacing around just feels wrong. Plus, the more Kaboodle rants and raves, the worse Gobbles' nerves get.

"Kaboodle?" "WHAT?!" "C-Could you, um, sit down?" "Sit down?! At a time like this?! Kit might DIE and we're doing NOTHING about it!"

Gobbles is startled at this but carefully reminds Kaboodle that the doctor (who is a weird slithery blue creature, but very trustworthy) said she'll make it. It seems the idea of Kit dying just came from Kaboodle's panicked head. Realizing this, Gobbles slowly coaxes Kaboodle down to a chair next to his own. The robot is still huffing and kicking a leg back and forth. Gobbles gently grabs his hand (and tries not to shake, because he's still scared himself) and simply says that it'll work out somehow (he doesn't know when, but making Kaboodle feel at peace takes higher priority than his own anxieties). The best thing they can do is try to keep strong for when she opens her eyes again.

Kaboodle scoffs lightly, but it seems to shut his panicking down a good amount. His claw rubs Gobbles' hand a little, absentmindedly. To fill the silence between them, Gobbles anxiously goes through his favorite puns and plays on words, while Kaboodle tiredly tries not to smile.

TW: GUN

Who wins, near-boundless magic harnessed by an insane century-old master wizard, or a small handgun

In other news, they got married on my Tomodachi island. Kaboodle fell first. Flappers sang at the wedding, and Kit cried. In celebration of this, here are some of my favorite screenshots.

Gobbles my scrabble goat (Kaboodle is good at scrabble too, he's just slightly worse than Gobbles and it drives him up the wall)

Thank you for the compli-threat! You are such a treat to have in the dinobytes fandom.

(Thank you, that is so kind!!! I would love to see, if you'd ever like to share! I am a sucker for these guys. I am the opposite of a plague doctor. I am here to infect the masses with dinobytes)

Under da read more because I kinda went off the rails.

Have any thoughts?

P.s Im surprised no one is talking about this

Flappers is not my favorite, but you can not deny his rage.

That'd be an awesome result of the pilot. We already saw Flappers be completely okay with violence and hold grudges ("I've been waiting years to tear you apart!" woah okay man) before the Syntax reveal. No wonder his whole demeanor changed when he spotted the Syntax. Flappers is very inclined to love his people with his whole heart, and hate whoever bothers them with his whole heart. It honestly seems like he's a guy with a lot of massive emotions, with the ability to act on them very easily.

It's obvious no one likes the Syntax here. You can't move on from the things they've done, the lives they've ended. It's not unreasonable to assume that Flappers will be transfixed on getting revenge in any way he can. Saving worlds is cool and all, and certainly important, but he wants to make them hurt.

A world surviving a Syntax invasion doesn't hurt the Syntax. It just prolongs their efforts to gather float. So, saving worlds is kind of revenge? But not enough for Flappers. Not when they keep coming back.

The Syntax is a much bigger threat than Snappers ever was, and Snappers was enough to make Flappers bloodthirsty. I believe he'll be talking about a kind of revenge that will make even Kaboodle uncomfortable.

I got that vibe from the pilot, yeah. I think it'd be cool if he eventually got more uses, but I think Kit would make the assumption that his greatest talent is emotional support.

I would love to see Gobbles as a therapist. He just learned what death was a week ago, and he's ready to help people cope with the world literally exploding! (He thinks.)

I believe he is especially good at helping people move on from mistakes. His game was educational, and thus a mistake from the player is to be expected. As a result, Gobbles has extensive experience building people up after they fail and giving them the courage to keep trying, just like he'd support other dinosaurs in his game world to tackle grammar rules one more time.

He also seems like the kind of guy (dinosaur) to give others a lot of grace. Someone said something mean? They must have had a bad day. Someone accidentally blew up an oven? It's not like they WANTED to blow it up, let's help them out! Someone still owes him a favor after months of waiting for them to pay him back? Whatever, we all forget sometimes! He didn't need that favor anyway. If he was ever tasked with supporting someone who has done some nasty things, he'd first give them grace, and then focus on getting them motivated enough to try to be a better person, or to stop beating themselves up for accidentally triggering the win condition.