"susie is sleeping on the floor in the closet with objects!" and berdly broke his arm because kris threw the laptop at him. c'mon now.
toby is not being subtle at all about the fact that the darkners are real. i mean theyre all videogame characters anyways so i dont think it makes sense to insist that only some of them are "real". theyre as real as you want them to be
Truly !!! There is also the aspect that the darkners deserve to be as "real" as the lightners are. They, too, deserve to have room to be people, to exist outside just how useful they can be. Something I'll never understand about insisting on the darkners being fictional is like.. what is that actually saying? Actually looking at it for a second , so much would straight up be written off or hardly make any sense beyond the surface if the message was just "dont get caught up in fiction/fantasy and face reality" . I guess i can understand the outline behind "susie needs to face reality" but that shouldnt mean she and everyone else will forever have to endure the constraints of the light world with nowhere to go where they can be true to themselves? It ignores so many of the actual mechanics and themes the narratives been juggling around. Is that ending really so worth it? Practically killing off all the darkners we know very well to possess their own likeness, one they've already been confined by? Just to keep the "normal" status quo? Like there aren't already so many characters and plotlines highlighting how that may not actually be the right way to go.. dark worlds are hardly the childish fantasy the cast has to grow up from, they're quite literally the new disruption to town? The one embodying uncertainty and change? Practically everything is signalling that moving on to a darker future with nothing set in stone for them IS the better "ending". Theres something more important than reaching the end , than having that path written out for you in a light so bright you'll be blinded to see any other way Yadda yadda Like come on
