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Josh Washington: The Psycho

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Thank you @antihuntress for letting me use your mod again! I'm so grateful! Truly! You do such mazing works!

Anyway, I'll just say this: Josh Washington deserved better.

Yes, he was totally in the wrong for the "prank". But also, he had a very good reason.

He did choose the wrong victims for it, but also? In reality HE WAS punishing himself. He CHOOSED Sam and Chris BECAUSE they were the one who loved him, and him hurting them meant hurting himself. It was him pushing them away so that he could make his worst fear true: isolation.

I'm glad in the remake they now give us the choice to "save" him. But in the end he still succeeded in punishing himself. He still ended up alone.

And god, they're all complex characters, but him? He's special. He suffered from mental illness for YEARS, and he was having a psychotic breakdown. He was in such a horrible mental state for the better part of a year. He's as much of a perpetrator as he is of a victim.

His parents failed him, the system failed him, and this is the result.