This is why I analyze things all the time, why I try to be (keyword "try") as cold and logical as I can, and most of all, why I despise and avoid all instances of competition.
Congrats, people who saw that.. blog I took down. You've met the side of me I've been afraid of this whole time. ^^;;; That's the side of me that will probably come out during some sort of climax in OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING, like, say, the finale of Act III. That is, that's the side of me that I wish I could harness just for storytelling purposes. But writing isn't that simple.
Isn't it interesting how Rapture always tends to be the good story in all this and Jordan Eats Normally Now always tends to be the gross older sibling? DCA was the awesome and nicely-balanced oldest sibling, Rapture was the bouncy and energetic and kinky youngest sibling, and Jordan Eats is just the red-headed stepchild. No offense to red-headed stepchildren out there. Just saying.
..I feel like Dave Wong in John Dies at the End. Except a little less crazy. Or maybe a little more, depends on how you look at it.
I'm sorry, people. I'm sorry people had to see that. Not this post; this post is actually pretty decent. I mean.. the noodle incident, the incident that I want to remain just a noodle incident.
Sorry.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The Truth of Concept
I don't exist! :D
I'm a man of concept. I don't exist. I'm just text and pictures, a fictional character in a fictional blog. This is why I have no trouble creating a million different versions of me in the Fear Mythos. Among many other stories.
I'm good at playing pretend because I am just pretend. I don't exist, and I never did.
I step out of my room and people keep walking on by without glancing. I go on websites and that's where people notice me, when I'm just words on their screen. When they ignore me, there's no stigma attached. I'm just a character. No one knows me. I don't even have a self to know.
I don't even cry! I don't have feelings. I don't exist.
I'm a man of concept. I don't exist. I'm just text and pictures, a fictional character in a fictional blog. This is why I have no trouble creating a million different versions of me in the Fear Mythos. Among many other stories.
I'm good at playing pretend because I am just pretend. I don't exist, and I never did.
I step out of my room and people keep walking on by without glancing. I go on websites and that's where people notice me, when I'm just words on their screen. When they ignore me, there's no stigma attached. I'm just a character. No one knows me. I don't even have a self to know.
I don't even cry! I don't have feelings. I don't exist.
Friday, April 6, 2012
The Cold Boy Thoughts
The Cold Boy is a boy who is cold. He's the Fear representation of isolation, and he goes after people who are currently isolating themselves. He makes sure they're as cold and isolated as possible. I have trouble writing about him.
Honestly, I just.. don't get how a little boy who's always too cold is supposed to represent the fear of isolation. Now, The Wooden Girl represents the fear of abuse and control, as she's a marionette, and marionettes are obviously something you control. The slender man is the fear of strangers and, arguably, trees. The slender man is a faceless man in a business suit; you can't get more "stranger" than that. The Archangel-- okay, I have problems with The Archangel, as it is, but I'll get to him later. The Blind Man is an old blind man representing the fear of.. memory loss. And old guys lose their memory a lot, I guess! I'll get to him later as well. EAT is.. a lot of things, and I'm still working on her, but it can be seen as the fear of drowning in your obsessions, and EAT is water, so.. yeah. The Dying Man, I actually fully get him, as vague as he is. He represents a very vague concept, the fear of death, the fear of being abused, the.. well, there's some overlap with The Wooden Girl, but this is a different facet of being abused. The Wooden Girl is the fear of the abuser; The Dying Man is the abused's fear of themselves.
My point is that some Fears are easier to write than others because they represent their concept very well. A little boy who's always too cold seems more to me like a fear of commitment, a fear of strange little boys on the street.
I had an idea last night, actually, for an interpretation of The Cold Boy. Basically, mix him with The Quiet. No more cold little boy, instead give a foreboding sense of sheer nothing. And you just know that, with this nothing, there will be complete isolation. Maybe have a nursery rhyme motif of foreshadowing the oncoming storm of nothing.
Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he.
So he called for his pipe,
And he called for his bowl,
And he called for his fiddlers three.
Now yes, that isn't exactly foreshadowing pure nothingness, but it'd be symbolic. This is the fear of isolation, not the fear of nothing. The fear of isolation would be represented by absolute nothing. And then all you'd need to do is shift the focus from "EVERYTHING TO NOTHING" to "Concentrated bursts of nothing that will eat individual people up and isolate them from everything."
Hell, The Empty City could easily cover this.
Honestly, I just.. don't get how a little boy who's always too cold is supposed to represent the fear of isolation. Now, The Wooden Girl represents the fear of abuse and control, as she's a marionette, and marionettes are obviously something you control. The slender man is the fear of strangers and, arguably, trees. The slender man is a faceless man in a business suit; you can't get more "stranger" than that. The Archangel-- okay, I have problems with The Archangel, as it is, but I'll get to him later. The Blind Man is an old blind man representing the fear of.. memory loss. And old guys lose their memory a lot, I guess! I'll get to him later as well. EAT is.. a lot of things, and I'm still working on her, but it can be seen as the fear of drowning in your obsessions, and EAT is water, so.. yeah. The Dying Man, I actually fully get him, as vague as he is. He represents a very vague concept, the fear of death, the fear of being abused, the.. well, there's some overlap with The Wooden Girl, but this is a different facet of being abused. The Wooden Girl is the fear of the abuser; The Dying Man is the abused's fear of themselves.
My point is that some Fears are easier to write than others because they represent their concept very well. A little boy who's always too cold seems more to me like a fear of commitment, a fear of strange little boys on the street.
I had an idea last night, actually, for an interpretation of The Cold Boy. Basically, mix him with The Quiet. No more cold little boy, instead give a foreboding sense of sheer nothing. And you just know that, with this nothing, there will be complete isolation. Maybe have a nursery rhyme motif of foreshadowing the oncoming storm of nothing.
Old King Cole was a merry old soul
And a merry old soul was he.
So he called for his pipe,
And he called for his bowl,
And he called for his fiddlers three.
Now yes, that isn't exactly foreshadowing pure nothingness, but it'd be symbolic. This is the fear of isolation, not the fear of nothing. The fear of isolation would be represented by absolute nothing. And then all you'd need to do is shift the focus from "EVERYTHING TO NOTHING" to "Concentrated bursts of nothing that will eat individual people up and isolate them from everything."
Hell, The Empty City could easily cover this.
Man of Concept
Let's start with a definition.
I say I'm a man of concept, as it's a phrase that popped into my head recently, and I've been using it to describe myself ever since. "But what does it mean?" I'll elaborate.
Now, it's no secret that I'm a passionate supporter of the internet. I grew up on the internet; I've been devoted to this thing ever since I was around nine. At the age of ten, I began writing Dark Chao Adventures, which gave me my first real tastes of "HOLY SHIT I'M POPULAR ON THE INTERNET" and of, well.. of being an internet personality. I spent the next few years trying to be popular overall, in real life and on the internet. And when my life took a bit of a drastic turn for isolation, the internet was the only contact I had with culture, with friends, with anything. This was when I was fifteen and a half, in August of 2010. This basically allowed me to concentrate my efforts on the internet.
By the time we reach 2012, I'm barely even a human being anymore. I'm DJay32 first, Jordan Dooling second. Seeing "*hug*" on a screen gives me just as much warmth as actually embracing a human being; I've gone so long without prolonged human contact that I've developed this quirk. I think in text, I find text adorable, I don't even correlate myself as having a face. "The face of Jordan Dooling" is the face of the Rapture protagonist of the same name.
On the flipside, conceptual thinking and philosophies have always been natural for me, and by this point, I completely excel at both. I've become a very particular type of writer, one who is beyond self-aware. As really, I hit "fully self-conscious" in second grade. By this point, I just think of what's best for those around me. But that's not true, is it? I think of what's best for myself, being a conceited human. Maybe both are true. I can switch between entire mindsets with great ease, as it's only a matter of concept for me.
I'm a man of concept because I exist only in concept. Like Weathered Crashes, I was born on the internet. Like the protagonist to Built For Two, I exist in two places at once and have little difficulty switching consciousness between both. Just as there are multiple Jordan Doolings in the fictional Fear Mythos, there are multiple entities within my consciousness.
Reality is a blur to me. A trip to the kitchen is but a fading memory, a temporal dream state to drift through. "The drifting drifter, look into the picture."
Here's a picture for you: I haven't lived a normal day (normal, in this context, meaning "with no suicidal thoughts and/or blatant obfuscations of abuse") since I was thirteen.
I have had years to dwell on the past. I like to think I no longer have one outside of the internet. Jordan Dooling died on August 7th, 2010. At the same time, Jordan Dooling died in mid-November of 2011. That's more of.. he died, but was kept in stasis up until late-2011, where he was brought back just to be murdered once more. DJay32 was born in what, 2003, 2004? And he has kept going strong ever since.
..well, aside from the occasional catatonic breakdown.
"Well, what about your whole 'coat and hat and scarf' deal? You need a body to wear clothes!" This is correct, but my body is just there to complement the concepts. I wear such an iconic costume because I want my appearance to be a symbol, an idea. An appearance is just a means to an end.
What is my end? ...probably "love me" or something. But the longer I go without love, the more I don't need it. But the longer I go without love, the harder it is to not cry. Both statements are 100% true.
I could probably pass as bipolar or as having dissociative identity disorder. But no, I just have complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Not to be confused with regular PTSD, of course. C-PTSD is basically that but for domestic abuse victims.
..I'll stop talking now.
I say I'm a man of concept, as it's a phrase that popped into my head recently, and I've been using it to describe myself ever since. "But what does it mean?" I'll elaborate.
Now, it's no secret that I'm a passionate supporter of the internet. I grew up on the internet; I've been devoted to this thing ever since I was around nine. At the age of ten, I began writing Dark Chao Adventures, which gave me my first real tastes of "HOLY SHIT I'M POPULAR ON THE INTERNET" and of, well.. of being an internet personality. I spent the next few years trying to be popular overall, in real life and on the internet. And when my life took a bit of a drastic turn for isolation, the internet was the only contact I had with culture, with friends, with anything. This was when I was fifteen and a half, in August of 2010. This basically allowed me to concentrate my efforts on the internet.
By the time we reach 2012, I'm barely even a human being anymore. I'm DJay32 first, Jordan Dooling second. Seeing "*hug*" on a screen gives me just as much warmth as actually embracing a human being; I've gone so long without prolonged human contact that I've developed this quirk. I think in text, I find text adorable, I don't even correlate myself as having a face. "The face of Jordan Dooling" is the face of the Rapture protagonist of the same name.
On the flipside, conceptual thinking and philosophies have always been natural for me, and by this point, I completely excel at both. I've become a very particular type of writer, one who is beyond self-aware. As really, I hit "fully self-conscious" in second grade. By this point, I just think of what's best for those around me. But that's not true, is it? I think of what's best for myself, being a conceited human. Maybe both are true. I can switch between entire mindsets with great ease, as it's only a matter of concept for me.
I'm a man of concept because I exist only in concept. Like Weathered Crashes, I was born on the internet. Like the protagonist to Built For Two, I exist in two places at once and have little difficulty switching consciousness between both. Just as there are multiple Jordan Doolings in the fictional Fear Mythos, there are multiple entities within my consciousness.
Reality is a blur to me. A trip to the kitchen is but a fading memory, a temporal dream state to drift through. "The drifting drifter, look into the picture."
Here's a picture for you: I haven't lived a normal day (normal, in this context, meaning "with no suicidal thoughts and/or blatant obfuscations of abuse") since I was thirteen.
I have had years to dwell on the past. I like to think I no longer have one outside of the internet. Jordan Dooling died on August 7th, 2010. At the same time, Jordan Dooling died in mid-November of 2011. That's more of.. he died, but was kept in stasis up until late-2011, where he was brought back just to be murdered once more. DJay32 was born in what, 2003, 2004? And he has kept going strong ever since.
..well, aside from the occasional catatonic breakdown.
"Well, what about your whole 'coat and hat and scarf' deal? You need a body to wear clothes!" This is correct, but my body is just there to complement the concepts. I wear such an iconic costume because I want my appearance to be a symbol, an idea. An appearance is just a means to an end.
What is my end? ...probably "love me" or something. But the longer I go without love, the more I don't need it. But the longer I go without love, the harder it is to not cry. Both statements are 100% true.
I could probably pass as bipolar or as having dissociative identity disorder. But no, I just have complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Not to be confused with regular PTSD, of course. C-PTSD is basically that but for domestic abuse victims.
..I'll stop talking now.
Writer's Soliloquy
The ocean calls for my blood.
The shelves obfuscate, spiral mountains defictionalized.
Augmented lighting in a segmented room, fragmented mind.
What do I want to write? It's an excellent question. I long to expand my ideas. I'm a man of concept, and I want to flesh this out.
But every time I think of writing, I think of inventing a fictional protagonist who shares a quirk or two of mine. Because I feel like I've got enough Author Avatar protagonists. Jordan Eats, Rapture, DCA. There's a lot of focus on me on the internet.
..but then again, that's to compensate for my life, which hasn't had much focus on myself, has it?
Come on, Jordan. You're an attention-whore. Freudian Excuse or not, it's who you are, and you don't feel comfortable changing it for the world.
Embrace it. :3
The shelves obfuscate, spiral mountains defictionalized.
Augmented lighting in a segmented room, fragmented mind.
What do I want to write? It's an excellent question. I long to expand my ideas. I'm a man of concept, and I want to flesh this out.
But every time I think of writing, I think of inventing a fictional protagonist who shares a quirk or two of mine. Because I feel like I've got enough Author Avatar protagonists. Jordan Eats, Rapture, DCA. There's a lot of focus on me on the internet.
..but then again, that's to compensate for my life, which hasn't had much focus on myself, has it?
Come on, Jordan. You're an attention-whore. Freudian Excuse or not, it's who you are, and you don't feel comfortable changing it for the world.
Embrace it. :3
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Cognitive Dissonance
Built For Two is a metaphor for how my mind works. Yeah, what a surprise, the vague story's a metaphor. But bare with me, I'm serious.
I offer you my hypothesis first, and then I will give you evidence.
My mind was built for two, and you can tell this by the things I write about.
Exhibit A) Built For Two in its entirety. Built For Two is about an unnamed maths professor who lives, isolated, in England. At the same time, he lives, empty, over there (in The Empty City), wandering the endless hallways. In England, he longs to live the perfect paradox. Over there, he is content in his paradox. In England, he searches for a man who thinks the same as he does. Over there, he has been with the man his whole life. Neither is incorrect; both are entirely right. The ending to Built For Two consisted of The Blind Man sending him back through his life again, and the ending to Built For Two consisted of The Archangel killing him to run free over there. In the end, he's three different things at once: He's living in England, he's dead, and he's living over there.
Exhibit B) OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING's introduction of The Beast. When The Beast is introduced, Jordan's journals exist in two states at once. Jordan is writing in them in Planck level, and at the exact same time, Donnie is writing in them in North Springs High School. When they are being read by the ominous readers, sometimes they say Jordan's account, sometimes they say Donnie's. Depends on when you look at them.
Exhibit C) The ending to Dark Chao Adventures. DCA ends with Episode 85. DCA ends with Episode 88. Both are correct, and neither is incorrect. It makes sense; Episode 88 is not Episode 85, yet both are the ending. The chao are completely wiped from the show, and the chao are kept in impossible space at the same time.
I write this so naturally because the concept of two states of being is second-nature to me. For instance, at the moment, I am completely brain-dead. Yet here I am, typing eloquent words.
I'm going to bed now.
I hello why.This is the final cut, I' srupsirsd that you doifn'r ust ask him why hse doesn;'t love you anymore.
I have secrets I have no secrets I have secrts, stay away
Godnight
THere is a god
There is no god
I respect religion
I hate it
SSDAxI
COgnitivr didsonseance
juts fucking jelp me ,ewp ,ease . Easel will you help me?
I offer you my hypothesis first, and then I will give you evidence.
My mind was built for two, and you can tell this by the things I write about.
Exhibit A) Built For Two in its entirety. Built For Two is about an unnamed maths professor who lives, isolated, in England. At the same time, he lives, empty, over there (in The Empty City), wandering the endless hallways. In England, he longs to live the perfect paradox. Over there, he is content in his paradox. In England, he searches for a man who thinks the same as he does. Over there, he has been with the man his whole life. Neither is incorrect; both are entirely right. The ending to Built For Two consisted of The Blind Man sending him back through his life again, and the ending to Built For Two consisted of The Archangel killing him to run free over there. In the end, he's three different things at once: He's living in England, he's dead, and he's living over there.
Exhibit B) OH GOD THE RAPTURE IS BURNING's introduction of The Beast. When The Beast is introduced, Jordan's journals exist in two states at once. Jordan is writing in them in Planck level, and at the exact same time, Donnie is writing in them in North Springs High School. When they are being read by the ominous readers, sometimes they say Jordan's account, sometimes they say Donnie's. Depends on when you look at them.
Exhibit C) The ending to Dark Chao Adventures. DCA ends with Episode 85. DCA ends with Episode 88. Both are correct, and neither is incorrect. It makes sense; Episode 88 is not Episode 85, yet both are the ending. The chao are completely wiped from the show, and the chao are kept in impossible space at the same time.
I write this so naturally because the concept of two states of being is second-nature to me. For instance, at the moment, I am completely brain-dead. Yet here I am, typing eloquent words.
I'm going to bed now.
I hello why.This is the final cut, I' srupsirsd that you doifn'r ust ask him why hse doesn;'t love you anymore.
I have secrets I have no secrets I have secrts, stay away
Godnight
THere is a god
There is no god
I respect religion
I hate it
SSDAxI
COgnitivr didsonseance
juts fucking jelp me ,ewp ,ease . Easel will you help me?
The Extremely-Abridged Summary of Dark Chao Adventures, Ending
So like I said, DCA's over now. And I had given a veeery brief summary of the plot up to Episode 84 before, but now I finished the rest of the story, so I'll finish the summary!
This, obviously, will have spoilers for the ending of Dark Chao Adventures. If you plan on reading the story eventually, I'd recommend taking caution here.
So Shade, Dark, Red, and Shadow manifest in Chao Talk in some random building. They cautiously explore before being forcibly evicted from the building, discovering they were on the fiftieth floor and also that they are falling considerably fast towards the street. They are saved mid-fall by Wilson Constable Kilburn, the grotesque abomination that is what's left of Dark's father.
Kilburn urges Dark to go along with the antagonists and to wipe the show completely, but Dark voices his concerns for a "good ending" (the chao left in their gardens to happily be in stasis indefinitely as I forget about the show). He directly asks me what "the end of DCA" will consist of, and I tell him that there's a good chance the entire show will just be wiped clean. I explain how difficult it would be to earn a happy ending here, and then Dark makes me promise that, at the very least, I won't force this last episode to be a feature-length epic. Which I do promise.
Then the Veteran's Committee come back in and turn out to be the Gatekeepers of Chao Talk, eight malevolent figures who are attempting to prevent the protagonists from fighting the Beta Avengers. And they also force Episode 85 closer towards chapter eight, which is to be the final chapter of DCA. And then most of the Chao Talk adventure is curtailed, with the other protagonists being introduced and the members of the Beta Avengers being shown as well. But rather unexpectedly, a lot of Hero chao are killed very graphically by "unexpected developments," which is kinda an arc phrase of the last two seasons.
All the protagonists and all the antagonists are gathered in the Camper Festival which is simultaneously in the fifth district of Chao Talk, making for double, potentially triple the eldritch. And then the MILKMAN gets full control of the script, making it exponentially more eldritch. More protagonists enter the story, and antagonist Andrew Ryder is killed. The MILKMAN swiftly replaces Ryder with a resurrected Metal Sonic, making the eldritch scale off the charts by this point.
The protagonists escape and continue progressing through the districts, with Red pondering on what all the build-up is building up to. Future Shade claims to be Shade from the past and then is wiped from the series. Future Shadow begs the chao not to continue the mindless cycle, and then he is wiped from the series as well. Chapter eight begins with the protagonists waking up in Sancheria and some characters being taken forever by the slender man.
The protagonists return to Daedalus Labs, still not seeing the bigger picture. They encounter Zero, who isn't even supposed to be alive. He suspiciously mentions there being more downsides to senseless bending of the script than any party is aware of, though when prompted on it, he only says "Unexpected developments are rising."
The protagonists and the antagonists meet up, the MILKMAN wipes JOE from the show, and MILKMAN reveals that he's extremely afraid of the eights and fives, of IT, and of Red Metal. And that's when Metal Speedy shows up! Metal Sonic is destroyed, Echo is killed, and chunks of DCA are completely wiped. All this time, the script switches to octave pentameter-- every line contains either eight words, five words, or some multiple of the two. Or replace "words" with "syllables."
In the climax, Episode 85 has forty characters total (eight times five), and then Shadow makes a desperate jump to grab five chaos drives, whereupon he becomes a Dark/Run chao and bends the script to defeat Metal Speedy. But Metal Speedy bends the script at the same time, so basically, all is wiped except for the Dark Garden, where sixteen protagonists manifest before Tagliare is murdered to make room for Metal Speedy. Dark breaks the octave pentameter and is swiftly murdered, followed by Zero and the Tails Doll, making the character count thirteen (eight plus five).
Chao is murdered next, followed by Red, Eggman, and Levity Nite and then Mephiles, bringing the count down to eight. Zero is killed next, and then I enter the scene, bringing it back up to eight. The female Shade comes up with a plan to get Metal Speedy to slip up his speech, leaving him vulnerable to IT. It works, though she is also killed in the process. As Metal Speedy is pulled down into IT, he grabs Shadow and Shade jumps down to save him. The three of them have a quick fight which ends in Metal Speedy's death. The remaining protagonists mourn over their absent friends before complying to the show being wiped.
All that is left is for the Writing Writer to explain to the reader what has happened to Ulysses, the one character who was not wiped. He explains this, and then he reveals that Shade and Shadow were never actually wiped. He explains the legacy of DCA, and then he gives more information about Ulysses.
Shade and Shadow are shown in an impossible town with impossible events in an impossible world. The Camper manifests, prompting them to go on the run. The Writing Writer explains to them that this Episode 88 exists because DCA has multiple facets that each need focus, even when ending, and that this last episode is the ending to the last facet. And then a wide gaping plot hole is exposed, ripping the plot wide open for a very special character to enter.
...god, this is where it... gets crazy.
EAT is Instability is IT is eight and five is Red Metal. You heard me right; EAT is the same as Instability, which is the same as IT, which is the same as eight and five, which is the same as Red Metal. They're all just different faces of the same eldritch, and each face needs focus even when ending. EAT rips her way into DCA and turns Amphis into (Future Red who then becomes regular) Red, turns Shade Junior into Levity Nite, and then loops DCA for key characters.
DCA is simultaneously running at two times-- normally for Shade, Shadow, and this first Red/Amphis, who are all living years and years in a hellish nightmare (they are the "Future" characters seen throughout the show) only to be wiped when the final episode comes again. DCA is also running on a perpetual loop in order to keep the logic going.
In the meantime, the show has looped back to Episode 85. We're shown "Future" Shade and Shadow's thoughts as they are wiped from existence. Then, as Shadow grabs his five chaos drives, he does not evolve to a Dark/Run chao, as that would imply he had another two. Instead, he simply grows a little more powerful, only to be overpowered by Metal Speedy. All of DCA is wiped except for the Dark Garden and Metal Speedy, who has one last conversation with the Writing Writer. He learns of the eldritch running through DCA and is quickly engulfed by it, trapped for eternity.
The Writing Writer gives one last eulogy for the show before rolling the credits for one last time. Whether or not the show is wiped is up to speculation.
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what happened, either.
This, obviously, will have spoilers for the ending of Dark Chao Adventures. If you plan on reading the story eventually, I'd recommend taking caution here.
So Shade, Dark, Red, and Shadow manifest in Chao Talk in some random building. They cautiously explore before being forcibly evicted from the building, discovering they were on the fiftieth floor and also that they are falling considerably fast towards the street. They are saved mid-fall by Wilson Constable Kilburn, the grotesque abomination that is what's left of Dark's father.
Kilburn urges Dark to go along with the antagonists and to wipe the show completely, but Dark voices his concerns for a "good ending" (the chao left in their gardens to happily be in stasis indefinitely as I forget about the show). He directly asks me what "the end of DCA" will consist of, and I tell him that there's a good chance the entire show will just be wiped clean. I explain how difficult it would be to earn a happy ending here, and then Dark makes me promise that, at the very least, I won't force this last episode to be a feature-length epic. Which I do promise.
Then the Veteran's Committee come back in and turn out to be the Gatekeepers of Chao Talk, eight malevolent figures who are attempting to prevent the protagonists from fighting the Beta Avengers. And they also force Episode 85 closer towards chapter eight, which is to be the final chapter of DCA. And then most of the Chao Talk adventure is curtailed, with the other protagonists being introduced and the members of the Beta Avengers being shown as well. But rather unexpectedly, a lot of Hero chao are killed very graphically by "unexpected developments," which is kinda an arc phrase of the last two seasons.
All the protagonists and all the antagonists are gathered in the Camper Festival which is simultaneously in the fifth district of Chao Talk, making for double, potentially triple the eldritch. And then the MILKMAN gets full control of the script, making it exponentially more eldritch. More protagonists enter the story, and antagonist Andrew Ryder is killed. The MILKMAN swiftly replaces Ryder with a resurrected Metal Sonic, making the eldritch scale off the charts by this point.
The protagonists escape and continue progressing through the districts, with Red pondering on what all the build-up is building up to. Future Shade claims to be Shade from the past and then is wiped from the series. Future Shadow begs the chao not to continue the mindless cycle, and then he is wiped from the series as well. Chapter eight begins with the protagonists waking up in Sancheria and some characters being taken forever by the slender man.
The protagonists return to Daedalus Labs, still not seeing the bigger picture. They encounter Zero, who isn't even supposed to be alive. He suspiciously mentions there being more downsides to senseless bending of the script than any party is aware of, though when prompted on it, he only says "Unexpected developments are rising."
The protagonists and the antagonists meet up, the MILKMAN wipes JOE from the show, and MILKMAN reveals that he's extremely afraid of the eights and fives, of IT, and of Red Metal. And that's when Metal Speedy shows up! Metal Sonic is destroyed, Echo is killed, and chunks of DCA are completely wiped. All this time, the script switches to octave pentameter-- every line contains either eight words, five words, or some multiple of the two. Or replace "words" with "syllables."
In the climax, Episode 85 has forty characters total (eight times five), and then Shadow makes a desperate jump to grab five chaos drives, whereupon he becomes a Dark/Run chao and bends the script to defeat Metal Speedy. But Metal Speedy bends the script at the same time, so basically, all is wiped except for the Dark Garden, where sixteen protagonists manifest before Tagliare is murdered to make room for Metal Speedy. Dark breaks the octave pentameter and is swiftly murdered, followed by Zero and the Tails Doll, making the character count thirteen (eight plus five).
Chao is murdered next, followed by Red, Eggman, and Levity Nite and then Mephiles, bringing the count down to eight. Zero is killed next, and then I enter the scene, bringing it back up to eight. The female Shade comes up with a plan to get Metal Speedy to slip up his speech, leaving him vulnerable to IT. It works, though she is also killed in the process. As Metal Speedy is pulled down into IT, he grabs Shadow and Shade jumps down to save him. The three of them have a quick fight which ends in Metal Speedy's death. The remaining protagonists mourn over their absent friends before complying to the show being wiped.
All that is left is for the Writing Writer to explain to the reader what has happened to Ulysses, the one character who was not wiped. He explains this, and then he reveals that Shade and Shadow were never actually wiped. He explains the legacy of DCA, and then he gives more information about Ulysses.
Shade and Shadow are shown in an impossible town with impossible events in an impossible world. The Camper manifests, prompting them to go on the run. The Writing Writer explains to them that this Episode 88 exists because DCA has multiple facets that each need focus, even when ending, and that this last episode is the ending to the last facet. And then a wide gaping plot hole is exposed, ripping the plot wide open for a very special character to enter.
...god, this is where it... gets crazy.
EAT is Instability is IT is eight and five is Red Metal. You heard me right; EAT is the same as Instability, which is the same as IT, which is the same as eight and five, which is the same as Red Metal. They're all just different faces of the same eldritch, and each face needs focus even when ending. EAT rips her way into DCA and turns Amphis into (Future Red who then becomes regular) Red, turns Shade Junior into Levity Nite, and then loops DCA for key characters.
DCA is simultaneously running at two times-- normally for Shade, Shadow, and this first Red/Amphis, who are all living years and years in a hellish nightmare (they are the "Future" characters seen throughout the show) only to be wiped when the final episode comes again. DCA is also running on a perpetual loop in order to keep the logic going.
In the meantime, the show has looped back to Episode 85. We're shown "Future" Shade and Shadow's thoughts as they are wiped from existence. Then, as Shadow grabs his five chaos drives, he does not evolve to a Dark/Run chao, as that would imply he had another two. Instead, he simply grows a little more powerful, only to be overpowered by Metal Speedy. All of DCA is wiped except for the Dark Garden and Metal Speedy, who has one last conversation with the Writing Writer. He learns of the eldritch running through DCA and is quickly engulfed by it, trapped for eternity.
The Writing Writer gives one last eulogy for the show before rolling the credits for one last time. Whether or not the show is wiped is up to speculation.
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what happened, either.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
DCA is over!
Dark Chao Adventures has officially concluded. That link will take you to a list of links to the eighth season, which you actually can't find on the official site. I'll figure out how to update the site eventually, but for now, go to the site for the first seven seasons, and take that link at the top for the eighth season.
How many episodes did it take? Eighty-five. ..uh. Eighty-eight. Eighty-six. Eighty-nine? Y'know, that's actually really funny. I wrote the final episode, the 85th, and then I was like "Hang on, there's a gaping plot hole." So I ignored that and wrote two little post-script segments of myself talking to the reader (which actually has a lot of precedent in the show), and then I went "Oh okay, fuck it, I'll fix that plot hole" and then I realized there were actually a lot of plot holes I hadn't fixed. So I wrote an 88th episode, counting the two post-scripts as episodes of their own. ..ghost episodes. Eldritch episodes. And the 88th episode then looped back into the 85th episode, this time fixing the plot hole and ending it. But it was actually at least eight years after episode 85. But also thirty. But also at the exact same time.
So it took me 85/88 episodes. Let's just leave it at that.
...wait, what? DCA was eldritch before any of your stories were eldritch, fuck all y'all. DCA has been eldritch since 2006, when I was eleven. It's just taken me all these years to get it to work. It took me six years to explain the time travel, too.
I will sum up the plot of the ending soon.
How many episodes did it take? Eighty-five. ..uh. Eighty-eight. Eighty-six. Eighty-nine? Y'know, that's actually really funny. I wrote the final episode, the 85th, and then I was like "Hang on, there's a gaping plot hole." So I ignored that and wrote two little post-script segments of myself talking to the reader (which actually has a lot of precedent in the show), and then I went "Oh okay, fuck it, I'll fix that plot hole" and then I realized there were actually a lot of plot holes I hadn't fixed. So I wrote an 88th episode, counting the two post-scripts as episodes of their own. ..ghost episodes. Eldritch episodes. And the 88th episode then looped back into the 85th episode, this time fixing the plot hole and ending it. But it was actually at least eight years after episode 85. But also thirty. But also at the exact same time.
So it took me 85/88 episodes. Let's just leave it at that.
...wait, what? DCA was eldritch before any of your stories were eldritch, fuck all y'all. DCA has been eldritch since 2006, when I was eleven. It's just taken me all these years to get it to work. It took me six years to explain the time travel, too.
I will sum up the plot of the ending soon.
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