#...martin/richard/vecnagorgon?

[henrysglock]

You Can Respawn Fabric, but You Can't Respawn Your Hair? Makes Sense.

I absolutely hate watching this scene because it makes me cringe to hell and back (and that's probably intentional, Stav mentioned to me a while back that it mimics Dr. Manhattan's transformation scene). So like. Give me a little love on this one because it was TORTURE for me. I didn't mean to go so in-depth here but...the details just keep coming.

I love/hate how fucked up this man's jumpsuits are.

So this guy clearly starts out as Jamie (we've all seen the BTS of him in the harness for this part).

But by the end, he's transformed completely into someone who looks distinctly like Brenner, as I've said both here and here.

However...the singe pattern just straight up changes. This is not the last time we see a singe pattern completely change. He respawns fabric by the right sleeve, too. This is also not the last time this happens.

And all while he gets a handsome-Squidward style facial reconstruction...

...Until he doesn't?

The next time we see him, we're back in Jamie-face territory.

And, of course, here's the other time the singe pattern has changed. We also have some more respawned fabric (like I mentioned earlier). The shape of both holes, shoulder and left-chest has changed entirely.

It's not the same scorching.

(We've also added a brand new random singe on the right arm. Which, before you say "oh he's probably been down there a while/maybe he burnt it one the planet"...there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of fire on the planet. Maybe he got zapped more on the way down or something, I don't want to misattribute anything.)

Either way, the scorches, the fabric, and...yes, once again: the blood spatters.

In the Dimenson X Pattern, notice those two distinct dots under the scorch?

Not present in the Zapping Scene Pattern.

And it shows up in the big spray too, specifically near the buttons and the shape of the big drips:

But the blood pattern throughout the zapping scene seems to stay consistent, even if the scorching doesn't.

So at the very least we can conclude that: whoever reached out the the Shadow Monster and whoever we're told became Vecna are likely two different people.

Which, with Dimension X having this sort of planar mirroring...I don't think it's too massive of a stretch to say something weird is going on in a pair.

Especially when earlier I spoke here and here about having 2 of each interdimensional event (or lack thereof in the gateless version).

We see 2 dematerialization events based on the orientation of the shards, and we know from ST1 that dematerialization yoinks you into the Blue UD. We don't know where the dematerialization may have lead us here.

We know that the gate leads to Dimension X, since we visually follow Bren-Hen-Ward through the gate and into Dimension-X. Two Gates.

And then the no-gate timeline (timelines? there are at least 2 blood-free Bren-Hen-Wards).

And of course. As per usual with this godawful episode. His cheek and ear blood straight up disappear (not to mention his ears and eye socket shapes changing completely).

Either it got scorched off at some point when this side is facing away from us, or there's something else going on. I'm putting a pin in this one. I don't have the brain space for it right now.

Before anyone comes in with production error talk, I'd like to remind us all:

As we've discussed before, we know how particular they are about both blood spatters (Em has talked endlessly about this particular subject)...and they're the same way about scorches:

So whoever they are, those two Dimension-X guys aren't the same guy.