#connecting him with error and killer in a way - they're glitches in a system

[what-have-i-unleashed]

the thing is, it's left up to interpretation as to how dust became the way that he is. how did he manage to remember the resets? how did he acquire determination? up to your own interpretation!

i think the thing about dust likely or subconsciously knowing that his world is a game lends some credence to the possibility that dust remembering resets was due to a glitch - like a video game glitch. it would be interesting if, like killer, dust's code is changed, but not by the player necessarily. he was detached from his previous role as an npc in a video game and became a glitch in his own universe. which is why he's able to partly comprehend the nature of his world, of himself, and of the player.

and so, if killer or something new chara were to replace the player in dusttale, dust would notice the wrongness of it right away. i imagine in the "real world" the game is being locked away from the dusttale player, being hacked and all. i wonder if the player would want to discard the game. would that manifest as error erasing the universe (also makes sense since this dusttale timeline is wrong, "tainted" anyway)? or maybe the player would keep it and keep trying to access into the game. then what would happen to dust? to the universe? to the timeline? would the game fix itself and manifest something even worse? so many fun ideas to chew on :3

*bangs my head on the wall* stop the kist thoughts stop the kist thoughts stop the kist thoughts STOP IT

but guys listen. what if dusttale got hacked into by the something new player? and they plopped killer into it? so now killer (and his chara too maybe?) is now the "player character" in dusttale? killer assumes the anomaly role in this universe now. i need dust killing killer over and over, and killer doing the same thing to dust back. they're both stuck in this mad cycle forever.