Merry: the world is wrong on a deeply fundamental level unrelated to the status of its truthfulness or the nature of its individual elements.
Renko: the world is incorrect, we could fix society if we just explained things properly
Sumireko, ruining her sleep schedule: Reimu is my favorite Touhou character, she's just so [wildly incorrect assessment of Reimu, who is this actual person she knows in real life] [is somehow the most well-adjusted member of the Hifuu Club]
I love how this one came out. @nichtschwertart 's player character Ildinia in Glitch, here pictured partying it up in the club with some probably very illegal stuff to unwind after a hard day of being a single Mom!
I love Ildinia, she's the worst. (Hint: It's Glitch, they're all the worst!)
I keep circling around the idea of Jonathan ‘Jarchivist’ Sims as an Excrucian Strategist, but also I have no idea what I’d even do with the concept beyond chewing on it like a literary dog.
But just... Jonathan Sims, whom Knowing kills.
Like, maybe when he slips through the Crack, he opens his eyes because he’s Jonathan Sims, the Archivist, and becoming was as much a choice made for him as it was made by him, and he knows he could never live without taking the chance to know what the space outside of Reality is like.
Except, in a cruel irony as Reality is wont to do, it turns out you can’t really live with knowing either. It’s hard to believe in a magic trick when you see how it’s done, and it’s hard to believe in things like Time when you see how it’s constructed.
And worst of all, it infects him. Now that he’s seen the ugly truth, Reality does what it always does, and tries to hide the evidence by killing him.
And so now he's plagued by knowing - cursed to die by knowing, always through knowing. When a beast calls in the night, he must seek it out to know it and die at its hands. When forbidden secrets abound, he must learn them even if it means being pursued by demons.
Jon being Jon, he'd probably abandon the Excrucian War on Creation.
“In conclusion”, Ildinia said, ”Yes, there’s definitely something wrong with you, but I haven’t yet found what it is. You need to remember that you’re only wrong in the way that everything that exists is wrong. It’s not your fault and it can’t be helped, so don’t lose any sleep over it. Okay?”
“Okay, mom”, Tancrecine replied even though this was not okay.
Ildinia jumped off the couch. “Good, sweetie! Now go do your homework, I got important matters to attend to!”
From the window by Tancrecine’s desk she had an unobstructed view of the beach. This had never occurred to Ildinia, who thought her daughter couldn’t see or hear that far. Otherwise she would surely have picked a different spot to walk back and forth with a bottle of wine and yell at the world.