when the sneeg gets snagged <— is in visceral anguish
(Please lemme know if this is not how you do an image description correctly or if I should add anything! Be honest! As I have never done this before and would like to do better moving foward.)
[Image ID: A couple of pieces of fanart of the streamer, sneegsnag. The first image has a drawing of him making a confused expression in the top-left corner with his hat turned backwards, two doodles of him wearing his hat in different ways in the top-right corner, the writing around them saying “Is seeing all the horrors, all of them actually.” and “Y’all we vibing.” And the last one at the bottom having sneeg and ranboo holding eachother while shocked. The second image has sneeg looking scared and yelling “What is the sick place!” as he gets dragged away by two masked henchmen /.End ID]
if I may circle back around to the thought that gl!ranboo escaped and was re-captured prior to the social experiments, I think maybe the reason their mask is so needlessly gruesome (wires wrapped around their fucking jawbone as well as going down his throat + the mask literally being stitched onto his face) could be because of this escape attempt.
I think he may have had a different mask (hence the one they're wearing in his showfall branded missing poster) that wasn't quite as "if you tear this off, your face goes with it" in design, and ranboo was able to get it off more easily and make a run for it. maybe the brain implants and manual reset on the back of his neck that we see on this CURRENT design were an extra precaution, to make sure he wouldn't be able to break out of showfall's control so easily -- and even if he did, prying that thing off before showfall got a handle of them again is a near impossible task now.
it seems like this mask design could be a punishment for escaping (even looking at hetch's signature suggests that this design was rushed, when compared to that of sneeg and charlie's mind-control devices.) he got out once, so their designs became more invasive, practically becoming a part of ranboo's body. like they're DARING him to try it again.
and if this IS the case, it also makes me wonder about sneeg and charlie. sneeg's hat being 100% separate and removable from his body with no additional technology inside of him vs showfall, even if his glasses that he needs to see are technically removable, being IN charlie's brain, two-way transmission and all. it's interesting.