#Imposter Factory Spoilers

[faze-bretta]

[mourningmaybells]

“autism be damned my son can create a reality where I lived happily ever after with my husband instead of dying young“

[meatballlady]

Good Omens Season 2: What We Know So Far Dottie and Sadie Edition

All of the info about GOS2, especially Dottie and Sadie, in one place. (Note, this is satirical and there are no actual spoilers in this post afaik)

For the most up to date details, check out the tag #special spoilers on Neil Gaiman's tumblr.

Cast

Returning:

[Fennec foxes, various] as Crowley

Michael Sheen as Aziraphale

Jon Hamm [Chinchilla, name unconfirmed] as Gabriel

Note: there have been no official announcements regarding the casting of the following new characters:

Michael Sheen as Dottie (unconfirmed)

David Tennant as Sadie (unconfirmed)

Michael Sheen as The Master Spy (unconfirmed)

Giant Pretzel

Sadie's Brother

Aziraphale's Mother-in-Law

Sadie's Kittens

Production Note: Someone (undisclosed) was bitten in regards to the fennec foxes filming with Crowley's wife.

What do we know about the Season 2 episodes?

There will be 6 episodes.

So far, two specific episodes have been announced (although it has not been confirmed which episodes they are):

"Jam Factory" episode, which contains a magic poster covered in jam

"Girls Night Out" episode, in which we will spend a lot of time with Dottie and Sadie (Crowley and Aziraphale's wives)

The Plot

First, a detailed plot summary of Season 2:

"Crowley and Aziraphale, who in this season are both undertakers in Birmingham, and their wives, Dottie and Sadie, go on holiday together to the South of France. The boys get very drunk at a wine tasting, and their wives have to bring them home to the hotel, where Aziraphale (still drunk) puts on the gorilla costume he finds in a closet. Imagine Crowley's shock, when he sees a gorilla climbing out of the window of the hotel! Now, it just so happens that a master spy who looks exactly like Aziraphale hid the microfilm plans for a missile in Crowley's bathroom, and has returned to obtain the microfilm, which is hidden in a book of naughty seaside postcards that Dottie found earlier and threw out of the window. When the police turn up looking for the gorilla, they find the master spy but think it's actually Aziraphale. Fortunately Sadie realises that the pineapple-shaped birthmark has vanished from Aziraphale's left elbow which means that he's an imposter and she and Dottie set out to rescue him in his gorilla costume from the circus that he's been sold to by an unscrupulous animal welfare centre operative. And then there are lots of cats and horses. The end."

Additional plot details:

Crowley and Aziraphale and their wives will go on their honeymoons at the same time in the same little French town, during the annual marmalade convention.

Aziraphale will have a new Season 2 Catchphrase - "Ooh-heck, it's the wife!" (at one point, he will shout this whole clutching a toilet plunger)

Several stories will be set in the tomato sauce factories they all work in.

Dottie's phone will be broken at the outing to Blackpool.

In episode 4, it will be revealed that Dottie and Sadie and their husbands have unknowingly all been booked in the same hotel room.

There will be a pie fight scene at the inflatable gorilla factory (which will clarify a lot about Aziraphale and Crowley's interpersonal relationships).

Aziraphale will attempt to summon a magic gorilla, in order to obtain one of the four fruits of the apocalypse (e.g. the Banana of Doom).

The Giant Pretzel will give Crowley a magic peach.

There will be a very moving scene when Dottie thinks that Sadie is pregnant but actually Sadie is planning to get a kitten.

This detail about the kitten(s?): "The arrival of the kitten will also be delightful, but I'm not promising it doesn't mean that the season won't end with the patter of tiny feet. Let's just say that two sets of twins would mean double the fun for everybody."

Aziraphale will be dead by the time Crowley goes on his secret mission. Aziraphale's wife will inherit the book shop, which she runs with her brother.

This detail about Gabriel's story arc: "Gabriel came to Earth to go on holiday to Spain with Aziraphale and Crowley and their wives, Dottie and Sadie. He's working as an art critic and when he sees the picture hanging in Crowley's bed and breakfast bedroom he realizes it's an original painting by Jerry Picasso (Pablo's baby brother) and resolves to steal it on the same night that the neighborhood Dress as a Burglar and Win a Fridge competition is held. Hilarity ensues."

The flashback scenes will be of where Crowley and Aziraphale both met their wives.

Season 2 will end with a dance-off mix-up on a French Nudist Beach, with several enormous inflatable animals and Aziraphale's mother-in-law dressed in a gorilla costume.

On Goncharov's influence on Season 2:

"The whole of Season 2 of Good Omens was inspired by Goncharov. Dottie and Sadie, Aziraphale and Crowley's wives, were basically my take on Perdita and Brigitte, the two tourists who worked in the condom factory, and the whole Goncharov helium balloons and clowns sequence. For that matter, without Goncharov it would never have occurred to me to have made the comedy in episode 4 the fact that Dottie and Sadie and their husbands have unknowingly all been booked in the same hotel room, or to have had the Archangel Gabriel played by a chinchilla. "

[burning-bubble-tea]

I played Imposter Factory with a friend recently and this is kinda my thoughts on it along with my general thoughts with the To The Moon series.

Also uh spoilers.

So in the game Lynri and Quincy have a child named Tobias who at a pivotal decision in their life, they chose to have Tobias early due to Lynri’s medical condition. Lynri feels guilt for this when Tobias passes a few years later due to complications with his health due to being born so premature.

The big twist of the game is that Tobias is actually Neil in a simulated alternative timeline and in reality, Lynri chose to have her baby first and then treat her illness afterwards.

In the reality timeline, Tobias is Neil and while he does inherit his mother’s chronic illness, he grows up to be an adult. Due to delaying her treatment Lynri passes away but does get to see Neil grow up a significant portion of his life.

I really like how the game doesn’t really present either timeline as better than the other. Tobias’s life is just as valuable as Neil’s life no matter how short it was. Neither choice was the correct choice for Lynri and Quincy to make as they did not know the future and could decide what they prefer.

Lynri is not selfish for seeking treatment and thus having to give birth to Tobias prematurely and Neil should not feel like it was his fault for having to make his mother choose between himself and herself.

Ultimately it was Lynri’s choice and neither one of them were incorrect, they were just different choices that let Quincy and Lynri down different paths.

Now the To The Moon series has this sort up interesting choice that’s also not correct or incorrect. The first game shows a man who chooses to have his memories altered so that as he passes, he dies with the memories of a so-called perfect life. In Finding Paradise, Colin feels as if he’s missing that perfect life but ultimately he doesn’t need to have his memory altered as his life was fine the way it is and he can pass with no regrets.

Johnny wanted to go to the moon because of a subconscious promise that he forgot that he made to his future wife when he was a child. He forgot that promise but it was so ingrained in his subconscious (along with the repressed memories of his twin) that the solution was to alter his memory and take him to the moon in the simulated memory. It was a way of fulfilling his promise since obviously he couldn’t go to the moon if he didn’t remember the promise which is what Sigmund promises to its clients.

However for Colin, Sigmund’s services wasn’t exactly needed. He just had a sense that maybe he was missing out on something (it’s literally described in the wiki and I think by Neil as FOMO hahahahah) and while he does have regrets, he doesn’t need to change anything.

Both Colin and Johnny make a choice. Neither of them are the right and wrong choice but they’re choices. By going to Sigmund, Johnny is able to unlock his memories of his twin and his childhood and is given memories of a life where his twin doesn’t die and he doesn’t forget. Colin thinks he needs Sigmund’s services but ultimately doesn’t. I think the only changes are Faye erasing Sigmund from his memory if I read the wiki right hahahahha I haven’t played finding paradise is awhile.

What I’m kinda getting at is that both the simulated memories and reality are fine. Neither are represented narratively as inherently good or bad. For Johnny it was good, for Colin, it was not needed. And that’s why I really like how Imposter Factory treated Lynri and Quincy. At the end, they find out their life is just a simulation within like thousands of other simulations. All the Lynri’s and Quincy’s from all the simulated timelines are all turned into one and they’re offered a simulated life where everything is perfect. Lynri’s chronic illness is cured and there is no complications with her pregnancy, they get to see Neil grow up and marry Eva, they get to travel the world together. It’s not all too much different from their reality life other than that Lynri and Quincy were given more time. However before accepting the offer of the perfect simulated timeline, Lynri feels apathetic towards it, feeling as if there’s not worth in it because it is simulated. However To The Moon does not place a moral value on the simulated memories, they just are, and they bring happiness. It is not some matrix red pill blue pill shit, and it’s not a sinister lie since the person is consenting to the procedure, it’s simply a decision. For Quincy and Lynri, it’s a decision that gives them more time, and to experience a life where they essentially have the maximum amount of time together.

Tobias, Lynri and Neil’s lives are not worth less because they’re shorter, they’re just as valuable, however with the simulated world, they’re given more time together. Tobias and Lynri dying is sad and tragic but to mis quote Ride the Cyclone, “I would gladly take my [few years] over nothing”. The simulated world simply gives them more time together that reality couldn’t give them. And to misquote Don Hertzfeldt World of Tomorrow, “you are alive and living now, now is the envy of all the dead”. So Lynri had envy of other because she essentially viewed herself as destined to die and die soon. But the simulated world gave her more of the now that she ignored. Lynri lived her life planning for the future because she wanted to leave a mark on the world before she died. And in doing so, she missed the now. But the simulated world gave her so much now, even if it is simulated, it doesn’t make it any less valuable. And maybe because it’s just as good or maybe it’s because it requires no defining of moral judgment. Either way, simulated Lynri and Quincy are alive in some sense, they are definitely sentient being able to grapple with the concept that they are living in a simulated world, and they do have to die as the simulation needs to end, but Faye offers them the simulated life, where they get more now to spend together. In that context it doesn’t matter if the simulated world is “real” or not. One gives you more now even if it’s not in reality and the other option is just no more.

And in the reality world, is poor Neil. He granted a virtual copy of his parents a perfect simulated life. But he’s living in the past. Hopefully he learns to enjoy more of the now, as there’s nothing wrong with the past, it’s important to take the past with us.

I guess I sorta have a fascination with the concepts of moral philosophy but all my technical knowledge of it is like watching The Good Place and taking one introductory course in philosophy in university. Oh and I guess watching things like Philosophy tube, and there is philosophy in all my courses even if they’re not strictly labelled philosophy.

I dunno, I just love life and the lessons I take away from To The Moon boiled down and oversimplified is that hindsight is 20/20 HAHAHAHA. Sigmund in universe can use hindsight and alter memories but the virtual memories don’t negate the good lives in reality. We make choice and they may have ramifications but we won’t ever know the branching timelines and so we don’t have to dwell on it forever.

Oh yeah also the most important message: RICEBOT THE CREATOR OF WORLDS AND THE COOKER OF RICE. QUINCY WAS ROBBED OF HIS RICE REWARDS.

[lunarsilkscreen]

Spoiler: Who is "Johnathan Johnny Jones"?

One of MarioRPG's most memorable bosses; Johnathan Jones--is a bit of a remix on the "Davy Jones" character from pirate lore (pre-disney, or maybe influenced by the ride. Who knows.)

This Shark has a more clear silhouette than he used to, looking more like a shark costume than a shark.

The final level of the game sees Mario and co infiltrating Smith's factory, where we see that *all* the enemies (including bosses) defeated up till this point are in mass production. One of those being Yaridovich. The true boss of the sea level where Johnny Resides.

Yaridovich also goes by Speardovich.

We know that that Yaridovich can swim as he contemplates fleeing from Mario after being soundly defeated, but is ultimately stopped by the Johnny and his Gang of Sharks. We know that Yaridovich can create duplicates and impersonate different species. He infiltrates the Sea Town, kidnaps all the residents, throws them in a shed with nary a jar to pee in. And impersonates every one of them simultaneously.

<aside>I just now realized that some of the impossible-toads mannerisms were supposed to look like duplicate glitches. Similar to how anime "flashstep" abilities are commonly depicted before the main character (Ichigo) learns how to see through it, or use the ability themselves.

I can't tell if I prefer my old interpretation still.</aside>

So Who is Johnny if not a shark? He is obviously the respected shark gang leader.

Or is he a more original Yaridovich model?

Do the shark minions know? Or... Are the shark minions imposters in the same facet the Sea Town Toads were? We of course, only ever *really* interact with shark minions nearest to Johnny himself.

Perhaps, he's exactly like Booster from Booster's tower, playing with himself because of the lack of interpersonal connection provided by the Smithy Gang.

Or, maybe... It's a little bit of both. Perhaps the sharks made him one of their own, and some of the shark minions are duplicates, and others are actual real sharks. And the duplicates are the ones used to face Mario head on.

The world may never know.

[sakuraswordly]

Before you read warning contains a spoiler

I love this scene. If you lost your way, you go "To the moon". This Moon you will "Finding Paradise", your happy life and your perfect timeline. The other reason I love this story is that Faye, Quincy and Lynri are not real but they have feeling the same as the human hearts. Faye, Quincy and Lynri are the same as Tomoe Enjou, he is a protagonist of the fifth chapter of Kara no Kyoukai. They are just experiments. Even if their lives, even their hearts are not true. But they continue to drive their lives forward, which proves that they exist even though they don't.

Araya claims that Tomoe's love for Shiki is merely fabricated and that he simply imprinted such a desire in Tomoe's mind. Tomoe affirms his belief of his feelings being real despite his existence as a copy of the original Tomoe Enjou. Nonetheless, he considers the possibility that everything about his current identity is truly fabricated, thus defiantly thanking Araya for granting him such a chance of realization in his life. Araya taunts to Tomoe to confront him as Tomoe heads for the elevator. Inside the elevator, Tomoe drops Shiki's katana, opting to use her knife instead.

In the end, they finally found happiness. Even though their lives were nothing but emptiness in the end.

The reason behind Kan Gao is the same as why Yuki loves Tomoe Enjou. (The reason why Kan Gao created Imposter Factory) And this is the reason why you guys love Neo from The Matrix franchise. Neo's life is also not different from Faye, Quincy, Lynri and Tomoe.

[megansfavourites]

I just beat Danganronpa 2, and here are my thoughts on it

(WARNING: Ending spoilers for BOTH Danganronpa 2 and AI: The Sonmium Files!!)

Okay, so, when I first started playing Danganronpa 2, I guessed right from the beginning that it was going to be revealed the end that the whole thing was just a video game, and I based the guess off the fact that the intro shows Danganronpa 2 being booted up as some kind of classic game, the whole home menu UI is also based on a classic game menu, and the fact that Monokuma could just turn a cow into a chicken in the first chapter. It became very obvious towards the end, when Monokuma started talking about ‘clearing flags’. It turned out I guessed it right!

Also, I had thought that the Ultimate Imposter was going to have a greater role in the story than just imitating Byakuya. I thought that the imposter would switch identities each time right before getting murdered, imitate the person that would die next, and that it would be revealed that the traitor would be the person the imposter was imitating at the end (I totally got this idea from AI: The Somnium Files and thought that some kind of identity-swapping thing was going on). In chapter 5, I kept waiting for it to be revealed that the traitor was the imposter, but was slightly disappointed that no mention of the imposter was made even after Chiaki confessed to being the traitor. I think I got the idea from the fact that when Chiaki was discussing the Ultimate Imposter with Hajime, she said that ‘they might be that way because they can’t help being that way’, something she repeats in a similar manner later on during the class trial, when explaining that she was the traitor because she ‘couldn’t help being that way’. Also, I thought that the factory on the final island that made humanoids was what had been supplying the Ultimate Imposter with bodies of the next person they were to imitate. I thought that it was pointless to have a imposter imitating Byakuya if they were just going to die in the first chapter anyway and is not involved in the ending or in the overall plot.

I thought that Case 3, which was Mikan’s case, was too predictable as I already guessed everything - whom the culprit was and how they did it - right after they went to the second floor of the hospital and noticed that they could shut off all light in the room with the curtains, and the fact that there were two sets of the exclusive tote bags, along with the fact that Mikan was the only one left alone in the hospital and Hajime didn’t see anyone go in, made it very obvious what had happened. I figured out that she caught the Despair Disease and murdered the victims as a result.

For Case 4, they never answered how Monokuma got them into the Funhouse to begin with. Were they just warped into the Funhouse ‘because it’s a game’?

For Case 5, I thought it was dumb that the person that threw the fire grenade that caused Nagito’s death should be counted as the culprit. Even if someone else had been tricked into dealing the final blow to Nagito, wasn’t it still ultimately by his own actions that Nagito got killed? By that logic, if person A tricks person B into killing person C unknowingly, should person B be the blackened because person C died by person B’s actions? Didn’t Monokuma have a rule that the mastermind would be counted as the blackened?

Also, in this same chapter, Chiaki immediately tapped her handbook on the reader but it gave a ‘wrong’ sound. Did Nagito actually not know who the traitor was, thus he programmed the reader to give a ‘wrong’ sound no matter who puts their handbook on the reader? If so, that explains why he said in his video message after that, that he guessed the traitor didn’t come forward. But then why did Chiaki voluntarily put her handbook on the reader when she knew the bombs were fake? If she didn’t know they were fake, I would have assumed that she was trying to come forward as the traitor, but since she did know, was she putting her handbook on the reader just to see if it would really stop the bombs, or to see if Nagito really knew who the traitor was?

For the ending, I was disappointed and thought that it was boring that the villain of the game was just Junko again. I had expected that one of the 16 students would be revealed to be the mastermind all along, like in the first game or in the Zero Escape series. For some reason I thought it was going to be Ibuki as I thought I had spoiled myself on an image of Ibuki turning evil just like with Junko in the first game.

[mavqlava]

4 Neil

learning that i’m allowed to just doodle and shade a drawing and that can be the whole thing ! this blog is for me to post as I figure things out about digital art as much as it is ttm & miscellaneous mental illness

It’s a rlly daunting thing trying to start digital while seeing so many people across the internet that have already mastered it - though their art inspires me like Crazy to get better

I remind myself that everyone needs to start somewhere/sometime as I draw rosawatts angst at 2 in the morning ☺️💔

[pebblefriend]

Stars and Lavender

[atruedonaldist]

OH BOY ANON, HAVE I GOT AN EXPLANATION FOR YOU. Screencapped it since I don't want to spoil anyone that comes across this post.

SPOILERS FOR IMPOSTER FACTORY AND THE SUBSEQUENT DLC COMIC DOWN BELOW! DO NOT READ IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED FOR THE MAIN GAME.

For the short summary, with as little spoilers as possible, in the comic, Eva asks Neil about his retirement plans. She states that her retirement plan is tending to a garden... then says that her garden might be so big, that she might need some help with it. Neil agrees, and that little comic segment ends there, basically implying that she asked Neil to spend the rest of their life together, up until retirement and longer.

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If that appeases you anon, feel free to stop reading here!

Now, for a much more spoilery explanation, spoiling the game heavily. Please do stop reading here if you REALLY don't want to be spoiled.

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You see, we get an explanation for Neil's... painkillers. He has a disease (I forgot what it was called exactly) that could potentially lead to his death while he's young. He got it from his mother, who we learn died in order to have Neil since her condition got worse while she was pregnant. So... Neil, doesn't have any plans, or future goals. He doesn't know when his life will end.

And Eva... Eva learns from Roxy about his condition. So she tells him about her retirement plants, about needing help with her garden, and she tells him that "but to stay as long as one wants, for as long as one can stay, that's the most anybody could ask of anyone else."

Then Neil asks, "is that what you're asking me?"

She pauses and looks away, embarrassed, and he takes off his glasses and looks at the sunset. "Then, in that case... yeah, I'd like to stay in that garden. For as long as you want me to... and for as long as I can."

AND I JUST

CRIES

ROSAWATTS IS REAL..............

[mozukumi]

On the name of a certain character...

MAJOR imposter factory spoilers below the cut!

So! How about that vaguely canon Rosawatts child!

Obviously I know that she’s simulated - she’s not from the “real world”, but also I think it’d be nice if we came up with a name for her as a fandom. And to throw my hat into the ring...

I think Gabrielle would be nice, because it’s what they planned on naming Neil if he was a girl - so the lore could be that Lynri and Quincy suggested the name :) And I think Gabrielle Rosalene-Watts has a nice ring to it. But I’d love to hear your thoughts on it!

[faze-bretta]

[thousands-of-lives-lived]

Time to just. Dump my thoughts on the game.

Spoilers under the keep reading

Okay. First of all. Significantly less Neil and Eva than expected

The moment I saw that blanket in the party room I know it was the machine

My brain was absolutely bouncing around trying to figure out if Lynri was the creator of the machine or Neils mom

TURNS OUT SHE WAS B O T H

Like. From the start I was set on Lynri being Neil’s mom with how they never said her last name, the hereditary disease, plus her hair and eyes and the stargazing w her father

I would like to issue a formal apology to Quincy and Lynri for EVER thinking they would be bad parents

Also. Young Rosawatts ❤️

I was sad abt the lack of Eva at first but like

Knowing she was the one who was persistent w her and Neil’s friendship,,, my little heart,,,

I’m glad everyone got what they wanted

Seeing the theoretical life Neil and Eva had in his parent’s memories,,,

My poor roommate had to put up with so much crying

The game was only 3.5 hours long. Very short but I’m not complaining

Faye pretending to be Eva and confessing to Neil-

He didn’t fall for it but still

Will probably update this w more thoughts later

[peoplefully]

Legit thought lynri was gonna be pre-trans Neil and was sorta disappointed when it wasn't that lmao

[mnemo-li]

I’m lowkey disappointed about Imposter Factory. Really wanted to see Neil and Eva again and what we had just wasn’t enough. Maybe I’m being overly critical or salty but c’mon, I’d rather have the tragic “oh Neil is dying and Eva is going through his memories” plot than what we got in the game. I remembered crying my eyes out for To The Moon and Finding Paradise, but Imposter Factory just didn’t hit the same. Some scenes are quite good though, like the scary ones or moments between characters, but it’s definitely the weakest out of the previous games.

[harpylady]

imposter factory was fun! i was really into up until the last like 20 minutes i think it's just a bit too meta for me