So theory of the Meta Plot that's been going on:
New Fresh 20 something out of university is just overworked and stressed on this project so isn't dating or doing anything fun other than energy drinks. But finally after months on working on his project, with his ambition and logic all worked out and finalized, he's ready to submit his work
Except! There's one little thing nagging him, so he's just gonna double check his work just in case.
This is the problem of his inner project. Whatever he worked on, it's going against his small sense of conscience. Maybe it goes against labor unions, or it's actually using a poisoness chemical whatever. Point is, if he submits it the company can rake in a lot of money and he'll be rewarded, BUT at the cost of a lot of people
And his hard-driven Ambition can't let some little sense of Morality ruin their life choices
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HE COULDN’T THINK OF ANY FACTS.
Hyperfixation and passion got married and are taking care of all of the interests! Elias’ brain is just absolutely flooded with dopamine right now, it’s the BEST.
“A strong sense of pleasure slightly tempered by conscience sounds pretty fun.” Trapp is always 100% correct. My god this man is so quick and talented. More Trapp on D20 2kforever.
Conscience understanding the place self-loathing can come from and shrinking it back into more helpful “you fucked up but you’re going to fix it” guilt, accountability. Goddamn seriously self-loathing evolving from guilt Brennan you’re a goddamn genius.
Impulse and hyper vigilance have gotten divorced and remarried 17 times at least already, you can’t convince me otherwise.
Way to go, Elias. I knew you could do it, buddy.
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i'm stupid so i absolutely did not put together Conrad Schintz as "conscience" until i saw someone in the tag point this out but now that it's in my dumb brain i can't stop thinking about it. Alex's choice to portray Conrad as this softspoken never speaks up but still has to do Something boy who is kind and thoughtful to a fault. pitch perfect character choices!!! but also this tiny quiet boy somehow being pegged by the heads of the city as the BIGGEST DISTRACTION to the big guy's goals and ambitions!! and then his choice of the important article to pay attention to being the culmination of Elias' months and months of research - specifically for the goal of, as Conrad put it, getting it before the "big wigs" could get to it. WHAT is Elias Hodge DOING for Gobstopper Industries??????
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There's something about Ambition's desire for Pleasure, but only through the "correct" channels - only through great strife that strikes me as interesting
It's almost as if Ambition requires Justification for Pleasure because to acquire Pleasure without Justification - without earning it, without deserving it....
That kinda reeks of a guilty conscience...
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"I'm being followed Curio. I'm being followed by heaven knows who," is the first thing Imelda Pulse says to Hunch Curio in her introductory scene in episode one of Mentopolis. The first thing. Impulse. Being followed. Following your impulses. I've been sleeping for two weeks and I've just sat bolt upright sweating. All the powerful parts of the brain, all the logic and ambition and avarice. They have goals. They have plans. And yet at the end of the day what are they stuck doing? Helplessly following impulse and trying and failing to control her.
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Just gonna start a list of all the references/puns in Mentopolis because my brain takes 25 minutes to recognize each one:
Mentopolis: mental+metropolis
PCs:
Detective Hunch Curio: curiosity
Imelda Pulse: impulse
The Fix: hyperfixation
Anastasia Tension: A. Tension (attention)
Daniel Fucks: he fucks (also pleasure/sexual pleasure/urges)
Conrad Schintz: conscience
NPCs:
Victim - Norrell Ojiccle: neurological
Curio's assistant - Anna Lysis: analysis
Employees at Sugah's:
Hans Schadenfreude: schadenfreude is the pleasure by someone from another person's misfortune
Joey Sneezes: sneezing?
Libby Longshower: the feeling after a long shower? (Libido?)
Donny Urges: intrusive thought
District Attorney (DA) Mark Bition: M. Bition (ambition)
Mayor Leon Logic: logic or maybe L. Logic (illogical?)
Mr. Lance: vigilance?
The basset hound - Justin Fication: justification
Madam Loathing: loathing (self-loathing)
Orphans: forgotten/abandoned (wayward) interests (magic, reptiles, trains, lists)
Mr. Avaricci: avarice?
Locations:
Cortex City: external surface of the brain that plays an important role in consciousness
Oblongata Station: medulla oblongata - the connection between the brainstem and the spinal cord that acts as a conduit for nerve signals
Cerebell Pacific: cerebrum and/or cerebellum and also Pacific Bell telephone company
Synaptic Switchboard: synapse - the site of transmission of electrical nerve impulse
Temporal Square: temporal lobe
Hippo Campus University: hippocampus is a brain structure in the temporal lobe that has a major role in learning and memory
Occipital Park: occipital lobe is the area of the brain at the back of the head responsible for visual perception
Let me know if I missed anything or there's better references
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