#pokotho will forever be in denial about his true feelings for Paul

[acutemushroom]

Okay, so imagine Pokey learn that Richie is Paul's nephew. He would so use that to his advantage now that his soul is in the Black and White.

Pokotho : Now, brat. Do you have any information that would be useful to seduc- infect! infect Paul Matthews?

Richie : Holy shit my uncle's scored a God !

Pokotho : Shut up and just answer my questions...

[caktusjuice-draws]

I haven't been imagining inevitable as a break up but as Pokotho giving Paul the one thing he wants most. Like, "you're trapped here with me forever now, here's a pet barista to keep you company." He's telling Emma "let me be you so we can finally all have what we want." Isn't the easiest way to make someone love you to just... become the person they already love? How else would Pokey be able to kiss Paul? How else would he be able to convince Paul that he's happier now that the world has ended?

There's something I love about the inherent horror of Paul and Emma being hopelessly shackled to a life more perfect than either of them could ever have dreamed. They have everything they ever wanted! Of course they're happy! They Literally Can't Not Be Happy. Paul keeps looking into the eyes of his One True Love and watching someone else sing "I love you" with her voice. They keep ending up on picture-perfect dates that neither of them planned, they have multiple lavish weddings, and nothing ever goes wrong that can't be fixed with a few scripted jokes and a song. I think Paul would learn to love him back eventually. In a terrible, guilt ridden way. (new favorite ship dynamic: two soulmates and the god who keeps playing "make the barbies kiss" by mind controlling them) (sorry for rambling so long in your ask box!)

Pokey would get to kiss Paul himself if he weren't a fucking coward /j

But I think all of this is wholly dependent on how you view the apotheosis. "Join us and Die" makes it pretty clear (for me at least) that this is in fact death. If you look at it from that perspective then YEAH Pokey is playing barbies ... with corpses.

Whatever is or was Paul and Emma is long departed from the mortal body. Which just puts Pokey in full denial about the situation. Pokey speaks through them, Pokey moves them, these are not actually the desires of these meat puppets, but rather the desires Pokey feels they should have. He makes them follow is script, which is just a caricature of what these people once were.

Emma and Paul aren't really together. Emma and Paul are dead.

THE SCARIEST PART IS I THINK POKEY THINKS HE IS ACTUALLY THE GOOD GUY