teenwonder | ᴙ 05 [Voice] (replies filtered)

[It isn't often that Robin uses his journal. Oh to be certain, he monitors the thing closely, keeping an ear to the town's goings-ons from the most grandiose schemes to even the pettiest birthday announcement. But lately, Robin's been mulling over some Serious Issues that lack cohesive data in any concrete ways. The necessary solution is crowdsourcing.]

I think it's safe to say most of us have a decent sense of te line between fact and fiction. So now I'm curious: how many of you have met someone here who tells you that you're not real? I'll be filtering your responses, so don't worry about airing your information in public.

[Because naturally, Robin himself doesn't count as public. That would be silly. He sets aside the stack of abused library-gained comics he's been poring over for the last week. There's been enough to unsettle him, but not anything concrete. So some Archie guy can't decide between two girls. So Iron Man and the Hulk teamed up with some guy in a Spider outfit. Even the Superman-punches-an-alien comic doesn't tell Robin much he didn't already know. The issues are too short and too out of sequence to provide any real understanding. Whose world did these things come from? Is there a portal-jumping journalist hopping between dimensions and publishing people's lives as fiction? Or is there more to it than that?]

Oh, and one more thing. Is anyone planning on taking over the pizza place? It's kind of a shame it's just sitting there.

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[Oh, this is an interesting question.]

Well, most of the time it's kinda like... there's this little thing in my head telling me what I should do and where I should go. Like, I should jump over there and collect those Notes, or that Nest of Eggs, or somethin'.

I used to think this place was a sequel - but most of the non-cartoony-type guys don't think so. I dunno anymore, really.

[Nope, not willing to switch away from the control mechanic question just yet.]

How is that different from your everyday behavior? Don't you normally decide where to go and what to do based on a thought in your head?

[Kazooie is sadly not the most philosophical person, but she can try.]

I guess the difference is it's... not me thinking it? Like, I don't even have to be thinking. It's just... there.

Here in Luceti, I don't really get that anymore. It's been weird, not having it for... heck, close to nine months now. That's a really long time to go without having any puzzles to do!

[It is a bit of an existential crisis thing, though. She likes to think all her achievements were hers, in her games, but knowing somebody was controlling her does make them shared... (For what it's worth, she justifies it as herself doing most of the work, so it's obviously all her anyway.)]