saveyourbrain | "Five Years Later..."

"Five Years Later..."

A Good/Bad Ending Meme

Happy First Anniversary, Save the Earth.

Let us celebrate by speculating on where our characters might be in another few anniversaries - pick one or both of the below and do a little babble/blurb - and from there, o' course, freely springboard off of others... or play/thread in the hypothetical scenarios, if you'd like.

Good Ending
Congratulations, Numbers Club - you've fended off the supposed invasion, after a global chase and monster attack and pseudo-political fight one after the other! With the last of the Enemy fleeing and your lot as Earth's heroes, you've got no need to hide yourself any longer - and look how much you've grown in all that time! What have you been up to - and now that you've saved the world, what will you do next?

Bad Ending
...Or you've failed to do any such thing. The alien invasion has succeeded and swarmed over the world. They've overtaken humanity, and the Noble Numbered might be desperately putting up a last-stand defense, hiding their heads, giving in, or on the edge after a string of failures - on a case by case basis. Everyone is bound to react to the apocalypse - and failure to Save the Earth - in different ways.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Yuh-huh. Something's making you feel bad! You're as bad at hiding this stuff as Wally is.

Maybe worse.

[He just shrugs helplessly, not knowing what to say. He's not sure he even really understands what's wrong.]

[ Hurf, okay. A cuddle is obviously in order. ]

D'you want me to like. Do less of the whole parties and fame thing? Because I can do that! It's getting kind of old anyway. Snoozefest. Yawn.

[Yeah, cuddling's not bad. Not that it really helps much either.]

Come on, you love the parties and fame. And dropping it probably wouldn't do me much good anyway.

So what would?

[ How about hair-petting does that help

she won't even use the creepy metal hand how's that ]

You have to have some idea. So spill! And I will make it happen. No matter how ridiculous. Or dumb. Or potentially depraved.

[No the hair petting isn't helping either :c]

I don't, though. I don't even really know what's wrong.

Oh. Okay! We can dig up this shit. When was the last time you were like. Happy.

As in consistently happy. Not "I just got some" happy or "wow today was super fun" happy.

Uh.

[Five years ago.]

I dunno.

Least helpful answer in the world. Minus eight points for you.

How about talking about a time you were happy! Is thaaaaaaaat easier, Mister Empty McThinkpan?

I'm trying, okay! But, uh. Right. Happy.

[shit he can't really remember what being happy was like]

Alan you are fucking terrifying me right now.

Hey, it's- it's not that bad, is it? Just because I can't think of anything when you put me on the spot like that- I mean, that doesn't mean anything!

Uh, yes? Being happy is kind of the hugest deal there is! How would you feel if you knew I wasn't happy?

-That's different, okay! We handle stuff differently and you know it. You care about being happy. I don't really mind so much.

Are you out of your fucking pan? If you don't want to be happy, then what's the point in literally anything ever.

Well, for the last five years the point was saving the fucking Earth. In case you've forgotten.

Yuh-huh. So people could be happy. If happiness didn't matter then it'd be okay if the aliens won! Duh.

No. It'd never be okay if they won, no matter what.

Yeah, but. Only because they'd have enslaved or killed everybody. We wouldn't have had to fight at all if they didn't threaten our happiness and stuff! Right?

I guess. But that doesn't really have anything to do with me personally.

Uggghhhhhhhh. I am saying that everybody does things to be happy! Or to make other people happy, which usually makes the happifying person feel happy too. It's human nature and junk. What do people live for if it ain't that?

Why don't you tell me, since you're so fucking wise and knowledgeable. What the fuck am I living for?

Iunno. Which is like. Kind of the whole point of me being so super concerned about this. You should have something!

I guess that's the whole issue here. Neither of us knowing.

Well. We have to find out, then! Right?

[ Have the most supportive of squeezes. ]

Together! We saved the world and junk, so we can totally find you some shit to live for. Like when people finish college and go off to find themselves and stuff. It can be like an adventure! Travelling around the world and getting into danger and being the coolest and most badass of couples in the universe. Like the old days!

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