[M&M 3e] Defying the Future IC

[Ridai]

Completely off the mark, god damn it. But at least something else came up. "I'm trying to figure out the steps to help you with what's going down right now, Lucia." It's probably obvious, or maybe not in Lucia's current state. Maybe saying so doesn't do much either, it's unclear how much Lucia does and doesn't really hear or comprehend. But he can at least try.

Nope looks down, bent, hands near face, fingers moving occasionally, erratically, fists sometimes balling, sometimes opening, just anything to somehow facilitate a useful train of thought. "Wrong assumption, already had OCD, wrong guess, Death made it worse, why make that worse, is it better senses, see more stuff, camera pans out, objective view, makes no sense, why make senses better, frickin pun, is it evil, does it skew perception, Mr. Frodo, why would Death do that, what's connection with Death, what definition of Death, frickin' fantasy bull****, attack angle change, heighten negative parts, is it negative energy in the downer meaning, from bad to worse, you always crit against yourself, know how that feels-" Gabriel comes screeching down at Ariadne, battering her away, bird lady Cosme lands next to Manchineel/Lucia. Keeping the intrusive thoughts out of the stream of consciousness is getting more difficult. "-Death the evil mirror you, does it point out all flaws, does it heighten all flaws, does it heighten all flaws, does it heighten suffering, aim for maximum damage or low hanging fruit, does it speak, evil inner monologue, just evil by presence, does it infest everything or just OCD, does it infest, is it the OCD now or deeper level, is OCD the open gate, are other things attack vectors, is it already inside, does it need to keep going inside, said she feels the claws again, is Death riding on stress, do satisfying experiences close gate, visual ASMR, Death negativity, too broad or off the mark or right, personal lens skewing analysis damn it-"

He looks to Lucia again. "Lucia, do you remember being here in this place, nothing else being there, everything being in order, did you feel the thing's claws?" Why did the average loser get saddled with the Dwarf Fortress destructo power for the 160+ IQ and EQ crowd?!

A connection is made. And it just leaves Nope more confused. "Death-energy makes more Death-creatures, but not if you make it part of you?! Extra Death-energy from Floral brought Death-infection back?! But Death-energy was already there- Death-energy needs to get out of Lily, because bad, but can't go out of Lucia- Remove extra but that reverts things back to square one, but Remove relationship between Lucia and Death is better- how, what, what relationship, do you gaslight fundamental energies into thinking they aren't what they are, does that work, why does that work, how, what relationship between Deathwell and Lucia, how does this magic bull**** work, I don't understand-" Nope is yelling at this point, trying to get his stupid brain to find something, anything remotely like a solution.