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vexedscientist) wrote2022-07-17 07:23 am
vexedscientist) wrote2022-07-17 07:23 am
Bugsnax turns into a weird psychological horror game [SPOILERS]
And like imagine all the final lines being said while they're actively falling to pieces. Those pieces being Bugsnax.
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Chandlo's personal struggle is all tied up in his relationship with Snorpy, where he's immensely concerned about Snorpy's anxiety and paranoia and wants to get strong enough to protect him from literally everything himself, when he needs to learn that Snorpy a)is already strong in his own ways and b)also needs help outside of just him.
Chandlo: "I can't take 'em all! Gotta protect Snorpy! I'll never be strong enough... I gotta be more than me! I gotta be... Bugsnax."
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Snorpy's personal struggle is also fairly tied up in his relationship with Chandlo, but also with Floofty (and how their partnership fell apart). He's awfulized to the point of believing basically every conspiracy is true and connected and has become paralyzed and paranoid about everyone and everything, and needs to learn at the very least that whatever enemies he may have, they aren't all-knowing and all-powerful, and that he doesn't need to keep Chandlo in the dark about his full concerns to protect him.
Snorpy: "I'm losing control! Can't resist... the Snax!"
Snorpy: "I see what you're doing, you delectable automatons. I know too much! I have to be destroyed. It's the only way to keep Chandlo safe... You win, Grumpinati. Your secrets die with me."
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Shelda's personal struggle is about allowing herself to be herself and admit that she is just an ordinary person; she truly believes in her worship of Mother Naturae but it's a dying religion and she thinks no one will listen or give any credence to "Shellsy Woolbag from Nowheresville." She therefore gets in her own way by wrapping all of her speech up in high-handed difficult to understand dramatics and refuses to admit weakness to everyone else in the belief that it's the only way for others to respect her. She needs to learn that it's fine to just be herself, speak clearly, and "those who will listen, will listen."
Shelda: "One is called! One must answer..."
Shelda: "One is devoted! One is wise! One is pure. The Bugsnax have no power over me!"
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Floofty's personal struggle is ALL tangled up, which might be part of why I like them best? They have such a hard time understanding people while badly wanting to help Grumpuskind, so they're overwhelmingly tempted to take what is for them the easier route and simply concentrate 100% on their work. They think they're the only one who can understand themself and their work, they've become incredibly careless with their own health and life in the pursuit of this, and they've nearly given up on understanding others and being understood. They need to learn that the effort to understand people in order to help better is both possible and worth it.
Floofty: "I cannot let this opportunity pass!"
Floofty: "I can feel it... The precipice! In Bugsnax, the potential to understand the very nature of being! I would be a fool not to indulge!"
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Beffica's personal struggle is in allowing herself to trust others and not actively push them away; she's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. She used to do a lot of freelance pop culture journalism for magazines and gossip networks and made a lot of enemies through not keeping secrets and being incredibly blunt; she's incredibly cynical due to it being her former job to dig up "the truth" about people and seeing "the good ones" have the worst secrets, and that "every friend I ever had dropped me as soon as I told them something they didn't want to hear," so at this point she's just actively digging into everyone's secrets not to be disappointed by them and actively shoving them away with a judgmental attitude (almost worse the nicer they are). She desperately needs to get out of that awful spiral.
Beffica: "There's no point in going back with them! I don't have a life! Or friends... Nobody I can really trust, anyway. But Bugsnax? I can trust you to be delicious..."
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Cromdo's personal struggle is with his "greed," or rather his belief that he has to do anything he can to strike it big so that he can afford to actually do something that makes him happy; he's given up on the idea of even trying due to a life of poverty followed by being stuck in crappy salesman jobs. He steals and cheats people and promises he'll pay it back when he's struck it rich but he also kinda hates who he is but is bitter that he can't see a way out of it. He needs to destroy capitalism. I mean, he needs to realize that he can do things that he loves even before striking it rich? IDK man he's got a legit beef he just needs to be a bit less "in it ONLY for myself because I can't afford not to be" about it.
Cromdo: "Outta my way, roobs! Gimme them Snax!"
Cromdo: "I ain't gonna get rich and famous if I listen to these suckers! They're just holding me back! Now's my chance! The Snax are mine! Mine! Mine!"
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Wiggle's personal struggle is with her self-imposed pressure due to how important her identity as a pop star is to her; she's a one-hit wonder who just hasn't been able to replicate her success with the song she doesn't even remember writing, and which she personally thinks is vapid and bad and doesn't want to be remembered for. She both wants to keep her huge adoring audience and to not have the pressure of having to come up with a huge hit, and can't have both, and has become super perfectionism-stuck with writer's block desperately trying to find "her muse," mostly resorting to eating Bugsnax. She has to learn that she needs to create for the love of it, and loving the subject of it, and not get as hung up on if it's amazing and literally everyone will adore the results.
Wiggle: "They call me a faded star! But for just this moment I will burn bright again! This is my swan song~ I will devote my final ballad~ ...to Bugsnax."
———
Gramble's personal struggle is all tied up in his major abandonment issues -- his family abandoned him when he was still just a kid, but old enough to clearly remember it. Out of desperation he's glommed onto the Bugsnax as a family of his own and refuses to understand that they are not actually capable of returning his devotion, and has very unhealthy ideas about how love is supposed to work ("you pour every ounce of love you have into someone and just hope that they notice!") that he desperately needs to work past. He also seems to be afraid of forming actual human (or, well, Grumpus) connections due to the abandonment. He needs to let other people care for him, and care for people who are actually capable of caring back, and calm down a little.
Gramble: "Oh, my little ones need me! Papa's comin' for ya!"
Gramble: "There, there, little one... I would never abandon you. We're a family now. And we're gonna be together forever."
———
Wambus's personal struggle is maybe the simplest one: He feels like a failure and doesn't really believe in himself, making him sorta think others feel the same way, making him incredibly stubborn; he "won't quit" even when something obviously isn't working. That said, he also needs to realize that not giving up is a success of its own so long as it's not taken to ridiculous extremes, and to keep trying with realistic expectations for himself.
Wambus: "I'm such a failure! I couldn't even control my hunger! No wonder nobody believed in me..."
———
Triffany's personal struggle is tied up in her job and family, kinda: she's an archaologist whose grandmother disappeared on a dig, so Triffany's secretly looking for her remains to try to find out what exactly happened to her, because only the living can remember the dead. She's good-spirited but underneath kinda fatalistic, and doesn't like fighting so tends to find it easier to withdraw and spend her time isolated "with the bones," and she accepts the realities of death maybe a little too easily. She needs to connect with people a little more firmly, I think, and also accept loss without getting all... dark about it.
Triffany: "No sense delayin' the inevitable..."
Triffany: "This is the end... yeah? I was gonna end up here one way or another... Not that it mattered, anyhow. The only thing that matters out here... is Bugsnax."
Chandlo's personal struggle is all tied up in his relationship with Snorpy, where he's immensely concerned about Snorpy's anxiety and paranoia and wants to get strong enough to protect him from literally everything himself, when he needs to learn that Snorpy a)is already strong in his own ways and b)also needs help outside of just him.
Chandlo: "I can't take 'em all! Gotta protect Snorpy! I'll never be strong enough... I gotta be more than me! I gotta be... Bugsnax."
Snorpy's personal struggle is also fairly tied up in his relationship with Chandlo, but also with Floofty (and how their partnership fell apart). He's awfulized to the point of believing basically every conspiracy is true and connected and has become paralyzed and paranoid about everyone and everything, and needs to learn at the very least that whatever enemies he may have, they aren't all-knowing and all-powerful, and that he doesn't need to keep Chandlo in the dark about his full concerns to protect him.
Snorpy: "I'm losing control! Can't resist... the Snax!"
Snorpy: "I see what you're doing, you delectable automatons. I know too much! I have to be destroyed. It's the only way to keep Chandlo safe... You win, Grumpinati. Your secrets die with me."
Shelda's personal struggle is about allowing herself to be herself and admit that she is just an ordinary person; she truly believes in her worship of Mother Naturae but it's a dying religion and she thinks no one will listen or give any credence to "Shellsy Woolbag from Nowheresville." She therefore gets in her own way by wrapping all of her speech up in high-handed difficult to understand dramatics and refuses to admit weakness to everyone else in the belief that it's the only way for others to respect her. She needs to learn that it's fine to just be herself, speak clearly, and "those who will listen, will listen."
Shelda: "One is called! One must answer..."
Shelda: "One is devoted! One is wise! One is pure. The Bugsnax have no power over me!"
Floofty's personal struggle is ALL tangled up, which might be part of why I like them best? They have such a hard time understanding people while badly wanting to help Grumpuskind, so they're overwhelmingly tempted to take what is for them the easier route and simply concentrate 100% on their work. They think they're the only one who can understand themself and their work, they've become incredibly careless with their own health and life in the pursuit of this, and they've nearly given up on understanding others and being understood. They need to learn that the effort to understand people in order to help better is both possible and worth it.
Floofty: "I cannot let this opportunity pass!"
Floofty: "I can feel it... The precipice! In Bugsnax, the potential to understand the very nature of being! I would be a fool not to indulge!"
Beffica's personal struggle is in allowing herself to trust others and not actively push them away; she's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. She used to do a lot of freelance pop culture journalism for magazines and gossip networks and made a lot of enemies through not keeping secrets and being incredibly blunt; she's incredibly cynical due to it being her former job to dig up "the truth" about people and seeing "the good ones" have the worst secrets, and that "every friend I ever had dropped me as soon as I told them something they didn't want to hear," so at this point she's just actively digging into everyone's secrets not to be disappointed by them and actively shoving them away with a judgmental attitude (almost worse the nicer they are). She desperately needs to get out of that awful spiral.
Beffica: "There's no point in going back with them! I don't have a life! Or friends... Nobody I can really trust, anyway. But Bugsnax? I can trust you to be delicious..."
Cromdo's personal struggle is with his "greed," or rather his belief that he has to do anything he can to strike it big so that he can afford to actually do something that makes him happy; he's given up on the idea of even trying due to a life of poverty followed by being stuck in crappy salesman jobs. He steals and cheats people and promises he'll pay it back when he's struck it rich but he also kinda hates who he is but is bitter that he can't see a way out of it. He needs to destroy capitalism. I mean, he needs to realize that he can do things that he loves even before striking it rich? IDK man he's got a legit beef he just needs to be a bit less "in it ONLY for myself because I can't afford not to be" about it.
Cromdo: "Outta my way, roobs! Gimme them Snax!"
Cromdo: "I ain't gonna get rich and famous if I listen to these suckers! They're just holding me back! Now's my chance! The Snax are mine! Mine! Mine!"
Wiggle's personal struggle is with her self-imposed pressure due to how important her identity as a pop star is to her; she's a one-hit wonder who just hasn't been able to replicate her success with the song she doesn't even remember writing, and which she personally thinks is vapid and bad and doesn't want to be remembered for. She both wants to keep her huge adoring audience and to not have the pressure of having to come up with a huge hit, and can't have both, and has become super perfectionism-stuck with writer's block desperately trying to find "her muse," mostly resorting to eating Bugsnax. She has to learn that she needs to create for the love of it, and loving the subject of it, and not get as hung up on if it's amazing and literally everyone will adore the results.
Wiggle: "They call me a faded star! But for just this moment I will burn bright again! This is my swan song~ I will devote my final ballad~ ...to Bugsnax."
Gramble's personal struggle is all tied up in his major abandonment issues -- his family abandoned him when he was still just a kid, but old enough to clearly remember it. Out of desperation he's glommed onto the Bugsnax as a family of his own and refuses to understand that they are not actually capable of returning his devotion, and has very unhealthy ideas about how love is supposed to work ("you pour every ounce of love you have into someone and just hope that they notice!") that he desperately needs to work past. He also seems to be afraid of forming actual human (or, well, Grumpus) connections due to the abandonment. He needs to let other people care for him, and care for people who are actually capable of caring back, and calm down a little.
Gramble: "Oh, my little ones need me! Papa's comin' for ya!"
Gramble: "There, there, little one... I would never abandon you. We're a family now. And we're gonna be together forever."
Wambus's personal struggle is maybe the simplest one: He feels like a failure and doesn't really believe in himself, making him sorta think others feel the same way, making him incredibly stubborn; he "won't quit" even when something obviously isn't working. That said, he also needs to realize that not giving up is a success of its own so long as it's not taken to ridiculous extremes, and to keep trying with realistic expectations for himself.
Wambus: "I'm such a failure! I couldn't even control my hunger! No wonder nobody believed in me..."
Triffany's personal struggle is tied up in her job and family, kinda: she's an archaologist whose grandmother disappeared on a dig, so Triffany's secretly looking for her remains to try to find out what exactly happened to her, because only the living can remember the dead. She's good-spirited but underneath kinda fatalistic, and doesn't like fighting so tends to find it easier to withdraw and spend her time isolated "with the bones," and she accepts the realities of death maybe a little too easily. She needs to connect with people a little more firmly, I think, and also accept loss without getting all... dark about it.
Triffany: "No sense delayin' the inevitable..."
Triffany: "This is the end... yeah? I was gonna end up here one way or another... Not that it mattered, anyhow. The only thing that matters out here... is Bugsnax."