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What if everybody could only speak in quotes?

Opportunity for me to creatively show off quotes

Ideas

Has to fight a dragon by memorising quotes
- The protagonist starts over hating TV, or we find out that once apon a time he loved TV and not anymore
  - Like Raj/Ilhan, me potentially
- Could also be the villain.
- Would that be a mitchels vs the machines type ending?
  - don’t get how this is related to mitchells, i don’t even know what the story of that was
  - unless it’s raj/ilhan coming over to my side and starting to love movies/tv
What sort of conflict is inherent to quotes?
What scenes can I see?
- The character goes through some portal and slowly realises that everyone of them is speaking in quotes.
  - It would be really fun and challenging to try and write in a way that things make sense when they’re talking to eachother, and would be really interesting to people who have watched similar things to the things that I have watched
- Does this bug the character?
  - Is the character straight up ebeneezer scrooge?
    - Wouldn’t that be a boring character to write?
    - Wouldn’t it be more fun to write a character who fucking loves TV and watches stuff all the time and quotes stuff all the time and nobody understands what he’s saying
      - But he doesn’t get pleasure out of this, he’s not five.
      - He’s taken into a deeper kind of pleasure where you make things match and the person doesn’t even ever have to know (Quote Therapy style)
        
        after: he’s too woke then
    - But then he goes to this place where people are quoting things all the time and he absolutely adores it
      - I keeping of Leela and the people who she made a TV show all the time
      - And then? What does he learn?
        
        He should have original thoughts
        
        He is quoting too much. He is even more of a charicature of me.
        
        He starts by getting pleasure in confusing people and learns not to
        
        This seems bad because that’s what Hanmer does and I think it’s bad and I would hate to do it.
        
        But also if I can’t write about whatever I want in a story, what can I do?
        
        That quoting stuff is dumb
        
        Why?
        
        Because you should have original thoughts
        
        What if he learns nothing? What if quoting stuff is actually awesome?
        
        That’s kind of what I think now
    - What if there’s a villain who’s really against quoting stuff?
      - He’s started capturing and killing these creatures. What do the creatures say about it?
        
        “Floop is a madman help us save us”
      - I can start each of the chapters with quotes from Quote Therapy, since I know the whole thing.
        
        “Let the quotes be like lyrics”
      - But why does the guy want to capture and kill these creatures?
      - What if the lesson that he learns is just about not being annoying in general? On general principle?
        
        That’ll be a good lesson. That’s one I can teach
        
        But then I also have to give him that strange shade of quasi-autism I have, and that seems irrelevant to the whole quoting thing?
        
        Memories I have of being annoying by quoting:
        
        Don’t know if I’m elated or gassy, but I’m somewhere in that zone
        
        What if quoting stuff is like masturbating in front of other people: your one fatal mistake is assuming that it’s one bit interesting or entertaining to them. Unless of course they know the thing.
        
        Maybe the main character just doesn’t realise that it’s not interesting unless you know the thing, in which case it’s fine.
        
        But what about the memories I have where quoting is super cathartic?
        
        I’m tired of running in circles, with tiredness
        
        After running away from that outing, “maybe I’m very upset”
        
        I’m alone, I’m all alone
        
        What if the Quote Therapy podcast is like the sequences for HPMOR, how Harry knows everything on it and expositions it throughout.
        
        What if at one point, at the very end, Main is about to kill the antagonist by giving some killer epic speech, and then he gives the whole speech, and maybe it’s literally all of quote therapy or maybe just the last bit of it, and then the protagonist guy asks “that was so eloquent, so fitting to the situation, how did you come up with that?” and he says something like, I didn’t come up with it, I memorised it because my need for variation when listening to spoken audio is low
        
        (That’s basically “who knew these ants were so bouncy?” - “i did, cos I studied them”)
        
        Woah now it’s too jokey because the whole thing is a lot sillier
        
        I think I meant to say, a lot more serious.
        
        What if the lesson he learns is that he’s mentally disabled and he full on has echolali
        
        What if the villain reads out the wikipedia page to him, and then the protagonist just listens on really sadly, thinking that he’s disabled.
        
        How does he reconcile this?
        
        He starts to think over all of the memories in his life to the times when he’s done things that are disabled
        
        Asking minnat if she wants to hangout a million times
        
        Repeating “don’t know if I’m elated or gassy, but I’m somewhere in that zone” a hundred million times annoying the kids in front of him to death
        
        Does he have a foil?
        
        A Hanmer? Someone who will endulge him in this without
        
        Does he also have someone who will role their eyes at him with everything he says, and when he’s thinking over his life and realising he’s annoying he realises that this person was right, and that just because people are mostly wrong or something, no excuse.
        
        What does he realise in the end though?
        
        that he can have the benefits and fun of quoting things without any of the autistic downsides of being really annoying
        
        How does he realise this?
        
        So, the guy shouts at him about being autistic….. then….
        
        does he escape? He goes back to the Froopy Land characters and sees himself in them, mindlessly repeating things. He also sees some animals and realise how they just repeat things again and again “if you’re a squirrel you’re not learning anything” style.
        
        Should he be called back to fight while he’s still sad?
        
        What is the ultimate plan of this bad guy?
        
        He wants to destroy the entire planet as well as himself
        
        Maybe he is actually a Froopy Character as well
        
        How did he break out of it?
        
        CGP Grey style, he stopped all reading, stopped all watching, stopped everything
        
        Do the Froopy Characters even have those things?
        
        Yeah, they somehow get television characters and books and stuff from Earth, which allows the main character to get all of their referneces
        
        It took him decades, but he finally managed to start forming his own strings of sentences.
        
        This is an emotionally fraught topic or him, which makes him cry a bit when he brings it up.
        
        Why does that make him want to genocide the entire planet?
        
        He hates himself, Evil Morty style.
        
        But is he the only one who wants to exist?
        
        He’s just upset with his entire existence, Morty’s Mind Blowers style.
        
        What if all he wants is to change their core brains structure, Three World’s Collide style?
        
        Main would also very much get caught in the blast, and the part of his brain that provides the utilty function that enjoys quoting stuff would be thoroughly destroyed
        
        Villain explains to the main character that he’s literally disabled. For the rest of his species at least that’s how they were built, how they evolved. He explains that it should be an obvious choice
        
        Does this happen when the villain originally talks to him, or after? Will have to think about the order that things happen, and what excactly is at stake in each point of the order
        
        What if someone from another world came and changed all their utiility functions?
        
        I think that makes it less interesting. That makes it more obvious that the villain is in the wrong (I mean, that he’s in the right, to change their utility functions back)
        
        If all he wants to do is change their core brain structure and bring it closer to human style of thinking original things, then that is neutral enough to permit both the reader and the audience some uncertainty in whether he’s actually in the right.
        
        After he captures him and he escapes the first time, or after they talk the first time,
        
        So what does Main learn?
        
        It’s okay to love quoting stuff
        
        He can get rid of the annoying parts and it’s not okay to hurt people
        
        But if he loves something as much as he likes quoting stuff that’s totallyfine.
        
        So he learns to be less annoying.
        
        How does he talk to the villain the first time?
        
        What if the villain brought him into this world on purpose to extract something from his brain that made it work?
        
        The part of Main’s brain that’s not autistic, the part that can still come up with unique stuff
        
        So what excactly is this? Another planet?
        
        Yeah I think so.
        
        Does Main have an interest in Space exploration?
        
        Yeah I think so.
        
        (not necessarily. Kinda)
        
        If the villain is able to teleport the guy why doesn’t he just teleport him into an indistructable chamber, or use whatever OP as hell technology that is to extract what he needs from off planet?
        
        I love how simple the solution was in the end. That the portal just opens up to the other side of the wall.
        
        OHHHHHHHHH. He didn’t know that Cloud was free until he showed up at the place. That doesn’t explain why it was easy to get into. Oh wait, maybe the Froopy guys are too dumb to fight him on their own.
        
        What if the Quote Creatures brought him here on purpose to fight, because he likes quoting so much? Like a chosen one?
        
        In this model, the fact that he likes quoting isn’t a superpower, but it just makes it interesting for him.
        
        What
        
        But they’re like basically disabled. Like those aliens in Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife that create human beings as an AGI but they can no longer understand?
        
        What if Main was created as an AGI like thing solely in order to fight? What if his memories from the past are all fake?
        
        I actually do want him to have a life. This seems like it would fully undercut anything about him actually learning about being less annoying.
        
        Did they bring him there? They kinda seem to me like hopless babies, and Main’s fascination in them seems not bad
        
        if he’s fascinated by them but they also brought him there that creates some conflicting weird dynamics
        
        What if Main has a ship and he was flying around the universe then find them
        
        Super complicated,
        
        What if Villain was making a bunch of portals into other worlds, Amphibia style, and accidentally made one to earth??
        
        So then Main accidentally finds this portal, Owl House style, hopefully as a result of some character flaw
        
        Oh my god, the portals are triggered based on an individual identity (entity?) repeating something they’ve already said, a string, a large number of times.
        
        How does the portal actually open up though?
        
        Is it a door?
        
        Is it nanobots?
        
        Does he fall asleep and wake up there?
        
        Maybe he actually stays on his planet the whole time but his brain has been copied and the radiowaves are sent to this new planet and it recreates his body because it’s easier to invent ones and zeroes so then his parents actually think he’s asleep or something and then at the end of the adventure he gets his brain transmitted back into his body on earth, killing him
        
        Maybe at one point, for a split second, both him and the clone are alive, giving him a really strange double vision or something
        
        This is a really cool idea, but how is that different than a dream?
        
        If it’s not his real body then there’s something dream-like, not real about it.
        
        What if nanobots destroyed his entire world but created another copy that was just like it?
        
        What if the portal is generated by creating a real life bill cipher, or Mable or Rick or something and he’s attracted to them
        
        Too silly
        
        What else can happen?
        
        He’s in a class room, he’s saying the same cached quote for the thousandth time, but as he says it things begin to slow down, there’s an energy in the air. His classmates look twoards the teacher who’s turning around and then everything is building and a portal opens up directly below his chair, and he vanishes into this alternate world
        
        Will there be an into the spiderverse like scene of him travelling through a crazy wormhole?
        
        No, I kinda wanna emphasise that it’s about him going through worlds
        
        Maybe there’s just straight up a tractor beam that pulls him through, and the only reason why he goes through his maths classroom floor is becuase the alien world starts on the other side on the planet
        
        “Hey who’s tractor beaming me? Nobody tractor beams me. Nobody descrambles my tractor beam scrambler to boot!”
        
        What if it’s just straight up like Adventures in Light Distortion, he just phases through planets at the speed of light for a few minutes, things getting progressively weirder.
        
        He realises he’s nearing an actual planet, and what happens? He just anime crashes into it Steven Universe style?
        
        No, he’s a hurtable human…
        
        What if he’s really worried that he’s gonig to anime crash into it, but he slows down right about on time.
        
        But then why doesn’t he go straight down to the villains lair?
        
        What if he says some wacky quotes and it disrupts the laser?
        
        Wouldn’t him saying quotes only make it go faster? (Maybe that can happen during the trip)
        
        Can he do something to disrupt the laser?
        
        Shake about?
        
        Lame, weak
        
        Maybe villain just finished creating the laser machine thing and the character activated it super quickly, so he doesn’t have the mechanism to catch hiim and he just faceplants against the side of his building
        
        What’s stopping the villain from capturing him the second he goes on-world?
        
        Time to do the timeline I think
        
        Isn’t it a bit too fantastical if he’s just flying through space?
        
        what if he’s knocked out and he comes in and out of reality…
        
        eh.
        
        If we get him there using SciFi ways, like what about straight up teleportation?
        
        What if he phases through to the sun, then inside it is a portal.
        
        That is so stupid and out there and irrelevant to the story.
        
        Maybe I should do more worldbuilding on what this froopy land place is called.
        
        What’s the planet called?
        
        (I like words with “Echo”, is there something with “Quote” that’s not so obvious? Maybe )
        
        Echolalia
        
        Echolocus
        
        Negentropy
        
        Negecho
        
        Nogec
        
        Gecon (Economics)
        
        Genoc
        
        Genog
        
        Genogo
        
        Parrot-world
        
        Psittaciformes
        
        Formechopic
        
        Sitticeko
        
        Rechosit (Repeat / echo / parrot)
        
        Reckosit
        
        Maybe Recksite
        
        What are the people called?
        
        Reckonians
        
        Looks like “retcon”
        
        Sotians
        
        Sokotians
        
        Sotikans
        
        Lipnip
        
        Lipta
        
        Flimflorian
        
        Okay, how does Planet Reckosit work?
        
        They’re basically humans, they’re obviously much smaller. They look kinda like the plutonians from Rick and Morty with the personality of the aliens from Leela TV episode
        
        Do they basically have a normal society?
        
        Are there any main character Sotians?
        
        What role would they play?
        
        Give him someone to talk to except his own head, like ZD
        
        Do I really want to create sokotian characters? This doesn’t seem that fun.
        
        But can I also really create a story with only two characters?
        
        But what point do they serve?
        
        Main needs someone to talk to…
        
        When?
        
        Still haven’t resolved how main becomes okay with quotes being autistic
        
        How does that happen? (Breaking the story)
        
        Eh
        
        But it filters it based on their own language
        
        Or it detects it using human stuff
        
        At one point Main looks and sees dots of all the thousands of aliens in the galaxy who have the same thing as him. I think this should be after he’s okay with being disabled.
        
        What if main full on says, for the thousandth time: “For one trillion years I’ve been trapped in my own decaying dimension, waiting for a new universe to call my own”
        
        Then a door or something opens. And then he’s in Froopy World, but some grim mechanic part of it, and he escapes, then finds the froopy creatues, and then falls in love with them.
        
        Finds one in the walls, asks “how long have you been here?”
        
        It says “For one trillion years I’ve been trapped in my own decaying dimension, waiting for a new universe to call my own” and then begins to smile insanely because he recognises the quote, at first thinks it’s a strange coincidence that they say the same thing.
        
        What if the Quote Creatures don’t actually receive television signals and books and crap from earth, but the things they say are just filtered in Main’s brain to feel like they’re saying the same thing?
        
        That’s lame, but I also do want limited interaction or specialness with the planet earth.
        
        What if there just happens to be a portal between their two worlds?
        
        Like that well in star vs the forces of evil
        
        Trivial and lame
        
        Are there Froopy Land characters?
        
        Is there a resistance, phineas and ferb style?
        
        Is Main all alone?
        
        Maybe throughout the whole thing there’s a tease a couple times about what main’s ultimate quote is, and it’s revealed it’s I’m alone, I’m all alone and he’s actually insanely longely
        
        Or we already know that he’s lonely but it’s not revealed how much it bothers him until the end — Abuela Madrigal crying about Pedro’s death style.
        
        Order of events:
        
        Main on earth, one chapter with him screwing around and at the end of it he falls in to the other world
        
        Travels through space, is in the other planet
        
        Slowly realises they are all talking in quotes, quotes he gets, and is absolutely estatic because of this
        
        At one point, villain captures him and tells him he’s disabled and autistic. Maybe also at this point villain tells him his plan to change their brains to be like his, and that’s why he’s there.
        
        He escapes, is sad
        
        Somethign causes him to be okay with this
        
        Thinking
        
        I just need three “things” to happen
        
        First, when he lands on the planet, there has to be some conflict. Something he’s worried about, something that comes out of nowhere, something to do
        
        Then, when he’s caught the first time, he has to get away after having all the crap explained to him (this should be in the last little bit of the story, unless the bulk of the story is him coming to terms with his echolalic breain)
        
        Then there has to be some conflict after he comes back that specifically makes the breakthrough in the echolalic brain
        
        Then he has to go back, monologue the villain, stop his evil plan but in a dramatic way
        
        Either turn the villain around or incapacitate him (Or take him HOME! Like Jessy and Bullseye. Take him to earth where people don’t quote things all the time)
        
        Go back home, and have a scene where he’s noticably less annoying
        
        —
        
        Oh man what a story
        
        Okay, this is a time where it’s useful to just have ideas of cool things to happen, like the Hologirl or Harry Tying up Sirius or Your Goose is Cooked scene, things kinda to buy time but also notably to allow pacing, to allow the story to flow.
        
        This happens a tonne in encanto. Scenes are given the time they deserve
        
        Also need to think of ways to make the villain’s plan exceptionally cool. What order is the villains backstory revealed?
        
        I think writing the dialogue between main and villain will be the easiest part of the story, its core
        
        What conflict can happen when he’s first on the planet?
        
        Has all the fun with interacting with them and realising how they act
        
        Utility changing robot comes, they all run
        
        How does the utilty changing robot work?
        
        Infinity Train style soul sucking thing? Not sciency. Remember, it’s neuroscience.
        
        It’s wires hooked onto their brains.
        
        Something neat happens with it and main slowly realises that the robot does
        
        Oh man what if one of the sokotians is a robot, and it’s a metaphor for how quoting stuff makes you a robot
        
        “Jesus Christ ___ can you shut the fuck up?”
        
        Kinda silly. Why wouldn’t they recognise their friends?
        
        Ok, the first time, one of them gets kidnapped by the robot, so they storm the place, and then the guy monologues
        
        They defeat it
        
        What if it captures one of the babies?
        
        But then why does he come back the second time, after he’s saved the first baby?
        
        The utilty changing thing starts working in some capacity
        
        What other cool stuff could happen?
        
        Main struggles to save the Sokotians from something. But what? And what does it represent?
        
        What if he struggled to save them from something and it represented his own being okay nad loving of this part of himself
        
        Could honestly just be another conflict with the robots
        
        Another alien ship comes
        
        Part of the villain’s ray activates and people’s utilty function begins to change and he watches this happen and it’s horrifying,
        
        and it happens to him and jokes aren’t funny anymore and it’s terrifying watching it happen in front of his eyes
        
        Flashback scenes to him being really annoying to people in the past
        
        Reveal of “I’m alone, I’m all alone”
        
        What if he revelaed this to the Sokotians and they really connected with him on this?
        
        Why would they? They’re not lonely or isolated
        
        They might be able to connect
        
        What if the planet is dying?
        
        What if a large part of the story is the travel over to the villain’s lair, and breaking in?
        
        Lame. That’s not why I started writing this
        
        They have to fight a robot that forcibly changes people’s utility functions
        
        That is an idea.
        
        There is a quiz or a room or something that only lets you through if you can get the rest of the quote, like heardle
        
        Maybe a flip of this where you can only get through if you can stop yourself from repeating it (this helps create doubt in him that he isn’t autistic)
        
        maybe he has to kill a tonne of Floopians
        
        What does the villain need?
        
        He need’s main’s brain.
        
        What if he needs mains brain for the crossover between total quote maniac and normal person, so in order to make the transition?
        
        Will this kill main?
        
        No, but it will kill his quote lovingness.
        
        “That’s my one defining trait!”
        
        are the stakes high enough? Why wouldn’t he just kill him?
        
        He doesn’t see him as a threat?
        
        Realistically, it would only be not to copy it
        
        One of the good things about the evil morty reveal is that it’s not at all distracting to the themes of the episode. If it’s not a Rick who wanted to kill Rick, he’s being remotely controlled. Oo, by a crazy overlord? No, by a Morty. The whole episode is the most rick-morty episode in the series up to that point, then the citadel one, then the finale. All of the one’s featuring evil morty focus heavily on the relationship between rick and morty
        
        I don’t want anything in this story to be distracting from the main themes
        
        It’s okay to like whatever
        
        Quoting things is fun
        
        Being annoying is bad
        
        The first time villain captures main, he straight up tells him as he’s strapped down that he’s literally disabled, and he full on pulls up the wikipedia page for echolalia.
        
        There’s some scene in something I’ve watched where someone is told that they’re not special like they thought and theyre really bhymbed out about it
        
        Monsters University?
        
        I think it was a molly mcgee type character, maybe I’m thinking of Mike Wizauski
        
        Oh yeah probably then if I independently came up with it twice
        
        Should he be called back to fight while he’s still sad?
        
        Of course
        
        What if he makes a connection to one specific Sokotian and then they get kidnapped by the bad guy? The bad guy only did it to attract the main guy
        
        Villain,
        
        what if he is also an alien bought in by another last villain who wanted to fix everything?
        
        Kinda lame, kinda cooler if he’s just a mutated Floopian or whatever
        
        He should also definately say at one point “they’re not quotes, idiot. The reason why they apply so widely is because they’re things that people said naturally in conversation to begin with anyway. Feeling special about regonising when they show up in real life is like a baby seeing a chicken on TV, and thinking every trip to KFC is a reference to that show.”
        
        Also villain explains that this isn’t unique, it doesn’t deserve a unique name like “Quote Therapy” or anything, this is just how memes work
        
        Would be awesome if the villain is literally listing different names for it.
        
        “You think you make it special by calling it fancy names, like Youtube Pooping, or Your Creations Will Be Unique, or Quote Therapy, but—”
        
        and that’s the only mention of quote therapy! That’ll be so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
        
        Potential character names
        
        Heye (I feel it)
        
        Something that’s a cryptic refernece to a quote, or show’s his parents love of TV
        
        Like Abed or Britta (but then I’d just create an Abed)
        
        What can we do to have him being annoying to people at the very beginning?
        
        Do we see him going to school? Narrating his life like Mei Lin Li?
        
        I can see him falling backwards in a chair. He starts to say “for one trillion years”
        
        Dare I call hiim Kit?
        
        No, that’s an entirely different story
        
        Heye
  - Chapter one?
    - Do they tell him to STFU? I want him to also learn about anticipating other people’s desires.
    - I want at least one person to say stfu but he thinks it’s a joke, and for other people to just have forced smiles
      - Who would say stfu that I think they’re joking?
      - Casey? “Look, could you be quiet please?”
      - Salima Chowdery
      - Pluto
    - How can we make him likeable? Make him actually bummed out that he can’t watch stuff? Make him really love cartoons? Make that relateable? What do
      - Him being a bit bummed by being told to stfu is kinda sweet. This is what kiril did to me, that’s why i can write about it
    - “I do admit it’s more fun when you know the quote yourself?”
      - Nope. The fact that he’s not self aware enough for that is a huge part of it.
    - How do people tell
    - “Look Heye could you be quiet? It’s getting old pretty quick.”
      
      Heye’s retort was on the tip of his tounge. “Haven’t you ever heard? Let the quotes be like lyrics, and all that jazz? Looping and l—”
      
      A strong voice rang out from across the room. “What they’re trying to tell you is shut the fuck up. No one wants to hear your shitty singing repeated a million times.”
  - Chapter two
    - pfinds his way in froopy land
    - He has to do anything to break the portal. Literally anything. Come on, you can do it
      - squirms a lot
      - Maybe he just shows up on a reverse side of a building, and has to walk a lot to find a town. Figures out he’s on another planet from the sky.
      - Finds the froopy people. “Wait, is that a Harry Potter reference”
      - He starts bonding with them, until a robot comes. They hide, they try to explain and fail to
        
        (Subtle forshadowing about the downdies of quotes)
      - Then they see their friend get their mind changed
        
        Do they come back and stop quoting stuff?
        
        I want it to be more subtle than that. I want the villain to say the shit like “oh yeah, I was stopping them all from doing this”
        
        They should come back and feel off?
  - Chapter 3
    - Options for chapter 3
    - Have to end with the villain. We definately have to see him
    - How excactly are we seeing him?
      - Just about when the baby kid (Sam) is about to leave, robot arms or whatever come and tie down the guy, then the villain comes in and says something (like Steven Universe trial thing)
        
        “Heye! There you are. We’re all just thrilled to see you safe and sound…”
        
        I don’t think I can have him quoting things though.
      - maybe the chapter ending reveal is the quoting.
    - All of Chapter 4 would be talking to the villain, then after that he’s escaped. Villain does most of the talking this time.
    - What has to happen before he gets to the villain?
      - Maybe the Sokotians can
    - How do we get to the tower?
      - Heye freaks out and asks the sokotians What is going on
        
        They explain a little bit. They know that This guy is doing it, and they need to stop him.
        
        Why would they try to storm it so shittily? I think they are actually dumb.
        
        Is Heye allowed to be dumb because he really wants to save Sam?
        
        No, stupid. What’s his plan with breaking in?
        
        To just scope out the place?
        
        No, it’s to Save Sam.
        
        Maybe the sokotians have no idea about Floop/Glussletov?
        
        Grussletov
        
        Gossletov
        
        but they’ve already hyped it so much with the floop stuff
        
        what if they just follow the robot?
        
        eh but isn’t it already gone? That’s kinda lame, how can they keep up with a hovering robot
        
        maybe cloud’s like “yo, wtf where did that bot go?”
        
        “can we take some weapons and screw it over”
        
        and they’re like “sure”
        
        Then they bring shitty weapons and he’s like “i don’t have any options, who knows what’s happening to Sam the longer we wait”
        
        Ok, this I’m okay with. He probably could like try to develop more weapons and stuff but that’s exhausting and the time limit imposed by Sam’s torture is okay
    - We can totally fit in him having a conversation with the Sokotians at this point, especially if it becomes relevant later.
    - I want the punch about the lyrics to be somethign from the villain, something he doesn’t already know. He’s too woke at this point, if he already knows what the quotes come from.
      - Now would be a decent time to learn that he’s on an alien world.
      - But how do the Sokotians know this if Grossletov is the one bringing him in?
    - what are they gonna do, go through a fucking vent?
      - go through a vent…
      - or climb through a window? It’s not like they have the tech to disable a window, that’s kinda the point
      - but cooler if it’s a vent thingy with just a screwdiver. it’s insanely dumb but…
      - They have to get inside the building and this is not the important bit. just get them inside. Just get them inside.
    - Oh no, for the Sokotians I’m obviously thinking of the elves from Futurama
      - This Trinity’s Going to War
      - (2022-04-15) that then was a such a wholesome moment when writing this, with the “I’ve won, excactly as planned” just slipping out after he did the screw, then going to delete it, then reasling I can leave it in and that’s the whole point of the story!!
      - editing sentences to make them flow better is really fun.
      - what if he can feel the air being sucked out through the vent thingy so that there’s less distance for them to travel?
        
        but then we need to put a fan between the two things and write him disabling the fan which I literally just did
        
        uh, we’re not doing a Heye + Anna Salamon (old/short) romance. It might be useful for him to have a bond with one of the
    - Okay, how does he capture him? what does he say?
      - Tentacle dragging him towards him, and we see his face dowsed in light.
        
        “Well isn’t… this… interesting.”
        
        “Pink!”
        
        “HEeeeLLOooo EveryBODY mY name IS.”
        
        “**”
        
        The tentacle wraps his leg and drags it towards the villain and his face is dowsed in purple light and he says “well isn’t, this, i”
- We have two possible excuses for going to the villain’s place?
  - 1 one of the froopy land creatures get’s kidnapped
    - I would be really annnoyed by that first one I think. I mean, isn’t a kidnapping kinda lame? Wouldn’t I have to generate an emotional bond between him and one of them in particular? I woulnd’t really want to write that. The point is kind of that he loves all of them.
      - it’s funny that writing it was kind of easy. I feel like Heye is totally on board with helping this guy and I believe it. but also Heye’s immense relief from finding other quoting creatures.
        
        Makes him attatched to them very quickly in a believable way. Heye needs them.
    - I’d be okay with kidnapping this first guy.
      - Oh my god, should the elve’s names be from whoever they first quote?
        
        That would be weird. THen I’d full on have characters called Rick and stuff.
        
        Maybe he calls them based the name of their actors, and if it’s a gender swap, like with Sarah Stiles to Sam.
  - two - main is curiou abotu wtf is going on.
  - Taken there by one of the robots.
  - They were already going to storm the compound and he just happens to come along and lead them there.
  - “A quote that felt almost like a hug… like… therapy”
    - Is this instead the only mention of “quote therapy”?
  - What if one of the robots takes him there the first time?
  - How OP are the robots the first time around?
    - What do
    - Sokotian
    - Soc-a-to-a
- Milo Murphy’s Law stories are all a bunch of cool stuff happening with 0 emotional stakes or growth.
- Titles:
  - “Let the precise peaks and troughs of the particular voice performance embed themselves into your brain tissue, indenting the words so concretely in your mind that you can’t believe they were ever said ay other way”
  - Peaks and Troughs
  - Precisely Peaki
  - Words and Brains
  - The Many Quotes of Heye Moorhouse
  - A Trillion Years of Quotitude
  - One Quote over the Qu-Quote’s Quote
  - Never Getting Rid of Me
  - To be Sane
  - Sanity? Must be nice
  - Insanity Validated
  - Peaks and Troughs and Repeating Things a Lot
  - Quotianity (like Christianity?)
- THings that villain says in speech
  - You once said “fuck her right in the pussy”
    - for him to be able to say these things he needs to scan his brain a fair bit apon their first meeting
  - “How much of your life are you going to sacrifice to… TV!? How much clear communication are you going to relinquish in the service of a pointless arbitrary goal?”
  - “Everybody alreayd knows that you get more points the closer your quote fits the current situation! That’s why quotes like ‘that’s odd’ win so consistently, because they work perfectly when the situation requires it, but it is undeniable that you are repeating the quote because of the way it’s said!”
    - You don’t get it! You’re sayign that’s odd because tha’ts what you’d say anywya! You’re not special!
  - I need a name for the villain?
    - Alexander
      - Too hamiltony? A
    - Yulia
      - (2022-04-22: oh my god, what are you suggesting space?)
    - Soldantika or something
    - Hamilton?
    - Macklemore?
    - Bordeux
    - Broderick
    - brodrick
    - Adrienne
    - Mantenga
    - Lieberman
    - Gussletov
  - Ok, this chapter ends with something bad happening, which causes them to break in.
  - Natural example:
    - It led them out of the bar and down the street, with further thatch houses linked apon the barely paved streets. It should have been a tip off, since. WHO KNOWS how many people we’ll need to fight before we give up. The day may come where we give up, but today is NOT THAT DAY
    - For the last name i’m feeling something that ends with “ack.” Like Navalmanack or Chutback or Visa

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UGGH holy shit there’s so much description of them breaking into the place. Is it at least good, interesting description?
How do you skip towards something happening?
- DUH of course, introduce the Bowler Hat Guy while they’re stalking through the cave, to add suspense.