#especially if she's bffs with valentine like. the contrast

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

Anyway I think the twist being the main character was what they despised all along fucks actually

#random thoughts #specifically in sci fi #what does 'robots don't deserve rights because they aren't human' become when you discover you yourself are a robot #not specifically this trope but i was thinking about the 'the little girl was a robot this whole time' twist in dbh and how it sucked #which is mainly because the whole relationship between the girl and her robot guardian was so heartfelt #was BECAUSE the girl was human and the robot was a robot #a child choosing her wires and bolts nanny over her flesh and blood dad because only one of them was family to her #also the twist tries to justify her dad's abuse of her like 'well obviously she's not REALLY his kid' #'you have to think about what he's going through' yeah shut up #also the twist doesn't really work when robots are already basically identical to humans #you could take any character in that game and go 'they were secretly a robot' and yeah sure ig #there's nothing DISPROVING it #now fallout 4. is also bad but let me think about the fallout 4 in my brain 4 a sec #i love the idea of a synth main character who doesn't know she's a synth #especially if she's bffs with valentine like. the contrast #between flesh and blood and nuts and bolts #also the idea of ss being nick's main advocate for his personhood BEFORE realizing she's also a synth #nick 🤝 nora: is this trauma mine or does it belong to me version 1.0 #nora replaying that memory of when her husband got shot like 'was that when i was me or did that memory belong to the original nora' #'or was it even a memory at all??? was it planted by the institute???' #and like there is no way of confirming you're a synth except post mortem #so she just has to like connect all the dots herself with no actual physical confirmation of what she believes is true #the institute was destroyed. any paperwork documenting who she actually is is lost to time immemorial. #and shaun isn't above making synths of. i almost said dead people #god shaun is really dead isn't he. that little boy is a ghost. #anyway back to the original topic #best twist is when there's a visible distinction between humans and robots AND it's known in the narrative #that more sophisticated forms of bots are being tested but not yet produced on a global scale #also if the main character either lacks empathy for robots or whose relationship with a robot character isn't built on the idea of #'look at us transcending social norms by being a human and a robot and being friends'

[eddisfargo]

CoMC Chapter 117--THE LAST CHAPTER

CHAPTER 117

The Fifth of October

38 minutes

THIS IS IT, YOU GUYS! The LAST chapter!! And look at that name--we’re closing it off with just one last Dumas Countdown™, because this is the deadline at which our sad little son is supposed to kill himself. And/or discover Juliet. 

And I am off to listen! Wish me luck!!

OK I’M BACK, and I listened to it last night, and posted my “FIN” interlude, and now I’m finishing this! So bittersweet!!

So…… I don’t know what I was expecting. Hahaha I mean I guess I do, and in some ways it was spot on, but I was kind of expecting Val to pop in and stop Morrel from killing himself, not for MC to just… give him fake poison. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Time to do the thing I’ve been doing where I put the book on doublespeed and skip around! 

Also I didn’t do that and it’s days later because I procrastinated this for some reason wanted to give the story some time to marinate so I’m doing something unprecedented and I’m going to post this immediately after I write it. If I’d queued it like normal it would’ve gone up at like 4am today but it’s 10:30am and I still haven’t written it. (11:30am by the time I’m posting it! lol) Every other chapter went up by last night! But hey, LONG ONE INCOMING. 

Getting this out of the way in advance so I don’t have to end on this note: Albert is not, after all, ever mentioned again. 

So Morrell is sailed into Monte Cristo (the island not the d00d) by a guy who turns out to be Yucky Jacopo. He is a very sad guy because this is the last day of his life (no it isn’t), but he gets all happy when he sees his bff MC. And MC is happy too--he’s all laughy, which Morrel notes as him basically being a different person. But MC’s like “OH YEAH I FORGOT THAT HAPPINESS IS FLEETING” like okaaaaay. And Morrel’s like “well glad that you’re either feigning happiness for my comfort or you’re totally OK with my death which is in like 3 hours.” and MC’s like “I chose c) none of the above.” 

And MC’s like “wait you’re not feeling better? Weird!” And he does this WEIRD interrogation of exactly what kind of sad Morrel is and whether he’s “consoled” or not (“consoled” apparently includes being basically heart-dead). Morrel’s happy because MC’s going to give him a nice easy death and he can die in a friend’s arms. And it turns out Max has been kind of hoping for a miracle which is clearly not coming after all (yes it is). 

So Max is like “OK you know how you know literally everything and are basically from a higher plane and I trust you absolutely?” and MC’s like “yes that’s correct, go on?” (the higher plane is called “grief” btw). 

So it turns out MC’s concerned that Max is… not unhappy enough to be saved, and that would be horrible, because it wouldn’t be proper repentance for his sins. So MC’s like “here have $100 million and now you don’t have to die!” and Max is like “frist of all how DARE yo u” and MC’s like “OK phew just making sure”

So MC hands him the poison and goes “hey I’ll do it too!” and Max is like “but you love people and people love you!” (umm, don’t you have an adorable sister??) “in YOUR case it’d be a crime! No doing that, but I’ll give Valentine your regards. Toodles!” And he just… drinks it. And starts to fade out. Now obviously at this point it’s not real poison, haha. It’s definitely a drug though, because he can’t move or speak and is feeling all wonky. But then VALENTINE WALKS IN!!! Oh my god, she wasn’t dead???? This whole time??? I had NO IDEA!!! 

Now I was a bit worried at this point that he’d just… never believe he didn’t die. Like that this was heaven and no one could prove it wasn’t, haha. But that didn’t quite end up happening. So anyway they’re together now, and that’s MC’s atonement. And now MC goes “GIVE ME YOUR GRATITUDE. I NEED IT TO LIIIIIIIVE. POUR YOUR THANKS INTO MY EAR IT IS MY NOURISHMENT.” And Val totally does. But also she calls Haydee her sister, and MC’s like “oh good you love her that’s great because she’s yours now. I’m setting her free and making her a princess again.” 

And Haydee’s like “Yeah that’s fine, whatever you say. No I mean that literally. I will do WHATEVER YOU SAY ALWAYS BECAUSE I LOVE YOU. IF YOU YOU WANT TO [dramatic swoon motion, I assume] CAST ME OFF, I WILL GO! AND DIE! BECAUSE YOU SAY SO!” 

And MC’s like “wait wait wait wait wait are you saying you like… like me or something?” 

And Haydee’s like “I’ve literally been telling you that the entire book. I love you like an immediate family member! Where ‘immediate family member’ is a set containing ‘husband’!” 

And MC’s like “Oh I guess I can be happy then. Like I said in that one chapter that made Eddis so mad. FYI she’s still not cool with this at all, but it’s whatever.” (What a weird thing for Dumas to write in, amirite?)

So they go off to have their happily ever after or whatever and then Max wakes up and is like “wtf I’m not dead! That traitor!” and picks up a knife to finish the job and Valentine goes “I mean or maybe not do that?” And Max is like whaaaaat? Except also he just accepts it instantly. So they go off into the sunset.

They get a note from MC who, it turns out, just… left. Without saying anything. Off to go marry Haydee, one assumes. And speaking of what he left… his houses and stuff to Morrelentine, for starters. Which should be interesting. They’re actually going back to Paris? The city in which she’s supposed to be buried right now? That won’t be a scandal or anything, haha. But whatever, I guess there’s plenty of scandals in Paris. People will get over it eventually. Maybe. Anyway we did need to get Max back to Julie and Emmanuel. That’ll be a nice little family for Valentine, who’s never known love like they have just all the time.

Also Noirtier’s totally waiting for them in Foghorn Leghorn, where he wants to bless the marriage and presumably live with them forever. MC suggests that Val give her whole fortune to charity and also drops in “oh hey literally everyone else in your family is either dead or lost their damn mind, fyi.” But anyway she won’t really need the fortune now they’ve got Monte Cristo bux--because he’s leaving them the grotto treasure. 

So MC suddenly feels humility and remorse and realizes he’s not God, only God is God and he’s just some guy. And why did he let Max suffer so much when Valentine was liTERALLY ALIVE THE WHOLE TIME OMG? Because happy and sad only exist in their contrast to each other, and he needed to be vairy vairy sad before he could properly be vairy vairy happy. You have to die to appreciate life. And apparently all human wisdom is summed up in two words: Wait and hope. 

That seemed it should be the last line of the book, but it keeps going with their reactions. Except spoiler, it totally IS the last line of the book when Valentine repeats it. After the two of them wonder if ever see their father/sister again. 

WAIT AND HOPE. Audible hopes you have enjoyed this program! 

AND SO IT ENDS. (Also that Audible message sounded SO FAST after how slow our narrator talks--I really don’t think this book would be 53 hours read by anyone else, haha. But he did a great job though! Especially at 45% increased speed)

I still can’t believe it’s over! I’m already like halfway through my next audiobook, haha, because it’s actually a reasonably-lengthed book. 

EDDISFARGO HOPES YOU HAVE ENJOYED THIS PROGRAM. 

#Eddis Reads Monte Cristo #count of monte cristo #spoilers #IT ENDED OMG #Thanks so much for following along through all of this #it's been a really really good time #off to check out some memes!

[meangirlmurphy]

hi! could I get a shippy thing? I'm 5'4, my hair is very very short & the top part is pastel pink. I wear glasses & usually hoodie & black clothes. Im pretty bipolar. I'm a pretty big nerd, I like to play video games when I can. I wear dorky glasses. I'm actually a writer, sadly I have motivation problems and can never finish them. And I love reading. Getting lost in another worlds chaos is much better than focusing on the chaos at home am I right? I've read some of your stuff & ur really good!

Since you didn’t specify, I just did Dear Evan Hansen and Be More Chill!

Dear Evan Hansen!

Romantic Ship: I 100 percent ship you with Connor Murphy! I feel like he would give you a lot of his clothes to wear (he swears it’s just because he wants you to have “more clothes” but it’s actually because you look so tiny and precious in his stuff). He absolutely loves when you read out loud to him, especially when he’s having one of his very rough days, it tends to calm him. Sometimes the arguments you two get into can get pretty explosive, but since you two both deal with mental illnesses you’re able to quickly resolve the issue at hand (after a few hours of the silent treatment from Connors end). You two met in the local library, coincidentally you both finding refuge there after a nasty night at home with your parents. He had commented on how he liked your hair, and the friendship blossomed on from there. He actually asked you out by replacing the book mark in the book you were reading with a sticky note that said “I’m ready for a new chapter, be my girlfriend?” He also takes you out to places you’ve never been to try to give you a new outlook on life to see if it sparks anything for whatever your currently trying to write!

Friendship Ship: I feel like you would be bffs Jared Kleinman. You two would hang out constantly and play video games all the time! Since you two are both “nerds” and wear the dorky glasses, people often mistake you as being in a relationship (which Connor absolutely hates). But when this happens, you both often have the most dramatic reactions (ex: fake gagging, rolling eyes, “what? I hate him, no”).  If you’re having a particularly hard time at home, he makes up some excuse on why you need to come over right at that exact moment, whether it be he needs to study with you or that he just got a new video game in that you just HAVE to try out. He acts as sort of a big brother towards you. Oh, and he totally teases you over the contrast of your hair to the way you dress. “Really? You look like a fairy threw up on the remains of My Chemical Romance”

Enemy Ship: Zoe Murphy would most likely be the person who, for some reason, has a problem with you. You remind her too much of her brother, and she can’t stand to be around anyone that has any relation to him. She’s not mean to you or anything, she just avoids you as much as possible, You’re her brothers girlfriend, and it’s just super odd to her that you see any good in him honestly.

Be More Chill!

Romantic Ship: I ship you with MIchael Mell! If you don’t think that this boy won’t call you at 3 am because they updated Apocalypse of the Damned you’re dead wrong. Be prepared for late night snack hauls as a form of date with him (because lets face it, he’s not the most romantic person). He ADORES your glasses, and his also trying to get you to let them wear them which you then have to explain:

 “MIkey, I can’t see through your prescription, we can’t trade glasses”

“But yours are so much cuter than mine!”

He feels incredibly special when you wear his red hoodie because he knows you don’t wear a lot of colors and it makes him feel like such a proud boyfriend omg. He’s also your biggest fan when it comes to your writing!!! He’s always asking for updates on current books your working on, and BEGS for you to let him read a sneak peak. But he also understands when you lose motivation, and he’s always the first person to reassure you that even the best of authors get writers block, and that it doesn’t make you any less talented (cue the cuddles)

Friendship Ship: You’d totally be best friends with Rich Goranski, I feel like he’s the type of person you’d go to when you wanted to cause a little chaos. You two often dye your hair together (you’re actually the reason he decided to dye his hair red!! He thought you looked so cool he wanted to try it out himself). He’s not much of reader, but he does let you vent about your writing processes when you need someone to talk to. You’re both pretty short which makes you guys even more powerful when you two are together. You’re just both so small and full of fire that it’s honestly quite scary to some of your peers. Oh, and another thing that you and Rich have in common, is that you both have the hots for Michael Mell. 

Enemy Ship: You’d be enemies with Chloe Valentine. You two are just such opposites! She’s never said anything to you before, but she does give you some snarky looks in the hallway or if you share any classes together. One of the main reasons she doesn’t quite get along with you is because of how much attention you get from Rich. She’s afraid that you’ll somehow take over her status of being the most popular girl, so you leave a bad taste in her mouth. (but believe me, Rich and Michael have NEVER let her say an ill world about you) 

#michael mell x reader #connor murphy x reader #jared kleinman x reader #rich goranski x reader #zoe murphy x reader #chloe valentine x reader #Be More Chill #dear evan hansen