#i know the exact counter argument youre about to hit me with and thats gonna be my next post tomorrow because the answer i have makes me so

[isabelguerra]

okay so i’m doing another old blog deep dive and came across this boss leader fanart by a deleted user. ‘haha bug spirit’ my brain goes in a burst of inspiration. ‘haha like the one in ch4’ ‘haha maybe thats boss leaders dream spirit’ ‘haha except it cant be because BL IS the dream spirit herself’ ‘haha but wait if she’s a spirit then she’d probably need SOME kind of physical form right. like she can have the power to control dreams but wouldnt she still need a body’ ‘wait’

boss leader has shown she’s able to drastically change her physical form in the dreamscape- to the point of being able to pose as different renditions of herself for decades. given this ability to control her appearance, and most essentially her masquerade as a spectral, i’m led to believe that the form we see is more of a mental projection, and that she has a corporeal form out in the physical world DIFFERENT to the one we’re introduced to her with. which is where i’d like to propose:

THE ZIPPER BUG SPIRIT WE SAW IN CHAPTER 4 WASNT SOME RANDOM MYSTERY SPIRIT. THAT WAS BOSS LEADER

The part about the Ch4 subterranean bug spirit’s design that always got me was how much it resembled the Consortium’s suitsies. At first I thought maybe it was a spirit working FOR the Consortium, wearing a suitsie, but that ultimately seemed silly. But what if that wasn’t a complete coincidence? What if that was the one part of Boss Leader’s body that she liked and decided to keep? Look:

What a fascinating design similarity! Huh weird where do I remember her making a bug joke before OH WAIT THATS RIGHT

And isn’t it just fascinating how that spirit saves Max! Almost as if it knew there was going to be a specific group of people on that train tonight! Almost as if it knew said train was going to be there picking up a Consortium agent! A Consortium agent sent under the orders of Boss Leader herself! Well thats cool but I’m sure its just another coincide-

INTERESTING.

i have more on this but i needed to vomit this out before i lost my train (aha) of thought . i think im onto something here. please share thoughts

#EDIT i wrote this at like 5am so i went back and fixed a bunch of typos. sentences should flow better now #paranatural #i know the exact counter argument youre about to hit me with and thats gonna be my next post tomorrow because the answer i have makes me so #unbelievably excited about something #but feel free to counter argue anyway i love hearing what ppl r cooking up