#logic is the mayor!!! ambition is the DA!!!!!

[canonicallyanxious]

i'm stupid so i absolutely did not put together Conrad Schintz as "conscience" until i saw someone in the tag point this out but now that it's in my dumb brain i can't stop thinking about it. Alex's choice to portray Conrad as this softspoken never speaks up but still has to do Something boy who is kind and thoughtful to a fault. pitch perfect character choices!!! but also this tiny quiet boy somehow being pegged by the heads of the city as the BIGGEST DISTRACTION to the big guy's goals and ambitions!! and then his choice of the important article to pay attention to being the culmination of Elias' months and months of research - specifically for the goal of, as Conrad put it, getting it before the "big wigs" could get to it. WHAT is Elias Hodge DOING for Gobstopper Industries??????

#sarah.txt #dimension 20 #mentopolis #d20 spoilers #d20 meta #story meta #kind of????? this isn't really meta just me going WHAT is going on and being too dumb to figure it out skdnfskdfnsd #god these fucking world building choices though. #cortisol being the main hormone available legally and one of its functions is to regulate stress response. #the city is on strict pleasure/love lockdown until elias gets a raise. #his conscience is a tiny little boy who no one ever listens to but still somehow managed to shake up the whole city w one small choice. #logic is the mayor!!! ambition is the DA!!!!! #all of these small things that tell us SO MUCH about who elias hodge is as a person without ever even meeting the big guy!!!!!! #Brennan how much fucking WORK did you put into this world building i'm SCREAMING!!!!!

[debbiewebbie27]

Just gonna start a list of all the references/puns in Mentopolis because my brain takes 25 minutes to recognize each one:

Mentopolis: mental+metropolis

PCs:

Detective Hunch Curio: curiosity

Imelda Pulse: impulse

The Fix: hyperfixation

Anastasia Tension: A. Tension (attention)

Daniel Fucks: he fucks (also pleasure/sexual pleasure/urges)

Conrad Schintz: conscience

NPCs:

Victim - Norrell Ojiccle: neurological

Curio's assistant - Anna Lysis: analysis

Employees at Sugah's:

Hans Schadenfreude: schadenfreude is the pleasure by someone from another person's misfortune

Joey Sneezes: sneezing?

Libby Longshower: the feeling after a long shower? (Libido?)

Donny Urges: intrusive thought

District Attorney (DA) Mark Bition: M. Bition (ambition)

Mayor Leon Logic: logic or maybe L. Logic (illogical?)

Mr. Lance: vigilance?

The basset hound - Justin Fication: justification

Madam Loathing: loathing (self-loathing)

Orphans: forgotten/abandoned (wayward) interests (magic, reptiles, trains, lists)

Mr. Avaricci: avarice?

Locations:

Cortex City: external surface of the brain that plays an important role in consciousness

Oblongata Station: medulla oblongata - the connection between the brainstem and the spinal cord that acts as a conduit for nerve signals

Cerebell Pacific: cerebrum and/or cerebellum and also Pacific Bell telephone company

Synaptic Switchboard: synapse - the site of transmission of electrical nerve impulse

Temporal Square: temporal lobe

Hippo Campus University: hippocampus is a brain structure in the temporal lobe that has a major role in learning and memory

Occipital Park: occipital lobe is the area of the brain at the back of the head responsible for visual perception

Let me know if I missed anything or there's better references

#dimension 20 spoilers #dimension 20 #dimension 20 mentopolis #mentopolis #spoilers

[thisisnotthenerd]

there's a lot that happened in the latest mentopolis ep.

for me? theory time.

ok so the visual of elias falling out of the building is rendered in black and white. very noir. but also, elias is supposed to be in the modern day and seeing normally. what's up with what the big guy is seeing?

Edit: it’s supposed to be retrofuturistic. Ignore me.

the de'lux industries pure visual is fucking with me a bit. unfiltered light hitting the retina is inverted by the lenses of the eye. and if it's coming to the occipital lobe to be processed it should still be that way. anyway.

conrad getting parented is just so good. the fix is now a father, and conrad has uncles hunch and fucks (begrudgingly) and aunts imelda and anastasia. that's just how it is.

i'm calling it now, dan fucks hates conrad because he thinks hodge's sense of guilt and shame coming from his conscience is pervading his mind and preventing pleasure.

also i feel like they are playing with the idea of a conscience vs. consciousness. conrad's been blocked from talking to the big guy because of the ice skating trauma, which allowed mayor logic, DA m bition and don avaricci to come to power. the ambition and greed of a logical mind with a suppressed conscience.

also suppressing your fight/flight/freeze/fawn after trauma? elias hodge sure is spicy. ivana popov is marvelous. lovely concept, fantastic pun character. however. i cannot stop thinking about brennan's meatball monologue from game changer: survivor. she pop off so fast. this little meatball can blow all the noodles off your plate all on her own.

buzzing in the balls combined with a compacted psychometer device--i think elias has something in his pocket that's related to that. given that we know from the preview that they're going to set off the alarm and warn mayor logic, i hope that this will come out in the next episode.

with the key reveal: if ambition knows about the foreign mind influence, i think elias either plugged himself in or got plugged in by force. maybe both--plugged himself in to kill his conscience for the sake of finishing the project, then maybe is being further manipulated. first human subject of a no holds barred mind manipulation machine. we know the company is taking military contracts and likely wants to use the mind wipe part of the machine based on conversations with mr. henry. stopping someone's gob means silencing them and what better way than to target the source?

#dimension 20 #mentopolis #d20 spoilers #mentopolis spoilers #dimension 20 speculation