I woke up wanting to see the world burn, so I picked up some of your comments to answer with absolutely not intention to elaborate further ❤️
>Hadn't he smoked today? That was strange. Tenna was a complete nicotine addict.
I figured there was significance, but didn't remember Reader ever saying anything about it.
There's significance but I don't think I will ever address it
>I want you to enjoy every moment you're with me so much that it's etched in your memory
this applies to what I said at the beginning of this reply
he wants Reader to want him (my favorite trope with this kind of personality mwahaha), and it won't be THEM wanting HIM if it's coerced, so I'm sticking with my "this was the first deliberate &/or conscious use of hypno"
Haha
>“It’s about the guests on Friday’s show.”
I figured it was Queen, from the beginning A/N
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>“You… You really have no idea, do you?”
has he realized just how perfect Reader is for him? I'm being sincere. They got freaky and instead of blackmail or any type of leverage/manipulation/favors/etc, Reader wants to pretend nothing happened. That 'ruining' that the two enjoyed? Reader could so easily 'ruin' him in a horrifying way.
About that—
>He didn't need to be a cat to understand that it was blood.
first read left me wondering if it was the woman's blood, but seems not. Did Queen kill someone else in front of that actress to prove a point? Why not just kill, given the “I’ll take care of it, why are you worrying about it?” later? Unless the "it" was the blood/source...
It was actually an innocent passerby because she wanted sprinkes in her caramel macchiato
>“You already slept with her, didn't you? Didn't you say she was your type? Why are you acting like this?”
Oh is that why? *begins slowly dialing Ripley's number* Queen knows he doesn't do repeats.
WHO'S RIPLEY
>“By the way, did you like my new ringtone?”
... she's fucking him with a Dess reminder, isn't she? Hey, totally random question completely unrelated to the topic, but what's the tensile strength on that chain in Tenna's suitjacket pocket? I know mechanical Darkners might not need to breathe, but a chain is all I'd need for a makeshift jig saw at important upper spinal cabling.
This is all totally hypothetical, of course. uwu
I'm taking that out of your hands, alright?
>“I don't want to. Thanks to you, I now have a bigger problem to solve.”
How much of a bribe would it take to rope Battat into helping me work through this? Tenna did NOT refuse. That wasn't a no. That was simply stating a negated preference. And why would whatever happened to the actress (&/or the blood source) increase/cause such a big problem?
I'm gonna get splinters in my teeth from chewing at this pencil.
He actually only cares to go solve his cockblocked problem
>“So Tenna hasn't said anything, huh…”
SAID WHAT ABOUT WHAT? *shaking Ramb like Noelle did to Berdly*
YES RAMB, ABOUT WHAT??
>“You will not drag her or anyone of the likes to MY Studio.” Tenna had yelled, slamming his fist into the table in front of Queen.
was this a memory and Battat was remembering, thinking how to put things, or did he tell Reader that?
Oh that's a memory from Battat. More on next episode! Or not! You will eventually find out, eventually.
>The betrayal finally sinking into your gut.
my eyes burned :(
Grab some eye drops and get ready for what's coming next, but I won't say enough about what kind of person I am to tell you why 🥰
>The black glove had a certain metallic taste that you couldn’t quite discern.
didn't understand why initially. dragged my mouse to copy this sentence to say here I didn't get why he'd taken them off when talking to Ramb, then back on now (or during the meeting).
BLOOD. He'd cleaned up the literal mess Queen left, then had to clean his gloves off, and apparently didn't get all of it
Haha it's not blood c:
>His eyebrows were furrowed and his lips pressed into a thin line, but you could see something else: the colors of his NO SIGNAL screen, slightly blurred.
There's a joke to be made about not thinking with his primary head, is he?
Oh, how I will laugh
>The sharp, tactical lines of the harness across his chest now hold his shirt in place desperately.
Reader has more self restraint than me
Believe me, more than all of us fr.
Also the fact that you use all of the characters available per comment is by far the most noticable achievement I've seen in this place and I want everyone to give a round of applause bc that's actually amazing people 🫵👏
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Alistar on Chapter 2 Thu 20 Nov 2025 09:57PM UTC
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