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It’s the cactus theory!!!!!

Although wait… I guess I’ve never explained that on here. My understanding of c!Phil has always been that he treats his and other’s lives like cacti. And tbf I know nothing about cacti other than what my best friend told me one time and technically it was an aloe plant but I think that version still stands. She told me that you can’t actually save an individual tendril(?) from rot, you can only cut it off to try and save the rest of the plant, and that really fits with what c!Phil does throughought the course of the story, he finds whatever things he considerers “rotted” and cuts them off to save the rest of the group. Like with c!Wilbur and with L’Manburg. But people don’t actually work like that and I think we’re starting to see that with this stone example. c!Phil tells c!Tommy that people are more important than attachments and uses the breaking and smelting of the stone to show how easily the item itself can be repaired, items can always be fixed after all. But the reason why no one really understands what he’s trying to say by that… is because in contrast, what he means is that people can’t be fixed. Which is something we all know isn’t true. But to c!Phil seems perfectly logical with his cactus-themed ideas. Especially when you consider how he does treat other people especially c!Wilbur, as despite the amount out trauma and terrible things that have happened to him including his own suicide, c!Phil still treats him as though everything is fine because he can’t, or doesn’t want to admit that c!Wilbur, and every other character as well, needs actual help.

hey umm. am i the only one who saw the parallel between tommy breaking the stone and smelting it over and over back to its original form, and dream saying he’ll kill and revive tommy again and again? because hoo boy