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massive doodle dump from an Inanimate Insanity whiteboard on Ao3. Spoilers are under the cut, otherwise your all safe!! :3

My signature is “Bird”.

"You only exist because I allow you to.. Don't forget that.."

Art is by me. Character designs is by @juliekinnie .Please they are so cool.

Mephone4 humanization/gjinka

It took me a while to make but here he is! I took creative liberties with him a bit. Next up on my list is Mepad.

Any art or fanart of him I would love to see! Just tag me don't worry I don't bite lol./ Not forcing anyone to do so.

Who tf calling me?

Hhh yeah take this inside joke with a friend I did. I'm still crying that I put so much time and effort into this

Showtime.

(I hate drawing curtains rahhh)

"I'm all talk with a thorn in my side. I got real big heart that I'm willing to hide."

I'm not crying. You are.

Rambles TW:[ii 16]

Mephone is just a kid. Now before I get people going in my comments trying to say "oh Applin! You're infantilizing him!". No I'm not. Please hear me out.

Let's be honest,Mephone as a character has lost his childhood from the very beginning since he was made. Cobs neglected him, emotionally and physically manipulated him.

What I am trying to say is yes Mephone is an adult. However even adults can still be childish. That's HIS coping mechanism. The SHOW is HIS coping mechanism. He's trying to somehow fill the holes and gaps caused by Cobs instead with this coping mechanism.

Cobs though, is using the fact and the knowledge that he knows Mephone is "childish" at heart. He is weaponising Mephone's OWN COPING MECHANISM against him.In order to GET Mephone to come BACK to Meeple.

Do I believe Mephone "created" everyone? No I don't. I believe that yes Mephone created perhaps the settings and the atmosphere/props ect. But he did NOT create the contestants. I will tell you this with a fact. Just because we saw suitcase and knife glitch physically, that can still be metaphorical. A metaphor for how Knife and suitcase are now doubting themselves, they are considering Cob's words in a way. They are doubting how much they know about MEPHONE. How much Mephone hasn't told them everything completely yet.

I mean a notable thing is also on Mephone' wiki it describes his mentality "Out of sight, out of mind". Cobs USES THAT during ii 16 purposely. There are words there thrown in such as "regression" ect.

Cobs is yet again destroying Mephone's coping mechanism here when he was ON THE WAY to RECOVERY. Because how can Cobs make more profit, if Mephone4 isn't crumbled down to a state where he is impulsive.Making it easier to manipulate him.

The fact that I predicted this ironically is funny as fuck.

Who tf calling me?

Hhh yeah take this inside joke with a friend I did. I'm still crying that I put so much time and effort into this

"Feel the pain behind your eyes. Everything on line. This is the part where they die."

My version of that album cover! I have been wanting to draw it for a while.

So. I have some things to say about this scene, and in particular this piece of dialogue between the finalist duo and cobs.

I've been thinking about how inherently unsettling the way cobs says this is - "you both are safe", "there has to be a winner". cobs basically views the show as if he was the one who made it, and treats the contestants like characters. he has shown through 'killing' the contestants that he does not see them as real people, and acts like he’s the show’s... producer or director, toying with/manipulating MePhone and seeing himself as pulling the strings behind the curtain. Brian Koch said during one of his livestreams that he even has favorite 'characters' (Knife and Cheesy), which just dehumanizes them more.

So the fact that Cobs is talking about how he basically has plans for the season finale, to give it a ‘proper ending’ - plans for Knife and Suitcase, when he doesn't even view them as real and simply as just an extension of MePhone's immature nature, cannot mean anything good. He's keeping them both 'safe' only to finish the show, which who KNOWS how he intends to end it!! Maybe he hangs the finalists and the other contestants' safety over MePhone's head, blackmailing him into coming back to Meeple Headquarters. Maybe he pits the finalists against each other in some messed up way, maybe even violent! Maybe he manipulates the duo into being infuriated at mephone, and he leverages that anger against him. Would he even let them go back to the hotel?? They're stuck in Meeple Headquarters basically, stuck with HIM.

Cobs is essentially showing that he is in control now, that he intends to end the show HIS way. He even explicitly SAID that the only reason they aren’t in danger (from MePhoneX) was because there 'has to be a winner'. And for me that just gives off extremely Unsettling Vibes.

Idk if this makes any sense - basically, the knifecase duo are probably in trouble, and I am ANXIOUS to see what cobs is cooking up for them.