Line #35 Recap/InkCityS2me1TD0WN


1	It started simply. Nightmares. Nothing new for [[WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}} Thrasher]]; being a robot didn't prevent him from dreaming while in sleep mode. But ''those'' dreams were usually about [[DeathIsCheap being killed and rebuilt]], while ''these''... these were different. Things that hadn't ever happened to him, involving people he'd never even met...
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3	When he asks if anyone else is having the same problem, he learns several other residents are -- including [[WesternAnimation/RegularShow Benson]], [[WesternAnimation/RegularShow Rigby]], [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Jetstorm]], and [[WesternAnimation/RubyGloom Misery]]. Compared to his, Misery's are more focused... mainly upon a [[WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes girl in red]] doing ''horrible things'' that she can't quite make out, surrounded by black liquid. When she confesses that her dreams have her scared to the point she can't leave her room, Thrasher offers to help the banshee, becoming her personal bodyguard.
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5	But finding a friend and {{Protectorate}} didn't stop the dreams from coming. Or growing worse.
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7	The hallucinations came next. Whenever he looked at others, he didn't quite see '''them''' -- instead, he saw sketches. Coding. Pixels and ink and paint.
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9	Desperate for answers -- for the nightmarish visions to just ''stop'' -- he decides to venture into the forest and seek the Fourth Wall. Though the ink monsters see him coming, none attack... they simply watch as he makes his way deeper into the woods. Even the Wall looks different to his eyes: only he can see the way energy flows through it. Was ''this'' responsible for everything...?
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11	-->'''Thrasher:''' THIS IS FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO ME, AND MY FRIENDS!
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13	Swinging his mallet down with all his might... only results in him taking a horrible shock and self-destructing as raw energy flows through his body.
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15	And when he respawns back in the Well... [[CameBackWrong something's not right]]. He sees the world ''differently'' now, and the Truth behind everything is so hard to bear...
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17	Misery finds him. The sight of her friend in clear agony is too much for the banshee, and though he repeatedly warns her to keep her distance, she finally embraces him. But instead of the comfort she intended to give, ''he'' unintentionally gives ''her'' a vision of the Truth. She, like him before her, witnesses [[spoiler:the destruction of his world and all within it, due to ''Robotomy'''s cancellation]]. As she breaks down from this vision, the vengeful robot lurches towards the Ink Well, mind still swirling with the {{Awful Truth}}s he's learned.
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19	-->'''Thrasher: I [=W1LL=] BREAK [=TH1S=] [=W0RLD=] THAT [=DES1TR0YED=] AND [=BR0KE=] ME...!!!'''
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21	With that final vow, he puts all his remaining strength into striking the fountain dead center, shrieking in soul-splitting agony as he ceases to exist...
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23	...And leaves the Ink Well split in two, spilling ink and paint across the streets.
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26	!!!This Event includes examples of:
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28	* AwfulTruth: Thrasher is broken by the realization that not only was his world an animated series, it was ''canceled'', and everything he knew appears to have been destroyed in the process.
29	* CameBackWrong
30	* CooldownHug: Attempted by Misery. It didn't work.
31	* DoomedByCanon: With ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}'' canceled and unlikely to see any sort of revival, Thrasher no longer has a home world to return to... and that knowledge leads to his own demise.
32	* FromBadToWorse
33	* GoMadFromTheRevelation
34	* InterfaceScrew
35	* OddFriendship: Thrasher's friendship with Misery takes a tragic turn when he unintentionally exposes her to the Truth.
36	* OhCrap: A City-wide version when residents feel the shockwave caused by Thrasher striking the Well, and arrive to see it badly cracked.
37	* {{Protectorate}}: Misery becomes this for Thrasher.
38	* RecurringDreams
39	* TakingYouWithMe: Attempted on the Ink Well, and by proxy the City itself.
40	* WhatHaveIDone: Said verbatim by Thrasher when he realizes Misery saw the same vision.
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