(MANIACAL LAUGHTER)
Every main character, at least once
"If the Foundation has taught me anything, it's that the world is indeed a dark and terrible place full of dark and terrible things. If it wasn't, the Foundation wouldn't exist, would it? But I guess, in a manner of speaking, this dark and terrible place, it's full of us."
—Harley, episode 00: Please Respond
"About two hours after we lost power, I finally made it to the booth, and it was quiet. Much, much too quiet. Every once in a while I can hear people outside, but other than that... dead silence. You don't think about how much noise electronics make. It fades into the background after a while. But the humming and soft beeps of our equipment generate quite a bit of noise, as I have learned from the sheer, oppressive absence of it.
It's a killing sort of quiet.
I hid in my office, curled up under my desk for hours. It does something to you, that kind of silent dark. It activates a dormant animal instinct, and you start listening to your own heartbeat just to escape the emptiness. The void. Your brain conjures sounds from the nothing just to make you feel better, because the other option is that there isn’t anything at all, and that’s much, much worse."
It's a killing sort of quiet.
I hid in my office, curled up under my desk for hours. It does something to you, that kind of silent dark. It activates a dormant animal instinct, and you start listening to your own heartbeat just to escape the emptiness. The void. Your brain conjures sounds from the nothing just to make you feel better, because the other option is that there isn’t anything at all, and that’s much, much worse."
—Harley, Episode 04: Blackout
Harley's broadcast: I lost the entire backlog of my recordings, so barring the chance this signal is reaching the outside world, we have none of that either.
Harley's psychological report: I'm a waaaaaaaste of oxygen. Talking to myseeeellllllllfffffff. Nobody is liiiiiiiiistening to meeeeeeeeeee.
Harley's broadcast: Jury's still out on the cause.
—Episode 07: Reset
Love: (slightly amused) You’re so weird, you know that?
Raddagher: (coldly) Yes.
Love: No, not like- not BAD weird, but don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure you hate my guts, but like... have you ever been driving through the woods and there's just, a random concrete staircase in the middle of the forest? And it's super creepy and probably haunted or evil or something, but you also really want to know what its whole deal is? You're like that.
Raddagher: (unsure) ...okay.
—Episode 09: A Very Small Room
Lancaster: THERE'S SOMEBODY STUCK INSIDE THE WALL DOWN HERE, OVER.
Harley: ...Please clarify! Over!
Lancaster: There's a guy who's- he's- stuck in- like, their- their BODY, is- like, it's- half of- half of it's inside and half of it is outside OF THE WALL.
Harley: I really don't know what you mean, are they alive?
Lancaster: YES. YES THEY ARE ALIVE BUT THEY'RE- THEY'RE- THEY ARE- THEY'RE CLIPPING THROUGH THE WALL LIKE BANJO KAZOOIE, OVER.
—Episode 13: Chaos/Catharsis
D-1: Why don't any of you feel like it is? I'm not crazy.
Lancaster: You're right, a crazy person would never hide dead bodies in a crawlspace.
(D-1 grabs Lancaster by the collar, Lancaster gasps)
D-1: I'm NOT. CRAZY. Sooner or later, you'll feel it too.
—Episode 15: D-Class Personnel
"There isn't anything quite like learning, is there? When you break it down to its bare essentials, we're still academics, underneath all the shadows and supernatural phenomena. We're still kids watching bugs in a jar.
Except for the times that we're kids burning ants under a magnifying glass. Sometimes we are that as well."
Except for the times that we're kids burning ants under a magnifying glass. Sometimes we are that as well."
—Harley, Episode 17: Monster Testing
Harley: People have a natural predisposition for goofing off. (fancy, poetic rambling) And as our time in the void drags on, so builds the urge to do a bunch of stupid shit all of the time. We have no gods and no masters, we have only time and the unlimited machinations of our feverish imaginations.
Love: And a bunch of anime DVDs.
Harley: (still fancy) And a bunch of anime DVDs.
—Episode 25: Anamorphics and Other Nonsense
