“Consume me? Consume me?! CONSUME ME!!”

Richie walks closer and closer to Rose, glaring. He raises the gun again — one can almost feel the tension in his shaking hand and creased brow.

“This is who I am now,” he sneers. “Get used to it.”

Blood trickles from his nose.

“… well this one did? Pretty brutally honestly…

Wait, you can just DO THAT?! YES PLEASE!!”

… got murdered :(

By a ghost…

The ghost of the body from before….

// it’s sooooo anime I’m loving it 🤪🤪

“Get… away?”

For a moment, he almost falls for it. Richie sees himself reflected in Rose’s eyes, and sees it all.

A pounding in his head makes him snap back to his new reality.

“NEVER! They’ve unlocked the REAL ME now! You — you could NEVER!”

Richie raises the gun, and pulls the trigger.

CAN YOU HELP ME WITH ANOTHER ONE.

Richie pauses at the reveal. A part of him is shocked, yes. He thinks he should run towards the other in amazement and hug him —

But that’s what the old him would have done.

Blood trickles down from his ear before he snaps back to his new self.

“BecauseI CAN! What did this town ever do for me?”

Richie just starts meowing at the cats and playing with all of them, bouncing the string toy all over the place. He wishes he could just stay here forever. He’s only thinking about the cats though, not Tomio.

Happy birthday guardian angel!!!!!! Thanks for helping me out with the dead body thing :)

Richie just shoots the hat off.

“I don’t care who you are!” He yells. “You’re not stopping me from DESTROYING this town no matter what!!”

“Can I give them some??” Richie begs. He sounds a lot younger suddenly, happier than he has sounded in a while.

+ villains! YOU CAN’T! I’m different! I’m the special one now! IM THE BEST! And neither you, or Max Jägerman, can ever say otherwise EVER again!!”

He aims the gun directly at Rhodonite, slicing the pavement next to his feet at the last second.

“So what?! It’s better than being WEAK! It’s better than being terrified and pathetic! I’m HAPPY now! And you — you just want to see me SUFFER! So go ahead! Try! Beat me like any of your other stupid +

“Oh wow,” Richie says admiringly. “I… I almost want to go with you now…”

He zooms in on the pictures, and breathes a heavy sigh.

“That chocolate mousse looks amazing….”

“I…”

Richie’s face finally crumpled. Inside, he admits he’s lost in a gigantic city and doesn’t know where the hell hes going. Outwardly, he grabs Rhodonite in a hug, starting to cry.

“Nuh uh!!”

He shoots it at a random stop light. A red beam shoots out and cuts it in half, the metal sizzling. Richie grins.

“Me likey! So what are YOU gonna do, Rhodonite?! Kidnap me like the VILLAIN you are?! Force me to give up my secrets?!”

+ fucking limb if you stand in my way!”

Richie pulls up his gun with a crooked smile.

“Oh, I’d stop right there if I were YOU, Rhodonite! One more move and you’re going DOWN! To your knees, that is. This little thing can cut through ANYTHING I want!”

He even sounds like he’s doing a D&D character. And worst of all, he sounds happy.

+ sobs as he struggles to contain any emotion, anything that his kidnappers might think is weak or pathetic. But Richie’s never been very good at lying to anyone.

“Run,” he pleads to Valerie, close to breaking down. “Run, they’ll hurt you!”