Well. I figured out how to zap back to our own timeline after bouncing around everywhere, but by the time I got there everything was already over. Everyone was gone. There was all this, like, glitchy shit everywhere because the timeline was a mess, and when I found him he told me that he had failed and disappeared straight into the glitches. [So, technically, Dirk also died.]
Dirk was the first person I saw when I got here. Before Jake, before you and before Rose. He's who I found in the woods and we headed back to the mansion. And we talked a little and...I don't know. It was my fault, too, and he argued with me about it for a long time. It was my fault I don't know how those powers work, but he kept insisting it was his because there was a fragment of himself inside Jake's head that Jake made real and then that piece of him or whatever failed everybody else. And because of that failure he fucked off into the glitches and that was that.
...Roxy was pretty upset about it, but I sort of wonder if this is normal behavior. He seems really caught up on what destruction means. [There's a shrug.] But the thing is that you can't be taking on someone else's expectations either? Like. That's not fair. That would be the same if Jade was here and Jake wanted her to be like his Grandma or Jane was around and I expected her to act like Nanna. Dirk told me that the other version of you left behind a whole bunch of movies and stuff, just ideas and fragments of who you were in that timeline and that's how Dirk is working. Fragments. Fragments and destructive decisions because he's apparently used to that.
I don't know how isolation works, but it's like those guys in the movies when they are alone and stranded in the desert forever, and then they come across a fresh water source and try to drink way too much too fast because that is what they have been missing. You are the water in this case, and going too fast is going to make you disappear.
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Dirk was the first person I saw when I got here. Before Jake, before you and before Rose. He's who I found in the woods and we headed back to the mansion. And we talked a little and...I don't know. It was my fault, too, and he argued with me about it for a long time. It was my fault I don't know how those powers work, but he kept insisting it was his because there was a fragment of himself inside Jake's head that Jake made real and then that piece of him or whatever failed everybody else. And because of that failure he fucked off into the glitches and that was that.
...Roxy was pretty upset about it, but I sort of wonder if this is normal behavior. He seems really caught up on what destruction means. [There's a shrug.] But the thing is that you can't be taking on someone else's expectations either? Like. That's not fair. That would be the same if Jade was here and Jake wanted her to be like his Grandma or Jane was around and I expected her to act like Nanna. Dirk told me that the other version of you left behind a whole bunch of movies and stuff, just ideas and fragments of who you were in that timeline and that's how Dirk is working. Fragments. Fragments and destructive decisions because he's apparently used to that.
I don't know how isolation works, but it's like those guys in the movies when they are alone and stranded in the desert forever, and then they come across a fresh water source and try to drink way too much too fast because that is what they have been missing. You are the water in this case, and going too fast is going to make you disappear.
[...so maybe he got carried away.]