[Q&A] MORTIS RANDOM QUESTION HOUR [mature edition]

[skinstealer]

What would have happened if the dream hadn't gone wrong and Bucket and the Smiles system were unable to break out of it?
spoilers: unreality, ableism, victim blaming

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the dream would have gotten progressively more suffocating for each of the parties in different ways- como and i determined that matthias probably would have tried to provoke an existential/unreality focused crisis in the smiles, possibly attacking the idea of them being a system and even digging into what caused them to split if he could get deep enough, and into bucket's relationship with ali- and how they left erica to train with her instead, and what that meant to them and their new life, attacking their choices and decisions, claiming that they abandoned their own mother and all they got out of it was a life of suffocation and in the end, a life with rein.