[A HAND-CRAFTED GIFT, BUT NOT FOR HER]

MEMY1.25 - motive

█████, was this your doing?

huh?

oh, that... yeah, i was toying around with making a variant, is all.

What... is it supposed to
be, if you don't mind me
asking?

looking at it from an outside perspective won't do you any good,
jouse.

why don't you go inside, with me?

If that is your intended
way of perception, I
suppose I will.

Shall we proceed?


[OUTSIDE THE HEART, THEIR PERSPECTIVE SHIFTS]

MEMY1.25A - spiral-out-

...and I believe that something as highly interpretive as...
  hey!!!
  hey guys!!!

[HE RAN UP TO THE TWO, THE CRITIC GROGGILY FOLLOWING BEHIND]

...is something wrong, Fiend?

Oh, hello Barry, how was your nap?

it was fine
i just
  Not important right now

i need all of you to Look Up.

Wh- look up?

What are you talking about-
  What is that
    What.

yeah thats
what i was gonna talk about

in my uh
dream
i was in some sort of landscape with
purple grass and and orange sky and like
these
shimmering iridescent clouds

either the heart bled into my dreams or
my dreams bled into the heart or

some weird third option
i dont know man im still waking up i uh
  No, I get it, don't worry.

I'm just... at a loss for words right now, I don't know how something
could've changed out here.

...do you think something they did in there also affected the area
out here in a way?


[A HAND-CRAFTED GIFT, MADE TO BE SHARED]

MEMY1.25B - -(keep-going)

It's... not at all
like the others.

You completely threw
out the layout I have
kept for... a while now,
and just made something
so removed from the rest
that it would stick out
like a sore thumb even
to one not paying
attention to the small
details I put in.

Though, as disorganized
and erratic as it is...
there's a strange beauty
in all the madness.

...how did you come up
with this, █████?

you're not the only one capable of making up new things, jouse.

i thought you would have realized this when you gave me the redkey.

...i don't intend for this variant to connect anywhere, think of it
as an area just for us.

I don't follow... why
make something this
intricate if you don't
plan to show it to the
world?

we're different in this way.

you create for others... albeit to live, while i create for myself,
for my own self-fulfillment.

when i make something, i want it to feel important when i show it to
others... not to say that the way you share isn't the same, it just
feels like more of an impact when someone i care for enjoys
the thing i have made.

...it's hard to explain, sorry if i'm not making any sense.

I... had never really
considered making
something for myself
before.

As you know, it had
always been the
bare minimum for me.

[A MOMENT OF SILENCE, AS IT TAKES IN THE SCENERY]

I understand why you
did it now, █████.

...

♪ — the-variant-i-made
original: I Find Vibrance in Darkness - Laith Hijazi

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