ONLOOKERS (comments based on faces)
Oh no.
Hi.
I’m looking for a face.
Termina.
You could use a new face.
Hey!
What kind of face do you want?
We’ve got happy faces, sad faces, “wtf is this face” faces, dat face.
Why is this one so expensive?
It’s art.
Ugh.
There’s always the discount pile.
If you don’t want to shop, go out there and earn new expressions yourself.
I don’t have time for that!
How about a trade?
These three for a disguise nobody will recognize.
Like this?
No!
One pair of sunglasses isn’t a disguise!
Excuse me, pardon me.
Coming through.
Move along folks.
Just here to clean up.
(breathes in, then sighs) I can’t keep up anymore.
If I don’t stop who’s doing this, everybody’s going to be pixels.
Let me fix faces!
I’m real fast at it.
No, Goofball.
Every face you put back together turns out… weird.
We need information.
Ask these people about what they saw before the murders happened.
You’re not going to be useful, are you?
(silly face)
Ok I’ll be helpful.
Let’s go.
…. Oh it’s so cute!
Why hello there.
If you want to get pets or pet any of the pets, let me know.
All pets are half off this week with our Hey There Was A Murder Outside sale!
Actually I wanted to ask about that.
Did you see what happened?
I saw everything.
Guy was white with blue ears, about 900 x 900 pixels.
Average.
Couldn’t make out the details, only saw the back of her head as she ran off.
How could you tell it was a woman?
Uhhh, we’re all kind of the same person?...
She dropped this notebook.
You didn’t turn this in to the authorities?
(barking)
No…
Smart guy.
Huh.
That’s it, that’s the answer!
It was the anime club.
No, no.
One notebook of detailed murder plots - that could be anybody!
We need more evidence.
A murder?
The only thing that’s dead in here is your cooking!
Look at this!
This isn’t a taco: this is a crusty slab with circles on it.
Where’s my meat?
Where’s my lettuce?
You.
Eat this.
I- I don’t wanna.
EAT IT!
You wanna serve circle tool food to your customers?
All of you get out!
Go back to eating cup ramen in your parents’ basement!
GET OUT!
Unbelievable.
You found this the day of the murder?
Yes.
The students here make some terrible stuff, but this had actual poison in it.
Ugh!
Next thing we know, there’s a crowd outside around a pile of pixel dust.
I thought somebody’s amateur cooking had killed someone, but it was the salt from that
prepackaged garbage.
Plus the poison.
Mind if I keep this?
Throw it out.
Trash belongs in the trash.
Well, I’ve got an empty cup of ramen.
What did you get?
I got a wallet, keys, and a car!
Hmmm.
… I think we better visit the anime club.
(squeals gayly)
(squeals cutely)
(man voice) Animation!
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I hate this.
I’m not going to tell you anything until you admit that Japanese animation is superior
to all other animation.
Japanese animation is superior to all other animation.
Oh really?
Then who is the best character in Sailor Moon?
Uhhhhh.
Sonic!
I’m telling you, it was the anime club.
Yep.
How are we going to stop them from killing off anything that isn’t anime?
I’ve got an idea!
Haha, only an idiot would fall for this.
We got someone.
I swear on my life, if that’s you in the box Goofball I’m going to put a tiny cake
where you won’t be able to reach it.
Hah, you were expecting a surprise, but IT WAS ME, D-
Termina, what are you doing?
You can’t just throw people in the garbage!
Trash belongs in the trash.
Then throw this one out.
(THUD)
Hee hee, this is fun!
I knew that was too simple!
Now I finally get to meet who is behind all this.
Hnnnngh.
Hnnnngh!
I can’t give up!
I need to save this city before it’s too late.
Aw, what about me?
?! How did you escape the duct tape?
With determination!
And a little bit of muscle.
RRRAGH!
And now that I’ve got you, I intend to destroy every face of yours until there’s nothing
left.
Bring it.
Ahh!
That hurt.
You didn’t have to actually hit me!
Look, I’m bleeding!
Owww!
Why?
Aaaahh!
Aaaaaah!
AAAaHAAHAGH!
Why don’t you pixellate me already?
Because of that annoying thing you always do.
What?
I need to save the city.
Hm.
I see your point.
But that means I can stop you.
(insane laughter)
You can’t destroy me.
I am Gin, the beginning of all things.
Why do you keep killing creativity, originality, inspiration?
Because those aren’t what people want.
You’ve been outside the city.
You know.
People want reviews of existing stuff.
Top Tens.
Fan animation.
OCs!
We have to cater to that.
Have to.
N-no!
We should be making things because we want to, not because it’s popular!
Creating for the fun of it.
That’s the view of a child.
Everything you see around you, do you think it was free?
There’s a price to pay.
As long as I keep you down, the city produces what people want.
After today I’ll finally be able to finish it.
My city of memes!
Oh god you’re evil.
I’m a business person.
Fea, Pair, talk to her.
Gin is right.
(unintelligible gurgling) Creativity isn’t worth much.
It’s easier to use what’s already popular.
(spaghetti sucking sounds)
Dude, Fea.
C’mon.
Sorry.
Fan animations are the only reason somebody like you gets any attention.
You’ll never be able to catch up to a real artist by working hard.
Your art is bad.
You have no art degree, no experience.
Kids draw better than you.
Artists have natural talent.
You’re not talented.
You’ll never be as good as they are.
Face it.
It’s time to quit.
Your animation sucks.
You suck.
I know.
(music)
So that’s it?
You really did give up.
I’m still putting the faces together.
But you’re not finishing them.
Well I mean look at Creativity.
Do you really want to unleash that on the world?
Yes!
(exasperated sigh) She’d just get taken apart again.
Unlike me, stuck here in meme hell forever.
I come back no matter what.
You know what?
I do give up.
I quit.
I can’t do this anymore.
What do I do now?
Termina!
Thanks to your inactivity, profits are up and we’ve got more customers than ever before.
We might actually be able to make it!
Yeah, that’s great.
Except the way the city is now, I don’t care about it.
I didn’t come here to talk.
Then what did you want to do?
This.
(rain)
(music)