Waterworks

Hey, you know, I think something just clicked for me.

The times CC’s had brief flashes of the world around her were all at moments when her individuality and emotions pushed at the situation in a way the Hivemind didn’t expect.

The situation with the motorcycle crash, for example, broke the romantic, lovey-dovey situation with LL that the Hivemind was trying to enforce for long enough to get a flash of consciousness.

Then, there was the situation with the crying girl at the club. This was when the Hivemind’s initial plan really started going off the rails: It actually lost control of the situation when it drank the drink cool-CC brought over (To the point of letting Connie express lucidity where she destroyed the whole city and started learning how she could make things in her own mindscape!)

And then there was the interactions of ID and Ego vs. the Hivemind. Which, while it didn’t go the way we wanted, revealed a key detail: The Hivemind wants processing power and understanding of the human condition, not emotions and feelings and the mushy stuff.

It’s had this much trouble with one Connie already. What happens if it had to deal with every Connie along every timeline?

Suggestions:

>Connie: Accept.

>Connie: With this added knowledge of what your past self did when she could see every one of her timelines, cast off the shackles of society-enforced identity and become the nietzschean All-Connie.

or alternately:

>Connie: Embrace the Con-Head and host ConnieCon, the greatest amagalamation of different expressions of Connie that there ever was, is, and will be, with different panels, games, DDR (For some reason) and so much exploration of feelings that a logical entity created to consume may be overwhelmed and drowned out by it.