People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame.
An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.
Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.
It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then…
It’s an ant again.
Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.
This is madness.
when you dress up your librarian dad for halloween
At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it.
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[ID: 5 traditional drawings of Maia from The Goblin Emperor. He is skinny with long, thick curly hair, pointed ears, big eyes, and light grey skin. The first shows him from the ankles up, looking upward and left with an attentive expression, wearing embroidered formal wear with long wavy flowing sleeves, a circlet, and a cape with a snug collar. His ears are lined with jewelry and his hair is mostly in an updo. In the second he is seen from the waist up as if sitting at a table, one arm crossed in front of him and pinching the bridge of his nose with the other hand, looking frustrated. His clothes have fitted sleeves and he wears the same circlet, but more of his hair is worn loose. The third shows his head and shoulders. He is looking down tiredly, wearing hair accessories including tashin sticks and a headband. The fourth is a headshot, with all of his hair loose and cascading around his face as he looks alert towards the right. The last shows his head and shoulders, as he wears a mantle and a v-shaped circlet, his hair once again styled with tashin sticks. He looks startled and embarrassed with brightly flushed cheeks. End ID]
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