Song; Tomcat Disposables by Will Wood.
(With some slight adjustments to the lyrics to avoid as much repeating and make it more accurate to characters in certain places)
Characters: Lots of different headmates/alters in Garvin’s system. You want an actual list? Okay then– Garvin, Kane, Spyro, Mason, Grove, Miles, Jersey, Cedar, Chips, Pyxis, Casper, Midas, Ridge, Jewel, and Juke. This is not the order they show up in for the song, by the way. Just a list.
Context: This song works so well for him, so obviously I had to do this. As for which universe it is… Pretty much any work, so, yeah. Welcome to the first song where I actually differentiate between different headmates/alters. Anyways for actual context, uh, we’re just going over his life, basically. It’s going to skip around a lot. Enjoy. Little warning for tons of terrible implications.
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*Again, this skips around a lot. But uh. Yeah. When I said this song was incredibly Garvin coded, I meant entirely. Like. System and all. So anyways, this is kind of done in the format of incorrect quotes plus information just because that seemed easiest.*
Spyro, gee wonder why Spyro would ever map out where the cupboards are in Rudy’s house, couldn’t possibly have anything to do with hiding under sinks and in cabinets; “I have mapped the cupboards and drawers…”
Mason, ah yes, the little guy that was the ANEP for the Rudy Epoch, aka basically the host of that epoch/sisasystem, so he saw/was fronting for the least amount of trauma in the Rudy Epoch, though given how much happened that doesn’t really mean too much; “Tracked the least walked spots on the floor… Happy to be home, safe and warm.”
Kane, the completely non-human alter in the Rudy Epoch, lil rat buddy because being called a rat consistently does that, do I even need to explain any of this one; “As shadows by his feet… The odd vanishing treat, quietly eating while he sleeps.”
Garvin, back on the streets the system is, haha, very much resentful/bitter, just kind of accepting that living on the streets is all there is for him; “So here’s where I’ll be raising my kids, if I can find someone to start a family with…”
Garvin, trying to stay optimistic and failing so incredibly badly; “Till then, I’ll dream of the day my odds and ends fit… I’ll wake up, there’ll be food on the stove forever and never want for more…”
Garvin, literally he wants food, he needs food, please someone feed the child, daydreaming about food to try and stay optimistic and still failing miserably; “Is there cheese in the great beyond? Rinds of parmesan… Wine to water, night from dawn…”
Ridley, another one that has a ton of dehumanization trauma, just trying to survive the streets; “Life gets shorter, teeth grow long… Mind me not and I’ll mind my own and my mind’s not one bite smaller or lesser than yours.”
Cedar, he’s so cool actually, they prefer forests/nature to cities/civilization very much because people suck; “Do I belong in right and wrong? Nature, I guess.”
Miles, a street one, very flighty, very much in charge of running away from potentially bad situations, very good at squeezing into/through places he probably shouldn’t be able to squeeze into/through; “One night, one flung light through this place— So I run for cover, over under, left the rind out on the plate— Little heart racing and praying, something keep me safe. I think they saw my face…”
Jersey, our boy that just will not accept help and/or that he can’t handle something on his own; “Okay, one hungry day is nothing, come what may.”
Garvin, still trying and failing at personal optimism, when one was already starving for who knows how long, three more nights kind of sucks; “But then winter came inside for three nights. Left me grinding my teeth between my walls and gripping my dreams tight.”
Jersey, again our boy that refuses to think he can’t manage; “Curled up, kept my head up, and put up the fight. I’ll make it through again, I have before. C’mon now, what’s one more?”
Garvin, imagine food little rat character, maybe that’ll help; “Is there cheese in the great beyond? Rinds of parmesan…”
Grove, wooo, it’s Grove, one that actually kind of hates at least alcohol; “Wine to water, night from dawn.”
Jersey, very resentful and bitter about being seen as less, very defensive, and very much never taking any help; “Life gets shorter, teeth grow long! Mind me not and I’ll mind my own— And my mind’s not one bite smaller or lesser than yours!”
Cedar, again Cedar is just so done with humanity, let him return to the dirt and the trees and the animals that do not have the mental capacity to be evil; “Do I belong in right and wrong? Nature, I guess.”
Chips, literally just enjoying being with the pirates, such a happy child that’s afraid of water; “Spring bloomed in the kitchen again so I crawled out of the wall and squinting—”
Midas, oops, what’s this, Midas and Chips are echoing each other, oh no; “Saw hope on the stovetop, just like I’d always imagined it. More than I could eat—”
Chips, yeah, still echoing with Midas, Chips is actually doing good with the pirates meanwhile Midas is having to deal with Fintan manipulation; “My dreams were finally reality! My struggles had a happy ending—”
Midas, still echoing with Chips; “They must want to be friends!”
Midas, still kind of echoing, you’ll see what it means with Chips in the next line but with Midas it’s just that the stuff that Fintan’s doing does, you know, physically hurt and all; “My stomach starts to turn…”
Chips, yep, our little guy is drowning; “With thirst—”
Casper, echoing Chips instead of Midas echoing with him now because uhhh, Casper’s programming is very much self-harm programs for making sure the Midas Sidesystem continues to view the stuff happening as positively as possible by twisting shit into their own fault if it doesn’t seem positive, so uh, obviously the physical pain ends up hitting that and all; “Why does it hurt?”
Casper, just that twisting of the blame and them self-harm programs; “My just dessert is served, dig in.”
Midas, in pain and very much not willing to believe it’s a bad thing, very much not considering leaving at all; “So I stumble back to bed…”
Ridge, but oops, Ridge is considering leaving and is also just very much not doing too well because of everything going on; “Something’s not quite right… Guess I’ll just go rest my head.”
Jewel, and here’s Jewel, the first July alter/headmate ever, I think you know what this scene is; “Now as I lay me down to sleep, I expect no dreams—”
Chips, still the whole drowning thing because please this child is going to lose the one family he had; “And no sweet goodbye to me…”
Jewel, good thing we have Devery; “Flatline in the morning light…”
Juke, oh look, it’s the singular July alter/headmate that doesn’t want to die; “I held on so tight, for so long— It’s just not right!”
Jewel, again we’re very lucky we have Devery for this scene; “Let a sigh out as I close my eyes…”
Chips, getting kicked out by the pirates after almost drowning to death, basically; “Was that all there was to this? What’s for the best?”
Garvin, hold onto those hopes of food when you’re dead Garvin, surely that dream will help you; “Is there cheese in the great beyond?”
Pyxis, oh look, an alter/headmate named after a constellation; “What’s the moon made of? Meet me there after I’m gone…”
Casper, again this kid literally just holds self-harm programs for the Midas Sidesystem sooo, yeah; “Life gets shorter, teeth grow long… Mind me not and I’ll mind my own…”
Pyxis, the constellation named alter/headmate is very sad about not being with the pirates anymore; “And my mind held the same light as the one in your eyes…”
Midas, just in relation to how Fintan twisted the idea of right and wrong to help him/fit his purposes; “Do I belong in right and wrong?”
Juke, just very much not wanting to die; “One dies alone and why? Don’t know…”
Garvin, oops our boy is way too used to being treated as lesser and doesn’t believe he’s ever getting off the streets but he’s also very much bitter about it all; “Goodbye, so long… To mice in homes…”
Cedar, referring to how animals are better than humans due to no capacity to actually be evil and living in forests is better because then you just play by that rule too; “Nature, I guess.”
Midas, again just in relation to what he believes in regards to Fintan and the ‘majority vs minority’ and ‘right vs wrong’ due to Fintan’s major manipulations; “Nature, I guess.”
Garvin, just referring to himself and humanity, because people are shit but it’s not like he’s any different in the long run and whatnot, dude seriously thinks he probably caused at least most of his trauma oops; “Nature, I guess.”
Winter 
Day 
Fog
