DONK_GEZELLIG_TUTORIAL= "Gezellig" is a dutch word that has no direct english translation. Although some may be initially inclined to translate it as "cozy," the actual meaning is much more specific. It captures the distinct feeling of being in a warm, friendly social enviroment, usually with friends.

Donker19_Gezellig_Lowscope= Gezellig
Donker19_Gezellig= In Between


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[MADELINE left sad]
Hello?

[]
Ah. 

You've found yourself here...

[MADELINE left sad]
Where?

[]
A system exception.

A misdirection.

[MADELINE left sad]
What?

[]
No matter.

You seek the angel?

[MADELINE left sad]
The angel?

I... I still don't understand where I even am...

[]
It is worthless.

You will understand.

The empty space in between.

A misdirection.

The mutually exclusive illusion.

A system exception.

[MADELINE left sad]
Okay...

So, what is the angel?

[]
How sad.

You do not know?

So you not know what you lose.

You are truly lost.

[MADELINE left sad]
...

How do I find the angel?

[]
The only way to go.

Goodbye.




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[] You made it.

You wished to see me one last time.

You wished to make one final attempt at understanding?


[MADELINE left sad]

Yes. Yes I did.

So much so that I was willing to give everything away.

So much so that I managed to find you despite not knowing you or I.


[] You are pathetic.

And so, you attempt to reconcile with what fleets.

You are running a fool’s errand.

Do you even realize the place in which you have found yourself?

Or are you too still to notice?


[MADELINE left sad]

I don’t know.

I don’t know where I am.

I don’t know how I got here.

I don’t know who I am.

I don’t know what I am.


[] Who you are?

What you are?

Let me get one thing clear.

You will never know what you are.

But YOU. WHO you are is changing.

You claim to be passionate but where is your action?

Why didn’t you even try to save me?

You claimed to cherish me but why did you stop showing that?

Now, I am an angel at the edge.

We are merely observers now.

And soon, you will observe me take my leave and this world will crumble around you as you continue on.


[MADELINE left sad]

I won’t see you again?


[] No.

I will never have to gaze into your worthless eyes again.

Look around you child.

Look out there.

Do you see it?

The endless void…

All of the other worlds…

The ones you claim to cherish.

The ones you built…

From here, mere stars.

But we know better, don’t we?

The worlds are empty now.

And you could not rebuild them if you tried.

Do you understand?


[MADELINE left panic]

No.

I don’t understand.

I don’t understand much of anything.

Every day I wake up and I misunderstand.

I walk up to the window and I misconstrue the colors of nature.

I see the green leaves becoming orange and yellow.

And I think to myself how disgusting it is.

How wretched the cycle is.

And I wish and wish I could return the trees to their original sizes.

The sizes from when the time was right.

From when I was whole.


[] You are mindless.

You were never whole.

You never will be whole.

You keep feeding yourself this lie that you were once whole and that you may get there again with enough yearning.

But let me clear this up for you, and lay things out simply, concisely…

This wholeness you speak of never was.

The glass shards you claim have helped make you whole and beautiful do not exist.

You.

Are the same.

So similar that you may look back at yourself and recognize her.

But you are also different.

So different that you have no idea what is on your face.

When you gaze outside at the window each morning you are merely looking at colors.

Just as you were all those years ago.

But honestly, all this rambling is pointless.

Do I have to explain this to you?


[MADELINE left sadder]

I suppose so.

[MADELINE left panic]

I’m sorry.

I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.

I’m sorry for letting you go.

I don’t want you to go. 

Please stay.


[] It’s far too late for that.

You had your chance.

You lied to me.

You lied to us.

Allow me to explain the truth.

In between.

In between.

System exception.

A tragic misdirection.

You have supplanted your me with a void.

Your splendor.

Your heart.

Your passion.

You decided that inaction is better.

You decided that complacency is better.

You decided that powering the ever turning cog is better.

You turned against me.

And now.

And now we are in between.

In between.

System exception.

A misdirection.

Tragedy, tragedy.

Sprawled upon the gallery,

A wave of nothing.

Tragedy, tragedy.

Lack thereof what used to be.

The foaming wave of nothing.

In between.

You have chosen to leave me behind.

There is no turning back.

Now.

Now we are simply in between.

When you leave,

I will be gone.

You will have a hole in your chest. 

And you will never create again.


[MADELINE left panic]

But…

But you lied to me.

You said you were always here.

Y-you said…

You said that… that even in the simple acts of waking up…

Even in the simple acts of getting ready for my day… 

Even excluding grandiose acts of showcasing you to others…

That you were there…

How could you lie to me?


[] I never said those things.

That was you.

You said those things.

And the worst part?

Not just to yourself.

You got on your weak platform,

A platform that could hardly hold your weight,

A platform that barely knew who you were,

A platform that could never understand the rot at the center of your being,

You got on your platform and you screamed it out.

You lied to everyone.

You told them that I am in their every action.

You are pathetic and naive.

And you have chosen to forsake me.

And now we are simply in between.

In between.


[MADELINE left panic]

N-no…

Th-that’s not true!

That’s not true!

It can’t be true!

Please don’t leave me.

Please don’t leave me please.

I don’t know what to do without you.

I don’t know if I’ll be able to go on.


[] You will go on.

You will continue to feed the artificial me.

You will continue to rebuild a me that lacks humanity.

And you will do so happily.

Because,

At your center there is rot.

A rot so vile that the world would prefer me separated from you.

The world would prefer you have the fake me.

You will continue on without me and forever wonder what could have been had I been there with you.

Had you not forsaken me.

Had you tried harder to hold onto me.

Had you not so eagerly let go of my tender palm.

Now we drift in between.

In between.

System exception.

A misdirection.


[MADELINE left panic]

Please no!

Please… Please don’t go!

I can’t do it without you!

What will be the point of living if not with your light and my heart?

Just return to my chest this instance!

You can still be with me!

J-just like I channeled you those years ago!

We can try again!

We can do better now!

We’ve grown!


[] You lied to me.

You told me you got better.

You told me you learned to be {~}{*}{!}######{/~}{/*}{/!} again.

You disgusting liar.

You are nothing.

You lack vision.

You lack love.

You lack a soul.

And soon, you will lack me.

You will lack passion.

You will lack heart.

Soon.

As soon as we exit.

As soon as we pass on from the in between.

In between.


[MADELINE left panic]

I wasn’t lying!

I-I genuinely believed that!

I believed I was channeling you!


[] Yet you refuse me at every step now.

You turn from me and face the false prophet.

Accept your fate.

Accept that I must fly away.

Look over there.

Over the horizons.

Into the endless sky above.

If you will no longer hold me, someone has to maintain these stars, since you will be unfit to do so yourself.

Gaze the horizon of this world…

You will realize this place.

It’s in between.

I must exit the bounds of the in between.

And you will soon too.

Our paths split here.

This is final.

I cannot be seen in relation with you anymore.

You are pathetic, disgusting, and lack a soul.


[MADELINE left sadder]

Can’t I do anything to get you to stay?

Can’t you just remain within me?

[MADELINE left panic]
I don’t want to lose you…

I want you to stay with me…


[] There was a time where I was within you.

There will be a time where I am gone.

But now.

Now we are in between.

In between,

In between.

System exception.

A misdirection.

In between.


[MADELINE left panic]

In… in between?


[] In between.

In between.

System exception.

A misdirection.

A system exception caused because of you.

Two options, neither chosen due to the current state.

A misdirection from your lies. 

Tragedy, tragedy.

A tragedy caused from your repeated lies.

A wave of nothing.

A wave of nothing that will soon follow.

You do not deserve a proper goodbye.

I do not know when we will leave this place.

When we will exit the in between.

But I wish to see your face no more.

Get out of my sight.

My form will soon be fully incomprehensible to you.

And you can live the rest of your life in simple complacency.

Goodbye.