Here's a little lesson in trickery, this is going down in history.
If you want to be a villain number one, you've got to catch a superhero on the run!
Yeah, best meme ever! Sing it with me:
We are number one!
Did you do it? Good! Now on with some more important things, like salt bae, shooting stars and finishing this story.
Anger got out of control again, but luckily Harry was asleep and didn't get roused by all of our shouting in here. But that was months before what I'm telling you today. I think that Harry's body was acting all weird because my inputs were not working properly. I couldn't get Harry to smile as often as I'd have liked, but Anger and Sadness got it to work perfectly fine. Yet I wasn't the only one affected by this glitch. Fear couldn't even get any input in at all, and Disgust actually got overly expressed, which was even weirder. Nothing major happened that day, but it was a bummer nevertheless. I still don't know exactly why it happened though. If I could be bothered to ask maintenance they'd probably tell me, but I'm always so busy helping Harry get through his day to worry about a minor inconvenience like this.
Sadness read up on it and couldn't find a single piece of intel on the subject of the console randomly refusing or altering our commands, so maybe they haven't written the manual yet. The only thing is, it hasn't happened since.
Moving swiftly onwards, Harry started the year again, and boy is he doing well this time! He managed to start getting actual grades this time around, rather than flunking every test. Sadness would probably say that we didn't get full marks so there's no need to celebrate but that's where he's wrong! To celebrate, I thought I'd finally have a go at a magic show down in Dream Productions. I have been practicing my magic tricks for over ten years now in secret, and people think I dress like a magician because that's Harry's favourite kind of fantasy genre, but that's completely untrue (well, it is kinda true). I've been fascinated by the way these people pull off illusions and feats of nature for a long while. If you've ever seen Dynamo: magician impossible, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. The way he walks on water or down walls...pure genius.
But you know what's even better? Here in the metaphysical mind, almost anything goes! So, even tricks that seem impossible are easy to perform with enough practice. I can actually pull a live rabbit out of my top hat, saw someone in half and even make someone disappear!
The thing is, I'd been waiting to perform magic ever since Harry was four, and this was the moment to impress the world with my amazing abilities. Yes, it might have been just the mind world, but it was a world nevertheless. And what made it special, my raison d'etre, was to make Harry happy, and the performance I was a part of was a dream come true. It was a hit, Harry was sleeping soundly, and it was the best magic performance he had ever seen, real or no. I'm not bragging, ask him yourself:
Why are you dragging me into this Joy? You're right, but I don't want to be confirming or denying anything, it's your take on it after all.
Sheesh, why does everyone get so mad? I just want everyone to be happy an' all...but yeah, it was awesome. Of course, it had to be prerecorded ready for the next night so I could be there to make Harry feel great, but it was the most fun I had had in years.
Another thing that came up recently was a conversation between all of us when Harry started imagining other people's minds, what it's like up in their emotions headquarters. It started off about what the movie showed, with Anger saying about how both us and Riley had different genders up here, but everyone else we saw? They seemed to match the host's gender, and that opened up a whole can of worms. Now, I'm still not sure why we look the way we do though. It was back in October was when we first watched Inside Out and boy was it an eye opener. It's almost as if Pete Docter and the animators knew exactly what people were supposed to be like up in their minds. Not perfect of course, but it sure is close! I like how they captured the way our minds work so well, even getting in some things that I've never actually seen myself, but Sadness has. Déjà vu was apparently so crazy and frightening that he cried for hours when he finally managed to get out. And abstract thought? I think he's lucky to get out alive at all.
But as I was saying, we don't completely take on our host's appearance. For a start, Harry has multi gendered emotions. We're mainly boys, but there are two really cool girls too (and pretty might I add). We wear clothes that our host mostly associates with each of us, I got the best, of course, but Fear got a straight jacket (undone of course, we're not that mean), Anger, as you already know, pulled out the emo/punk look. Disgust changes all the time, and it's whatever Harry thinks is awesome at that point in his life. Sadness, he...sometimes he doesn't even bother dressing, and as much as it makes him comfortable, Disgust looks down on him. But, if you want to know what he usually wears, it's pretty much a grey turtleneck underneath a bodywarmer and some black jeans.
The other thing is that we are nowhere near as solid as they made us out to be. I don't know if it's the same for all people or just us, but when we move, our particles move like fluid, almost like a trail behind the moving parts. If I swept my hand across in front of you real quick, you'd see an after image for a short while following it before it joined up with the rest of me. So when people say that they ran past in a blur, it's actually true for us, though you'd have to be concentrating really hard to notice it when we go much slower.
Unfortunately it looks like I'm out of time for today, but you can catch me in a couple weeks I guess, won't that be fun? But now I've got to pass you onto stormcloud, sorry if you catch his gloominess!
Have you noticed the nicknames I've been giving the emotions lately? Sadness as stormcloud, Anger as Firebrick girl, and Disgust as Barf-bag Barbie were just a few I've come up with. The idea is to use them on and off throughout, but new ones will crop up all the time too, so I hope I make it obvious who is who for you all. If you liked this chapter, please review with everything you liked about it, and any theories you've got, 'cause I like to know!