8th Event Ζ Action for Everywhere Τ Fourth Wall Event!

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[WHY DOES THE WORLD HATE HIM

WHY

HE DID NOTHING TO IT

But for whatever reason, the world is glitching out around him in particular, and he somehow keeps finding himself landing in a tree. Or a cactus. Or an icy mountain face. Or a roof. Really, he's traveling around both Johto and Kanto, and he's getting a good view of every somewhat elevated surface out there.

So WHEREVER you are, there's the sound of a squeak yipe startled noise above you. And when you look up, there is a thoroughly frazzled genius sitting (or falling) about ten feet up.]

Comments

[leftinbasketforfbi]

I can deal with curve balls, but this...

[He bites his lip and shakes his head. How could she understand? She, whose immediate family had been devoid of mental illness while she grew up?] I need to know I'm sane. If I'm not, indulging in fantasy will just make me worse. [More than anything, he wants to make sure he never becomes his mother.]

[allknowinghacker]

This is definitely out there.

[Garcia can't fully understand Reid's background, so the next best thing is to try and coax him along and keep him sane.] What sort of proof are you looking for? I know for a fact that I'm here and awake and that nothing seriously weird has happened to my brain upon arrival. [She's almost hesitant to say something that'll make Spencer freak out even further, so she's giving him to opportunity to speak first. Maybe from his words she can figure out the correct solution.]

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[He takes a deep breath.] .8% of the American population develops schizophrenia. The odds are minuscule that two people would independently develop identical hallucinations and delusions. If we were suffering from shared psychotic disorder, that would require that I was a dominant personality, which I'm not, or that we had both developed schizophrenia independently and influenced each other, and the odds for that are, once again, minuscule.

[Unless Garcia's a hallucination too, but that's a rabbit hole he doesn't want to go down. He's trying to logic himself into not believing he's crazy.

Garcia, just keep telling him he's not crazy. He trusts you. He'll believe it eventually.]