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This story may not be primary but it sure is prosaic
TO THE PURPLEST
Actually, the (incredibly) purple prose works quite well for me as a portrayal of a seriously disturbed character (schizophrenic? I didn't look it up). I like the touches of him suffering from an inability to say anything when he tries to actually speak; presumably his very purple thought process is a step away from this.
I also like it in context of the Little Misters series; several of the theoretically insane things this character thinks make more sense when you've read the perspectives of the others. And there's the fridge logic: Mr. Purple only thinks in purple prose. He can barely talk at all. Is he a Mister that got fucked up in whatever creation or alteration process Wondertainment uses? Or was it intentional to force him to only communicate through writing? (Though the fact that he writes "Liar" but doesn't know why may mean he can't even communicate that way outside his own head.)
(oh the irony of overanalyzing something that's deliberately overwritten)
So, upvoted.
(account deleted)I feel like an idiot asking this but what is Purple Prose?
I see what you were going for, but this is actually unreadably purple and I must downvote it.
I agree with this.
On a side note, in my head, he looks and sounds like Willy Wonka's rotting corpse.
if your reading this your gay
Is making him write/think in purple prose what Dr. Wondertainment intended to do, or is a side effect of some other "purple" thing they did to him? Or, to use another color-containing phrase, is the purple prose a red herring as to his SCP-ness?
So are all the Mr. [color] bad news, then?
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
Mister Blue makes you sad. Mister Yellow is scared of everything (and so are you).
/me shrugs.
Mr. Green makes all animal and plant life around him poisonous. Note that this applies to humans too, and becoming poisonous does NOT also automatically confer immunity to the poison. Researchers have been known to die from choking on their own spittle.
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
I'm trying to get this re-written because I agree with most of the criticism here. I'd like to see Sal's series without any kinks.
Original is here if that happens.
http://scpsandboxwiki.wikidot.com/mr-purple-1
I'd like to see Sal's series without any kinks.
that's only one of two compilers >:[
though I'd say this is very much a group series, so own your co-ownership. :)
I liked it. Reads kind of like, for lack of a better name, psychotic zombie Thoreau.
Yeah. The writing is awful, but it's awful in a way that makes you get the impression that the guy is trying to think clearly, but is too messed up to be able to.
I know exactly what it means, and exactly what this is trying to accomplish. What I'm saying is that the story does a good job at conveying the mental anguish and confusion of this guy, even through unbearably purple prose.
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