A drugged-up philosopher once said, "a madman has more sanity than the sane themselves."
And honestly, even I as the general POV would like a bit of whatever he was on.
What does that phrase have to do with revolutions? Simple, today we're talking about one of the craziest revolutions in history.
Or well… what history remembers as "The Revolution of the Madmen."
Let's start at the beginning, remember when I said Johnny, or the guy who believed he was Steve from Minecraft started manipulating asylum patients into thinking they were Minecraft characters too?
Well, starting from there, Johnny, or Steve, or whatever the hell you want to call him because I really don't care, was one day busy chatting with a patient in an asylum.
When, thanks to one of his followers, he learned the news that revolutions had officially begun all around the world.
He found out late because… well, he was classified as one of the most dangerous patients there and wasn't allowed visitors
So his followers had to infiltrate the asylum disguised as lunatics… which, technically, they already were.
A whole mess, trust me, even I barely understand it, but that's what happens when you give god-like power to a schizophrenic, I guess.
And before you ask, yes, he was already "Sequence 4" when he found out… which only makes everything even more confusing.
Actually, you know what? Forget it, I'm not even going to bother understanding, just accept that it happened and let's move on.
Once he learned about the revolutions, he thought it was the perfect chance to reveal himself to the world, after all, who would care about a new religion amid global chaos?
The problem? The protagonist didn't like the idea, not because it interfered with his plans, no, but simply because he decided the universe didn't need a new religion.
Which honestly makes even less sense, but hey, everyone does whatever they want with their powers.
So instead of a friendly world debut, the protagonist made Johnny's "divine announcement" turn into a full-on civil war.
And the worst part? It was a civil war against the entire world... Yep, They were insane, what did you expect?
Anyway, the point is the protagonist manipulated Johnny's followers into fighting literally the whole planet, not caring about factions, priorities, or anything… even though all he wanted was to stop a new religion from forming.
Needless to say, it was a brutal, one-sided massacre.
So much so that even Johnny, despite being a Sequence 4, couldn't help... Which, frankly, is absolutely ridiculous.
Not because he didn't want to help, but because he wasn't the type of lunatic who wanted to hurt the world.
Ironic that a guy who thinks he's a video game character claims he's not insane, but whatever.
Johnny was taken to trial, where he was cleared of all charges because of his mental state, and honestly, they didn't blame him for causing the "revolution," even though no one even considered it a real revolution.
In fact, they didn't blame anyone for the thousands of deaths.
Not Johnny, not his few surviving followers, nobody, I mean, come on, it was a bunch of lunatics versus the entire world, how much more absurd can it get?
The situation was so dumb they ended up blaming the mental health treatment system for all the damage.
Like… okay, I get not blaming the mentally ill for being mentally ill, but blaming the entire medical system?
They must've been desperate... and honestly, I don't blame them, A. Bunch. Of. Lunatics. Fought. The. World.
…Seriously, I still can't wrap my head around how they even managed to organize themselves well enough to kill that many people.
But anyway.
In the end, Johnny and the surviving followers were sent to different asylums so they wouldn't cause another attack.... Which, come on, would be utterly ridiculous if they somehow managed to pull that off again.
But fine, Johnny was completely isolated from everyone in that new asylum under court orders because they "considered him mentally unstable"…
This whole thing is a damn comedy, honestly, It's not like isolating him would change anything, he's Sequence 4 of the "Visionary" pathway, but whatever.
And that's how the "Revolution of the Madmen" ended, without a culprit, even though we all know who the culprit was, and with thousands dead.
And frankly, neither the protagonist nor Johnny care about the victims.
Why doesn't Johnny care? They asked him the same thing during the trial, and his answer was what proved he was, in fact, insane
Which, I mean… they took long enough to figure out.
"Because they didn't die, they simply fell unconscious until they're forced to live another life under Notch's command."
Those were Johnny's exact words to the jury, with an indignation and hatred you can't fake.
Honestly, he had it easier than the other avatars revolutions, perks of being crazy, I guess
The one who didn't enjoy such perks was Yuno
After the revolution in Kamar-Taj, she began considering abandoning the temple.
What happened? …Do I really need to repeat for the hundredth time that it was the protagonist's fault?
Yep, thanks to him, one of the three Sanctuaries on Earth belonging to Kamar-Taj was destroyed when Yuno "conveniently" ascended to Sequence 4.
Which "conveniently" caused "a fragment of an unknown entity" to leak into the world, and "coincidentally" corrupted three-quarters of Kamar-Taj's sorcerers, pushing them into rebellion.
The Sorcerer Supreme, together with Yuno and the remaining sorcerers, fought with everything they had, and thanks to the Sorcerer Supreme and Yuno, they managed to repel the attack.
They were forced to destroy the rebels bodies and souls, but honestly, everyone at Kamar-Taj was happy with the outcome.
After all, whatever entity gained that many powerful souls would've become a huge threat to Earth.
Blah blah blah, wizard stuff happened, they recruited new people, and Yuno, thanks to her "talent" and the merit she earned during the revolution, was chosen as the next Sorcerer Supreme once her training ended
And I honestly have no idea WHO THE HELL thought it was a good idea to give god-tier power to a psychopathic yandere who radiates "approach me and I'll give your character development permanent brain damage."
But whatever, hopefully God, Eternity, Dormammu, or whichever cosmic thing is out there protects that poor world…
Anyway, back to the story.
After everything ended, Yuno had a dream, horrifyingly realistic and terrifyingly perfect.
Why do I describe it like that? Simple: because that maniac's personal fantasy appeared in it, yes, Yuki.
…Yep, everything went straight to hell, catastrophically so.
Seriously, what the hell was the protagonist thinking, giving the girl who nearly destroyed two entire timelines, and wiped out a whole universe for one man, a dream with him in it?
Everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
Let's start with the fact that she knew it was a dream but refused to leave it, so far, so good, right?
The dream continued, she lived the equivalent of a normal, happy life with him, they stayed together until they were both old.
There, sitting together watching a sunset, Yuki said with a tired, old, but happy voice
"Thank you for staying with me until the end, but I know our time is almost up."
Yuno, confused and scared in equal parts, asked in her little-old-lady voice
"What do you mean, love?"
And Yuki, without missing a beat, replied
"The dream is about to end, darling, and once it ends, I'll be forced to return to the Realm of the Dead."
The moment Yuno heard those words, her mind shattered.
Because in that instant she understood not only that the one in front of her was the real Yuki, but also that she had just lost what she believed was her last chance to save him.
Thanks to her occult studies at Kamar-Taj, she had learned how to contain souls, up to a point.
But since she never expected Yuki to appear in a dream, she never prepared a method to contain him there.
And to make matters worse, as soon as he said that, she felt the presence of a primordial cosmic being.
Yep, she felt "Death" reclaim an escaped soul that "Nightmare" had stolen.
She pieced everything together after waking up, deducing everything thanks to, of course, the protagonist.
So yes, thanks to the protagonist's machinations, both Death and Nightmare became enemies of a lunatic who almost destroyed two universes in her quest for the perfect Yuki.
…They're doomed, more than they know
(Writer: reference fragment from "Existential Madness", chapter: The Abyss
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"A madman has more sanity than a sane man, you know?"
That's what the drug addict sitting in front of me said.
He could barely speak coherently, his body reeking of days without a proper wash.
And yet, strangely enough, his eyes carried a sharpness, an unsettling clarity that didn't match the rest of him.
"What do you mean?"
I asked, partly curious, but mostly intrigued by how someone like him could ever hold the title
"Simple"
He replied.
"Put a madman at the edge of the abyss and he'll manage to see it before he dies.
Put a sane man near the abyss, and he'll die long before he ever looks at it"
He said this just before bringing the wooden apple-shaped pipe back to his lips.
It was stuffed with herbs I didn't recognize, a strange mixture that didn't quite smell like any drug I knew, though it was obvious that's exactly what it was.
"Powerful words coming from someone who's supposed to defend sanity"
I said, letting a hint of sarcasm slip into my tone.
He burst into joyful laughter.
"Kid"
He said between chuckles
"Anyone who claims to defend sanity is even crazier than the madmen themselves"
Whatever he found so amusing only made him laugh harder, to the point that the pipe slipped from his hands and fell to the ground.
"On that, you and I can agree"
I replied as I bent down to pick up his fallen pipe and hand it back to him.
But it seemed he didn't even hear me because he was still laughing uncontrollably.
I walked away shortly after, not without giving a small wave to that drug-addicted philosopher whose name I never learned
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