As prompted by Weeb, some quickfire thoughts on the Headspace bosses.
- Boss™: Exists! A while back I found a very neat theory which posits that Boss is based on Basil. I like it, I think it has merit! I barely paid attention to this guy in my first playthrough, but I don’t think I’ll find too much to disagree with here!
- Ye Olde Sprout: Idk! Apparently reappears in Black Space?? I vaguely remember some post about the potential significance of that, maybe he was looking at a photo before the gang rudely
beat him to deathinterrupted, but I don’t remember either the post or the encounter that well. - Kite Kid: As touched on last round, there’s definitely a symbolic line to be drawn between memories, trees, and pinwheels; current thought is that pinwheels specifically signal good memories, innocent and free-blowing relics of childhood. Which has little to do with Kite Kid directly, but all I really have to say about him specifically is that he was was warning sign #1 that I was overleveled.
- Pluto: Obligate flexing joke aside, there’s probably something to interrogate here where space and graveyards are concerned. (Pluto links them via caretaker guy—who, oh yeah, has some ominous fucking lines about the spirits.)
- Earth: Did not fight, RIP.
- Life Jam: I’m still stumped on the bread/life connection. Food is sustenance, and there’s an obvious toast pun, but… >8Vc
- Hmm. Food is sustenance (necessary to live); Orange Oasis, a completely optional vacation area (an escape within an escape), is based on food in all but name. Too much of a good thing…. (Relatedly: Kel’s a big eater, much as he rejects milk (which is white, thus relates to White Space, escapism in its emptiest form). No conclusions, only connections.)
- Anyway tho Kool-Aid Guy™©® Boss Funney.
- Download Window: Baffling fucking miniboss. I don’t know anything.
- Didn’t get to see it attack, btw. “You are overleveled as all fuck” warning #2…!
- Captain Spaceboy(/Space Ex-Boyfriend): = Sunny, and maybe = dad (if only because Divorce)? The later hair color change definitely sticks out; pink confirmed for Omori emo color??
- King Crawler: Appeared out of nowhere! Underrated, arguably underutilized! Definitely something to be said about the whole “made of dead sprout moles” thing.
Sure hope Sunny didn’t see a certain cursed movie, btw. - King Carnivore: Also did not fight. Sad! Uhhh points of note: is also a King, looks like a watermelon, and its “Root” minibosses look very similar to Abbi’s tentacles.
- Shady Mole, Maximus I–III: No meta only laffs. Seriously, I got nothing right now, these guys cracked me up. I love the sprout moles….
- Sweetheart: Mari’s perfectionism, But Evil? Weird Freudian attraction shit (considering the Spaceboy fling)?? Becomes a maid (to Perfectheart, at that!) later??? IDK.
- Nefarious Chip: So fucking funny and for what. Also a childhood memory!
- So I remembered that the origin cookbook came up in the true route (via Kel and Hero’s sleepover), and it might in Hikikomori while packing, but more pertinently: oh, huh, “Papa” changed to “Nefarious.”
- Unbread Twins: Somethig something life/death religious imagery does Basil is jesus, Sunny to Basil is Angel to Mikhael, big question marks everywhere around here and these guys and everything honestly.
- Playthrough tidbit: They actually posed a slight challenge and it was, at that point, a relief!! …Still not too difficult though lmao, I think the party hit max levels shortly after.
- Jawsum: Dad… 2!! (If Hero:Sunny then Hero’s father figure:Sunny’s.) Interestingly, he’s also the only other character called a “boss,” iirc, but far as I’ve yet unpacked there’s no connection between the sharkman and either playground-Boss or Basil….
- Roboheart: ZGVzZXJ2ZWQgYmV0dGVy
- Mutantheart/Roboheart: Who??? Uhh, also Mari-connected, which is more obvious with Perfectheart (they even share boss battle backgrounds, though Mari’s is Switch-exclusive) than the other two.
- Slime Girls: Mari 3, But Fucked Up??? Uhh, they raise Many Questions and all of them suck.
By which I mean it’s mostly stuff I can’t talk about on GitHub, whoops. - Humphrey: I fucking hate this guy—and for reasons that I also can’t talk about here lmao. Suffice it to say that, although I know he’s based on a children’s book and has notably been corrupted over the iterations, and is linked to Sunny himself, I just!! don’t like him!!!!! He sucks!!!!!!!!!!!
- Omocat has mentioned, on apparently multiple occasions, that Humphrey is also their least favorite (location, at least) and he could’ve even been optional. The potential optionality surprises me, honestly, but besides that I feel #vindicated.
- Snaley: Honestly I just find it funny the Fandom wiki puts him on the boss list. For all my gripes with that site… +1.
There was other stuff I was going to add here (Sunny/Mari family dynamic speculation) but it was only tangentially related and even less combobulated, so on second thought it’s getting stashed away for ??later :V