like say what the fuck happens when you heal fatal injuries in the temple

because someone's talking to ben at DS about the temple and its healing properties and i'm like you know ben would have so much to say about the risks involved considering

he was healed from a fatal wound in the temple

Bullshit something. As long as you are consistent in your bs it doesn't matter

BUT WHAT;;;;

WHAT DOES IT MEAN THAT HE'D ~ALWAYS BE ONE OF THEM~

LIKE WERE HIS LOYALTIES HARDWIRED TO THE ISLAND IN THAT MOMENT

SO THAT HE COULD LITERALLY CHOOSE NOTHING BUT THE ISLAND

SO WHEN HE SAID HE WAS GOING DOWN WITH THE ISLAND THAT WAS BASICALLY WHAT WAS GOING ON, HE COULD NOT CONTRADICT HIS PROGRAMMING

if that's the case that's a boring-ass risk

Good question. It's...probably more like he'd be an Other 5ever now. Especially since he wanted to be anyway.

They just had to get him a little earlier than they'd meant to.

I kind of like the "hardwired to be loyal to the island" thing it's just...that it kind of makes his backstory even more tragic

Haha....earlier than Richard meant to, anyway, cause I don't think Charles or Ellie had a say in the matter....

Because he didn't have a CHOICE

Yeah :c

Which kind of explains all the batshit things he did because Hardwired Loyalty which means yet again the crash survivors probably contributed more to his fuckedupedness

Lysoke: consistent bullshitting is common in writing, see Nasu with Type-Moon works

And some of them thought they were going to make him less fucked up! Good jerb

PierrotEurasia: Very true!

Ben never caught a break. And he did do a lot of batshit things

Because he was living on his own island of Issues

I think if "hardwired loyalty to the island" is a thing then he did all those things for the island in part due to his messed up idea on how to get love

Since his dad clearly didn't like him as he was so he had to go beyond the call of duty to prove himself!!!