((i get why people would be enraged, i really do. remember, given the setting of these epilogues and their ambiguous canonicity, you are not obligated to take every fact from these to face value. you can reject who they have become in these timelines and still be right.
(( im ... sort of surprised i have the unpopular opinion compared to my timeline here, but i do get why people would be upset about it for the most part.
remember it's perfectly valid not to like or even acknowledge the epilogues.
note: im still at candy 35. done with meat
(( but again, remember: this is one possibility of many. these two routes are in an universe where during the 7 years since they got to earth c they have done nothing but engage with people who enabled or failed to contain their flawed personality aspects (or with no one at all)
well then, you know what. ii change my miind. that'2 ok. thii2 ii2 ok. actiing liike hug2 are 2uch a biig fuckiing deal ii2 ju2t 2tupiid and ii'm actiing like a giiant wriiggler, un2urprii2iingly.
ii. what. that'2 not a con2equence.
ok yeah iin techniical term2 iit II2 but that'2 not a punii2hment unle22 makiing me flu2tered ii2 the punii2hment.
iif that'2 the ca2e, ii am dii2appoiinted and betrayed.
2o liike ii 2aiid, ii eiither diie a non-clown, or liive long enough two become one. iit'2 FLAWLE22 logiic. a 2ad truth we have two 2ort of accept and 2ay FUCK IIT. only you are re2pon2iible for your own clown criime2 and ii'll pay for miine iin blood iif iit ever come2 up.
ii gue22, you do go on triip2 way out there. iif you can't fiind one no one can, and ii don't know whether two fiind 2olace or tremble iin fear, no matter the outcome.
eiither that or ii'll eventually BECOME the clown, and. we don't fuckiing want that ok.