mun? obsessed? nah.... (ParaNorman spoilers)

[nomorebedtimestories]

You bought this, to go on your wall? ... it's... u-um...

Did you have to get the one that says "It's all fun and games until someone raises the dead"? I-I said I was sorry about that! I... I'm sorry.... I was...
... The Judge and the others, they're all okay now, right?
I.... I hope they were able to be at peace too...

... !! A-and a book? There's... a book?
It looks just like...

... I used to love that story. My mommy would read it to me all the time. 
It was my favorite... until...



Until those HoRRiBLe pEOpLe kept using it to try and pUT Me tO sLEeP, just because ThEY DiDN't waNT mE To WAkE uP!!

... !!!



Oh no, n-no, I'm sorry! I... I didn't...!
I didn't mean to... I'm so sorry...

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[wise_lil_wolf]

Sure...like fairies.

[Little robot fairies.]

[Rafe shrugs]

You know...I don't think they know they're doing bad things when they do.

There's no one to tell them they are hurting people or that it is bad to do it.

They just...think they have a great idea...but sometimes that great idea is turning someone into a rampaging cactus mutant monster and that's bad.

[nomorebedtimestories]

... Um, actually...
I think, I kind of understand that.

I... I did something awful. I thought... I thought they deserved it.
A-and I didn't know how bad I was! Not until someone showed me...
Now I just...

[She has trouble finishing her sentence. Too much regret, for 300 years of rage and inflicting a terrible curse.]

[wise_lil_wolf]

[He picks up a lot og dark emotional colors: regret, sadness, hurt and a lot of others his ten year old mind can't identify yet.]

Hey, you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. If it hurts you.

I don't like to see others hurt.

[nomorebedtimestories]

... T-Thanks.

You are really nice.
I don't wanna see anyone hurt anymore either.

[wise_lil_wolf]

Thanks.

[He smiles.]

Well, that's good, right?

What do you like? Happy things and interests and stuff like that.

What do ghosts do?

[nomorebedtimestories]

Well...

[Maybe if she does talk about some happy things, she'll feel better, and be less likely to get angry.
She really doesn't want to get upset again. Happy thoughts, then. Or at least she'll try as best she can.]

When I was alive, I liked to read. I really liked it when my mommy would read me fairy tales. They always had happy endings.

What do ghosts do...?
... Um...
It depends, I guess.
Not everyone comes back as a ghost. It's... usually the people who died suddenly, or in a bad way. Most of the time, they just wander...
Until they can be at peace.
Or if there's a reason they stayed...

[wise_lil_wolf]

Reading is fun. I like fairy tales, too...and legends and things. I like to hear people tell stories, too.

Until they can be at peace?

Where-

Where do they go after?

[nomorebedtimestories]

After...?
...
I-I don't know.
My mommy would say, they go, um...
[She points upwards, towards the sky.]
Up there.

When I was able to go to sleep, under the tree, I thought I'd find out.
B-But I... I'm still not sure.
I haven't found my mommy yet.

[wise_lil_wolf]

[Rafe looks up, looking where she is pointing.]

Oh.

Hey, don't worry.

Infinity is huge. I am sure she is out there somewhere.

Who knows?
Maybe you have to do something here before you can go up.

[nomorebedtimestories]

[She supposes that make sense. She may be at peace now, technically, but if there's something she still needs to do before she can completely pass on...
She's just not sure what that might be.]

... I guess so.
I... hope I can do it. And find my mommy.

[Aggie briefly wonders if her mother knows what she has to do, wherever she is. If only she could ask her.]

[wise_lil_wolf]

I hope you find your Mommy, too.

Can you think of anything you needed to do before?

Or maybe the thing you do has to do with other people and you don't know it and it will just randomly happen.

[nomorebedtimestories]

...

[It wasn't as much something she had to do, as much as something someone else needed to help her to do.
Because after so long, she couldn't do it on her own.
After 300 years of being blinded by rage and revenge... she needed someone to help her remember, and find peace.
Maybe...
She still needs Norman's help to see her mommy again, too?]

I think...
I might need to find someone else first.