Three is a Crowd

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TRIGGER WARNING: This game contains sensitive content.

But maybe,

just maybe,

that is why it is worth playing.

TRIGGER WARNING: This game contains sensitive content. But maybe, just maybe, that is why it is worth [[play]]ing.

Who are you? [[Friend 1]] [[Friend 2]] [[Friend 3]]

You have lived with Friend 2 for [[four years]] now.

They say change is a [[good thing.]]

When I introduce myself people usually keep me a [[secret.]]

Probably because they don't think anyone would [[believe]] them.

Or perhaps because no one would really care [[anyways.]]

I try to stick to [[one]] friend at a time.

That is the best part of my [[friendship]] I'd say.

The [[intimacy]].

I'll love you [[until]] you don't even know how to define the term.

I'll love you until I'm the only one [[left.]]

And then I will [[kill you.]]

It will be easy because no one [[believed you.]]

Because no one [[ever]] does.

Because you can't call into work [[heartbroken.]]

So you learned to pretend that [[you]] weren't broken at all.

Who am [[I?]]

Or should I say, who are [[you?]]

Choose to be another friend and you will [[find out|play]].

You know what 2 will say before it is said, because the words are written in your mind like [[DNA.]]

You can recite the cadences of their [[voice]] like fourth grade speeches.

You giggle at the sarcasm sculpting their smile like [[kindergarten]] playground prances.

You've always thought that they were a little bit like [[Goldilocks.]]

Not because of the [[hair.]]

But because they will never settle for anything less than [[perfect.]]

You've [[never]] been perfect.

But you've never had to be ever since [[2]] came around.

Your [[comfort zone.]]

Your [[adventure seeker.]]

Your tension [[reliever]].

Your put-yourself-together [[motivator.]]

Your [[inspiration.]]

2 tells you that a love of life is the greatest love you can ever [[have.]]

2 tells you that in five year's time they'll be living in their [[dream]] house by the lake.

2 tells you that when they have kids they will be named [[unisex]] names.

So when you leave to get groceries and you hear the bath water running, you think 2 is getting ready to [[relax]] after a long work week.

You don't yell goodbye as to not disturb the [["zen"]].

When you get back, you don't understand thy the water has stained the carpet pink underneath the bathroom [[door.]]

You don't understand because you never caught any warning signs of [[suicide.]]

You don't understand [[any of it at all.]]

If only you could understand 2's [[point of view]]; if only you had that [[explanation.]]

Choose to be [[Friend 2.]]

You sink onto the couch still holding your bag of [[groceries.]]

Who are you? Friend 1 [[Friend 2|Friend 2]] Friend 3

The body has been cleared and the stain covered with a [[towel]].

You notice [[someone]] in the corner of the room.

He introduces himself as Friend [[3]]. He calls himself Depression.

He shakes your hand and it feels like he enters your [[bloodstream.]]

He tells you 2 was his [[best friend]] too.

You look into his eyes and think that this may be bearable with his [[support.]]

You look into the mirror across the hall and realize that you are standing [[alone.]]

But, with him, you [[do not feel that way.]]

You feel like you need him to [[stay.]]

And he does, he stays as long as you need him too... just like he did for Friend 2. [[ABOUT THE GAME]]

CREATED BY: Rebecca Zseder, UTM student ENG279 for Professor Siobhan O'Flyyn An interactive story in promotion of mental illness awareness and its effects on EVERYONE involved. [[Three is a Crowd.|play]]

It means you are climbing a transformation meant to transform becoming into [[became.]]

You have lived with 1 for four years [[now.]]

A couple of months ago though, you met [[someone else.]]

3. He made you guess his name. It took you a while but soon enough you [[understood.]]

You understood that it needed to be [[kept]] secret.

A rendezvous of [[too much thinking.]]

But a rendezvous [[none the less.]]

An intimacy no one could [[know about.]]

Embarrasing and misunderstood if [[discovered.]]

So you kept it a secret and put on a [[show]] of being yourself.

[[Laughing.]]

[[Smiling.]]

[[Giving advice.]]

Planning a future that made sense to everyone else but [[yourself.]]

And now seeing 1 on the other side of the table is like staring at [[circus mirrors.]]

Because you can see yourself but you don't exactly look [[the same.]]

It's like 1 is looking at you through [[convex or concave.]]

Always slightly [[out of shape.]]

You say the same things but they echo [[out of tune.]]

1 should know this, they know you... or at least they [[used to.]]

You have turned into [[puzzle pieces.]]

You don't understand why everything is [[splitting,]]

why there are spaces in your backbone that never used to [[exist,]]

how everything can so easily [[divide.]]

They say change is a [[good thing]].

They say it means [[growth]].

They equate it to a [[climbing transformation]].

So what have you [[become?]]

Friend 3, Depression, he tells you to use the razor because it'll feel good [[splitting your skin.]]

It doesn't hurt. You cut deeper to see [[when it will.]]

You feel [[weaker.]]

The tub is getting fuller than it should [[be.]]

You don't want it to be like [[this.]]

You don't want to have done what you [[did.]]

Depression is gone, it's just [[you in the tub now.]]

You want someone to [[save you]].

You want someone to [[help.]]

You want someone to[[...|ABOUT THE GAME]]

I can feed off of a crowd, but there is an intimacy in [[two.|two.]]