Containment What will happen when Barb dies?

Barb will never die. After the Merge, Cthulchu will use his grand powers to glue her to this mortal coil.
 
I honestly think that once he loses the house, he'll live under a bridge or something. He'll hope that he'll become a posthumous legend like Henry Darger, but when the cops find the Sonichu pages on his rotting body, they'll assume he was a pedophile that stole them from a preschool.
 
Once Barb dies we'll get the grand final saga, Chris trying to fight the courts and state in a lengthy battle to save his hoard. It'll be truly amazing when he tries to fight the eventual repossession of his house screaming about CPU goddesses and electric hedgehog pokemon in court.
 
After barb dies we probably reach endgame with chris.
I expect just one saga to happen, the cwclife crisis where chris gets kicked out of his home and we get total radio silence for years until he dies by suicide to be with magichan or dies of poor health conditions, then the media will catch up to his christory and bring alot of attention to it. hell, maybe even a movie about his life after that.
 
catpin said:
After barb dies we probably reach endgame with chris.
I expect just one saga to happen, the cwclife crisis where chris gets kicked out of his home and we get total radio silence for years until he dies by suicide to be with magichan or dies of poor health conditions, then the media will catch up to his christory and bring alot of attention to it. hell, maybe even a movie about his life after that.
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They already cast me as Lars. Needless to say, I'm stoked.

Jokes aside, it's going to be interesting how Chris's already volatile and self-destructive nature will inevitably intensify with Barb's passing. I think we might get three sagas after that point, however. Then, it'll be seeing how long it takes for Chris to grow or implode.
 
NormanMarkus said:
They already cast me as Lars. Needless to say, I'm stoked.

Jokes aside, it's going to be interesting how Chris's already volatile and self-destructive nature will inevitably intensify with Barb's passing. I think we might get three sagas after that point, however. Then, it'll be seeing how long it takes for Chris to grow or implode.
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I think three sagas is a little ambitious, since both the Chandlers are in pretty deep debt and I doubt Chris will be able to cover all the bills with his tugboat alone and with the creditors now going after his income he will have issues trying to raise the extra cash. Even selling the house would probably just end with creditors eating most of the proceeds. So I think the immediate saga after the Barb's Death Saga will be implosion.

I could be wrong but I see the aftermath of Barb's death being a lot of activity and none of it being anything Chris is prepared for in any way.

It will hopefully be hilarious.

Edited because of how dumb the English language is.
 
Does Chris stand to inherit anything? I can't imagine them having any money tucked away. Maybe some life insurance?
 
Samuel Belmont said:
Does Chris stand to inherit anything? I can't imagine them having any money tucked away. Maybe some life insurance?
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A house encumbered by debt which will be immediately repossessed. Piles of garbage and animal feces. Debts he cosigned for that worthless hag.
 
AnOminous said:
A house encumbered by debt which will be immediately repossessed. Piles of garbage and animal feces. Debts he cosigned for that worthless hag.
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No way that house could be salvaged either. They'd have to knock it down. The only thing I can think of that might have been of value was Bob's record collection. I forget if it was burned or sold, though.
 
Samuel Belmont said:
No way that house could be salvaged either. They'd have to knock it down. The only thing I can think of that might have been of value was Bob's record collection. I forget if it was burned or sold, though.
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After the condition of the house, then the fire, then the condition of the house NOW - I guarantee that record collection are now water damaged, moldy and not worth a damn.
 
Prior to the Idea Guy/CPU Dimensional Merge stuff, I used to be a lot more optimistic about Chris's prospects after Barb's eventual death.

Like back in 2014-2017, after Chris had trooned out and before his mental state started rapidly deteriorating to the point it is now, Chris seemed to be getting better. He was more social, had some friends in the local LGBT community, and was a lot better off than he was during the Classic era or the Tomgirl era. Barb's iron-fisted control that kept him in the dark during most of the Tomgirl years seemed to be loosening up (but never going away fully) and things were looking up for him.

While Chris was still well behind the curve on a lot of things, he was still visibly improving, with the Gamestop incident in 2014 being the only really big fuck-up on his part. This was around the time I started lurking the Farms (before joining in early 2017) and I always held to the belief that when Barb died, Chris would be devastated but he'd find a way to pull through and survive, even if only by the narrowest margin.

While none of Chris's acquaintances at the time would've bailed his ass out on any little thing, I could've seen them intervening in the event of something as major as Barb dying. Like, they probably wouldn't let him live with them but I could easily see them helping set him up in some cheap trailer or low-end apartment in the Charlottesville area. He'd be living tugboat to tugboat, and he wouldn't have as much to waste on toys and vidya, but he'd survive. At the time, Marvin confirmed that Chris was paying the bills and keeping things afloat and only begged for money because Barb was literally extorting him to pay off her bills and keep the debt collectors off her back.

It's obvious Chris hates living in the Hoard and the only thing keeping him tied to 14 Branchland Court is Barb herself, so I honestly think Chris wouldn't care if he lost the house all that much. So back then, I'd assume he'd get some shitty low-income housing deal and just spend the rest of his life struggling from tugboat to tugboat, but otherwise scraping by.

Now things are different, Chris has gone far off the deep end and Barb is so close to the end zone that she doesn't care anymore about debt collectors, choosing instead to pawn off all her debt onto her son and let him suffer the consequences.

Since the beginning of 2018, Chris has been banned from The End Games, has lost nearly all connections to reality, was extorted by the Idea Guys in such a brutal way before being exploited again by the teen troons, and probably has lost any acquaintances and friends he made in the Charlottesville LGBT scene.

Once Barb dies, Chris is fucked. The idea of a group home has been shot down multiple times by multiple people for several obvious reasons, and barring a major legal fuck-up, I doubt he'll end up involuntarily committed or spending time in jail beyond at most a few days in the county lockup for some petty misdemeanor.

So, yeah I'm going to go out on a limb and say Chris will probably die homeless once Barb dies unless he can somehow recover from these severe delusions.
 
Got to agree with you there Syaoran, although I believe that he does still love Barb and is at least somewhat allowing himself to believe this dimensional stuff to help escape the reality of their mother and their situation
 
Best thing Chris can do when Barb dies is climb into the coffin with her, they can spoon for eternity.

He'll lose the house to whoever holds the mortgage(s), the contents will be picked over by the unsecured debt holders, and he'll be out on the curb with whatever he can carry. Personally I suggest another fire, as I doubt the house or contents are worth reselling at this point.

Unless he still has friends in the local LGBTQIOMGWTF community he'll be standing at intersections rambling about the merge while rattling a tin cup until a cold night turns him into a troonsicle.
 
Sadly, I agree with Syaoran. I had some hope before really seeing how screwed up Chris has become lately. I could also see there was a significant cry for help from Chris like he knew his living situation with Barb was a mess, and he wanted to... I can't say self-improve, but get out of a shitty situation he knew was overall harming him. But, now... sigh. I don't know. Chris needed to use his tugboat and various benefits due to his condition to move on years ago, and it's probably too late now.
 
Grotesque said:
Sadly, I agree with Syaoran. I had some hope before really seeing how screwed up Chris has become lately. I could also see there was a significant cry for help from Chris like he knew his living situation with Barb was a mess, and he wanted to... I can't say self-improve, but get out of a shitty situation he knew was overall harming him. But, now... sigh. I don't know. Chris needed to use his tugboat and various benefits due to his condition to move on years ago, and it's probably too late now.
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chris' situation just makes me sad. a prime example of how fucked up looney parents trap their kids into becoming completely dependent. i still hope Chris can evade homelessness but it seems unlikely
 
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