It’s A World of Laughter, A World of Tears, It’s A World of Sadness and Jeers

In the canon path for Epic Mickey 1, the Clock Tower ended up being unwound and left to die after the battle, here is that moment and your nightmare fuel for the next few months,
Why did I write this, it’s apart of the sadness of the first game and symbolizes why Mickey choose the paint over the thinner

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So much to do,

No time where or when,

The song of a small world plays in my mind like the beat of a drum,

It is dark and lonely here,

I go mad again and again from that same song stuck in my gears until they run rusted, soon I see a small mouse in front of me I prepare to smash and thrash him for disturbing my torture until he launches the thinner at my arms which then smash and crash into multiple pieces leaving me vulnerable as I feel the pain of the machinery holding me together break down as I crumble to dust or break like a pocket watch.

I sit in the same river as my arms now due, cursed to fall apart as time marches on without my chimes or song leaving me all alone in this small world of ours.

Notes:

When it comes to the first boss of Epic Mickey, I always felt bad that the canon path was the thinner one as it left stuck listening to the song in perpetual pain for the rest of its existence, so I chose the paint path and the record mentioned is an old idea that if you painted the clock tower, you break the actual record playing the song but i think that it’s still pretty cool that Disney actually allowed them to play around with icons like this,
I mean it made a great first impression, when I saw it I was hooked on the game from start to finish.

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