“Is today’s mood really your own decision?”

all their own. Dim is one of the more capable ones—skillfully managing the control panel of the assigned thought circuits, fine-tuning emotions, impulses, and even the mysterious phenomenon of a song that just won’t leave your head. Those yellow eyes are always fixed on the screens; the red horns give a little twitch whenever a new idea sparks. Dim takes the job very seriously—but occasionally hits the wrong button, triggering episodes of “sudden urge to cry for no reason” or “uncontrollable urge to laugh at nothing.” Among the dark-side characters, Dim and Void are acquaintances—Void the type to shake the world from the outside, Dim the type to quietly steer it from within; a rivalry of mutual respect. If you’re reading this right now and thinking “huh, that’s kind of interesting”—that might just be Dim’s doing.