Hal "being weird" in the locker room: derealization, involuntary facial expressions, appetite gone

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pivotal · 20 Nov YDAU, pre-Fundraiser

When: 20 Nov YDAU, immediately pre-Fundraiser-exhibition
What: In the pre-match locker room (Loach shaving and taping Hal's left ankle, Hal's hands on Loach's shoulders through the routine), teammates notice Hal is off: he isn't eating his customary Snickers/AminoPal, and Traub and Whale report him "being weird" — asking Loach whether the ritual ever felt "occluded, electric," so repeated that everyone existed as "Fourier Transforms of postures and little routines... call-uppable for rebroadcast," and — chillingly — "as a consequence, erasable... By whom?" He reportedly used the word "moribund." Most tellingly, his face "assumed various expressions ranging from distended hilarity to scrunched grimace... unconnected to anything that was going on" — the affect/interior split (cf. event 108) now on public display as the 20 Nov endgame closes this movement. (The Barry Loach saga that dominates the scene is Mario's story, not Hal's — skipped.)