bad boys

the bad johnnies are metaphysical entities that inhabit johnny’s mindscape. there are two classes of bad johnnies - "fools" and "bogeymen."

fools manifest from johnny’s self-hating thoughts. groups of them inhabit a circus tent near the center of the mindscape. many of johnny’s nightmares take place inside this tent, where they repeat the thoughts that spawned them back to him and parade him around as a sideshow freak and shoot him out of a cannon and all that wacky stuff.

bogeymen grow from johnny’s fears about his own quality of character; grotesque caricatures of him that take on every negative trait he is afraid he might have. they are, in the worst possible way, how he sees himself: a monster. cruel, sadistic, conniving, manipulative, predatory, and they do it all with smiles and laughter. they infest random patches of johnny’s mindscape and reduce their surroundings to rust and mold. were an outsider to enter the mindscape and encounter these fellas, they’d swarm the outsider and gleefully parrot all of johnny’s doubts and insecurities regarding his relationship with that person as if they were fact, all the while being all creepy and Bad Touch