Neither outcome was quite what happened. Technically, Madeline just barely had enough momentum to avoid being completely pulverized, but she didn’t exactly make it out from under the swap block in the best condition. Her body was fully flattened, compressed far tighter than Badeline had thought she’d be able to survive, but the pressure of the block combined with the speed of her dash were just enough to squeeze her two-dimensional body out. Not quite crushed enough to trigger the usual process of death and respawn, Madeline instead found herself an impossibly thin, helpless pile of humiliated redhead, her dazed expression staring up at the ceiling…and, soon enough, the smug, smirking face of her other half.



One of the little details that makes Celeste so fun is how it's occasionally willing to break the fourth wall. Among other things, there are a couple moments that give the idea that Madeline does actually die and respawn in-universe...which provides a lot of potential for abusing that "ability"!

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She found herself buried against the ground, not even the whole foot, but just the sole, to be trampled beneath the magicat’s full weight every time her owner took a step. She would be endlessly reliving the agony of her former body being crushed into oblivion, a fact so horrifying that it would have utterly broken her mind if there was anything left in it to speak of. Thanks to the sheer, overwhelming stench in which she would be constantly, permanently suffocated, though, intelligent thought was now lost to her forever, her remaining consciousness limited to little more than disgust, agony, and the occasional recollection of how she had chosen this, condemning herself to one of the worst fates imaginable.

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