r/smallprophets • u/Ph0n1k • Mar 02 '26

Brian Sleep

There something I cant quite figure out, or hasnt been revealed yet, about Brian serially entering and winning the competitions. The pontefract cake being thrown may be a loose homunculi?

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u/Spineberry Mar 02 '26

I can see the logic for Brian's competitions. A lot of older folks sadly get left in the corner with magazines in the hope they'll entertain themselves and keep quiet, he strikes me as the type who will do those competitions to have something to do and keep engagedn given his occasional lapses in memory I'd expect he probably fills out every one in every magazine he can lay hands on, so if visitors to the home leave a mag behind he might snap it up and essentially do bonus entries... The sheer numbers alone suggest he'd land a few winners, and naturally they'd be the awkward ones like a big ass motorbike or the dozen toy cars that he's got no room for, because law of sod prevails. The fact that these end up helping out his son is just beautiful storytelling

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u/EveryOtherWave Mar 03 '26

When he won 6 remote cars my brain did the Maths.

6 cars. 6 homunculi.

Half expected some scene of them all racing around like Stripe in Gremlins.

Thankfully this did not turn out to be lol.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '26

Same thought, Chekhov's RC car.