Bad endings. Sounds like you almost got stuck in meta hell to me.

Those colors, though. [[ He comes back to that, highly interested. ]] They're.... important to me too, in different ways.... Um, red and blue are my favorite colors. [[ It's technically the truth, but he's not about to divulge the secret of his esoteric coding, which depended on red and blue text in spite of the lack of logic this entailed. Who ever heard of color being important in otherwise bare code? But like magic, he makes it work somehow. ]]

And gold, it's my caste color. [[ It all seemed trivial now he'd told someone. Why had he thought it important to anyone but himself? Stupid.... ]] So, did the Golden Ending work out?