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Probably a good idea to restrain the death machine whose emotion suppressors you're turning off. Just in case.

We've seen what suppression suddenly turning off can look like in MGS4 and it isn't pretty.

Some thoughts on the emotion suppression thing.

Doktor says it's completely reversible, but I speculate that there may be long lasting effects nonetheless.

My hc is that prolonged use of this tech stunts an individual's emotional expression. Since the access to fear, sadness and other "undesirable" emotions is closed off, the brain would naturally condition itself to react to stress in ways it does have access to. And so, even if you turn off the suppression, the brain still retains the habit of resorting to aggression and violence even if it'd be more reasonable to go for something less destructive in a given situation.

The Winds were horrible people to begin with and if they do use this tech themselves, then it's only twisting them further.

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Oh yeah, I'm having fun because my drawing style is changing again. Thanks to everyone for such warm reactions, it's really cool!

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Whose MASSIVE, UNCONTAINED sex appeal warranted a content label this time??

But seriously, is everybody just being hit with these all of a sudden?

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I'M MOTIVATED

*Slowly puts @justabrick a picture with MOTIVATION *

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I wanted to do Mistral too but I'm starting to nod off so...

Three sweet potatoes. Sleeping.

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I discovered eldritch horrors beyond human comprehension.

My first sketches of Sundowner from December. I drew him thin. That man does not have a defined waist, this is blasphemy.

Seeing that would deal 100 points of psychic damage, so I'll refrain from posting examples

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Update: it's the anime girl

I got a custom coin. One side is an engraving of an eagle. Other side is a naked anime girl.

I flip it and it decides whether my posts today will be decent or not.

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I got a custom coin. One side is an engraving of an eagle. Other side is a naked anime girl.

I flip it and it decides whether my posts today will be decent or not.

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*sounds of distant demonic shrieking*

I really like the works of @justabrick, so I decided to combine business with pleasure. Sundowner looks so cute :3! *but I заебалась draw it 10 hours...*

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Random unposted stuff I found in my gallery

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You see, Sundowner's just so irresistible that his mere presence requires a content label

Lol

Lmao even

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Chapter update!

Writing this felt like giving birth, I swear. So much research, this is now a character study in addition to everything else. Again, heed the tags, the first chapter of it is very much Dead Dove.

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I'm just hosting some illustrations for ao3, shush outta here if you don't want to be spoiled for the chapter

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And now the second, NOT intelligent answer

I believe this is pretty self explanatory

[I was wondering why Sundowner is your favorite character but here's mine] I just really enjoy how much Sundowner enjoys and loves life -- he's always smiling, and he makes decisions based on him simply wanting to do something or finding something amusing. He's simple like that but also unapologetically genuine, "an honest warmonger" as he puts it. He's fought in almost every war, not because he was forced to, but because he wanted to. It almost makes me think what if he didn't find his passion in war, but found it in something else instead -- maybe science, or music? He could have been a hell of a scientist, teacher or artist if he wanted to -- and the man himself is canonically pretty smart and strategic.

In his boss fight he would even say "if you wanna win, you gotta want it", and he just seems to be having fun in every moment of it. Also, my favorite headcanon is that he is singing his own song while fighting Raiden, since "Red Sun" is basically a love letter from him to the battlefield, and about his passion for life.

Also two other things that I find rather interesting: firstly, he's really old, and you would not expect an old man to be fighting on the battlefield but here he is. Also, he has an extremely unconventional weapon, and somehow I feel like he designed the scissors form of his bloodlust blades simply because he thought they would be enjoyable to use on his enemies on the battlefield. Though many MGR characters use HF blades he seems to be the only one who would heat them up red-hot before attacking his enemies.

I got two answers for this question, one is intelligent, the other - not so much. The long winded answer first though, I'll attach the second one in a reblog.

I like latching onto villainous characters to nose around in their messed up brains and try to come up with an explanation for why they do the things they do and how they ended up like that. I also tend to like the underdogs of the fandom, so naturally Sundowner fits the bill perfectly because he's constantly reduced to a cardboard cutout even when people try to legitimately analyze everyone else without memeing. So, he's unexplored waters in that way.

Okay, onto your points.

The thing about smiling and seeming awfully enthusiastic about the situation, this relates not only to Sundowner but to all other Winds as well. Ask yourself. Would Raiden be truly happy if he fully succumbed to Jack the Ripper? He becomes quite the gigglebox when he goes Ripper, smiling and laughing and all that - just like the WoD.

I think he wouldn't be. The fulfillment carnage brings is shallow and temporary like alcohol or drugs, it does not lead to feelings of accomplishment or true happiness in the long run. But it's all the Winds really have available to them. They're (((very likely))) all indentured to Desperado/World Marshal and they can't ever hope to be free from it because Armstrong plans to get rid of them all. Read this post for details on that.

When people are faced with any kind of anxiety, they really have two general ways of dealing with it. Either they change the situation or they change how they feel about the situation. Sundowner and others can't do shit about their situation, so they need to adopt a mindset that will let them cope with their circumstances, something to protect their ego and feelings from the fact that Armstrong doesn't give a shit about their ideals and is only using them a stepping stone to reach his goals.

Monsoon latched onto memetics to convince himself that nobody is free anyway, Armstrong's bullshit is just nature running it's course. Mistral initially joined for the ideals but never ended up actually believing in them, so she's trying to delude herself into thinking that she loves Armstrong. That way she can still die for his ideals and feel like it's worth it.

And Sundowner is drowning himself in violence to convince himself that it's all he lives for and that he isn't actually missing out on anything in life. It probably started way before Desperado in a less extreme form. He may have had aspirations and hopes for any number of things, but to achieve them he'd need an education and money, something he didn't have. And so, to deal with the bitterness of not being able to continue down the path he actually wanted, he'd take on the sour grapes mindset. "I didn't want to pursue science/art/teaching/etc. anyway, war is my new passion". Since it's something he has to do now, he'd rather love it than hate it. Perhaps he could have dropped out of service once he had money to try and come back to his original aspirations, but change hurts, it's hard to break out of the routine you've grown accustomed to - and for Sundowner war was that routine.

There are actually way more theories I have for why he'd be the way he is but they'd make this post way, waaaay too long and it's not what the original question was about.

So yeah, I like Sundowner for all the hidden details that lay good groundwork for speculation on how he could realistically become so evil. Shame he's reduced to some dumb redneck stereotype so often.

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[I was wondering why Sundowner is your favorite character but here's mine] I just really enjoy how much Sundowner enjoys and loves life -- he's always smiling, and he makes decisions based on him simply wanting to do something or finding something amusing. He's simple like that but also unapologetically genuine, "an honest warmonger" as he puts it. He's fought in almost every war, not because he was forced to, but because he wanted to. It almost makes me think what if he didn't find his passion in war, but found it in something else instead -- maybe science, or music? He could have been a hell of a scientist, teacher or artist if he wanted to -- and the man himself is canonically pretty smart and strategic.

In his boss fight he would even say "if you wanna win, you gotta want it", and he just seems to be having fun in every moment of it. Also, my favorite headcanon is that he is singing his own song while fighting Raiden, since "Red Sun" is basically a love letter from him to the battlefield, and about his passion for life.

Also two other things that I find rather interesting: firstly, he's really old, and you would not expect an old man to be fighting on the battlefield but here he is. Also, he has an extremely unconventional weapon, and somehow I feel like he designed the scissors form of his bloodlust blades simply because he thought they would be enjoyable to use on his enemies on the battlefield. Though many MGR characters use HF blades he seems to be the only one who would heat them up red-hot before attacking his enemies.

I got two answers for this question, one is intelligent, the other - not so much. The long winded answer first though, I'll attach the second one in a reblog.

I like latching onto villainous characters to nose around in their messed up brains and try to come up with an explanation for why they do the things they do and how they ended up like that. I also tend to like the underdogs of the fandom, so naturally Sundowner fits the bill perfectly because he's constantly reduced to a cardboard cutout even when people try to legitimately analyze everyone else without memeing. So, he's unexplored waters in that way.

Okay, onto your points.

The thing about smiling and seeming awfully enthusiastic about the situation, this relates not only to Sundowner but to all other Winds as well. Ask yourself. Would Raiden be truly happy if he fully succumbed to Jack the Ripper? He becomes quite the gigglebox when he goes Ripper, smiling and laughing and all that - just like the WoD.

I think he wouldn't be. The fulfillment carnage brings is shallow and temporary like alcohol or drugs, it does not lead to feelings of accomplishment or true happiness in the long run. But it's all the Winds really have available to them. They're (((very likely))) all indentured to Desperado/World Marshal and they can't ever hope to be free from it because Armstrong plans to get rid of them all. Read this post for details on that.

When people are faced with any kind of anxiety, they really have two general ways of dealing with it. Either they change the situation or they change how they feel about the situation. Sundowner and others can't do shit about their situation, so they need to adopt a mindset that will let them cope with their circumstances, something to protect their ego and feelings from the fact that Armstrong doesn't give a shit about their ideals and is only using them a stepping stone to reach his goals.

Monsoon latched onto memetics to convince himself that nobody is free anyway, Armstrong's bullshit is just nature running it's course. Mistral initially joined for the ideals but never ended up actually believing in them, so she's trying to delude herself into thinking that she loves Armstrong. That way she can still die for his ideals and feel like it's worth it.

And Sundowner is drowning himself in violence to convince himself that it's all he lives for and that he isn't actually missing out on anything in life. It probably started way before Desperado in a less extreme form. He may have had aspirations and hopes for any number of things, but to achieve them he'd need an education and money, something he didn't have. And so, to deal with the bitterness of not being able to continue down the path he actually wanted, he'd take on the sour grapes mindset. "I didn't want to pursue science/art/teaching/etc. anyway, war is my new passion". Since it's something he has to do now, he'd rather love it than hate it. Perhaps he could have dropped out of service once he had money to try and come back to his original aspirations, but change hurts, it's hard to break out of the routine you've grown accustomed to - and for Sundowner war was that routine.

There are actually way more theories I have for why he'd be the way he is but they'd make this post way, waaaay too long and it's not what the original question was about.

So yeah, I like Sundowner for all the hidden details that lay good groundwork for speculation on how he could realistically become so evil. Shame he's reduced to some dumb redneck stereotype so often.

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What I work on in the background: complex psychological analysis and charts of the WoD motivations, traumas, aspirations, coping mechanisms, attachment styles, etc, etc

What I post: yet another sketch of Sundowner being absurdly thick for no reason