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Gale of Waterdeep

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Cold Capitano HC cont.

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Opinions on Nortmelly as a romantic ship?

this ask reminded me of this doodle i did bc of @/maybemewlyn 's thread about how melly and norton have parallels to persephone and hades

(18) Mewlyn on Twitter: "THEORY: Melly and Norton and their parallels to Persephone and Hades. (And what their roles in the main story plot may be!) A thread. 🧵 https://t.co/4Wjh9jTUHO" / Twitter

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slay the princess

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Leaked cutscene

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Melly is here too! Drawing her was a very pleasant experience.

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Persephone hanging out with the puppies at night.

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Silent Hill 2, Mary's disease, the town and the "three years" lie (careful heavy spoilers obviously)

In the SH2 remake, when you first enter the Lakeview Hotel Gardens James says to himself "this place hasn't changed at all in three years" which such a good bit of foreshadowing, considering the opening in which a. James claims Mary died three years ago and b. Mary's letter explicitly reads "You promised me you'd take me there again someday. But you never did." implying they have not been there in a long while.

This really imo ties into my (and probably many other people's) theory that Mary contracted her illness in Silent Hill three years ago.

This is further supported by her illness only ever being referred to as "that disease", mirroring the mysterious disease of the town that is also only ever referred to as "the disease/the illness" without a proper name or diagnosis. Then her character model being covered in skin decay, again mirroring the town. In the prison we find notes of an inmate claiming to "being treated like a leper" by the guards after a renewed outbreak (leprosy being notorious for skin decay, so similar to the SH disease). And lastly, Mary notes in the tape having loved to swim in the lake all day after which she very shortly begins to cough, the lake being where the bodies were buried & bodies of water famously spread many diseases etc. (Also the lake and water in general being major symbolic themes throughout the entirety of the game)

Now we know in the end that Mary died only a few days before the game begins (her body is still in his backseat), so I interpret all of this to mean that to James, she did "die" three years ago. For three years he had emotionally already checked out, seen her as a burden. Only a few days he had to care for her at home, knowing she didn't have much, and even that he couldn't give to her. This just makes it all so much more tragic and devastating.

Also while I'm on it, I know the "leave" ending with Laura is generally considered the good/canon ending, but to me the lake ending feels more right thematically, which again speaks volumes for the game bc I usually hate that type of ending (just feels lazy) but here it works perfectly.

Wait omg another thing! In the opening we see the tanline on his finger, meaning he stopped wearing his wedding ring either right after killing her or while she was still alive and I don't know which is worse

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something.....something......silly.... something.....something......nortmelly.....

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Oops! All rocks

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Furina: according to the judgement of That Fucking Machine

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some text posts of the sillies (1 2 3)

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Oh Arthur, what a tragic life you had :c

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Would jump on that dick like a trampoline gold medalist and not even the guillotine could stop the head that I'd give him.

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take a gamble that love exists