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Passion Passion So In Fashion

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Character name: Kim Kitsuragi

Media: Disco Elysium

Information: ESPRIT DE CORPS - If an assault were launched on this building right now -- if the windows came crashing down and the whole world descended upon you -- this man would hurl himself in death's way to save you. You are sure of this -- but why?

7 out of 10 sharpshooter. Composure and Authority of steel. Actually a good person despite being a cop. Member of the homo-sexual underground.

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detective we have to womanify ourselves NOW

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miss oranje disco dancer (variations under the cut)

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for the most part I think that save scumming in disco elysium deprives you of the proper intended experience, but there is one exception. I honestly believe that save scumming the lead up to the tribunal a million times, trying every different combination of choices in a desperate attempt to prevent it and only to slowly realize its inevitability is the best way to experience disco elysium

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not to be a hater (because i actually like a lot of the fanart/comics about this) but a transmasculine reading of Harry Du Bois probably makes about as much sense as transmasculine John Egbert -- repressed queer identity is one of the major themes of Disco Elysium, and i think that if this borderline-fascist cop who drank himself into amnesia to escape how much hates himself & his current identity is any type of trans, then to be honest, he's probably not finding much solace in maleness. fictional eggs of all time, if you ask me.

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Lil Cuno ♥

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Want to be free

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Tribunal mood

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jean jean jean jean jean (jean) (i couldn't decide on a hairstyle)

anddd the initial sketches before i decided i wanted to make a bad decision and paint instead ASKSKSK

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You understand that Kim's perception of himself as a "good cop" is a character flaw that is meant to be questioned, yes? That he is a good man but equally he is petty and mean and embittered by years of living through the racism he experiences on the force and he takes that out on the people he's meant to serve and protect. Taking the jackets from Pissfaggot and Fuck the World? A cop grasping for a little bit of power in a situation where he feels powerless. He looks better in comparison to the other cops because they're terrible. He's a good man but a bad cop. The RCM, the power, the racism, the violence, is a dead weight hung around his neck pulling him down.

Harry's attempts at being a good cop are explicitly futile; he is working for an organisation that is killing him by inches, killing Martinaise, killing Jamrock. He can try and try to be better; people still die because of the inaction of the police. He's held up as a cop with a low kill record before the game. He still killed three people. The copness is a malicious consuming force for him. Why do you think he tried to flush his case papers down the toilet and sell his gun? He's chronically physically and mentally ill and his healthcare is tied into an organisation with a monopoly on legalized violence. He hates himself for leaning into the violence and he also can't escape it. His status as a police officer keeps him trapped in it, no matter how hard he tries to be a good cop, to emulate Dick Mullen, however warped his idea of that may be.

Disco Elysium never presents the idea of a good cop as a truth, a certainty. Only ever as a fun house mirror, a reflection of what we actually are given, distorted by layers of media and irony and the sheer impossibility of people responding well to that level of power. Revachol's cops are corrupt. They kill, they brag about it, they steal from homeless people, they sit idle while crimes- not even crimes but the extrajudicial execution of the union workers- are committed. Better than the worst of them does not mean good, does not mean justified. The RCM cops are like kids playing police based off what they saw on TV, with their nicknames and their quips and their laissez faire attitude towards the law applying to them. Perhaps they try to perform the role of good cops. But anything deeper than surface level will reveal that it is exactly that; a performance.

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it's 1am, time to post klaasje snort a line

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If you’re cold he’s cold. Give him your communist hat (and everything else).