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Messy Alan Wake study I did for college

Yes they're all taken from that one cutscene in Initiation 9

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I woke up from my nap in a cold sweat and had to make this

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Alan Wake needs more credit for facing every writer's worst fear

Having to meet your character that you've put through hell several times over

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I saw a meme and knew I had to do this as an art warmup

Original

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So I randomly saw the perfect post today and knew I had to make this

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Everyone talks about Mr. Scratch on a scooter but no one talks about that if that thing hit his ankle he would turn it into a heap of scrap metal in seconds

Edit because I've been dying over this addition

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It's not a lake, it's an ocean.

It's not a loop, it's a spiral.

This is the ritual to lead you on.

Your friends will meet him when you are gone.

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I've been working on this off and on for months and I'm happy with how it turned out!

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Small doodle break I did from the main AW piece I've been working on for a bit

I got a little carried away and yes I transcribed the entire drowning monologue

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I like to think I'm funny

+ bonus because the official discord demanded I made a happy version

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A theory I've had for a while that I feel like I should share

Many people think that the end of Alan Wake III will end with him making his perfect story, much like how the real Tom Zane wrote his "master poem" and went with Barbara to live in the paradise that is the Light Place. Some people theorize that Alan will go to this place with Alice. They will finally be free of the horrors that have plagued them for 13 years.

Following the trend of the ending line in the two previous games, I think I know what will be the final line in the third game.

It's not a lake, it's an ocean.

It's not a loop, it's a spiral.

It's not the end, it's the beginning.

I may be completely wrong but I feel like it would be super cool and make the most sense for that to be the final line, even if the Light Place theory isn't correct.

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A small little detail that I love that isn't talked about enough is that in AW1 when Alan is yelling and pissed off at Alice, he stops and turns away when the lights flicker because he knows Alice will already be freaked out enough. Even though his temper is rising, he stops and waits for the lights to come back on to continue. You can tell that even when he's mad he still cares about her. And I just love that

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GOTG 3 SPOILERS

I don’t think anyone has pointed this out yet but the soundtrack playing in Vol 3 when the Guardians all stood in a circle and announced that they were going their separate ways and Rocket was named captain was the exact same soundtrack that played in Vol 1 when Peter gave his 12% plan loser speech and Rocket said they were a bunch of jackasses standing in a circle.

It’s a parallel of the moment the team officially united to when they officially split.

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Do you- do you think he counted the lab as one of those??

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GOTG 3 SPOILERS

It’s so important to me how they included Dog Days in Volume 3.

The soundtrack across all the movies has always been super nostalgic older songs. This was reflective of the Guardians themselves. They were all stuck thinking about their older days. About their pasts. They all had something that they couldn’t let go of and couldn’t move on from. It trapped all of them in pain.

But Dog Days is a pivotal moment. It’s a modern song. Across the movies, each of the Guardians have been healing from their pasts and learning how to move on and live their lives. They’ve accepted what has happened to them, but they now understand that it does not define them. They can finally stop letting other people and events have control over their lives. This is their own story. No one else’s. And they get to decide how that story goes and what they want their life to be.

The soundtracks are reflective of this. They go up by a decade each movie.

Everyone going their separate ways in the end to pursue their own lives was the final step in that process.

Furthermore, the fact that Rocket is the one to put on the song means even more. He’s arguably the one most hurt and affected by his past. He couldn’t let go like the others could. He refused to open up about it to anyone, believing he deserved to stay trapped in that pain. But this movie is all about him learning how to move on and live again. He doesn’t have to forget about what happened, but he doesn’t have to continually punish himself for it. Him playing this song shows that the last of the Guardians are finally ready to embrace change.

He’s done running. They all are.

The way everyone in the theater gasped when I saw it and that song came on proves how pivotal of a moment that is.

The dog days are finally over.

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Can’t stop thinking about how guilty Hunter probably feels over Flapjack’s death.

He promised to protect him, and in the end he killed him with his own hands.

Flapjack saw the face of his best friend, but it wasn’t him.

Hunter probably felt as Belos crushed Flapjack. That feeling definitely isn’t something that goes away. He probably thinks about it and remembers that feeling of Flapjack in his own hand from time to time and it makes him feel sick to his stomach.

That guilt of feeling partially like he’s responsible and he’s the one that killed him is definitely something that takes a while for him to work through.

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GOTG 3 SPOILERS

Can’t stop thinking about this

Floor and Teefs were begging Rocket to leave. But, he was too distraught and consumed by grief over Lylla to listen. Floor and Teefs died because of that. And that’s something Rocket has blamed himself over for a very long time.

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I feel like Hunter’s favorite band would be Imagine Dragons and no one can tell me otherwise