#Also thinking about cunoesse. My god cunoesse.

[anthyies]

the thing about disco elysium is that it has women in it. what you see on the internet about it might lie to you about that but it has women, gay women even, very compelling women even, in it.

[fudgecake-charlie]

to my IRL(s) who keeps sending me disco elysium memes despite the fact i haven't played it in months THIS IS BECAUSE OF YOU. HELP ME. If people have ideas on this AU feel free to have fun with it considering I. have only a few!

[palms-upturned]

cunoesse for the character ask game? or annette if someone else already requested c?

POR QUÉ NO LOS DOS? 🙏 THANK YOU ANON

Send me a character and I will tell you my:

Cunoesse

First impression: I’m pretty sure the first time I ever saw anything about Cunoesse it was when YouTube recommended me the clip of when you can shoot her 😭 I didn’t watch it bc I wanted to avoid spoilers but my first thought was like “Cunoesse? 🤨 as in Cuno?” So I googled her and saw she was a ten year old and was like ?!??.!.? WHY DOES SHE GET SHOT? Initially I thought maybe she had something to do with the murder and that shooting her must be some climactic moment bc it sounded so fucked up, only to find out that the scene is an optional one and just 100000% Harry being a pig 💀

Impression now: she is everything to me she is maybe my favorite character in the whole game like you don’t even understand!!! 😭 where did she come from? Why is she alone? Who did she kill? Why did she and Cuno split in the Cuno route? And where can she even go from there if Cuno leaves? She haunts me which I think is the point… she represents nearly everything that we would hope to change via revolution, the kind of person who we’re trying to build a place in this world for… she makes me cry if I think about her too long. Ough. The true girl child revolution of my heart

Favorite moment: her fight with Cuno over locust city broke my heart so bad because I’ve got little siblings too, ik she didn’t mean to hurt him, she’s just a ten year old kid who’s grouchy that Cuno has a hobby that she can’t join in/relate to, but she hits on all his sore spots by acting out over it and he hits hers back and then it ends w that total gutpunch of Cuno saying “Cuno can be whatever he wants. Cuno can even be a pig if he wants!” And Cunoesse saying “don’t be a pig, Cuno… you’d have to take me away…” LIKE!!!! GOD. FUCK. What a moment.

Idea for a story: I keep wanting to write something about C in Martinaise after Cuno leaves for Jamrock, trying to fill the space he left behind until she sort of starts blurring the lines between them and just pretending to be him bc she’d rather be anything but herself… 😔

Unpopular opinion: best character in the game. To me.

Favorite relationship: C and Cuno forever… 😭

Favorite headcanon: her real name is Kielo, which is the Finnish name for may bells/lily of the valley 😔

Annette

First impression: immediately loved her so much. I work at a bookstore myself so obviously I was drawn to her and Plaisance right off the bat and ended up spending all of day 1 on bringing Annette out of the cold and then exploring the doomed commercial area instead of investigating the murder LMAO

Impression now: I LOVE HER… she’s a good kid… she gave me a hat!!!!!! 😭 I love that even tho she’s very much trying to be a dutiful and well behaved daughter, you still see her act like a kid and get mischievous with Harry in a way that feels authentic. She’s just so fun and endearing

Favorite moment: all of her interactions are great but I was most taken aback by when she talks to you about Harry during his bender. It’s a sad moment but there’s something sort of touching about that combination of being blunt but also nonjudgmental bc she’s so young. She’s just genuinely glad to see you seem to be doing better ;_;

Idea for a story: I keep thinking it would be fun to write something about Martinaise as seen through Annette’s eyes. All the people who come through the bookstore… maybe focused on Billie in the aftermath of her husband’s death 😔 I also have thought about writing something with post-game Harry getting a job at the bookstore so that Annette doesn’t have to help out as much, tho that’s mostly just bc it would let me write about working at a bookstore lmao

Unpopular opinion: idk what opinions on Annette even do ppl have aside from “I love her” 😭

Favorite relationship: Annette calling Billie her Auntie makes me wonder about them a lot… I also wonder if Cuno ever comes to the bookstore since he seems to be a Man from Hjelmdall fan 🤔 I’d love to see her hanging out with him and C lmao. But it’s sad that we don’t really get to see whether she has friends in Martinaise or if she’s too busy working and studying 😔

Favorite headcanon: Annette wants to write her own books someday and likes to regale Auntie Billie and also Harry with the stories she writes :]

[pronouncingitwang]

[ID: the original post has a screenshot of Disco Elysium dialogue reading

Kim Kitsuragi - "Take this, you're cold." The lieutenant begins to take off his jacket. Acele - "No man, fuck that, I'm cool… I'm sorry I said that. I'm sorry about the *fuck*."

The reblog has 4 screenshots of people's tumblr tags that read

#also i've said this like a thousand times but #his relationship with harry is also representative of this internal tension #his urge to maintain the image of the professional he's worked so hard to establish as his primary characteristic #vs his natural tendency to want to help other people. to treat them tenderly #both of these aspects are real parts of him; one isn't truer than the other #and i think people who course correct the fanon preference for one are just as much missing the point #it's crazy but it's almost as if de characters were written to reflect and encapsulate the beautiful and natural ways that real human people #contradict themselves #this is a little something i like to call 'writing' #disco elysium #kim kitsuragi

#god yeah #i think kims intention with his line abt 'the streets being no place for an officer of the rcm [to sleep]' was to give harry some dignity #in the situation. whether or not that's all the writers were implying with that is debatable #kim & harry's roles on so many levels are. just. chewing on them in my brain #same general thing w/ jean's meta role as mouthpiece for the rcm vs him as a person but that's another post #disco elysium

#i think i know the post that inspired this one and i think it was more like. #harry specifically with his unique cocktail of Massive Destructive Issues would have been the issue #kim would likely not have had the patience or desire to help harry out of a hole THAT deep had he not been RCM #kim's stated reasons for joining the rcm don't paint him as callous & neither does many of his actions #it's not that kim's a heartless bitch it's that he's afraid of being made a joke taken advantage of etc for showing vulnerability #so there are moments where he feels but doesn't display compassion because of that fear #and there are other moments where he feels comfortable (even obligated) showing vulnerability and compassion #for kim it's not a matter of whether he feels it's a matter of whether he shows. and he doesn't often feel that he can show. #hence the point that he probably wouldnt have gone out of his way to believe and help harry without the initial professional ties #& it's true that kim has a lot of potential to just be apathetic. towards cuno and cunoesse for example! #it means he's 'on target' as a cop for not caring about those extraneous things so yes reblogger definitely has a point there

#yes! he's got a bunch of contradictions going on he's a really well written three dimensional character #with multiple reasons for choosing to do the things he does!!

/end ID]

if kim only cares about people's worth if they're in the RCM then why in the fuck was he about to give his jacket to some random ass kid

yeah sure the guy who only cares about other RCM officers if they're good was about to part with the only item of clothing keeping him somewhat warm in a place where there's ice thick enough to support two grown men and a bunch of other shit absolutely

[doddsmountain]

I'm making another comic. This time dealing with Harry getting Cuno and Cunoesse to come live with him.

Some of y'all might be wondering why I draw my comics so that they're nicer, happier stories. I was thinking about this the other day. It stems down to the fact that I have a different kind of colonized perspective than those in Eastern Europe.

I am an indigenous Canadian. I am a status member of a PNW Kwakwaka'wakw nation here in Canada. I am the result of alcoholism, abuse, residential schools and the eradication of my ancestors beliefs and customs.

With that, I feel like I've had enough bullshit hard times in my life. I'm fat, queer, neuro-divergent, and have been ridiculed my entire life. I'm done writing and drawing from that perspective. I know it's self-indulgent, but I want the characters I enjoy to have some semblance of happiness. If that means my headcanons go against what others proselytize then so be it. I don't create these ideas in my head at the behest of others, but rather for my own comfort and enjoyment.

If I want Harrier DuBois to have a somewhat normal family after a truly traumatizing life then by god I will give that to him (in my head and in my comics).

Also, I totally feel like Harry's dream Dora is just a manifestation of his depression (both start with D so who knows). I've had MDD for over 20 years so I completely sympathize with his self-hatred and self-deprecation.

Sorry for the rambling. I've been avoiding working on my pedagogical frame of reference (I am also a post-baccalaureate pre-service teacher).