#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!

[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).

[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 :]

[some-pers0n]

penitenziagite for disco elysium is really good if you haven't read it. 23k words.

Oh that sounds cool! Lemme just get ready...

Okay, got ready. I've got a bowl of popcorn and two cans worth of ROOT BEER!! in a pickle jar. Big thing. Anywho, this'll be my thoughts and reactions cause I like doing those. Let's start.

So to begin, sick title. I thought it was some kind of drug I've never heard before, but no! Latin! That's cool! A bit of a nightmare to type out, but it's chill it's cool.

Let's look at the tags– holy shit it's a genfic??? Oh let's go! Not to be an annoying person, but personally I like Kim and Harry's dynamic as being platonic, with MAJOR amounts of tension and awkwardness from both of them at certain points. I think at some points they've been sexually attracted to each other, but it's mostly died down (especially in Kim). They both are better as partners anyways. Being in a relationship kinda messes it up a little. Harry is still a mess at times and yearns and gets a little jealous and insecure if Kim ever gets a boyfriend, but y'know that's just how Mr. Tequila Sunset is. They're just guys <3

Anyways anyways, back to the fic. No more rambling. I just like genfics.

Tags...tags... Hurt/comfort, heavy on hurt. Sounds good. Also, vaguely pre-relationship. I dig it. Coolio. Implied and also explicit suicide attempt? OOOH!! CASE FIC!! YESS LET'S GO!! God I love case fics so much. I love writing the characters doing things they would in canon. I gotta do that more for the mercs, it's so fun. Oh and also child death. That part spooks me.

For characters, all 41st Precinct guys. Plus this name I don't recognize... One quick Google tells me he's the head boss. Cool!

Anywho, let's get to reading.

OH SHIT THE SUMMARY OH GOD

Notes :] Lil' description of the word + an apology for what they've done.

Okay– probably should switch off my music to something more for reading. Less words. Maybe white noise or just ambient stuff. Eh, why not the soundtrack of the game itself. It's topical.

Actually beginning now, let's go.

Kim POV to start with, nice.

Aw no Kim :(( Poor guy

So he's in a prison? The summary did mention that Harry was in one for killing Cunoesse. Let's see.

Aww no Harry :(( He's just a guy who killed a child :((((( He don't need to spend that long in solitary confinement :((

Harry freaking everyone out cause of him talking to himself is so silly I love him

Ahh so this is the aftermath of that one bit where you can shoot Cunoesse in the game. I dunno why that took me so long for it to click. Kinda obvious. Ohh that's really fun to think about.

Impressive memory to remember that even after five years. Then again, even after his amnesia, Encyclopedia chimes in for the most random of trivia. Harry just remembers the little things. Also, hey, he said "Books". That's Encyclopedia! The silly!

Oh this is gonna be good I can feel it in my arteries.

Man Kim just can't get a break from traumatic things related to guns happening to his partner.

Ahhh I see. So Precinct 41st drags Harry out of solitary confinement in order for him to solve an old case. Neat. I assume this is cause Harry has solved like two, three hundred cases and is their last hope.

So Trant comes by and visits, eh? Just to take notes on Harry's psyche? Considering from the author's note, I'm willing to bet it's for nefarious purposes. Mayhaps HE is the murderer!! (Spooky)

EGAISGWISG– KRAZ NO WAUGAHA– It's like a coin toss between that being Rhetoric or the actual voice of Kraz Mazov himself in Harry's head hrjsgdiehe–

So he refuses?.. Curious...

"I have a lot of friends!" – Guy who has been locked in solitary confinement for five years and has been known to talk to himself. Ehosgeiesysh this is so silly I love this already.

Crownhead that's Volition definitely.

THE LONE "Ah." FROM KIM HELAHEIEGEU–

Ah so in this run of sorts, Harry drank and was high. Neat since whenever I play DE I'm always straight edge and sober. I can't let Kim down :(( But it does make sense for here cause. y'know. he shot a kid

Oh SHIT! Poor Harry man like :(

COACH LET'S GO!!

Aaannnddd they're off!

God it's really interesting. I adore the idea of Harry's ability to contain himself whittling down as he spends time in solitary confinement, being incredibly open about his thoughts and not really being exactly able to contain them. God that's such a cool premise. Oughhh 500 billion kudos and 100 million comments of praise to the author NOW for just the premise alone.

Obsessed with how Done Kim is with Harry. Of course he would be. It's in-character, both in canon and in this AU. It's still goofy. I love this characterization a lot :]

Oh yeah that makes sense cause Kim doesn't do his thinking like that, preferring the pen and pad. Of course he wouldn't relate to psychosis and or OSDD.

I wonder who Honey is. Thespian is obviously Drama, but Honey eludes me. If I were to wager a guess it's some Moterics skill. Bleeding Heart is probably also Pain Threshold.

...is Bleeding Heart really Pain Threshold? Eh, let's find out.

Ohhh I love a little dramatic irony. "The Union did it" :]

Ahh so the Tribunal still happened. Aw.

Puzzleface :) Love Logic.

Interestin', Kim working between both Precincts. I was wondering how they'd explain the reason a guy from the 57th was working with a guy from the 41st.

Rejects and losers. Of course he'd fit in.

THE GANG!!!!

I don't trust you Trant.

Harry :(( Good God he's in terrible shape. He's just shaking like a scared dog. He's terrified of his colleagues. He's definitely very aware of the person he was before the amnesia, which makes it even worse. Poor guy..

Anon you're so right I do love this fic.

Trant is suspicious. He's giving off super Not Disco vibes.

Trant is either the murderer, is helping the murderer, or is a centrist/ultraliberal. Nobody acts like that and is a normal person. He's too...nice.

JEAN WHDIEGSHS– ahhh good ol' Jean and his fucking love for using fucking swears at every fucking moment possible for fucks sake. Love him.

Trant gives vibes of evil neurotypical vibes, that's what.

PALE MENTION PALE MENTIONED LETS GO I LOVE PALE LORE I LOVE THE IDEA OF HARRY BEING A MAGPIE I LOVE PALE LORE!!!!

Soo... I know it's early to call shots, but I'm thinking: why is Trant doing this? He's gotta have ulterior motives. If he's researching pale and it's effects by studying Harry, why is that? I'm under the assumption that he's at least involved with the murders somewhat. It's mentioned that, every time discussion dries up about the RCM being shitty at their job, another person dies. Somebody is trying to sabotage the RCM. For what? Political reasonings? Who knows! Let's find out.

Yayyy Trant knows the voices too!

"Innocence alive" is a fun phrase. Like it.

Trant loves Harry like he's studying a bug I love it.

Intrusive thoughts Du Bois here. He just sees a razor and some voices just go: "KILL YOURSELF NOW!!" which honestly. Yeah. That's what happens in the game.

I have a terrible feeling that all of this talk of Harry being prone to harming himself is going to come up later. It's gotta. That's how this works. Oohhhh God....

Annndd to detective work!!

"You're not a stranger to this kind of...thrifting." I adore all of these lil' gestures to the game. It's so fun. Harry is just a hobocop give him a break. He loves stealing random clothes he finds.

Harry :((

Bathroom scene oh boy. The root of homosexuality

HE'S DISSOCIATING NOOOO HARRY MY BOYY PLEASEEE Ohhh God he's so fucked up from jail he needs every nice warm hot bowl of soup

Harry no. Don't look at the razor like that. No. Please god no. It's so tense.

TWENTY ONE FOR IT??? JESUS CHRIST Harry please god almighty.. Oh my god... Just the thought of virtually every thought in Harry's head clamoring for him to take the razor and kill himself is just. HOOOHHHH BOY....

There's scars on his throat :(

Centipede? I can't think of which one that'd be. Maybe HE? Perhaps Savoir Fare? Hm.. Same with The Critic, though that one could be Conceptualization.

Kim, the crowd of inhuman beings is real, don't worry about it :)

Eepy time :]

Hooh!! Notes!!

Oh that's who The Critic is? Shivers? Harry did refer to it with she/her pronouns, which, yeah, makes sense since it's the spirit of Revachol

End of chapter. Kudos kudos kudos kudos kudos kudos kudos k–

"Good morning! ...hello, Harry." I love Judit so much. She's a sweetheart

Hooh! Crime scene!

Love seeing Harry be so open about his voices. It's so fun and neat.

Ohhhh shit the voices.

Party Animal. 100% gotta be Electrochemistry.

So, what we know: the victim was most likely sedated beforehand. If there was no struggle, that means that were incapacitated. The sedative is subtle and takes a keen eye and knowledge in order to identify. How do the bullets exactly fit in...hm...

EYES MENTION

Ah, so that's the bullet. They're sedated and then killed with a square bullet. Square bullet... I don't think I exactly believe it. The perpetrator must be doing something odd. Perhaps they are EXTRACTING THE PALE FROM WITHIN THE BODY VIA LOMBOTOMY!! And you know who else is interested in the pale for potentially nefarious purposes??? That's right, Traunt!! (/lh /j)

See yeah! Harry's speaking my language! Looks less like a bullet and more like a tool. An extraction tool!!!

Oh like a stun gun. That makes sense. Stun gun, bolt gun, all the same, really.

Perhaps it is TRANT selling these incense things to people as aromatherapy in order to harvest them!! I always knew Trant was into pyramid schemes for EVILLL!!

Aww Harry's happy :]

Aww Jean no :(

Yeah I think it's reasonable for Jean to be pissy with Harry. He's a shitty person when he left and killed a kid when trying to work on a case that he just abandoned for a long while to fuck off and try killing himself. Jean is upset enough at Harry even without the child murder. He's ballistic now with him being here like he didn't kill a kid and has been in prison for five years.

Harry is like a sad old dog that's been left shivering in the rain for most of his life. Poor guy...

NOO HIS WRISTSSSS GET THEM OFF GET THEM OFFF

For a second I thought he was gonna pull of soft fabric handcuffs. Nah, just makeshift ones.

Kim :] Awww he's so sweet..

"Why am I doing this?" Your kindness and want for Harry's wellbeing is stronger than that of his own suicidal thoughts, duh

"They had other things to do" oh they just straight up hate him. Reasonable honestly.

Bleeding Heart...is it Empathy??? It can't be Inland Empire. Pain Threshold is out the window.

Harrrryyyyy :((

Boogie Street :] Silly name

WAUGHH NOOO MY HEARTTTT EYEESSS NOOOO God the Eyes stuff never fails to get me. Kim being so closed off and jaded because of his death is so. hurtful. My soul..

Harry?

HARRY?!?!

HELP HIM NO THAT'S BAD

JOINTS POPPING?? EUGHH GOD I CAN HEAR IT AND FEEL IT WuagHGHhGhh HELPP HIM KIM

Okay he's better than Delores Dei.

..aw no...Harry... That's why? He got set off by being called detective? Ohh no.. The voices don't think he deserve it. Then again, they don't think he even deserves to be alive, so there's that.

Christ imagine your thoughts being so violent and powerful you go into shock and seize up cause they hate you and whatever is going on so much.

Harry rest please.. Listen to Kim :(

The hell you want Trant.

I don't trust you pasty white guy...

HE PULLS OUT A PEN WITH ZERO CONCERN I NEED TO MAUL HIM

oh no.

harry please no.

I know there's a chapter left and there's a net zero chance he's actually killing himself here but GOD it's stressful.

So Shivers told him that. Cuno died of an overdose. He would've been thirteen years old. Christ alive...

He does bring up a really good point: Cuno was the only one left who cared for Cunoesse. Everyone else was up in arms about Harry killing a kid that nobody stopped to consider or mourn the death of her. She wasn't a person so much as a victim of police brutality. Cuno was close. Cuno knew her. A part of him would've been torn the second that shot rang in his ears, forever lost as his best friend died before him. It wasn't a game anymore. It was real life. It was real and she was dead. She was dead and nobody but him cared...

God imagine being stuck in solitary confinement like that. You are already a mess. Half of your thoughts wanted you dead or engaging in the worst coping methods possible to ignore the pain of the love of your life leaving you. Then, you lose your memories, and now you're in jail for killing a kid. A child. Every day you're alone with your thoughts. Bombarded with these constantly clashing and arguing voices, all of which only want you dead. Then you've got Shivers and Espirit de Corps like: "Oh btw everyone in the city and your police force hates you"

Anyways back to Harry having a pair of scissors right to his neck. Is there a bigger meaning to the neck? His tie being like a noose is a common motif in the game. Hell, I'd go as far as to say he tried killing himself the night he got amnesia. The way the tie was held up on the ceiling... That or it could just be because it's a clear spot with a major artery that, when severed, is a quick and rather painful death. Eugh, bleugh. Writer disease has kicked in and now my neck feels weird and tight cause of empathy and whatever.

Harry put down the scissors. Please

Shivers wants him to live... My heart..

"Why don't you want me to die, lieutenant?" What if I cried, huh? What then?

He's asking for the cuffs on again.. He doesn't want to die... He's got another reason to keep going

Something to note that I'm a little obsessed over is the inverse of the game happening here. Kim almost always refers to Harry as "detective", while Harry always just called Kim by his name. Inversely here, Harry calls Kim by his title cause he knows that he likes it, as well as Kim saying his name due to Harry having a major breakdown over it. It's just cool and silly :] I like it a lot

HARRY'S CRYING NOOO GOD NONONOOO ohh his mind is going to be like an absolute whirlwind here. Volition is the MVP honestly

It just hit me: Kim doesn't want Harry to die again cause he feels already responsible enough for Eyes. I dunno why it took me that long. Even in my own small writings, I bring it up. Kim cares so, so much about Harry because he doesn't want to fuck things up again. He doesn't want to get terribly attached in case of an emergency, but even in said emergency, he would do everything and more to protect him. Do what he should've done all those years back

Chapter three time, let's go!

Harry please..pleaseee Harry.....

KIMMM NOOOO

The hell you want Trant. Trout. Whatever

The way he's so utterly divorced from reality and just goes like: "Yuh-huh, yeh? He tried killing himself? Ookie pokie :)" is setting off so many alarm bells.

"Imprinting positive memories" Harry has done little more than be yelled at, belittled, and then tried killing himself this entire time. The second he got excited he was shot down.

It is a very messy situation Kim's found himself in. He's the one who decides whether Harry, a severely mentally ill man, gets to either go back to prison or sticks around with him. I can't blame him for being conflicted. Hell, I don't even know what I'd do.

Discussions discussions...

Free Harry!!

And down to the street with all of the incense stuff!

Harry getting constantly compared to being a dog is so silly I love him..

Talking talking,, all sorts of case stuff.

Five years?? Oh that's gonna be important. Maybe it was Harry who bought them before and that's why he was gravitated to them. Since leaving, well, no more buying.

Especially with Logic and Electrochemistry popping up too now, yeah.

BREAKING AND ENTERING TIME!!!

oh right. yeah. harry would be extremely sensitive around guns cause..cause of all of the incident

He's got the Sad Cop copotype.

C'mon buddy, just a lil' pep talk. All gonna be fine. Just don't. die if you hear gunshots.

Trant shush. No. Not a word.

Trant you are so suspicious I refuse to believe it isn't you. It has to be.

It's only a guy with no eyelids. Don't worry!

So Trant isn't the one murdering them. It's this bozo. Understandable. Maybe Trant is just a prick. I still think he's evil.

OH SHIT

OHHH NOOOOO

TRANT ONE OF YOUR MEN JUST GOT SHOT AT LEAST SHOW SOME EMOTION OTHER THAN THAT

Back at the Precinct :]

Oh no it's the boss man.

Evaluation time!!

TRANT NO

Can I kill Trant. Pretty please

OH FUCK OFFFF TRANTTT Petty bullshit I need him to Perish

Okay okay it's fine they're coming to an agreement. Harry is fine. It's chill. Trant please reveal that you've been brain scooping so it's morally okay for me to strangle you

Harry please...

Oh damn

Harrryyy noo..please...

HUG! HUG PLEASEE

God damn they're both touch-starved.

So! Good fic! Liked it! I'm losing my ability to type. Very eepy. Going to. bed.

[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

[imadhatt3r]

someone had to ask: Disco Elysium for the blorbo ask game 😔

Thank you for your sacrifice 😢7

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): God, probably Harry or Kim, which shouldn't be suprising... I can't pick because it's geniuinely difficult for me to think about them as two separate characters, my brain always packages them in a set, like some leftover holiday-themed products right after said holiday ends and they want to clear the stock as fast as possible.

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): Literally all the kids, Cuno and Cunoesse, Anette, Little Lily and her twin brothers... I am willing to beat anyone who's mean to them into a pulp. I saw this adorable fanart on twitter recently of Harry and Kim buying all the kids from the game ice cream as a thank-you for their contribution to the investigation, no matter how small and AHAHGAIAHAVAUAJAHHA 😭😭😭😭😭

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave) Probably Cindy the SKULL, I love this archetype of a snarky, mean girl with a lot of eyeshadow and an oversized coat with a good heart underneath, plus she's an artist who paints with gasoline and blood, so... yeah 🥰 I adore that pose she takes on when you talk to her, how she reclines on the wall and looks at you from an upside-down perspective, both to show off that she doesn't take you seriously and possibly because she's an artist so she's looking at the world in a different way... yeah. That "squeal for me piggy" convo is dear to my heart, something about girls making men who could easily crush them in a physical confrontation embarass themselves for them makes me 👀. I also really like Acele, she's clearly both very mature but still slightly childish and young, both things probably stemming from her past. I like this short but sweet friendship she can have with Harry, with both kinda reaching a quiet respect for eachother if you'll exhaust her dialogue tree and the "silver bird" convo.

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): This one's kinda hard, since pretty much all characters are relevant to the plot in some way or another... Maybe Lilienne? She's awesome, I love her backstory of a hard-working woman just trying to keep herself and her kids afloat (hehe) and pretty much doing everything herself out of necessity. Her attitude towards her dead husband is interesting, very pragmatic, I guess it just goes to show how casually alcoholism is treated, like it's almost expected that your husband will abuse alcohol and die young, and you can count yourself lucky if he won't be aggressive towards you or the kids. On a lighter note, I like that she still has a bit of showmanship despite her pragmatism- her sword for example, because while it is factory-made, it's still something very eye-catching and distinct. Her lure earrings fascinate me- this seems like something she'd make herself out of whatever's lying around, which would once again imply that there's some desire for looking nice, despite that outward pragmatism. So yeah, cool, tough, working-class lady who's a leader of her community and has depths for people who look too deep into things like me and has a great design. A real pearl in all that silt. What more do you need?

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): There's simply no meow meow more poor than Harry, that's just a fact. The more he embarasses himself in front of others the more I want to grab him by these mutton chops and press my face against his while going 👁👁. I vividly remember watching the Dora dream on youtube for the first time and howling in cringe-laughter over how awfully awkward that scene was (complimentory). I used to not understand people who felt cringe so severe when consuming media that they had to pause and walk it off, but now I do. Then again, this scene is supposed to make you cringe in how pathetic, delusional and sad Harry is, so that speaks about how good ZA/UM's writers are at their job. And that kiss, god, I was screaming "WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU DUMB FUCK, STOOOOOPPP!!!!!", it was so bad. Thankfully i could writhe to my heart's content because I was home alone, and it's good that I've picked that moment because my parents would probably get concerned 😖 Harry sucks so bad at everything at we love him for that <3

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): Jean, for no other reason other than "I just think it would be funny". I do think that his anger and disappointment towards Harry is 100% justifiable, but something about his way of being just makes it seem like it would be funny to clown on him a little. Plus he dealt with Harry all those years, so he took his immunity boosters against teasing ages ago. He seems like he would be funny when he gets mad, would probably starts swearing in French or something.

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell): Taking obvious choices like the mercenaries out of the equation, probably Sunday Friend. Slimy liberal bastard who exploits younger and poorer Smoker, plus he talks like all the most annoying western EU politicians talking about problems in Eastern Europe while gleefully ignoring that they're responsible for at least a part of them, lol

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thoughts on cuno and cunoesse?

favorite thing about cuno: god like. my fiction kryptonite is "traumatised characters who deal with it in messy, repulsive ways" which is why disco elysium has gotten to me so bad. anyway i absolutely love how cuno is portrayed as like. a deeply traumatized twelve year old whose trauma makes him absolutely repulsive... but who can still be saved!! you can still get through to him!! because he's just a traumatized kid!! like fuck i'm so attached to this crack-addicted homophobic goblin least favorite thing: he uses a lot of homophobic slurs but like it's not his fault fandom pet peeves: i've noticed that in comics where cuno gets adopted by kim and harry he'll still speak in third person when it's actually like, A Plot Point that as harry starts breaking through his barriers, he switches to talking in first person? iirc in the ending where cuno's your companion, when he begs jean to let him join the rcm he speaks mainly in first person. it's a small thing but i wish people kept that change because it's a statement to cuno coming back to himself in parallel to harry coming back to himself and i find it so poignant. like just, this feral kid learning to refer to himself as "i" again because one single disastrous adult showed him the bare minimum of sympathy. my heart ;_;

favorite thing about cunoesse: see above. the moment cuno told his story about finding her curled up under the desk like a dog i was attached to her irrevocably least favorite thing: she's kinda neglected in canon-- i wish we got the chance to save her like we get to save cuno fanon pet peeves: she's so underrated. also i think cuno's perception of her should be taken with a grain of salt; i don't think she's ever actually murdered anyone and i don't think she's actually a danger to cuno, she's just trying to be tough because she's been through hell too