#Treyarch were cowards for this injustice

[m-s-justice]

The Kids. The Kids in the House. I uh. I have some thoughts about it. This one is going to be a bit shorter than my other ones.(hopefully)

I really wish we could've gotten some characterization for them. Excluding Samantha(and a little bit Eddie) they are just. . Kids. In the House. Kids in The House that are The Old Guys. Am I supposed to just like them as an extension of my Undying Affection for The Old Guys? Or just because they are 'innocent'?(whatever the hell that means)

I don't know about you, but The Kids needed something to make me feel attached. The characters in game have a reason to be invested in their safety: they’re them! But as an audience? At least to me, the children came off as more of a macguffin than actual characters.(why are we killing ourselves? so that we may live in paradise and safety and happiness forever :] !!!) So what would I, a simple Tumblr user, do differently?

Definitely give the kids at least one noticeable trait. Maybe Nikolai is a shy kid and the others have to coax him into talking. Maybe Takeo has trouble pronouncing some words and it's turned into an inside joke. Maybe play up the whole 'Eddie doesn't like to share his toys" thing and make him really possessive and pouty when he doesn't get his way. Dempsey could be mischevious and impulsive, but ultimately well-meaning(he hasn't grown into enjoying killing things yet.) Just little somethings to make them feel like they’re actual children.

But how to properly integrate it? After all, the kids only show up in Revelations. I’d make it so that the kids would shout encouragement to their other selves. Have one of the kids swipe Maxis's microphone and then proceed to mess around for a bit. Or a bit less intrusive, but way more plain, have radios detailing conversations between the kids. Just some sort of way to get us to hear them. The Kids have each other to bounce off of and the general chaos of Revelations to discuss. They can also be a super cheap way to drop lore. Have one of them ask what the hell is going on and Monty can exposition dump all he wants.

Also. Also I was thinking(oh no). Thinking that The Kids should've been tied to their Fracture counterparts. A little bit of their previous life that carried over to their new ones. Maybe Takeo could have arachnophobia and Nikolai could struggle with attachment issues. Eddie can stay the same. He was a kid when collected so he stays. Dempsey is definitely way harder. That Bitch was snoozing. Also freezing. Maybe make him have some circulation problems so he's cold all the time or hell, maybe narcolepsy??? Or just ignore canon and make him do the Eyes Always Closed trope? I'm kind of spitballing here, Dempsey (as always) doesn't have a lot to work off of.

But yeah. This is just some Kiddie Content. We don't have enough of it :(