#acel facts

[bdsmrist]

i just get rly emotional at the thought of kim feeling safe and cared for with harry. the fact that whenever harry defends him against bigotry, kim’s surprised reaction implies that harry is one of the few ppl who does. the fact that later, harry is able to pull him out if his shell. the fact that kim’s politeness starts waning, and he jabs and pokes fun at harry (and apologizes when he takes it too far). the fact that he goes from “im the finest of nothing” to “never fuck with kim kitsuragi”. the fact that kim is so quick to stand up for harry, even tho he tries to remain unengaged and neutral during most interactions. the fact that kim abandons all reason and falls to his knees, turning his back to all danger, and desperately presses his hands to try and save harry— and ONLY turns around if harry tells him to. because thats how much he trusts him. thats how much he cares. kim, who doesnt seem to be vulnerable or that close with pretty much anyone else, and gave up hope on relying on ppl a long time ago. and whats even more emotionally churning is that all of that trust, that affection, that *bond*, it all happens within a span of 4-5 DAYS OF KNOWING EACH OTHER.

its as if that same side of harry that can interact with cuno, acele, and annette (kids with complex fears and distrust towards others) that make em feel safe— the *juvie* side —can tap into kim’s inner child as well, and makes him feel safe, too

[renmorris]

Kim, the mender

I’ve been thinking so much about Kim navigating his own deep loneliness and touch starved-ness through caring for others, and what I feel are implicit statements made by the game that he studied emergency medical first response as his mandatory RCM civil service role

(his year working in body processing, him knowing how to keep Harry alive and able to walk after the tribunal, the morale healing pats on the back, even offering his jacket to Acele etc)

It’s unselfish and not something he has to justify to himself as an indulgence, it’s practical. It’s being a good coworker. Kim mentions repeatedly that gets seen officers in worst states than Harry and I don’t think Kim is unaware that Harry absolutely thrives on his reassurances and praise.

@1tbls has some Kim posts I mull over a lot (one of them is just the sentence 'Kim's horny little need to take care of Harry' because I really feel like that hits the nail on the head. another is the one about how Kim does seem to have self analyzed himself but in a kind of shallow way.) I really agree with that, it does feel like we're meeting Kim after he’s done some internal processing of his own. in the fashion police conversation he mentions that he used to be very uptight before he started wearing plainclothes etc

This is all to say that I know fandom is understandably wary of writing Kim as Harry’s caregiver and that’s good 👍 it’s very good to be aware of racist fandom trends and push against those. But for Kim there is textually, I think, the fact that he does thrive on caring for other people. It gives him a kind of authoritative position, and stability.

(It even ties into his tailoring hobby, he’s a mender of clothes and people, a mechanic, and wants to be that for the city so badly.)

There’s a lot of reasons why Kim wants to take care of Harry, why he believes that he can come back from all of this. Obviously one is that if Harry who is white, who works in this legendary precinct with his heroes, who puts in these impossible hours and burns himself alive for the RCM, who is ranked Double Yefreitor can be so easily left to die by the RCM…it means Kim never stood a chance. That his dwindling faith in the system means nothing and he has thrown his life away in this job.

(Likewise Kim also means this for Harry- If Kim is seen as disposable then there was never any point in being diligent and clean. Both paths are thankless and have left them to rot)

But the other I think is that this is how Kim copes, by taking care of others. He is so very careful about indulging himself in ways that he feels are extraneous. But this is a kind of closeness he is allowed to have, it does good for other people.

And over time this is and will be where Harry sneaks in past his defenses and takes care of him back. Get loved, idiot! Be cared for, bino! ❤️

[theanxiousbookdevourer]

60+ hours into Disco Elysium, and I have discovered something most people figured out in two seconds flat:

So... how dumb would you think I am if I told you I didn't realize the speedfreaks were trying to start a speed lab?

(More below. Some Disco Elysium spoilers.)

I genuinely thought they just wanted to start a club. All this time, throughout all my playthroughs, I never once caught on.

This time, though, I pieced it together, spent the next few minutes feeling like an idiot, then decided to try to get them clean and start a club for real.

I already liked Egg Head, especially when his tone changes during his "puzzle," but this really solidified it for me.

Everybody hates each other. Everybody hates it here, it's all just drugs and we're slaves and I *can't...

Then, later on, if you manage to get Acele to open up to you, you learn the drug lab was her idea—but she's not proud of it. In fact, she was trying to hide it. But her façade was cracking like the ice beneath her feet.

She's glad you caught them. She doesn't want to become like her father.

So now you can bond with her. You can see the real her. You can tell her everything will be okay someday.

You can even hear her laugh.

So yeah. It was dumb of me not to notice what the speedfreaks were trying to do in the first place. But I'm glad I finally got to see Acele. Finally got to thaw her. Finally got to make her laugh and lead her out of the cold and watch as she ushered in the beginnings of spring.

[brainrotdotorg]

i have no evidence that the speedfreaks are polyamorous other than the fact that they all live in a tent together and that when harry asks acele if noid is her friend she says "Yeah, I guess you could say that" also egghead just followed them home like a stray dog . your honor theyre fucking

[bapzap]

okay i have a favorite disco elysium character now its noid hes so *clenches fist tighltly* just everything he has to say is so interesting the fact that he refers to the like objects as organs the church this and that as organs and stuff and how dolores is an organ thief and like its such an interesting way of talking about and percieving things and and and hes just so cool i got so excited i forgot everything else i wsnted to say

and that bit where you ask acele about him and then you talk to him about being a carpenter and then you aks him "arent you suprised by me know8ng this" and he says "youre a cop. i have carpentry tools." like. just poking fun at the medium being used to potray things thats great

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO i love you noid he's so cool. i loved meeting him. it was such a fun part of the game

[box-dwelling]

So I was thinking the one thing I can use my degree to contribute to this fandom with is to include whatever the fuck the fake chemical Ema mentions in turnabout corner is and it's actually funny as fuck. Anyway grain of salt, I'm still in the process of getting my degree and won't be certified scientist for a few years so like, I may and probably will fuck up but hey this is a fake chemical and it's mostly just cute wordplay so.

The chemical is hydroxyacelunodosetrase.

So I'm going to break down the boring bits first. So hydroxy is an OH group. Very common. Insanely. Basically just here to denote that this is a chemical to lay people because of how common this is. Acel is a little weird. But Ace normally means a hydrocarbon chain with a length of 2 and sometimes you do need to add on stuff for pronouncablity but I think it's a deliberate misspelling (because ace like ace attorney) of an acyl group which is a C=O group but honestly outside of very specific circumstances specific it's not thaaaat common in chemical names because it doesn't provide as much utility as denoting a more specific subset of acyl groups like a ketone, aldehyde, ester or carboxylic acid group but it is still used especially when denoting ions or free radicals or especially when bonded to a halogen. So the fact it's needing to be notated puts my lab alarm off screaming "shit look into this before using it, it could be dangerous" because that normally means its reactive as fuuuuuck. Acyl groups as a whole are pretty reactive, that double bond to oxygen likes very much to no longer be a double bond but there are a lot of configurations that will make it a little more stable. If it need to be notated as such it's probably not in one of those. Very funny given its used in context as a threat.

The only other part of it that is chemically coherent is the trase suffix. (Edit edit fuck I think what I'm thinking of is ase as a suffix which means enzyme. I do not know where the tr is coming from) It's I believe common in enzymes but I am not a biochemist nor very good at biochemistry and I cannot find a source on Google backing that up and it is just coming from my brain so I may well be wrong. What matters though is how it's pronounced. Which is the same as Tres. Which makes the last 2 bits make more sense. Chemistry uses Greek numbering. The rabbit hole of chemical naming is deep and I'm not getting into it because there are multiple naming systems and one of them is standardised and the other one is actually the thing everyone uses. But Uno is not a thing in chemical names. Neither is dose but it's probably ment to be like a dose as in a drug dose. Again not found in the name it's self but I think that's why it's spelt like that. But the upshot is that the last 3 parts are pronounced Uno dos Tres which is obviously 123 in Spanish. It's cute.

So basically in conclusion it's not a real thing at all. It's all word play and it's would probably be pretty nasty even if it wasn't. I think it's cute. I'm glad some thought was put into this fake chemical instead of just a keyboard spam.

[palms-upturned]

empathy, for the ask game!

WHEEE THANKS

disco elysium ask game

empathy: who is the character of all time? explain.

Hear me out. It’s Cuno and Cunoesse. To me, they’re what all of this is really about. Harry has to reckon with both the failures of the people and systems who came before him and his (and his generation’s as a whole) own current failures. On the ice, he apologizes to Acele that she has to inherit those failures and the consequences of them. But C and Cuno are going to inherit them, too. They already have, in fact. We see them struggle to survive because of them. We see Uuno and how the system has failed all three of them to create this mess they’re in. We see all the fucked up desperate ways they both respond to power and violence as a result of their situations. We see this little microcosm of the central issue of the game in Cuno and C’s conflict over Cuno’s chance of joining the RCM— Cuno is susceptible to police recruitment because he’s desperate for some semblance of agency and power (and because the only kind of power he capitulates to is violence…) but who would he be leveling that power against? People like Cunoesse. 😔 And then there’s C herself, completely enmeshed with and dependent on Cuno, without even a name of her own. They’re right at the heart of all the questions the game ponders about our responsibility for one another and what love and solidarity really mean. And then there’s Cuno’s passive suicidal ideation as he tells Harry about how he wants to go out in a hail of bullets someday vs Cunoesse actively telling Harry to shoot her because she doesn’t wanna live anymore… man. There’s just So Much with these two they’re everything to me. They’re the heart of this game in my eyes. Girl child revolution, boy child freedom.

[permian-tropos]

prefacing this rant by saying I am not kinkshaming, I completely respect why people would write fanfic to their own liking... last few days and today have been really scary for personal reasons and I have been binging fanfic to cope 

anyway. I am desperate to find more DE fic outside of the sex god kim kitsuragi genre 

like oh my god this man is a dork with a crush. he knows harry wants to be spanked and topped and he is amused and slightly overwhelmed by that fact because he’s a dork. his strength of authority is tied to so much trauma and loneliness, trying to stay the course in a world that just won’t treat him right. he is an unrepentant spoilsport, he takes the moral high ground because it’s a better place to be lonely than the gutter. he’s introverted and incredibly shy about sharing the tiniest bit of vulnerability. he has a nearly fight or flight reaction about harry finding out he’s listened to songs called things like “an asshole is a mouth for shit (and I’m puking)”. he’s traumatized by pinball. he reaches for his gun when he sees a stuffed ice bear. one time you catch him staring in awe at a big crane

kim knows harry is a sloppy sub but kim’s composure is too rigid for him to be effectively sexually dominant. the best he can do is beat him at fucking board games, because harry will still treat it like he’s been flogged to oblivion 

do you really think kim has been going around spanking hairy bears in seedy bars?? he does not have the strength to let another human being hear his favorite silly tunes?? yes, there is maturity and wisdom and poise in his composure. and he's less repressed about his orientation. but that doesn't mean he has experience playing any kind of sexual role. think about him trying to entrap acele. think about the boogie street shakes and imagine him trying to dom with that level of drama lmao he makes dommy jokes at harry bc it amuses him but I need stories where he’s flustered and overwhelmed PLEAS

[sunb0rn]

fun fact:

ex ng kuya/pinsan ko si ate Acel, yung orig vocalist ng Moonstar88. yes. sila ni kuya nung "Torete" days. repost ni kuya yung ss sa left.

core memory sa akin na sya yung GF ni kuya na kasama nya sa college graduation. tska yung twing may tv guesting yung band super proud kaming mag pipinsan and our lola HAHAHA

so ang cool/funny ng photo na 'to- Ms. Acel with Elegee Custom Guitars owner na nakausot ng Malachi, na skate apparel brand ng kuya ko. ahhkk? coincidence?? hahaha.

promote ko na din- follow Malachi Beyond Skateboarding on IG and FB!

[disco-elysium-via-polls]

🎵Disco Elysium, Pt 2

2. "You were wrong. I do believe you."

ACELE - "*Why?*" She raises a brow.

"Seems too ludicrous for a lie."

"What would you stand to gain?"

"Strange things happen."

ACELE - "I guess so." She hesitates. "Anyway -- what else?"

+5 XP

2. "I'd like to know more about your associates."

ACELE - "My 'associates'?" She blows on her chilled fingers. "I haven't got much to say about them."

"Just answer the question, please."

"What do you mean? You must know *something* about them."

ACELE - "Of course I do. I just don't tell people about my friends and who they are and so on. I don't provide information on them."

RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - To the cops.

"What about you? Tell me something about yourself."

"A-ha. Okay. Maybe I'll ask later about all this."

ACELE - "Me? I'm a silver bird."

+5 XP

Level up!

"A-ha. Okay. Maybe I'll ask later about all this."

ACELE - "Don't know what makes you think it'll be any different later, but..."

New task: Get Acele to talk about her associates

7. "Actually, that's it for now." [Leave.]

There's a small path North between the church and the boardwalk.

These rusty gears used to turn the whole machine.

The building before you housed the engine. Must have been a big one.

The chain trails off into the ocean -- to who knows where.

This barrel has been recently discarded. It still smells of fuel oil.

DOOR (UNOPENABLE) - An old door, worn by elements, guards the depot. The wind has blown a sand dune in front of it. The door hasn't been opened in a long while. You see a handle.

"What is this thing anyway?"

[Interfacing - Impossible 20] Open the door.

Walk away. [Leave.]

KIM KITSURAGI - "It's military -- a service depot of some sort."

"Used to service what?"

KIM KITSURAGI - "The washerwoman mentioned a depot up the coast." The lieutenant looks at the hunching, concrete toad in front of him. "She said it was for moving ammo and cargo across the bay -- this might be it."

2. [Interfacing - Impossible 20] Open the door.

This check will never, ever, get any easier.

DOOR (UNOPENABLE) - You rattle the handle a bit, then push on the door with all your weight -- it does not budge. Not only is it locked, it's also *jammed* shut.

"Huh, the door's shut tight. How can we get in there?"

"Whatever, door." [Leave.]

KIM KITSURAGI - The lieutenant shrugs. "We don't get in there."

"What do you mean? We get into… like… everywhere."

KIM KITSURAGI - "Frankly, you're just going to have to accept the fact that you can't get in through every single door."

RHETORIC [Easy: Success] - No-no, we've gotten into every door thus far. That's what we do -- we open doors. We're cops, that's our perk. Even Evrart knew that's a part of our M.O.

"But that's who I am. Who *we* are."

"I'm not gonna accept this. The door could be part of the investigation."

"Okay. I can live with this." (Accept it.)

KIM KITSURAGI - "Yeah, I understand you, I like opening doors as much as the next guy, but this one is simply beyond repair and we don't have the resources needed to open it."

"Relax. No one's hiding in there. If we can't open it, others can't either -- and thus they can't get in." He looks at the door with a rueful smile.

+5 XP

CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] - At least you can *think* about opening it. About doors in general -- they are, after all, fundamental to your life. Perhaps something useful will come from this?

Thought gained: One More Door

2. Walk away. [Leave.]

Temporary research bonus: +1 Half-Light: What is behind it? Research time: 0h 45m

God dammit, it cannot be. A disgrace! That door on the coast... you remember the one, right? The one that leads to the abandoned supply depot? Why, in the name of all that's holy, does it not open? *Why*?! There *has* to be a way to get through that unopenable door. By gods, you're the police -- all doors are supposed to open before you. What will the others at the precinct think if you can't open a goddamn door? There must be a way.

WHITE POLO SHIRT

+1 Rhetoric: What's polo anyway? -1 Empathy: No, really, what the hell is polo?

This shirt looks worn and smells a bit. You can't help but wonder -- who would leave it stuffed in a tare container? What kind of man would even *wear* a polo shirt? This might be one of life's mysteries that will never be solved...

TRAP: LAND'S END - This trap's not too hard to spot -- once you know what to look for. Keeping it hidden has not been a priority for the cryptozoologist.

Look around.

Reach for the trap.

[Leave.]

TRAP: LAND'S END - The reeds sway in the coastal breeze. They seem to be waiting for something.

SHIVERS [Easy: Success] - The wind picks up here, near the cape's end, surrounding the narrow strip of land from three cardinal directions. It's cold for this time of year.

2. Reach for the trap.

TRAP: LAND'S END - Nothing but locusts in this trap as well. Definitely no cryptozoological monstrosity.

KIM KITSURAGI - "Empty as all of them..." he pants. "*One* more of these and we're done..." His face is red from the cold sea air. He crouches to catch his breath.

"Bummer it wasn't in here…"

"You getting tired?"

"I *must* stress that I did not expect a cryptozoological monstrosity to be in this trap."

Say nothing, just put the trap down.

KIM KITSURAGI - "No-no. I'm fine. I didn't mean to complain, it's just..." He's short-winded. The sentence ends there.

2. [Leave.]

Cigarette butts, cleaned away under a rock: brand Tioumoutiri.

You take a mental note: Tioumoutiri. Seems important somehow.

Someone's made a campfire here, a long time ago.

A rusted, broken control box for the radio relay tower.

This ladder is too rusty to climb. The sea air has eaten away at it.

SCENTED SCARF

+1 Shivers: Springtime cold -2 Physical Instrument: Allergies

This light springtime scarf smells like men's cologne mixed with cheap laundry detergent. Someone must have left it behind, probably from a date? Wear it if you want to delude yourself that spring has arrived.

Tiny inlets there -- off in the far distance, where the posts trail toward...

This is the northmost point of the coast. We have now explored the entire world map.

I *am* sorry to do this, but I'm going to take control here. There are a couple of time-sensitive tasks in Martinaise that we need to do before evening falls. That's at 8pm, so we still have plenty of time *now*, but I'm worried about running out of time if we get too far into the church questline.

On our way back through the fisherman's village, I note that the drunks are here again, so we can drop off Doom Spiral's jacket later.

We will stop on our way to check the last trap.

TRAP: CANAL - It takes you a moment, but finally you spot the last of Morell's traps. This one's partially obscured by the reeds...

Look around.

Reach for the trap.

[Leave.]

TRAP: CANAL - The reeds bend forlornly toward the sand. Some tufts have been crushed. Snow covers the broken stalks like a shroud. In the east, the city centre hums to you.

SHIVERS [Easy: Success] - The constant, distant song. Louder on this part of the coast. Nearer somehow. And there's that cold again, always the cold...

2. Reach for the trap.

TRAP: CANAL - The trap feels light -- and silent -- as you pick it up. Something is different here...

Look closer.

TRAP: CANAL - No locusts!

LOGIC [Easy: Success] - No phasmid either -- but still...

(Immediately yell.) "It's empty!"

Look closer still.

TRAP: CANAL - Your voice echoes on the coast, carried by a gust of cold wind.

Look closer still.

KIM KITSURAGI - The lieutenant studies the trap with you. "Well, the bait worked on *something*. This doesn't mean it was a reed-monster, though. Unless you see one in there? I just see an empty trap..."

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Medium: Success] - The netting is a little untidy, messier than the others. Like someone or something picked up the trap and shook it before dropping it back down on the ground.

"I do get the feeling that someone or something may have messed with the trap..."

"But what if it *was* the phasmid? What if it ate them and got out?"

"Yeah, it probably *wasn't* the phasmid, but still. Morell needs to know."

"You're right. But I still need to tell the cryptozoologists about this."

"You're right. This crypto-research has been stupid."

KIM KITSURAGI - He purses his lips. "Perhaps our cryptozoologists have competition in the form of an actual entomologist? Or someone else is sabotaging them? I could present more theories, but then I would be taking this on as a case -- which I'm *not*."

"But what if it *was* the phasmid? What if it ate them and got out?"

KIM KITSURAGI - "Right." It does not look like he thinks you're right. "Anyway, that's for the cryptozoologists to figure out now." He adds, for clarity: "*We're* not cryptozoologists -- we're cops."

We'll need to report this to Morell. To finish the task, if nothing else.

2. [Leave.]

🎵 Instrument of Surrender

The main reason we're back in Martinaise is so we can sniff out communists. We're going to do a couple of things on the way, though.

For starters, here's that hawthorne tree we heard about.

HAWTHORN TREE - The hawthorn tree on Rue de Saint-Ghislaine. Bronze-coloured ribbons of magnetic tape are caught in its branches, fluttering in the breeze.

SHIVERS [Medium: Success] - Just like promised... You've stood here for what seem like aeons, guzzling the sickly fumes of lorries and carriages.

"Piss off, nature!" (Punch the tree.)

"Good hawthorn." (Pat the tree.)

[Interfacing - Challenging 12] Disentangle the tape.

[Leave.]

HAWTHORN TREE - Patting the tree reveals a small sticker which has almost been worn to oblivion. It reads: "RCM Emergencies Desk No. 8-100-2". Underneath, a slogan: "Mankind, be vigilant!"

VISUAL CALCULUS [Medium: Success] - The bronze ribbon twists around and within the branches in an intricately natural pattern... but there's something...

What do I see?

Ignore thought.

VISUAL CALCULUS - There's a twisted logic in this mess... you see the ends of the ribbon, the way it flows, how it twists and turns... it's all starting to make sense. It'll be easier to remove now.

3. [Interfacing - Challenging 12] Disentangle the tape.

+1 Tape Release Calculations. +2 Karaoke superstar.

INTERFACING [Challenging: Success] - With slow and deliberate motions, pulling, bending and unravelling -- you manage to extricate the magnetic tape from the branches.

It curls up into a mess inside your pocket. If only you could find a way to re-spool it, so that you could hear what's on the tape...

LOGIC [Medium: Success] - Maybe Roy from the pawnshop can help you with this?

KIM KITSURAGI - The lieutenant looks at the mess in your hands. Only after you've successfully cleaned up the branches does the curiosity get him: "What's the tape for?" he asks.

"It's for Egg Head. I promised to make his van Eyck's jam hit a bit harder. Maybe this tape can help."

"I'm too embarrassed to say."

KIM KITSURAGI - "How? It's broken and unspooled. Do you think your new buddy knows how to fix it?"

"He has to -- he's the Master of Ceremonies after all."

"I'd think at least one of the ravers would know how to fix a broken tape if they want to set up a nightclub."

"I'm not sure, but I'll find out. Maybe Egg Head can point me in the right direction."

KIM KITSURAGI - "Alright." Looks like the lieutenant doesn't really know what that means. "You could also get it fixed at the pawnshop across the street -- we shouldn't waste our time."

He looks at his wristwatch a little impatiently. "You know, since tape-spinning isn't really our day job. Solving murder investigations is."

INTERFACING [Medium: Success] - Good idea. He might have the tools -- the tape projector in the pawn shop uses similar tape...

3. [Leave.]

A BUNDLE OF MAGNETIC TAPE

The bronze-coloured tape was found in the branches of hawthorn tree on Rue de Saint-Ghislaine. It gleams whenever a ray of sun hits the surface.

Thanks to totally not bribing Noid, we have a lot of money. So the second thing we're going to do while we're here is buy stuff from Siileng.

SIILENG - "The shine on these sunglasses lasts a lifetime, officer! One hundred percent guaranteed!"

We're going to buy the Amphibian sports visor so we have a hat to give Acele next time we see her.

SIILENG - "Sporty *and* practical, officer! Good choice."

"AMPHIBIAN" SPORTS VISOR

+1 Perception: Beady suspicious eyes

The malformed green frog of the visor seems to keep an eye on your surroundings. A beady suspicious eye. The lime-tinted cellophane appears to be poorly molded -- the imprint says Made in Safre.

FALN SNEAKERS ON A PEDESTAL OF SPEAKERS - The speakers below are banged up and worthless. The sneakers triumph over them. They're the star of the show here.

We're also going to get these so we can complete our collection of FALN gear. Just missing the jacket now.

SIILENG - "Super cool! Now the premium lifestyle is yours, officer."

FALN SNEAKERS ON A PEDESTAL OF SPEAKERS - The sneakers seem to vibrate in your hands with an almost mystical energy.

Since we got a boombox from Roy, we won't be needing those speakers. Even if they are only 50 centim.

FALN "ULTRA" SERIES SNEAKERS

+1 Reaction Speed: Limitless grip +1 Hand/Eye Coordination: Steady ground -1 Encyclopedia: Too fast for facts

The Ultra Series FALN sneakers put lightness and grip above all else. With grip-tape covered SpringBoard soles and ultralight synth-fabric technology you can exit every corner with the maximum traction of a gentleman's racer.

As we head back to Kim's Kineema, we find, uh...

PISSF****T - "That's one brutal motor carriage," says the young man with 'PISSF****T' written on his back.

FUCK THE WORLD - "If I were a real SKULL now, I'd jack it, paint it in palm tree livery, then bottom-light it neon-style!" His companion wears a simple yet elegant slogan: 'FUCK THE WORLD'.

PISSF****T - "A snazzy shit-ripped SKULL-mobile like this would make a fine trophy. We could, like, hang fucking shrunken heads from the side mirrors! Cops' heads... Scary tribal shit."

FUCK THE WORLD - "Yeah, tribal shit..." he agrees. "A cop-carriage like this would have proper SKULL value..."

KIM KITSURAGI - "Ahem." He steps in. "While I appreciate the interest you take in my *brutal motor carriage*, I have to stop you right there. The RCM takes threats directed at its property seriously."

PISSF****T - "I, uhm, it's just theoretical work, copper. No basis in reality." He turns to his companion: "Man, if we were certified SKULLS right now..."

AUTHORITY [Medium: Success] - Was it a good idea on the lieutenant's part to get into this? Don't even answer that, just leave. You can always come back later -- on your own terms.

"Who are you?"

"We don't have time for this. Let's go." [Leave.]

+5 XP

We're going to listen to Authority right now. This will *totally* give us a leg up on them when we come back in five minutes.

GASTON MARTIN - "It is such a pleasure to see you again, officer. How may I aid the Citizens Militia on this fine day?"

Gaston, you're a communist, right? ...No?

2. [Rhetoric - Legendary 14] Convince Gaston to relinquish his sandwich.

-1 Threw the *boule* into the sea.

Yeah, I think we're going to need to replace the *boule* before we can pass this.

RHETORIC - A man so principled about his sandwich calls for a principled approach. Time to get political.

3. I'm not so sure about this...

RHETORIC - Too late. Daddy's already fighting the bad fight. Make it stick.

"This city's going to shit. Sooner or later some foreign anarchist is gonna *steal* your sandwich. That's a fact."

"There really isn't *anything* else I could say?"

RHETORIC - No. You're gonna starve to death.

3. "Back to police-mode." (Smile and nod.) "I have some questions, Gaston."

+1 Boring Cop

GASTON MARTIN - "Alright." The jolly man smiles. "Let's hear them, officer."

I don't think Rene is a communist, but let's talk to him anyway.

RENÉ ARNOUX - "Vigilance, officer!" He salutes you. "What can this old carabineer do for you?"

"Do *May bells* mean anything to you, René?" (Show him the flower.)

"René, I found your guard booth."

RENÉ ARNOUX - He glances at it and frowns. "I prefer the old name -- Insulindian Lily. Girls brought them to young cadets when they entered service. Wearing them on your cap was supposed to bring good luck."

Secret task complete: Ask the petanque player about may bells

+10 XP

"Hold on, is this a *royalist* military tradition?"

"Did they bring you good luck?"

RENÉ ARNOUX - "It used to be," he says with a sigh. "But the communards were fond of them, too. Called them *revolutionary* flowers, bells of the Revolution..."

"Did they bring you good luck?"

RENÉ ARNOUX - "You know what..." He falls silent and the emerging smile withdraws. "No. They brought me misery, false hope, and disappointment. The *revolutionaries* sullied them."

+5 XP

SUGGESTION [Easy: Success] - You stirred up some bad memories there.

GASTON MARTIN - "But it wasn't the revolutionaries that *sullied* the idea for you, was it?" He looks at the old soldier almost gently. "She gave them to me too and your jealous little heart just couldn't accept it."

RENÉ ARNOUX - "Enough," he cuts in sharply. "I can go over these matters *in detail* with you, Gaston, but not while we have company. So officers...?"

KIM KITSURAGI - "May bells don't blossom yet, do they?" the lieutenant quickly asks.

RENÉ ARNOUX - "Maybe on some remote parts of the city they do." The old carabineer shrugs. "But I think you have to wait for at least a month."

2. "René, I found your guard booth."

RENÉ ARNOUX - "Yes, the Débardeurs' Union pays me to stand vigil during the nights." He looks down. "Not out of any *political* allegiance, mind you."

"I'm an old man, don't sleep more than a few hours every night anyway and... money is tight," he adds with a slight sigh.

EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - He feels like he has to justify himself for some reason.

"You must have seen *something* on the night of the murder. Your booth looks right into the yard."

"I... saw a picture in there. You were in it. You looked... happy. Who's the girl?"

"Got it, thanks." (Conclude.)

RENÉ ARNOUX - "Yes. It does." He nods. "Unfortunately I wasn't working that night. Been on a two-week leave since last Monday."

"Hold on, why are you on a leave?"

"So who was working your shift that night?"

RENÉ ARNOUX - "It's a private matter," he says with dignity. "Nothing to do with your investigation."

GASTON MARTIN - "You see, officer, René is the kind of man who'd rather die than admit he needs medical assistance or -- god forbid -- seek it. A real man's man. He's just gonna *ride it out*."

RENÉ ARNOUX - "I'm fine, goddamnit! Mind your own business!" The outburst makes him clutch his chest. "It's nothing, just got to cut back on coffee."

"So who was working your shift that night?"

RENÉ ARNOUX - "No one. The booth has been unmanned since last Monday." He looks suddenly very old and tired. "There's no other guard. It's just me."

KIM KITSURAGI - "No one has been guarding the container yard since last Monday?"

RENÉ ARNOUX - "Yes." He nods, before hesitantly continuing. "It's... it's not actually an issue. I mean..."

GASTON MARTIN - "Look, officers," his partner jumps in. "The container yard doesn't actually need a guardsman. Never had one before René. Mr. Claire had that booth built specially for him. It's mostly *decorative*."

"Mostly decorative?"

"So it doesn't matter, if you're there or not?"

RENÉ ARNOUX - "The *possibility* of someone being in there is enough to discourage any ill-minded individuals..." he tries to argue.

GASTON MARTIN - "Evrart *created* this job for René, because he knows the Royal Carabineer's pension of honour and PTSD isn't something a man can live off. 'A decorated kingsman collecting tare reflects bad on the whole neighbourhood.' -- his words."

+5 XP

[editsfromromania]

🎵Music is life: the fact that @ross_lynch wrote this song!!!🥺♥️🔥

Song: On my own

Singer: Ross Lynch

Bine ați venit la noua mea rubrică 🎵 Music is life! De ce am ales această melodie pt debut și nu alta? Pt că mi am dat seama că nicio melodie nu va putea vreodată să descrie acel sentiment de I'm on my own mai bine ca aceasta, deci cred că este una dintre masterpiece urile lui Ross această melodie!

Sentimentul de abandonare, realizarea faptului că ești singur in lumea asta și trebuie să mergi înainte pt că nimeni nu va fi mereu cu tine la fiecare pas, sacrificiu pt pasiune, dar și reușita adaptării la modul independent al omului sunt doar câteva dintre temele abordate de Ross in această melodie. Știu că melodia face parte din acel serial Disney în care a jucat si acesta, dar sensul ei profund nu cred că l a înțeleg cineva cu adevărat, iar faptul că Ross a scris o astfel de piesă arată clar sensibilitatea și sinceritatea atât de caracteristică acestuia! Una dintre melodiile mele preferate de suflet!♥️ Just enjoy!🤗

[scholarhect]

just wrote a post that said, quote, “sooo fucked up when i’m rotating something in my mind & know i couldn’t do it justice by posting it. it’ll just live in here 😔”. and then wrote about a hundred thousand million words in the tags. it’s going to sit in my drafts for now because i really would prefer to do it justice, if i’m being entirely honest. but it certainly did not just sit in my mind

[udonthreens]

top 5 disco elysium moments i have never played the game but ithink you should explain it like i know everything already anyways

anon uve triggered my autism beam

these r vaguely ranked but also i. i dont promise coherency and if i thought abt it with more brain theyd be different.

5) ok this is the last one im writing and idk. theres so many good scenes and moments and nevermind. the chair. the fucking CHAIR and evrart. it took me 200hrs to see what happens when u PASS the composure check like. tbh failing this check is basically canon. slide down it like a jello shot. again like the megarich container guy this is one of those possible early moments of 'ou this games a fucking weird comedy' and i just. best way to assert dominance with the corrupt commie boss like 'what a great display of... idek what that was' and im pretty sure u lose a rep point with kim if u fail it too like. kim dont be mad this is just my interogattion technique im not giving the rcm a bad rep i promise kim

actually some honourable mentions: lamby, boardgames with kim, joyce pale convo, kim voice dilligent boy, THE CHURCH I DIDNT MENTION THE CHURCH i love doin the dance after gettin shot its so funny. love the rave kids. shivers voice theres a hole in my heart. the fucking 'lookin to score some d girl!' bit with kim & acele thats comedy gold actually. thats brilliant. i might just start listening everything. pinball with kim when u pass it im just like. kim why dyou sound so smitten . the piss and fuck jackets. actually i really like the whole bit with the working class woman that was Devasting. even more so when i realised u could actually tell her ud look for her husband ...... i liked the jamais vu viscal pleasure wheel bit after (i think that was added with the update? yes it was) altho i dont remember specifics just. his brain reconstructin smth as idk.. smth to make him feel better? felt bittersweet. i should go see that scene again.

ok ill fuckin wrap this up. 'are u... a really good detective?' great line and not a moment per say but. the fact that jean just. hangs around the whirling for several days in that fuckin wig like, obvs he doesnt move spots bcs its a video game (despite the edc lines showin that he does do other shit) cuz u need to know where to find him. but he just fuckin commits like. the character building from all this shit for whats technically a minor character. brilliant. doesnt HE have a fuckin job to do. also titus is always in the whirling for the same video game reason so like. yes. yes to that rarepair.

3) communist book club and the tower building that was soooooo cool not to mention the fuckin hilarity of readin bout inframaterialism for the first time nd going "???? is this pseudoscience in the game or can it ACTUALLY fucking happen like wtf"

2) karoke. pass over fail tbh limbic system KILLS it (and its more lyrical spoken word doesnt fit the song nd also i thot id actually hear harrys voice during that scene and we kinda did but like thats a different tangent) and kims support 'detective du bois... it was down right tragic' and the edc or concept check? concept i 5hink that was like 'to him that represented being an rcm member perfectly' like HELLO??? kim bestie its not 2 late for a career change. AND not to mention gartes reaction to it like... u really get the feeling that he Will get rid of the machine if harry fucks it up. however i do like the pass as well bcs a) harrys had enough cringe fail b) jeans deadbeat litany of 'yeah its shit it sucked awful' like. thats how he talks 2 harry when hes being NICE its so funny. het life partners <33

4) mega rich light bending guy. AGAIN the weiss thingymay coefficent where ur like 'is this an actual Thing or is harry just fuckin insane' nd also i crit succeeded on my first playthru real early on when i hadnt seen any of the wacky shit yet nd it just. the -2 if u have the artcop thought the fuckin ultralib shit . u get like 4 ultralib points at LEAST if u pass/fail the right concept check. god not to mention kim earnestly suggesting rcm reforms like kim bestie kim kim my bestfriend kim its not 2 late for a career change. also if u get the 100 real and kims like 'ur full of surprises most of them bad but some of them good' soooo true <33

1) salami man.

[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

[carbootsoul]

what comes after hallelujah - Chapter 3 (7979 words)

PARAPHRENIA - Here you are, ducks in a row, staring at what may as well be the chopping block. There may not be malice in the ocean, but there’s no malice from the butcher either. Your heart isn’t young anymore, Ruby. Your joints are already stained red from the cold. There are a lot of ways to die in the ocean.

SPINE [Formidable: Success] - You’ll be fine. You need a bath, anyway.

ACELE - Acele eyes you and offers a small smile.

BLACK SHEEP - Now that she’s not bundled in a few layers of winter clothes it’s apparent that she’s no more a teenager than the rest of her posse. There are scars littering her chest and she doesn’t hold herself with any of the awkwardness of adolescent nudity. She, like you, knows exactly what she’s done with her life to end up here.

ACELE - “It’s warmer than it looks,” she reassures. “The kind of cold you can get used to after a while. I don’t really understand the science, but reportedly the fact that this water borders the pale gives it warm currents. Apparently the convection can be downright boiling when you’re way out there, but by the time it reaches the coast it’s mellowed out.”

ANDRE - Andre leans forward to see his girlfriend. “Doesn’t quite reach bath temperature, but it’s not unbearable.”

COMPOSURE - A moment of silence as all five of you contemplate the ocean. The sunrise has begun to encroach onto the darkness more, and strains of blush-colored sky are reflected in the waves.