#allmother 1000xresist

[rondanchan]

Happy birthday, 1000xRESIST!!! Here's a sketch of Iris thinking about cake.

[greatdisaster]

mama

[some-creep]

Look over here it's the renders I did for my fic in the @1000xr-fanzine

I haven't uploaded the fic itself yet anywhere but, y'know... It's in the fan zine teehee.

[dead-finch-420]

I promise I'll be nicer

If you want to come around again

[justheblueberry]

they're already gay, mother

[antibio]

[eggtomatosoup]

iris you will always be famous

[notpawpyrus]

just posted a preorder for the hekki allmo keychain i designed on christmas!! go check it out if you'd like :3

[golvio]

I finally got off my butt and started playing 1000xRESIST after spending ~3 years hearing people say what a great narrative-focused game this is and, yeah! They’re right! It’s pretty great so far! It hits my love of messy characters with pinpoint precision! I look forward to seeing the story continue to slowly rotate Iris, Watcher, and the other Sisters under a microscope!

[gumasantan]

i'm reviewing for my exams tomorrow...but i've been thinking a lot about 1000xRESIST lately.

it's a game, not a film or a show or a book. 1000xRESIST is a game about...many things: surviving an alien invasion, living underground, clones of human beings, stubborn parents, angst of a teenage girl, generational trauma, and a lot of things. i don't exaggerate when i say the title describes just how much themes the game dives into. since i finished the game a week ago, a feeling of longing has grown and grown inside me that can only probably be helped by replaying the game, but i can't anymore. i want to restart my memory just so i can play it again without any prior knowledge. we all feel like that sometimes, right? when we deeply resonate with a piece of media we now consider a transcendent level of art form we just wanna keep replaying it and have our minds reset, so that we may able to uniquely experience them again and again, forever, even.

i attached a pretty landscape of hong kong to not only help reel you and others in reading this, but also to remind myself how this game made me long for a memory i never had. it connected with me so much that everytime i try to recall parts of the game, it's difficult for me to dissociate myself from them, and so, i end up with a mess of thoughts, unable to properly communicate what i'm trying to say; the memories of watcher, iris, (two of the game's main characters) and i seemingly fused together into one. heck, it is not explicitly a "self-insert" type of game where the devs intend you to project yourself into it so that the story makes sense.

so, why do i reminisce about hong kong when i haven't even visited the place? for context, the troubles during the 2019 hong kong protests are ultimately what sets off the events in the game, even though the game takes place around 3047 onwards. it is one of the few games where i actually see and feel the emotional impact that such a historic moment had on the lived experiences of fictional video game characters. fictional, in name only, but they are very much real in our world: expatriates who had to flee persecution as a result of resistance. one could say that this game is dedicated to these courageous people. not only to them, but to their children who are yet to exist.

i mention this because iris was born from these people. walked on earth away from hong kong, and as she grew up, came to realize how homesick she was about that place she was a stranger to. iris and i—we are as different as we can be. i was born and am living in my native country, doing my best to live since birth. i shouldn't ever feel homesick, but weirdly, touching this game and seeing iris' life through watcher's eyes, i can't help but go back and revisit the life i swear i lived in hong kong.

i'm not the only one who feels like this, however. watcher feels the same way. of course, watcher was cloned from a clone that was cloned from iris. it's only natural that watcher retains some of that "irisness" two generations down. though she is aware that she is reliving an amalgamation of hers and iris' memories, i relate to her struggle to separate her own consciousness from iris'. this is my belief: when you keep confusing someone's memories with your own, that just proves that you two are more alike than you would think.

i said before that iris and i were as different as we can be, but by my own words, that shouldn't be true. am i hypocritical? delusional? i'm contradicting myself, but not intentionally. i would 100% disagree with myself here had i not played this game and this predicament came up in another situation, but after playing the game, i don't know. the more i think about it, the more i get convinced that iris, though raised in very different circumstances, ended up sharing some of the same traits as i do. i would argue that there are just human characteristics that we all just happen to share, kindness for example, but no, these ones—they're too personal for and very understood by me to say "no, we're different."

at the end, the game rewards you for sticking to the end: a future of your own choosing. this may be a part of the game where some people would get stuck in for more than an hour, or as short as a minute, depending how much the player sticks to their own convictions. for me, i don't know how to build a future i want because i don't know what i want out of it; i don't know what's right. the game slapped me in my face with my own hypocrisies and dared me to stick with these foolish principles. eventually, i did reach the epilogue, but it didn't feel like i actually crossed the bridge.

i'm still trying to understand just as much as i'm trying to examine every minute detail in the game. the game's mechanics are mainly built around memories and the more i keep playing the game and watch multiple playthroughs of it, i realize just how important each memory is to conveying a message that's ultimately different for all of us. a thousand different lessons for anyone to learn; it is THAT complex.

if you stuck around this long, thank you. please, please, PLEASE play 1000xRESIST. there's something here for us to learn, a thing or more. these things about hong kong and memories are part of a bigger whole that i will want to talk about once i know how to express it. especially to my fellow asians, this game will speak to your heart. i've never felt a surge of emotions this strong since i finished signalis, another masterpiece which i may get around to talking about later! (play that too!)

[spilledte]

EYE STRAIN WARNING ⚠

I can't depend on you, Mother

[ID: Illustration of Watcher and ALLMOTHER from 1000xResist. It is a imitation piece referencing an image by @/sometimes317 on Twitter of two figures hugging on the top left. ALLMOTHER in yellow (RIGHT SIDE) wraps her arm around watcher's head in melancholy and a singular tear drop. Watcher in blue (LEFT SIDE) is stilled in the motion of stabbing her, with red splatter in the centre of them two. 'SpilledTE' is written under ALLMOTHER's shoulder. END ID]

[gonkaccino]

Same here, man. I'm replaying it in the hopes that by the time I finish playthrough 2, at least one of my friends will have decided to put Hades 2 aside long enough to start playing this.

I just want to see people talk about the tragedies echoing across time! Appreciation for Bartender! Being forced to commit atrocities in the hopes that no one will ever again have to suffer as you have! The irony of the function ostensibly meant to perform violence being assigned to someone who can't handle the stress of willingly hurting another living being!

Come on, people!! We can't wait forever!

I have hit the stage of 1000xResist where I have mulled over and digested so much of what the game has to say that I NEED other people to play it and I need fandom content.

I keep refreshing Tumblr, blue sky, and twitter hoping to find glimpses of people playing.

It feels like I got here too early to a party that I know is gonna be legendary and there's like gifts here ready for everyone but no one is here yet and I'm rocking back and forth on the couch

[sunsetvisitor]

New 1000xRESIST Merch PRE-ORDER NOW!

We've teamed up with the amazing folks at The Yetee to bring you this first wave of merch!

A T-Shirt that remains and remains...

A Wounded Secretary Chain Pin that glows in the dark...

And Stickers of the Shapen Sisters, Jiao, and the ALLMOTHER herself!

PRE-ORDER NOW!

We're celebrating the first anniversary of 1000xRESIST all through the month of May, with releases and unveils every week!

March 9: The 100+ page Fanzine!

March 16: 1000xRESIST + The Yetee Merch

March 22: ?????? 👀

HEKKI GRACE 💙

[some-creep]

You shouldn't worry so much about your eyes.

Ask me about post canon au lol.

Sorry I just like Youngest she's sillyyyy

[dead-finch-420]

i hate her so much, what is a grown ass woman doing out here looking like a sopping wet cat AUGHHHGAGAHHHHHH GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[gonkaccino]

THERE IS A NEARNESS AND ITS GRAVITY IS ECHOING

So I caved and bought the lesbian game-