#also makes me think abt harry's childhood polio....

[sydmarch]

OKAY SO two out of my three plays have been so low int that I've never encountered this passive before

"a childhood condition" struck me as such a deliberate phrasing. made me think about this

& also made me do some googling

the more you dig into what evrart's childhood must've been like the easier it is to believe that he does truly have good intent because of those experiences. & of course there's these passives that basically prove that wrt the fishing village

but it also made me think about these lines

like this isn't to say that I DON'T believe there isn't shady stuff going on with the drug trade because yeah of course there is. but I also think he isn't just saying all of this as a cover. the shady stuff is going on obvs but the above motivations ARE genuine too.

[lastwave]

ok hi hughnation . my harry du bois system rant . if this post breaches containment let me preface w we Are a system and no one's experience is universal love and pease on earth.

also im gonna use two things here: Harry* (to refer to how the system presents itself to singlets as one cohesive unit) and harry (the alter/cohost)

SO LIKE. stares at harry and the skills. i do not think they have 1 singular clear host. theres harry and then a few cohosts (this changes depending on what u pick as the signature skill) and it's usually a good 2 people in front and 3 ish more shoulder surfing at any given time (idk the medical term for when ur not in front but u are observing weve just always called it shoulder surfing)

i shouldn't even need to elaborate on this but Half-Light is a trauma holder. a good portion of the passive half light checks are fight-or-flight responses to situations that. Do not need them. thats a trauma response babey, probably stemming from the 15th Indotribe days.

(skip this paragraph to avoid s/a mention) also, depending on the route you play, the dolores dei dream Heavily implies that Harry* had severe intimacy problems even before they got together. and the way everyone in the system talks about intimacy and sex is. Not healthy beyond the point of "bi guy so deep in the closet". esp on the intimacy front. when talking to Lilienne, there is a passive Suggestion check that says "You dont have to be guarded right now." implying the Entire Rest Of The Game he is guarded as hell. with everyone, except maybe a few small moments with Kim. make of that what u will.

it is also VERY evident that Harry* has childhood trauma. he grew up in a wartime hospital (almost guaranteed to see some fucked up shit there) and had polio as a kid. (being deathly sick is traumatic. obviously). id also like to point out how instead of being one subject, pain threshold and endurance are two separate alters. implying a need to be able to separate those things to function and survive (ie being a child in a wartime hospital with polio. based on the triage system the soldiers were probably the first priority, and Harry* proves in martinaise he has a lot of experience having to keep going while sick, putting Pain Threshold and Endurance and symptom holders, probably)

and there's also a very unique situation with Electrochemistry. they probably formed to deal with addiction. but no one in the system ever learned the proper way to deal with it, making it knowledge no one has, and making Electrochemistry massively self destructive to themselves and the system as a whole. if u do a sober playthrough tho, they start to chill out.

and then theres shivers. who is weird as hell. i didn't exactly understand what her place in the system was until i read a post interpreting Harry* as a figure directly tied to the Pale (which is controlled by faith). take the church raid for instance. Harry* destroyed those peoples faith and in response, a swallow formed. joyce also, in contrast, describes Harry* as a reflection of the city. if Harry* is in fact directly tied to the Pale, then Shivers makes complete sense. she's there to act as a filter between Palefuckery and the human brain. having that kind of premonition unfiltered would make anyone crazy suicidal and a little unhinged. ESPECIALLY if all he was getting was doom saying shit for so long (which is what is implied based off the convo with Idiot Doom Spiral)

so yea. harrier du bois is a system

im not gonna go thru ever single alter but if u have questions abt what we think of specific ones PLS send us an ask

someone remind me to give my harry du bois system rant tomorrow