#also this happened because i was listening to the old animated hobbit soundtrack

[redbootsindoriath]

On a scale of Tolkien protagonists, how has your adventure been treating you?

I’m so sorry in advance to anyone who says Túrin.

Transcription:

[Bilbo:] “My adventure seemed inconvenient and had its share of hardships, but in the end I learned so much and came out a better person as a result.  Plus I found a lot of cool keepsakes.  I would go again if I could!” [Beren:] “I traveled through the most dangerous places in the world and encountered the most dangerous creatures, but my moral character was never shaken.  I lost a hand and even died once, but my wife and I are an eternal example of undying love and loyalty, praised and remembered for millennia after our deaths.  Everything I went through ended happily for me.” [Frodo:] “The trauma I experienced on my journey left me permanently scarred in more ways than one.  But the world was saved because of my sacrifice.  So I don’t regret my choices.” [Túrin:] “.......”

[szynkaaa]

as usual, I’m delivering quality content to the fandom in the form of bad memes ft. my OC

Fair warning, if you touch Brahms’ face - regardless whether you’re holding a sandwich or not - he will grab both of your hands and keep them there because our boy is t o u c h s t a r v e d.

Some Brahms headcanon

He’s a classical boy no questions asked - probably because he never really listened to anything else and his parents beat Mozart co into his head from very little on. I don’t think he’d be too willing to try to listen to new stuff, especially more modern things

I do think that he’d be more willing to listen to soundtracks though? I can see him taking a liking on Opera Maria and Draco (since Mozart’s Zauberflöte was playing for him too). Or piano pieces such as Valse D’amelie, some Ghibli soundtracks too. I don’t think he would like anything too omnious tho (like... the Bloodborne OST for example. good shit tho)

Ghibli movies!!!! iirc, the house didn’t have wifi and had bad phone reception. There is a landline phone, to which Brahms had access to control the line and cut it off any time. So it is safe to assume there Heelshires did not have a TV or computer in the house. But anyway, I do think that if introduced to movie entertainment, Brahms would love Ghibli movies.

He’s a crafty boy, he made himself a No Face mask the next day. I think that Princess Mononoke terrified him a little, with the boar god turning into a demon and stuff. Def a Spirited Away fan though. Maybe Arietty too, since in the movie the borrower family has to be very careful when moving around to not be discovered and I think He Relates (tm)

ok probably a fan of animations in general. I do think that he’d be picky about which one though - while he does strike me as a smart boy, he did live a very isolated life, so I think if he doesn’t get too many of the references, he probably will stop watching it. Like, I don’t think he’d be a fan of Star Wars the Clone Wars series for example. But Over the Garden Wall or Adventure time? probably more up his alley.

Also disney movies.

I think a lot about chucking the Harry Potter series or the Narnia Chronicles or the Hobbit at his head and tell him to read those too.

Touch starved but also Does Not Know How To Do Human Contact. idk about you but the way he dragged Greta away? Homeboy could have hurt her he could have just grabbed her around her waist and dragged her away.

Watch out, once you show him how to return a hug, you will be walking around the mansion with a 193cm backpack glued to your back.

He Is A 33 Years Old Virgin And This Is The Hill I Will Die On

Probably needs to be taught how to kiss properly too

moving on before things get too NSFW lmao another time maybe ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I don’t think he’d be very talkative. The most you’d hear him talk is when he is keeping up with the haunted house shenanigans using his child’s voice to make demands and stuff.

turns back to his OG voice when he is desperate and mad (as we know). It shouldn’t happen too often though as long as you stick to the rules and don’t leave him lmao.

In a scenario where he comes out of the wall more often to be close to reader/OC, he’d still be using his child voice to communicate, but it would mostly be three-word requests/questions. He’d be using head gestures a lot (nodding, shaking his head, tilting it sideways etc.). And probably gets grabby and physical too if he is displeased.

That being said, Brahms’s love language is physical touches for obvious reasons.

If you’d ask him to use his normal voice, he wouldn’t be used to it. Probably be very cracked and a bit shaky. He always talked to his parents in his child’s voice too - although I highly doubt that they really talked much over the years. Probably communicated a lot with knocking on the walls and with the parents shouting stuff through the room knowing he will hear it.

Ask him to spend his reading sessions with you face to face and have him read the chapters out loud to you in his normal voice to practice getting used to it. He can cuddle you while he’s reading as a compromise that should pacify him

whops that turned out a lot longer than I intended it to be  pls talk to me about Brahms I love him so much

[rawliverandcigarettes]

10 Questions

Tag time ! Thanks a lot to @illusivesoul for this :D It’s nice to feel included even though I’m still very new around. (this is going to be super long because I can’t seem to shut the hell up. :3) 1. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you like to live ? I guess I enjoy living where I live, which is France. The country is small but there are many landscapes to choose from, and you don’t even have to travel that much to find mountains, blue sea, cities or forests. I also enjoy poking fun at my own country and culture way too much for what would be decent. Foreign jokes about us are just too funny xD And even though we too are crippled with political and social issues, I look at some other countries (HMHM America), and yeah. It could be so much worse. 2. How did you discover Mass Effect ? I was a great KOTOR fan already, but I tend to stick to what I know, and I rarely venture to new stuff on my own. It was a combinaison of friends, good reviews and a very cheap copy on a shelf of my local store that finally made me play Mass Effect 2 for the first time (I started with the 2, then the third, and ended with the first one, which is definitively not how you play a trilogy). 3. Do you have any tattoos ? If you don’t, do you want any ? I don’t have any tattoos, and I’ve considered getting one many times. But given how expensive they are, I don’t think they’ll ever be enough of a priority for me to commit to this vague idea. I have many other expensive things I’d rather do first :3 4. Do you have any pets ? Kind of ! My parents own 4 cats, that I can’t help but consider my own too even though I moved out. They’re cute and insufferable, one of them is completely insane, looks like Dracula on steroids and is called “Le Mérovingien” like this french Matrix character that curses all the time, One of them lost a leg in a car accident, but hopefully he worked through the trauma and is perfectly healthy and energetic again. The two left hate each other’s guts and their war force us to separate them at all time. So my parents home is a very calm place as you have guessed. 5. If you could recommend 3 games from any genre, what would they be ? 1. The Beginner’s Guide This game has to be my all time favorite. It’s not a proper game so to speak, more like a narrative experience based on interactivity by the creator of The Stanley Parable. It’s not for everyone and generally you will either don’t get why it exists or you will be slapped so hard you won’t be able to express yourself for hours. It talks about creation, game creation specifically, toxic creative relationship, depression, the relationship between the creator, the creation and the public consuming it, and meaning. A masterful example on how narrative design can push further the boundaries of classic storytelling for consumerism and turn it to painful expression of artistic obsessions. I love this game so much. 2. Silent Hill 2 I am a huge survival horror fan, because in their essence they try to answer a crucial question in game development in the rawest way: how do you make the player react ? The survival horror genre is all about direct reaction, and reaching the player beyond the screen in their very comfort zone. You can go the easy, cheap way of throwing buckets of blood around and slap a few jumpscares here and there, or you can try to play with your medium and crawl right underneath the skin, which has always been Silent Hill’s way of throwing it down. But I think Silent Hill 2 is where the payoff is the greatest. It’s not an easy game, because it’s old and counter-intuitive in level design, camera and puzzles, and it gets easily frustrating. But some of the greatest, most creative ideas I’ve came across in term of narrative level design have been explored there. Plus the themes are actually very mature for the gaming public of 2000, as they deal with illness, sexual frustration, surviving abuse and alienation from society and your loved ones. It’s raw, it’s twisted, it’s haunting like a fever dream. And it’s actually very, very smart. 3. V4-11 HALL-A A very neat visual novel that didn’t do much noise besides specialized audience, and definitively deserve a shot ! In this game you are a barista in a cyberpunk society, and you encounter a various cast of characters that you befriend and serve. It’s super chill, the soundtrack is lovely, it’s bound to make you crave for a cocktail as you play. Maybe I am somewhat criticial on how it ends, but otherwise it’s a very heartwarming experience with slight sadder undertones. It goes on with the trend of “you witness big events from a NPC/civilian viewpoint”, which I adore. The game went out while my team and I were producing a game that share some of the concept, and it was a lovely surprise ! (it’s very cheap as well, and the creators need financial help !) 6. Song that you’ve listened a lot lately ? Careful What You Wish For, by Coil (it’s weird and somewhat depressing, you are warned) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHIlBk5vbVI 7. Guilty pleasure movie ? Mhhh. I’d say Sweeney Todd by Tim Burton. It’s over the top and very melodramatic with undiscussed sexist undertones when it comes to how female characters are depicted in this world, BUT what can I say. Gothic cheesiness mixed up with musical numbers never seem to stop being my jam. 8. Unpopular opinion about Mass Effect (optional) Ouh boy. I have so many it’s extremely hard to pick a single one. xD I’m going to settle for Andromeda and try to summarize my opinion, but I might do a very very long separate post to explain what I mean in lenghts later. I haven’t played Andromeda much because my computer is sad and dying, but from what I saw and what I undertsood from ulterior research, I think Andromeda’s worldbuilding is broken on many levels, and some narrative choices made very early by the team affect the stakes so much they’re basically nonexistent, and, at least for me, the lack of stakes drove the entire quest to be rather pointless. I’m a very nitpicking person, especially when it comes to themes, cohesion, society and space stuff, and a lot of what happens in the first hours prevented me to believe in the story and the characters inhabiting it before they even had a chance to do anything significant. :/ I understand why people can bypass that and enjoy the story and characters still, and I am sickened by the amount of abuse some of us spat towards Bioware, but my suspension of disbelief got shattered in the first hours of the game multiple times, and despite how much I wanted to like this new epic journey, I’m... not your target audience this time, Bioware. 9. Favorite books ? Argh. Mh. Good question. I can’t really say if any of them are my favorite, but I like them enough for them to be featured here -and I have stopped reading for years so I have trouble remembering any. So in no particular order, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, Animal Farm by George Orwell, The Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell, the Ellana trilogy by Pierre Bottero, Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche... I can’t really tell to be fair. I need to read more. 10. Dream job ? Game developer, specifically in narrative design (how surprising I know). And I am very fortunate to be living the dream right now. <3 I am starting my very own indie company, and our very first game, Xenophever, is on the rails right now. I won’t lie ; it’s a hard life. Only time will tell if the sacrifices were worth it, but I bet they will be :D It’s over ! Thanks again for the tag ! I won’t tag everyone because I don’t know enough people yet, but feel free to hit me up if you want to do this so I can cook you up some neat questions :D