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smile-files · 7 days ago

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just out of curiosity: for friends and followers with schizophrenia, psychosis, or any other mental disorder causing delusions/hallucinations, how do you feel about suitcase ii being a representation of that?

ii doesn't have the best track record for mental disorder representation as it is (cough cough paper cough cough bomb cough cough cabby), so i have reason to be skeptical about suitcase... from my perspective, as someone without any such disorder, the handling of her mental disorder is unnuanced but well-intentioned at best, and a tacky, cliched attempt to create drama at worst. but i'd like to hear what other people think! thank you!

#melonposting #inanimate insanity #ii #ii suitcase #<- maintagging only to get more perspectives! :)#i don't think her writing is malicious at all. but it does seem pretty stereotyped #i think it has been utilized in interesting ways both for suitcase as a character and for the narrative as a whole #especially when her visions were juxtaposed to mephone's flashbacks in ii13. i think that was really fascinating #but the very fact that it's some *ambiguous* delusion/hallucination disorder makes it seem like... a way to stir the pot as it were?#like they made her have her own reality-questioning issues just to make the whole existential threat of late ii2 more dramatic?#which admittedly ties into people's critique of cabby's memory issues being used to foreshadow everyone's lack of backstory before ii #and that critique is understandable. but i don't feel like her mental disorder was written explicitly for that purpose #but as someone with memory issues myself i can weigh in on that #i don't have a mental disorder like suitcase's so i can't know how nuanced her writing really is #and so i'm more likely to err on the side of caution in her case #but anyway... yeah :]

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