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kohakurin8 · 1 year ago

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~ Birthday Bunny ~

An innovative analysis for an innovative game

It's still Spooky Season! So of course, I'm still at it with the spooky games. And as suggested by @starwarspurgefan tonight I played the Horror RPG Maker game, Birthday Kid by @livisart !

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️

This is an analysis of the overall game plot and contains spoilers beyond this point.

If you would like to experience the game for yourself before reading this analysis, please scroll to the end of the post for a link to where the game can be downloaded!

Holy. Crap.

I absolutely love this game!

In the ending bonus room livis admits that the game is their first ever finished RPG Maker game and honestly, I'm impressed. The story and overall structure is such a treasure -- simple yet deliciously complex at the same time.

Not only that, but it has a lot of little details and themes that remind me impeccably of another absolute favorite of mine, Omori by Omocat -- and considering Birthday Kid was released before Omori, I wouldn't be surprised if Omocat actually played this game and drew some inspiration from it!

So then, let's jump into it. What is Birthday Kid?

Well, to put it simply the game follows a bunny-person named Pepper who is continually reliving the day of their 12th birthday. The focus of the game is exploring Pepper's house as they try to remember something important, finding various clues in order to sort out trauma in the process.

To start with, I'd like to compliment the game mechanics because they are incredibly creative. They guide you through what you're supposed to do while still making it feel like you've solved some sort of puzzle, and the guidance is portrayed in a way that's very realistic to a sort of dream world or delusion.

The usage of blood marks and subtle key words to tell you where to go is spooky and satisfying, and a personal favorite mechanic out of anything I've seen so far.

Secondly, the designs of Pepper and Rascal may be simple, but they've completely captured my heart. I absolutely adore bunnies, and freckles, so Pepper had me excited to play the game before I even started.

And lastly, the story is beautiful and told with such nuance that one can both generally infer what happened, but still ponder the details with healthy curiosity.

But you know me. I can't just ponder this shit -- I have to write it!!

Alright, since it was written so nicely, there isn't much room for theories necessarily. But that's okay! Instead, allow me to explain the string of events and details as I perceived them while playing.

Pepper is officially classified as "a gender", although the dialogue suggests that they may have been born female but prefers to be agender and chose a name for themselves that isn't their birth name-- something which their peers bully them for relentlessly. On top of that, Pepper is a mute and only communicates through sign-language, which adds fuel to the discriminatory fire.

Considering the usage of the bunny theme, and the posters which read "Alice? Is there a god?" I speculate that Pepper's birth name may have been Alice.

And considering livis specifically stated that Pepper "prefers" not to speak, I theorize that they are not mute by birth but rather by some sort of trauma-induced muteness, or perhaps even non-verbal autism.

Regardless of the reasons why Pepper is how they are, even their own parents abuse them for being different. In fact, it bothers their parents so much that they have issues between each other over it.

But one birthday, Pepper was walking home when they found a talking rabbit -- the demon bunny Rascal. Rascal is severely injured, so Pepper decides to take him home and their mother convinces their father to allow them to keep it.

However, poor Pepper's home life soon deteriorates. At first, they seem fine so long as they have their friend Rascal. But the plot suggests that their Dad eventually murdered their mom and shoved her in the wardrobe of the master bedroom, then proceeded to neglect Pepper and abuse them verbally, even to the extent of not allowing them access to the fridge. Although, while sneaking into the fridge to get food for Rascal, Pepper notices a bottle of poison...

During one of these abusive episodes, Rascal actually attacks Pepper's Dad, and judging by some of the dialogue apparently pushes him into the hot stove, burning his hands. (Either that or he once burned Pepper's hands with the stove...) In a fit of rage, the Dad snaps poor Rascal's neck, and locks Pepper in their wardrobe.

Obviously distraught, Pepper uses the poison to kill their father, then summons a demon in an attempt to bring Rascal back. The demon makes a contract to do so with Pepper, offering to erase all of their painful memories in the process. Thinking this was a good idea at the time, Pepper accepts the offer, only to forget all about Rascal too!

This brings us to the start of the game -- Pepper reliving their twelfth birthday party. However, with the lack of memory everything about the part feels strange and fake, prompting Pepper to investigate. I believe that the act of repeatedly killing all of Pepper's party guests is symbolic of their strong feelings of hatred towards those who bullied them. A wrathful feeling that cannot be merely erased even with the help of a demon

All hope is not lost, however, since Pepper does eventually regain their memories. Upon remembering Rascal's name it's revealed that Rascal had been the demon all along, and using his name actually takes him! I'd like to think that in the end, the two were happy together.

And uh... That's it!

Once again, I really loved this game. Thank you so much for suggesting it, I've had a lot of fun with it. If you have anything you'd like to add, feel free to comment!

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As promised, here is the link to where you can download this amazing game.

#birthdaykid #explained #rpg maker #horror games #theory #horror rpg #bunny #pepper (birthday kid)

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thesbarchives · 6 months ago

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prologue:

in 2006-07, pat robertson stepped down as the ceo of cbn and appointed his son, gordon, to take his place. one of the first things gordon did for the network was to plan a reboot for one of their shows. this turned into the little, soon to be big, project called superbook reimagined

with the reboot, the whole premise of the plot was the same as the original. oppositely, the names for the kids (minus gizmo) were different. they were no longer called chris peeper and joy but they were now two 22nd-23rd century friends who go by the names of chris quantum and joy pepper

reimagined, of course, did bring a divide within the classic fandom since the majority hated the reboot (due to its multiple changes) while a handful of people appreciated the futuristic aspect of the series

an introduction to reimagined:

• developed in 2006, pilot aired in 2008, released in 2011 and ended in 2021

• the show is set around the 22nd-23rd century

• the series was nominated for a daytime emmy award for its main title, graphic design and opening/promotions back in 2014*

• in 2006, the working title for the series was going to be superbook 2.0, but it later changed into the official title of superbook reimagined instead

• while many can remember a giant adventure to be the 6th episode of s1, it was actually used as the first ever pilot of the series

• reimagined was created to celebrate the 25th anniversary of classic sb

• according to one of the art directors and designers for sb, reimagined was originally planned to be in 2d, but cbn scrapped the idea and wanted it to be in 3d instead

• reimagined has two official taglines: "his word's forever alive!" and "the bible is alive!"

• in 2016, cbn released a video titled superbook's gospel presentation and there were three versions of the same presentation that featured chris, joy and gizmo respectively. there were many changes to the presentation depending on which version you were viewing. for example, one part of the chris version has him saying "God made you, uniquely you, and has a very cool plan for your life" whereas joy and giz's versions cut out the "very cool" part. another thing that's different is after peter's apology, chris and joy's versions say "so, what do you think? it's not that complicated, is it?". gizmo's version completely cuts out this part and says something else. on the official sb youtube channel, you can only find chris and joy's versions but you can find giz's version on dailymotion.

(fun fact: the presentation that is normally used within official media is joy's version!)

• there are multiple references to classic in reimagined. for example, there is concept art of classic gizmo in the professor's lab, a picture of the classic trio in chris' bedroom, a toy of classic giz in the downstairs hallway of the quantums' house and reimagined joy's surname (pepper is an allusion to peeper)

• (cont.) the kids' names in some international dubs are changed to the classic versions. compared to the classic japanese ver, the japanese ver of reimagined doesn't keep the original names of chris and joy, however, they still keep the western names (supposedly, this might be due to copyright entanglements with tatsunoko productions)

• in 2018, reimagined made its japanese debut since 1981 and was well received

• during the development of reimagined, cbn released an official fan website for sb. it included videos of classic's history, games, a forum feature and etc.

• both chris and joy's surnames are a reflection of their family and their personal interests. chris' surname is quantum because his father and his late maternal grandad are/were scientists. it's also a reference to the discrete amount of energy in physics, which is also called a quantum. joy's surname is pepper because her family is associated with cooking (for example, her parents own a pizzeria, her grandma taught her how to bake at a young age and she herself has culinary expertise). it's also a reference to the vegetable/spice

• in 2023, cbn started a project to translate reimagined in sign language. this has only happened in bsl (british sign language) and the first christmas was the first episode that has been fully translated

• in 2015, cbn introduced a "curriculum" based on the series so that it could be used in schools, churches or in the home

• although you can't find this on the official english website or any other sb website, the indonesian website actually explains why the main trio is relevant to the series. for example, chris and joy were made to mirror what children (or people in general) go through in their lives (like grief, bullying, peer pressure, cheating or disobedience) and gizmo, albeit the fact that he's there to be comic relief, was also made to add historical, chronological and geographical information about the place that they've travelled to. plus, the scripts also have a rule that the kids and giz can't tamper with the history, culture or the biblical scenarios that take place

• back in 2006, cbn held an experiment with both children and fans of classic sb.* the experiment was based off past designs of chris, joy and gizmo. the results showed that most of the participants hated the concept designs of the trio (especially giz's) and cbn decided to change to the ones that we now know of (which was accepted by both participants). the experiment wasn't the only reason why they had design changes. while the pilot was in process and due to the scrapped 2d concepts, it was hard for the producers to look for suitable 3d studios that would take on the idea of animating the series and when they did find one, they had to change the concept designs (according to one of the production studios that cbn worked closely with)

• in other countries, the translated title for the series is "the book of books", which is a direct reference to the bible literally being a book of books

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*the nominations are on pages 76 and 89

*you'll find the comment where one of the producers explain the experiment

#superbook #superbook reimagined #☆: “his word's forever alive!”#(if there's any mistakes i'm so sorry TT_TT)

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thompsborn · 1 year ago

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Hello!!! i’m so interested in the HB2 plot! I feel like we see peter angst way more commonly than Harley—so if you ever feel up for rambling about it under a cut or a spoiler tag this is a free space to do so! He really is my blorbo and you’re my favorite fic writer so I know whatever happens it’ll be amazingly done but I’m dying for hints at more of what that’ll look like! Are we talking, like, caught in the literal crossfire or devastating hostage situation 😂

okay before i do the harley rambles i!? I’m your favorite fic writer??? my guy what the FUCK that’s so sweet but also have u read any of sarah’s fics?? oddy’s parkner fic or oddy’s parksborn fic??? ANY of the Classic Iconic parkner fics circa 2020-2021?

i’m actually very VERY slowly making a parkner fic rec list to post at some point but just. WHAT. there are So many INCREDIBLE fic writers and saying i’m your favorite is BONKERS to me but also so nice i ??? thank you??? oh my god???? ❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙

okay anyway sorry to what the ask was actually about pfkfj, HARLEY!!! i agree it’s definitely a lot easier to come across peter angst than harley angst, which most likely has to do with the fact that there is a LOT of material to draw from for peter’s character—various movies, comics, shows, timelines and universes and the games. it’s a lot easier to come up with angst for peter because there’s a lot of canon angst to choose from AND there’s so much content for him that it’s a lot easier to get a grasp on his character and create angst based on that, you know? but as a fandom we have definitely created many ideas of harley based on when he was a kid in im3 and his cameo in endgame, plus the WEB comics + ride at avengers campus, so harley angst is for sure out there but like you said it is NOT easy to come across lmao

as for the HB2 plot—i have an ask in my drafts from like a month or two ago asking for more information about hb2 and i’m gonna try to finally finish answering that and post it sometime today, so that post will definitely include some insight in what to expect from the sequel, but harley in hb2 specifically? i GOTCHU.

OKAY !!! let's do this!!

so homeward bound, as i've said before, is PETER'S story post no way home, right? but in hb2 it's peter AND HARLEY'S story post homeward bound. the first chapter is a recap of the first fic from harley's pov with a lot of extra bits thrown in, starting on the day that thanos first snapped and ending either where the first fic ends or maybe in the summer between school years. unsure as of now but one of those, for sure. so that's going to offer a lot of perspective about harley's character in homeward bound - his thought processes, how he was feeling in a lot of key moments during the first fic, things he was doing while peter wasn't around, etc etc etc.

but in hb2, after the recap in the first fic, it picks up at the start of their second year at ESU. he might still be roommates with harry. he might not be. it won't be the same room at the very least, so no matter what, there's going to be some changes, right? but also:

everything is different.

there are the small changes - not the same room, harder classes as they climb their way through the pre-reqs, potentially a different roommate, some stuff happened over summer, etc.

but also there are the BIG changes, like his dynamic with peter, and knowing that peter is spidey and now being a part of keeping that a secret due to peter not wanting anyone else to know. he also knows about the spell and he knows that peter is someone tony loved, someone that pepper and morgan and happy and rhodey knew and cared about, and none of them remember him, but they know harley.

with harley's pov comes the reintroduction of the rest of the world, basically. peter has no one, right? his old life was completely destroyed and erased, leaving no connections to the people he used to know, so he's been VERY closed off from everyone and everything.

harley, however, still knows pepper and morgan and happy and rhodey. he still talks to them on a regular basis. he has his mom and his sister. he isn't closed off in classes like peter is, actually having conversations with his classmates, even if he has no interest in befriending them. peter's pov has been very limited because his world has been completely changed. harley's has been changed too via the loss of tony and him being dead for five years while his mom and his sister had to adapt to a life without him there, but it's not been changed to the extent of peter's, you know?

harley is going to have a few struggles in hb2, some centered around peter, some not. there's going to be family stuff. there's going to be this urge to tell pepper and them about peter because he thinks that peter would benefit from having these people in his life again but also he wants to respect the fact that peter doesn't feel ready to do that.

there's going to be some conflict about the people in his life learning that he's involved with spider-man's business somehow. there's going to be people getting angry at spider-man because of it.

a lot of mental and emotional turmoil is going to come out of all this. but, in the physical sense, he's not going to be entirely safe, either. again, people are going to realize he's somehow connected to spidey. he's going to want to do whatever he can do to help peter, to the point where he's going to get a little reckless with it sometimes.

caught in the crossfire? yeah.

hostage situation? no. at least, not in hb2. not that i currently have planned. that could change, but as of my current plans, no.

hope that's enough information to build some intrigue >:)

#homeward bound fic #homeward bound fic spoilers

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hjohn3 · 1 year ago

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Sh*t Show at the F**k Factory*

Sunak Loses his Party and the Plot

Source: conservatives.com

By Honest John

WHEREAS NO Conservative Party Conference in recent years can be described as entirely sane, the gathering in Manchester this month, if it is actually remembered at all, will surely go down as one of the most weird. On display we had open leadership bids by swivel eyed partisans of various right wing persuasions; performative politics by Ministers taking place in a world that seems to exist entirely in the fevered imagination of the Tory faithful and GB News, and probably one of the most bizarre conference speeches ever heard (and by one of the alleged Conservative “grown ups” to boot). And, oh yes, we had Rishi Sunak gamely, if wanly, smiling throughout a barely concealed car-crash of a conference, attempting to wield authority no one believes he actually possesses and presiding over one of the biggest political unforced errors in recent years (and that’s saying something). Welcome to the F**k Factory.

Perhaps there was a clue that all might not be going according to plan when one of the most feted politicians at Conference turned out not to be a member of the Conservative Party at all. Like a reanimated Ghost of Brexits Past, Nigel Farage hove into view, allegedly as a GB News anchor. In typical Farage style, the newsman swiftly became the story, with Tory delegates queuing up for selfies and journos interviewing the architect of Britain’s singular act of self harm, seemingly for the job of Conservative Party leader. Just about disguising the twinkle in his eye, the predatory populist opined he would be very happy to lead the Tories if only they could become a little bit more right wing, thereby putting forward his candidature for a vacancy that doesn’t exist. The excruciatingly embarrassing video footage of Farage later bopping with a breathless Priti Patel to Robbie Williams’ Angels will have been small comfort to Sunak, seemingly upstaged on day one.

Altogether more serious were the ideological challenges thrown down at Conference by a curiously unrepentant Liz Truss and an entirely repellent Suella Braverman. Truss, seemingly unaware that she and Kwasi Kwarteng permanently crashed the British economy as well as the Conservative brand during their disastrous tenure as Prime Minister and Chancellor this time last year, swaggered into Manchester Central to address a packed fringe meeting of the “Great British Growth Rally”, which sounded like a cross like Brands Hatch and Nuremberg. Her speech was peppered with the same hubristic nonsense that brought the bond markets crashing down around her ears last autumn and which saw her ludicrous premiership end after just 49 days. Without insight, contrition or political intelligence, Truss nonetheless signalled that the Chicago Economics wing of free market Leninism remains in contention for the post election battle for the soul of the Conservative Party and Truss herself clearly believes her tax-cutting zealotry will find an audience in a party that has almost entirely lost its way. Truss 2.0 cannot be ruled out - at least in opposition.

If Truss’ ego trip had an element of the comic about it, the Home Secretary’s speech entered altogether more sinister territory. One of the many catastrophes of Brexit was the infiltration of the Conservative Party, once the political expression of bourgeois civic values and British business, by rank English nationalism as Boris Johnson purged the party of its Macmillanite liberal wing in order to force through the hardest Brexit deal he could. What Braverman’s speech revealed was that tendency on full display - paranoid, dishonest, divisive, racist and filled with fear and hatred, made all the more ironic by the fact its standard bearer is a woman of colour and the daughter of immigrants. It would take a panel of psychiatrists to truly get inside Suella Braverman’s head, but what her speech articulated, with its talk of a ‘hurricane’ of immigrants heading to the U.K., was the essence of English fascism, now safely ensconced in the formerly respectable colours of Tory blue, but as intolerant, nativist, authoritarian and hate-filled as it has ever been. This, I fear, is the rising tide within Toryism, and Braverman, with her nasty following congregating within the National Conservatives, is likely to be the coming woman.

Braverman’s speech perhaps indicates a dark future for British Conservatism, but there were other Ministers to remind us what a literal joke the Tories have become under Rishi Sunak. In his desperate attempt to win a General Election on culture wars issues alone, his cabinet were encouraged to excoriate “policies” (implemented by whom was not always clear, seeing as the Tories are allegedly the government) that don’t exist or “crack down” on situations that, equally, don’t exist, turning the conference into even more of a theatre of the absurd than it was already. We had Steve Barclay bizarrely assuring a British public, infuriated by lengthening elective waiting lists, despairing of ever getting to see a GP and terrified at the non-arrival of ambulances, that there would be no admission of trans women to female wards. We watched bemused as Jeremy Hunt promised that benefits claimants who turned down a job offer would have their benefits reduced (they already do, Chancellor), and Transport Secretary Mark Harper promise to save us from the controlling malevolence of “fifteen minute cities” (an urban planning idea to place city centre facilities within in walking distance of each other) despite the fact that, as yet, they don’t exist anywhere in the world. Perhaps the most idiotic contribution was by the unfailingly unimpressive Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary, Claire Coutinho, who told us to much hearty Tory laughter, that Labour was keen to introduce taxes on meat. Coutinho was later ridiculed into silence by the conference press pack who repeatedly and gleefully demonstrated to her that she had made her meat story up. Finally, the most unintentionally hilarious contribution to this sh*t show of ridiculous posturing, was the toe-curling speech of Penny Mordaunt who stood on the stage, waving her fist heroically and urged the assembled Tories to “stand up and fight” - continually. Quite who the Blue Army was intended to come to blows with, Penny didn’t make particularly clear apart from some vague exhortation to “freedom”. It is hard to believe Mordaunt is considered the great centrist hope of Toryism and the potential future leader Labour allegedly fear. On the evidence of that speech, Mordaunt seemed not only to lose Conference, but most of her marbles too.

But perhaps the best was saved for last. With probably little more than twelve months to go before a General Election, this conference speech, his first as Tory leader, was Rishi Sunak’s opportunity to provide some direction, principle and purpose to what has seemed like an exhausted and rudderless government, out of ideas. Instead what we got was a bizarre concoction of unrelated intentions that seemed to owe more to Sunak’s own personal wish list than any re-launch of Conservative philosophy. There was a promise to scrap A-Levels and replace them with a Baccalaureate, for what reason, Rishi never got round to telling us; he wants to ban children from smoking; he loves his family and the last 30 years (eighteen of them under the Conservatives) have been a political failure. He sounded much of the time like a really cross parish councillor. But the denouement of this plotless speech was Sunak finally confirming the scrapping of the northern branch of HS2. This was announced in the city it was designed to benefit most, a short sighted decision of monumental proportions that neutralises any further network expansion in the north and turns high speed to low speed once the trains get north of Birmingham. If Labour needed any further proof of the systematic Tory failure to deliver “levelling up” to the Red Wall, Sunak provided it to them in Technicolor. The whole sorry saga is political naivety and weakness at its most miserable - an announcement that was meant to show the public the Prime Minister can make “tough” financial decisions in the national interest has pleased virtually nobody. Sunak’s keynote moment was to tell the country what he was not going to do. Nothing sums up Sunak’s failed premiership better than the dog’s dinner of the cancellation HS2 for the north.

Sunak’s speech was weak and vision-free, but to be fair, what else could it be? There is a reason why Rishi’s showpiece was an embarrassing combination of personal dislikes, tired populism and broken promises. The British people are paying the highest personal taxes for seventy years because Hunt’s budget is trying to fill a £40bn hole in the public finances recklessly inflicted by Liz Truss, the context also to the HS2 decision; Britain’s public services are now collapsing as the consequences of a decade of needless and destructive austerity under David Cameron are finally felt, and the inflation-wracked British economy barely grows, fatally and permanently held back thanks to folly of Boris Johnson’s Brexit. That is the real story of over 13 years of Tory rule, but Sunak’s problem in Manchester was that he couldn’t possibly tell it.

*With acknowledgements to Series 1 of the HBO TV drama Succession

7th October 2023

#Conservative Party conference #british politics #rishi sunak #conservative government

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larrachan-official · 2 years ago

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heyy! about the Fake Peppino/Pizza Tower AU, what is it about? like, I'm guessing based on your post is centered around Fake Peppino??

Hi!^^

Happy,that you want to know something about my Au(?)!

So. I'm not very good at storytelling, but I'll try to tell it the best way I can. KHM. So. Fake is not the one for whom the Au is made, but at the same time he is the main character. The essence of the plot of this Au in that it reveals the theme of what happened outside the events of the game.

According to my idea, Pizza Head was something like a scientist who experimented on bosses (Pepperman, The Noise, Fake Peppino, The Vigilante). BUT. For now, I will not talk about what I did with the bosses. All those experiments, torments that took place outside the walls of the Tower will probably be revealed in other posts, because I’m tired of writing here :_)

Fakey:

Fakey, in this Au is the main character who suffers from the initial stage of the Stockholm Syndrome. He himself did not know why he had this syndrome, because he is afraid of his creator, although at the same time he feels a strange and inexplicable sympathy for his tormentor. He cannot resist Pizza Head, which he actively uses: hugs, stroking, "friendly" attitude, attempts at "tenderness".

Pepperman:

Pepperman is a "narcissistic" artist who has also been pressured, like the others, by Pizza Head. He has rather low self-esteem, because of which he tries to assert himself at the expense of others. This happened due to the fact that when he was younger, all his work was subjected to severe insults from the Pizza Head himself, which belittled the work of Pepperman. Pepper did not have the opportunity to develop himself in art when the only thing he heard was “And you call this art?”, “How are you going to advance in life?”, “No one will like your under-creativity”, "How can a nonentity like you even open your mouth and talk about your work?" Nobody did not help him in his creative path and, on the contrary, trampled all his potential into the dirt.

The Noise+Noisette:

Noiz and Noisetta were conceived by Pizza Head as twins, but due to problems in creating twins, he made them different people, without family ties.

The development of ADHD and autism in Noyz quite strongly interfered with his perception of the world. Constant ignorance and lack of normal treatment made him look for adventures and activities for himself that could replace communication and society. After some time, sadism appeared, in relation to other creatures of Pizza Head.

Noisetta, surprisingly, was the least pressured and was able to develop as a normal creature. The only thing she had was overprotection towards Noiz and Fakey. She kept her from the moment when these two especially suffered a lot from Head Pizza, because she had to patch up their wounds and help them recover.

The Vigilante:

The Vigilante for all the time that he spent in the laboratory, got stronger, became stronger in spirit and no longer perceives Pizza Head's attempts to manipulate him as something really terrible. He knows how to respond to that, does not allow himself to be broken, protects other creatures and supports them after mental trauma that PH inflicts on those. He has no serious problems and does not develop, which helps him maintain his sanity and continue to adhere to his moral principles.

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Ugh,GOD. Sorry that I didn’t answer, I wrote this for too long :(

Here I was able to describe only what the problem of each of the bosses is, but the whole AU is not only built on this. Its main concept is to show how such injuries affect the human ( and not only) the psyche, how they cope with it, as well as reveal the topic of what happened behind the walls of the Pizza Tower, talk about what happened after the events of the game, what path Pizza Headed and his creations went on, and also how PH in general Yes, this AU should be based on psychology and revealing the plot OUTSIDE of the game, which will be diluted with angst and a barely noticeable fluff (it's so small that I don't know why to write it), but I very much doubt that I can add this Au, because it also uses the topics of abuse, sexism, illegal experiments, police irresponsibility and bribery, lack of rights, inequality, lack of normal treatment in hospitals for the mentally ill, problems of the Stockholm syndrome.

Phew. I'm tired of writing all this :_<

Please, if you want to know more about this Au, say it and ask me about it!

I really want to know,do you like the idea and do you want to see more, it's very important for me.

Bye:)

#pepperman #pepperoni tower au #pizza head #pizza tower noisette #pizza face #Pizza Tower #Peppino #The Noise #The Vigilante #Fake Peppino #Au #Pizza Tower Au #pizza tower au #my au #fan au #information #information about au

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katiebug586 · 1 year ago

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Sit Down, Shut Up X Digimon AU

I'M BACK WITH ANOTHER DIGIMON AU!

Honestly, the 'I am going to create an crossover that is so doesn't make sense' image sums this up nicely regarding niche special interests and hyperfixations.

Either way, for those of you who aren't aware, Sit Down, Shut Up is a 2009 animated sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator of Arrested Development. While it is generally thought of being either a 'you love it or you hate it' show, it has a special place in my heart and despite its raunchy/lewd humor, I find it strangely comforting to watch.

And because I've been getting back into both Digimon and Sit Down, Shut Up as of late, it is only natural that my brain has the 'genius' idea of combining the two. It started with the innocuous question of 'What would the cast be if they were Digimon?' which is something I've asked for multiple other fandoms as well, such as Pepper Ann, Braceface, and Fillmore! to name a few.

I don't have much of a plot super specific to the show in a Digimon setting, but I do have an overall plot which I tend to use in most of my Digimon x (show) AUs involving the 'Digital World' being a near copy of the human/real world, with monsters having jobs, children, school, that sort of thing. All without knowing they're living in a simulation. The characters eventually find out they DO live in a simulation by another race foreign to them (humans), and find themselves having to go to the 'real world', where they find themselves facing a brand new threat, the Seven Great Demon Lords; seven powerful creatures, each representing some type of vice, who were created by the humans to purge the simulation and start over.

But some of them have their own interests in mind…

That's the usual scenario I use when 'brainstorming' (haha daydreaming) but with Sit Down, Shut Up I could go for less of the adult 'raunchy humor' everywhere, and instead incorporate more of an intense/edgy feel more geared towards adults with some added adult humor, rather than the moreso 'for kids' I would do for say, a Fillmore! or Pepper Ann Digimon AU.

Because it's eight champion-level (unless stated) adult Digimon who work in a digi-school and can barely tolerate one another, with some tolerated less than others. Then, everything they've known to be true is revealed to be a lie and they're forced to team up with those same people and kinda try to maybe understand them?

Now, I could see petty drama and 'canon-typical behavior/adult humor' at first being the norm, (kind of like how the sitcom only got thirteen episodes, which is usually when a Digimon season is still lighthearted. Unless you're Ghost Games that is. RIP Bokomon) but then getting Knight Of Cerberus'd and becoming significantly darker. Kind of like what Bojack pulled off, with the perfect mix of adult humor and a meaningful message.

You're probably wondering by now, what did my brain answer when asked that fateful question? Well, here's the Digimon I decided would fit and their lines! Rookie/Child forms are just here for reference, all are at Champion/Adult level unless otherwise stated.

Larry: Lopmon - Turuiemon - Antylamon (Deva) - Cherubmon (Virtue) (Can also become Vice if shit hits the fan)

Miracle: Terriermon - Gargomon - Rapidmon - MegaGargomon (May change Rapidmon and MegaGargomon if I find suitable mons)

Ennis: Elecmon (Violet) - Leomon - GrapLeomon - BanchoLeomon (Ennis is normally a GrapLeomon because I thought it would be fitting to have him at such a high level due to how 'great' he thinks he is and how he'd be himbo material if he wasn't so… Ennis)

Stuart: Guilmon - Growlmon - WarGrowlmon - Gallantmon/Megidramon (I thought Guilmon's/Growlmon's naivety was a nice fit for Stuart, along with the fact that they can and will fuck you up, e.g. Megidramon as an alternate digivolution)

Helen: Tsukaimon - Saberdramon - LadyDevimon - Star Beelmon

Andrew: Kotemon - Dinohyumon - Kyukimon - SlashAngemon

Willard: Piximon. Nobody knows much of his past, and frankly, they don't really care.

Sue: Haven't actually decided yet LMFAO.

#Digimon #Sit Down Shut Up #AU #Crossover #Digimon AU #alternate universe

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The Acolyte got canceled and people are big mad about it. Kathleen Kennedy's PR team is in full swing trying to spin this to the best of their ability and pass the buck. Leslye Headland is out here, blaming fans, swearing it was a "vocal minority" who screamed loud enough for this "terrible" outcome, but the ratings straight up showed that NO ONE watched the show. The star, Amandla Sternberg, swears that Disney wasn't brave enough to stand by the show because it was crazy gay, not that her character Osha, was the absolute worst and resoundingly rejected by everyone with a set of eyes. The Acolyte failed because it was bad. Like, i only watched the first two episodes and knew sh*t was going to crash out based on that, alone. When they came for ol' girl over that absurd Space Kung Fu showdown, Osha had been on the same freighter for years. Years. Can't you check cameras? If she bounced on a personal rocket or whatever, you can't track that itinerary? Some drunk guy who saw the fight is your only evidence? Can't you force prod her memories to figure that sh*t out? Dumb. That's why the show failed. It was dumb. Every time one of these Kathleen Kennedy joints fail, I find myself writing this same goddamn rant. Make better sh*t!

The idea of The Acolyte, especially as Headland and Sternberg tell it in their outrage exit interviews, is an interesting one. A show about the duplicitous nature of "good" and "evil". Perspective. That would have been cool to explore, especially after seeing how clunky Lucas did it in Revenge, but the execution was not there and, for sure, the writing was trash. I mean, they killed off Trinity in the first episode and X-23 by the fourth? Why? There were six episodes left. That obviously gay coded relationship had no room to breath! No one cared when ALL of those characters, except the laughably abusive Master Jedi from Squid Game, were murdered by Chuckles the Sith Clown. All of that? Those first four or five episodes? That should have been season one in it's entirety. Chasing the not-Osha twin should have been the entire first season. Building up those characters and relationships should have been the plot. We should have grown to like and trust the Master Jedi guy, only to see, through the sparse interactions with the Lesbian Space Witches, his cruel streak. In fact, all of the sh*t about the Lesbian Space Witches should have been peppered through the initial season, culminating in that penultimate reveal from the Twin's perspective. This is plotting 101 and Headland failed. Sh*t makes me want to re-watch Russian Doll because i remember that being pretty good. There can't be such disparity in quality between these two shows when they're made by the same person, right?

Smooth Brains and Chauvinist bigots are proclaiming this failure as another example of "Go Woke, Go Broke", and i hate the fact they're kind of right. I don't believe in that because some of the Wokest sh*t around is incredibly popular. White people love Get Out and it's a straight up indictment on their whole “Value the Black body, not the Black life" deal they have going on. It's a direct confrontation, deconstruction, and subversion of the "Shut up and dribble" mentality you so often see among non-melanated, fake Christians. They got bamboozled by that solid writing and inspired execution. The presentation was so slick, those people didn't even know they were being called out. Letterkenny is one of the Wokest f*cking television shows I've ever seen, and not one complaint about it. Because it's f*cking inspired. Again, writing and execution. The Acolyte had none of that. They had a chip on their shoulder and was going to make it your, the viewers, problem. It wasn't a clever yet firm, accusation like Get Out or a intelligent denial like Letterkenny, it was a disrespectful accusation on your assumed disdain. And you can see that with how the “creators” have reacted from the cancellation.

The Acolyte was a bad show with strong ideas. I said as much after i ranted about how dumb those first few episodes were. I said as much above. The problem is the fact that Leslye and Kathy hate Star Wars. I don't know about Amandla but, since growing up, she's taken very specific roles. She wants to present a very specific image of herself which, cool. I'm not even going to sit here and say using Star Wars for that is a problem. It can be done. You want LBGTQ+ rep? Go for it. Chelli Aphra is a big ol' gay and she's one of my favorite characters. Full-on Disney Star Wars addition. Ahsoka Tano is at least bisexual, based on her initial book appearance and all the sexual tension in season seven of Clone Wars. Also Barris. She may not be now because Disney really is full of cowards, but I remember that smoldering, flirtatious energy, between my favorite Torgruta and Mirialan flavored Offee. No one is saying not to be gay in Star Wars or that message isn't important. I mean, there are some people, but they all have neck beards and Ken doll crotches so don't worry about them. The people who aren't brain dead don't mind. What we DO mind is how that sh*t is presented. Write better scripts. Create better character moments. Execute better production. If your show is good, people will watch, regardless of what you want to say. It's a matter of how you say it. The Whites LOVE Get Out and it's just two hours of Jordan Peele calling them culture vultures. If a movie and consistently insult it's audience, and still make a brinks truck full of money, what the f*ck is Lucasfilm doing? Also, what the f*ck is that helmet, bro?

#Star Wars #The Acolyte #Star Wars: The Acolyte #Lucasfilm

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planckstorytime · 8 months ago

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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: A World Beyond Anger (Part Two)

II. On the Way to a Smile

Not only does Final Fantasy VII Rebirth decline to commit to the trajectory set by the end of the previous title, but it also seems to walk back on several of the questionable decisions made by the first installment. The cast’s prescient knowledge of the future story arcs? Gone. One of the first things that happens in Rebirth is Aerith explaining that the group lost all of their future memories after the fight with the Whispers in part one. So now the cast can just go through the same story beats in the same order with the same outcomes for 95% of the game. So much for changing your fate!

Moreover, the discretionary cutaways from death and ambiguous hints about the three Avalanche members’ survivals amount to almost nothing. Jessie and Wedge are, in fact, dead, just like in the original game. Biggs’s survival only happens in an alternate world that may or may not be purgatory. Zack is back, and he’s the centerpiece of the marketing. He even made it onto the cover of the game! And yet, his role in the story feels dramatically cut down from whatever might’ve been previously planned. He occupies scarcely an hour of screentime across the 100+ hour game. Completing the game unlocks the option to skip his sequences, which tells you how significant they are to the actual progression of the plot.

To me, all of this screams that the developers got cold feet on the apparent promise of a radically different adaptation, or that they never had a plan to begin with. I think opening the game with the overt retconning of Zack’s church scene from the end of Remake’s Intermission DLC indicates that the writing isn’t committed to a specific path.

I disagree with the notion that Remake’s climax alluded to only minor adaptational changes, rather than a fundamentally different story. Prior to the party vanquishing the avatars of fate, plenty of creative flourishes and alterations peppered the narrative. There would be no reason to disrupt “fate” (i.e. the direction of the story) if it just reaffirmed the adaptation’s existing ethos. The development team encouraged audiences to speculate on how different things could be. The ending of Remake could hardly be clearer: characters deleting future timelines that carried out OG events, “the future is always a blank page”, the party vanquishing a literal divine incarnation of “capital ‘D’ Destiny”, “the unknown journey continues”, etc.

Was it all meaningless? Was it disingenuous all along? Did they change their minds? Or did the developers just want to feed some controversy for extra publicity, plus a few brownie points for going meta? I’ll return to this point once we’ve discussed the ending of Rebirth. But it’s worth noting that more recent interviews have centered around how the Remake trilogy will eventually lead into Advent Children (2005) – in other words, any narrative digression that contradicts that film (previously thought to be a direct sequel to the 1997 game) must inevitably return to the status quo anyway. In an interview with GamesRadar+, producer Yoshinori Kitase said:

“We are finally going to link up with Advent Children, that is going to be part of canon. The overall storyline, the developments, will not go wildly out in a way that will not add up to Advent Children in the end. I don’t think anyone wanted that, that’s not what we’re looking to create here. [But] to make sure it doesn’t become stale and people know exactly where it’s going, [that it] doesn’t just follow the original word for word, we add in extra elements which add that little bit of doubt. Getting the right balance of that is so key. Ultimately, we’re not trying to change the Final Fantasy 7 story into something really different. The overall balance wouldn’t really allow for that anyway.”

To me, this just sounds like a normal description of an adaptation. Like… all of them, ever. It seems a far cry from the wild, uncharted frontier they recklessly set their sights on back in 2020. Unsurprisingly, I prefer this more conservative approach. Changes feel more natural, our heroes aren’t battling the literal ghosts of the plot, and everyone seems to be acting more in-character than they were throughout the third act of Remake. It might sound like I’m poking fun at Square Enix for backpedaling, and I am, to an extent. But I also view the conceit behind my interpretation of Remake’s ending to be a rhetorical gangrenous limb. Its amputation seems like a necessary course correction, and it helped me to enjoy the new game more than I expected. I’d say that for most of its duration, Rebirth ironically feels like a more faithful retelling than Remake did.

As with part one, I greatly enjoyed the environments, music, and combat design. Controlling characters feels more responsive, world traversal has more freedom, and quest design improved dramatically. It more closely resembles my conception of what a modern entry in the series should bethan Final Fantasy XVI (2023)does. A few of the 30+ minigames irritated me, but it felt nice to have new things consistently introduced to break the routine of the main gameplay loop. None of them match the standard set by Queen’s Blood, but what’s Final Fantasy VII without some annoying side activities?

I appreciate the effort put into creating mechanics used for single sequences, just as I admire the attention to detail in the recreation of old locales, monsters, and NPCs. The stretch of the adventure covering Junon, Costa del Sol, the Gold Saucer, Gongaga, and Cosmo Canyon in particular stood out as exceptionally well-crafted. Like the Wall Market chapter of Remake, these sections demonstrate the potential inherent in a faithful – yet creatively distinct – retelling. Even as a connection to the Compilation, which I generally dislike, Cissnei’s presence in Gongaga felt both plausible and satisfying to me.

On top of all of this, I consistently laughed along with Rebirth’s humor. It manages to catch that quirky, borderline surrealist tone of FF7’s classic gags, then mixes it with a bit of flare that would feel at home in the Yakuza series (2005-ongoing). From Red XIII’s disguised breakdance to Solemn Gus’s designated hype man to Junon’s pub exclusively catering to bald patrons, the wacky scenarios and odd predicaments that the characters find themselves in often provide more amusement than the main story. Constant opportunities for them to react to strange occurrences, banter with each other, and build their chemistry constitute the core of the game’s appeal.

Barret shines as the standout member of the party this time around. His arc, like the man himself, carries a lot of weight. I love how the game articulates the tragedy of his relationship with Dyne. The lack of catharsis for Barret at the end of it all feels both heart-wrenching and all too appropriate. In his eyes, he has yet to redeem himself, but with his friends’ help, that burden won’t be enough to bury him. Beyond just his personal pathos, Barret’s characterization radiates a versatility to which few others can compare. He offers comfort and protection to Cloud and Tifa upon their revisit to the facsimile of Nibelheim, applying his fatherly instincts to his companions. His camaraderie with Red XIII, which was practically nonexistent in the source material, proves to be one of the most compelling relationships throughout the new content.

Actually, Red XIII has improved across the board. I always thought the character showed promise, but he rapidly loses plot relevance after Cosmo Canyon in the original. Rebirth utilizes him more effectively by giving us glimpses into his private moments with characters besides Cloud. This results in a greater sense of interiority, and helps to put him on more equal footing with Cloud, Tifa, Aerith, and Barret, as far as narrative importance goes. The Gi vignette, which constitutes the entirety of Red’s arc in the original, now ties into the lore of the Black Materia in a really interesting way – perhaps the first expansion to the series’s mythology that I’ve actually enjoyed. This makes Red’s continued presence on the adventure feel more natural. More importantly, his determination to free the Gi from their deathless purgatory sets up an interesting new storyline to pursue in the third game.

As with Red XIII, Rebirth similarly capitalizes on Yuffie’s latent potential. She’s still an obnoxious, kleptomaniacal child, but now one with the unsettling ideals of a militant nationalist. Yuffie’s borderline jingoistic admiration for her country’s “interim government”, as well as her dream of enacting revenge on Shinra, grant her more depth than FF7 initially afforded her as a hidden bonus character. Rage and pain lie hidden beneath her exuberant exterior, and this makes her reckless stunts feel actually relevant to the story on both a surface and subtextual level.

I’m not automatically opposed to any deviation from the original game; in fact, I admire it whenever the writing takes care to tighten its screws. Through Yuffie, Rebirth ties its upcoming Wutai story arc into the newly foreshadowed Huge Materia (now called “Magnus”) and Weapon plotlines. Previously, these three stories had little or nothing to do with one another, and were somewhat tangential to the progression of the main scenario throughout the latter half of FF7. Bringing them all together like this stitches up some of the frayed threads of the original’s tapestry. It feels like a natural restoration that improves upon the fabric of the original, rather than rendering something akin to the Monkey Jesus fresco.

Of course, another highlight of Rebirth is Cloud and Tifa’s deepening bond. Square took this to unexpected (though not entirely unwelcome) territory. I think both characters are handled well, and the writing really sells both the turbulence and the unrelenting compassion of the relationship. I especially like the focus on Tifa’s propensity to people-please as a trauma response, which helps to facilitate tension in Cloud’s identity crisis mystery. It explores the very human roots of their faults without ever making them unsympathetic. Frankly, I feel like this game should be the final nail in the love triangle debate, but I’m sure shippers will find a way to continue. And Square doesn’t want that war to end. That would just be bad business.

Not only does Rebirth preserve the themes of mental health and the heavy psychosexual symbolism associated with it from the original, but it actually expands upon these motifs, getting more audacious than I ever expected. Much of the new material in story, particularly the expansions to Gongaga and Cosmo Canyon, inspired me to adopt a new perspective on what this project is trying to convey… and what it means to me personally.

FULL ESSAY: https://planckstorytime.wordpress.com/2024/05/11/final-fantasy-vii-rebirth-a-world-beyond-anger/

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youngestrunningleek · 11 months ago

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Stuart Little

I just recently read Stuart Little, written in 1945 by E.B. White, so I'll review it here as my first review.

Beware! I will be talking about plot details, including the end. And a big part of the experience for me was that I didn't know where the story would go next.

Overview

It's about a boy(?) named Stuart Little. It's hard to say much more than that, because there's no central thread. I can pitch Charlotte's Web to you: there is a pig and the barn animals, especially the spider Charlotte, are trying to keep him from getting eaten. This book, though? It's just... about Stuart Little.

It has a really great opening line: "When Mrs. Frederick C. Little's second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse." In the first edition, the line is that he "was born". The book isn't very specific about whether he's a mouse, or a boy who just looks like a mouse.

My Thoughts

I loved it, and I don't know what to make of it. I am glad such a strange book is considered a classic, even if I don't understand why. It's hilariously matter-of-fact, almost deadpan. Yeah, he could walk as soon as he was born. He's in love with a bird. There's an invisible car. Deal with it.

I really, really loved the bits about how Stuart lives. Early chapters explain how he gets clothes, how he gets around, and the challenges of raising a mouse-boy. It's actually a great message. People don't question his different needs, they just accommodate him. I could read an entire book about the challenges of being the size of a mouse in a world built for human-sized people. And I did! And I want more!

There's a great deal of attention paid to his clothes. From the first chapter: "Before he was many days old he was not only looking like a mouse but acting like one, too-- wearing a gray hat and carrying a small cane." Does E. B. White know what a mouse is? Is that the problem? A few sentences later, Mrs. Little makes Stuart "a fine little blue worsted suit with patch pockets in which he could keep his handkerchief, his money, and his keys." At another point he wears "a pepper-and-salt jacket, old striped trousers, a Windsor tie, and spectacles." And the whole book is like that. Stuart is a little gentleman. The world's smallest dandy.

It kind of reads like E. B. White wasn't editing, at all. Pure 'yes and', no revisions. Or, it's like a group storytelling game, where everybody contributes one sentence at a time.

After a few chapters of little adventures, he decides to run away from home to find the bird Margalo. And we never see her, or Stuart's family, again.

There's a non sequitur chapter where he becomes a schoolteacher for a day, and I don't think it relates to anything that comes before or after.

There's an invisible car, like I mentioned. Unironically, halfway through the book, Stuart's doctor friend gives him a miniature car that can turn invisible. What? That wasn't part of the premise!

There's also a human girl, the same size as Stuart, in the later part of the book. Where did that come from? She's small like him, but she doesn't look like a mouse.

It's like the reverse of Chekov's gun. Something new could be introduced at any moment, and something could be dropped at any moment. To be crystal clear, I enjoy this. I like the unpredictability. And, it must be well-written somehow, because even with how odd it gets, I never lost my suspension of disbelief. This would be an excellent exercise in storytelling. I'd ask children what they think will happen in the next chapter. Even the ending is a kind of curveball: a telephone repairman talks for a long time about how great North is, as a direction. And then Stuart keeps driving. Overall, I liked it, even if I don't know if it's well-written. It seemingly breaks a lot of rules about writing. It's profoundly weird from a storytelling perspective, so I'm glad it's somehow a popular book. I give it a 3/5 overall, and a 4/5 for me, personally. For further reading: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/07/21/the-lion-and-the-mouse This article talks about children's books and how Stuart Little was part of a fight over what children's book should be. Anne Carroll Moore is a fascinating historical figure. Sorry, I have no scanner, so here's some pictures of Garth Williams' illustrations.

Stuart is on a branch with the human-shaped girl, Harriet. He's dressed like a human, but he has a tail and a face like a mouse.

In the second, she's watching him swim and his furry body is on display as he looks at her. P.S.: Since my specific focus is on rats, I feel like I should bring up the one major time they're mentioned in the book. During the schoolteacher chapter, Stuart gets very mad at being compared to a rat. He's very distinctly not a rat, and doesn't want to be mistaken for one.

#mice #OA:3 #ME:4 #1945

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dmss-blog-salian · 2 years ago

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A Shared Universe: A Brief Look at Intertextuality in Film and Video Games

Intertextuality is a term and a concept that was first coined by renowned French philosopher and Semiotician Julia Kristeva in 1966. It first appeared in her essay titled ‘Word, Dialogue, and Novel’. So, what is intertextuality?

Well, according to Kirsteva, intertextuality refers to the ways in which one form of literary text alludes to another or simply borrows from it. She argues that this occurs among all art forms and I tend to agree with her.

Intertextuality is when various forms of art coincide or overlap. A very simple example would be that of movies and novels. Art isn’t created in a vacuum... It is inspired and very often, it is inspired by other works of art. Books are made into movies, movies are turned into comics, and so on and so forth.

In this blog, I’ll be writing about the intertextuality between games and cinemas. I’ll be looking at a couple of popular game titles and showing you how these games have borrowed material from films. Games are notorious for inserting references and this is often done consciously, as opposed to accidentally or unwittingly.

One signficant purpose of employing intertextuality between games and cinema is to deliver a fun experience and immerse the player into the game. For instance, when we look at specific game genres, we often find references to movies of the same genre. This can elicit a sense of nostalgia or just trigger a deeper interest in the game. Also, fans of a certain genre are likely to be well-versed in it, which allows developers to exploit intertextuality towards delivering a smooth narrative without having to go into too much detail.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

My first choice is the game “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City”. It’s an extremely popular game and the whole franchise is known for employing intertextuality. For example, the narrative for the 3rd instalment of the game is heavily influenced by The Godfather films. Vice City is the 4th instalment in the franchise and contains plenty of references to another very popular gangster film, namely Scarface.

You can find plenty of references to the movie peppered throughout Vice City. The first cut-scene, for instance, contains many similarities to Scarface. We see a dimly lit room with the camera doing a 360 around a table that contains stacks of cash and several bottles of champagne. You also see a group of unscrupulous looking men talk about Tommy Vercetti, the game’s protagonist. In fact, even the name Tommy is similar sounding to Tony, who happens to be the protagonist in Scarface.

We also hear the men discuss Cubans cutting in on cocaine deals, which is a clear reference to the plot of Scarface. In fact, the game’s entire plot is almost identical to Scarface’s. We see Tommy Vercetti rise from the bottom of the criminal hierarchy just like Tony Montana. Even the failed drug deal with the Colombians is borrowed from the film and is used to propel the game’s overall narrative forward.

The Silent Hill Games

One of the most popular titles in the Horror genre is the Silent Hill franchise. Players will often finds nods to the works of Stephen King here. For instance, the mist, which is ever-present in the game, is a direct reference to Stephen King’s The Mist, which was adapted into a movie in 2007.

The games also references movies like Jacob’s Ladder. The character Valtiel’s violently shaking head is inspired by one of the demonic characters in the film.

These subtle nods can make games more fun for players by creating a multiverse of sorts.

Sources:

Wikipedia Contributors (2022). Jacob’s Ladder (1990 film). [online] Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Ladder_(1990_film).

Wikipedia Contributors (2019). Scarface (1983 film). [online] Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_(1983_film).

Nasrullah Mambrol (2016). Julia Kristeva: Intertextuality. [online] Literary Theory and Criticism. Available at: https://literariness.org/2016/03/22/julia-kristeva-intertextuality/.

Plothe, T. (n.d.). Digital Games as the Intertextual Medium | CCTP-725: Remix and Dialogic Culture. [online] Available at: https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/cctp-725-fall2014/2014/02/02/digital-games-as-the-intertextual-medium/ [Accessed 31 Dec. 2022].

Study.com. (2017). Intertextuality in Film: Definition & Examples | Study.com. [online] Available at: https://study.com/academy/lesson/intertextuality-in-film-definition-examples.html.

Vader, V. (2016). Gaming Conceptz: Context and intertextuality in games. [online] Gaming Conceptz. Available at: http://gamingconceptz.blogspot.com/2016/05/context-and-intertextuality-in-games.html [Accessed 31 Dec. 2022].

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hockeylvr59 · 3 years ago

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Last Name || Cale Makar

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Authors Note: So I was going to write a second part of my Cale/Nate threesome fic with both being All-Stars but then Nate had to go and break his nose. So instead we’re going to celebrate Cale being an all-star with a cliché plot line because well...I wanted to.

Warnings: cursing

Word Count: 4,787

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Vegas. It was usually associated with flashing neon, gambling, shows of all different types including magic. Yet for you, it was associated with hockey. The NHL All-Star Game to be specific. After all, it wasn’t every day that your best friend was named an NHL All-Star. And it certainly wasn’t every day that he invited you along for the ride.

You’d met Cale your freshman year at UMass in a hundred-person lecture. Back then he was just a rosy-cheeked boy who had picked the spot two chairs down from you. You had no idea the superstar that he’d become. Yet, getting to know him…well it didn’t surprise you in the slightest. Cale was…well a number of things really. He was focused and driven. But he was also thoughtful, both in a studious manner but also just being considerate to those around.

In the two years that he was at UMass you were friendly but not overly close. You had a few of the same classes together, you occasionally studied together, you followed each other on social media but it wasn’t like you hung out.

Then, just like that, he was gone. Leaving you to follow along with his career and life through Avalanche social media just like anybody else. Occasionally you’d be included in a ‘close friends’ Instagram story or a snap chat but it wasn’t like you actually communicated.

Two years passed. When you graduated with your bachelor’s, Cale had sent you a snap of congratulations. When you posted about uprooting and starting a job in Denver of all places, he’d dmed you, promising to take you to dinner once you were settled and he was back in town.

And because he was Cale, he made good on that promise. One dinner led to another and before you knew it you were spending more time on Cale’s couch than your own. He was just as easy to be around as he always had been, neither fame nor money changing him in the slightest. It wasn’t long before he wasn’t just the only person you knew in Denver, he was your best friend.

You hadn’t been shocked in the slightest when Cale was named to the all-star team, that had been inevitable. You had been shocked when he’d proposed that you take a few days off work and come along. Though you’d protested because he was already bringing his parents along, Cale wouldn’t take no for an answer and it was hard to deny him when those blue eyes looked at you like that.

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Arriving in Vegas had been a welcome change to the freezing temperatures in Denver. You’d followed Cale through the airport to the gate his parents were soon to be arriving at and settled into a seat to wait. You’d never met Cale’s parents before and admittedly you were a little bit nervous about it. Apparently, you had no reason to be because as soon as she’d finished hugging Cale tight, Laura had greeted you and wrapped her arms around you in a hug as well proclaiming that it was wonderful to finally meet you and asking how you were finding living in Denver so far.

Gary had greeted you with a brief hug as well before falling into conversation with Cale, the interaction between them looking like this is what always happened when they were together thereby making you smile.

You hadn’t been sure how much Cale had told his parents about you, but as the four of you rode in an Uber to the hotel, Laura peppered you with friendly questions that suggested Cale talked about you quite a bit with at least his mom. It was a little bit of a weird feeling but it wasn’t something that made you uncomfortable, in fact, it was reassuring that Cale considered you the kind of friend that you’d tell your parents about.

After checking in, you’d gone to your respective rooms to get settled before going out to dinner. There you took a quick shower, changed into something nicer than travel clothes, and just took in the view from your hotel room until Cale texted asking if you were ready.

Throughout dinner, you chatted with Cale and his parents about so many things and in a way, it felt not too dissimilar to conversations with your own parents. Of course, you didn’t request embarrassing childhood stories from your own parents the way you did Cale’s but Laura was all too willing to share cute stories about Cale and his brother Taylor when they were kids. You couldn’t decide whether you liked the stories themselves better or the way they made Cale’s cheeks flush varying shades of red.

As if the conversation wasn’t good enough, the food at Hell’s Kitchen was absolutely amazing. This was definitely a trip you weren’t likely to forget anytime soon.

Promising you’d see them tomorrow for the skills competition, you said goodnight to Cale’s parents and followed Cale through the Vegas Strip to head over to where Nazem Kadri was performing in his skills challenge tonight to pre-film for television tomorrow. Watching Naz you mumbled to Cale that the NHL didn’t even know the rules for its own event causing him to check that no one else had heard you before laughing softly and agreeing.

By the time Cale left you at your hotel room door, your stomach was filled with warmth and your muscles were aching from the fatigue of the day.

____

Snuggled into one of the most comfortable hotel beds you’d ever experienced, you didn’t awake until there was a knock on your door. Groaning softly you pulled yourself out of bed and padded to the door, peeking to see who it was before opening the door to a familiar figure.

“Hey.” Cale greeted. “Shit did I wake you?” He asked a bit softer seeing your rumpled morning state. As you nodded at him softly while yawning you watched as he brushed his fingers through his hair. “Sorry.” He murmured. “I uh…just wanted to see if you wanted to grab breakfast with me. I’m going to be in media and stuff most of the day.”

The sheepish look on his face made you smile and you took in his appearance a little more closely. Sweats sat low on his hips and a t-shirt covered his torso and he looked the epitome of casual and comfortable. Though you were still exhausted, it was impossible to say no when he looked at you with a quirk on his lips and those blue eyes bright and pleading. Biting your lip you swore to yourself that those eyes were going to be your undoing someday even if the two of you were just friends.

“Yeah…yeah, we can do breakfast. Just give me like five.” You replied.

“Are you sure? You can go back to bed if you want?” Cale questioned, his voice deepening for a moment before returning to its normal timbre.

“Yeah. I’m sure.” You replied. “I can always nap later while you do media or whatever.” You assured him, already turning to dig through your suitcase for something more appropriate for breakfast. Cale watched for a minute before turning away, letting the hotel door fall mostly closed.

Quickly changing, you tidied up your hair before brushing your teeth and applying deodorant. Deeming yourself ready, you grabbed shoes and your phone and room key before wrenching the door open again and smiling at the sight of Cale scrolling through his phone in the hall.

“Ready?” You questioned, bumping into his side lightly as he was partially in the way. Cale smiled back with his real smile and the two of you headed out to find some food for his athlete's stomach. As you weaved through the crowded casino, Cale’s hand slipped to your lower back both guiding you and keeping you close. It sent a warmth up your spine that you acknowledged but forced yourself to ignore.

++++

You did indeed take your nap while Cale did media before spending a couple more hours with him and his parents before he headed to the rink to get ready. Laura and Gary invited you to dinner which you eventually took them up on and shortly after you all headed to the rink to watch the skills competition.

Cale was competing in the fastest skater competition and you knew that he absolutely had a shot of winning it. There was just something about watching him play that you had always loved and you found yourself getting lost in the moment enjoying watching him go through this new experience. Between that and seeing the pride on Laura and Gary’s face, it was everything you could have asked for and you assured Cale’s parents that you were certain this was just the first of many appearances.

When all was said and done, you headed downstairs to meet Cale in the locker room and you smiled watching him sign pucks and sticks and jerseys for all of the player’s kids that wanted them. You could tell just by watching him that he was humbled at all the requests and you knew that he wasn’t going anywhere until everyone was taken care of.

As you were chatting with Cale and his parents, Jordan Kyrou came over and clapped Cale on the back asking if he was going to come out with everyone. Cale just looked at you like he was leaving the choice in your hands. It was absolutely his choice to make, not yours, but since he was looking to you for an opinion, you just nodded letting him take that as he wished. After all, the all-star game was almost as famous for its partying as it was for the on-ice event. Plus you were in Vegas so why not.

Stopping back at the hotel so that both you and Cale could change, you said goodnight to Laura and Gary telling them that you would see them tomorrow to head over to the rink together. Cale hugged you and murmured that he would come get you in half an hour before you parted ways to get ready to go out on the town.

When you opened the door for Cale as you finished putting in earrings, you were met with silence. Finally looking up, you watched as his mouth slowly closed before he commented softly that you looked amazing.

“Thank you.” You replied with a grin before slipping into your favorite heels and grabbing the clutch you had thrown your phone, wallet, and lipstick tube into. “You look pretty handsome yourself.” You threw back, taking in the dark wash of his jeans against his thighs and the way the polo he’d thrown on gripped his biceps. “You ready?” You questioned.

“Let’s do this.” Cale agreed.

++++

It wasn’t long after reaching the club that everything started to gradually blur. Usually, you weren’t a big drinker so the cocktails that kept appearing in front of you hit you hard. You remembered Cale introducing you to people, talking about the skills comp and tomorrow’s all-star game. You remembered having to convince many of the wives and girlfriends that you and Cale weren’t together, you were just friends. You remembered dragging Cale out with you onto the dance floor even if he had protested in ways that made you laugh harder than you’d ever laughed before.

It was slightly hazier, but you remembered Cale’s cheeks as they flushed from alcohol and the way that the more he drank, the more physical boundaries he normally had came crashing down and his hands sought you out left and right always wanting to be touching you. You remembered that the more he drank, the sillier he got, to the point that you couldn’t stop smiling. You’d never seen Cale like this before but you were hoping that you’d remember it because it might just be your favorite version of Cale yet.

A few more drinks and you were definitely closer to drunk than you were sober. You were too busy watching Trevor Zegras and Jack Hughes goofing off that you didn’t see the way that Cale had started to pout. You felt him try and pull you closer and you just shoved his hands away with a laugh calling over the music that you would be back, you just needed to go to the bathroom. Getting waylaid on the way back by Alex Debrincat who was also smashed and lost looking for the bathrooms you had just come from, you were surprised when a pair of arms wrapped around your waist from behind. Freezing at first as the body attached to the arms buried a nose into your hair, you relaxed and chuckled to yourself when you realized it was Cale.

“What’cha doing bud?” You questioned, only to get a string of drunken mumbles in return. Most of it you couldn’t pick out, but you thought you heard something about ‘paying attention’ or Cale ‘needing’ something. Reaching up behind you, you carded a hand through his short hair, drunkenly mourning the fact that he had cut it earlier in the week. As you did, a soft groan reached your ears and Cale’s fingers gripped tighter at your hips.

“Didn’t catch any of that.” You stated, giggling softly. Though you hadn’t caught most of what fell from Cale’s lips before, you definitely caught what he said now. It was sort of a hum and then…

“...Get married.”

Head whipping around so fast that you almost threw up, you looked up at him to see those blue eyes heavily glazed and staring down at you. The cutest pout was on his lips but he didn’t at all seem fazed by what he had just said.

The fragment of your brain that wasn’t drunk wanted to know what the hell he was talking about but it was quickly drowned out by the alcohol and the eagerness that rolled off him in waves.

“Please?” He breathed and when your brain told your body to give him the slightest nod, he let out a drunken whoop before guiding you to the bar for one more shot.

One more shot and everything was a blur.

_______

A cell phone alarm was going off beside you and you winced at the way it made your head pound. All at once, it hit you that it wasn’t your phone alarm and that there was a heavy arm draped over your waist. A low groan vibrated through your shoulder and then the arm moved, searching vainly for the item that would make the noise stop.

When it did, you rolled onto your back and slowly peeked your eyes open. Familiar light brown hair lay messily on the pillow next to you and your heart pounded as you followed that hair to the body it was attached to. Cale lay shirtless beside you, rubbing at his face as he also tried to blink away the effects of the hangover you both clearly had from last night.

A part of you was relieved to find that you were still partially dressed, one of Cale’s shirts covering your torso, underwear still resting along your hips.

“We didn’t uh…have sex last night did we?” You asked, chewing forcefully on your lower lip.

“I don’t think so,” Cale replied after a moment, sliding out of bed to reveal his ass covered in boxer briefs. “We definitely fucking drank too much though.” He mused, glancing at the clock before cursing softly to himself. “I need to get going. Have to be at the rink in a half-hour.” He explained over his shoulder as he moved to grab his suit out of the wardrobe to start getting ready. Nodding, you laid in bed for another minute before getting up, searching for your clothes from last night.

Things were scattered everywhere around the room from one heel just inside the door to the other over against the ac unit by the window. You were searching for your bra and when you found it on the desk your eye caught a piece of fancy paper laying underneath. Curious, you flipped it over and suddenly all air was stolen out of your lungs.

“Cale!” You called, repeating his name increasingly frantically until he appeared from the bathroom, fastening his belt.

“My head already pounds…can you not?” He questioned, before stepping closer, likely urged by the panic on your face. Seeing the paper you were holding, Cale carefully took it from you, his eyes going wide.

“What did we do?” You questioned, voice breaking and tears prickling at your eyes as you flopped onto the end of the bed. You could feel Cale look between you and the marriage certificate for a long moment before he sighed and dropped into a squat pulling you into his chest.

“Apparently drunk me talked a good enough game to get you to marry me. Not sure how.” He whispered, lightly chirping himself to try and ease the tension. “I really have to go but we’ll figure this out later. I promise.”

Holding you for another minute, Cale pulled back and sighed.

“Hey…look at me. It’s gonna be okay. I promise.” There was still so much that needed to be said. So much you didn’t understand, but his eyes communicated enough for you to nod and let go of the death grip you had on his forearm.

“Go show everyone why you’re an all-star.” You whispered trying to sound more put together than you presently were.

++++

Once Cale left his room you proceeded to try and put yourself together before making your way back to your own room. You were supposed to meet Laura and Gary in 45 minutes to head to the arena. How you were supposed to sit next to your apparent in-laws, in-laws that had no idea you’d married their son just hours earlier, for the entirety of an all-star game. The thought made your stomach twist and you winced trying to keep hold of it. Knowing that there was no way you were going to get through without coffee and painkillers you popped a Keurig pod into the machine for a cup of coffee and dug a bottle of meds out of your toiletry bag.

Downing two cups of coffee, you hopped into the shower before blow-drying your hair and throwing on clothes. You couldn’t think about that piece of paper sitting on the desk in Cale’s hotel room, if you did you were just going to lose your mind. And you certainly weren’t going to be able to keep it from Cale’s parents. No, it was definitely better just to think of other things, anything else besides the drunken decision you’d made last night.

Forcing your expression into as normal a position as possible, you tidied up your room and then moved to meet Laura and Gary at the spot you’d designated to head over to the arena. Laura had immediately greeted you with a hug and that made it so hard not to spill everything then and there. But you weren’t going to do it without Cale, that was out of the question. Gary asked who you thought would win today and you joked that the metro seems to win it an awful lot.

Though you had attempted to keep a normal expression, you must have slipped a few times on the way to the arena because as you reached your seat Laura murmured softly asking if you were okay. Taking a deep breath you replied that you were fine, just had too much to drink last night, hoping that she wouldn’t press any further. Thankfully she just nodded understandingly and shared a warm smile, one you weren’t sure would be so welcoming once she knew what had really happened last night.

When the metro took the first game over the pacific, Gary just looked at you as if it were solely your doing despite you having zero control of what happened on the ice. You laughed a little and shrugged your shoulders before turning back to whatever in-game entertainment there was. Laura and Gary chatted and you couldn’t help but smile to yourself wondering if someday you could have something like that. It seemed like a silly thought given everything and you quickly stamped it down but it was there all the same.

Cale and the Central took on the Atlantic and eventually came up victorious, sending them to the final as well. He’d had two assists and you smiled watching him though at the same time you cursed anyone that turned the puck over and forced Cale to actually play defense and block shots. Mumbling under your breath that didn’t he know this was just an all-star game, Laura and Gary both just looked at you and laughed, Gary reminding you that Cale wasn’t the type to half-ass anything, once he decided to do something he was all in.

Part of you hoped that included drunken decisions.

Having no desire to watch Machine Gun Kelly you excused yourself to wander throughout the arena just needing a little bit of space to breathe before the final twenty-minute period.

As much as you didn’t want to get your hopes up, you couldn’t help but think that being married to Cale wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world, it wasn’t like you hadn’t had a bit of a crush on him for the past four and a half years. But he’d never given you any sign that maybe he felt the same way so you were sure deep down that this marriage wasn’t what he wanted and therefore it was pointless to hope.

Hearing the performance finally end, you made your way back to your seat, more than willing to lose yourself in the sound of skates and sticks on pucks again.

Twenty minutes and multiple challenges later (did they really need to allow challenges in an all-star game?), the Metro had won once again and Cale’s all-star experience was finally over.

Making your way downstairs again, you and Laura hung back with a few of the other moms and family members while Gary disappeared into the dressing room. It was a few minutes before he reappeared and when he did he directed you into the dressing room, holding Laura back for a minute. Your brows furrowed for a moment but you headed towards Cale’s summons, the sound of kids running around the room distracting you from thinking too deeply. At his stall, Cale’s arms wrapped around you in a hug and he squeezed tight, his fingers slipping up under the bottom of the jersey you were wearing making subtle contact with your skin. Shivering just slightly you sent him a slightly anxious smile before pulling back.

“So proud of you.” You stated softly, “But you played a little too much D for an all-star game.”

Cale laughed softly and murmured that you were probably right. Dipping his head to your ear he asked softly if you were okay and you nodded whispering back that you hadn’t said anything.

“I just told my dad.” He murmured and your eyes went wide as you stepped back to look at him. You knew there was more to it than that but this was not the time or place to delve into those details. That explained why Gary had pulled Laura aside though.

Cale telling his parents made it all the more real though. If they knew then this wasn’t just a secret you were going to keep between the two of you until you could get an annulment.

Cale didn’t look upset in any fashion, in fact, he looked tired but content, and that only made your stomach swirl with more questions.

++++

When you made it back to the hotel after Cale finished media, Cale guided you straight to his parent’s room. When you realized where he was taking you, you froze and Cale turned, reaching out gently for your hand.

“They just want to talk to us. They aren’t mad or upset.” He promised. “If anything they’re just a little bit confused.”

“But…” Your whisper was met with a slightly exasperated look though one that urged you to say what you were thinking. “What if they hate me?”

“They don’t hate you,” Cale stated flatly as if that was the most absurd thing he’d ever heard. “And you’re just going to have to trust me on that and see for yourself.”

Gently, he tugged you along until you were knocking on Cale’s parents' door and when Laura opened it, she immediately reached for you pulling you into her arms.

“How did this happen?!” She exclaimed, though her tone was the farthest thing from upset that you’d ever heard. Cale’s chuckle followed as he closed the door behind himself and stepped into the room.

“Mom…you know how it happened. We were drunk.” Cale stated dryly.

“You’ve been drunk before and it never ended up with you eloping with someone you aren’t even dating…” Laura replied, a raised eyebrow tempering the smile on her face.

Cale groaned and ran his fingers through his hair.

“I’m not answering that.” He mumbled softly.

“We were drunk. Really drunk.” You explained softly. “I don’t even remember anything after we left the club. Before that, it’s all just bits and pieces. Mostly just something about Cale needing attention.”

Cale’s cheeks flushed super red and he murmured that that was enough of that. That it doesn’t matter how it happened, it just did.

Gary had just been observing the whole time and after clearing his throat, he spoke.

“So what’s the plan?” He asked.

Shrugging slightly you opened your mouth, speaking at the same time as Cale.

“That’s up to Cale, I’ll do whatever he wants.”

“That’s up to her, I’ll do whatever she wants.”

Looking at the two of you, Laura shook her head softly and then guided Gary up out of his chair and onto the balcony, giving you and Cale a moment of privacy.

“What do you want to do Cale?” You asked, rubbing sweaty palms against your jeans.

“Whatever you want.” He replied, causing you to sigh and shake your head.

“That’s not an answer Cale.” You insisted. “You either want to stay married to me or you don’t. You need to choose.”

“I asked, didn’t I? I may have been drunk off my ass, but I asked?”

“I mean I don’t remember there being a clear question, just a string of mumbles.” You shot back, a smirk on your face for just a moment before becoming serious again.

“Either way…” Cale started before taking a deep breath. “What I want doesn’t matter if you don’t want to be married to me.”

Realizing that this was a game of who was going to put their feelings out on the line first you sighed and decided to bite the bullet.

“Says the guy who has been out of my league from the day he sat two chairs down from me.” You expressed. “If you don’t know that I’ve had a crush on you for ages, you’re really dumb.”

Cale’s expression softened and he stepped closer.

“Guess I’m really dumb.” He admitted. “I wanted you so bad but I knew I was only going to be at UMass for two years and didn’t want to end up hurting both of us. Then you came to Denver and I just couldn’t find the nerve figuring after four years surely I was strictly friend-zoned.”

Hearing that Cale wanted you all this time the same way you had wanted him made every nerve in your body stand on end.

“So we’re going to do this?” You whispered, voice disbelieving.

“It’s a little backwards but I am a defenseman. I’m a pro at skating backwards.” Laughing loudly, you let Cale pull you into his chest and when his fingers cupped your chin you looked up. “I’m gonna kiss my wife now if that’s okay with you?” He questioned and when your eyes communicated assent, he dipped down to steal your breath away as his lips pressed against yours, exploring this new aspect of things.

Stealing a few more kisses, Cale pulled back, his cheeks rosy in a whole new way and his fingers laced in yours as he pulled you to the balcony door.

“Mom. Dad. I want you to meet the newest Mrs. Makar.” Cale grinned and Laura smacked Gary’s arm declaring that Cale is absolutely his son before she got up and pulled you into another hug, welcoming you to the family, Gary following after.

You’d come to Vegas for hockey, and now you were leaving it with a new last name.

#cale makar #cale makar imagine #hockey imagines #hockey imagine #nhl imagine #nhl imagines #colorado avalanche #colorado avalanche imagine #cavalanche #044

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Hey! Can I request something for Spike Spiegel dating a bisexual female? Thank you!

having a bi girlfriend

anime: cowboy bebop

character: spike spiegel

summary: how he would be with a bi girlfriend.

warnings: afab! reader, use of she/her pronouns, went with headcanons bc i didn't have a plot to go with it

probably knows you because of faye

maybe you two are friends or have worked together before, but when spike befriends you, faye is fucking around with you two and always messing up any moment you two are having

after getting together, you've told him that you're attracted to both men and woman, and all of that

because faye already knows this, she decides that she wants to make your boyfriend jealous and be more clingy with you

holding your hand

tugging you along

hugging you longer than needed

ofc you aren't going to do anything with her, she's your best friend and you're dating spike

and he knows this for sure, you are loyal

but the fact that, at this point, he hasn't asked if you and faye had ever been together and the mere thought and sight of you two acting closer, is making him upset

faye is using this to her advantage to see the man get all riled up over literally nothing

spike is fuming and is arguing with her

spike: "she's dating me, so back off!"

faye: "i'm not doing anything, you ass."

spike: "you know what you're doing, stop playing with things that aren't yours."

you walk in and have the break them apart, telling faye off for this little game when she knows it hurts him and spike for acting childish and throwing a fit instead of handling it like an adult

both apologised to each other and then to you, because you don't like seeing your best friend and boyfriend fight

jet is probably there to back you up, ein and ed playing on the couch nearby

jet: "they're a handful, ain't they?"

y/n: "you have no idea..."

he definitely likes to show you off in public though lol

he's all like "look at my hot girlfriend, she's dating me instead of you, suck it losers"

brags about it to anyone he talks to during a mission for whatever reason

but somehow gets jealous the same amount

will brag to someone that you look hot at that moment, and when he sees the person eying you, he punches them in the face and walks off

there was this bounty for a prince's captors and they happened to be trying to sell him on the black market

so when spike, jet, faye and you found them, they tried to flirt their way out of it, starting with you and spike, since jet and faye had voiced how eager they were to hand them into the authorities

spike just laughs

spike: "oh please, i'm saved for that woman over there. so tell your lady-friend to stop flirting. you two are allowed dead or alive."

you have to stop him from killing them, since they're worth more alive than dead

jet ended up duct taping the captors' mouths shut because of spike's fit

but sometimes, instead of showing you off, spike gets a little more self-conscious than usual

maybe it's the fact that everyone has their eyes on you

and if you ever chose, you could pull any one of them, and just drop spike

you would never

you love him too much

but spike can sometimes feel like that isn't true, only to his own accord, you have never explicitly made that out to be

he thinks the job is dangerous, and you could decide that someday, you're sick of it and want to settle down for real, with a man/woman that has a stable job, and isn't running out of money 24/7

if you ever catch him at a time like this, you MUST pull him into your arms immediately and pepper him with all the kisses in the world

while he won't outright ask for it, he wants affection

you explain that nobody in the world could replace him, and he gets that boost, that level up, that makes him feel loved

because while he thinks you could have anyone like that sweet woman who gave you roses and a kiss on the cheek the last mission for saving her

or that tailor man who stitched up your torn jacket after a job and was awfully friendly about it

you chose spike

the guy who doesn't even make the bed in the morning and relies on jet to cook for the rest of them, because he was banned from the kitchen for nearly setting it on fire

now, when he feels like you'll choose someone else, he won't ever take it out on another person, and definitely not you

but

if someone else

even

mentions

you choosing another over him

he is beating them to a pulp

if, for whatever reason and if you are comfortable with anyone knowing, he tells someone that you are bisexual, and their first instinct is to say 'oh break up with her, she's definitely gonna' cheat on you, maybe even with a girl'

he is scaring the living shit out of them and giving them the most judging glare ever

he doesn't understand why people think that way

why does someone's limited or unlimited preferences, change how likely they are to cheat on you?

it makes no sense

and spike will get this message across to whoever disagrees

because he will not allow anyone to look at you with disgusted views just because you have an open heart

and he will look down upon anyone who can't change their mind about it

even if he's having a good time talking to this stranger, that will immediately make him want to throw them in jail

you've witnessed this once

changed from spike laughing so hard to him smashing the guys head into bar counter

he definitely wasn't going to go there with you again

you: "what happened? what did he say?"

spike: "nothing, just said my suit looked shitty"

you: "what an asshole"

spike: "yeah babe, what an asshole"

never tries to use your sexuality against you, not even in fights, especially not in fights where he would regret it the most

but while faye is your best friend in the whole wide world, she will think of the craziest plans

and have you in the centre of it because you would pull it off the best

like this one job

you guys were catching a well-known thief, and she just so happen to be gay af (lmao)

so faye came up with a plan to use that against her

faye: "i need you to make out with the target"

jet: ",,,"

ed: ",,,"

spike: ",,, i'm not doing that"

faye: "ugh, not you moron, y/n. the target is only into girls, were you not listening to me???"

spike: "ohhh okay"

you: ",,,"

spike: "wAIT NO I DO NOT AGREE"

he asked why faye couldn't do it, and she said she only knew how to make guys swoon, not women

that was your specialty

especially since at some point (which jet and spike didn't know) you was faye's small-paid bounty and you managed to flirt your way out

faye still thinks it was magic or whatever

jet didn't want to put you in a compromising and uncomfortable position, so he asked your opinion on it while faye and spike fought

you said you were comfortable just doing light flirting and that

but you didn't want to have to make out with the target

you felt as if that would be going too far, especially since you had a million ways to put the target off guard, since it was at a casino with bars and other stuff

jet agreed with you

asked spike and he said he was fine, and to signal him as soon as you were uncomfortable

you ended up not having to do much, because spike got jealous and caught the target while she was drunk after all the alcohol you had bought for her to consume

he definitely trash-talked the target because of 'how stupid she was to believe y/n would date anyone other than himself'

all and all, spike loves you the most

he thinks you're perfect

and is so happy that you share your most comfortable part with him

#spike spiegel #spike spiegel x reader #spike #spike x reader #cowboy bebop #cowboy bebop x reader #cb #cb x reader #anime #anime x reader

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