#and then i saw the olivier postbattle the first time and was actually able to recognize it and go ''why the fuck is he lying about that''

[bpd-roland]

BY THE WAY this is possibly the FUNNIEST fact about roland i have discovered in my time playing the game. he CAN'T LIE FOR SHIT

LIKE. OKAY. OBVIOUSLY he can dance circles around the bush like nobody's goddamn business. he is extremely good at manipulating the way he testifies, in order to imply or remove connections between events and concepts. his favorite way of lying is by shrimply not mentioning something when it would completely change the entire context of what he's saying. However. the thing he absolutely sucks at is making shit the fuck up

citation number one: SMALL STORIES 1. EVERYONE WATCH SMALL STORIES 1 EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. mandatory viewing for anyone on my blog. yeah fuck you i'm embedding it. watch it now.

guy with cookie crumbs on his face and shirt getting asked if he ate the last cookie and he extremely conspicuously goes "huh? no, no, of course not, what cookie? haha"

citation number two to show this isnt like a one time silly joke about him being a lying liar or whatever: OLIVIER POST-RECEPTION. which i will not make anyone watch because it makes me so sad. so it will just be a screenshot

yknow what i will put a spoilers cut here bc this is like major endgame stuff

this can Technically technically technically hypothetically technically be interpreted two different ways, considering he is supposedly The black silence during the game and then the artbook is like NO LOL IT'S ANGELICA. like there is actually one true answer as to how this should be interpreted (because he does not believe himself to be The black silence. because that was his wife.) but the thing is it works BOTH WAYS:

he is the black silence, and he's lying about whether there was any moment whatsoever in which he could say such a thing about himself (which would obviously be false, if he were the black silence he had multiple opportunities in which he was outright pressed on his origins and could have said so, including that time he confessed to previously being a "kickass grade 1 fixer")

he is not the black silence, and he's trying his hardest to roll with her assuming he is because he REALLY doesnt want to admit literally anything whatsoever about his wife (he even calls HER a grade 1, previously! again with technically true but omitting crucial context information!) which results in him lying his ass off with "y... Yuppp i'm... totalllyyyy the black silence (trying not to throw up)"

anyways that's my really funny roland fact. have a nice day