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petrichor-and-moondust · 2 months ago

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You know, I recently got my PC upgraded, so I've been playing this game I was obsessed with in 2018. I never had the chance to play it before because I didn't have anything that was powerful enough to run it. It's called Detroit: Become Human and I've fallen completely in love with it again as I go through the levels and get to explore it myself and make my own choices, rather than scrounging YouTube to see different playthroughs.

I've completed my first playthrough, so I'm slowly going through to try and unlock every possible ending. 100%-ing every level- you would have no idea how MANY times I sat through that damn interrogation level.

One thing I discovered, which I didn't realise before, is- Kara doesn't have to deviate.

Like, I knew Connor doesn't have to become a deviant- it's kind of a key plot point, the whole, choosing between who you have been raised, trained, expected, and believed to be, versus what you are, what you could become, what you believe- what you want yourself- to be. But I had assumed that, like Markus, Kara just... becomes deviant. As in, you get pushed into the "break programming" sequence automatically after Todd gives you the order, but... you don't.

If you don't try to move, at all- no accidental button press, no nudge of the joystick- you sit (or well, stand) through a nauseating, painful monologue from Todd, before he heads upstairs to where Alice has hidden in her room. Then you hear the sounds of their scuffle, and it is so painful to sit through, and, well, it leads to a final cutscene where Kara enters Alice's room to see Todd lifting her lifeless body to her bed, tucking her in, before turning on Kara to now attack her.

It was...really nauseating to watch.

But what got me is...That's it.

The next Kara level -which for anyone wondering is Fugitives- is just... skipped over. I half-thought it might just reset her back to "Opening", but if her and Alice die in Stormy Night, that's IT. It really- baffled me, so I went through the flowchart, and sure enough, every single one of Kara's stories is skippable after Stormy Night. Her solo levels are all set off from the main chapters, and ones she shares with other characters will just exclude her POV play if she dies before reaching it.

Unlike Connor, who is simply replaced with another model over and over, gravestones increasing again and again in the zen garden with each visit, or Markus, who gets resurrected, rescued, and even has other characters rip out their own biocomponents to keep him alive- at least until the plot is progressed far enough- Kara is just. gone.

And it maybe shouldn't grab me as much, but it does. Because from a gameplay POV, killing off a main character permanently, and so early on in the game, is generally a pretty bad move. But from a narrative point? God, it's fucking genius. Because Detroit: Become Human is a story-centric game. It is told from the three different groups of people that are involved in every war, conflict, and genocide, regardless of the cause, the time, the place, the outcome.

The Opressors: the group who is suppressing, invading, enslaving, or otherwise actively causing harm to the others.

The Rebels: the ones of the oppressed group who are fighting back against the oppressors.

The Victims: everyone caught in the crossfire.

A war cannot happen if one of the opposing sides is not there to continue- if one side loses their leader in such a way that doesn't convert them into a martyr that spearheads that side's cause, it's over. It's won. This is why both Connor and Markus have -admittedly unconventional- plot armour until they get to a point in which it is no longer necessary.

The sparks have caught fire, the revolution has begun- everything is in motion and can no longer be prevented.

Connor is on the side of the Oppressors. Markus leads the Rebels.

Kara and Alice represent the Victims. They're a family forged through their lived experiences, both desperate for something the war has stripped away from them. And the war has stripped EVERYTHING away from them except each other. Kara and Alice are displaced refugees seeking asylum. The war defines them; it impacts every single aspect of their lives. Your actions as Markus and Connor impact the path of Kara more so than they ever impact each other. This is how war works- it ravages and destroys those caught in the crossfire far before it ever reaches the enemy side.

But Kara's actions have very little impact, on the other two's paths, other than a few guilt-tripped cutscenes. In fact, you can functionally complete the game through to its end without her. And it just- it really grabs you by the shoulders and forces you to confront the fact of how victims of war and refugees are treated head-on. Because that is what Kara is, and what her role in the story can be twisted into:

Inconsequential.

The actions of a victim have no true impact on the tides of a war. Whether you flee, barter, or even kill in order to continue on Kara's desperate bid for the border, it has no true impact on the overarching story- and that in itself is a HUGE point of the story. Because whilst everything Kara does has practically zero effect on the way androids are viewed, every single one of Markus' choices - which affect the way the public view androids- impacts her journey. If the public become sympathetic to androids - achieved through the pacifist route- they are sympathetic to Kara and Alice, who can then safely make it across the border. If the public become hostile towards androids, more and more opportunities in which Kara and Alice might be found out arise, and they end up anywhere from shot dead, to seperated, to discarded in a recycling plant.

The lives of victims do not matter to the powers at war. They are meaningless, disregarded, and of no consequence- seen as expected, or even as necessary sacrifices. Every sacrifice made by Markus and Connor in the game- be it their friends (leaving Simon to be found at the Tower or killing him), their comrades (choosing to chase Rupert rather than helping Hank), and even themselves (Markus setting himself alight; basically every damn choice Connor can make, but for example pushing himself off of the roof with Daniel) is done in order to further their mission- to advance the cause of their side: to free androids, or to eradicate deviants.

Kara doesn't care about that- her only motive is to defend. Every sacrifice Kara makes in the game is to protect Alice. She doesn't care if she is harming or helping the image of deviants as long as Alice is safe. Kara doesn't care about the war, because it doesn't care about her.

Everything Kara is, everything she does is functionally useless in the face of how she is perceived. Whether she shoots Todd or escapes out the window doesn't change how the bus driver treats her. Her choosing to stay in the abandoned house with Ralph instead of robbing the shop to stay at the motel makes no difference to Rose, and whether she kills Zlatkov or leaves him to the whims of his "creations" is of no interest to the border control guards. This is because her choices are not made freely, regardless of deviancy- they are forced by her environment. Every decision Kara makes is between a rock and a hard place.

There is no room for morals when you're fleeing all you've ever known with barely the clothes on your back. Do you trust that the shell-shocked, trembling stranger holding a knife to your daughter's throat is only acting out of fear and try to talk him down, or do you take no chances and shoot him- traumatising your child further, yes, but at least keeping her alive? Do you forgive the one who helped trap you, watched as your very identity was ripped away, on the grounds that he wasn't truly alive- do you trust him with your life? With Alice's life? Knowing that he had once endangered them, willingly or not? Will you trust the woman offering you safe harbour across the border, after all you've experienced- well, you have to, you don't have a choice- there is no other option because you're desperate, you're terrified; and even a false hope is better than none at all, because you know you will die if you stay, and if you die, who will look after Alice? Who will care for your daughter if you are not there to do so? She is all that matters. Everything you do must be done in order to protect her.

So you shoot the deviant and you trust Luthor and you kill every soldier who raids Jericho before they slaughter your family first.

And none of this matters to anyone, none of it does, because you are acting out of desperation and the reality of a kill-or-be-killed world- you are not systematically hunting down every android that steps out of line, not trying to capture them, destroy them, enslave your own people. You are not going out of your way to build an army and fight, raise a revolution; to demand civil rights, equality, respect. You are scared and running and there are so many just like you, doing the same. This is not worthy of note, of news coverage, of knowing. So it is not known, not plastered across every news station, not taken note of.

You are just trying to keep your daughter alive, and because of this, you are entirely expendable.

You haven't betrayed your people and seperated yourself from them by creating categories of "good" androids and "bad" androids -because you don't have time, and you're all made of the same silicon and thirium, and you'll never be treated human, so it's pointless, it doesn't matter- and you haven't spearheaded an explosive revolution and caused the city, the country, the world to really think about whether or not you are an individual or a piece of property.

And because you are not doing anything like this, nothing noteworthy, newsworthy, or public- because you are acting just like everyone, like the general populous (and God knows, no, They know, that that is much more dangerous than a revolutionary- because people can't find out you are just like them, because then they empathise, and it is MUCH harder to control the masses when they find out that the "others" are exactly the same as them, and always have been-no, that creates room for the masses to realise that the war is not for them, but for Them- for profit, for control, for power) and thus, like the general populous, you are of no real importance to the "Bigger Picture."

You are dehumanised to such a point that you are met with only extremist reactions- of contempt, of violence, or- rarely- of pity. What people know about what is actually going on is so tightly controlled that even you, living through it, experiencing it, don't truly understand what's happening. The public are so thoroughly desensitised to violence against your people either by constant exposure, fear-mongering, or total indifference, and you don't know which is worse, and you don't know how to go about stopping it, so you run. And you tell yourself everything will be better once you're out of the town, the area, the country.

Everything will be better once you cross the border; you will be safe and happy. Your daughter will be safe and happy.

Everything will be okay once you cross the border, once you escape, once you make it- you don't have papers or money or a connections or a place to go, but it's fine, because the people there will understand, the people there will be different, because at least you won't be here, and surely that's what matters.

Surely they will see and know what you have gone through. Surely the people there will be different than the people here. Surely they will be compassionate and kind and help you- help your daughter.

Because who could look at her and feel hate? Who could look at her and act out of vitriol and fear and derision?

Detroit: Become Human is a story about an android uprising. It is a story that has been told a million times- a war story, where the protagonist leads the rebels to victory, where he realises he's been fighting for the wrong side and has a last-minute redemption, turning the tide of the war and the oppressed rebels are victorious. It is a story that is blatantly and directly inspired by POC civil rights movements, by the US civil war, and the Holocaust; it is interactive yet cinematic in a way not many stories of its calibre are- generally restricted to one or the other.

It is also a story about refugees- about the people caught in the crossfire. And not in the typical standard, where they are used to tug on the heartstrings of the protagonist, to guilt the enemy, or lament a heart-rending monologue about how the war has destroyed their life that suddenly changes the public's opinion so drastically that the war is over within a week, but in a more blunt, realistic manner.

The public's opinion of a group isn't swayed by the actions of the displaced and imprisoned because they are not made aware of their actions. All that the public know is what they are told by those in control, who are using your people as a tool to keep them in line. All the public know is of the worst events- of "terrorist attacks" and "murders" and "violent, unsolicited attacks"- which aren't even those, not really.

It is twisted truths and gaslighting and flat-out lies: it is withholding evidence. Reporting on an android "viciously murdering its owner", but failing to include that the death was caused from an initial act of self-defence, that the man had attacked the android with a bat, intent to kill (not to mention the months of constant abuse leading up to it), it's reporting a news-station hijack as a "terrorist attack" when nobody was killed- nobody except one of the hijackers, but of course, they don't count- when the act was not meant to strike terror but to demand that they are seen as equals and not "other".

It is about the vice and choking control that corporations and the government have over information and everything we see, hear, experience- the complete lack of regard for human life fundamentally stemming from corporate greed, systemically taught to a whole nation, country, world, setting them on each other, to distract them from what's going on. Smoke and mirrors and gunfire disguised as fireworks.

Law enforcement do not grow to treat the androids as anything other than subhuman and the public do not accept them and apologise; CyberLife does not relinquish all androids and admit fault. The government only step in to call off their attack dogs when there is no other way for them to come out of it without making a martyr of Markus and villainising themselves. It is not out of goodwill, not out of morality, not out of a belief that androids should be treated as actual living beings. It is a purely strategic play to regain control before they lose it completely and the situation crumbles to anarchy. It is harsh and cruel and an uncertain victory in even the very best ending, and still it has no positive impact on Kara and Alice's life.

Their best outcome includes them fleeing to another country, seeking refuge with relatives of people they met just the day prior, away from everything they've known to a place with "no android laws"- but that means there's no laws protecting them either. The revolution is over, it's successful, they won, but it's no use to the people whose lives were already broken, ravaged, destroyed. No amount of laws passed will bring loved ones back from the dead. No number of people charged for crimes against androids will make up for what they experienced.

It is too little, too late; the flames of revolution engulfed it all and no amount of firefighters can turn the ashes back to what they once were.

War does not care for who it harms and what it destroys, and ceasefires do not undo the damage already done.

#yeah this turned into an essay but its been cooking in the back of my brain all day #not to give david cage too much credit but by god if this game doesnt kill me every time #dbh #d:bh #detroit become human #dbh kara #dbh alice #dbh meta #character analysis #plot analysis #detroit: become human #kara dbh #look the whole “remain as you are and what you are meant to be”#vs “change and become who you want to become and what you feel is right” realy got to me but this #this was a complete accidental blindside while trying to unlock every part of the flowcharts #the dbh brain worms are back from hibernation and goddamn if they arent a devastating invasive species #psuedobirds

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qoldenskies · 4 months ago

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what's your separated au about? :0

WHERE WE WENT WRONG ASK SPOTTED [LOCKS IN]

okay essentially without going into spoiler territory (it all seems kind of typical but there's a lot of twists and turns i have planned!!! trust me)

VERY basic premise, with leo/donnie with draxum and raph/mikey with splinter. i'm going to keep leo and donnie's names as they are for simplicity's sake and say that at one point they just decided to use the names their bio father gave them when they asked draxum for like... Actual names, they were probably just numbered before. they both have kind of messy complicated relationships with him

^^^ draxum is a pretty shit parent but im not going to make him super abusive (its fine when people do, im just going for the more nuanced approach!!). he's very goal-oriented and for a long time he's struggled to see the weapons he created as people, although he never outright Abused them. he was pretty emotionally neglectful and hard on them when it came to training/pushing them into their roles, and over the course of the story he's going to grapple both with humanizing them and also descending into a spiral of paranoia as things go on (all im gonna say about what's going on with him right now)

personality alterations are more subtle in some places and more obvious in others. raph is a lot more serious and overprotective, mikey's very similar to his canon characterization but he's a lot more rebellious and determined to prove his own independence, and donnie's actually very blunt and deadpan to counteract leo being UHHHHHHHHHH. hmmmmm. an insane person!! (lmao raph/mikey are dog-coded in the way that mikey is an excitable puppy and raph is an old sad sheepdog, and leo/donnie are cat-coded in the way that donnie is a cat that stays in high up places and glares at you, and leo is the type of cat that rolls on its back and looks cute and then ATTACKS when you try to pet it. thats the best way i can summarize them)

donnie was very much the family stickler on his side of the equation and leo was unruly and untameable, but that kind of... switches after some things happen. leo becomes complacent out of fear (he is so complicated and fucked up god bless) and donnie changes his priorities after he meets mikey.

because essentially the core of the story is that donnie and mikey being the youngest of their families, with overprotective older brothers who are actually kind of more reliant on them than the other way around, want to connect and actually be a family (as well as stop the conflict going on) but raph and leo REALLY DO NOT WANT THEM TO.

and i mean REALLY. really really. raph distrusts donnie and hates leo and leo DESPISES both raph and mikey (disaster twins are really codependent and its gonna shine through), so there's really just opposition on every side of the equation. things turn out alright in the end, but it's.... a long, long process. there's a point in the story where they have to do the unlocking ninpo thing and it takes so much longer and it is so much worse and its such a fucking mess LMAO

wow i love my sep au (one man's junk but with more crying and blood in it)

if things go according to plan it'll start after i finish canary continuity, i already have it all outlined. its just beginning stories that is kind of a struggle for me so the first few chapters are gonna be hard. even though i KNOW what im doing bleckgh.

#ask #where we went wrong #rottmnt #a lot of sep aus up donnie's general manic insanity which is BASED and i love that shit #but i am going to make him so dry he is a constant dgaf kind of person #he says the most insane shit straight-faced #it also means he's kind of accidentally rude. type of person to walk away in the middle of you trying to talk to him #its a really fun balance with leo who is getting all the manic insanity instead... you know how he turns his obnoxious bullshit up when hes #-just upset and coping? imagine that but constant. and worse #i want to bounce him like basketball he sucks so bad #he also takes the longest to turn around on the whole becoming a family thing #for a lot of reasons #also i havent mentioned april but shes very much a character here too!! dw #cassandra and karai both also get a lot to do in the plot (big mama too kinda) ... i love women #also if you wanna ask more questions im open to it!! i just have to be vague about some of the big stuff teehee

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tempestmothstorm · 5 months ago

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Ok since Monika still has her admin powers in the side stories you think she could just discover them accidentally or use them without realizing

Anyways au where Monika and friends discover her admin powers but dont know about the wider context of what it means. So they just go around thinking Monika has magic and try practicing with a bunch of silly fun shenanigans because they figure it’s some chosen one bloodline stuff and not like. A product of their reality being a constricted digital science experiment.

This au will not end well

#yeah she probably needs the epiphany to consciously use it but hypothetical aus are fun and the angst potential it plentiful #the beauty of this au is that it contains potential for both wacky slice of life escapades and soul crushing angst #they’re like doing a dumb 3am ghost summoning ritual and Monika accidentally does some admin stuff and they’re like ‘woah your magic’#and they research a bunch of other dumb stupid rituals and nearly set the carpet on fire #they like try to rob a bank or cheat on a test and nearly delete half a building #and then at some point Monika suddenly extends her admin powers too far and acts real despondent for no reason #because she ends up epiphany beaming herself and is even more conflicted than base game because she grows so much more connected to the club #it’s even worse because they were her whole world and she knows so much she sees how human they are but they just aren’t apparently?????#and while she can’t pull a base game and kill everyone for a nonexistent player she still goes through so much angst and like #the girls notice and want to help but don’t know how because she won’t tell anyone and she keeps avoiding them and like aauughhh #it would probably end with Monika doing something drastic and trying to reach out for anyone out there who understands #and idk maybe she’ll find base game Monika post act 4 and she’s like ‘what the heck why did you abandon your friends don’t to what I did???’#and maybe she could fix her mistakes???? maybe not??????? whatever’s narratively fulfilling #shoot this was supposed to be a short post for a silly au what have I done #this feels like the plot of a kids tv show where the plot randomly gets really dark on its fifth season #also realizing al lot of the same plot points happen in my fantasy au so I really gotta get to that too #ddlc #doki doki literature club #tempestmothtalk

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miladydewintcr · 1 month ago

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Has anyone talked yet about how Morrigan is literally named after an ancient Celtic triple goddess? Three distinct, powerful women who sometimes come together as one being.

I didn't notice exactly what they'd done with her on my first Veilguard playthrough (and tbh I am kicking myself over it now) but I do feel better about her merging with Flemeth, knowing that? Bc a triple goddess is 3 separate goddesses, that work well together.

And looking at it from that perspective, I feel like Morrigan hasn't become her mother at all, which is one of the main criticisms I've seen for her Veilguard story arc (Completely valid take ftr!! I also thought that too on my first run!).

I think, too, that this is why Kieran couldn't ever be in Veilguard (ignoring the fact he doesn't exist in some world states). Unlike Flemeth, who deliberately coerced her child into doing the dark ritual, who thrust her directly into danger, who placed such an inordinate amount of weight on her shoulders, Morrigan did the exact opposite with Kieran. She kept him away from everything in Veilguard. Knowing he has an old god's spirit inside him (just as she herself does now!), knowing he could probably help, she still kept him the fuck away. She kept him safe.

That was all Morrigan imo. There was none of Flemeth, in that.

#I think this is one of those things they planned to do from the start surely?? You don't name your character Morrigan and then #accidentally include a whole plot about her relative wanting to merge with her?#Like it's TOO specific this was PLANNED #Do I have issues with the execution? absolutely! but also it's a !!!! idea for a plot and when I realised it I was SCREAMING #morrigan #da:tv spoilers #dragon age: the veilguard spoilers #veilguard spoilers

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puppppppppy · 1 year ago

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what if i snapped and made an oc carrd

#i mean.... i could #this isnt the first time ive thought of doing it but i drop ocs so easily its not even funny. so idk if itd be worth it #id consider toyhouse or smth but i dont have money lol. right now everythings on artfight but thats more for drawing purposes #what ocs would i even talk abt... i have some standalones like auggie and ocs i think look cool but dont plan on using #but some others have their own stories.. not like a huge thought out plot but something i pick up and twirl around in my head #like luckys whole deal is being a hiking guide who accidentally gets tied up with some werewolves pretending to be a hiking group to eat pp #and then i have the magician rivals. although i kinda wanna tie theirs with the nightguard and thief story ive been cooking. maybe in the #same universe? it would be pretty funny if they lived in the same apartment complex since a couple stories i have in mind revolve around th #its like some sort of omnibus or anthology to me. kicks my feet #and then fan characters like xin ya and sleight who i want to have their own expanded lore and stuff. i think that would be cool #im making crow a powerpoint of xins updated lore but the assignmence are making it hard. hopefully it turns out good though #i have a hard time writing personality and xins is always the hardest bc theyre probably the least like me. i tend to stick to #characters similar to myself to get in their head. but bc their backstory affects their personality so strongly i have to do some thinking #anyway. hopefully i remember this later #yapping #oc #oc talk #ive also been playing neko atsume recently for nostalgia and why did we as a society ever stop playing it. its so chill #you just take pictures of silly little cats and leave them silly little toys and treats. and the music is cute

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blujayonthewing · 6 months ago

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SUPREMELY frustrating that we found something actually really cool and intriguing and plot relevant in tonight's session but I'm still so constantly preoccupied with whether the DM is going to 100% kill us with sheer poor game design that I barely have enough brainspace left over to even enjoy it

#the first half of the session was a random-off-a-rolltable encounter that had nothing to do with anything and gave us literally nothing #and used up all our resources and took a REALLY long time because it was-- you guessed it! another deadly encounter for some reason!!#that's 100% of the encounters we've had so far!#and EXPLICITLY not related to what we were trying to investigate AND creatures that drop neither loot NOR BODIES #(two wil o the wisps and a water wierd)#we did a lot better in this encounter but it WAS deadly going off CR #and the point is now we've done just a short rest and THEN found the Plot Thing-- which our bard used up a bunch of resources to access #SO NOW IT'S LIKE. OKAY LOOK. I WANNA PLAY IN THIS SPACE BUT YOU KEEP TRYING TO KILL US WITH THINGS THAT AREN'T EVEN IMPORTANT #ARE YOU ABOUT TO WHOOPSIE-DOODLE US INTO A TPK ON ACCIDENT HERE???#like... it FEELS dangerous and A Bad Idea to engage with in a way that paradoxically SHOULD mean it's safer in a game like this #like-- okay if this was ACTUALLY as dangerous as it feels we wouldn't BE here on session six. does that make sense?#like when justin had us encounter a lich at level two in session three and I was immediately like OH okay he must have a plan here.#clearly some Scripted Plot is going to happen because there's no other reason he would put us up against a lich three sessions in. you know?#we started dying immediately and I was not afraid at all as a player because I trust justin wouldn't do that for no reason #or be so stupid to have that happen accidentally #THIS CAMPAIGN HOWEVER.... I DON'T TRUST LIKE THAT!!!#ARE WE GONNA FOR REAL PERMADIE BECAUSE YOU WASTED ALL OF OUR RESOURCES ON A RANDOM ENCOUNTER FIRST AND YOU DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THAT #ARE WE GONNA FOR REAL PERMADIE BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T REALIZE WE COULD USE THE ITEM YOU GAVE US TO OPEN THIS DOOR WITH A 5TH LEVEL SPELL #I WANNA PLAY IN THE SPACE BUT IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE THERE'S ROOM FOR RISKTAKING WHERE THE BAD OUTCOMES WOULDN'T BE UNFUN CATASTROPHIC #AAAAUUUUGHHH #[shaking him violently] what do you mean that random encounter was a deadly encounter again what do you MEEEAAN #'oh huh this fight's taking longer than I thought' THEIR AC IS 19 AND THEY'RE RESISTANT TO NONMAGIC DAMAGE??#THE WATER WIERD KEEPS DISAPPEARING BACK INTO THE POND WHERE IT'S INVISIBLE??? MY BROTHER IN CHRIST HOW DID YOU EXPECT US TO DO IT FAST #hhhhhHHHH!!!!#I SHOULD BE THINKING AND TALKING ABOUT HOW COOL THE SECOND HALF OF THE SESSION GENUINELY WAS BUT I'M TOO STRESSED TO HAVE FUN #cannot stress enough that I'm in a million campaigns and I never have this problem with other DMs or with Highly Dangerous DnD Situations #melliwyk's party are in mortal peril constantly and it's... reaching a point where it's tiresome for how badly it's wearing on the PCs #but it rarely feels unfun stressful as a player playing a game #I never feel like the DM is about to accidentally end the whole campaign by bumblefucking us into a TPK at random #you know? it's different. this just feels unmanageable

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variantoutcast · 11 days ago

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I'm just so embarrassed by my 2 bosses picking up on the fact that my body is shutting down and my brain is on fire because I'm 2 seconds away from crashing out at any given moment at work but continue to trudge forwards anyways

#im just always almost losing consciousness when i raise my hands too high or stand too long and my pharmacy manager is like constantly #watching me for signs im about to drop and then he and i go at it bro #like we were going at it today and our boss the store manager was witnessing it and like i normally would not let my emotions come out like #that i normally burry them deep inside and just keep working but not today and the store manager he was trying to de escalate because i was #yelling at the oharmacy manager and he was goading me on #but the thing about me is if im proven wrong i will take that and move on and showed me i was in the wrong #and he was an asshole about it and idk if he knows this but if you prove me wrong and youre an asshole about it short circuits my counter #productive shame spiral vecause nobody had to be the bigger man we can all just move on its fine #we were both warranted in getting pissy and now were both going to go back to work #horrible management style for 90% of the population. but works wonders on me #and our store manager was just anxiously watching this go down 😭#but the thing is im not even embarassed about challenging my boss or being proven wrong im embarrassed that i was #OBVIOUSLY crashing out when it happened #what would normally be a snide remark and then intense eye contact between me and the pharmacy manager was a whole SCENE #bc my self control slipped #because im exhausted and scared and a little bit suicidal #and i revealed too much of myself that i didnt intend to here #my displays of emotional vulnerability at work are always carefully calculated to either be in my favor or further the plot #this was. neither. this was true ungaurded accidental melt down. im like. mortified

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smugraccoon137 · 2 years ago

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Okay but S2 Ep17 “Welcome to Storybrooke” is so fucking funny. Just Regina playing the same day over and over again for like a week. Until she’s like “This curse fuckin succkkksss”

Someone please introduce her to some antidepressants

And then a real ass child shows up, sits in her favorite seat and won’t move. Insults her lasagna. And shes like “What is this beast? I want one”

She straight up sabotages their car repairs. And then tries to arrest the dad for drunk driving. And then issues a high speed chase after man dad and his son.

Before letting said child run free. Traumatized and alone into the wilderness cus “oh well I’ll just get the next one”

#Girl what did you do to dad guy?#did you just dissapear his ass?#Gotta love Regina 'I accidentally traumatize children in my sleep' Mills #Also this whole show wouldn't have any plot if storybrooke had just one real liscensed therapist #holy fuck #once upon a time #ouat #ouat rewatch #regina mills #text #textpost #episode review #thoughts

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trentcrimminallybeautiful · 1 year ago

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yknow i have a lot of aus in my brain but the one currently spinning in my lobes is a stardust au. like. honestly it really works both ways like. i feel like thematically it's probably more appropriate for ted to be the star, changing trent's life forever, but my first thought was like. michelle asks ted to bring her a star, because he's always trying so hard to please her and she needs space and he will literally pluck a star from the sky if it means making her happy--only instead he finds a man where that star fell (he's beautiful, but ted tries not to notice) who's rather disgruntled with being on the ground, suddenly. and like. idk man i'd have to watch the movie again to really get into this au either way but i am just spinning it. slowly rotating it.

#like i appreciate that star!ted probably makes more sense but i just have this like #really really strong mental image of trent half on the ground #hair in his face and disheveled and in a crater and so far from home so alone. and he's just. glowing. shining #anyway there'd be a lot of logistics to work out--presumably michelle and ted are already divorced or can somehow work that out BEFORE #the whole burgeoning romance #and like. how do the kids fit in? i can definitely make henry fit but would crimmlet 😭#this is stupid probably but i just have the image of like when theyre with teh sky pirates #trent--a STAR--coming across a little stowaway #and yes that whole montage of like. swordfighting + dancing + bonding with the pirates but also trent. accidentally acquires. a daughter!#a whole daughter. that's an entire child #but like. this is beginning to really skew from the actual plot of stardust but that's okay i'm going off vibes #so like. trent is falling in love (something something star falling from the sky?) and he knows that ted is tryin gto bring him back #to the person he really loves #that he's a catalyst for ted's happiness but not the cause #and he expects ted to let him down gently #and like. he imagines a million ways it'll go and in the best ones ted still worries about him and wants to be his friend #and trent tells him not to worry because he doesn't want to go back to the sky anymore. he has a little girl to look after.#so they can still be friends. (and trent's okay with that! really!)#never in a million years does he think ted will choose him #also from michelle's pov this has got to be wild. you tell your ex husband you'll consider trying again if he brings her a star #bc that's insane but it'll get him off your back for a while #and then he comes back with some guy with fabulous hair and is like #good news! i found the star. bad--or. weird? weird news! i'm in love with him.#like. alright. that's one way to secure the divorce. cool.#oh so henry has a sister now? interesting. cool. cool cool cool. hey ted remember our therapi #like ted isnt actually trying to get michelle back you see hes trying to get NORMALCY back #his family with henry his happiness etc #and trent and co (THE PIRATES ARE THE PLAYERS ARENT THEY DKFJNFK) help him realize he cant go back #but he can go forward #tvtcau

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dullahandyke · 8 months ago

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Yknow I initially introduced 'sora busts blackquill out of jail and drags him on an illegal adventure against his will while he tries to both keep up his eeeeevil persona and take care of ? sora because this kid the same age as athena and he doesnt know this world' to keyblade revolutionnaire bcos I think its rlly funny but know what actually it fits. I'm facade of positivity and I'm facade of cruelty, the self-sacrificial suicide brothers.

#accidental nephew acquisition but he acquires you entirely on purpose and now you're being stalked by assassins #i also have thoughts about like. i dont think simon would have had the opportunity to find info on athena until he saw her in court #and itd b real juicy if he met sora first and then athena and was like what the fuck youve become like this kid i met #but idk where id go w it and also i think this is set like. after 5-3 maybe During 5-4 or near enough to it #so he has been against thena in court so like the impact is lessened but still there #sora busts a gruff prisoner out of death row and the prisoner has a phd in psychology + is projecting his niece onto her #and then he actually is similar enough to his niece that it fucking works #also i think sora should also feature heartless despite being set in quadratum so simon can be a party member #so he can punch things in the head and go WHAT THE FUCK??????#kind of attached to their friendship now. so cutes #ive been treating the 'sora in aa' side w more levity than the 'thena in kh' one #bcos soras disappearance in kh is weighing on everyone and ppl r worried abt thena but she didnt publically evaporate #plus mid-aa5 theres not... a whole lot thena does??? like the blackquill suicide plot and robot takeover can still happen #so due to capcom misogyny her immediate disappearance doesnt cause any problems aside from Hey Athena Isnt Answering Her Phone

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eggs-can-draw · 2 years ago

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Magical girl Makoto is the adorable cheerful poster boy of the group who would never hurt a fly and cries out of pity for their enemies sake

Super magical hope girl Makoto can think of at least 17 different ways to kill you with just the items on your person and is currently deciding which he should use for maximum cathartic relief.

low confidence emotional support vs your life ends 7 seconds from now

#eggs can answer #eggs can art #firedemongaming #makoto naegi #the whole team has to be in on it for super magical hope girl naegi form to work if even one of them isnt on board the magic will fail #he'll start the transformation and a little flag on a stick will pop out of the magical girl gun tm that says “BANG!!”#is it bad that I came up with a plot for this?? I love magical girl animes so much guys #im thinking like. when you hit a motivation breakthrough moment you get a magic accessory related to your talent that lets you transform #naegi got his when he accidentally saved a cat from getting hit by a bus or smth #he got home and went “oh thats a magic rock OH GOD THATS A GLOWING MAGIC ROCK”#he's roomates w/ gamigiri n in the following episodes tm they have character moments n transform n stuff #usami is a special magical girl sidekick mascot who tells naegi what hes gotta do then dips #his misson: Evil Magical Girl of Despair Junko is trying to resurrect the Dark Lord of Despair Izuru n Naegi has to stop her and her #legion of corrupted magical girls (the RoDs) also Hajime and Nanami are Magical Girls (Hajime is a weaker magical girl since he doesnt have #a talent but he makes up for it in hand to hand/physical combat) they're like the cool senior magical girl duo who are in it to save their #friends (the RoDs)

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evanatsuhi · 2 years ago

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i wish onk was good ai as a character is too interesting for that manga

#girl who struggles to have genuine meaningful connections with people enters an industry where the whole point is to sell #a false image of yourself where you convince people that you have a genuine meaningful connection with them #and then dies because a fan thought they had a genuine connection with her with her last words being her expressing her genuine love for #her kids. why was this manga accidentally interesting #but then the basis of the whole thing is 'FAN OF TEEN IDOL IS REINCARNATED AS HER CHILD?!?!?!?!?!' and doesnt stop being weird about it. ok #like i dont even care about the patricide thing my sole issue with it is the reincarnation plot point its just. so #.txt

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unproduciblesmackdown · 18 days ago

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yeah speaking of the most personal instrument of death / brutal vengeful catharsis gay sex foil confrontation. the musician gets got by lo cocodrilo? respectively, give him a kiss

#bsol #obv wouldn't happen in canon for various reasons. i wouldn't ask it to nor would i even say express this via a fic w/One Change thusly #but i would express it in a post. add a layer of Hmm >:/ ah jeez And i'm gay #already dealing w/the Emotional Defeat of [lo cocodrilo's approach fails & he's known/knows it And he's been failing At It]#as per the nature of ''the conflict w/the antagonist provides a protagonist's emotional conflict w/himself in ways'' final confrontation #just also a whimsical doubling down on ''& i don't even want to kill You / won't if i can help it'' + dealing w/defeat And gay awakenings?#imagine. though also i do already hold a pinch of that re: AU where that all happened but deaths were Figurative / Emotional only #introducing you to This special little guy leaping into frame accidentally shooting you [see: figurative / emotional deaths]#in which case i have More Ideas b/c like hey i have ideas for like yeah sure everyone express themselves via gay sex here #but i just personally am not that enthused (not an understatement. nor overstatement. i just mean Not That Enthused)#about the musician / lo cocodrilo. that doesn't mean completely unengaged like yeah there they go as hero / [hero to villain] Foils. nice #the musician just as protagonist & Funny but still representing the As It Were more stoic hardass spaghetti western hero has me like Okay.#the musician / [anyone] like i'm at all engaged; processing; nodding okay like it's inevitably plot & theme pertinent lol #i'm just also not enthused. the musician has all the Factual Textual connection w/banana that is indeed entirely queer even without having #to overlook or change the more normatively premised central relationship with his wife who is kidnapped & that kicks off the plot #but wherein the musician saves banana first thing as like a parallel to saving his own wife; has the friendship song which would not need #to be altered to be a love(tm) song though that doesn't make it necessarily romantic neither/nor not friendship; considers banana living #with (or adjacently to; not made crystal clear) him as part of his ideal life; all Is What It Is like nice got it....not Married to him &#is not interested in at least certain physical intimacy as comparable to Romance Associated intimacies? well how handy #for me to rush in with toppling bowling pins sound effects & grab the funny little guys w/the Failed Efforts At Normative Married Life #wherein i do not then go ''time for their exclusive romantic relationship'' But neither of them are in one already; how helpful #also a whole other idea: in just about anything; throw around kisses on the mouth as Comma type punctuating moments willily nillily. whyn't #that note on the mysteries like there's Too Many Kisses it loses impact. sure probably part of Each Scene By Different Playwrights but #consider this. that reflects the [each scene by different groups] of original mystery cycles. also nondramatic / ''important'' kisses? sure #mwah

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yanchive · 9 months ago

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Man, I've been obsessed with the isekai trope lately. I've been imagining a scenario where the reader gets isekai'd into a yandere romance story as a side character. You're not the main character or a love interest. You replaced a nameless character who was solely created in the story to be killed off by the yandere love interests to further the plot.

After realizing that's the role you took on, you devise a plan to re write the story to keep yourself alive.

In the official plot, your death was the cause of getting too close to the main character. Your positive relationship with them was considered a threat to the yanderes, and so they wiped you out of the picture.

So, as any semi intelligent individual would do, you decided to avoid the main character completely.

I'd like to imagine the reader wasn't well informed of this story, didn't know who the yans were, and accidentally befriended them before they even got a chance to develop any feelings for the main character. You jumped into their lives before the events that led into the original storyline. Earning their trust and unfortunately causing some peculiar emotions in them to develop.

This fucks up the whole plot. I mean, that was your plan. You just weren't trying to fuck it up so bad that you unintentionally attracted multiple yans who decided you were the perfect match for them. You were a joy to be around. You were far more intertwined in their lives than the previous main character ever was. It was generic with them and their story. A boring, "yan see's their darling from afar for the first time and falls in love on sight." Type plot.

But with you, it was so much more personal. They grew to love you for way more than just your looks. They got to know you as a person before any sort of feelings of devotion could form.

This made their efforts to claim you so much worse than they ever were in the original plot. They were much more sinister and brutal. They usually only did massive amounts of stalking, blackmail, and the occasional murder when it came to the canon story, whereas they went all out for you.

Kidnap, murder, torture, blackmail, stalking, theft, harassment, etc. Everyone around you was a threat in their eyes. Everyone around you didn't deserve you.

By the time you realized what you've done, what you've created, its far too late to fix your mistake. You attempted to break off the friendships, avoiding them at all costs, closing yourself off and spending your time trying to find a way back to your original world.

But they don't take kindly to that. Not after everything you guys have been through. Before you could find the key back home to your world, you'd be whisked away, having your new world be the confines of your yans humble abode, away from society.

Bonus option: You attempt to bring the original main character back into the plot in hopes they could redirect the yandere back into chasing them and get them off your back. But why would they need this stranger? They don't know them like they know you. And they could care less to even try to get to know them. So, the original main character ends up taking on the role you were supposed to be. The side character who was meant to die to further the plot.

You're the main character now.

#yandere #poly yandere #yandere isekai #yandere scenarios #yandere imagines #yandere x reader #yandere x gn reader

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