#anyway hi mootie ur brain is so fucking huge

[jimcurl]

Genuinely I'm so obsessed with Toringo's childhood friends AU. This is exactly what I was thinking about when I say I wonder what their relationship was like before the beginning of the game.. There's an entire history we will never ever see and all we will ever get to know about it are snippets we get from the devs during QnAs.

more chatting under the readmore. cw for child abuse/SA mention (just discussion of canon)

I adore how it explores more about why Curly and Jimmy are so Like That. A majority of the analysis I see about the game chalks it up to just how shitty rape culture is and how men don't take SA seriously or would rather protect their abuser male friends than ever take a woman seriously (ignoring how shitty capitalistic and awful of a company Pony Express that is extremely evident in the game and shown in nearly every poster and at least half of the dialogue in the entire game which is also a major component in how Curly chose to handle things)

I don't think they were friends since like. actual childhood but I enjoy the thought Immensely. I headcanon that they definitely at the very least were friends since early adulthood or from their teens. And Jimmy is textbook "shit family shit opportunities shit life and becomes a shit person" kind of character. How do you not feel bad for your friend when a fraction of the time you see him he's been beat to a pulp and left out on the street by his own family. Imagine if Curly was there at least one night to watch Jimmy get the snot beat out of him by the people who were supposed to protect and nurture him. How do you not feel bad for him? When you've witnessed first hand how he's genuinely never been given a fucking chance at life. Ever.

God.