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deadrocks · 6 days

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Played "Remember, You Will Die" this afternoon and really enjoyed it, while also feeling just this escalating dread? melancholy? frustration? pity? at playing an MC who feels so overwhelmingly trapped. Physically powerful, possessing a rare skill, and yet when people look at you all they is see a mad dog on a leash and all you can choose is whether or not to bark. If this sounds like a criticism I promise you it is not, quite the opposite. It added such a weight to little moments of choosing (relative) mercy, of looking for ways to achieve your goals that involved a little more finesse or discretion. Not to be "good" but to be something other than what everyone expects of you--to choose. To snatch at whatever little bit of autonomy came your way. Will be excited to play more of this as it's updated and to see at what point the MC will get to really slip the leash.

#i had more to say in this post but i got sleepy like 90 seconds into writing it and kept going anyway #but I have been thinking about these choices in particular because I read some old asks on the author's tumblr that were about like #whether or not the mc/merc could be a good person #when for me the feeling was much more like...deeply desiring freedom #and to break the face of the next character who referred to the mc as either a tool or a dog (also freedom i guess)#def of particular interest b/c the mc is a mercenary #the whole thing about being a merc is that you say yes or no to each job #you have your contracts and you have to fulfill them or you lose respect/work/your life #but you choose #and when the job's done you move on #whereas this mc is stuck with one main employer and no end to that arrangement in sight #so that feeling of being trapped is even stronger for me #and i'm fascinated to find out more about how the mc/merc got where they are #anyway def high on the list of IFs i'll be keeping track of going forward #while i spin both echo and dante around in my mind and try to decide which of them i like better

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