#diana marmont

[a-finnish-janitor]

The Dark Presence, looking at the computer generated nonsense Diana Marmont is trying to pass off as Wake's writing

[sirgalahadbt]

If I had any clue what was waiting for us in there, Saga, I would have just kept on driving.

[meontix]

>take a deep breath and..?

[chthonic-kids]

The Lake House was underwater. The Marmonts' ambitions had finally been realized. Jules had dangled the painting like a lure and hooked an ocean. Their machines couldn't hold it. A fault in the system. The water rushed in. Filled it until it was ready to burst. All their successes and failures had led them here. The work had made them into monsters. But the Lake House was still theirs. It always would be. They could feel an outsider trespassing in their labs. "I know you're here." they called to the dark. They hunted, floor by floor. They wouldn't let the intruder stop their progress. This was their home. Their beloved tomb beneath the waves.

[velvetjune]

The Lake House | Alan Wake 2

Their first years at the Lake House were good. Challenging, but not insurmountable. Not for them. Gradually, thoughts fell into their heads like drops of dark water.

“Why does she get all the credit?”

“Why does he get any credit?”

With that, a crack formed in the Lake House.

— Alan Wake

[solid-six]

"Why did you idiots think this was a good idea?"

[fangirloverlode]

I need you guys to hear me out

[annachibi]

5 Times Jules Marmont Destroyed A Darling Puppet And 1 Time His Wife Did It

fandom: Alan Wake

Jules Marmont channels his anger into beating up a puppet of Dr. Darling. As absurd as it sounds. Enjoy!

[fozzieosbourne]

[hullemmfer]

Short Scenes: 1997

Fandom: Control Rating: Teen Characters: Zachariah Trench, Casper Darling, Raya Underhill, Diana Marmont, Jules Marmont, Original Characters, Helen Marshall Ship: Casper Darling/Zachariah Trench, Pre-Diana Marmont/Jules Marmont Tags: Canon-Divergent AU, Prequel, Slice of Life, Dr. Darling has a "Playing Cupid" Moment Complete (Chapters 5/5) Series: The Trench Years

A series of short chapters that don't quite fit at the end of "We Were You Before You Even Existed" but take place within a few months of that story's end.

[bombshellsandbluebells]

One thing I'm so relieved with in Alan Wake 2 is the handling of female characters - especially Alice. The women of Alan Wake 1 were fairly lackluster: we have Barbara Jagger, a concept of a girlfriend more than a character, Rose, a pretty one-note fangirl who also just gets taken over by the Dark Presence for most of it, Cynthia Weaver - by far the best of all of them and one of my favorites, and then Alice.

Alice is so bland in Alan Wake 1. She's the classic hero's tragic wife who gets taken/killed early on to prompt him to save her. We get very little of Alice outside of her relationship to Alan. She's a plot device more than a character.

But I found myself so much more invested in her in Alan Wake 2. We get to see her photography - something that had mostly been introduced as a way she creates covers for Alan's books in the first game and now gets to stand alone as something purely from Alice. We get to see her process her fears and her traumatic experience through her art. We see her using her art to fight back against the thing haunting her. We see her as an artist in her own right and not just the wife of one.

I love the decision to only ever show Alice in videos - she feels real that way, and the choice to have her staring at the camera telling the viewer directly what she's going through and how she feels really worked to actually connect me to her. She finally felt like more of a person than just a concept.

And on top of that, we got so many other fantastic women.

Rose got more personality and agency - still a fangirl through and through but there's more to her than that now. She's hilarious and weird and runs around fighting shadow monsters because she thinks a dead author speaks to her through the clouds - and she's GOOD at it, actually. She knows what she's doing and how to protect herself and does what she can to help Saga along the way.

Saga is fantastic. She's capable and determined and good at her job, but also weird. She's excited to get a cult case. She finds a weird doll in the woods in some kind of ritual set-up and thinks it would make a good gift for her daughter. She's been psychic probably her whole life and just wrote it off as intuition. She's tormented with doubts and insecurities but the people in her life reassure her that's she's doing her best and has done so much for them.

Kiran is the tough government agent trope but as a woman, and I mean that in a good way. She gets to be a strong leader, kind of mean and annoying to deal with at first, stubborn, and capable. She has the bitter ex-wife who couldn't deal with her work. She bonds with Casey over marriage problems and drinking. She gets to shine in The Lake House, and I love it. Her role in the story would have been so easy to write as a man and they didn't go that route.

Remedy Games overall do still tend to have more men than women, but it feels like they're making a genuine effort to include more diverse, interesting women with every new installment, giving us more options to play as them, and I really appreciate it.

[cokedupblonde]

dream dress

[wowwforever]

"Jules and Diana stared in disbelief at the flashing sirens. Spinning red lights wound with increasing speed, tables at a roulette wheel with no winner.

Beneath the lake, a different gamble was occurring. The introduction of interactive content was a temporary truce, a shot in the darkness that neither thought would succeed. Open-world, independent, horror and fantasy - all genres were failures that unified the Marmots, until one broke through.

Funding went missing from the Lake House. The trapped water Jules and Diana had temporarily mended flooded out. Neither knew the real culprit until it was too late. Water was flowing in, money was flowing out. The Shadow had become addicted to collecting cartoon characters, virtual gachapon. With the seemingly useless bait, the fishing hook had pulled in the entire ocean, sending the Shadow in a furious rage into the Lake House.

The lights died, and as the Marmots were pulled into that perfect, swirling darkness, one final thought from the Lake seeped into their minds.

'No five star pulls.'"

[veryfancydoilies]

Me when Dr Diana Marmont said that Hartman’s was “sloppy” and showed no regard for the scientific method: DRAG HIM

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[aerynlallaboso]

#love this op!#lake house dlc#alan wake 2 spoilers#the AW chalk board in Quantum Break also says that: ‘she can survive without him; he cannot survive without her’#also thought about this with ​the page Ed wrote of the Marmonts being at a lakeside cabin with marriage problems before Scary things happen#Alice and Alan are reflected in so many strained or destructing relationships lol#the Bookers; Casey and Estevez being divorced; Saga with David when reality was changing; Night Springs DLC Lisa/Actor#and all of them had to do with their jobs conflicting with their marriage in some way 😅#sorry for the essay in the tags op

nooo i love tag essays also thank you for pointing out the lakeside cabin page i totally skimmed over that one! i really enjoy how many ways alan/alice's fucked up relationship gets refracted and paralleled... divorce ❤️

i still haven't had time to replay but one additional tidbit i noticed checking name meanings (bc RCU characters love to have meaningful names) is that diana commonly means divine or heavenly, which aligns neatly with alice ('noble')

aw2 lake house spoilers /

i really love how the marmonts are like. evil divorced alan/alice

i've only played through once so far but the first place it really struck me was this email late in the dlc, specifically the 'you always needed me more than i needed you' because it lines up exactly with what remedy have said about alan & alice's relationship (in the aw1 commentary), that he needs her more than she needs him

their background is similar in that they graduate and head off to their new jobs as co-heads of research (alan and alice hitting new york 'dedicated to/by their creative ambitions') but things fall apart for them because diana feels that jules is mismanaging things and getting too much credit (any credit) for their work -> mirroring alan's career kicking off and alice's being sidelined. jules's project also seems to be the one that ends up working (albeit with terrible consequences). the implication that alan might be responsible for their relationship falling apart via the manuscript is really interesting because. well. he was (primarily) responsible for his and alice's relationship falling apart prior to aw1... wonder if he's projecting a little

i have to replay to dig into it more but some other smaller things i noticed:

jules getting diana to participate in the elevator video up top parallels to me alan getting alice work doing covers for his books - it seems on the surface like a husband/wife collaboration, but it's more about the husband's personal public presence than a joint production (see also jules's? posters being everywhere... i assume they're his initiative bc his face is on one of them, but diana's is not)

jules doesn't really look like alan in person but me & a friend both mistook the bust in his office for alan initially LMAO

the nut allergy email plotline reminded me inadvertently of alan's skepticism towards stuff like homeopathy (noted by barry in the first game) turned up to 11 - jules is passive-aggressive about it rather than aggressive but he's still, in the same vein as alan, someone who is very dismissive towards stuff he doesn't believe in