#faydings

[daftpatience]

original

[laughingpinecone]

Many many thanks to the funky patron who gave me the opportunity to make this old idea come true! The scenario is near and dear to my heart and, I figure, to Harry's as well... (Kim fixed Lamby's missing eye btw)

[yekokataa]

🔥 Kim

did you know that it's possible to play as a fascist, end the game with kim defending you, invite him to join the 41st and he'll accept? that's not an unpopular opinion but it is an uncomfortable bit of canon that no one wants to engage with.

[shegoesbyjoy]

the quiet show of support from kim despite his own nerves... the playful ribbing between the two of them... the image of kim lending a crying harry his handkerchief, doing what he can to dry this broken man's tears....... these moments are really making me feel some type of way alright

[thegrimreaperisanerd]

I think about this passive ALL THE TIME. Approx 8 in ECHEM to get a lil' nugget about Kim RIGHT at the end of the game.

Over a week, 1 - 2 bullets, a new bestie, and an EXTREMELY rewards-pathways-focused Harry to have him consider that Kim might be "naughty" in the bedroom.

[pand0monium]

yall im gonna have egg head thoughts he's so fascinating to me. he joined the speedfreaks by literally just following them home like a lost puppy. andre says he "mostly communicates through music". he adopts whatever political ideology you think he should have with very little convincing. he's "older than you thought he was". he wants to make the club without drugs and refuses to let you go back on your word about it. it takes you a couple minutes to even get him to drop the MC facade. he gets weirdly excited about the chemicals in the tent blowing up. what is your deal boy

[pierpointco]

RR: It's a bit of bounce. It's what makes me good at my job.

[basketgays]

I don’t think we as DE fandom talk enough about Pussy-Boy Titus.

810: WHIRLING F1 / RHETORIC WC

This whole conversation in itself deserves attention - the fiddling, Rhetoric’s “so gooooooood...”, Kim’s “my partner was a violinist. many of us were...”, Titus’ reaction being genuine confusion because he is “old fashioned”, “pussy boy man”???

[drinking-tea-at-parties]

I think about this post on a near daily basis and the thing that really gets me about it is that NOT ONLY does your Kim Points(TM), but YOU CAN ONLY GET THIS DIALOGUE IF HE ALREADY FEELS POSITIVELY ABOUT YOU.

If your reputation with him is negative or zero, you get this instead:

HE WILL ONLY THINK ABOUT HARRY WRESTLING A BEAR IF HE LIKES HARRY. I AM NOT NORMAL ABOUT THIS.

[nonknowledge3]

[suresne]

i had never seen kim's end-of-day debrief dialogue if you never picked up the other snakeskin shoe and.....omg???

[Og] * 138. Kim Kitsuragi - "Alright, but -- and, forgive me, this has been bothering me since this morning -- how have you managed to run around all day *wearing only one shoe*?" [Og] * 164. You - "I couldn't find my other shoe, and I refuse to wear shoes that aren't as cool as the shoe I'm wearing." [Og] * 200. Kim Kitsuragi - "Well, there seems to be a shoe that is a match to the one you're wearing further down the balcony." He points with his cigarette. "Perhaps you can collect it when we're done talking." [Og] * 143. Perception (Sight) - He's right. There it is, green and shiny under the glowing Whirling window... The sky above is dark and the lights sparkle. [Og] * 489. Kim Kitsuragi - "Imagine how much faster you could run wearing a cool patent leather shoe on *each* foot." He smiles suddenly.

"cool patent leather shoe"??? "he smiles suddenly"?????

kim. my boy. my darling boy. not to belabor the point too much, but....you want this messed up man so bad.

[revacholianpizzaagenda]

Apocalyptic squirreling

We're not, like, impaling these quotes like the proverbial shrike or anything, just hoarding them away in a nice stash. A collection of Disco Elysium tidbits about the end of the world compiled by @yekokataa and I, feel free to add!

...starting with the game's earliest teaser trailer.

(28 rather than 27 could be its own odd math, there's some miscounting in the text now and then just like there's the occasional typo, or it could follow the fact that the year of canon events was changed at some point. for that matter, the infamous 22 years to the nuke should be 21, like it originally followed that same 28 and wasn't edited - consistently, the variable it flags is ice.andre_hyper_rc_succ_28)

(this is an example of odd math to me, for the record, as it's 365x27 to the day. It could be it's the EXACT count and also that Elysium doesn't have leap years, but I would've expected a less precise number, personally)

:)

Ours has actual six thousand years of history: it spans from its own version of the early Bronze Age (Perikarnassian period) to the early Middle Ages (Franconigerian period), to the Renaissance (Dolorian period), right up to a decade we call “The Seventies”. It’s a world like ours, one that has evolved culturally and technologically over widely varied periods of time. No Truce With the Furies takes place in the modernity of this world.

(source)

Q: How tight is the connection between the book and the game? Is it a Witcher-like situation? KURVITZ: Things in this world are connected to each other like things in our world are connected to each other – not like things are connected to each other in Star Wars. The book and the game share themes and historical developments. The book is set in the early seventies and the game is set in the early fifties. They are connected the way two stories set in our world would be. The fault-lines developing in the fifties are more apparent in the seventies. The situation has worsened, the political climate has shifted, but there is no Skywalker saga. The main story in Elysium is history.

(source)

yes yes we've all seen the nuke convo but let's put it here for completionism's sake

This connection - saying 22 instead of 27, or 28 as the variable reminds us - could seem strange based on game data alone, but it neatly follows the context of the book, which shows us that the bombing of Revachol is one and the same as the material beginning of the end of the world.

This one is also a fun book throwback, from apocalyptic Kurvitz self-insert to apocalyptic Kurvitz self-insert

(being appreciative of that kind of future just nets you a YEEEAGH)

more personally ominous than globally ominous but ominous nonetheless

("we become vapour" being, of course, the planned title of the eventual Elysium tabletop setting rulebook. sigh.)

This one's intriguing, isn't it? With an eye to Le Retour...

Her echoes of the other dialogue options are similarly ominous, for the record.

And we don't know if Nilsen had visions of his own (the man sounds well-acquainted with his Half Light, on behalf of the war crimes, so it's not... entirely out of the question) but we do know that his pocket calculator lap cat second-bestie very much did and could've been his source.

Also a strong book callback, among other things. Remember kids: object permanence!

Harry, all these quotes like this one sound like they would make sense for the actual guy who goes and blows it all up, not you personal-

...ah yes. Ambrosius looms... yeah buddy it sure is solemn AND historical, I'm afraid:

and of course, in closing:

🥲

...for the remaining 276 pages of Elysium tidbits about the end of the world, of course, over here.

[klaasje]

ok i stared at the map some more and i have new theories (namely that grey straight lines = tram lines)

[tikiface]

This still fucks me up on the daily.

[revacholian-girl-utena]

I guess you could say we believe it *because it’s impossible*.

Alt text: Frames from the finale of Revolutionary Girl Utena with overlaid text.

1: Prince Dios lounges on the ground, looking disinterested. Text reads: YOU — "They think their success is a given."

2: The same shot from another angle, showing Akio mirroring Dios as he looks on with a fruity drink nearby. Text reads: "Yes."

3: Anthy bites her knuckle, tears in her closed eyes, looking torn. Text reads: "Whereas we understand"

4: Utena lying crumpled on the ground as the million swords bear down on her. Text reads: "that we'll almost certainly fail,"

5: Utena and Anthy's outstretched hands touching. Utena's hand is visibly bloody. Text reads: "which is what allows us the chance to succeed." End alt text.

[thegrimreaperisanerd]

Funniest possible HALF LIGHT check