#game char

[insiderzx]

Irelia - League of Legends

[lynaiss]

After Tearstone Island 💧

[mayoiayasep]

its kinda crazy how there are so few gacha games with black characters bc the amount of shit you could do with the hair??? you could have alt hairstyles for days like why has no one capitalized on that yet

[rednightmare18]

It's not even about the vindication of calling a ship, okay. It's that the supposedly anti woke studio wrote about 3 million words of medieval fiction centering the relationship of the two main characters who are in most ways (or in all ways if you follow the obvious canon momentum of the story) meant for each other, as counterparts who help each other survive the great travails of their lives and who challenge/complete the other to become fuller, braver, kinder people. It's so clear these two people are soulmates, platonically or romantically, something observed consistently by the world around them and by themselves.

Except their society (feudalism, Catholicism) dictates that they are intended to be completely incompatible by nature and divine law. Not just for the obvious fact they are both men, but they are separated by what is arguably an even steeper chasm of social class. Their existence even as friends utterly spites, interrupts, and threatens feudal order right down to its theological and philosophical roots. They should not see each other as human and yet.

It's the fact that they do. The fact that the entire story has been about this--that these two protagonists fit together, undeniably, and grow to love each other fiercely (a love that deepens superbly from their knee-jerk playful puppy-friend-love in kcd1 to something selfless and mature by the end of kcd2). And they do so despite the immense opposition by their world, their social circles, their faith, and indeed their fandom.

And yes, it really does fucking matter that all of this culminates into a deep onscreen romantic love (if you get out of the way and allow it to) between two fandom-beloved male main characters (not just side characters rammed in for an optional gay romance but THE main characters of the duology; the "you" as in the player character and your erstwhile dick-jokes bro you have perhaps grudgingly at first been invited as the audience to love) in a historical fiction story that has been wrongly touted by the worst of our contemporaries as the holy grail of cultural conservatism.

Holy shit. Warhorse -- y'all. I'm sorry I doubted you. So few game writers understand how love works and indeed how people work, let alone translate it so well onto the screen.

Calling this an "optional romance" is not technically incorrect, I suppose, because it's true you can opt out and choose to remain platonic friends. But this language feels like a disservice, as if Henry & Hans's romance is a typical RPG wham-bam fanservice makeout with a minor fan fave character who never interacts meaningfully with the player again. Or as if it's a Bioware-style "give this NPC the right gift and do their side quest and you get to see a jankly ugly-bumpin' montage" situation.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is so very much not that. The "main, optional" romance scene in question is just one consummation event of two people who have been growing up and falling in love in front of us over the course of some 200-300 (or god knows how many) hours. The fact these protagonists openly love each other is very much not optional.

This is, sincerely, groundbreaking storytelling in this medium and this genre. How fucking cool that we all got to see it now.

[blurbery]

you needed somebody

baby put it on me

i can be that body

[suntails]

strength and nobility

[filmtvtoday]

Jena Malone as Johanna Mason The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

[usergif]

Katniss Everdeen & Johanna Mason

"We're sideswiped by a gurney bearing an unconscious, emaciated young woman with a shaved head. Her flesh shows bruises and oozing scabs. Johanna Mason. Who actually knew rebel secrets. At least the one about me. And this is how she has paid for it." – Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins

[arsuf]

"You might have made me what I am, but I can be so much more than what you created me to be." 🧛

[st-hedge]

That emo guy from the sekiro game

[sunsetdeathcity]

a shiny mirror. you see your family smiling warmly around you.

[martyryo]

something something the ways of the miracle

[tamymew]

Guys. Guys guess what happened in the last 2 weeks-

spoilers for the ending of in stars and time AND two hats below (vic, bestie, if you're reading this and continue reading and spoil youself I WILL murder you <3) :]

anyways! headcanon time! so what if. what iif after the ending sif and loop really did become one and now loop lives in sif's head- and and. wha. what if! everytime loop fronted, their tail glowed? :] now. Why do they have a tail, you may ask? Ha! Well! You see! runs away without elaborating

[charredbun]

ofc a big focus of the fanbase and for clinical trial and the game itself is angel and lee's dynamic, the trauma angel experiences, and the game's sort of twist end, but i'd love to pay more attention to the initial concept youre introduced to in the game as well.

one of the reasons this game caught my attention and that i decided to watch a playthrough of it (manlybadasshero i adore you) was because of the combination of working in medicine and having been diagnosed and being treated for adhd since childhood.

i've been on what feels like almost every ADHD medication and i gave up a few years ago because nothing was worth either the side effects or the cost (for me specifically, don't let my experience stop you from seeking medical care). the idea of a biweekly injection or an implant is FASCINATING to me.

then after that, the discussion of psychiatric healthcare, insurance, how the medical system isnt set up for patients so much as it is for those profiting off of it.. i'd love to see more pieces of media that explore that in the intimate and personal way that clinical trial did. it's not easy being neurodivergent, much less having comorbid mental illnesses. add being trans or queer and it can feel impossible navigating the medical system in the US (speaking specifically about the USA bc thats where i live and where the game is set). i want the world to become easier to live in for people like us, and i feel like a good first step is to continue to criticize and share our experiences.

[commanderogerss]

dogmeat found something

[dalvs-wife]

as her hands gingerly held the capsule, she could almost feel the warmth of a child's embrace.

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