#harry DE

[hvoii-art]

I've spent more than 30 hours on these retirees.

[placeboelysium]

Based on this tweet:

[angstflavoured]

i need to become one of those cracked out DE painters right now bro

[space-dinosaurs]

so i made this new brush...

[lilyminer]

In Disco Elysium I’m fascinated by the role each of Harry’s partners (in the police sense, sorry Dora) plays in the narrative. As well as what both working relationships you witness say about Harry’s past and future.

Harry is one hell of a complicated character and it was such a smart decision to reflect who he is and who he can become through other characters perceptions of him.

Let’s go in order of when we meet them in game so let’s start with Mr. Kim Kitsuragi (pause for applause). No matter what you do throughout the game Kim can at least acknowledge one thing about Harry, he’s damn good at his job. Excluding any horrifically morally bankrupt playthroughs he slowly grows fond of Harry’s various character quirks and the little errands he runs around town to help people out certainly don’t hurt his perception of the man. Harry is still a mess but Kim helps you feel like you’re at least redeemable, that getting better is a journey worth undertaking. Kim is a logical man, he clearly sees that you’re a mess, but you’re a mess he can tolerate. In short Kim teaches you that Harry is a mess now but there’s hope he won’t always be a mess.

Then there is poor Mr. Jean Vicquemare. Jean’s perception of Harry is well supported in evidence, free of any illusions of optimism, and continuous for years before the time of the game itself begins. Jean is, by all accounts the narrative gives us, right about Harry. When I first played the game I saw him as kind of a downer, I just solved the case, found the phasmid, saved the day, yet this guy is still insisting I’m not good enough? But that’s just because I was still trying to see only the best in Harry. (I role played a bit too hard and ended up projecting a bit give me a break) Harry was horrible to the people around him for years before the start of the game. Jean is a reality check, he’s simply there to let the player know, solving this one case doesn’t fix how much Harry has hurt the people around him. And of course it doesn’t, it would be incredibly irresponsible for the game to even try to insinuate that.

But I really love how the game wraps this narrative dichotomy up. At the very end of the game (if you played in the exact same way I did. . . Whoops) you climb back into that cop car with both of these two men. You return back to the life you were living so destructively before with an embodiment of your past, your sins, your crimes, your cruelty which led so many people to grow sick of you. After all Harry will always carry the weight of the man he was before. But you’ll also return with the embodiment of your future, your hope, your skills, your virtues.

I think part of the reason the ending of Disco Elysium is so hopeful is that who Harry was before is not abandoned entirely. He has a past to answer for, you didn’t know that before but you do by the end of the game. But hope persists regardless. Whether that’s through the voice of Revachol itself or Kim’s endless patience with the mess he was assigned to work with. You need both, Harry needs both, and I think that’s kinda lovely to be honest.

[strangetimetravelcreator]

Tequila Sunset: Rise

[catboycooter]

[francis-ze-talking-france]

sooo I've been playing that disco game

[krissonlythoughts]

I finished the Harry cosplay but now I realize I have to show *me* so this got 100x more difficult (I got baby face syndrome) (also I am an actual child) (and DE Tumblr is full of ((semi)) cool adults)

[heavensickness]

[charleslovemustdie]

one of my top contenders for funniest lines in this game

[theanxiousbookdevourer]

A Collection of My Favorite Parenthetical Asides in Disco Elysium:

[placeboelysium]

The Kineema got a new interior wow awesome!

Original pic below:

[votive-candle]

29 / 08 / 2024 🪩💪🏽🌈

this is one of the stupidest things ive ever come up with! 💘

#suggestive #nsfw talk

[nonbinoclard]

[Smile widely and give him a thumbs up.]

original image inspo! and thumbnails for my bad memory hehe

[desertendroad]

literally wake up some nights in a cold sweat thinking about this