#hi swansea

[nursexanya]

”Odessa…” She’d heard the name tossed around, but never actually met the woman.

But it was a start! They had a location, or at least a better idea of one, which meant there was still time to apprehend them, still time for Anya to… she didn’t know. She didn’t know how to make this better, how to find a way to forgive, or understand, or accept, but there had to be one, right? She wasn’t a bitter person. She was kind. She could find a way to let this resentment twisting in her gut go.

”I’ve only ever been to my medical,” Anya confessed, though she felt oddly unsettled by the thought of stepping back in there. She reached her free hand to touch her face, the blood still feeling wet and sticky and fresh. She shuddered.

She trusted Swansea to lead the way, though, and wasted no time following him as fast as her wobbly legs would let her, still leaning on his arm.

this thread is getting too long so it’s branching off time <3

”Stay still— Wait— please stay still—“ Anya begs as she tries to hold Jimmy down to the bed, but she knows well, by now, that nothing could be easy for her.

He falls and she can’t catch him, she can’t even bring herself to try. Blood trickles to the floor in scattered drops as he drags himself back up, towards Curly, and for a moment she watches in fear of what he might do.

But he only cries and mutters things she can’t even begin to make sense of, and for a moment, Anya is still, only watching as he weeps to his Captain.

Then she sees more blood trickling onto the floor, and remembers she has a job to do. She grabs a roll of bandages from the cabinet, but hesitates to get any closer than she has to. She looks back at Swansea, then at Jimmy and Curly, then at the bandages in her hands. Once again, she’s useless.

She takes a tentative step forward, then another, then slowly reaches for Jimmy’s shoulder, “I- You’re bleeding,” She tries, wondering if he can even hear her, “I need to take care of that.”

( @swan-and-bolts @curlygrant44 @cptjimmy yall lmk if anything needs changed!!)

[koobiie]

based on that one q&a... i'm a sucker for a pokemon crossover

[arquinx]

Thinking about the meaning behind Curly ignoring the dead pixel Anya points out to him while Swansea shatters the whole screen with an axe after finding out what happened to Anya oooooooh I love this game so much

[furiouskettle]

*ponies your express*

[nursexanya]

Aww.. well… you wouldn’t be dying on my watch!

it’s her narrative to control

[angstflavoured]

this game was so unbelievably fire, thank god for indie devs

(vv close ups below)

[bananamaxpng]

Mary of Tulpar

[seraphzrequiem]

Another sketch that i will never finish. This game is just perpetually on my mind now, for better or for worse 😭

[geoffparty]

i think im liking daisuke trans hc a ltitle too much Okay byeee

[bloodbluepearl]

i feel like people don't talk about the impactfulness of swansea immediately ditching his sobriety when he found out that the mouthwash had an alcohol content.

from the very beginning, he was accepting the idea of not getting out of the situation alive.

it takes a strong man to commit to sobriety, especially after 13 years of (presumably) heavy alcoholism, and an even stronger one to remain sober for 15 years, though he hadn't done it for his own enjoyment- that thought of him dead in some ditch somewhere because of some accident or another made while he was drunk out of his mind scared him into it, and pushed him to his decision. he enjoyed his time while drunk, but he knew that he wouldn't make it anywhere in his life and he knew that his time was running out (in many ways: he was getting older, so he would have less of his life left to steer himself in the right direction, and also the amount of alcohol he was drinking could kill him any day at that point, especially as he got older), so he put in the effort to try and 'better' himself- clean himself up, get everything he thinks 'successful' and 'happy' people have, and get sober.

of course, this doesn't make him a happier person, as much as he felt like it should. that was the entire point of his speech before his death- everything he worked for was a lot less exciting when he finally achieved it. but he stayed sober, because he knew that, in a more objective sense, outside of any of his own personal feelings about himself and his life and what he actually enjoyed, he was better off that way. he had more opportunities in life, he could keep a job, and he could maintain his relationships with his wife and kids much better than he could if he was still an alcoholic.

but when the ship crashed, he accepted that it was likely his final resting place, probably from the very beginning. he'd already had his shot at life, he already tried his best to be a model 'functioning member of society', and it was every bit as unfulfilling as it possibly could be. and now he was reaching his mid-life, or even late life. there wasn't much time left for him to be able to try and work toward an invisible goal of 'true happiness', whatever the hell that means. the way he saw it, he'd already lived his whole life. nothing more for him to do.

so when he found out that there was alcohol in the mouthwash, he barely hesitated a second. he drank it because THOSE were the best days of his life. he no longer worried about what kinds of consequences that such a relapse could cause, because at that point it didn't matter. he didn't care about continuing to live his 'model' life because that ship was his grave. he didn't have to worry about how it'd affect the relationship he had with his family, he didn't have to worry about being unable to get a job because he couldn't go half a day without drinking, he didn't have to worry about turning up dead in a ditch because of some mistake caused by his inebriation- it didn't matter in the end. the six months of food supply would run out far before the alcohol could kill him.

he did not for a second consider the possibility of him escaping the ship, even though he was the only person (for the majority of the game) that knew about the working cryo pod. it was never for him- he saw it as being a waste if he got in himself.

he'd already run his course. he would rather save it for someone with more potential to get somewhere in life, someone like daisuke or anya.

[nono-uwu]

Don't know what possessed me to doodle these but oh well

Spoilers and incredibly mild cartoony gore utc

[nursexanya]

Not to be a bother, but I managed to cut my hand. Mind if I come over and get it patched up?

It’s not that deep or bleeding profusely, so it’s not a large worry. It can wait, honestly.

— Swansea [@swan-and-bolts]

Please, come on in! You’re not a bother, it’s my job, and I’d hate to leave you hurting. I don’t mind at all.

[chipchopclipclop]

few more scratchings before i forget about them

[antxnous]

i spent 15 real minutes looking for the fire axe

[dragonroilz]

[verdantwyrm]

I went through every single texture in the entire damn game and I couldn't manage to isolate it. But this is all I could find besides his burnt card. So there's that and the other's cards. The unburnt versions are slightly lower quality.