#honestly i have sooo much more i could say abt their design but i didnt wanna write a wall of text... a BIGGER wall of text

[doodle-dragons]

high time i made a ref for my bby gorl

[redswaberkez]

ayo whos ur favorite deus ex character btw nice art

ohhhhh GOD my time has come. and so have i (wRONG GAME)

tldr

i love "main" 7-8 of them equally. What is a main to me? ofc Adam, Frank, Megan, Malik, Eliza, JC and Alex D. One special place in my heart is for Vaclav

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Thank for compliment btw 😖

Spoilers alert ? idk

(warning my english is gonna be sometimes sooo rusty i guess)

DOUBLE WARNING I don’t rule out that over the many years of being in dxs fandom, the main concept of game's lore in my head just didnt messed up with my own headcanons. it is alteady messed up. cuz. yk) me n my besties created the full story aND - [GUNSHOT]

yeah i know it is strange to say, that dx has more main characters that just. Adam, JC and Alex D, cuz. They are Literally The Main chars. But back to my seven.

As i said before i love them all equally, for different reasons. One thing abt dx as a game is that characters arent plain and they are multifaceted.(?)

Adam

I love Adam for his complicated story, personality, for his own struggles, motivations and how they are represented in game. These small environment storytelling pieces and music that creates the mood (wait redswa it isnt abt the environment). What im trying to say. Through the gameS - dxhr and dxmd - we can see how Adam is healing from his trauma, and how heavy it was. Also needet to be noted how he interacts w another characters. AND this tension between him and Frank but how at the end of the day (but lit at panchaea) Frank is still cares a lot abt Adam.

Also Adam is just like my bestie. Moral think for yourself. Yeah.

Pritchard

ONE thing i need to say abt frank is HESSS JUST LIKE MEE FRR, and now imagine some kind of cringe sigma phonk playing on the background. Yeah thats it. I relate to him so much but like. in more✨deep infj cringe way✨ Have you evere feel like Pritchard is gonna explode from nerves or even neurotism? Or like from blast of incomperhensible mess of feelings but he hides it? This is what im talking about. Heyy dont judge me i need to project some shit to my faves okay???? Damn how could you tell i have a lot of hc on dx? i have no idea!

I love Pritchard's informality. I mean. BRO WHY YOUR BIKE IS EVEN ON YOUR WORKPLACE???? AND THIS FINAL FANTASY POSTER???? AND THIS TV INSTALLATION??? honestly?understandable.

In Prague, Frank is still reminds Adam abt himself. Yeah i knoe it is for game purposes, but imo in lore perspective: Pritchard is gathered a lot of info for Adam (basically dxhr retelling), and this small detail: Adam keeps Pritchard's book. (i know you can find them anywhere in Prague, but still (methink eidos gaf later abt this texture and put it anywhere jus because lmao))

This ^^^ is Frank btw

Ok enough abt Pritchard cuz then its gonna be endless

Megan and Malik.

Another notable thing that i like in dx series is that women in game arent sexualized. They arend "simple and f🤮ckable objescts" Megan is a scientist, on a verge of the greatest innovation. Yes. We dont know much abt her bc she is literally missing. Malik is a pilot. Damn i love her sm. Her chardesign. Strong and powerful charisma and nonconfotmity. Faridah's sidequest in Hengsha???? MY GIRLLLL GO AND GET AND BEAT SHIT OF THIS ASSHOLE. 👊👊👊👊

I remember how sad was i, when Malik was killed in dxhr and how happy was i to find out her little gift in Prague.

Overall kinda sad that there is not much screentime of them.

AND another notable thing. Megan and revolver. Revolver as an inspiration. OK I GOT IT

Eliza

Its 2028 and AI is already taken big steps in development. Questions of self-consciousness of an AI were asked in a lot of sci-fi creations. And deus is not not an exception. Love how Eliza obtains her own conscious during the game and how it leads to project Hyron at the end. I have a lot of thought abt p. Hyron overall. Another topic ngl.

And ofc her design is beyond all praise. Thank you designers for NOT making her oversexualized.

During dxmd Eliza is also questioning a lot of essential questions. I know she does. But cant remember what exactly it was. Need to replay tho

JC

My bad, i still cant play through dx original, so i can only rely on his vibes. His vibes are good and silly. He has big meme potential cuz hes test-tubed. Not sorry tho

bro im laughing and exploding from this meme like 3 yrs but RIGHT NOW DURING ANSWERING YOUR ASK I UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS IS SOYJAK REFERENCE AND NOW IM DYING LIKe x3 TIMES I WAS SO BLIND MY VISION WASNT AUGMENTED TILL NOW

Alex D

When my pc even didnt existed and i was a laptop player, when the grass was greener....... I played dxiw. Yeah it isnt so big, but for its times it is good enough. Alex also radiate vibes of small and silly-stupid-Bi guy, the one who is gonna trip on air.

(meme with pom dog says "I will gnaw out your heart and eat it")

Look at him. Hes got an ears, unlike his brothers, but he has ZERO braincells. JC and Paul at least got some braincells, maybe one, or two and they are belong to Paul. Cost of an ears = cost of brain

Alex tried to fool up an AI. I would venture to say that he even flirted with her, and got rejected. Local bidlow tried to gop-stop (bandits tried to steal) his jacked and he could give it to and be like "better be pissed on than punched😖"

Yes, He is a silly fool (noneg, with love) but hes got a big heart like. At least, i remember so.

And last but not least

Vaclav

Love him for his light distinctive punkie nature, with big heart and ready to help whenever you need it. Vaclav tries his best so much. In library we can find cz-eng vocabulary with medical terms, when ig most of his patiens are czechs... says a lot

I would say that vaclav is silly but not stupid, not even naive. We can find him on Dvali's blacklist, but he is important for them. (but we also remember that otar just dont like him cuz vac knows radich's secret and otar is not (mb that the reason why vaclav is blacklisted))

well how to say it.. he's soul is good and lovely, he is not evil or dark. Idk cant find an eng analogue.

But in srb and ru we have доброћудан [dobrochudan] (literally good-lovely) or добродушный [dobrodushny] (good-souly)

actually this gif sums everything abt him very well

Thank you for ask! I really liked to talk on this topic

[cielospeaks]

updated version!

"s"- still the best! honestly it was hard to find one that was updated so this was the closest i could get and elm basically is swappable from this to the "you deserve better" tier. but he is really fun, he just suffers from the bad plot and a less than ideal art style/neutral art. sooo :/

"really enjoyed their character"- surprisingly ylgr + helbindi are the only ones here! i think if ash or peo didnt have their loyalty to people and if seithr didnt have such a sadboi plot theyd probably be up higher too. but those two have it all- a good, compelling story, nice designs/aesthetic, and consistency in later appearances. esp props to this literal bean child telling off crappy adults for being awful

"you deserve better"- they have a lot of really good potential, but imo is underutilized bc of the story having to be "black and white morality for the main/player cast". loki/thorr i love esp, and i love writing them as neutral forces in fics. ganglot deserves so much better, tbh shes the most sympathetic in the tempest trial easily. tri has been so mistreated and im glad her sisterly relationship w peo is finally being pushed. otr and faf suffered so much, and just hoping for good faf content this year! and ofc my boi njorthur. pls have a cute new years version. he could be in the "top tier" if his neutral lines/etc are good

"i like them"- theyre cool! i enjoy their content. most everyone here is a solid character imo, and just in a standalone setting i like watching their content. ok kva sir is mostly here for her design more than personality, since her only traits are that shes kinda the sacrificial lamb of the plot and has a crush on the player. but her design is just really nice so shes here. ash and peo as aformentioned have nice personalities, and seithr just gave the biggest middle finger to the order and canon in her epilogue that i gotta respect her. ymir is also here, since i felt like she added a degree of moral greyness to the plot. shes a really kind person, but she lets eir get away with things that one shouldnt, but its also understandable and sympathetic/tragic why she does that.

"neutral"- theyre ok. i dont dislike them but i dont really feel any strong liking to them. the owls are the mascots, so ofc they have to be neutral. fjo rm and surtr did their jobs as the main character and villain good enough, and i like fjo rms neutrality in story stuff, fb for instance, i find it infinitely more appealing than "depression is beautiful" or the main characters just being really insensitive to everyone with different beliefs. em bla is a surprisingly good boss to elm, which really surprised me. i wish she had a cooler design to reflect being both a dragon and a beast, and i wish she had better taste in men but oh well. eir is also neutral, her arc.. makes sense. but it doesnt really give a feeling of being proud of what path shes chosen for me. same with reginn tbh. heithr and nerthus are also both ok, i dont feel strongly abt either. they were underutilized imo but im glad esp that heithr got to be playable despite her tiny role. eitr is a weird one, since shes really important to my fic but im neutral at best towards her. basically she hasnt done any bad stuff /yet/ so i dont really have any reason to blame her for the awful stuff her future self will do.

:/ tier- this is basically the closest you get to me admitting not to like characters. which considering how big it is is saying something lol.

the order are just horrible. if g f wasnt a thing i could say theyre my least favorite gacha protagonists, but they are at least very unpleasant. i really dont get the fandoms obsessive love for them, i just find them uncomfortable, creepy, and unpleasant. the player only gets higher rating bc they just dont do anything. they can be anything or nothing, and i much prefer the latter. the rest of the royal family basically just encourage their shitty kids, so theyre slightly better but not by much. the emblians who arent elm are pretty much equally unpleasant, and i really dont like the "bosses who we recruit the servant of, who is loyal to him even tho hes a fucking creep and an asshole, and the story wants us to like him so glosses over that or tries to justify it". imo the dragons in b2 were such a waste, there couldve been an interesting plot but it ended up being horrible (i think a plot abt nifl mom or menja wouldve been infinitely more hype, but they couldve made the dragons work too). b3 was basically a ripoff of the f ate series which was extremely cringe, but it wasnt as bad as it could get. h el was an ok antagonist, but basically ganglot is all of the better traits of her, and i guess i kinda blame her for the awful main plot of b3 lol. b4 had really strong characters with the main 4 alfr but the rest of the characters and plot beats sucked, and the latest stuff with ginnun supposed to be from "the players world aka modern day" is just as cringe as it was in b4. like it actually makes zero sense how is no one else seeing this. the b5 characters i also found really unlikeable. the sisters have no responsibility or positive traits, and what little positive traits dagr briefly has in like. the nyna forging bonds for instance is immediately bulldozed by awful traits. gull veig was an interesting idea/concept for an antagonist but /really/ suffered from the sadboi stuff during cyl, at least for me.

not pictured but rata would be neutral, for now. all things considered (her bad judge of character and overall loyalty to the order/immediately betraying her family) i kinda see her staying there. however nidhogger and hressvel i could see being as high as top tier, or at least joining ylgr and helbindi possibly.

f-h thing

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