Murderbot Diaries out here asking the real questions like:
What if you were something that was neither human nor machine and you had only ever been treated as a monstrous object? And:
What if there had never been a single entity in your existence that you could trust? And:
What if you were constructed from the most basic parts of your psyche to be a violent tool? And:
What if any attempt to protect yourself from abuse would result in torture or death? And:
What if you were finally free? And suddenly there were humans who loved you, but you had no way to comprehend that let alone believe it? And:
What if you didn't want to be human, but you had to alter yourself body and mind in order to hide among them? And:
What if you cared so fucking much that you couldn't stand it, and the only way you could express that was through astounding acts of violence to protect them? And:
What if caring was so dangerous and alien to you that you didn't even know you did? And:
What if you were so afraid that looking at anyone was impossible, and you had to stand at the remove of seeing everyone through a third person point of view? And:
What if you were a sarcastic bastard because you'd never been allowed to express anything but groveling subservience? And:
What if you started to want to accept that you cared?
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there is no better advertisement than one of your favorite artists drawing art for a fandom you're not a part of. and by that i mean i finally caved and started reading the orv webtoon
here's my lil sephi stylisation bc ive been experimenting w what feels like a natural and right way to draw him for me
also get ready for a fuck ton of design analysis and opinions about of seph bc I'm kinda chasing a sephiroth high rn and i gotta get it outta me
okay, so, to explain my thoughts on how i view sephi, i'll call back to the post i made right before this one
homeslice is the most miserable and detached man in existence at the time of nibelheim
hes barely there and has barely been there for a long ass while. sure he can do basic things like brush his teeth, shower, brush his hair, but i believe he's too far gone to even give a fuck about his appearance, assuming he ever did back in the day. he's naturally beautiful enough to get away w it, but still
og seph, to me, isn't a person and hasn't been long since before nibelheim. never once in the entire game is he a person. we never get to truly hear about him from himself, only through word of mouth, legends, and from flashbacks from Mr cloud "unreliable narrator" strife. even the words of his clone that usually interacts w the party during the game cant be fully trusted to actually be how sephiroth feels bc of jenova's presence in general (no matter if you believe which one controls the other)
sephiroth is a dead man. even when he was still breathing, he was a dead man. he was a man that was beaten into a complete husk and was left as a corpse w a pulse. a corpse who would rather ignore reality than go through the painful experience of having to live inside his own mind
So, there's been talk recently about breaking Papita out of Mandos and I suppose more of us may need help at some point... but we need one fundamental thing if we are to be able to save one another from some terrible prison (or, idk, recognize each other in a supermarket...):
we need to have a song in common
Like, seriously, the default scheme for breaking someone out from somewhere is: character A start singing, character joins them, character A finds character B and gets them out. Except...
I'm not sure there's any song I could sing together with any of you.
We need to make a list of songs that we all know well enough. Seriously.