#i mean frazie isn't that bad but she keeps throwing rocks at his head
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thinking a lot about a premise where after the events of Psychonauts 2, years later, Raz winds up breaking off all contact with his family overall (barring his younger siblings, his older sister, his dad and Nona, and his younger siblings are a borderline case depending on whether or not they pick up their mother's passive aggressive and dislike of psychics like Raz's older brother) and the story idea is SPECIFICALLY Donatella, being grief-stuck at Raz completely cutting off all contact with her and much of the family after he was able to eventually become independent with the Psychonauts and is now a beloved icon and hero to the world famous for his advances in the use of psychic work to aid psychiatry and he very explicitly does not discuss her and acts as if she died when he was a kid
and the whole thing is basically about her having to very bluntly have to come to terms with the fact that if she hadn't been so cold to him or made him feel unwanted because of his powers, or his older brother learn from her example to become a vicious bully towards him (even by older brother standards), then maybe he wouldn't have fixated so hard on the idea of the Psychonauts as a place where felt he belonged and didn't feel like his very existence was shaming her
and its entirely her fault, and all her passive aggressive guilt trip actions in Psychonauts 2 made it worse and just made every moment around her, no matter how much he missed his mother, hurtful and he only felt better when he spoke to Helmut Fullbear who at this point was the first genuinely nice and accomodating voice he'd heard once the events with Maligula took off.
(He would be the first to admit much of that was his fault, but he still felt alone, and it was nice to feel such a kindly and welcome voice, like someone from a group he really belonged to, and that Donatella very specifically never made him felt like he belonged.)
And there's no magic fix. There's no tearful reconciliation, no heartfelt pleas that led to a happily ever after and the family reunions she wants. Decades of resentment, bitterness and childhood unhappiness that gradually turned into simmering hatred isn't something that can be taken back and she has to live with that; her second born son wants nothing to do with her and has written her completely out of his life, and will be quite happy if he dies without ever having to see her or speak with her ever again.
Also probably something like a line like "He stopped loving you a long time ago. After all, he thought you stopped loving him first."
#psychonauts 2#psychonauts#ideas#story ideas#fic ideas#psychonauts spoilers#kinda#tbh i feel this probably isn't TOO canon compliant with the way the character arcs tend to go#so realistically she would eventually dial down her dislike of psychics and they'd all have to live with their mistakes and try to live#in a better way#but the idea of Raz's in game sadness and the implied character arc of the middle part of the game leans WELL towards this idea#just being around his family feels stressful or sad and if you go to Psi King Sensorium fairly late#Psi King's helpful and kindly attitude makes him STRIKINGLY different from the other adults#he's nice and helpful and open minded and probably is a major role model for Raz later in life#so its not hard to imagine Raz eventually drifting more towards the members of the Psychic Seven he's personally closer towards#and just passively reducing the influence his mother and older siblings have#i mean frazie isn't that bad but she keeps throwing rocks at his head#and lying about what she is just so her mother doesn't hate her too but making her brother feel alone and even more sad#wow that is a VERY Applicable line actually but that's another topic#queued
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