#i think it's a cute nickname for her

[j-rye]

[egophiliac]

The funniest part of this new event is the fact I can't find out what's going on it from spoilers. All context is lost in the wave of Hot Eel Mom. I love her, all hail Georgina, mother of This and That, but where is the context? What *is* the event?

to be fair, we're still in the intro part, so not much has actually happened yet! Jade and Floyd were supposed to go to their mom's friend's wedding to help with the ancient merfolk marriage custom of

❤️❤️❤️~the Test of Love~❤️❤️❤️

but Floyd last-minute changed his mind (on account of being Floyd) and Azul was like "I'm not going if your mom is going to be there". at which point Jade realized he'd just been handed a golden opportunity to invite the absolute funniest group of people he could think of.

anyway tl;dr Jade manipulates a bunch of nerds into joining him to heckle/throw bricks at/try to drown a couple of randos in the name of love, what could possibly go wrong

[knockknockitsnickels]

One really good thing I think Princess and the Dragon (and the Pristine Cut in general) added was how it changed the way the split between the harsh/soft princess reads (gonna be referring to them as Harsh and Soft for the rest of this post for simplicity).

Pre-Pristine Cut I saw a good amount of people (mostly on YouTube, I don't think I saw many here) commenting that they preferred the Harsh Princess because they felt that she was more genuine than Soft. This perception was arguably supported by their respective "free the princess" routes: in Prisoner the two of you have to work together to get out of the cabin, in Damsel you kind of just have to ignore your impulse to question things and rush out the door (I'm oversimplifying a bit, I know, bear with me). Between the Deconstructed Damsel ending, Shifty's description of her, and the overall more comedic tone of the route, the game sort of implied whatever relationship you have with Damsel (and by extension the Soft princess) isn't built on anything substantive.

However, I think the additions in the Pristine Cut help to challenge this. First, by expanding the Damsel route with Happily Ever After. In the leadup to Happily Ever After we see Damsel express discomfort with your suggestion to stay (though she'll still agree to it). This is a little thing, but it does help to show that she's still her own person with her own desires (which was a thing pre-pristine cut as well, this just makes it more explicit). HEA itself also helps to flesh out Damsel, and shows that her care for the player is genuine (even if your relationship in the route itself has gone downhill).

PATD also added a detail which completely recontextualized the "Harsh/Soft" Princess: namely, that the Princess can hear if you pick up the knife. Where before it was suggested that the Princess' behavior changed based on the blade because of the player's perception (if you take the blade you see her as a threat & vice versa), now instead it seems that her behavior changes depending on if she knows you're armed.

While you could still argue that the "soft" persona is a facade, I think this change highlights that the "harsh" princess is one as well. If Soft is "acting" sweet to prove that she's harmless and convince you to let her go, Harsh is trying to show that she's dangerous to discourage you from killing her. Her dialogue when convincing you to drop the knife emphasizes this (paraphrasing): "I'm probably locked down here for a reason, right? Best not to risk finding out what I can do." This isn't to say that either version of the Princess isn't "real" or that she "doesn't have a personality" - I think both versions are being genuine, they're just also unsure if they can trust you.

This change also made reuniting with the Heart Princess at the end of the game even more meaningful for me - it's the first time the two of you can speak openly with one another on equal terms.

[spicyet]

fem!Shuro from that one panel

[alexyz-ara-archer]

Fifteen built a shack out in the forest.

Zro built an underground survival bunker.

People seek out Fifteen in the special she appears in.

Zro invites people to their bunker in the recent episode.

Fifteen tells people to go away because they want to be alone and doesn't wanna help with the subscriber number thing.

Zro calls everyone to his bunker to help solve the problem.

Fifteen is alone because she treats others badly.

(Tells everyone to leave her alone, takes Nine's sunglasses and. Y'know. The whole flamethrower thing.)

Zro is alone because others treat them badly.

(Everyone makes fun of them and 2763 takes everyone EXCEPT him. Because he's nothing.)

THEY'RE SO SIMILAR YET SO DIFFERENT.

[beheamothscreamoth]

Quick question for the Touchstarved fandom!! As much as we love Ais calling us 'Sparrow,' I have to ask - if you had to decide, what other bird nickname do you think he would call you/your MC? :O

For example, Ais would my Unnamed MC Daniella 'bluebird,' while he'd call my Alchemist MC Edgar 'crow' (and another OC I'm planning, Shinju, 'woodpecker!')

[karda]

my m&ms ^^

[assassin-artist]

Burning up

[loudmound]

could you tell us about jim? its interesting to see you post about her / tag sh2r posts as jim and i’s love to know more

HI ANON i finally have time to sit down and talk about her proper so...

jim unitedair (or remake james sunderland) is pretty much just that: my interpretation of her. i am of the belief that she is still 29 years old in the remake, but she's around 9 years younger than the original james, as her story takes place in 1996 in my head (sh2 takes place during 1987 to me).

as evident by my consistent she/her-ing of her, she's a woman to me. a deeply closeted trans woman doing her damndest to manmode as she thinks if she does it long enough and hard enough, it will not only be best for her and eventually make her happy, but it will keep her safe. she is not happy with this. granted, there are other things in her life that make her unhappy as well, but like. being closeted is kind of a miserable fucking experience! having to lie to yourself and to others about what you feel intrinsically in yourself to be you is wildly soul-crushing!!!!!

to me, jim very much puts a damper on her personality—making herself as inconsequential as possible so as not to draw undue attention to herself. the core tenants of a james sunderland character are there, i.e. the dichotomy of callousness and compassion, but jim comes off as overtly more compassionate than james does. at least, in a way that isn't as clumsy as james. she's a lot more willing to smile, compared to the one time in the entirety of sh2 where james smiled—she comes off to me as not necessarily someone that's happy, but someone that's far more lighthearted and willing to joke around. the first conversation that she has with laura in the lakeview hotel says as much, honestly. she playfully chides laura for her previous behavior, but doesn't hold it against the kid, smiling all the while. she just seems like someone who has a tangible sense of humor, and overall, comes off as a very different character in that manner.

she draws a lot from Stock Male Archetypes to inform her behavior in my mind—with my transfem reading of jim, a lot of her actions come off as rather stifled and inhibited. on a base level, i wish she was more visibly desperate and not so fucking #Normal, but seeing it as her manmoding to hell and back makes it cohere a lot better. jim's a lot more present. bewildered as all fucking hell, but not... in a dissociative manner like with james. in that sense, she's kinda... anxiety tunnel-visioning to me. hyperfocused on the goal of finding mary that all else tends to fall by the wayside. she treats maria very standoffishly, both in the sense that she deeply fears her and what she represents, and also that jim perceives her to be a roadblock. she doesn't allow herself to fully grieve maria's deaths when they do happen, bcs in my mind, she's terrified of maria taking up space as "mary" in her head. in terms of eddie and angela, i think jim is deeply wary of eddie bcs she often finds herself uncomfortable around men due to past traumas, and develops a strong, albeit one-sided kinship with angela, who reviles men for much the same reasons that jim does, though with jim, it's to a lesser extreme.

i understand that the "jim was sa'd in a mental hospital" is a controversial theory, and the original positer of that theory has gone on to post the theory that "it was all a dream actually and jim is still in the mental hospital lol", of which i find... so exceedingly ridiculous that i can't even dignify it with a disparaging comment that would quantify my exasperation surrounding such, but i do, actually, like former theory. i don't think jim was previously sa'd, nor do i think she has schizophrenia. i also don't think she killed the director (i did initially, but the more i thought about it the more i disliked the idea in the sense that it felt like retroactively vilifying her to a ludicrous degree w/ her subsequent murder of mary) but i do certainly think she wanted to get her revenge. she was hospitalized around the same age my james was, 16-17 years old, so she was young when this happened to her. part of the reason why i like this theory so much is that it further ties her to angela, and expands upon why the abstract daddy boss fight is so much more immersive than in the original. (granted, i think james also experienced sa while institutionalized, but that's another conversation for a different post.) it also does good in explaining jim's attempts to be delicate and warm with angela, seeing in her the same trauma she once endured around her age.

in turn, with eddie, she doesn't exactly know how to handle his particular situation, wary of his coming with her when he asks bcs, again, she's not comfortable around men; and also wary of his escalating desire for violence. she does her best to try and soothe him, to try and talk him down, and tries to be a somewhat jovial and non-threatening presence, but she didn't succeed, unfortunately. eddie is in full trauma-brain mode, and every genuine attempt that jim makes to connect with him comes off as condescending and disparaging. jim's "well, at least you got your appetite back" comment and her whole back and forth with eddie in the prison cafeteria only further reinforces in eddie's mind that jim's just another skinny motherfucker laughing at him, making fun of him. jim punching eddie in the meat locker feels like the point in their relationship where that was the point of no return—no way that the two could fully understand each other; at least in this life.

it's kind of incredible to me how differently she comes off with angela than eddie, bcs i feel a much more genuine warmth there, like she wants so badly to connect with angela, as two women who have gone through some shit but came out the other end alive. but in her endeavors to try and reach her, angela pulls away bcs, unfortunately, she sees jim as yet another man trying to violate her like the rest of them have. i do wish that jim was more visibly shaken up after the abstract daddy boss fight, but her quiet "i don't know who you think i am, but i just want my mary back" line makes me close my eyes so fucking tight with the way i see her and her gender woes. fml man. estrogen could've saved her.

god, and also like. in terms of mary and maria, that in it of itself is a whole can of worms. maria in the sh2r is an amalgam of the couple, in terms of the woman that is both an idealized version of mary and jim. her sweetness, her playful nature, her tantalizing flirtation, all a testament to the sentiment of "i want to be with you and be you." it's a lot. now, in regards to mary, i think that jim latched onto her so much bcs she helped her get back on her feet at a very low point in her life. tfw you are an alcoholic janitor making minimum wage that is deeply dysphoric and suicidal and continually wrestling with your past traumas and then a beautiful brunette with the biggest brown eyes you've ever seen says hello to you and the two of you get to talking. and then she starts bringing you meals. and then she helps you clean your apartment. and then she takes you shopping so you can get new clothes, you go on dates, you fall head over heels in love with her, and now the two of you are married.

jim, for a bit, was willing to stay closeted and be the best "husband" she could be for mary, bcs she loved her very, very dearly and wanted to give back all that she gave to her. it started to eat away at her, though, and mary knew that something was wrong. mary tried and tried and tried to get jim to tell her what was going on with jim, but jim was always paralyzed with the fear that she would be maligned by the woman she loved most for telling her that she felt like a girl on the inside; that whenever she saw other beautiful girls on the street, she'd feel a dull pain inside her chest, that she hated looking at her reflection for longer than she had to, that she wished, more than anything, to have been born a woman like mary was. so, long story short, jim did not tell mary that she was trans, and in my mind, mary would have been accepting of such if she told her. confused but she's got the spirit. she loved jim very much, too!

at some point, mary didn't know what to do, so she decided that a vacation was in order—to take their minds off of what was bothering them and to just love each other in a beautiful place. they go to silent hill, and when they come back, mary is sick, and it's terminal. and we all know what happens afterwards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #DoomedYuri

in terms of like... the endings where jim does get to transition, i think she does that shit in the leave ending (naturally), the rebirth ending, and the bliss ending. in water, stillness, and maria are all endings where she doesn't do such bcs. well in the first ending of the bunch, she quite literally kills herself. stillness has her presumably wither away in silent hill to continue the cycle anew, and maria is not only a rejection of herself, but of her deed, and delving head first into selfish desires. yippie!!! it's funny though, bcs leave jim, rebirth jim, and bliss jim all have different things going on in terms of aesthetic and in terms of like... whether or not they percieve themselves to be human.

leave jim to me is very like... pretty office worker in terms of look. i think she grows out her hair again to be in a little bob (it was a fuckass bob when she first met mary 😭) and still wears a lot of button-ups, but adds blouses to the mix, as well as skirts and tights and other accessories, but overall pretty minimal. heels kinda scare jim, honestly, so she sticks to boots/shoes that have a little bit of heel, but nothing more than that. i like to think that she seeks out and connects with other trans women and forges lifelong bonds with them, as she still doesn't take laura in, knowing that she's the furthest thing from being a fit mother for her. i don't want her to be alone!!!!

rebirth jim is the cuntess of the church of the rebirth. i've drawn her before and she means the world to me.

i used outfit concept art for claudia wolf to inform my rebirth jim design bcs i thought they were too cool to go unused + i wanted to keep the fit within the parameters of the art direction team silent was going for.

bliss jim is. well, bliss jim is the manic pixie dream girl to end all manic pixie dream girls. she drank liquefied white claudia and became a universe-hopping entity akin to a deity of sorts and continually travels from universe to universe, so long as its localized within the bounds of silent hill. she can hop into any universe, be it fictional or not; she can travel to book universes, game universes, universes captured within a photograph or a video tape (wink wink) and she can travel to universes where she establishes the parameters, which is how she was able to physically transition LOL. i like to think bliss jim left those strange photos for what is effectively herself to collect, having observed the loop her other selves find themselves in for over two decades. she makes the message esoteric bcs she thinks that telling them outright wouldn't be great, and they always seem to have a habit of remembering the previous loops when they realize the truth of their situation.

she looks like this btw. i am of the very firm belief that jim can fucking rock a bell bottom and nobody can tell me otherwise. her bell bottoms also have forget-me-nots embroidered on the cuffs as a nod to the blanket that covered mary in the backseat of her car having the same flower on it. i think she just enjoys that flower a lot.

and that's... about all i can think of to say at the moment??? i know there's more rattling around in my brain but it's late and i've already written a lot so i hope this satisfies!!! thank you for reading.

[sallymew4]

Shigeko!!1 !111 !!1 1!! 1!!!11!1 my daughter she came from my heart and soul

shigeko-chan more like gekko-chan. haha

[lazycranberrydoodles]

every time he steps into the kitchen he invents a new health code violation

follow for more. whatever this is

[twin-chains]

Echoes of Wisdom art!

[t0bey]

i came into shadow dragons not expecting much from the writing but am going through it very endeared by marth and nyna's relationship, its really sweet among how most of the entire continent has it out for them

[kavehpilled]

youre pretty darn tough already methinks someones gotta get u to loosen up :3333 you gotta listen to the lia on your shoulder once in a while theres a reason shes there!!!! /silly

ALSO DID I TELL U I LOVE THE MON PETITE MIETTE HEHEHEHE

IM TOUGH????????

[gen4grl]

wip of a red fankid :p

she’s literally his mini me in terms of looks and also possesses his pokemon + battle intelligence :0 she just talks ALOT

[jasminesilk]

Melody has made a new friend at school. Her name is Belinda Goth, and she is the youngest daughter of the iconic Goth family.