#im still reading and they haven't even shown his reaction yet but

[thenon-fictiondays]

ok so i got super fucking depressed and started reading the kagihira manga to make myself less depressed and kagi blowing their team's tournament qualifier is lowkey cheering me up bc i know just how miserable we're about to see him and somehow that's making me less miserable about my own misery

so uh where do i fall on the bdsm scale 😅

[pareidolla]

okay okay so! took forever but here's basically a rundown of all my reactions to the pristine cut update in list form! part one since i haven't been able to replay certain routes just yet but i'm excited for tomorrow

THE FURY (TOWER)

well obviously i made a beeline for whumping my sapphic archnemesis tower. i love her dearly and it genuinely hurt me to kill her myself but i need content for my whumpfics

 immediately got heart palpitations seeing broken i love you i love you i love you! (it's really hot how upset he is here jsdifhsjaj)

  ... i really need to check if broken/stubborn have unique lines for leaving fury now since they didn't in the original and it KILLED me. alas oblivion ending will have to wait!

 unfortunately i wanted to see my lovely sad wife happy and ending up getting rewound fury which was already shown off in the livestream. vv excited to try and see a different ending with tower!

THE PRINCESS AND THE DRAGON

okay me. you can do this. you can handle the bisexual panic attack cabin now

(i did not infact handle the bisexual panic attack cabin. why do they sound like that-!)

i now understand what damsel must've felt like stabbing us over and over because the IMMEDIATE GUILT i felt upon exorcising spectre. like oh my god. why am i here? why am i killing her? she just wanted to leave! wasn't even mean abt it! just wanted the one little thing! baby i'm sorry!!!!!

but i mean cold's into it then i'm into it vivalarevolucionbaby

WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BOYS?? FUCK THE BODY!! IDC ABT IT!! ONLY BODIES FEAR PAIN!!! MY FUCKING BOYS!!!!!

yeah i'm gagged by the perspective switch.

and also crying

my god

spectre

the woman you are

absolutely not deserving of your forgiveness and understanding

my hero/princess shipping heart is over the moon abt spectre liking hero but. but i really love spectre/cold! but i can't even defend his ass like yeah man was kinda weird, and i can't even fault him for that either cos he's weird to everyone.

THE TITLE CARDS ARE CANON???

what the fuck. what the fuck? what the fuck! what the fuck!!!!

IF I'M HERE IN THE PRINCESS THEN WHO'S COMING DOWNSTAIRS??

this is the first time the game has ever scared me. i was actually shaking waiting for our shambling body to descend and my fucking god we're a UNIT

(i immediately forgive tower for winning a fight and deciding she's god now like. yea if i took out this fucking beast? yeah you deserve your accolades babe) • fortunately opportunist starts talking and ofc the fear is immediately replaced with blushing. i immediately get why the heroine in stheroine was checking tlq now. the little dangling motion oppy makes with the knife? im going to pass out

god after literally seeing things from her perspective - deciding to free the princess afterwards felt so good and earned! honestly might be my favorite route now holy shit

ALSO. WHAT ARE THE OTHER VOICES COLORS. BTG I NEED TO KNOW WHAT BROKEN'S COLOR IS, YOU CAN'T JUST-

THE CAGE

see this one is funny cos i was playing with my brother and mentioned i was a little unsure how to get her

kept talking over the game since we've already played through prisoner. read out the chapter's title offhandedly before zooming in

paranoid was my first voice and I AM SO THRILLED cos i've alwaaaaays wanted a parskep route. absolutely love seeing their differences and similarities laid out in this route

"it has happy in the name!" oh they could never make me hate you narrator

took the knife with me (hero is absolutely wrong abt the "knife giving us more options" but i still listen to it anyway for new routes) which locked me into the 'no exit ending.' after rewound fury and princess/dragon it felt a little redundant to be separated from the voices again, but there's a clear theme here that i enjoy!

... and also i have a feeling i know how to reach the new ending now which i'm very excited to test out

MOMENT OF CLARITY + DEN

putting these two together because

I WASN'T PAYING ATTENTION AND FUCKED UP GETTING BEAST and it literally killed me because i didn't save so i had to commit. fortunately moc's new design is peak and i enjoyed seeing it!

unfortunately the second time i tried getting beast i fucked up again! witch showed up and i just spedrun getting my back broken

and then, after two botched attempts at getting beast, my two den runs immediately got snatched up by shifting mound lmao. which was my fault i think! i tried fleeing with stubborn then fighting den with skeptic which was a recipe for disaster. still a little dissapointed that i got to spend like, five seconds with den at most tho

THE EPILOGUE

oh. yeah im going to need to confess something

i'm not the biggest smitten fan. arguably my least favorite voice. which i feel bad abt because i love princes and romantics and characters who're kinda obsessive and weird but the way smitten acts sometimes just. Gives Me The Ick. multiple instances where my stomach just straight up flipped because i was reminded of weird guys in highschool

AND I FEEL BAD COS HE'S SO MUCH BETTER THAN THEM! LIKE HE'S AN INTERESTING CHARACTER IN HIS OWN RIGHT I NEED TO PUT RESPECT ON HIS NAME. I WANT TO LOVE HIM SO SO SO BADLY

but then i watch smitten literally tear out our ribcage to reveal our beating heart to damsel and i'm over here just massaging my temples in exasperation. sir. sir please this is a wendy's

but hey! para showed up again! (contrarian get up you are losing the herobowl rn)

parahero joy immediately dashed cos oh god smitten. smitten. smitten my guy. i know and do not judge your sincere attempts at making epilogue happy in this bleak world BUT YOU ARE SCARING THE HOES (ME!!!!!)

this is great lore however and i do admire how much his sheer dedication to damsel managed to influence the entire cabin

obviously i'm not a monster and deciding to mutually leave with epilogue. i still need to pick through my thoughts on the ending cos... hm. i didn't like the route as much as dragon but i liked what it did! the dance was darn sweet

APOTHEOSIS

tower whumpfic content 2.0

was a little dissapointed i accidentally got connie instead of paranoid (i wanted parabroken <3) but honestly i kinda live for how contrarian's nature seems to have thrown broken's devout nature off its vibe? he kinda read less "brainwashed cultist" since he was constantly snapping at cont, and i think that's cute. contbrok rights

"what are you going to do? give her a scratch?" lives in my mind rent free i NEED to draw this oh he's so miserable and sassy i need him bad

i usually would've submitted to make my wife happy but i was quite curious on if the needle piercing apo's eye would've actually killed her and. i'll be damned!

kills me that she immediately started blasting before we got broken's reaction like man... i wanted to see his reaction to his grand goddess dying from a toothpick. like what do you even say to that. of course he still loves her but is the reverence still there???? is it??

i NEED to do a second playthrough with para tomorrow gaaaaaaah

THE FURY (ADVERSARY)

straight up decided to die obviously to get my wife but wasn't actually expecting much differences between adv!broken and tower!broken. sure some perspective changes but he'd just be more scared than upset here, right?

oh my god i was wrong

oh my fucking god

immediately started choking up when broken kept noting how lost the fury seemed and how she just wanted connection and how we need to forgive her

AND THE FACT HE STAYS WITH YOU AFTER THE UNWOUND BECAUSE HE'S ALREADY BEEN BROKEN?

GOD

WHAT DO I EVEN

this entire section is just me gushing over broken but you don't understand this is my first w is such a long time

i hope you can feel my joy and excitement over this cos i was kicking my feet and screaming into pillows

i never even entertained the thought of getting to leave with fury and the fact broken alone allows you to- i'm just

esp the end scene with just you and him alone and he urges you to go look at the mirror. dies.

oh my god i need to draw

THE CAGE (PT 2)

yes the cage gets a second part. why? more broken screaming

i actually didn't discover him organically i peeked at the discord server and saw broken was included so i hurried over as fast as i could. kept banging my head as i kept getting cheated but i managed to get him at last!

(btw i kinda ship cheaskep so i am happy they got a route tgt! but they hated eachother the whole time so uh. lol lmao on my part)

BROKEN MY LOVE IS SO GOOD HERE THIS IS PEAK BROKEN

made me genuinely so happy that he outright defends that no it's normal to be traumatized by fucking dying you're the weird ones

i feel bad for how mean he was towards skeptic but as established i'm super weak for broken being mean so 🙏 thank you for being pathetic skeppie

and god what is there to even say abt how he allows you to leave with prisoner!!!!!! cutting through the complications and allowing you to bare your heart to her i'm screaming

also is just me or is it hinted broken is aware about something greater going on because i'm kinda going ??? abt that

NO. NO WHY IS DROPPING HER HEAD AN OPTION? I HAVE TO DO THAT FOR THE WALLPAPER AND ACHIEVEMENTS?? WHY!?!?!?!

IT'S HERE!

okay okay okay so i won't be doing a proper liveblog of everything but i'll be reblogging this post w/ some reaction notes ♡ all spoilers will be tagged + kept under a read more for the next week so don't worry abt that (i know i've accidentally forgot to tag some voice combo spoilers so i promise to be mindful this time </3)