#lokim23

[choicesmc]

LoA Book 1, Chapter 3

No, I didn’t give up on these. I just got really bad paralysis about having to be mean to a character until I remembered that I could just… restart the chapter 🤦

Anyhow, this chapter was Beau-centric so he’ll be the focus of today’s post!! This chapter also included the coworker relationship system so I have 2 playthrough screenshots: 1 where you’re mean/dismissive of Beau and another where you're nice/supportive of Beau ^^

As always, all under the read more <33

banner by: @/roseschoices [the post]

First up is Beau’s reaction to the settlement Mrs Redwing was offered. The thing that struck me about these is how Beau is simultaneously grounded and out-there in his reaction.

On one hand, this is a very real, humorous way of remarking on the settlement amount. It’s clear Beau is sympathizing with Mrs Redwing here, or at least attempting to. Even more, it’s not hard to envision this reaction working with a different client!

In that vein, Beau’s mistake is forgetting the real medical costs Mrs Redwing was hoping to tackle with the settlement money. Mrs. Redwing says as much here:

screenshot credit: Lokim23’s playthrough on YouTube [here]

Beau is a naturally sympathetic person. I think, out of everyone on the team (with MC as an exception depending on how you play them), Beau is the most sympathetic to a client’s feelings. Does he fumble? Yes, an example being here. But when compared to the rest of the lawyers, he is the only one to make an effort at consoling Mrs Redwing.

If you argue that Koenig was illegally surprising evidence, Martin will agree with you but Beau says this:

screenshot credit: Lokim23’s playthrough on YouTube [here]

For me, this is telling. Both MC and Martin argue for conspiracy, but that’ll only make the acceptance harder on Mrs Redwing. Beau reminding us and Mrs Redwing that bad luck is an option, would allow Mrs Redwing to come to terms more quickly.

Next up, Beau’s reaction to you either telling him not to get in your way or thinking it’d be a great idea for y’all to team up.

This is his reaction to you dismissing him. Which. Fair. You did essentially tell him you don’t think highly of him. So, warranted reaction. What’s more exciting is if you react positively to working with Beau:

He’s genuinely surprised. He did not think you’d want to. He thinks you’re lying to him. Even he didn’t know what he could bring to the table. The right-hand screenshot makes that clear: Beau didn’t actually know what to bring to the table.

This raises an interesting question: how well does Beau know himself/his skills? While chapter 3 is a little to early to call, Beau does show a pattern of undervaluing himself. Despite his charisma, among other skills, he doesn’t seem to be aware that he has them.

Continuing in this angle, this scene (if you tell Beau it’s a dumb idea to go over the deposition recording) is also given new light:

Simply put, Beau is pretty good at reading between the lines. If you did accept this help, MC notes this later in the chapter (assuming you took the premium scene to talk to Martha, the housekeeper, during lunch):

There’s only two options here. 1) Without being aware of MC’s theory, Beau simply picked that up from the scant deposition <- which is insane work or 2) based off the ONE SINGULAR question MC asks:

screenshot credit: Lokim23’s playthrough on YouTube [here]

Beau deduced what we were thinking which is also insane.

In summary, Beau shows another case of undervaluing himself and proves to be more sympathetic than is originally assumed. Pretty solid for a chapter.

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Gigi’s Corner

Now, there isn’t much to say on Gigi this chapter. She rarely showed up 😢 But where she did did give me a couple thoughts so:

Gigi comes off as a little vengeful here. To be clear, so would I. I would also be vengeful. I would pay for a picture of Willow’s face when we nail her with wage theft. This is something I am NOT faulting Gigi for.

What I am bringing up, however, is this is the first time we’ve seen Gigi be vengeful. She is a rather chill person, she’s not even in this competition to win, but don’t let that fool you into thinking that she holds no strong opinions. To me, it seems pretty clear that she will search for Petty Revenge if you have an opinion she thinks is stupid (like thinking vaccines are poisons 😒)

Additionally, this scene:

Gigi may be just speaking in anger but, clearly, she knows how risky that is? Hoping that the jury just… ignores evidence counter to yours isn’t a winning legal strategy. Considering her choice of Adrian for the center of the lawsuit in chapter 2 which was based of this reasoning:

She’s… not great at legal strategy. Her initial instinct was Adrian because he’s mediagenic, then she swapped back to Adrian because her girlfriend was familiar with him despite not being online much. Both of these scenes show that Gigi values personal anecdotes very highly.

She’s projecting her personal experience onto how she thinks others will behave. She’s convinced by Adrian’s video that there’s something in the water, so a jury will too. Her chronically offline girlfriend knows about Adrian’s video so he’s going he perfect choice for the lawsuit.

Maybe the reason Gigi finds the people part of being a law so engaging is because she isn’t good at separating her experiences from other people’s realities. So, unlike the more systemic parts of lawyering, people can consistently surprise her.

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Fiona’s Corner

If you came for Gigi/Beau analysis, feel free to stop reading here <33 Everything in this section pertains to personal headcannons I have about my MC.

oh?? This made me wonder how fiona would react to a case that’s simply impossible to win. Like, there’s no second shot. There’s no collusion, it’s just a case he can’t win.

I think it’d eat at him. In all honestly, he wouldn’t let it go. It’d be something he keeps checking up on on the off-hope something he can work with comes up…

I think Fiona hides behind logic a lot. Like, he’s super prone to tidying his feelings by presenting them as logical. I think it’s a holdover from how he was raised where he was encouraged to be logic-minded and heavily pushed away from emotional responses.

Honestly this case hits close to home. Fiona kinda hates how he left off? Like, yes, he made the win. But Serenity is still suffering. It’s not like he set a precedent that children’s safety supersedes parental autonomy. All he did was stop the opposite from becoming true.

Genuinely, Willow isn’t a good mom. Need I remind y’all of this scene:

screenshot credit: Lokim23’s playthrough on YouTube [here]

Against an adult, that is a crime. And Fiona witnesses that. And knows it’s going to keep happening.

This whole case is just icky for him on a personal level. I don’t think he likes it very much.

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I didn’t want to end the post on such a sour note so here’s a line I thought was funny ^^

Beau’s real problem is that they all sound gross given that, for lunch, he orders a smoothie later in the chapter xD

(okay, this was supposed to be a COLLECTION of lines but I ran out of space 😞 also it’s my first time hitting the image limit :0)

[lokim23]

I’ve really enjoyed Spider-man on the PS4. And just recently played the first DLC from the game. Stay tuned for more streams when more updates come out!

[nulland-void]

Usually a sound strategy...

(NOTE: I accidentally moved past this gem before I could get a screenshot, so this came from Lokim23's YouTube video on BSC 2, Chapter 9. Find it here: https://youtu.be/Bi5c2pvESLA)

[yukkimons]

So i was doing someshit in a discord server and just randomly typed random names

And then i got kicked/banned by Lokim23 because of a single thing

So some mofos added me in discord and DMed me those bs

Theey deleted my messages tto hide evidence and play nice

And theyre being protective over QSweet because "sHes sCaReD" wven tho shes the cause of this

So Lokim, please tell your members be mature than being so childish because of a single fucking thing. Jesus fuck. Its only a name.

[queenreginascontour]

Bish how much time does this lokim23 have????? A grown ass man making almost a 20min long video trying (and failing) to drag you like?? Anyway girl keep slaying love your content people need to leave you the fuck alone tbh and he needs to stop making drama over nothing tf

lmaoo ty kenna… and i know….. how fuckin old is he… bitch im in college i have an excuse to be out here being petty or whatever but for him…. sad !

[icecoffee90]

Yes, that would certainly be better!! I also agree that the original outfit wouldn't be so bad if not for the pink.. Why was that needed, wtf!? 😭 This was the first country club outfit to come up on google:

Basically the same thing and it looks so good! Why did they have to ruin it just like everything? lol

Other outfits I absolutely HATE:

Idk if it's the jacket, the shirt or just the combination of the two, but it's just not good looking, not even for drinks at Donahue's!

And the biggest abomination of all:

The flippin' housewarming outfit! 🤦‍♀️ I mean, it wouldn't look that bad for other occasions (like the drinks at Donahue's), but how is this supposed to be a sexy party outfit!? 🙄🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ The female MC is nearly naked (or so Lokim23 said in his playthrough, lol), while the male MC is dressed as if there was below zero in the apartment! 😂

Anyway, other suggestions for the outfits.. I mean, LITERALLY ANYTHING would do..

For just drinks at the bar:

These suggest that just better color coordination of the original would make it work, idk what they were thinking..

For the houwarming:

Again, even if it's basically the same style, it looks 100% better! Even if not necessarily "sexy" still, the way everyone is drooling over MC would make much more sense if the outfit looked more like this in that scene, lol.

But if we're talking "sexy", why not perhaps something like this?!

Minus the chains, but you get the gist, lol.

Swip Swap Saturday

Or Sunday, depending on where you are. Still works! AKA a lightning round of MC Monday. Meant to be quick and fun!

If you could change any of MC's outfits in book 1, which one would it be and what would you replace it with?

Anyone and everyone can participate! Any Choices book series, any MC, any LIs! (Even though I tag Open Heart and Ethan. That's only because that's my home writing community and I don't want to spam others)

We'll do these once in a blue moon if you guys want 😁

Thank you @jerzwriter for the suggestion that we do something fun tonight!

[neptunesascendant]

Unpopular Opinion

You guys should probably just leave Lokim23 alone. Just a suggestion.

[pixelisperfect]

So here’s the inconsistency, Aleister was never meant to be on the island YET his rune was a part of the final password. S= Serpens

What is a hydra? It is a mythological beast of many SNAKE heads where if you slice one, two other come in its place.

So Aleister, is a snake and the hydra in the symbols have 3 heads. Plus Aleister was never meant to come. So what I’m thinking is there’s are two other snake heads unaccounted for who were meant to be on the team, or perhaps is already on the team.

Perhaps Lila or Rourke himself? I have issues with it being Rourke as his symbol seems more like the entire hydra than its components. Lila can be a possibility but if she was a portion of the hydra, why did Iris even CONSIDER firing her.

Okay. Here’s where I go off the deep end. Look at the symbol, it has 3 snake heads. One upright, one stooped over and one tiny. Maybe the reason Rourke looks so young is he constantly refreshes himself with other components of the hydra. He jumps from old to young clone or “son”.

I stand by the wild speculation Aleister is a clone.

What do y'all think?

Screenshot of hydra from Lokim23

[scoobycool9]

@lokim23 Thoughts?

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POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

[lokim23]

I enjoyed the Beta of Fallout 76, and streamed many hours of it on Twitch. I plan to continue this on November 14th when the game officially launches. To be one of the first to step out after Nuclear fallout and touch the new land. Please feel free to join me on stream, as me and friend(s) set out to kill or be killed. To explore, and see what new adventures await.

[alwaysanotherooc]

Hey here’s another tumblr user to block from all platforms in the Choices fandom. @lokim23 is a racist and otherwise all around problematic asshole who, after being talked about in a series of asks on Teddy ( @queenreginascontour)’s blog for the racist act of always giving every black character in every Choices book the same southern accent (which yes, is racist) as well as some of the other misogynistic and ugly behavior in his YouTube playthroughs, has now decided to start blocking and/or harassing other Choices blogs who call him out on his ugly behavior. Also he’s deleting all of the negative comments on his latest YouTube post, which is a crude video meant to embolden and incense his followers against Teddy and victimize himself.

[uhh-the-green-thing]

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I haven't! Oh god, this is horrible. I watch Lokim23's videos quite a lot, whenever I ever need help with what choices to choose for a chapter or just want to be entertained. His channel is one of my go to's.If you guys can, please go to the link, and see if any of you can help 😞😞😞 Lokim23's content is really appreciated by a lot of people. 😕

[queenreginascontour]

lokim23 calls Maria ‘Mariah’ and Michael ‘Mitchell’ as well liKE BOI CAN YOU PLS READ

wow the dude cant talk or read how fuckin cursed

[pixelbirb-choices-blog]

I don't have any keys atm so I can't play ES but is there any scenes of mc and Estela (😍) interacting?

Which chapter? 11? I’m afraid I don’t have any screenshots of any of our interactions (phone space issues), but I’ll tell you what went down:

-making the decision to side with Estela or Raj on whether to destroy IRIS or not; ended up going with the gf bc I was curious (and my friendship with Raj didn’t take too bad of a hit, thank goodness). She was like, “See? Taylor gets it. We don’t trust you because you’re owned by Rourke, like Lila over there.” That’s all of our interactions this chap.

-if we side with Sean on the beach (the question about change and trying), we get +? points with Sean, maybe Quinn?, and definitely Estela. I didn’t pick this because I’m trying to win over Aleister, but Lokim23’s LP on YouTube has it. However, I didn't lose any Estela points with my choice, maybe because I'd racked up enough points with her. Thank goodness.

Sorry I can’t be of more help!

[lokim23]

Kingdom hearts 3 is supposed to be the finale. Its been a incredible journey. And the finale theme song, is a perfect tribute to the conclusion of the game.

[lokim23]

Is this Goofy excited while trippin vs the prior one? lol