#me: i shouldn't write too much and save some for my uf thoughts post

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Would you do Clive for the character ask meme? Thank you!

Sure! *stops writing Clive to talk about Clive* yay procrastination

favorite thing about them: Just in general, the “angsty anime boi who’s really fucked up but tries to hide it and just need a lot of hugs and love and therapy” is one of my favorite types of characters, as I think it is for most everyone lol. And Clive, like most of them, has incredible potential for a redemption arc, which although the game doesn’t show, it leaves open the definite possibility of, and that, I love. Clive is a fascinating villain, his manic behavior at the end is so fun and interesting to watch, more so than I remembered before, while still undeniably being a sympathetic person who can start on the path towards redemption once he gets out of jail, most easily with Layton, of course, but eventually with everyone, though it would take time. I wish the game had had more time to delve into his psyche (although that’d probably be too much for a PL game), but he is incredibly interesting to watch and obviously very, very broken, in a way that goes beyond just depression and trauma, like... he has to have some type of specific mental illness, I’m sure, and characters like that you can analyze always interest me.

least favorite thing about them: Uh well, trying to raze all of London? :))) and betraying Luke and Layton and Flora, even if the game doesn’t actually make them seem to give af lol. like GOD DAMMIT CLIVE YOU’RE A FUCKING WRECK.

favorite line: This was really hard, Clive doesn’t have many lines that really hit me hard like other characters have, but in the end I settled on the scene where Claire is saving his life and he says “Why are you, of all people, helping me?” Honestly moreso just that scene in general is one of my favorites in the entire game; the voice acting for Clive kills me, hearing him so vulnerable and injured, at a point where he’s realized that he’s going to die and is all but resigned to it, and then cannot fathom why she of all people would want to save him. The “of all people” gets me because I don’t think he actually knows she’s one of the scientists until she states as such a few lines later, so instead what it implies is that he would have expected other people to want to save him - namely, Layton probably - but not her, someone who seemed like an innocent bystander in all this and would have no reason to care about his life. OR, I could be completely wrong and he does know she’s one of them, somehow (though not that she was supposed to have died ofc), and so it’d still be incredibly painful because again he’s asking “why you, of all people, one of the ones I was actively targeting and trying to kill with my revenge, who was supposed to never care about the “little people” (as he puts it earlier) like me?” It’s probably the latter and idk that whole scene just hurts me, because Clive assumes every bigshot out there is like trump Bill Hawks and always thought all of them would be out to get him and wouldn’t care at all, when in reality there are people like Claire and even Dimitri who were compassionate and regretted/would regret the decisions they made that hurt people, and ahhhhhh i just </3 it’s so sad man

brOTP: Clive & Layton, bar none. They’re one of the best relationships in the series, that wonderful dichotomy where one is broken, cynical, jaded, and believes there’s nothing about them worth caring about, vs the other who contests everything they believe about themself and is eternally caring, patient, wise, and healing. They’re absolutely a parent & child relationship and yet Clive is still old enough and smart enough to put him on equal footing with Layton, while simultaneously being so emotionally vulnerable that he needs Layton to care about him and support him, as a father figure. They have so much in common too, and it’s just SO fucking beautiful and emotional and powerful, their relationship; I love them so much. ;____; <3 I need more stories about them; I don’t think I’d ever be able to truly do them justice

OTP: Clive/a boatload of goddamn therapy

nOTP: Clive with Layton or Luke cause get that shit outta my face, thanks

random headcanon: I’m shit at headcanons, but I’m imagining that in the car after rescuing Clive, Claire loosely held onto him while he was unconscious and quietly and sadly told him she was sorry. He never hears or remembers this, of course. can you tell I’m emotional about Clive and mom Claire lol-

unpopular opinion: uhhhh, that I... don’t....... ship him with Layton or Luke....? man is that unpopular anymore, it feels like it is when you look at ao3. i hate fandom fffffff

song i associate with them: so my brain is blanking on vocal songs right now that would fit him, so I’m just gonna be lazy and say this soundtrack. Admittedly I associate that song with like every angsty, dark story or character that goes through a lot of ups and downs alksdfklf;s;dkf, but I think it’s appropriately chaotic and emo depressing for Clive lol :^)

favorite picture of them: 

this because it’s so fucking funny to me, someone edit him sinking down into the hole; CLIVE DOVE, MORE LIKE BYE-VE DOVE. “my work here is done.” “but you didn’t do anything except throw around some more sjw political rhetoric and throw us a puzzle that didn’t stop us” *nyooms away*

...okay no sorry, in all seriousness it’s this, because look at his little baby face... i’m in such pain. he was so cute and happy and not actively trying to destroy an entire city </3