#my two fav supermassive games :)

[kindheartedgummybears]

:3 <- patiently waiting for a The Devil in Me x The Quarry crossover/au

[amberpriceenthusiast]

I was wondering, what are your favorite duos from each Supermassive game you played? Can be couples, friends etc.!

I love this ask! It was hard to figure out my fav duos from each game at first, but I’m pretty happy with this

Until Dawn: Honestly it’s really hard to pick just two characters, but it’s probably Sam and Mike. The trio of Josh, Sam, and Mike is my favorite thing ever though.

Man of Medan: There aren’t really any duos from this game I’m super attached to tbh. Conrad is my favorite from this game so I’ll just say Julia and Conrad, I want to see more sibling dynamics. I do love Julia and Alex though :)

Little Hope: honestly, it might be Angela and Andrew! I was replaying the game recently, and that replay def made me appreciate Angela as a character more, and I saw some moments of those two looking out for each other and checking on them. It’s very sweet. I might make a LH post soon to talk abt that game and the dynamics

House of Ashes: yeah it’s for sure Jason and Salim. I replayed the game recently and I just love that dynamic. Trusting someone simply because you have to is just such an interesting dynamic to me, and they genuinely close. At first I didn’t understand why this ship was so big, but after replaying, yeah those bitches gay

The Quarry: Kaitlyn and Dylan for sure. They’re a lot like me and my best friend :)

The Devil In Me: This one I’m honestly not sure abt because I just love the group dynamic so much. Obvi I love Jamie and Erin, but I think my favorite duo may be Jamie and Charlie. That old man needs more love and they’ve had good interactions, the entire blood trial scene is so good

[somewhereinthepines]

dunno if you were asked this before but what you most favorite dynamic out of all your supermassive ships?

i don’t think, that i answered it on such a scale before tbh. i’ve been asked about my supermassive otps separately tho, so like mmmm….

idk. i can’t say, that i have a specific favorite among all of them. each pair has elements that fascinate me, and while they all have smth that tangles them together, they’re also fundamentally different. i look at chris x ryan, and john x andrew, which at first glance is what i’m calling a caretaker + their silent, younger companion sort of gimmick, but they’re also go deeper than this, and there is very big difference even in how chris & john handle situations or how andrew & ryan react to things. how andrew will always be more pushy, and how ryan essentially can enter yandere mode, where andrew seem to be just kind of prone to violence of less motivated, less personal kind…..or even a big separation in how chris always tries to cling to imagery of a good person, and john is just kind of embraces the fact, that he’s not a decent man. still, chris somehow fucks up more royally bc of it all vs john, who’s just kinda goes with the flow lol. and then, the roles of who defends who in both ships are reversed. in the quarry, ryan canonically goes out of his way to pretend like everything around him doesn’t scream ‘my mentor isn't who i think he is'. it's so plain. so into your face, yet rayn being unresponsive, being abrasive. and then, he also gets hella passive-aggressive, once someone suggests that he's in denial (he is lol). in LH, it’s john, who canonically closes eyes on andrew’s mishaps and stunted disturbance, downright to forgiving him accidently killing angela (in some routes). i talked in more detail about john & chris’s differences and similarities here. but while they do share the same roots of dynamic, i feel like it evolves into its own category along the way. so honestly, even between those two, it’s kinda impossible for me to pick which is the most preferable or interesting. bc they both are! i'm a sucked for complicated pinning & favoritism, that makes person pick side based on their own selfish pref rather than logic. i love how creepily easy it is for ryan & john to endanger others, if it means that they can keep chris & adnrew 'safe and sound'. i love how this is their first, organic reaction. the quarry kinda messed it up toward the end, but y'know lol. it's the narrative point / the main intent, that counts with me. and where LH wasn't very shy about andrew & john being a 'thing' in whatever way, you might see it....like them being stuck together as oddly 'similiar' unlucky folks or as john being there to mislead you, well, they still were very *cross fingers* like that. in the quarry, you have to actually look a bit more closely to see how much of plot is revolved around ryan & chris's relationships. around ryan trying to save someone, who is in fact, was partly to blame for everything. but honestly, this is what i like about the quarry vs until dawn. at least, chris had someone, who did try to see the best in him. vs until dawn, where by unpopular opinion, i always stuck feeling like josh deserved better friends. i can't watch the prologue and not think, that aside from sam, the rest of josh's friends actually suck tbh. including chris, bc dang, he just abandoned him like that. for a girl..........so while josh did messed up thing, i struggle to feel any sort of sympathy for anyone, but sam in that game. naturally, some characters grew on me and chris was even my fav back at the time, but i don't and cannot respect a half-assed commitmet he showed josh. like man, be more like ryan, dude. point a gun at weird looking gal, that suggest that she's about to kill your camp leader. be like john, and literally ignore safety of everyone, but yourself and that one, young dazed student that you like lol. chris from until dawn is too weak for it. even non-existent dr hill was more devoted to josh vs his best bud. i mean, it kinda sucks, when your mental illness is the only thing, that agrees to keep you company, bc your bff wanna gets laid and just forgets about u. it's realistic tbh, don't get me wrong. but it still stings lol.

*clears throat* sorry, tangled lol.

anyways then, we have the other 2 ships, which are kind of opposites of one another. i mean, dulie & dalim do have similar narrative bits, esp since both pairs have power imbalance as its main trait. but where du’met x charlie will always be a predator/prey, with prey barely being able to do anything against its pursuer, in dalim it's never fully established, who 'controls' the situation in the end. bc realistically, salim would kick dar’s ass, if he saw so fit lol. and the funny part of their relationship is that dar is completely unaware lol. he seems to consider salim to be weaker, more naive and less likely to fight against his commands, since he's kind of a kiss-ass lol. it never occurs to dar, that salim can rebel against him. and if/when salim does, dar basically instantly gets angry/absolutely enraged with him, bc how dare he lol. in dulie, du’met kind of expects charlie to struggle and whine, and cower, and try his hardest, so he’s not holding it against him. he even humors him kinda. still, it's where the big diffence is. charlie is du'met 'prey', whatever intentions he has for him are always 'justified' inside his own mind. dar would only hurt salim, if he goes out of line. he won't randomly harm salim, or consider doing it, even if he might have such impulse. like, i do believe, that he does have them. still, where charlie being du'met 'favorite' means, that du'met would exact more pain and fear on him....with dar, it's the opposite. he would try to keep salim from harm's way, at least to some degree and he certanly won't treat him as poorely as he treats those other people, who are unimportant to him. canonically, out of the whole unit, dar only searching for salim. he's not sorry for all those wasted lives, it seem to barely register with him even. more so, he's actually allows salim to stick in the background for the most part, when he shots around like a maniac lol. it must mean smth comming from a war dog like him. also i must say, that dar & du’met, while both clearly sociopathic, still have very, very different stans there, not to mention, that even their sadism is kinda different too. not even in level, but also in how they apply it. they both clearly love hunting down people. they both enjoy the thrill of chase. but dar in a way uses his position, the situation he’s in as an excuse for it. while, du’met is just like that lol. salim & charlie are also opposites. there is SO very little to connect them by. besides, a very surface level things, such as them being the low-key hyperfixation/main companion for antagonists, and then how they both wander around with a lighter. so once again, its kinda impossible to pick between them, bc they represent very different things, and the characters themselves have way less in common up close vs the chris/ryan and john/adnrew. 

taking all 4 ships into account is like examining 4 of your favorite foods. it’s not the matter of which you prefer more, it’s more of what you wanna eat at the moment lol. the silver lining of all my supermassive ships be that they all have a specific brand of fixation/care/pinning/longing for one another. and they usually all have smth, that makes it difficult to approach those relationships/feelings. at least, for one party lol. but it’s kinda impossible to shove them all into some check-box tbh. i mean, it will be very hard to fit let’s say, caring chris, who tries to be good to ryan, even when he scolds him, and dar, who backhands salim, the second he fails to answer him fast enough. or compare andrew, who can push john around and shut him up by mere suggestion of disagrement, and charlie who would most likely fell on his knees and suck du’met off, rather than risk invoking his displeasure. even if simply bc du'met is capable of murdering him lol.

so idk, i can't name the most fav one tbh. i love them all for their own reasons. not to meation, that there is so many ways to explore obsession and other bits, that i love in each ship in its own way. before, i assumed, that i might have a secret fav, but looking at it now, i don't think that i do, haha.

[jackienautism]

Okay no but like I LOVE my lesbians HC for my fav girls and Kaitlyn is my fav but it rubs me so WRONG when the one women of color in this game who canonically shows interest to the other half of the popular MLM ship gets labeled the lesbian in rylan fics and then just?? They don’t even do anything with that. They don’t do more they just go “she’s lesbian she’s not interested in Ryan!!” And it makes me :))))). Like hmmm

NO ME TOO !!!!!!! i love headcanoning my fave characters as lesbians..... and i LOVE seeing it in fandom. but there are just certain times where it DOESNT work and can be seen as just straight up malicious. esp if they themself are not a lesbian lmao

i personally would see kaitlyn as a lesbian bc the way they portrayed kaitlyn and her "crush" on ryan? it just... the chemistry and whatnot is nonexistent to me. and thats at the FAULT of the game! bc they never even bothered to have a scene where its JUST ryan and kaitlyn on screen! its SOOOOO goddamn obvious which side of the """"love triangle"""" they were rooting for, hence the lack of attention they gave kaitlyn and ryan and bc of that, her attraction to ryan could absoolutely be seen as comphet. but youre absolutely right. of course the one woman of color who DOES show interest in a guy is reduced down to a lesbian JUST because she "gets in the way" of ry////lan

literally saw someone refer to ry////lan as a "canon" queer couple and like LMAO I CANT STAND IT HERE. its insinuated YES bc fuck you supermassive but kaitlyn is STILL THERE...... and evne if you choose all the ry////lan directed choices, THEY STILL DONT CANONICALLY END UP IN A RELATIONSHIP. and i dont give a FUCk if supermassive THEMSELVES have said something otherwise. they already droppped the goddamn ball w/ kaitlyn in SEVERAL different ways, so if they did? fuck them for real. kaitlyn deserved better. i could go on and on about specifics if you for some reason dont believe me when i say the game favors ry////lan, so let me know i guess. may just make a post about it regardless. and dont even give me that "im closer to dylan" bullshit

im very glad im not the only person who it rubs the wrong way though, in fact, it makes me very happy that im not being over dramatic or w/e. youre totally allowed to be put off by it bc it IS simply meant to toss kaitlyn to the side and get her out of the way of their WAY more popular MLM pairing

and it sucks bc like....of COURSE ry///lan being a queer interracial relationship is a great step into the right direction and very good, but so is kaitlyn / ryan. ryan is still a bi black man and its SO easy to also make kaitlyn bi. ryan being in a "straight" relationship doesnt erase his queerness. and like? w/ kaitlyn and ryan, itd be a interracial relationship between TWO poc and thats like......barely seen. which is another reason why erin / jamie is so fantastic, especially since theyre a queer relationship on top of it. AND YET. THEY GOT JACK SHIT COMPARED TO EVERYTHING ELSE HUH? GOD. i wont sit here and lie i have yet to get into TDIM and make art / stuff but. im not shocked that they have SIGNIFICANTLY less

but yeah... them not even doing more w/ kaitlyn being a lesbian is HMMMM absolutely suspicious. it rly exposes their TRUE intentions real quick. it just shows to me that they dont actually care abt portraying a lesbian, let alone telling their story

[normiematsu]

some authors notes and recommended tracks... ☝️🤓 to understand their dynamic

calling the english half of this playlist part 1 i guess lol. aka everything before intermission by strawberry guy

lovers rock - THIS MAKES ME SICK AND ILL ITS SO THEM HEAD IN HANDS. if i had to pick one song from this half it would be lovers rock. im passing away

together (bathtub ver) - it's choro pining. it also makes me sick and ill

supermassive black hole - ☝️🤓 uhhhh just read the lyrics your honor. this is the ultimate coke and mentos dynamic for them i have discussed previously. purple haze and shes my collar also go into this category

part 2 is all japanese music 🫡 sometimes spotify translates things to romaji sometimes not so u get both titles where applicable. ctrl+f to your hearts content

groovin magic - this is the op to diebuster. they're both otaku. could i make it any more obvious. anyway the lyrics to this are very yuucore and it's a good song pls listen ^_^)b

トルコ行進曲 - オワタ＼(^o^)／ / turkish march - it's over ＼(^o^)／ - this was a big fav of mine in the early vocaloid years the pv is so fucking funny. its about trying to meet your friend and everything that could go wrong does..... which is very yuucho to me. they are two sides of the same fail bad luck coin.

リモコン / remote control - ANOTHER EARLY VOCALOID ESSENTIAL.... they are both very competitive this is like the coke and mentos dynamic but sfw LOL

アイドル親衛隊 / newly edgy idols - i dont need to elaborate on this one i think. u know these guys have vip tickets to magical mirai every year and religiously play gacha games together

カトラリー / cutlery - OBLIGATORY ANGSTMATSU..... i think there is potential they would have some nasty rough periods around the events of S1/S2 EP24. choro who isnt that great at communication and is prone to outbursts vs yuuchan who has I Could Fix Him disease. lyrics to this one wound me xoxoxo "i'd want you to end it in the worst case scenario" IT IN THE LYRICS IMPLYING A RELATIONSHIP LIKE UGH ENOUGHHHHH

fuyu no hi - i couldn't end that playlist on an emo note so it goes back into cute world. this one of my fav songs from k-on ;_; its a cutesy love song abt taking a walk together in wintertime its fluffy and fun idk! the lyrics are also very choro pov imo. this one is REQUIRED READING!!!

ok guys the yuucho playlist is done its (checks notes) 3 HOURS AND 45 MINUTES LONG help

go nuts ive organized this labor of love into 2 sections with an intermission in the middle, everything should transition into each other so you can kinda just pick and choose where to start 🤓

[queenofbaws]

Happy weekend! I know you haven’t played the Quarry yet (as of June 11), but I am really really eager to hear what you think of it when you do so please respond to this ask with your initial thoughts afterward! Can’t wait to hear from you!

aw man it ain't the weekend anymore, but i have finished the quarry(tm) and boy i......................i love..............this game.

(thar be spoilers below, me mateys)

what a good fuckin game.

what a goOD FUCKIN GAME.

so i'm gonna go on the record as admitting upfront that iiiiii did not have high hopes for the quarry lmao. in fact, i sort of expected, uhhhhhhhhh not to like it. whether that's just because my heart belongs to until dawn or what, who's to say, but i genuinely went into the game expecting it to be a middling experience with maybe a few fun little quips along the way.

instead. what i got. was the quarry. and uhhhhhhhHHHH. as i said on at LEAST two occasions to the friends i was playing with, if that game was a person, i'd kiss them full on the mouth.

so much. of this fucking game. felt. TARGETED at my whole DEAL, i stg. the video nasty covers for the decision paths????? WITH THE GREEN HORROR AND REWIND STICKERS?????? the tarOT CARDS??????? the LOVEABLE CAST OF CHARACTERS?????? the PARANORMAL PODCAST?????? THE SINGULAR MENTION OF BIGFOOT???????????????????

(ngl i was so hoping for bigfoot to show up at some point but supermassive hates me i guess, so i have to settle for the game being a 10/10 instead of an 11/10. WHATEVER.)

truly i did not anticipate loving all the characters as much as i did - and i fuckin mean all of them. everyone was so fun, the hacketts were...the hacketts, and like. if even a single one of you out there is entertaining the thought that i wasn't SHRIEKING WITH DELIGHT the moment we met eliza (or as my friends and i lovingly refer to her, grandma grease), YOU ARE INCORRECT. (my fav of the kids tho HAS to be kaitlyn. i just. i want to hug her. so bad. dylan was a VERY close second, but kaitlyn owns my heart.)

the plot was so FUN, every inch of it was a schlocky horror movie come to life, from the sketchy backroad cop to the summer camp to the mysterious giant house in the back of the woods that no one ever mentioned until it became relevant to the events at hand. there were bear traps (and a whole SWARM of bears, obvs), there were awkward rounds of truth or dare, there was a camp song, there was a chaINSAW BEING USED IRRESPONSIBLY...honestly it was just. so so good. so so fun.

i don't think there was a single moment where i was bored, or my attention lulled, or anything like that. i was GRINNING the whole way through, ear to ear, like a fuCKING CHILD. and i can't stress enough how much i just. love. this fucking. game. you guys are going to have to deal with so much quarry shit from me after this lmfao

the parting fact i'll leave you with - that has no bearing on anything, really (get it? BEARing? eh? EHHHHH???) is that every time bobby was on screen, we either yelled JOOOOOOHN CENAAAAAA or started singing his theme song, and honestly i don't think that's going to change with any of my subsequent playthroughs.

[queenofbaws]

I have another one for the fandom ask game... Man of Medan :D

Aw dang, I just did MoM, BUT SINCE YOU ASKED...I can (and will) absolutely keep rambling. (With some minor question changes ;P)

Favorite Male Character: I felt kind of weird putting him down in the first place, but hell, here we are again, so...THE CURATOR. I love him. I know I shouldn’t love him, I have really weird feelings about where Supermassive plans on taking his character (and WHAT his character actually is...), but from the moment he showed up on screen and started talking, I knew I was fucked. I love two creepy, cryptic old men in this house, and those men are Dr. Alan J Hill and the as-of-yet nameless Curator.

Favorite Female Character: I have to keep Fliss here because I really, really just do not like Julia. Whoops.

Least Favorite Character: Out of the pirates, Olson’s gotta be my least fav. Over the span of the game, I really genuinely DID come to like Danny, and I have to say I love Junior, but Olson just...Olson’s got too much going on, man. (Plus he hurt my boy!)

Favorite Ship: Still Conrad and Fliss - lord above, I wish we could’ve seen some of the aftermath of their weirdass night, especially as it pertained to these two...I’d really LOVE to see whether things happened between them or not!

Favorite Friendship: To narrow in on my last answer...I really, really thought the relationship between Fliss and Brad was adorable and heartwarming. If you send them into the base of the ship together, she like, asks him about how school’s going and stuff, and laughs at him for being a nerd, and just...I love it. For not knowing each other for very long, most of their interactions are very sweet.

Favorite Quote: "Bad news...these mayyyy be the guys I pissed off earlier.”“What’s the GOOD news?!”“Uh...I recognized them.”“HOW IS THAT GOOD NEWS?!”“I thought you’d ask for the good news first!!!”

If there’s one thing Supermassive knows how to do, it’s make me laugh over sibling interactions.

Worst Character Death (if any): This is probably more a me-problem than anyone else, but having Conrad slip and fall to his death on the ladder when you’re literally one QTE away from escaping the pinup girl....it changes you. It changes who you are as a person.

This made me so happy you have no idea Moment: Relating to the above question - when Fliss successfully calms Conrad down out on the stacks in the rain. Oh my heart. MY HEART!

Saddest Moment: Being one QTE away from beating the training dummy but getting smacked upside the head :(

Favorite Location: My favorite place IN the Ourang Medan has to be Cargo Hold 3. That creepy shit straight out of The Shining before Fliss goes outside? Please. The best. Love that room, and again, WISH THERE WASN’T A TIMER!!!

Send me a fandom and I’ll rant about it!!