#paradigm (dyvj)

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Playing a pathetic loser but also beating all the superheros (or just 'winning' via running away/stalemate) is so funny. I had three panic attacks and got 0 hours of sleep yesterday but I just put the leader of the Glory Hounds into a hole and then turned around and defeated two more. and then I ahd another panic attack. Everyone has to sit around the GH HQ (the doghouse?) later and quietly deal with the fact that the guy they saw throwing up before the fight kicked their asses and got away after.

The route to true mastery of parahuman combat: neuroticism.

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This kicks a lot of ass! Poor soggy Morgan needs some friends. Or a plush sheep to cuddle.

Morgan.... My pathetic wet little kitty cat..... She's not doing okay @drinkyourvillainjuice

Early book spoiler under the cut 🫣

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Do I give a really downbad option for Dime to try and impress Kay...

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A mini Dime born from Mal and Mutation!Dime is the perfect shapeshifter

I think that's literally a symbiote

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Shout out to the dialog in this game. The "i can't believe you're doing all this sick" into "relate with your own gender identity" (as cisgender) combo during the Kay coming out scene is one of the few times i've laughed out loud reading an IF. Peak himbo Dime doing their best

dsgkdsgs ngl taking inspiration (reverse inspiration?) from a non-IF game where a character can come out as trans to you and most of the options are pretty bad with only one being sort of OK, and I kind of just went.

You know what, I'm gonna let cis!Dime be a little goofy, as a treat.

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Mal and Dime.

Regent: Hey, we make a pretty great team.  Grue: You were absolutely no help whatsoever.  Regent: [shrugs] Eh.

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Dime rizz is the most powerful power

It's true. doesn't matter if they're a corpselike scarecrow, Dime has got Protagonist Game.

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I'm baffled that any of the ROs (Mal are u ok??) are attracted to dime, did they play slenderman in their youth? Does slenderman exist as a game in this world? If not is MC the OG slenderperson now?? help

Mal is a freak lbr.

I get where you're coming from. Dime's certainly a mess. Street cat let's go.

Part of it is like. The price of doing business. I wanted to have romance, so that means a little bit of well, people being attracted to the MC despite flaws.

Another component is that most of the characters aren't really that bothered by appearances. Teddie has flaws. Kay is insecure. Wil's honestly kind of a weirdo and explicitly likes people outside the norm. CG's known Dime for years, so that's kind of just how they look to her.

Mal and Alistair have specific things that I'd like to get into further. Mal can already comment a bit on this, but they like flaws. Imperfection is much more real to them than manufactured perfection. Alistair is drawn protectively to Dime, and then those feelings can deepen. But I do want to have chances for Dime to needle at him and ask whether he views them as just... something to take care of.

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As someone playing a rebellious Dime, can't wait for them to find out about Beth. Watch my pick locking child do a mission impossible and infiltrate the Hound's quarters. They gonna spill even their social security number to them.

Dime captured by the Hounds. Strapped to a chair and bright light focused on them.

Hounds: all right, tell us what you know

Dime: thank GOD. Ok I'm gonna start from the beginning so you better pay attention I do NOT like to repeat myself. Are you writing this, recording it? Then what the hell are you standing there for-

Dime starts to ramble non-stop and the Hounds have trouble following but I want to see their faces when they realize this eldritch criminal is snitching on an entirely different team/faction

"Wait why do you have tea about a bunch of guys that we've never heard of??"

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How delightful! A soggy scaredy little cat indeed they are! Poor them.

finally got around to drawing my scaredy-cat Dime who is always making self destructive choices, from @drinkyourvillainjuice's game.

Their name is Seren Lake, even if they're not using that name anymore, kind of sad when your own name doesn't feel like your name anymore.

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Dime crying as their sheep gf makes them beat her before a mission for peak performance

Dime, sobbing: y-you m-may not like it b-but it's w-what peak p-performance looks l-like

Kay, completely unharmed: babe please

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Beth making MC go apologize to Ranger for breaking his bones after we turn good...

Dime just scuffing their feet and staring at their shoes while mumbling "m'sorry"

"for what"

"for snapping your arm"

"and...?"

"and I won't do it again..."

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purposely failing every check i can. is my dime about to get kicked out of altruists? or am i too pathetic to let loose?

See there's pathetic (loser, incompetent), and there's pathetic (blowing own cover)

One is a lot worse than the other for Dime.

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but what would happen if Dime ate the Project though

It's getting a little Dungeon Meshi* in here...

*I have not read Dungeon Meshi.

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This isn't that comical, but if this was a sitcom I could totally see Dime saying "Beth?" During a moment where everyone just happened to shut up, which stops the fighting as everyone snaps their heads in the direction of Beth/Dime. Someone advocates fighting again, and the others tell them to stfu everyone else wants the tea answers.

"...How about we get back to figh-"

"Shh! Sh-shut- shut up. We need closure now."

"SSH, DIME'S REVEALING THEIR TRAGIC BACKSTORY!"

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Latest chapter had me feeling so sad for my MC 😭 she was the vainest lesbian in the world before she “ignited” and now she needs help just to enter a club. Someone get her a haircut stat!!!

I'm happy to hear this! wait no-

uh...

Okay but genuinely, I thought it was a great opportunity to bring up Dime's raggedy-ass state. People seem to like their feral Dime being acknowledged as such.