#project hadea nash

[the-nocturnal-writer]

Local operative found smooching grumpy partner in the med bay

They turned out so nice ahh. Silent and Nash, my beloveds.

Nash belongs to @nyehilismwriting for Project Hadea

[snarkspawn]

I randomly did this as a bunch of quick warmup sketches over the weekend, and I was going to do nash as well only to run out of steam two doodles in lmao

but I need you to look at twin tails and short haired nash anyway asjkls

[rab-bitly]

theyre just like toxic yuri but theyre both nonbinary

[wwsans]

drenched

[binhadoodles]

Nash my beloved from @nyehilismwriting Project Hadea

[northern-passage]

clem is such an interesting character and so different from what i usually see in IFs like I've yet to see an RO who is scared of everything? in a world of girlbosses and mansplainers we need the clems

thank you!

i'm glad that they feel different :-) when i started tnp, a lot of romance stories, especially fantasy or supernatural, tended to put the mc in Clementine's role. there are exceptions now, of course, i'm not trying to make a broad statement, especially since within IF that's actually something that's changed a lot over the years, but i definitely wanted the mc in tnp to be the competent, protective, "mysterious stranger" type, which is an archetype that used to (typically) go exclusively to love interests.

which means that we get to have poor little meow meows like Clementine as our love interests, instead :-) i also really like having Clem as a bit of balance, because they're life has been so different from everyone else's - Merry is a career criminal, and we've seen that she has no hesitation getting nasty and violent, while Noel, Lea, and the hunter have all been entrenched in the Order for their entire lives, with all of them also being very familiar with violence and comfortable with it or at the very least indifferent towards it.

even though Clementine is running from something, and is just as much as a fugitive as Noel, compared to the others, they really are the "normal" one, who just had their life upturned by running into a group of hardened fighters and criminals. or at least, upturned in a different way than it already was.... we'll get to see their reaction in the second half of chapter 2, but Clementine deals with what happened in Blackwater very differently than everyone else, because it's not like something they've ever really experienced before.

[amyreads]

Nikke is one love ❤️ Vethna is also one love. Luckily there's a poly planned. About difficult romances: have you read Project Hadea by nyehilism? I think you might like it.

I have read project hadea and every time i read a scene with nash i want to chew glass

[nyehilismwriting]

Have you seen the recent comment made by Jelly Fish Field on your itch page for Project Hadea. I just read it, and found their view really interesting and extremely important criticism on how you've decided to write certain reactions. I love your writing a lot, so it was extremely eye opening what they wrote. What i'm getting at is, I would just like to hear your feedback on that specific comment! all love, and I do hope this won't be taken the wrong way!

I've seen it, yeah. and... okay, I've discussed my reasons for not using rape as a content warning before, and I stand by them; I'm not revisiting any discussion on what does and does not constitute rape. the content is warned for, by specifics of what occurs in the text, to give people the chance to make the most informed decision they can about whether to play. that's it.

as for the rest of it... there's things in there that I understand. I get being frustrated that you can't fully explore the extent of the operative's trauma, yet; I get feeling like the rest of the crew don't trust you, or like rohan is a bitch. they don't, and xe is.

the thing that I find disagreeable about a lot of these criticisms (and similar ones) is that I think they betray a fundamental misreading of the text: the operative is a war criminal. they are heavily armed, unstable, and trapped on a ship with civilians. they kill multiple civilians in chapter one; they might well attempt to kill rohan in front of everyone, and later succeed in doing so. they are a confirmed murderer, who by and large refuses to tell the civilians why they are so angry with rohan. this is by design.the focus of this story is very much about coming to terms with your trauma - from long before you meet rohan! you've been medically experimented on, had your personhood denied for a long time, and had any kind of human empathy stamped out of you. part of the point of the game is for me to explore how trauma can be expressed in ways that are deeply unpalatable - the operative is not a "perfect victim" (a phrase I loathe) and their trauma impacts the way they move through the world, drawing out reactions that aren't wholly sympathetic or empathetic, because their actions are often unjustified and cause real harm, or seem that way to those who don't have full context.

this is why joia is important, this is why your relationships with the crew are important. the crew aren't intended to be author voices, they're not the moral compass here or audience stand-ins: they aren't supposed to represent the "correct" approach to dealing with other people's trauma. no character in this situation is intended to be seen as perfect, but as a way to shine light on different facets of the story.

the operative is built a very specific way, for very specific reasons: this is intentional. they are a person who has been deliberately dehumanised, used as a weapon, who volunteered and fought for the right to be a scientific guinea pig for the war crimes company, in order to be of greater use to said company. they have had their bodily autonomy violated so habitually, for their whole career - they have been coercively used as a test subject by their employer - that they can't see it as an abnormal violation. this isn't to say it is justified, or to diminish the traumatic impact rohan has, but... it's not the operative's first rodeo here, even if it's the player's.

they're bad at processing their emotions. the operative Does Not Cry: this is a character choice I have made. this is because they have had that emotional response beaten out of them. the operative isn't capable of taking their own trauma seriously, because they're not equipped to deal with it. they can't look at it head-on.

likewise, nash isn't capable of being a gentle, reassuring, sympathetic person, much as they might want to; a big part of that relationship is the idea that the pair of you have to relearn to how to relate to one another in your new contexts, and that isn't a smooth process. nash also has reasons to be reticent with you that are yet to be explored - this relationship is undergoing development, with both of you as violent people who commit violent acts, and who relate through violence. your relationship is built on your capacity to commit violence together. they are not equipped to deal with violence affecting you in the way it might someone else, because you've both spent the last ten years being conditioned and trained to assault other people. part of the theme of this game is to explore the way these people might experience a uniquely traumatic violent event, and the effect this might have on their own capacity to endure and process violence again themself.

I understand that it might not be the way people want to play their characters, but it's the way the character is written, and I am doing that on purpose. all I'm asking is that you trust me when I say that this is not going to be swept under the rug, even in the least volatile relationship you can have with rohan. if that's not possible for you - if you can't trust me to do this - then you're welcome to stop playing.

[redmonstermash]

Played Project Hadea Chapter 5 for a little fun break...

I'm just going to-

Nash Romancers are crying in the club right now-

I made a quick redesign sketch of my Operative Silent while I cry.

[fiddles-ifs]

who are some of your favorite ROs from other IF games?

Dreamwalker, Pariah, and Sysba from @attollogame's Attollo.

Sirruud, Trigger, Mantis, and Crave from @heart-forge's games.

Nash and Rhaxa from @nyehilismwriting's Project Hadea.

Lea and Merry from @northern-passage's The Northern Passage.

Hollis, Jacob, Celina and Dominic from @larkin-if's Larkin.

[night-springs]

interrupting my blog to bring you some silly project hadea doodles because it updated and i have brainrot for my girl solaris (and nash) again

[the-nocturnal-writer]

When- when they- when-

I love them, your honour.

[snarkspawn]

ha. haha. this is fine.jpg

[rab-bitly]

9mm 🔫‼️

aka i have been replaying project hadea like crazy recently

[wwsans]

revisited some old doodles with nashley

[nemowrites]

Musical Shenanigans Are Back - Project Hadea

After a long ass thyme, trials tribulations and new instruments, I'm finally back into making musical shenanigans posts!! Now, musical shenanigans are when i imagine IF characters as music, I compose it and I play it.

Now this time I'm back with something exciting, I play oud now!! If you don't know what oud is check the description out right here. Music-wise a oud doesn't have frets and has quarter notes, for between a natural note and a flat. playing notes you cannot play on most stringed instruments, that being said might redo some of the characters I covered before just because oud opened up a lot of experimental space.

Now onto the important stuffs, if you don't know what project hadea is you're missing out big time, go check it out right here!

Without any further ado, here's the mess I came up with:

Nash:

"some of their tactical brilliance has probably rubbed off on you - and some of your impulsiveness on them"

I decided to use/highlight the element of impulsiveness and decided to compose as my hand plays the oud, without much planning, and this is what my brain came up with, I'm honestly very happy with it, would defo play that progression again.

Imxa:

"you’ll have to work hard to impress her"

I decided to play the first thing I ever composed on the oud, since (for me at least) it symbolizes just that, working hard to impress (myself, if no one else) and starting at some point, we all started somewhere after all.

That about sums it up, @nyehilismwriting i do hope i did not butcher your characters with my oud playing, and i hope you enjoy it, and to everyone else I hope y'all enjoyed listening to the lute's grandpa.