#psychonuats raz

[psycho-static]

Ive been getting into psychonauts as of recent lol N i wanted to do a quick doodle of raz lmao i love using the levitation ball lol its so fun

[giulianatheordianycatgirl]

I saw this from a official kirby poster

And I decided to edit it with my favorite psychic boi

[cluepoke-archive]

The fact that this Lili plush has been in production since 2016 and still hasn't gone for sale kills me every day... psy2 backers who got this reward are so lucky

[continuedabstraction]

@funneylizzie

Merry psycho-mas! Here’s my Psychonuats secret Santa for this year! the request was Raz and lili being cool or cute. I went overboard and di both (plus bonus mini-hollis) Happy holidays and merry Christmas!

[lyril]

i think a lot of people who talk about gristol's lack of a "redemption" miss a very important tie between gristol and the themes of the game -- both those who think he doesn't have the capacity to change, and those few who actually feel like it is an injustice that he wasn't given one. take a read through this post by babycharmander to get a head start on what i mean.

gristol is not irredeemable, in the narrative, solely because of actions. in a series like psychonauts, i think if that were so, it would actually feel out of place. what has gristol done as a character that is worse than oleander, or loboto, or ford cruller? aside from regular psychonauts shenanigans like causing trouble by infiltrating the psychonuats, taking truman's brain, and putting everyone in danger, i would say none of you feel like that's actually "irredeemable" behavior compared to others, no? and so we might turn to his personality -- but, unfortunately, being a shitty person is not "irredeemable" behavior either. psychonauts has dealt with plenty of troublesome people like this. where you start to get somewhere is examining his goals -- gristol has nationalist and facist ideas floating around in his head, but they still are not realized. they are dangerous, yes, but there is a still difference between a child being fed propaganda and a false narrative of those ideas his entire life, now as an adult who still has not had a realization about the entire reality of it, and his adult father that has committed actual crimes resulting in many deaths, as well as other atrocities as the gzar of a country all while teaching his son this is what he should aim to emulate. as such, much of gristol's character is only "what if"s -- "when" he'll be gzar of grulovia. there's a lot he'll say he do, but gristol has not done those things. he might have the potential to, in... well, in his hypothetical world where he even can back to grulovia. but, it has not happened, and will not happen. and that's vital. his mindset is very important to this discussion, especially when it mirrors real world troubles, but what kind of message would it send if you were to say "there is no stopping these harmful seeds of ideas from sprouting, we can only suppress and punish these people". obviously that isn't true! dicussion of paralells to real life harmful ideology is relevant, but i would also say that for gristol as a character, it is much less about all that, and more about himself, in his childish and selfish fantasies of getting everything he wants, and essentially dipping his foot in those things along the way to getting there.

the entire point of that post i linked, that is almost exclusively why gristol is not redeemed at the end of the story. gristol is selfish, and a dangerous individual. but most of all, at this point in time, he does not allow himself to grow and change, and there is only the smallest bit of hope that he's starting to take a step. this specifically contrasts against the other characters in the series who have decided to turn over a new leaf when helped by raz.

gristol is absolutely portrayed as less sympathetic than many characters, because there is truth to it. he's still rich, even now. despite his entire mind being a pity party for himself, you, the player, and raz, see through it. the problems he does have are extremely rich people's problems for the most part, but honestly, where it leaves him makes me pity him quite a bit. regardless of whether or not other things in his past could be considered traumatic (nearly being attacked by soldiers, having to flee his home as a child -- and i would say they are in his eyes, considering that panic attack room), like every other psychonauts character, his past still has an iron grip on his present and future and shapes every single little detail about his character. for the most part, you are absolutely supposed to look at this and go "are you kidding? this is his tragic backstory?!" and it is completely fair to do so. but, to say he went through nothing is not true. because, to gristol, all of that was the end of the world, and that's all it needs to be as a character motivation.

despite everything he's done, gristol is far from a monster. as babycharmander discusses, another theme touched upon is this idea that anyone has the capacity to do harm, which leads into the familiar discussion of "good" vs "evil" people. dehumanizing people who are less than agreeablse, have done otherwise harmful things, and even are abusers, only adds to the inability to self reflect. the struggles of this character at his core are human. they are something i'm sure if you thought about it, you could understand. he was a child who never grew up. things change. he wants his perfect, childhood life back, one where he had no responsibilities, where he could have anything he ever wanted. to go back to when everything was perfect, and nothing was wrong. the epitome of peter pan syndrome. he wants attention and adoration, and things he genuinely had been led to believe that he's entitled to. and who doesn't? it manifests in him being incredibly out of touch and dangerously ambitious, but at it's core, it stems from very common, and very human emotions. gristol is still a child at heart. he's mostly preoccupied with fantasies of being waited on hand and foot, his ponies, and his cotton candy maker and caviar, rather than anything actually ruling a country would entail. he doesn't know anything about nor actually cares for his country and its citizens, only the idealized, rose tinted memories he had of the place, nor what his father has actually done, still believing he took his family and fled because he was a coward, and not because his actions were literally causing the destruction of grulovia and had they had to get out before they were the ones killed. after being isolated from his peers (and likely not actually having any, as royalty) for the first decade of his life, likely detached from his family as well, then once again shut up for years alone in a luxury hotel, it's clear that gristol has a very limited perspective of anyone else's life. gristol does not have a grasp on how to actually interact with people without a royal touch, form relationships, or practice empathy outside of a persona he puts on. i don't think this guy knows how to be a person.

i absolutely love the phrasing of "but there’s one person in this game we could not help" in that post. it's not about redemption, or being capable of it, or whether or not he even deserves it. but, that raz couldn't help him. a big thing about psychonauts 2 is helping people, not fixing them. i don't think gristol is irredeemable as a person. but i do think he's irredeemable for the purpose of this story and what its trying to tell, and rightfully so. because, most of all, raz doesn't have to deal with this. and neither do you, in our reflections of people like this in real life. raz has played his role here. if gristol is not willing to work towards change at this point in time, raz is not going to knock around in his brain until he does. it will not help, especially with how in deep he is. this doesn't mean as a character he is fully incapable of ever coming to terms with his reality. but it means, in the eyes of the narrative, it is not a story that will be told. he is going to have to have a big hand in that himself. and i think that's a very interesting thing to talk about and a great conclusion for what the game discusses. 

[woodiebugg]

I keep thinking of like. Epithet erased prison of plastic but psychonuats and raz has go inside his sisters brain and get her to stop daydreaming and lily and dogen are there. And its really emotionsal but also funny. I might draw it sometime i dunno. :).

[erigold13261]

Depending on what I come up with, HS and the like main cast of JJK will be part of the next gen of characters. Something like 10 years after the events of the Tech Revolution or something.

That's a big MAYBE though. It could be a good place to talk about Yinu's departure from NSR, the developed trauma from the Power Revolution, how a new set of artists are coming up (the main 4 HS characters and the main JJK cast possibly).

It would be more of an aftermath of everything and how stuff had changed entirely because of these revolutions. Perhaps more focus would also be put on Psychonuats as well.

Or maybe it's not that far into the future. Perhaps 5 years after the last revolution. I mean heck, I could do what I did with Psychonauts and place these characters in the past and show an aged up version of them like I am trying to do for Raz and the interns.

Definitely can't say anything for certain right now. Have to actually START JJK as well as get farther into HS. Just brainstorming possible ideas for the future! :3

[selfish-solace]

explaining your backstory (don’t correct my lore lol)

[ask-agent-rapzutin-vodello]

[annoyed grunt]

So I finally go the mic working and now the Camera doesn’t? ... Da- I mean Sasha, do you know to work the camara?

[muffled German response]

Already tried that.

[Another muffled response]

That too. Forget it, I’ll just work with the mic ‘till I can figure this out.

[Clearing of throat]

Hello everyone. My name is Razputin Vodello. Just Call me Raz. I live with my Mom, Milla and my Da-her recently-married-husband Sasha in the Motherlobe, HQ of the Psychonauts. If you have questions for me or any of my other members of my family, Honorary or otherwise, Ask away.

[loukhoart]

I finished !!!

I really wanted to draw their darkest part of their personality, I hope you'll enjoy it :)

I don't know yet if I will clean and color them, so I post it here ;)

I'm making some good/bad Psychonauts character for Halloween, I think I'll do this with Lily, Raz, Oleander and maybe Hollies slight_smile

[bcdrawsandwrites]

(Please reblog if you want to, don’t repost!)

(EDIT: OHHH NOOOOO TUMBLR WHY DOES IT LOOK SO UGLY??? PLEASE FULLVIEW THIS OTHERWISE IT LOOKS TERRIBLE)

[ID: A transparent Psychonuats gif of Raz in his Psychonauts 2 outfit. He is standing in a psychic pose with his right hand to his temple and his left hand held outward, and looking back at the viewer and smiling. His jacket has the modern demiromantic flag pattern on it (white/green/gray horizontal stripes with a black triangle on the side) and his turtleneck has the ace flag pattern (black/gray/white/purple horizontal stripes). To the right of him are three animated figments: a green diamond (representing demisexuality), a purple cake slice with a candle, and a gray dragon breathing fire (the cake and dragon being ace symbols). /end ID]

I’m a few hours late, but here’s Raz in demiromantic ace colors for International Ace Day!! I really wanted to get some headcanon art in today because it’s important to me.

and I ....... realized as soon as I was typing this post that I drew the wrong flag--I’d meant to give Raz grayromantic colors, not demiromantic. o__@;; Demiromantic doesn’t make sense because his and Lili’s relationship develops too fast to be demi. But whatever, it’s 2:30 AM at the time of my writing this. it’s an aromantic spectrum orientation so I’ll say close enough because I don’t have the energy to fix this. @__@;;;

ah well. Hope you  guys enjoy in spite of the mistake. %D;;

[giulianatheordianycatgirl]

Smol Raz au Ye

Btw he squeaks when he talks

[cuppajoegamer]

The next Good Brew Review, Psychonauts, is up on the site! Check it out!

[nowyourcookingwithboolie]

I redrew this Spongebob Book Cover out of boredom and for fun with Psychonuats characters. Oleander is Mrs. Puff of course, you probably already knew that from my drawings anyways, Raz being Spongebob, and Dogen being Patrick lol. This was fun. Enjoy. 

[generalherasyndulla]

ford cruller for yon character bingo

Ooooo okay!

I like Ford well enough. He's a good character, his dynamic with Raz especially in the first psychonuats is really good and fun. And of course his whole thing with Lucy/Maligula is VERY FUCKED UP AND TRAGIC AND I LOVE IT. Good character, but boy did you fuck up sir

[greenethorn]

this is so lovely omg <3

Ive been getting into psychonauts as of recent lol N i wanted to do a quick doodle of raz lmao i love using the levitation ball lol its so fun