#re5 but ur there

[unnerving-presence]

i would love to be Weskers housewife (I just want him to take care of me)

no bc i love imagining him being his usual evil lil self but goes absolutely soft for his cute lil s/o

he loves them sm he cannot fathom treating them like he would anybody else 😭 treats them with so much care and is SUCH A SIMP for them

no matter how irritated he may be they can always make him feel better just by being there. when he gets a call from them all the tension in his body is instantly gone the second he hears their voice

he has such a genuine, happy smile when he’s around them. he honestly can’t be mad at them no matter what they do

wesker has an unhinged amount of love for his spouse and he absolutely loves just pampering them after all the hard work they do <3

[tetras-stuff]

everyone always talks about leon kennedys unnecessary ahh flips but did yall forget about RE5 Albert "I am the mastermind villain" Wesker literally throwing his glasses at chris to elbow him in the gut, like what was the point of that

[starfr00t]

hes just my little meow meow pookie wookie bear 🥺

[janeromeroshow]

Content? She wouldn't say that, but Jane is smart enough to know that Wesker's idea of tolerant still doesn't mean it's an appropriate time to start nitpicking his word choice.

Still, it's always been curiosity that's driven her, even when her conversational partner is far from pleasant (and indeed, the condescending edge to his tone makes her skin crawl; it's one thing to be outran and stabbed, it's a whole other to have someone talk like you're beneath them on top of it all).

There are a few questions in her mind, the most pressing of being what is his fucking problem, but she chooses a different one as it doesn't take a genius to figure out the outcome of that.

" You worked with some of the others, right? I've heard them talk about it, they say you're very different to how they remember. "

"Content I assume?"

There's a slight mocking in his tone. The temper that always stirs close to the surface seems more uneven whenever he is in the presence of a survivor.

"There are not nearly as many of us as there are of you. Eventually, I am sure you'll know all of us by name. Won't that make the butchering's different."

From behind his dark glasses, his red eyes glow with a unintended intensity. He is uncertain if her echo was meant to be mocking, or some stumble within her mind. Though he always seems to lean towards cheek when it comes to the ones on the other end of The Fog. He can't help but be cruel. Condescending in a way that feels like a knife being dragged along bare skin.

"Any other questions? While I'm in a tolerant mood."

[dollivication]

To 🦈 and 🌀: <33 thank you both, I'll be sure to treat your brains with care, only the best for them.

To Dollie ❤️: I've had sea shanties stuck in my head for the past week, do you have any pirate AUs in that lovely mind of yours?

ALSO I saw a Wesker mention from 🌀 and I'd have to say, despite not playing re5 (the ps3 controls are so tanky 😞) or re1, I'd gnaw on that man like a dog with a bone

SEA SHANTIES… i love drunken sailor (IT JUST GOES HARD I HAVE NO EXPLANATION LMFAO) and my jolly sailor bold so badly….

cw: violence, obsessive behaviors, mentioned non-con but nothing actually explicit

pirate aus…. fawk… headscratchh…. well i always liked the thought of laik.. childhood friends with leon; ur royalty, he’s a boy from a poor background. you guys were laik 2 peas in a pod! but ur parents (king and queen) strong advised that you stop talking to him! he’s a commoner after all. and you can’t rlly go against ur mom or dad :( so yu switch up and tell leon that you didn’t want him around you anymore, that he’s a peasant and you could never be friends with someone as dirty as him!

leon ofc is fucking HURTING. he doesn’t wanna believe that his bsf just suddenly started hating him?? he was literally so whipped by you, and now you’re just being a dick? that just wasn’t like you… but he did as you told him to and he stopped coming by. as the years passed, your head was filled more with royal concerns and you damn well near forgot about leon!

leon never forgot about you though. while you two spent those years apart, getting older, he became meaner. your words really got to him, because now? there was a threat to your people. a pirate captain and his crew, targeting the already small population of your kingdom. the king and queen were doing their best to ward them off, but what could rlly be done at that point?

your mom and dad, as mentioned before, weren’t all that kind to those with a lower status :/… leon had used this to his advantage and got together with all of those who had been wronged by the royal family. and that number was enough to hold off against literal soldiers like jfc…

of course, leon and his crew arrive and start fucking everything up. burning down houses, robberies, literal manslaughter. you could only watch as your mom and dad panic abt wtf to do. your dad’s men are dropping like flies, because pirates play dirty whilst knights play with honor. it’s a fucking bloody mess (◞‸◟)

it doesn’t take long before the pirates get to the actual castle. king and queen are quickly taken care of, now the only one left is you. but you aren’t hurt yet—held still by other pirates, yes, but you haven’t gotten stabbed like some unlucky people. and then u have the (not so) great pleasure of meeting the captain himself :3

leon’s mocking ur confused expression, jeering at how scared you look. considering you’ve completely fuckin forgot this guy you demand to know who he is—to which leon haaaappily reminds u abt the friendship you two used to have before you just poured it down the drain.

“you didn’t love then me because i was no one, but now, you’ll love me because i’m someone” is basically what he tells u. he was no longer poor, considering all the shit he’s robbed, and now that he actually has a reputation compared to his past self. and now that the people who told you to stay away from him are now gone, he was happily going to make up for lost time with you, whether you liked it or not.

JSJSJFGTHIS IS PROBABLY REALLY UHMM CLICHE, sososoery if u were hoping for something different jsjskdf..</3 i guess a summary would just be yan!childhood friend!pirate!leawn…. and i’d also like 2 add he’d probably non-con u… saur..

[resizura]

me when i don’t know the difference between storytelling and game mechanics

story wise, yeah, the colonized people in re5 are all victims of the real antagonists. from a gameplay perspective, they are enemies you have to defeat in order to progress. it’s unavoidable. and technically, since most of the info that gives people genuine sympathy for the victims is hidden in files that plenty of players won’t read, even that sympathy is optional.

sorry i just ugh i wanna tear my hair out and you’ve always got good and normal takes about re5 and the (unfortunately) inevitable remake i just needed some sanity

omfg why do people refuse to critically think about the things they consume?? is it that hard??

people always wanna be so weird whenever shit like this happens. ur right the game makes it clear they’re victims but when you have to gun down a bunch of africans who are literally caricatures its not a stretch to say that its a little weird.

its like what i was talking about in a past post of mine how one thing i DISLIKE ab resi is how bad they are at giving humanity to the zombies and other default creatures, and this is another example of that. doesnt help black people are dehumanized to an absolutely awful degree.

and the ign article went into more detail than just “the black people are antagonists,” its incredibly bad faith to present it as though its just some “overdramatic liberal pandering” or whatever on igns part.

people who refuse to critically analyze racial depictions in media want to think we live in a world thats perfect and we can just have the same depictions of everyone and its all sunshine and rainbows. no, unfortunately thats not how it works and capcom needs to be careful about how they depict other cultures. digressing, but im also not too happy with how they treated the spanish villagers in 4, the chinese j’avo in re6, and the romanian villagers in re8.

idk its annoying seeing these everywhere like please think for more than two seconds about implications

[explorevenus]

PLSPLSPLSPPAPLS ANYTHING WITH ADA IN THAT RE5 JILL SUIT MOD DRIVING READER BONKERS

OH!

i am filing this into my brain . good GOD

she makes u pull the zipper down w ur teeth so slowly btw

[sapphire-weapon]

okay wow thanks for the explanation on the suppressant. i didn't know it was written that long ago. and how did you find it that quick anyway?

but also, do you think the writers intended it to be read that way? i know RE4R's story is good, but for the writers to be so subtle about it, they gotta be amazing at writing and delivering and i dont think anybody who writes the story for RE is at that level yet.

it's not that i dont want to believe in that take, but i also read ur post about how u dont apply "death of the author" and i just think "do the writers actually think like this? it wouldn't wrong for us to think this way but do they think of it like that?"

so i found it quickly because it's in my meta analysis tag. i'm very careful with that tag and only use it for posts that i think raise important points that i might want to reference later. this was one of them.

and i actually love the second part of this ask.

i don't personally feel that RE4make's writing is that sophisticated. it's sophisticated for RE -- but there are so many other games that have such better storytelling. SH2, spec ops: the line, hades, alan wake, disco elysium -- just off the top of my head -- are so rich in storytelling and so creative with how they convey it. even the evil within -- which was also a mikami game -- had an incredibly dense story that took effort and grit to fully unpack.

literally all that hirabayashi did with RE4make was hear mikami's pleas to fix the story, look at it, go "how can i do this without fucking up the gameplay loop or structure?" and decide that the easiest way to do it was by putting an emotional throughline in the game centered on leon and ashley's relationship -- which made sense to do, because that also lines up with the gameplay contrivance that the game is centered on.

he's also been working on RE since 0, so he's intimately familiar with these characters and the possibilities they hold. he was RE6's producer, so he knows that suicidal ideation is a part of leon's character -- just as an example. because it's in RE6 that leon admits to having been suicidal in the past.

we also know that he loves fairy tales. he wrote RE5's script, and RE5 is a modern horror fairy tale. sheva even has an alternate costume literally called "fairy tale." and, at its core, RE4 has the basic plot of a classic fairy tale. the Hero storms the castle, slays the Dragon, and saves the Princess. it's so easy to convert that into a more Proper fairy tale by tweaking the relationship between leon and ashley.

and the romance tropes and references he uses are very rudimentary. like, if you look at my posts, it's like... romeo & juliet and sleeping beauty. this is hardly a romance aficionado's deep dive into the romance genre.

RE4make is babby's first step into deeper storytelling in the video games medium.

so i really don't think that it's a stretch to say that this was his intention.

if you want to be really anal and pedantic about it, you can say that his intention was to make the story into something coherent and fluid, and the romance just happened to be a byproduct of that because that was the easiest thing he could reach for, but like.

to use the structure of romance stories and to consistently follow the imagery and symbolism and references of classic romances -- his reason for doing it doesn't matter. the fact remains that he did it on purpose, and it's reflected in the final product, and so that's what the story is.

i said this in another post, so i'll just paste it here:

So, sure. You could look at RE4make as a story about a man who’s just doing his job and saves the president’s daughter because idk he’s a badass and that’s just what he does. And he overcomes his trauma about Raccoon City because he actually saved a person’s life finally, and it wouldn’t have mattered who it was; it just happened to be Ashley. Sure. You could. But you miss the fucking point of what the storyteller(s) were trying to do. You miss the intention of the developers paying homage to RE4OG being such a huge part of so many people’s childhoods by turning the story into a fairy tale. You miss the parallels of Leon becoming a broken husk of a person because of failing re: Ada, and Leon finding his smile and his kindness again through Ashley. It leaves you with a shallow story where shit just kind of happens and Leon’s a cool dude who overcomes the odds all on his own because he’s so cool and strong. And you’ll never be able to convince me that that’s how the devs wanted their story to be read. Not with the deliberate layering of themes and imagery and allegory that they’ve folded into the narrative. And you’ll never convince me that all of this was just a coincidence, either.

[just--a-lurker]

Need you to know that I went from liking/tolerating Wesker years ago to hating him because of DBD. It's SO annoying going against him continuously. BUT, following you has made me tolerate and appreciate him more (looks like I don't hate Wesker just hate DBD players lolololol). It's nice to see someone love the guy so much and I never realized how much I missed seeing him(I remember my first intro to him being RE5 and I thought he was WACK)

-slashersgostabbystabstab

I don't blame you!! Wesker players in dbd are very *interesting* at times, and I want to say that for a solid chunk of 2023 I actually loathed him a bit 💀💀. Learning about Wesker's existence from dbd was crazy bc he was such a goofy goober in the ptb BRING BACK HIS SILLY LITTLE SMILE BHVR!! I actually dislike S.T.A.R.S Wesker because of dbd players I swear when someone equips that skin they're about to be the most toxic mfers in endgame chat 😭. I miss facing him!! and I barely see him, it's all Chucky now 😔. But I'm glad that he's more tolerable now for you! Although if you ever go back to hating him that's fine tbh sometimes I want to grab his neck and squeeze so hard his head pops off

I will say that I was only mildly interested in single Larry and xeno but finding ur fics n ficlets I definitely love them a lot more (esp since I never see singularities the last one I got was back in JULY!!! AHHHHH)

[underlockv]

Taking the capcom figure servey and requesting 1) Piers 2) Ethan and 3) affordable figures please god capcom stop making 1000 dollar statues and collabs I don't even own a claire cuz the original action figure quality toys are old enough to be priced vintage and the new ones are too expensive to justify. And Im not buying the rubber ducks thats not a substitute.

Before I found a deal on that village preorder Chris figure from a reseller the only RE figure I had was a damaged tiny re5 chris promo item the size of half my palm.

(His gun broke, before i got him)

Anyway guys go tell Capcom what figures you would be interested in by clicking here (if ur part of the re ambassador program you get points if you put in your id number at the end)

[unnerving-presence]

I wanna be a virologist so bad so I could get closer to Wesker 😞

(This idea popped up in my head so suddenly lmao)

i think he’d be the type to try and teach you more especially if you were new 👀 i love the thought of a new umbrella employee s/o and wesker begrudgingly being their ‘mentor’ of sorts and they end up getting a lil crush on him

birkin takes notice but doesn’t say anything until he notices wesker giving them more attention and kind words than usual 🤨

[shinozaki-ayumi]

Sorry for so many questions but I have no one else to ask:

What REmake do you think is the best so far?

What RE game are you hoping to be REmade the most?

What do you think the next non-remake game will be like and about?

(Love ur blog btw, I check it all the time like old ladies read newspapers)

Omg that last part is so flattering you have no idea 😂 I’m happy to answer questions!!!

My personal favorite of the remakes so far is RE2, I love the characters and music and atmosphere and everything about it. BUT after playing the original it became really glaring to me what wasn’t done “properly” — mostly the way the A and B scenarios had no real continuity between them, and how most of Leon and Claire’s interactions were cut, that was disappointing. So I think the best executed remake is RE4, because it really felt like an upgrade in essentially every way.

EDIT: WAIT I CAN’T BELIEVE I FORGOT RE1. RE1 REMAKE IS MY FAVORITE REMAKE. That game is absolutely loaded with atmosphere and cool visuals and great music and AGHH I love it so much. Idk how I forgot that one!!!

And I am DYING for a Code Veronica remake. I really enjoy the story in CV and I’ve read the novelization and enjoyed that a lot too, but the game is definitely outdated and has its… quirks? I think it’s the most in need of a remake. I also feel like Steve has a lot of potential as a character and I really would like to see how a remake would handle modernizing him!! Especially after how they fleshed out Ashley as a character in 4R, I want to see another widely disliked character getting some love!

As for RE9… I honestly don’t know what to expect from it. I definitely want them to avoid repeating the RE5/6 mistake and stick to survival horror. I feel like that’s what they do best and I’d be really sad if RE becomes an entirely action-oriented series again.

I also would like to see one of the core female protagonists take the center stage again, Claire especially. I adore Leon and Chris is great too but I’m a bit tired of them both at this point lol. There was a “leak” awhile ago that claimed 9 would be about an older Claire somewhere out west, with folklore-themed monsters of some sort (like skinwalkers sort of??). I don’t believe leaks unless there’s hard evidence, but I’d really love if we got something along those lines!

[pink-strawberry-kissess]

ur thoughts of sheva?

THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT RE5

ig jill too. and wesker ig

anyways sheva is a queen- we love her

[mishkakagehishka]

anyway. followup. rank the resi games from ur faves (for whatever reason, could be story, the characters, the game making u want to curl up in a ball and cry, ur metric is whatever u want it to be) to ur least faves..... i've never played any of them and only have minor knowledge of a few so like. im fascinated.

I'm soooooo biased anyway

1. Resident Evil 4 - my introduction to the series, which was good bc i was such a scaredy-cat as a kid, the whole "let's make it less survival and more action" was nice. Playing RE2make, i missed the freedom of being allowed to "clean up" an area. I love RE4 i love RE4 Leon, my first fictional crush, i love Ashley, i love Luis, i love the putas, and i love the lake monster named Lake from the lake named Lake. Mwah. Chef's kiss. Perfect game, in my esteemed opinion. The remake should have given us even gorier death scenes instead of cleaner, but I appreciate the fact that they made Luis and Leon's dynamic (even) gayer. So many iconic lines, I don't even know which one to quote. I didn't know your right hand is going to bingo.

2. Resident Evil 1 (this is actually n1 spot but RE4 is there bc you gave me that freedom). Like. I mean. Listen. We gotta respect our elders. And RE1 fucks so hard. She was the blueprint for everything. The dog corridor. The mansion level of all mansion levels. Jill sandwich. What more could you want from a video game. There is multiple endings though and I forgot how they went about that, but I assume there's a "true" ending for the lore. Also in 2002 they remastered it and put Jill on the cover of their "you can choose to play as a girl or a boy" game that revolutionised gaming and media in general? And some companies in 2018 acted as nobody wants to buy a game where the girl protag is the one primarily marketed and/or where you play as a girl. Looks at ubisoft.

3. Resident Evil 2. This might be bias, but it might not be. Because RE3 is more action-y and while I did say I appreciated that as a kid in RE4, i feel like it worked in RE4, but not so much in 3? I think i'm biased. Anyway RE2 was cool because heellooooooo Mr X? Iconic. The soundtrack? Divine. The way you had A and B sides ?!?!?!?!? Four different scenarios because depending on who you chose in A, you'd have a totally different story????? Iconic. 10/10 in my esteemed opinion. I love Resident Evil 2. Can Claire and Leon please just ba----

4. Code Veronica. I still have no idea what the fuck happened in this game. 8/10 at this point I went "what the hell is this lore" (/pos). Like i'm trying to come up with an example to give you but i can't. Love the gothic setting tho

5. Resident Evil 3. Lipbite. Clockwork level. Nemesis.

Horror game girl swag. I dunno, I don't have much to say. She was iconic, but by this point we're in "i'm not exactly a shooter for these games" territory.

Now. Much as I love RE4 it definitely was a sign of things to come. Scratches the back of my neck. I kinda don't care for RE5 and 6. I know Chris punches a boulder in one of them. I do appreciate that they turned it back to survival horror with 7 and Village, buuuut. They lost me. As I said, I don't care for the lore that much, it spans too long, there's a lotta new characters (and I'm not one for "legacy" characters anyway, ik you can only do so much with the originals, but :( i just prefer the smaller cast and our classics. But i get that Capcom wants to have the games set in the years they're releasing, so they kinda haaave to, but </3). 7 and Village definitely were cool, but they somehow felt~~~ a bit less Resident Evil-ly... if that makes sense. 7 was great, but Village's bosses... I dunno. I wasn't much of a fan of how it fit into the sci-fi world of RE.

Listen. I think RE was best when it had the static camera and the horrible dread and when it made you wonder if you should shoot or not. The camera in the original was good because it was part of the horror. No you may NOT have the freedom to see what's around you. Fuck you. The first person in 7 and Village are actually fine for it but😢 i'm a grandma as it goes. RE0 also sounds super cool, but I haven't played it nor seen anyone play it. Will have to get on that tbh

[yourgentlegirlfriend]

Ur Wesker edit lmao

My bf and I are cosplaying Wesker and Jill hehe ☺️ The STARS uniforms tho, but the RE5 versions might happen in the future

omg!! i totally wanna see photos anon!!

[tvirus-arts]

Oh, hi dearheart,

Love ur story and comics with Albert with bionic limbs, that’s lovely to see that u can imagine their story after re5

So I have da question for u: I was doing some speed run of re5 yesterday and thought about some thing: I have never seen Sheva in this tale.

What’s about her? Has she a piece of role in this universe? What’s her opinion about Rebecca’s project around Al? Does she thinks like Chris?

Oh no, I thought I answered this question! I haven't thought too far ahead on whether Shevas been around but I think she would gather information on it before being quick to judge like Chris is being. So if she knew Rebeccas purpose and the fact that he may still be on trial for everything, but at the same time his blood can very much produce cures/advance science in the hands on someone like Rebecca, Sheva would have respect for it, though will remain careful. But she hasn't been arouns wesker and his bs for as long as everyone else so shes indifferent to him.

I love sheva btw so I wish I thought of a spot for her to fit in the au!