#replaying that part when it ends
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
a Single(1) miscellaneous danyal al ghul thing:
Sam and Tucker gave Danny the song "Just a Man" from the musical Epic as a song recommendation because one of them heard it somewhere (probably tiktok) and wanted to share it with him.
Danny then proceeded to listen to that song and only that song for an entire week. Sam and Tucker were not expecting him to like it so much. (Danny was not expecting to resonate with it so much. They gave him the emotional equivalent of a punch to the gut and didn't even realize.)
miscellaneous danyal al ghul things
specifically about the danyal al ghul from my post/prompt here and i wanna get my misc. headcanons/thoughts on him (especially in his early stay with the fentons) out here before i make any other danyal al ghul aus
list under the cut because whoops this got longer than i expected. which really i should have expected
the Fentons are unaffiliated with the League, which was perfect for Danny faking his death.
he struggles with empathy. Empathy was not taught nor encouraged while he was with the League, so it's a skill that's been pretty stunted. At 15 he's better at empathizing with people, but he still struggles with it. He's pretty bad at reassuring/comforting people and usually acts as an emotional rubber duck for Sam and Tucker to vent to if need be. He sometimes offers blunt and sometimes mean opinions, especially if its about another person.
Sam and Tucker do not know he's an ex-assassin, they are however, pretty positive that he used to be part of an eco-fascist cult with a focus on martial arts?? They've been helping him tone down some of his more,,, extreme views on humanity ever since they caught wind of his more extreme ideologies.
He and Sam are still avid environmentalists and feed into each other quite a bit. They spend plenty of time at protests and pestering the school into more eco-friendly options.
Dash is not dead on the sole fact that Danny knew he had to lay low in Amity Park and killing someone was not, in fact, 'laying low'.
he did, however, traumatize him when Dash first tried to bully him. Safe to say, Danny is not bullied at school and neither are Sam and Tucker.
Danny didn't make any friends in his first year at Amity Park. He was surly, grumpy, standoffish, more stubborn than Sam, and pretty self-important about himself. Jazz was trying to teach him against these things, but she is a 12 year old unaffiliated with the League. Danny did not respect her nor listen to a word she said. It wasn't until like, year two that he finally started paying to mind what she was saying and slowly started to improve on himself
Sam approached him first, he rebuffed her quite harshly, and then Danny approached her sometime afterward when he overheard her talking about environmental rights. Sam completely ignored him though when he agreed with her, and Danny had to later learn that he needed to apologize for being rude to her when they first met. He did so eventually, and they started to talk more with Tucker and Sam.
Danny's a bit more reserved than he is in canon, although he steadily learns how to act as a regular teenager when he's out in public. He's a bit more friendlier at least, although when he's around Sam and Tucker he drops the act. He still has a somewhat formal way of talking, it's just become more casual after a lot of ribbing from Sam and Tucker. When he's angry or annoyed he starts talking poshly though.
His humor is relatively the same as in canon, if somehow dryer and more insulting at some points
Those rare moments where he gets really pissed usually ends up with him insulting someone in arabic or any of the other languages he picked up from the league. He is the go-to for Tucker's Spanish homework. (Tucker makes that mistake and learns that Danny is a very strict teacher)
while Danny doesn't view the Fentons as his parents, even five years after living with them, he does respect them to some amount. He respects them enough at least that when Vlad Masters comes sniffing around, he is suitably offended on both Maddie and Jack's behalf. And when he finds out Vlad was the one who tried to kill Jack and tried to tell him to renounce him as his father/parental guardian, danny threw a suitably sharp object at him and insulted him quite horrendously
Vlad still wants him as his kid. In fact perhaps even moreso after this.
Danny trains with Maddie to keep up with his training. It's not quite the same but it prevents him from getting completely rusty
Sam and Tucker know that Danny has a little brother, but nothing else beyond that other than Danny cares about him quite a lot and that he got his facial scar from keeping him safe.
Danny cares about Sam, Tucker, and Jazz quite a bit, but he struggles to convey it. Especially early on when he realized he cared about them and like instinct started being harsher to them and more critical of their actions. This resulted in quite a few arguments with Sam and Tucker and Jazz until he got sat down and told outright that the way he was treating them wasn't okay. It's a process he's still trying to unlearn even at 15. He has become kinder towards them as a result, and has begun looking for what they did right rather than what they did wrong.
He harbors a lot of guilt over how he treated Damian in the League, and its a pretty big conflict he has with himself since he's torn between telling himself it was for the best to make sure Damian survived the League, and feeling like crap over how harsh/critical of Damian he was and realizing that he probably could have come up with a better way of training him despite being a child himself at the time. Danny comes to the realization that more than anything, that he just wants to apologize.
His ghost form, specifically is outfit, is a combination of his hazmat suit and his uniform from the league, and he carries a sword with him. He also doesn't know how to react to Dani, honestly. Although it is fair to say that he figures out she's a clone instantly because of her whole 'I'm your third cousin once removed' thing and he freaks out. She spills the beans pretty quickly after that. And Danny is pretty skittish around her - or the equivalent of skittish. Her being younger than him kinda reminds him of Damian, so he's uncomfortable by her presence but learns to warm up to her.
#he sat in his room. upside down with his legs hanging on the bed. staring at the wall with this playing in his ears#danyal al ghul cries rarely but this came in very very fucking close. he felt very numb listening to this. in a bad. good. cathartic? way?#he played the ending 'when does a comet become a meteor' part over and over again#'when does a candle become a blaze. when does a man become a monster.'#'when does a ripple become a tidal wave. when does the reason become the blame. when does a man become a monster'#im just imagining him playing this and mouthing the lyrics 'forgive me' over and over whenever they come up. and then immediately#replaying that part when it ends#woof the angst that comes with ex-assassin danyal is STRONG and delicious. smth smth i've noticed is a common theme in my writing is the#self-dehumanization of my main character and them learning to believe themselves to be a person again. and. mmmm yeah writing is#the window to the soul isnt it. moving on. danyal believing himself to be a weapon to be pointed at and unable to shake that belief even#years after leaving the league. its something he's kept to himself so his family doesn't really realize that's how he views himself so#they can't help him with it.#who are you when you believe you're nothing more than the shield that blocks the sword and the sword that cuts the flesh.#the protector never the protected. the scarred. the dying. the dead. the ghost clawing its way out of its grave because its job isnt done#and its job will never BE done until it knows that its little brother is safe and sound. until it knows that its loved ones are safe too#because now he has more than one person to love and protect
408 notes
·
View notes
Text
" ... as soft as talking to a new born, the voice you dream your children would hear during their bed time stories ... "
#the developer knows we will spend a lot of time with this guy; his voice is soothing; his laboratory background music sounds like a lullaby#the way he asked what else do you want to know and said astronomy ... and that whole last sentence at the end#my time at sandrock#mtas#mtas qi#mtas builder#fanart#he is dangerous because i actually like his appearance the most#and owen also looks very charming and he is very polite#but i also like how unsuur sounds when he explained about his rocks#i literally replayed that part 4 or 5 times fhsfsdh for re-choice-ing reason#my favorite part is when i licked the rock and#FHDDHSfhshdhsdsh ///////#hngh i'm so done............#wait until fang starts talking#maybe he sounds charming too when he speaks in a long sentence#even tho it was a mess of a voiceover project; i like portia voice casts#i think they were picked from random people who auditioned for the character; but it what makes them sound so colorful#i think sandrock uses studio's? the voices for sandrock feels too well-situated#but i'm adjusting to accept it all overtime#also if u didn't get what i meant by 'the voice you dream your children would hear during their bed time stories '#it means u want him to be the father of your children#but he would literally refuse to tell stupid fantasy story to his children and only pick the space related ones#but the children would sleep well anyway even tho they don't understand anything because of his soothing voice
235 notes
·
View notes
Note
merry Christmas!!!!
merry christmas to you too!! i hope the holidays are going well for you!
#currently in chap 2 of homicipher!! couldnt touch it over the weekend but im here now and oh my goddd#tbvh im more invested in the deciphering part than anything else so i replayed chap 1 thrice to see if i could make sense of the other word#its sooo fun but also frustrating like most of my words look like 'come/bring/carry' shhhshs idk where this is going!#as for characters i really like mr crawling hes so cute and has my back will give him a smooch at the end as thank you#i felt so bad when i got mad at him in chap 1 just to be killed ughhhh nobody has my back like Mr crawling#still...mr scarletella kinda....#hmmm cant say much for the others but the lady who showed up and offered a bride dress?i thought i was gonna get married to her lmaooo#oh and mr silvair visually hes my type the most i loved chilling in his room in chap 1#i have no clue how many chapters there are and when ill finish them at this rate but im having fun thank you for the rec <333#ask 🐟#and very sorry for the long tags i know nobody asked but.
11 notes
·
View notes
Text
🎃 -- halloween . . . terror is trending !
the witch of ramshackle, the guardian of diasomnia's longs...auburn.
this card is an sr. (vignette 1) (vignette 2)
summon: i wish malleus and lilia would have though to ask me if they could use my residency as their halloween set-up...
groovification: did you see diasomnia's set-up!? i can't believe they built all of that so fast!
set to home screen: let's go see everyone else's displays! i know they put lots of effort into them.
home transition 1: grim no, you can't eat that--! ugh, thank you for reigning him in. he doesn't know when to stop sometimes.
home transition 2: you know, i thought it would be kind of hard to take this seriously since it's a bunch of teenage boys, but they actually pulled this off.
home transition 3: i saved up some money and bought some candy for my friends. i put extra in some of the bags...hey, don't guess who those bags are for!
home after login: i'm not good with horror! these boys get way too rowdy during this season...i need to have a girl's night with on my own to recharge...
home transition (groovy): which display was the scariest..? give me some time to think it over!
tap home 1: you know...this purple is kinda cool! i think it looks good on me, hehe.
tap home 2: you want me to take your picture? oh, of course! what kind of angle do you want?
tap home 3: your costume is so cute! it really clicks with your dorm's theme, ehehe.
tap home 4: i don't know how our housewardens do it...they're kind of amazing. i think i would get overwhelmed with all of this. eh!? what do you mean i'm technically a housewarden too!?
tap home 5: if you want to find me tonight, don't look into the library. i've avoiding idia shroud like the plague.
tap home (groovy): those degenerates who only care about their magicam accounts have gotten on my last nerve...don't tell anyone i said this but i hope malleus zaps them.
#🐙! auburn's yuusona <3#i still need to replay the halloween events because i dont remember them at all#but i think this one and part two are different?#isnt the first one cute nd shit and then the second one is when yuu gets “kidnapped” at the end of halloween?#and so they have to go into the spectral realm to make sure halloween passes?#ok the memories are coming back kinda JDSJJSDJSD#SO IN MY TIMELINE#MY YUUSONA WAS DROPPED INTO TWST BEFORE HALLOWEEN#and yk halloween week is super fucking hectic#so she was a WRECK since she was still getting used to everything#but it also meant she got to spend time alone#yk...until she met ace and deuce#since shes obviously super upset/homesick but doesnt want to cry in front of everyone bc ew???#she goes to find a secluded place to cry for a while#and thats when ortho found her and tried to comfort her#she goes out on snack runs at night sometimes and one night she recognized ortho and went over to thank him#and THATS when she met idia for the first time#cue her trying to make conversation and him doing his irritating mumbles under breath that people CAN HEAR#so gets increasingly more annoyed and fed up with him and remembers him as the guy who made her night worse by assuming things about her#so my yuu meets the shroud brothers pretty early on in game#ANYWAYS.
20 notes
·
View notes
Text
Man, my head hurts after that lore dump that just landed on it.
I'm still on my first playthrough of Veilguard and of course, I collected all of the wolf statuettes and watched all of Solas' regrets, one after the other, and... I can only laugh because I don't have any other words to explain how I'm feeling right now.
#dav#dragon age veilguard#dav spoilers#veilguard spoilers#like maybe i wouldn't feel so overwhelmed if i had spaced the memories out but... c'mon now#they couldn't figure out a better way to deliver that?#oh and don't even get me started on morrigan and mythal like apparently she was revealed in one of the trailers and i didn't know#because i avoided everything and so when she showed up i had a *visceral* reaction like i'm actually so mad that she's here#and then finding out THAT like do not get me started i am so serious right now#like i'm truly enjoying the game for the most part and then i saw all of this and morrigan and now my brain is like.......... what#that's not how i remember that cutscene at the end of dai happening...#i dunno i just need to throw that out there before i continued on... again first playthrough so maybe it'll make more sense on a replay#still mad about morrigan though
13 notes
·
View notes
Text
i will not stand here and say the quarry's writing is perfect by any means, but man. that moment. in the beginning. when chris absolutely loses his shit and you see every last one of the hacketteers freeze..............shocked, wide-eyed, so taken aback they don't move even to look at each other.............
and then, realizing what just happened, chris scrambles frantically to grab hold of the situation again. he tries to grin at ryan ("tries" being the keyword), he tosses him the keys like nothing's wrong. he tries to go back to being mr. h - he does, he tries so hard - and finally when ryan talks to him, there's what waver in his voice. that absolute lack of understanding in his eyes. ryan's not just surprised, he's not just shocked......for a second there, he is scared, and chris sees that, realizes it, and peels out of there before anyone can say anything else. just.....
JUST............
i think that moment is 100% the moment i realized UH OH I THINK I LOVE CHRIS HACKETT because that's when we see the counselors have been around this guy for two whole months (some of them even longer, possibly), and not once. not once!!!!!!!!!!! had they realized who he really was.
ugh. UGH. i LOVE IT.
#queenie rambles about supermassive#dont even get me started on the flashback with him and travis in the station either#we as the audience like. ONLY see chris at his worst. from the beginning he's grumpy. he's vaguely suspicious. he's screaming into a car.#but the hacketteers SO CLEARLY have not seen him like that. not even once. even when dylan jokes about the sex dungeon...#you know it's tongue in cheek on his part - trying to get a response from ryan#i just. gfdi i know i always end up feeling the most attached to the characters with literally the least screentime of all but i love chris#i really really ReaLLY love the idea of this guy who puts on the happy wholesome corny dad face#only to turn around and be eeeeevery bit as unpleasant as the rest of the family turns out to be#AGAIN! THE SCENE WITH TRAVIS IN THE FUCKING STATION!!!#this is probably just because im replaying tq and getting back into writing#the hacketts#but fuck me. FUCK ME. the thought of mr. h and chris hackett being two very separate characters is just. so. good.#anyway i'm in a totally normal place re: my mental health lately. how about you guys.
24 notes
·
View notes
Text
replaying spm in ur 20s is dangerous bro
#this part of my replay was during april and i deadddddasss have thought ab this line of dialogue daily non stop#the concept of throwing in the towel right when ur prime ends. okayyyy LOL
13 notes
·
View notes
Text
🎃 -- halloween . . . terror is trending !
the witch of ramshackle, the guardian of diasomnia's longs...auburn.
this card is an sr. (vignette 1) (vignette 2)
summon: i wish malleus and lilia would have though to ask me if they could use my residency as their halloween set-up...
groovification: did you see diasomnia's set-up!? i can't believe they built all of that so fast!
set to home screen: let's go see everyone else's displays! i know they put lots of effort into them.
home transition 1: grim no, you can't eat that--! ugh, thank you for reigning him in. he doesn't know when to stop sometimes.
home transition 2: you know, i thought it would be kind of hard to take this seriously since it's a bunch of teenage boys, but they actually pulled this off.
home transition 3: i saved up some money and bought some candy for my friends. i put extra in some of the bags...hey, don't guess who those bags are for!
home after login: i'm not good with horror! these boys get way too rowdy during this season...i need to have a girl's night with on my own to recharge...
home transition (groovy): which display was the scariest..? give me some time to think it over!
tap home 1: you know...this purple is kinda cool! i think it looks good on me, hehe.
tap home 2: you want me to take your picture? oh, of course! what kind of angle do you want?
tap home 3: your costume is so cute! it really clicks with your dorm's theme, ehehe.
tap home 4: i don't know how our housewardens do it...they're kind of amazing. i think i would get overwhelmed with all of this. eh!? what do you mean i'm technically a housewarden too!?
tap home 5: if you want to find me tonight, don't look into the library. i've avoiding idia shroud like the plague.
tap home (groovy): those degenerates who only care about their magicam accounts have gotten on my last nerve...don't tell anyone i said this but i hope malleus zaps them.
duo magic: malleus, we have to protect ramshackle! || i assume that mean you're giving me permission, yes?
#🐙! auburn's yuusona#i still need to replay the halloween events because i dont remember them at all#but i think this one and part two are different?#isnt the first one cute nd shit and then the second one is when yuu gets “kidnapped” at the end of halloween?#and so they have to go into the spectral realm to make sure halloween passes?#ok the memories are coming back kinda JDSJJSDJSD#SO IN MY TIMELINE#MY YUUSONA WAS DROPPED INTO TWST BEFORE HALLOWEEN#and yk halloween week is super fucking hectic#so she was a WRECK since she was still getting used to everything#but it also meant she got to spend time alone#yk...until she met ace and deuce#since shes obviously super upset/homesick but doesnt want to cry in front of everyone bc ew???#she goes to find a secluded place to cry for a while#and thats when ortho found her and tried to comfort her#she goes out on snack runs at night sometimes and one night she recognized ortho and went over to thank him#and THATS when she met idia for the first time#cue her trying to make conversation and him doing his irritating mumbles under breath that people CAN HEAR#so gets increasingly more annoyed and fed up with him and remembers him as the guy who made her night worse by assuming things about her#so my yuu meets the shroud brothers pretty early on in game#ANYWAYS.
13 notes
·
View notes
Text
they make me so fucking sick. GOD
#he gets soooo close. i wonder what makes him bold enough to get that close#because he hasn’t before but this time he goes for it#he lets her touch him. lets his eyes linger on her lips. gets close enough to feel her breath on his face.#but he Doesn’t Do It. he knows she would let him. knows she Wants him to at this point#but he doesn’t let it happen!#king of repression. honestly.#king of torturing himself to the brink of insanity#of course in my beautiful world with magpie i think part of why he stops himself#is neve. and that whole situation. but a bigger part is#[gestures vaguely] you know#god i’m obsessed with him. he’s so sick in the head.#he just. he knows he can’t have it. he believes to his core it’s a death sentence for her. because he can’t control himself#he doesn’t know who he is now. and that’s dangerous#he doesn’t think she knows what she would be getting into and he can’t put her through something he can’t see ending well#he couldn’t kill ghilan’nain#he couldn’t control spite when illario killed zara#there’s no way this ends well.#and so!#whyyyy does he let himself get that close this time!!!#he allows himself to acknowledge magpie wants this but doesn’t let himself give it to her#she needs to fuck his brains out immediately. the strap will fix him.#it must.#god the way he looks at her lips when she touches his chest. the way he must replay that moment over and over again in his head.#it’s all he has.#i have to kill him. god.#漫言#oc. magpie#r. birds of a feather#z plays da#datv spoilers
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
I'm actually so serious that spotify wrapped is one of my favourite holidays of the year and the fact that it's taking a week longer to release this year than I was fully convinced it would actually take is pretty agonising. But also opening the wikipedia article about it and seeing it described simply as a "viral marketing campaign" cracked me up in a sad way because well. Yeah of course it's that. Of course it's a viral marketing campaign first and foremost. But also give me my stats and my 100 top songs of the year playlist NOOOWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#there's several reasons why i consider november my favourite month of the year and it doesn't even matter that much that i have last fm now#i still want to see just exactly how many minutes of sparks listening i managed to squeeze into these 10 and a half months#and i'm really excited about the fact that each year i have a considerably greater number of minutes listened#and all tracks and artists played through the year. but this year might completely blow the previous ones out of the water#in big part because i've been drawing much more and i always listen to music when i draw#september alone probably consisted in like 1/4 of its length if not more of just music listening#and ofc the playlist with which it's my yearly tradition to listen to it without spoilers and have the delightful moments of:#listening to a playlist of my most replayed songs and thinking 'wow i can't believe this playlist has my favourite songs in it'#even if it's not entirely accurate as i've learned in the previous years#like for one thing it only lets the same artist reappear every 4 songs on the list (not counting the top 5)#because otherwise all my playlists from 2021 until now would have been like 50-75% just one artist and nothing else#ok since i'm already on this topic my last fm is kitten_intro if anyone would be interested in checking it out lol#stats not entirely accurate anymore because i could no longer be bothered to delete all the hundreds of double scrobbles since july or so#i might try to clean all that up by the end of the year but who knows how annoying it will be in practice and if i really go through with it#but still. look at the ratio between my two most listened to bands and everything else boy#already tells you all you need to know about my music listening habits#goosepost
6 notes
·
View notes
Text
i love ff.xiv aka my oc photoshoot simulator <3
#lem text#xivposting#hihiiii i'm afraid i have been in an unexpected 'fear of being perceived' arc so i haven't been talking much but here's my girl. <3#yka has gotten so many fc invites it's kind of ridiculous . officially determined most desirable member of rusapiyka light party ZNFDJKD#as you can see i may have AHEM made her a red mage despite saying i'd main tank as her the whole time......#pld is still her canon class but rdm's one of the most fun ones i've played... it has all the parts i love about blm but with DUALCAST SWAG#she's officially past the point of story i replayed as piccolo :) i'm enjoying the post-arr quests a lot more this time around...#the end of post-arr *was* when i started being really invested... i think that's the case for most people. big plot twist fun ^__^ <3#doing the crystal tower quests for the third time was still fun esp. with awareness of shb foreshadowing. arr raha is so funnyyy... <33#it does make me so sad watching y.da & p.apalymo . THEY WERE SOME OF MY FAVORITE SCIONS BC RUDY STARTED IN GRIDANIA :(#AH WELL AT LEAST MY MAN THANCREB WILL BE FAVORED BY THE NARRATIVE FOREVER GNFJKHWJH#anyway i'll be more talkative again once i shake this weird bout of insecurity znfjkd <33
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
The best feeling in the world is when there’s a piece of media you know you love and you’ve hyped it up as your favorite thing for so long but you haven’t revisited it in a while so you start to worry if it’s really as good as you make it out to be and so you go back and revisit it and it’s like. Oh this is even better than I remembered this shit rules
#the klock keeps ticking#i always get this feeling when i play 999 but tonight i got it with the letter#cuz ive uh finally decided to bite the bullet and play the evil meanie route where everyone dies 😟#a route ive put off for so long cuz its just too damn sad to think about akjdksk god it hurts#and ive played like for the most part every route of this game EXCEPT this one but i know the ending is really dark and i need to see it#plus i will at least get my beloved torture scene in so thats nice#i didnt kill off isabella though its a coma route which i hope still allows me to get the ending i want cuz i mean shell still be out of#commission in the final scene so hopefully it works out#but yeah no i started off tonight on the marianne chapter and while i did skip around through it cuz ive played it many times and i just#wanna get to the important stuff already alskj i also just replayed some of the best parts#aka the shit where lorraine appears and the gay shit alksks and god like hnnnghh not only does this chapter still ruin me emotionally#i also just remembered why i love this character so much and remembered just how good the character writing in this game is#and i also played into the rebecca chapter and didnt skip as much cuz i actually am not as familiar with the coma route#cuz it makes me sad and i never revisited it lol and i havent gotten to The Scene that makes me sob yet#its so coming though dont worry but idk i guess its just been cuz ive been thinking about p3 so much lately#and in particular shinji both the death route and coma route but in particular the coma cuz thats what im writing#and damn lol the letter just writes the grief and nuanced relationships and death stuff so much better lol god#like marianne loses her childhood best friend whom she has a gay ass relationship with to suicide and like its just better#she blames herself and still isnt even kinda okay with it after 13 years#like it just fucking ruined her and the only thing keeping her from losing it is her repression and drinking problem and unattached sex#and then with coma route well fucking first off isabellas friends actually like. visit her frequently damn#and they just all have such unique ways of coping like Zach is being optimistic so no one gets too upset#rebecca is sorta in charge of making sure everything goes smoothly she has to contact the family and make big decisions#and shes also just taking the most stress and shes got so many complicated feelings around isabella going on but she genuinely cannot stand#that isabella is hurt shes fucking destroyed she loves isabella and then ashton AAAAA god yeah i also just remembered that hes SUCH a good#character hes like being a genuine asshole right like Rebecca calls to tell him that isabella is comatose now and he literally doesnt let#her say anything he literally says ‘i dont have time for other things rn’ like the wellness of his friend is just ‘other things’#but you just know thats not it not at all hes burying himself in work to the point of destruction so he can figure out who did this and make#everything okay and he refuses to show even an ounce of vulnerability cuz THE SECOND HE DOES IT ALL COMES OUT AND HE CANT GET OUT OF BED#ANYMORE CUZ HOW IS HE SUPPOSED TO BE OKAY WHEN THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE IS DYING
7 notes
·
View notes
Text
I've had some time to digest lonesome road and Natalie's reactions to Ulysses and their shared history, and honestly this was the missing connection to the second half of the main story for me.
Natalie's a courier and a drifter with no big dreams or ambitions of her own. Her determination to make Project Purity a reality was because that was her parents' dream and neither of them lived to see it to fruition. Since then, she's just kind of existed and been content to exist. So as far as she's concerned, delivering the chip to Mr House is the extent of her responsibility and once she's done that, she's off to hunt down the guy who turned down the job to make sure she got it.
Cue her adventures in the dlcs where she wanders into two separate kidnappings and an ambush which give her the hints and threads towards the guy she's looking for until he draws her to him. He confronts her with the consequences of her actions and her carelessness, makes her walk through it and witness it all first hand. By making a simple delivery, she sealed the fate of the Divide, and she didn't even know it. Once she heard it had been destroyed - seemingly by storms and earthquakes - she just kinda shrugged and moved on, never looking any deeper into it because hey, these things happen. She never drew the connection between her delivery and the destruction of the area, just believed what she was told and carried on.
It's her confrontation with Ulysses that forces her to look at herself and realise that claiming a lack of responsibility doesn't make it so - she delivered something important to the Divide and it had devastating consequences because she didn't care enough to know what she was transporting. Now she's done it again by making an important delivery to Mr House, something that can clearly influence the fate of New Vegas, and not caring enough to know why its important and refusing to engage. And now she's being forced to grapple with the reality of what not caring can do.
By going after Ulysses and confronting the consequences of her own careless indifference, it motivates her to engage with the politics of New Vegas in the second half of the main story because while there's nothing to be done for the Divide, she can still have some influence over events in New Vegas. She can make a difference, and find a vision of her own for what the world should be.
#nightingale rambles#fnv#natalie crewe#ulysses#ofc i need to replay yhe fnv section of her playthrough to get a feel for her story and how she approaches house#i feel like its gonna end with independent vegas but whether she's in charge or mr house is will depend#its satisfying when the narrative clicks into place tho#without ulysses and the divide and her part in that there's just no reason for nat to care about who gets vegas#she just kinda existed as she drifted through life#ulysses is the one who wakes her up and gets her to care again#and ngl kinda love that for them
5 notes
·
View notes
Text
if i ever have to play beyond two souls again im going to kill someone someone’s life ends with me
#the thing about achivement hunting is that it will either prove to you how much you love a game. or make you hate it forever.#like. assassin’s creed origins? i have a platinum in that and i never want to touch it again it was so boring and bad and by the end i was#in pain trying to finish it#mass effect trilogy? i had to beat all three games on insanity and it made me feel cool as fuck when i did. the little bit of grinding in#me1 at the end for power trophies was worth that sense of accomplishment. they’re damn good games.#beyond two souls? i have had to replay black sun. 11 times. at least. trying to see all the fucking endings. because my game wont register#that i have despite having seen all of them. I MIGHT HAVE TO REPLAY IT AGAIN. I HATE THIS FUCKING GAME. I WANT TO BE FREE.#no one is makingnme do this i just like number go up#but if i ever met david cage ill kill him with chainsaws#im so sorry elliot page but i dont want to see your face again for like a year im so tired#like this experience Has let me appreciate some parts of the story that i think were genuinely good ans critique other bits in new ways.#but then i had to experience both of those things like 4 more times in a row. and i want to scream
5 notes
·
View notes
Text
New unpopular browser game recommendation: One chance. It has simple pixel graphics while managing to evoke the strongest emotions. It is depressing, it is gory, it has blood. There are a few endings, but game will only allow you to play once.
Brief story: you play as scientist who has managed to discover a cure for cancer. However, this cure is actually a danger on its own, having begun wiping out entire areas. You have 6 days to find a cure, this time for this disease. Your choices matter and, moreover, you only have one chance. How will you use it?
#One chance#Actually technically this game can be replayed if opened on different websites#But idea is your first ending is your true ending#I was genuinely distressed when I got to several parts
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
Submachine 7: the core
#submachine#flash#pro tip: do not start posting about something you have opinions on at a time when you're braindead more often than not.#sooo embarrassingly enough i didn't remember what this one was about when i sat down to replay it#i mixed it up with 9#even though i think 7 is one of the part with the most distinct aesthetics and atmosphere#i love the use of blue in this one + very fitting for a winter palace#alsooo after hearing about karma portals since the start now we actually see them! i was so thrilled about this when i first played lol#love how elizabeth asks not to use them and then. you spend the whole game using them. oops#also love how you end the game abandoned again. understandably so. but still. and ig actually because of murtaugh again. yay#i didn't like the symbols puzzle though i just don't like the sort of stuff where you gotta note what have you seen in which location
3 notes
·
View notes