#shoutout to Jericho and his burdens

[andro-dino]

I didn’t end up getting very far in my root rpg rewatch bcoz I have not had the energy to watch anything in a bit but like. man do I think about it a lot. I’ve said it before but like, I do love uprooted dearly too but like ogh my god root is just so special to me. Ik it’s non canon now but like i still wish people talked about some of the moments and plots from it bc I just really love it so much. I think part of it also is bcoz of how attached it made me to polyroot so quickly (literally started shipping it ep 2 lmao) and just how many cute moments there are between all of them ITS JUST REALLY ENDEARING MAN I LIKE IT A LOT

[hannibalcatharsis-zero]

after a conversation with @arcadianwishdom​ where I basically said the following, I decided to post it in my blog for posterity.

Detroit: Become Human is a beautiful game. I’m not part of the fandom, I don’t know if/what controversies are with the game, and I don’t care. What I do know is that my experience while playing it was beautiful and my favorite character out of the story was an unexpected surprise for myself.

And that’s whom I’ll talk about.

I expected either Connor or Kara to be my favorite characters but instead I can’t help but feel Markus became my favorite. As for why, I’m not entirely sure I can explain.

It's really because of the way I played. Markus wouldn’t have likely been chosen if I had just watched walkthroughs online, regardless of the players’ choices. Obviously, anyone’s favorite character in this game is shaped BY the player and therefore their versions of each character are different.

I panicked during one of the missions and I ended up running away instead of fulfilling what I heard was an extremely important mission. My Markus was therefore burdened with the sense of failure afterwards.

I chose a pacifist approach from start to finish, but I fought. I fought after being gunned down during the pacifict march, twice - and only then did I fight back. My Markus approach was to respond with violence solely if provoked - never instigate it. My Markus didn’t kill any humans on choice-moments (I believe he did during cutscenes though. Connor certainly did). It could have ended quite badly, but it didn’t. The android casualties were relevant because ultimately, it shows that no matter how much you try, you will still have to suffer immensely to get anything to change. But you will change it.

My Markus was very human. He was conflicted with the struggle for violence and how it so often seems to be the only real solution for change. He failed and dealt with this failure, still earning respect from Jericho.

He's a leader that fought for inclusion rather than segregation, for co-existence rather than separation.

And also, I kept his relationship and care for Carl from beginning to end, and to see that link was the lifeline to prove that humans and andriods could live peacefully because THEY did.

Overall, he felt very beautiful and whole to me, even though Connor’s quest and relationship with Hank was beautiful, even though Kara’s story was touching and relatable to me in particular.

And no romance with North lol there’s more important things than romance here! They’re comrades fighting and supporting each other, leave the romance out.

I think that's the reason why ultimately and unexpectadly, he became my favorite character.

Also, big shoutout and again a surprising one to Markus’s Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado! I wasn’t expecting to like him so much but I think he did a wonderful job.