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strawberrygiorno · 2 years

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I only discovered this line today but it's really fucking me up

[ID: Text from Disco Elysium that reads:

SCAB LEADER - Wordless, he takes the photo and looks at it. Grey eyes dart back and forth on the glossy surface -- his face is unmoving.

COMPOSURE - Hard as a stone. But beneath it...

EMPATHY - You see dead flesh -- in colourful rivers of Polychrome -- melting skin and hair.

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The double meaning in this line - the parallel drawn between Lely's death and what may be in store for Korty... I've been through this game so many times and it still keeps finding ways to blow me away.

#disco elysium #i just can't stop thinking about it #it reminds me of that unsettling bit from the moralist quest too #where you can hear kim's lines about the engine happening in the future or another timeline entirely #the game only uses the word polychrome when referring to color photographs #so it's not Explicitly referring to the fire bomb #but the tie is polychrome too #and the tie doesn't even need to talk for this check to come up #man.

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