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[bluebutterfly1]

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[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

Top 5 Dumbest Things in The Final Season

I’ve played TWDG a lot, and I can confidently say that The Final Season is my favorite installment, and I’d argue that it’s the best of the series in terms of visuals, controls, characters, and storyline... but that doesn’t mean it’s a perfect game by any means. In fact, there are a lot of issues and inconsistencies you could pick out within the story and the arcs of our characters.

But today I don’t wanna tackle the big problems. The issues on today’s list aren’t a big deal and won’t ruin the experience of the game-- they’re minor and just really, really dumb. They’re things that you probably wouldn’t even notice during your first or second playthrough of the game. Honestly, most of these probably could be easily explained with “shhhh, don’t think about it.” 

But I’m thinkin’ about them because they’re dumb. So, here's my Top 5 dumbest things in TFS. Do note that these Top 5′s are all in good fun, and they’re my opinion. Obviously. 

[also, most of the screenshots used here are from @pi-creates​-- if you haven’t checked out Pi’s blog, I highly recommend you do! :D]

5. Doors make no sense. 

The doors in this game are dumb and make little sense. And you might be scoffing like, “Really? Doors?” and to that I say, “YES DOORS OKAY!”

If you’re like me, you like to look at everything in hopes of finding interesting details and maybe an easter egg. If you look at the all the doors after breaking out of the dorm in ep1, they all have different locks which... why? 

Wait, shouldn’t Clem be able to open this one...? The lock is right there on the outside. 

Why are they different? Also, why are the dorms lockable from the outside? Like, okay, I get it-- ya gotta lock up the troubled youth so that they don’t escape. Fine. Cool, I can accept that... except does this mean that someone had to go around and unlock all the dorms every morning before the apocalypse? What if you forgot a door and a handful got stuck in there for the day? What happens if you lock all these children in their rooms and a fire starts??

And don’t you look at me and try to be like “Pfft, there’s not gonna be a fire--” excuse me?? With Aasim hanging around, and Mitch for that matter, you’re gonna tell me that the odds of fire happening are 0%?

Well, y’know, fine. If there’s a fire, then the kids can just escape through the windows... oh wait--

Weeeeeell fuck the troubled youth, I guess. 

But the dorm doors aren’t even the dumbest doors here-- no, no. That would be the god damn basement door that apparently locks from both sides because game’s gotta game and I guess Marlon has the key?? This dumb door makes no sense. 

Again! I feel like this is a safety hazard?? Sure hope no one gets locked down there, otherwise, you’re fucked I guess?? because there’s no way to unlock or open it from the inside?? After Brody dies and Clem’s looking for a way out, you’d think that she should be able to just open the door at the top of the stairs now that she’s inside but nooooo-- game’s gotta game. 

Ugh, dumb doors!

4. Abel’s magic shotgun

Did you guys know that Abel actually has a special shotgun? A magical shotgun, if you will?

It’s true, he does. He uses a shotgun that, when he fires it, the buckshot curves around to hit the target when the plot demands it.

It’s true! And it’s dumb!

I know this, because if you yell for Violet to shoot Lilly in ep2, Abel will throw AJ to the grab, pull the shotgun out of nowhere, and fire at both her and Louis.... but somehow--

--only Louis manages to get hit.

Soooo.... I guess the buckshot swerves around and above Violet to ONLY hit Louis? Like, I know she ducks a bit but I still feel like something should’ve nicked her as well?? At least?? Like, are lesbians immune to shotguns and that’s why nothing hit Violet?? Am I only learning this now??

Not only that, but it only got Louis in the arm?? H-how??

But that’s not all!

After Louis and Violet flee the scene, Clementine and AJ are on the run with Lilly and Abel shooting BEHIND them... sooo...

If Abel was behind them.... how is it that AJ’s shot in the FRONT of his stomach??

Like, I guess Abel could’ve been at an angle when he shot but they only ever show him behind them soo?? Do I just not know how shotguns work? Do they curve to hit people in their front rather than shooting straight forward?? Because what??

On top of that, how is AJ not dead?? I know, I know, protagonist powers and whatnot but?? the boy took a shotgun to the belly?? other characters have survived lesser things??

But y’know, the dumbest part about this is the fact that I can’t take Abel’s magic shotgun for myself after the Ericson crew capture him. I could’ve just finished off every delta member if the shots curve and travel to hit their targets.

Or maybe Abel’s the only one who can harness its power.

Either way, Abel’s dumb shotgun is dumb.

3.You can’t hug Louis and Violet during their romance routes. 

Sigh.... Why?

Y’all know that I’m a clouis shipper, and now lemme tell you a fun story that isn’t actually that fun-- Do you remember when the trailer dropped for ep3? And we got some teaser screenshots, with one of them being a shot of Clementine and Louis hugging? Well, I was excited for a plethora of reasons, and that hug? 

I could not wait for this hug.

Then I got through my first run of ep3 and... no hug? Wait, no hug? Why not? I thought--

Oh. Oh, it turns out... it turns out you can only hug Louis if you don’t romance him. 

Ummmm. Huh. Wha- why?? Do you know how dumb that is?? What dingus who worked on this episode forgot to implement the hug option for the romance route?? Rather, what dingus thought it was a good idea to only give the Louis romance two options outside of doing nothing-- Slap Louis, or kiss him?? Where’s my hug?? Why is Clementine not allowed to comfort her boyfriend with a hug when he’s clearly anxious about everything that’s about to go down?

Look, the smooch is great and all BUT it’s not what Louis needs in this moment, ya dingus. 

I’m sure if I asked Kent for answers about this, he’d do one of two things-- go into a long winded essay about how the lack of hug and slapping him totally makes sense within the context of Louis’ character arc and route because of this and that and this subtle detail here... or he’d give a shrug and say “I dunno, reasons??”

Ugh, okay, well maybe they let you have the choice in Violet’s romance route--

...Why??

Again, if I choose to romance Violet, why am I not allowed to comfort my girlfriend with a hug before we do this rescue mission?? Sure, I can reassure her that I’m not going anywhere, which is definitely a better option for a love interest than, oh I don’t know, slapping. But the HUG!

They could’ve implemented the hug option into the romance routes but they didn’t and that’s incredibly dumb. 

2. Magic tree is magic. 

Know what I don’t like? The dream theory. Y’know, the theory that the overly happy ending we got at the end of TFS was all just a dream in AJ’s head to cope with the devastation of the real ending-- the one where Clementine died.  

Now, I can already hear you scoffing at me once more like, “Dream theories are dumb, CJ.” and this time, I do agree with you. 

However, there’s actually some compelling evidence that could subtly point at this theory, such as the backward graffiti in the dorms that was present in Clementine’s nightmare, or the fact that Clementine is, y’know, alive despite being seconds away from death in the barn...

Oh, and then there’s this fucking magic tree. 

Oh, you know... the tree that magically grows in in ep4! The one with the tire swing! 

Episode 3 vs Episode 4

This tree is dumb and makes no sense. What, did they just... plant a tree there? Did they push the tree up that was on the ground and use some magical wood glue to fix it?? Clementine said that Willy helped her with the tire swing so like... is Willy some sort of tree whisperer?? 

Or is this just further evidence of the dream theory where AJ’s lamenting the fact that Clementine never got to push him on the tire swing back at the train station and now she never will because she’s fucking dead??

I don’t wanna think about it. In fact, I’m pretty sure that’s what the devs would tell me-- “Shhhh... don’t think about it.” 

This tree is dumb! 

1. What even is the greenhouse??

So.... the green house. It’s dumb. And inconsistent, both in the story and actual location of it. 

First of all, as you can see in the concept image above, it should be within the walls of Ericson, yeah? And if you’re like, “Well, it’s CONCEPT art so it might not be totally accurate CJ.” and I say, “Fair enough, let’s look that the actual in-game map the characters use then.”

Look at that-- still within the walls of Ericson, though in a different location than the concept art. Make sense? Sooo....

Where the hell is it?

Because it’s not within Ericson’s walls. No, no--

It is WAAAAY the hell out here! You can see the bell tower in the distance so like... huh? Where are we?? This is a long as walk to the greenhouse! 

Oh, and if the weird inconsistent locations weren’t dumb enough, there are different conflicting stories surrounding it, as well! 

First, Marlon says that they had it functional with lots of vegetables, but then it became over grown so they don’t go out there anymore. Then, if you go fishing with Violet and Brody, Vi will tell you she worked in the greenhouse the day the twins were killed last year, which... doesn’t add up? Especially when we actually go there in ep2 and see that Ms. Martin died and became a walker inside, but she died a while ago?? 

Also, how did Ms. Martin get tied up like that? Did she get bit, barricade the doors-- wait, that doesn’t work because how did she barricade the science lab from the inside when there’s a shelf in front of the door?? In fact, shouldn’t the walkers that are inside be students that died?? 

“Sshhhh... don’t think about it.”

Ugh, nothing adds up about this greenhouse and that makes it the dumbest thing in TFS.

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Honorable Mentions

AJ magically teleporting behind Marlon with the gun. Because plot.

The dumb padlock on the gate Louis/Violet/Tenn climb over in ep4 that they could’ve easily broken

Louis’ jacket that somehow holds Chairles

The padding on Violet’s boot that’s rendered useless because they put it on the leg she doesn’t use to kick walkers away

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Those are my Top 5 dumbest things in TFS, do you agree or disagree? Do you have anything from this game that’s dumber than what I have listed? Let me know! 

Next week’s T5F Top 5 Characters in ANF Who Would’ve Made Better Love Interests Than Kate

[airasora]

Chose: Shortaki or Hollina.

OK, so, let’s take a look at these two ships, shall we? Or more like my history with them;

I have shipped Arnold and Helga from Hey Arnold! pretty much even BEFORE I watched the show, which I didn’t until I was an adult. I came across the show for the very time during Nostalgia Critic’s Nicktoons review and even though he only saw the first episode and didn’t seem to have anything positive to say about the show based on so little, it still intruded me. Why? Because of Helga!

Helga has always been my favorite part of the show. I won’t go into a big rant about why, if you’ve watched the full show and its movies, I think it speaks for itself why the majority of fans adore her as much as they do. It was her hilarious obsession with Arnold that first got me into it, but I soon fell in love with her as just her own character too because she really is hilarious, complex and even relatable at some times.

This ship runs deep to me, and the shortest explanation why is because I saw me and my first boyfriend in these two. Like Helga, I had a lot of anger as a child and, unfortunately, as much as I adored my back then boyfriend (we were just 13 when we started dating) I remember not always being super nice to him. Nothing toxic, again we were just kids, but enough for me to think back and really regret it. Arnold reminds me a lot of that boy, both looks and personality-wise. So, this ship has me on a deep personal level as well.

Now Hollina took a while before it really got me hooked. I made my first video with them solely based on the type cast for that video. I wanted a hardcore, sexy, confident lesbian and a shy, closeted lesbian with an abusive boyfriend. I almost cast Belle instead of Lina and I am so happy I wound up NOT doing that because then I might have never discovered Hollina.

Sometime after the first Hollina video (September) and the next one, along with Bellesme and Melice (November) they went from basically just a typecast to a huge ship and I can’t say what it was that made them become so special to me. It’s not like with Shortaki where I can relate to it on a deeper level. In fact, I’m not anything like either of these girls. But they have what ultimately ALL my ships do; total contrast.

Shortaki, Hollina, Fresme, Clouis, Kyman just to mention a few of my ships all have that in common. I love when two characters seem to be so different, but yet have enough in common to find common ground and care for each other despite what the odds may be.

Hollina became my babies in a way Shortaki could never be because Shortaki was already such a popular ship in the fandom. Hollina was practically my own creation (in the sense that I have yet to find anything with both of them together romantically that is older than my first video with them) so I almost kind of adopted them. But I’m always trying to encourage more people to try doing fanwork with them as well cause that what you do with things you love; you want to see more people enjoy it as well and see what other creative minds may come up with. (Looking at you gatekeeping Hollina shippers -.-)

So I think, in the long run, I have to choose Hollina. I haven’t lost my love for Shortaki, but ever since the jungle movie came out and we finally got our happy conclusion, my focus went more and more towards Hollina. Because their story will never be over, you know? Because it... doesn’t exist. OK, that made it sad, but I mean it in the happiest way xD

Wow, that got long... Sorry x’D

[clementineviolet]

i was just thinking about this because i found it interesting... but i can’t recall ever seeing fan art or even fan fic of Violet and Clem having a child, but i’ve seen a ton of Louis and Clem... and I don’t know if it’s because other Violentine shippers are lesbians like me who just don’t really feel strongly about having children or if it’s because Clouis fans really like babies...

[himouto-queenboo-chan]

Why I prefer Clouis over Violem (OPINION)

Okay, I know that Violet x Clem is a big thing in the final season of TWDG, and I might get bashed for having a different opinion on Tumblr pfft, but I’m sticking with it, you see the title, time to explain why I like Clem x Louis.

Louis levels out the bad: I’ve explained this with my boyfriend before, Clem is a damaged soul, she’s lost more than she should have, been through more than she should have, and she hasn’t had the chance to have a proper childhood, I mean, none of the kids in the final season did, but if we’re talking relationships; I think her significant other should be someone who isn’t so similar to her, with Louis and his attitude, he’d be able to cheer Clementine up and be able to lighten up the worst situations. With Violet, she’s practically the same person as Clem is, she isn’t great with people, she’s distant, and she also already has a girlfriend and she’s not dead and she knew this at the end on episode 1 and in episode 2 so don’t use the excuse of “she didn’t know”. I feel like Louis is really good for Clem, and his behavior in episode 2 is justified, because his BEST FRIEND got shot in the head when he backed down, with Louis around for Clementine; I feel like things would be less sad for her, I don’t think Violet would bring more trouble than it’s worth. Not to mention she was nothing but shit towards Clem and Louis was nothing but smitten and nice.

Violem seems overrated and fetishized at this point: I know, lesbian/gay ships are huge on Tumblr, too the point where it’s normal and considered homophobic if you don’t ship it, not all people think this way but I’ve seen it a lot, but I don’t think a lot of people like the ship because of chemistry, I think some, NOT ALL, people ship them because... They’re girls. People overreacted about Ellie kissing a girl in The Last Of Us 2 trailer and honestly that game shouldn’t have to exist pfft and everyone was acting as if it were a big deal, well... It’s not. I feel like this is sort of similar, how I see it sometimes is like “Oh, these two girls can be together? LET’S DO IT”. Lesbian/Gay relationships are fetishized, I mean, it’s a fact, especially in anime and TV shows, those people are called homophiles/yaoi fangirls. I couldn’t find a female term for homophile asdgfhasd. And I genuinely think that some people think of the ship like this but I know that there are a number of people who like the ship simply because they see the chemistry I don’t, and that’s fine, you can ship them all you want, I’m not here to change your mind lol.

They mesh better: Okay, I’ll talk about chemistry again, it’ll be related a bit to the point above, and I’ll cap it and bold it, SHIPS SHOULD NOT BE BASED ON GENDER BUT ON CHEMISTRY, it’s very important in every ship, and to be honest... Violet and Clem don’t have that chemistry in my opinion. They barely spend time together at all, Violet was nothing but cold and rude towards Clem through all of episode 1, MARLON EVEN SAID IT HIMSELF, she just met her, barely knows shit about Clem at all, the same with Louis but he took time to get to know her, even if you didn’t pick the option for him to, he does it automatically. Violet hasn’t shown any interest in Clem until episode 2 for whatever stupid reason, Louis is right away smitten with her. And in the card game in episode 1 he takes that opportunity to know more about her, Violet was just the edgy third-wheel, no offence to her at all. Louis was interested in the beginning, Violet wasn’t. The rooftop moment with Violet and Clem felt forced, and I know you have an option to choose neither as Clem’s boy/girlfriend, but I’m talking about the people who did choose it, it honestly felt as if Clem was forcing everything on Violet, fuck, Violet even seems a bit uncomfortable and unsure, when with Louis it’s set in stone. NOT TO MENTION VIOLET ALREADY HAS A GIRLFRIEND. I’ll repeat it, Louis took time to know her, Violet didn’t.

Aaaaand that’s it, I know this isn’t a lot of points to as why I think Clouis is gr8 and Violem isn’t, but honestly IT’S MY OPINION, I may come off as aggressive, but I’m trying to rebuttal other rebuttals before I have to in the notes, I’m just saving myself from people who might think I’m trying to change others’ minds. In all honesty, ship Clem and Violet all you want, I don’t care, I just don’t see the spark with them at all. This is just how I see it, you don’t have to agree with me, like, at all. But I’m a hardcore Clouis shipper, and my opinion won’t be changed.

That’s the tea, y’all. See ya.

[bluebutterfly1]

Favorite Clouis Moment

Oh man, this is hard (I would pick all of them if I could lol), but if I had to choose three:

1. Clouis First Kiss

2. Clouis First Date

3. Clouis Planning Their First House

[bluebutterfly1]

clouis

IT’S A FUCKING BEAUTIFUL SHIP :’)

I LOVE CLEM AND LOU!

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

1/2 Maybe I'm being riducuaus but I did want to share my pov on this since I'm a lesbian. I ship Violentine and when people tell me they prefer Clouis I get it 100 percent because of how well written both characters are! While with Warren and Max it kind of amkes me wonder if they're borderline homophobic?? Again I could be overdramatic but a part of me's like Warren is so underdeveloped compared to Chole it makes me wonder if they're just going for Warren because he's a guy.

2/2 While with Clouis I don't get those feelings at all because he's equally developed as Violet. Yeah I'm sure a few Clouis fans are just romancing Louis because he's a guy (just like a few people romance Vi because she's white sadly) but I feel like that's only 5 percent of the people who romanced him while with Warren it's a much larger percentage. Long story but I've had a lot of run in's with homophobic Warren X Max shippers. Thanks for reading my long asks, sorry if I sound overdramatic!

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No, I totally get where you’re coming from, anon. 

With Louis and Violet, they’re both so wonderful and developed that it pretty much boils down to who you personally feel a stronger connection with. 

But comparing that to Chloe and Warren, they aren’t even on the same level. 

The entire game is centered around Chloe and Max’s relationship whether you like it or not, and Warren’s a side character who isn’t nearly as developed. Like I said in my essay, Warren feels like a character they plopped into the story just in case players got scared of a love story between two girls that wasn’t sexualized and then forgot to develop him. It would’ve been fine if they gave him more to do because I can see why a character like him could be appealing if done right, but he’s not. 

And truth be told, I’m not a big fan of Chloe and I never was. I didn’t romance her at first because she’s personally not my type, but I also didn’t end up romancing Warren either because I kept forgetting who he was. I was waiting for him to have some bigger significance to see if he was worth pursuing. Then, when he wasn’t, my Max ended up with no romance. 

I later replayed both routes to see what they were all about, and yeah, Chloe’s is way better and more meaningful than Warren’s.  I don’t think you’re being dramatic, anon. In fact, I agree with you. 

[clementineviolet]

It's actually kind of surprising me how many people (both shippers included) seem to believe Louis' percentage will be the higher one. This is coming from a multishipper with Clouis as my main, but I always thought the Violet percentage would be higher. I've just always seen her as the one people choose the most often, so it just kind of surprised me how even Violentine shippers are expecting Louis to have a higher one. I'm fully expecting Violet's percentage to be higher so idk.

I’m a naturally pessimistic person!! It’s a defense mechanism because I’ve been WRONGED too many times as a wlw shipper.....and as a lesbian in general..... 

I kind of provided the bulk of my argument in my last ask (in summary: I think the percentage of people who go with Violet will probably be higher, but there might be variability in the percentage of people who choose the romance path versus the platonic path for Violet/Louis), but basically I keep my “hopes” low because I know if Louis’ percentages are higher we’re gonna get immediately roasted lol

[clementineviolet]

that stupid tweet from earlier (the one talking about how they didn’t raise clem for 6 years to see her come a “lesbian”) still bothers me because that dumbass was talking to a clouis shipper and the clouis shipper did absolutely nothing to criticize their homophobic ass... allies please be better