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pikkish · 2 months ago

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idk if this is a good prompt but put doomguy in myhouse.wad I think he would find it enriching

Right, so I've been mulling on this one for a little bit now, n I'm not opposed to writing something for you, I'm just not... entirely sure what to write? Because the thing is, myhouse.wad doesn't actually really have anything to do with Doom as a story. Sure, Doom is important in that it's the vessel through which the story is told and one of the connections between the narrator and his dead companion. But as far as Doom itself goes, and the story about a man who was too angry/stupid to die, fighting demons and saving earth, none of that is at all relevant to myhouse.wad and its story. For all intents and purposes, Doomguy isn't actually a character in myhouse.wad. So I'm not really sure how exactly to fit him in there.

#pikspeak #bc like. ok so if u say write dg as if he is actually the character in myhouse.wad #then the problem is that theres a pretty huge meta element to myhouse.wad and having some of the outside context- even just the context tha #its supposed to be the creator's dead friend's childhood home- is important. youre not MEANT to 'immerse' yourself in it or pretend you are #the protag. part of the impact comes from knowing youre just an observer and this is just a videogame on your computer.#writing dg as a character inside myhouse.wad would rob it of a lot of context and therefore impactfulness. hed just be walking around an #old house looking at things that have no meaning to him.#so ok then not dg as the protag of myhouse.wad but what about just like.. him in the funky liminal space of myhouse.wad? the non-euclidean #reality breaking shifting house of leaves place of myhouse.wad? i *could* do something like that if thats what youre looking for #but then considering this is the character whose reaction to finding himself in literal hell was to go 'hey??? this is stupid???? anyway im #gonna kill everything here' he probably wouldnt be too exceptionally ruffled by finding himself in a sorta funky reality breaking space.#hed probably still just go 'oh weird. funky. anyway back to killing demons.' and that would be it. which yeah i CAN write if its what u wan #it just. yknow. doesnt quite seem like the right tone? just kinda flat by comparison #i have considered doing things in the right tone before. since it is also canon that on his way back to hell dg has to run through the #burned out ruins of his own hometown. something similar to the visiting an old place thats been twisted by time and grief and coming to #terms with its loss or something to that effect #but. if im being honest i dont know that i have the writing skill to pull that off well much less as a short fic for a prompt response #uhhh anyway where was i going with this.#im happy to write something for you; possibly even something myhouse.wad related if you want!! im just not sure how to do that hdfbhdj...#anyway sorry for letting this one sit for so long without an answer. have another fic prompt where the fic is getting a little longer than #anticipated n combining that with rotating this to try n figure out what i could write for it...#guess time got away from me a little bit. sorry about that!

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