#women over thirty don’t exist in video games unless they are background characters or here for comedic purposes ESPECIALLY in video games | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

quietwingsinthesky · 1 month ago

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(@transmasc-rose) I am so glad you love Lucy too because she is making me chew on drywall. LUCY WHY IS EVERYTHING HELL FOR YOU FOREVER.

how could anyone hate her <3 rip to anyone who played the games and did not get obsessed with her, but she is living through a nightmare and i love that for her <3 she’s soo!!! everything is awful for her always but then you compound that with the fact that she has this sliver of power over first clay and then desmond, that she’s at least a little aware of that and it both stresses her out and is also probably the only real control she can feel like she has over anything… A fun little detail made even more fun by the fact that it’s Something Else that has more control over desmond than she ever could and kills her about it. fucking wild character. every single thing they added to her each game just makes it even more fucked up and im convinced that none of it was intentional. like. look. look. i am Convinced that the reason the timeline works out the way it does is purely a result of the accidental factors of them giving rebecca that line about seven years AND someone on the writing team being fucking terrified of having a woman over 30 in their video game when she might end up the love interest of the main protagonist, because god forbid, so she’s 24. i genuinely don’t think they thought that through to the horrifying conclusion of “oh god she was isolated with the intent of making her an abstergo mole at seventeen”, but that’s what the conclusion is!!! whether they intended that to be the endpoint or not of these decisions!!!!

#women over thirty don’t exist in video games unless they are background characters or here for comedic purposes ESPECIALLY in video games #from over a decade ago aksjfkfjksjd #that’s a little harsh. even back then the state of it wasn’t *that* dire. but it was so dire that if the endgoal was ‘lucy as love interest #than yeah that’s why she’s not in her thirties despite like. having presumably gone to college before abstergo picked her up. working there #for a while. and whenever her phd stuff went down which who knows how long that could’ve taken.#so like the end result of that is that lucy is twenty-six and we just have to assume. that she was incredibly smart and fast-tracked throug #college. possibly started but either was prevented from finishing OR finished her phd while/after recruited by abstergo. and then got into #animus stuff. like logistically it would have made more sense for her to be older. but she’s not. so instead the implications of this are #Worse than they probably intended.#does that make sense? i’ve been thinking about that for a bit. the unintentional consequence of what was probably an initial choice made du #to some unchallenged sexism in designing the game and fitting her to the role of desmond’s partner/potential endgoal space wife.#ask

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