hi i was raised in a home daycare for over 20 years and studied child development and psychology in school for 3 and would like to gush about why i love how bonnie was written and how they're one of the few kids in games i've played that Actually Feel Like a Kid:
firstly: bonnie's diction
bonnie cursing like a sailor is honestly pretty accurate for a kid aged like 9-14 and i distinctly remember having a huge cursing phase of my own at that age too so LMAO
they ask a lot of questions adjacent to a kids' understanding/confusion of things, social norms, situations, feelings, etc. (the conversation about the actors kissing in that play they saw and how they MUST have had an invisible paper between their lips because nobody would REALLY kiss on stage in front of everybody!)
they can be incredibly blunt but often not with the intention to hurt feelings rather than genuinely acquire information (sometimes with some sass b/c of previous conditioning.) ex. "Our teacher always tells us we have to speak up more... You're an adult so why don't you speak up more?" (Precedent/Conditioning; "Adult in position of power and authority has ingrained it is important to use my voice." -> "Why don't you, an adult who should know better, use yours more then?")
they have a tendency to confidently and casually use words and phrases they don't fully understand or know ("Air-no-no-nomic" -> this especially being something picked up by a fellow kid and just trusted that) (struggling to say, "pomegranate" (very cute watching odile help them with it :,) ) (struggling to say onigiri -> purposely messing this up to get a playful reaction out of dile, a party member they're especially close to, was also very sweet)
it's hard to discuss feelings. they're more likely to use a vessel as a means of connecting to someone else before being able to assign words to everything (offering a peach to siffrin in the classroom because they recognize he's upset without fully understanding why, then waiting for him to address the situation)
secondly: how bonnie handles feelings towards the others and about their Scenario
tendency to hold onto hard, serious, difficult-to-breach subjects and then explode and scream when addressed (ex. Rotten Adults quest)
slightly more partial to physical touch than verbal affirmation (hugs, hugs, hugs! including the little half-hugs they do where they just run into siffrin's side...)
jabbing siffrin in the stomach as a show of example for touching them LMAO???
recounting stories and information that interests them without regard for how socially appropriate it is or why others may react poorly (ex. talking to the party about how nille ran away with them and why she did)
unspoken guilt and trauma causing disconnection from people they love (siffrin's eye situation)
just a few examples and thoughts i liked
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textposts that came up on my dash that were so sif and loop core it wasn't even real
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you made it perfect this time! didnt burn a single samosa!! you'll still save some for tomorrow but..you're proud!! the others give you compliments
the compliments do start to mean..little though. when youve heard them all so many times before and the food tastes like burnt sugar.
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a hug for belle. you will do this every time
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Since crab is a swear does that mean nille is basically calling siffrin shithead (affectionate) all the time? That's so funny if so. I love ur siblings au btw
hehe.. yeah :]
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Some art for my latest brainrot obsession: In Stars and Time!!
What an absolutely legendary game I cannot recommend this to people enough... Nor can I not replay it enough sjfkdod
Siffrin... my little blorbo...
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So lesbian In Stars and Time fans on tumblr, I know y’all are feral over Odile’s low health portrait, but how we feelin’ about friendship quest Odile CG?
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loop gets arrested part 1. i spent entirely too long on this but i think its funny so. worth it
(it cuts off weird at the end (theres supposed to be more) which i need to fix. but there's a link to the obj.lol itself in the description so its not a pressing issue. enjoy!)
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some siffrins i drew recently
(the star freckles are actually related to a fic I'm working on! i will post that... at some point. it's long and i have a lot of planning i need to do)
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