#LIKE THE THEMES AND MOTIFS GOT TO ME
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being a pretentious fuck is embarassing sometimes. bc if someone asks me what video games i play im like "yeah i only play story based indie games about depression and guilt" like omfg shut UP
#i should play a game involving shooting or cars#having a great taste in story based indie games is so hard actually. im so sexy and everyone wants me#i do think a lot of it is my pretentious english double major tendencies like a lot of these games ARE just literature u can interact with#something like omori is actually such a well written narrative like some of the lines and scenes execution scenes still get me#LIKE THE THEMES AND MOTIFS GOT TO ME#also undertale is kinda ugly. but god is the writing so tight... asriel boss battle literally is my favorite final boss in any game IDC!!!!#like i rly think undertale is so brilliant bc the visuals aren't SPECTACULAR and that's not temmie's fault that's toby's for rejecting#the good designs because they'd be 'too good' but so many hard hitting scenes are just. dialogue. and descriptions. and music.#it's actually insane how well written it is that you don't see anything happening but someone talks about it and you cry#rn im playing isat... deserves a place on this list#im also playing mother 3 which is suprirsingly like... the most radical game i've played? i mean that it's genuinely anticapitalist?#love to see communist propaganda and drag queens in video games
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I have a lot of complicated feelings when it comes to what Neflix has done with the Witcher, but my probably least favourite is the line of argumentation that originated during shitstorms related to the first and second season that I was unlucky to witness.
It boils down to "Netflix's reinterpretation and vision is valid, because the Witcher books are not written to be slavic. The overwhelming Slavic aestetic is CDPR's interpretation, and the setting in the original books is universally European, as there are references to Arthurian mythos and celtic languages"
And I'm not sure where this argument originated and whether it's parroting Sapkowski's own words or a common stance of people who haven't considered the underlying themes of the books series.
Because while it's true that there are a lot of western european influences in the Witcher, it's still Central/Eastern European to the bone, and at its core, the lack of understanding of this topic is what makes the Netflix series inauthentic in my eyes.
The slavicness of the Witcher goes deeper than the aestetics, mannerisms, vodka and sour cucumbers. Deeper than Zoltan wrapping his sword with leopard pelt, like he was a hussar. Deeper than the Redanian queen Hedvig and her white eagle on the red field.
What Witcher is actually about? It's a story about destiny, sure. It's a sword-and-sorcery style, antiheroic deconstruction of a fairy tale, too, and it's a weird mix of many culture's influences.
But it's also a story about mundane evil and mundane good. If You think about most dark, gritty problems the world of Witcher faces, it's xenophobia and discrimination, insularism and superstition. Deep-seated fear of the unknown, the powerlessness of common people in the face of danger, war, poverty and hunger. It's what makes people spit over their left shoulder when they see a witcher, it's what makes them distrust their neighbor, clinging to anything they deem safe and known. It's their misfortune and pent-up anger that make them seek scapegoats and be mindlessly, mundanely cruel to the ones weaker than themselves.
There are of course evil wizards, complicated conspiracies and crowned heads, yes. But much of the destruction and depravity is rooted in everyday mundane cycle of violence and misery. The worst monsters in the series are not those killed with a silver sword, but with steel.
it's hard to explain but it's the same sort of motiveless, mundane evil that still persist in our poorer regions, born out of generations-long poverty and misery. The behaviour of peasants in Witcher, and the distrust towards authority including kings and monarchs didn't come from nowhere.
On the other hand, among those same, desperately poor people, there is always someone who will share their meal with a traveller, who will risk their safety pulling a wounded stranger off the road into safety. Inconditional kindness among inconditional hate. Most of Geralt's friends try to be decent people in the horrible world. This sort of contrasting mentalities in the recently war-ridden world is intimately familiar to Eastern and Cetral Europe.
But it doesn't end here. Nilfgaard is also a uniquely Central/Eastern European threat. It's a combination of the Third Reich in its aestetics and its sense of superiority and the Stalinist USSR with its personality cult, vast territory and huge army, and as such it's instantly recognisable by anybody whose country was unlucky enough to be caught in-between those two forces. Nilfgaard implements total war and looks upon the northerners with contempt, conscripts the conquered people forcibly, denying them the right of their own identity. It may seem familiar and relevant to many opressed people, but it's in its essence the processing of the trauma of the WW2 and subsequent occupation.
My favourite case are the nonhumans, because their treatment is in a sense a reminder of our worst traits and the worst sins in our history - the regional antisemitism and/or xenophobia, violence, local pogroms. But at the very same time, the dilemma of Scoia'Tael, their impossible choice between maintaining their identity, a small semblance of freedom and their survival, them hiding in the forests, even the fact that they are generally deemed bandits, it all touches the very traumatic parts of specifically Polish history, such as January Uprising, Warsaw Uprising, Ghetto Uprising, the underground resistance in WW2 and the subsequent complicated problem of the Cursed Soldiers all at once. They are the 'other' to the general population, but their underlying struggle is also intimately known to us.
The slavic monsters are an aestetic choice, yes, but I think they are also a reflection of our local, private sins. These are our own, insular boogeymen, fears made flesh. They reproduce due to horrors of the war or they are an unprovoked misfortune that descends from nowhere and whose appearance amplifies the local injustices.
I'm not talking about many, many tiny references that exist in the books, these are just the most blatant examples that come to mind. Anyway, the thing is, whether Sapkowski has intended it or not, Witcher is slavic and it's Polish because it contains social commentary. Many aspects of its worldbuilding reflect our traumas and our national sins. It's not exclusively Polish in its influences and philosophical motifs of course, but it's obvious it doesn't exist in a vacuum.
And it seems to me that the inherently Eastern European aspects of Witcher are what was immediately rewritten in the series. It seems to me that the subtler underlying conflicts were reshaped to be centered around servitude, class and gender disparity, and Nilfgaard is more of a fanatic terrorist state than an imposing, totalitarian empire. A lot of complexity seems to be abandoned in lieu of usual high-fantasy wordbuilding. It's especially weird to me because it was completely unnecessary. The Witcher books didn't need to be adjusted to speak about relevant problems - they already did it!
The problem of acceptance and discrimination is a very prevalent theme throughout the story! They are many strong female characters too, and they are well written. Honestly I don't know if I should find it insulting towards their viewers that they thought it won't be understood as it was and has to be somehow reshaped to fit the american perpective, because the current problems are very much discussed in there and Sapkowski is not subtle in showing that genocide and discrimination is evil. Heck, anyone who has read the ending knows how tragic it makes the whole story.
It also seems quite disrespectful, because they've basically taken a well-established piece of our domestic literature and popular culture and decided that the social commentary in it is not relevant. It is as if all it referenced was just not important enough and they decided to use it as an opportunity to talk about the problems they consider important.
And don't get me wrong, I'm not forcing anyone to write about Central European problems and traumas, I'm just confused that they've taken the piece of art already containing such a perspective on the popular and relevant problem and they just... disregarded it, because it wasn't their exact perspective on said problem.
And I think this homogenisation, maybe even from a certain point of view you could say it's worldview sanitisation is a problem, because it's really ironic, isn't it? To talk about inclusivity in a story which among other problems is about being different, and in the same time to get rid of motifs, themes and references because they are foreign? Because if something presents a different perspective it suddenly is less desirable?
There was a lot of talking about the showrunners travelling to Poland to understand the Witcher's slavic spirit and how to convey it. I don't think they really meant it beyond the most superficial, paper-thin facade.
#The witcher#Sorry if its convoluted I just got reminded of something and it made me a little angry#and as I had this conversation a lot of times I've decided to put it into written text#sorry about being bitter#but these are some of my favourite books and I'm still upset when I get reminded how badly they were treated in the recent adaptation#I'm not saying you should never change anything#But it's good to have enough background to understand why some things are the way they are in the original#and to understand what the source material is about#we don't talk about particular character's looks or something (altough I feel they could care more about it too)#but central themes tropes and motifs#long post#it may seem like I'm talking from a high horse here#people are welcome to interpret literature however they want#Nobody has a monopol on themes#I just think that in this particular case the cultural context influences the worldbuilding#and if changed it doesn't have the same impact anymore#meta
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me rereading my “tdp’s tarot associations / parallels” meta i wrote a few months before S4 came out, in which i posit callum and rayla are the lovers and aaravos is the devil specifically because the devil puts them both in chains, crying into my hands: i thought callum’s chains would be solely metaphorical
#CONGRATULATIONS YOU PLAYED YOURSELF#devil and the lovers#predictions achieved#if there is longing on the mirror of my heart#chain motif#theme: freedom#arc 2#s4 really went 'yes it's just going to be delayed'#like i always thought he'd be coerced into playing into aaravos' hands#so at the very least. i've got that going for me#but jesus fuck man
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Help i cant stop listening to the PW soundtrack I'm obsessed
#its not my fault it fucks harder than diamond#got me replaying 'kings' on loop like my life depends on it fr#thunderclap#if ur a fan of epic videogame osts give it a try its so good#THE MOTIFS GOING OFF THE THEME DUETS THE ANGUISH OF THE OPENING AND CLOSING#And now knowing ofc what's happening during this too makes me go AUUUGGHHHHH#WAILINGGGGG#AND KNOWING CORONATION COMES RIGHT AFTER TOO. MAN.......#musicposting#its so fucked up i cant talk about this with anyone bc none of my friends played it and i need to go off about it so bad#i WILL be using it as oc soundtracks. when i make an ost playlist for broken horizon itll be like 60% just the project wingman soundtrack#AND WHAT ABOUT IT!!!! ITS GOOD FLIGHT MUSIC!!!!
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Ectoberhaunt 2022 Day 21: Coup
Well it’s more implied, and whoever’s in the coffin is up to you ;)
Masterlist
#ectoberhaunt22#EH Chaos#day 21#coup#vlad plasmius#dp#danny phantom#fanart#drawing#tw blood#well it’s not really blood it’s#ectoplasm#my art#digital artist#me out here resisting the urge to add eye motis because ‘eye’ love eye motifs#did feel like figuring out the decor and theme of Pariah’s Keep so I smashed some braincells together until I got smth
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alrighty, so I finally finished It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover... and I don't think it's glorifying abusive relationships or anything? Quite the opposite, it pretty clearly goes on about how it's not okay to do the things the abuser is doing at all. It's showing how these situations can happen and how people choose to deal with them and work things out with each other through the complicated feelings and decisions that arise from them, basically. Wasn't the best book I've ever read but wasn't the worst one either, and I think the author's note at the end goes over her reasons for writing it and personal experiences related to it pretty well
#i dont know what any of her other books are about or like but#when i saw people on reddit talking about it it was like 'these books are ruining people's ideas of healthy relationships!!!" type stuff#anyways im glad ive finally read one and know what i actually think#probably wont read another though that was quite enough for me#wasn't too enamoured with the writing style nor any of the characters#and got very annoyed by the repeating motifs and themes or wtv haha#like ellen degeneres diaries and 'naked truths' and the sheer number of times characters either 'sucked in a rush of air/rushing breath'#or blew one out#they were all huffing and puffing constantly like a bunch of big bad wolves#it ends with us spoilers#p
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Maaan, I'm so bad at spotting nature metaphors, what's your favorite to include in your writing?
unhinged_prosody 🕺
Hi! 🕺
I'm putting this under a read more because I waffled on for a fair bit and it's not even about the base game 😭
So I'm including animals under nature because, well, they are nature - and I personify people as animals a lot in my writing (just in general, not even specific to this fic, i do it a lot about myself too, especially in my poetry)
Because we're all just animals! It can be degrading - depending on how it's done - but not all of the time.
I compare Harry to a dog a lot (nothing new there, there's a couple lines in game that reinforce this) but I think my favourite dog guy description came from one of the Kim chapters:
the captain's father; a man so old he should be retired, but sits at his desk chain-smoking. Something he's done for longer than you've been in the RCM. Maybe longer than you've been alive. As you penetrate the haze surrounding his desk his bloodshot eyes rise to meet your own. He reminds you somewhat of a saggy hunting dog, all lethargy and wrinkles.
Because i have no specific appearance in mind for the man (i.e. hair colour/ eyes/ whatever) as it's unimportant. S'more about vibes 👌
Gotta give a shout out to bird metaphors because they formed the theming of these fics in the first place! The peregrin falcon antique shop, references to ducks and geese across fics, the whole scene with the disabled duckling, the name of the case, "Imprinting", the series title "birds of a feather flock together", i just really fucking love birds.
Lmao anyway, you can tell that I REALLY like a metaphor if I turned it into a mind project (not nature related, but same with the "one man castle" thought project for Kim repressing his emotions)
So I'm dipping back into "Imprinting" because this one metaphor formed the basis of me writing over 250k about two fictional detectives last year...:
PROBLEM:
You were a man drowning in the sea of vices.
As you gave in to the waves and consigned yourself to your watery grave a gloved hand pulled you from the brine. *He* cradled your baby bird form in his palm and raised you from the ashes of the phoenix: Tequila Sunset. You have well and truly imprinted upon Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi.
SOLUTION:
You were drowning and he gave you a reason to float.
It's not so much that you imprinted on him, it's that you follow him by choice. You've shed your baby down-feathers and are more than able to walk on your own now, but do you want to?
BABY BIRD
IMPRINTING
DOWN FEATHERS
THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF A PHOENIX
BOSH BOSH FUCKIN' BOSH 👌👌👌
But my ABSOLUTE favourite nature metaphor at the moment is the flowers metaphor for Kim's repression. Because when I was a teenager up until my mid 20s (going THROUGH it, not relevant) this was my outlook on love and human connection, too:
CONCEPTUALISATION [hard: success] - Don't plant flowers: they'll only wilt.
CONCEPTUALISATION [hard: success] - Love says 'These flowers were cut so you could buy them. They wilt - already - in your hand and that is *your* fault'.
I am now 27 and in the Springtime of my life, this man's 44 and approaching his own no matter how badly he's trying to beat it off with a stick. When I was in my early 20s, I was fairly convinced I would die wholly unloved (even in the beginning of the relationship I am still in!) Not the case! Healing is possible and I truely believe - or rather I know now - that there is no age cutoff.
This metaphor isn't finished yet, but it represents catharsis 🌱
#Thank you!!!!!!#THIS GOT SO LONG SORRY!!#Anyway yes i really like talking about the writing itself if you're ever curious about Themes and Motifs then hmu#Or keeping sending me weird shit it does make me laugh#Jean anon i've been thinking about you all weekend 😭#DUCKLINGS THAT DROWN#IMPRINTING#Hey thanks for the ask by the way#typing this all out just snapped me out of writer's block!
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oc weapon names
ada: wolfram (pistol), mike (rifle)
wolfram is another name for tungsten or its ore, which (iirc) is used in making bullets. if asked why her big gun is named mike, she says it's short for micycle
azul: silverthorn (longsword)
used with a shield, azul named her longsword in honour of the deity that saved her from lolth's influence, the arch heart. silver is one of corellon's colours and azul associates them with deep, dangerous, but beautiful forests of the arborea
cadiana: judgement (maul)
gifted by elspeth, taken from the dead blue dracolich judge moravax, former master of law for emon. cady is a paladin of erathis the lawbearer and sees fit to dole out judgement in her name. they thought moravax saw fair judgement for allying with the cult of tiamat as a leader after being a false worshiper of erathis. cady enjoys the irony
cihro: venenum (shortbow)
(pronounced ve-NEE-num) one of my dms chose this and came up with its history, but it's latin for venom. this was either a vestige of divergence that became dormant and then awakened again by cihro, or was a plain shortbow transformed into a vestige. it originally belonged to an elven assassin and he acquired it from the dissolved remains of his partner's drider mother. its saying is “If your heart is true, then so will be your aim”
crow: bleeding heart (longsword)
crow's hexblade and pacted weapon. named for multiple meanings, since crow's virtue name also has layers. the bleeding heart is a flower also known as dicentra, her lover's name and the woman she forged her blade and pact with. bleeding heart can also describe "sincere emotional outpouring." the sword is wholly symbolic of her heart and devotion and desires. also, she stabs people and then they bleed!
genevieve: anathema (battleaxe)
while evie mostly utilizes her claws and hemomancy in combat, she will occasionally use her blood maledict on other weapons. anathema is a word for "something or someone that one vehemently dislikes" or "a formal curse by a pope or a council of the church, excommunicating a person." originally named because she saw herself as anathema to the monsters she hunted for the slayer's take, its meaning transformed when she became a lycanthrope
iona: analemma (longbow), salt in the wound (rapier), paprika (dagger)
analemma is named for "a graph or plot in the shape of a figure eight that shows the position of the sun in the sky at a given time of day (such as noon) at one specific locale measured throughout the year." her father gifted it with the intention of "protecting people year-round" after her original bow broke in a fight. salt in the wound is straightforward, what it says on the tin, and paprika is her own little joke that she doesn't tell anyone
koda: skylark (scimitar)
named after a bird he likes, but also that it's light and airy in his hand and "sings" through the air. purely by coincidence: "It is a bird of open farmland and heath, known for the song of the male"
murtagh: mistsplitter (trident)
no fancy origin, murtagh is a water-themed character and just thought of his trident being sharp enough to split mist. his surname, riftwarren, also comes from the merging of two different words, so he kept that system. his dual harpoons don't have names
nepenthe: vidrinath (greatsword)
named for the drow/undercommon word 'lullaby.' these songs were sung by drow priestesses to help ease students/children into trance. nepenthe thinks of it as putting people to sleep forever, and the juxtaposition between love and violence is incredibly lolth-flavoured. as a mother, she also once sang these songs to her daughter
#this got longer than I expected#me looking like the pepe silvia meme as I share themes and symbolism and motifs from my ocs#not writing#ada#azul#cadiana#crow#cihro#iona#nepenthe#murtagh#koda#genevieve
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Okay, so what is we know the devil and should I watch it? Because your reblog spam you do every so often has me intrigued and I would like to hear you talk about it if you want to
We Know The Devil is a short little indie game about three kids on a summer camp for "bad kids" that is clearly a metaphor for conversion camps and they are in charge of beating the devil with their magical girl radios, the devil is also clearly a metaphor for queerness since it's something they insist is "just a phase" and something the camp goers are encouraged to shame others for "letting into their hearts". It's a visual novel style html game iirc, the prose is really interesting, super weird and informal but full of meaning once you get the full picture and I love how the pov in it shifts depending on the ending and the segments after 3AM just feel like very poignant poetry I wanna chew on it, and the choices you get to make is which one of the trio of protagonists gets together in the end! It's marketed sort of as a choose your own ship kind of thing, and it totally definitely doesn't have heart wrenching character exploration of how it feels to be the one left out in that sort of trio dynamic, totally not :)
It really is super short and accessible, found a really good playthrough of it too if you'd still like someone making voices for the characters, I think I got an ending in less than two hours and all the endings take around the same amount of time, and there are four endings total. I call it the poly lesbian body horror game because it has very light but still eery vibes and because of that I wanted to save it to play on Halloween but I'm gay and full of gay thoughts at the moment so ended up playing it again this week akshsk still at only 2/4 endings though so I'll keep reblog spamming sporadically lol
#I listened to Daughter of God and The Dawn that Gxd Misplaced one too many times on my way to college#all the characters have very well defined perspectives and beliefs and motifs and it's just exactly the kind of thing I like#few very well defined very colorful characters (despite the game being in black and white)#those songs reminded me of that because ugh the amount of running themes from each character are so good and well illustrated in them#made me miss the source material#I think people perceive me a lot like Jupiter but I relate most to Neptune btw#that's just something I've been itching to write about#but I don't know maybe I'll get into it later? maybe not#but people have seen me try my best at like regular social things and school but when it comes to church things and moral goodness#then I don't think anyone who knows me would argue that the way I tend to view those things is more reminiscent of Neptune's approach#never had any internalized bs about being queer I just wish people would leave me alone instead of trying to fit me into their mold#and I don't know how to be nice about it even if they ''mean well''#especially if they mean well actually fuck that#so yeah <3#I got into this game because someone made a classpect analysis of them <3#yo I did make the google forms about the aspect test to send you I just forgot about it.#just lwt me know if you still wanna take it and I'll send you the link •3•#a tag for asks#we know the devil#I need to put my tags for that game in order holy hell
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man looking for books makes me feel like an absolute idiot. Yeah I like everything but the stuff I don't like. Hope that helps
#wordstag#it's so freaking. Particular also. Be normal freak#huge fan of fiction but also had a moment where i decided i hated fantasy and never got out of that moment#i like fantasy probably i think but me in that moment decided i was sick of world building and we never got out of that#and i don't like raw fiction it needs to be like. Something that could reasonably happen in real life while still being mildly unreasonable#yk?#nothing i could go out on the street and see or whatever . But it would be funny if I did#i think i need to go read some good fantasy books though fantasy is such a goated genre#the . The potential.......#also needs 2 be a story about people but if the people are completely uninteresting and flat Well#but beyond that it needs to have those themes and motifs shit and they need to be Not In Your Face#i think mystery is pretty fun like in concept but i haven't read very much . Good mystery as of late#ROMANCE would be so baller if it wasn't so about romance yk. Which is just a me problem#i think romance has insane potentials to explore a person's psych and whatever but it just. Never hits for me.#and sometimes it's not even a romance book and like they jsut start going at it like come on now. Not in public eye roll emoji#i would like romance more if it was less about smashing faces and more about the inherent intimacy of romance yk#imagine opening up your heart to someone that shit is fucked up . I could talk for hours about romance but it would never be about romanceT#it's like the romantic movement from hit century like 18th maybe. Those are my Guys#anyway love romance as a concept but i think there's a bit too much hype around it. We should chill a bit. Look at the stars and shit#ok where was i going with this actually
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there are ten million billion trillion movies i want to watch and so little time on this earth and this suffering predicament of mine is only exasperated by the fact that i can only watch 1 movie a day at most because i need time after to stare at a wall and think about. themes. and motifs
#i think in my entire adult life ive only been able to watch multiple movies in a day if im hanging out with people#cause in that scenario the movies arent the focus for me the hanging out is#also there were two occasions where i watched 2 movies in a day alone. both times with 2 horror movies actually#the vvitch and hereditary. that was a bad idea. the witch didnt scare me or anything honestly i just liked the goat but hereditary#that got me REALLY BAD and not for the actual horror things it was just the watching a very neurodivergnt coded child die that got me#(starting to realize im a little more sensitive to that kind of thing) the rest of the movie was like normal good horror movie stuff#OH and there was the day i watched creep 1 and creep 2 the same day with a 10 minute break between. HIGHLY RECOMMEND that was awesome#that might be the optimal way to watch creep actually. changed my life. fantastic#anyway i just watched 12 angry men. by god they werent lying about that title. it really is exactly what they said on the tin#really liked it! i love dialogue heavy things (apparently this was based off a play which makes sense) and it was super engaging#very interesting how sparing it was with the soundtrack too#now if you'll excuse me i need to. stare at the wall and think about themes and motifs
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i have a new theory for aru sekai fans & by new i mean someone else might have caught on already but i havent seen it said SO. the rute furutewoa melody is in kyuuyaku, touhikou, & now kannagi (maybe elsewhere bc i havent been looking for this motif before i only realized it today really & i havent had time to go thru all the songs again yet) & we have kyuu (past), something in touhikou im too tired to remember currently but i remember calling something similar a while ago when someone asked if there was a timeline to this, and now kannagi that uses the older language so im willing to bet this motif is a way of saying the events in the song happened in the "past". whether thats actually Long Ago or just to say its not the current situation or just happened before the songs without it i cant say for sure but i think it makes sense given what we have now.
just like we have the nami no ne no motif that signals which characters still have their "self" if its in the song or lost it if its not.
i have to do some more digging of course but with what i know right now this makes the most sense to me
#aru sekai series#u know those old people who say they do crosswords to keep their brain sharp. thats what this series feels like to me.#incredibly complex puzzle to put together in which i need to be constantly learning new things & concepts#anyway for some reason i feel like theres a link to ashura that im not touching on too but idk for sure yet#there is. something about ashura that drives me insane bc it FEELS familiar there IS. SOME sort of motif or theme or SOMETHING there#i KNOW it but i can never place WHAT it makes me rabid.#tell me your secrets puppet girl#also btw kannagi i think also ties into touhikou. given the art & that line thats like prayer will come to sustain us or whatever it is#its 2am ive had a long day i dont remember the exact thing rn. usually i check before posting but please excuse me just this once#i wish i could make friends with the jpn magu fans who also go wild over the lore but idk how to find them. its always like one off comments#sorry i didnt really go wild over yamete kudasai. it just felt rather straight forward & didnt give any big reveals that i know of#so i just kind of went ah neat & looped it for a while#but kannagi. kannagi's got the puzzle aspect back & a WHOLE BUNCH of links to other songs. & thats without knowing the lyrics#but also u know kyuuyaku's my fave so having this be closely related is a big 👀👀👀 for me#i saw someone try to say kannagis the ka in the amakakeru arc of songs (if that is a real arc. it Is a fan theory idk how accurate tho)#but that wouldnt be right bc we already have kanon for the ka.#if there are arcs like that i think itd be in with whatever ashura's in. even tho ashura is a 5 kanji song and kannagis only 1
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viktor and mama welles for vitali teehee
oc get-along asks!
🩺 - viktor vektor
vitali and viktor get along very well! they met when vitali was 18 and back then, vitali was very wary of viktor at first because of his own issues with his father and general trust issues. he quickly grew to like him though and as a way to find a healthier outlet for his anger he picked up boxing which he would do with viktor and jackie :]
viktor did vitali's top surgery also and kept doing regular checkups and blood tests all for free, since he knew that vitali was struggling a lot with money in his college years. when vitali went to join the arasaka training program and then joined the corporation itself, he lost contact with viktor a little bit- mostly because vitali believed that people would judge him for his decision and leave anyway, so he believed it would be less painful to be the one to leave himself
however, viktor was mostly just worried about vitali. he understood vitali's dream and how he hoped to be able to reconnect with his family again, but also knew how arasaka would just end up ruining him completely and often tried to gently coax him away from the idea in conversations. he failed, but didn't leave vitali's side and as soon as vitali was fired, viktor was the first one to reach out to him after jackie. the faulty arasaka tech vitali still had installed in his chest was also taken out by viktor, the very next day
nowadays, the two of them have a mostly professional relationship, occasionally sending business each other's way and vitali even went as far as offering viktor a fulltime job at his office; viktor politely declined but still works there 1-3 days in the week, depending on the circumstances and if they have mikhail stationed in the medbay that day or not
vitali feels very guilty still for kind of "abandoning" viktor when he was younger, and especially now that jackie has passed away he's trying very hard to show viktor that he really appreciates him. it's already there in the broker fic too- vitali feels safe with viktor and in one of his lowest moments he manages to find his way to viktor's shop of all places, without really understanding why or how he even got there
in return, viktor often needs to remind himself that he's not vitali's father. especially now with matvey being around and doing his hot girl shit, viktor is around a LOT more often to keep an eye on vitali and to make sure he doesn't fall back into bad habits because of it all
❔ - mama welles
mama welles is basically just vitali's mother. he has known her for most of his life because she was childhood best friends with nadya and used to be around very often when vitali was still a toddler (that's also how he met jackie). but, as also mentioned by her in last chapter, nadya changed and she and mama welles grew apart, so vitali would then only see her occasionally when he would be playing at jackie's place
jackie and vitali would often get into trouble and mama welles would be strict on occasions, but never in the way nadya was; nadya would actively punish vitali by sending him to his room, or forcing him to skip a meal, taking away his stuff, etc, while mama welles would simply give the two of them a stern talk and explain why they had to be careful in night city. her advice stuck a lot better with vitali than anything his own mother ever "tried to teach" him so he grew up to have a LOT of respect for mama welles
in return, mama welles was probably the first to notice vitali was struggling with his identity. she never said anything to him or forced him to talk about it, but did often tell him that if he ever needed to talk about anything, she would be there. however, vitali lost contact with jackie when he started high school, meaning he wasn't even able to talk to mama welles after he had come out to his family at age 15
after reuniting with jackie when vitali started college, he'd occasionally stop by again and after his breakdown in his final year, mama welles cut his hair for him and ever since then she's been doing that. when vitali was fired, mama welles was the one to suggest he'd move in with her and jackie for a while; vitali had almost no money left because arasaka had taken most if not all of it, and even though he was hesitant he accepted the offer
after jackie passed away, vitali lost contact with mama welles a little bit which he still feels very bad about. he was too preoccupied with finding a way to get rid of the relic in vincent's head and didn't find the time to visit her every now and then like he had wanted to do after jackie's ofrenda
nowadays, he still rarely visits her because he has a lot of things to worry about. he ends up at the bar after coming face to face with nadya- also not sure how he got there, but seeing mama welles makes him feel better instantly
vitali cares a lot about her. he refuses to put too much thought into any of it but does really see her as a parental figure and especially now that jackie is no longer there he wants to be there a lot more for her to make sure she's doing well
in return, mama welles loves vitali very much and she's not afraid to admit she sees him as her son. she's known him for so long and he's told her things he has never even told nadya about; and he has always helped her whenever she or jackie needed it and has never abandoned either of them and she will always be grateful for that
#asks#mutuals#reaperkiller#ask:vitali#oc asks#THANK U EHEHEE i am. sosoososososososo normal about them. so normal. i swear#something so insane to me about vitali finding his way to both of them at his lowest points. mein gott#sorry this got very lengthy but like. themes and motifs and character relationships and so on. [dies]
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something something lucretia literally rewriting her families stories, taking her role as the journal keeper to the next level and in the process of writing her own story taking complete ownership over everyone elses, robbing them of their autonomy. i dont think lucretia was ever the villian of balance but she was definitely the anti-hero in tht her mindset - cut everything and everyone off, go about this alone - stands in direct opposition to one of balances core themes: to embrace the bonds with the people you have around you. to let people in.
i mean balance isnt just about the seven birds right? the seven birds are only one part of the story just like the stolen century is - definitely crucial, but not where balance as a story starts. its with taako magnus and merle taking a job to find the gauntlet (and inadvertently barry too). balance literally starts when lucretias mindset of “solve this on my own” starts to shift, and even though she is still serving as “madam director” + she is still “the lonely journal keeper” in some way (not innoculating thb fully, painting the red robes as the villians, etc) she makes the choice to not go about this alone anymore. balance starts with lucretia realizing she doesnt have to be alone
#obviously she started the bureau before enlisting the boys help but id say still at that point she was alone. she technically had help but#no one could get past the ‘madam director’ persona aside from probably davenport but well. davenport#also i realized writing this tht lucretia is the only character (i think?) to get her own distinct musical theme and motif#+ tht ‘madam director’ first plays in the last ep of crystal kingdom like. riiight before maureen reads the prophecy#(where her role as the lonely journal keeper is first given its name im going fuckingg. bananazzzzzzz AHHHHHHH)#also she first becomes madam director during sc + madam director is not so much a role then but a part of lucretias character#and as balance progresses more and more of ‘lucretia’ is revealed#omfg we find out lucretias name in crystal kingdom too im going to go nuts. fucking 10(11?) episodes of pure narrative devices right there#there is more to say abt this im gna keep writing in a word doc not tumblr tags or else i will forget abt all this entirely#also thk u op of tht previous post tht rlly got me thinkin omg#talking
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always thinking about anders' fire motif.
#sorry the dash discussion on motifs/themes got me thinking. and i only ever think about one thing so.#guy who thinks about nothing but dragon age: wow this is just like dragon age#rambles#da#the andraste parallels truly do never stop woth him though. where is that meta comparing him and meredith and how they both#are making narrative claim to being andraste.
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my mom and dad coming to get me tomorrow bc my car is caput is soo college elise coded
#like. that's what they'd do!#that car ride would be The Thing! that's saturday!#anyway anyone else feel like they're just doomed to the same motifs and themes over and over#....i am 26 years old and apparently that is not too old to be Got by mom and dad#but tbh im not complaining bc someday#they wont be able to come get me. like. i'm . relieved. safe. happy.#woof yikes sorry for that
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