Heey people!
Fun question, when playing Night in the woods, what hangouts do you prioritize? Which ones do you make sure you play?
For me going to the forest with Gregg is always included in my play through. Also proximity with Bea and stargazing with Angus. I like making sure I spend time with all the characters.
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When people say they dislike Hawk I lose my mind. Is he selfish as fuck? Yes of course. Did he do questionable things that hurt other people? Yes he did.
But can we talk about how he loved someone before, how that someone literally DIED trying to stay close to him, and how incredibly guilty he would’ve felt about that? Can we entertain the possibility of Hawk being reluctant to love someone again in case the same thing happened?
Can we simultaneously talk about how his father found out about his relationship with this other man, disowned him, cut him out of the will, and ridiculed him until the day he died? Can we THEN talk about how his mother told Hawk he could apologise to his father for being who he was in order to be put back in the will, only for his father to talk to him like he was worth less than the shit on the bottom of his shoe and being forced to apologise for causing such an ‘inconvenience’?
And if that’s not enough, he’s got people he knows being fired from their jobs, ostracised from their family and friends, admitted to hospitals to have electroconvulsive therapy to be ‘cured’, and even going as far as to commit suicide because their sexualities have been discovered by people who think it’s disgusting and wrong. Hawk’s surrounded by this group of powerful people who wish to see people like him dead. There’s absolutely no way he’s going to raise his hand and admit that he is gay when he’s witnessed how people are punished for it. Nobody would - not when society was this oppressive and full of hatred towards queer people.
I cannot fathom the amount of fear that must’ve been controlling him, and the constant battle he must’ve been having within himself over what he wanted and what he could realistically have. He is not the villain here. The true evil is the views of society at the time. Hawk is a victim of his circumstances, and I will die on this hill.
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im so glad empanada, even after a tough day, got to have that talk and hug with richas and then bagi where em got some lovely advice about dealing with grief from richas & talked about what went wrong during the day
but i can't help but contrast this with sunny. sunny who empanada still hasn't seen. sunny whose been alone for days. sunny whose talked with almost no one. sunny who doesn't know bad is dead. sunny whose pretending tubbo isn't dead. sunny who got no goodbye. sunny who got no long talks about grief. sunny who got no explanations. sunny who no one visited today. sunny whose birthday is tomorrow. sunny who no one will wake up for first tomorrow
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✨caution! Izzy rant ahead✨
Every time I see posts villainizing Izzy I'm kind of baffled. I know i should have gotten over it by now
but making Izzy the villain is kind of missing the heart of the whole story?
"Oh no, Gentlebeard is the heart of the story-"
It's a story about found family. About dysfunctional people. People who err and fail and make horrible decisions and overcome their traumas.
I know that's not lost on the fandom when it comes to Ed, not one little bit. He's all cute and bored when we meet him, right?
Not the man who sets ships alight anymore, with all the people in them?
Not a psychopat, just a tired little boo who's ready to shake off Blackbeard's mantle?
And it's great that he's ready. People get there. But what I get from many posts is that it's fine for Ed to get there when he's ready but Izzy had to follow him straight away into the land of the mentally healthy or fucking die.
Only Izzy is just as dysfunctional as good old Ed if not more, and he's not ready, and nobody is asking him to be ready when they board the Revenge.
The only person he feels close to in the world ignores him, Stede (understandably) offers him none of the talk-it-through treatment and the crew mocks him.
All within reason, but when you have severe mental issues and trust issues and defense mechanisms your first instinct is not to open yourself up.
It's to lock yourself down. Bite back at those who mock you. Attack those who disdain you. Destroy your chances of happiness, because you think you dont deserve it.
Wrong approach? yes, god, yes, of course it is, but "wrong approach" is basically the title of every other episode in this show.
Now I know that many of you see maiming (not a one time thing either. continuous maiming) as a suitable payback for Izzy's deal with the English.
(Maybe you don't even see what baffles me in that statement)
"I fed your darkness. Blackbeard" has been quoted as a closing statement more times than I can count.
Everybody can read into "I fed your darkness" as they please; I know how I read into it. I've been in love with people who's darkness I fed and they fed mine in return.
And I'm not even going to point any fingers here, regardless of how disproportionally abusive that relationship was.
It's a we thing, it's always a we thing. Darkness feeds on darkness.
Izzy didn't create Blackbeard. Izzy didn't burn that fucking ship with all the people in it. We don't even know if Izzy met Ed before he was Blackbeard or not.
It was most likely a "we" thing, where they built together upon an existing structure, a joint tower of darkness. Feeding the myth, throwing all of their insecurities in it, creating a monster.
Forging a bond not with the touch of silk and gentle fingers but with whatever nightmares you can imagine.
So Izzy playing doctor Frankenstein to Ed's Kraken is…it's wrong, it's simply wrong. Ed was not a corpse when they met. He was not a blank slate. He was probably already a mess of his own
when the darkness-feeding started.
That turned out to be quite the rant but it's important for me to voice it.
Izzy is far from blameless. Ed is far from blameless. A lot of other people in this show are technically far from blameless.
But making a person who's a member of (the ofmd) family your villain?
There are some straightforward villains in this show and then there are those who want to, crave to, strive to belong but have a hard time because they're so genuinely flawed.
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I really want to read at least one fic that addresses sojiros early treatment of akira (and the fact that he basically said he thinks it would have been the right choice to ignore a person who needs help), the protagonist’s authority/adult related trust issues, and/or sojiro earning the protags trust because I want the development of found family
I want fic recs because I can’t seem to find what I’m looking for >:(
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