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inky-snowdrop · 11 months

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Love Is Love

A 2023 L.G.B.T+ Aesthetic Collection

Day 16 • Lucas Baker is Bisexual!

Day 15 • Day 17

👇🏽 Pride Headcanons Below! 👇🏽

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Oh boy, if you thought Jack would come down hard on Zoe for being a lesbian, that would be NOTHING compared to the shit he would do to Lucas. He's already threatening to throw Lucas out of the house for the smallest of things, Lord knows how he would react he found out that Lucas found some men attractive. It's for this reason that absolutely no one knows his sexuality (except for Zoe, who caught him watching gay porn one time and never let him forget it).

Speaking of, I'd LIKE to say that Lucas found out he was bisexual in a really unique and beautiful way (such as him swooning over some southern man from New Orleans and having a forbidden romance like Romeo and Juliet) but nope. It was because PornHub recommended Lucas a video with two guys and two girls in it one time and, because he liked one of female pornstars, he watched it and had to deal with some really uncomfortable feelings afterwards.

As a general rule, Lucas likes women more than men, but he is NOT PICKY. He would honestly take anyone who wanted him (because he knows he'd be the hassle of the relationship and that he'd be damn lucky to end up with someone). He does have a few types though; The overarching themes are people that are lithe/underweight (you know, people Lucas might actually have a chance to beat in a fight if push came to shove) and people that are witty/intelligent (aka someone who won't get offended by his dark humor and who can throw it back at him in an interesting way). Celebrity crushes include Kurt Cobain and Nicole Dollananager.

Internally homophobic. Lucas does NOT like being bisexual and often views it as just one more thing that's wrong with him. He knows that if word got out that he even slightly liked men, the neighbors and townsfolk of Dulvey would tear him limb from limb. He's already on the church's shit list; He doesn't need all his old classmates (who used to bully the shit out of him) to start spreading rumors that Satan fucks him up the ass. Zoe told him once that he's ridiculously paranoid to which Lucas responded with a, "Shut the fuck up Zoe," and locked himself in the barn for almost a week. When he came out, the entire farm was rigged with security cameras and Zoe just shook her head because deep, deep down... She understood his fears because they mirrored her own. The South is not kind to the LGBTQ sometimes...

In a perfect world, with no Eveline and no murderous tendencies, Lucas and Clancy would've be great as a couple. Someone had to fucking say it and I'm not ashamed that it's me ☺️

If Lucas had to pick a song to describe his sexuality, he'd pick: All In the Family by Korn

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necrobain · 4 months

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random re7 stuff i drew to try and finish up my sketchbook :-)

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prinz-vassago · 11 months

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HOWW can I care about Lady D. when THAT MAN is RIGHT THERE !!!11

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coffinliqueur · 2 years

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#of course the first one i make for him was going to be not /entirely/ serious.#resident evil #resident evil 7 #lucas baker #moodboard #character aesthetics: lucas baker

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rallamajoop · 1 year

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On Resident Evil 7

So in the interests of completionism, and because I am now officially that invested in the Winters family saga, I bought and played Resident Evil 7.

It was, as expected, much more survival-horror than RE8. Aiming is slower, ammo scarcer, inventory space even more limited, and enemies that much more bullet-sponge-y. It is also absolutely scarier – both in the tension-and-gore sense, and in the horrible-things-happening-to-normal-nice-people sense (which gets to me far worse). But then, slasher horror is generally much less my thing, so as much as I absolutely appreciate the work that went into building this game’s aesthetic and villains, it’s just not so much an experience for me as the high gothic horror of RE8.

Where finishing RE8 had me racing back to explore new difficulties, DLC and challenge modes, I just didn’t have the same drive to spend more time in the world and gameplay of RE7. As far as I’ve come in this genre, my stomach can only take so much before it all just becomes a bit unpleasant. This is not a fault of the game: I can fully sympathise with anyone who loved RE7 and was disappointed RE8 strayed so far in new directions – it’s just a very different experience.

That said, the two games do share more than you might think.

Both have their extended spooky openings to build atmosphere before the actual danger starts, punctuated by a big moment where someone Ethan trusted apparently turns on him to horrific effect, and where Mia apparently ‘dies’ (but not really). Then there’s a big cutscene where you meet the family of bosses you’ll be dealing with, which Ethan spends restrained and/or tied to a chair. You’ll be helped in your quest to navigate each boss’s territory by a mysterious ally (Zoe/the Duke), though mostly just via advice. And in both games, the last member of the boss family you'll face is a greasy, showboating SOB* who delights in taunting Ethan over speakers and making him run or fight for his life, and who’s actually not as loyal to the alpha-villainess as she thinks.

Towards the end, you suddenly find yourself playing as that-traitor-from-the-start, who gets to use a machine gun. You'll also get your chance to stop by a lab to read some documents explaining WTF has really been going on all this time. Finally, you discover that the creepy old lady you’d been seeing around the place was really the final boss all along.

We end with Chris Redfield and Mia in a helicopter, and the sinister insinuation that the company supplying all the guns and money to fix bio-terror outbreaks might actually be up to no good (that two different companies play this role in the two games isn’t really a sign of good continuity). The end, cue credits! (And remember to take a drink if any of this same stuff happens in RE9!)

But as much as RE7 has in common with its sequel on paper, I came away from it a lot less satisfied ‒ and not just because it's less my kind of game. Sure, the the final boss fight with Eveline has all the hallmarks of something completed at the last minute to meet a deadline – but the final Eveline section at least wraps up properly. The bigger problem is that by then, we’ve spent so much time setting up for a big boss fight with Lucas (psychotic Baker son, mad inventor and jigsaw-killer-wannabe) that never actually happens. Ethan escapes without ever actually facing Lucas directly.

We’re given so many reasons why Lucas should be a big deal: unlike his originally-nice-and-normal parents, Lucas was a killer long before being infected. He’s slipped Eveline’s control, and has even been working with the company that created her. But this last, potentially huge plot point really only exists as an excuse to have a few significant documents lying around for background on Eveline herself. Look, I did not even like this guy (I could not even get myself to play through the DLC he's in), and I still feel like he was done dirty.

The boss fight with Lucas has instead been saved for Chris Redfield’s DLC chapter – but it doesn’t really deliver there either. There, Lucas is apparently selling research data to some sinister, unnamed party, but we never learn what or who – it’s a sequel hook the actual sequel had no interest in. Otherwise, he murders a few redshirts (because what’s Chris Redfield going to do with himself if he’s not losing people in the field?) then morphs into a utterly-generic big-mutant-monster for the boss fight. It’s all the kind of generic faff you could find in any RE game.

We do also learn that those Umbrella-branded helicopters are being run by a ‘new’ Umbrella that claims it’s reformed, and is trying to make up for the mistakes of the past by funding anti-bioterror operations, and that Chris is working for them despite not really trusting them… and now you know as much about the subject as you’ll learn in the whole DLC. More setup with no real payoff.

The other major plot point the game just leaves hanging is Mia. I love the big reveal that she used to work for the company that created Evaline, the whole section where you play as her – but it leaves so many more questions hanging. How did Mia end up working for such evil people? How did she justify it to herself for so long? Were blackmail or threats involved? And most of all, how’s Ethan going to react to finding out? He’s asking those questions out loud just a few scenes before the Mia reveal, and yet, the ending is in such a rush to tell us he’s happily starting over with Mia that it all falls through the cracks. (I mean, there’s some lovely horror potential in the idea of all those secrets still lurking under their relationship, but if that was the intent, it’s woefully underplayed.)

Speaking of Mia, I do think the game could’ve stood to make it a lot more obvious a lot sooner that the Bakers are, y’know, not her real family. We don’t know jack about Mia going on, but Ethan should at least react when she starts talking about ‘Daddy’ – a line or two to the effect of, “What are you on about? Your Dad’s from Texas – I've met the guy!” or something would’ve gone a long way.

Zoe’s story is similarly done dirty by the ending: whether you save or abandon her, she just vanishes afterwards and is never mentioned again. Resolution has (again) been left for the DLC.

I did like Zoe’s prequel DLC: hot damn does it deliver on the story, atmosphere and horror (seriously, it delivers so hard on that last point that I do not think I could sit through it again). Seeing the Baker family as they used to be, pre-Evaline, just drives home the tragedy so much harder, and I love that Zoe got a little more time in the spotlight. But the “End of Zoe” DLC reduces her to a MacGuffin, with nothing more than a “and eventually Chris’ people find and cure her” tacked on at the end to wrap up her story. GDI, she deserves better!

The big problem plaguing both Mia and Zoe is that I just don’t think the game’s big ‘choose who to save’ decision moment works: it just doesn’t pay off. Save Mia, and she and Ethan will get separated in the swamp, you’ll play through her flashback sequence, and she’ll be alive at the end. Save Zoe, and she’ll get nabbed by Eveline again anyway, and Mia will still wake up in the same place in the swamp for the same big flashback sequence. Sure, you’ll also have to fight and kill Mia when she becomes possessed again – but her death is given so little emotional weight that what’s the point? Either ending leaves us with all those loose threads and unfinished stories.

The whole issue is a pretty classic example of what I call the Schrodinger’s Character problem: if an NPC can be simultaneously alive or dead, then neither outcome can have any real impact on the plot. Our hapless NPC just has to sit in their box, somewhere out of the way (presumably in some state of awkward quantum superposition ‒ though hopefully they at least get to pet the cat). Similar problems can comes up in any branching narrative where the branching is more a gimmick than a feature. Sure, devs may intend to fully develop both possibilities, but that’s twice as much work as just ignoring any inconvenient differences, and thus the first thing to end up on the cutting room floor come crunch. And that’s never more glaring than when Schrodinger’s Character is the PC’s wife (or brother – Deus Ex was terrible this way too), and the game can’t even be arsed to give them a proper half-a-cutscene to grieve before putting them right back on the horse again. Nor is saving them all that much more satisfying when it makes so little difference.

I also can’t help feeling RE7 really missed a trick with Zoe, when you finally see her face for the first time and she’s just… completely normal. Up to then, she’s been this mysterious voice on the phone who seems to know exactly what Ethan’s been doing at all times, but never intervenes in person. Add in the fact we know she’s infected, and it all feels like it’s building to a much bigger reveal, right? Like, that she’s mutated to the point Ethan’s liable to lose his shit if he runs into her without warning – or perhaps even semi-embedded in one of those mould-walls, where she’s able to feel what’s going on all over the house through the mycelium network. Or at least that she’s been holed up in some sort of underground surveillance bunker full of tinned beans and bottled water, physically unable to leave without Evaline getting her. There’s so much they could’ve done with the reveal!

To be clear, I don’t think the game’s failure to explain Zoe’s weirdness is a serious flaw: her phone calls are wonderfully creepy and effective, and that’s so much more important to horror than clear explanations. But not doing more with her still feels like a missed opportunity.

None of this is to say RE8’s ending was flawless by comparison: there are dangling questions and clunky sequel-hooks there too (what went wrong with the ceremony? Why were Miranda’s powers ‘leaving her’? Why are we suddenly teasing the idea the BSAA has gone bad when we haven't heard about them all game? etc). But the greater story felt finished to me in a way RE7 just didn’t. Plenty is left mysterious, but Ethan’s character arc is functionally complete.

On the whole though, there’s still plenty to recommend RE7 as an experience. The atmosphere was everything it needed to be, the old videos and creepy phone calls were solid little mechanics, and I kind of adored the design of Lucas’ horror-escape-room puzzle. I love the subtlety of burying an explanation for how Ethan's able to reattach his hand (and even his leg goddamnit I had no idea that was a thing that could happen until just recently!) in the middle of a document you won't pick up until the endgame, and which many will miss. Seriously, there is some great material in this game.

The villains all live up to the enjoyably campy extremes of the RE series at its best – but it was Marguerite who stood out for me, and I think it’s a crying shame she’s mostly relegated to the middle-chapter between the big events that are Jack, Lucas and Eveline. Nothing against the rest of them, but creepy little girls, dominating father figures, and jigsaw-killer-wannabes are all a dime a dozen in this genre: how many gleefully-revolting, middle-aged mother figures can you think of? That’s rare enough to be really memorable.

Ethan is, unavoidably, a somewhat flatter character than he gets to be in RE8 – he just doesn’t get the opportunity to react to so many things he so obviously should, and that’s very much a script issue (his voice actor does a fine job with what he’s given). Even so, some of his snarky conversations with Zoe are a delight, as is every other time he gets to express his frustration with the whole mad situation.

By contrast, Mia is so much more complex than she gets to be in RE8, where she’s honestly done pretty dirty. And having now played RE7, I’m retroactively a little disappointed that RE8 wasn’t about Ethan and Mia getting to be some kind of awesome battle couple (unconducive to horror as that might be): they’re both kind of badass when they actually get the chance.

So, yeah. At the end of the day, RE7 and RE8 make a very weird little duology. It's well worth checking out at least a Let’s Play of RE7 or a compilation of cutscenes if you loved RE8, just for backstory. But it’s not a game really designed for the same audience – and for me at least, just a much less satisfying experience overall.

*Considering how far apart they are on the fangirl-bait scale, I feel sort of like I ought to apoologise to Heisenberg and his fanbase for even comparing him to Lucas Baker, but I'm sorry: on paper, they do have rather a lot in common.

#Resident Evil 7 #Resident Evil Village #Ethan Winters #Mia Winters #Zoe Baker #Marguerite Baker #Lucas Baker #meta #Resident Evil

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lesbianwillbyers · 2 years

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The Stranger Things kids love Doctor Who because I love Doctor Who and I say so, an essay

They are the nerdiest boys in Indiana, of course they like Doctor Who.

Disclaimer: I don't know how accesible could some Doctor Who be in the US in the 80s, I hope this is accurate.

Mike is an average Fourth Doctor lover, he is his childhood and thinks that no other actor can play the role like Tom Baker.

His favourite companion is Sarah Jane, but he likes Romana a lot too. He loves the classics: City of Death, Pyramids of Mars, Genesis of the Daleks...

He lost interest on the show after Tom Baker left, and didn't like Davison very much. Doesn't care for Colin Baker either. But still enjoys watching some stuff outside of the Fourth Doctor era if the story is good enough.

Dustin is a massive whovian. His favourite Doctor is the Fourth too, but he loves every single one of them, even the First. He just really likes the Doctor in general as a character. And he's the biggest Sixth Doctor defender ever. I have a feeling that Sixie is gonna end up being his new favourite Doctor.

He is literally in love with Zoe Heriot, basically because she is Suzie in futuristic clothes. He just adores that genius girl companion type: Romana (especially Romana I), Liz, Vicki, Nyssa, even Susan... He really likes the Time Lord lore, the Master and adored the Rani.

He owns a lot of novelisations and lends them to Will all the time.

Lucas doesn't like Doctor Who as much as Dustin and Will, he's more on a Mike page. He says that the Fourth is his favourite Doctor, but his favourite era is definitely the UNIT one and he adores everything he has seen of the Third Doctor. Definitely the Brig's number one fan.

He didn't like the Davison or Colin Baker years that much, but he loves Peri – I know that he made a comment on her cleavage during that scene of The Caves of Androzani. His favourite companions are Sarah Jane and Leela, but Ace is probably gonna take that title in a few years.

Will also loves Doctor Who. Maybe not as much as Dustin, but he finds such comfort on the show.

He simply adores everything related to Five. He is his favourite Doctor, loves the season 19 TARDIS team and his favourite companion is definitely Nyssa.

He didn't know that it was because every single person on the TARDIS at that point is canonically queer, poor thing. Shipped Teganyssa in secret though.

Also, I know something awoke in him the moment he saw Jamie McCrimmon and his kilt in The Two Doctors and immediately went to watch some Second Doctor stuff with Dustin.

Bonus!

Suzie is also a massive whovian! Another thing she and Dustin have in common. Actually, she is a 60s Who nerd; she canonically loves The Wizard of Oz, so I'm assuming The Mind Robber is her favourite story ever.

Eleven watched some Fifth Doctor stories with Will in California and, actually, she enjoyed them a lot, she just loves the vibe. She also shipped Tegan and Nyssa – like, two girls couldn't marry in Australia or the US, but maybe in space...

I just know she always likes the most underrated companions, like Harry, Adric or Peri.

And she was the one to convince Max to give the show a chance, actually.

Max is another casual watcher, and she just stans every woman on the show. Biggest Romana and Rani fan ever. Definitely ships Teganyssa as well.

She likes the more sci-fi, imaginative part of the show, even if she makes fun of the wobbly sets and lame monsters all the time.

Erica will never admit it, but she loves that nerd British TV show. She adores the Sixth Doctor, his rainbow outfit and the camp aesthetic.

Dustin has lent her most of his Doctor Who novel collection, and she loves the comics too.

Robin is the unexpected weird whovian. She is actually into the more obscure shit, like lost episodes, comics and books. And she is a pure historical supremacist, she owns every novelisation available of the genre.

Also, she made sure Family Video brought every possible Doctor Who VHS release.

Firm believer that the Doctor and the Master have something gay going on. And Tegan and Nyssa, of course. And the Doctor and Jamie. Turlough is very fruity, too.

#stranger things #classic doctor who #mike wheeler #dustin henderson #lucas sinclair #will byers

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poisonousash · 2 years

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Lucas Baker

Resident evil 7

Aesthetic 📺

Shut him up

Lucas Baker's look alike Wesley Tucker

#lucas baker #resident evil 7 biohazard #resident evil 7 #re7 biohazard #lucas re7 #re7 #Spotify

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candiso-p640 · 1 year

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An OC I made with @dietcolqz

Lucas Goldsmith was born on March 13th, 1986 in Winona, Minnesota. He always had a passion for older items, especially items from the 1920's. As a kid, he would always look at the antique shop window displays to see what items they could have in stock. He would save up his pocket money from doing chores to buy trinkets from those shops. However, his life would be forever changed in late May, 2006 (May 27th) where he was staying at his parents' house for Spring Break. He was going through the attic when he spotted a red bow tie with a single eye print on its front. Curious, he grabbed the bow tie and put it on. This proved to be a mistake as a new personality instantly formed in Lucas within an hour, this personality is actually Ruben Goldsmith; An connoisseur who traveled the globe for new types of wine to taste, while killing people for a cult known as "Luck Fortune". Over the next 16 years, his split personality made Lucas kill out of boredom. Ruben also taught Lucas the art of wine tasting.

Facts about Lucas and Ruben Goldsmith:

His favorite food is roast chicken. Lucas' favorite candy is Fry's Turkish Delight. His favorite snack besides the Turkish delight is roasted chestnuts.

Never call Lucas Goldsmith's split personality a "Ruben Sandwich" because if someone calls him that, Lucas will lose his mind and the police will never find the body if Lucas finds a way to hide it.

Lucas is Panromantic.

Sometimes, Ruben stares into the distance, even when there is nothing there. Mostly because he is able to see spirits.

If Lucas were to meet Bob Velseb, his split personality would probably break his own shins trying to kill Bob.

Whenever Lucas walks, his metal bottomed tap shoes will make clicking noises.

Ruben's favorite wine is Chateau Calon-Segur red wine from France.

Ruben laughs like a noblewoman and carries a foldable fan that rich people in old cartoons have. What the laugh sounds like, (o~hohoho) Note: This is high-pitched.

Whenever Ruben (Lucas' split personality) is especially annoyed, he pulls out his fan and waves it in a passive-aggressive manner. If Ruben is having a mental breakdown, he will wave the fan in his face so fast that it reaches a tornado-like wind force.

Both Lucas and his split personality are both smart-asses and bitches.

Lucas' favorite holiday is Halloween.

If Lucas/Ruben had an aesthetic, it would be Dark academia

Lucas is an excellent baker but can't grill or work with meat otherwise he will burn the house down.

Lucas/Ruben is shorter than Byakuya by 2 inches. (Lucas/Ruben's height: 5'11''. Byakuya Togami's height: 6'1''

Lucas has a pet rock named William.

If Lucas were to never put on the bow tie, he would have become a Librarian in Portland, Oregon with a podcast to run as a side gig.

Ruben is an avid watcher of RuPaul's Drag Race.

#Eddsworld X Danganronpa #original character #EdDanganropaAU #danganropa oc

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