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inspector-montoya-fox · 2 years

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let’s talk about Carmelita and Neyla’s power struggle as presented through visuals

This post was originally going to focus on Carmelita and Neyla being presented as binary opposites but after I started working on it I realised how big a topic this is to cover so I’m just going to analyse the visuals for now. More specifically, the visuals that have to do with the two characters’ antithesis and rivalry. Let’s take a look:

Colour Choice: purple is a really interesting choice for Neyla because I think it highlights the duality and mystique of her character: blue, as seen by Carmelita, symbolises good, the law and justice; whereas red is evil and hatred (which is subsequently the colour of ClockLa’s eyes too). Mix those two up and you’ve got Neyla, an eternity-seeking psychopath masquerading as a cop. Her palette’s duality serves to both compliment and contrast Carmelita’s blue, nicely blending when they’re still coworkers but then contrasting when they’re antagonists. In Sly 2, Carmelita’s outlines and overall appearance are primarily blue, whereas in Sly 3, she swapped to orange (as seen by her thief meter). I think this choice presents how the events of Sly 2 were probably the lowest point in her life, or at least career, and in Sly 3 she manages to overcome all the obstacles she’s faced, such as getting arrested, tortured, working with Sly and managing to “capture” him before he tricks her and escapes.

Angles: the angles used in the cutscenes allude to Carmelita and Neyla’s position in the narrative, and their placements depend on how their storyline is progressing. For instance, A Tangled Web, a significant chapter in the game, starts off with Neyla being shot from beneath as her planes and tanks follow behind her. Her pose adds to the angle she’s being shot from and serves to show how she’s a force to be reckoned with and that, since exposing The Contessa’s deceit, she’s shed her demure, coy demeanour from episodes 1-3.

Despite all this, A Tangled Web is the episode that includes the most character development for both Neyla and Carmelita as their control begins to shift drastically. By the end of the level, Carmelita, who wasn’t even mentioned once in Jailbreak, goes from being completely benched to being the one receiving the low-angle shot. Neyla, on the other hand, got her ass handed to her by everyone, receiving ghosts in her HQ’s chimney and getting stuck in spider cum, and as such is shot from a high angle. Although Carmelita is still a fugitive after this episode, the dynamics here have definitely changed since Neyla’s betrayal.

Another thing I’ve noticed in regards to the angles used in the cutscenes is that Carmelita’s gaze plays a role in the positioning of the characters. Let me explain: the split-screen screenshot used above has Carmelita looking down at Sly. I think the screenshot is trying to convey two things: (a) the horizontal split in the middle as well as the colours used symbolise how Carmelita is conflicted due to Sly rescuing her and their brief alliance; (b) the fact she’s looking down at him literally means just that. Ethically, she’s on a higher ground, and she disapproves of Sly being a thief. At the end of the game, this changes and the screen is split vertically because, even though she’s still not ok with him being a thief, he’s redeemed himself partly because of the entire ClockLa storyline. She’s more accepting of who Sly is and that sets up their relationship nicely for Sly 3.

You’ll notice that, even though Sly and Carmelita are on opposite sides of the law, they don’t overlap each other in the cutscenes. They are equals because both are morally good. The same can’t be said for Carmelita and Neyla, however. Their power-struggle and representation of “good” and “evil” is again presented by Carmelita’s gaze. In the game’s opening cutscene, Neyla is positioned closer to the camera while Carmelita gives her a suspecting look from behind. In He Who Tames the Iron Horse’s closing cutscene, however, Carmelita is framed closer and Neyla in the back. Although Carmelita’s gaze is unaverted, the change in the framing suggests, again, the shifting dynamics and power-struggle. In the beginning, Neyla’s skittish behaviour threatens Carmelita as she slowly but surely rises as a force within Interpol; by the second Canada level however, Neyla seems to be losing her control because, even though she’s still in Interpol, the gang has managed to beat her and gather all the Clockwerk guts successfully. Depending on her position of power, Carmelita is placed in front or behind Neyla.

Similarities: although Carmelita and Neyla are binary opposites, once their partnership ends, they experience the same high and low simultaneously. A Tangled Web opens with Carmelita being held captive by The Contessa. She is tied down to a wooden table and subjected to The Contessa’s experiments. During Operation: High Road, Neyla experiences the exact same thing, when she gets caught in a web. This presents how The Contessa is a badass female villain and that every character is caught in her tangled web, but also how Carmelita and Neyla’s destinies are intertwined.

Similarly, in An Anatomy for Disaster, both Neyla and Carmelita use machinery to ascend to the skies: ClockLa & the Interpol helicopter. The two characters share the same highs and lows to a certain degree, and, even though they were tied down, they managed to get up and push even higher.

Bonus: I find it really interesting that Neyla’s introduction sees her coming out of a sarcophagus with Anubis’s face on it. I mean, Carmelita does the same thing but I think it’s foreshadowing because Anubis is the god of death and that is exactly what Neyla’s rise and reign include. I wish Carmelita’s sarcophagus had a different face on it, something to foreshadow her own storyline or character. Also, since we’re on the subject, this.

So yea ! I’m sure there’s more stuff but this is what I got for now. I wanted this post to focus more on how both SP and S*nzaru are guilty of slapping the “angry POC” label on Carmelita but I guess that post will have to come at another time.

#i subconsciously started capitalising midway through writing this so you know she entered dissertation mode #sly cooper #anyway #sly is honestly such a piece of shit for asking neyla out on a date. he deserved her betrayal #thoughts besties?

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skoofie · 2 months

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Friendly reminder that you should

Write that fic

Draw your OC

Redesign that blorbo

Plan that comic how you want

Create the content you want to see

Be cringe

Be free

The only thing that matters is you having fun! Not what others think!

#ski thoughts #i am cringe but i am free #this isnt directed at anyone btw #just been seeing a lot of people feeling too scared to share their thoughts (me too bestie) and sometimes we (also me) need a reminder that #we can do what we want forever #whos gonna stop you?#haters?#they want u so bad it makes them look silly

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demaparbat-hp · 3 months

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They would.

#atla #lok #legend of korra #korra #toph beifong #lok fanart #lok art #avatar korra #toph beifong art #toph beifong fanart #korra fanart #korra art #avatar the last airbender #atla fanart #atla art #they're besties your honor #I saw the ref pic and inmediatly thought of them #The sheer badassery #Also ✨abs✨

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peachebo · 5 months

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I remember I had a concept about alternative ending of sl where michael brings ennard home and jus lives very normal life with a killing machine...

also here's ennard with da cat

#yep they are besties in my head #also sibling coded not only bc elizabeth but ennard taking michael clothes to cover themselves when going outside #i am having thoughts about them like a lot #fnaf #michael afton #ennard #fnaf sister location #cat #2k...#3k.....#4k!!!#5k??!!#6k wha-#7k guys r u crazy...#8k #9k bro #10k happy new year!!

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tired-biscuit · 8 months

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when the kisses are getting so messy that you’re literally almost devouring each other, and you’re both in such a hurry to get out of your clothes that he’s unbuckling his belt with those big, strong hands; almost fumbling with it from how fast and desperate he is at trying to get it out of the way.

you’re latching onto his neck when you at long last hear the audible clink! and it nearly makes you shiver. because that means that his cock is finally gonna come out to play and that he’s finally gonna push you down and rail the ever sweet life out of you after waiting for so long.

it’s just pure thrill and excitement. you’re practically buzzing with it.

#i’m kinda thinking about besties finally succumbing to their wants and desires #and just having the best sex of their life tbh #sorry i’m just having thoughts #and i have such a thing for belts lol

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lilybug-02 · 1 month

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You're right. This IS fun

It really is the BEST.

#i like to think this is their default face when no one is looking #little noodle people #no thoughts head empty #ksdjhfl jnasljdfnasdf hahaha im honored by your art contribution #these two have such wildly different vibes but they come together at the end of the day for “:)”#next week we may even see “:D” who knows!#ask stuff #akanemnon #chara #tr!chara #ct!chara #they would be besties. As in they would argue in every interaction.#fanart!!!

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physical-manifestation-of-spite · 9 months

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Discovery in Grief

#i thought i was being original with this idea and then I just looked up the trigun fanart tag on pinterest #bestie nope everyone has done this oh well #i'm 6 months late to the trigun fandom and that's just how I like it #i don't like feeling rushed to join a fandom and do art #anyway #trigun #trigun stampede #vashwood #kinda #nicholas d wolfwood #wolfwood #vash the stampede #my art #trigun fanart #trigun stampede fanart #vash fanart #trigun vash #trigun wolfwood #spiteful art

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daftmooncretin · 4 months

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imagine being scotty in tos. every day your friend group goes on dangerous yet exciting adventures to new planets but you can never go because they always make you babysit the ship. also you have to stay on facetime with them the whole time in case they need a lift. you are the eternal designated driver. the seventh wheel. you dont mind as much as you should though because you sort of want to fuck the ship

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fairydrowning · 3 months

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"Do you understand? When I am done telling you these stories, when you're done listening to these stories, I am no longer I, and you are no longer you. In this afternoon we briefly merged into one. After this, you will always carry a bit of me, and I will always carry a bit of you, even if we both forget this conversation."

– Hao Jingfang, "Invisible Planets," in Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, tr. & ed. Ken Liu

#do you understand this??#besties I'm back and now I'll make sure to post here regularly hehe #also i passed my semester with such a good gpa #dark academia #light academia #excerpts #fragments #poetry #books & libraries #romanticism #spilled thoughts #words #spilled ink #writing #hao jingfang

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genosayyy · 8 months

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jotaro secretly finds iggy cute n polnareff should be in jail for being french. kakyoin... he just looks like that.

kakyoin beat the shit out of polnareff after that

#jjba #stardust crusaders #jotaro kujo #tenmei kakyoin #noriaki kakyoin #jean pierre polnareff #iggy #a silly thought i had #oso polpol looks like my pfp ^^ !!!#polpol n pocoyo besties #storyboarding is v hard cuz wtf #a little secret but i actually enjoy the french guy....#i treat him like my side chick

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liulith · 2 months

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Radiostatic reverse-verse where Alastor is the one who's obsessed with Vox. Nothing lustful or romantic about it. He's in his radio tower giggling, twirling his hair and kicking his feet, starting a new broadcast which will be dedicated to roasting Vox for the 17th time this week, from the shower gel he uses to the subpar brand of ramen noodles he ate two days in a row because he was on a time crunch for a new product release. He doesn't have his own surveillance cameras but who needs those when he can travel through shadows? Plus, TV, cell phones, radars and wifi all work thanks to radio waves. He has full access to Vox's entire empire and he sure knows how to use it for his nefarious purposes (being a shameless stalker).

He sends him silly little drawings through the mail, and charcuterie boards made with the meat of whoever annoyed Vox this week (Only HE is allowed to bully Vox). At any moment of the day Vox is at risk of turning around and finding himself face to face with Alastor staring unblinkingly at him with the creepiest smile on his face.

People tease him for acting like a kid pulling on his crush' pigtails. Vox himself propositions him so that he can "get him out of his system" and finally leave him be, and Alastor is just like. Huh. Gross?? No thanks??? This is a purely platonic unhealthy obsession, thank you very much. What type of underwear are you wearing, though?

Basically:

"What do you see in him?"

"He makes me laugh!"

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((Vox is, of course, scared shitless.))

((A psychopathic, serial-killing cannibal is stalking him, killing his subordinates, sending him drawings of the two of them covered in blood, Sinner meat... (and a recipe for jambalaya? is this code for something? some kind of hidden message??). Someone help this poor man.))

#radiostatic #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin hotel alastor #one sided radiostatic #but not in the traditional way lol #aroace alastor #he basically wants a qpr but doesn't know what qprs are #surely if he bullies vox enough they'll somehow become besties #alastor @ vox: dance clown boy dance #vox: someone HELP ME #radiostatic qpr #hazbin hotel thoughts

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spielzeugkaiser · 10 months

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What I want from part 2 of S3 is supportive bestie Geralt!! Please continue their good interactions I need themmmm

#the witcher #the witcher season 3 #jaskier #geralt of rivia #geraskier #(in a way and because I'm incorrigible and will never stop even if I think Jaskier and Radovid are very cute)#but by god let them be true besties in the show I want moreeeeee #I'm slowly going back to drawing and it's way harder than I thought it would be #also give me geralt being explicitly supportive of my bi bard or give me deathhh

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sylvich · 3 months

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Look, I don't know what's going on here, but I feel things

#this art was sooo different but my bestie kept joking about the ring #so i thought might as well put a ring on it heh #and now it's barely visible but it's here #tragic husbands au????#trigun #vash the stampede #trigun vash #trigun fanart #trigun 98 #nicholas d. wolfwood #trigun nicholas #trigun maximum #trigun manga #vash x wolfwood #vashwood #wolfwood

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pretty--in--purple · 26 days

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chilchuck you bitch i love you

#look at his slutty lil pose too #ass up propped on his elbow tiny waist heeled boots #sorry i thought you'd just been taken prisoner by your bestie not put on the cover of vogue #also this is so funny #laios it's been 80 chapters #chilchuck tims #dungeon meshi spoilers #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios #chilchuck #izutsumi #senshi

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lucabyte · 3 months

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messier doodle pages feat. mostly loop because i'm thinking about the body horror of it all... amongst other things.

... at least one of those things being. hey. unrelated to this doodle page. how many months was siffrin travelling with the party? It wasn't that many, right? How many loops would it take before they'd've been in the house longer than they had even been with them? Much to think about!

#i wasnt going to actually put these thoughts to paper but everyone has been very nice in my notes so i was encouraged :) thank u.#LONGER TAG RAMBLE BELOW THE ORGANISATIONAL TAGS. CLICK SEE ALL THANKS #in stars and time #isat fanart #isat spoilers #isat siffrin #isat loop #sifloop #isiloop #siffrin #isat #isat isabeau #isat bonnie #isat mirabelle #isat odile #lucabyteart #samdontlook #<- spoiler tag for my bestie dont PEEK #post a6 loop just rocking up and being supremely volatile and uncomfortable is what im here for. what if a guy could look so disquieted #anwyay. about the body horror of it all. SIMPLY PUT: I do not think loop is fully tangible in places.#especially not like. their head. i think that thing is impassable but not graspable or solid. i dont think it has much feeling either #the chest star being the same white is why im joking about it being intangible too but. thats also a Kaiba reference so #no blood no organs no nothing impermeable skin guy should be allowed to get frustrated about that. its fertile ground for thoughts #being punished for not valuing your body as a vessel for your Self enough by being reduced to nothing but is MEAN..... BIG FAN OF IT.....#anyway !!! kiss your local mouthless entity on the NECK!!! get CREATIVE! ! ! ! MUST I SUPPLY ALL THE NONSEXUAL INTIMACY IN THIS ECOSYSTEM??#UEAGH.#anyway odile would get on their collective asses so hard about the philosophical ramifications of this polycule. she'd tease them about it #also @ everyone who makes bonnie call loop 'lulu' i owe you my life.

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carnivalcarriondiscarded · 9 months

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all this to say: i think it'd be cute if Barnaby literally howls with laughter

#self conscious ouppy...#big ouppy... big howl....#this has been in my head for Days #and i had to get it out. i had to Share The Thought #wally is included mainly bc i Needed to add him reacting to hearing a Delightful New Noise from his dear bestie #also in my head barnaby has Absolutely heard that joke before #but howdy's delivery & fullchested enthusiasm got him #GOD THEYRE SO *breaks drywall & eats it*#scribble salad #welcome home #laughingstock #barnaby x howdy #howdy x barnaby #now im thinkin about howdy doing his damnedest to try and get that howl outta barns again #ouuughhhhh im emotional im So Fucking Emotional #the dopamine flooding my brain rn. unparalleled #im not used to it... it may kill me... but its so Worth it #the happy howl!!! THE HAPPY HOWL!!!!

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