Specular / Echo
Preparing some more screenshots to post for my Crystal Tower Expedition run tomorrow... and I'm literally howling...
LOOK AT THIS FACE...!! LOOK AT IT.
I have never seen a more sulkier, sad, heartbroken face in this damn game and this is early content, lmfao.
Damn... he got toldt... no WoL for you today.
This happens to him around three consecutive times during the expedition and he hates it - I mustn't laugh but... then he pens a massive rant about it all, then severely crumples it up and hides it under some crates before locking himself in the tower.
Oh, B'rata Tia... you're an absolute treasure.
Oh hey the trademark ask game! Um. Woochie.
xoxo
HAHA… Fair. I totally need to implement them in my main fic already-
Your fifth most recent emoji is what your soulmate thinks about you
- Final Fantasy III DS + Summons
so, did I ever tell you guys about the time my roommate accidentally simulated gender dysphoria in VR?
too bad, i’m posting it anyway
My roommate is a cis man who sometimes makes lady characters in video games because why not? So when he started a new VR game and made a lady character, he didn’t think anything of it.
But then he heard the NPCs talking about him with fem pronouns. He got miss/ma’am’d - and indeed, milady’d. This had never bothered him in non-VR games, but in VR it’s much easier to feel like you are actually in the room. They’re not talking about the avatar you control; they’re talking about you. They’re looking at you.
Then he happened across a mirror. He saw his pretty lady character instead of his internal picture of what his body looks like. He moved and saw his avatar’s body move in sync.
And it was so unsettling that he started over with a new character. He asked if that was what dysphoria was like. I told him “yeah, that’s def in the ballpark” and he was floored, like, “HOLY SHIT, how does anyone deal?”
And sometimes I wish I could shove people into a VR headset and give them that experience.
also yes, of course I tried the game with a male character. I went straight for the mirror and it sounds silly but I was honestly awe-stricken and almost cried. Yet another “yep, definitely trans” moment.
Oh hey man. Good to see you. I thought you died. Didn't you die? I was sure you died? Why are you alive? Weren't you meant to die a long time ago?
One thing I appreciate about Zenos' place in the writing/story is that he provides an avenue for WoL to be someone else, something more than what the core narrative simply directs you to be.
You're the hero, you do everything in your power to help those around you. Zenos allows you to be less than virtuous, if you so choose. You don't have to agree with or take up the personality he ascribes you. He can be wrong about you. But... He can also be right about you.
You can be the WoL that feels bloodlust, that began the journey simply because you wanted to see the world and challenge yourself. You can fall into the role of virtue, adopt the mantle of hero, but feel tired and regretful of the responsibility hoisted upon your shoulders.
You will always rise to the occasion, because that's what's inevitably required of you, but you don't have to with unending enthusiasm. And when you finally, finally reach the end of the universe. Make the penultimate sacrifice for the sake of everyone and everything else...
He gifts you one final opportunity... to fight for *yourself*. To be *yourself*. He tells you you can walk away, this is your choice, whether it be for duty or pleasure, you act for *you* and what you want. No one is asking you to save them, to fight for their sakes. You fight for yourself and for your very own hopes and dreams.
easy. lmao
No actually I'm still hung up on it.
Zero's "a friend is a person your trust" revelation DIRECTLY followed by the WoL thinking about Zenos.
Zenos, whose feelings towards the WoL were so strong that they not only broke through Meteion's Ultimatium, carried the Warrior on his back, and then as he lay dying STILL had a strong enough sway over the dynamis in at the edge of everything to save the WoL's life, letting himself die at the end of it, their conversation ending with Zenos, through his final act, confessing that the only happiness he found in life was with someone that he didn't know how to love in a way that wasn't violent and selfish with a passion enough to tear the world apart.
"A friend is a person you trust" not to WoL, not ONLY at least, because they had a friendship that was not built on the foundation of a mutual trust, but on the foundation of challenge, and acceptance for the other as the broken, fascinating thing that they are.
My enemy, my friend.
New ask game:
Reblog if you want your followers to tell you what your trademark ™️ is. Like, what’s that thing that really identifies you.
I do love the phrase executive dysfunction bc the image it conjures is of a bunch of people wearing business suits around a long oval conference table arguing with each other to the point where they’re getting into physical fights, but in the background there’s just a big empty whiteboard with a To Do list with one item on it and that item is “take shower”
