When a smile is just too fucking powerful
actually you know what i’m really enjoying how sara’s route towards “villainy” in 3-1b logic route didn’t simply manifest in her outright going crazy or murdering someone herself, because i feel like that would’ve been way too overdone. i like the fact that it targeted her weak point- her allies. one of her biggest strengths has been her ability to influence the group, their knowledge that she is wise and their tendency to automatically accept her advice. but this is evidence of that trust backfiring on her- of her voicing one too many unpleasant thoughts, and of an ally taking it too seriously. we’re still getting consequences for the choice we made, but the consequences come from the choices and relationships we’ve been building throughout the game. sara’s biggest strength was never in what she alone was able to accomplish, but what others could do for her.
good morning elysium fandom. today I am thinking about Kim in the three days after the tribunal. overseeing the taking away and tallying up the dead. trying and failing to write up a report. reading his notes over and over, looking for a clue, looking for something they’ve both missed, although that would also mean that maybe things could’ve gone differently. going down to the corner store for painkillers, the few patrons still coming to the bar watching him silently. dozing off into restless sleep, with the door open, listening to Harry’s breathing, keeping watch. sitting on the edge of the bathtub, scrubbing the blood and dirt off his clothes. in the first playthrough I didn’t say much after waking up, but in the second run I chose to say that we failed, that so many people died (“I know. I’ve seen the bodies.”), and wonder why no one from my station came to see me (“I don’t know, Harry”) and then going to Klaasje’s room again and he just sounds so tired and sad and defeated in those scenes it makes me cry. why is there no option to hug. or at the very least a reassuring pat on the back. I want to hold him
