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when i farm lynette materials and remember her domain is underwater. ^____^!!!!!!!

i contain multitudes (love the fatui twins to death and adore their mistrust of stories & magic -> believe in umineko’s and rule of rose’s theses that magic and fairytales can contain the truth and are indeed the only vehicle through which it can be told)

lesser form of reading

i will say… idk how i feel about emily regaining her eyesight & grace saying she’s teaching her how to read painted as a heartwarming moment. if emily can see then that’s logical but it feels like saying now she can Read as Intended when no? she can read braille. she likes to read. that’s not a

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soooo happy that emily and grace are together though 😭 long live the nonhuman, long live the monstrous other 🤍 emily’s literally her mini me

not the best entry by any means

leon’s final wishes but whyyyy would they give the mind behind this bioterrorist eugenicist virus a redemption like this (a redemption at all…) more than 10 games dealing w the consequences of the virus & you want me to be satisfied w the big secret being a cure all along? fuck off

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and i of course resent that in order to pick the proper ending you have to i guess have “blind hope” that spencer truly wanted to make amends and that releasing elpis is the right choice. i like the idea of grace making that final decision based on the information she has rather than

support it emotionally

on would’ve been sooooo good. leon gets the opportunity to open up but doesn’t go through with it, which could contribute to his characterization, but he obviously means what he says & stops short of conveying anything meaningful. you can’t even read more into it bcs there are no interactions to

are written to be as equally isolated. his survivor’s guilt bypasses the fact that he knows & loves other survivors & that finding a cure would benefit sherry too. i think a contrast btwn grace going through the same thing mostly alone (which even leon didn’t have to do) & leon having sherry to rely

lines. sherry and leon have kept in touch for years & years after raccoon city and sherry calls him and claire her closest friends. how would they not have any conversation in-game about returning to the city 😭 leon’s sections feel ridiculously empty and lonely because of this & his motivations

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my biggest complaint about leon’s story is the glaring lack of acknowledgement that other characters also experienced raccoon city. no mention or references and, most offensively, no real input from sherry, who’s in your ear at all times but doesn’t get anything other than generic

#Love grace though <3

finished requiem. they kinda played

i love lynette and so should you 💗

also the carceral propaganda of that entire section is so egregious 😭 when wriothesley says the fortress is a perfectly pleasant place so you can immediately tell who has a personal agenda because they act differently. “most people enjoy their lives here” Ok!

harmed anyway

and i hadn’t thought about it like that before but the fortress of meropide is a really upsetting example of the twins’ job justifying the emotional/psychological injuries they might suffer because even if this is a triggering situation they are still Guilty, which makes it okay, and no one is truly

huge trigger for lyney that ends in a fakeout where lynette is safe all along, because it’s one of the best character moments for him, and not much of anything for her. That’s all

don’t appreciate lynette’s very specific experience, which undergirds the momentum behind this whole setup, being ignored for any reason. i have my reading for how lynette processes those events & am usually glad to have it supported but i also blame the game for making such a particular trauma a

it results in nothing & lynette is perfectly safe, which i also have my complaints about. but this makes the scene so abundantly not about the two men that i’m a bit surprised it could be interpreted any other way. i also understand that this is like the only frame they share? so whatever. i just

used to bait lyney leverages his fears of failing his siblings generally and his fear of losing lynette to similar circumstances in particular, which isn’t on purpose, but is clearly a trigger, if not the outstanding one. because this is done to reach arlecchino & catch the siblings in their lie,

call me sensitive but there was a certain language being used (speaking for the localization at least) in the faking of lynette’s kidnapping that’s evocative of the one other Kidnapping of Lynette that paints that entire section of the quest. the psychological angle

attention given to lyney’s traumas vs. lynette’s & the aq scenes used as a base for lyney/wr*othesley (censors to avoid others finding this. i genuinely don’t care about that relationship positively or negatively). i just find it v dismissive of lynette overall 😙

ultimately i think people can do & like whatever they want and we’re all more inclined to favor one thing over another so idc if a lot of other people prefer lyney over lynette & act accordingly because i know lynette is my favorite and i act as such. but i do have opinions about the kind of

oh i forgot the other picture

scrolled enough to find these 😞 they don’t sleep when the other isn’t there etc etc

they’re saying she’s the most diana to have ever been

everybody and their dog nostalgiabaiting. FINE!