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None of the Life Is Strange 2 endings are “good”, it’s an infamously bleak game. But the Redemption ending is a close second worst ending behind Lone Wolf. Really, they’re both the same in the sense that Lone Wolf is Daniel’s Hell and Redemption is Sean’s Hell. Lone Wolf leaves Daniel alone with no guidance, no safety, no love, nothing. He has to figure everything out for himself in a foreign country while grieving his parents and brother, and living with the guilt that his powers caused all this. Redemption (which I hate the name of because the boys have nothing to be redeemed for) leaves Sean to 15 years of torture in prison. He goes in as a kid and will be targeted by guards and inmates alike as a high-profile cop killer. He could be forced into years and years of solitary confinement which shrinks the brain (a brain that is still growing in Sean’s case) or if he’s not, he’ll have to constantly be hypervigilant and could be jumped, assaulted, even raped (the fact he’s an attractive 17 year old boy on top of all that is not a good combination). He will lose his entire 20s to this hell, when he’s released he is 32 with no direction, probably institutionalized and not knowing how to make a life for himself. He will have to figure out all the things most people learn in their 20s for the first time while living with crippling trauma.

That is Sean’s fate when all he did was try to protect his baby brother and survive. Redemption is the racist, evil system that has been the villain our unfortunate young protagonists are fighting this whole time winning. The boys surrender to the system and follow its rules despite the fact it’s done nothing but mercilessly steal from and terrorize them. They “follow the rules” that murdered their dad, that led Daniel to an abusive cult, that forced the boys from their home and took their friends and safety from them, that set racists on them to bully, assault, humiliate, and try to kill them along their whole journey. No one can convince me that’s an acceptable ending let alone the best ending. The only reason I put it slightly above Lone Wolf is because at least Sean and Daniel aren’t completely alone at the very end. But I’d say Parting Ways is far better, it’s heartbreaking the brothers are separated forever but Sean shouldn’t have to sacrifice 15 years of his life and his mental health for his brother. Sean has already been parentified, allowing him to go to Mexico and reconnect with his dad’s homeland and live free and just be a teenager and 20-something figuring himself out is much more fair to him. And Daniel is still okay. Honestly, the fact Parting Ways exists makes Redemption even more cruel because Daniel can be safe and happy without Sean having to sacrifice himself to 15 years of imprisonment and torture.

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going absolutely NUTS over atsushi being such a fucking badass this chapter. finally having the confidence in himself to back up his strength, realizing he has always BEEN smart and powerful and capable all on his own and using that knowledge to save akutagawa…oh i’m obsessed. atsushi nakajima you are, always have been and always will be that bitch

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after a mission akutagawa reaches his hand out for atsushi to give him the usb they had to get but atsushi only blinks at him and then his hand

and after like half second

he shrugs, grabs it and presses a kiss on the back before letting go and then moves on like nothing happened

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oh lord i have finally finished my art external and i can DRAW and PAINT shit i want to now!!!! freedom has never felt better

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people who say daniel is annoying have NOT met and had to be around actual annoying children

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shin soukokus love IS the definition of parallels. softness on par with sharp edges and bickering. fighting violent and bloody and yet gently supporting each other. hating each other with every bone in their body yet loving eachother the same. simultaneously mending and scarring and violently clawing at eachother

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VI — The Lovers — Trust and unity.

Modeled very fondly after the Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge album cover because they’re so like that 🥰

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OOPS sorry for letting this blog rot yall when i finish my external work i promise ill try be more active 😭 i liked blogging here i dont plan on abandoning it (hopefully)

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CW: disturbing imagery/spoilers for bsd

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sentient rashomon and Akutagawa who are always silently beefing because she clings to Atsushi after he wears her in battle and Akutagawa gets insanely jealous cause that should be HIM wrapped around Atsushi like that

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nice to meet you

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but if belief in god is human / if all i can do as a human is to believe

because humans are the root of all this pain / we’re creatures who can’t seem to love without exploiting

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What a wonderful piece of media! Surely the fandom will be literate and normal

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This poor man 😭😭😭😭

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I killed 35 people, what about you?

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☆ That which drives us, a mysterious thing called “The heart”

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super sketchy heehee

im so attached to these characters ugh love them