#Agent Stories

[zzz-updates]

New Agent Story "The Unsung Champion" Available

Here's to a victory against all odds,

to the unsung champion.

Upon completing the required prerequisite story, Proxies can unlock Lighter's Agent Story "The Unsung Champion."

[Availability]

Permanently available after 2024/11/27 12:00:00 (server time).

[Requirements]

Complete Main Story "Leisurely Lull: Unexpected New Customer" (available after completing Main Story Chapter 4).

※ You can experience this content in advance via the "Preview" function.

>> Official Hoyolab post <<

[hooktongued]

GIRL WHO ASKED

(i miss the way he would overshare to tom unprompted)

[triple-pupil]

Yet another case of Majdoub and the Stone/Stobotnik fandom sharing the same braincell.

[technically-human]

... Well, would you look at that.

[creativesplat]

what if the hypnoshades were addictive, and Callie using them was like substance abuse? I mean that would explain the otherwise silly mechanic of her putting them back on sometimes.

what if for the first few months after being rescued by 4, she experienced withdrawal symptoms, like anhedonia, which is why she puts them back on. she knew she was being used and had been kidnapped but sometimes thinks back to the high of having the hypnoshades and misses it

idk some squid angst I guess

[hheisa]

Drawing I made while reading "Got Dropped into a ghost story still gotta work" (GSGW)

[Spoilers ahead]

My guy Soleum gotta accept he's pretty crazy.

[ikol-art]

Listen to me. Change the narrative. Keep writing your own story. You got this. Just keep going.

[badolmen]

They don’t even attempt to assassinate US politicians anymore. You notice that? Not since the anthrax scare back for… who was it, Barack? And even that… pathetic. This new generation has no respect for an honest hitman. I’m not sure this new generation has any honest hitman - you see that shit with Boeing? Sloppy, fucking disgraceful - you kill the whistleblowers before they get halfway to a lawsuit. What kind of fucking amateur is doing faked suicides the night before testimony? Goddamn greenhorns. Back in my day someone tried to shoot Ronald Reagan in broad daylight. There used to be bomb threats to Congress. I took out a few union leaders in the utilities sector myself. Today’s generation? Won’t even threaten to throw a punch - not even over on that - what’s it now, ‘X’? They got no guts. None! And they don’t even have poor impulse control to boot! Too much of that - that panopticon anxiety bullshit. “Oh what if I get a called out post???” People used to send the president letters full of bioweapons. In the mail! Today’s generation? Not a chance. All because of woke.

[theknucklehead]

I love the promotion for Sonic 3 where they took a bunch of classic Christmas movie posters and parodied them with the Sonic characters.

[morganmnemonic]

I can't stop thinking about the relationship between Jon and Helen as perhaps one of the most important ones in the entire show. They are narrative parallels for each other, and they both know it. They've both known it from the very start!

Helen walks into the Archives, paranoid, unsure of who to trust, and Jon sees himself in her. And he thinks "If i can help her, maybe there's hope for me too." Then he can't save her. The next time they meet, she's a monster. They're both monsters. There was never any other way their stories could have gone, their fates entwined from the very start.

And Helen answers his original thought with one of her own: "Maybe if we can help each other, there's hope for us both." But Jon looks at her and sees everything that he fears becoming, and so he turns her away, and refuses to accept that their stories are still one and the same.

Helen went to the last person who was ever kind to her, the only person who both knew her as a human and had the context to understand what she'd become, and he hated her. He hated her because he liked Helen, and told her that she couldn't be Helen.

So she stopped trying to be Helen, and embraced being a monster. Reveled in it even. Then Jon wakes up from a six month coma, more monster than person, and tries so hard to cling to the things that mattered to him when he was human. Even with no support, even with the entire archives staff against him, he chooses humanity and compassion over and over again.

And this is a direct threat to Helen's world view. Their stories are entwined. If Jon can continue to be a person even after everything he's been through, then she could have clung to her humanity too, if only she'd tried a little harder. And that terrifies her! She wants to conceptualize herself as someone who was completely overwhelmed by forces beyond her control, who never had a choice but to become a monster. She want's to be an innocent victim. But Jon argues with his actions that they'd both had choices.

And, Jon, in turn, holds out hope that she might make better choices until the very end.

This is the conflict between them for all of season 4 and 5. Jon wants to prove that they can both be decent people, and Helen wants to prove that they were never going to be anything but monsters. This is why she's so devoted to trying to goad Jon into enjoying his newfound godhood. She knows that they are the same, and wants that to mean that he has a spark of evil inside of him, and not that she was always capable of doing good.

When Jon kills her, she loses her life, but wins the argument. Helen is nothing but a dangerous monster who needs to be killed for the good of everyone, and in the moment he decides that, Jon dooms himself to the same fate. Their stories are one and the same. "If i can help her, maybe there's hope for me too." he thought. But he couldn't help her, refused to, even, in the one moment when it actually mattered. And thus, there was never hope for him.

[martianbugsbunny]

//sonic 3 spoilers

actually I think Eggman admitting that Stone was his friend was the perfect way to go. bro has not copped to an Emotion™ in years, he's not gonna go directly to confessing love, dying or undying. admitting that he felt anything for another human being was just enough to show he cares perhaps more than he says but not so much that it seems out of character

[zzz-updates]

New Agent Story "A Stroke of Luck" Available

Get rich quick with Burnice~

Huh?! Did I win the jackpot?

After progressing to a certain part of the story, Proxies can unlock Burnice's Agent Story "A Stroke of Luck".

Availability

Permanently available after 2024/10/16 12:00 (server time)

[Requirements]

Complete Main Story "Leisurely Lull: Unexpected New Customers" (available after completing Main Story Chapter 4).

>> Official Hoyolab post <<

[kiwiandmint]

A job with too many occupational hazards

[fishcalcart]

Fanart for @technically-human’s sugar apple au :)

[technically-human]

I think the seduction is working

A part two to this, since you guys asked. I'll probably add another one soon!

[teaboot]

Hey, I saw your posts about your post dad and I'm asking genuinely, are you doing alright? Did something in particular trigger you recently?

Or are you just venting and stuff cause like I totally get it if you are, I just wanted to ask if you were alright, sorry if this is weird

Oh lol I mean honestly yeah? Just part of the rodeo- the bad stuff pops back in to say hi sometimes, and for me personally that involves a lot of memories associated with shame, and I find the best thing against it is remembering the little spots of pride speckled in. like. The genuinely funny bits, or the parts where I think I did the best I could. The ACTUAL bad stuff wasn’t very funny at all. But I wasn’t a victim the whole time, you know? Nobody is a victim the whole time, and remembering that is like. It reminds me I wasn’t just BORN wrong, you know? That people like me don’t just inherently deserve to be treated badly. I always wanted to be like the strong characters in my books. Moments like that make me feel like I can be. Makes me feel like I can have a happy ending too. If that’s not too personal and weird lol

I’m okay though. Hasn’t been BAD bad in a long while now, and I have ways to handle that now. I don’t like to post about the actual private stuff.

Thanks for checking in, though 💛