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tom will make it gay, sam will make it political, luke will make it dirty and no one can ever predict what aj will do to it

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(FUNGER SPOILERS, CANON ENDINGS)

I think I figured out what hurts so much about Cahara being the most likely character to get the A ending, and besides the obvious (the tragedy of Cahara being a father-to-be and dying at the hands of a tortured child he felt sympathy for and tried to save and/or be a father to, the lover and child he leaves behind, the cruelty of it, the irony that, despite having the most to lose out of all of them, Cahara's the one to lose it all, and be forgotten by all save the woman he loved who'll never get closure for him), Cahara is notably the one who best represents hope and goodness taking root under the cruellest conceivable circumstances. He's a deeply traumatized, abandoned child forced into violent crime for survival, and yet he never becomes jaded by it. He loves and cares for Celeste, dreams of a stable future together, risks his life for her and The Girl, and is repaid by the narrative with a cold, cosmically terrifying, cruel death for trying to be a good, or at least better, man and for wanting something so simple and natural as being happy and having a family.

Funger is very much a game about the struggle against fate/the immense cruelty of its world and perseverance in the face of that cruelty, and Cahara embodies that; he ventures into the dungeons at great personal risk because he hopes against hope that maybe he can free the woman he loves and make something better for them and their child than the miserable lives they've been trying to endure together. He tries to help The Girl when he finds her for similar reasons, likely seeing himself and his unborn child in her, and watches her undergo this grotesque nightmarish transformation into an overwhelming God embodying an entire lifetime of his misery and everyone else's, a concept that he cannot fight alone in any way that matters, and he eventually succumbs to the fear and hunger that he and the girl both spent all their lives suffering through and struggling against.

Funger isn't at all a game about how hope/kindness is a waste or will only be rewarded with suffering, but good God does that ending punish Cahara for having them.

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why have I seen no one talk about D'arce being a blatant ref to Joan of Arc? or, in French, Jeanne d'Arc ? and when I mean ref it's the same level of ref as Alll-Mer & Jesus. because at first I really thought I was imagining it but no no, the proofs are all there :

Funger 1 takes place in Rondon, which is France/Great Britain, aka places heavily tied to Jeanne d'Arc (was born and lived in France, fought against the Brits in various places)

D'arce is a woman knight in the 1500s, Jeanne d'Arc was a women knight in the 1400s

Jeanne d'Arc believed she was given the task to free France from the Brits by saints, similarly to how D'arce joined the Knights of the Midnight Sun because she thought Le'garde could free Rondon of corruption and hypocrisy

the whole sacrifice yourself for something/someone only for that sacrifice to be the reason of their downfall

Jeanne d'Arc witness Charles VII's crowning, D'arce witness Le'garde's "crowning" as the Yellow King in endings C and C-II

Jeanne d'Arc was killed because she was condemned of heresy and witchcraft by the catholic church, D'arce brings back Le'garde to life in her S ending which ties in the idea that she has a knack for magic

lots of representation of Jeanne d'Arc (at least the ones I studied in school) have her with short hair, in hairstyles that are similar to D'arce

so like... yeah. maybe I'm looking in the wrong places but I don't see anyone talking that despite the fact that it adds to D'arce's place in the story.

And in general Fear and Hunger makes so many clever references but very little are talked about (or at least I don't see them being talked about, which makes me really sad)

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hc that to Tim contigency plans for other heros are a sign of loyalty and not distrust.

because Tim is a bat, distrust is written in his dna. it's how the world works. he doesn't trust anyone, not even Batman. especially not Batman, because he's seen the man almost betray everything he stood for and fought for for years because of grief. the very reason he became Robin is because Batman couldn't be trusted with himself.

but Tim is loyal, so loyal it could kill him. and to Tim, loyalty also means not letting someone betray who they are at their core, even if it means doing things that could potentially hurt them.

so contigency plans for his loved one are not a sign of distrust or even that he considers them a threat, it's a sign he's loyal to their core value and doesn't want them to destroy themselves the way Batman almost did.

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guess who fucking died

so... I'm playing yttd for the first time and I'm still really early in the game (I just finished chapter 1 part 1) and I can already tell Joe's gonna die. I mean you can tell from the beginning. the MC's bestfriend? THAT'S PRACTICALLY A TARGET.

what's really anniying is that I know he's going to die YET I'M STILL GETTING ATTACHED. GET ME OUT OF HERE WTF

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he's the fucking sacrifice isn't he

so... I'm playing yttd for the first time and I'm still really early in the game (I just finished chapter 1 part 1) and I can already tell Joe's gonna die. I mean you can tell from the beginning. the MC's bestfriend? THAT'S PRACTICALLY A TARGET.

what's really anniying is that I know he's going to die YET I'M STILL GETTING ATTACHED. GET ME OUT OF HERE WTF

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so... I'm playing yttd for the first time and I'm still really early in the game (I just finished chapter 1 part 1) and I can already tell Joe's gonna die. I mean you can tell from the beginning. the MC's bestfriend? THAT'S PRACTICALLY A TARGET.

what's really anniying is that I know he's going to die YET I'M STILL GETTING ATTACHED. GET ME OUT OF HERE WTF

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you know what? i'm done. i'm gonna [remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health] become a teMPLE TO DESTRUCTION. AN ENGINE OF WAR. A PYRAMID HOUSING THE HATRED OF THOUSANDS. A STADIUM WITH A ROAR OF RAGE BECOMES THE BITTER JUICE OF DESOLATION.

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Green apple of my eyes

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wdym its 3am already. wdym i spent 12hrs playing fantasy life on my 3DS with occasional breaks..

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is there a fic about og division 1 being a team? like nothing serious, just a slice of life where they all get to bond (and we get to pretend no one dies)? or do I have to write it myself????

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asheiji

vs

utenanthy

"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

vs

"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

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justice for my boy shusei he did not deserve that shit

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Division 1 as cats (part 1)

Kougami

Ginoza

Akane (after her first day lol)

Kagari

Masaoka

Yayoi

Shion

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Sibyl imprisoned Kagari for most of his life and then Sibyl killed him. And to top it all off, Sibyl lied about it and claimed he escaped when if nothing else, even if he didn't owe that system a damn thing, he was loyal to his friends in Division 1 until the very end.

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psycho-pass (2012)

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"Maybe because you never saw the Irish as people before. But now that you do, you can also be seen?"

"Maybe I was born in the wrong century. I know exactly what you mean."

"For the first time in a long time, maybe ever, I feel seen."