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Hello, I know it's been like a year since you last talked about Salvatore Moreau from what I've seen, but could you share some more thoughts about him?

Just thoughts on the fandom in general, and how they mischaracterise him in general? I really enjoyed what you shared on the Lord's in general, and I've been kind of struggling with Moreau as a whole, because he seems to be kind of ignored when it comes to his blatant flaws, and stuff. I know this is a super weird request, but I just went through his tag, and your thoughts were super clear on the Lord's in general!

Sorry if this is weird, but thank you anyways for reading!

Absolutely I can! Resident Evil 8 is one of my favourite games ever, and I will take basically any opportunity to discuss the characters, the four lords especially!

Moreau is in a bit of an odd position as far as the lords go, as while he is in game the one who is presented the most sympathetically, he is by far the least discussed. There is a lot more to Moreau than anyone really tends to give him credit for, especially given the details we have in terms of his work for Mother Miranda. While this connection is not unique to him, Alcina for example only has her daughters because of participation in one of Mother Miranda’s experiments, his is the most detailed, as Moreau creates lycans, the vârcolac being one of his more stand out creations.

His devotion to Mother Miranda is presented the most as a parent-child bond, though it is certainly not a healthy one. Moreau is deeply insecure and based on the interactions we see of him with the other lords and how he is referred to by those around him, his physical mutation and his intelligence have caused the others to hardly judge him. Even Ethan himself does not deem Moreau as a threat, even though Moreau is the most outwardly monstrous in appearance. I think that’s part of what makes Moreau even more tragic to me in his relationship with Mother Miranda, a relationship that is very unique to him. None of the other lords seem to view Mother Miranda as a parental figure, which makes sense. She is first and foremost a cult leader, the title of Mother referring to her position rather than any actual maternal relationship between them, but Moreau appears to view her as his actual mother. While Alcina is similarly desperate for her approval coming from a leader, or perhaps a high ranking equal given Alcina’s distaste for being treated the same as the other lords, Moreau is searching for approval from his mother, not from a religious leader. He is the first of the four lords from what we know, and his mutations have transformed him more than anyone else. He is in pain, unable to fully control when he mutates, constantly cloaked to hide what the cadou has done to him, and yet, the very idea of Mother Miranda turning him away in favour of her “true child” upsets him so profoundly. His direct involvement with Mother Miranda’s experimentation is extremely exploitative, and we know she sees him as nothing more than a failed vessel for her daughter, but in Moreau’s last moments, he calls out for her.

All of that being said, Moreau is still a villain, and he earns his spot as one. Though he is the most sympathetic in terms of his presentation and behaviour, Moreau has an undeniable cruel streak. We can gather that his experiments on humans that transform them into lycans was at least influenced by Mother Miranda, and she most certainly appreciates the opportunity for research, but Moreau does seem to find enjoyment in these mutations, writing in his diary that he requested five people from the village and Mother Miranda brought them to him. This is not something she ordered him to do, at least not from our knowledge, and while in his second entry he expresses his upset at not being able to provide Mother Miranda a strong vessel, he himself says he is looking forward to seeing the cadou grow in his victims, knowing it will likely kill or mutate them. Moreau is also surprisingly tactical with Ethan, talking to him for long enough to close up the available exits from the reservoir when Ethan has grabbed the flask, knowing that Ethan is in a terrain where he has a substantial advantage, especially once he mutates. That’s a side to the lords that I love, the exploited becomes the exploiters. Alcina imprisons women like livestock and forces them to work for her, Donna lures people into her house with visions of their dead relatives after having suffered plenty of losses of her own, Heisenberg is willing to use a six month old baby to try and kill Mother Miranda and has no concerns for the life of her or her father. Moreau is just the same. Moreau, for as incapable as he can seem, is responsible for horrific experiments of his own, both with and without Mother Miranda’s influence.

I think that this side of Moreau’s is either forgotten or ignored by most people discussing him, as he is by far the easiest to water down to his poor innocent baby self that most of the lords end up becoming in the fanbase. It’s easier to ignore Moreau’s violent nature than it is Heisenberg’s, it’s easier to pretend Moreau is more of an innocent bystander than the rest, but he isn’t. He’s still a villain, though his sympathetic side makes his death perhaps the most conflicting. He’s very underrated out of the four lords, and I think that he should be discussed a lot more

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God I'm rewatching a resident evil 8 playthrough and forgotten how much of a wet cat (fish) Mareau is but also how awful his very existence is. How he must barely be able to lay down without worrying about choking to death on his own bile, how it can't be comfy thanks to his back and all that's on it, knowing at any moment he may turn to that fish creature and not know if that's it. He's finally formed into it the last time and won't know what little humanity he had left ever again. How he must feel each of the 4 cadou placed in him moving and squirming and how badly his body wants to reject them. How he must dream of the man he was before this, a man becoming a doctor to aid the villiage and work with its people and the Beneviento's to keep others healthy. How he must want to still be that man, to be normal again but know he can't. His whole life he has been reminded how little normalcy he has and how each step forward more and more is stripped away until even his 'mother' has pushed him away to the resivour where no person lives any more, where he's handed things to experiment with by Miranda and she thinks he won't make a thing with them but it keeps him away from her for a while and she wants that so bad. Moreau lives a horrid existence and I forget that.

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When asked what Moreau looked like pre mutation, Jesse Pimentel (English VA and mo-cap for Moreau) responded “myself” to which I thought: “oh? bet?”

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Honestly not a fan of "death of the author" or "separate the art from the artist" at all. Creative work to me feels inseparable from the mindset that made it. If the artist sucks, either drop the work or accept that you like something made by an asshole. You can't just retcon a real person. If you love the work of some racist prick and just pretend they're a nonentity, wouldn't you have to accept the racist prick doing the same to a poc artist? You see how this standard can get weird and uncomfortable?

Most importantly, the mentality that a creative work belongs more - or even ONLY - to its fans as they see fit is a mentality that feeds straight into the putrid slopculture we're now so mired in.

"The artist doesn't matter"

"Artists are replaceable"

"Art is a free resource as soon as you can find it on google"

"The truest purpose of art is to facilitate the easier generation of more art"

Can you see how certain characteristics of fandom overlap with the ugly 2020s landscape of regurgitated omnimonetized Disney gruel or the insatiable entitlement of the generative AI techdouche cult?

I just keep seeing a lot of people now vehemently against the concept of intellectual property, at the same time that they agree creators should be able to sue OpenAI. Unfortunately, copyright laws are the only reason the slopmakers are technically not allowed to do what they're doing, so yes, art has to be able to belong to the artist on some level and this kind of needs to be unconditional.

This isn't about making fanart or fanfiction for personal fun, but there's a fine line even there. There are many different ways the human at the heart of a creative work can be diminished. It's only in collaborative work that it gets completely grey.

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Brundlefly!

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