pileontheyears - Tumblr blog

[pileontheyears]

“MAYBE NEITHER”???! BS!!

[pileontheyears]

[pileontheyears]

[pileontheyears]

I just wanna talk about Laura and Max for a second. In almost all the mainline Supermassive games (Little Hope being kiiind of an exception?) they have a motif of starting you out in the past, playing out a scene of inevitable tragedy with a couple of characters who act as sacrificial lambs. Nothing you do can save them. It acts to set the tone for each game, make new players feel like their choices have consequences, and now to string all the games together along with other stylistic similarities - like a narrative makers mark.

So when Max and Laura show up in the opening scene, encounter spooky ghosts, and get mauled by a monster in the basement, you don’t really think twice about it. They are the sacrificial lambs of The Quarry, they encounter the truth before our real protagonists do and are made to pay for it. As a result, when the game reveals suddenly that they’re still alive, that they have been this entire time, that you’ll even get to play as Laura again (that Max section totally doesn’t count), it takes on this brand new quality of redemption. They’re Schrodinger’s lambs now, both slaughtered by the narrative and also active in the course that the rest of the story will take. You’re given one last chance. Depending on your choices, you can still save them… but by default they’re already doomed, both bitten by the time they return. They’re like Orpheus and Eurydice on the brink of escaping the underworld. One last trial, one long night, and maybe, just maybe… they can conquer death.

[pileontheyears]

[pileontheyears]

I am like, half a year late but I recently finished The Quarry and just had to draw Dylan!

[pileontheyears]

✨vigilante au feat. djwifi✨

[pileontheyears]

i can’t wait to be a normal girl who doesn’t act strange tomorrow

[pileontheyears]

[pileontheyears]

Listen I can’t explain it but Dylan is a possum and Ryan is a red panda yknow?

[pileontheyears]

😆😢😏

[pileontheyears]

[pileontheyears]

okay yes i know, the travis one is yet again out of pocket but whatever

[pileontheyears]

Aim To Be a Pokémon Master Episode 3

[pileontheyears]

Day 224

Dou 43 - Valentine [1/2]

Part 2

[pileontheyears]

Day 224

Dou 43 - Valentine [2/2]

[pileontheyears]

💧💙✨𝑀𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓎 ✨💙💧