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I love how the range of resident evil OCs that I see people make is either "random person who looks like a mix of characters" or "absolutely monstrous bioweapon that is incomprehensible to human eyes" and no in between

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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more of old albert. I just think he's really funny ok

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hatred burns in the heart

color palette I used: x

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these bitches gay

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— Wesker? — The one and only

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daily zoe art insert number here

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zoe warmups <3

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🐍🐻💤

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the thought of pre-boat crash mia and eveline is really funny to me. I like to think they had a lot of fun (they did not)

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would you place your minecraft bed next to her?

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G A R D E N J A R G O N

Thank you SO sosososososososo much @starishsky for helping me figure out what flowers are on Luis’ jacket <<<<3333

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Boy put that boaner away lest a sloppy little critter grabs hold of it stimboard

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hey you know who it is but im writing this anon because my social position makes it hard for me to speak for myself/you have a bigger platform irt RE4 stuff than i do (for reasons i will mention shortly, i do not interact w RE4 fandom sans you and our other friend hahaaa)

hi. i'm a spanish person. i love RE4 both remake and OG but im unable to participate in the fandom because its directly harmful to my mental health, solely because of the way people talk about a certain spaniard in the game.

when i first played remake i was very excited to see a well written, interesting, and relateable spanish character in a video game for once. the closest i ever got to good spanish rep was zevran from dragon age, who was spanish only in the fantasy context which gave him an accent and a culture more or less adjacent to that of spain. i got into that fandom at a young age, and was swiftly driven out because of the way people characterized and spoke about zevran online. it was not only annoying and frustrating to see the stupid ass takes people had about him, but harmful to me as well, and as a result it damaged the way i exist with my identity because when you say something publicly, authoritatively about a character with a certain ethnic/racial coding (explicit or implicit), you are saying this about real people as well. the same is the case with luis in RE4r.

yes its a video game. yes its a character. hes not real. i know! im not fucking stupid. but if you are going to make grand statements about someone who is directly tied to a real life identity, do some baseline research first. i beg you.

in particular, i am disturbed by the characterization of luis as "evil" or otherwise immoral. i am not going to deny that his actions were not always morally clean, or that he is a Good person or a Saint. he absolutely isnt. but the world is not black and white! i also want to preface this by saying that nationality (which i take into question with luis in particular) is not equal to race. nor is it equal to political ideology, or social status, or ethnic identity, or religion, or anything. if i said that all people in the united states are white anglo saxon protestants and republicans living in mcmansions, would that be a true and informed statement? no. this kind of thought doesn't apply to any nation. not even ethnostates, where the percieved ethnic or racial homogeneity is a construction of the state and not a reality at all. anyways.

im thinking explicitly about a post referring to luis as a mad scientist, and general posts ive seen talking about how he has a "sick fascination" or whatever with las plagas, and how that makes him a Bad Person who agrees with Bad People. i wanna point out firstly the alignment this characterization has with nazism. nazis were known to use scientists and scientific research to commit atrocities upon their victims. without getting into the discussion of these scientists' personal morals and ethics, an unecessary and tired discussion IMO for what im trying to say ("they were just doing their job" im tired of hearing this), i wanna point out the issue of applying nazi coded traits on someone from spain.

after a horrific civil war from 1936-39, spain was under a fascist dictatorship until the peaceful death of francisco franco in 1975. during the war, and the subsequent dictatorship, the people of spain lived under horrific conditions -- families were torn apart, civilians were gunned down, children disappeared, babies were kidnapped from hospitals and given to right wing fascist families to raise. ethnic minority groups were violently suppressed. this was widely ignored by the western powers especially after WWII ended, though some people were conscious of it; participants in the international brigades included people such as george orwell, who wrote about his experience on the frontlines of the spanish civil war.

anyways, back to nazis: spain was indeed a fascist regime. this regime did indeed not only follow the lead of other fascist state leaders (hitler. mussolini.) but also were allied with them, despite not participating in WWII directly. but the only beneficiaries of these alliances were state officials. if you are familiar with picasso's Guernica painting, im gonna mention its historical context. if you aren't, i urge you to take a look at it. its a depiction of the horrors of the aerial bombing of the town of Gernika. the town is situated in the basque country, a region of the iberian peninsula whose people were violently suppressed and persecuted due to their ethnicity, and under the regime their language was banned from being used. so Gernika, already a target of the spanish state, was devastated by german bomber planes. this was ok, because the town was basque. basque people were targets, and so franco invited the germans to bomb the shit outta their region. this was the first of many air raids, and weapon tests carried out in spanish territory by the nazis in particular.

anyways. back to resident evil i guess. valdelobos is not canonicaly placed anywhere in particular on a map of spain, but from the landscapes its safe to say it is in the north, and from hints in names of people and places i tend to place it somewhere in the region of galicia, another one of those areas that wanted (still does want) autonomy and is ethnically and linguistically different from the rest of spain. additionally this is a very isolated village with no contact with the outside. theyre using pesetas in 2007, a currency that was phased out in the 90's and replaced by the euro in 2002. it would take thousands of words to explain what i would like to explain, but im trying not to be overly verbose, so bear with me. from personal experience with the fallout of the civil war and dictatorship, its safe to say that the people from this village were hurt deeply by war and fascism (everyone was!) which would explain their isolationism, and the vulnerability to a power hungry interloper like saddler makes sense considering post war/dictatorship instability. people from a village like this were victims of the state, and outside states.

so i ask, why would you align luis with nazi science? maybe im being overdramatic, maybe im too sensitive, maybe im overreacting, but thats why im on anon… why would you characterize a victim in the way of their oppressor?

i doubt anyone will read this but you and i doubt it is even coherent. i dunno. theres too much to say and too little attention to hold onto. but like, i dunno. if u wanna look into a character, understand their motives, understand their personality, why they are they way they are, maybe do some research before you make uninformed and harmful statements. if you are truly interested in a character from a different culture than your own, understand this culture before you speak about it with authority. understand that people from similar backgrounds as this character have been made to feel unwelcome and alienated in discussions about their own life experiences.

sit on it for a minute and think: should i say this? i understand ignorance. we are all ignorant in our own ways. something that is a taboo in my own country to be spoken of like the dictatorship and the war of course is not going to be immediately common knowledge outside my nation, but perhaps knowing that there is more to a character than what you know as someone from a different cultural and historical and social context will urge you to reconsider the way you speak about them in a public forum.

-- a nameless, silent descendant of mozarabs and gitanos, whose ancestry lies scattered across the countless mass graves that paint my country's landscape blood red.

here guys, if you are still believing that this spreading of this character take is not problematic, you can listen to an actual spaniard who has grown up in spain about why this thought process is harmful. thanks.

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Sudden theory about re9!

This time I didn't expect to write this theory, because I saw this thing unexpectedly. And I'm still in a stupor.

Another theory about Wesker, but this time with a screenshot I haven't seen anywhere else... (wow wtf??)

Spread this photo around so more people know about it.

I found this image when I was replaying re8. There's a red line leading from him to Chris.

Initially I always thought it was Karl Heisenberg but then I got to thinking… why would he want his own pictures on his own information board? And they have completely different facial features.

I used free camera to examine this photo and was horrified to find that it was an exact replica of Wesker, only older and with long hair. I also noticed that his glasses are on a string or something. If you doubt that this is Wesker's face, just look closely at the shape of the nose, the distance between the nose and mouth, and then look at the shape of the face and chin. They're identical.

So, what are my conclusions? Let's run a logical chain to make it easier for us: Karl collected information on all the people who were in any way connected to Miranda. Chris is connected to her because he's been investigating a case involving Mold and Miranda since as early as 2017. And Wesker is connected because he worked for The Connections in the HCF division. It was The Connections that developed Eveline, and Miranda worked for them. It's unlikely that Wesker has anything directly to do with that. He's also connected to Chris, which is why their photos are connected by a red line.

Now let's discuss his face. This is obviously an aged version of Wesker's new appearance from re4r. In 2021, at the time of the re8 storyline, he is 61 years old. The photo is probably recent, judging by Chris' photo. Wesker has long hair here, which is interesting. Of the boring stuff, the glasses are a different shape. There are official hints in the Umbrella Corps game that Wesker is alive, it says so almost directly there. Read my theories if you're interested. Here. And here.

Given all the hints that Wesker is alive, can this photo be considered official confirmation? We'll see.

I really haven't seen anyone else write about it.