#Also thinking about cunoesse. My god cunoesse.

[anthyies]

the thing about disco elysium is that it has women in it. what you see on the internet about it might lie to you about that but it has women, gay women even, very compelling women even, in it.

[doddsmountain]

I'm making another comic. This time dealing with Harry getting Cuno and Cunoesse to come live with him.

Some of y'all might be wondering why I draw my comics so that they're nicer, happier stories. I was thinking about this the other day. It stems down to the fact that I have a different kind of colonized perspective than those in Eastern Europe.

I am an indigenous Canadian. I am a status member of a PNW Kwakwaka'wakw nation here in Canada. I am the result of alcoholism, abuse, residential schools and the eradication of my ancestors beliefs and customs.

With that, I feel like I've had enough bullshit hard times in my life. I'm fat, queer, neuro-divergent, and have been ridiculed my entire life. I'm done writing and drawing from that perspective. I know it's self-indulgent, but I want the characters I enjoy to have some semblance of happiness. If that means my headcanons go against what others proselytize then so be it. I don't create these ideas in my head at the behest of others, but rather for my own comfort and enjoyment.

If I want Harrier DuBois to have a somewhat normal family after a truly traumatizing life then by god I will give that to him (in my head and in my comics).

Also, I totally feel like Harry's dream Dora is just a manifestation of his depression (both start with D so who knows). I've had MDD for over 20 years so I completely sympathize with his self-hatred and self-deprecation.

Sorry for the rambling. I've been avoiding working on my pedagogical frame of reference (I am also a post-baccalaureate pre-service teacher).

[palms-upturned]

cunoesse for the character ask game? or annette if someone else already requested c?

POR QUÉ NO LOS DOS? 🙏 THANK YOU ANON

Send me a character and I will tell you my:

Cunoesse

First impression: I’m pretty sure the first time I ever saw anything about Cunoesse it was when YouTube recommended me the clip of when you can shoot her 😭 I didn’t watch it bc I wanted to avoid spoilers but my first thought was like “Cunoesse? 🤨 as in Cuno?” So I googled her and saw she was a ten year old and was like ?!??.!.? WHY DOES SHE GET SHOT? Initially I thought maybe she had something to do with the murder and that shooting her must be some climactic moment bc it sounded so fucked up, only to find out that the scene is an optional one and just 100000% Harry being a pig 💀

Impression now: she is everything to me she is maybe my favorite character in the whole game like you don’t even understand!!! 😭 where did she come from? Why is she alone? Who did she kill? Why did she and Cuno split in the Cuno route? And where can she even go from there if Cuno leaves? She haunts me which I think is the point… she represents nearly everything that we would hope to change via revolution, the kind of person who we’re trying to build a place in this world for… she makes me cry if I think about her too long. Ough. The true girl child revolution of my heart

Favorite moment: her fight with Cuno over locust city broke my heart so bad because I’ve got little siblings too, ik she didn’t mean to hurt him, she’s just a ten year old kid who’s grouchy that Cuno has a hobby that she can’t join in/relate to, but she hits on all his sore spots by acting out over it and he hits hers back and then it ends w that total gutpunch of Cuno saying “Cuno can be whatever he wants. Cuno can even be a pig if he wants!” And Cunoesse saying “don’t be a pig, Cuno… you’d have to take me away…” LIKE!!!! GOD. FUCK. What a moment.

Idea for a story: I keep wanting to write something about C in Martinaise after Cuno leaves for Jamrock, trying to fill the space he left behind until she sort of starts blurring the lines between them and just pretending to be him bc she’d rather be anything but herself… 😔

Unpopular opinion: best character in the game. To me.

Favorite relationship: C and Cuno forever… 😭

Favorite headcanon: her real name is Kielo, which is the Finnish name for may bells/lily of the valley 😔

Annette

First impression: immediately loved her so much. I work at a bookstore myself so obviously I was drawn to her and Plaisance right off the bat and ended up spending all of day 1 on bringing Annette out of the cold and then exploring the doomed commercial area instead of investigating the murder LMAO

Impression now: I LOVE HER… she’s a good kid… she gave me a hat!!!!!! 😭 I love that even tho she’s very much trying to be a dutiful and well behaved daughter, you still see her act like a kid and get mischievous with Harry in a way that feels authentic. She’s just so fun and endearing

Favorite moment: all of her interactions are great but I was most taken aback by when she talks to you about Harry during his bender. It’s a sad moment but there’s something sort of touching about that combination of being blunt but also nonjudgmental bc she’s so young. She’s just genuinely glad to see you seem to be doing better ;_;

Idea for a story: I keep thinking it would be fun to write something about Martinaise as seen through Annette’s eyes. All the people who come through the bookstore… maybe focused on Billie in the aftermath of her husband’s death 😔 I also have thought about writing something with post-game Harry getting a job at the bookstore so that Annette doesn’t have to help out as much, tho that’s mostly just bc it would let me write about working at a bookstore lmao

Unpopular opinion: idk what opinions on Annette even do ppl have aside from “I love her” 😭

Favorite relationship: Annette calling Billie her Auntie makes me wonder about them a lot… I also wonder if Cuno ever comes to the bookstore since he seems to be a Man from Hjelmdall fan 🤔 I’d love to see her hanging out with him and C lmao. But it’s sad that we don’t really get to see whether she has friends in Martinaise or if she’s too busy working and studying 😔

Favorite headcanon: Annette wants to write her own books someday and likes to regale Auntie Billie and also Harry with the stories she writes :]

[imadhatt3r]

someone had to ask: Disco Elysium for the blorbo ask game 😔

Thank you for your sacrifice 😢7

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): God, probably Harry or Kim, which shouldn't be suprising... I can't pick because it's geniuinely difficult for me to think about them as two separate characters, my brain always packages them in a set, like some leftover holiday-themed products right after said holiday ends and they want to clear the stock as fast as possible.

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): Literally all the kids, Cuno and Cunoesse, Anette, Little Lily and her twin brothers... I am willing to beat anyone who's mean to them into a pulp. I saw this adorable fanart on twitter recently of Harry and Kim buying all the kids from the game ice cream as a thank-you for their contribution to the investigation, no matter how small and AHAHGAIAHAVAUAJAHHA 😭😭😭😭😭

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave) Probably Cindy the SKULL, I love this archetype of a snarky, mean girl with a lot of eyeshadow and an oversized coat with a good heart underneath, plus she's an artist who paints with gasoline and blood, so... yeah 🥰 I adore that pose she takes on when you talk to her, how she reclines on the wall and looks at you from an upside-down perspective, both to show off that she doesn't take you seriously and possibly because she's an artist so she's looking at the world in a different way... yeah. That "squeal for me piggy" convo is dear to my heart, something about girls making men who could easily crush them in a physical confrontation embarass themselves for them makes me 👀. I also really like Acele, she's clearly both very mature but still slightly childish and young, both things probably stemming from her past. I like this short but sweet friendship she can have with Harry, with both kinda reaching a quiet respect for eachother if you'll exhaust her dialogue tree and the "silver bird" convo.

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): This one's kinda hard, since pretty much all characters are relevant to the plot in some way or another... Maybe Lilienne? She's awesome, I love her backstory of a hard-working woman just trying to keep herself and her kids afloat (hehe) and pretty much doing everything herself out of necessity. Her attitude towards her dead husband is interesting, very pragmatic, I guess it just goes to show how casually alcoholism is treated, like it's almost expected that your husband will abuse alcohol and die young, and you can count yourself lucky if he won't be aggressive towards you or the kids. On a lighter note, I like that she still has a bit of showmanship despite her pragmatism- her sword for example, because while it is factory-made, it's still something very eye-catching and distinct. Her lure earrings fascinate me- this seems like something she'd make herself out of whatever's lying around, which would once again imply that there's some desire for looking nice, despite that outward pragmatism. So yeah, cool, tough, working-class lady who's a leader of her community and has depths for people who look too deep into things like me and has a great design. A real pearl in all that silt. What more do you need?

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): There's simply no meow meow more poor than Harry, that's just a fact. The more he embarasses himself in front of others the more I want to grab him by these mutton chops and press my face against his while going 👁👁. I vividly remember watching the Dora dream on youtube for the first time and howling in cringe-laughter over how awfully awkward that scene was (complimentory). I used to not understand people who felt cringe so severe when consuming media that they had to pause and walk it off, but now I do. Then again, this scene is supposed to make you cringe in how pathetic, delusional and sad Harry is, so that speaks about how good ZA/UM's writers are at their job. And that kiss, god, I was screaming "WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU DUMB FUCK, STOOOOOPPP!!!!!", it was so bad. Thankfully i could writhe to my heart's content because I was home alone, and it's good that I've picked that moment because my parents would probably get concerned 😖 Harry sucks so bad at everything at we love him for that <3

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): Jean, for no other reason other than "I just think it would be funny". I do think that his anger and disappointment towards Harry is 100% justifiable, but something about his way of being just makes it seem like it would be funny to clown on him a little. Plus he dealt with Harry all those years, so he took his immunity boosters against teasing ages ago. He seems like he would be funny when he gets mad, would probably starts swearing in French or something.

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell): Taking obvious choices like the mercenaries out of the equation, probably Sunday Friend. Slimy liberal bastard who exploits younger and poorer Smoker, plus he talks like all the most annoying western EU politicians talking about problems in Eastern Europe while gleefully ignoring that they're responsible for at least a part of them, lol

[boethiah]

thoughts on cuno and cunoesse?

favorite thing about cuno: god like. my fiction kryptonite is "traumatised characters who deal with it in messy, repulsive ways" which is why disco elysium has gotten to me so bad. anyway i absolutely love how cuno is portrayed as like. a deeply traumatized twelve year old whose trauma makes him absolutely repulsive... but who can still be saved!! you can still get through to him!! because he's just a traumatized kid!! like fuck i'm so attached to this crack-addicted homophobic goblin least favorite thing: he uses a lot of homophobic slurs but like it's not his fault fandom pet peeves: i've noticed that in comics where cuno gets adopted by kim and harry he'll still speak in third person when it's actually like, A Plot Point that as harry starts breaking through his barriers, he switches to talking in first person? iirc in the ending where cuno's your companion, when he begs jean to let him join the rcm he speaks mainly in first person. it's a small thing but i wish people kept that change because it's a statement to cuno coming back to himself in parallel to harry coming back to himself and i find it so poignant. like just, this feral kid learning to refer to himself as "i" again because one single disastrous adult showed him the bare minimum of sympathy. my heart ;_;

favorite thing about cunoesse: see above. the moment cuno told his story about finding her curled up under the desk like a dog i was attached to her irrevocably least favorite thing: she's kinda neglected in canon-- i wish we got the chance to save her like we get to save cuno fanon pet peeves: she's so underrated. also i think cuno's perception of her should be taken with a grain of salt; i don't think she's ever actually murdered anyone and i don't think she's actually a danger to cuno, she's just trying to be tough because she's been through hell too