#Higurashi GOU/SOTSU

[rubberduckyrye]

Struggling to sleep but I've been seeing rumors that Dottore will be playable and get done kind of redemption arc like Childe and Wanderer.

Problem with that.

One: Childe never got a redemption arc. Hes just a very charming character who is a likeable antagonist. But also, as the 11th harbinger, hes still just a cog in the machine. Always has been.

Two: Wanderer's redemption is less about "redeeming" him and more about how this poor fucking guy couldn't catch a break and eventually he snapped, was manipulated and abused and tortured for centuries and is an allegory for abuse victims in general who acted out in horrible ways but are on the path to recovery after finding someone willing to let them have that safe space to do so. I see this less as a redemption arc because even as "Scaramouche", he HAD kind traits associated to him (like according to some lore he was kind to kids and elderly folk) so this story is about rehabilitation and recovery and less about redemption.

Three: While rehabilitation is overall the ideal for criminals rather than harsh punishment and imprisonment, when you have a character like Dottore--who, if Wanderer/Scaramouche is an allegory for an abuse victim in recovery--then Dottore is an allegory of an abuser. And not just any old abuser--a serial abuser. A selfish man who is arrogant and likes to hear himself talk who all lives in danger for his selfish aspiration for experimentation. A man who does not care for children or elderly people, only for himself... you can kind of see where I'm going with this. These are two very fundamentally different kinds of "bad"--Scaramouche was a bad person, yes, but he wasn't what I personally would consider to be "evil". Then you have Dottore who is evil, borderline a predator in behavior and in practice. I don't think he has any right or reason to be doing what he is doing.

As in. I havent seen a whole lot of redemption arcs for these kinds of characters done right. That's a big point of concern.

Another big point of concern is, I'm sure Dottore has his reasons for doing these things, it has yet to be revealed what those reasons are, aside from "Mad scientist wants to do horrible science" and for his own selfish gain.

His motivations don't line up for a redemption arc is what I'm getting at.

I really hope HYV doesn't. Try to redeem Dottore. Like I really hope they don't try. Just make him playable as he is people love a fucked up mad scientist you dont need to make every playable character the Traveler's friend PLEASE for the love of god.

And it's not that I dont have faith in the writing team to tell a good story (well... I dont exactly have full trust in them after the disaster that was the Sumeru Interlude Quest, but that's beside the point) but I have. Literally never seen a character who is a symbol of evil (i.e. the man has no redeeming qualities in personality, no apparent kindness or even willing to change his ways) redeemed in a good, tasteful, and thoughtful way. Like ironically I think the closest I've seen was... Teppei from Higurashi GOU/SOTSU. And that was incredibly muddied by the fact that Satoko herself became that kind of "evil" that wasn't truly redeemed by the end. Even that left a bad taste in my mouth.

So I just hope Dottore, if hes playable... idk. Don't try to redeem him, I don't think it's possible to redeem characters who symbolize the peak of humanity's "evil" so I don't want HYV to try. Like either keep him to be a terrible awful man or give us a fresh new Segment gone rogue who doesn't have anything like that attached to him.

It would be FAR more interesting of an allegory to me if they went for the latter route, actually. Kind of like, a family member of that "irredeemable evil" who now has that tied to them as a sin of the person they are related to but not themselves guilty of. It could be fun to see how HYV would treat such a character, and if done right, it could be a really fun way to explore how people (especially victims) often associate family members of abusers to the abuse they carried out but actually had no part of.

Anyway that's my 3AM rant of the day. I have Insomnia. Can you tell?

[snowbafeld]

Some SatoRika fics I’m working on.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40741851

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38391145

[matchaandmayhem]

Was going through my old drawings and found something.

[levenlyne1]

[emodonnie]

my first Higurashi post was gonna be satorika art but as I was looking for official art of them…

yeah guys this is very straight

yeah

[onewholivesinloops]

[dailyfigures]

Furude Hanyuu ; Higurashi ☆ Miyuki

[gabbyp09]

[aleksandr1507]

Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni and My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic and Azumanga Daioh❤️✨🔥

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Rika x Twilight Sparkle x Chiyo

Satoko x Fluttershy x Sakaki

Rena x Pinkie Pie x Osaka

Mion x Applejack x Kagura

Shion x Rarity x Yomi

Keiichi x Rainbow Dash x Tomo

[candyborsch]

Auauau

[jlalt]

i love satorika theyre my everything i love them so much (this counts as satokos drawing since i couldnt find any songs i wanted to redraw that fits her 1983 self!!)

ALSO since turning it into a gif nerfed the quality, heres each slide but with higher quality!!

also i kinda forgot to flip the canvas at all. oops. but itll hopefully be fine!!!!!!!

[liesweliveby]

TW FOR HIGURASHI-TYPICAL VIOLENCE (murder, maggots crawling out of wounds,etc)

wtc my beloved. my favorite visual novel series.

[evangelifloss]

I am about to be so fucking lynched on reddit.com

[ninesugars]

some stories you’re like. the point was never ever ever the suffering. it was about the love that overcame. you understand

[charaznablescanontoyota]

i think they could make each other worse

[onewholivesinloops]