#andrew's coffin thoughts

[x1702x]

COMEDIA #1

«Charon's boat»

The Divine comedy - Inferno

—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—

Just a little comic I made for funzies in class. The artstyle was kinda winged and experimental ^^

[ask-the-lab-rat]

< OOC >

BLOG INACTIVITY:

Hello! This is @x1702x and the Ask blog will be innactive sadly! I might make a new ask blog but more centered on other ocs! Please stay tuned because I definetly want to have a little ask blog apart from my main 💕💕💕

[sukei-dot-exe]

[skuleighrose]

I wanna see an essay about how/why Andrew never says "I love you" back to Ashley.

The only time we come close is when he says, "I like you, but you're exhausting."

While it can be chalked up to, he's being snarky, being an ass because he knows not saying it will upset her OR

He's so deeply in love with his sister that even saying 'I love you' in a familial way is too much for him. Saying it in any context toward Ashley may reveal too much of his own fucked up attraction that he avoids it altogether

[sannaxx]

[little-lemon-muffin]

Bringing this energy into the new year with me.😈

[ladynicte]

I think the major reason that Andrew doesn't take his mother's "Olive Branch" even on the murder-suicide route is because he's aware that at the end his mother doesn't actually care for him

A lot of the horror of TCOAAL comes from seeing the consequences of completely alienating two individuals and giving them absolutely nothing else they can relay on except each other.

The main theme is codependency and these two's codependency comes from very deep within. They need each other.

It comes from seeing the fucked up lengths human beings will go through just to try to mimick and fulfill that basic necessity.

And seeing the "Anti-social" behaviours people start taking onto when isolated from society and other people.

How individuals behave when constantly othered.

Seeing how if a child cannot associate into society and not even their closest social circles help them integrate they will start dissacosiating from society and showing these anti-social behaviors naturally.

How they will cling to anything and everything possible to try to fulfill this primal need.

So, of course Andrew's going to stay with Ashley, even if apparently this makes no logical sense.

Ashley is everything he has, and Andrew is everything she has.

And of course Andrew loves her, and he has Ashley filling up every social role in his life, that family, and community, and partners, should have fulfilled, regardless of whether he has sex with her, or not.

Ashley is doing the exact same and constantly expecting even more.

They are fulfilling for each other, both, the role of siblings, and of partners, and Andrew specifically fulfills the role of parent to her.

Andrew cannot accept their mother's olive branch because it's not real and it has never been real.

And she taught him that a long time ago.

[giac222]

Me trying not to tweak out when I see people reduce Ashley to fap material and “omg hot crazy girl with mental issues I can fix her” 🤪 :

I honestly can’t stand people who fetishize mental illness but that’s a whole other post.

If you’ve seen my posts before, you know I have beef with the Reddit TCOAAL community 😂. (I’m not being serious, I just get annoyed with some of the behavior there). This is one of the reasons I ultimately left recently, but the main reason was that someone posted a picture of Leyley (little Ashley) and asked what you’d do if you found her in your house. Most of the comments were about physically harming her and some were even making sexual remarks 🧍🏻‍♀️. I’ve seen them do it to Andy (little Andrew) too. I wish I was joking. Sorry but I just find it weird to speak about children that way even if they’re fictional. I just got really uncomfortable and I was like ok I don’t want to be in a community with y’all anymore 💀.

I think a lot of people on the subreddit like the game for the incest and nothing more, like they’ll say “omg I can’t wait to see them have sex in ch.3” 🤪 but then they’ll completely miss the mark on Ashley and Andrew as characters.

I’ve gotten downvoted on there before because I said supporting real life incest isn’t a good idea and that it shouldn’t be encouraged… like wtf?

Honestly it’s a shame that they only like the game for that reason, because the story is so interesting, the characters are well written, and the art style is great. That’s why it sucks to see people label it “the incest game” because there’s actually a lot more to it than that, anyone who’s played the game and watched a play through of it knows that. That’s why the controversy never made sense to me.

So yeah, no shade, and I’m not trying to be mean, but I can tell the Reddit community is filled with a bunch of annoying horny teenage boys 😶, and also some… strange people. Sorry if that’s mean to say but 😂. I was like yeah I’m out of here lmao. Thank god for the Tumblr community.

Ashley’s backstory is so tragic. She’s such an interesting character, I just love her 💕. It sucks when people ignore that and completely downplay her character.

This is all just my opinion. I’ve been meaning to make a post about this because they’re some thoughts I had for a bit. Thanks for reading :)

[momentomori24]

I haven't seen anyone talk about it in detail if at all, so I'll just throw this out there: Is it just me, or are Ashley's feelings for Andrew very not romantic?

Just to be very clear-- this isn't me trying to sanitize the incest present in their relationship or twist it into pure unproblematic platonicness despite everything in the game being a hellish, dystopiant, grotesque, unapologetic mess (in a good way), just an observation that's been on my mind for a while.

We know Andrew is absolutely, 100% romantically attracted to his sister especially through both his inner monologues, relationship with Julia and of course, The Scene. But I never really got that same attraction from Ashley. She loves to degree where it can't be considered platonic, but there's a blunt edge to her affection I wouldn't call romantic either.

She's obviously been obsessed with him from a young age as he's the only person she had to cling to without worrying that he'd leave her. She doesn't treat him like a person, she treats him like a coveted toy that only she can play with. Between borderline neglegent parents, untreated apathy issues, a major abandonment complex and a parentified brother/psuedo-dad, unhealthy attachments and toxic tendencies can go real bad real quick. Go figure. It's possessive, referring to her brother as hers and something that's considered stolen the moment someone else has an interest in it, but it feels a lot more "innocent" than Andrew's possessiveness of her. Andrew is hers to have because he's her brother, just like how a plaything would be hers because it was bought for her-- there doesn't seem to be anything more to it than that.

I think the best example of that is their reaction to the Vision in the Burrial route:

Unlike Andrew, who is disturbingly flustered rather than reasonably revolted, she just... doesn't have a reaction to it. They've already trapped themselves in a box with each other and commited some of the worst atrocities imaginable, so she just chalks it up to another thing to add to their crimes list. Her causual playfulness and indifference to the situation is such a strong contrast to Andrew's desperate denial and really shows her feelings about the whole thing. Or lack of, as she isn't at all fazed about it. You'd think that she'd be thrilled, or excited or equally as flustered as Andrew at the thought of their relationship taking the next big step, but there isn't any of that here. Despite her jealousy, obsession, possessiveness and extreme closeness, it doesn't seem that there was ever any romantic intent involved on her end (or at least none that she knows of). Heck, she even voices her confusion when Andrew confesses he read her actions that way:

There is something funny about going through the story thinking ''ok i get it she's the obsessed yandere sister with a brother complex i see you game'' only to be hit with the revelation that it's the complete opposite way around. Basically just Ashley hitting both Andrew AND the players with the "wait you really saw me like that what did i even do to make you think that??" at the very end and it is baffling. The fact that she seems genuinely oblivious to how she comes off is both a little cute and unexpectedly innocent, but also cements just how little she grew up from when she was a kid.

But I think this line from her really encapsulates their relationship perfectly:

One way to keep him around. She won't sleep with him because of some repressed sexual tension or genuine (messed up) affection, but because she views it as transactional. She loves Andy, that version of her brother who went along with whatever she wanted and cared about her despite all her issues when no one else did. She always acts uncaring towards other people, but it's so obvious that she's lonely. That the people she cares about not caring about her has an effect on her. We see it with their mom, the way she continued to call her despite the abuse and neglect she put her through and immediately assumes she wouldn't have wanted them to find her because she feels that unwanted. We see it with her ''friends'', the way she felt so betrayed by how they basically left her for dead in that apartment without bothering to try throwing some food up their balcony. She didn't even care if they would've succeeded or not-- she just wanted someone to try. She clings so viciously to her brother because he's all she has left. She's been labelled unlovable by everyone else in her life, and the moment he leaves her for someone more stable, she's alone for good. Andy needed her the same way she needed him, but now he's gone, and Andrew is more unpredictable than ever. His nightmares have gotten better, so he doesn't need her to sleep easier at night (not that he did in the first place). He's better at having a social life too, so surrounding himself with others and getting his life together shouldn't be too hard. He doesn't need her the way she needs him anymore, but she knows that Andrew wants her, so she'll give herself to him before anyone else can if it means that he'll stay. Which, by the way, is such a good parallel to her mom's own mindset when it comes to relationships (like mother like daughter ammirite). It's so far from love; it's just blatant codependancy she doesn't acknowledge on her end, something we see Andrew both enable and take advantage of whether he realises or not. And I think that's a more nuanced, fascinating trait of her character rather than just the ''yandere sister in love with her brother'' trope.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed reading this messy, hopefully coherent analysis of our gravecest couple, mostly focused on Ashley. And who knows, maybe she IS in love with Andrew and I completely misinterpreted her feelings for him, but until proven otherwise I'll keep clinging to this theory. This GAME THE-- [GUNSHOTS].

[nukkibunni]

@bipanicoverthegravessiblings a disgruntled andrew and smitten ashley as asked <333 i had SO much fun drawing this, thank you so so much again!!!!! :> 🖤💝

[coffinsister]

Ashley buys Andrew packs of those chocolate cigarettes because she doesn't like him smoking

[x1702x]

COMEDIA #3

«What is Virgil thinking about?»

The Divine Comedy - Inferno

—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—

The silence is too loud

[ask-the-lab-rat]

< OOC >

Yall gonna make him melt guys 😭💕

[sukei-dot-exe]

[skuleighrose]

"...Bestow upon you chaos and mayhem..."

she is hella in his lap and the rude person is interrupting >.<

[sannaxx]