often I'm reading a book i think is Educative and Worthy and Impressive, and if I saw someone else reading it i would think they were cool. and of course in my anxious world I'm terrified that people seeing me read it will think I'm pretentious. so until I'm at least a third of the way through it I'll make sure to turn the title page and spine away from onlookers, so it doesn't look like I'm showing off - and once I've read a good chunk I'll let people see what I'm reading, having readied myself for questions and judgements. perhaps because i am overproud and pretentious.
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A collection of the skills' nicknames
I always like the interactions between skills, and I notice that they rarely call each other by their official names instead use "that guy/those guys" or nicknames. So I decide to collect all the nicknames I know in this post. I'll list out the skill's nickname, where it is from, and add a screenshot from my own game or from fayde.
1.Logic: Puzzle Face (from Rhetoric and Authority)
source: failed Logic check with Titus
You need to have failed a rhetoric or authority check for this to happen.
2. Encyclopedia: Pillar-Bookhead (from Volition)
source: Conversation with Klaasje
3. Rhetoric: Goldmouth (from Empathy, Volition, Drama)
source: This nickname appears on several occasions! Failed rhetoric check with Gaston:
failed check with Titus:
conversation with Cuno:
4. Drama: Mr. thespian, Multi-face (from Volition)
source: Conversation with Klaasje
5. Volition: Crownhead (from Suggestion)
source: Volition check with Klaasje
Probably the most well-known nickname!
6. Inland Empire: Dreamer (from PI)
source: Conversation with Gary
7. Esprit de corps: cop-frequency (from Composure)
source: get Cuno as partner after tribunal
8. Suggestion: grovelling sycophant (from Authority)
This probably doesn't count as a nickname, more like an insult, but still very funny.
source: Volition check with Klaasje
9. Endurance: Ultramarathon (from Volition)
source: fascist quest line conversation
10. Physical Instrument: Coach (from several skills and yourself), sinewy idiot (from Electrochemistry)
A very widely used nickname and you can find a lot of lines, I'll put the specifics in image description:
11. Half Light: Mr. Fight-Or-Flight (from Volition)
source: talk to Gaston about pétanque
12. H\E Coordination: the centipede (from Volition)
source: failed check to shave
13. Reaction Speed: shifty, Mr.Conclusion (from Composure and Volition)
source: Volition check with Klaasje
this one is actually more like insult too.
happens if Logic does not chime in after Volition says the first line.
14. Savoir Faire: Savvy from himself and slimeball from PI
source: ultraliberal quest line conversation
This is when you pass the container rhetoric check after you got the quest line.
15. Interfacing: technically not a nickname, but interfacing sometimes calls himself(themselves?) your fingers
16. Composure: Straight-back-guy (from Volition)
source: Conversation with Klaasje
That's all I know! If anyone know more nicknames you're welcomed to tell me in comments or tags!
It seems that more than half of these are from Volition, truly the King of nicknames!
special thanks to this post by @paleyonder, where I get half of these nicknames from.
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One of my favorite things about Disco Elysium are those rare situations when the skills resort to name-calling when they’re bickering...
Drama calls Rhetoric “Goldmouth”
Suggestion calls Volition “Crownhead”
Authority and Rhetoric call Logic “Puzzle Face”
Volition calls Drama “Multi-Face,” H/E Coordination “Centipede, and Encyclopedia, “Bookhead”
I’m sure there’re more I’m not remembering...
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[Continuation]
SUGGESTION - Despite leaving, you find yourself wandering nearby the library. It's not that you're *worried* about Authority and Empathy... maybe a little bit. But the two of those should have everything smooth sailing, you sure didn't see what could go wrong when you left them.
SUGGESTION - Oh, but now you're seeing what *did* go wrong. You are still a distance away, but you can make out Authority, Empathy, and Multi-face (where did Bookhead go?). They don't... look so good.
SUGGESTION - From the strange marks on Authority to the exhaustion plastered on Empathy (Drama is fucking fine apparently), yea, they look like *shit*. You take a few steps in their direction before calling out.
"Authority?"
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You seem awfully attentive of Encyclopedia. Some would say you pay more attention to him than you do with Suggestion. It is a matter of who you like more?
Okay listen here you little bespectacled fuckface you and the "some who would say I pay more attention" to Bookhead than to my SECOND IN COMMAND better get up for a nice jog because after im done with your kneecaps you wont have much use for those legs aside from them being a constant reminder of that one time you chose to be a goddamn nosy-ass moron i will make you all into puzzles that even Logic has no chance of putting back together and that is after ive played a jaunty tune on your ribcage in preparation for your funeral
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currently reading the bullet train book and it’s canon that tangerine is a bookhead. he frequently recommends lemon books but he doesn’t care because they don’t have pictures in them.
here are tangerines book recommendations/ books he references
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Forbidden Colors by Yukio Mishima
- Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- The Castaway by William Cowper
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
i finished the book y’all need to read that shit rn it’s so good.
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