THE 👏🏻 SHOW 👏🏻 IS 👏🏻 NOT 👏🏻 DIALOGUE 👏🏻 FREE 👏🏻 YOU 👏🏻 JUST 👏🏻 AREN'T 👏🏻 FOLLOWING 👏🏻 THE 👏🏻 RIGHT 👏🏻 CHARACTERS 👏🏻
(okay, a *lot* of 'em are pretty quiet but if you want a chatty show, follow hades, either hecuba but especially emily, jude's polymestor, miranda's anybody, and/or any zagreus/eurydice but especially if that day's zaggy is will or eury is stephanie; these are just my favourite chatty characters and by no means the complete and definitive list)
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Realized how often the Narrator anthropomorphizes things in the Ultra Deluxe in order to encourage or bait Stanley. Which is so much different than how he was in the past endings, specifically the apartment ending. The way he now refers to all the different quotable and memorable objects in the game as Stanley’s friends.
There’s just something about the way the Narrator does at least deeply try to relate to Stanley’s need as a human, understanding more that we are sociable creatures. Giving us the bucket as something to cherish and playing along with the notion (despite getting very obviously upset when Stanley gets too attached to the bucket and then tries to break down that narrative). The attempt made to actually reach out to Stanley in a human-like way.
I don’t know where I’m going with this but the attempt at connection through the similar actions of a person or something like that. Acknowledgement of human needs, even if it's more or less the bare minimum effort.
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Ghost develops Hanahaki and knows who it is immediately. He’s coughing up fucking thistles. There’s only one Scottish patriot who’s made himself (a now painfully literal) thorn in his side.
It gets resolved quickly. No matter how melodramatic as Ghost can be, first and foremost he’s a man of action. Also because he couldn’t wait to see Soap go green when he reveals he was throwing up thistles, whole.
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i really want to talk about the letter lily had sent sirius (in 1981, soon after harry’s first birthday), because i think it’s pretty much the only input we have into their relationship (and a little insight into lily, as well), which to me is thoroughly fascinating.
the first thing i’ve noticed is the way she starts the letter: “dear padfoot”. we can likely assume that their relationship hadn’t been great from the start — lily considered james to be conceited, arrogant and full of himself, and, by extension, we can safely assume she believed of sirius to be the same.
however, the usage of “padfoot” and “wormy” indicates either that their relationship was close enough for her to call them that, or that they, the marauders, called each other that in her vicinity. what is to be noted is that no one, besides themselves and lily, refer to them as such; even when, in PoA, the conversation about sirius takes place, all of the parties (rosmerta, mcgonagall, flitwick, hagrid and fudge) refer to them by their names, although rosmerta mentioned the marauders frequenting the three broomsticks quite often.
lily proceeds to thank sirius for the birthday gift he sent to harry — his favourite, which means, again, that the potters and sirius remained close enough, even while in hiding, in order for sirius to be able to know, approximately, what he could buy harry. a flying, toy broomstick might not have been the most appropriate gift for such a young child, but harry was enjoying himself and, to lily, it seems like that did not matter.
lily also does not seem to mind that he (harry) “smashed a horrible vase Petunia sent me for Christmas”. despite the fact that the two sisters had not been getting along for a while, the fact that petunia had taken the time to send a present (although not a great one) is certainly interesting, too.
she also seems to be a little upset, but understanding, of the fact that sirius could not attend harry’s birthday tea. she is characterised as observant, as james tries not to show his frustration to being locked up in his own home, but lily notices, too, and tries to offer a solution (sirius coming by to visiti), as james cannot leave the house himself.
the mention of peter is also intriguing. lily might have been right about his sentiments towards the death of the mckinnons (which upset lily, too, so we can assume that even if, maybe, they hadn’t been friends, they had been on quite good terms).
she also mentiones bathilda bagshot, to whom she has taken a liking, calling her a “fascinating old thing with the most amazing stories about dumbledore”, however she quickly dismissed, in her opinion, the possibility, proposed by the older woman, that dumbledore and grindelwald had ever been friends.
she ends her letter with “lots of love”, which also is an indicator towards her closeness with sirius. despite their relationship, most likely, not having been one of mutual love and respect, which are the bases for friendship, it seems to have blossomed into something beautiful.
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