#don't get me wrong it's beautiful but it's a turned based rpg type of thing so the pacing can get very weird for a letsplay

[vaguely-concerned]

I’m playing ruined king (it was finally on sale on xbox and holy shit it’s so fun!!!!), and a bunch of the random NPCs in the background are wearing the same sort of serape/cloak style* as graves does. it fills my heart with so much joy that graves in large part just looks like any other bilgewater working class boy ambling around the harbour looking for work or someone to rob hahaha. the young tfgraves skins have some fashion swag:

(malik’s outfit is something quite similar to what TF is wearing here, notably, so that seems to also be an existing fashion style in the serpent isles to this day)

but current day graves really does dress mostly like bilgewater joe schmoe except that he gets his details more lovingly rendered and his shirt is unfathomably tight, and I love that for him

he’s iconic, is what he is. who needs to be elaborately overdesigned when you can just become main character through sheer heedless strength of personality (and also gay longing, that’s the secret spice)

(this game is only impressing on me further that bilgewater is a fucking BANGER of a setting, though, I am hoping so hard for it to get the arcane treatment because I think it would be unspeakably cool. that long sweeping shot in the opening from underwater in the white harbour with all the coffins floating and a variant of the bilgewater theme kicking in as we move up to see the entire island over MF’s shoulder!!!)

*I think it’s implied from an npc early on that this style is actually a buhru garment originally -- and that the paylangi are wearing it the wrong way around fhdskjfhas. double hilarity: the npc goes ‘it looks dope tho. so fair enough!’. ah prime bilgewater attitude <3