#ds lou

[lewalrus]

A very cute family on their first Halloween together 🧡🎃

[rej11]

[zombie-bait]

I was so ready to be constantly confused while playing Death Stranding cuz every article I saw about the game was like "Couldn't understand a single thing that happened 10/10" but I think speed-running The Locked Tomb series only a few months ago prepared me perfectly. I didn't get half of what went down in those books and I love them with all my heart. Turns out confusing post-apocalyptic necromancy with peculiar humour, life/death energies, splitting souls between body/mind, unique worldbuilding, cosmic horror and homoerotic vibes is the perfect niche for me

[savage-rhi]

Introducing them to their special interests/hyperfixations.

Domestic samhiggs, possibly lou doing related arts and crafts

(Sorry if this is kinda sappy, but you asked for Higgs related prompts and I answer as best I can)

"Darlin', I know you just turned four, but you gotta tie the knots like this, see? It'll keep comin' undone if you don't grip. Use those brain cells of yours." Higgs chuckled as he held up the quipu he had been working on. He watched as Louise curiously tilted her head, a small noise of frustration leaving her mouth. Her big eyes were in awe of the quipu as her small fingers reached out to grasp and feel where the taut round ball of the yarn met in the middle of the string.

To Higgs she looked like a little doll with a head too big for her body, and he couldn't help but smile big as she tugged hard on the end of the quipu strand before he retreated it back.

"Ah, ah, ah! Don't be throwin' a tantrum now! C'mon, finish what you started." He murmured firmly, gesturing with his chin toward her unfinished project. Higgs couldn't hold back a grin as she gave him daggers, the plopped onto the floor beside him.

Louise picked up the small quipu Higgs had gotten started for her, and for several moments her eyes glanced back and fourth between her project and Higgs's. She observed the way he looped the strings, and did her best to mimic his gestures. At one point warm tears began to pool in the corner of her eyes, feeling upset she couldn't get the knots to stay put before going to the next one. It was only when she felt a hand upon her back, giving a gentle pat did she cease and met Higgs's gaze as she looked up.

"Don't be a baby," Higgs teased. "You almost got it Pipsqueak."

Her lips grew into a wide smile, accentuating her chubby cheeks at hearing the nickname. Even though she didn't understand what it meant, she knew it was something special that was only reserved for her.

A few more failed attempts later, and then something clicked. Louise had finally created not one, but two knots on a strand. She held it up proudly as she babbled, and Higgs exaggerated his features to make she knew he was proud of her.

"C'mon, show me how you did it!" Higgs coaxed, watching Louise nod rapidly as she went through the motions. He clapped a few times, and messed with her hair while she giggled. "That's my girl, you did it Pipsqueak!"

While the two celebrated, Sam had been observing the scene from afar. His body leaning against the frame of the door as he cracked a smile himself. Higgs had always been big into quipu's. Arguably more than anyone Sam had ever met in his life. The symbolism of how each knot represented special moments in time had grounded his soul, especially once he began working on a large quipu for their found family. Each knot tying to their destinies, from the moment Sam decided to give him a second chance, to Louise taking her first steps. The little moments, though mundane like knots on a string, added to something bigger than the three of them.

As Lou and her little hands continued to weave, and Higgs proudly watched her, Sam's smile faltered. He remembered all the times Higgs was terrified to be near Lou, much less be affectionate toward her. The fear of being just like his uncle, of being like his 'daddy' hung onto the back of his skull like BT that never sought providence from having its tether be cut.

Sam wanted nothing more than to interrupt and tell Higgs he was wrong about everything, but he couldn't bring himself to interfere with this moment he wouldn't soon forget. Not when Lou looked at Higgs with adoration that rivaled the love she had for Sam, and not when peace lingered in Higgs's eyes for the first time in years.

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[higgs-the-god]

Trying so hard to upload this… internet …. Pls…..

[sanctaignorantia]

There's something in Death Stranding about parallels that I still don't understand???

I mean, in the first game we already had a sense of Amelie and Higgs being linked and we barely realized it…I mean a connection beyond the obvious.

So why would we doubt who was behind the mask in the first place?

Higgs doing the same moves as Cliff.

And then in the first trailer Higgs sings the same song that Cliff sang to Sam…

Cliff and Fragile…

Tar tears in a hellish world… The way to light a cigarette.

Father and son with the "Repatriate mark".

And still both father and son with literal connections through the umbilical cord…

Here my theory is, if Cliff is so connected to his pain and loss and that becomes these connections with the soldiers, it was the way he translated everything he felt with the loss of his son and his wife. On the other hand, when I see that Sam was literally connected to Lou in the first explosion we went through at the beginning of the game, it tells me that, if he really lost her, if breaking that connection could cause Sam to create things in the same way that Cliff created, perhaps even unconsciously, because it's all a spiritual and emotional thing…

[widowshill]

them... they....

[felixvanhuss]

YOU'RE A KID NOW

YOU'RE A SQUID NOW

[vyragosa]

[krissmnasi]

Going on more adventures together <3

[lewalrus]

Tiny Deadsam + Lou, so tiny that you can hold in your hands 🥹

[sweet-s0rr0w]

Welcome to the third edition of my annual collaborative Drarry sex scene reclist, featuring even more favourite smutty scenes and fics selected by Drarry writers, artists, reccers, and fans! A huge thank you to this year's contributors, @apricitydays-lazynights, @arminaa8, @drarrymyheart, @drarryspecificrecs, @elskanellis, @hoko-onchi-writes, @jtimu, @littlewinnow, @maesterchill, @mallstars, @myrtlefics, @oflights, @peachydreamxx, @pl0tty, @rainstormradish, @sitp-recs, @starquestingfordrarry, @tackytigerfic, @thecouchsofa, and @thedrarrylibrarian!

Please mind the tags and practice DLDR as unsurprisingly these fics feature a wide variety of kinks and some are dub/non-con. Don’t forget to leave kudos!

All Drarry unless a poly ship specified!

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[kinokoshoujoart]

more about rock’s third heart event in AnWL/SOSAWL

in japanese the mean option is just saying “baka” and he reacts like you called him the worst slur ever and makes the most elementary schooler comeback of all time. “j….just now, you called me a baka, right?! well, it takes a real baka to call someone else a baka!!! >:T”

to try and be fair to rock here (no), in the Kansai region where Lou is from baka is seen as more offensive and derogatory, like saying dumbass (unaffectionate) (and aho is seen as more mild, the reverse of how it is in kanto/“standard” dialect), and rock probably learned this from her... …….though i don’t know if anyone put that much thought into this gag since you can also call him a b*ka after marriage and he just kind of sheepishly agrees with you (actually. it’s character growth)

this also makes it kind of extra hilarious in DS where louis calls romeo her バカ息子/dumbass son, he’s like “mom how can you talk about your own son like that ^^;” and she’s like “oh my, but it’s true, isn’t it~” (she’s right)

i love xseed localizing baka as “professor doofus” and also natsume was kind of iconic here for just doing it straight as “Moron.” morosexual simulator ahead of its time

[higgs-the-god]

🏊

[sanctaignorantia]

Back to the trailer and the part where they find Lou in Chrysalis (let's say she's Lou because she's Lou, shall we? Do we all agree?).

I've been thinking about how Kojima will use this, in the same way that he used a lot of Egyptian mythology in the first game, or how he talks about dream filters for example. You don't have to do much research to realize that chrysalises are associated with butterflies, but they're also very reminiscent of the mummification process, so we'd be going back to Egypt anyway. But adding chrysalises and butterflies gives us another point to add here.

The butterfly has stages of development and these stages represent metamorphosis, something that starts one way and ends another.

If you look around Death Stranding, everything seems to be made up of metamorphosis and stages. If we look at the evolution of the characters, we'll find these meanings, both literally and figuratively speaking. We have the cycle of generation, birth, life, death where at the beginning and at the end we are inside something, either to be matured or to be destroyed. So there's a lot that Kojima will be able to associate with The Chrysalis and the Butterfly.

But Lou doesn't seem to be the only one who needs something to protect herself and then you realize how Kojima goes round and round and always stops in the same place.

If you do a little research, you'll discover that butterflies are associated with: life, death, reincarnation, representation of the soul in various aspects and types, representation of the psyche (the lady with butterfly wings), transformation, good omen, bad omen etc…

I think there will be a lot of work on the process of literal transformation, of the creature that would definitely use this chrysalis or coffin to turn into something. The ritual of passing from one place to another will perhaps be left aside, giving way to the importance of transformation. The coffin not only represents the process of passing from life to death, where the physical body would cease to exist or be inhabited, but it represents the state of dormancy for the transformation that follows and this dormancy gives me fear.

Perhaps Higgs' old body lay dormant inside the coffin until it was transformed into what we see in the trailer. Maybe baby Lou's body was put in a cocoon so that everyone would think she was dead while she developed "safely". Who knows?