#end game is paradise

[end-game-is-paradise]

@9w1ft 👀 b/w that and the butterfly jeans 🦋👖

Message received @taylorswift 💕

[kaylor-observer]

Midnight Rain is Kaylor. Case. In. Point.

[thatdamhobbit]

Not my meme, but I feel like it’s more relevant than ever!

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

hey you know what would be like. the WORST possible thing? if no time had passed for mortals during God Games. if the entire time, Odysseus had just been frozen on that ledge. and at the start of the Vengeance Saga, Ody's still on the ledge. he looks to the skies, to the trees, out over the ocean. he looks for an owl with knowing eyes and strains to hear her voice over the waves, because surely, surely she'd come for him. the haven't spoken in nine years and he ruined whatever relationship they had when he stupidly, foolishly let the cyclops live, but she has to still care, right? she was his mentor. she was his patron. he meant something to her. he's sure of it

but she's not there. he waits, but she's not there. he closes his eyes, sparing himself the view, and steps off the ledge

and is saved by Hermes. and Odysseus briefly thinks that he has died, since Hermes escorts souls to the underworld. but Hermes assures him that, no, he's alive, Athena heard him, she bargained with Zeus, he can go home now. he can finally go home

his friend came through

[sirjo-esque]

Okay I think that one thing we're really not talking about is how Telemachus adds something to the end of each song, the exact moment we think it's over.

"If I fight those monsters, is it you I'll find? or "Tell me Athena why you came to my aid"

He's setting up for the next song, telling us that there's still more to it. In the Wisdom Saga, he figuratively acts as a reprise to Odysseus, through his relationship with Athena and the riffs Jay pointed out in We'll Be Fine.

That's why I think it's especially important that in We'll Be Fine, Athena is the one adding to the end of the song.

"You're a good kid."

Though Telemachus technically has the last line there too, it's not one that provokes action. Instead Athena adds a line, which in theory didn't need to be there. In all technicality, the song had ended. The next song, she takes action.

She's giving herself a reprise. A second chance.

[sunbloomdew]

i love when different forms of art ask "was it real? does it matter that it was? does it matter that it wasn't? did it hold meaning? does it still?"

[pixelkip]

Dolls in pseudo paradise is so so cool and interesting and it pains me every day that pretty much everyone reads it, sees the vague implication that the killer was a blonde girl and immediately decides either flandre or Alice is the killer. Cmon guys. We can come up with way more interesting and convoluted and way more likely to fit the story explanations than that.

Dipp is way more confusing and brain hurty and FUN when you actually try to analyze it instead of blaming an existing character and I wish I saw more discussion about it. Go read dolls in pseudo paradise (well, once the touhou wiki is back up, God dammit cloudflare) and go make weird convoluted theorycrafting and toxic yuri about it. I am starved for my unnamed dipp art girls yuri please god. But also the theorycrafting. Please. I cannot be the only one who has Too Many Thoughts about this.

[deadvnstudios]

sorry if this is a dumb question, but after hearing Carson say that the mc can decorate their room however they wanted, it made me wonder. Do people in the commune get an allowance? Do they just have money they saved up before they joined? How would they go about getting things for themselves? Obviously, there's a budget for things like meals and things that everyone can use, but I wasn't sure about how they got things that were personal to them.

This is not a dumb question at all! These points will actually be covered in our full demo in a few months!

[sapphicteaparty]

i'm putting Paradise Killer next to Disco Elysium and Outer Wilds as an investigation/detective game where solving the mystery isn't the only compelling thing you get out of the experience

if you've played and liked one of these you should check out the other two if you haven't already

[end-game-is-paradise]

Meet me in the Afterglow

[kaylor-observer]

Tay loves her KK so hard!!! 🥹🥹

[fluffyisbubbles]

Raise your hand if you cried 🙋‍♀️😭🙋‍♀️😭🙋‍♀️😭

[star--anon]

we need to talk about an AU where Janson gives up on trying to find a Cure and instead starts focusing on making himself an army so that when the Cranks inevitably break down WCKD's walls, he can survive

Minho being trained into a soldier. In fact, he's kind of Janson's test dummy. His body is the strongest, the most resistant, so Janson tries out different "training" methods on him first.

Brainwash included. Maybe Janson even repurposes the fear simulator. As a hijacking method. Or maybe a punishment. Be a soldier or go insane.

[catboy-cyrus]

"You wıll fal| herə, withın this gɑrden paradisə, and aɔhiəve n■thıng in the ənd."

[buttercup-art]

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH OMG OMG OMG-

[ee3y]

The Wisdom Saga is such an easy album for me to put as my number one, i think there was not a single miss wow