#faustposting

[faustandfurious]

Gonna fight the Duolingo owl over this one

[winslowleachthecomposer]

Well, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't mak--

HEY WHERE DID MY HORSE GO

[heartbreak-shot]

[i'm gonna spit out some thoughts here that i'm having in trying to verbalize my answer to the "how did you discover &/or form your alterhumanity?" question posed in the alterhuman community tab.]

i have 'types of spiritual, psychological, past life, & archetypal varieties, but for the most part my "awakenings" have really just been about recognizing myself & finding the language to describe that recognition.

& yes, i am kind of splitting spiritual from past life & psychological from archetypal for a reason. for me they have a lot of overlap but the origins for some feel distinct enough that it's worth describing them separately.

so, on to some examples!

1. my unicorn kintype. this one is spiritual in origin but is more of a concurrent life. kind of like... same timeline, different... spaceline? not a plural-type deal, but i'm still experiencing both at the same time, even if i'm only physically "present" on the human side. feels weird, bruh.

2. estinien. past life. easy, lol.

3. faust viii. mainly psychological. not archetypal. i call him my/our "core" because i strongly feel that we are entirely coiled around & spiraled out from faust. every bit of me is him, & i will always return to being him. in the sense that my soul is him, i guess? which makes it sound spiritual but i am more thinking of it the sense that a soul is the kernel of you that is your mind... so like the stuff that makes up who i am in the head can get mashed up & split apart but the one thing that remains consistent is faust.

4. zenos. this one is kind of a case where the origin is psychological BECAUSE of the overlap of archetypes. my experience as/of him is deeply enmeshed in the blood knight archetype mixed with what i've personally taken to calling the byronic rival. more on that later, hopefully... but not in this post. :)

ANYWAY, that's enough babbling from me for tonight. have a safe journey!

[shocktreatment]

faustopheles is everywhrr if uou know where to look

[fata-vocant]

doctor faustus by christopher marlowe

[youcanbuyasaladglove]

⬇️↙️⬅️K

[kindofblue28]

I found your post recommending Faust the other day when I was looking for recent posts about the Gadget games, then went ahead and watched a playthrough, and I’m glad I did even if I don’t fully understand the story. That GameBoomers forum thread did help to clear some things up, at least. I don’t know where the hell the Wikipedia plot summary describing Marcellus as the Devil got that idea from, that doesn’t seem to be the case at all, somebody should change that.

Man, that final part with Giselle hit pretty hard, though it’s undercut a bit by that sitcomy ending. This game has a tone problem, that’s for sure. Do you think it’s an exaggeration on my part to call Geoffrey Bateman (I think that’s him?)’s performance as Mef one of the best vocal performances for a video game character? The character displays a wide range of emotions and he nails it, when he laughs it sounds like he’s laughing for real. I’m so glad that the voice of Loge/Loki from RLOTN got to be in the spotlight for something somewhat better.

I think Drowned God and - to a lesser extent - Gadget have already filled up too much real estate in my brain for me to want to dive super deep into the lore and stuff, but I’ll be looking forward for your fan website to see the concept art and all that! As one of the very few people on this Earth who has bothered to document Drowned God’s completely absurd story and try to explain it, plus Gadget’s too a little, I get how kinda lonely it feels to want to reach out and tell others about such a weird thing that has interesting ideas despite its faults.

I’ll be busy for the next several days, but maybe in the near future I’ll make a TV Tropes page for Faust, and if I have any questions about characters and story elements. I feel like that site can do quite a bit to spread the word about these types of media and help clarify stuff.

Hey! Just wanted to say thanks for sending me this ask!! I'm very glad that post helped you find that game, and really happy to see another Gadget fan too. I can understand being confused about the story- I was very confused on my first couple of playthroughs too, if you have any questions I'd be glad to answer them about this game. Wasn't even aware of the stuff with the Wikipedia article- I'll try and look and see what I can do about that, because… whew, that's VERY wrong! Also completely agree with you on the part with Giselle. Really hits me hard and like, 9/10 makes me cry whenever I play thru that part- its message really helped me. Though yeah, I agree on the ending too. I feel like this game has such an issue of like, going way faster than it needs to be. I feel like a lot of the messages don't have enough time to really sit and get their point across, like, you just immediately get thrust into the end stuff after that, and doesn't even let the horror element of what happened sit? It stinks, and even if I hold this game in a really high regard, it's VERY flawed and all over the place.

Also, I definitely think Geoffery Bateman did FANTASTIC as Mef. I've listened to his roles in other Arxel games and this definitely feels like one where he got to shine- I feel like his other roles he's stuck in ones where he just sounds monotone and disinterested, where his performance of Mef sounds like, super believable and not forced at all :)

Also, can understand not wanting to dive super deep into the lore, I mean, it's been like that for me with Gadget, Faust took up too much of the braincells for this year and even if I own most of the supporting material for Gadget I just don't think I have the brain energy to dive super deep into it right now, so I totally get ya. Also cool you're a Drowned God fan- I meant to play that sorta soon, it's a game that's been on my list for years, if you took the time to play Faust, I got to at least give you the time with Drowned God too. More of these small games like these really need to be remembered- they have something to say! About the site, I hopefully should have SOMETHING up eventually. I've been kinda conflicted on the stuff in regards to Faust though, as I've debated having it moved to a wiki framework- and that might just be too much effort for one game, and I wouldn't want to be the one to make a wiki on Arxel Tribe games, as I haven't played most of them. I was planning to host the website on Neocities but my website building skills are VERY poor and that's just been stopping me from doing the pages themselves, I have the info, just not the skills :(

Either way, thank you for your ask (and your time!), you've been very kind. If you want to talk about the game at all I'm here on tumblr or on Discord (same username) :) Peace!

[alrighty-vigilante]

[shredsandpatches]

Sometimes when you're having a slow week at work because you have a backlog of digitized materials and you're by yourself in the office you end up finding delightful things on JSTOR. Bottom!Faustus is totally canon.

Also, this read on the "talk not of a wife" exchange, from the same article, is not groundbreaking (nor is meant to be) but is extremely well articulated:

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

not to continue #faustposting but. larson's "Gouging out his eyes, and I’m the monster…" in the finale. obviously refers to uncle but i think it's interesting that he's holding onto that detail of his death specifically. do you think yellow ever relayed what arthur told him abt faust. i mean, he's got no reason not to and every reason to add more to larson's list of reasons to hate him. for like, commiseration if nothing else

[oigimi]

FAUST COMING SOON

[faustandfurious]

As much as I love Goethe’s take on the Faust story in all its human tragedy, I also have a great fondness for the historical/legendary Faust, who by all accounts bounced around Germany causing problems on purpose, beefed with Luther and Melanchton, and «laid the Holy Scriptures behind the door and under the bench, refused to be called doctor of Theology, but preferred to be styled doctor of Medicine»

[winslowleachthecomposer]

IT'S HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRREEEEEEEE

[iron--and--blood]

something something brander and frosch having the most beef with each other when brand- and krassfüche were the only ones allowed to challenge each other to drinking contests

[moffiiiiaaaa]

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