aight, aside from the fact that 3 houses by Dave Malloy is now gonna Haunt My Waking Thoughts For The Week...
nah, that's it. The only pandemic play I can get behind. Proper amount of drunken revelry, fantastic amount of fairytale allegory, Yes She Does Smoke Weed, vindictive dragon spirits and knockoff tom nooks, cairns of amazon boxes, The Ending, The Set, The Parallels...
and the wolf. Gods help me, but I wanna kiss the wolf on his broken-toothed maw. dance with him. ask him for a metal straw. I'd be a furry for that wolf in his stupid knit sweater.
(And then, the harmonieeeeees my love, they're so perfect and ugly and pretty and the genre shifts and and and)
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20 & 21 for the Durge asks, pretty please?
hello dear spite!!! thank you for the ask 🖤
20. Is your Dark Urge open about their Urge or do they try to hide it? Why?
Aune is not even remotely open about her Urge, but she's not so good at hiding it either. She tries to keep it a secret as she's terrified and deeply ashamed of it. However, in her panicked fear of not understanding her lack of memories or her violent urges, she asks nearly all of her companions about advice on the subject. (Oops.)
When confronted, Aune successfully convinces the others that she had nothing do with Alfira's death. (Well, everyone except for Astarion... 😏) When she kicks the squirrel to death just mere HOURS after they discover the bard's body, it becomes a bit more difficult to explain away. It's pretty much common knowledge amongst the group after the Grove massacre, but it is officially confirmed for the companions once they arrive at Moonrise.
21. What are 2-3 songs that your Dark Urge would relate to?
You've unleashed the beast with this question because I love collecting my little songs and making my little playlists
The number one Aune song of all time is Carrion Comfort by aeseaes:
wring the world black / springs on my back / teeth tearing at the skin
bleeding a blundering mess / beetles and worms in his chest
sorry seeder / bottom feeder / nipping at what ankle's left
all you wanted was a little taste / won't let a single sinew go to waste
you should stop, you know, you know you should / but nothing else could make me feel this good
voices howling and it's out of control / until you're nothing but an animal
carrion comfort me
The Usher by Subrosa is a good that describes her relationship and perspective on death:
all of my life I've been waiting for you
with open arms, I'll come running towards you
you're supreme, immutable, unchanging
you're never failing through the ages
you're more constant than the stars / because they change their paths with the seasons
you're more constant than the moon / because she hides her face in the shadows
you're more constant than the sun / because one day her embrace will melt the earth
you're more constant than the gods / because sometimes when we call, they don't answer at all
all in all, we end the same
When That Head Splits by Esben and the Witch is a bit of a nebulous choice, as it's a vision into the future for Aune - what things might look like if she succumbs/accepts the Urge
alone she sits, a silent voyeur / kneeling naked at the altar
while ants clamber over the / petrified hand of her neighbor
there is a bulb inside her head / where once there was a brain in place
a clod with roots, a ball of string
that's full of love and lycorine
when she grows numb / set by the sun
she will become / part of the kingdom
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Pros to ffxvi:
-gay party member
-pretty game
-combat is brilliant
-apparently the thesis of the game is about different kinds of love, which is an idea I really like bc I love love
Cons to ffxvi:
-my friend said he skipped over half the cutscenes in the demo bc it felt like the kind of fantasy novel that feels vaguely racist but you can't quite pin down why, and he didn't even know about the shit yoship said about not having black people in the game for "historical accuracy"
-same friend (who is straight) said it's excruciatingly heterosexual & very vanilla with its approach to writing both the romance & the plot
-i personally think the character designs are a HUGE step back from the often costume & musical performance-inspired characters of literally every other ff game except maybe 12, 11, and 14. (Yes im including 1-5. Look at the art for them. They're super glam rock (not quite as glam rock as 6 but still) and even the designs that aren't have a certain flair and grace to them!!!) And those games still have like, queer vibes & at the very least dont feel basic as fuck
-my mother (who loves hallmark) says the characters look and feel like a bunch of hallmark actors (this was an insult, she was clear about that)
-the shit that yoship said about "historical accuracy" and the pervasive whiteness of everything I've seen in the game
-no turn based elements at all ;_; but that's a super personal criticism
-no lesbians :( (though this was expected and also an extremely personal criticism)
-potentially no chocobos?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?
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