#i'm pretty sure most of them are empty accounts and bots anyway so there's no need for an exact number lol

[opheliasprings]

townie sim dump (part 1) ♡ teens

hi friends! here’s the sims dump i promised like a decade ago hehe they’re cc free, fully clothed, have skills and likes/dislikes. feel free to tag me if you use any of them :)

download: curseforge | sfs

* cc used in the screenshot is not included in the download

[penname-artist]

I feel like the amount of people/individual accounts I've blocked via this website is nigh short of hysterical, in terms of volume.

Yes we're talking about all the things in my blocklist, because fuck you, I'm bored, it's my blog I get to talk about whatever dumb shit I wanna talk about, and tonight it's whatever this shit is because the muse for my Planes things crawled into a hole and died last New Years.

There's only a couple that are there for *personal* private inter-relational-issue reasons. As much as I paint my blocklist as entirely that, honestly, there's really only like, two of those left in the bottom of the well. But it did technically start there, so.

Anyways a large percentage in the heap are also bots. Kinda makes sense, y'know, bots are rampant no matter what and I'm real sick of seeing their really bad porn on even my secret other blog(...s) so many are there, even after staff went through what must have been purging all the known scam accounts.

Then there's just a fuck ton of random ass people in there, and honestly I only half understand how most of them got in there. I try to clean it out when I can but I just did earlier and I nearly forgot my reasons for most of these guys. I think some had trigger heavy content for me, I think some just had a lot of posts I was *very* much not about that I really didn't wanna see around me, pretty sure one person in the mix somewhere was only put there cuz they did a big no-no in my no-nos book and I just kinda didn't want to be asked.

Also there's a bunch of fucking "other" accounts I can't figure out what their deal is, how they got there, or even what to do with them?? Some are like, obviously empty accounts that just like favoriting shit, but they have *zero* info on them, even long after that last bot purge where everybody was freaking out about separating bots from legit new accounts. A lot of them have the bare minimum and I'm just kinda bewildered by their existence? (I think they're only really there in blockland because of one of my alts, in which I must more heavily enforce an age requirement)

[sage-nebula]

Also, SAEYOUNG'S BOILER ROOM MISSION AAAAAA. I was so surprised people didn't talk more about this: I was HORRIFIED when I got that call to learn he had spent 3 days locked and he didn't feel sad about dying, just empty. Actually scratch that, I was horrified to see Saeyoung repeat that he didn't care whether he lived or died in the chats, and the RFA were all "ahah, yeah... anyways." WHAT?? Ugh, I'm so glad that in the end, Saeyoung quit the agency and got his brother back. Ray route whomst???

The truly horrifying thing is that Saeyoung left for the agency when he was in junior high, which means that he could have been running missions like that when he was as young as twelve years old.

It’s a bit hard to say for sure given how muddled the timeline in Mystic Messenger is. Largely due in part to an inconsistent translation, I feel (in the sense that I feel like if we all understood and could play the game in Korean, a lot of the inconsistencies and questions we have about the timeline would probably be cleared up), the characters seem to have a hard time deciding whether things happened five or ten years ago, or whether Saeran was in junior high or high school when the photos were taken, et cetera. However, most accounts we’re given state that Saeyoung left home ten years ago. Since he is twenty-two when the game takes place, this would mean that he was twelve when he left home, which would place him in junior high. To be honest, this make ssense when you consider the flashback in which we see V tell Saeyoung of the intelligence agency (and Saeyoung agrees to go):

Look at him; he was a baby. He certaily doesn’t look like a teenager. He looks like a junior high school student. Therefore, it makes sense to agree with what is (usually) presented in the game, which is that Saeyoung left for the intelligence agency when he was around twelve years old, and became an agent at that time.

Of course, it seems strange and illogical that an intelligence agency would hire a twelve-year-old and make him an agent, but then again, Mystic Messenger asks us to suspend our disbelief in a variety of ways. Yes, there are many elements in the game and character backstories that are grounded in reality, but then there’s also Rika having Saeyoung install a special security system in her apartment that contains a bomb without the building manager knowing, as well as said security system somehow being able to detect specific individuals and identify them as strangers, versus just activating and refusing to shut off whenever there’s a break-in at the apartment. Rika presumably got the money to build Magenta from embezzling the party guests, but she was still able to get an entire crew to build Magenta without anyone from the government noticing at all, and so on and so forth. Yes, it seems ridiculous that an intelligence agency would hire a child as an agent, but these were also special circumstances. V had a contact within the intelligence agency that was going to help Saeyoung get the job, and Saeyoung was a child prodigy who was already carrying out contracted hacking jobs on foreign governments. Considering that, it isn’t too much for me to believe that the intelligence agency would have brought Saeyoung in as a child, particularly since I’m sure they felt they would be able to condition him more easily (i.e. without torture) since they could raise him to follow their ways. (Vanderwood actually mentions that they never brainwashed or tortured Saeyoung before because of his age, but that his disobedience in his route means they’ll now have to. This makes me think that the agency felt that, since Saeyoung was a child when they came to him, they thought they could just raise him to be a loyal and obedient agent.)

So with all of that said, it’s entirely possible that Saeyoung has been running life-threatening missions since he was twelve. True, we know that he did spend time in school; he attended a high school, and he went to an Ivy League university. But we also know that he was working for the agency at that time, because Vanderwood tells us in the Secret Endings that Saeyoung would only sleep for about three hours each night, and that every other waking moment was dedicated to completing his university coursework and his work for the agency. There’s nothing saying that the agency didn’t also send Saeyoung out on missions in his pre-teen / teen years as well. If nothing else, the fact that the enemy probably wouldn’t suspect a child would be all the more reason to send Saeyoung in. His age gave him an extra dose of cover.

If that is the case, then this means that the boiler mission could have happened at any time. Maybe it was more recent, but maybe it wasn’t. We don’t know, because Saeyoung doesn’t tell us. He could have been fourteen when he was stuck in the boiler room for three days, dehydrated and starving, terrified of the enemies just outside the door, but at the same time not bothered by the thought that he could die, because he didn’t believe that his death would negatively impact anyone or anything. Considering that a law of the agency is that agents are not allowed to have friends or family (V tells Saeyoung as much when he first tells him about the agency; he makes it very clear that Saeyoung will have to cut off contact with Saeran because the agency won’t permit it), we can assume that the agency helped drill this into him. He’s an agent of theirs, so he can’t leave any traces behind, he can’t have any connections. No one will care if he dies. The agency, I feel, has played a big part in deteriorating Saeyoung’s self-worth, in ways that the fandom usually doesn’t acknowledge because they’re too busy focusing on his Agent 707 persona.

Saeyoung’s trauma is not as evident as Saeran’s, but it’s absolutely there. Saeyoung did not live an easy life despite escaping his mother’s house, whatever Saeran has been led to believe. Of course, Saeyoung won’t allow himself to acknowledge his trauma for any real length of time, and he would also always insist that Saeran of course had it worse. But it’s not a competition, and the fact remains that Saeyoung was pretty much raised in an environment that drilled into his head that he isn’t allowed to have friends, he’s not allowed to have family, that “a mindless joke can get you killed,” that he’s not to leave any trace of himself, that any point he can be dragged off, and tortured to the point where he forgets himself entirely, and they give him a new identity. (So, yeah, that’s another point that this agency would have no problems employing a capable child; they’re clearly not on the up-and-up with how they treat their own agents.) Saeyoung wasn’t tortured, but I’d still say it’s highly probable / strongly implied that the agency still emotionally abused him so that he would be a perfect agent for them (which he was, for the longest time). This, on top of the life-threatening missions, means that he has a lot of trauma that he just doesn’t like acknowledging or dealing with. And yes, it’s horrifying, and it also leads to him being explicitly suicidal throughout the game, which … the RFA largely ignores. :’) Some friends.

(Though on that note, honestly, the RFA does not appreciate Saeyoung nearly to the extent he deserves. The grand majority of the time they complain about or insult him for being ~omg so weird and annoying~. They don’t seem to realize the sheer blessing they have by having him on their side. Setting aside how he does things to assist their personal lives simply because he cares about them (e.g. creating the Tripter bot for Zen, installing LOLOL on Yoosung’s computer when Yoosung was depressed), you know—you know—that Saeyoung would be there in a hot second if any of them had any issues with computer viruses, rogue hackers going after their personal information, or anything of that nature. He buys Zen a new laptop in Another Story when he sees Zen’s ancient computer, and as much as he had his fit over Zen’s computer being, well, offensively old, you know that part of getting Zen a new computer was no doubt due to the fact that old hardware is more prone to viruses and malware, and Saeyoung is looking out for Zen’s personal information. Saeyoung would be there to help any of them in a split second, and yet all of them routinely treat him like he’s an annoyance and a burden, and ignore when he’s very obviously severely depressed and in need of help. The RFA doesn’t deserve Saeyoung, tbqh. They’re goddamn blessed to have him and they don’t even realize it. It honestly makes me angry.)

Anyway, yes. It’s so great that Saeyoung quit the agency, and that Saeran is living with him, getting the help and healing that he needs. Of course, it would be great if the fandom could remember that Saeyoung quit hacking altogether in the Secret Endings, instead of pretending that he still hacks for a living even though he makes it clear that he sees hacking as something filthy and terrible and that he never wants to do it again, but … what can you do, I guess.