#joyce messier

[revacholianpizzaagenda]

As @weepylucifer put it........

[goth--moths]

Is this anything

[maxwell-grant]

Every conversation I have with her listening to her foreboding choir music makes me feel like I'm in a cutscene conversation with the Final Boss, except that conversation never ends, and the Final Boss won everything before I was even born, and it couldn't be bothered to show up so it just sent one of it's teeth after me to make small talk, if only to have me recoil before it's pleasing sharpness. I adore talking to her and it makes me feel sick and hollow. why is this game so horribly addicting.

[woahcoolbear]

i think i hauve pale irradiation

[nutmeg-on-a-stick]

Guys im so normal about her

[frodo-a-gogo]

One Time

[ph-cutie]

trustworthy interviewees

nonshiny version belowcut

[cock-holliday]

I think Joyce Messier is one of my favorite Disco Elysium characters because ohhhhh is she painfully real. She is the absolute pinnacle of her ideology; the quintessential Nice Educated Lady and ooh does she suck so bad. Lol she’s witty, she’s intelligent—she is your absolute best source of political, historical, and possibly philosophical information about the world around you because of the access she has had for decades.

I grew up in small-town nowhere with open blunt bigotry. When I first moved to a city I thought the backwards ass sort of oppression I was used to was over. The city was full of friendly educated people. I wanted a seat at the table.

I thought someone brandishing a knife was scary, but learned the hard way that someone smiling and asking if you’re okay while stabbing you in the back is soooo much scarier. Any left-wing political theorist could have told me as much, but to me it was brand new.

Joyce is…THE ultraliberal. The coveting of status. The rare chance to stick out your neck to make connections but the immediate farm-razing evacuation when anything threatens your comfort let alone your safety. She knows the language and she makes careful calculations. Which makes betrayal much worse. Ignorance is not knowing, or refusing to know. This? It’s being placed on the sacrificial altar to the capitalist meat grinder for 10 more minutes of heat in the jacuzzi.

Joyce is a representative of utmost cruelty, and worse than indifference—the capitalization off of misfortune, and preservation of the status quo of unimaginable violence. And she knows it. And boy is she likable.

[suresne]

dolores dei + joyce messier on harry being uniquely "insane"

[ceviofcrows]

The lady who never sleeps

[sarahedmontons]

Trying to push da shapes and stuff

[gooolabatooo]

p-pac-packer.

[spilledkaleidoscope]

I mean

btw to make sure: they are looking at each other very lesbianly ok

ok

[goodolreliablejake]

I remember reading a review of Disco Elysium back when it first came out that analyzed the Union something along the lines of "the game isn't as clever as it thinks it is by making the union members the corrupt bad guys, which would have been a tired subversion years ago."

And it just makes me think that Evrart and Manana are so clever that they even fool a lot of the players. At the risk of stating the obvious at this point, these two know exactly how to use society's prejudice to their advantage. Reminds me of two great pieces of advice from two great tricksters:

"Don't forget what you are. The World will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used against you" from Tyrion Lannister, and Mr. Wednesday's insistence that the easiest person to fool is someone who thinks they're clever.

How does Evrart manage to keep tabs on everyone and everything in Martinaise, despite being cloistered and immobile? Surely it's not that he's stationed his smartest lieutenant at a perch that gives him a bird's eye view of the entire district directly adjacent to the office and telephone--after all, that's just a lazy Mesque, a rootless Boiadeiro who believes in nothing but self-interest.

Then you take one look at Evrart--this fat, disabled man with a lazy eye and a slimy disposition. No one would believe he's a hero. He wants you to feel clever for seeing through his lies; he wants you to hate him. After all, aren't fat, disabled people greedy and lazy? The powers that be can control a man who wants to line his pockets: literally, controlled opposition. A man like that only speaks of seizing the means of production as an empty promise--hot air--because to do more would be a dangerous, idealistic proposition, of greater benefit to the line worker than the union leader skimming off the top.

I think there are really only two moments that we get a picture of the real Evrart: in his moment of triumph after seizing the docks from Joyce--and in Easy Leo's story of the two brothers who protected him in school.

You can't trust a word Evrart or Manana say, but that's not because they're corrupt, it's because they're true believers dedicated to the cause, and they're talking to a cop.

[woahcoolbear]

joyce messier before bed🛌 but i need to draw her more like a skyrim draugr in the future💀

[5oz-mud]

collection of DE doodles