Lately I’ve been obsessed with how feral and animalistic Scratch (and by extension the Dark Presence) is portrayed in Alan Wake 2. In the past Alan has said that it’s hard to personify the Dark Presence because its behaviors and motivations go beyond what human psychology and emotions can express, but it’s interesting to me that some behaviors and emotions usually associated with feral animals like wolves seem to fit this version of the Dark Presence/Scratch better. In the same way Alan is the owl and Saga is the deer, Scratch is the wolf. I mean, he constantly bares his teeth and growls. In the Dark Place the Dark Presence hunts Alan, while in the real world Scratch hunts Saga, both stalking their prey. Saga also gets repeatedly attacked by shadow wolves, who at one point kill a deer when she solves a nursery rhyme. And I absolutely love how the old saying about how animals are most dangerous when they’re cornered and/or wounded can be applied to Scratch in multiple situations, but especially when the Cult of the Tree attacks the lodge. At that point the Dark Presence was still weak from joining with Alan, but now they’re under attack, Casey is gone, and cultists are coming to kill them. Even though we don't actually see it and Alan doesn’t remember, it’s obvious Scratch managed to come out. And Scratch doesn’t just kill the cultists, but fucking rips them apart, judging by the piles of bodies and gore and hanging entrails. Don’t even get me started on The Bad Boy in Number One Fan, where they practically take the wolf motif and beat us over the head with it all under the guise of funny jokes and fanfiction tropes.
As much as I love the old portrayal of Scratch in AWAN, this much darker and feral version of Scratch is just so fascinating to me. Anyway, TLDR:
okay, but the joker printing "will the real batman please stand up?" on his calling card is so funny to me because that means he heard slim shady at some point and liked it enough to leave it on the dead body of a victim he put in a batman costume
edit: @bloodymary83 said: "Eminem actually didn’t make the phrase. He was reusing it from a 1961 Twilight Zone episode called “Will the Real Martin Please Stand Up?” Which is actually what the Joker is referencing because, of all the people impersonating the Batman." and honestly wow that is so cool!! but then that also raises the question . . . does the joker watch the twilight zone 🤔🤔????
Charlie knowing the positive of flower language while Lucifer knows the negatives is hilarious. I can only imaging the confusion of one of them being gifted dual meaning flowers with zero context.
Flower language is such a good tool for creating misunderstandings!
I think Charlie would always assume the best, even if an enemy gifted her a mean bouquet, she would probably assume that meant they were trying to tell her that they secretly liked her really 😂
parents are gone on a cruise. time to tear through my room looking for the tatting shuttles i know i bought years ago and am 95% sure are not lost to The Old House