#please capcom...................................................

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[sapphire-weapon]

Just to circle back on DG's tweets from last night

Because I recognize that I was um

a little

delirious last night.

This is a long post, but please read all of it, because it is important and needs to be said.

DG's statements about what's "canon" are clearly nonsense. Like, that's not even up for debate. Claiming that Gun "It Was All a Dream" Survivor 2 is canon is ridiculous to anyone who actually knows anything about Resident Evil or about Gun Survivor 2. Saying that the live-action RE movies are even partially canon just because the games steal ideas from them is ridiculous, and I shouldn't even have to explain why. RE steals from shit all the time. That doesn't make the things that it steals from canon. That's such a fucking stupid mentality, and he should feel stupid for saying that shit.

DG isn't so far up Capcom's butthole that he has a documented, verified list of what's canon in RE. I don't think even Capcom has a solid understanding of what "canon" means with regards to the RE universe. These are the same fucking people who claimed that the Netflix RE series that had Lance Reddick as Wesker was canon to the games.

Yes. They said that. They explicitly said that.

That doesn't make it true. Anyone who's ever played any RE game ever in their life knows that that fucking show isn't canon to the games. It doesn't matter what Capcom said. That shit is not canon to the games. Period. The end. Not even in question.

And that's something that I've been trying to impress upon this fandom since day fucking one of this blog rising to prominence within it: Do not listen to a single fucking word Capcom says. They make shit up; they lie. They forget their own lore and their own stories, and they just invent shit on the fly because they can't be assed to go back and doublecheck anything.

This had been conventional fandom wisdom for years, and I don't know when or how, exactly, we collectively lost sight of it. But truly old RE fans (like, active in the fandom since at least 2005 RE fans) will all tell you that everything that ever comes out of a Capcom rep's mouth is fucking nonsense. Supplemental material is garbage. None of it is real; none of it matters; none of it will ever show up in a game. I don't care what the wiki says; I don't care what Project Umbrella says. None of it's true, none of it makes it into the games, and almost all of it gets contradicted somewhere else in the series, because it's all just fluff and filler.

And when you follow RE for long enough, you will start to see it, too.

I promise.

I'm sorry if this bursts the bubble of anyone with a crazy insane RE9 theory based on super deep lore from obscure spin-offs and dev interviews, but it's the truth. I'm sorry.

So, I want you guys to understand that when I talk about "canon" -- when an Old Guard RE fan talks "canon" -- what I mean and what I'm referring to is: on-screen shown, stated, or described lore, character developments, and/or story beats that are immediately relevant to the core/numbered titles of the series and have a decent probability of affecting or showing up in a future mainline title.

That is what I'm referring to.

So, no. The Stage Play is not canon. Gun Survivor 2 is not canon. Umbrella Corps is not canon. Resistance is not canon. Dead Aim is not canon. The mangas are not canon. The books are not canon. None of that shit. None of it! Is canon.

The numbered games are canon. The Outbreak games are canon. The Chronicles games are canon. At least Degeneration is canon, and you can make an argument for the rest of the CGI movies being canon, but nothing's been confirmed yet. The Revelations games are... questionably canon. Up for debate. Depends on what Nakanishi does in RE9, since he worked on Rev1. Maybe he'll loop it in. I don't know. We'll know in February.

But that's really it.

And who knows? Maybe future numbered titles will start bringing in more spinoffs into the main canon. Maybe they will.

But they haven't yet.

And until they do, none of that extra supplemental shit should be coloring your understanding of what the actual, real, relevant story and lore of RE is.

Because I can tell you

I promise you

I will bet real-life money dollars

That when an RE dev team sits down to make an RE game, they are not leafing through every single RE thing ever made in order to ensure that the lore is pristine and everything follows a logical, consistent path forward. Our friend Andy over at ScreenFire Germany even said as much; he's the one who told us that RE's dev teams are not beholden to continue the story that came immediately before them.

When an RE team sits down to make a game, they can do whatever they want with the story, irrespective of anything that came before. This is why plot points get dropped so often in RE. This is why Umbrella dies off-screen between CV and RE4. This is why Steve Burnside has never reappeared in the series, despite Wesker promising us he would at the end of CV. This is why RE8 didn't continue the Blue Umbrella storyline. This is why RE9 is about Grace and Leon and the US government and not about corruption in the BSAA.

This is why.

There is no encyclopedia of RE lore sitting at Capcom HQ that the devs consult for every new title. There is no repository of plot points from every single game, movie, manga, book, stage show -- whatever -- that the devs reference for new game titles. The devs don't read the fan wiki.

They don't. I promise.

When the devs make a new game, they decide which character or characters they want to make the game about, and they make that game. That's it. That's all that happens. If they want to -- and if time allows them to -- they will go back and reference the main sources of canon regarding those characters, which is why it's important to identify what those actual sources are.

But... sometimes they won't do that. That's why RE6's lore and story are so fucked up. They didn't go back and replay RE1 or RE2 or RE3 or RE4 or Code Veronica when they wrote RE6. That's why Sherry's age in RE2 magically changed from 12 to 10 as of RE6. That's why the actual plot points between Sherry and Leon are completely absent from RE6. That's why Chris never brings up Wesker in conjunction with Ada, despite Leon somehow knowing that there was a connection between Wesker and Ada as early as RE4. That's why RE6 tried to establish that Leon and Chris met sometime after the BSAA was founded, despite the fact that they've been in contact with each other since 1999 in Code Veronica.

I could go on and on and on.

It's because no one went back and referenced the old material. Sometimes, that happens. That's why it can feel, sometimes, that it's really fucking hard to keep track of what RE canon actually even really is -- and why it's important to keep it as bare-bones, basic, and simple as possible.

And when you do that, understanding the series and the canon becomes a lot easier.

Because, again. I promise you. No one in Division 1 is going back and watching recordings of the fucking Stage Play in order to build their next game. No one is reading those novels. No one is searching through every ad and every dev statement going back to 1996. That's not real. That's not realistic. It's not happening.

So, when we're talking about one timeline vs two timelines...

You know, I hope DG is right. I'm on record having said that already. I hope to god he's right and that the original games and the remakes are both canon at the same time, and everything is a weird mishmash where nothing makes sense and the details don't matter -- because it will break RE fandom from this spell of trying to suss out what every little detail of "canon" actually is.

I hope he's right.

And he very well may be.

But I also don't think that it matters.

And the reason why I don't think that it matters starts with Hirabayashi's statement on how DSC's Operation Javier is canon to OG RE4 but not to RE4make. Hirabayashi stated in pretty plain terms that the OG games are one thing and the remakes are something else.

But I also recognize that Hirabayashi is just one man leading one team, and there are allegedly five separate teams that work on RE games. And Hirabayashi's philosophy for how his team develops RE games might not be the same as, say, Nakanishi's.

But it all comes down to this issue of what is canon and how the games address continuity.

For the remakes, Hirabayashi has made it very clear that he's following his own continuity irrespective of what the finer details of the OG games may state. RE2make logically leads into RE4make; RE4make is a direct sequel that pulls exclusively from RE2make without regard to any of the finer details that the OG games established and built off of. We can expect to see the same thing from the Code Veronica remake, which he is also in charge of. CVXR will be a direct sequel to RE2make the way that RE4make was -- but it'll just be Claire's sequel this time, where RE4make was Leon's.

So everything that is "canon"? Doesn't really matter to Hirabayashi. He's making his own """timeline""" of events. He's making his own """canon.""" And, as a result, you cannot say or assume that RE4make will lead Leon right into RE6 as it currently exists. Hirabayashi is doing what he wants with regards to Leon's character trajectory -- Leon's personal growth/development, his relationships, and his characterization in general. Remake Leon won't look, sound, or act the same in RE6make as he does in RE6. He will be different. The game will be different.

And it might piss some people off. And that's okay. Because it's its own thing. And it doesn't erase OG RE6.

But... this same philosophy might not show up or be true in RE9. Nakanishi might take some stuff from Hirabayashi's version of events. RE9 might end up being confusing in a lot of ways for that reason.

But that doesn't affect anything that Hirabayashi is doing on his end.

So, in that sense... the timelines are separated.

Even if RE9 combines them, they're still separate from Hirabayashi's point of view. And Hirabayashi still isn't beholden to honor anything that Nakanishi does or establishes in RE9.

I know that that's confusing. I know that that's hard to understand.

But that's why it is so important that we view the OG games and the remakes as different things. The remakes might affect OG, but OG won't affect the remakes. Because they're remakes. They can do what they want -- and Hirabayashi is doing what he wants with them (within reason). And he's said as much.

And... that's RE, man. That's how this series works.

If what you want/need/desire from a series is for everything to be explained in a way that's adequate and satisfying, RE isn't the series for you.

If you're looking for a series that you can piece together and have it make logical sense, RE isn't the series for you.

Well, maybe the remakes are. But not RE as a whole. Abandon anything that's not a remake, to that end. Don't pay attention to anything else in the series, if you're that person.

Because RE, overall, is not the series for that. It's not the series for you. It will not give you what you want. And the more that you look for it to do that, the more you'll walk away frustrated, upset, and disappointed.

[obliviasart]

I need Gemma like I need oxygen

[datcravat]

It seems there's a new lawyer in town!!!

[bagel-bird-ainsor]

Played the first case of Investigations with my siblings a little while ago and we ended up making jokes that spiraled into in-character improv that went wildly off the rails. So I doodled some of the stuff we came up with!

Edgeworth has recently become a psychic vampire (he refuses to explain how) and Gumshoe is a cyborg who can switch to “4 arms mode” and can also turn into a car. No I cannot explain why we came to those character choices. It just happened,

Also my sister was doing the voice for Maggey and did a bit about falling into a ditch and it just spiraled from there into whatever this joke is

Anyway it was really fun! I wish I could play the whole game with them and continue these bits, but I’m back at college now and my workload makes it so I don’t have super consistent free time for it. Maybe when I visit home I’ll replay the cases with them. Hope y’all enjoyed these!

[legayllyblonde]

it's

✨ franziska friday ✨

(and day five of the aai ladies haha) @aainvestigationswomen

[floodwatersblog]

rough drawing of the zoh armour (TENATCLES EDITION!!!!!!) 'cause it's gross and weird and made of goop and I think that's real neat

[rolanslide]

i keep getting hung up on this line for some reason. something about Klavier saying he "deserved that much" is so heartbreaking to me. he's right- he does deserve a brother that actually cares about him. he does deserve a brother who won't use and manipulate him. he's not asking for much- just for his big brother to even attempt to meet him in the middle. and he's realizing that will never happen. and he's saying to Kristophs face- 'I deserved better. you were supposed to be a better brother'

[crowfaraday]

the key art seems to be like, different lineart widths so its like fullbody pics assembled onto one image did they draw Everyone a fullbody? everyone???? please

oh my god they actually did it.........

[cornertheculprit]

i do think the "dark age of the law" thing in dual destinies was perhaps the stupidest thing imaginable. why's everyone suddenly freaking out about corruption in the courtroom. do you think manfred von karma got that forty-year win streak out of nowhere. do you think miles edgeworth got HIS win streak out of nowhere. do you think damon gant's control over Fucking Everything came out of nowhere. do you think furio tigre's ability to masquerade as a defense attorney and nobody saying a damn thing about it came out of nowhere. do you think franziska von karma holding up a photograph and being like "i know this picture is illegal but what are you gonna do? Unsee it? <3" came out of nowhere. The three-day "guilty until proven innocent" trial system. The sheer sway prosecutors held over the entirety of the court, up to and including shit like being able to assault the judge and opposing defense attorney with zero consequences + tailoring witness testimony to suit their case and threatening said witnesses if they said anything too revealing. Hello. Can anyone hear me. I'm going nuts

[rendevok]

Act II ~ The Challenge

A tapestry for chapter 2 of Let No One Sleep by @azalawa-scroggs on ao3

[moss-on-a-pebble]

Shoutout to Verity Gavèlle: one of the only parents in the Ace Attorney franchise that isn't evil, absent, or dead.

Bonus doodle:

(Trucy is referring to her magic acts lol)

[donutsdiah]

Uhm hi here's Leon Kennedy without a serious and traumatic gaze

[tianhai03]

i watched re death island today!!!!!1 it was really good!!!!!!!!! had to draw smth to celebrate :)

[andyacklesspn]

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[koumystic]

GOATED trio its such a shame we dont see them together so often because they are so peak actually.... also franziska and lang deserve more content together, such an underrated & powerful friendship

This might be my fav panel all three (the interwined arms, the angle, the pose, they KNOWW they ate)

THEY ARE SO SILLYY everyone needs to know how special their friendship is to me

BRING EM BACK CAPCOM ‼️