2. What’s a role in a different show you’ve heard one of your cast members in and just been absolutely blown away by?
Kaleb Piper (the voice of Cameron Lilith) was amazing in Micro-Cosmos! His voice range with accents is awesome and he plays a great eccentric scientist known as Dr. Felix Couvillion!! It was the first show I ever heard him in but he also plays an amazing role as an agent in The Heart of Ether! Between the 3 shows, he has 3 very different accents. Kaleb is seriously an amazing actor!
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potentially unpopular (but undeniably correct) Maria SH2 opinion incoming.
I am normally so profoundly against the "oh no, they un-sexified my video game woman" rhetoric but it is so critically important to who Maria is as a character and to the overall theming of the game as a whole, and to put her in a more conservative outfit is so blatantly missing the point that it makes me deeply worried for the direction of this remake and the dev's grasps on the games most central theme.
Silent Hill 2 is an exploration into the psychosexual guilt of a man who experienced carnal urges while his wife was dying of a mysterious disease and physically unavailable to him. Maria is the most concrete confirmation of and confrontation with this theme that exists in the game. A mirror of his dead wife, meant to look James in the face and say "this is what you wanted, right?" She HAS to be identifiably sexual on sight, because Maria only exists to be a purposeful avatar of this concept.
it is ESSENTIAL TO THE PLOT that Maria is aware of and in CONTROL of her sexuality. Not only is it critical to James' story and his overall theming, but part of the tragedy of Silent Hill IS Maria's own story. Maria, who feels like a real, whole person, is an invention of the town made explicitly and only to torture James. Part of the tragedy is that Maria herself was born (from a wish, ba dum tss) by a malevolent supernatural force to exist as a sexual object. Maria, who is brought back to life again and again to be killed brutally, begging for James to save her. Maria, who comes to understand that she will never live up to the ideal of James' dead wife, and will continually beg to be taken seriously as her own person. The only thing she has to offer is her sexuality, the one thing James couldn't get from Mary; the thing that brought him to the town, to her. It her is primary character function, and it wasn't done to objectify her for shits and giggles, or because the devs were pervs who wanted a sexy woman in their game. It was done because that, in itself, is a horrifying, gut-wrenching reality to be brought into, a fundamentally ABYSMAL reason to exist. It IS the horror.
Maria exists exclusively to be a confrontation with James' sexual guilt. She is a specter that haunts the hallways James walks down, a shadow that hovers over his shoulder, the object of his shame and desire. Maria is the worst, most carnal aspects of James' urges made manifest, standing before him, tempting him deeper into the clutches of the town, muddying his senses with her physical allure.
Maria's outfit actually IS that deep. Part of the tragedy is that she only exists to be objectified. It is a commentary in itself. This is the one time EVER (god willing) that I will champion a woman being in a revealing outfit in a video game, because this is the one time it actually fucking MATTERS
maybe this is an unpopular opinion but as an afab person these themes are so so important and identifiable to me. it reflects the horror of every day life as a woman and magnifies them tenfold. it is tragic, it is awful, it is sick, and the point isn't to glorify it, but to call attention to it. it forces you to engage, to not turn your head away. and that matters to me.
anyways bloober team really be bloobing all over this IP huh
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winged heart au x Talon
Jason: well, my heart ain't beating, thanks to the pit and all.
Tim; it very easy to lose a spleen okay, they're easy to lose.
Wally: not, what easy to lose is my sanity! what do you mean your heart ain't beating, and no Red Robin, losing a spleen ain't easy!! Go back to school and learn Anatomy.
Dick: well Batman lost his funny bone, I from that bone.
Wally, points at DIck: you! you stay out of this!
Dick: well.... jokes aside Talon's are dead, I don't need to breath... or eat really.
Wally, looks at him,,, then to damian:
Damian: My father is a disappointment, so I am sadly just a regular human with all my organs still in my body.
Wally are you sure about that face: are you sure
Damian, remembers at 6yo he tried so hard to transform into son of bats: yes.
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