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A ultra specific ask regarding HoA bc I trust your judgment the most when it comes to analyzing TDPA cast, but who out of the main HoA gang do you is most likely to be afraid of heights ?

Interesting question! Let's think about this ...

So, Eric and Rachel are definitely the least afraid of heights, considering they went climbing regularly. I imagine they're definitely afraid of driving (in) a car, though!

I think Salim is more afraid of seeing his loved ones in high places than visiting them himself. I imagine he actually likes places with a good view, considering there are two instances in the game where he uses a telescope :D

Jason can look down at a few deep places without showing any fear, and even fights Joey at a pretty high one, so I think he's quite comfortable with heights.

Nick might be the most likely candidate. He's usually either distracted when in a high place (like in the helicopter), asks about the depth of a pretty deep hole at one point (while searching for Joey) and usually seems to stay away from any high places (if I remember correctly). When all protagonists are alive, it's also always Nick who gets grabbed first in the finale, which would fit quite well if he's afraid of heights :) So my answer is: Nick!

Thanks for the ask, it was quite fun to think about this~

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I JUST finished Hidden Agenda for the x-th time :O

But I have to admit, I wouldn't have recognized Adam with these fashionable clothes ;D

Trapper

Drew Adam Jones in something he would wear because someone has to do it and it might as well be me, also mouse friend for the trapper killer

@kassiekole22 @delurkr @tatjana-fantasy @ctrvpani @unhingedlesbear @qusok @blubary (thinking about how the initial best choices run of hidden agenda I watched had people in the comments genuinely confused by who the woman was and not seeing what they missed 😂) and I can't for the life of me recall which parts of my smg circle has actually expirenced HA 😅

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I wish I had something to add, but I don't – this is a great overview of the characters!

okay so i finished little hope a few days ago and i have several thoughts on why anthonys subconscious makes the characters behave in certain ways (i have the most to say about john and angela because i ship them like crazy, i have a fanfic on ao3 for them btw xx)

andrew spends most of the game trying to become more heroic and save his friends, and the metaphor here is pretty obvious. it’s because he wants to prove to himself that he could have done more, but also he doesn’t want to believe it was all his fault. he sees hallucinations of mary/megan because he knows she’s the real perpetrator, but still can’t bring himself to blame her, if the true ending is anything to go off of.

john and angela don’t exactly have the most friendly relationship, but they’re there for each other when they need to be, especially when it’s important. i think andrew imagines them this way because of how poor james and anne’s relationship is, bordering on abusive from what we can see, and angela mentions at some point that she had a difficult divorce, which could have potentially been abusive. as well as this, john mentions how he’s been sober for nearly 3 months at the start of the game, which is the opposite of james, who is clearly struggling with alcoholism. and i think john is a good foil to both james and angela’s ex husband, because of how (sorry john i love you) pathetic he is. the same goes for joseph and amy, who clearly have the best relationship of the 3 pairs. in both imagined scenarios, anthony’s parents have a strong relationship where they work together, and are generally kind to each other, even if the former do bicker from time to time. this counteracts how james and anne don’t try to work through their problems as a team, especially james.

even though angela isn’t very warm to people, she does have moments where she can behave kind of like a mother figure, particularly to andrew and daniel. there’s a dialogue between the former and angela at some point where andrew says he doesn’t think taylor or any kind of girl would be interested in him, and angela says “im sure that’s not true”, which is definitely something a mother would say lol.

john in general is a better father figure to anthony/andrew than what we see from james (when he tells anne that things would be better if they’d had kids of their own instead of adopting, it’s kind of implied james doesn’t try hard for any of his kids). he’s always encouraging him, and even though they do have friendly disagreements (the jabbering/yabbering conversation will always be funny to me), overall john cares deeply for andrew, and even though it takes him a while to step up and be the leader, he tries his hardest to do what’s best for the group (unlike james for his family).

taylor/tanya is a strange case, because i can’t see that many discernible changes between the two— however, taylor is probably more level-headed than tanya, and when she has the dialogue choice to tell daniel to leave her behind, i think it’s anthony trying to subconsciously reassure himself that there was nothing that could be done (the same can be said for the other characters when they have their ‘leave me behind and save yourself’ moment). and i know everyone was shocked by the reveal because of the fact that daniel and taylor are dating (which i was too at first lmaooo) but i think it’s because there was a lack of closeness between tanya and dennis that anthony wanted to fix in his subconscious.

daniel is different to dennis in the way that daniel is more selfless, and he’s not so aggressive to the people around him. he’s understanding of angela and her cold demeanour instead of just chalking it up to her being rude for no reason, and he’s playful as opposed to dismissive and unkind. he tries to save everyone around him too, especially taylor, even if he isn’t technically the smartest guy. even if he does have moments of arrogance, it’s never meant to be horrible.

also, a neat little detail that i only picked up on my second play through— the judge in the trials is the same guy at the start who finds the house on fire and asks anthony what happened. it’s cool to me because he was literally ‘judging him’ lol

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They straight-up look like they came from a horror movie ... oh, wait--

Ravenden crew

Oh how I wish the little hope cast would commit to the dusting since they've already touched it anyway but that aside I was looking at the group photo and there's some interesting people in here

Random close ups under cut

I don't trust this lady(sorry lady who objectivily didn't do anything lol)

Why's James just out here with a cigar 😂, we got cool mustache guy, a dude who looks vaguely similar to James in the back

I have a lot of questions about what this lady has going on but I respect it

We've got this young lady tucked over there and some interesting patterns going on

I wish I knew what the heck she was wearing under all that dust and a general what the bottom half of most of these looks are like

There's like, a half dozen guys consumed by the dust and same tbh

I know I desire to dig into this and draw them but oh boy where do I start 😅

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They could've simply established it by Jamie asking something like: "You're still afraid of heights?", which not only tells us that he has that fear, but also that she already knows about it. Oh well ... maybe Mark was too indecisive when it came to telling her? And maybe he was also good in hiding it 🤔 Still, not satisfied with that because I think close friends would've told each other something like this :-(

Wish they'd kept that one line abt Mark being embarrassed abt his acrophobia. It would make Jamie somehow being unaware of it after 3+ years of working with him make a tiny bit more sense

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This is definitely one of the lines that should've been kept because it explains why (presumably) only Kate knows about it. Although I think the others definitely should've noticed it earlier 😅

Wish they'd kept that one line abt Mark being embarrassed abt his acrophobia. It would make Jamie somehow being unaware of it after 3+ years of working with him make a tiny bit more sense

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I love the idea of one of them messing up horribly and dragging the others with them, because well, that's basically the actual game XD

So I've been thinking about that one Little Hope Criminal AU idea I did nothing with. I just have one question to start it all.

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She looks so adorable! I want to hug her <3

Abi girl!! <3 I fell in love with her character immediately (she like me FR.)

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Aww, this is so cute <3 It also feeds my headcanon that Daniel only possesses one-color shirts :D

The silly goofy little guys!!

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Shout out to Anthony and Andrew for simultanously being the oldest and youngest protagonist <3

Worked out the age order of all existing DPA protagonists and now I wanna make an au where they all live in the same town at the same time 😍

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AHHH SHE'S SO CUTE <3 <3 <3

nothing to see here just mini kate wilder

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I bet they drove everyone mad XD Meanwhile, Anthony wrote them every day and asked about their adventures, hoping to visit the camp as well ... but it never happened. :( He would've made a fine counselor, I think. <3

It just occured to me that Anthony was born in the year Hackett's Quarry was established (1953) and I don't know what to do with that information

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It just occured to me that Anthony was born in the year Hackett's Quarry was established (1953) and I don't know what to do with that information

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None of them lol

Until Dawn's characters would totally kill all "monsters". After just fighting Wendigos, they wouldn't risk anything!

Man of Medan's characters wouldn't kill any werewolves at all, since they would be too afraid to kill a friend :-(

The Quarry's characters would not only kill Rachel to prevent her from turning, but be very overwhelmed by the difficult QTEs!

House of Ashes's characters would do well in QTEs, but kill everyone with choices, since they are used to more forgiving ones ;D

The Devil in Me's characters would probably ask for help during the demon fights after everything they've been through :(

And Little Hope's characters wouldn't be used to the Don't Move sequences, and kill everyone that way XD

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My favorite is obviously the polycule <3

My second-favorite would be removing Nick from the love triangle :-( I absolutely love Royalty (that's my ship name for Eric and Rachel :D) and think it would've been cool to focus on Nick's trauma more.

My third-favorite is Clarachel and Kingkay :D

Things that could’ve fixed the awkward Eric/Rachel/Nick drama in House of Ashes imo:

The love triangle is omitted entirely and the fandom is left to ship as it pleases

They have the conversation before the briefing and that’s that

They try to have the conversation in the Star Cave and get shamed into dropping it for the time being by Jason and Salim

(Alternately, Jason steps in Murray Bauman-style and insists they get their shit together before they drive him insane)

There’s no big conversation at all, just a little tension from knowing there’s a problem but they’re professional and save that for post-game

All three have multiple chances to bond Jalim-style depending on dialogue options and QTEs, possibly resulting in them behaving more like a polycule by the end

Rachel straight-up kisses Clarice in front of Nick and Eric after they make it to the “safety” of the temple

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Hmm, then maybe post-Complicit ending? 🤔 Although I'm not sure if they would still be friends after that ...

hell yeah mark and Erin bestie fic in the works

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Please let Mark tell her everything that happened in Glendale :D

hell yeah mark and Erin bestie fic in the works