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based on that one Scott pilgrim image I saw, I thought it was funny.

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Money is power🤑🤑💷💰

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𝗔𝗹𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗺, An old drawing, but one of my favourites🫣❤️

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guilty conscience

two eyes were each placed in a jar in 1904. the sacrifices were ready.

i regained consciousness. i found myself standing in a hallway, wearing a deer skull and holding two voodoo dolls. after blowing out the one's flames and dropping them, i heard two people thud onto the floor... peculiar coincidence. at least, that's what i wanted to believe.

but even that hope didn't allow any blissful ignorance. i felt a horrible dread regardless. the kind that squeezed my chest too tightly and broke through my skin in cold sweating. my limbs were weak and trembling.

something bad was in that room. i didn't want to know what, but i had to investigate it.

when i walked in, i saw the lifeless bodies of samuel and ida, missing an eye each. he had burns on his hands and head. she was stabbed in the heart. fresh blood and the smell of smoke drowned my senses.

what the hell happened? did i do this? and where were the others? it couldn't be...

i fucking did this.

the stinging of tears and vomit rose up my throat, strangling me from the inside. my head was spinning in all directions. my heartbeat was rapid and pounding loudly against my ribs, as though threatening to break me open.

the air was still. everything was much too still.

consumed wholly by my emotions, i fell to my weak knees. it was hard to breathe. every little movement made my nausea worse.

"WHAT HAVE I DONE?!" i cried out, throwing the deer skull to the wall with strong repulsion. "WHY DID I DO THIS? why? what have i done? i'm sorry. i'm so sorry..." tears dropped to the floor. "the lake made me the devil."

never had i ever wanted this to happen. i'd have taken all of their pain for them if i could.

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Am I the only person who would like to see more Ida x Albert fanarts? I mean, I like the story, the fact that Albert has a sick obsession with his sister-in-law and that he will never be with her, but I find it interesting to imagine them together ‼️

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Hello!! First of all, my English is not very good, sorry if there is any failure. Well, I'm new to Tumblr and I saw that your blog is great, I love discovering even more about Rusty Lake. I don't know if they already asked you the question, but, since in roots, it was noticeable that Albert was a little in love with Ida, what do you think Samuel would think and tell him about it?

Thanks!<3

hi there! your english is great! thanks for enjoying my blog :)

disclaimer: @thelakesuite is more of a samuel expert than i am, however, so i differ to their opinion.

we don't know much about samuel's personality other than what little we see in-game, but i tend to characterize him as a headstrong, adventurous boy who didn't get along exceedingly well with albert (obviously) as a child, who grew into a pretty chill guy overall. i sort of get into him more here?

i think it's canon in the games that samuel doesn't know about albert's obsession with ida. otherwise, he probably would have done something about it—i could definitely see him getting into a pretty heated argument with albert over it, especially if it was bothering ida. however, i believe that there was a significant disconnect between samuel and ida in that she knew what was coming, and he did not, and she wasn't about to tell him. in that way, she was probably rather private on some matters, and it's pretty clear that she knew how albert felt about her, meaning that she likely didn't tell samuel about any more... icky interactions she had with albert.

that's not to say that i think albert was super overt or overbearing about his feelings. i think he was angsting in private a lot.

there are actually some pretty great fics related to this premise if you're interested:

laketober day #3 - tarot (Quantum_Dragon)

bury the dead in your womb (spinary thorn) *it's in russian but you can translate it

one golden afternoon (ferrein) *also in russian **inspired this lovely fanart!

can you outrun a family-tree? (of course you can because trees don't run you idiot) (orphan_account)

The Rose Blooms Where The Butterflies Fall (YellowGooGoo)

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rusty lake as a game series deserves more popularity. like c'mon, an indie game about a supernatural lake that chooses people, dooming them to join it one day. The fight to earn the gift of immortality, ascending to something more than yourself. Rebirth, new beginnings.

it has themes of struggling with mental health, exploring it in an artistic and abstract way. it shows how even yourself can feel like a stranger in a time of hurt. how mental health can make you an unreliable narrator in your own story. how losing someone close to you can affect you, both when it's recent and decades later. and it does all this through an escape room setup.

and this is all without mentioning that there are furries. tell me that's not awesome

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as a rusty lake fan i feel like I NEED MORE ELIZABETH BACKSTORY LIKE BRO!!..i just need her angst

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𝙴𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚎.

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I'm stuck thinking about how he did THIS, so here are my options.

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𝙴𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚎.

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