There is so much gapfiller potential in the fact that Hu Tao, Lan Yan, and Qiqi spent two days inside the border as it was disintegrating around them, and Hu Tao could see the exit but could never reach it in time. Like the border between life and death was both her duty and a place where she is fairly comfortable, she maintained it and in turn it helped her job go smoothly, and now it traps and betrays her despite her efforts, a sanctum desecrated through no fault of her own.
The border is the place where she's supposed to belong, it's her expertise, and suddenly none of her skill or dedication is enough - not to preserve the border, not to deal with the sudden illnesses in Qingce, not even to save the two people trapped her, let alone herself. She's not even in her familiar uniform, not wearing the hat that provides her with confidence, or maybe a reminder of her duties. Yes, she's expecting backup, and no, she's not alone. But she's with a person she just met (albeit one she gets along with) who also bears a long legacy, and the child who might as well be the embodiment of compromise, the proof that Hu Tao's perception isn't perfect. And if she misunderstood Qiqi for so long, what else about her job (her livelihood, her life) has she missed?
i think the game stray is genuinely such a good game and everyone overlooked it as "the silly cat game" when it genuinely has such a meaningful story and that's so sad and unfair to me
it's like the game came out and everyone forgot about it. but i can't move on this game makes me fucking CRY
autistic rambling under the cut i mean it BEWARE YOU HAVE TO WATCH OUT
the fact that humans died out but the robots carry on their legacy. they call them the "soft ones" and take care of the plants they left behind. they make their own foods and their own clothes and they enjoy fashion and they read books and they make art just like the humans did. they love the humans even though they're gone
they were stuck underground for centuries and never saw the real sky or the real stars and they lost hope that the outside was even a real thing. that it was just a false hope someone made up
and then this little fucking cat comes around. and they love this thing. it's just a little guy to them its their friend. they love it just like the humans did
this cat somehow banded the robots together to push back against their oppressive government and opened the sky to them and they saw sunlight for the first time and they were no longer under the control of their oppressors because they all sought each other AND IT'S A HOPEFUL DYSTOPIA YOU DON'T GET IT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND
IT MIRRORS THE WAY THE WORLD IS GETTING RIGHT NOW IN SO MANY WAYS AND IT BLATANTLY TELLS YOU THAT THERE'S ALWAYS HOPE !!!!!!!!!!!!
"humans often said that making art is important in desperate situations. these are certainly desperate times" SHUT UP
fuckass cat from stray you mean everything to me. fuckass robots. UGH
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