Every time I return to KCD1, I am just so tickled that KCD1 Hans is genuinely such a fucking delight. I miss you piss-yellow king. Baron Weird Things Sayer of the fiefdom of Resting Bitch Face. You jubilant rectangular testicle with a shit-eating grin. My sun, my stars, my bad summer decision. My poorly socialized sugar daddy. My cock of the walk. I hear your hideous shitbird call of FUUUUUUCK OFFFFFFF and I come running every time. Hope you recover from your Assigned Girl By Fandom period. Get well soon annoying prince.
Jin, I have sat on this question and sat on it hoping something erudite would come to me but alas.
I know I liked poetry a bit as a child, because I had a shel silverstein book I would read over and over. But I think once you get into school poetry suddenly becomes this very serious subject you must study and replicate and dissect in a way that turned me off from the medium, because the types of poems upheld as worth study just aren't the type that are fun for a kid, you know?
I got the impression from my teachers that there are quality poems with merit (stuff by Dickinson, Hemmingway) and there are junk food poems (limericks, anything funny, any kind of raunchier works) and we must ignore the junk in favor of very serious poetry. And that made me feel like the sincere poetry was exhausting and masturbatory, and I never really got over it. Like I love Lord Byron the person, what a rascal, but I do not love his poetry. It does nothing for me.
I do like the Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock with it's 'I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each/I do not think that they will sing to me.', but for no reason other than it's nice to know that even in 1915 people were getting older, looking at the trends of the kids of those days, and feeling chopped, washed and unc.
I like Hemmingway's line about 'I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul' for no real reason.
I did also like Walt Whitman when I was in school, but for no other reason than his works have a really nice song like rhythm to them. I couldn't tell you the content of any of his poems though.
But overall I'd rather read Catallus' diss tracks about his enemies, or Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that happen to be written in verse, or even a full play by Shakespeare than anything else. Which are all technically in the school of poetry but I don't think anyone thinks of them as poems, you know?
seeing people say "this trope has been done to death" as if that's ever stopped anyone from eating bread. BREAD HAS BEEN DONE TO DEATH FOR LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF YEARS AND WE STILL WANT MORE BREAD. write your chosen one AU. write your coffee shop meet-cute. write your 47th iteration of "there was only one bed" because guess what??? we're still hungry.
But you don't have to be so mean about it Mr. Inquisitor. That's just rude. Maybe I just think the fine garments look nice, huh? Thought of that?
Actually, I was half sure the man was a bandit until I managed to convince him I'm not a sorcerer and he then left. Who the fuck is spreading rumors about Henry's sorcery round here?
"Closely resemble", Henry, I think he was talking about you my guy.
#the way multiple npcs mistake henry for the devil is fascinating#because one feels like a joke#but 3+ feels like it means something#and i wonder if this wears on henry's mind at all#that so many people see him and see darkness in him#much to consider via @apoptoses
Not just the devil or a demon, but the grim reaper as well, multiple times. And whenever he is, he has the option to play along or reject the idea, but it is interesting to consider how often this happens to him. Especially because he doesn't seem to think he'd end up in heaven after he dies, yk? He seems to feel a lot of guilt over not being a good enough person or son (as we see in his nightmares), while not really feeling bad about many of his actions that he sees as justified. How much being mistaken for the devil/a demon/a sorcerer/the grim reaper and a general force of evil and darkness and death play into how he sees himself and his actions.
Whenever considering this, I always go back to KCD1, to Henry throwing up in horror and disgust after bashing Runt's skull in and how, later, when praying for repentance, he says "he was a murderer and a thief, and he deserved it. But I shouldn't have killed him". The act was justified, he keeps justifying it to himself, I always read him as being not as disgusted with the act as with the fact he did it and didn't feel as bad about it as he thinks he should.
And as you go in KCD2, he does go further and further. Gets himself involved in more torture and death, all justified to him in the moment, all hard choices that need to be made, and he tries, but violence comes too easily to him. In a way it shouldn't. The way when Hans calls him out on taking it too far with the torture of the prisoner in Trosky and Henry's only option to agree with Hans it was bad and take responsibility is essentially: "Yeah, sorry. It got a little out of hand... I got out of hand"
I often wonder if Henry sees himself as a good person at all. He sees himself as better than many he knows of and encounters. But how much does it grate on him? Being referred to as the devil while Istvan's words that they aren't so different echo in his mind? When his memory of Martin is disappointed with every kill, even ones that I'd argue the real Martin would have understood? When he knows killing and stealing are sins but he can't bring himself to feel real guilt or remorse over them? That he seems convinced he'd end his life dead in a ditch or some unmarked grave somewhere? And is his option to play along a way to derive humor out of such an unflattering comparison?
This is all so good because I agree- Henry does not see himself as a a good person.
And I think with Henry, as the player we can get deep into 'he's my little guy who never did anything bad' because we can try to make good choices for him. But no matter how many times you have him settle an issue with talking, or you pick the 'good' choice, there rarely is a truly good choice: just the better of two bad options.
Markvart isn't wrong. Istvan Toth isn't wrong. Henry does kill people, just like them. He kills for the side he thinks is the good side, and he kills to protect what he considers good people. But at the end of the day he's killing people's husbands, their brothers, their fathers, their sons. For everyone he kills because he thinks he's doing good, someone on the other side sees him and sees a Toth of their own.
No matter how good the player makes him there is a darkness and a ruthlessness in him that cannot be ignored.
And I totally agree, Henry is constantly aware of it. This is why his parents (aka his conscience) is extremely difficult to please at the end. Even the 'good' endings will still see him weighed down by certain decisions. There is no version of himself that he sees as an angel.
So not to derail but, it makes it all the more striking to me that Hans refers to Henry as his guardian angel if you pick a certain dialogue option on the way to Nebakov. So many people, including Henry himself, compare Henry to death or the devil but Hans thinks of him as a holy savior figure regardless of his choices until that point.
Okay so I made a list of 30 (well, 29 actually) prompts I am releasing into the wild. The point of this is that at least one of the participants are not having a good time.
It has 30 prompts for November but feel free to write and post whenever, but please add the tag #No one nuts November or #NoonenutsNovember wherever you post. You do not have to @ or credit this blog if you use any of these prompts.
(Text version under the cut)
1. Safeword
2. Sub/dom drop
3. Loosing intrest halfway through
4. Trying something that doesn't work
5. Medical emergency (bonus points: it happens during bondage)
6. Bad/failed orgasm
7. Should have safeworded
8. "Wait, it's not supposed to hurt?"
9. "Let's never try that again."
10. Sex so bad they break up after
11. Realistic shower sex
12. Incompatible kinks
13. Threw up on that thang
14. Can't get hard/wet/aroused
15. Says wrong persons name during sex
16: ugly crying/overwhelmed
17: "I remembered you being better at this"/"I'm not impressed."/"I've had better."/"You're not hung chill"
18: Allergic reaction/cut off circulation
19. Dirty talk/degradation gets too real
20. Ignored/missed a safeword
21. Random horny confession that kills the mood for the other person/people
22. "No really, that's not going to fit."
23. Fire alarm goes off/interrupted by a third party
24. Pushing themselves into sex they aren't ready for
25. Sex toy gets stuck
26. Only one person having fun/agreeing to boring sex
27. Couple brings in a bad 3rd
28. Sex in a bad location
29. Sex so bad it kills you/one of the participants dies
But you don't have to be so mean about it Mr. Inquisitor. That's just rude. Maybe I just think the fine garments look nice, huh? Thought of that?
Actually, I was half sure the man was a bandit until I managed to convince him I'm not a sorcerer and he then left. Who the fuck is spreading rumors about Henry's sorcery round here?
"Closely resemble", Henry, I think he was talking about you my guy.
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