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AND WHY DOES HE LOOK SO GOOOD 😭😭😭

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I’ve been away the rest of the day and what do you mean we already have older Trevor??!???
AND WHY DOES HE LOOK SO GOOOD 😭😭😭
I JUST STARTED CRYING TEARS OF JOY.
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Holy moly it’s looking so good!
ALSO ROSE BELMONT?!! SHE LOOKS SO AMAZING I CANT RIGHT NOW.
This key art is simply stunning. Big big fan of Katsuya Terada's work. :)
Terada working on Castlevania just fulfilled a wish I didn’t even know I needed!
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With us being 4 Chapters in, halfway through the game, and still not knowing what object Ralsei embodies, I think part of it could be due to his Light World form being something unusual, but I think another, possibly bigger, reason for this narrative choice not to reveal what he embodies has to do with the theme of Darkners being people, despite what he tries to tell us.
Ralsei claims that Darkners are just objects, that they don't matter, that they love serving their purpose, and in Chapter 1 he even said that being useful to Lightners is the only way for them to be fulfilled, but Susie has consistently questioned this or shut it down; this is one way that we as the audience are nudged towards questioning it. Darkners are also written with the same complexity as Lightners, and most of them are content in Castle Town, where they're just living their lives in the Dark World and forming social bonds with each other, largely away from Lightners, and not being "useful".
Even Tenna, another lonely Darkner with low self worth, who reduces himself to just being a TV and claims he was happy just serving his purpose, indicates that he has dreams beyond it. As the Chapter 5 cutscene shows, his unhappiness in Castle Town doesn't come from being useless, but rather from being lonely in the Dark World; he lost his partner (the only person that truly understood him), and then seemingly lost a friend as a result, being left all alone. He dreamed of having a family with Spamton, he dreamed of traveling... he has desires beyond his purpose, and when his survival doesn't depend on being useful, those desires actually appear to matter more to him.
We're clearly meant to question the idea that Darkners are just objects, that they have no desires outside of their purpose, or that serving their purpose will give them a truly happy and fulfilling life. Especially when you consider the existence of a Darkner like Spamton, for whom being useful to Lightners is outright impossible; he's spam mail, doomed to be ignored and useless.
Ralsei himself wishes he could join Kris and Susie on their adventures in the Light World, wishes he could do their homework, and is starting to develop interests and opinions that aren't in service of Lightners; the previous lack of those wasn't due to him naturally being just an object with no real feelings, but due to him repressing himself because he believed he's not "supposed" to have any real personality or desires. He also claims that being useful is what makes Darkners happy, but we see that the things that actually make him happy are spending time with his friends and being treated like a friend rather than a servant; being comforted when he's upset, being told it's okay not to smile... he's not being "useful" there, and his Lightner friends are actually caring for him, but it makes him feel better.
He's clearly not just an object. He's a person. And I think the choice to not reveal what object he embodies is, at least in part, meant to emphasize this, along with his visual design.
If the player doesn't know what object Ralsei embodies, that makes it harder for them to reduce him to just being said object. There are theories about what his Light World form is, but we still don't have anything concrete. The player only gets to knowingly interact with him in the Dark World, where he is a person. His Dark World form strongly resembles the Dreemurrs, which is brought up even within the narrative itself, where he's especially noted to resemble Asriel (their names are even anagrams of each other). He could easily be another child in the family, and he wouldn't look out of place; the pink horns are a small enough difference that they could be assumed to be some kind of fantasy condition or just a color variation.
In the Dark World, he looks like a lost Dreemurr kid, and he acts like a kid. This, along with our lack of knowledge of his Light World form, makes it harder to believe him when he says he's nothing more than an object, and makes it more apparent that he's an unreliable narrator.
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YES. EXACTLY. I find it so interesting that any Ralsei Object theory is incapable of providing a full picture of his character, and that the more we know about him, the less certain any one particular object becomes. Not to mention that the game has directly disproven the idea that he's something Kris carries around with them. Whatever Ralsei is, it's entirely secondary to who he is as a person, but the game has left the object, the thing that we can use to overwrite his identity with something else, as an open question about his character, leaving us to weigh the question of what Ralsei is as opposed to who Ralsei is. We want to find an answer to what he is so we can better understand him, fit him into the rules of Darkners that we've been given, but we risk losing that understanding if we hold ourselves to the "what question" too closely and sacrifice the ability to think of him as a person.
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In retrospect i feel like Susie being so defeated and frustrated that toriel was home the entire time has more to do with the fact that susie has basically been on a consistent ‘losing’ streak since the end of chapter 3 than anything else:
She wasnt able to stop the knight
Undyne got taken away
She wasnt able to find the shelter code
The knight made a fountain in the church during the middle of the day, presumably right after they left church (she missed her chance to catch the knight in the act.)
Susie believes that toriel is in the church this whole time. (literally one of the main things motivating her this time)
They start off right next to the fountain (yay!) only to get knocked ALL the fucking way down by the knight (oh no)
They climb back up and chase down the knight only for it to escape and lock the door behind them
Susie actually befriends an authority figure in gerson only to discover that they’ve actually just been dead the whole time.
Susie makes another fountain, is forced to fight what she thinks is a zombie version of gerson, and then finds out that ralsei has been witholding information.
They chase down the knight AGAIN, getting beat the fuck up by swords along the way AGAIN.
They manage to corner the knight, with Susie calling them out that it’s over once the fountain gets sealed.
The knight summons a titan and nearly triggers the roaring, yet they manage to make it through.
the knight escapes in the chaos, nowhere to be seen
susie sees the final prophecy that ralsei has been desperately trying to prevent us from seeing.
she and kris close the fountain and toriel is nowhere to be seen. she failed again.
susie and kris head home in the rain only to discover that this whole time toriel wasn’t even in the church and that susie’s desperate struggle literally just meant nothing.
i would cry i would actually just cry if i went through all that shit only to realize the person i was trying to rescue wasn’t even fucking there.
*I'm constantly expected to perform masculinity/total neutrality despite not seeming to take much joy in it/I'm made out to be unforgivably and unescapably aggressive and cruel because of defense mechanisms I've had to build up to protect myself/I'm sacrificing my feelings and personal opinions in order to stay palatable and useful to the people around me
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theyre racialized too . susie is specifically black , kris is more up to interpretation but theyre very obviously a transracial kid ( in a fantasy way where theyre literally a different species , but you should always double up on this by making them not white ! ) , ralsei is one i need to think on . i definitely dont think ralsei is white but i think because of all the other shit going on w her theres almost definitely a disconnect if that makes sense ? i see a lot of alt designs where like . the longer fur and ears and stuff are white , but the shorter fur is black if that makes sense ? usually when the design is meant to indicate black ralsei cus of ancient black-coded furry truths and shit . literal Black Sheep ( / goat ) . anyway i think of these designs with ralseis ch1 design and howthe inversion turns into ralseis white fur being more visible in ch1 , and at the end she reveals her face by taking the hat off . im getting wrose at speaking by teh second but you get what i am getting at ... ralsei at her core is someone who disguises parts of herself to be more palatable and likeable and to take on a more ' neutral ' state . and i think this would extend to race though obviously this takes on a different form to pretending you are not trnasgender . downplaying a cultural background or connection to racial identity as to not bring the mood down or some shit and then being more open about it after being close friends w two nonwhite kids who have like very strong feelings on their own identities . but im a white tme so sorry if any of this post is evil , just #mythouhts
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Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.
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At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.
We gotta fix that.
Progress.
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I can't access the full paper, but their conclusion is right there in the abstract:
While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.
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