SoundArrow over on Twitter made this post about a Silent Hill Isterik AU
As soon as I saw it clip studio opened itself
I'm sorry Erik, that's not your dead husband Istvan, that's Stefan, who just happens to share with him an uncanny similarity in both name and looks, don't think too much about it
This work was cited by Logan Hillier himself during the podcast hosted by Memes of KCD on Twitter (you can find the recording on YT too) and he commented on it with such kind words
I'm trying very hard not to freak out and scream I never thought one of my pieces would get this kind of attention ahhhhhh
A detail that I love about Istvan, and that I think it says a lot about his character, is that he fights with a longsword.
When I practiced HEMA and I studied longsword techniques it was clear that it was not a weapon that played to my strengths, being 1.64m.
I studied mostly renaissance techniques, but I think the general concepts are still applicable
Longswords require strength and reach, and a lot of techniques are about going for a hold and/or disarming your opponent.
A taller, more imposing adversary has an objective advantage.
And Istvan is 1.60~m.
He fights with a longsword, he probably chose for himself to fight with a longsword.
He went crusading in Nicopolis with a fucking longsword, and gained his noble title there.
The rage, the spite, the sheer drive to overcome every obstacle in his pursuit, and I daresay, a hint of a deathwish.
Meanwhile, it's just the perfect weapon for Erik, and probably either Istvan chose it for him or Erik picked it up to emulate him.
I just - ahhhhh
(Of course, there is also the very real possibility that it wasn't intentional and we see him fight with it just because the story demanded he use whatever Martin forged, but pls don't burst my bubble)
I see it a lot in my students that the ONLY mode they can engage with literature on is one in which they either say it's good because it's "relatable" or it's bad because they "can't relate to it" as well, and I feel like this is a symptom of the same problem. An unwillingness to engage with fiction outside of its ability to be a mirror to your specific worldview and set of morals. But art doesn't exist to give you moral purity badges--it's a mode of expression that produces conversations between artists and readers. And to engage in those converesations on an adult level you need to learn to process the discomfort of flawed human realities productively.
Look, i got a lot to dissect, to I'll just start off saying that the gameplay was really fun and the quest was visually gorgeous, but the narrative... Oh boy
- Why did Ballas even give us the Paracesis, and why since whatever was that happened Ordis rebuilt it and we did not yeet it as far way as possible
- The power dynamic between Erra and Ballas already looked fishy, but that was too much, too fast and too little explained
- Sooo uhhhh is Erra really Erra?? Like, there were a lot of hints about this, but Hunhow doesn't comment and Erra shows a lot of freedom from Ballas ( hell, he helps us!!!!)
- We totally forgot about Teshin
- Am I supposed to feel sympathy for Erra? View his last act as a redeeming sacrifice? What the hell happened to this character???
- Ballas... Just why. He's so out of character and disconnected from what we've seen of him before. He's at badly written cartoon villain level, even in his dialogue he's just off
- Timeline please? May I have a time indication?
- I was willing to cut slack on this one, but let's just mention it: when did we build this alliance??? Am i supposed to believe that happened over the Orphix and Scarlet Spear things? Uhhhhhh
- The only understanding we had was with Alad V over the Ropalolyst and he seemed to have totally forgotten about how badly that sentient management thing backfired
- I don't know where to begin about Lotus/Natah. We left her off doubting her intents and i would say being a sentient force in her right, and right off the bat here we see her spent and with no fault and no mind if her own as if she was only being used
- It's as if Sacrifice and the prologues were totally retconned
- Paracesis??? Hello???
- How did we exactly survive being hurled into outer space and made our way back?
- The escalation is really drastic, it would have needed way more buildup to make it believable and not a fever dream
- You can tell that a lot was scrapped, this definitely took years to write and not in the positive way
- What exactly was the Zariman? A military ship or a colony ship? There's a lot of confusion on this thing
- Well, at least the void stuff and the pieces between the Drifter and the Operator were really good and hyped me for the Duviri Paradox
In the end, i feel like I can't really complain, the quest is gorgeous and it is a damn f2p game!! I'm just kinda sad because I've liked the up until now and for me the writing was a major selling point, we really could have had it all
This nice young lady was just telling him about the time a guy with a eyepatch like his got her her old pink bunchan doll
Im weak for the way he just sees child, adopts even if he’s only 24 in Y0
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