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deepinourengines

i wanna fuck you like a liberal

deepinourengines

I Wanna vote you from the blue side

mahgck

PLAY LIMBUS COMPANY SOMEONE PLEASE ANYONE CAN ANYONE HEAR ME

other powerpoints ive made

My UID: E345207387

sillyandquiteawkward

two bros, sitting in a empty bus at 3am, five feet apart cuz they are both dealing with various inner and outer demons

michamiw

ASMR to help u sleep- i beat u until ur unconscious

bloodiegawz

so what do you guys think is on the mephistopheles playlist

sacred-portal

gizmocreates

something I love about Limbus Company’s Dante is that they used a character who was effectively a self insert of the author in the original fiction to parody the ‘gacha game self insert’ trope.

Dante is very clearly their own character, but they paradoxically hit a lot of boxes that define the ‘self insert protagonist’ character, which honestly probably contributes to a lot of people still attempting to self-project onto Dante. And honestly, I feel like that itself is commentary.

I’d like to liken it to Omori’s Sunny, who’s another character who plays with this idea. Sunny is a silent protagonist who is set up to be your view into this world, to the point where you can even name him. But as you progress, you find out that Sunny *isn’t* you. And that’s kind of the whole point- you’re delving through an established character’s fantasy world, seeing things they idealize, and even though it’s never spoken directly to you what they think, the game shows you through their dreams how they really feel about their life.

Dante differs in many ways, but I think the fundamental truth is the same: Dante is not just a vehicle for the plot, they’re a person, but the narrative sets you up to believe You are Dante.

and this contributes nicely into the theme of dehumanization within the work itself- Dante is very vocal and opinionated, but because their words are only heard by a few, they end up disregarded- treated as a literal silent protagonist to anyone who isn’t a sinner. Dante narrates subjectively and should not be fully trusted as a narrator- and yet, because they’re the narrator of a gacha game in a genre defined by know-all protagonists who can do nothing but good and have no personality to speak of, their word is treated as gospel.

in truth, we ourselves dehumanize Dante as much as the narrative does. So many people just see them as the ‘audience insert’ that they forget that Dante was never them. Dante’s dehumanization isn’t just an issue in universe- it spreads and consumes even the meta narrative.

slotumn

Kromer and Ahab Limbus Company are proof that if you wanna write female antagonists well one way to do it is to just make them unapologetically evil and fucked up without preemptively handwringing about whether that "has unfortunate implications" or trying to soften the blow somehow

Sometimes women attempt Total Cyborg Genocide or gaslight people to death and that's great