CarterSimms (Peach)

18yo, Taken-10/20/2024, he/they/she, silly goober.

[catbunnylover27]

The bus driver was never that far, was he?

[catbunnylover27]

Life is Strange.. ausgdhhshs such a good game. I’m replaying it again!

[catbunnylover27]

MAJOR SPOILERS ahead of Directive 8020.

[parisimms]

Sleep Technician photos ♡ All by me :D

Tomas Carter and Pari Simms 💙💜

[woolfiez]

OUUUU PAROMAS NATION HELLO AGAIN

[vampyrmoon]

Sharing some playlists I’ve made for d8020! I love this game and the characters way too much and wanted to share these for fun <3

[woolfiez]

AU stuff.

[sofiaoctt]

what a tragic character, i sure hope nothing bad happens to her!

[goliathbardeater]

My contribution

[catbunnylover27]

My poems aren’t ever the best due to my poor structure but I write a lot of free verse poetry. So here’s one called “Liar”.

How could you after a year? A year of emotions and dedication? A year of bonding and it was all a god-damn lie.

You played me like a fiddle, a foolish fiddle. Pulling and tugging at my heart strings, building our bond off of a trick, not a treat.

It was right in front of me too. I should have trusted my gut. I should have pressed more. There’s a lot I should have done.

You should have been honest. Now you moved on from it. You both did. One kept running, the other just admitted more lies. I hate lies, tricks, and deceits.

How can you do this to me? To all of us. You say it was guilt. Now you feel guilty? After we saw your face? That’s the only other true thing about you, other than your own name.

Everything felt like a lie, you knew I trusted with time. Yet you lied right in front of my face, right to my soul. My heart hurts. I love everyone in my life deeply and fully.

But you made me feel like I can’t trust people even more now. You knew I had trust issues. I communicated that with both of you. I can’t believe I trusted you.

I can’t believe I was so stupid and blind, guess that’s what I get for having one good eye? Staying half blind, half aware of the truth that laid deeper than the surface.

You made me feel idiotic, exposed. I don’t know you at all like I thought. Yet you both know me. You know me well. Yet I’m dragging it out.

Sorry I can face accountability, responsibility and rightful judgement for my actions unlike you. You keep running while the other just ignores me.

My mind was spinning, my whole world turned upside down and flipped raw. My own thoughts running wild, disgusting insultful thoughts towards myself.

You caused so much damage but I guess I got an eye opener to my own behavior. I hate liars. I hate being played like a fool. I am not a fool, not a tarot card to show the beginning of the story with too much hope, no that’s not fair.

It wasn’t a story at the start, it was another chapter. A good chapter I thought. It’s crazy how I thought you were lying at first, but for the wrong thing. Why did I let you make me feel like I was dumb.

I wasn’t crazy, only pointing out the wrong thing but how could I point out the real lie when there was no way to tell with both of you.

The one running didn’t even come forward, it was the one acting as if this is nothing and took losing a friend easy. So much for “you guys mean a lot to me and have helped me so much!”, I had the same thoughts about our friendship.

Even now it’s like cold hands gripping at my shoulders, a face leaning into my ear to call me disgusting, even idiotic.

I shouldn’t feel this way. I didn’t know until that night. I didn’t. Everything was going so well. I told you point blank I rather honesty no matter how hard the truth may hurt. You couldn’t give me that for a YEAR, A WHOLE YEAR OF LIES.

Now I remember why I didn’t trust people in the first place.

PS. I don’t want like any criticism, not cuz I can’t handle it but I just wanted to share this. With more time and practice I’m sure I could get better at it. So thank you if you read it all the way to here.

[sofiaoctt]

|All the references to History and Mythology in Directive 8020| Part 2

*Major spoilers ahead!*

-> This is a continuation of this post, I found so many more references that I had to make a part 2 :,)

-> Huge thanks to @catbunnylover27 for helping me with the references, secrets in game and overall analysis!

The Labyrinth of Knossos, the Minotaur, Ariadne:

As covered in Part 1, the myth of the Labyrinth of Knossos seems to fit the story of the game.

Other than Daedalus, another reference could reside in the number 14: if we take the spaceship as a symbol for the Labyrinth, then the sole fact that we know of 14 cycles of clones being sent to, what seems, a suicide mission, seems to be a perfect reference. These clones are literal sacrifices being fed to the alien lifeform, which each time feeds itself with information about the crew and humanity. It is the same exact process of King Minos, the king of Crete, demanding 14 human sacrifices every 9 years for the Minotaur, so the monster doesn’t bring chaos to the city.

In the myth, the hero Theseus was selected among the young athenians to be sent inside the Labyrinth. During his stay in Crete he met Ariadne, daughter of King Minos and princess of Crete. Ariadne fell in love with Theseus and, afraid he would be killed by the Minotaur, she gifted him a ball of thread, which he used to avoid getting lost inside the maze. After slaying the Minotaur, Theseus found his way back thanks to Ariadne’s thread and got to safety. The connection to the thread in Directive 8020 could be the video the original Young sends to the clones, helping them reach safety.

About the Minotaur, his real name is Asterius, which literally translates to “star”, so the connection to space and the alien seems fair.

In general, the parallels between the lifeform and the Minotaur are even more interesting when one realises that they aren’t inherently evil, they are just surviving. The true villains are Corinth and King Minos, because they both pick human sacrifices in the name of their planet/city’s survival.

Back to the myth: after Theseus slayed the Minotaur he escaped and took Ariadne with him, promising to marry her. But while on the ship sailing in the direction of Athens, Theseus left Ariadne on an island.

This ending could equal to the outcome of the real Anders being left behind while the rest of the clones fly away from Tau Ceti f, but I find Ariadne herself more similar to Young.

Both versions of Young could represent Ariadne: the original Young represents Ariadne because they are both saviours. Ariadne gifts the thread to Theseus so he finds his way back and escapes, the original Young helps the crew and fills them with hope. The clone Young represents Ariadne because both of them are betrayed by the people they trusted.

(OR —> Ariadne had a sister named Phaedra. Theseus brings both of them on the ship but abandons Ariadne and ends up marrying Phaedra.

OG Young could represent Phaedra, while clone Young could represent Ariadne).

Mars:

“We need to win this war.”

On Williams, his first name (LaMarcus) literally means “Of Mars” or “Dedicated to Mars”, which is an obvious correlation to Stafford’s previous mission on Mars and his obsession with it.

If we look into history and mythology, the planet Mars derives from the roman god Mars (Marte). The god Mars himself was an adaptation of the greek god Ares, but for now I’ll stick to the roman variant.

In roman history, Mars was the god of war and thunders, and protector of soldiers. If his greek variant Ares wasn’t as important as other gods, like Zeus or Poseidon, Mars was the most important god in Rome. He was the father of its founder and the romans themselves were known as the children of Mars.

The name for the planet Mars derives from the roman god, and Williams’ real goal seems to add up: he never wanted to just save the Earth, he only wanted the glory. More than going on a mission it seems like he’s going to war, not just against the alien but especially against the enemy company Spearing. War also correlates to his personality, since he’s shown to be aggressive and ready to attack whoever he sees as inferior. 

There is also a little link to Stafford: the god Mars used to be tied to fatherhood, which resonates with his role in the game.

*TW — mention of SA in the next section.*

Aegis:

As I discussed in the previous post, Corinth has to symbolise the Gods. They are clearly referenced as gods here [pic below] and I dived more in their responsibility over the clone cycles in the previous analysis.

Aegis, the same secret US government agency that worked on the House of Ashes case, is implied to work next to Corinth.

The aegis in greek mythology was a powerful shield wielded by Zeus, and sometimes Athena. There are many different versions of the aegis, however the most known was Athena’s aegis with Medusa’s head. Medusa was one of the many victims of the gods, she was once a young girl, priestess of Athena, that one day was violated by Poseidon inside Athena’s temple. Instead of punishing her abuser, Athena turned her back on Medusa and punished her by transforming her into a gorgon, a monster with snakes instead of hair and eyes that could turn anyone who looked at them into stone.

After Medusa was slayed by the hero Perseus, Athena collected her head as a trophy and put her on her aegis, to petrify her enemies.

Zeus was depicted with an aegis as well, just a different one. His aegis was forged by the god Hephaestus, it was an indestructible shield that wasn’t really used for defence, rather for attacks. Zeus’ aegis was in fact able to summon thunders just by shaking it.

Both these two aegis represent the government’s responsibility on the plot of the game: both Aegis and Corinth do not care about their victims, and they hide behind a facade of preservation of the planet to act on their true intentions, which usually revolve around money, corruption and war.

Charon, the ferryman:

From the files, it is stated that Simms, McNamara and Cernan had visions of — what seems to be — the Curator. Simms and McNamara both speak about a man with a bowler hat. Simms specifically dreams about the man being surrounded by ravens, a clear symbol of the coming of death.

What I found to be more interesting, though, is Cernan’s dream: he claims to have seen his previous lives, and every time a ferryman met them once they died. It is known since the previous games that the Curator shows up in sequences with the highest death rate. Also, one of the O’ Death secrets in the game is a coin.

The ferryman and the coins are a clear link to Charon from greek mythology. Charon was the ferryman of the underworld, he carried the souls of the dead, but only if they received a proper burial and if they were buried with a coin. The coin was used as a fee, and once the souls had crossed the Acheron river they could live a peaceful death.

Selene:

During the last scene between the original Young and original Stafford, he hands her the permission to use her clones for the mission. Zooming in on the document, the cloning program is titled “Project Selenite”.

“Selenite” derives from Selene. Selene wasn’t only the goddess of the moon, she was the moon herself, possibly one of the most powerful goddesses in greek mythology.

The most famous myth about Selene was her love story with Endymion, a young shepherd. Because Selene loved her mortal so much, she kissed his eyes so that he could sleep for eternity, preserving his beauty forever. Although it may be a stretch, this could be tied to the clones going through 4 years of sleep and waking up with the same traits as their original selves.

Last theory I have for Selene’s connection to the clone project is the sole fact that the moon has many phases (8 to be exact), which could either symbolise the number of episodes from the game or the eight saveable members of the crew. Perhaps the two faces of the moon could really symbolise the difference between the originals and their clones: from the Earth, we can only see one face of the moon, while the other face remains hidden.

That’s it! As always any inputs or more references are appreciated <3

[catbunnylover27]

Major spoilers! I made these with my own screenshots from the game itself, plus some help from Directive 8020 official website’s character’s bios and @parisimms with Pari Simms’ traits!

[iorbit]

i never meant to hurt you, but somehow i knew i would

i’d reach into your body and fix you if i could

god save our souls

[catbunnylover27]

Samantha Cooper, Zoe Anders, Noah Mitchell, and ||Mimic Cooper.|| 

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Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: The Dark Pictures: Directive 8020 (Video Game) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Tomas Carter & Pari Simms, Tomas Carter/Pari Simms Characters: Pari Simms, Tomas Carter (Dark Pictures) Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, POV Male Character, Character Death, Paromas, CarterSimms, Checkmate Death Scene, Major spoiler Series: Part 1 of Directive 8020 POV Poem-like Tales

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Dark Pictures: Directive 8020 (Video Game) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Tomas Carter & Pari Simms, Tomas Carter/Pari Simms Characters: Pari Simms, Tomas Carter (Dark Pictures) Additional Tags: Canonical Character Death, POV Male Character, Character Death, Paromas, CarterSimms, Checkmate Death Scene Series: Part 1 of Directive 8020 POV Poem-like Tales

[sofiaoctt]

weeee i already found my fav