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scarlet hollow is so funny, you spend half the game with some sentient rotting corpse telling u “I’m the only one who cares abt u. do NOT trust ur cousin” and ur cousin is like “I’M the one trying to keep u safe. do NOT trust the rotting corpse or the weird cryptic old lady” and the weird old lady is like “don’t trust the rotting corpse AND ALSO maybe ur cousin is out to get u so good luck w that” and you play through the game like ok so which one is lying?? which one is telling the truth?? and then it turns out to be all of them
Scarlet’s burden
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old photo of Sacrificial lambs.
little ramble about the symbolism i added!
Anyway I think more video game quests should make you uncomfortable and guilty and mislead you and corner you between a rock and a hard place and offer hollow victories. There's nothing more annoying than quest writing that scrambles to assure you that you're niceys and good and nothing you put your hand on can ever have negative consequences. "You cannot save everyone" and I cheer and whoop etc.
i always had plans to play an evil route in scarlet hollow where i'm not only an asshole to everyone, but i am also attempting to sabotage/overthrow tabitha. i've tried before but quickly start wanting to be friends with all the characters again and give up lol. after episode 5's release, I know that I DEFINETLY want power build and street smarts on a run with no allies
Stella is going to get me and xbox and I will even get to pick the color of the piss bucket : ) its going to be blue : )
bonus from the same toxic yuri run:
Tabby in Where the Water Tastes Like Wine style
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Force
Rusty power
Family blood
Scarlet
she's making fun of us but i already know that she actually likes our knowledge in historical factoids
maybe i'll start writing again
I love it when the oh so incomprehensible horrors of Scarlet Hollow get sick of your shit.
Wayne's over here spending his screen time being all mysterious saying stuff like "There are greater powers at work here, Poopypoopybutthole." "Trying to fight me is futile." but when you sacrifice your years he's like "No. Oh my god. Oh my god you fucking dumbass why did you do that shit. That's the stupidest thing I've seen in my entire life."
also shoutout to the ghost for shoving the mc through the door after watching them turn around for the 5th time. What do you mean you don't wanna go into the haunted mansion I constructed around my decade old grudge against your family? Stop spinning and get to work figuring out my metaphors.
finding out that hot is the trait save in chapter 4 is so funny, because I know it's about being charming and well liked and people want to listen to you when you speak and believe when you say things are okay
but it just sounds like
i really love that we've finally gotten more insight on sybil bc as much of a schemer as she is, she's proven to be extremely interesting, smart and sympathetic. she has reasons for doing what she does, but it's not without pain and regret; what she says makes sense; she wholeheartedly believes that all of this is for the greater good and that the sacrifices are worth it, as painful as they are; she wants you to see things from her perspective; she truly doesn't want to see anyone hurt.
but she's also long past the point of no return. she firmly believes that her way is the only way, so she uses the same manipulation tactics no matter what — those are necessary steps. she's lived too long and seen and endured too much to accept any other perspective. no matter how much she paints it as an act of mercy, the fact of the matter is that kaneeka is the only sacrifice she deems "worth it". there's no possible outcome of ep5 where sybil can be persuaded to let kaneeka exist as her own person, because as soon as the vision begins it's already too late. her plan is already in motion, she's forced you into a stalemate, and the only alternative is what she considers her own defeat.
episode 5 gave us A LOT to read into when it comes to sybil's relationship with kaneeka, specifically the theme of white privilege and the (literal) silencing, consumption and erasure of kaneeka as a mixed black girl in the rural south. AND MILES!! the fact that miles even exists — a younger brother, a failed plan B, also neglected but in a whole different way from kaneeka; one not as immediately obvious because he's still so young and just sees it as his chill mom letting him do whatever he wants (because she has no expectations for him) — there's SO much more weight to this whole family dynamic now.
and as many others have pointed out, it's no coincidence that the first daughter she hesitated to sacrifice in several lifetimes had the same green eyes as her, which kaneeka notably doesn't. they pointed that out for a reason. every new bit of info we can use to establish who sybil is as a person and why she does what she does is interwoven with this underlying theme of bias and black erasure.
like............ it's not subtle. they went goddamn crazy with the subtext and imagery in this one and i applaud that SOOOOOOO HARD
Forthsyth County, Georgia having a history of being a sundowns town makes Sybil's backstory all the more horrifying
In her own flashbacks, she first demonstrates a willingness to turn the other cheek to others' suffering when she benefits from it, especially when it's not overt like with the revolt. She has a place in the upper class, so she defends their safety over allowing the revolution to take place because people will die as a direct result of war. But when the lower classes faced what was likely centuries of political and economic suppression, she doesn't see that as harm
Then she moves to America. She marries a man who is literally worse Robert E. Lee because of the social power it affords her. She doesn't mind the thousands of Black lives she directly endangered by enabling a man like that. The only time she stops him is when her first daughter's vision shows him taking power, taking lives, away from the white spheres she cares about.
And in the modern day? She uses a Black man to produce another daughter that she can manipulate into giving up her power. She sees her daughter--a young Black girl, so intelligent and compassionate and in love with the world, a girl who wants to take care of animals and loves nature and wants magic to be real so she can finally feel special--and fears losing control so she tries for another daughter. And for once? She fails. She has a son and she ignores him when she needs to make sure Kaneeka feels the weight of the responsibility of others' lives when it's not her job to. She coddles him when she needs Kaneeka desperate for connection. She gives him too much freedom because she doesn't truly value his safety.
And Kaneeka, encouraged by her dad, leaves. She goes to college, she finally gets out of Scarlet Hollow. And to make sure she can still control Kaneeka, she kills her husband. Directly harms someone to keep control of a Black woman, after centuries of ignoring Black suffering, or outright enabling it
She views herself as this savior but she's not omniscient and she doesn't value all lives equally. She is biased, and while her actions are rarely blatant violence, she has a hierarchy of suffering that she magically enforces. She will insert herself into events at a massive scale because of a narrow understanding of the repercussions.
Sybil Forsyth is the quintessential white woman, she smothers certain groups to maintain her own sense of the world and she is willing to use Black bodies to do it. Even if she doesn't have any conscious biases against Black people, her past and her current actions show how implicitly racist her viewpoint is. She made sure that a Black woman felt that her life was meaningless unless she gave up her entire existence for a cause that wouldn't have helped her much, if at all, had she no connection to Sybil
Scarlet Hollow as a game has never been afraid of commenting on the South and America's racist past and present, and I am so excited to see that commentary shift from the background to the main narrative!
i dunno. i think the fact that all the people, including her daughters, were just mannequins in the flashback is really very telling. not quite people. figures. placeholders. simple pawns in a game of chess. pieces to be moved and exchanged for some perceived benefit. sybil, you can lie to yourself all you want. you did not love them. you do not love her.
Discovered for myself this is literally the conversation they have if you leave them alone on Thursday night
I can't believe it. It's like all day, I forgot you exist.
original + unedited kaneeka under the cut!