Winds of Madness

[egoiudico]

An indie Roleplay blog for Albert Wesker of Resident Evil series. Highly selective. 21+ by Arma.

mains @hopewrought, @golgothac, @the4thsurvivor

portrayal notes: Psychology | Physiology | Relationships & Sexuality | Wesker's Beliefs & Politics

blog rules under the cut.

I'm Arma. He/They. ESL. SWANA. A lifelong RE fanboy and around the same age as the franchise itself. (25+)

I mix classic canon with the remakes. I generally favour classic continuity for my own verses but I'm happy to adapt to remakes' canon for my RP partners.

I won't be toning Wesker down in his pursuits and ideology. Heavy themes of eugenics, abuse, war, terrorism, and other dark topics will be present on this blog.

I will also write Wesker as a human being and as someone that exists in day to day life outside of his villainous plans. So, here's an obligatory IC =/= OOC. Depiction is not endorsement. Character analysis is not an attempt at excusing them. etc, etc.

I am totally down to interact with OCs, other fandoms, do crossovers or AUs, and to follow other Wesker RPers.

I tag triggers as "subject tw".

NSFW text will be present on the blog. It will be under "read more" and tagged as nsft.

My only hard limits regarding RP are noncon and paraphilias of any kind. I'm fine with writing pretty much anything else.

I have no interest in self-inserts or real person RP. (No hate, just not my thing) I am also not interested in interacting with people using AI.

Regarding shipping: I personally don't really ship Wesker with any RE characters outside of @golgothac's Birkin and @the4thsurvivor's HUNK. Outside of in-universe characters, I ship him with @hopewrought's Bethany. I am not looking for any preestablished romantic/sexual ships, but I'm not opposed to more ships if they develop organically through writing.

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Also, while I’m near the topic, @golgothac and I plotted it out that Will was, indeed, threatened with his family’s safety (as is Spencer’s favourite pastime) and was forced to give Wesker the virus strain under false pretence, because Spencer knew Wesker wouldn’t have taken it from anyone but Birkin.

However, Will being, well, himself, before he gave the injection to Wesker, studied what he was given and altered it, to give him a better chance at surviving it. And it’s likely the only reason Wesker did survive it, or at least, didn’t end up like his sister.

He never really comes to learn this and believes that he survived because he is ‘superior’. But, narratively, it’s more compelling to us to write that he lived because someone did love him, even if he doesn’t know it.

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You couldn’t waterboard this out of him, but he was so incredibly alone between 2006-2009, he’d let Jill slip the leash and fight him and speak her mind, because he had no one else left to talk to.

And on top of that, he would, again, NEVER admit to this, but the very few people he considered special to himself turned out to have betrayed him.

Will was given the virus strain by Spencer and didn’t tell him the whole truth. I don’t doubt he was threatened/pressured into it, knowing Spencer, and knowing that Al wouldn’t have taken it from anyone else. But, it would still be a hell of a revelation.

Alex was in charge of project W and she seems remorseful for hiding the truth from him, and refused to harm him. But, Al doesn’t know the whole story at the time and what she would go on to say and do, so he felt quite betrayed by her.

And Leo’s HUNK didn’t know the whole truth but he knew a lot more than he let on, including that Spencer intended to hurt Wesker, in some way. Al had known him for most of his life and saw him as a mentor of sorts, so that was also quite a blow.

Bethany didn’t lie to him, but he felt she had chosen her human life and that he couldn’t give her what she wanted. So, they had parted their ways.

His whole worldview and identity were shattered and he felt he was completely alone. So, in some twisted way, having Jill back in his life, in some capacity, was comforting. Because, as much as she had come to hate him, she still *knew* him, and she was someone he saw as worth talking to, and he found their talks and fights stimulating.

[hopewrought]

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Oh, shit. Happy anniversary to the funniest two weeks' notice of all time.

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Thanks for showing resi ladies some love, especially the characters who usually get left out of the conversation, lol. It can be really discouraging to write women on tumblr.

I appreciate it, but I'm not doing anything other than what should be the default. Women shouldn't be stripped of their motherhood and their place in the narrative, for the sake of ships. (Annette & Mia)

Jill shouldn't get 'fate swapped' out of her trauma and abuse, so Chris can stand in a tight outfit next to Wesker.

We shouldn't have to see Claire/Ada/Ashley/Hunnigan being majorly discussed in capacity of which one of them would be the best fit for Leon, like people are picking out a best suited accessory for him.

It doesn't matter what you ship and what AUs you want to make. You can adjust them to avoid removing a woman's narrative and her importance to the people and the world around her. It's AWFUL that we're still here, and there is no way out of this if we don't talk about it, directly.

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thinking of the alchemical symbolism of G and its connection to Uroboros.

Twin serpents in alchemy symbolise opposites and their symbiosis + when they are intertwined, they can represent eternity, or a cycle of some kind.

Paired with words like creation, metamorphosis, and reincarnation, it clearly calls to Spencer's obsession with immortality, while also evoking the imagery of Albert's and Alex's attempts at surpassing their own mortality.

A triangle could represent many things in this case; it can be the element of water, which in itself is connected to birth, and it can also be connected to femininity, which in alchemy, is also, obviously connected to the themes of birth. It can also represent the experiment itself, marked as a controlled process occurring within the shape, following the three principles inscribed upon its sides.

The outer circle could represent the sun or a closed loop, and the lines inside it likely represent time, in this case, although their symbolism is a little too vague to say for certain. If I were to interpret it from all possibilities I've come across while looking into this, I would say they likely represent the time necessary to complete the cycle, endlessly looping and starting over.

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Instead of continuing to attempt to take Annette's motherhood away from her with tired & misogynist tropes, I implore fellow Al/Will shippers to remember and honour their ACTUAL shared children

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[paranoidnatrix]

they should kiss

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Man, Wesker will be SO bitter about Grace’s existence.

There’s something really tragic about how he and Alex both are absolutely not free of Spencer and of viewing him as their father, no matter how much they hate him. And Al is a deeply, deeply insecure person.

Learning that there was a child that *was* special to his ‘father’ in some way, for him to not hurt her and to give her away to a better life, would anger Wesker SO much.

Especially after learning more about his own biological family and knowing that he was taken from people that did love and want him, to be harmed and imprisoned, and turned into Spencer’s puppet, it would absolutely enrage him that Spencer had given mercy to someone else.

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Alyssa enjoying her morning jog and about to spot her uninvited photographer.

For @metmydeadline, to help punch that exam to death.

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so far, Jill is about 70% certain her mysterious new neighbour was planted there to make her go insane. (it's working)

For @forgotten-retrouvaille and @separateways

[dinindourden]

Rope (1948) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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damn, I really love characters not being compatible morally/mentally/sexually/situationally, hurting each other's feelings, and doing the wrong thing, despite caring about each other.

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I hate that Leo showed me this cause this is both Al and Will, but Al learned to NOT talk like this out loud and Will didn't bother to learn to mask cause everyone tolerated him for his huge brain, either way.

[the4thsurvivor]

"Unlike an Umbrella scientist, I do not get into pointless cock measuring every waking hour of my life." He tilts his head. "If it's so disappointing for you, I guess you don't have to experience it anymore, hm?"

[egoiudico]

"Well, as an Umbrella scientist, you should know I am always on a lookout for a better deal."

"Although, I do believe you heard my passionate praise moments ago, just fine. Would you like to hear some more?"