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Disco is very dead and 6 feet under? Not for long!
This idea has been stuck in my head for weeks and I had to do it. You guys can guess where this meme is from. Hemlock seems like the right guy to do those signs lolol
Feeding tumblr with them too, prepare for a ride (there's gonna be sketches of all sorts) ((and some Disco Machine))
A warning before we continue: there's gonna be a part where I'll mention self harm and self hatred, but I'll put a proper warning right beforehand
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Dex's cane
It is mentioned in one of the dialogues that Charlie has known Dex since he was still using a cane and I couldn't get this outa my head. I think he used to have chronic pain, musculoskeletal pain to be exact, for which he used a cane. No wheelchair because even the cane damaged his perfect image.
Body modifications
Dex would definitely have some piercing back when he was 100% organic, on his ears for example, but maybe even on his tongue. Not sure about tattoos, but the potential is there. All that was said is that he'd never replace any of his parts with mechanical ones, but nothing about other body modifications
Trans scars. Won't elaborate. He's not straight, nor cis, and if you love him you're not straight either, no matter the gender. No bottom surgery, since he couldn't afford it
The following section is going to touch sensitive topics such as self hatred and self harm, as well as a sketched drawing with inexplicit self harm marks and a screenshot of the game with the similar content, beware
picture for separation
Acceptance
While my friend was checking the models for each member of the group, they noticed that Dex has (what it seems like) self harm scars on his arms, wrists and thighs.
This made me think about how hardly he was trying to be perfect and how he still didn't accept the fact that perfection is unreachable. Deadly sin is greed for a reason.
I think there could be many triggers for him to do what he did:
Trans life. Even if you've been in a supporting surrounding your whole life, being in the wrong body can break you, which could act as a trigger to avoid reality and emotions
Perfection is pain. Every minuscule mistake could lead to passive harming, which then could turn into an active one. Each wrong move, tone, said word or played note could make him reach for something sharp
Disability. As I mentioned earlier, I don't think he'd use a wheelchair, because (in his opinion) the fact that he uses a cane (although I'm pretty sure he'd avoid doing so for a long time) is already imperfect, because his body is imperfect. The disability just adds to the mental pressure that he feels daily
Before (and some time after) forming a band with Hemlock, Benny and Charlie (which was the latter's idea), Dex and Charlie used to live in a small apartment that they shared. Dex fought and won over the top side of the bunk bed, because he has to be above Charlie in all the ways
Life before Dead as Disco
At first they had a lot of problems due to Dex's stubborn self and Charlie's want to sleep more than three hours a day. Dex would always practice his guitar skills late at night, and no earphones could suppress the loud music. After some bickering and fighting they decided on Dex playing after Charlie would leave for work
Although they fought quite a lot, they still managed to live together and coexist in a weirdly chaotic harmony. Charlie always knew where Dex's makeup stuff was, and Dex knew when Charlie had to wake up to properly behave at work
Sometimes he'd visit Charlie at The Encore to play on the balcony before the rush of the customers. Sometimes Charlie would share his company. Dex would always blush and tell him to fuck off, just for Charlie to giggle and say stuff like "nervous much around me?". Dex wouldn't answer, but it would be written on his face
Visuals and other things I've scrubbed off the Dead as Disco website :^) very easily done but it may please some to have these readily available
First off, these are the "full"(est) versions of each idol's preview art, with the exception of the seventh, who is supplanted by the broken screen.
Besides the art, each line of code features what I assume are stand-in titles given to the idols, including the three yet-unveiled. The fifth one is labeled 'Dancer', the sixth one (Benny, most likely) is labeled 'Blood', and the seventh is labeled 'Strings'. The last one is the most interesting to me, given that idol seven is the one who's sin stems from 'freedom'.
The key art has already been pulled for the fan wiki but here are those too.
And now some misc graphics!
Mini Charlie and the full-size city art without him in it
A neat Dex illustration in the same style as the wallpapers
A heavily filtered Hemlock illustration that's used as a background image and obscured (which is a bummer, cus it's sick as hell)
A full-size, isolated version of this illustration of Charlie
And the background image for the newsletter sign-up page
Also, for anyone curious, the files of the game do have a few goodies you can access without needing to datamine; if you go into Dead as Disco > Pagoda (the folder, not the executable) > Content > Movies, you will find all of the 2D animated segments from the boss fights in high quality. There are also some promo videos. Most are silent, the ones that aren't have their audio in encoded in Opus so they might still be silent for you (VLC media player will circumvent this).
Aside: has anyone cracked the game data open yet? I'd like it if we could compile some of the (currently in-use; I'm not interested in leaks) assets and art. Preferably somewhere other than the Fandom.com-hosted wiki because I hate having to navigate that site and also the idols are numbered extremely wrong on it, for some reason
