Sascha-Maria

Sascha-Maria // 20 // she/her art, ttrpg, horror, history bloodborne // resident evil plagued by the horrors TM autistic lesbian 🇭🇺🇩🇪

[la-esmerqlda]

I would like to thank Elon Musk for breaking the stereotype that “high functioning” autistic people are geniuses, because he’s genuinely so fucking dumb I can hardly even fathom it.

[athenas-only-daughter]

it's really interesting to me that here Aline says 'for a few moments a day'. The game implies/states multiple times that Aline didn't just start living in the canvas out of the blue one day. She was visiting it and then over time she lost herself to it. The part that I'm so interested in is like. How long did that take? Was it a few days? A few weeks? A month? Before she stopped coming out of the canvas at all? In that period where she was only going on "for a few moments", what did that look like? How did she balance those two worlds?

Presumably her visits were, at first, just to enjoy the world Verso had built, to look at his creations. At what point did she decide to paint copies of her family? Was she already lost to the canvas at that point or was she holding on to two families for a while? Did she paint them or the citizens of Lumiere first?

[gigik33]

like mother, like daughter

[undead-puppetry]

So there’s of course the manor record Clea, Don’t Pull Your Sister’s Hair

And it’s such an interesting thing because I don’t believe Clea would be going out of her way to pull her much younger sister’s hair

however

I can absolutely see her as a retaliatory hair puller.

Clea has such long hair after all, and toddlers love to pull hair.

And I can definitely imagine Aline hearing wails and walking in to see teenage Clea yanking on toddler Alicia’s hair going see, do you see how this hurts??

[starryspindel]

Expedition 33 would be an entirely different and very short game if Clea was actively participating in the story and aware of what was going on, because if she looked in to the Canvas to check on her sister at any point during Act 2, she would have seen how Alicia was moving to get revenge on Renoir for Gustave's death and I think that would be Clea's breaking point.

[remhadley]

god i'm not your strongest soldier

[andreasketches]

using my free will to draw clea dessendre in bloomers

[flowersforthemachines]

the final stage of the Endless Tower is so iconic.

here, I painted you a copy of our parents who dragged into this bullshit. go beat them up or something. or don't. see if I care.

oh, you did? here is a painter white version of your lumeiran hairstyle to symbolise how you are no longer just one of these singular identities, but a new person entirely. our parents really fucking suck don't they. you can be better, though. but it's not like I care. love you

[bibliomancerkay]

Clea has me by the throat, because in a game about grief, she’s the only one not allowed it. Her parents wallow, they indulge all the worst parts of how huge that pain is, and by doing so they force her to ignore her own feelings. The anger I see in her isn’t unreasonable. It’s grief denied, forced aside by the necessity of keeping everyone else afloat. No wonder she’s angry.

[akasen-littera]

Clea is better than me because if my mother left me alone in my grief to play dolls in another dimension and she built another version of me that is more palatable to her standards I'd straight up nuke Lumiere and everything she built

[tanely]

I find it fascinating that Clea almost entirely haunts the narrative herself and you don't realize it, especially if you don't explore the optional non story areas.

Knowing now that she's the fading woman and the mistress; she pops up throughout the narrative without the player realizing intially.

Clea is built into the lore and the world of the canvas. She has a hand in almost every aspect of it. She is referenced pretty consistently either in flashbacks, by an NPC or by white Nevrons.

A character who haunts the narrative in her own right because the canvas is hers as much as it was Verso's.

[doe-eye-oswald]

Just imagine little Clea and Verso mucking around the Canvas as kids, Verso seeing François for the first time and going 'is that a talking rock' and Clea indignantly snapping back 'he is Clearly a Turtle... and he casts the Strongest Ice Attack Ever >:(' and then she absolutely wrecks little versos shit

[versocidal]

I wish we could've seen more of original Clea and Verso's relationship, and while we don't directly get any crumbs (Sandfall you greedy little bunch j/), I think we actually get a glimpse of how they might've been through Esquie and Francois.

Our favourite giant marshmallow and moody local turtle can both represent Verso and Clea.

I have a hunch that those two were the closest of all family members, they grew up together, played together, created the whole canvas together.

It's like when Esquie tells us Francois used to sing and play and go on many adventures with them. Until Clea grew up and her responsibilities and interests grew with her. She'd have retreated into her shell (like a turtle would).

I can picture her kicking Verso out whenever he invited her to play (older sibling things yk?), portraying herself as cold and as sturdy as a rock, while deep downs she's still just a softie (who wants to see the art of the world, collect fables, and have... fun).

It's a parallel to how Francois yells at Esquie to leave him alone, to stay on his side of the caves, only to then cry his little heart out when he sees the mini FranFran and Clea rock.

And all the while Esquie (and probably Verso with Clea) doesn't really take it to heart. He quotes, "Francois is just sad." He understands that this hard exterior is because their's a pain inside.

Verso would have 100% seen Clea in that same light. For us, as players, when we first meet her, we see her as harsh, cold. If Verso was sitting with us and heard us say that, he'd definitely just smile sadly and say the same thing Esquie said about Francois. "She's just carrying a lot."

And I actually believe that Clea loved Verso more and valued his sacrifice more than anyone else in the family did. But that's an analysis for some other time. (Maybe.)

UGHHH THE DESSENDRE SIBLINGS YOU WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME

[tiamatscalybond]

Anyway if I were clea Clair obscur 33 and i watched my dad paint a symbolic representation of me “carrying too much” and my mom paint a fake version of me that’s “chill and got herself a boyfriend” after running off into the grief painting for five thousand hours and leaving me with all their irl problems without asking how i feel about the situation i too would’ve been kind of a cunt to all parties involved and put said fake boyfriend in the basement

she should’ve been allowed a gun i think i love women she’s my favorite character

[gxldencity]

select annotations from red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston / "is there anything more painful than knowing your sibling?" from dcvina-claires /clair obscur: expedition 33 / the archive of alternate endings by lindsey danger / ghost of by diana khoi nguyen

[brightwanderer]

Absolutely obsessed with Clea Dessendre, who is apparently busy with a completely different anime plot and needs everyone else to STOP LARPING and GET IT TOGETHER there's A WAR ON OKAY

[pumpkinspicelyrium]

bloodborne lore is easy