wishing I was a 2000s survival horror protagonist

actually I wish I was asleep right now

[ryuzumisama]

**Thows my favs into the backrooms like little lab rats in an experiment**

[a-slut-for-leon-kennedy]

PIERS AND JILL TEAMUP OOOO

[noguricity]

[ashleysblazer]

Title screen redraw. let’s hold hands in an og way

[the-dragon]

[noguricity]

[theartofresidentevil]

Leon S. Kennedy

3D render for Resident Evil 4

Design by Masaki Yamanaka

[ap3orus]

Warm up sketch

[ap3orus]

Figured I'd post this too

[sephirothhh]

Resident Evil 4 2005—dev. Capcom

[aliciavance4228]

It's the fact that I criticized in this post the way people who write RE AUs where nothing bad happened while ignoring the elephant in the room (the characters' jobs), only for someone to call it "ragebait nonsense" and then thank a fanfiction writer for reblogging it.

Anyway, let's adress this:

First of all, Leon: I despise the way many (not all) Leon Fans tend to portray him as having a greater sense of justice or caring than he's actually presented in the video games and ecranisations, to the point where he sometimes gets turned into some sort of ground-breaking feminist icon simply because he's designed as conventionally attactive in a dorky, puppy-like way in the Remakes, and I urge these people to ask themselves why is he still working for the government, even thirty years later. Because while he initially did that due to the fact that he was blackmailed into becoming an US Agent in order to keep Sherry safe there have been some good years after that, and by the time these two are reuniting in RE6 she was already a 27yo woman working for Simmons, who later gets killed in the game anyway. There's no reason for Leon to work for the government anymore, especially past-2013, yet he does that without objecting or deviating from his missions. And at least in the older games and movies it could be argued that he's more cynical towards it and oftenly used drinking as a coping mechanism in order to deal with his job, but in the newer games and movies the tone of his character regarding his stance with the government isn't even neutral or apolitical. In Infinite Darkness we're seeing him at his most Bootlicking Era it would be funny if it won't be depressing af, whereas in RE9 we're literally being given a moment where a nurse gets brutally murdered with a chainsaw while he was just standing there, even though that woman clearly told him that she's a new member of Dr. Gideon's team and pretty much implied that she knows nothing about what is this man actually doing. Also he's driving a Porsche - this man is exactly where he wants to be.

Jill Valentine got a whole personality transplant in the RE3 Remake. In the OG games she has an idealized view regarding her role and duty and holds a monologue about justice in the RE3 intro (since she had a lot of personal frustrations grounded in this straightforward quest for it). She starts losing her trust in authority after RE1, and becomes guided primarly by her moral compass throughout RE3. But in the Remake she's less compassionate and empathetic towards the civilians (remember how in the OG RE3 she tells Mikhail that the zombies he's shooting are victims of Umbrella as well), and much more agressive and hot-headed, which wouldn't be that much of a problem if she wouldn't have blamed Nikolai solely for all the shit that happened (who got rewritten into a caricaturistic, generic russian villain while the original one at least had a more nuanced characterization), whereas the OG Jill was able to acknowledge that there isn't one person nor a group a people who are to be blamed for everything that happened, but an entire structure (hence why in the ending where he doesn't get killed by Nemesis she simply lets him go, and you're even being given the option of negociating with him).

The only character out there who could be argued that has the strongest sense of moral justice is the exact same one who's being given an optional dialogue where him and Sheva are shit-talking about Capitalism, namely Chris. After he discovered Wesker's true colors he became a member of the Private Anti-Biohazard Service. After Umbrella collapsed he founded the B.S.A.A. After the B.S.A.A. covered the Baker family incident he no longer wanted to associate himself with it and founded the Hound Wolf Squad. So far he's in the safest zone purely because he has always tried to minimalize the amount of corruption from his side as much as possible, and even he is in a dangerous area since we don't know how is he gonna get rewritten as a young man in the RE: Code Veronica Remake and (likely) the RE1 and RE5 Remakes that will get relesased at one point as well.

On this note I'd like to add that this is also part of the reason why I have lots of complaints regarding the "RE is political!" crowd. Not because the games wouldn't be political, but because their political tones and messages are oftently poorly executed and inconsistent, and with the trajectory this series has taken ever since RE7 it's pretty clear that they got completely toned down or even overplayed in one of the most deplorable ways possible.

[rowanisawriter]

write insane shit that’s way beyond your perceived ability and skill level even if you don’t finish it even if you think it sucks

[doeberman-deactivated20210530]

wait babe before we move on i need to break every barrel in this room to check for hidden items

[dr-paint]

You're not always nice, but you're kind.

[corpshumain]

a small reminder that Jill basically IS the uroboros (both in terms of the metaphor (abuse cycle ok?) and in terms of the fact that only thanks to her antibodies the uroboros virus was completed)

[apas-95]

the year was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it....... probably another Electronic-Mail

[ghostintheclawmachine]

As someone who collects a LOT of physical media but doesn’t make a lot of money, I want to share the rule that keeps my wallet from crying out in despair every time I enter a store. I don’t remember who I got this from, but thank you whoever you are because it has been a game-changer when it comes to building a large collection without breaking the bank.

The $1 per hour rule. It’s exactly what it says on the tin. If I’m purchasing physical media, I consider it good value if I can expect to get at least one hour of enjoyment for every dollar I spend on it.

I don’t remember what I spent on BG3, but I know it was a good deal because I’ve logged 600 hours in it. Hades II costs $30, and I was more than happy to pay that because I know I’ll play it for at least 30 hours. When I add books to my library, I almost exclusively buy used books that cost under $5 because 5 hours is a good average estimate for how long it takes me to finish a novel.

Will there be a treat you splurge on every now and then? Of course, but $1 per hour is a good standard to stick to if you want to responsibly build a dragon's hoard of physical media.

[weibun-art]

my pancake-ass diva

[katribou]

anyone mind if a girl speaks a little gwangdungwaa