Monurey

What's the point of side blogs? Chuck 'em all in one!

[monurey]

Before yous judge, I am most definitely colourblind.

Jake Muller, from Resident Evil 6. I thought he was black.... I saw him and thought he was light skinned.... Like, logically I thought he was mixed and that his Mum was black... I also thought he was brunet....

I think it's a mixture of RE6s shitty lighting and my colourblindness..... I don't think I could actually explain how I see skin tones (among other colours)...

But from what I've learned from reading fanfiction....... he's white and ginger?

[Edit for added context]

To me Jake's skin tone looks exactly the same as Markus from Detroit: Become Human. Markus is played by Jesse Williams who IS mixed race (African American Father and Swedish American Mother).

[monurey]

I have no time rn but "Kindergarten Boyfriend" from Heathers and Chreon.... from like Leon's POV? It could even be Serrenedy or Metal Tango... It just has to be from Leon's POV

I initially thought Chreon cause "a horse with wings" fit with the unicorn statue in the R.P.D

[Update 25/05/26]

Uhhhh expanding upon this idea in a way???

"Certain boys are meant for kindergarten"

and it's like,,,,,,,, RE8 Chris smoking???

"Certain girls are meant to be alone"

Show RE4R Luis and Krauser dying and fading into RE9 Leon in his car from the beginning of his first section.

[monurey]

Every night when my Dad let's the dog out at like 3am, I always worry that he doesn't close the door properly when he lets the dog back in and that the cats will get out.

Last night I got up and it turns out that my Dad did indeed not close the door right and if I didn't get up behind him then the door would have been left wide open... Which mean I can never ignore that feeling ever again 😭

[monurey]

Is there any correlation between toddlers that had a lot of fears/nightmares and adults who are into horror?

Cause I was like that as a young kid but then I become a kid who was into FNAF, a teen who was into Creepypasta, and an adult who's into Silent Hill 2 and the Resident Evil franchise...

[monurey]

Wait....... When RE7 was being developed, were they trying to make Chris look like an older version of how he looked in the FMV intro for the original Resident Evil?

Cause that makes sense to me... Seeing it side by side, the slimmer build and the lighter hair... I can see it.

[tojustforart]

Big ups.

[monurey]

Why do themepark actors look more accurate to the characters that they are portraying than big budget movie actors?

I'm watching videos from Universal Studios Japan's Halloween Horror Nights and I can instantly tell who everyone was,,, mostly because they kept all the most important and recognisable elements of every character..... When I first saw pictures from Welcome to Raccoon City I didn't know who anyone was apart from Chris and Claire.

[monurey]

Hot take. When someone is talking about Leon's wedding ring and says "His Wife", I immediately stop listening. Like, why are you assuming that Leon is married to a woman? Chreon aside, Leon is equally as likely to be married to a random man as he is a random woman. Horror is a medium historically used to tell the stories of marginalised groups. Queer people, People of colour, disabled people. So yeah, while it is the quote "cultural norm" to assume Leon is married to a woman... Why not just say "Leon's partner"?

[monurey]

I learned the hard way that automatic injectors are actually real outside of sci-fi and video games.

It's been like months and I can't stop thinking about it....

My understanding of them is basic at best cause I couldn't actually see what was happening.

I went for an MRI scan. I was already laid down on the table thing, I didn't have headphones on yet but there were still blocks either side of my head so I couldn't really move my head.

Anyway, it took ages but they finally got a cannula fitted in my arm and then attached this thin tube thing to it, which went down to my thumb, looped around my thumb and then over to the left, where I assume there was a machine with the dye in it.

So, ear plugs in, headphones on, MRI started..... like halfway through I get told that they're gonna inject me. So they must have pressed a button and then I could feel the thin tube like vibrate slightly where it was resting against my thumb? and then the dye?

But like.............. I didn't know they were real. I'm still shook.

Whole experience was really unpleasant though, 0/10 would NOT recommend

[monurey]

i took a left turn and a right turn and now i'm reading Leon Kennedy x Albert Wesker fanfiction...

[highball66]

THEY BROUGHT BACK THE CAT EARS!!!! THEY DID THIS FOR ME AND ME SPECIFICALLY

[monurey]

Giving Leon wolf ears is actually THE MOST Chreon thing they could have done.

What do you mean they are having Leon play into the wolf theme when it's usually cat ears that he gets?

What do you mean Leon gets wolf ears when there is canonically a group called the Hound Wolf Squad.

A group headed by Chris Redfield, a.k.a. Alpha...

Is this hinting Leon being part of the HWS?

or is it just cause he's married to their Alpha?

This is so Chreon it hurts 😭

[monurey]

I really wanna try playing RE6 with someone else but I got no one to play it with.

How do I find someone like 20+ in the GMT time zone who would be willing to play it with me?

[monurey]

I think a good indicator of whether or not a video game to movie adaptation is gonna be good or not can be inferred by how much effort they put into making the characters look like how they do in the game.... The biggest reason being that it shows whether they care about bringing the game to life, or they want to do their own thing for the most part and capitalise off of slapping the franchise name on it.

Example:

Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)

Plot:

It was kinda dogshit. It took a vague whiff at what happened in RE1 and 2 and tried to shove them into the one movie. Really RE1 and 2 both deserve their own separate movies, so you don't get a rushed jumbled mess like this was, that added in connections that didn't exist to justify mixing the two games.

Casting

When I first saw pictures I thought Leon was Luis....

Also, who tf decided to let Tom Hopper play Wesker??????? What were they smoking??????? The guy who's known for playing Percival in Merlin and Luther in The Umbrella Academy??????

Least Wesker like person they could have chosen.

Return to Silent Hill

Plot:

I don't even wanna talk about it....

Mary Angela Laura Crane bs 😭

The first scene told me all I needed to know about how deeply the respected the actual story.

James killed Mary and drove to Silent Hill with the plans to end his life by driving into Toluca lake. When he gets there he has some sort of mental break and completely forgets reality. Depending on what ending you get is whether or not James goes through with it, but many people who worked on SH2, including James' og voice actor, consider 'In Water' to be the canon ending....

So why tf does "James" rock up to Silent Hill in a convertible?????

Casting/Character dressing:

James is also so simple to get right.... so simple.... I could walk to my local charity shop rn and buy a better costume than what they gave James..... and the convertible car??????? James is POOR!!!! He's in America and his wife spent 3 YEARS IN HOSPITAL!!!!!!! In the game he drove a shit box!

In conclusion.... why are studios so afraid of the 90's blond boy band hair style..... In the past decade they refused to give it to James and Leon???? Bruh

[monurey]

Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine are MLM and WLW solidarity

[monurey]

"Haunting the narrative is a literary term. It is used for a character whose presence in the story is sparse... but their actions have major consequences to the story". To haunt the narrative is to define the story by the lack of their presence. In this essay I will be discussing how Chris Redfield haunts the narrative in Resident Evil Requiem, and how this can be used to deduce who the ring on Leon's finger belongs to.

[monurey]

To the youtube channel who made a Chreon video 16 years ago to "Lay All Your Love on Me" from Mamma Mia, you are so big brained, ily so much 😭

[monurey]

PLEASE WATCH!!!! They're an absolute visionary. Way a head of their time!!!!

The fact this video came out nearly 17 years ago, when Chris and Leon hadn't technically directly interacted in a game yet. With RE5 being the most recent Chris appearance and the only clip of Chris smoking being from the live action intros from RE1 😭

I think about this AT LEAST once a day!

[monurey]

Chreon is so 'Me and My Husband'

Like specifically post RE Vendetta to RE9

"So I'll bet all I have"

"On that furrowed brow"

It's very RE9 Good Ending coded IMO as well... Like Leon asks Sherry to call for a helicopter, Sherry passes the message to Chris, and Chris sends just about everybody he can to go get Leon (the HWS and other members of the BSAA), all the while worrying if Leon is safe...

It also makes it all the more heartbreaking when in the Bad Ending, you can hear a helicopter in the background, knowing that the HWS was just minutes too late to save Chris' husband...