Hiya Rina!! I think you should play the game AI: The Somnium Files if you havent heard of it already its a sci-fi murder mystery in the visual novel genre. Basically you are cop/detective named Date who has a cyberntic eye named Aiba. Hes very silly and is similar to Ashveil :3c. He also had an adopted daughter named Mizuki (part of the story is trying to solve her parents' death). But there are many routes and endings :p
For content warnings idk specifics but there is a lot of violence and some body horror..
Overall its a really fun game and i think you would enjoy it!! <33
oooo just looked it up and it seems really interesting !! looks like it's only $4 on steam, so i'll be picking that up hehe,, also thank you for the warnings !! i actually really love body horror, so this is right up my alley mwehehehe ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧ i can't wait to get some silly detective content
someone please throw bricks at my head for wanting to rework faye's design even though i haven't even shared her most recent update. i done pissed myself off (¬_¬ꐦ)
WHOA where did the speculation that Boothill's doctor might be Stoneheart Amber come from? I've never heard of that one, and it is wild to think he'd let someone from the IPC, especially someone so high up the ladder, have him in that vulnerable of a position.
i first saw it a looong while ago on reddit, but it's all just a fun speculation based on what very little info there was available at the time, so of course take it all with a massive grain of salt.
i'm also of the opinion that boothill wouldn't be very keen on letting his guard down around someone from the ipc. however, i do think we could argue that nobody from the ipc, aside from oswaldo and his subordinates, would even know who boothill is. especially when we take into consideration that records on aeragan-epharshel were wiped, and boothill would still appear as just a man, and is probably not wanted by the ipc just yet.
at this point, it is likely that boothill is believed to be dead by those who knew him, since none of them were aware that he was even aboard the ipc ship on the night of the bombing. he's a walking dead man, but they wouldn't know that. and that would be a massive advantage for him.
even the doctor's first words to him suggest that she has no idea what his true circumstances are and is making general guesses based on his outward appearance (a young man):
"This road doesn't suit you. Get out. Go find a job or... get an education... A young man like you deserves a better future. This road, on the other hand, belongs to those who have no other choice, people who can't start again anymore but still want to make evil pay..."
she doesn't know who he is or what he's been through. if she did, this would have been an incredibly insensitive and unreasonable thing to say to someone in his position.
it would also make sense, from boothill's perspective, to "go big or go home." he would likely want the absolute best that technology has to offer if he's going to be replacing most of his body, and who would have the funds and research to back that kind of technological feat if not the ipc?
anyways ! i recommend reading through the og post if you're interested because they cover a lot of ground that i'm missing in this response.
the point of no return was put back in my notifs and got me thinking about this moment again... the last time boothill would have his body of warm flesh and blood.
i often wonder what became of that heavily scarred, war-torn body. and each time that i do, my heart breaks for him all over again. was it simply discarded? burned away into nothingness? we'll likely never know, but the thought alone is a painful one.
discussion about boothill's character story below (pt.3 specifically):
"He felt as if he had fallen into a deep sea. His flesh was wrapped up and then melted into everything around him. His body departed, leaving only his hollow thoughts struggling all alone."
this marks the beginning of his metaphorical death and rebirth, and the moment that his consciousness and soul are separated from his physical body. i think it is also important to note that it is a "deep sea" that he falls into. across various cultures, the sea (or some body of water) is often believed to be the boundary between life and death.
but still, the exact fate of his body beyond this point remains unknown.
"He smelled the scent of something being charred, and he even felt the doctor's soft breathing... The whirl of machinery buzzed around his ears and the new blue blood refused to flow towards his thirsty heart."
this bit here is what leads me to believe that his head and heart have remained, at least slightly, unaltered. that said, i also don't think that any of this is something he's actually experiencing in a physical sense. he "smells" the charred flesh of his neck, "feels" the doctor's breath, and "hears" the buzz of machinery, but in a way that is detached and distant as he is not yet connected to his new body.
in this moment, boothill's mind and soul are in a sort of stasis where they linger between the mortal world and the afterlife. the blue blood refusing to flow toward his "thirsty [human] heart" reads to me as an internal struggle between boothill's desire to join his family in death (his heart) and his desire to avenge them (the blue blood and his new 'life'). there is still a bridge left for him to cross before he can fully return to the mortal realm.
"He really wanted to just fall asleep like this and never wake up.
Until he heard those crude songs and those gentle words, and memories of yore surfaced once again. The unforgettable hatred turned into a weak light in the darkness and he followed it to walk toward the end of it all, exerting every ounce of his strength to rise once again to the surface."
here, we see that struggle. in the end, it is his heart that has to choose to accept this new life. it is through his sheer resilience, the love for the ones he lost, and his hatred for those who have wronged them that he is able to overcome death. although, it never states that he has returned to shore or even shallow waters. a poignant reminder of just how ready he is to die for his cause.
"Both the gentle and crude voices have disappeared. No one will ever call him by that crisp and resonating name again... Boothill couldn't help but look up at the night sky outside — Another star had been ignited in the arrays of stars above."
while boothill may have survived the procedure, there was definitely a part of him that did join his loved ones among the stars. the part of him that bore his original name. the part of him that only knew the vast green plains and clear blue skies of aeragan-epharshel. the part of him that was blissfully unaware of the worlds beyond the sky. in a way, i think it could be seen as his own way of extending grace to himself, as to not sully his name with the sins will commit on his new path.
but back to my original concern: his body.
he definitely didn't care what happened to it since his only goal was to become something stronger and harder to kill. to escape the vulnerability that comes with a mortal form. this combined with the assumption that he was many star systems away from his home would be reason enough for him to not care about the aftermath. but beyond that, if his body were returned to his home, and laid to rest in the way that his people had been laid to rest for millennia, he would be alone. the bodies of those he cherished were scorched from the earth on that night, and were not given proper burials.
i suppose that if his body had been burned for disposal, he would have left in the same way that the others did, and perhaps that would bring him some sort of morbid comfort.
i try not to mourn his past life too much because he made the choice to leave that part of him behind. he is no longer the man that he once was, and that's fine. it doesn't make him any less himself, or any less deserving of love and respect. he's still my big, sweet cowboy whom i shall smother with cuddles and kisses ♡(ﾐ ᵕ̣̣̣̣̣̣ ﻌ ᵕ̣̣̣̣̣̣ ﾐ)ﾉ
I just had a funny little thought: you remember back as recent as early January when Ashveil's silhouette was first teased and we weren't even sure if it was just Boothill with a different hat and later we thought that Ashy was a bit sus and you were ready to beat him senseless with rocks, wrenches, hammers and lastly a shovel to bury him with if he ended up being a traitor to the Galaxy Rangers?
And now? He's bae #2 and I wonder how quick, or slow, Faye is to warm up to the flashy detective in comparison after her initial gut feelings about his shadow wears off?
you must be a mind reader because i've actually been thinking and laughing about this too (ᵕ⸝⸝• ᴗ •) like i genuinely feel so bad for my initial reaction to him aaauughhh i'm so sorry wolfie !! but it is so crazy to me that i had little to no interest in him at the start and now... well !! i guess i'm just relieved that i got the wrong read on him, and that he's actually such a tragic sweetheart
faye's fear dissipated rather quickly because he's immediately apologetic after realizing that he accepted her handshake with his shadow hand, it's almost comedic how embarrassed he is to have made the mistake. her initial perception of him was entirely skewed by the shadow's influence since it's her first time encountering the voracity, but then it's completely flipped on its head when he apologizes to her profusely. he's bowing his head and doing that cute little nervous laugh, and he's got this hurt puppy look in his eyes. she gets a bit of whiplash from it all and is left utterly confused by the time they part ways. boothill will have to answer all her questions once they've returned to their lodging. when they do end up becoming partners, faye will be the one apologizing to ashveil
thank you for all your love & support, my dearest lost ᵒ̴̶̷̥́ ·̫ ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀ i'm happy you're enjoying your lil cowboy & i can’t wait to draw for you again !!
been in the process of renovating my blogs, and that led me to actually take the time to hunt down the exact date that i first fell for the cowboy... i can't believe i've been lying this whole time. i thought this all started in march of 2024 but it was actually all the way back in OCTOBER 2023 ???? okay. well... i guess that's good news bc that just means i didn't actually miss fayehill's anni this year pfft
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