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[asgardiansofthegalaxyvol3]

The eroticism of an older man calling a younger man Kid, even though he is most definitely an adult.

What, are you trying to convince yourself he’s too young for you? I don’t buy it and neither do you. Just fuck him over the nearest table and call him baby boy.

[tempural]

@chrisker-week Day 3: Love Language.

STARS era. Wesker's love language is gift giving, of course. Like the ammo and health he leaves for Chris around the mansion. And he likes recieving acts of service.

Based on a story by @crispy-lizard, that he will release on day 7 of Chrisker Week :P. How much of Captain Wesker was real? And can YOU name those STARS members?

Answers below:

Love these Sleve McDichael names.

I think everything Wesker did as a "good" captain was genuine. Much like his unironic appraisal of Chris as his best man, or Jill as a smart girl. He wants to get the job done, and he never half-asses anything. Including acting as a "good" cop.

But Wesker can discard relationships very easily. He's not attached to humans. "Goodbye, old friend," he said to Excella... He can genuinely enjoy the company of others for the 7 minutes they're together, and then get bored of them immediately and toss 'em. He doesn't feel bad for anything. Every day is a human performance for him, and other people are just NPCs in his script. Though he may have some favorite characters to play with, in the end he can enter the "killall" console command and just restart the game.

[lakevida]

complimented a womans clear raincoat this morning and she said Well i feel like a sandwich

[ablueeyedarcher]

Chris sees himself in Piers, but also sees himself beginning to become Wesker at the same time.

Let me explain.

It's no secret that Resident Evil 6 spent a lot of time giving us plenty of throwbacks to the events of Raccoon City from Jake and Sherry's campaign showing these two make amends for the mistakes of their parents and prove they're more than the reputations of their fathers. To Leon's campaign where Tall Oaks is a painful reminder of the hell he had to endure in Raccoon City all over again.

Then we get to Chris' campaign. Seemingly unrelated at first but then when you look at it from a slightly different angle, not so much. Chris' struggle throughout RE6 is reminiscent of Albert Wesker and the Spencer Mansion incident. Captain Chris Redfield of Alpha team was indirectly responsible for the loss of his first team due to unfortunate circumstances beyond his control. (RE0 with Albert unaware but standing by regardless as Bravo team gets ambushed and most members are killed).

He then abandons his organization (not intentionally, due to his traumatic amnesia) only to be drawn back into the same fight with a new team. Now blinded by an entirely new and selfish goal. He is dismissive towards his new team's struggles at first, often leaving them to handle the brunt of the fight on their own (like Wesker did to Alpha team in the Mansion) while he obsesses selfishly over his goal for vengeance against Ada.

Just like in Leon's campaign, it's not an exactly alignment to what happened back in 1998, but it does carry notes of similarities in how the events are played out and the roles they carry now. With Leon, he sort of becomes a more successful version of Lieutenant Marvin Branagh, as he comes to the aid of a rookie cop struggling to defend civilians on his first day. He gives the group some guidance and directs them on the best course of action to ensure their survival only for it to end in an inevitable failure. Just as it did in Raccoon City.

For Chris, it's only when his team has dwindled down to three (him, Piers and Marco) that he starts to really unravel like Wesker did towards the end, even confronting Piers with an ultimatum after Marco's death. He's steadfast in this mentality that his revenge, that HIS goal takes precedence over any of the lives he's already lost to this cause. Justifying their sacrifices as a means for the end. Just as Wesker did.

Piers is stubborn and loyal to Chris, just as Chris once was with Wesker. He loved him and respected him, hoping to find some way to shake this insanity out of the broken man in front of him. Just as Chris lunged forward in an attempt to save Wesker from the tyrant he unleashed himself, Piers lunged forward to save the man he believed could still be better than who he was before.

Chris had been betrayed and used by the man he once loved and admired, a man he considered a good friend.

Piers watched painfully as the man he loved and admired became someone entirely foreign right before his eyes, making senseless sacrifices for selfish reasons and he STILL believed Chris could change. That he could become better. That he could overcome this.

Chris watched Piers do for him, what he himself couldn't do for Wesker all those years ago. He watched himself begin to become the monster he swore he would never be.

He changed his fate, but he lost everything to do it. Piers' sacrifice, and Chris' own selfish goals had brought him back to the brink of that hellish place he had escaped fifteen years ago. Only instead of being a young promising soldier looking up to his beloved Captain, he had become the man he hated most.

His campaign in RE6 sort of became a "what if" possibility to some extent. Reminiscent enough of those traumatic events he (and Leon) had escaped all those years ago, only now they had to face the complexities of these scenarios from the roles of their former mentors. For Leon, it was seeing things from Marvin's side, and for Chris, it was walking in Wesker's shoes.

[mgsr]

[ostolero]

I want a horror game exactly like what is depicted here

[aflo]

resident evil

[residentevilheritageposts]

Honestly

[zipleydipley]

And yet 5 hours later Chris still manages to somehow land that "beautiful dinner" with Wesker ((it's just chinese takeout 💔))

This is how I feel the Chrisker ship starts off imo 😩 just Wesker being cold while Chris fumbles and is a little bit stupid. Still works on that mean blondie tho LMAO

[mushroominawaterbottle]

there is the line between bisexual and aroace and i am using it as a jump rope

[yougivemewhumperflies]

Accidental trauma reveal my love. When friends or enemies unintentionally discover Whumpee’s tragic background. For instance

The classic nightmare scene. Whumpee has never slept with people close by for this very reason. Unfortunately, they don’t have a choice this time, and they do, in fact, scream (or cry) in their sleep, in front of someone/everyone.

The person behind the trauma suddenly reappearing in Whumpee’s life. Whumpee losing it—running away, hiding, refusing to engage with anyone. Or even better, trying so hard to pretend they’re okay until they just. Shatter.

Truth serums, spells, and items. Flippantly asking Villain, “Why do you keep doing this?” only to get a gut-wrenching answer in return.

The mind probe. Whumpee is sick/unconscious, and someone does the magical mind probe (I swear this comes up so much in media) to figure out what’s wrong and stumbles on Whumpee’s tragic past.

Teammates unknowingly triggering Whumpee for a while until Whumpee finally just screams it out. The looks of horror.

Also shout out to intentional trauma reveals. For trusting the found family enough to tell them the things that hurt the most.

Any other tropey goodness that results in Whumpee finally getting the comfort they deserve.

[kashuan]

another stars-era comic, this one a little on the angsty side :`)

[re-kyba]

Re village chrisker i wish we had

[decompose1]

real exchange i overheard between two of my bosses. ????

[rabbitsonthemoon]

Albert Wesker's vibe is cunty and Zeno's vibe is bitchy. I can't explain the difference. but there very much is one. And I love that for them.

[gillyeowalters]

In defense of that one scene in the original RE1

The "Chris? Stop it." scene from the original Resident Evil has become pretty infamous but I will always and forever be of the opinion, that pretty much completely changing it in the Remake has taken away a huge portion of Wesker's characterization.

It makes the obsession Wesker has with Chris so much more believable than just "he ruined my plans".

A lot of people portray Wesker simply as a sadistic, megalomanic villain and while these traits are definitely parts of his personality, the severe trauma he had to undergo in his childhood is often neglected or treated on a very surface level. It turns into a "he had a bad childhood", without actually understanding what made the circumstances he grew up in so bad or what the consequences for him were.

What almost always will traumatize us, is the feeling of loosing control and children suffer from this more often than adults, as it is seen as acceptable to take away control and choice from them. This is a hundert times true for the children in Project W. This starts when Albert and the other Wesker children are taken away from their caretakers/parents, continues with years of experimentation and conditioning and does not end with the injection of the virus.

As someone who is a victim of IGM I can attest how traumatising medical abuse/learning that you were medically abused is. The only thing that comes close is the sexual abuse I suffered later in life. Both sexual and medical abuse give you the feeling of not being in control or not being allowed to be in control of your body. Both are heavily traumatizing, because they violate the only body we have. Both also tend to leave marks, a constant reminder of how irreversible that violation is.

So many works of horror use "human experimentation" and "experiments on children" as a trope, but never go beyond "well, their bodies get fucked up". The psychological part is often forgotten, neglected or caricaturized by turning the victims into "crazies" and "freaks".

The reason why it is so terrible especially when kids are involved is in part that it happens so early in their life and that their first memories might be of being abused. This may lead to them believing that being abused is the natural state of things.

Wesker grew up in an environment, that took control from him in any way possible and, since it might have been the only thing he knew at that point, made him feel like this loss of control and the cruelty connected to it would be inescapable, like there is no "good place" out there to escape to. Which was probably by Spencer's design. He hated the way our world is and for the children to build the utopia he imagined, they first needed to perceive the world as it was as an absolute hellscape. And they needed to believe that, should they ever want control over themselves (not even the megalomaniac goal of control over the world), they would have to take control from others with violence or manipulation.

These children were raised to feel like helplessness and being at the mercy of others was something completely natural and that there was no gentle way of gaining control back. If you want to survive, you need to be violent or manipulative. There is no other way in this world. There are no people who mean good. Only the strongest deserve to live, because they struggled the longest and hardest for control. The world is a bad place and it is not only ok to violently reshape it, it is righteous. It gives the same feeling as religious high control groups, which is fitting for someone like Wesker who seeks a science based "godhood".

So, some might say "yeah, but Wesker is shown to be violent and manipulative, why do we need that pathetic scene from the first game?"

Because it is the only one in which we get to see the pain the trauma has left. Everywhere else it is alluded to at best. We see the manipulator and his violence but we never get to see the pain and severe insecurity. In tjis scene, it is out in the open.

Wesker sounds absolutely pathetic. He is insecure. He has lost control. They could have gone a different way to express something very similar; they could have made him sound angry and could have worded it like an angry accusation. A "Chris, how dare you." They could have combined it with aggression, but they didn't.

Wesker isn't angry, he is genuinley upset. And someone who doesn't know Albert's backstory might find it pathetic that Wesker reacts that way just because Chris laughs at him and calls him just that. He already has achieved so much, he is already so powerful, why does he care?

Simply and unprofessionally put, because his trauma is triggered in that scene.

He probably expected Chris to react very differently. With fear or anger. Because these are the emotions the tyrant is supposed to invoke. But Chris laughs. Wesker loses control, again. Over how his biggest creation yet is perceived, over how he himself is seen and over the man he considered inferior to himself. This is the moment that shapes his relationship with Chris; someone he cannot control, a wildcard. Every struggle with Chris from then on becomes a struggle for control. Wesker can not *not* fight him, because Chris has, at this point become the embodiment of his trauma. They are forever connected, because Wesker is forever bound to his trauma.

And with every fight it gets worse, because in every new encounter Wesker has gained new powers, and yet he still can not beat Chris. No matter how powerful, he can't win, yet he desperately wants to, because in the end he is fighting his inner hell.

The scene in Resident Evil 1 is so pivotal because a lot of times we fear the loss of control because we fear dying as a consequence of that loss. And that is exactly what happens to Wesker. He dies. (And then the tyrant stands over him with its fat ass, but that is besides the point).

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Not only is he confronted with his fear, what is at the core of that fear actually happens. And while Chris doesn't cause his death, he makes him die traumatized and probably scared.

From then on out, we never get to see him scared again. The core of his fear is resolved. He has died already and he sees himself to powerful to die again. So there is no reason to be scared. And yet, he cannot let go of the trauma. He still yearns for absolute control.

Wesker being abused can also be seen in other things. A lot of people joke about his disinterest when Excella gets touchy with him (and I don't want people to feel bad about these jokes! This is my personal interpretation and the way the scene is directed makes it funny). He isn't into it. He doesn't push her away. He is just used to being touched without being asked.

And he calls the virus Ouroboros. A being with no end and even moreso, no beginning. Wesker wants to just exist, he, like a snake its skin (Ouroboros usually being portrayed as snake like, and reflected in the simplified scale pattern of his clothes), wants to shed his trauma. So he can allow himself to just exist, without his traumatizing childhood and without having to fear death.

For his entire life he has been chasing Ouroboros and in the end he looses controlbecause he is confrontes with Chris, and thus his trauma, and dies again.

[virolowren]

and why he so possessive 🥸?

[tired-demonspawn]

this is totally how it happened guys, trust

poor guy catching strays(they're all true)

edit: inspiration under the cut

[jessiesjaded]

Ship dynamics are always like Sunshine and Sunshine protector~ Cinnamon roll and their grumpy one 🤗 Well what about 2 cunts. They're both cunts and that's the dynamic. cunt4cunt.