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hello, my name is raven (he/him), i'm 23 and following are my (current and lifelong) hyperfixations:

skyrim (special edition ps4)

the hobbit and lord of the rings (favs are thorin oakenshield and aragorn)

red dead redemption 2 (fav is arthur morgan)

ghost of tsushima (jin sakai <3)

ergo proxy (re-l and vincent)

death note (L)

DNI if you're any kind of -phobic, this blog is a safe space for everyone, except jerks.

jujutsu kaisen (nanami kento)

resident evil 3 (carlos oliveira)

sir-walton-goggins

I recently replayed Silent Hill 3 and once again, I'm left with the fact that Claudia Wolf is probably my favorite antagonist in the series so far.

I think she's a well fleshed-out character. It would've been easy to just make her some religious zealot with zero depth, but we know the reasons she is the way she is. The abuse, the cult's indoctrination, losing the person dearest to her (Alessa), the utter powerlessness that pushes her to want to achieve the biggest thing of all: aiding in the arrival of a god that will end all suffering forever.

She is so invested in this goal that she doesn't seem to care who she hurts in order to achieve it. But she knows what she did was wrong and she doesn't try to deny it. In fact, my favorite scene of hers is near the end of the game, when she says:

"No, I don't expect to be saved. And that's fine. Alessa, my dearest. For the pain that I've caused you, I deserve no mercy. Even if it was to save mankind, it was too deep a sin. It was hubris of me to try to hasten the day of Her arrival. Sacrifices were made, and those are my sins."

The sad thing is that she is so misguided, that her actions couldn't have ever had any sort of meaningful or positive outcome. Because the Paradise she speak of is just a delusion. It's complete detachment from reality.

If Claudia saw humanity as it really is, instead of claiming it's hopelessly corrupted, she may have been able to really do some good and help out people. But since she was brainwashed by The Order, she took the most destructive path, ruining many lives in the process, and all for nothing. For a god that was weak and killed off easily. That is the tragedy of it, in my opinion. That someone so driven, so passionate, wasted her efforts to accomplish nothing and cause more harm. Claudia failed herself.

The fact that her actions came from a place of wanting to do good is even sadder, it makes her feel more human. By the end of the game, I had stopped seeing her as a crazy preacher, and saw the wounded child, the lonely woman she was behind her expressionless façade. And that is amazing writing, that at the end of the story, when we have waited so long for the chance to finally kill her and avenge Harry, that the game stops you, and just presents you her humanity.

I'll put another quote of hers I really like:

"Happy people can be so cruel. Is it so hard to believe that sympathy could be born out of pain and suffering?"

That's such a layered statement that always makes me think. There were times I used to think this, too. When you are miserable, other people's happiness feels cruel, indeed. And regardless about whether you agree with her last question, pain has created both good, as well as bred other pain.

To contrast her good side, we have the fact that Claudia is dangerous. She is willing to kill and maim to reach her goal, and she does. She seems to have some sort of occult powers similar to Alessa's, but the game never shows them overtly. And that is a conscious choice, to help us empathize with her, and to help center her feeling of powerlessness. We see her being physically violent just once, and that is when we realize how far gone she really is: that she sees killing a person as "nothing important", simply because he was in her way.

In conclusion, I love her duality, and how complex and human she feels. Unsettling evil women for the win #lesbianpost

forgot i had to avoid opening tumblr to avoid spoilers

#jjk

sir-walton-goggins

Thanks for the tag @blueskies664!

Reblog with nine of your f/o faves

No pressure tags: @raevennsge @gardengnomegang @resident-rats @lilrobinbird

raevennsge

OHHHHH HERE THEY COME (taste btw bbg)

they're not in order of importance !! i love them all for different reasons

i have no one to tag :'D srry

the absolute insane amount of pride that explodes in my heart and makes my stomach have all butterflies whenever i look at my bf do something he's good at.

#somehow he's even finer when he does that #makes me feel so in love with him #<3

qep0ermint

He found him

towacletruck

caine's baby pictures got leaked who cheered

Ok guys the traction that this post gained has started to attract scam accounts so don't trust anyone in the replies telling you to send money to x patreon account please.

h0wlcastle

really upsets me when people act like crying in front of strangers is always somehow manipulative. i say this as someone who would rather eat glass than let anyone see me cry. i can turn it off instantly when a human being appears within a 50ft radius. but the difference is i know I'M the fucked up one. if i see someone in the grocery store openly sobbing in the baking aisle, i assume something really bad must've happened and they probably do not want to be doing what theyre doing. i could be wrong but like also not my business. shit, maybe their favorite chocolate chips arent in stock, idk. "it's attention-seeking behavior and theyre trying to elicit care from people who don't owe them anything and it isnt normal and it makes everyone uncomfortable--" okay then idk go live in the woods and never perceive another human being ever again since it bothers you so much, tiffany. jesus fucking christ.