Let's just say… I plunged under this iceberg and almost drowned. Well, let's talk about Higgs and I'll tell you what I saw in him. Believe me, it's interesting. And it's very sad.
Higgs is a man who never had anything of his own - no meaning, no closeness, no confirmation of his worth. His story is about how loneliness breeds the desire for absolute power just to feel alive. He doesn’t hate the world by default - he hates his own powerlessness within it.
At the beginning of Death Stranding, he plays the role of a Horseman of the Apocalypse, but behind it lies a tragic longing to be important in any way. He found nothing meaningful in this world, no real connections. No family, no friendship, no love. Meeting Amelie was the final tipping point that altered his identity - because she betrayed the hope he’d clung to. He believed he was finally needed by someone. Amelie gave him power, and with it, recognition - as if to say he mattered, he was special. But that feeling turned out to be an illusion.
His childhood was shaped by total isolation, emotional and physical abuse at the hands of an uncle he called "daddy". He grew up believing he was an object. He lived in a world where there were no "others". That warped reality became the only one he knew. Completely cut off from the outside world, even knowledge was restricted. In such an environment, Higgs’s identity couldn’t form properly. He saw no value in himself, but he wanted to survive, to become a part of the community.
He layered his image with narcissism as a form of protection. He placed himself at the center of events as a desperate attempt to convince himself he still existed as someone. His thinking: "If I wasn’t loved, then I must be better than everyone else." He built the persona of someone special, chosen, to justify his pain. At his core lies vulnerability and sensitivity. But he puts on a choleric mask, hiding under aggression, sarcasm, intimidation - to conceal weakness and preserve a sense of control.
Even his aggression is a form of desperate self-assertion. He’s closer to the philosophy of absurdism than to basic evil. His lack of empathy doesn’t come from hate, but from a kind of psychic deafness - he doesn’t know how to recognize other people’s pain. He literally can’t see others until someone (like Sam) forces him to feel.
He could have had empathy - but it was crushed by trauma and isolation. He’s so damaged, he no longer knows how to be different. He’s a wounded, abandoned, burned-out man with no idea how to feel, or who it’s even safe to show that to.
His pain runs so deep it mutates into a desire for annihilation. He’s not looking for an equal - he wants nothing to remain. He is, in fact, a suicide bomber, and his radicalism comes from a desire to erase everything. Higgs doesn’t bury his pain under rationalizations. He shows how empty he is. He craves to dissolve in destruction - together with Sam. And in his mecha-body, he spills everything out, in grotesque form - because he doesn’t know how else to express himself.
He simply gave up when he found out the truth from Amelie's mouth. That everything he aspired to as a porter uniting America would eventually disappear. That it was all for nothing.
His hunger for destruction is a way to take revenge for all the things he never had. Deep down, Higgs never wanted destruction for its own sake. His "wish for the end of the world" is a twisted confession of his failure - as a person. His apocalypse isn’t a crime for power, but an attempt to escape pain through a grand finale. "If nothing can ever matter to me, then maybe destroying everything can." It’s a kind of ironic vengeance - against the world, and himself.
10.000+ years on the Beach, outside time, outside society. No aging, no feelings, no development. Just a stagnant swamp of emptiness, where he’s trapped alone with himself... no room to grow, no purpose. He feels boredom, but never madness - which makes the torment even worse. His mind is poisoned by despair, but his intellect remains intact.
In DS2, Higgs’s appearance in the mecha-body looks like a parody of feelings, a tragicomic makeup where he is laughing and crying at the same time. His face is a mask, a new level of theatricality. His makeup reflects the searing inner instability. This image is a scream of pain, wrapped in a glossy, screaming shell. He didn’t just experience loneliness, but long, exhausting years on the Beach, where he had nothing except the memory of Sam and the feeling of rejection. His new image makes him far more human than before.
But even if his face is a mask, there is no lie in it. He is not trying to seem like someone else – he’s just artificially emphasizing what he has become. His smile is carved in gold, but it isn’t real, and his tears are drawn on, because he can’t allow himself to shed real ones in this body.
Higgs has a distorted understanding of attachment. He doesn’t know how to love – he only knows how to grab, dominate, force a reaction. This is especially visible in the context of Sam’s demisexuality, where Higgs seems to instinctively feel that simple display of the body, flirting, or impulsiveness won’t affect Sam. Which means he must force his way into his life.
Higgs has an obsession with Sam with a clear erotic-emotional undertone. This isn’t just fixation on an enemy. It’s an obsessive, distorted attraction born from loneliness, pain, and the desire to be seen by this one person. Because only Sam was able to provoke any reaction in him.
When Higgs, under a pseudonym (his real name), ordered pizza from Sam, it can be seen as a symbolic act of courtship, but in a twisted form. Higgs wants Sam to come to him, to do something personal. Physical contact (licking the cheek) and body language, combined with his behavior, are perceived not as domination, but as an aggressive form of closeness that he doesn’t know how to express differently. Almost a confession – but in a monstrous form.
The only longing on the Beach – is for Sam. Despite centuries of isolation, Higgs remembers him first. He is the center of his fixation.
He is intimate, contradictory, obsessed, even tender in a monstrous way. This is not eroticism for epatage, but a deep connection formed through suffering, loneliness, and pain. Even their battle isn’t just a fight, but almost a ritual, a dance with a subtext. Sam is living proof that a person can carry connection, light, persistence, even pain. Higgs falls in love with persistence, with the idea, with the fact that Sam isn’t afraid to be human.
Higgs’s love language is provocation, violence, mockery with subtext. Singing during Sam’s torture is a confession, encrypted in a crude, self-destructive form. The one who used to behave like a mocker and manipulator now expresses himself through song. It’s romance poisoned by obsession. The song becomes not an expression of kindness, but a way to express his despair.
He smiles and sings about wanting to be closer, while mocking Sam. It’s the contrast between outer grotesque and inner scream. He, the destroyer, sings the words of a parent to the person he’s trying to destroy. This cannot be accidental.
Higgs shows his pain not so someone would comfort him, but because it’s become all he has left. And he sings not for Sam, but in spite of him. His cruelty is a substitute for attachment, his face is a cry for help, his song is the echo of a soul that doesn’t know how to ask – but still knows how to feel.
The music for Higgs' and Sam's final duels in both games. Ds1: A Final Waltz (with fists). Ds2: One Last Fight (by jamming out).
Not sure if it's intentional but it feels like the opposite of what they're actually doing in each case.
Also, when people complain that it's not much of a fight, maybe Higgs just wants to hang out and it's Sam going in guns blazing? Lol! I actually tried to defeat him without hitting him and then it actually feels like a fight because he does kill you if you don't fight back.
And I'm still sad about Higgs. I shouldn't watch cutscenes. Anyway, here's a screenshot of many Higgses from my photo library.
I just know that if you looked into that mouth, you'd find remnants of the pizza that he was unable to fully clean out.
This man, obsessed with pizza to the level of smuggling weapons in pizza boxes, would have been simply unable to resist the urge to see if he could somehow still taste those delicious disks of sauce and cheese.
There's 100% still traces of melted cheese in that mouth, and, dried tears on the cheeks of his real body on the Beach from when he realised he couldn't taste it.
This isn't even a fan theory, this is simply canon.
honestly this is long overdue, i really should have written this months ago.
disclaimer: i am by no means a linguist or anyone with any real experience in speech analysis. i am, however, both southern as well as a writer/role player who has portrayed numerous canon characters and focused intensely on ensuring that i understand the way that said characters talk. i may not be able to explain the exact terminology of some of the things i recognize here but i hope that i can help anyone interested in writing our beloved particle of god write his speech better. a lot of this, honestly, is pattern recognition, which is something my little 'tistic brain loves. there will also be some body language analysis here as well because i don't really think that you can have voice without body. just not how humans work!
i am using a youtube video of higgs's cutscenes from the first game for this meta and will break it up by scene. i am just gonna focus on the first game for this meta; if it does well or if people want it, i'll write another for the second game.
so, without further ado, let's go.
scene 1: higgs's introduction to sam
the first thing that caught my attention in this initial scene is not the words that higgs's says but how he says them. not only that, but higgs is a very theatrical character. he moves with swagger and confidence. there's a dramatis to him, a flair, and yet there is also the feeling to me that every move is very deliberate. i have always thought that higgs was a character who acted with extreme deliberation, especially in DS1.
"the name's higgs. the particle of god that permeates all existence."
each word that has been italicized has emphasis on it. higgs draws out the word name, he emphasizes parts of the next sentence, he purrs words out. that's not just me using the word purr as something fancy, he quite literally purrs it out. as i mentioned above, higgs is very deliberate. i don't think that we hear him say anything that he has not given consideration to speaking.
something else that higgs does, especially in this first scene, is use "ah" and "oh" a lot. and i mean, a lot. i did not quite literally count them but he essentially says "oh" every other sentence, basically. further, he tends to draw the "oh" out a little: oooh instead of just a flat oh. it's a very interesting little speech tic that he has. we'll see if it continues through the rest of his cutscenes. (spoiler alert: yes it does)
"heh. bloodied but unbowed."
his little heh is spelled that way but it's more like an exhaled-breath of a laugh, not really an actually spoken "heh". that is something i have noticed that higgs will do a lot. his laughter is rarely loud or exuberant, except when he is being deliberately mocking to someone (usually sam). most often, he chuckles low and dark and when he does laugh aloud, there's a noted edge to it. it is a mocking laugh.
the whole "bridget strand is dead" bit is full of interesting tidbits of his speech as well. higgs has a tendency, it seems, to drag his sentences into a downward inflection and in doing this, is draws out the syllables of a lot of the words he says. this is a VERY southern trait. like, this is something that people born in the south do. it's why people say we have a "southern drawl" to our words.
"oh but don't worry. i'll find her. and i'll keep her real safe."
so the captions don't catch this.
as seen in the screenshot above, the captions leave out the fact that he said "and", most likely i would assume because it probably was not directly in the script. furthermore, the way he says "and" is very interesting and southern too. to me, at least, it sounds like he drops the a and the d from it, thus leaving it to sound like "'n I'll keep her real safe."
troy baker is texan and i have always headcanoned that higgs is from what used to be texas. he sounds texan to me. i think the way that troy said those two sentences was essentially stringing them together as a single sentence, separated by a slurred "and".
"oh, but don't worry. i'll find her 'n' i'll keep her real safe."
now, there are, in this first scene, two instances that i hear where higgs drops the g in a word ending in -ing. he drops it in the "gettin' tired of the grind" and in "isn't this what you've been waitin' for" as well. also, though the captions say "you've been" i hear "you been" which is honestly more accurate if we continue under the headcanon that higgs is actually from the southern usa - or united cities, i suppose. we do generally tend to drop contractions if we feel they don't need to be said or if we feel they are already naturally implied.
all that being said, here's a thing to remember: no southerner drops every g from every word ending in -ing. higgs does not say "death strandin'", he says "death stranding" and there's actually a touch of emphasis that i hear in him saying it. that may be purposeful, it may not, i'm not sure.
scene 2: bridges employee disguise
so i knew from the start that the bridges employee in this scene was higgs, i'd had that spoiled in a gifset that was actually one of the gifsets that made me want to watch DS to begin with, so not upset. however, rewatching it again and really listening to the dialogue, it is actually hilarious how obvious it is that it is higgs. we know that sam dreams about it to realize that it is higgs eventually but the fact that he didn't yank off the hat and call higgs by his name is funny.
there is actually a very key point i want to go into here before we even get to going through the dialogue and that is: higgs talks much more rapidly when he is excited or nervous. basically, whenever he is in a heightened state of arousal (not that kind of arousal, get your minds out of the gutter and stick with me here), his voice alters. it raises ever so slightly in pitch and in turn his speech becomes much quicker, too. it is obvious in this scene but there's a couple others later on where i will point it out as well.
the slow pan back to sam as higgs walks away with his gay little sashay and his "yes, okay" will never fail to make me smile even on a bad day, i just love it.
most notable here for me is the lessening of any accent. it is there, but it is faint. higgs's voice is higher pitched, sounds more youthful, and his overall speech is quick and eager. he sounds like a fanboy meeting an idol of his, rather than a serious professional.
all of that being said, however, you can still hear higgs in the voice of the disguise he wears. he drags out the word "someone" to the point of it being absolutely comical and there's a couple other tics as well, including the usage of oh. i love the anyhoo as well, lol. it's a very southern phrase.
honestly, there's not much to go through on this one. i really think anyone paying even a modicum of attention to the way higgs spoke in his initial intro could have seen through the disguise and i'm sure that the audience was intended to realize that this was higgs, not some random bridges employee who was geeking out about getting to see sam porter bridges in the flesh.
scene 3: torturing fragile
this is another interesting scene for both vocal language as well as body language with higgs. when he is first making it rain and giving fragile his "proposition", his motions are very refined, very predatorial, bestial in a way. i mentioned earlier that he is a very deliberate character and we see that here too.
"i got a proposition for ya."
the part of that which i find to be quite interesting is the "got a". you can actually hear the deliberate separation between the two words, preventing it from becoming "gotta" instead. the usage of "ya" is southern af as well, i often let my "you" turn into "ya" instead.
back a bit to the body language, the way he prowls side to side pacing is something i've always found interesting. there's a restlessness to it. it is as predatory or refined as his previous motions, nor is it showy or flashy either. pacing can sometimes signal nervousness and i think, honestly, that is what we are seeing here.
remember how i said that when higgs is excited or nervous, his voice speeds up some? we hear that in this scene as well. when he tells fragile he won't mess her face up, that he wants it to be a testament, it is not as rapidly spoken as other parts but it is faster than his much slower, more deliberately chosen words of only seconds earlier. even his motions are somewhat more erratic as he grabs the mask and puts it on her head.
i think that this, the putting the mask over her head, was not planned. being honest, i think that higgs looked in her eyes and saw coffin's eyes looking back at him and realized that if he went through with soaking her face in timefall, she'd look too similar to the woman who helped turn him into what he is. just my speculation, of course.
the way he says "completes" makes me giggle a little. you can hear the excitement and the pleasure he feels in working with amelie.
this is another scene where higgs uses oh a lot. some of it is not in the captions, again making me think that it was likely unscripted and thus just something troy baker put in there as vocal tics for the character.
honestly, i think this is probably the single most important cutscene we get of higgs. it is the only one where he is not directly interacting with sam and/or amelie. so i think here we get to see higgs stripped down, in a way, free to act as he wants to rather than dancing on amelie's puppet strings. i think there is a part of him that enjoys the fact that fragile seems scared - or, if not scared, then at least intimidated by him. he certainly takes great pleasure in her torment.
that smile as he watches her run off is just chef's kiss.
scene 4: higgsy and his kitty!
something i've noticed, at least in game 1, is higgs very rarely raises his voice. he does so in this scene but i think it is less to yell at sam and more just to make sure that sam (and mama) hear him and know the stakes. there's an instance in a later scene where he does actually yell at sam but we'll get there in time.
another short bit, really. "it's no biggie" is another one of those little southernisms that i hear people around me say often.
oh, the way he says "shit" is funny to me as well. there's a strange inflection to it that i dunno how to fully describe but it just reminds me of how i say it as well. i think it really is just a southern thing.
for a body language side note, higgs does this thing where instead of turning away and walking away, he backs up, usually with a notable swagger to his movements. he does it here shortly before jumping away and he does it again in the next scene that we'll be discussing. there's an arrogance to it, i think, as well as perhaps a healthy dose of mistrust? not entirely sure.
scene 5: outside west knot
poor sam really cannot catch a break from this asshole, can he?
higgs shushing sam is just so funny to me and i genuinely don't even know why.
there's two things here that REALLY caught my attention and is partly what solidified my belief that higgs is canonically from whatever is left of the american south.
the first one is his usage of "bless your heart." not only is it his usage of it but it is mainly the way he says it. in the south, we have a way of saying bless your heart that makes it sound like we're sorry for your struggles but in truth, we think you're a goddamned idiot who ain't worth the feed you need. that's what higgs sounds like when he says it to sam.
sam played right into amelie's hands - remember, at this point, higgs is just pretending to pull the strings when in fact it is amelie who has been the true puppet master all along.
his low chuckle just before he says bless your heart is just so good. i've said it elsewhere and i know most everyone agrees but troy baker is truly an incredible actor.
the other sentence that caught my attention is the "and thank you kindly." now i am sure that we are not the only people who say that but, like...that's a VERY southern thing. like that is something i've said to my dad when he brings me a water or something my mom has said to me when i give her a gift or help her clean up. maybe its just my family but i don't think so.
god the way he says "that woman." he's referring, of course, to amelie. higgs knew from the word go what she was, after all, that she was the extinction entity. it may even be that higgs was aware that bridget and amelie were the same person, ha and ka separated. that is just speculation on my end, though.
either way, he says "that woman" and makes woman a swear. it's the same way someone else might say "that bitch." there is something derogatory to it. i have my theories as to why that is but i'll leave that out of this meta.
higgs does this thing that i think is VERY interesting: he has a way of dropping his voice slightly and edging a croon into it that somehow sounds both incredibly mocking and incredibly soothing at the same time. he did it with fragile as well, just before he grabs her hair and pulls her close to lick her face, saying "oh! no, no, no." then he does it with sam multiple times.
first while he has the mask on sam's face and has sam lifted up, he says "it's okay, it's okay" in this tone of voice that i swear to god i have used to calm down a nervous horse. in addition to this, he says "hey" several times to sam in a very soft tone to get his attention.
as i've said throughout this, higgs is incredibly deliberate and methodical in what he does, says, and how he says it. the control he has over himself to go from overtly threatening someone (sam and fragile in this instance) to speaking gently to them is truly incredible to me. i think it speaks to how well he is able to compartmentalize things within his mind.
he does that thing where he swaggers backwards a few steps, grinning, before jumping away. here, it is a challenge. it is a threat. it is a goad, a race you to the finish line type look.
scene 6: happy fuckin' doomsday
i love this entire scene, i love this fight, i love the dialogue, i love the character actions, i love all of it. best scene in the entire game as far as i am concerned.
we get the tiniest little hint of higgs singing in the beginning of this scene. he sort of half-says, half-sings "i got the whole world" before fully saying "in the palm of my hand." and he sounds so fucking delightfully menacing! i just love it so much! technically the captions have it as "i've got" but i don't honestly hear that? to me, i hear "i got", without the contraction, fitting what i wrote above about us sometimes dropping contractions.
hang on, i'm phoning two friends to see what they hear of this line too.
finn says she also hears "i got". and kadi says the same.
a lot of the rest of this scene deals with higgs's voice speeding up from excitement, which i've touched on earlier. it is especially obvious as he is talking about this extinction being the granddaddy of 'em all. that's another thing i've been picking up on as well, that he often uses 'em for them or 'er for her. it is not as often as some other vocal tics but it is there if you listen.
his stupid wheezy giggle laugh after the "make us whole again" WHICH NOW THAT I AM THINKING ABOUT IT, MAGA REFERENCE? dunno how i didn't catch that previously but here we are.
this whole part, honestly, is higgs at his most animated. he's incredibly excited, he's bouncing all over the place and i don't just mean jumping, either. for him, this is nearing the culmination of his plans - and amelie's plans, too. higgs thinks he is about to be free, free to rest, free to escape from a world that he never asked to be born into. he also probably is thinking that he is doing humanity a true service here by taking them all with him, ending all woe, all strife, all wars - ending, in fact, the death stranding itself. and why shouldn't he think that? he is the harbinger of the extinction entity, charged with keeping her safe so that she can bring about the end of all things.
despite having watched this several times, the giant BT in the back, i just noticed, is mimicking amelie's movements. dunno how i missed that.
the whole "surely you get it by now" speech is also higgs at his most vocally animated. his voice is heavy with emphasis on pretty much every word - he is hammering the truth of who and what amelie is into sam, trying to get sam to listen and pay attention.
"the nightmares that haunt us. the visions of an inescapable future."
he puts a lot of emphasis on future. it's very audible. i rolled it back twice and heard it very clearly.
"happy fuckin' DOOMS-day, sam!"
rewatching his scenes, i realize that higgs doesn't actually swear anywhere NEAR as much in ds1 as he does in ds2. granted, he is honestly a lot angrier and wilder in ds2 than in 1 but it is interesting. he audibly drops the g in fucking though, although interesting i'm not sure he does when he says it in the next scene. i'll have to listen closely.
i'm still not sure how the switch with amelie happened or what it means, honestly, when she moved forward to hug sam and then as the camera panned around, it was higgs who was embracing sam instead. but his voice turning low and soft there is interesting to hear as well, given how he was very nearly shouting at sam only seconds earlier in that same bit.
that lower tone, which is more in line with his natural speaking voice, stays as he embraces amelie and speaks to sam. the "extinction's on hold for now" is another one of those moments where he drawls that entire sentence out.
and you may be wondering, well, how to write that? i would go about it like this, personally:
"extinction's on hold," higgs states in a languid tone that draws the syllables out, "for now."
something to show in text that he is speaking slowly, deliberately. sidestepping briefly into another fandom of mine, grrm does this with roose bolton with incredible expertise, describing his voice as whispery and soft to the point that people have to deliberately be quiet to hear him properly. it truly is amazing what you can do with the right words in the right order.
it ABSOLUTELY sounds like he says "welp" instead of "well" in the "we'll pick this up when you're done dying." which i find SO funny bc i say welp a lot. like...a lot. it is also a word i've heard various and sundry of my southern family members say too.
also, higgs does pat amelie's ass but he does it when sam is turned away, back to higgs, dying. do with that info as you will.
scene 7: a good, old-fashioned boss fight
and so we are back to theatrics! big flashy movements combined with a low, dark, dangerous tone of his voice. i actually think some of this showiness is higgs trying to distract from the fact that he was caught by sam kneeling in front of amelie. remember, even now, sam thinks that higgs is the big bad of death stranding; he still does not find out that amelie engineered almost everything for a bit yet. higgs is, i think, a bit in panic mode; sam can't be allowed to think anything about what he saw.
"what i'm supposed to do."
let's talk about this line.
i swear i hear his voice tremble. i swear, higgs, the particle of god that permeates all existence, sounds slightly afraid in this line. "what i'm supposed to do" here doesn't sound like some big, bad, scary villain. he sounds like a scared little boy, trying to talk himself up to doing something that maybe, just maybe, he doesn't actually want to do.
the mask is cracking a little.
we get more of the emphasis on some words throughout his monologue in this part.
he is so disdainful of humanity. just the way he says the "humanity has a few hundred thousand years left, tops." his disdain is incredibly obvious, he practically sneers it. and honestly, i don't think higgs can be entirely faulted for that disdain for humanity. after all, he has seen the worst of it in many different ways - between the abuse from daddy to the fact that bridges is sacrificing unborn babies.
the way higgs draws out the word "bullshit" makes me smile, honestly. i've got to where i can't hardly hear that word without silently hearing higgs say it. also he does not drop the g when he says "this fucking beach". honestly, he doesn't seem to drop it too often when monologuing, though it may be that i just haven't picked it up.
also: higgs is a repatriate and i shall die upon this hill.
his repetition of "i can beat you" makes me incredibly sad, honestly. you can hear that he is attempting to audibly psyche himself up, to prove that he can defeat sam and usher in the end days.
"so come on!"
that is the only time, in game 1 at least, that higgs yells, actually yells, at sam. it is pretty obvious at this point that higgs is exhausted and struggling, too; he's limping pretty badly as he walks towards sam. but the fact that he keeps his composure well enough to only truly yell once at sam is honestly impressive.
he curses some in the fight with sam but that's just idle dialogue or...whatever that is actually called? i don't actually know what that sort of dialogue in a game is called.
"fuckin' die already!"
well just hit me in the feels, why don't you. also the music during the fight is just...big ouchie :(
higgs seems to curse more when he's tired or stressed, too, if the fight is anything to go by.
the joke he makes about sam being touchy-feely after their fight is just so good. there's a dryness to his humor and wit that i love and i love too that sam laughs at it. when i was writing higgs, i always kept his humor as being very dark and dry and i think it really works with him.
"i'm higgs. i'm the particle of god that permeates all existence."
his desperation to fall back upon his self-styled status as the particle of god in the face of defeat is sad. he snarls it up at fragile as she looms over him, like a specter of the uncle he killed to escape. i think something that needs to be kept in mind when writing higgs is that when he is down and on the out, he defaults to cruelty to others, snarling insults and making himself out to be a big bad.
anyway, i hope this helps any other writers out there who are wanting to write or role play higgs! i love this character, i love his voice, for me it is so strong and so clear and he truly is one of the most interesting characters i've ever had the pleasure of writing.
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as always, please let me know what you think or if this is helpful to you via comment, dm, or sending an ask! i'd love to hear from you!
I don't know about anyone else but I haven't been able to touch DS2 for over a week now and that's from someone who put way too many hours into DS1. But I missed Higgs so I thought I'd watch some playthrough cutscenes on youtube today. I'm sad again. They weren't even sad scenes! They were just Higgs cutscenes. I can't. I'm going back to my Sims 4 Higgs AU who is a happy fairy with wings and a Sam. 💔
Since my little recording of Higgs "I love you" line to Sam is getting some traction, here's the whole fight I recorded. I made sure to stay there until Higgs started repeating the same lines, but knowing me I'll be replaying this fight more than is healthy to admit (this recording was made on my 3rd time lmao) so I'll post if I find any more gold lines.
I like how the Higgs fandom since DS1 was saying Higgs had a thing for Sam and some people were like no you just want to ship them. And then DS2 goes all out with the baby, sweetheart, daddy, Sam > pizza. Higgs really delivered. 😏 True porter.
Spoilers! Don't keep on keeping on here if you haven't finished DS2.
You just know it's Kojima saying "suffer for me, baby" as he kills off three of the most shipped with Sam characters in the DS fandom. He wants us all to suffer.
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