** addendum: when she gets posessed in the middle/end of episode 5, and she's on the ceiling, her glasses fall off, because...gravity, duh.... but it symbolizes the loss of her true self in that moment, as well as telling the audience it's V that got posessed without having a character say it. the loss of the glasses also represents a loss of innocence, as she's actively being traumatized there, since she's still conscious, but unable to control her body as Solver uses her.
after N gives her back her glasses, she comes back to her senses, therefore returning back to her true self.
oh, the glasses she had during the sentinel fight were the same ones she had during her worker drone days by the way, if you look closely at the frames, the damage is the same! she had them this entire time....
pic 1:
discord message:
idk why but the glasses still on her mutilated fucking body hurts me so bad
like almost a representation of her innocence, or her true self
.....
brain blast
bc every time she has the glasses on or they're shown, she's her true self, or is coming to or revealing her true self
in EP 5 when N puts them on and she slowly comes to, and in EP 6 where she drops her defenses and is genuine to Uzi
(animated emoji of guy slamming the ground)
and the fact she's been carrying them this entire time, her true self never left her
her true self is still there, behind all the layers of hurt and fear, and all her defenses that she puts up
that kind and sweet and shy girl is still there...
the one who loves puppies and blowing bubbles and waving around dumb flags 😭
pic 2:
(replying to previous message i sent saying "ahhh...now that she's lost [her glasses].....")
brain blast..... before she always had them, but she was hiding them on her body, much like she hid her true self in order to protect herself, because she's so scared of everything. But now that she pulled them out and couldn't get them to hide them again, her full self is now always going to be shown, mostly anyway
but the shattering of her glasses means two things:
1) her protective walls coming down, being vulnerable and honest with her friends and teammates
2) her hope and innocence being completely lost. She's in despair. She really, really doesn't think there's any light at the end of the tunnel for her. She's given up. She's given up, and she knows she's either going to be abandoned or die, and that right at that moment, that place of death was the most peaceful option for her solemn scared mind. She would be free from her endless cycle of pain, and her body would be torn apart to never be able to be used agsin. And her teammates no longer care for her, so she's not hurting them by dying in this way, surely. Her and her body are no longer going to be a burden on everyone either. She can finally find peace, her expression at the end is solemn, but in a strange way, hopeful and at peace. Her only hope at that point was to be released from her pain, however.
10.3 hours !!!! 🎉🎉🎉
(referring to the total hours spent literally just ranting about V at that point LOL...it's like at 12 1/2 now)
Agent 4's greatest fear is being abandoned. They think it'll happen inevitably anyway. Afterall, there is nothing of worth inside Rosabel's mind, or that chubby husk they call a body. No one would want them after they run out of jokes and quips, no one would want to be with such a mess of a person.
No one should have to be with them.
A hurricane with no center, contained within a pretty painted jar. Decorated and beautiful on the outside, but fragile, shattering with the slightest fall, releasing the rain and garbage collected inside to the world around them.
It's dumb, knowing that they'd be doing people a favour by pushing them away, yet they do the complete opposite. They are selfish, and they are unkind. They want love they do not deserve. And they are aware of this.
Nonetheless, the jokes spill during the day like their tears and blood during the night.
okay so like. Forgive me cuz i havent caught up on all the alterna lore butttt in splatsville, octolings and inklings lived together for a long time in peace and harmony right?
therefore, splatsville dialect must naturally be a more in-between of inkling and octoling languages... i have to worry if any ink octoling word scientists i forgot the word 💀 study it as a source of both the languages' histories and how the split into what it was today
i think, therefore, splatsville dialect is harder for inkopolis inklings to understand, but easier for underground octolings to understand-- agent 8 would find the dialect a lot easier to understand so she'd be able to use more eloquent words in their native tongue, along with independently studying inkling, perhaps why her amiibo dialogue in this game has gotten a lot better grammar wise! im so proud of her 💖💖💖
anyway I just think it's interesting to think about, it's like how north and south korean dialects split and are very hard to understand for the other group, and then the equivalent to splatsville dialect would be like how they spoke post 1940 for example
originally their partners were reluctant to kiss them there out of fear they'd be hurt, but one day with rosie (4), they offhandedly ask why she never kisses them on the scar side, and she's like "OH HUH I thought that would hurt you?? i didn't mean to make you think I was avoiding that side!" and they're like Oh
they just want to help me, they don't think im ugly ... ;__;
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the scar, being essentially a chemical burn, has thin skin and is very sensitive, so sometimes it can't be touched at all when the pains flare up, but on most days, they can feel their partners' lips brush against it in greater detail 💖
al likes having their hair played with and done ... they like being nuzzled and having little kisses planted on their forehead. they like stuffed animals and disney movies, and stories and games with a happy ending-- things one may deem "childish", so this is their secret alone. though, their partners have caught on a little bit.
agent 3's charm point? perhaps, but it's healing to them and their inner child who never got that love and care from their parents so long ago.
Amélie, or Agent 8, is particularly jumpy. Especially after the events in the Deepsea Metro, going through grueling tests with the weight of her entire life on her shoulders, where one mistake could prove fatal.
She has not recovered, she's not sure if she can after that at all. Any small mistake makes her cover her head in fear, fear that blossoms into embarassment when she catches her partners staring back at her in shock.
She's been through hell and back, why is she so pathetic? She wonders this to herself at night often. Surely, she should've came out tougher. Has life being kind for once made her soft?
Yes, but would it really better to become hard? Perhaps not, if she became hard, then people wouldn't want to be around her anymore, and she fears that more than anything.
Perhaps, then, it's okay to be soft. It's perhaps okay to let life be kind. Afterall, isn't this what you faught so hard for? Isn't this the kind life you want for you and your partners?
She smiles, thinking about the two sleeping bodies next to her, and allows the tears to fall. And with each little tear, healing is ever closer.
