#kale vandelay

[mong-mongi]

Got some galaxy brained tags on my rhys+chai post that inspired the Chai and AI Kale shenanigans

[arkadi-jones]

❤️ HAPPY 3RD ANNIVERSARY HI-FI RUSH ❤️

(Inspired by the Cyberpunk Edgerunners opening)

[margoshvets]

Somebody liked my old Kale in a dress art and it awoke a sleeper agent inside of me to draw another Kale in a dress cuz I felt I could do better, so thanks to that person!

[orirising]

kalechai nation are we alive

[captive-normals]

Also while I'm here might as well elaborate on "narrative foils" because that is so damn vague. What I meant by that is

Every boss mirrors some aspect of Chai.

QA-1MIL is single minded focus. Chai wants to be a rockstar. That's it. Everything else, including the mission, takes a backseat, if it takes a seat at all.

Rekka is arrogance. Chai and Rekka both prop themselves up with voices feeding their own ego (Rekka's Hype Man, the Announcer), without much care for if they've actually earned it.

Zanzo is cleverness. Chai isn't stupid, we see him have good ideas all the time, (it's here that he comes up with the parry on his own, after all.) They just get buried in the traits shown above, just as Zanzo's own cleverness gets lost in his perfectionism and inability to compromise.

Korsica is very specific, but she's going along with something with little thought into what they're actually doing. It takes Chai until halfway through Track 1 to ask what Peppermint's goals and name even are. Similarly, it takes Chai yelling at Korsica for her to even consider something is wrong with SPECTRA.

Mimosa is attention seeking. This is my most firm because it's the most obvious. Their fight is literally a battle for attention on a stage in front of a massive crowd.

Roquefort is loyalty. This one is the shakiest, but I still believe in it. Roquefort is deeply loyal to Kale after he saved his life, willing to do just about anything in the CEO's name. Similarly, the rest of the TEAm gave Chai things he never even dreamed of (friends), leading him to keep going despite all he suffers.

And Kale is laziness and apathy. At the start, neither of them wanted to put in the hard work. They both wanted work-arounds. But when Kale was shown adversity, he simply gave up.

[lemongrass-rogue]

Things i probably won't finish (the last two should've been a comics with alternative ending of Zanzos "boss fight". But I'm weak)

[kisses-for-kale]

Yeah

[holdyhope]

im having fun 😭