#melon rambling

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IS THIS A METAL GEAR SOLID REFERENCE

ALSO THE CLIFF CALLBACK GO AWAYYY UR HURTING ME 😭😭

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Forgot to post this but my artsona plus fidgeting habits...

I tend to bit my hands or fidget with cords when lost in thought I have a lot of little fidgets that aren't that noticeable I like this artsona as watermelon is my favorite fruit and purple/black my favorite colors!!

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DS2 RANT WITH SPOILERS:

People being so loudly wrong about higgs and his writing in DS2 is slowly starting to kill me cause I don’t think we love the same character AT ALL.

I’m writing this with no hate so please don’t take it personally but I’m getting annoyed at how badly y’all wanna defend higgs from his actions.

I LOVE how awful he is in DS2. How that rage has festered inside him to lash out at everything yet desperate to keep playing games because he needs to be entertained. He is such a tragic villain and that is the POINT. It’s not bad writing for someone to be written so complex. Kojima is not writing for us to hate higgs. We are supposed to sympathize and feel sorry for him, but also angry at how this grown ass man is throwing temper tantrums because he refuses to take some accountability for the things he’s done. Hurting fragile, killing others, etc.

And I HATE that people try and go “oh but what abt amelie she’s worse and manipulated him?” Do you not remember the end of DS1?? The part where she cut herself off from everyone to suffer alone to prevent the exctinction?? Why do people keep ignoring that as if she’s not repenting?? It lowkey feels misogynistic the way people are comparing higgs to fragile and amelie, when these 3 are all complex individuals. Higgs and fragile are DIRECT parallels! The way they are written is purposeful and not trying to paint higgs as simply evil and “doesn’t deserve help”. If that was the case, why even give us scenes of him at the end grieving and crying? Why even add lore about him being abused as a child at all if kojima wanted to paint him as some one-dimensional villain.

Some people want to infantilize this grown man and reduce him to nothing but his trauma to excuse all the bad he’s done out of his own volition. Fragile and sam are there to be direct parallels to higgs character, to prove him wrong.

Yes, it is sad that higgs didn’t get help. In another universe I wish he did but then this wouldn’t make for a story if everyone just got therapy and held hands. Sometimes the abused become abusers and yall refuse to accept that. It’s a real, sad thing but it doesn’t excuse his actions and behavior. Higgs is complex and nuanced because of his backstory but to reduce him to just his trauma takes away that complexity. You don’t want higgs, you want someone to soothe and coddle. Higgs was going to end up like this in DS2, because in all the years he spent repenting on the beach like amelie, he decides to take no accountability and become worse out of pure anger and spite.

Trauma and abuse affects everyone in different ways. In no way am I, or DS2, trying to hate higgs for not being the perfect victim, however, trauma and abuse does NOT excuse the choices he’s made and thats what some of you are failing to grasp. Higgs is not the only person with trauma or abuse in this story and you guys trying to compare who’s had it “harder” are missing the point.

I’m sorry if this upsets some people to hear but I’m so tired of hearing people say DS2 is trying to “make victims look like bad people” or that DS2 is awful all because kojima didn’t write a redemption arc for the man who abused and killed fragile and tried to kill a baby (and bragged about killing said baby).

Higgs is NOT the first ever villain to have a tragic backstory that does not get redeemed and he will certainly not be the last. And I highly doubt this is the last we ever see of him unless kojima says otherwise.

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GUYS

NAME REVEALS NAME REVEALS IM SICKKKK

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There’s a certain amount of media literacy required to understand games like death stranding and metal gear that you cannot take these games at face value AT ALL, and I think if you can’t properly delve into the story and their themes + characters, then maybe it’s not for you

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Iita overanalyzing things part who knows what:

During that scene where Higgs says “suffer for me baby” and is holding Sam’s hand that’s reaching out and laughing, I immediately thought of (and yes I gotta bring this up EVERY TIME, THE THEMES OF MOTHERHOOD ARE STRONG) partners holding their wife’s hand during labor. Sam is in EXTREME pain seeking solace and only Higgs is there to ‘soothe’ him.

I bring this up because viewing the moment like that makes watching Sam suffer like that even more sickening considering Sam has lost his child and Higgs is constantly mocking him about losing Lou (and being the one responsible for it)

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Higgs staying freaky I won so hard

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Death Stranding 2 SPOILERS

I think some people took the ending too literally by thinking lou killed higgs and now he's never coming back.

1. He's already dead and on the beach

2. I feel like it's (as most scenes on the beach are) supposed to be symbolic.

Higgs was trying to use the new generation to spread his ideology of violence and nihilism, but she quite literally refused. Tomorrow swallowed him because she is who she is. Tomorrow. A symbol for the new day and new opportunities.

Even that end scene with her dressed as a porter with sams uniform, the pod, and fragiles gloves. With her she carries symbols from the past but ultimately it's up to HER to shape her own future, not giving in to those who want to control what she does with her life.