#olandy dlc

[humandisconnected]

I love the little sprites where they both just turn to look at you. Hi guys.

[littlesliceofimmortality]

Olandy DLC Might Be Good (A Little)

[agentlove]

the olandy nukes have hit and my home and heart and soul are all in tatters

[fontodue]

erm click for quality

[m1keville]

guys I’m genuinely so sorry. I’ve been so busy and I’ve had horrible art block and haven’t been able to draw any Dialtown stuff for the past couple of months. I haven’t forgot about it though!!! I don’t think I ever will lmao

[ggentick]

OLANDY DLC SPOILER

Those who know☠️☠️☠️

[teruthecreator]

i have thought this for a while but with the olandy dlc coming out it has only further my idea that oliver Very Heavily depersonalizes anyone and anything that exists outside of what he considers safe and comfortable.

oliver is someone who is very sure of his world and what's in it. he has accepted his lot in life and he finds happiness through that. i think a lot about how he describes life after death in the abandoned bumper car scene, how he finds joy in the mundane and even the miserable because it's something he's used to. oliver is a man well-adapted to his surroundings. dialtown is his Home, it's the only thing he's ever known! and he is surprisingly okay with how things go, in most cases.

i was talking this over with a friend but it feels to me like oliver won't do anything that will shake up the status quo of his world all that much. his only current goal is to save the cinema, which obviously has some pretty important consequences to him, but i notice how in the bad routes in his main storyline he doesn't, like. try to change all that much. like when gingi denies him the ability to use the footage, he just accepts that. he doesn't try to fight against gingi or plead his case any further. he just...sees it as a lost cause and moves on. and in all his other endings in that half of the route he doesn't make any grand decisions. now, you could chock that up to it being a Dating Sim and, by design, leaving all the big choices up to the player/gingi, but it's kind of bizarre to me how...easily oliver just goes with shit. like the cinema closing is a REAL GENUINE FEAR, but how much does he try to actually change that? of course, given what We know about the result of those endings (being that mr. dickens dies) i'm sure he would try a little harder, but even then i...don't know if he actually would. not out of MALICE or anything, but because he's just accepted death as a part of life. death is understandable to him--it slots into his worldview and he can cope with it.

but then you get to norm, and that's when things become a bit more glaringly obvious. oliver is clearly Fascinated with norm (he thinks his head is cool and wants to touch it) but i don't think that equals him Respecting norm as another person. and things become even more dire when norm starts to lay out his plans to get justice. now, part of this is the fact that the dude's a pacifist, but i also think oliver's aversion to norm comes from the fact that norm is an outlier. norm exists outside of what oliver considers "normal". and there's a bit of dehumanization in that! his actions, which have HUGE consequences, are something that are seen as dangerous to oliver. what he could do would change how dialtown functions, and that means shaking up his "norm". affecting the little world he's created for himself. this idea is even further proven by something oliver mentions in the olandy dlc, how normies "don't have real heads". to HIM, objectheads are what is normal. the dialup is normal. NORMIES--people without objectheads--are not normal. even though they WERE once normal, they no longer exist in oliver's worldview. they seek to challenge it and, because of that, bristle against him.

oliver doesn't want to shake the status quo. oliver fears a world of uncertainty. he SAYS THAT in the dlc! he doesn't like things that can seek to bring uncertainty to his world. because if oliver isn't sure of something, then who's to say he's sure of anything? who's to say anything in his little life is "normal" or "fine". it scares him, i think. it scares him, and so he creates a layer of separation which results in dehumanization.

it ESPECIALLY becomes clear given the bad route of the olandy dlc. gingi, who usually exists as a fun oddity and a kindred spirit of weirdness, now is a THREAT. they're something to eradicate, to "LOCK UP" because they dared to challenge oliver's friendship with randy, someone that he is used to and has accepted into his worldview. it speaks to some inner trepidation, i think. gingi exists as an outlier in his life--one that he attempts to embrace, finding solace in a freak like him--but as soon as it dares to challenge his peace, he becomes angry. NASTY even, saying phrases that are more than likely to come out of MINGUS'S mouth (and some that even did!). which speaks to a level of dehumanization that oliver feels towards gingi. i don't think it's something he addresses in better routes (in fact, i think by chapter 3 it is something he has contended with and decided its fine), but in the evil route it just festers and becomes rotten. oliver REFUSES to have his life shaken up by something outside of him, so he pushes it away and flees to what is comfortable. what is safe. what is Normal.

just something i find particularly fascinating about his character, and was super surprised to see explored in the olandy dlc :-)

[germaaaaaaaaaa]

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