#path to nowhere

[broodingnightgoddess]

Honestly even if the heel-turning we see with Sinners keeps getting old and predictable, it can still hit right if the motive is valid, or if it feels meaningful even when it starts to get obvious.

For example, I did Garofano's interrogation as soon as I got her, and found out her true colors through there, but the motive makes sense within her character and even if it's sudden, it leaves open a lot of questions, because it's not a black-and-white deceit.

Adela as well. I already talked about how great her writing in her event is but the heel-turn, albeit predictable because they weren't really trying to hide it, her motives and reasoning are legitimate and understandable, even if they have negative consequences, which the game shows in the credits of her event!

Shin is, well, a bit more difficult to work with especially because the second I found out she was behind everything I literally felt myself lock in in real time, but, imo, I don't think she was lying about caring about Little Guide Chief, and I've made my point on how she was used by It as much as anyone else.

Clementine is also really good because of how much you empathize with her. Her case is legitimate and it's difficult to argue with her emotions regarding the Redwood Fire. She's very richly written, and one of those characters you desperately want to stop because you care about them.

However cases like Stargazer's on her event just felt really weak. That whole event was underwhelming compared to what came after.

There's also Deren's "heel-turn" during the Beyond the DisCars event which if I remember correctly was trying to help OwO indirectly. Honestly Deren's characterization was better in her interrogation but she is one of my mains so I may just be biased.

[boreasfavonius]

Augustus going out again 🌊

[boreasfavonius]

(o_o)

[simping4ptnwomen]

Daily Random PTN: Day 380- I took a screenshot of every birthday that happened so far and decided to post them part 2

here's part 2 like I promise.

I actually had a pretty good birthday yesterday. I had a lot of fun.

anywho, anyone here you share a bday with?

[broodingnightgoddess]

Iron is one of my favorite Sinners for numerous reasons but the non-blorbo ones are her sheer commitment to her ideals and hopes. She refuses the chance to get into a cushy Eastside job, travels to Syndicate to establish a medical center on what's basically hell on earth, manages to suppress a Mania flareup by sheer willpower and CHOPS OFF her own arm without hesitation, to help Anne and her patient.

She still helps the gangs, even the ones that literally attacked SALVA, gained the respect of the Legion to the point of being personally invited by Zoya (which is a big deal mind you) and even after declining, it's heavily implied that the Legion is helping minimize the attacks in SALVA.

The woman has more backbone than every single one of her former classmates combined.

[broodingnightgoddess]

Chameleon just feels flat. I feel like she needed way more character depth and emotional complexity to truly strike because she just doesn't. Clementine is a much better character with a similar backstory and there's just no point of comparison between her and Cham.

You can't really have a Sinner that's plainly "evil" like Chameleon when the game pretty much hammers that the worst people thus far have been non-Sinners (Burns, Nirvana corp, Adelaide, Parma...) and every Sinner has a due humanity, realism and depth. She just falls short.

[pleathefifth]

Nowhere, Fl✨🌑

somewhere between the long road
and the last cell signal
there is a place that doesn’t ask questions.

they call it nowhere.
but to me it has a name
that sounds like breathing again.

when the world grows loud
with its deadlines and bright screens,
i drive until the noise thins out
into crickets and wind through the grass.

there, the sky is wider than worry.

at night the moon and the stars
divide the dark between them
like old friends sharing the work
of keeping watch.

they sit above the fields
quiet and patient,
as if they know
how heavy a heart can get.

and when morning comes
the sun rises slow and golden
spilling light across the land
just to dry your eyes.

the people wave
like they’ve known you forever.

the animals move through the yard
as if the earth belongs to them—
which maybe it does.

the house waits the same way
a heartbeat waits for the body
to come back to itself.

it is quiet there.
not empty quiet—
but the kind that holds you
until the storm inside your chest
finally settles.

they say it’s nowhere.

but my heart
has always known the way back.

because that quiet land
those stars
those dusty roads—

that’s home to me. 🌙

-MM

[broodingnightgoddess]

I was re-reading the Endless Carnival finale and that scene of Corpus Hamel hearing a female Corruptor wanting true love and legitimately just straight up saying "I'll give you loads of beautiful women" is just, fucking amazing. This really is the lesbian game