#ts game

[pearlodile]

[paperstarry]

Crawls out of her cave

Leander continuously talking about Lowtown like he's born and grew up there the "we" and "us" and every word that implies he's been a Lowtown person since birth, fighting to survive on the streets when we, the player, know from the RSS Q&A that he is, in fact, a rich kid-

[angrybathbomb]

[tinypaperstar]

redspringstudio, we need to talk

[beheamothscreamoth]

This, but with MC/Vere and Ais (MC and Ais could also be swapped honestly-)

[blo0d-sucker]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEANDER!!!!!

[anam-mana]

Suddenly remembering that in cinema terms, Leander’s introduction happens from a Dutch Angle. And it’s not the way some of the others are where it expresses the POV of the player. Based on the description we’d be looking straight up at him if that were the case.

Nope, him and Ais are the only ones who are a Dutch angle for no apparent POV reason. (See Mhin’s Dutch angle as the help us up from the ground.)

So it must be an artistic reason then. And Dutch angles, when used with that kind of direct intent, usually represent a sense of unease, and general wrongness.

With Ais’s scene, that totally checks out. At the time, he’s allowing you to believe your life is under threat in order to get honest information out of you. It’s an interrogation. He wants you to feel uneasy as a tactic, he admits as much afterwards.

Leander though? Leander’s performing. He’s smiling. He’s giving us flowers and being kind to us. And the fact that the artistic choices are telling us, at the moment, to feel uneasy? Oh, yeah, man’s definitively hiding stuff behind that easy smile.

[ratshells]

I do not trust Leander w the information about the MC’s hands like at all!! like, I just figured that the information about the hands was payment for the room because knowledge is currency and whatever but… other than that… what is he going to do w that information. Because if you do Vere’s little route, he says that word about your hands can easily get you locked up or killed like him. And Leander is the only one who knows what you’re capable of.. and has shown his manipulative side (multiple times),, so what is keeping him from using the hands thing as a “gotcha” for the mc to keep them from ruining his reputation (bc you know damn well you’re gonna see something unsavory w him bc there’s no way he’s not doing some fuck ass shit on the low). like idk i think that telling Leander of all people this info will bite the mc in the ass somehow.