#visual novels

[messyvik-sideblog]

Feeding the delusions 2nite bby

[ignis-vn]

Animation and art by @poison-hugzs

Tysm to my older sister for making this masterpiece. This started after me and Nicole made a silly fact about Lev having a collection of different pattern socks, some being actually cursed or just funny :)))- Ari

[leahazel]

Garden, Monday: I'm intrigued by the detail of the mythological statue that dominates the foreground.

The central figure is a woman holding a baby, and she's flanked by two child-sized faun-like figures. I can't, off the top of my head, summon what figures or stories from classical mythology they might represent (which proves nothing; my knowledge is far from comprehensive). But what interests me is less the literal or even the in-universe figurative, but what it means for the game's lore, as foreshadowing or subtext.

Enoch had three children, two of them close in age and one a fair bit younger. Could it be that he had this statue commissioned to celebrate the birth of his second son? Not impossible. We know nothing of his wife--Edwardine's mother--and nothing of their marriage, but we know even less of the women of previous generations. I don't imagine that this could represent Enoch, Theodore, and *their* mother (even if they had a sister that Enoch never mentioned, which is plausible enough) mainly because we have no narrative frame of reference for Enoch as a child.

The main mother-of-three-children that we see in the narrative is, of course, Edwardine. If we assume that the statue (metatextually) references her, then it becomes even less literal: the faun-like figures become her daughters, the acknowledged, public, *legitimate* Scarlet children. The infant in her arms in Andrew Charles, who is technically *older* than his half-sisters. But being the only child of her only love, she holds him (figuratively) much closer and considers him almost as a part of herself, like a newborn baby.

Now imagine Edwardine sitting in the house and looking out of her window to see that statue, every single day.

[venomousharbinger]

orgin story of Cedar

trigger warning: sa

Cedar was born to be a replacement for his older sister, who had died of crib death. Yet once he discovered he was a boy, hatred was upon him the day he was born. Despite this they still attempted to turn him into something he wasn’t. THey grew his hair and attempted to cover his vitiligo. From a young age they attempted to cut off his genitals and made him ger botox to make him look more feminine. They forced him to be feminine and placed him in homes with men to “embrace his femininity” He was often controlled, forced to participate in things he didn’t want to participate in. Cedar had gained a high emotional understanding over the years, about himself and the people whom he was surrounded with. Through this he gained a high emotional intelligence. These men began not only using for his body and looks, but for emotional support as well. He was forced to be these men’s therapist at a young age, and if they weren’t given full attention from him, they would raise hell upon cedar. He got extremely attached to one man, one who he felt himself with, one where he could embrace his masculinity with. The man had convinced him to kill his parents at the ripe age of sixteen, and they ran away together. Yet Cedar was quick to notice when the man began acting off, (After the two had eloped), the man began going behind Cedar’s back, being very quiet and off. Cedar had discovered that the man only wanted him for his femininity, and now was disgusted that Cedar could embrace himself fully and not have to be feminine anymore. The man claimed that he found the idea attractive and that was the reason he had fallen in love with Cedar. He abandoned Cedar for a woman, yet only after blowing off half of Cedar's inheritance money. After discovering this, Cedar decided it was his turn to inflict justice. That the world was corrupt and through his emotional intelligence, he was able to discover who was fit to live in this world. He believes that he must become god for the better of the people. He killed his former husband, and decided to become a serial killer.

[venomousharbinger]

venomous harbinger

you see with a man of a tall stature painting on the window of your local coffee shop, do you interact? No- Exit blog Yes- Continue reading

Cedar Verin Killer name: Venomous harbinger, due to mostly killing with poison when able 6'4 Male He/him Androsexual Lean but muscular 220 Invited by angel Denominational Christian, but doesn't worship god INTJ Occupation: part time hospital receptionist, paints on windows of buildings

Personality: Cedar is a very loyal person, if he allows the person to get close to him. He often pushes anyone away before they have the opportunity. He is easily frustrated and often very defensive. However, if someone puts similar effort in, he will care for them just as much.

Info: Combat Ability: 3/5 Intelligence: 4/5 Stealth: 3/5 Speed: 2.5/5 Luck: 2.5/5 Reason for Killing: he believes he was hand selected by god himself due to his emotional intelligence to be a "bringer of fate", He gets random surges of anger, which he believes to be a calling from god to bring fate to this person. when really its unreleased anger from his past. He believes due to his mission, there is no need to worship god, as there is already a seat in heaven saved for him Positive Traits: caring, patient, understanding, emotionally intelligent Negative Traits: god complex. doesn't let people get close to him, toxic masculinity Fears: disapointing god Likes: painting, writing, listening to music Dislikes: being used, the feeling of wool on his skin, his body Habits: picking scabs Strengths: emotional intelligence, Weaknesses: overly defensive and easy to get under his skin Weapon of Choice: literally anything he can find, plastic wrap, his bare hands, a fork business casual Backstory will be in next blog!

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[fraeuleintaka]

One of the most annoying tropes in romance media for me is definitely this notion of "I hate him so much but oh, he's so sexy!"

I technically like many variations of enemies-to-lovers and similar but not when it has this trope as its primary way of creating tension in the beginning. It feels like the author is afraid of making the characters genuinely hate each other in the beginning without some assurance that they still totally have the hots for each other no matter what. It's especially egregious when one of the two (usually the male lead) is a genuinely awful person that the other (female) lead hates for very good reasons. One thing is that it's just highly unrelatable to me because I just don't find I hate sexy, no matter how objectively hot they are, but the other more damning thing is that it often gets used to disregard said awful behaviour. The (female) MC will be justifiedly angry at something the (male) LI did but we completely skip over the latter having to apologize or fix things because the former is too distracted by the latter's hotness to stay angry for any significant amount of time. This is among the main reasons why I've barely found any kind of enemies-to-lovers dynamic in (romance-focused) visual novels that appeals to me. Sometimes it's the sole thing that ruins a dynamic for me.

On the flipside, it's one of the many, many reasons why I like Pride & Prejudice so much. Lizzy genuinely loathes Darcy until she reads his letter and there are no ifs or buts about it. She enjoys mocking him and she's convinced that he hates her as much as she does him. That Darcy has fallen for her and doesn't realize at all how much she hates him at this point is one of the many aspects to why his first proposal is so gloriously awful. If you add some kind of undercurrent of "she was secretly into him all along", if Darcy gets some kind of loophole of Lizzy still kinda liking him despite everything, it undermines how much her devastating criticism of him shocks him to his core. You destroy fundamental parts of Lizzy's characterization and also sap a lot of the power from the proposal scene and the misinterpretations they make of each other's characters.