What Zeal Did to Me at RDC 2025 Written and compiled by the person to whom this happened. Edited with the help and support of my friends.
Donāt support it anymore.
I will no longer be playing. Yes, it is okay to like characters like Sebastian Solace and P.AI.nter. No, itās not okay to excuse the actions of Zeal, Zerum, and anyone else who defended Zeal sexually assaulting Ren.
Do not interact with my page if you, after learning about the accusations, continue to support Zeal & Zerum and diminish victims.
this is the last post im making about the situation
right now we need to focus less on pressure itself. stop playing the game, dont buy the merch, dont buy gamepasses or UGC. stop directly and indirectly supporting them. we need to focus more on getting zeal's ass in court, or whatever Ren wants to do with the situation.
i understand pressure being a comfort game for many, sebastian solace is/was my number one comfort character aside from Folly. theres nothing wrong with still drawing the characters in my opinion, as drawing the characters does not directly support zeal and the dev team.
when it comes to pressure and zeal right now, seperate art from artist.
but do not overly focus on the state of the game, whats important is supporting Ren.
and one last thought, while zeal is claiming ignorance and shit, why was he so quick to wash off his dna?
Please show your support to Ren/NoLongerNull during these times.
This is not about Pressure, this is about a real person that got hurt. Please support the victims, what happened was disgustingly and inhumane. I feel sick to my stomach.
I donāt associate with Pressure anymore from this point on.
Message to anyone who's placed an order for the Sebastian vinyl figure.
I just messaged Makeship and asked them to cancel my pre-order with the explanation that I do not wish to support Zeal after it's come to light what he's done.
I highly encourage everyone else who's pre-ordered the Sebastian figure to do the same!
I don't know if Makeship even does refunds but that's not what matters here. What matters is sending a message, to let them know that people do not wish to support rapists like Zeal and neither should they!
Hopefully it'll make Makeship take down their Pressure products and cut all ties with the Pressure devs!
If you are supporting Zeal, this is what you're supporting.
Does this not highlight his mentality? After engaging in this behaviour with Ren, he only then thought to ask him about his age. This is unacceptable. Doesn't matter that Ren was an adult anyway, this is STILL unacceptable behaviour.
Do not fucking follow me if you support Zeal, Zerum, Kat, or any other guilty parties.
They covered for a RAPE and insinuated that Ren, the VICTIM, was responsible. It isn't just Zeal. It is Zerum. It is Kat. It's all the people who turned a blind eye to sexual abuse. Do you see how genuinely disgusting that is?
My thoughts as someone who has been fixated on Pressure for the last two years + even did official art.
For those of you like me who need to move on but are scared to because the media is close to you.
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Hi. Since this is going in the pressure tag, I might as well introduce myself. Iām Cotgar, the artist of the Gotchapon birthday artwork and the most recent Sebastian Solace reference sheet. Iāve been fixated on Pressure since October 2024, even committing personal things to it such as cosplay, merchandise, personal poster works, and two years of fan art.
My statements here assume you know the bare minimum of what happened: Zeal sexually assaulted the previous soundtrack musician, Ren.
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I want to approach this as a community member first and foremost.
My take? The gameās done. I personally wish to see no more support for it, as although the main focus of the document is Zeal, Ren mentions cruel involvement from the dev team and their blatant coverups of Zeals actions, painting Ren as āunstableā. I have promptly left the discords, which I encourage you to do as well.
As for what to do mentally? Thatās the hard part as someone whoās been so invested in the lore, story, gameplay, and every other aspect of the game. I literally doodled gotchapon this morning all over my work papers. But as someone who doesnāt wish to support the game anymore, I really find it hard to just cut that off. I am not defending the devs in any way by saying that. I am coming purely from a hyperfixation standpoint where my blorbos are jingling around in my brain.
I would like to say: you will not be incriminated to still love the characters for who they were before this point. I will still forever adore the characters Iāve grown to love. But not the ones who wrote them. Anything with them beyond this point in time is considered Not the characters Iāve surrounded myself with. With losing your sense of humanity as a person and involving yourself in disgusting shit like that, I believe that you lose the right to keep people ādoing what You want with their charactersā. AKA. If I were to still draw Sebastian, letās say, I could with no connection to the writers. I will not draw him with his wedding ring, for instance. He does not deserve to be āmarriedā to a dev self insert. Itās not the self insert thatās the problem, mind you. Itās the dev.
I suggest now is the time to maybe review that list of shows youāve been dying to watch. Check out those games that maybe, if youāre like me, youāve been scared to play because of fear that itāll take over the hyperfixation.
Move away.
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My connection and statement as *technically* an artist for the game:
I am horrified. One of the most prevalent things in Renās document was the use of cute animal imagery to lull Ren into a sense of security. (From my experience), Kat and Zerum do the same thing. It is unbeknownst to me if it was manipulative. That is not my point. My point is that itās real language used in the dev team, and it does not surprise me itās being used maliciously. I am more so scared because I began picking up this habit because people I thought were ācoolā were using it as fun conversation. I am impressionable. I began picking it up. Renās document showed this to me and I suddenly felt my gut drop.
I will be brief. I have past experience of mental abuse and manipulation. Reading Renās document was familiar to me. Not to such a sexual extent, but in a manipulation extent. Seeing the bunny imagery sickened me, as it made me realize that trauma flares that I had worked years and years in therapy to get rid of were now validated: I donāt know whether to trust the devs that were smiling and being so polite to me.
I will not work with Pressure anymore. End of story.
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You are allowed to still like the characters. The lore. The story. But supporting it is different, and I am ashamed that I have for this long. Am I sad that I probably canāt post any more drawings of the silly fish being sad? Oh fuck yeah. That dude fucking rocks.
But this is not about me. To fellow people who feel sad about it too, this is not about you.
This is about being a fucking human being
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I await to see what the devs say to try and damage control.
hey so im posting this here because i know alot of people here don't use twitter but literally right fucking now a huge document cane out about zeal (the creator of pressure) having done some abhorrent shit to the ex-composer Ren/Nolongernull
I need you all to fucking read it, heed the warnings because its fucking graphic and read it. its fucking important
https://x.com/i/status/2041948615254437960
do NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCE make this about pressure and the characters. a real fucking person was hurt and that matters way more than a roblox game. Do not make jokes about this too or say some bullshit like "heh zeal had it coming" because thats just being a fucking DICK and if you still do do those things then fuck you and everything you stand for
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