#leveraging Ruby's drinking to make her sound out of control and scary too like AUGH

[stressfulsloth]

Cannot stop thinking about Ruby and how brutally Klaasje fucks her over despite everyone in Martinaise's clear affection for her. How everyone seems to like Ruby and her 'gruff charm,' how she gets passionate about radio technology and loves movies from the 20s, likes 'a beer on the beach to watch the sunset'. She's an 'old lady whisperer,' Isobel likes her and even defends her, the

Hardie boys are clearly very fond of her. Even when you're being blasted by her pale latitude compressor, it's hard not to like her at least a bit. She tested it on herself first! The Half-Light reaction of sympathetic fear to Klaasje's accusations, and then Drama cutting in to point out that the fear isn't to do with Ruby, it's the fear of being arrested that Klaasje is feeling. Her first response, out of fear of the RCM and the Moralintern, is to use the presumed biases and homophobia of these RCM officers as leverage to pin the blame on Ruby, even as nearly every other scrap of information you can collect describing Ruby's personality contradicts it.

#ruby the instigator #disco elysium #idk half finished thoughts bc im still fuzzy from yesterdays migraine but #like no one in this game is a totally good person ofc and she's scared for her life if she gets arreste #but fuck man #that really got to me #leveraging Ruby's drinking to make her sound out of control and scary too like AUGH #this game has some interesting things to say about societal biases towards addicts and people who drink #and it shows just how shit-scared klaasje is too to use the 'scary drunk dyke' thing to claw her way to safety #something something it all comes back to the evils of moralism #klaasje amandou #DE rambling