Disco Elysium sideblog of @Dorianwolfforest. My name is Dorian, He/himbo with a hint of they/it. This is the first time i engage in a new fandom since 2017, DE has that much of a death grip on me-
I cant believe the two songs that are canon to the disco elysium universe are Where The Hood At by DMX and The Troggs' hit single Love Is All Around. Harry truly does contain multitudes.
you get +1 good cop point for this. Kim likes getting a good grade in helping Harry, something that is not normal to want but incredibly easy to achieve.
Hi! I am Committing Crimes (reading a fanfiction before finishing the game I'm playing) but I wanted to say your DE fic captures the feeling and tone of the game so well, and I had a blast and a lot of fun reading the two chapters!
I hope you have a good time writing the rest as well (and that I can finish the game before then)
Oh no, not The Crimes! (I am also guilty of committing this crime, but don’t tell anyone)
Thank you so much! I’m having a ton of fun writing it, so I’m glad we can share in that happiness c:
And hey, not that I’m biased or anything, but I strongly support you finishing the game. Every single line of dialogue until the very end changes you
I can never make character or video game playlists cause I get to the point in my obsessive hobbies where everything I interact with while partaking in that hobby needs to be twisted into having something to do with that hobby, so all possible songs I liked while I was also playing disco elysium are now disco elysium songs. Doesn’t matter how well they fit the story. They’re DE songs now
Mice on Venus is on here. The minecraft song. It’s for disco elysium now.
YOU - I feel like I’m not getting as much help as I usually do. Are those tears sincere?
DRAMA - …
YOU - Wait. Fuck. Am I compromised?
VOLITION - No.
YOU - Then what’s going on?
YOU - Silence. For the first time since the morning you woke up in Martinaise, your conscious mind is quiet. Then, there is bickering from somewhere far, far away. The harder you try to listen, the further away they go. It’s just you here. Kinda nice, actually. Like stretching out on the couch after someone you’ve made room for gets up. Finally *fitting* properly.
VOLITION - I’m afraid the rest of them have gone on strike.
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Oh look, a second chapter of the unbreached office. who would have thought. (me, i thought. ive been thinking about it nonstop)
Kim/harry case fic written in the style of the game, with a lot of silliness because it's what I feel confident with writing. no beta reader, only me vigorously going through the document over and over :')
I’ve already talked about how, despite clothing in DE being assigned fairly arbitrary values by Harry to his skills, there are real, in-world reasons why some clothes help or hinder (the hjelmdal shirt making Kim less likely to trust you because it depicts a character from a racist series). Basically clothing matters in the game because it matters in the world.
On that same track, I also really like drugs and cigarettes in DE. They’re not a gaming meta, they’re not a cheat code you insert and boom, you’re more powerful. There are in-world examples that, despite not having skills, drugs affect other people’s minds or bodies as well.
Cuno takes speed, Cuno aces all his hand/eye checks. Klaasje with her preptide and composure, with her cigarette and her drama. The smoker and his ability to see beauty in everything. Pyrholidon, which you can get from Roy and the pigs who both are lost in their own worlds.
They don’t necessarily have the skills, but just like how these things help Harry, they help other characters too. Nothing in DE is purely a gaming mechanism, other than perhaps the fast traveling, it’s all a part of the world and the characters. I love that. I love this game. I’m going to go insane.