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Ilmari Erasure 💔

#my posts #my man ilmari was the third listed actor in YY and absolute silence on him #🤡acted of his franzussy and for what??????? #i think only sam lake saw the vision for ilmari 😔 #together with the handful of ilmari enjoyers lmao #besides me ive only seen 2 other people draw ilmari 1 ilmari edit #and back in the beginning some gifs andnthats it #also barely any fanfic on him 💔 #im an outlier 🤪 providing the content im sorely missing

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On Moanday i will drop more lumberwork Huotaris on my blog 💅🏼 ​also ilmari boob window which we were denied in YY.

You just know they couldnt afford Ilmari’s rack to be more on display like Ilmo’s or people would get too distracted

Weekends are too quiet to post so yea😭

#my posts #my ramblings #ilmari huotari #jaakoppi huotari #huotari brothers #will delete later #who am i kidding ilmari couldve had his pippeli out and people would blank out and forget him still 🤡

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Alan Wake 2

› Various collection [21/?]

#anderson brothers #tor anderson #odin anderson #alan wake 2 #photos

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Saga Anderson, and Nordic rep in Alan Wake 2

Early on in Saga Anderson’s exploration in Alan Wake 2, she runs into Ilmo Koskela. Fiercely proud of his Finnish heritage, Ilmo gregariously makes note of Saga’s Nordic sounding name and the familiar design of her knitted sweater. Perhaps a fellow Finn?

Alas no, Saga’s mom is Swedish she informs him. Immediately Ilmo’s face falls. I’m not sure if it’s actually just the animated character defaulting to his resting face, but either way the timing is too perfect. Cue uproarious laughter from me. People in the Nordics are on friendly terms of course, but we gotta have the tiniest bit of… scornfor each other. All in good fun of course. It’s traditional.

Now, I’m Danish, not Finnish, but still, I feel right at home in the towns of Bright Falls and Watery in Alan Wake 2. All of the little nods to Nordic culture and mindset feel so wonderfully familiar to me. The melancholia, the irreverent sense of humor, the affection for the Finnish and Swedish quirks of the characters. The game feels all the stronger in tone and narrative for Remedy embracing the Finnish roots of the studio.

Which is exactly why it sucks that I almost immediately saw the charm of those narrative decisions weaponised against Saga.

I first watched the scene between Ilmo and Saga on a lets play when I was trying to figure out if I should finally dip my toes into survival horror and buy the game. Delighted by the writing I took a look into the comments to see if people were vibing as hard with it as I was. They were. But I also saw a comment that made me frown.

Paraphrasing, it basically went, come on, like hell a guy like Ilmo would make the assumption that a black woman is Finnish. There are a multitude of reasons why I think that person was wrong, mainly that Nordic people love it when we run into each other in other countries, but it also just made me sad.

Saga being black does not negate her Swedish heritage. Formally, she is American, sure (I assume, not sure how that works in the US), but she’s raised by her single Swedish mom, of course she’s going to identify heavily with that part of her herself. It’s a profound and essential part of who she is.

But hey, I’m a white potato Dane, so I’m not gonna argue that I know much about the experience of being biracial. I’m gonna stick to what I know, which is that Saga is a very moving and beautiful example of something that I’m actually not used to seeing much of - a story about connecting with your Nordic heritage and roots. And it’s part of why I love her so much.

When Nordic people show up in big, international productions, it’s usually as Vikings, and sure, it’s fun to see our wild ancestors, but contemporary questions of Nordic identity and heritage is not something I often see explored. Not even in our own productions.

So much of Saga’s story is about family. Fighting for her current one, Logan and Casey (and sure, David too, lol), and rediscovering her first one. Tor and Odin.

Her discovering her ties to Tor and Odin is profoundly moving and made me teary-eyed several times over. And sure, a lot of those ties are fantastical in nature, but they still feel very much grounded - and what makes us Nordic if not the ties to our myths and legends that Tor and Odin have made themselves the living avatars of.

While Saga’s mom, Freya, had good reasons for leaving the Anderson seer magics behind, seeing them as part of what made her family fucked up, she also cut Saga off from the fullness of her capabilities. It is only through Saga reforming her family, healing its scars and fully embracing the Anderson heritage that she becomes as powerful a parautilitarian as she is at the end of the game. That’s beautiful.

And in fact I think Saga being black only deepens the richness of those themes rather than negate them or make them irrelevant. Because yes, Saga’s story would have been moving if she was a white character too, but I am very well aware that a lot of biracial people of Nordic ancestry can feel alienated from that part of themselves. Not least because questions of who gets to claim a Nordic heritage can get pretty ugly around here. There are most definitely people who share the racist mindset of that commentator. It adds an extra dimension. Which is why seeing Tor and Odin’s eagerness to claim Saga as part of the Anderson heritage is all the more moving. Through her magics, she’s just so obviously an Anderson, and they’re so damn proud to call her theirs and fight alongside her. Because they all got that wild Viking blood in them. They’re part of her and she���s part of them.

Roger Ebert, the film critic once called movies empathy machines. I think games, when they’re at their best, can be an even more intense variation of that. Which is exactly why it baffles me that some people can play through Alan Wake 2 and still think Saga is a stunt-woke character rather than someone fully and beautifully integrated in the narrative. A narrative which, at its most basic level – in my opinion – is about the mystical bonds we form with each other and the rest of the world through art and love and blood and family and heritage. All the great horror doesn’t negate that either, it amplifies it. Kind of like that clicker.

#great meta #meta #saga anderson #alan wake 2 #OP great talking points love this #some of that vileness is literally racism ugh

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Alan Wake (Video Games) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ilmo Koskela & Jaakko Koskela Characters: Jaakko Koskela, Ilmo Koskela Additional Tags: Autism, Autism Spectrum, Sensory Overload, Autistic Jaakko Koskela, Pre-Alan Wake II, Autism Acceptance Month, Brothers, Family, Siblings, Neurodiversity, Fluff, Light Angst, Brotherly Affection, headphones, Alan Wake II Spoilers, Character Study, Discord: Fanfiction Library, Fanfiction Library Discord’s Daily & Weekly Drabble Challenges, Ficlet Series: Part 42 of Ficlets for FFL’s Drabble Prompts, Part 54 of Into the Remedyverse, Part 500 of Autistic Characters Summary:

When Jaakko feels overwhelmed, he wears his headphones to block out the world. Thankfully, Ilmo understands why he does this, and always tries his best to help his brother feel better.

#i love autistic jaakko #kinda relatable idk what that says about me #alan wake 2 #jaakko koskela #fanart #fanfic

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Guard, guard!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55479514

The PWP truck series finally comes to its conclusion with Ilmari 💅

This was rly an excuse to write about all Koskelas and Huotaris + bonus Casey getting into some spicy situations

#love that 50% was no longer about truckers but oh well sometimes stories get their own life #my posts #my fic #ilmari huotari

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They’re twin brothers

#they’re twin brothers #koskela brothers #my video #my posts #alan wake 2 #ilmo koskela #jaakko koskela #he rly had to iterate it becos people in the comment section are always blown away by the fact theyre played by 1 actor

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Ilmo/Ilmari & Scratch

persuasion coercion submission assimilation

#Ilmo AND Ilmari??????????? #😍 omg yes #ilmo koskela #mr scratch #ilmari huotari #someone remembers ilmari exists 🙌😎🤸 #alan wake 2

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Jaakoppi i love u so much 😭❤️‍🩹

#my doodles #my posts #jaakoppi huotari #ofc he never gets mentioned so #oc #alan wake 2

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"I don't think i have played characters like that before"

Ok so at this point i have watched like 10-11 movies/series in which peter played a role and YES from those few things I watched NONE of them were as loveable and as fun to watch as the Koskelas and Ilmari Huotari 🙌

Ngl, most of the characters I watched him play before, had always had some kind of asshole vibe or complete bastard personality to them.

So yeah, from what I've seen so far, the Koskelas truly are different from any other role I've seen him play before.

Watched the interview with Peter and ehh as @zephyrone01 pointed out

"how they collaborate with all the other characters"

"I'm really intrigued to see those characters in the game

Those lines aged poorly T_T

Also it just feels like this video was supposed to be released at the before or shortly after the launch of the game. The way it's kind of spoiler-free (Ilmari only being referenced as Huotari and then seeing that parade float thing instead of a YY fragment)

Plus, one of the questions is about how fans will react to the game etc. which feels like a very early-stage release of the game kinda question to me

#my ramblings

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Peter Franzén interview from Remedy!

#peter franzen #alan wake 2 #jaakko koskela #ilmo koskela

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Watched the interview with Peter and ehh as @zephyrone01 pointed out

"how they collaborate with all the other characters"

"I'm really intrigued to see those characters in the game

Those lines aged poorly T_T

Also it just feels like this video was supposed to be released at the before or shortly after the launch of the game. The way it's kind of spoiler-free (Ilmari only being referenced as Huotari and then seeing that parade float thing instead of a YY fragment)

Plus, one of the questions is about how fans will react to the game etc. which feels like a very early-stage release of the game kinda question to me

#alan wake 2 #my posts #my ramblings #koskela brothers

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FUCKIN FINALLY

The Koskela fans been waiting for this kinda content for like 4 months 🤪

Peter Franzén interview from Remedy!

#peter franzen #peter franzén #video #alan wake 2 #koskela brothers

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saga and rose themed art trade with maggie !!! thank you sm for doing this with me, had so much fun drawing them!!!💗🦌

#alan wake 2 #fanart #saga anderson #rose marigold

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"She's one of us, Jaakko"

#alan wake 2 #saga anderson #ilmo koskela #fanart #finally more ilmo art yey

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CultCase Series

https://archiveofourown.org/series/3992590

Set in the 'Echoverse' (Echo characters from Alan's DP section).

This series mainly focuses on the complicated and messy relationship between Echo Ilmo, a member of the Cult of the Word, and Echo Casey, a NY Detective.

Besides them, we follow Echo Jaakko who's in search of his lost brother. Back in Watery, he has Tim Breaker, the neighboring town's Sheriff and his only friend who tries to help in tracking down his brother.

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Two months' worth of Echoverse fanfic drabbles and one-shots all bundled together as a series.

I put them in somewhat chronological order, but the notes are in order of when I wrote them.

Depending on the motivation and inspiration, this series will continue to expand with more stories to tell.

With additional and big thanks to @zephyrone01 & @copiasmic for creating this Echoverse together with me 🙏🏽💜

#i usually enjoy writing series of loosely connected stories vs 1 big story #it gives me some more freedom and i just love vignettes #my fic #my posts #alan wake 2 #echoverse #cultcase #echo ilmo #echo jaakko #echo casey #echo tim #koskela brothers #ilmo koskela #jaakko koskela #alex casey #tim breaker

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Jaakko/Tim sketches 🥰

#my doodles #my posts #baby im making rare af pairs u wouldnt believe #echo jaakko #echo tim #tim breaker #jaakko koskela #echoverse #alan wake 2