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lieutenantism · 5 days

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"wait, your voice... I think i recognize it"

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lieutenantism · 5 days

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lieutenantism · 22 days

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give this man some comfort and chance to strangle Harry (platonically)

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lieutenantism · 23 days

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pleads art of kim . From kitsuragi. #Disco

me looking at the single mother as i swallow her car keys

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lieutenantism · 25 days

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bit of a week

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lieutenantism · 27 days

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So looking at his portrait, at first I thought Jean had light colored eyes, but I think he has corneal leukoma (and facial scars) from getting smallpox.

Thinking about how Eyes helped Kim to see things, maybe Harry had to do the same for Jean.

Also thinking about Harry getting polio as a child, Jean getting smallpox, the measles outbreak and how hard growing up in Revachol had to be.

#there's not a single detail i don't adore about jean.#he's everything to me #jean vicquemare #disco elysium

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lieutenantism · 29 days

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i'm currently thinking about how jean loses himself completely to harry. just dissolves entirely. very little sense of identity left outside his partnership with him, which i find so intriguing. i mean, it's the definition of codependency, but that doesn't make it any less interesting (long post, again).

"i won't let my life unravel because of this." is just so insane and melodramatic to me because WHO is that man to you, jean? and why is his alcoholism the reason for your life unraveling? jean takes on harry's drinking problem as a problem of his own, a threat to his life before harry's, even though the drinking doesn't affect harry's ability to do his job, and jean acknowledges that as well as everyone else in the major crimes unit.

but why does he have such a big problem with harry's alcoholism? why's he the only one out of the task force who seems to care obsessively? because the one before him failed to save him, and he feels as though it's his responsibility now. to jean, harry's life is divided to three parts; before him, during him, and tragically, after him.

the fact jean puts himself in the same position as dora, harry's ex, tells you enough. almost as if he considers them to be the same, in terms of responsibility for harry's wellbeing. he's cleaning up her mess, he seems to think. she was way before my time, as though they hold the same significance to harry. of course, this isn't entirely jean's fault. both him and harry share the guilt of their twisted relationship; harry's guilty of getting too personal with anybody within arm's reach.

and jean's guilty for wanting to clean up a mess that he didn't make, and losing sight of himself and his true professional duties in the process. so it goes like this; they partner up, harry's bad at drawing the line between personal and professional relationships and jean's even worse, harry goes on benders every week and jean witnesses them and tries to pull him out of them relentlessly, which then leads to whatever fucked up partnership they had, right before martinaise. the question is why did jean feel the need to save him? because he projected onto him severely.

they're both broken men; mirrors of each other, though jean will never say it out loud. he sees himself in harry, and since he can't save himself and everyone's given up on him, even the professionals, he decides not to give up on harry. in a way, jean's trying to prove to himself that he's not a lost cause through sticking by harry's side through it all, because if even the most lost of causes manages to have at least one person who's there for them at all times, who says he can't have one too? why must he be labelled as the anomaly? if harry du bois could be saved, so can he. he maintains this "i have my shit together, i'm better than you." persona during the entire confrontation, when he isn't. like i said, harry is everything jean works hard in order not to become, yet he still manages to lose his sense of identity while "saving" him and only becomes "harry's partner". that's all he is. nothing but a safety net, there to catch him at all times.

that's why he becomes extremely defensive when you choose the "kim's cooler than you." option, because you're practically robbing him of his identity. throughout the entirety of the game, he keeps repeating: "i'm your partner", to reassure himself more so than anything else, and what the game does here is very clever. you first hear him say that on a call, so distant and away from you; he cannot convince you that he's your partner even if he tried. then, he says it when he's in an idiotic disguise that you didn't recognize, and quite frankly it's making you uncomfortable, it's hard to take him seriously when he looks so stupid so you don't believe him, again. then at last, when he confronts you, and he's himself. then you think it sticks.

but it doesn't, and you dismiss him again to ask about the others. i've always found it perplexing how there's no "how can you be my partner?" option during the confrontation. you can ask about mikael heidelstam for fuck's sake, but not your partner. simply because you don't believe he is, at least not anymore. he's just a very angry man who was in a stupid disguise, and that's all you can ask him about. isn't that so insanely tragic? when you think about how dismissive the "confrontation" is? and jean's lashing out that way because his whole identity is hanging in the balance? no matter what jean tells harry, there's no click, no lightbulb flickering moment, nothing. jean tries everything, it's painful to see, really. the "i didn't lie to you. no one lies to you." and his lines to judit and trant where he's like "i told you, it's typical harry behavior. it's our shitkid." and so on are all attempts to prove that he, jean, knows him, harry, better than anyone else, even himself. he KNOWS him, which is why harry has to need him. he has to keep him. as his partner or whatever the hell it was, because nobody else knows him or will ever get to know him that way.

jean's response to harry telling them "i don't wanna be in your unit." only further proves it. "i'm your partner, i answer for you when you're not there." considering the fact harry and jean had begun to blur ever since their partnership came into being makes the line funnier lol. jean had locked himself up in a prison of his own making, of course with harry giving him all the means necessary to build his own cage beforehand. it was a matter of time and conditioning, and severe loneliness. every crime of harry's feels like one jean is guilty of.

#lav thinks #of course all of this is what the game gives you since its from harry's pov #who knows if jean has a self outside harry #ig we'll never know!#i love you jean. *proceeds to dissect him for the millionth time* i love you.#woahhhhh this is long... enjoy lol #jean vicquemare #disco elysium

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lieutenantism · 29 days

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enjoy my rough cut animation of Jean being called a big homo

#love them #i don't wanna simp on ur post op but personally i would be acting Very Unwise if i was in the vicinity of a man like jv #the voice n the build... yeah i would be acting a little silly!!!!#jean vicquemare #disco elysium

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lieutenantism · 1 month

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"You have pretty eyes, Vicquemare."

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lieutenantism · 1 month

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me interacting with the man with sunglasses:

1st playthrough: oh, come on mysterious ex-partner guy, just loosen up a little, just talk to me. kim is way cooler than you btw.

2nd playthrough: oh my god, jean, it's so good to see you! I love talking to you! You're the coolest guy ever! I'd love having you as my partner, please just talkt to me please, I'm so sorry, I love you! I love you! please forgive me, jean!!!

#ohhh so true i wish he didn't hate harry's ass he'd at least have something to say to me other than “again??? i can't believe this shit!”#i yearn for his voice every time i spend more than 5 minutes doing anything on the game that isn't talking to him #i love you forever jean...#jean vicquemare #disco elysium

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lieutenantism · 1 month

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What’s ur favorite JV ship/ships? I got a thingy for KimJean even though it’s unlikely but got their dynamic would be funny as hell. And a bit Jean and Judit but I have yet to see some good fics and depictions where they get her right

i'm a jeanharry enjoyer (in case you haven't already noticed) but i like any jean ship whatsoever. trantjean is a close second, then jeanjudit then kimjean. jean is just very shippable idk! put him w anybody n it would be neat

the judit characterization in fics is unfortunate. while she is kind and empathetic, people make her mother jean and bear all of his burdens which feels super misogynistic to me. i prefer fics where she's doing the bending, i like seeing jean yearn pathetically for an older woman...

almost all jv ship fics (save for jeanharry) have the other character trying to fix jean... lame boo tomatoes tomatoessss i want him to ruin the other person actually or for his flaws to remain regardless of love. the love was there but it didn't save him or whatever

#lav answers #i never felt the need for jean to be fixed. i love him the way he is #jean vicquemare #disco elysium

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lieutenantism · 1 month

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