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todayisafridaynight · 11 months

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DON'T EVEN WORRY ABOUT IT DUDE I LEAVE ASKS FOR WEEKS BECAUSE I'M EVIL (EASILY DISTRACTED AND INARTICULATE) SHDGKJDSHDSLGF see you got to it before I was even done with a stream...

But yeah The Smile Ruined My Life. It helps it's not as silly as his last card's though lol

The "soul patch" is a bit of both; it is amplified a lot by lighting, but you can see it's noticeably darker/less patchy than the rest of his facial hair in his texture even when lighting isn't a factor and it's like that for his younger model too. I rarely notice when Tsutsumi actually has one though because it blends in with the shadow lol (sorry for the disgustingly high res texture btw I don't know why they did that and Tumblr blows it up to max size anyway </3)

YAYAYAY HOPE YOU ENJOY GOD OF RISK <3 Genuinely don't remember a single thing so probably due a rewatch for me as well. I do miss Hit Me too...

That's exactly the vision! Sad dog left out in the rain. I love fish out of water (so to speak) type stuff where the character is normally So Serious and So Capable. Jo just Existing In Public is such an image, right... because he's like... this guy with a fifty-foot AOE "leave me the fuck alone" aura active at all times but wearing one of THE most eye-grabbing fits... Honestly kind of insane no one ever connected Aoki to the yakuza before Nick's call-out post, though.

It's fun to imagine RGG characters just living their lives too. I LOVED Mine's first event because he had a lot of commentary on random encounters you could have in Y3 and even achievements you could get, while offering a pretty good idea of what his day-to-day is like

he cant be smiling so sincerely while holdin a fuckin katana that looks RIGHT RIDICULOUSAELKJA (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)(;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)

if my followers can handle me posting masato and aoki's skinned face texture, then i can surely handle a bit of extra hi-res stubble ☠️☠️ BUT i dosee it. if i squint real hard (the shadows in the rggo card really do help point it out)

I'M ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE FIRST EP RN (got distracted for a sec to hang with my bro) AND SO FAR IM ENJOYIN IT !! Business Bullshit has always entertained me, and esp when kaori's being so hard headed rn only to be faced with the facts that if she doesnt change Serious Shit is going to hit the fan is ABSOLUTELY pulling me in

YAYAYA THATS EXACTLY IT I LOVE FISH-OUT-OF-WATER TYPE OF SCENARIOS TOO. it really is funny that no one connected the dots when every other npc or character seem so deadset on clocking characters like kiryu frame one as yakuza. meanwhile there's alligator-print, perpetual-scowl and slicked-back hair jo and everyone just seems to be none the wiser. He Just Looks Like That Don't Be Rude☠️☠️

i LOVE imaginin charas doin mundane shit so much, it's probably why i really enjoy slice-of-life stuff. Oh The Beauty Of Everyday Life Etc Etc- esp when applied to yakuza characters where it should be hard for a day to be bland and not noteworthy ☠️

#long post #snap chats #got distracted. IRONICALLY SO.#my college mate was askin me how i make my art dynamic and emotive and im like girl idfk i didnt know you thought it was That #im just a goofball making silly shit.... i cant help you make art bro.... i can tell you the rules of comedy tho. Subjectively.#IN ANY CASE. i forgot what i was gonna say 🥰#OH I REMEMBERED it took me looking at jo's goofy ass smile to remember #never over that PLEASE NO STOP IM CRYING #because ironically i did think about jo smiling this week. idk WHY- im lying i do know why #if i ever say 'idk why' im lying and 75% of the time it's just cause im embarrassed of the actual reason #in any case the actual reason why was cause Of Course i like it when tsutsumi smiles #i think it'll be a day in hell we see jo have a Smile smile but his smaller ones are Just Fine as well #also. every time he smiled in y7 it was to precede some heinous shit happening and it makes me laugh #fuckin smacking ichi with money/gauging a mate's eye in. yeah thats bout it ainit #crying thinkin bout it still IN ANY CASE NO I START LAUGHING CAUSE I WAS LIKE #'ah well i can draw jo sincerely smiling and that'll be that OR. i could redraw this meme 😭☠️☠️'#PROBABLY WONT I WONT LIE OR GIVE ANYONE HOPE but god the mental image made me hack up a lung #ive prattled so much tho i wanna at least finish this ep tonight i can worry bout all that in the future☠️☠️☠️☠️

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snails-in-spaceships · 2 years

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Ok Grizzly really said tell them Gillion dies so like-

No but seriously. Hello? HELLO?! MY BOY. THE FISH MAN HIMSELF. FUCKING HUH?!!! Words have no power to communicate my feelings over how that ended. There was so much!!! But I can sure try;

MAJOR SPOILERS IN THE TAGS!!

#okay but like the way Gillion finally said i hate you and still shut his eyes so tight my boy was SCARED #but he'd be damned if he let himself die without the elders knowing what he really thought #he doesn't even BELIVE in himself bro #charlie said Gillion was leaving that place traumatized #he was ALREADY traumatized now it's like DOUBLE TIME #and i fucking new Niklaus was going to intervene at some point i KNEW IT #y'all saw my memes #okay but if i don't find out whether gillion is guilty or not I'll die or something #and oh my got the VISUALS #my brain is gonna explode i loveeeee that dark space/rift/nothingness atmosphere #like boatem when they wemt into tje void #yeah mmmm love that shit #characters hopelessly and endlessly drifting in voids >>>>>#okay I'll shut up now byw #jrwilb #snails watch things #jrwi spoilers #jrwi riptide #caps

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kxllerblond · 1 year

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i should be entitled to financial compensation if i still cry once i get out of my cry shower

#like legit like bitch i thought we were DONE #im indulging in some rum and im going to rp this shit out im so fucking TIRED of wasting my time being sad for no reeeeeason #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #cw negativity #that one mirror pointing wikihow meme but its me telling me to get my shit together #ok last wahh wahh dump sorry im actually gonna do sOMETHING. ask memes or smut shit idfk

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resssistance · 1 year

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not to be vague, but arrrrrrrrgh

#i have an urge to post some thoughts and (probably not very kind) words i'm having rn but i also don't like to stir drama and shit #which is why i'm not on twitter #(very rarely but sometimes i do wish to be *that* kind of person)#(i even made a meme already)#so i'm gonna take a deep breath and take a walk #doesn't mean i won't go on a spree later...

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blujayonthewing · 2 years

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grateful to be A Colossal Square in the internet age because it means I was able to see and internalize memes about underestimating edibles and then getting sent to hell which is in space WAY before I ever actually encountered any edibles myself

#the downside is when I finally did buy some gummies for sleep I lowkey wasted several because I was babystepping SO nervously w dosing lmao #thank you MI for legalizing weed even when I've known exactly who I could get some before I was too awkward to know how to ask agdjfks #now I can just Go To Store thank god #anyway I just saw a twitter thread of people sharing their Oops! Too Edibles stories and they're all like #'I was high for 26 straight literal hours. I thought I was gonna despawn from reality' ahdkfkssg HELLO!!! WHAT #JESUS LMAO #thank you 'this edible ain't shit' memes for Warning Me 🙏#about me

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srvphm · 2 years

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#3rd FUCKING TIME of getting my vent/personal sideblog nuked #I get why the two previous ones were deleted. still pissed but understandable #but this one?? I made sure to never break the tos and I don’t think I ever did #none of my posts ever got flagged #youre not allowed to be mentally ill online anymore its fucking infuriating #oh you can say pretty much anything is an adhd symptom and you can armchair diagnose anyone with NPD #but if you dare show a symptom you are out. it’s not allowed.#protect people etc etc I get it okay I don’t condone encouraging self harm #but not every post about an ugly topic is promoting it jfc some people just wanna vent or make jokes about their situation or share experien #ofc ill never get it back because they’re not gonna read my appeal #and even if they do and I havent broken tos it’ll still be considered too close to the line or whatever #I’m not here to ~encourage~ anyone and I honestly don’t see how I coukd even go about that #seeing as I DONT romanticise and sugar coat shit.#I should be allowed to have a blog that makes some people uncomfortable. they can fuck off if they don’t like it.#but noooo it’s harmful to be unwell. coke zero memes is promoting self harm apparently. having unsettling thoughts is dangerous.#and that’s over a year of posting gone in a second #and yet another good url I’m never getting back :)

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impossible-rat-babies · 2 years

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me grabbing eyrie by the scruff to hand them to their narrative foil like

#ohhhh I have so many thoughts thank you Zenos for being a bastard #me looking at the two of them. this some good fucking food #eyrie is mcfucking Pissed #bitches can’t have revenge or a healthy outlook on grief #so it’s We Get Mad #I’m holding them by the scruff bc at this point it’s just babe ur gonna project so hard onto Zenos and I’m So Ready For It #I am going to take every ounce of this narrative foil shit and roll with it in both directions #I told azia but it’s like that meme w all the bloody stick ppl but #that’s me when I’m handed some solid fuckin narrative foils #Owen plays ffxiv #eyrie just. there’s nothing to be mad at #there’s just the universe and consequence and there’s only so much of that they can handle #they’ve seen a lot and there’s just an end of the rope somewhere #and it’s sitting there in their hand. the last of the rationale #they want to kick Zenos’s ass. they want that so bad bc it’s just a way of screaming at the universe #a way of saying look at me. look at what I can hurt. look at how much I hurt #also no not me at all totally drawing parallels between eyrie’s upbringing into a world of self sufficency + duty and devotion #and the loneliness and isolation of that incident to Zenos’s growing up #it’s not the same of course but there’s these similar elements that I am going to rotate in my head #oc: eyrie kisne

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avo-kat · 2 years

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depp is an abuser and a fucking piece of shit and i hope he fucks off to be never seen or heard again while he gets the help he needs

cw: depp vs heard

also fuck yall with ur “i dont wanna take sides” “i dont wanna involve myself”

the whole internet is involved in the trial. if u share or post anything about this trial you are actually involving yourself

on one hand we have smbdy whos much older, much more powerful, has said he wants to do despicable things to the corpse of the women he went on to marry, whos best friend is an abuser, who has lost in court and can indeed be called a wife beater,

while on the other we have a woman who is 20yrs younger, much less famous, who is bisexual, who divorced him and who counter-sued him when he sued her for defamation for a very short piece in which she talks about getting known for being a victim of domestic abuse and who received death threats in the aftermath of her divorce

there is literally text of depp saying how he wants to give her total global humiliation

and hes achieving it because ppl are fucking memeing her recounting her story of being sexually and physically abused by fucking johnny depp

nobody fact checks anything and everybody seems willing to believe any fucking thing

because ppl are very much willing to hate women and to not believe them

i understand not wanting to engage with this shit, i didnt want so either, but i couldnt stand seeing this misogynistic shit plastered all over the internet.

#johnny depp is a piece of shit #amber heard #there is no right to be a victim #there is no right way to recount the abuse u happened #smbdy said to me that heard is horrifically abusive #based on fucking what? where do people get these ideas #i remember yrs ago when the video heard took of depp being drunk and smashing shit appeared online #and we all were horrified and believed her #but then at some point everybody thought depp was the victim (including me) even tho i didnt see any kinf of proof #and i didnt hear any kind of accusation from depp? like i literally dont remember anything #so i was fucking confused why the fuck this happened and why i was thinking this #believe them #sure #but be fucking smart about it?????#not even smart like #just #im exhausted #and everybody sharing these funny memes pwning amber turd is only showing the ppl around them that they cant share what happened to them #that they wont be believed either #and victims that have struck back or yelled or smashed things are gonna question themselves even more #oh and EVERYBODY thats stanning depp is NOT doing it because they support male victims #cuz their support does NOT help them #gross and disgusting and i fucking hate it here #free britney i guess remember?

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snekdood · 7 months

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i really try to understand why my fellow progressives are so avoidant of actually introspecting on why they think its still cool to bully. im sorry but thats just an inherently conservative thing to want to do.

#ive had to actually introspect about it. i was never really a bully fr but i did. like everyone else. have judgemental thoughts about ppl #still. and i really had to ask myself. why does it matter that EYE judge this person? 1. im holding my own opinion of this other random #person i probably dont know as being the most important opinion when its like. who tf am i. 2. wtf did this person MORALLY do wrong #to deserve me internally insulting them for how they look or dress or whatever. and even if its someone whos a conservative.#how does me judging that person make the entire situation better at all? it really only just. makes me feel better about the lack of #power i have over that person to not be a dipshit. thats really it #insulting them isnt going to change their mind and LIKE IVE SAID A MILLION TIMES will ONLY make them dig their heels in more #im not saying go up to your local rwinger and give them a hug and validate them or whatever tf. thats not your job. all im asking is simply #shut your brain the entire fuck up when it wants to judge someone for something that they cant control or is morally neutral #charlie kirk having a small face is morally neutral. his politics? not so much! attack that. at least.#(not that the memes aren't funny- but we cant fool ourselves into thinking bullying him is gonna change him or his fans)#i just wanna know why you think your opinion on how someone looks or dresses or whatever is that important is all #the best motto anyone can adopt really is 'MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS' ffs #your opinion on their appearance really doesnt matter like at all! instead of feeling the urge to have an opinion on the way they look #simply let some things ~be~. have 0 opinion about how they look or if theyre weird and awkward. focus on the shit that ACTUALLY matters #you dont always have to sort things in boxes of 'good' and 'bad'. some things can just exist without you labeling them.#and also why do you NEED to label everything and who are you and why do you think your label is important enough to vocalize?#anyways.#and im not gonna act like ive been perfect about this but this is work that we're always gonna hafta do so long as we live in a #susciety that places value on other people and labels them on whether or not theyre good enough for whatever thing #competition outside of friendly sportsball will always be bad change my mind #if the sportsball gets to be unfriendly and too intense to the point that you hate someone you need to fuckin chill and leave the event #lmao. like you've gotta go and take a shower and think for a bit instead of continuing to funnel your rage into ppl who dont deserve it :|#i wanna be clear tho i dont think theres anything morally wrong w making fun of charlie kirk for how he looks. just recognize the reason ur #doing it. bc ur not doing it bc ur someone crusading against misinfo or whatever ur doing it bc u dont know how to convince #him to stop and are throwing spaghetti at the wall

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dancingdcrks · 9 months

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tag dump / blog-centric stuff

🐢🗡 // stick it in your shell / ic

🐢🗡 // if we told you; we'd have to kill you / musings

🐢🗡// who are you calling impulsive and overemotional?! / about

🐢🗡 // an all you can beat buffet! / likes / aesthetics

🐢🗡 // don't give bad orders; and i won't second guess 'em / music / playlist

🐢🗡 // i always thought the future of ninjutsu was taller / dash commentary

🐢🗡 // it literally hurts to listen to you sometimes / starter call

🐢🗡 // so what if I got a temper? i’m still the best fighter we’ve got / visage

🐢🗡// let's trash the place / answered

🐢🗡// that's adorable and sad ; it's ‘sadorable’ / open

🐢🗡// yes; that's why we're laughing; because you sound nothing like that / drabbles

🐢🗡// unmotivated bursts of anger is kinda my thing / ooc

🐢🗡// i was just having some fun / memes

🐢🗡// we've never gone into a fight like this and i don't know what's gonna happen / psa

🐢🗡// i'll never be cruel again; just leave me alone / wishlist

🐢🗡// hey; the stealth bike's my thing / self promo

🐢🗡// if you love it so much; why don't you marry it / promo

🐢🗡 // v / the secret of the ooze made the chosen few / main

🐢🗡 // v / i wanna fuck the world ; i wanna make it hurt / vampire

🐢🗡 // v / teenagers scare the living shit outta me ; they could care less as long as someone’ll bleed / foot

🐢🗡 // v / just a little something up ahead ; i’m dreaming of being human / human

🐢🗡 // v / we tried the world; good god; it wasn’t for us / future

🐢🗡 // v / the world has changed. it's a neverending wasteland now / mutant apocalypse

#🐢🗡 // stick it in your shell / ic #🐢🗡 // if we told you; we'd have to kill you / musings #🐢🗡// who are you calling impulsive and overemotional?! / about #🐢🗡 // an all you can beat buffet! / likes / aesthetics #🐢🗡 // don't give bad orders; and i won't second guess 'em / music / playlist #🐢🗡 // i always thought the future of ninjutsu was taller / dash commentary #🐢🗡 // it literally hurts to listen to you sometimes / starter call #🐢🗡 // so what if I got a temper? i’m still the best fighter we’ve got / visage #🐢🗡// let's trash the place / answered #🐢🗡// that's adorable and sad ; it's ‘sadorable’ / open #🐢🗡// yes; that's why we're laughing; because you sound nothing like that / drabbles #🐢🗡// unmotivated bursts of anger is kinda my thing / ooc #🐢🗡// i was just having some fun / memes #🐢🗡// we've never gone into a fight like this and i don't know what's gonna happen / psa #🐢🗡// i'll never be cruel again; just leave me alone / wishlist #🐢🗡// hey; the stealth bike's my thing / self promo #🐢🗡// if you love it so much; why don't you marry it / promo #🐢🗡 // v / the secret of the ooze made the chosen few / main #🐢🗡 // v / i wanna fuck the world ; i wanna make it hurt / vampire #🐢🗡 // v / teenagers scare the living shit outta me ; they could care less as long as someone’ll bleed / foot #🐢🗡 // v / just a little something up ahead ; i’m dreaming of being human / human #🐢🗡 // v / we tried the world; good god; it wasn’t for us / future #🐢🗡 // v / the world has changed. it's a neverending wasteland now / mutant apocalypse #yes i did recycle tags from my main #.tag dump.

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sunshine-jesse · 6 months

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Control: The Strange Dynamics of Andy and Leyley or

The Incest End Is Not The Fucking Bad End, Stop Coping

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Hey guys! This post is blowing the fuck up, but this was my first essay on this game, and I think I've had many more insightful things to say since then. Here's a link to a masterpost with all of my essays, which I'd definitely suggest reading after this one:

Anyways, without further adieu...

I heard a lot about this game going in. I knew the general story beats and the funny haha incest memes. I knew it was about a toxic codependent relationship where Ashley, the sister, acted like your standard overly-controlling person who used various abuse techniques to keep someone in line. I expected Ashley to be a yandere-type character where she was borderline psychotic, irrational, and had a skewed perception of reality. I expected her to be a crazy bitch, and I love me some crazy bitches.

But then I actually played through the game. ...That is not what I got.

The game advertises Andrew as a doormat extraordinaire who is strung along by his Very Not Good sister and has no agency of his own' that he's just a henpecked abuse victim. But in practice, that doesn't seem to be the case. One of their first exchanges that in the story is when the occultist played his music and Ashley wanted them to check it out. He says 'no', sure, but then he smirks and says 'but I'll come along if you do.'

That is not the dialogue of someone who has no will of their own, that's the dialogue of someone who willingly gives up their own agency.

This is not, on its own, a sign of anything out of the ordinary. What caught my attention with it, though, is how it flew in the face of the common narrative surrounding their relationship dynamic. But that's not the first time I noticed it, it's just the first time, in retrospect, that their actual dynamic begins to show. The first time I personally noticed it is in the choking scene.

There are a lot of ways to view this situation. But my own reading? This was not a crime of passion. This was not him trying to break free. This is him doing something he's thought about for a while. This is premeditated. In this scene, Andrew is done playing along with Ashley's shit. In this scene, I firmly believe Ashley is the victim.

Ashley is the more openly abusive of the two who seeks to do whatever she can to trap Andrew so he'll never leave her. That much is clear. But Andrew-

-clearly has these same tendencies. He says this shortly after Ashley mentions putting her name up on a call girl's wall for money. There's protective brotherly instincts, and then there's this. This is not something you'd threaten a sister with, this is something that a man would threaten his wife with, which is directly brought attention to in the story.

(hey look he accepts the framing of it being WIFE beating at face value, and says Ashley is the only one who makes him like that! HMMMMMMMMMM WONDER WHAT THAT IMPLIES???)

It also implies that this is not the first time physical force has been threatened! I mean, that much is obvious, because of the choking scene that happened before, but I more mean that this implies that Andrew either threatening or utilizing physical force is an established pattern of behavior. However, the Decay route implies that she never thought Andy would kill her (but Andrew would) which can either be for or against depending on one's perspective, so I don't hold to the idea that it's an established pattern too strongly.

Okay, so. Andrew has some controlling and possessive tendencies too. So what? Their relationship is codependent. It's advertised as such. What of it?

Well first of all, it pretty much blows the lid off of the idea that Ashley is the sole perpetrator of abuse in their relationship. I've seen a lot of people view Andrew's behavior as justified retaliation against abuse, but frankly, I don't believe that him threatening to strangle Ashley for violating boundaries by trying to hold him accountable for his actions (given the strangulation part happens after she brought up Nina's death and how Andrew was ultimately responsible) is justified. And I ESPECIALLY don't believe that him threatening to backhand Ashley for her transactional attitude towards sex is justified in ANY circumstance.

EDIT: This part was edited in from the original post for the sake of readability so they don't have to see the reblogs to see the updated version! This post gained more traction than I was expecting!

…But perhaps even more telling is what she DOESN'T do.

Pushing someone's boundaries until they lash out is a pretty common tactic in abusive relationships. It's easy to see why, too: It justifies prior behavior and paints them in a negative light to others. This can be an important aspect of using DARVO (deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender) against someone, although the two ideas aren't necessarily linked.

It's pretty easy to argue that this is what Ashley does, but if you look at the one time her boundary pushing DID go too far, when Andrew lashes out with physical violence… she doesn't do that. She doesn't blame him. She doesn't paint herself as the victim. She doesn't even try to give a reason as to why she shouldn't be killed outside of the comfort she gives him. Why is this notable?

Because the mom does, in fact, engage in what could be considered DARVO against Ashley:

(i will elaborate more on this screenshot in particular below)

Ashley is directly compared to Mrs. Graves by Andrew, and yet she crucially displays none of the habits that Mrs. Graves does. Mrs. Graves lays the blame on Ashley, but Ashley doesn't lay the blame on Andrew. Mrs. Graves tends to paint herself as the victim of Ashley, but Ashley does no such thing to Andrew. The mom denies her culpability at every turn; Ashley doesn't. Ashley tries to hold Andrew accountable for his role in Nina's death, which could be considered a kind of DARVO. But she never denies that she had a role to play in it. She just mentions that he was the one who pulled the trigger. And he was.

(and the point was more that she DIDN'T engage in it when threatened with physical violence; the perfect chance to)

In Mrs. Graves' mind, she is the victim of either Ashley, or society as a whole. In Ashley's mind, she knows what she is, what she does, and what she's about. The only thing she's oblivious to- or doesn't acknowledge, at least- is the threat Andrew poses to her. In her mind, she's the bad guy. In Andrew's mind, Ashley is the bad guy. In official art, she is the bad guy:

And yet, in the game itself, Andrew is the one holding the cleaver. Not her. Hm.

Ashley is the world's most convenient scapegoat. She allows people to mask their own worst habits and pretend they're better people than they are. She accepts this role. She embraces it. She doesn't try to deny it. But when that mask slips, people lash out at her. Both Mrs. Graves and Andy (NOT Andrew, crucially) predicate much of their self-perception on being what she's not.

But they're the ones who enabled her to become like this, every step of the way.

And that's what blew my fucking mind, and made me question just who the victim really is. She was never given a chance to be normal, because other people relied on her NOT being normal.

By the end of my second playthrough, I felt worse for Ashley than I did for Andrew, and I still do.

So. What am I getting at? What does this show me about the relationship between Ashley and Andrew?

(I also wanted to point out that Andrew does engage in DARVO too but I didn't want to distract from the behavior of the mother. Unlike what Andrew does, it doesn't require someone to reassess the narrative they have towards the game in order to realize the implications of it, whereas it's pretty easy to justify Andrew's words as not qualifying as DARVO if you buy into the narrative that he's the sole victim and/or that Ashley is the main perpetrator of abuse. A friend of mine pointed out that it's a pretty key part of the push/pull dynamic they have, and I completely agree.

However, the direct comparisons to the behavior of the mother can't be ignored no matter your narrative, so I felt as if I needed to highlight that more.)

EDIT OVER

It shows me that their relationship is all about control.

Specifically, the push and pull of who controls who in any given situation.

Andrew weaponizes his incompetence. He always looks to lay the blame on Ashley. This is drawn attention to several times, and said explicitly in the Decay route.

He is always surrendering control to her, and yet he never HAS to. He could always just say no. He could always refuse. What are the consequences? Her being upset? Well, unfortunately, it's not that easy. That's not how abuse dynamics work. He probably feels like he has to, or rather, feels like there's no other option. That he's in too deep, and stuck with her no matter what. But personally, I think it's pretty clear from his willingness to surrender control to Ashley that he still feels like he has it at points, because the moment he feels like he's about to lose it, he either considers violence, even as a child-

(the actual scene of slicing her finger is pretty sus too with this reading in mind)

-or resorts to it, outright, in both the choking scene and the vision in the Decay ending... when Ashley doesn't have enough bullets to defend herself (this will be important later!).

SO WHAT POINT AM I TRYING TO MAKE??? AM I JUST MAKING ABUSE APOLOGIA (the answer may surprise you)?

No. I don't think so.

Ashley is obviously very bad. She's controlling and uses pretty textbook abuse and entrapment tactics on Andrew whereas everything he does to her is inference, with Ashley too daft to realize just how much danger she's in until the vision in the Decay ending spells it out for her- and I don't know if a true abuse dynamic allows for one to be completely unaware of the consequences of breaking free. She could just let go of her desire for control and Andrew would be a much happier person.

And that's the point, because so would she.

I bring up control because that push and pull- that desire for control over each other- is exactly what's tearing their relationship apart, and this effect most obviously manifests in the two endings of episode 2. In the Decay ending, Ashley either tries to exert control over Andrew due to a lack of trust, or Andrew allows his feelings of entrapment to truly take root in his mind and guide his actions. In the Decay ending, Andrew becomes a true doormat with no will of his own, allowing his feelings of bitterness and resentment to fester and grow, eventually resulting in their deaths.

In the Burial ending, Andrew does the exact opposite. He takes control of the situation and does exactly what Ashley would do without much of a fuss. This eventually culminates in THAT scene (assuming you take the Questionable route), where his facial expression alone speaks volumes:

Look at how fucking confident this man is. This is not the face of someone who's unsure of himself; this is the face of someone who knows exactly what he wants and takes it. He is absolutely in control of this situation, and everyone is happier for it.

And what does Ashley have to do to get this ending?

Let's go back to Decay for a moment. If Ashley has bullets in her gun, she has control over the situation. She, at any point, could put an end to Andrew and survive. And yet, at the very end of it all, she could choose not to. She could choose to surrender control to Andrew, allowing herself to die. And that ending, I believe so much of his life and willpower will have decayed that there's nothing left for him to take control of, leaving him no choice- or rather, no use for the control he now has- but to die with her.

And in the Burial ending, she has to let him out of his cage before it's too late. She has to surrender control to him, and when she does-

-He will become everything she ever needed him to be.

It's all about her surrendering control, and it's all about him taking control. Because, no matter what, as long as that happens... the two of them will be together forever.

In life...

...or in death.

How romantic.

So no, the incest end is not the fucking bad end. They're going to be together forever in the end either way, so they might as well live through it.

#gaming #the coffin of andy and leyley #gravecest #ashley graves #andrew graves #someone help me i can't stop thinking about this fucking game

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