usually I hate possession plots but god,I love the possessed hunter plot. because it's just so painfully resonant as an abuse victim. especially to anyone who's been abused by bigots.
like. this outside force you once loved, you spent so much of your time trying to please, so much of your time begging for the approval of, isolates you. they cause you to grow paranoid and angry, snapping at people and pushing you away from your support system. makes you seem crazy to your loved ones, making them doubt your mental health and making you question your sense of reality because you can't tell what's real or not anymore (gaslighting, baby!) you're cut off and overwhelmed. you get put in situations where you're forced to do things you don't want to, you're in so much pain, you're being treated like something with no wants or thoughts of their own. you're stripped of your autonomy. you're belittled for what you wanted and told THIS is how you're supposed to be, and you're so miserable. you're pitted against your loved ones. your abuser tries to make all your loved ones hate you so you come back to them, so they don't lose you. and belos being a horrifically realistic portrayal of an IRL abuser makes this so much worse. he craves Caleb's attention and tries to force hunter to fill that void. nevermind HES the one who robbed himself of caleb in his life by killing him. he tries to make hunter his shoulder to cry on, his therapist, his punching bag, his doctor. uses him to look at himself and go "see! look how good I'm doing! my family is back and he finally loves me again!" , he is obsessive and horrible and cruel and so horrifically realistic. he strips hunter of his autonomy, and in the shit that will start sounding familiar to people who grew up in bigoted families:
forced him out of what made him most comfortable. literally grew out his hair against his will, treated how he'd changed his body and wardrobe to make himself more comfortable as something that tainted him.
also just. holy shit the violating him like that. just the fucking undertones. it's fucking horrific.
and that's why him fighting back is so huge. because he has the strength to say, no. fuck you, no. this is my goddamn body. this is my goddamn life. he takes all these things he LOVED. he loved, that belos had taught him he was sinful and a horrible person for not despising (hm, allegories) and says, fuck you, I WANT this. I want this, I love this, you tried to teach me to hate it but I don't. I love it. I love it, and you didn't break me. I want to leave the coven, I want to leave you. you hurt me, and I said sorry. you used me, and I said sorry. I am done being sorry. I am done feeling bad. I want this life you're trying to take from me. I want to go to the boiling isles and I want to have a life there, in that world you hate so much. I want to go to the boiling isles and be sinful and disgusting and everything you hate and I will love it. I will be happy. I will be free and everything you hate. and I miss when I thought I could please you, because it was simple. but I am happier as a heretic and as a sinner, and you can't change me. I tried to change myself for you, I just ended up miserable. you can't make me something I'm not. I tried. and I am done trying. I am hunter. fuck you, my name is hunter. my name is hunter, and you hurt people. it doesn't matter if you were trying to help me. you hurt me. and I am done, and I am leaving, and most of all I will never let you hurt anyone else like you hurt me.
and he fucking got it, man. he fucking got it. he went through HELL and he still came back swinging. the death feels symbolic to me almost? losing a part of you in traumatic events and you have to live without that part. and you got out but you lost pieces of you in the process, and that stays with you.
but he keeps going. he kept fucking going man and THAT is fucking amazing to me. he kept going. ohhh my god. I wish I had this when I was 13. hunter isn't as massive of a hyperfixation for me anymore by a long shot, but goddamn. I love this dude. I LOVED the possession scene so fucking much and it will always resonate with me so, so hard.
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everyone look away
but dsmp's whole thing with attachments was kinda genius. maybe im late to the party but looking back it was a brilliant overall theme esp when considering the storytelling medium. Minecraft, the game itself, is built on attachments, on mining and crafting items throughout the game. You trade items with your friends, blow up each other's items, or protect them. it's a video game and yet we purposefully form emotional attachments to things that are, to be frank, useless irl.
this might be a bit of a stretch but dsmp asks the viewer how they want hold their relationship to their attachments. Will you be like the protagonist, who is overflowing with love for his attachments, for his friends and things and pets, to the point where he is constantly being hurt and betrayed because of his choice to care. Despite this, he never looks at his choice like it's a mistake and continues to love fiercely and without restraint. or will you be like the antagonist, who removes himself from attachment, claims that they make people weak. who holds what others love and care for hostage all while pushing his own loved ones away. It's just so interesting and unique and definitely not wholly on purpose but also not completely accidental and bbrff
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WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TELL ME HOW MUCH I WAS GOING TO LOVE KLAVIER
I can just see this spunky little kid, all cocky and ready to win, heading into Prosecutor Edgeworth’s office for some advice, and then he just bonks him over the head with a file. “The defendant is clearly innocent. Expose the truth.”
But he doesn’t WANNA EXPOSE THE TRUTH, he wants to WIN so he can PROVE he’s a great prosecutor like his BROTHER EXPECTS HIM TO BE, and all the prosecutors should win, and he’s already won *so many cases—*
The slow mentorship and friendship and becoming a better prosecutor because of it
(Also he’s just… so fancy! And Apollo, /oh,/ my darling Apollo, my sun and stars Apollo, I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH)
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