#midas makes

[opportunityarose]

Michael Sheen as Will Charity in The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box

#i was fighting for my life trying to make these lmaoooo lost half of my day #will charity #michael sheen #the adventurer: the curse of the midas box #gifs #long post #og post

[vampirepunks]

I really love all the DS2 theories I've seen so far but one thing I'm picking up is a lot of people expecting Higgs to still be on the same trajectory/goal set as he was in the first game and y'know....... I don't think that's the case.

The overall theme of DS2 from what we've seen so far + Kojima's comments seems to be the concept of opposites, inverses, and dualities, as though it's saying, "take the entire idea and turn it inside out and upside down." It appears to challenge the viewer to subvert whatever expectation/understanding they have based on the first game. It's eternal recurrence as seen through a mirror. The first game was themed around blue and black, this one is red and white. Connection becomes disconnection. Hope becomes despair. Age becomes youth. Repetition becomes change.

Buckle up, I've got thoughts.

(This pattern of contrasts illustrates a theory I've had since DS1 based on Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" and the three-stage journey of metamorphoses--camel -> lion -> child--required to become the overman, but that'll be a separate post. If you're already familiar with the book, just know that in this context DS1 would be the camel and thus DS2 encompasses the lion.)

So, in DS1, Higgs is a hyper-fatalist obsessed with extinction. It's easy to assume that hasn't changed, that he's still dedicated to Amelie and wants to end the world... Too easy, right? Has anything Kojima has written ever been that simple?

I raise you this: In the vein of eternal recurrence, Sam becomes Cliff and Higgs becomes Amelie/Bridget... but this is not a literal retelling, rather, a metaphorical one. A dark mirror to the stories we already know.

So if the theme is opposition, what's the opposite of extinction? Creation. What's the first thing we learn about Higgs in the DS2 trailers? He's a musician now. He sings and he plays guitar. And, arguably, music is the very essence and lifeblood of creation itself, one of the very first things mankind created when our species was in its infancy. Further, Higgs uses his own umbilical cord (yes, it's an umbilical cord), as a guitar jack, channeling his ties to life, death, and his own soul in his performance, highlighting that he has an intimate connection to this core act of creativity. More about that in this post.

Now, DS1 already has a lot of themes and motifs surrounding duality, most notably the concept of chirality: two things that are each other's opposite, two hands imperfectly overlapping, two objects that act as one another's mirror. Powerful things happen when they collide--anything ranging from drug interactions to voidouts to the very birth of the universe.

If I'm reading this right, Sam is set to become the chiral counterpart to his father's tragedy and Higgs is set to become the chiral counterpart to the extinction entity. The same narratives we know, recurring once more, but flipped to become something entirely new at the same time. A rope that becomes a stick and a stick that becomes a rope. Humanity will always need both; the stick is not evil for serving its purpose, nor is the rope inherently good for doing its job. "Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."

I'm calling it now: Higgs is not serving Amelie, not seeking to bring her back, not trying to become her. He is rebelling against the idea of her, unshackling himself from the role she placed him in, taking back the autonomy he lost and acting to avenge the abandonment and manipulation he suffered. He's claiming her image as his own to make a mockery of what she represents, painting himself up to look like her decaying corpse, all in an effort to prove she no longer controls him, defiantly asserting, "The queen is dead... long live the king." And so, what is there left for him to do but throw himself into reckless acts of creation? Life from death. Extinction Entity? Cute. Try this on for size: Creation Entity.

#justice for my boy <3 #finally using the jokes i've been making in a serious post aha #i don't however expect this to work out for Higgs the way he plans/hopes #he thirsts and starves for connection but the divine is inherently disconnected. detached. distant. #to become a god is to be alone above the world. singular and unmatched. midas still can't shake hands no matter how beautiful his garden is #the higher they rise the harder they fall. i just hope sam is there to catch him when he does. just as he caught amelie at the end of DS1 #what was icarus when the sea embraced him if not more human than ever before? #i also really need to make a post about sam as sisyphus and higgs as prometheus. both trapped in a neverending cycle #higgs monaghan #death stranding #ds2 #ds2 theories #logan.txt

[yuviur]

As promised, a shirtless Glenn to celebrate the victory of this sex god

#in my head this takes place shortly after prison - therefore the unhealed cuff wounds #Glenn has the Midas touch of sadness.. everything he touches makes me sad #also; Nipple Pierced Glenn truthers - rise up! #my art #dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndads s1 #dndaddies #glenn close #glenn close dndads #sexiest podcast character poll #also I'm.. still in denial regarding last ep #hot glenn autumn

[fortnitey]

keep in mind he has her name tattooed and a yacht named after her

*i’m differentiating the snapshots because lots of skins have male/female variants but it’s up to interpretation of what caused those variants to exist. someone could have entered the loop and later transitioned, or there’s just a different reality where they’re the opposite sex

#fortnite #i know daughter doesn’t fully make sense but that’s the name of his daughter in the original myth #and i’m not putting wife on there because why would his wife be identical to him #midas #marigold

[noctiwaft]

Oh man oh man... Midas... where do I even start... you are my sunshine...

#noctiwaft #fortnite #fortnitemidas #midasfortnite #epicgames #midas #shademidas #hes my sunshine #my only sunshine #he makes me happy when skies are grey #he doesnt know #desr #how much. i love jim #pleas e dont tske... my sunshine... away

[j0nesy]

#It's like 6am idk what I'm making anymore #Fortnite #Midas #Midas Fortnite #Montague #Montague fortnite #Midague #Montague X Midas

[your-local-jedi-commander]

Manipulate

Manslaughter

Manwhore

Midas

#lol #idk #canon #I’m sure #lmaooo #facts #Fortnite #midas fortnite #fortnite headcanons #manipulate #manslaughter #manwhore #Midas #but idk #xdddddd #fortnite midas #i don’t make the rules #headcanons

[faggotkenjaku]

Doodles

#fortnite #fortnite art #kado thorne #countess daraku #jules fortnite #marigold #midas fortnite #animal crossing #snekage #theres no bat villager so i had to make the vamps wolves 👎

[michellemouse]

I feel like Zeke would be capable of being a "bit" of femboy and that Mortimer likes femboys lmao

#mortimer mouse #big bad wolf disney #big bad wolf #zeke midas #zeke midas wolf #zeke the wolf #zekimer #shitpost #meme #headcanon #I say that Zeke would be capable since during his appearances he always dressed femininely for his traps #and I think that although it's not a big deal for him he likes it #and Mortimer...canonically hes rejected by absolutely all women (in HOM) #and that's why he would have to make the raw and strong decision to “accept femboys” 😔😔💔🖤 #“GUYS LOOK THIS !!! MY GF IS MY DUDE LMFAO NO CAP🧢 /SRS :D” #my art #my stuff

[beatx-mavie-archangelx]

people genuinely complaining about midas' touch being inconsistent and a "plot hole" should go touch grass, like... ever thought about the fact that perhaps they hadn't planned all of the lore we have now? maybe they didn't expect him to get (and keep being after literal years!) so popular or they just changed their minds about the plot... chill y'all it happens;;

it's kinda like people genuinely wondering and theorizing on why in the hobbit the ring doesn't cause any havoc while it's one of the main sources of disaster in the lord of the rings saga... when the answer is literally just "tolkien hadn't even imagined the lotr back then". it's literally the same situation, why are people making a big fuss out of it. they can't go back in time and change the bp video and it would be pointless to change it now. can we please accept this and move on.

#i say “people”; i mean SOME people ofc #it's currently 4 am where i live. i hope this makes sense. #fortnite #fortnite midas #midas fortnite #fortnite lore #fortnite storyline #fortnite skins #fortnite battle royale #fortnite story

[stabbyfoxandrew]

i wasn't lying anon...

#level 45... #Lord. #also i play as summer midas or whatever his name is bc he's shirtless. and i'm gay mdlgkdl #anyway!!! i'm trying to get the fuck out of this slump but meh. #also i have been tasked with making a Wedding Album thing for my mom's friend and i don't wanna do that shit. #sigh. #i'm gonna... try and speed through that and then do a bit of prep for wipw? hopefully? #diaerie

[vampirepunks]

Since Kojima’s been saying that the Death Stranding film is going to tell a story that can only be told through the film medium, I really hope it’s a prequel to the game. There are a lot of background events represented through text and dialogue that wouldn’t translate well to a video game format on their own.

It’d be really cool to see the start of the Stranding, Victor and Igor’s backstory (as seen in the DS novelization), snippets from Sam’s childhood/early years with Bridges, the development and construction of the chiral network, and most of the events described in Higgs’ journals.

Coffin’s decision to leave her family behind, start a terrorist uprising by radicalizing the porters who unknowingly abetted human sacrifices by delivering BBs for the chiral network, and the decision to adopt Higgs as her protégé? That story alone would be worthy of a film.

#just thoughts #i would kill to see little baby Peter #and witness his Becoming™️ from that scared kid into the man we know and love #i know that ‘new world with a new sky’ moment would be POWERFUL #and what of his porter partner who died? what did that relationship look like? how close were they? #what of his relationship with Fragile after Coffin died? having a best friend who probably never saw his face? #not to mention his tragic rise to power and the secrecy that came with it. having to kill to maintain his DOOMS because people needed him #like he was handpicked as the inheritor of a rebellion against Bridges/the UCA and suddenly ended up with a LOT of responsibility when- #-Coffin died. and suddenly he was living a double life to care for and protect the people of the Western region #and those folks responded by calling him King Midas. naming him after a folk hero whose defining tragedy is being powerful but alone #everything he touched turn to gold but it’s so hard to form connections when you can’t shake hands #(sorry not sorry lol) #it’s such a complicated and nuanced backstory & so many people don’t even know about it because it’s in hard-to-reach texts & a side quest #idk I just think it’d make a really good movie. bonus points if it canonized him being a repatriate #it’d make a really good sci-fi political thriller/horror #i would vaporize in my seat if it cold opened with higgs saying 'once there was an explosion...' but now i'm just being self-indulgent #death stranding #death stranding movie #death stranding a24 #higgs monaghan #logan.txt

[thedragonemperess]

I might just be a lil wee bit in love with Montague and Valeria

#also if this fandom had just a few more teenage girls in it wed have montague/midas fanfic by yesterday #i just wanna make that very clear #and this is not a bad thing #in fact i actively encourage it #marankton speaks because why not #fortnite

[lokiina]

Perception...

#cyberpunk 2077 #long post #oc: william eriksson #oc: m1d45 #oopsie #someone got ATTACHED #this poor rich boy doesn't know how to feels #Will is getting increasingly more frustrated #never thought I'd make a post actually feeling bad for Midas but lmao here we go #also apologies again for the length #I tried to make it shorter but lost some of the expressions and FEELS in the pics doing that

[lucindasthighs]

Irene is so so so 'my ordinary life' by living tombstone coded

Someone with bigger autism than me (and less sleepy) do a lyric breakdown post on this cuz. Ahghghh

#THEY TELL ME IM A GOD. IM LOST IN THE FACADE. #can you hear me have i paid too much. when you become untouchable youre unable to touch #TOUCH ME MIDAS MAKE ME PART OF YOUR DESIIIIGN #aphmau #aphblr #aphverse #minecraft diaries #aphmau mcd #irene the matron #lady irene

[your-ghoul-pal]

Phantom: *about Cumulus and Aurora* They make a cute couple, huh? Rain: They certainly are standing next to each other.

#the band ghost #ghost band #ghost the band #ghost #incorrect quotes #shitghosting #rain ghoul #phantom ghoul #aurora ghoulette #cumulus ghoulette #the band ghost incorrect quotes #ghost band incorrect quotes #also yes. Aurora and Cumulus are dating. I dont make the rules #midas ghoul #nimbus ghoulette