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[ziracona]

What do you think of the Observer from Dead by Daylight? I like the idea of being able to destroy the Entity, but that honor should belong to the Survivors. They deserve to find some power to fight back against their enemy.

I think he’s written really poorly, because he’s so removed from the experience of constant suffering, and the way he sifts through even traumatic memories with casual interest, he comes off as extremely callous and frivolous in comparison with the survivors, and careless and unfeeling towards them. Also super privileged, and not doing much shit, even just feeling pity, about him being a human who can lounge in a library drinking wine, sifting through their personal trauma for entertainment, while they’re repeatedly are tortured and killed. I don’t think that’s how he’s /meant/ to be read, but 400% it’s how he comes off. I’m not a fan of him or their execution of the idea. I wouldn’t like the idea regardless, because I think how they do multiverse and their like, cult entity stuff very very goofy most of the time and immersion breaking for the genre, but it could certainly have been done better. Originally, they had Benedict Baker, and to a lesser degree, Vigo, fulfilling that role, and it worked phenomenally. Benedict recording the survivors with his very intuitive outsiders’ perspective was amazing, and I am so upset they’ve mostly removed his original stuff now. It was a much more immersive and compelling and interesting storytelling idea to have lore from other survivors taking notes, or records left by them, and it made a built story that felt complete because even if they got out largely based on information collected from other survivors, that’s still a win from all the tortured victims if they killed the Entity or escaped, just, including the dead ones, not some dumb outsider observer. I do not care for him even a little. I greatly miss Benedict. You have no idea.

But yeah circling back, if anyone deserves to win it’s the survivors. Having some weirdly privileged in ability and knowledge outsider do it would be the boringest deus ex machina way possible to end it, but I wouldn’t put that past their very bad writers.

#I’ll never understand why OG dbd had some of the /best/ cosmic horror lore ever & well done charcater info even if it only way a handful of #sentences. then decided to retcon their own lore to make it worse and goofier and now we get 3 page walls of text for new survivors that #somehow tell us LESS about who they are as people than the micro OG descriptions did for people. ((excluding Darkness Among Us which got the #long ass descriptions but was fly as hell - Darkness Among Us before it’s fucking stupid 80% retcon my beloved)) #ask #rayshell22licejournalcom #I just couldn’t keep caring eventually. : / I saw it go from so interesting to irritating and boring mostly and sometimes deeply enraging a& #it was just too much to care : / God I miss old dbd though #dead by daylight

[ziracona]

So it looks like Dead by Daylight has some of the same problems the DCU has: great characters and an interesting mythology, but run by clueless idiots who don't have a good handle on how to get the best drama from the lore.

I’d say there’s a couple of strong problems there, like the creators’ biases, inconsistency, etc too, but that’s definitely one of them! And a big one. Sadly that often seems to be the fate of works, especially ones with sprawling casts. ✊😔

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[ziracona]

What if the Archives are actually the result of the Entity just screwing around with the Observer so that if he does manage to make contact with the Survivors, he doesn't fully trust them because he thinks the Entity may be subconsciously manipulating them?

I don’t think even a little that the writing team is good enough to think of something like that, but you should totally take the idea & run with it and write something, because it would be interesting to see!

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