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As though Snake had just emerged from a pool of cold water, he regained consciousness.
The water that dripped from his body was pooling at his feet. His hands were tied up, and he was suspended, his toes barely touching the puddle of water on the floor.
The water that had been splashed against his head mixed with his blood and trickled into his eye, blurring his vision. His vision was already more than half blocked by an eyelid swollen from the beating, so he could not see clearly.
It would have been nice if he could have at least looked up and glared at his captor, but he no longer had the strength.
Source: Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker novel, Chapter 3: The Rebirth of an Exiled Nation, Part 6, machine-translated with grammar and style edits by me
#mgs#mgs peace walker#peace walker#mgspw#big boss#vic boss#metal gear solid#naked snake#strangelove torture scene
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Nobuyoshi Nishimura did storyboards for the "artist demos" in mgspw and there's few pages of that in the artbook. as i love making ofs etc, i found it interesting to learn about parts that were cut or changed later
in the original draft, MSF was attacked after Paz's request and the game would then follow Snake's moves (bike chase? omg)
before the idea of a tape recording, Snake would've found a picture of The Boss and Strangelove instead
cut scenes: train derailment and snake at a waterfall... remnant of that remains in the level design of the stage where you fight a helicopter
true identity of Paz was initially discovered earlier in the story and there was a secret meeting between her and Zadornov before Snake is captured. a part where you'd sneak and climb to the inactive PW after the torture was cut for the sake of tempo
it was planned that Zadornov shot Coldman and Paz would later shoot him
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OKAY.....SO NOW THAT MY WRITING POST APPARENTLY HAS 80K+ NOTES, MIGHT AS WELL POST THE COMIC OF THE SCENE THAT I USED AS AN EXAMPLE!
This is Jack and Tower, they’re characters from a campaign me and my pals have been doing for over a year and a half- and it means a lot to me. Jack is my character, and he’s the mc of my webcomic, @killcount, which posts twice a week and is nearing its 5th anniversary in a few months. Tower belongs to @collabwithmyself, who is an AMAZING character writer and one of my best friends. I’m genuinely shocked over how this relationship came to be in the campaign itself- neither of us expected it but it’s currently one of my favorite things.
Under the cut is a portion of the scene.
"Dude, I-I can walk, you don't have to--" Tower stammers in Jack’s grasp, being carried to the bathrooms of the hospital labeled Lemons Room, which the two of them had grown used to this past year.
Carrying the high of the fiery, victorious fight with the Ten of Pentacles, the ghost that had been haunting Jack’s mind for the past two months and torturing him inside out, he finds himself lighter than he had felt in a year- no…has he ever felt this good?
What happened with Tenpents would eventually settle in- the abuse he’d gone through with him living in his head would haunt him still, and he’d have to reheal from something like this yet again- as if what he went through as a child wasn’t enough. Torn open, over, and over again.
But not tonight. All Jack knows is he feels full of butterflies as he sets Tower down.
“You have a bad head.” He smooches Towers temple.
Tower is as red as a tomato. Truthfully, their headache had considerably lessened the moment they weren't around so many people, but they're still tongue tied.
Jack laughs- tearing his eyes from his friends flusteredness. He doesn’t know why he did that, but it felt right.
He looks in the mirror at his now shirtless form, and grimaces at the wound Tenpents had left behind- one that, his own blessing as he lit the room ablaze healed for the most part, but let behind a vivid mark.
“…ew.” He pokes at the new purple scar.
"...s'that where Tenpents got you?” Tower blinks towards Jack.
“…Yeah.” he grumbles. “…Hurt like a bitch. Went right where my appendix was when I was a kid.”
"Ugh, you had yours taken out too?" They stand up, considerably less wobbly than before. The solitude and the Advil are working wonders for their headache, thank God.
“Yeah! What, you get appendicitis as a kid?”
"Yeah, when I was eight. Sucked ass, but Jase let me borrow his DS while I was stuck in the hospital."
“That's nice.” Jack laughs a bit. “I didn't get that. My dad jus’ told Strangelove to yoink it out. Got my tonsils out the same day.”
"...what the fuck?" Tower blinks in bewilderment. "Don't you need it unless it blows up? And-- I thought you had to go to the dentist for tonsils?"
“Its good to have- but you don’t NEED it.” Jack shrugs. “Dads from the sixties where they yoinked it out if they cut you open. So he decided I didn’t need it either.”
"That's bullshit," he mumbles, awed. He approaches the sink beside Jack to wash his sweaty hands, and splashes his grimy face for good measure.
Jack laughs. “You can use the shower if you want.”
He takes a moment to drink out of his cupped hands - apparently a whole bottle of water wasn't enough for this guy!! - and nods. "Uh. Yeah. Okay. If you're cool with it."
“Yeah no I don't care.” Jack shrugs. “I might use it after. I just gotta hype myself up.” He plays with his long hair. “…this shit really is a mess when its out of the ponytail, huh?”
"You need help with that or anything?" they offer automatically. "Maybe we can cut it. Mine's getting pretty long too."
“…I don't think I’ve…ever actually cut my hair before.” Jack mutters. “…Closest I've gotten was…cutting random strands that annoyed me.”
"Huh. Well, I've never cut mine before either, always got taken to the barber." He rubs the back of his neck. "We'd probably make total messes of ourselves if we tried, huh..."
“…Yeah.”
He looks in the mirror.
…He’s tired of carrying all this weight with him- on his shoulders. He’s tired of it being a mess that he can never maintain, something easy for others to grab and take advantage of- even if he ties it up and keeps it close, they can always see. They can always tell.
He vaguely remembers what Amaris told him about letting go. It…was so horrifying to him- he melted the freezer aisle in fear.
But…he’s tired. He needs to let go.
He takes out his first aid kit, digging out his scissors, and grabs a strand of hair.
He angles it between the two blades, and takes a deep breath.
He’s letting go.
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Tower takes a deep breath as the storm of Jack's emotions washes over him. But it solidifies into a burning resolve, and he hesitantly relaxes, content to simply watch Jack work.
The freckled man saws through his mane- cutting through it all with reckless abandon- cutting it onto a short bob, like how he had it as a child, and continues to cut higher.
The Tower watches as the storm brings everything down. The locks fall, and they watch them tumble like cinders from flames, like stones from a wall, like rain from the sky.
Justice, with blade in hand, cuts away the imbalances, settling the scales of his mind at last, forming an unruly crown to rule over himself as he always should have.
Change is here, painful and raw and right.
Once he’s finished, Jack stands there, staring at the mirror.
Its…not the best. Actually, it kinda sucks. Its choppy and a buncha hairs are standing up and different lengths, but he has such a big grin.
Its pride. Bare chest with no extra weight and letting go of hair that's grown far too long. He lets out a laugh, and looks to Tower, eyes sparkling.
His own eyes shine as he takes Jack in. Standing tall, the most at ease that Tower's ever seen him. Changed. Ready to change.
He's so proud of him.
God, he thinks he loves him.
"You... you look like a mess. In a good way."
Jack grins like a moron, lighting up.
"Y-yeah?" His sharp teeth look less like weapons, more like crooked youth. God, Tower can feel it back.
Tower is literally lighting up, the glow returning to their markings, intensifying and fading with the pulse of their heart.
"You look... I-I guess you look more you. If that... makes sense."
"Y-yeah...I-I guess this...this is me."
His voice is a delicate rasp, not out of fear, for once- so much excitement that his heart is pounding. He's here. He's real.
Jack Wexler doesn't need to be a weapon, or a shield.
Jack Wexler is allowed to love.
He stares at Tower.
When was the last time Tower felt like this? There's no envy to taint their heart, no possessiveness of something that doesn't belong to them. Just... the desire to see someone happy. To help them be happy.
Is this what love is supposed to be?
Jack places a hand on Towers cheek.
They're both so fucking gross, standing in the gender neutral bathroom labeled Lemons, recently cut hair sprawled amongst the floor. Jack can still feel a film of old tears on his face and he still feels the slight hiccup-y feeling of a post-breakdown, but god this is the happiest he's been in weeks.
He exhales, tracing his thumb down Towers chin.
They shut their eyes, feeling their skin buzz at the touch. For once, the circuit doesn't need to be forced - sparks jump back and forth between the two, carrying both their emotions with them. Happiness. Relief. Adoration.
After all they've gone through, even with whatever's coming next looming over the horizon, they can take solace for a moment in the eye of the storm.
Jack closes the gap between them, and their lips lock with one another.
It's warm, and it's loving, and it's right.
He shudders, not unpleasantly. He doesn't know what to do, he's never kissed anyone before, but he rocks forward on the balls of his feet a little.
He smacks their foreheads together.
"Sorry--!" Tower breaks away, flushed and sweating, and bursts into nervous laughter. "Sorry! Are you okay?"
Jack laughs a little, tilting his head back.
"Yeah! Yeah! Your headbutts are nothing compared to the one Gage gave me earlier today." He snorts, leaning forward again.
"Pff-- what?" they giggle. "Sorry, I've never--" Oh, oh geez, here they go. This time they just shut their eyes and let Jack carry the kiss. They've learned a lot from him already, so... what's one more lesson?
Jack starts laughing, and leans in again.
He kisses Tower. He's usually better at it drunk, but hey, at least it's better because the other party isn't better at it than him!
...He gets too into it and one of the lightbulbs nearby explodes. They weren't even on.
Tower yelps, and then starts laughing all over again, pressing his head into Jack's shoulder. His face feels very hot. "Sorry!"
"It's okay!" Jack snorts. "Let's get you cleaned up, okay? Both of us. I can shower with my underwear on I don't care. You are not putting a shirt back on me, though. Just by the way."
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Trying to score pussy by showing off my SICK gaming skills (beating the Strangelove torture scene)
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see spotify really needs to let you annotate playlists because now i can't remember half of the shows and movies in which these were used in an uncheery way. i will try to remember them now.
only you - gangs of london, they play it really loud while they torture someone
rip van winkle - heavily featured in the open house, terrible netflix horror movie starring the 13 reasons why guy
stuck in the middle with you - reservoir dogs of course
hip to be square - american psycho of course
did you ever see a dream walking - lady in white
i remember you - house of 1000 corpses which i haven't actually seen
in dreams - blue velvet which i haven't seen
wonderful, wonderful - x-files 4x02 "home" of course
we've only just begun - 1408 i think, which i haven't seen
tip toe thru the tulips - insidious of course
mr. sandman - halloween ii i think? (i haven't seen halloween ii)
all i have to do is dream - i don't remember!!! might have to remove it if i can't figure out when it was used creepily
we'll meet again - dr. strangelove of course.
crimson and clover - maybe that ted bundy movie? which i haven't seen
old cape cod - episode of the american horror story season where people take vampire pills to get good at art. on cape cod.
my dream - very beginning of the pale horse 2020 miniseries
sunshine on my shoulders - cold case
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Strangelove I love you but my arm is gonna hurt SO much tomorrow
#THIS IS ABOUT THE TORTURE ESCENE THE TORTURE SCENE#I HATE BUTTON MASHING I HATE I AHTW acagsudjnfnshhsnfh AGAAHUDH#I broke the nail on my thumb lol#MY WHOLE ARM IS NUMB AND IM SO SHAKY#fuck you strangelove FUCK#I’m so glad this wasn’t in mgs3 LMAO
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Phoenix and the Kubrick-a-thon
Back in....February? March? Let's go with March. Anyway, back in March, I decided I needed to stop watching The Shining so goddamn much and instead try to branch out and expand my movie watching horizons. And instead of tackling the list of horror flicks I'd been putting together since August that's m i l e s long, I figured it wasn't too much of a leap to work my way through the rest of Stanley Kubrick's filmography. I mean, I'd only been watching The Shining relentlessly since September, right? And since I'm now halfway there (cue Bon Jovi), now seems like as good a time as any to ramble about it. No analysis, just opinions under a cut because this is going to take awhile. And because I like to torture myself, I'm going to try to pick my top moments.
The Shining
This stupid movie has infected my brain. Nowhere NEARLY as badly as the conspiracy theorists, but still. If we're close enough that I feel comfortable rambling at you, you've heard me mention this movie at least five times over the last eight months. I honestly can't remember my first opinion of it, but safe to say that it has CHANGED. Holy SHIT. This is a long ass movie that I feel absolutely none of the run time because there is always something going on. The camera work, the art direction, the music, the performances, all of it. I didn't find it all that scary or even creepy the first couple times I watched it, and now it gets to me more and more the more I come back to it. A full-on ramble could take up its own post, tbh. The geeking out and the occasional existential crisis and the rampant enthusiasm are too much to cram into one paragraph. The long and short of it is, it's pretty safe to say this is one of my favorite movies.
Top moments: 95% of the movie if we're serious but Danny riding the big wheel, Jack walking to the Gold Room, the Bat Scene™, "Here's Johnny" (ofc)
A Clockwork Orange
Funny story, I ended up watching this for the first time after a friend of mine told me something I wrote reminded her of this movie. If you've seen it, you can imagine the WTF running through my head afterwards. And somehow, it's even more fucked up on a revisit. It's interesting to note this is Kubrick's low budget movie, because it seems to be one of the first that comes up when talking about his body of work. IDK, that's just amusing to me. Visually, it's a trip. Thematically, it's a doozy. Which is worse, a violent individual committing all sorts of atrocities for fun, or state sanctioned violence that strips an individual of their free will? The cinematography and design are, again, distinctive, but what sticks out the most to me is Malcolm MacDowell's performance. He's despicable but charismatic and I want to look away but I just. Can't. Do. It. I loathe Alex and his crimes are horrifying, but I don't enjoy watching him get his comeuppance, and yet the way it's portrayed is all horribly mesmerizing/surreal/cartoonish. A tough watch, but a brilliant film.
Top moments: Alex and his droogs' first meeting with the drunk, Alex's second meeting with the writer
Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
I'm a big fan of irony, so I dug this movie. I also don't think I've watched anything that made me facepalm more. It's just so ABSURD. And by highlighting the absurdity, it makes it easier to laugh at what is truly a horrifying concept. In summary, one nut job decides to launch a nuke and jump start nuclear war because he has a weird conspiracy theory, and the most powerful figures on the world stage are utterly incompetent to stop it. It's frustrating as hell, and fucking hilarious, and that ending is just the icing on the cake. As far as comedies go, this one is DARK.
Top moments: "You can't fight in here! This is the war room!" and any time Peter Sellars is on screen.
Full Metal Jacket
*sigh* Y'know, if you've seen one war movie, you've pretty much seen them all. That said, it does feel like two different movies, though it still didn't do much for me. At this point in my watch-a-thon, though, I'd picked up enough of Kubrick's style to read it, in terms of what the camera is doing and how character arcs progress, which was pretty cool. However, I reeeeaaaally don't understand why I've only heard this movie mentioned as being an uber-macho, by-dudes-for-dudes flick about guys being dudes, because....that is NOT the reading I got. If it's not Sgt. Hartman during basic training, then it's the door gunner shooting down random civilians or the Marines being interviewed that seem to hammer in the idea that war breaks down your humanity and leaves you a mindless killing machine. It's easy to see Hartman as the antagonist of the first half, and very hard to sympathize with the soldiers in the second, and unless I'm missing something in my reading, that's how it's supposed to be. Which gives the ending more of an impact, if you ask me, when one last killing is, given the situation, the most humane action that could be taken. Not a bad movie, but not my cup of tea.
Top moments: Private Pyle's...er...DOR, and Joker's response to the sniper reveal
The Killing
Back to our good friend Irony. This is one of Kubrick's earlier movies, and it shows quite a bit in the mechanics of the film. The story itself, on the other hand... I don't really have too much to say about this one. It's a straightforward heist movie with some fun moments and some aspects that just don't work very well. I was occasionally entertained, and occasionally bored. I'll give points for the ending, though, as I couldn't stop laughing until the credits were over. Again, the IRONY.
Top moments: the final scene
Lolita
Watching this was easily one of the ickiest viewing experiences I've had so far, full stop. Made even worse by the fact that this is a good movie. Which makes it really. Frigging. Hard. To talk about. You probably know at least the general premise of one of thee Problematic™ novels some people love to wring their hands over, and in case you don't: a middle aged man becomes obsessed with his landlady's young daughter, and it gets gross fast. Apparently there was all kinds of trouble adapting it in a way that appeased the censors, and gee whiz, I wonder why. It's also one of those cases when working backward from a twist actually works. The cast is excellent, and while I'd never heard of Peter Sellars before starting this watch project, I might have to look up more of his work, because dude can steal a scene. All in all, a beautifully made and perfectly nauseating flick. I mean, damn.
Top moments: the opening scene, Charlotte finding Humbert's diary
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that'll wrap it up for now. Only six more to go!
#kubrick a thon#phoenix watches movies#stanley kubrick#the shining#a clockwork orange#dr strangelove#full metal jacket#the killing#lolita
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Sonny Boy – 06 – Director’s Cut
When it comes to anime, or any television or film, really, I’d rather not quite know what’s going on and be entertained than know what’s going on and be bored. Sonny Boy is definitely the former variety, and this is its trippiest episode yet.
I honestly had no idea what was coming from one scene to the next, but was thoroughly enjoying the ride the whole time. Heck, it starts by revealing that the voice in Hoshi’s head that knows the future is none other than Dr. Strangelove, timeless avatar of contradiction and inscrutability.
It becomes apparent that Dr. Strangelove of Sonny Boy is this universe’s God, or at least one of them, and likely the God of whom Aki-sensei speaks and acts on behalf of. Heck, by manipulating Asakaze, she’s built something of an army on the island complete with barracks and barbed wire for the express purpose of tracking down Nagara and his co-conspirators before they bring about the end of the world. Shit got serious in a hurry.
Still, even in its creepiest or most reality-bending moments, Sonny Boy has never put the lives of its students in mortal danger. No one has died. The “penalties”, while essentially torture, did not result in permanent damage. There isn’t even a shortage of food or supplies, the usual problems with your students marooned on an island.
But then Mizuho encounters a big black dog named Yamada Kunihiko in the Costco where she’s grabbing lunch for Nagara and Rajdhani. Yamada was not only once a human, but a student at their school. Yet despite being three years younger than them, he’s been trapped in This World for five millennia. In that time he’s taken on the velvety lilt of Tsuda Kenjirou—who I’m a little surprised wasn’t chosen to voice God.
Yamada is certain it’s too late for him, but Nagara and the others still have a chance to get home. It’s not impossible; just improbable. That hope proves feasible when the gang stumbles upon a world full of film reels, including reels of the original world where they came from.
After fiddling around with the projectors and reels in this world, Nagara and Rajdhani figure out how to edit the reels and splice and layer them together to create a “director’s cut”. This is the latest and best hope of returning to the world: building it from the myriad parts at their disposal, along with Nagara’s ability.
They only have one, no, two…actually three problems: the three other factions. There’s Hoshi and the StuCo; Aki-sensei and Asakaze, and then Ace and his group of no-longer-it-people. Hoshi, who again has heard the future will be and that it doesn’t involve going home, has instead built an “ark” that will protect his faction from the coming “storm”.
Here’s when things get a little nutty, in the episode’s version of a “battle scene”, as Aki-sensei and Asakaze battle Nagara and Rajdhani’s adventurous director’s cut, all the while traveling aboard Hoshi’s cubic ark. The visuals become downright kooky as groups of people simultaneously stand around statically and fly through wildly undulating landscapes and psychedelic patterns.
By the time reality “settles” back into the world and the school they know, it soon becomes clear that it’s not actually their world; or at least not anymore. Time has gone on and their class is graduating, but there are changes, chief among them that Nozomi died. While other students observe their alternate future selves, no one can see or hear Nozomi, and she phases right through people. It’s a nightmare.
Dr. Strangelove eventually confronts Nagara (while standing, oddly enough), telling him he didn’t create any worlds, but only observed them, thereby opening a “box of possibilities.” The alternate world where Nozomi is dead exists because the Nozomi who lives is on the island, along with Nagara and Mizuho and everyone else. They have been sequestered, and judging from Yamada’s fate, that sequestration is meant to be permanent.
They are unneeded copies, not chosen to continue in the world they used to inhabit. This is just the luck of the draw, mind you; just like being born with natural talent or into money. They got the short end of the stick…or did they? The world they caught a glimpse of didn’t seem “all that great”, to borrow Nagara’s words when questioning Hoshi’s ability to read the future.
It’s certainly not a world Nozomi liked, considering she was dead, but it also might explain why she and no one else can see a light up in the sky; it’s the same light her other self must’ve already stepped into when she passed away.
While others may contemplate whether their lives are better or worse—Nozomi now knows that this life here is all she has. Then again, it’s all any of her classmates have too. They may have split into multiple facets, but they’re still on the same island, in the same boat, with identical status of not being chosen.
If that sounds like a huge bummer, I’m still not convinced it is, especially when I think of the friendships Nagara has forged and the exciting adventures exploring new realms with them. If there’s a set limit to how far they can travel before bouncing off the boundaries of the island, well…how is that any different than the bounds that, with vanishingly few exceptions, keep us fundamentally tethered to our world?
By: braverade
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Masterpost for Whumptober 2021!
Originally, I wanted to do a challenge so I can practice writing fiction again. It's insane how months of being busy and being depressed have led me to forget how much I loved writing stories. In fact, looking at my tumblr, I realized that I had stopped posting 2015.
I want to change that. So anyway, Whumptober happened. I want to thank my good friend @Coffee for introducing me to the prompt list.
I don't really know how masterposts go as this is my first one, but I'll just add a link to all of the days I posted.
31 DAYS OF WHUMPTOBER
Color Codes:
Violet - Pandora's Box (OC) series
Red - D&D OC fics
Blue - Fic for specific fandoms
Green - Standalone OC fics
Day 1: All Trussed Up and Nowhere to Go
["You have to let go" | bound]
TW for violence, blood, and torture. The first in the Pandora's Box series!
Day 2: Talking is Overrated (Hades)
[Choking]
TW for violence and blood, and slight torture. A Hades fic featuring our lovely Elysium lads!
Day 3: Sticks and Stones may Break my Bones but... (Genshin Impact)
[taunting | insults | "Who did this to you?"]
Featuring my best boyes Razor and Bennet. Not really a ship fic.
Day 4: Trust Fall
[“Do you trust me?” | taken hostage | pushed]
Some little wlw action because of brainrot.
Day 5: I've Got Red in my Ledger
[betrayal | misunderstanding | broken nose]
TW for blood and violence. The father encounters some trouble.
Day 6: Touch and Go
[bruises | touch starved | hunger]
NSFW for some descriptions, and TW for blood. Featuring my dhampir warlock OC Anitta Strangelove~
Day 7: My Spidey-Sense is Tingling
[helplessness | numbness]
CW for sleep paralysis. An attempt at a creepypasta.
Day 8: Coughing up a Lung
[pneumothorax]
CW for death. I had to research pneumothorax before this.
Day 9: Rumors of my Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
[presumed dead | (blind) rage | tears]
TW for slight torture, blood, and violence, featuring my friend's D&D OC! I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT TO POST THIS ON THE DAY I HAD TO POST IT BUT ANYWAY...
Day 10: Oops, I Did it Again (Persona 5)
[flare-up | ice chips]
Short p5 speculative fic featuring one of my favorite ships! Pegoryu AAAAA
Day 11: Just Keep Swimming
[adrift | drowning | dehydration]
More pandora's box. Also referencing Kate Bush's song "And Dream of Sheep"!
Day 12: It'll be Fun, They Said (The Sandman)
[torture | made to watch | begging]
NSFW for explicit scenes and BDSM. TW for (implied) gore and blood. A fic featuring my Corinthian brainrot
Day 13: That's Gonna Leave a Mark (Arknights)
[“This is gonna suck” | burns | cauterization]
Featuring an OC operator, and Skyfire.
Day 14: Under Pressure
[crush injuries | beaten | force]
CW for bodily harm. TW for graphic depictions of violence. Featuring my half-elf bard D&D character Oxyll Orobyn!
Day 15: Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever (The Sandman)
[delirium | fever dreams | bees]
An OC meets Delirium.
Day 16: On a Need to Know Basis
[recovery | scars | aftermath]
TW for substance abuse. Featuring my OC high elf monk!
Day 17: Field Care 101
[“Please don’t move!” | hemorrhage | dread]
Wartime. Featuring my OC Spotty in a war AU!
Day 18: The Doctor is In
[“Now smile for the camera” | doctor’s visit]
CW for scary descriptions of monsters. Another attempt at a creepypasta!
Day 19: Just a Scratch
[bleeding | stabbing]
TW for graphic depictions of violence. Featuring my good friend's D&D OC!
Day 20: Lost & Found
[trapped under water | solitary confinement]
The origin of Pandora..?
Day 21: That's Where the Blood's Supposed to Be
[bleeding through the bandages | pressure | blood-matted hair]
More of my OC Spotty in a wartime AU. She makes a friend..?
Day 22: They Made Me Do It
[cursed | demon | obsession]
TW for madness and depictions of drowning. A prequel to pandora's owner.
Day 23: You Break It, You Buy It (Persona 5)
[auction | pursuit]
A short AU side-story-ish fic featuring the phantom thieves!
Day 24: One Down Two to Go
[self-induced injuries to escape | flashback | revenge]
TW for graphic depictions of violence, specifically breaking bones. Featuring my girl Anitta!
Day 25: Hide & Seek (Poppy Playtime)
[escape | flight | hiding]
Day 26: You Will Go Down With This Ship
[fallen | waterfall]
Day 27: I'm Fine. I Prom...
[passing out | vertigo | collapse]
CW for poisoning/poison gas. Featuring my OC Priscilla in a highschool prom AU
Day 28: It's Not Just in Your Head
[“Good. You’re finally awake.” | nightmares | panic]
TW for violence and death (massacre). Featuring the backstory of my wood elf druid Vasilisa Morozova and my friend's human artificer Alvard Fenriksen!
Day 29: All Work and No Play
[“You’re still not dead?” | too weak to move | overworked]
TW for exorcism and torture. The last in the Pandora's box series.
Day 30: Digging Your Grave
[major character death | left for dead | ghosts]
Featuring my OC Human Hexblade Warlock Priscilla. An epilogue I should have written ages ago.
Day 31: Hurt & Comfort
[disaster zone | trauma | prisoner]
The final entry in Spotty's adventures in a wartime AU.
#whumptober2021#completionist#OC#hades game#genshin impact#d&d 5e#persona 5#arknights#the sandman#poppy playtime#fic#blood#violence#gore#death#substance tw#poison#drowning#bodily harm#madness#sleep paralysis#war#nsfwhump
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Psycho Analysis: Huey Emmerich
(WARNING! This analysis contains SPOILERS!)
The Metal Gear franchise is known for its hammy and despicable villains, villains with complicated schemes, giant robots, and awesome boss battles. But what if I told you that, out of all the villains in the series, the most disgusting, vile, reprehensible, and cruel one had the same face and voice as the kindest man in the series.
Huey Emmerich is, in short, a piece of shit. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about this worthless ass. This may seem a bit shocking if you’ve only played Peace Walker, where he seems little more than a clone of his son Otacon, or Metal Gear Solid 2, where he is mentioned as having committed suicide after catching his wife taking advantage of Otacon. But play through The Phantom Pain, and you’ll soon see that Huey is perhaps the most morally reprehensible monster in the entire game, and maybe the entire franchise.
And you will absolutely, without a doubt, love to hate him.
Motivation/Goals: Huey is motivated by one thing and one thing only: cowardice. He sells out Big Boss to Cipher to for a job offer and then lies out his ass to Venom, Ocelot, and Kaz when they eventually come and get him. Huey is just always in it for himself, and is perfectly willing to screw over any person who gets in the way of his research; even back in Peace Walker, he was strangely happy about cheerfully being able to continue developing WMDs for Big Boss and company after betraying his (admittedly crappy) former boss Hot Coldman, and after that he abandoned his wife to die for daring to hide their child Hal away from him before he could use the kid as a living battery in Metal Gear Sahelanthropus.
And while being a megalomaniac is nothing new for A villain in this franchise, Huey takes it to the next level by never once accepting any responsibility. He constantly shifts blame onto others, denies doing anything bad ever, and lies, lies, and lies to the point of insanity. At one point he straight up continues to insist his wife Strangelove committed suicide even when irrefutable evidence was shown that he left her to die inside the Mammal Pod. The man is a pathetic, nasty little weasel through and through, and his complete and utter lack of honor just makes him stand out as reprehensible even when compared to an absolute lunatic like Skull Face or even a violent brute like Eli (AKA Liquid Snake).
Performance: Christopher Randolph, the actor for Hal, somehow manages to turn everything good, sweet, and heroic about Snake’s best pal Otacon and turn it on its head for Huey. Huey has the same voice and the same face as his son, but his actions and deeds show that, no, this man is absolutely nothing like his son, and is in fact the very antithesis of who Otacon is. Props to Randolph for using the same voice we’ve come to know and love and delivering a performance so twisted that even if it is the same voice, there is absolutely no way you would ever confuse Huey dialogue for Otacon dialogue.
Final Fate: The best part about Huey is that he is constantly, constantly getting his ass handed to him. In The Phantom Pain, after he unleashes a virus onto Mother Base which forces Venom to put down some of his own soldiers, with Huey blaming him all the while, Huey is put on trial and found guilty, because… of course he is. Literally the only person who believes Huey is innocent is Huey himself, and that is because he outright rejects reality and all of the evidence against him. Venom casts him adrift on a dinky life boat, one that begins leaking and causes Huey to ditch his precious robotic legs to the sea, turning him into little more than a miserable cripple once again.
But if you thought that Huey would go out in any other way other than making the world a more miserable, bitter place, you’d be wrong. Years later, he discovers his second wife having an affair – that is to say, statutory raping – his son, Otacon. Rather than being a good father and trying to do anything about this sexual abuse of his child, Huey decides to do the world a favor and kill himself… but unfortunately, he drags his stepdaughter Emma along with him, causing her to nearly drown and giving her a crippling fear of water as a result.
And when you first play Metal Gear Solid 2, this seems like an awful, depressing tragedy… but after playing The Phantom Pain, it becomes abundantly clear that Huey’s suicide was one final, spiteful act., and Emma nearly dying was almost certainly on purpose. His final act in life was to try and spite his own son and the woman who was abusing his son by taking away the person they loved most in the world. He saw his own son as having cuckolded him and took his son’s sexual abuse as a blow to his own masculinity, and so went out of his way to hurt and traumatize him in the only way he knew how: by dragging innocent people down with him. Huey Emmerich couldn’t even kill himself without ruining everything.
Best Scene: Pick a scene where Huey is abused or forced to face consequences, be it Hot Coldman or Skull Face pushing him down the stairs and causing him to piss himself, Ocelot torturing him brutally, or Venom banishing him from Mother Base and sending him back to the world to be revealed as a fraud, and you’ve got yourself a good time. The sound of Huey suffering is music to the ears.
Best Quote: I think the quote that truly defines how much of a despicable two-faced hypocrite Huey is would be the vicious verbal berating he gives you as you kill the Diamond Dogs infected with the parasite that he released. He berates Venom for doing this despite being fully to blame for the situation. It is the culmination of this snivelling little bastard’s arc, and he’s only revealed to be worse from there.
Final Thoughts & Score: Huey is perhaps the ultimate hate sink in all of fiction. There is absolutely nothing likable about the guy; he’s a pathetic coward, he constantly lies, he’s an utter prick to everyone around him, and he causes untold amounts of suffering all while whining and crying about how it’s totally not his fault! He commits atrocity after atrocity, heinous act after heinous act, and spreads so much misery, and he does it all without ever once looking cool or intimidating like just about every other villain in the franchise. You’d think this would make him the bottom of the barrel and a terrible character… but it does the opposite.
Huey serves as a dark contrast to his own son and helps to highlight how much of a better man Otacon is. Both came from similar backgrounds and both have similar roles, with both developing Metal Gears and befriending a Snake. The difference, though, is that Hal has a moral courage that allows him to own up to his mistakes, accept responsibility for his actions, and dedicate himself to doing better. The man is so utterly selfless that he basically blames himself for his stepmother raping him; Hal is beyond humble, to an almost martyr-like degree, and truly lives up to the ideals of The Boss more than anyone in the series. His mother would be so proud of that. Meanwhile, Huey lacks that, and as shown throughout The Phantom Pain, his lies eventually pile up to the point where even he can’t escape the truth, and he suffers for it. Huey is a cautionary look at what would have happened if Hal didn’t have the spine to stand up for what was right and own up to his mistake, and this is nowhere more evident than Hal having a long-lasting relationship with Snake that went until the day he died whereas Huey was cut out of the life of Venom with extreme prejudice after Huey again and again stabbed his so-called friends in the back.
But aside from this wonderful contrast, I think how awful Huey is becomes more acceptable because he constantly, constantly suffers for it. The man gets constantly put through the wringer for his lies and schemes, and is despised and treated like garbage by Ocelot and Kaz. His own wife even hated him and considered Hal her kid with The Boss more than with him. Huey’s own moral failings catch up with him, and while it doesn’t lessen how evil it is, it does give you a sense of catharsis when that son of a bitch gets kicked, literally or otherwise.
Huey gets a 10/10. No, I’m not exaggerating. He isn’t the most impressive villain in the franchise. He’s not flashy, or hammy, or over-the-top and exciting. Huey is a very real, very miserable type of person who is cowardly, self-serving, and loathsome, and it is just so much fun to watch him suffer for his own sins. He is the epitome of “love to hate” villains; it’s just such a blast to despise this man and attribute everything awful to him, even if it isn’t really his fault. He’s a dark deconstruction of the lovable coward, he’s an utterly evil reprehensible bastard, and I hate him oh so very much… but it’s the kind of hate that I’m happy to have.
Fuck you, Huey.
#Psycho Analysis#Huey Emmerich#Metal Gear#Metal Gear Solid#The Phantom Pain#Peace Walker#Christopher Randolph
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for the MGS ask game (oooh these are all so cool but I'll try to restrain myself ... a little): 3, 8, 15, 18, 27, 40, 42, 45
It is a very juicy list, lol! These are very nice choices. :)
3. Is there anything you would change about the plot?
AH... I have so many mixed feelings about this. Probably the single biggest aspect of the plot that I wish had been different, from a purely selfish emotional standpoint, is the ending of mgs4. But would I actually want to change it, if I could? Yikes. Hard to say.
I remember playing through 4 for the first time, and hoping SO HARD that they were going to find some kind of miraculous solution to save Snake because that entire game is, like, one big gut punch. But watching the narrative arc unfold, it became increasingly clear that a surprise “happy ending” like that would ultimately feel cheap, and unearned. That tension between what I *wanted* to happen, and what I knew made sense for the story as written.
(I have SO MANY THOUGHTS about the mgs4 ending in general, but I will try hard to rein them in here since they’re not really all that relevant to the question here. Ha. Self control is hard!)
So, yeah. Ultimately, I think things played out in a way that felt right. BUT, DAMN.
8: Favourite little detail in a game?
I have lots of these that I love! For this round, I’m going to say - the way your cardboard box starts to look increasingly battered if you’ve been shot at while wearing it. Looking a bit crumpled, flaps falling off, etc. And just the way you look when you’re running around in it, in general. LONG LIVE THE BOX.
15: Quotes you think about most often?
Another good one, that I’m happy to give multiple answers for! I’m quite partial to the exchange that Snake and Otacon have over Sniper Wolf’s body, as Snake is walking away through the snow:
“What was she fighting for? What am I fighting for? What are you fighting for?”
And Snake’s answer: “If we make it through this, I’ll tell you.”
It’s a good character moment between the two of them, and a bit of insight into what’s driving them both at that point in the story.
18: Most wtf scene?
Another wonderful moment from mgs2... God, I wish I could go back and play that whole game again for the first time. So much great stuff.
Raiden being freed from the torture table in Arsenal Gear, and getting control again as the player while he’s... completely naked. Running around with his hands over his junk. And then you proceed to play like this for a fair amount of time before you finally get your clothes back - because why the fuck not, I guess??
NAKED CARTWHEELS, people. You can’t make this shit up.
27: Underrated character?
Hmm... I’m going to go with maybe Strangelove, here?? I like her a lot, and I think it’s interesting to think about how different Hal’s life might have been if she had lived. I do feel like she gets a fair amount of love in fandom considering that she’s a relatively minor character, but I wish she could have had a bigger role on-screen in the series.
40: Do you own any merchandise?
Ha - I do indeed! I will sometimes get mgs stuff from my family for birthday/Christmas gifts, etc. So I own a couple of T-shirts, a couple of the Figma action figures (which are pretty fantastic), and the Otasune plushie set that just came out recently.
42: Most memorable codec call?
Can I award this to all of Otacon’s “save frequency” proverbs in the mgs2 tanker chapter, collectively?? This was another thing that sold me on the series, right off the bat. Those convos are pure gold.
45: Do you want another game or should the series be left alone?
Oh, that’s tough. I’m torn, because it��s hard not to want MOAR CONTENT, when it comes to anything you love. But there’s also something comforting about having everything be *finished,* so you can look at it as a whole and appreciate the overall story from beginning to end. (Though of course that’s always a bit muddy with mgs, since the games tend to jump around a fair amount as far as chronological order goes, and you have different main characters doing things in different time periods, etc.)
If there were going to be any further games, I would potentially be interested in seeing remakes of mg1 and 2. Otherwise, honestly, I’m pretty satisfied with what we’ve got, and I’d be afraid that any further additions would just make the story messier.
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Mgs ask game - 3, 16, 28
3. Is there anything you would change about the plot?
i TECHNICALLY already answered this. and while my main answer of “i wouldnt change any major plot points” is definitely unchanged in the hour between these that doesnt mean i dont have more little changes i would make cuz i feel bad just not saying anything lol so i guess this one goes out as a blanket for kojimas misogyny in general
as great of a writer as he is he sure does have a lot of problems with the way he writes women. in particular, as much as i absolutely adore her, i hate the framing of strangelove occasionally and the way she interacts with other women as sometimes it can feel wayy too predatory which. bothers me as a lesbian u_u
16. Favourite scene?
maybe its the snake eater replaying talking but any time ocelot shows up in that game i feel like im going insane in a good way. honorable mentions to the torture scene for being one of the funniest scenes in mgs3 to me upon playing the game for the second time after youve gone through the rest of the series and get the full context of what the fuck is even going on there
BUUUT its not my favorite by a long shot. :p
i think my favorite scene is either everyones favorite and the incredibly “do you think love can bloom even on a battlefield?” moment between otacon and snake in mgs1 which is the scene that really sold me on metal gear to begin with or in peace walker when the boss ai managed to revive itself and willingly drowns itself and peace walker in lake nicaragua to prevent mutually assured destruction because the fallout and impact on that scene and what it meant for strangelove and big boss respectively and in different ways is like...sooo interesting to me.
28. Best villain?
i feel like id be doing a disservice if i didnt say ocelot considering hes my third favorite character in the entire series. the guy is absolutely fascinating to me especially in the way you can objectively make a case that, while he does fit the traditional narrative structure of a villain in most games he appears in, he isnt actually one. hes certainly not a good guy, hes done far too much fucked up shit to ever be considered a good guy. but you could super easily make a case that he isnt Actually a villain and i love that for him
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As Amon Goth in Schindler’s List, Ralph Fiennes gave us one of the movies best portrayals of a Nazi. A few others:
Conrad Veidt in Casablanca. D: Michael Curtiz (1943). Veidt, a famed German actor (In The Man Who Laughs his character visually inspired The Joker) who left the country when the Nazis came to power, played Major Strasser, the kind of Nazi who says of a suspect, “We haven’t quite decided whether he committed suicide or died trying to escape.”
Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. D: Stanley Kubrick (1964). A “former” Nazi scientist, albeit one whose prosthetic arm, when not trying to kill him keeps giving the Third Reich salute, declares his true feelings once the Americans and the Soviet’s finally manage to destroy the world. (“Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!)
Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man. D: John Schlesinger (1976). An escaped Nazi dentist (“The White Angel of Auschwitz”) involved in a scheme to retrieve Jewish diamonds, tortures Dustin Hoffman in a way that kept every viewer of this movie out of their own dentist’s chairs for years.
Kate Winslet in The Reader. D: (2009). The role of a former guard at a women’s concentration camp, is accused of war crimes (which she admits). She is also charged with writing a fraudulent report of a specific atrocity which a former lover realizes she can’t have done since she is illiterate. This role won Winslet her Oscar.
Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds. D: Quentin Tarantino (2009). Is there a more suspenseful opening scene than when Hans Landa, a Nazi “Jew Hunter” interrogates a French farmer who is sheltering a family under his floorboards? This movie turned an obscure Austrian soap-opera actor into the next millennium’s best portrayer of villains.
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so uhh i just finished metal gear solid 5 and here are my thoughts
- FUCK HUEY EMMERICH HE HAS NO RIGHTS
- THAT WHOLE QUIET INTERRAGATION SCENE WHERE FUCKING KAZ IS LIKE “lmao how do you know that quiet loves boss” to ocelot and then ocelot is like “i was the same once” i literally almost cried revolver ocelot is the gay icon we deserve
- kazuhira miller is good bc he is epic funni meme man
- this game was also like 1/3 ocelot torture simulator like wow i did not need to remember that part in MGS1
- skull face is literally skeletor except skeletor is actually good. SKULL FACE’S STUPID ASS MOTIVES ARE STILL PISSING ME OFF LIKE HOW THE HELL CAN YOU CONTRADICT YOURSELF LIKE THAT
- Paz. Deserves. The. Universe. She’s. Literally. Baby.
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Love Triangle Between Ocelot, Kazuhira & Big Boss
- i cant believe ocelot and big boss have a dog they adopted together
- Nice Ocelot - Best Ocelot
- QUIET IS LITERALLY BEST GIRL SHE WAS HONESTLY MY FAVORITE CHARACTER AND SHE WAS SO INTERESTING AND HOT AND WOW I’D LET HER TOP ME BIG TIME
- when ocelot lit big boss’ joint during the ending... i felted that
- OCELOT. JUST FUCKING REVOLVER OCELOT. WHEN HAS HE EVER BEEN NOT GOOD. NEVER. NEXT.
- ngl hours 2 - 4 were kinda boring im glad the story picked up tho
- Strangelove is the best MILF in vidya game history. also wow shes literally such a sweetheart she did not deserve what she got fuck you huey bitch ass
- that whole fake ass court sequence,,,, what is this ace attorney,,,
- kazuhira and ocelot do crack in chapter 2
- big boss redeemed himself from the shitshow that was MGS4
- broke: fighting over which is the better ship between bbkaz and bosselot
- woke: shipping both and watching the dumbasses fight for big boss’ attention and just having a good laugh
- LIQUIDMANTIS IS FUCKING CANON CHIEF SORRY ELI TOLD ME HIMSELF
- THAT FUCKING ENDING MADE ME QUESTION MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE FOR LIKE AN HOUR. GODAMMIT KOJIMA I STILL HAVEN’T RECOVERED FROM MGS2
- D-Dog,,,,,,, you dont understand how much i fucking love that wolf fellas
yeah thats all i probably have more but yeah. BUT WOOO!! IM FINALLY DONE WITH ALL THE MAIN GAMES!! i might check out peace walker and twin snakes but idk yet is it even good lmao
#metal gear solid 5#metal gear solid#metal gear#big boss#venom snake#naked snake#revolver ocelot#kazuhira miller#quiet mgsv#paz mgsv#strangelove mgsv#metal gear solid v#bbkaz#bosselot#liquidmantis#liquid snake#psycho mantis#skull face#huey emmerich
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#884: ‘Lolita’, dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1962.
Alright, let’s get right down to it. I like Stanley Kubrick’s films; I respect the amount of dedication that went into the production of them without condoning the dictatorial lengths that Kubrick went to over things that ultimately didn’t matter. I’m also entirely sure that the myth of Kubrick greatly outstripped the man’s actual accomplishments, just as cinephiles gush over Orson Welles’ Don Quixote, ignoring the fact that most of the great director’s later films were masturbatory rambles largely written by his lover, no matter how good they happen to be.
I also think that Kubrick isn’t a particularly effective auteur, at least in the classical definition of the term. His films are at their most memorable when they could have been directed by anybody, and there’s not much of a continuous visual style linking Lolita to 2001 or Barry Lyndon. Part of being an auteur filmmaker is having a visual or thematic through-line across your films, and Kubrick seemed hellbent on taking as many twists and turns as possible. Kubrick’s films say nothing about him - that’s kind of what I like about them. They’re about the individual and epic stories he elects to tell, and they resist autobiographical readings.
It’s a comfort that Lolita, far from the tortured analysis it could have been, almost approaches farce. Humbert Humbert (James Mason) has his obsession, and it’s creepy enough in its own way, but Kubrick frames the whole story so that we shake our heads at how blindly devoted he could possibly be. We can see from how he strips down Nabokov’s novel (and his screenplay, which reportedly ran to 400 pages) that Lolita (Sue Lyons) is fickle in a typical teenage way, and that Humbert is going to wind up miserable. Whether we feel that that misery is deserved, it’s expected, and Kubrick ramps up the emotional fireworks of the later scenes to wring as much as he can from a foregone conclusion.
While the novel ends with Humbert’s murder of Clare Quilty (Peter Sellers), Kubrick drags this to the start, turning the film into a search for Humbert’s motive. By doing this, Kubrick digs up an undercurrent of mystery and uses it to eclipse the sexual tension between Humbert and Lolita, making the most controversial element of the novel more palatable and kind of underwhelming. The most graphic depictions of sex and abuse are displaced into metaphor, as the Criterion Collection essay makes clear: the toenail-painting scene under the opening credits loses all eroticism when placed in context later, and the death of Quilty occurs behind an ironic portrait.
The film was an inevitable disappointment in the 1960s, like reading the Marquis de Sade and finding that 80% of it is dull political diatribes. Audiences wanted sex, and the New York Times felt that the film failed as an adaptation. It got Kubrick his international attention, though, and inasmuch as Kubrick has a coherent style, it was Lolita that started it.
Most of this is due to his actors - Peter Sellers takes on multiple roles, as he would in Dr. Strangelove, and merges seamlessly into each persona (even though Quilty’s master plan remains confusing and underdeveloped, it’s a great cinematic example of rats recognising their own). Mason and Lyons are great, the latter especially playing well beyond her thirteen years as the adult Lolita. She’s somehow more persuasive at playing an adult than she is at playing her own age. It’s Shelley Winters as Lolita’s mother that strikes really well, though. Charlotte is an emotional tinderbox, aware that something is terribly wrong in her family, and too desperately devoted to Humbert, believing she can change him rather than sacrificing her attachment to him. Charlotte fixates on both Humbert and Quilty, and in doing so offers a quiet explanation as to why Lolita might lure men the way she does. Charlotte’s frequent hairpin turns through emotions could be campy, but this film is never more affecting than when she’s left alone in the frame and you can watch the emotions pass across her face without distraction.
Once Kubrick’s done wringing emotion from the story, and what little sympathy the audience can muster for Humbert, it’s like he can’t wait to be rid of these characters. What’s more, moving the murder to the beginning of the story means Kubrick has to repeat it, which robs the moment of its impact a little. The last chunk of the book where Humbert reckons most clearly with his actions is reduced to a scrolling card that may have well said ‘Note: Humbert died on the way back to his home planet’.
It seems pretty likely that Kubrick didn’t want to give the last word to Humbert’s self-justifications. Humbert still gets the last word, of course, but it’s while he’s looking for Quilty, a figure who grows and grows in stature in this adaptation in order to make it a different genre. It’s weird, but the second time we hear it, it sounds less like ‘Quilty’ and more like ‘guilty’ - so maybe Kubrick and Nabokov get the last word after all.
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“Kaz, pick up this random girl”
“We don’t have room snake”
“She’s hot”
“... we have room”
#actually I hate peace walker LMAO#Strangelove and that torture scene is all that’s good about this game#ALSO FUCKIN. KAZ DROWNING IN PUSS. ITS SO FUNNY#anyway Cecile and Amanda are. hh.. hot..
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