#the killer is — just bc he’s not the boy’s biological father like his POV he showed up saved a kid and suddenly he’s getting his ribs busted

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Love Norman so much. Heavy Rain was a trip to play the first time (affectionate). Can’t get over the combined hilarity and realism of the scene if you get the Under Arrest path where Norman is flipping out because the local police are literally brutalizing Ethan in interrogation to get him to confess and he tries to intervene and Blake puts a gun in his face so he storms over to the chief’s office and is like “YOUR LIEUTENANT IS TRYING TO BEAT A CONFESSION OUT OF MARS!!!” & the chief goes “ :33 yeah, so? Who cares he’s clearly guilty,” and Norman absolutely loses his mind and goes into his shitty little office and throws a chair because he hates it here so much and the police are fucking insane and terrible and every time he tries to follow the law he gets threatened by them or attacked, & then he calms down & goes “Ok u know what fuck you too I guess >:[ “ and straight up breaks a serial killing prime suspect out of the police station single handed because there’s just no other way to keep him from being beaten to death or false confession in a cell and also he thinks he didn’t do it probably or at least if he did that he’s telling the truth about being not in his right mind & can help, and the whole time poor Mars is so straight up out of it he doesn’t even know what the fucks going on and he’s just like ??? as he’s getting shepherded out fo the station by this fed that just had a fist fight 18 minutes ago with a cop in front of him, and he’s just like *so moved & so confused* “thank you?” & Jayden’s like ‘yeah sure thing; start running & don’t stop’ (I’m gonna lose my job 😬 ) and after that determinately Ethan doesn’t see Norman again once until the finale of the game when he’s one second away from being shot in the back until this same fed who literally busted him out of police lockup comes out of god damn nowhere to body slam the Origami Killer off him and chase them off screaming anyway Heavy Rain’s a fantastic game

#the chaos of that entire thing is so underrated like what the fuck was going on (incredibly loving) #heavy rain #Norman Jayden #Ethan Mars #how absolutely /feral/ Norman is is also so underrated like he’s not a rubber band about to snap the man has snapped a week ago #he’s a drenched piniata of human being. one of his own lines about himself is ‘I seem to spend most of my time getting the shit kicked out #of me’ and every person on the planet puts it on his gif sets Bc it’s that level of true #he loses it constantly while somehow being the only law character not to constantly enact horrific crimes #he’s had to hold himself back from literally murdering Carter Blake 8 times & I wish he’d just done it #he carries the whole investigation on his back and gets no respect. he chases the big bag - screaming - through a waste processing plant and #gets tv screens thrown at his head on a conveyor belt & just rolls with it #he has to do drugs to function. he’s going insane and can literally kill himself by working to hard in-game #he’s simultaneously easily the most skilled and most fucking disaster human in the game and yeah I’m including Ethan #*big bad #Norman is easily one of the most characters of all god damn time #every fight w Norman is the hardest fight in the game and you hit 100% of the controls right & you’re still losing the fight #he’s constantly dragging himself off the ground and getting the shit beat out of him. he’s slightly injured before game start. he flips off #rude drivers. he’s one of only two characters in the game who can say the word ‘Oragami’ correctly but he can’t accurately at ‘Killer’ #he can get to the end and have the shit beat out of him right after saving Shaun w literally no context why this is happening & no idea who #the killer is — just bc he’s not the boy’s biological father like his POV he showed up saved a kid and suddenly he’s getting his ribs busted #on the ground while someone goes ‘can’t STAND you’re not his dad’ & he’s literally just like ‘wtf is going on’ #what a man