I Really Love How Sam Is Allowed To Be Angry In The Game, Like Shes A Trans Woman Who Use She Was An

I really love how Sam is allowed to be angry in the game, like she’s a trans woman who use she was an actor/model/something in showbiz before she realized she was a girl, and then got kicked out by her mom when she found out.  She lives with her best friend and has for probably a number of year, only for said best friend to betray her, and put her in a crystal so she would be a sacrifice to a dragon so Penelope could be freakin prom queen.  And she still lives in the house with the family of her dead ex-bestfriend, only to find out that Penelope’s dad is cheating on her mom, who is her mom in all but blood, and is kicking the mom out of the house.  Not to mention her shitty birth mother is trying to get back in the picture now that being trans/having a trans kid is seen as trendy and trying to pretend like nothing is wrong and their brand can still be salvaged. 

Yet she is still incredibly sweet and kind, yeah she worries about her situation, but they’re natural worries and she doesn’t put her own situation above anyone elses who is in a bad way.  She is terrified about being left alone in the house where Penelope’s (so far not literal) ghost still haunts, but she still goes out of her way to make sure Rebecca is alright.  She compliments her, says her ass is better than the woman’s who her husband is cheating on her with, offers to help burn all of Mister Everpetal’s stuff and send it to him, she calls Rebecca her mom. 

In turn when she goes on an angry tangent about wanting to beat her mother’s skull in, she says she might have anger problems, but Rebecca just waves it off.  She tells her that she’d be more worried about Sam if she didn’t have anger issues.  When she’s talking to Zelda about the situation in the house, she talks about how she wish she could rage like Zelda, Zelda says she’s seen her close, but in a solidarity way. 

It’s just really refreshing to see as a trans woman, that there’s this powerful, beautiful, trans woman in this show, and she’s allowed to be pissed, she’s allowed be filled with a righteous fury because there’s a lot of shitty things going on in her life and her mom and friends never try to stifle it.  they tell her that she deserves to be angry and no one gets to tell her not to and that they’ll be there for her when she is to make sure she also knows she’s loved.

I know that there are different choices in the game, but it still very much follows one prewritten story with beats and the only real changes are who survives how long (and even then there are limits to that: certain characters are always paired up in segments by the written story of the game, certain characters will always survive til the last playable segment, etc).

I just always wanted to see, what such an chaotic crew could make out of the set and the locations that are given (an old sanatorium, mines, watchtower, multiple cabins) and all the equippement and weapons that are in the game (especially as part of the “traps”)... just who goes where with who and does what - the possibilities are endless and it would deviate from the set story of the game so fast.

In the game itself you basically can only change some relationship-meters between characters and see who you can get to survive, but the potiential, once you go off those rails, is endless!

Anyway, it’s just a day-dream of mine, I might even manage to wrangle a goup of friends together to reroll this game myself, I just really like the setting and its possibilities.

I just had the thought, how absolutely awesome a Film Reroll of the horror game Until Dawn would be. It has so mamy possibilities (and also messy teen realtionships), it would be reminicent of their Friday the 13th playthrough.

This is now the only thing I can think about.

Man I love the penumbra podcast, I wish Mars was real…

A Coward in Love

Ahem, the Aurinko Crime family as Opossum memes I found

Juno:

Nureyev:

Rita:

Vespa:

Buddy:

Jet:

thoughts on the new eldermourne PCs? they're all very compelling to me, do you have a fave?

YES okay so the short answer is that i cannot pick a favorite because i love them all but. the long answer is that corbeau is my favorite.

it's just .. it's just that emily set up tarragon as the character trying to move on from her past, but corbeau already HAS. tarragon is trying so hard, and that's beautiful, but the thing is. the thing is that she doesn't really want to. jabari asked if she wanted to come along, and she said yes immediately. as soon as they were fighting, she started loving it again, even if she maybe, deep down, hated that she loved it

but CORBEAU. corbeau, who stayed by the king and away from the ritual until his friends were in true mortal danger. corbeau, who was the last one pushing for peaceful parley. corbeau, with his emotional support dog and his fists that can heal as easily as they can hurt. his story is just.. it's so good to me and i really could talk about it for hours

(he's already moved on, he's already found something else he wants to do, he's not working to keep the urge to fight down like tarragon is, but he's now in a position where he has to decide if he's going to pull it out of himself again)