semi- relevant but also just bebop vibing] sometimes one of my favorite things about this game is characters who come in thinking They are bad and are faced immediately with either Worse People or Worse Situations
me and tey have been talking about Vicious doing just that, just. thinking he is so Big and Bad and then very quickly realizing he is but a wee pussy baby compared to these fuckers
like hey whatever you did at home it's NOT worse than what I did but also here, I have chosen not to embrace the wild side and become a serial killer, so like.
as said, the realization that you can't be worse then the people in rys who definitely did A Worse, paired with the other realization that the teenager who kicked off the apocalypse or a dude who flays people for fun still have friends
yeah but you literally hated killing said child and carry that weight every day you clearly didn't wanna do that, you clearly didn't want to be a hitman, shut up and do better now
does it make you a good person? does it excuse what you’ve done? do you stop feeling bad about it? should you? how can you realistically grow when you are suddenly in a completely different environment, and you were never taught how to conceptualize some of this?
bc no matter how much worse other people are comparatively it doesn’t take away what you did, and the things you felt, and it can’t just turn off the guilt or anger or whatever
they very clearly are emotionally halted at the ages they were traumatized and are kind of emotionally immature, and neither were given proper teaching/coping as kids spike because he LITERALLY HAD NO PARENTS SINCE BIRTH
and wasn'tt like, taken in, he was abandoned outside of a nightclub as a literal infant and passed around by the staff until he started living on the streets himself
and Vicious had his parents, technically, but one actively rejected him and the other was suicidal to success by the time he was 9, so they literally learned every coping mechanism they have From or In Tandem With each other
and also like. even if at the end of it, characters decide to still carry the weight anyway, that's not... the end. you still gotta figure out what to do after that, and build a life with that in mind
I'm just This series turned them from mysterious nobodies to incredibly damaged kids who managed to survive until adulthood and I am wrecked as a result
rapid attitude adjustment
but also here, I have chosen not to embrace the wild side and become a serial killer, so like.
because like
in ryslig: he birdie
spike because he LITERALLY HAD NO PARENTS SINCE BIRTH
things about how Vicious didn't want to become the angry monster, but how even Fearless doesn't realize they're the same
This series turned them from mysterious nobodies to incredibly damaged kids who managed to survive until adulthood and I am wrecked as a result