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nathaniel
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We just need them to keep making increasingly serious movies until we finally understand the character of the Joker, a clown who is mean.

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Npedrothedagger.bsky.social

is that some color aware bias lighting

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Npedrothedagger.bsky.social

yes. gamer babies get mad when people say this but imo also subtext/text of cultural critique/critique of imperialism/critique of 20th century japanese military history/treatment of women in occupied countries written in to her character that flies over the head of a bunch of the audience

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Npedrothedagger.bsky.social

the game is deftly threading a bunch of needles with her story. She couldn't live as Tsuyu not just because she couldn't live with what she had done, but also because she didn't want to live for gosetsu or the kami or anyone else. she had no agency in her life and wanted an end to her suffering

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Npedrothedagger.bsky.social

Also fwiw my headcanon is she went through with the primal summoning to kill Asahi, she knew what he was planning, felt too much guilt to live but also needed justice against him. Also, curious to see the jp dialog bc her critique of Doma reads ~to me~ like a critique of Japanese culture

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Npedrothedagger.bsky.social

she literally tells you she's suiciding by warrior of light in the middle of the fight, dude people are so dumb lol

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Npedrothedagger.bsky.social

it's not even subtext! it's so on the nose!

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Npedrothedagger.bsky.social

when peoples only ability to process media is as a set of tropes and they engage with the tropes instead of the what the media is saying it's so infuriating tbh. "she didn't deserve a redemtion arc", dude if you think that was a redemption arc you are not paying attention

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Npedrothedagger.bsky.social

there's plenty of narrative readings in the xiv community I find annoying but how people completely fail to read the text, let alone the subtext, of what they were going for with yotsuyu will always bug me. "so they're saying its ok to be a tyrant if I have trauma?" shut up forever

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nathaniel
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