I think if a game is more than 15 years old, spoiler tags are null and void, also Aerith dies sorry to break the news :PPPP
and, yeah, i was giving the maximally-uncharitable interpretation for cheeky affect, though I did also write a fic with said maximally-uncharitable interpretation for This Is Slightly OOC But I Love Angst purposes, so, i have biases here lmao
(i, always wonder if the PoR writing team already had blood pacts in mind already when they wrote that game! i actually think maybe they didn't? Naesala comes off as tonally pretty different in 9 vs 10—in 9 he has a bit more of a "bastard for a sake of being a bastard" vibe, whereas in 10 he's obviously giving off some melancholy/guilt signs like woah, which can be explained by in-game circumstances, of course, but... could also just be a minor retcon, lol.)
((AND ACTUALLY, it occurs to me this is as good a place as any for the 2am shower thought I had yesterday. blood pacts are extremely stupid, we all agree, but, it's actually kind of close to being a metaphor for something actually potent and cool—specifically, that thing where one state will buddy up with some other state that's full of flagrant human rights abuses or w/e Because Of Oil, see Saudia Arabia etc... the problem is Blood Pacts are literally no upside (whereas oil is, y'know, combustible and such), so it feels stupid they even exist, and also the power dynamics end up being really different in a jarring way in the Blood PAct scenario, but... i wonder if this is what the devs had in mind, originally? and just totally bungled it in various script rewrites, actual implementation, etc???
anyway yeah there's your Tellius Thought Of The Day))
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Date: 2022-04-29 09:52 pm (UTC)and, yeah, i was giving the maximally-uncharitable interpretation for cheeky affect, though I did also write a fic with said maximally-uncharitable interpretation for This Is Slightly OOC But I Love Angst purposes, so, i have biases here lmao
(i, always wonder if the PoR writing team already had blood pacts in mind already when they wrote that game! i actually think maybe they didn't? Naesala comes off as tonally pretty different in 9 vs 10—in 9 he has a bit more of a "bastard for a sake of being a bastard" vibe, whereas in 10 he's obviously giving off some melancholy/guilt signs like woah, which can be explained by in-game circumstances, of course, but... could also just be a minor retcon, lol.)
((AND ACTUALLY, it occurs to me this is as good a place as any for the 2am shower thought I had yesterday. blood pacts are extremely stupid, we all agree, but, it's actually kind of close to being a metaphor for something actually potent and cool—specifically, that thing where one state will buddy up with some other state that's full of flagrant human rights abuses or w/e Because Of Oil, see Saudia Arabia etc... the problem is Blood Pacts are literally no upside (whereas oil is, y'know, combustible and such), so it feels stupid they even exist, and also the power dynamics end up being really different in a jarring way in the Blood PAct scenario, but... i wonder if this is what the devs had in mind, originally? and just totally bungled it in various script rewrites, actual implementation, etc???
anyway yeah there's your Tellius Thought Of The Day))