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anyway all this is probably incoherent and dumb and it doesn't matter I just wanted to yap bc I was rotating it in my brain if it was annoying feel free to call me a slur and beat my ass and bend me over and spit in my mouth and
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
starts nya'ing and I think that's beautiful. and I think every system should be having alter sex. sorry what was the post about again I got distra
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
keep the alter, maybe it's like, important to them, a part of the character. maybe getting rid of them would be sad actually, maybe the alter has worth, because it is another person. and I think that's neat. it also says it is possible and okay and good to fuck ur alter until she mind breaks and
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
talking about a stupid gacha but anyway then I remember subahibi hill of sunflowers ending and I'm like oh yeah, it doesn't have to be like that, if someone actually cares enough to think through the did character they could realize oh hey, maybe actually the best ending is the one where they just
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
together, because what would come out of that would be complicated, and still messy, and would require a lot of work, but if we sweep the alters under the rug the product is very consumable. anyway I think that's why integration doesn't actually work and I've sorta lost track of where I stopped
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
rehabilitate the other parts you are meant to just look away and pretend they aren't there under the guise of integration, and it is a guise because we do just want the host the nice one the palatable one, it is always better to be docile than to actually try and put the messy pieces all back
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
a defense mechanism against something like abuse as a messy antisocial bitch is. cowering and fighting and people pleasing are all realistic reactions to trauma, but we choose the most palatable one and say yes, this part was always you, and the rest are mistakes. and so instead of trying to
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
because like, why does the alter not also have a right to exist. why are their feelings and reactions treated as exclusively flawed. bc like hosts are not real. the host is, at the end of the day, just as much a product of the trauma as the other parts of the system. a pleasant facade is as much
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
u stop masquerading as a bitch and just act like the niceys one. and idk alternatively it's like u have to make the other one go away because they're eating the hosts time by existing. and like it really gets to me bc it's like I want these things to think through these characters just a little more
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Integrate the Different parts of the fucking system like how its supposed to be. idk this is pretty much just how most mental illness gets mishandled when it's not dealt with properly, overcoming depression means u Stop being sad, overcoming anxiety means u just Stop Worrying, overcoming did means
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
always just the Normal Host post integration. we like the niceys one and we don't like the messy bitch, so we always need to excise the scary one and call it integration. and like that bothers me because like come on if you're gonna do integration at least try and make the character actually
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
is always going to be integration. it's always going to go like, these are the things this character refuses to face about their past or their self, so they need to overcome those things, move on, and then heal and be Normal. but even then like, none of these things actually do integration. it's
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
how they are, less explicitly but still like that. like an alter is just a symptom of trauma, not a separate character, so the alter is used basically to explore one single character, just the alter embodies all of the characters flaws and trauma and etc. and so then that means that the resolution
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
that exists to let u turn off ur brain so someone can tell u exactly what a characters thoughts and feelings and motivations without having to think abt them urself. like ysg is not really a different character from xg and it's making me think abt how like at least in most stuff I've seen that's
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
belle stands there and then once she switches back belle talks to xiao'guang normally. like in a game with a (mostly) silent protagonist like hsr it wouldn't stand out so much but belle is a character so it really draws attention to like, the alter feeling less like a character than like a thing
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
but in this specific way that like does not even try to think abt it genuinely. like the way ysg is used is literally just to exposition dump xiao'guangs feelings shes pushed down and in most of her scenes belle doesn't even talk to her, ysg just tells her who she is and how the system feels while
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
just going to "sleep" and never show up again or if she'd come back for important story beats or big fights to aura farm but it's just making me think abt how these are basically the same outcome zzz is just so much more overt about it but anyway like. videogames love did media in general loves did
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
so I'm not done with the zzz patch yet but they've already integrated ye shunguang into xiao'guang and there's still time for them to change stuff but they explicitly used the word integration twice, and it's making me think abt evernight hsr and how they left it sorta up in the air on if she was
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
this is why march is a real system and ysg is faking for attention
December 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
like every time I play a zzz patch it's like god the writing in this is so goofy compared to star rail just becoming an entire visual novel
December 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM
anyway I love that star rail has been setting up march lore since the start of the game and builds up evernight over her patch so much and then ysg dissociates in the first 10 seconds of the patch and belle goes "are you like, some kind of dissociative identity disorder??!?" and ysg goes "yeas 😏"
December 30, 2025 at 7:36 PM