Usually this is my nonsense account, but:
A quick reminder that I can also be found at the same @ on this other site as well!
I will continue to cross-post everything between these 2 platforms for the foreseeable future, however!
HAPPY DOTNW NA DAY
game literally saved my life at one point and only finally got dethroned as Holder Of My Soul like. 3.5 months ago, after like 17 years.
Happy Rataversary~
To my favorite game of all time, Dawn of the New Wold/Knight of Ratatosk!
(As usual I do not have anything prepared, but my love for the game is eternal)
Emil's "wait I SWEAR I'm not gay and don't have a crush on Richter" freakout lives in my brain forever and it's still hilarious all these years later.
I can play it back in my brain whenever I want and I think that's beautiful
He cherishes those glasses very much if he will not give them up even when they hurt his eyes. I think that is a very important and interesting detail.
(I had to get new glasses recently, and it has been troublesome to deal with, so I was thinking about this a lot)
Thinking again about the part in the Richter manga where it seems to indicate that he refuses to update his glasses even though his eyesight has changed (because the glasses were a gift from Aster).
I wonder if people who do not wear glasses understand how significant that is?
If you wear glasses that are too strong or too weak, it easily becomes uncomfortable in several ways.
It can hurt the eyes, and it can cause severe headaches very quickly if you try to use the wrong glasses for something.
Thinking about a twisted, tragic version of DotNW's "good" ending where Emil gets so wrapped up in living a full life in the name of another as a duty owed to the dead that he loses the ability to see himself as a worthwhile complete person, by himself and has to re-learn that.
Once again thinking about how differently DotNW would have played out if Richter and Aster had managed to contact Sheena and be like "we're heading off to see a basically forgotten summon spirit to demand it help" and she could have said "DO NOT, THAT COULD GET YOU KILLED".