Made a thumbnail for a friend of mine who did a cool thing in Crypt of the Necrodancer! It was a pleasure making it! Check out his video here:
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@girl_ichor@rohoezzz thats neat, like the universe genuinely could not influence Nikki to "love him more than anyone else in the world" because its just so impossible. So all it could do was create a new personality. like the only Nikki that would love Bear was no Nikki at all.
I view the wish as creating a separate/supernatural personality within nikki that bear literally could not have predicted but the way he gradually pieced it together n continued is where the horror lies, he was torturing n teasing two identities within the same body
@HellisHot999@vikku60879 I think he sees Sarah as a friend the same way that Nikki sees Bear as a friend, and thats part of the whole tragedy of it all. and I don't even think he's some evil monstrous villain - there were things he did in the movie i even related to (back when i was in high school)
@HellisHot999@vikku60879 im specifically talking about the scene at the bar. he never tells Nikki about his cat, but he tells Sarah. Later in the movie he talks to her in the car and it's the most honest he's been with anyone in the movie.
Trying to explain to owtwt why a Omnic would try to look more human to earn respect in a position of power to overcome Omnic racism (They forget Omnics are discriminated against)
@Jayenache@vikku60879 i mean, technically its a selfish thought. all about what you want regardless of what they want. but hell, we've all done that at some point right? even just thinking about it? i definitely have. but as the movie goes on, it reveals that his want is more sinister than that
@MyNameIsntBrett@wxnterfell@vikku60879 i should have specified that wanting someone to love you isn't wrong, but him sticking with it and doubling down after everything he sees is going wrong with nikki, tells us that he was never just in it for innocent love. IMO anyway.
@HellisHot999@vikku60879 that's true, my bad. i suppose what i mean is that he doesn't seem to care to get CLOSER to her. he is consistently more honest with/bears his soul to Sarah, i think because he sees her as an actual friend and more as an actual human being. but he isnt like that with Nikki.
@MyNameIsntBrett@wxnterfell@vikku60879 i should have specified that wanting someone to love you isn't wrong, but him sticking with it and doubling down after everything he sees is going wrong with nikki, tells us that he was never just in it for innocent love. IMO anyway.
@MyNameIsntBrett@wxnterfell@vikku60879 absolutely. i dont think he thought it would happen, but as he understands the wish worked, and the horrible ramifications of it, he went along. i think he and the audience both slowly learn it was always about possession for him. damn the consequences.
@KalebDimes@vikku60879 only after she murders his friend and makes him dispose of the body. when nikki begs him to kill her because she's stuck and none of it is real, he replies "what's so bad about being with me?" implying that he's in it for himself. as long as its good for him, right?
@vikku60879 -and that it wasnt very romantic at all. just possessive. im sure he didnt know that the wish would work, but once he sees what it's doing, how it's hurting nikki, he sticks with it because he got what he wanted; her.
@vikku60879 i think i phrased my original tweet wrong. i would say, his wish WASNT romantic, but it definitely CAN be interpreted as romantic. but as the movie goes on, we realize that his true desire was possession, and that he doesn't really love her. he just wants her.
@KalebDimes@vikku60879 but he just WANTED her. he treated her like a prize to be won, and i think that that's a pretty misogynistic thing to do. if the shoe was on the other foot, id call it misandry. treating anyone like an object/prize is dehumanizing and disrespectful
@KalebDimes@vikku60879 liking a girl isnt misogynistic of course! but i think him going along with the wish instead of attempting to help her when he learns the truth of her predicament, shows us that it was always about an objectifying possession. if he truly liked/loved her, he would have helped her