disco elysium’s like…it’s a tragedy, it’s a comedy, it’s a police procedural, it’s a parody of a police procedural, it’s a romance, it’s a manifesto, it’s a psychological portrait, it’s a novel, it’s a video game, it’s a movie, it’s a poem, it’s a painting, the future is bright, the future is bleak, the future is nonexistent, the past will hold you close, the past will eat you alive, the past is the future is the past is the future
disco elysium’s like…it’s a tragedy, it’s a comedy, it’s a police procedural, it’s a parody of a police procedural, it’s a romance, it’s a manifesto, it’s a psychological portrait, it’s a novel, it’s a video game, it’s a movie, it’s a poem, it’s a painting, the future is bright, the future is bleak, the future is nonexistent, the past will hold you close, the past will eat you alive, the past is the future is the past is the future
he’s always going to be bisexual, you aren’t choosing to make him bisexual,
he was a repressed guy with massive internalized homophobia long before you turned the game on. during talk with the lorry driver he can remember how to prep for anal sex. electrochemistry will notice the Smoker’s unbuttoned shirt or Kim’s coolness on the balcony without your input. likewise pain threshold will talk about wanting to be flogged by a larger naked man. and so on.
these aren’t choices you’re making as a player they’re how he exists already
it’s not a coincidence that he’s flamboyant, that he wears flashy high heels, that he’s nostalgic for a time when masculinity was Different and his favorite band is Elysium’s ABBA equivalent
when disco elysium was like. “The limbed and headed machine of pain and undignified suffering is firing up again. It wants to walk the desert. Hurting. Longing. Dancing to disco music.” and that was in the first five minutes of the game.
i hate homoerotic tension i hate it so much. “perception helps you look for crime scene clues” perception makes me read four paragraphs on the way kims pants shift in the moonlight
