yesterday we had winter, time for something greenerĀ
this time Murky and Daniil studying some cute beetles
heavily inspired by chapter 4 ofĀ Just the Beginning by novaeangliaeĀ where Murky warms up to Daniil thanks to a bug. (gosh, go read it, i read every chapter the moment it comes out, itās so good)
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>be me
>studying at medical school
>get a letter from my dad who hasnt spoken to me in years
>asks if i can come home. sounds srs.
>go home. immediately attacked by muggers.
>pissed off but w/e. try to remember where my house is.
>who tf are these guys in masks
>all these kids are wearing dog heads and calling me names
>turn a corner and see a girl get burned to death
>wtf is going on
>manage to get home, finally
>dads house is locked and tons of ppl are here
>some1 tells me dad died last night and every1 blames me
>mfw
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āNot waiting for the train anymoreā
i needed some wintertime burakhovsky ;(
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Thereās an argument that doesnāt hold up with me. And itās how all the collective hatred for Daniil Dankovsky comes to the point of āhe bombed the town and deliberately mascarred the kinā I donāt... remember the kin being at the town??? They all went to the steppe so they havenāt been mascarred in the bachelor ending... Where are these points being brought up I donāt remember Daniil EVER lifting a finger to murder the entirety of the Kin? Heās a pretentious asshole yeah, but when has THAT been his sole objective? In the bachelor ending for classic Maria Kaina literally stands with her entourage as if it is a sole victory that the polyhedron remained. Why arenāt the Kains receiving the same backlash? Is it because they literally manipulated Daniil onto the belief that their beloved polyhedron must be maintained so HE does all the acting while they sit waiting for the results after the Sand Pest? Can we please talk about that because it seems like Patho fans want to pin the entire element of racism into one sole character.
EDIT: i made a small mistake conflating events from patho classic and patho 2! tweaked some details but the point remains the same.
exactly this! like, iām honestly surprised thereās not more discussion or criticism of the ruling families, because if you wanna get some delicious Discourse thatād be the place to go.
itās very easy to blame Danko because heās right in your face as a player character in both games, and there are lots of immediate interpersonal examples of his bigotry of various kinds, so itās emotionally satisfying to hate him... but is it productive?
the Kains are fully willing to damn the sick and whatever other townsfolk canāt make it out in time if that means they can uphold their āutopianā ideals, regardless of what that pursuit does to regular people on the ground. theyāre basically a tick on the flank of the town, sucking blood to sustain an impossible ideal thatās only beneficial to a specific privileged caste. if Danko had been a little less lucky, heād be one of the people in their way rather than their mouthpiece; the same is true of the Stamatins. Dankovsky isnāt even inĀ the Utopian ending in Classic, and in P2 Georgiy Kain disrupts Dankovskyās (theoretically) life-saving quarantine measures because he thinks itāll get him closer to the next stage of human achievement, or whatever crazy shit he talks about -- but to hell with all the sick and stragglers! itās very largely a story about class rather than one about race -- or rather, racial exploitation is justified by the āneedsā of a more powerful class that uses them as scapegoats to keep the humble folk divided and unable to realize whatās actually hurting them.
iād also like to raise that the Olgimskys are particularly egregious on this front in Artemyās route! in both games, but especially classic, they put up the pretense of helping him while, at the exact same time, ruthlessly exploiting his people and commodifying his culture to feed the capitalist machine. they act friendly with him, completely straight-faced, because heās āone of the good onesā and heāll be useful to them politically as their familyās ātame doctorā, while the rest of the Kin are only as useful as the profits of their labor, and thus irrelevant as individuals. even Tiny Vlad, who purports to be an enthusiastic appreciator of the Kinās cultural history, is only interested insofar as it can benefit him personally, and heāll flaunt their taboos without a second thought if he decides thatās whatās best.
the villain in pathologic, (particularly classic but this is present in both games), isnātĀ the uneducated poor folk or the Ethnic Peopleā¢ and their āsilly superstitions,ā and maybe itās not even just the plague, but the corrupt politicians who put up roadblocks, false flags, and variously waste the healersā time, because they value power over the lives of the people theyāre meant to be protecting.
anyway Danko is both a symptom and a victim of this paradigm because he also gets jerked around. heās a haughty bastard and thatās still his own fault, but itās important to look at the broader picture of the world they live in. heās being enabled and encouraged by the stage the Kains have set for him, and thatās not by accident.
(somebody please talk about that more intelligently than i just did, because iād love to see some expanded perspectives from the fandom.)
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