I've had some friends describe Alpha Base as a sci fi adventure, as survival horror in space, as Game of Thrones in the abyss, but at the end of the day, the centre of the story is still about love. It's about the kind of love and dedication that keeps people together when everything else is falling apart, about the kind of love that can save you, and the kind that can destroy you.
It can get very difficult to tell when one turns into the other.
"I am the mirror
I am your satellite
I am the sign that's
Stuck inside your mind
When you′re lost and broken
These words are your guiding light
In the darkest place:
"We are each other's secrets.
We are connected. We are connected."
"Connected" - Islandinside
yes yes characters doomed by the narrative always slap BUT what about characters saved by the narrative? characters who have already given up hope and don't know they have a happy ending? characters who believe they are a lost cause, characters who feel irredeemable, characters who think there's nothing left for them, but the narrative does provide a way out? what about the characters who don't expect anything good, who don't even remember how to wish for it anymore, who get the things they need anyway? what about the characters who actively run from being saved getting saved in a way they can't stop or control. what about being saved by the narrative!!!
unavoidable that you will be the villain in someone else's story. You will be painted in an unfavorable light. You will be the irredeemable one. and all of this will happen despite how nice you might usually be or how kind or how respectful or how warm. and you will just have to move on.
the missile is very tired, he is eepy
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Not deep, just some mood sketches from Thursday night when I, too, had hit critical levels of Done.
Fun fact: Heinrich is too heckin' tall for his bed. Instead he has a tendency to fall asleep in an even more uncomfortable position on an even more uncomfortable piece of furniture, usually after reading until his brain doesn't work anymore. Y'know. A logical choice.
(I keep saying that his animal symbology is all lone wolf, but sometimes he reminds me that there's a lot of cat in there too - he can pretzel and he can sprawl; he can sleep just about anywhere)