Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"
I don’t know whether it’s because Disco Elysium’s lore is so well constructed and detailed while also hiding many critical details in vague places, because I’m an American with no sense of greater history (or minor history, for that matter), because I’m bad with numbers and dates mean nothing, or i just consistently missed that The RCM was founded in the ‘20s but…it’s fucking wild that the RCM was founded in the ‘20s.
Jean is older than the RCM, but at least he would have started forming memories around the time it was founded, but Kim and Harry’s entire childhood just. Had no stable law enforcement. Joyce’s description of the ‘20s “hell and urban warfare, but better than the teens!”…Kim and Harry turned ten in that decade. Their childhood was that decade.
Harry and Kim turned twenty in ‘27 and ‘28, respectively. They were teenagers when there was a nuclear meltdown, when the community banned together to clean up that, when the community came together to try to end the violence that has been a constant since the Revolution. The cleanup failed, but the RCM didn’t (technically) (it did what it wanted to do) (what it needed to do at the time). When they were teens, when their political ideologies would be starting to solidify, the citizens of Revachol did what the Coalition could not or would not do.
Kim joined the RCM at twenty-three, in ‘32. Even if we are incredibly generous with time, the RCM would not be anywhere close to ten years old, maybe it’d be five. Harry joined a year later, at Dora’s idealistic prompting and like…who can blame her? I mean, I’d totally jump on board with “community led law enforcement with communist roots” and I don’t even live in a city, let alone a city like Revachol.
I’ve lost the thread of where I was going with this. Just. The idea that RCM is that young, it’s just a baby of an institution, that the protagonists are significantly older than the system they’re a part of…it’s fascinating. I’m just shaking this snowglobe and watching everything settle.
was just tag-yelling about ways in which harry fulfils what various ideologies in the game value, but... sideways? and in ways that i would argue can be read as "these bozos are funhouse mirror distortions of true things, and we can find those true things in harry even when he can't find them in himself."
a quite literal example: racist lorry driver insists, "*True* patriots carry Revachol in their very soles." he thinks the city grid on his bootsoles is "poetry".
and like. this is dumb. kim says so, so we know it must be true. (am i kidding? a little. maybe. hmm) BUT what *isn't* dumb is "true patriots" carrying revachol in their souls.
which harry does! he literally *hears* the city spirit, the city soul, within himself! holy shit!
[this post brought to you by @brennisteinnexe calling harry "Revachol's bloodhound in more than name" and thereby making me go "omg you're ON to something, the fascists are all about blood because 'purity' and race, and harry's blood is meaningfully unique (see phasmid dialogue) but it doesn't have shit to do with race or purity, is the game doing this elsewhere? WHERE"]
another batch of disco rabbits! disclaimer that I did not research the sizes of these breeds beyond what I could tell visually so the scaling in group pieces might be off
Observations on the topics of: checklists, coloured pens, love and duty, flesh, endings, academic referencing methods, volume, live wires, the procurement of new robes, boning, kisses - and the hope that someone will remember us, even in another time.
obsessed where stories where it is like. the mistakes are unfixable and the worst thing that could happen happened and nothing can go back to how it was. but there was still love in this and love will continue after this and love endures always.