I adore the fact that Virgil actively likes horror media; As a horror lover with anxiety it just makes so much sense to me. Sometimes when I’m in a panic I need an equally stimulating distraction to pull me out of it. It’s like what Logan said about how it’s easier to give your focus to something than take it away from something else; When my anxiety is busy freaking out over supernatural demons it’s not focused on the actual real life problems that would otherwise be overwhelming me. There’s also something comforting about being in a controlled environment where you are actively choosing to feed into your anxiety and letting it contribute to the experience, kind of adjacent to the thrill of a roller coaster ride or the butterflies-in-your-stomach feeling when you’re around your crush.
I think some part of me will always be that kid walking out of a huge movie theater into a grey overcast afternoon not realizing her world was about to be permanently changed but feeling changed already herself by the animated Disney film she'd just seen that she would spend a year acting like she was too cool to be affected by, even though she'd never cried at a movie before that and and the cries from the speakers were still ringing in her ears on that cold, overcast afternoon, right before her world changed
@shrimpuufriend told me that Capcom had recently released never-before seen concept art of the original Rockman (Which you can find here!), and it is the coolest thing EVER.
That said, I wanted to be the first person to make something based off of the newly surfaced concept art, so I took one featured sketch of Rockman and turned it into its own sprite piece, complete with a faux beta title screen I craftily edited into the manual! 💙✨