something something Adrien Agreste and the performance that is gender and him never even realizing that he's putting on a constant show bc he's just so fucking used to being observed and dissected and uncomfortable in his own skin that he can’t even begin to recognize dysphoria from the horrible feeling of being observed at all
there is just SO much to unpack here like the way kim obviously cares more about khun’s pain/grief than his dad’s death and the measured, knowing look he gives kinn and chan with all the clarity of a youngest son but mostly this
because THERE’S your story. THERE’s your core relationship. the closeness of the oldest and the youngest, trapped together in that house with no one but each other, and the distance kinn’s position and responsibility puts between them. the position he took, unwittingly, from khun. the power and the burden and the resentment and the time he lost that khun gained. time to bond more closely with kim, to be there, to be an oldest brother to him. and kim, styled like kinn yet with an awkwardness between them. kim, who looks just like kinn and who gets to live the life kinn dreamed of when he was little - the dream kinn never got to grow out of because he was forced to grow up. kim, who gets to leave and who chooses to leave, and kinn who is trapped. khun, the protective older brother with agoraphobia and kim, the little brother who is never home, but is always out there in the big wide world where anything could happen at any moment. kim, who is cleverer and braver and sharper by half than either of his brothers, both despite him being the youngest, and because of it. khun, the oldest and yet the one in need of comforting. THERE’S your story.
A little tired of people saying Moon can’t stand up for herself. Like yeah I think one of the flaws she has is she is too lenient and forgiving, but also in her situation it’s VERY HARD not to be. And it’s very situational, usually manifesting with Five Pebbles.
She stops talking to you if you annoy her enough, and only starts again if you win her back over. You have to put in the work. She isn’t “rolling over” and letting things happen to her, despite the fact that she is in absolutely no position to bargain. As stated by her, her kindness and her words are the ONLY thing she has. So her taking those away from you, the player, is absolutely her standing up for herself.
Everyone brings up how she handles Five Pebbles (esp the comms thing) and it is incredible to me just how many people lay this entirely at her feet when the game states over and over again that even despite Moon’s intentional feather-light influence over him, he still resents her for being his superior. He seeks out a mentor who is her opposite.
He wants to be something more than what he is, wants to be detached from her, and she can’t do anything about that but do the best she can to exert as little influence over him as possible.
She is stuck between a rock and a hard place here, and was betting on her kindness to have fostered enough mutual respect that she wouldn’t have to resort to forced communications. She was wrong. He was driven by fierce desperation, something that she wasn’t privy to. And she paid for it.
Yes, this is a flaw of hers. But it’s not a universal one. (the rest of the iterators look to her for help- she’s the group senior for gods sake- and people act like she can’t take a stand) I genuinely doubt Moon would’ve waited so long to used forced comms if it were happening to anyone else. If it were being committed by anyone else. And that just makes the tragedy even sweeter.
cult of the lamb has some really cool visuals and the accent color is my fave so i really wanted to do some post-game designs and doodles to get out of an art slump