#revisiting the source material is like visiting a pokemon center it heals me

[arty-cakes]

the king had forsaken everything he ever did and fled into his dreams leaving only his dead selfdom and unheard repentance, littering the land in the forms of statues and black eggs and failed tramways and dead children. his corpse somewhere at the end of the world where you can follow his spine to the top and then back, his dreams locked so tightly behind his shame you have to shatter numerous other stories around you just to gain access to his, an act parallel to his reign and his life. you have to fight and you have to demand to get to the pinnacle of what he was so ashamed of and it was love, it stained the sacrifices everyone made in his name, once done with resolution and trust now in vain. the king had a clear beginning, peak, and ending whether in dream or death it wont matter because now he's gone, and the world moved on without him and despite him.

the queen is still there. she imprisoned herself and had a limited view of what was happening on the outside but she knew enough to tell that the plan she played such a big part in has failed. yet somehow, within minutes of meeting you after so long down in her paralyzed kingdom she asks you to do it all over again. the fate of her kingdom is up to you and she makes that clear. she reminisces the past and she does not acknowledge its death. the king's story had an ending, you could argue that he gave it to himself. the queen's is in limbo, she absolutely gave it to herself. you could not change her mind and neither could flowers. and you could not make her face what she has done.

you leave her there.

#anyway. #ALL HAIL THE ANCIENT LIGHT. #i booted up the game i had thoughts. probably totally inaccurate i forgor alot of this game #these two are equally horrible monarchs so i cannot pity them but it took me a while to appreciate that theyre great characters #i used to ignore them but now without taking it super personally i like what they give the story and what it all says. #the game wont forgive them and its worth finding all the pieces of their lore remembering who theyare and what they've done #so sometimes i write stuff out like this to put it into perspective. i have no point to make here this isnt analysis its art #but umm you should accept the old light 😐 if you havent already. just saying not judging #randomizer #revisiting the source material is like visiting a pokemon center it heals me