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[wiihtigo]

Could you talk more about sam and max being autistic idk I just like hearing your thoughts about it your doc was cool

you come to me on the day of my daughters wedding and ask me about sam and max autism headcanons, forcing me to open tumblr and start writing what ive been thinking recently about maxs autism in relation to him in 305

i talked about this in private a bit but i think 305 could be taken as an allegory for maxs giant autism and thinking you dont feel things the right way with ASD

-max turns into a giant horrible monster in 305, this could be taken as him literally seeing himself as a monster and the whole town, all their friends, see him as such and want him DEAD all except sam whos constantly vouching for max this entire episode. at the end when superego was like "wow! max is actually capable of self sacrifice! amazing!" sam says "told you so." very smug because he knew all along, he always knew max was capable of kindness and love because he sees it firsthand every day!

theyre partners and best friends, of course he knows him better than he knows himself. Literally in this case, where superego, personification of part of maxs brain, thinks hes not capable of feeling things in a normal, proper way, max doesnt think that about HIMSELF, superegos issue with max (maxs issue with himself lol) is that he thinks hes capable of more and max is just ignoring him he says specifically hes tried to push max towards the finer things in life and being more proper (max trying to push himself? talking about max and superego as separate when theyre essentially the same is so hard #HELP.) he thinks hes selfish and cruel and not capable of a selfless act.

theres even a line superego says to sam where he says "you of all people should be able to understand my frustration after years of being partnered with a creature driven by pure id" which is like. does max think sam gets frusterated with him and doesnt want him as a partner because of the way that he Is. max. this is a nice little parallel to sam just last episode having that thought "max is getting so powerful now soon he wont even need me :(" but thats getting away from my point a little. (veering into max depression discussion which is a whole can of worms on its own, but it is worth mentioning autism and depression often go hand in hand and some of maxs self worth issues can be attributed to feeling weird about his autism traits)

anyways of course max was capable of a selfless act, of course he would save sybil and her baby, he loves sybil and he loves babies and he has a lot of love in his little heart. so skipping ahead a bit to the biggest scene in sam and max that baffle and confuse millions, maxs reaction to coming back to sam.

a lot of people are confused by maxs nonchalance and casual retelling of the horrible events that apparently went down in his timeline where he had to kill his sam. (interestingly but a little off topic, he specifically says HE blew sam up, whereas in this tl, max killed HIMSELF, sam didnt do a thing. in fact he wouldve probably stayed trying to save him until they both blew up if superego hadnt convicned him itd be tooootally fine to leave. seriously sam its OK hes NOT going to blow up i promise. ok bye bye."

so max comes back, immediately tries to jump back into normalcy and jokes and feels unsure and uncomfortable when sam doesnt reciprocate. he looks confused when sam hugs him even. a lot of people are like "what the hell did he mean by this" but TBH as someone with ASD and lots of experience in the "getting bad news over the phone and then going to a funeral" pipeline i really felt a mind and soul connection with max there! this is mentioned somewhere int he sam and max bible for the cartoon but steve purcell writes something along the lines of "max sees things differently from anyone else" on the topic of his strange reactions to things. which is like. You have autism ->

theres an unskippable line in 305 right before you get to the endgame where sam says "why does max have tear ducts? i cant remember the last time ive seen max cry." and then immediately gets into maxs juxtaposed reaction to sams death to sams absolute MISERY over maxs. max might not feel grief in the way people would expect from a person. he might not even be sad. he might not feel things in the "proper" or "normal" way but that doesnt make him a 50 foot shambling eldritch monster, hes just wired differently. as someone with autism ive felt it too where i dont think i feel things in the right way. if something really sad and fucked up happens to me i dont feel sad and the only thing im immediately concerned with is feeling uncomfortable with watching the people around me crying which, as im typing this, makes me feel like a monster freak for being so cold and cruel, but thats the point im trying to get at, 305 could be read as an allegory for this exact feeling.. because at the end of the day max is just max and sam is happy to see him and accept him as he is. hes not a monster, hes just sams partner and best friend and its ok to be exactly the way he is without feeling the need to change

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[hobgayblin]

💫 !!!! yes tell us about blazblue :)

literally don't even know where to begin with blazblue as a whole so I'm gonna sit you down and walk you through my lovely ninja's story instead gskfghsgg it's rly long so don't feel like you need to read it I'm just gonna yell for 1000 years about him

This is the sweetest man in the world and he goes through just so much shit 💕

The earliest stuff we know about him is from a young age he trained under a lady named Tenjo, along with Kagura (whore) to be a ninja. Why Bang is a ninja and Kagura is not even though they trained under the same person is unclear and like most things never explained. Anyway Bang is her star pupil I'm pretty sure and it seems like he cared abt Tenjo kind of like she was a parental figure. and THEN shit skips to the Ikaruga Civil War where Tenjo is murdered in front of Bang by Jin (cunt) who had also just cut him down and given him that scar on his face. So he got his ass kicked and then was on the ground bleeding tf out as he watched his mentor be murdered in front of him while he couldn't do anything about it 💔

After Tenjo is murdered he like, almost immediately gets his shit together (debatable) and gets all the survivors of the war together and brings them to Kagutsuchi (the main city of the series) to build a new home for the refugees with his bare fucking hands. It's been called the Ronin district and I think it's pretty much left alone by the NOL(bastard organization)/the rest of Kagutsuchi and it's built under a rly big bridge or something idk. He also writes a history textbook about the Ikaruga Civil War which is just wild to me.

God this is already getting 10000 miles long and this all happens BEFORE any of the games gsdgfh spark notes for the games under the cut I guess:

I don't actually know what happens with him in Calamity Trigger bc I didn't play it. I think he's not very important/he's just a joke character and he like ACTUALLY dies but they retconned it bc people liked him

In Continuum Shift a lot of shit happens bc it's a game about like 1000 different timelines happening all at once or something. This was my first game and we learn that uhhh he's a vigilante and he patrols Kagutsuchi looking for crime to destroy or w/e. Also he's looking for Jin to get revenge for killing his master and giving him the scar. There's one timeline where he actually DOES get revenge and kills Jin and then the god powers that be reset the timeline because he was being OOC, and no I am not joking that's the real reason. Anyway he's running around helping people, fighting people, adopting children whether they like it or not

I played Chronophantasma not that long ago and I still don't remember all the shit that happens with him sgdgfhs these are big games. But he goes to the burnt down ruins of his old home in Ikaruga, things happen, he's looking for Tenjo's child, we learn at some point Tenjo's soul is in the giant nail on his back which is a very important weapon that is the key to destroying all the seither (magic element of some kind) in the world. During the big ending of the game he meets the man who CAUSED the civil war (Relius, the world's biggest cunt) and he obviously has a little breakdown over it. He then watches as two of the people he cares most about in the world (Litchi, and Carl, who is Relius' son but Bang adopted him sorta) join forces with the man that destroyed his home and caused the deaths of everyone he loved and he has to fight them. Also his big nail IS used to destroy all the magic shit and thats how this game ends

I haven't played Centralfiction yet but uhhhh everyone loses their memories and a lot of things happen. everyone gets turned to magic dust through the game but are brought back after Ragna kills the main antagonist and dies. Bang gets brought back and drops his comphet crush on Litchi to go rebuild Ikaruga

Other things to note that I just don't know how to put into the plot:

massive annoying comphet crush on Litchi, where she just does not seem to notice he has a crush on her which is honestly hilarious bc shes one of the smartest people out here

He IS a comic relief character and it shows hes very very stupid and constantly like. shown to be weak even though he's actually very strong idk what these cunts are talking about

in like so many things Bang is like, INCREDIBLY beloved because all he does is help people and do good things but all of the characters in the game treat him like he's just a weird annoying cunt 😭

He keeps adopting kids/people in general as his disciples and theres nothing they can do about it. Tao is disciple #1, and she's all about it, he actually DOES train her. Carl is disciple #2, and he's like, mixed feelings about it but he likes Bang a lot !! And Platinum is disciple #3 and Luna is not about it sgfsgdgfh Sena seems fine with it tho (Luna and Sena are 2 souls in the same body named Platinum don't worry about it). Also in CF if you change the voiceover to Bang he calls them Disciple 1/2/3 when you pick them in character select its SO cute

I could literally write a separate essay about how Bang is highly traumatized but can't deal with it properly (because he's comic relief mostly but also for real reasons) but I will not

Theres no confirmed ages in this fucking game but I think he's like? in his 30s? but he's called old man a lot because he speaks in a super old an archaic form of japanese which is honestly so funny. idiot

ALL HE WANTS IS TO MAKE PEOPLE SMILE HE SAYS IT IN CHRONOPHANTASMA I THINK. HE JUST WANTS EVERYONE TO BE HAPPY AND SEE THE SMILE ON PEOPLES FACES IT MAKES ME

TL;DR: I love him

#I could go on but I will not theres so much happening here #gshgfhdf im sorry #THANK YOU THO BEE MWAH #💥 #cackles from the den #beeon