“motherhood and pregnancy aren’t comparable to drawn pedophilia or rape or incest, though, are they?
@eerie-entityy do you realize that what you have just said is that you think that some people’s trauma and triggers are not as important as other people’s?
Do you realize that you have just causally dismissed the trauma that resulted from my abuse?
Do you realize that you are saying some people’s triggers and trauma don’t matter to you as much as others?
Does it register to you that that is what you’re saying?
Does it register to you that you’re saying that not just to me but to every other trauma survivor?
Possibility A: they care about the feelings of fictional characters who they can control more than the feelings of real people with their own ideas.
Possibility B: Misogyny and transphobia since the majority of fandom participation is from women and trans men. Men are allowed to have interests as adults, women are supposed to be Mothers and nothing else.
Especially considering how much anti rhetoric dovetails with and mirrors terf rhetoric.
Probably a little of both.
I’ve also seen them say they like Dilfs or milfs But if you say a character over 30 is hot you’re gross 😒
WHEN THEY CALL 30 OR 40 YEAR OLD MEN GRANDPA OR PEEPAW. Personal pet fucking peeve right there. 💢😂
2: What’s the thing that most attracted your S/I to your F/O when they met, and the other way around? Were there any complications on the way to them getting together?
3: Has anyone ever tried to break up your S/I and your F/O? Who was it, and why were they trying to do that? How did it fail?
4: What’s a traumatic memory your S/I has from when they were growing up? How does your F/O react to hearing about the memory?
5: Does your S/I have any former lovers from before meeting your F/O? What were those relationships like, and how does your F/O feel about them? What about the other way around?
6: What are your S/I’s friends like? Does your F/O get along with them, or is there some tension? Does your S/I get along with your F/O’s friends?
7: Was there ever a time when one of your S/I’s flaws or issues impacted their relationship with your F/O? What happened?
8: What is your S/I’s relationship with their family like? What’s your F/O’s relationship with your S/I’s family? Have there been any memorable incidents or interactions?
9: What kind of clothes and outfits does your S/I wear? Has it changed in any way since meeting your F/O? Do your S/I and F/Os styles match or clash?
10: Does your S/I have any rivals or enemies? What are they like and how did they meet? What does your F/O think of them? Have there been any serious clashes?
11: Is there anything your F/O does, whether a job, hobby or otherwise, that your S/I considers dangerous or scary, or vice versa? Has it caused any problems between them? Have they done anything to calm one another’s fears about it?
12: What’s a hobby that your S/I and your F/O share? Imagine a memorable incident that could happen while they pursue their hobby together.
13: Have your F/O and S/I ever been in serious danger together? What happened, and how did they get out of it?
14: What do your F/O and S/I do for food? Do they typically go to restaurants, or does one of them cook, or do they cook as a couple? Are their tastes in food similar or different? Anything they can’t agree on?
15: Where does your S/I live, and what’s their space like? How does where they live and how they keep their space impact their relationship with your F/O?
16: Has your S/I ever been involved in a situation that got more complex or dangerous than they initially imagined? How did they get out of it, and did your F/O help them?
17: Do your S/I and F/O have any secrets that they keep from one another? Why do they keep it a secret, and what happens or would happen if the other found the secret out?
18: Has your S/I ever lied to your F/O or vice versa? What made them lie, and what happened or would happen if the other found out about it?
19: Has your S/I ever gone traveling, or gone on a significant journey? Where did they go and why? Did your F/O come with them?
20: Has your S/I ever risked or sacrificed something important in order to help your F/O? What about the other way around? What happened?
21: What kind of dates do your S/I and your F/O go on? Who plans the dates between them, or are they planned together? Do they prefer to stay in, or go out on the town?
22: Has your S/I ever done something that they felt ashamed of afterward? Were they afraid of your F/O finding out, and if so, what would happen if they did find out?
23: How do your S/I and F/O show their love for one another? What’s the most unusual way they use to show their affection?
24: Has your S/I ever committed a serious crime? What did they do, and how did your F/O react? What about the other way around?
25: Are there any views or ideals that your S/I has that they hold very strongly? Does your F/O agree with these views, or do they sometimes clash?
26: What caused the biggest argument your S/I and F/O ever had? How bad was it? What brought them back together?
27: What’s something that your S/I taught your F/O? What’s something that your F/O taught your S/I? When did learning it come in useful for each of them?
28: Has your S/I ever been negatively affected by the weather, or caught in any kind of natural disaster? How seriou was it? What happened? Was your F/O there?
29: Is there a place that holds strong memories for your S/I? Would they ever bring your F/O there? Why or why not? What would happen?
30: What’s the happiest moment of your S/I’s life? Was your F/O a part of it?
Why does Heisenberg bother with the robot army instead of just killing Mother Miranda in some other way?
So there’s two reasons for this, actually.
Miranda’s actual power, and Miranda’s perceived power.
For the first one, Miranda’s actual power, funny as it is to call her “just some stuck up old lady”, we can see from her fight with Ethan at the end of the game that that’s simply not true. Miranda has quite a bit of viral/supernatural power, shape shifting, mental fog, all kinds of strength, regeneration, and nasty attacks.
And this is when she’s in a weakened state, due to the ritual to bring back her daughter.
Second, is Miranda’s perceived power.
What you need to remember is that every person in the village has grown up isolated and indoctrinated into a cult, the central tenet of which is that Mother Miranda is all powerful. This includes your man, Karl.
Now Karl obviously doesn’t believe that she’s all powerful, but here we have to peel back the second layer of Miranda’s perceived power over him.
Karl didn’t start this relationship as an adult man. Karl was a child.
Miranda raised him as a son, AND as part of her cult.
To Heisenberg, Miranda is an abusive parent.
And speaking as a victim of child abuse, one of the key elements of an abusive parent is raising your child with the perception that your power is absolute, and unshakable.
Whether or not Heisenberg could kill her some other way is irrelevant, because at the end of the day, Karl is scared of her. He fears exactly what she’ll do to him if he tries to kill her, and messes it up. He isn’t going to GET another shot. The plan has to be perfect, foolproof.
This is what Heisenberg sees every time he thinks about killing Miranda.
(image transcript: a meme of a baseball mascot with mother Miranda’s face pasted over it. The text reads “What are you gonna do with that big bat? Gonna hit me? Better make it count. Better make it hurt. Better kill me in one shot.”)
And that’s why the robot army. That’s why the insane amount of planning, and preparation, and secrecy.
Heisenberg is afraid of his abusive mother Miranda, knows he has exactly one shot to kill her, and is terrified of what will happen if he misses that shot.
I mean yeah true. I absolutely understand the nuance of it and realistically I get both the genuine need and the perceived need for that much firepower, though sometimes it’s funny just to shitpost and poke fun about him being a dramatic theatre kid. I guess it’s partially cathartic too, because a part of me sees a lot of my parents in Miranda, and for that I think Karl deserves to smack her away like an annoying fly; she doesn’t deserve a dramatic death at the hands of something he spent so much time on. She doesn’t deserve any more of his life when she’s already inevitably wormed her way into every second of every day he’ll ever live. Plus, she already seems so monstrous to me for simply her actions that it’s hard to see her as actually being one, rather than just a person who likes hitting little kids and pretending they’re god when really they’re just some bully. So yeah, Karl isn’t stupid; she is strong, but I really wish she wasn’t because it isn’t fair and I want her to hurt in the same way she hurt others: with no fanfare and no eyes drawn to her and no one who cares enough to remember her.
I 1000% agree with you. It wasn’t fair at all. I wish it could have been easy, and I wish he and Ethan could have left that town together.
Every time I see the Heisenberg boss fight, I don’t see a villain, I see a hero in the wrong place and time.
