I Have Been Making My Way Through Another Run And Something That Stood Out To Me As Really Interesting.

I have been making my way through another run and something that stood out to me as really interesting.

So if you’re in the Maurice puzzle, you get to choose what you’ll say when Maurice turns his radio on up to full blast. The intuitive option is to impersonate Maurice, as chicken nugget clearly knows who he is there for (a plan as detailed as theirs would be very specific). Theres two other options, one of which is to just call Henry a jackass. I don’t remember the third.

For some reason I chose this option, even tho I wasn’t sure if it would succeed. However, it did. I called that barely-an-adult child a jackass and he came running.

I was like “oh of course it works. I don’t think you could get Maurice killed after succeeding to wait until he hides. That would be poor game design.”

But then I gave it three more seconds of thought and realized that choosing the jackass option was a fantastic way to reinforce (or enforce I guess, because the Maurice puzzle is in the early game) Henry’s character. He knows that Maurice is an older man, and maybe even heard him talking when he broke in (Maurice called Forrest). He knows who he is there to kill. But he just couldn’t resist going to confront someone calling him names and risk the target getting away because it’s that important to him. We see this happen AGAIN with the Murphy call- Murphy mocks him and asks him to prove his might, and Henry CANNOT resist going over there and showing him what’s what, even though it was not in the plan at all. In fact he could’ve even done this a THIRD time with the teens, since Jimmy made a mockery out of the whistling man moniker and was generally an annoying brat pretending to be the real thing (which, for all intents and purposes, is actually Henry). I personally think this one was Marie and it just happened to strike a very personal chord with her which is why she deviated from her plan, but I mean it’s not confirmed it’s her so.

In short: Choosing the jackass option is actually a great way to demonstrate that Henry takes himself very seriously and will not hesitate to cut a bitch if they disrespect him. And the best thing is that I’m not reading into it- Marie spells out that the game characterizing him as a hot-head who will go out of his way to fight people if he thinks they challenged him is ENTIRELY ON PURPOSE because Marie RAISED HIM TO BE THAT WAY.

Just another way this game’s writing is genius

I guess it could also be interpreted as curiosity, as he is also a very curious character (evidenced by him going to the window to investigate the police sirens instead of just booking it out of KFAM), but both work.

Prev anon here-

Flip a coin, heads is one tails is the other. That, or whichever your heart currently desires more

(also you should post them if you do write them because i would love to read them)

LMAOOOOO

I might post the hurt comfort one on tumblr but Im probably gonna leave the nsfw one on ao3 because I do not want the childrens with baby angel eyes to see it and at least on ao3 you have the disclaimer warning built into the site.

I’m probably gonna do the hurt comfort one first because I can whip something like that out in a few days. I don’t have any experience writing wlw (sorry amab Marie stans) so I need to do some…. ‘research’.

A part of my new therapy fic is that Marie decides to abandon her murder plot in favor of coming forward with her own story and hoping for a change in attitudes from 20 years ago, and a part of that is calling up to the station to talk to Peggy and whatnot.

But I just imagined like the next morning Peggy meeting her and obviously being so happy she’s alive and meeting Henry and just being like “omg we have a baby in the family”

Like imagine Marie bringing Henry with her to meet up with Peggy and they hug and stuff but then Peggy is like “who is this?” And she’s like “this is Henry, your nephew” and Peggy is just like “OH MY GOODNESS YOURE SO BIG!!!” And gives him a big hug while Henry is giving his mom the “ma what do I do” side eye

This was me last night listening to the god of war ragnarok soundtrack and writing my Marie & reader therapy fic

Mommy I frew up

“Some stupid teen just broke in downstairs”

The irony of both Forrest and Maurice being half right- the trespasser IS a teen, but is ALSO the real thing- is so delicious lol

Also gotta include that completely physically impossible blue underlight that makes no sense but looks cool as fuck for game accuracy