A Necessary Clarification For My Interpretation Of Vanny! She Is Not Vanessa / The Security Guard! They

a necessary clarification for my interpretation of Vanny! ― she is not Vanessa / the security guard! they are not the same person.

Van’s DEFAULT verse, which is my main idea of canon, is that she is a separate person from the night-guard. they are different people, and although they are similar visually and audibly, they are NOT the same person. The CDs are from Vanny, not Nessa. Vanny is not an alter-ego or something similar, and while she IS under William’s / Malhare’s / Burntrap’s / Salvage’s manipulation, she isn’t just Nessa under some form of mind control. I’m yet to decide HOW she looks so similar, but i do believe they are genuinely two different people, which is how I play Van.

Van DOES have a secondary verse where she aligns with the ‘Vanny & Vannessa are the same’ idea, but I do vastly prefer using her default verse as it’s kind of integral to her as a person, as Van is a very quiet, anxious, non-confrontational person with an less-than-stellar social skills often making herself seem more than odd, meanwhile Nessa is a no-nonsense type of character with a bold sense of volume to herself as well as a deep sense exasperation and suspicion. they act very differently from one another, which can make the secondary verse difficult for me, but yeah! i just really wanted to clear some stuff up about my interpretation!

Michael Cunningham, The Hours

i will never in my whole life not be emotional about how many times cara mia shows up in the portal soundtrack. the fact its in the SOUND of the hardlight bridges is the most bonkers thing in the whole world. man. portal.

Every monster in the underground knows the story of Asriel and Chara. 

They teach it in school, tell it as a story to learn a lesson from when telling their children, tell it like history textbooks aren’t big enough to hold it.

They never say Chara’s name in most texts, and they usually never say it any other way. It feels like a disrespect to the dead to tell the story with any other words, or with the name exposed like that, almost like mocking the grave that only one of two got wrapped in. It’s such an openly learnt part of history, like the War, that the tragedy doesn’t usually click for the children who learn it. Some don’t even think it ever really happened, that it was just a story. Flowey hates hearing it. He wishes it was told different. He wishes it wasn’t told at all. He’s torn up every textbook with it written down in the entire underground, every log of it, every detail before in resets no-one remembers, but that doesn’t stop it from being told, word for word like an anthem of the failure no one is aware of.

* You should be smiling, too. * Aren’t you happy? * Aren’t you excited? * You’re going to be free.

It’s so much more than just history.

━ Toriel, being both a boss monster and the prior Queen of the underground, has a certain aptitude to her magic very few others share, including even Asgore, though such prowess would’ve been one Asriel would’ve likely grown into even partially. Toriel has a great amount of control over her magic, but perhaps most impressively would be her control over strings of flame : with each bundle of flaming magic demanding a constantly in-check chemical reaction to which she has nigh complete control, including intricate control over each and every independent bulb in the line, that kind of concentration, delicate capability and skill is very rare to find with her sensitivity to the changes in each bulb being much stronger than even Asgore’s with the same movement.

This reaches into an unexpectedly wide range most often, as basic as lighting a hearth before entering the house or setting a rune of heated protective magic upon a loved one’s clothing or home with fire’s natural inclinations to protection and care as well as destruction. It, inherently, could be wildly enhanced with further obtainment of LV, as much magic tends to follow the suit of, but Toriel since being both locked within the underground as a whole and having self-exiled herself to the ruin lacks any kind of interest in accumulating more than she currently has, though the potential ( and capability ) doesn’t fade quite as easily.

( BOTW ) ━ Link has many subtle quirks born from coping mechanisms, traumas and mental illness, as is unavoidable from being thrown into such a high stress situation with nothing to fall back on, with no memory but a larger-than-life goal set upon him, but one of the most noticeable and violent of them is the fact Link is half-convinced of his own corruption.

Throughout Breath of the Wild, the theme of disease, corruption and dark magic is an overarching one. Malice is a plague upon the land, each Blood Moon revives the undead through sheer will of distaste and discontent, Ganondorfs loathing manifested into what is ━ in essence ━ a magical blight formed exclusively through the warping of dark magic, being imbued with a poisonous amount of that hatred, the will to force itself into this form, and to attach itself to anything it can. a hatred so thick it congeals, and corrodes. The undead that the Blood Moon calls upon are full of rotten blood and malice, alive but reduced to the barest thoughts and actions, more nerves firing off instinct than what they were in life. Link, in many ways, is considered at best the healer of the blight and at worst the slayer of the already damned. He's the hero, the one whom Hylia entrusted to the blade that burns away the dark, he is something of the light, however blinding and stark and harsh that is.

... But Link has seen what happens to creatures when they are corrupted, he has seen how easy it is for it is him to cut it back, burn it down. Link has seen and Link knows, but Link isn't stupid ━━━ he was in a chamber for a hundred years, was he not? protected but so, so idle. Anyone else would die, he's learned, in that time. Any Hylian, anyway. What of him, then? He is alive, isn't he? Magic is mysterious, the Goddesses are vague and he is special but he is alive.

... Isn't he?

This is where the fear of corruption comes in, that could be called a delusion in terms of actual disorders but what Link only knows as something he doesn't want to look at but the knowledge still burns in him. He's half convinced himself that he is corrupted, he just doesn't know it yet. He thinks a lot about how Hino turns wild when the Blood Moon rises, and how that wildness is hatred in him, Ganondorf breaking desperately through chains to kill him, to despise him, and how Hino never acknowledges it after, like he doesn't know, just mindful enough to speak and growl before it's over. Do they know when their blood has gone bad and angry? Can they tell? Could he?

He doesn't know, but he is quietly petrified in the way Link does not let his fear breathe into recognition, that one day the Master Sword will burn his hands when he tries to take the handle, grip it tight & true as he was told to do, and there will be nothing for him but a simple knowledge that he is not ━ and perhaps he never was.