For Pete's Sake, Go Away.

[rionaleonhart]

I don't know why I've ended up writing such a huge entry on a game none of you have played, but, er, here you go. (The last few paragraphs of the entry still concern Until Dawn but may be of more general interest to people who play videogames.)

I ended up spoiling myself for just about everything in Until Dawn, because I was far too freaked out

Comments

[wolfy_writing]

You could write fic about Mike having to deal with having chopped his own fingers off. (Is it all the fingers or just some of them?). Like he'd probably be pretty weak from blood loss, and people would probably be very shocked and concerned, and he'd have to learn how to manage and do things differently, and I don't know how sterile it was escaping from the bear trap so there'd be an infection risk, and I'm not being a good influence, am I? (I actually love your tastes in fiction are what they are. Among other things, it makes me feel better knowing that such a kind, sweet, lovely, fun person can have such dark tastes in fiction.)

You're good at writing stories where sex happens. Like you don't do detailed sex scenes, but you incorporate them into the narrative well.

[rionaleonhart]

It's the ring and little fingers of his left hand! I worked mentions of his finger situation into After, but I don't know if I'd be able to write an entire fic about it. (It was... probably not a very sterile setting, or indeed a very sterile machete, although at least there were medical supplies nearby that he used to bandage his hand. I suppose Mike being delirious after his experiences could be fun. He can't tell whether he's home and safe or he's still trapped in that hellish night.)

Relevant to my rambling about referring to videogame characters as 'us': I just looked up a video to double-check which fingers he loses (or at least that's my excuse). It's a 'trophy guide' video, because APPARENTLY YOU GET A VIRTUAL TROPHY FOR THIS, and the narrator of the video says, 'You get this [trophy] by cutting off your fingers.' You're not making Mike cut off his fingers; you're cutting off your fingers.

[wolfy_writing]

Ah. Between the broken internet in Kinshasa and the international flights (and one impressively good and very long party) I haven't had a chance to catch up on anything long recently.

You get a trophy for it? Wow.

[rionaleonhart]

It's all right; I wouldn't expect you to read my fanfiction for a game you haven't played! (Although of course you are welcome to read it if you happen to be in the mood for contextless misery.) And I definitely didn't fully explore what losing his fingers would be like.

Someone had commented on the video with 'aww it's a silver poor mike', which I enjoyed. Poor Mike; your fingers aren't even worth a gold trophy.

[futuresoon]

I know a lot of otome game players refer to the heroines in the first person, but then, that might be more due to the alleged wish fulfillment aspect. And some of the heroines are dumb as a sack of bricks, hoo boy. In other games with silent protagonists, the only ones I can think of offhand that are usually referred to in first person are the Pokemon games. Which also have a certain wish fulfillment aspect, but not in a marketed way.

[rionaleonhart]

I was thinking about the Pokémon games when I was writing this entry! I usually play them as a boy, and I don't name him after myself, but he's still me and his Pokémon are still mine. If I said he just caught a Farfetch'd, I'd sound like a maniac. I caught a Farfetch'd. It's my Farfetch'd.