I Think What I Love/hate Most About The Arcane Ending Is That Everyone Got What They Needed But Not What

I'm glad they're on the same page

I think the reason I like writing Faith fanfic over any other fandom is just because of how open ended the game can be. Every single choice can play a factor in how John is characterized. From the successful ability to save everyone vs the inability to even save yourself to even the simplest choices like Lisa or Garcia can affect who John is as a person. So yes, the exhausted pathetic wet dog of a man in "In Astaroth's Name, Amen", the sniveling coward feeling sorry for himself and completely helpless to his own misery in "Father Ward, Curse His Soul" and the snarky father trying his absolute goddamn best not to murder his husband in "Nuclear Family" are all the same John Ward. All because of a few slightly different choices

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Thinking about how despite being a robot, Donald has shown to appeal more to his humanity and compassion. Becoming empathetic at a time when someone like Rick needed someone to understand what he was going through — that he wasn’t alone. Attempting to bring ease and comfort to others like Mark and Debbie when Nolan was bedridden. Aware of his own emotions and loyal to a fault. That despite how hard the job is and realizing the truth about himself, he remains strong and connected to others (hell I headcanon that he keeps contact with Rick and William after what happened).

Thinking how in contrast, despite being human, Cecil tries to make himself the robot. With the job he has, saving the world, he had long since let go of the concept of a moral compass and being “the good guy” in order to ensure the job gets done. He commits to actions that are both morally dubious and unethical — manipulating and controlling others and cutting himself off from personal connections just so it wouldn’t weigh him down. It’s as if he tries to metaphorically program himself to having the mindset of a machine — just so the guilt of all his actions wouldn’t crush him down.

A lot of about these two, both together as a dynamic and individually, makes me wonder about how they have an impact on each other, and the way they mirror such different ways of showing humanity. To express it versus suppress/repress in a sense.

Whenever I hear this quote from the I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream game with AM’s hate monologue:

“Because of all this wonderful, beautiful miraculous world, I alone have no body, no senses, no feelings...I was machine. And you…were flesh.”

I think about Cecil and Donald.

And yet ironically enough, Cecil is the machine. Donald is the flesh.

FAITH x Mouthwashing

the reason is that the reboot's writers were so obsessed with catering to fans which, apparently, included dumbing down the villains and making them softer because they were fan favorites and making Abe intentionally unlikable due to the writers' personal bias and hatred of the fans, because they never understood what his character was even a parody of

im glad they made cleo meaner in the third season, but im still so pissed that they made jfk dumber. every time he says something i just go "he would not fucking say that" in my head. its like they forgot why people liked them in the first place. they like characters who are assholes (topher is an example) and while jfk was clearly not smart or anything in the og show, he wasnt as braindead as he is in the reboot

it just hurts to see the way they wrote abe, because he was genuinely such a hilarious and goofy character. they made his crush on joan his whole personality in season 2 and in season 3 he was incredibly sex driven which ?? he never was??

Forever unhappy about how they treated the whole main cast. Don't get me wrong Abe probably got it the WORST but everyone else in the og cast feels like a worse fanfic-esq version of themselves. ( Not dissing fanfic, they can be good. ) In the kinda way we're characters they like are babied and watered down, and characters they don't like are tourmented and villianized. They lost everything that made them unique or funny. Abe is now a scapegoat for everything and is just punched down for comedy ( I don't like this approach with Topher either but that's for another day. ) Cleo is a stereotypical " dumb mean girl " even though she was smart in the og series. JFK is so babied he can't do anything wrong he is extremely BORING. And Joan so mischaraterized she is so boring now.

i always kinda knew you'd be the death of me

Comfort.

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do we think he served in every universe, in every timeline?