And In This Endless Night, I Only Have One Wish

Javi: So what does your dream girl look like, Gabe?

Gabe: Hey Clem.

Clem: Yeah?

Gabe: Come here for a second.

Baahahahaha

nice :D

A little bit about Victoria and Taylor’s relationship

First impressions of their relationship is that Taylor just another mean girl within Victoria’s click. A slave to Victoria as her room slate suggests. However the more we see of them the more apparent it is that they are actually pretty close, far more so than say Courtney or other vortex club members.

They’re both hanging out together in Victoria room Tuesday morning while Courtney is sent away to finish Victoria’s homework, indicating that Courtney has a more lackey status than Taylor within their click. Victoria is harsh with Taylor in shower room after finding paint still on her face but this is likely her lashing out due to being witnessed in an embarrassing situation. It’s similar to how even if Max is nice to Victoria and they share a pleasant moment, she will still default to her antagonistic tones the next day at school.

Max’s first conversation with Taylor gives some insight on their relationship from Taylor’s perspective. She’s aware of Victoria’s bossy nature but points out that she supported her while her mother was ill. Throughout all interactions with Taylor she’s very loyal to Victoria, often defending her and giving Victoria a much more human face than the one she presents to Blackwell. Victoria also emails Taylor a few times throughout the game, one reveals Victoria calling Taylor ‘Sweet-T’ which is both cute and super dorky. Taylor is also one of the only characters to use a nickname for Victoria, calling her Vic at the party in episode 4.

So while the public face of their relationship has Victoria in a more dominant role, mostly due to her status at Blackwell, we see and hear that they are actually more equal to each other in private.

Spoilers for John Wick 3 and it’s beautiful writing vs Jon Snow in the series finale of GoT (John Wick vs Jon Snow)

Just finished the movie and WOW.

THAT is how you make a likable person the villain. Take note D&D.

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Winston. Oh Winston. Smart. But not very smart to betray John.

John Wick has more honor and a better brain that Jon Snow. John Wick is excommunicated by the High Table and the Continental, rendering all services useless to him. John travels to the one man that the High Table listens to. His task to go back in good graces? Murder Winston. The father figure to John and the man that has made his survival possible via pushing his death back one hour.

Tasked with great mental fortitude but distraught and doubt in his heart, John travels to the continental and meets Winston face to face. Winston, the clever man that he is, correctly deduces that the All Father, the man that is above the High Table, has ordered his assassination for his defiance against the High Table. He offers John a choice. Kill him(Winston) and live but remain in servitude to the High Table forever. Or help him and help Winston win his rebellion to live once again as a free man. John chooses Winston, of course, because John has experienced love ever since he met his wife. And he holds love for Winston for all that Winston has done for him. This proves to be the wrong choice as Winston was playing him and was merely using John as an example that Winston still held strength and would later have John as his fall man.

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Now, in a week where I have seen two betrayals/villain turns. I should have been angry. Daenerys’ butcher ran through my mind and I felt as if I should have expressed nothing but anger.

Except…I didn’t. The betrayal from Winston was never out of place. Winston turning on Jon was something that actually made sense. Since John Wick 2, it’s been heavily foreshadowed that the High Table rules all. But as I’ve said before and as I’ll say again. “Foreshadowing is not character development”. And that holds true here as well. We actually see it. We see the power the High Table holds and it’s influence. How many elite men they could spare on their FIRST assault against Winston. Meanwhile, Winston’s forced have been reduced with only John and Charon remaining. Winston’s whole plan made sense. Everything was calculated to perfection. Disguise his weakness with John’s strength and and later turn on John to show his fealty.

And John Wick? He chose the love he had for Winston and ended up the loser. Winston realized there could only be one left alive after the entire ordeal and he chose himself (as expected of any assassin). But John’s choice cannot be faulted. He’s been out of the loop for 5 years. The bloodshed and havoc he’s wreaked has been in a span of 2 weeks. He doesn’t know the Continental. And he was blinded for the favoritism that Winston showed him. In the end, John’s eyes were opened wide to what Winston truly was. And in John Wick 4, we will see the true effect of John’s rage.

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Now after all that. Surely I can stomach Jon’s decision to kill Daenerys much more, right?

Wrong

Winston was always a ruthless man but his partiality to John blinded John to who Winston really was. Daenerys did nothing but good for her people and one act of rage somehow convinced Jon Snow she needed to be put down?

John Wick 3 was BEAUTIFUL. Another parallel/foreshadowing? Something John Wick did better than D&D? Telling us that John would kill Winston. No, I’m not talking about when he’s tasked with killin Winston. I’m talking earlier in the film, when he meets with Sofia(Halle Barry) and she tells him “Sometimes you have to kill the thing you love”. And that’s it! No dramatic pan on his face. John doesn’t suddenly go to Winston and put a cap in his ass. No! You forget about the line. You think it’s just some tragedy of Sofia’s character and move on. John struggles with himself internally and it isn’t until Winston’s betrayal and the roll credits of the movie that you remember! That you say to yourself “John has to kill Winston for what Winston did. No matter all the good that Winston’s done for him, this is something that John can’t forgive.” Versus Game of Thrones with Tyrion, “Yeah bro, love is the death of duty buuuut sometimes DutY iS ThE DeaTh oF LovE” right before Jon kills Daenerys. Like lol, did you think we’d be surprised? That people wouldn’t expect that shit when you put that literally the scene before? LMAO

THAT is how Jon should’ve killed Daenerys. The emotional turmoil is what Jon should have gone through. The decision to choose Winston(Daenerys) and only when Winston fucked over John(Jon) is it when John(Jon) decides to kill Winston(Daenerys) because he has to pay. Daenerys(Winston) even said “rule with me”. She could have been saved. She NEEDED to be saved. But Jon chose to butcher her while John chose to believe.

John Wick, an assassin, has more honor than Jon Snow, Ned Stark’s son.

OMG LOL! Drunken Penguin

Someone once told me;

“Warren walks like a drunken penguin.”

Connected by time and tide

Not a new theory since many have already theorized about the meaning of Native Americans and their culture and what it has to do with this story. What we know is that Native American culture is brought up very often by Ms. Grant, we have a totem pole right behind our dormitory, there are Hopi prophecies and references to animals and spirit guides left right and center.

What is interesting is the connection between Native American history around Arcadia Bay, the town and its wealthiest and most powerful family – The Prescotts.

The Prescotts are currently building a huge estate complex in the forest behind Blackwell, and as we know from Ms. Grant, the area around Arcadia Bay once used to be peacefully shared between Native Americans and the pioneers that colonialized this place. Without fear or violence, she says they found a mutual symbiosis and thrived together. Which is far from is happening in Arcadia Bay right now.

Everyone in Arcadia Bay knows that the Prescotts are nothing but trouble and the game emphasizes that many want to leave the town. It also tells that Prescotts own pretty much everything the light touches. The people are no longer in peace and thriving – they are either owned by the Prescotts or want to leave because the town no longer offers them jobs or safety. The homeless woman says that “[the good] days are dead, like anything in [Prescotts’] way” and Kate says that “There’s something evil about the Prescotts (…) Something to do with death”.

The Prescotts have stirred the peace and Arcadia Bay decided it was time to stop that. Indeed, Arcadia Bay may be – as few already noted – referred to as a sentient being. Samuel does this a lot when you talk to him throughout the week.

Samuel is one of those I believe has a connection to the world around him. He seems to almost communicate with the fauna around Blackwell, and in his mysterious sounding way tells Max things about Arcadia Bay and her powers. Yes, Samuel doesn’t explicitly know about Max’s powers, but I believe he does know about Arcadia Bay wanting to fight back.

He buries the birds that died near the Tobanga and does so by creating a cairn above them. “We’ll find out if the souls of the birds move on” he says, “Unless it’s fate…Then it doesn’t matter”. The same kind of cairn has been seen by the cliff at the end of Chrysalis, where Max has no idea when and why it was built. I am assuming Samuel has something to do with it, but what – or who – lays buried there is a mystery. Since he tells Max to stay on her path, that she’ll find what she’s looking for and that “Rachel is waiting too”, it seems like he knows Rachel is gone – like he seems to be waiting to know if the spirits of the buried birds have moved on. He just doesn’t know anything else.

Samuel is also the person who confirms that the Doe is Max’s spirit animal. “Could be a sign of your destiny” – Max’s destiny was to find Rachel and find out what happened to her and the other girls. In Dark Room, Max proceeds to ask Samuel whether he thinks we all have a destiny, to which he replies that yes, we do, “in many different timelines”. He says that Kate believed something different, but simply needed more helpful spirits like Max. Rachel is Max’s helpful spirit. After her passing, she took the form of Max’s spirit animal to guide her to the truth. Only Max could see her, and she has been guiding Max all along throughout the game.

When Max calls herself powerless, Samuel states that she is the opposite of Max. He always tells her to keep prying - to keep doing what she is doing – and warns her not to get stuck in the Vortex Club. He doesn’t believe anything ever ends, “especially time”.

Samuel senses something bigger is coming to Arcadia Bay and he doesn’t like it at all. As we can recall from earlier, he said Max and Arcadia Bay “are connected by time and tide”.

The Prescotts are disrupting the peace and quiet of Arcadia Bay and it is trying to fight back. That’s why Max has gotten her powers – think of it not as a curse but as a gift of power. Some historians claim that different Native American tribes living in places where tornadoes happened often had “an ability to turn or reroute storms away from people in their path” and that “such a person with the right knowledge or personal power could do this”.

Some Native Americans know when a tornado will strike, because nature and the land around them talks. They simply have to listen. That way, they can warn their people in time. Native American elders say that “Tornadoes are not evil; they reset the balance in nature”.

The Prescotts tipped this balance and unbalance is what rules Arcadia Bay right now. To cleanse the land once ruled by peace, it is spawning a tornado to do so. The land has been talking, with weather changes, animals acting out of it, dying. In alternate timeline, the tornado was still going to happen, but Max didn’t receive her powers because she never triggered them. She never tore a photo, she never had the need to save Chloe that day – she was partying with her enemies from the other timeline. The tornado is happening because the Prescotts are in power and dark things are taking place in Arcaida Bay  - but in the original timeline, we have the means to help people and maybe, just maybe, tip the scales back without the need for a tornado.

Max received her powers to alter time and – what I believe – warn the people around her. We know that she got her power after ripping the photo she was supposed to hand in to Jefferson and that saving beings doesn’t alter anything. She can use her power to alter a blue jay’s destiny – saving it, she lets it live and later, the bird has made a nest, laid eggs – new life is starting thanks to Max.

The spirits guide her, the land grants her power to make a difference – tip back the scales or let the tornado cleanse it all. If Max can find a way to bust the Prescotts (and Jefferson with them since he is connected to Sean), the tornado may hopefully be prevented and the land will heal thanks to her.

If we instead choose to let the tornado happen, the land will be cleansed from what caused the unbalance and it will make way for people to start anew – which won’t come without a cost of wiping off the town.

P.S.: Many wonder how Chloe is tied in to the two choices we’re forced to choose from. I believe that if we let the tornado do its cause, Chloe will live and we will leave Arcadia Bay together with her. If we – and thus Max – find out a way of busting Sean Prescott and/or Jefferson through the events of Polarized, we may use this to go back to the start. If this means we need to let Nathan shoot someone – be it Max or Chloe – in order for the cascade of events to lead to Prescotts and Jefferson’s demise, then someone will get injured and possibly die. That someone can be Chloe.

It will be up to us – as Max – to choose how we want to deal with the bad guys. Both things come at a cost – so choose wisely.

I like the art

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yall are like “its so obvious that he liked you” but i still wake up everyday like “damn do my partners still like me???” like if you don’t flat out tell me straight to my face, i just assume you aren’t interested in me bc i cannot fathom anyone being attracted to me in any way

I blamed Jefferson in one of my playthroughs so CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT THIS? (also look at Warrens pic LMAO) 

Freaking finally

I feel like the only one who’s loved Gabe since the beginning. He must be protected at all costs.