THIS ISN'T A PUNISHMENT.

Some things I like include:

Writing. I've written short stories, fanfiction, horror, nonfiction, etc… now finishing the stuff I've written, I'm terrible at.

Horror genre as a whole. Halloween and Marble Hornets are highlights. Resident Evil and Silent Hill I especially love. I enjoy Dead by Daylight when it's not terrible.

FPS games, boomer shooters. I am a huge Doom fan. Also love Dusk and Blood.

Platformers. Grew up on Crash Bandicoot. Love Kirby too. Peppino Spaghetti is my guardian angel.

Homestuck was a huge interest for me when I was younger, though I never got into it until it was over. It's a great story, but I've rarely engaged with the fandom.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is my favorite show. I will go on about it way too long if you ask me about it. Really enjoy Doctor Who too, and House.

Narrative analysis. I get embarrassing about it and I'll infodump about the most inane shit.

DNI if you're haha just kidding, DNIs are kind of lame. I don't really get along with nihilists or hateful people.

Please do not DM me if you are a minor. You can read my stuff though if you want.

My tags:

#m0nologuing - Rambling about things I like in a disorganized fashion.

#0ration - More formal, organized essay-like posts about specific fictional topics.

#c0ming-h0me - Posts about COMING HOME, a horror game I'm developing with some friends.

#w0rks - Masterposts compiling things I've made for you to enjoy, mainly fanmade projects such as a FNAF story, a Doom lore guide, or Kirby mockups.

#pr0jects - Tag for the individual posts linked to in the masterposts in #w0rks.

#pers0nal - Posting about personal life, probably very vaguely. I'm not one to vent to strangers.

#ph0tos - If you're lucky I'll let you see my dog, or a weird bug or something.

#questi0n - Answers to asks you people send me.

#res0urces - Posts I really like and want to keep organized to refer to as I reblog them.

- Archdemons are a tricky subject. Most people assume "Archdemon" just means "member of the Order of the Six," but technically this is never confirmed. In fact, the terms "Archdemon" and "Order of the Six" are never mentioned in the same Codex entry! "Order of the Six" appears in History of the Sentinels XI, while "Archdemon" appears in the Doom Eternal entries for the Hell Knight and Spectre.

- Given this, what we know about Archdemons is that they're called "immortal" by the art book, and the Codex refers to them as "eternal." The art book further calls them "Elder Hell gods." It appears Archdemons are very powerful demons, but it's my opinion that this is more a *category of demon* rather than a specific species, and that said category includes essentially any main antagonist demon (i.e. Ahzrak, the Mother Demon, the Imperatrix)

- The Art of DOOM Eternal is unreliable and shouldn't be taken as fact; I can fully admit this guide selectively picks info from the artbook for the sake of providing a concise tree. The artbook's errors include acting as if the Maykrs had their pact with Hell since before they approached the Sentinels (a verifiably wrong claim, the pact came far later); claiming Marauders were resurrected with Hell-Maykr tech (another wrong claim - Eternal's Codex states it involved only the Divinity Machine); claiming Urdak to be a "capitol city" (it is an entire dimension); and that the Father split his soul into the Maykrs upon death (he coexisted with them for a pretty long time). Because of this I try to take its claims with a grain of salt. The main stuff I take into account from the artbook only concerns claims regarding Erebus and Archdemons, which even then are shaky.

- Yes, there are multiple Dark Lords. Davoth is the Dark Lord, but after he was betrayed, the First Age began and more Dark Lords were appointed. In TDA, we see Ahzrak who is trying to become Dark Lord of the First Age by winning the Unholy Wars. We can presume perhaps the Second Age began when someone finally ascended after the Sentinels were defeated, which maybe leaves the First Age without a Dark Lord.

- While Doom 2016 never explicitly says the Imperatrix is Dark Lord of the Fourth Age, it is a very obvious conclusion to be drawn from the Codex. The Dark Lord of the Fourth Age is mentioned as current leader of Hell and master of the Barons, while the Imperatrix is hyped up as the "master" of Hell and a "god to rule over all other gods."

- My belief that the Dark Lord and the Order are two conflicting branches of government within Hell stem from TDA depicting Ahzrak at the mercy of the High Council, as well as references in the Codex seeming to paint the Order as primarily concerned with managing Hell, whereas mentions of the Dark Lord tend to involve commanding Hell's armies and managing acts of conquest. This isn't confirmed though. I used to believe the High Council is just playing "substitute teacher" during TDA and would eventually willingly abdicate power to whoever they'd end up appointing.

- Yes, I do believe Archviles are part of the Imp family, given TDA giving classic Imps new details that tie them to Archviles (flaming three-fingered hands, the same pain sound). I think Archviles are to Imp Stalkers what Summoners are to modern Imps.

I just wanna say I absolutely love Craig Burnatowski's Wesker and it makes me very excited to see him in a Code Veronica remake.

I miss the accent, right? But this Wesker brings a level of realism and fear to him that I really like. It's very easy to portray Wesker as a supervillain - CV and 5 did that, and he's great in those. But 4R takes a different approach. We don't even see his powers here, but we hear a lot of what he's like.

"Change of plans. Of course, you're free to refuse..."

He says while holding a gun to Ada. This isn't even, like, a subtle or clever move - it's a very blatant and deliberate show of power over this woman, and something that Wesker does like Leon rolls off one-liners. It's his whole thing, really - exercising power over people "weaker" than him. Ada isn't a contractor or a partner or whatever - she's not hired. Maybe on paper she is, but in reality she's a tool Wesker gets to throw around how he pleases. He doesn't have partners, or friends, or allies. Everyone is either a tool or an enemy.

Luis: "Hey, who are you working for anyway?" Ada: "You're better off not knowing. Trust me."

Separate Ways gives off a very scary view of him is what I'm saying, not RE5 scary where he's a big bad supervillain trying to end the world, but a "holy fuck I don't want me or my friends or my family alone with this man" kind of scary.

You know. Like an abuser.

Because like, that's what he is, you know? Wesker loves exercising power over people, he does it constantly. He groomed Excella in RE5 from a young age to be dependent on him in basically all of her business ventures and career, and manipulated her infatuation with him to keep her loyal - but to him she was just a tool. The way he touches her is genuinely unsettling - yeah, sure, she's evil too and all that obviously, but the way he treats her makes it clear that he is very much enjoying casual displays of control and power over this woman. It's just fucked up.

(Side note: Like, this is kind of how I see the Rebecca photo thing. It's the only way to see it that doesn't make me roll my eyes. Some people joke about it like "haha get it Rebecca's hot," which is gross, and others think it's just not canon, which I think they've focused on it enough that it probably is. My take is just that Wesker is a creepy piece of shit, and as the youngest rookie of S.T.A.R.S., Rebecca was the most vulnerable person under his authority, and thus he would have a perverse interest in her. A showing of Wesker's awful personality is how I see it.)

I think there's an argument to be made that some of this shit is gendered, which, you know, makes sense, but I think Chris is a shining example of it too. I do kind of see Chris/Wesker as a dynamic eerily similar to Leon/Ada* and with a not insignificant amount of homoerotic undertones to it, but it's not, like, Cool and Sexy. I think Wesker has the same kind of obsession with Chris as the kind of obsession that led him to have a weird picture of a freshly-18-year-old subordinate in his desk. It's just not an age thing with Chris - rather, it's the fact he knows he haunts Chris's mind, and he gets a kick out of it.

"Let's just say I'm a ghost... coming back to haunt your dear brother."

(A reminder: REmake deliberately has a detail that shows Wesker frowning when Jill meets him in the Old Residence. But when you play as Chris instead, he explicitly smiles to himself before turning.)

I don't think it's a strictly sexual thing (though I do think that's an element of it). But I do think it's the closest thing he can have to a "crush." I think Wesker is incapable of having any sort of close interpersonal relationship, sexual, romantic, or otherwise, that doesn't involve him hurting or wielding power over them. In CV he reminds Chris several times of their past dynamic pre-RE1.

"Chris! Since you're one of my best men... I'll let you handle this."

I'm getting off topic, my point is: Wesker's one of the best characters in RE, and IMO that's not just because he's, like, a badass villain or whatever, but because he genuinely has a lot of presence as a villain, in the narrative itself - Chris especially, but with 4R we get this huge vibe of just how uncomfortable he seems to make Ada, and Ada's pretty fucking hardened - if she's that freaked out by him, there's a fucking reason for it. He's a scary fucking guy, to everyone around him, no matter how bad they are.

Burnatowski's voice for Wesker captures this side of him a lot more than D.C. Douglas or Richard Waugh. Theirs are more on the supervillain side, which I also love, but I am ready to hear more of this Wesker... being on his good side gets you threatened at gunpoint. Imagine being on his bad side.

Wesker's treatment of Excella and Chris is vile - but his voice was more lofty and cartoonishly evil, and you could separate them. Burnatowski's Wesker feels exactly like the man in those scenes.

He's a manipulative, scary, blatantly abusive man whose actions and words show a complete lack of compassion, cordiality, or empathy. We see how he wields that power over other individuals, and then we see how he aspires to wield that power over everything else on the planet.