Queen Origami

Waterboy + Mal = bff & have synergy

Prism + Flambae = bff & have synergy

Waterboy + Flambae = boyfriends & have synergy

Robert introduces the 'real' him AS Mecha Man, despite the fact that it’s not who he is as a person, who he is at his core. He frames Robert as the mask, hiding who he truly is because his suit is still being worked on.

We already know Robert's burdened with the generations of legacy on his name, of ruining everything his father and grandfather died for. It's all he's pretty much been living for; he spent all his money on the suit, we've never seen him eat a real goddamn meal, he's never bothered to get himself furniture or a goddamn mattress (likely because he wasn't at the apartment much; iirc he literally asks Blonde Blazer what PTO is, that man has not taken a break once)

He’s only ever seen himself as Mecha Man, not Robert.

BUT THE OTHERS DON'T. Sure, Robert already knows their hero names, and to some degree, they're only sharing the hidden part of their identity they are because Robert did; HOWEVER, they're still sharing who THEY are at their core. Who they are under the layers of glory and power every hero has. Their 'real' part is THEMSELVES, not their hero.

‘TRUE IDENTITY’ IS SUCH A THEME. How it's shown in the DLC comics that Blonde Blazer broke up with Phenomaman because he couldn't love her as her truest self, Mandy, the person

When he first gets the job, Robert is NOTHING without his suit, it's all he's here for and everything he's waiting for.. but then he starts to bond with the team (+ Chase), and slowly they come to care for not Mecha Man, but Robert. It's that care that forces him to reflect on everything

For once in his life, he's kinda learning what it's like to have people care about who he really is —the person beneath the mask, the person piloting that suit.

And man, I think they're doing a good job at showing it.

I feel like a mix of these right now. This might be a stupid/obvious yap but idc it's my Tumblr blog I can do as I please

But I REALIZES HOW GOOD THIS WOULD HE TO CONFIRM HEIGHTS

So I used the picture and

I fumbled with Robert’s a little but this is how Robert, Flambae and Waterboy measure up height wise.

Is it weird for me to say his body is strange? I am NOT judging I LOVE his body

Black is torso, blue is leg (not including feet)

With how long he is and how long his legs and arms are it makes his torso look…smaller in a sense??

But it’s like, around the same length as his torso

eepers <3

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

And that is that the endings of Dispatch, good or bad, whichever one you end up with, are stupid and bad.

..... I know, shocking statement. I am the first person in existence to ever say this.

But more seriously, when I say this, I’m not talking about the criticisms I’ve already seen about the language used in the bad ending stats, or the continued issue of a choice game not always having especially meaningful choices. Those are their own conversations.

No, what I realised is that the endings actively make each other worse. Because once you look at both versions side by side, the problem isn’t just that one ending is weaker than the other, the problem is that the existence of each ending makes the logic and emotional impact of the other one fall apart.

The first thing I realised is that Invisigal stepping in and taking the bullet for Robert doesn’t actually mean that much, and in fact ends up looking kind of stupid, when the bad ending exists. Because the thing to remember is that both endings are almost exactly the same until the moment where Invisigal makes her choice. Shroud has Robert at gunpoint, Robert is in danger, Invisigal is there, invisible, close enough to intervene. So if she’s in a position to kill Shroud in the bad ending, then she should also be in a position to kill him, disarm him, knock the gun away, incapacitate him, or do literally anything else useful in the good ending.

But instead, in the good ending, she takes the bullet.

And I get what the scene is trying to do. It’s trying to make this big, dramatic, redemptive moment where she proves she really has changed by risking herself to save Robert. Ignoring my own issues with 'redemption through self-sacrifice' for a second, I understand the intent.

The problem is that the bad ending immediately proves she had another option. That’s the part that breaks it for me. The story wants taking the bullet to be proof that she’s become heroic, but then the alternate version of the same scene shows that she could have saved Robert by stopping Shroud directly. So now her 'heroic' choice doesn’t read as more moral, it reads as less practical. Why would becoming more heroic mean she suddenly loses the willingness to actually stop the guy who is actively trying to murder someone? And before anyone says “well, heroes don’t kill,” that doesn’t really work here either.

First of all, nothing in Invisigal’s story is actually about her learning that killing is wrong. Her story is supposed to be about trust, redemption, selfishness, survival, being used, being treated like she’s already doomed to be a villain, and whether or not anyone actually believes she can be better. That’s not the same thing as an arc about refusing lethal force.

Second, the game itself doesn't commit to the idea that killing Shroud is some clear moral line heroes cannot cross, because immediately after Invisigal takes the bullet, Robert is allowed to beat Shroud down and then kill him anyway.

And that brings me to the second thing that makes the endings undermine each other. When Invisigal kills Shroud, the framing is bad. It’s treated as her descent back into villainy, like Robert failed her, like this is the proof that she was never truly saved or never truly became a hero. But when Robert kills Shroud, the game doesn't frame it anywhere near that harshly. And arguably, what Robert does is worse, because Invisigal kills Shroud while he is an active threat, mid action, with a gun pointed at Robert. Robert kills Shroud after the immediate danger has passed. Shroud has already been beaten, he’s incapacitated. Robert is making a revenge choice in cold blood. And yet Robert gets, what, a slap on the wrist? A mention of temporary suspension and investigation? Some very minimal acknowledgement but then immediate hand waving?

So what is the actual message here? Is killing Shroud wrong or not? If it’s wrong, why does Robert get treated so much more kindly for doing it? If it’s not wrong, why is Invisigal killing him treated as proof that she’s fallen?

And before anyone says it’s because Robert has more reason to want Shroud dead, sure, yes, Robert absolutely has reason. Shroud killed his father, destroyed his life, ruined his suit, tortured him, threatened Beef, and tried to kill him.

But Invisigal also has reason. She was in the Red Ring, was used by Shroud, manipulated by him, dependent on him in ways that directly affected her ability to breathe. He had power over her body, her survival, and her future. She has plenty of reason to want him dead too.

So why does Robert’s revenge get treated as understandable, while Invisigal’s revenge gets treated as proof that she failed as a person?

That’s where the endings really starts eating each other. The good ending wants Invisigal taking the bullet to mean 'she became a hero'. The bad ending wants Invisigal killing Shroud to mean 'she became a villain'. But the Robert kill ending turns around and says 'actually, killing Shroud isn't all that bad'.

So the game ends up having three different moral standards in the same finale.

- Invisigal taking the bullet equals hero.

- Invisigal killing Shroud equals villain.

- Robert killing Shroud equals complicated, but basically fine enough.

And that’s just messy.

The point of her story is meant to be whether or not she can become a hero, but having the bad ending have her kill the villain and nothing else? ...... I'm sorry, is that supposed to be her being a villain?