An Angry Pacifist

You play the most disgusting pathetic being ever to exist.

Your partner is a more run-of-the-mill pathetic loser man and he is so excited to have someone around who sucks more than him.

There is a small child named Cuomo who does barbituates and know the exact slur to use to kill you instantly.

It will literally kill you because all damage in this game is potentially lethal, and most of it is from either getting your feelings hurt or staring at a lightbulb for too long.

Instead of boring shit like “Strength” or “Wisdom” your stats are like “Cartesian Dualism” and “Ability to Top”. They also talk to you.

Its about a police investigation

Its about communism

Its about gay sex

With a corpse?

It takes place like 30 years after Pathologic

It takes place in a rich and absolutely bizarre world the creators painstakingly sculpted over a decade. Most of it has no relevance to the plot and the rights now belong to a shitty game studio.

I should pirate it.

Except in the hour of need, a binface stepped up.

more from this au.

Just Curze narrating his early experiences being adopted instead of living as a feral child.

Valaria Raskovnic, a blank, is the head of the Raskovnic caravan. Most know her as a prickly old woman who keeps everyone on line through sheer force of her "terrible aura", but when the scrawny street kid her granddaughter dragged home wakes up crying out from terrible nightmares (his visions) she quickly scoops him up in her arms and sings an old lullaby to calm his nerves.

He knows.

He has always known.

Actual quote:

"I don't want some animation studio giving Hobbes an actor's voice, and I don't want some greeting card company using Calvin to wish people a happy anniversary, and I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer. When everything fun and magical is turned into something for sale, the strip's world is diminished. 'Calvin and Hobbes' was designed to be a comic strip and that's all I want it to be. It's the one place where everything works the way I intend it to"

This was in the 1990's, pre-AI, pre- Chris Pratt, pre- Cinematic Universes, and if he was opposed to it then, he sure as hell wouldn't be okay with it now.