#blabbin

when you consider that FX and MQ clearly knew who "San Lang" was from the start, and kept trying to unveil him to XL (who pretended to be unaware), but were unable to say it outright bc that would then out themselves when they were also in disguise... and how they didn't seem particularly surprised to see him hanging around XL(angered, but not surprised) but seemed PARTICULARLY suspicious of just how chummy he was with XL, calling him gege and sleeping beside him:

It seemed to me that there's an implication that FX and MQ would know some of why HC would have an attachment to XL. They certainly wouldn't know the depths of his obsession until the cave, but they definitely seemed suspicious in a way you wouldn't be if you didn't have information about an ulterior motive. they seem more concerned about HC being so friendly to XL, over XL being in active danger. they played along in a way that i cannot imagine they would if they honestly thought that HC may have wanted to harm XL. Instead, they were more worried like overprotective parents who are cautious of a new boyfriend. like so:

and we know that things between the 3 are actively kept from XL. when FX and MQ fight during the avalanche, HC knows what they're talking about but XL is only told that it'd dirty his ears to hear. FX and MQ a few times stop fighting when they realize XL is listening. and of course we know that they still continue to keep the event in the cave from 800 years ago from XL (as he is still oblivious to the yao appearing like nude XLs to tempt little HC, yao that FX and MQ witnessed and sliced up to keep it under wraps) - it's heavily implied that HC made a mural of it, and that was the mural that FX and MQ saw but tried to keep XL from seeing

so considering all of this...

if hua cheng specifically did those fights with the 33 gods while looking like Wu Ming(maybe maskless post-E'ming's creation, so possibly quite like his San Lang appearance, since XL describes HC's true face as only looking just a bit older than SL, and WM's age/height is described roughly the same as SL's), he probably would have been wearing the armor of xianle. it would not have been unusual for a xianle soldier to decide to fight for xie lian's honor. perhaps fx and mq even recognize this xianle soldier as a grown up version of the one from the cave, even if they don't fully recognize every other instance they'd run into this boy.

but even if they don't recognize him as that soldier, if he ascended as a xianle soldier and decided simply to fight for xie lian's honor against those who have wronged xie lian... and it just so happens that fx and mq were both just uncomfortable with insulting xl's honor by picking that fight and that's why they declined instead of just 'not feeling like it'... it would explain a lot of the behavior the two have regarding "san lang"

but if we think more about if they recognized him as the little xianle soldier (but not connecting the dots of who else he was, the same way as they didn't recognize who exactly that little soldier was all those years ago), it would explain a little more. particularly, why neither of them would have simply said "we know this is hua cheng; our generals have described to us what his most common forms are."

Game Information/Archives/Resources

Disco Elysium Wiki (Literally contains most everything you'd want to know about the game, including a ton of image resources)

FAYDE On-Air by Morgue, Pieartsy, and Sphinx111 (Search engine tool to easily find any in-game dialogue)

Disco Reader by xyrilyn + Guide on how to use it (Search engine AND text visualization tool. You can see the full dialogue trees as flowcharts)

Disco Elysium Explorer by Leerion + Github (Inspired by Disco Reader. It works much the same way but it ALSO includes the audio clips for every piece of dialogue!! + the text for every language released so far)

Disco Elysium Checklist compiled by MentalPrinciple0 (Includes all red/white checks, their difficulty level, all possible modifiers, as well as items, tasks, thoughts, and their modifiers)

Complete OST + Ambient Mix compiled by OnlySheStandsHere (Includes everything added for The Final Cut)

High Quality Full Map of Martinaise compiled by For Lack Of A Title

Map of Revachol West vectorized by freezebobs + svg file

Disco Elysium: Country/Cultural Mappings compiled by Limey (List of all the geographical places named in-game, what we know about them, and what some real-world parallels are)

Disco Elysium: A Timeline compiled by six and brenn (A complete timeline of every event mentioned in the game, from the creation of the universe to the events of The Hanged Man case)

Theoretical Entroponetics by 57sfinest (Everything we know about The Pale + OP's own theory)

Fanworks

Fandom Collaboration Projects

((since these are big collaboration projects, I unfortunately can't properly list the credits on this post. Make sure to check out the respective credit pages of the projects!! So many talented peeps!!!))

Disco Elysium Fan Colouring Book (SFW)

Disco Elysium Fan Colouring Book (NSFW) [[18+]]

Social media tag: #EspritDeCouleur

Fire Escape in The Sea Montage-Disco Elysium

Social media tag: #FEITSmontage

Disco Elysium Montage/Cleaning Out The Rooms

Social media tag: #COTRmontage

Disco Elysium Secret Santa 2022

Ao3 Collection

Bonus Round! Prompt List is open for anyone to fill if something grabs your interest!

Social media tag: #DESecretSanta2022

Disco Elysium Rarepair Fanworks Exchange

Ao3 Collection

Prompt List! Open for anyone to fill if something grabs your interest!

((There's no tag, everything is compiled on the twitter account. If you post anything new, make sure to @ the account to be RTed!))

Disco Elysium Tarot, the Major Arcana

Social Media tag: #DiscoTarot

An art challenge to recreate famous paintings into something Disco Elysium themed! Feel free to join in!

Social media tag: #DiscoElysiumArtClassic

Fan Games

After the Mind, the World Again by Pieartsy (TTRPG)

Disco Elysium: Game Boy Edition by BloodyStapler

Disco Dating by Slugandthorn, Capreola, Frankie, and Joe/BerlinChild (Visual Novel)

The Cryptokiller, project lead Arthur Stahlschmidt (Visual Novel) ((Make sure to check the itch.io page for a full list of the team!!))

Mystery Miniaturist by Jasmine "Katy133" Osler (Visual Novel) ((Make sure to check the itch.io page for the full list of credits!!))

WE GOT A CODE 31 by Slugandthorn (Dancing Penguin Kim. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT ME TO SAY!!)

Mini Mini Disco by OinkOink!Studio (a collection of mini-games! The links on the main page might be broken, so here they are just in case:

Nod match with Kim

Pretty Jean Jean

Beg Money)

Disco Elysium: Signature Skill Selection by FeigningIntelligence (Take this quiz and find out what your signature skill is!)

Twine Games/Fics

Re-Hearsed by Apepers

Requiem for the Apostle by Alphawave

Sweeter Kind of Fire [[18+]] by Kawa

Disco Elysium: Insomnia [[18+]] by mouseoverlord, Booboboobo, cyaber5, LoveSplean, and Aila

One Day in Jamrock [[18+]] by CeaserAmarelo

Fan Skins

((Want to write a fic/make a game that looks like Disco Elysium? These cool peeps got you covered!))

Disco Days Workskin by abyssalcaptain (Ao3)

Disco Elysium Workskin by Cunticuss (Ao3)

Disco Elysium Twine Macros by Apepers and Pieartsy (Twine)

Disco Elysium Framework for Ren'Py by Katy133 (Ren'Py)

Misc.

Disco Elysium Mods

Disco Elysium Item Card Creator by ColorfulTie (fun lil tool to create your own items with stats in the style of the game)

Disco Elysium fan music by Aila :

Insomnia Vol 1