#imanidiot

Just gonna leave this here to anyone interested. Was playing Cyberpunk 2077 recently and while driving around Night City this song "Afterlife" came along:

Here's another link to the lyrics beacuse Spotify doesn't have one:

I know the game in and out so I went into autopilot mode and focused on the song to pass the time and I found it oddly Charlastor coded. Not the fluffy and cozy Charlastor type, but actual lore-friendly Charlastor stuff that Alastor is an evil demon and Charlie is sweet and innocent demon who wants to put her faith in Alastor. Here's some parts of the lyrics that makes my eyebrow rise through the roof and I'm gonna add the names of who I think might say them:

Alastor:

-Tear it up and burn it down.

-I would rather plunge and twist the knife and lie down as legends than face this time without you, dear. Yeah my darlin'.

-Burn down, burn down. All of the walls that divide.

Charlie:

-We sail in the city and drown under the neon lights. Running away, I want to stay in your smile.

-I look, I see you right there in the corner of this empty bar. Across the space, hangin' between us two. You smile a little as you catch my eye across the room.

And here's the thing that made me say. "What the fuck...?" The pre-chorus sounds like Charlie and Alastor conversing, planning, and scheming something forbidden and dangerous. Is Charlie confessing she has growing feelings for Alastor despite being in love with Vaggie? Does Charlie want to make a deal with Alastor because she can't handle the burden of the city anymore? Are they conversing that they are each other's salvation and they want to take the leap together? I dunno, could be? Here, take a look.

Alastor: What is love?

Charlie: If I can't tell the world?

Alastor: What is passion?

Charlie: Is my desire sin?

Alastor: What is freedom?

Charlie: If there's a price that we have to pay, have to pay?

Alastor: What is craving?

Charlie: When you're within my reach

Alastor: What is dreaming?

Charlie: When I can't ever sleep

Alastor: What is living?

Charlie: We're wasting our lives еvery day

Alastor: Just one last kiss

Charlie: Beforе that bliss

[picture contains small blue magnet with the words “Hurt Kids Not Bad Kids” in white lettering]

It of course says Hurt Kids not Bad Kids as in the children are just hurt and broken, they’re not bad.

But I of course read it as Hurt Kids not Bad Kids. Like don’t be picky. Hurt them all.

Person A, driving: God the sun is so bright!

Person B, over the phone: Wow really? Who would have thought??

A: Yes! have you seen it??

B:

A: ..hello?

B: 

B:

I, as a French baguette native, have an unconditionnal love for books of all kinds, and until I was like 14, french books were okay for me. I mostly read YA and had fun going to the bookstore to discover new releases.

But then, internet happened. And what did I discover ??? That all of the fucking books I read in French were translations of english/american books that WERE OUT FOR YEARS, but the french translation just came out. They already had SEQUELS, TRILOGIES out in the world and I had to WAIT another fucking year to know what would happen next ???

Unacceptable.

So I decided to buy those books in english even though I didn’t have enough knowledge to read them properly, and with time, I could read books in english and have all the new releases in time (+ super pretty harcovers that WE DON’T HAVE IN FRANCE BC THEY PUT THE PAPERBACKS THE SAME PRICE AS ENGLISH HARDCOVERS WTF)