#ramshackle rambles

I like to imagine Yuu rambling about the lore of Outlast to a few characters and here are my highlights of my thoughts:

Riddle taking notes when Yuu started to mention how outlast uses a lot of real life history to influence their games. And he went from taking notes to stopping when it starts heading to the horrific parts of history and he's just staring at Yuu in concern as Yuu continues to ramble about how we learn why the human body is 70% water and what inspired the horror movie, the human centipede, and then moves onto how minorities were targets for just about everything and anything. Then he just quietly mutters that's one way to keep history alive.

Azul having to stop Yuu from launching into the psychology side of Outlast and how it has some legit science behind it. He already got the history ramble of all things terrible, and while he wants to hear the psychology of it, he doesn't wanna hear how they found out/how they use it to hurt others more. Had to get Jade in to push Yuu out of the place because Floyd got bummed out and left after halfway through the history ramble and won't go near Yuu.

Lilia probably being the only one really talking to Yuu back and engaging in serious conversation. They also have a history swap where Yuu shares what happened in their world while Lilla goes over the tragedies they went through and have a very deep conversation about how times change, the importance of history and acknowledging how important it is to keep it alive and it's a way to keep the victims in mind of those affected by the tragedies. So it went from rampant rambles to real talks about very complex issues and both of them very happy they have each other to talk about history and overall serious topics.

Imma start this off by saying I know nothing abt Outlast personally but the concept and killers were always so cool to me.

I also really like thinking abt Yuu explaining modern/gen z/earth things to the TWST characters. Imagine explaining Philadelphian celebrations to them or the US in general. Or a lot of Carribean and Hispanic/Latino culture? Like can you imagine showing a Quadradinho to them? Or a cuter idea of explaining a quinceañera to them (and lowk imagine throwing one for Ortho cause he finds it cool and hey Yuu gets to share culture). Flores el patrón??? Amor Eterno at a party??

I mean cultural stuff in general is so beautiful in real life, like imagine telling them about Sundances and Monihei Festivals and Manjal Neerattu Vizha (idk if thats the right term sorry), Dia De Los Muertos (but Coco is disney so theybprob have it maybe) celebrations??

Or even simple brain rot and how a lot of dirty jokes or words are common vernacular. Even simple slang or magicless devices for mundane things? Having to explain that there's only humans too much be a huge trip— or if they do have mer/beast/faefolk Having them be completely different? Or maybe they have more monster like populations like zombies?

Anyways I got off-topic. I also wanted to say that I think abt a Yuu from an apocalyptic/Dystopian/ or just weird universe where stuff like Outlast/IdentityV/Until Dawn kinda shit occurs? Hunger games (which i mean the 'patriot games' in the US is gonna be a thing supposedly)?? Or even crazier stuff like super heros???

Okay so this is definitely the product of my autistic adhd brain thinking coming up with these crazy ideas and scenarios in my head but this is one that I feel most confident and proud of myself.

Playing through Baldur's Gate, I've been inventing lots of story bits in-between what we actually see of the character interactions, some based on my own ideas, some on posts I've seen going around.

My character became a warlock because he desperately wanted to learn magic, but he was too poor to attend wizard school and thought you had to "special" to become a wizard. After learning from Gale that anyone can learn magic, he's been voraciously learning magic from Gale.

Despite his outward persona, Astarion would be the person standing at the back while Karlach and Wyll are, "Excuse me, he said 'no pickles.'"

Karlach and Halsin both give out bone crunching hugs. Lae'zel and Astarion are the only people who never accept hugs.

Gale is the only person who won't get up in the morning until someone forcibly hands him coffee.

Astarion loves being up at the crack of dawn because this is the first time in 200 years that he can.

Wyll is also a paladin, because come on.

People will just sit down and tell Withers about their problems. He's a good listener, though his responses are. . . open to interpretation.

Halsin regularly turns into a bear and lets people use him as a sofa at night by the fire.

Can cook: Me, Halsin, Wyll.

Tries but burns everything: Shadowheart, Gale.

Won't cook: Astarion.

Not allowed to cook any more: Karlach, Lae'zel.

Demands McDonalds: Karlach, Gale.

We have food at home: Halsin, Wyll, Shadowheart.

Getting to see Rei, Natsuo, and Fuyumi finally take an active role in their family to this extent is heart wrenching. The honest pain they're all in and the different emotions it's showing up as. The fact that Enji might just finally be starting to realize that he doesn't have to be the big man who does everything alone. The way that this is tying into the idea that you can't just save someone's body, you also have to save their heart.