Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-31330278-20180211164358/@comment-31330278-20190427150012

1. It's funny to think about Sofia as communist. Her self-aborbed and selfish approach makes her more similar to Ayn Rand, who can be considered as the spiritual mother of Bioshock. If you know Ayn's works, like "Atlas Shrugged" (probably the source to Frank Fontaine's disguise) and "The Fountainhead" (the architecture motif can be seen in "Bioshock Infinite), you know she's preaching to "dog eat dog" mindset. Know all those capitalists who use the so called equal opportunity to become rich as an excuse for social darwinism? So that's how Ayn want the world to look like. I'm not saying Ayn is a nazi, but Palpatine would agree with many of her arguments. If she was a communist, despite the fact Sofia have shades of a skinnier version of Maureen, does it means that the deconstruction of communism and swine capitalism are different sides of the same coin? Also, how do you see Ayn and Maureen react to each other had they met?

2. One can hope he won't get a free ticket. Gods are not immune these days. After all, even Thanos and Darkseid aren't invinsible. Seeing him get away with it would be old-fashioned as hell, where people like him belongs. Mephisto isn't a god, but his fate is something i wish to God of Light, as well as many demons. Good to hear you liked it :-). No one would try to release Mephisto, if only because there's no justification to part 4. The closest thing to part 4 there will ever be (at least in the near future) is a 3rd part of "Mankind Reloaded", which might be the prequel (as the human king puts it: "Why does Mephisto have throw us back to the dark days where orcs were our enemies?"). In the likely case these stories will be apart, how do you see the (possible) part 3 of "Mankind Reloaded"/another story in "Royal Solitude" universe?

3. By "purposely dying in a fight", you mean Shi might provoke the jailors to kill him (some people calls it "suicide by cop"), or getting into a fight despite knowing he's done for even before the first blow was struck? People like Kar and Sir Thomas might get Shi to either of the two types of "purposely dying in a fight". If you'll ever write "Xylus 2", you can use crooked wardens who're like Kar/Sir Thomas/Sergio. If the motherless bastard would be safe by reminding Eleanor of her cruel mother, does it means part of Eleanor's reasons to consider saving Sofia was an untreated PTSD? And if Delta was a "Xylus" character, would he be one of the heroes group, or more like a bear working for Richard? I can totally see a giant creature trashing Sergio. A beast killing a monster motif.

4A+4B. After Sofia, the next PE waiting for recognition is Lizard. A first-timer wouldn't know if Lizard was created by someone like Sofia/Atlas, or came to be in a similar way to Nuckelavee. He make Gilbert Alexander look like an adorable toddler in comparison. Lizard's sheer monstrosity came in mind thanks to a blog by SW10048: https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:SW10048/PE_PROPOSAL:_LIZARD#comm-577217. Would you like me to contact between you two, so you might help him with the proposal (he proposed it only in a blog, which is nice, but doesnt lead to result)? And does he reminds you a splicer as mush as he reminds me, or does being (probably) inbred that was deformed by radiation means he can't have any superhuman powers?

4C. Sofia's supposedly strict father makes me wonder what Babyface could be if her birthfather was more involved in her life. Do you see this hypothetical birthfather as similar to Beverly Hofstadter, something like a male counterpart of her canon mother, or similar to Dodgson? And if any of the possible fathers would genuinely not love her (really not loving her. Not the "my mother loved Sidney better" illusion), how do you see it effecting her decisions and fate?

4D. Being a functional addict is another reason why Martin Freeman can do such an amazing job as Atlas. Bilbo Baggins can be described as such. I'm tempted to say Atlas is similar to what Bilbo could've become if the one ring never left him. The main reason i'm not sure is that mabye the ring and the ADAM are contradicting each other. If i put Bilbo in "Bioshock" universe, i see him as either Jack the pilot or as a splicer-human hybrid. If i put Atlas in "Middle Earth" universe, i see him as an Uruk-hai, specifically as an Uruk-hai who came up with a drug that will break the one ring's monopoly

5. Her amazingness was put to the test once more in the past week and a half. We were in Kiev, because she really wanted to tour the world for a week and i wanted to see an old friend nicknamed Alfred Cusack who lives there. Remember that friend of mine who could get along nicely with Jester? Well, he and my mother had a fallout due to financial affairs, originated by the fact he sent us to use his fiancee as a (not so professional) tour guide. His dense fiancee costed us huge sums of money, both in and out of job, but i chose to let it slide. She dropped everything she did for the last 4 days due to personal matters, which made Alfred agreeing on giving us 200 bucks as a refund. I also chose to let everything else slide. I even let slide of the fact  he indirectly made me and my mother arguing for practically most of the trip. Everyone have culpas. Even my mother. All of her culpas exploded during that week. My father created them and Alfred triggered them. But the one hardly forgivable thing Alfred did, which marks him as a reversed Ashi, is going berserk after me and my mom didnt answered him. He was stressed about getting the key of the apartment he gave us (not much of an apartment. More like a dump. The sad part is that Kiev's standard apartments are dumps). We tried to contact him, but getting into a sudden series of crisisess (we got tangled with a restroraunt which coned the day light out of us and my mother fell down on a sidewalk. It was a little scary. Bruesed knees, broken palm and everything) held us back. After 7 years of friendship, Alfred still didn't figure out that not answering indicate something must've happened, and said "you must be confused. I'm not working for you". I could let it all slide, all of it, if only he got his mouth shut and asked what happened. The only reason i didnt peeled his face with giving him a piece of my mind is the possibility that he's provoking me for not paying the 200 bucks he owes us. He ain't nothing like Charlize. His tragedy is real. He had suicidal years, a mother who's very much like my own father and deep in depths for a long time. Also, he lost his marbles for money, not for a dull alarm clock like Charlize did. As sick as it might sound, i think money is a far better berserk button than an alarm clock. The fact he could've go well with Jester, at least in the old days where i truely knew him, might indicate how Jester would be in real life. Alfred used to be such a good friend. If he'll be a man and give back the money, then one day deep into the distant future, i might consider become his friend again. If not, he lost a friend and will just have to hope his dense lover truely love him as much as he say.