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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) + tweets

Indie horror games are either like "You're on a submarine because you were sent to explore a mysterious pit in the ocean floor and you slowly realize you weren't meant to resurface" or "Mr. Scrubkus is gonna get you!!!!! Don't let him get you!!!!" And Mr. Scrubkus is the one everyone talks about

it happened again!

I was cleaning the kitchen and trying to make a solid backstory/motivation stuff for my least developed main character. "He's the oldest child, and his parents kind of treat him like he's the father of his little siblings not them. So he's expected to raise them and feed them and all that, but they know he's not their dad so they disregard him, but he's also not allowed to reprimand them or he gets in trouble with his parents, wait, why does this sound so familiar...... FUCK"

the process of writing and also trying to examine exactly what the fuck is happening in my brain is actually just me slowly realizing that even the seemingly random character traits I've given to my characters is actually a hidden unhealthy thing that's been chilling in my mind for years.

I was talking with my step dad today and realized that a core personality trait/flaw, whatever you want to call it that one of my characters has is the constant obsession with ranking. He's never good enough, he wants to be top at at least *something*. Well, turns out that comes from the high expectations I put on myself and that were put on me. Every time I think "this character trait isn't me, for sure" it turns out it actually is!