Fandom Trash

Is that bad, maybe? That he’s this glad about Lynn being easy for him to like? He’s gonna take care of him the best he can no matter what, just . . . it helps, a little, that Lynn’s this easy to like. Makes it feel less . . . intimidating, maybe. 

Billy likes a lot of people, technically. He likes most of the other League members, and he likes a lot of people he’s met on the street, and he even liked a few of the kids he met in foster care, and obviously he’s always liked Tawky, but . . . 

But it wasn’t really easy to like most of those people, he has to admit. Not after . . . everything. 

But oh god Raz and Mina closing the gap between their families. Each knowing the history that lies between them, between their two names, and choosing to be friends, to be family anyway. I love them so much. They’re both so fundamentally different from their families from a young age and no matter what that never really changes. They find the familiarity and comradery they can’t find in their family with each other. They’re too so vastly different and yet the same and above all else they get each other, they care about each other, they would do anything for each other. 

In their youth they both just want to be able to embrace the person they KNOW they are, but are shackled by the expectations their family have burdened them with. And at the same time, they both want nothing more than the approval they crave. Mina seeks it from her family, Raz seeks it from his heroes, and when they finally meet they teach each other that they don’t have to be what others want them to be. They don’t have to bend over backwards to be worth something. They have the safety net in each other, to know that even if the world kicks them while they’re down, even if they never find that approval they crave, at least they have each other, where approval isn’t needed. 

UGH.

I know I’ve posted this before but like. God. Before they meet?? How Mina thinks she needs to be the perfect daughter, how Raz is desperate to be the hero. The ambition, the loneliness, the determination to be better when they think they aren’t enough

Whiskers and I are giving Mina some siblings for a thread and I can't stop thinking about them. Anyway this is all you need to know about them right now 😘

Hey, man, we all can't be like you I wish we were all rose-colored too My rose-colored boy

I listened to this song upwards of seventy times today.

It's definitely a vibe for the ever optimistic Raz and his glass-half-empty cousin - especially for any verse in which they meet as adults, after Mina's already thoroughly disillusioned after twenty-odd years with the Galochios.

Featuring @2hoothoots FSAU Raz because God threatened to strike me down if I didn't use the design that came with rose-colored glasses pre-installed.

* The way the animatics were making me cackle last night AND THEN THIS SHIT I WAS HOLLERING

overstimulated

anything i dont tell my dad directly is beyond his comprehension

sketch dumps. composed mostly of razzes. with bonus lilis. aged up character designs i hope you're like :)

Razputin Aquato was born and raised in a circus and if you don’t think this ten year old has the largest, most colorful collection of swears that he uses on the daily then you are dead wrong.

Augustus gets mad if he hears them coming out of Raz’s mouth, though, I reckon.

I misread this as ‘sweaters’ and was very confused as to why they would be coming out of Raz’s mouth and how Augustus could hear them.

I like how ALL of the “ALL PSYCHONAUTS 2 CUTSCENES” videos are missing just… a ton of cutscenes because whoever recorded them never took time to explore between major cutscenes.

this link https://www.tumblr.com/kingartsybanana/676129875464273920/pn2-cutscene-archive-no-subtitles should still be working last time I checked, it hopefully has a more comprehensive collection of cutscenes than most of the youtube videos you've been digging through

you can take the family out of the psychics but you can't take the psychics out of the family

the tempest knows no mother / the deluge, no son

Realising that the events of Psychonauts 1 + 2 are meant to be set throughout the 20 year timespan between the 60's/70's/80's honestly makes so much sense when you think about the specific aesthetics of the different generations you see coming together throughout the storyline of the games.

It's most evident when we first enter Helmut's mind and help him regain his senses as well as his sense of himself, and in how "dated" the clothes of the first iteration of the Psychonauts appear in contrast to the interns who are evidently styled after the fashions of the 80's era. Even in how different the home bases of the separate generations are, with the Motherlobe being isolated from nature, shiny and sleek while Green Needle Gulch is surrounded by dense forests, well worn and vividly colourful.

Thinkin real hard about the role of propaganda in Psychonauts 2. I’ve already rambled about how it probably impacted Gristol Malik’s actions, but that’s not the only example.

While Lucrecia’s most extreme actions were blamed on the Maligula persona taking over, it’s still implied that she was oppressing Grulovia well before the Dam Disaster. Throughout the mailroom level we see letters and threats (although these are possibly imagined by ford) pushing her towards increasingly questionable actions. So basically I think Theodore Malik’s skill at propaganda created both of PN2′s main villains.

Another thing that hit me like a brick a while back: Raz (and by extension probably most Psychonauts) has also been influenced by propaganda. The majority of depictions of the Psychic Six/Seven–like the portraits in the Motherlobe, and True Psychic Tales–erase Lucrecia’s entire existence. Sure, she does appear in another issue of TPT later on, but it very clearly omits some crucial details, like her involvement with the Psychic Seven, and her actual name, and seems to depict her as being motivated entirely by a desire for power. After all, mentioning other details, like the like the effects their reckless experiments had on her mind, would make the Psychic Six, and by extension the Psychonauts, look bad.

At the end of the game we see Lucrecia’s portrait in the Motherlobe uncovered, and she’s been included in Adam’s history exhibit. idk it makes me feel some things