Can't Believe Ive Been Given (entire Self Imposed) The Sisyphean Task Of Having To Make My Own Content

Thinking about character idles!!!

I asked some friends yesterday if their pc had a character idle animation + floating talk bubble, like when you sit for a while in a videogame and your party has to sit there, what would their character idle + talk bubbles be.

Roma's would be one of those like, resting squats. the asian squat!! And the motions Roma would go through would be scratching under his chin, scratching behind his ear, and yawning, like a dog. I also imagine when everyone starts moving again he would take half a step to catch up with everyone, because he has to get up from squat position.

Roma's text bubbles would be:

(sniff sniff)

"Woof."

And if he has to wait a REALLY long time:

"Hey stupid? You're not even doing anything?"

Also, in my wildest dreams when characters in your party have shared idle animations (disco elysium style), if Roma and Ez are both in your party, I'd like to think one of the shared idles you could get is Ez using Roma like a chair/footstool LMAO

a quick ez doing The Pose (TM) (her official art pose) to soothe my soul

DAMSEL/HERO (an ireena/ez comic)

Hmm. And what if I bit you. Perchance

been playing a lot of witchlight, and wanted to make street fashion photography style illustrations for the whole party :^)

more thoughts under the CUT

One of roma's deep core beliefs is that the world is full of Beasts, and when Beasts are hungry, they Hunt. All Beasts Hunger, without exception. When Hunting, the strong crush the weak and then then everyone who isn't strong must Struggle or Die.

It's very defeatist, and he believes in this in both a neutral and negative way, in that while he's accepted many ... systems isn't the word he'd use, but that's basically what it is, in the world operate like this, roma is still sometimes Soooo bitter about it because. he doesn't consider himself one of the Strong, and while struggling is an Option, Struggling Sucks Ass. Being Prey Sucks Ass. Being Weak Sucks Fucking Ass. And he carried SOOO much anger and bitterness about it because he Knew there weren't folks who weren't struggling and being a person who Used To Be A Part Of A Human Family, roma Knew things didn't have to be this way But They Were And No One Was Helping Him.

I dont think that anger is gone when he talks with VR, but I think that his anger is part and parcel with how much he loves VR. Roma adores VR because he has a certain understanding of how shit and hard things can be and he's SO happy VR does actions that go against the weird cycle of the world, so if VR were to abandon the morals that roma Assumed VR had and loves so much, I dont think it'd be hard for roma to key back into his anger and be So reckless about it, bc the origin of love and anger are the same thing in him

WAIT i can talk about secret character lore bc none of party is on tumblr

one thing i Do Think About is that roma's big backstory secret is tl;dr that he was a cannibal for a little while, like hunting and killing actual people, and then VR saved him and he stopped being a cannibal and awful person bc the rescue was so affecting, but recently the party came across a diary where VR was talking about. killing All The Vistani bc he was aggrieved over his dead son and inwardly roma was like :) you're not allowed to do this and then yelled at vr to not do this

but if there ever came a point where VR didn't back down on doing that i imagine that roma would spiral So Hard... like mileage may vary but roma would do his best to Be The Monster Van Richten Told Him Not To Be

straightened

I HEAR THUNDER IN THE DISTANCE

AND IT HITS ME IN AN INSTANT

CRASHING THROUGH MY HEART AND I'M BLOWN APART

YOU DON'T LOVE ME LIKE THAT

based off that one twitter post

You ever saw a woman so badass you started crying