Feb. 26th, 2025 06:36 am
convention + opposite paths (3h)
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shrineofsealsLove how CF and AM are fucked up in opposite ways.
CF paints its antagonist as a crazed tyrant stuck in the past as a metaphor for her desperation to remain in power. Meanwhile in other routes you learn that she is a genocide survivor whose people weren't able to go through any reconciliation process (who has also assimilated into the ruling class, but I have other posts about that).
The psychological arc in AM is about not letting your past sins get in the way of having a positive impact on the world. But reconciliation with the Indigenous nation to the north is only ever referred to in a hand-wavy epilogue, never addressed beyond the white saviour trope.
AM is a universe where adhering to FE conventions is bad while CF is a universe where deviating from FE conventions is bad. lol
You can't make this shit up, can you?
CF paints its antagonist as a crazed tyrant stuck in the past as a metaphor for her desperation to remain in power. Meanwhile in other routes you learn that she is a genocide survivor whose people weren't able to go through any reconciliation process (who has also assimilated into the ruling class, but I have other posts about that).
The psychological arc in AM is about not letting your past sins get in the way of having a positive impact on the world. But reconciliation with the Indigenous nation to the north is only ever referred to in a hand-wavy epilogue, never addressed beyond the white saviour trope.
AM is a universe where adhering to FE conventions is bad while CF is a universe where deviating from FE conventions is bad. lol
You can't make this shit up, can you?
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