[ SECRET POST #2758 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2758 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Stormlight Archive]


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03.
[Legend of Galactic Heroes]


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[OFF]


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05.
[Robin Hood]


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06.
[Pretty Little Liars]


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07.
[Orange is the New Black]


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08.
[2NE1's Park Bom]


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09.
[Constantine]


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10.
[Miss Fisher's Mysteries]


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11.
[Firefly]


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12.
[Batman]


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13.
[The Witches. Aliens. Coraline. It.]


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14.
[Ocean's 11]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 048 secrets from Secret Submission Post #394.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/DrBMk8p.png
[OFF]

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, the OFF fandom. It seemed like it was gigantic thing on tumblr for a couple of months and now I rarely hear about it. I like how everyone made Zacharie into a super uke though. It was pretty funny.

[(Anonymous)]

sa

I do have a weakness for Daniel/Alexander though because it's so weird and fucked up that it actually loops back around to making sense. With that one though, it's at least a bit easier to find fic that actually makes their relationship messed up like it should be. There's still the odd fluff fic though...

[rubbertea]

...there is a slash fandom for off? wtf tumblr

[greenvelvetcake]

Considering OFF was only popular for a few months, there is a lot of porn.

[(Anonymous)]

What is OFF?

OP

[(Anonymous)]

It's a game about a guy with a baseball bat who goes around "purifying" evil spirits. It's very surrealistic, and there are a lot of ways to interpret what it really means. (I have my own interpretation, but I'm not sure if anyone would be interested.) More representative fanart:

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you! Sounds pretty damn interesting. What is your interpretation?

Giant massive spoilers go here

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously, I'm spoiling two of the three biggest shocks in the game.

The old world was destroyed somehow, and three beings rebuilt it and became guardians of the various zones. I'm not sure exactly where they came from--it's possible Hugo created them--but one way or another, when they made the new world, they made it from Hugo's imagination. That's why it's such a surreal world, and why the inhabitants are so childlike.

They made a crucial miscalculation, though: not all the things Hugo imagined were pleasant. He had his share of irrational fears, and those manifested in reality as specters. The specters could be destroyed, but they would always reappear so long as Hugo was afraid.

This ties directly into the game's most famous translation error, that line that said "I will not allow you to kill the son we brought into the world" and should have said "I will not allow you to kill the son who brought us into the world." Hugo created the Batter as his protector against the specters, and one way or another, the Batter realized that Hugo himself was the source of the specters. He existed to destroy the specters, and that meant he existed to destroy Hugo.

Of course, since Hugo created this world, not much of it could exist without him.

The biggest hole in this theory is what the Judge is, and how he can still exist even with Hugo dead. My best guess is that, like Hugo, he comes from the old world. (Perhaps he was a pet cat who Hugo modified to be intelligent, or perhaps talking cats were just a thing the old world had.)

(There's also the question of Zacharie and Sugar, but Sugar could be almost anyone, and Zacharie is basically just the developer making fun of the player.)

[(Anonymous)]

"You don't have to slash every single goddamn fandom!"

Indeed they don't, but why shouldn't they if it brings them happiness? It's not harming anyone. Nobody is being forced to read their OOC fic or look at their OOC art. I'll never understand why people get so worked up about what others enjoy when it comes to fic (especially shipping) and art if it's harmless. Is it really so hard to just scroll on by? I've managed to do that for stuff I don't like for the past 15+ years of my fandom life.

[(Anonymous)]

They can do whatever makes them happy and doesn't hurt others. Go be butthurt else where.

[(Anonymous)]

As much as I love OFF and it's fandom, this ship really does nothing for me because of the characters involved. Yet, I realize that I shouldn't be talking because I legitimately enjoy other "questionable" fanworks in the fandom, so I'll just let the shippers have their fun.

[diet_poison]

What is up with the corner of that dude's mouth? Is that a cigar?

POSSIBLE SPOILER

[(Anonymous)]

It's a stylized frog mouth. It doesn't make much sense unless you've played the game.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree so much with you, OP. I hate shoving characters into typical tropes, and I especially can't stand pairings where there's no canon chemistry whatsoever. There's got to be a tiny bit of something there for me to be on board with a ship.

[(Anonymous)]

Except there's a difference between you simply not enjoying a pairing - I'm sure everyone has pairings they dislike for one reason or another, there's nothing wrong with that - and the OP saying that nobody should ship pairings that would be out of character. It reeks of "Stop liking what I don't like!" pettiness.