An Old Sketch I Did Based On God Speed Fair Knight By Edmund Leighton :)

-A demon! -You're one yourself! or demon!Henry AU just because of this phrase :A

On Mary

To expand further on what I said about Mary yesterday (making this a new post because I want it in the tags):

I've noticed that when it comes to canon ships for Arthur Eliza is far more popular than Mary is, despite Eliza never appearing in the game (she doesn't even get a last name!) and there being no indication that Eliza was anything other than a one night stand Arthur was co-parententing with

(In fact, Eliza's whole place in the story messes up the game's timeline but that's a topic for another post).

I think this really highlights the problem that fandom has with misogyny. Fans prefer a non-entity character over a complex, flawed female character.

'Oh but Surana, it's not misogyny. I like *this* female character over *that* female character'

No, you prefer a cardboard cutout over a well written *character*. Because that's essentially all Eliza is. She is the definition of fridged wife. We know nothing about her other than how her death affected Arthur.

Mary may not be the best written character in the game (Rockstar has an issue with writing women in general, though) but she is at least a character. And what's fascinating about her is she's essentially a female Arthur. Everything fans dislike about her? Guess what? That's Arthur! That's your blorbo!

Mary picked her family over Arthur? Arthur picked his over her. Abusive dad? Check. Younger brother? Check.

(I love Dutch but, man. He's not winning father of the year any time soon).

Mary refused to give up her life for Arthur? Well Arthur refused to give up his for hers, and Mary made the much more reasonable suggestion of 'stop doing crime, it will kill you' because, spoiler alert, it did!

Mary, like Arthur, was caught between love and loyalty and just like with Arthur the loyalty won.

'But she married someone else'. She was a woman in the late 1800s with a duty to her family and I've just established that loyalty is Mary's defining trait.

'But she told Arthur she never wanted to speak to him again'. Do you think it was easy for her to be around Arthur, knowing that she loved him but couldn't be with him?

Anyway, that's why I don't like or trust fans that don't like Mary Gillis Linton.

Switching between these every day

Somebody fucking kill me

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which of these should i draw trevor wearing. 😏

Pov ur bff is bi

"I wish cyberpunk had done, etc. I wish there was X ending, I don't feel like they explored XYZ enough"

BABE THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT. Cyberpunk, even as a tabletop game, revolved around the fact that there is ALWAYS something going on that you don't know about. The whole point of the series is that YOU CAN'T WIN. You, no matter how reknown you become, will be an insignificant cog in the big machinery that is night city, and you will die that way. The entire point is that there's no satisfying way to end it. There is no "good" or "happy" ending because THE WHOLE POINT OF THE SERIES IS HOW FUTILE TRYING TO BEAT THE SYSTEM IS. The most compelling thing about the series is that no matter what choices you make, you lose, and you've got to grapple with that to get to the ending that you consider the best possible outcome, and even then, you won't be happy.

There are no happy endings in Night City.

my dear arthur...