I both love it and hate it ;_; Whenever there's a picture of Talulah carrying Alina...
At least give us Talulah as an operator already, damn it!
FluffyCow
Feb 14, 2022 9:23PM
It's always good to see them being cute and happy together.
myrrhmidon
Feb 14, 2022 9:48PM
Bringing the wife home... in another better world
NARESH4444
Feb 15, 2022 10:08AM
Gotta take what you want with a firm form,just to remind everyone how capable you are at protecting her.
Then celebrate by locking horns under the covers.
How Talulah reacted,though,after the fact up until the final tipping point,though...was it as it was because of her stoic self or was that also part of the slithery influence?...
FluffyCow
Feb 15, 2022 1:56PM
^As far as I know and at least interrupted it Talulah is herself until Alina dies, at which point the Biblical Snake takes control. Alina's death for me had the most impact with Talulah's character in Arc 1, because Talulah still has agency, compared to most of Arc 1 where she's under the influence and control of a Biblical Snake, and has a lot of her agency removed. So the fact that she still has agency the whole time Alina is dying is important to me. It was only after Alina officially died that Talulah's anger set in and the Biblical Snake largely removed her agency from that point onwards.
NARESH4444
Feb 15, 2022 7:45PM
Well,it definitely didn't happen all at once,but gradually as she reached the tipping point.
FluffyCow
Feb 15, 2022 11:20PM
^I think if anything the build up came after Alina died, and Talulah's feelings of hate grew from that point onwards. I really don't like the idea of Talulah not having agency/reduced agency over her person during such an impactful scene.
It's fine if we don't agree though, nothing wrong with agreeing to disagree haha
random
Feb 16, 2022 12:40AM
p sure Alina's death was just the "beginning of the end", both due to its own obvious emotional impact and because it deprived Tal of a vital emotional/psychological support and moral anchor point. The actual breakpoint that allowed the Snake to take over only came later, when she finally lost it in that one village - that was the last straw that broke her idealism and faith in "regular people". Kaschchey back in the day pretty much outright told her as much, and both Alina and... IIRC Patriot? had repeatedly expressed concern about her excessive optimism in that regard and how she kind of didn't have an ideological fallback should she be disillusioned one day. If memory serves in "present time" at one point Faust also made a passing mention about how she changed "after that village"...
FluffyCow
Feb 16, 2022 1:21AM
^I think that's along the lines of what I remember. Talking some more about spoilers, Personally I really don't like the Biblical Snake, I would have been more invested in Talulah losing to her anger and losing herself without it. So I really hope we get to see more of Talulah in the future without the snake. I want to see more of her character under her own power, and I could see her with some writing improvements being an interesting villain along the same lines of someone like Magneto.
NARESH4444
Feb 17, 2022 5:21PM
Perhaps chapter nine and onwards will help bring some light to that,since she's now in an easy to talk to location.
PineconeJuice Feb 14, 2022 9:17PM
I both love it and hate it ;_; Whenever there's a picture of Talulah carrying Alina...
At least give us Talulah as an operator already, damn it!
FluffyCow Feb 14, 2022 9:23PM
It's always good to see them being cute and happy together.
myrrhmidon Feb 14, 2022 9:48PM
Bringing the wife home... in another better world
NARESH4444 Feb 15, 2022 10:08AM
Gotta take what you want with a firm form,just to remind everyone how capable you are at protecting her.
Then celebrate by locking horns under the covers.
How Talulah reacted,though,after the fact up until the final tipping point,though...was it as it was because of her stoic self or was that also part of the slithery influence?...
FluffyCow Feb 15, 2022 1:56PM
^As far as I know and at least interrupted it Talulah is herself until Alina dies, at which point the Biblical Snake takes control. Alina's death for me had the most impact with Talulah's character in Arc 1, because Talulah still has agency, compared to most of Arc 1 where she's under the influence and control of a Biblical Snake, and has a lot of her agency removed. So the fact that she still has agency the whole time Alina is dying is important to me. It was only after Alina officially died that Talulah's anger set in and the Biblical Snake largely removed her agency from that point onwards.
NARESH4444 Feb 15, 2022 7:45PM
Well,it definitely didn't happen all at once,but gradually as she reached the tipping point.
FluffyCow Feb 15, 2022 11:20PM
^I think if anything the build up came after Alina died, and Talulah's feelings of hate grew from that point onwards. I really don't like the idea of Talulah not having agency/reduced agency over her person during such an impactful scene.
It's fine if we don't agree though, nothing wrong with agreeing to disagree haha
random Feb 16, 2022 12:40AM
p sure Alina's death was just the "beginning of the end", both due to its own obvious emotional impact and because it deprived Tal of a vital emotional/psychological support and moral anchor point. The actual breakpoint that allowed the Snake to take over only came later, when she finally lost it in that one village - that was the last straw that broke her idealism and faith in "regular people". Kaschchey back in the day pretty much outright told her as much, and both Alina and... IIRC Patriot? had repeatedly expressed concern about her excessive optimism in that regard and how she kind of didn't have an ideological fallback should she be disillusioned one day. If memory serves in "present time" at one point Faust also made a passing mention about how she changed "after that village"...
FluffyCow Feb 16, 2022 1:21AM
^I think that's along the lines of what I remember. Talking some more about spoilers, Personally I really don't like the Biblical Snake, I would have been more invested in Talulah losing to her anger and losing herself without it. So I really hope we get to see more of Talulah in the future without the snake. I want to see more of her character under her own power, and I could see her with some writing improvements being an interesting villain along the same lines of someone like Magneto.
NARESH4444 Feb 17, 2022 5:21PM
Perhaps chapter nine and onwards will help bring some light to that,since she's now in an easy to talk to location.
myrrhmidon Feb 17, 2022 7:35PM
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