Well sure, but bluntly, after I've had my bell rung with the buster sword - assuming that Cloud isn't just cleaving entirely through his victims but is slamming into them with the blade enough to buckle armor or the like - I'm not going to be thinking very clearly.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @LibArtsNdCrafts and
Hypothetical-Shinra-Grunt-me, who is a normal human in cheap mass-produced armor, is probably just pass out from the pain of my broken ribs or the like, or lie there and be unable to do very much.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl and
Maybe, people can do a lot with broken ribs, and adrenaline is a hell of a drug, people have kept coming after literally being shot in the head, in addition to other body shots.
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Replying to @LibArtsNdCrafts @BootlegGirl and
I mean serious question, are *you* going to get back up and keep fighting as an underpaid Shinra grunt when a man with a machine gun for an arm, a ridiculously hot MMA fighter, and a taut-muscled youth with a car door for a sword-and-shield just kicked your ass?
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Replying to @loudpenitent @LibArtsNdCrafts and
Not to mention that when grunt #1 gets insta-gibbed, grunts #2 and #3 should flee or surrender
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Replying to @halfunkindness @loudpenitent and
That's actually a mechanic I wish more games and shows used. That's actually how warfare and fights mostly went, there weren't crazy high casualties in most situations because one side just steamrolled the first few mooks and everyone else saw the score and surrendered.
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Replying to @LibArtsNdCrafts @halfunkindness and
I have a theory about this, which is oddly related to cosmic horror and how exotic fears like the abject terror of existential worthlessness or the like are considered "ok," but the simple, far more common human fears of "OH GOD, BIG!" and/or terror of injury are stigmatized
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Replying to @loudpenitent @LibArtsNdCrafts and
Bc fear of injury, being overwhelmed, being powerless, is too close to home, too primal, and society is actively invested as portraying them as only felt by cowards. But abstract fears of "all of my existence has been nothing!" are defanged bc they're purely intellectual.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @LibArtsNdCrafts and
This is why it's "ok" for your character to reel at Cthulu's ambient madness-aura, or the revelation of human insignificance, bc it's nice and intellectual and lacks visceral teeth, but not simply "that is a mountain, that hates me, and wants to kill me personally."
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Replying to @loudpenitent @LibArtsNdCrafts and
One of them makes you an Intelligent, Sensitive, Thoughtful Person attuned to the higher order of things. The other, in a lot of media, makes you a "coward."
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I dislike the TVTrope "Adult Fear" for this reason Like there aren't plenty of adults who have a perfectly rational reason to fear "explosions" or "fire" or "bad guys with guns" or "big scary monsters that eat you"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
This is why I appreciate the tack that Resident Evil's remakes has taken. Jill is *terrified* of Nemesis and its monstrous power, and she ALSO hates it and bravely fights it. The two aren't treated as contradictory, but contextual.
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