YOU - “Have you ever killed anyone, Kim?” KIM KITSURAGI - “Yes.” He pauses. “The last time was four years ago.” EMPATHY - He says it matter-of-factly and moves on. COMPOSURE- He has internalized it well. It’s just that. A fact. A self-contained, past event. ENDURANCE- There is a *slight* physical revulsion in him while saying that, but he’s worked through it in the intervening years.
“Every school of thought and government has failed in this city, but I love it nonetheless. It belongs to me as much as it belongs to you.” -Kim Kitsuragi.
I love parallels and imagery and video games that wound me deeply
I finished Disco Elysium a couple days ago, and my God. It might actually be the best game I’ve ever played. You can really tell a lot of love was poured into it. So I did my best to do it justice.
For this piece, I tried doing a few things differently. The shading and color is in a bit more of a dappled, painterly style to mimic the look of the game. Then the smoke, the sky, and the lungs have that shimmery effect just ‘cuz I thought it’d look pretty. I also tried mimicking the blue color palette of the church and Dolores’s portrait. The one thing I regret is not incorporating the phasmid somehow.
