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Is there anything that surprised you about Shannon's arc (and boy was it an arc)

GODDD this is. especially silly for me, since i was canon familiar with both and knew that SOME strong cr would come out of it. but capochin settling into the Father slot and the found family in general fucking stunned me.

mostly because what i have for her in a season and change of show is like. her relationship with family is super complicated. it's always like. in my experience when a character has a good relationship with a parent, a parental substitute does not crop up in games, and trying to force it is bad.

i hate forcing found family stuff in games, esp murdergames, you GOTTA let that shit develop organically, so i was REALLY careful with it. i am a strong proponent of let characters just be friends or not define that stuff

However,

the similarities and the ways in which capochin understood her just kind of cooked her AND my brain and we got to post case 3 and i was like yeah i think this is earned

i was not surprised by the pressure cooker doing good things to her relationship bc that is EXACTLY what lost does. i mentioned it a bit but she lived a total of 48 days on that island! that's a little under seven weeks so like. late into a murdergame.

if you'd gotten rolled what do you think that case would have looked like?

i was absolutely like she can develop some strong and good cr, but i didn't think she'd get there in a family way! but everything just kinda hit in the perfect way and i'm like damn ig we really are getting into how she views family and how much she really wants one

+1000 for the family stuff and it was so fun to watch those relationships develop for shannon!

Phasma: it would have 100% depended on who i was rolled with and what the cast makeup was left, but i DID conceive of a shannon has a fucking crashout and goes scorched earth if all her close cr died. there was a world in which that could have happened depending on how shit went after case 4

i have other thoughts put pause ten minutes while i finally watch the goddamn stranger things final trailer

haha golly wow-

okay SO the ideas i had about a case beyond a Shannon Typical Breakdown were self-sacrificial impulsive shit. it would not be planned, it would not be calculating bc all her cons have to do with money and family.

think starvation or sickness motive where everyone is in danger. that is the kind of thing that would've gotten her to start making some bad but ultimately selfless choices

i also did keep my eyes peeled for a hallucination motive, because even if i was not rolled in it (and if i was i would only do it if my partner was enthusiastic abt it bc i DID do it last round and don't wanna be a TOTAL one trick pony) there are some themes in canon with her seeing things that may not be there re: her visions of walt

so had i not been rolled and we got something like that i did wanna go to the mods like hey is there any way i can do a something to scare everyone

what thing would have depended on response and the like but I'd Have To

Self-Sacrificial Shit? In MY murdergame cast?

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my last motive idea that would've 100% worked is traditional hostage motive where walt was the hostage. if that 11 year old needed her she would unfortunately try and throw everyone under the bus, and i think it'd be a LOT more interesting if she got killed trying!

ultimately i could go either way on victim or culprit but she would fit very well as a victim. as most everyone called though i was REALLY pulling for her to make survivorpool the whole time because I Fucking Hate Lost <3

thats incredibly reductive, i just hate things about it and one of those is the way it treats shannon

moonlanding: IT WAS SO FUN TO DO THEM... i went into this game like ok i am open to shipping if the 100% right circumstance happens but i'm gonna be real honest, platonic cr is what i was looking for more than anything else and this game delivered on it