[disco Elysium] finally come up with an idea for a Harry/Kim fic I actually want to write - Harry is requested by the ghost of Disco to find out who murdered her, and becomes convinced that this is crucial in solving a larger case, which drags Kim in
i want to read this immediately
i will write it as soon as i have figured out what the other case is
because it provides a great framing for all the shit i want to have Harry do
it's homo-sexual underground adjacent so i can have Harry realise he likes men and then become a Label Cop who goes around inventing terrible sexuality microlabels for other people and ruthlessly policing them
it's related to the Disco Sucks movement which I find fascinating
there's a whole history of murder and racism mixed in with the death of disco, but also this resistance to the onrush of neoliberalism was a huge part of anti-disco sentiment, too
because when it died in our world, it was all ultracommercial fad records and assholes who wanted to buy the clothes and be John Travolta
Disco Inferno gets title-dropped several times in DE (the title is the opposite of it, as well), and I find that revealing because Disco Inferno was a fad record
it was a merciless attempt by The Trammps to exploit the mid-70s fad for The Towering Inferno
we don't know if Disco Inferno exists as a song in the setting. there's a lot of real-world art that is referenced in the game which can't be in it
i kind of want Disco Inferno to have been a real song in the Disco Elysium world in the same kind of way that Vivienne Westwood exists in the world of Final Fantasy XV