Category 7 - Blog Posts
in the silt verses i think that prayer marks to the saint electric should resemble transmission pylons as viewed from below
the more complex the sigil, the more powerful a conduit for her current it is
hi, i just wanted to ask why did ronin and angel break up? also, love your game, i think ive replayed it around 5 times now. thanks for answering, if you do <3
i have lots of thoughts about this... i feel like to explain why they broke up u need to know why they got together:
ronin and angel got together partly out of proximity: feeling like they were the only ones that understood each other. they were also the only people in the server at that point which meant for about 2 weeks it was just them flirting.
angel felt safe with ronin bc unlike the men she's been with before, he actually respects her boundaries and genuinely cares about her (the bar is in hell). the fact that ronin's a trans guy helps, too: angel felt a sense of safety in his transness cause like he's dealt with everything that comes with growing up afab; he understands in a way that her past relationships don't, or don't care to understand. and ronin is quite the devilish gentleman. like angel says in game, being with ronin is the first time she truly felt safe with anyone.
as an additional point, i think angel feels guilty about "using" ronin in this sense and fears invalidating his masculinity; "does ronin think that i think he's not 'really a man' which is why i'm with him and feel safe with him?? because i don't think that" but i feel like that's a whole other ask haha. angel has a lot to unpack i'm ngl. anyway ronins answer to that is stop worrying your pretty little head.
ronin felt safe with angel because he was subconsciously projecting ther, his first love (who he still has a lot of unprocessed feelings about) onto angel. angel gives him the push-pull of ther, but without the heartbreak that came with them. angel is "his girl", now, someone he can focus on and care about, someone that he can be with, who acts similar enough to ther that he can almost pretend it's them. (as for a fun fact, angel's VA is ther's VA from gluttony gods!) even though angel's not and will never be.
angel and ronin's relationship was more out of necessity: it helped angel process her feelings about men (to an extent) and helped ronin get closure too. after realising this though, they realised they worked better as friends - because they were mutually using the other to cope and process feelings, even if it was mutually beneficial.
thank you for your ask! <3 i'm glad you enjoyed the game so much :3
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so fucked up that spongebob squarepants is a children's show that can't feature alcohol because squidward would look right at home cuntily swirling a glass of red wine
The Good Place season one: Haha, what if someone was sent to heaven by accident and had to pretend to be a good person!
The Good Place by the end: Morality cannot be measured in a vacuum. While people should be held accountable for their actions, people are a product of their environment and the results of our actions are often beyond our control. Bad people can improve when they loved and supported. Also, the reality of death is essential to the enjoyment of life.
Tangent would love being a Gardener
Gardeners are beings that have so much knowledge and experience and power and it's obvious that Tangent and Dys both search that in their own ways. Tangent also comments about how even her "right body" isn't right for her. She feels limited by it. I just... Gardener Tangent.
given that prayer marks seem to be routinely engraved on acolytes/sacrifices themselves, what is the status of (non-votive) tattoos in tsv? could they be used by victims/surviviors of illegal worship to cover prayer marks (like some do for scars)? or to neutralize them? or conversely, would they not interfere with a prayer mark at all, and then could they be used by illegal god worshippers to hide them? or are they looked down upon or regarded with suspicion/wariness? do they even exist???
I think yes to almost all the above - I imagine that former worshippers might cover up unwanted prayer-marks by transforming them into a new design, but not as a mechanical cure-all - they might then sometimes find that the new design is somehow being incorporated into the manifestations of the god as it haunts them.
(i.e. Change that barbed-wire tattoo into a nice harmless rose because you want to be rid of the military-boundary deity you used to follow? Surprise, your family are all twisted up in a maze of horrible wire with red roses sprouting from their mouths!)
Suspicion of any iconography whatsoever would definitely be a society-wide issue, and contribute towards the prevalence of straightforward propaganda that we see in the show.
out of curiousity, do you have a concept of what the marks of the last word look like? i find the description of the marks of the many below and of the wither mark really fascinating (also because. theoretically. they’re kind of up to interpretation like for example “three parallel lines” doesn’t specify whether they are vertical or horizontal *) and i was wondering if you had a similar visualisation of what val bears on her skin. (or also like, just a vibe)
* a second question has now occurred to me. do the descriptions only sound ambiguous to us, with no knowledge of prayer mark conventions, or could they actually be drawn differently based on the same description also in-universe? and if so, would every interpretation work, or is there a correct way and shrue should really just have been more precise in describing it?
No, zero idea! I did initially have the concept (which I think we partly recorded and maybe even left in a line or two nodding towards) that Val's marks 'flower' into evidence of the lies she tells - so they change shape as she's speaking and then become photographs or records or film-tape that peel from her in big sloughs of dead skin.
But poetic though that may be, you then have a character who's just sort of dropping giant distracting wads of dandruff in every single scene, which is sort of dramatically inhibiting.
omg are you making up original tsv gods?? what are they about im so curioussss also is it for a fic or something
I’m still workshopping them but one of them is the god of love. Maybe the god of marriage? Idk it’s still a work in progress but I’m sure the answer will come to me at like 3am one morning
I’m kind of merging some tma avatar ideas with gods and just Frankensteining it out here
I’m hoping to write some fics about them but idk if I should create my own characters or make the tsv lads come across them. Decisions decisions…
Jon Sims and Arthur Lester both look like they’d be 80 pounds sopping wet and have more scars than an alley cat but the difference is that Arthur lived in the 1900’s and isn’t supernatural so he could kill Jon with his bare hands. Yes even with Jon’s spooky eye thing. He’d be like “Ceaseless Watcher Turn Your Gaze Upon This Wretched Thing” and Arthur’d be like “I’m blind idiot” and murder him with a rock.
Some I Was a Teenage Exocolonist thoughts now that I've had time to process my first run:
I love that not only are you not expected to achieve a perfect run on your first playthru, it's not even possible. There are consequences for things like not going to school (mostly in the form of missed opportunities) but no one is going to grab you by the scruff and force you to do it. You're truly allowed to just be a kid living your life which of course will include making mistakes. But this message that you can come back from anything, that there's no such thing as a life ruining choice, that it's ok to not be perfect or perfectly good, that's so fucking refreshing to see in a video game. And the replacement of a good vs bad morality system with a "respect for authority" meter is just *chefs kiss* that combined with the empathy stat should be the standard for any kind of game like this, it's so genius.
Like I started my second run last night and there are a couple things I'm intentionally going to do better this time (being more efficient with gifts and paying better attention to the fetch quests) but this is the first time playing a game where I've ever felt truly comfortable with not getting everything right, or even most things. Like I've just been randomly picking an activity every month (literally rolling a d6) and bc of that my character basically never goes to class. I've already decided next run I'm going to dedicate at least one month every season to school but I don't feel pressured to restart this one like it truly feels ok and part of the intended experience to fuck up and do better next time and that's so fucking cool
I have some random thoughts about Vace from Teenage Exocolonist. (It's been a while since I played, so hopefully I haven't gotten anything incorrect.)
He was always so insufferable at the start, but I really like characters who can grow and actually become better people, because that doesn't happen often enough in real life. And he really does change, if you can get through to him. It's not an instant, overly perfect change, it's still a struggle for him, but he never stops trying. He doesn't even ask for forgiveness from the people he hurt, he understands they don't owe him that, he just acknowledges his wrongs and tries to right them and be better.
And when you think about what the Helios society is like and learn about his upbringing, his past, it doesn't make some of his actions excusable, but it does make them make more sense. He was abused by his parent. His enhancement, according to the artbook, is a perfect body or something like that, though in-game it's listed as having a big dick. That's what he was raised to believe is most important in life. Helios seems to be a society of toxic masculinity and bullying and "might makes right." He says himself, "I was born because they knew they'd need the next generation of soldiers to fight." IIRC, Rex and Nomi are anomalies on Helios. Vace is the norm. Vace is the ideal. And he's still young. All the adults in his life are just as much to blame, and at least (again, depending on the ending) he's breaking that cycle. That's a credit to him. That he's willing to go against so much of what's ingrained in his mind, to face the regret or shame or pain that comes with acknowledging your wrongs, and say, "I'm going to be better than that from now on." The world would be a better place if more people did that.
Listen, in real life, I'd have most likely avoided him pre-change because he is a real asshole at the start, and I wouldn't blame anyone hurt by him for not forgiving him. But as a character, I like him a lot *shrug* There's more depth to him than it first seems there is, and he has a great redemption arc. And although some of his convo after he starts therapy is a bit cliche and maybe a bit more insightful than is realistic for most people, it's a great look at how someone's upbringing can mess them up and what it means to genuinely change and try to do right by the people you've hurt.
Also he did sometimes make me laugh when he was just being grumpy or full of himself 😅
MORE IWATEX OCS YEAH
This is Iri (they/them) they were born on the Stratospheric and they want to be a teacher (If you can't read the text, check under the cut)
Iridescent (Iri)
Name Origin: having a shimmer that seems to change colors at different angles
Augment: Heightened empathy
Iri has always had a deep fascination with everything the world has to offer, and a never ending desire to learn. Iri is the type to remember insignificant things about another person, the way they fiddle with their fingers or how much sugarbug syrup they want in their blep tea. They love everything, from the smallest bug to the biggest stars. As much as it seems like it, Iri doesn't go through rose tinted glasses, they simply choose kindness as a form of resilience.
Iri is always there as a shoulder to cry on, but because they know the weight of other's feelings, it makes it hard for them to do the same.
The new Extracolonist update is here!
Join your old favorites, newly added characters like Calli, Avian, and Felix, and now our final two stratos additions Mel and Peri in your first year on the exoplanet Vertumna!
Following this, we may have smaller updates for bug fixes and other things, but the next major update will finish the childhood years.
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will u ever drop the faulkner playlist? i am FASCINATED 👀
yes!!
i'll drop it as many times as y'all want, i love making playlists, follow me on spotify if you wanna see some unhinged shit
could you please write something about ronin and his ex Ther?? I'm so curious to know what you think went down between them :3 i love your writing it's so good 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶
Forgive me if I get something wrong about Gluttony Gods I only did one run through it 🙏
I think what's really interesting about having Gluttony Gods and Killer Chat is that we get to see Ronin's past, but at the same time, it isn't really his past. Parts of it are canon, parts of it are not. Ther being a major part of Ronin's life is canon, but Ther continuing to be part of his life is not.
So what happened then in the Killer Chat universe?
Well, maybe Ronin… didn't go back. Decided to just continue his life somewhere else, except there's no way he could have done that at all, that wouldn't be Ronin. He has to go back, for Ther and for himself, so I believe in the KC verse that's exactly what he did too.
He is the devil and chaos incarnate, but when it comes to Ther, we can predict him just a little bit more. So if Ronin is the same so far, then something must have happened to Ther.
I have two thoughts/theories/ideas for this—one is that, by the time Ronin came back to Angelwood, it was too late. There was no chance for him to save them, maybe Ther just couldn't handle it anymore, couldn't handle having to keep up their mask and facade, they were gone by the time Ronin came back without ever having the chance to know that he came back.
The second is that Ther was there, and most of the Gluttony Gods events played out, a massacre, ruins of blood and gore, but somewhere somehow, Ronin lost them—not literally in the gone missing sense, because there's no world where Ronin wouldn't be devoting his time to Ther if he even thought she was still around, so she has to be… dead. In either of these cases, the result has to be the same. Ther is dead, or at the very least, there has to be a reason for Ronin to believe they are.
So he loses himself a little more. Truly becomes the devil, the butcher, with kills racking up to the hundreds, he doesn't particularly discriminate with who he targets, but if they happen to fit his criteria of who he really hates, then he can lose himself in his kills just a little more.
It's why it's so amusing to him when he meets Angel and finds so much of Ther in her. He would never be able to truly delude himself into thinking that they were similar, no one could ever be Ther, but their similarities did bring him comfort. It's why, even after they break up, he can't help but find himself feeling protective over Angel, just a little softer than he normally would be to the others, because sometimes he looks at her and he's reminded of what he lost.
And honestly? I think no matter how much he loves the MC, there's nothing that could ever top the love he had and still has for Ther. The hole is just too big to fill, and he's not exactly looking for a replacement (which is a good thing depending on how you look at it 💕).
Happy Halloween! Are you ready for the Killer Chat! Halloween Special? ;)
HOW DO SERIAL KILLERS SPEND HALLOWEEN?
TOGETHER... OF COURSE.
It's October 31st, 2023. Angel's overworking herself when Ronin knock-knock-knocks his crowbar against her door. V's landed in Japan for a charity event and Misaki is begging him to meet them for real.
Whatever happens... no one's dying tonight. Right?
It's bound to be a special Halloween.
FEATURING...
Two original short stories about the Killer Chat main cast and their Halloween!
Two beautiful art pieces by Killer Chat's CG artist @munstxr illustrating the story's events... featuring the serial killers in costume!
MADE BY...
rosesrot - Writer
munstxr - Artist
This book is a DLC of Killer Chat!, a dating sim where you date serial killers on the dark web!
Download the short stories for free now!
This time I have something diffrent and smaller as I played new game and I made small guide/list of tips to get every ending. Maybe it will help someone.
I really recommend trying it out. ^^
if the li's went to therapy what would they be diagnosed with? :3
ronin - i don't think the therapists know what's wrong with him 💔
angel - depression + anxiety
misaki - adhd + anxiety
v - autism
What would Ronin's response be if the MC he thinks is just an innocent writer is actually a serial killer lmao?
he'd find it so fucking hilarious! he'd live for it.
Hey I noticed you said you write fic for TSV. Would you drop your A03?
i'm scorpionwedding on ao3! i've only written one so far, but i'm currently working on the sequel fic, which is a little more than halfway complete (it's... long)
killer chat faq's!
(please see my askbox rules and my general faq before you send in an ask! i've updated my askbox rules recently so do take a look.)
explaining my tags!
you can see all of these answered under #faq on my blog.
i use #killer chat asks for all asks related to killer chat.
i use #killer chat li's for all asks related to the killer chat love interests.
i use #ronin killer chat, #angel killer chat, #v killer chat, #misaki killer chat for content (incl. asks) about them specifically or featuring them heavily.
i use #rosesrot asks for everything relating to myself. these will be updated as i go!
general
↳ what inspired killer chat?
↳ the cast's ages?
↳ what if you admitted that you weren't a serial killer?
love interest specific
↳ love languages?
↳ heights?
↳ nationalities + race?
↳ psychiatric diagnosis?
↳ if they weren't serial killers?
↳ sexualities? (if they weren't player-sexual)
↳ music taste?
↳ clothing styles?
↳ breakups?
↳ jealousy?
other
↳ is ronin trans?
↳ why did ronin and angel break up?
↳ is angel a cannibal?
↳ killer chat love interests as lana songs?
how do the LIs act when (and *if*) they get jealous?
jealousy jealousy
(i have like 12 asks about the li's getting jealous... it was about time i wrote this lol.)
ronin - he won't care tbh. ronin isn't the jealous type. he might play it up to you "aw, spendin' so much time with angel, what's a devil gotta do to get his due?" but in his hearts of hearts he knows you'll always come back to him. he's corrupted you, made you his: why would he be jealous when he knows you're his?
angel - wouldn't get jealous, mostly because she's too busy to be jealous. if you're flirting with someone else, she's more likely to feel inadequate and blame herself. if ur trying to make her jealous, she would get insecure and try to win u back. but she'd also hide her feelings under a smile like nothing is wrong :)
misaki - would get super clingy and attached to you, mostly because they're scared of losing you.
v - would proudly proclaim you to be his lover to anyone who even looks at you both. would threaten with sophistication when provoked.
hi!!! I have a question about ronin :3 Has he undergone any gender affirming care? I know T is mention in game, but anything other than that? If he hasn’t had top surgery, does he bind and how safe is he about it if so?
(Sorry if it’s weird I’m writing a fic and want to know for the content. You don’t have to answer any of this if it makes you uncomfortable or if you just don’t want to!! I just love the game and want to know more so I can do it justice in my fanfic)
in killer chat, ronin has undergone top and bottom surgery! (he got them in pretty sketchy backalleys both times, but it worked out for him, so...)
but of course, if you'd like to write about a ronin who hasn't had top surgery and binds, feel free to write as you wish! ❤️ in many of his canon's iterations he binds and how safe he is with it really just depends on his mental state.
I've been trying to find the pfps of the characters or the sprites for edits but i don't know were to find them u.U
if you join the discord the avatars are pinned here! everything else can be found in the press kit.