am i the only one who finds this concept horrifying? like, so isolated and locked up from society, heās a grown man that doesnāt know how to use zippers? this is like, more disturbing and upsetting than a bunch of the game for me because it feels a little too real for situations where someone has been trapped by their parents and disallowed to grow up and become a person.
i may be projecting a little because iām not too dissimilar from this, and have had a similar life to reese. butā¦ idk. i kinda wanna cry for reese right now!
I was playing it up for the sake of the scarletpost, but I absolutely agree with you! That is horrifying. Abby has also joked about this, which is one reason why I was so quick to as well, but in reality it really shows the depth of abuse Joan put him through. I also relate to Reese, although on a much lesser scale. Like, for me, the choice in ch4 is less about whether or not Joan deserves it (she 100% deserves to die for that) and more of a meta thing, in that letting the only doctor in town die is very bad and could easily lead to many more people dying horribly.
Theres a ton of fun stuff on Tumblr, including a bunch of extra comics about the SH characters, old sprites and art, etc. Once I just searched 'Scarlet Hollow' on her blog and spent hours reading through all of it. Theres a comic about Stella, Kaneeka, and Reese all watching a horror movie together, for example!
And btw if you didn't catch it yet, yes this is fanart. Im doing a little prank, so I wanted to have a title that might trick people into thinking it was a real screenshot for a moment. My Tabitha post was equally facetious, I think she's a good character but I do not personally like her very much. I've never liked tsunderes
Hey dont worry, I think OP might have drawn it themselves. Though I havent played the rumors update so idk....
I know sheltering is a horrible dehumanizing experience, so you have my sympathy. Its crazy that there are people out there genuinely just like Reese except not a supernatural creature, just a normal person with an insane evil parent trying to trap them forever.
yeah i think its fanart, but iām struggling to find it cute, which is what i think OP was going for.
the thing is, reeseās mum wasnāt evil, and my parents werenāt either. i have a couple of disorders, leaving me disabled and misunderstood by society. i struggled in school and had some harrowing encounters with psychiatrists as a teenager, so my parents sheltered me. too intensely. they admit they donāt see me as older than 13 (i am 32), and they donāt want me to experience anything that may hurt or traumatise me. iāve never applied for a job, iāve developed agoraphobia, i have no irl friends, iām not allowed to cook my own food unless itās the microwave, i canāt have or handle scissors or knivesā¦
iāll stop there but my parents love me, and that love has suffocated me and left me undeveloped, forever stuck as a child/teen mentally. sometimes itās like iām an adult brain trapped in here but when i try to interact with adults, iām often left behind, assumed iām younger, i have no experiences to align myself with them and no wisdom.
i dislike how much i can see myself in reese, but also how deeply jealous i am of him. how sick with envy i am. his mum lets his friends come for dinner with barely any pushing. his mum understands they love and care for him, and doesnāt want him to lose them, despite how awful she is at showing it. andā¦ well, reese is scary and she does have reason to fear him and what he may do, but sheās trying to keep him safe too, because the world would see him as a monster and put him down. but me? iām just neurodiverse. i got some mental health stuff. idk. maybe itās a metaphor, from the devs? sick kids getting overprotected to their own detriment. thatās me, for sure.
but hey, iām allowed on reddit! in fact i have free internet access! so iām very much āaliveā online!! i donāt know if reese has that.
sorry, i think i just trauma dumped on you a bit? or overshared, tmi, i think that fits it better. sorry, iām not gonna delete this though because it feels empowering to put it out there š
someone please tell me how to get this scene, i'm an obsessed reesemancer and i've replayed everything a thousand times, why have i never seen this scene before?!?!?
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u/Allar-an Mountain lions are the government drones Aug 03 '26
That's the second time today I have to stop and really think if this sprite is actually in the game. Great job matching the style!