@shift_reset @hikari it’s… not even that much of an inversion of the tropes, now that I think about it

it’s more a continuation of them. what happens when you take the same tropes and up the stakes. it might feel like it’s trying to be edgy but you’re right, it takes itself very seriously, and that’s what it’s trying to be—serious, not edgy, and “dark” only insofar as dark overlaps with serious

@mcc I hate and respect whoever decided that the standard name for that needed to be “throbber”