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Published: 2015-09-04 06:00:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 2706; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 8
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Some more fanart for the Lisa series...I just want to say, I love Buddy's character development throughout the series. I love how she is portrayed.
Spoilers ahead so please stop here if you care to actually play the game:
Buddy is the last hope for humanity. She was raised in an environment where she is constantly protected. She isn't allowed to leave her home, which is basically a basement, without supervision. Her adoptive father, Brad, teaches her to grow numb and how to kill in the most violent of ways. When she gets older, she doesn't become some helpless damsel "hope for humanity" "must protect the girl" type. No, she gets pissed. She hates how much importance is being put on her body. She resents Brad for never letting her make her own decisions and explore the outside world.
So once given the opportunity to finally make her own decisions, what does she do? She fucking brutally kills each and every person who rules the land. She doesn't dare let anyone sucker her in to being the "last hope for humanity" because it is her body and her choice about what she wants to do with it. She doesn't believe it is her responsibility to "repopulate the world" she doesn't give a shit. She won't let anybody tell her what to do anymore...
So for those reasons, honestly, she is probably one of my favourite characters in gaming of all time. I believe that Lisa: The Joyful is actually an incredibly feminist game. I mean, seriously. What could be better than a young woman brutally murdering the men who feel they have a claim to her body and what she does with it? It's empowering as fuck.
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Well. To be fair. I remember read somewhere that Buddy has a messiah complex. And she kills the warlords of Olathe for two main reasons:
1.-To ruler Olathe as its queen and bring order
2.-To never have to response to anyone any more. In other words preventing that something like Brad did to her never happen again against herself.
She probably do the first in honor to Rando (Who was the only one i can think she could consider a friend or something. Because i don't believe she has any affection for Brad anymore) and the second was for obvious reasons.
Personally it makes sense for me. She doesn't interpret the "Last hope for humanity" as "I'm a sperm bank and must give birth". She understeand it as "I'm Jesus. therefore i have right to do whatever i believe its needed to do". She probably has some other mental problems because Brad really fucked her up in the head. But i see your interpetation as a valid point of view.
Also. LISA fanart. Good.
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Thanks! Yeah I agree with you. Your interpretation is also valid. I do think she did have a bit of a messiah complex as well.
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I think you completely missed the entire point here. She was taking Joy and it screwed with her head. There is nothing empowering about that- she was a drug addict and her murderous actions were a combination of Brad's "training" and the Joy controlling her emotions.
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I respectfully disagree, but we all take something different from the story.
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I mean, it's canon that Buddy was suffering from Joy dosage, and we know that it causes people to get unreasonably angry and violent. While Buddy was cold towards Brad in the first game, she was nowhere near as hostile as she was in the second game, which further points to this. Wiping out an entire town of pacifists isn't really empowering, is it? Or treating Rando like garbage and manipulating and insulting him, and then killing him just because he wanted to make sure she stays safe? (Wanting to protect her not just because she's a girl, but because going lone wolf in a brutal post-apocalyptic wasteland where you're the only female left is suicide.) That's not the actions of a pissed off woman trying to forge her own path in the world, it's the drug-fueled actions of a bloodthirsty conqueror.
One of the themes of the entire trilogy of games is drug addiction and the fallout that results from it, and Buddy is not immune from this. It's ironic that in trying to free herself from any controlling men, she's letting Joy dictate her actions throughout the game.
Regardless, I still think you captured the stages of Buddy's character development pretty well, and I also think she's a great character---probably my favorite in the entire series (close competition from Gary the Hot Soup, though). She definitely is a tough cookie, and I thought it was kinda cool that they subverted the damsel in distress trope in an interesting way. More LISA fanart is always a big plus!
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I'm curently watching a let's play of Lisa the painful and I based on how you described the joyful I cant wait to watch that LP
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Haha yeah! It's super great! Some people I've spoken too didn't like it as much as The Painful, which is totally fair - they're pretty different in some ways. But I don't know, I just kind of fell in love with Buddy's character and her development.
I hope you enjoy it
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