Something else - an observation:
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It's interesting how much Brianna's video game characters resemble her herself. I mean, Holiday and friends look like they're constantly pissed off and feel insulted. This is in a way also true for the character in Cupcake Crisis -- while she superficially looks happy, there's something very tense about her demeanor, like she might have a nervous breakdown any time.
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I definitely agree. The characters from rev. 60 have been with Flynt, in his mind, since at least early college...as far as we know. It's possible that some incarnation of the scrotum up-do Holiday made world-famous was doodled by Johnny back in high school....If we pull out our "shoot from the hip" Freudian diagnosis, she literally wears John's severed balls on her head. To John, then, some of women's potency and power and individuality comes from their fancy hairdos....probably one of the reasons his characters are distinguished by differing 'dos and little else, and why he never bothered to feminize his face beyond long hair to hide behind.
It's as if these characters are a concentrated slice of Flynt's id, which show all of the worst sides of him, because they were initially intended mostly as wish-fulfillment and then became an actual product. Look at that urine-colored motorbike covered with lazy tribal tattoos....It looks like the idea of a vehicle created by someone who thinks motorcycles and tattoos are tres cool, but has no experience with either. I'm certain this is one of the reasons we all have so much trouble buying John as a professional sports motorcyclist... what bike aficionado would design a motorcycle that looked so
fake?
And then, of course, Flynt
himself became his greatest Mary Sue. So all the same backwards ideas and wish-fulfillment that got poured into Rev. 60, ended up in Wu:
-Tendency to wear hair in sloppy updo, thinking it's the height of feminine chic
-Fascination with women on motorcycles, what would Freud say about something vibrating between your legs John?
-Constant snarky sarcasm, which comes off as nothing so much as bad soap-opera dialogue
-Relentless need to assert one's superiority; whether "Unreal engine genius" or "Master vehicular assassin"
Wu is just as shoddy a construction as his characters, because they are both hilariously the product of a boy who didnt have much actual interaction with girls. It's like some junior-high school nerd was asked to create his ideal girlfriend, and then become the girlfriend himself.
But Wu thinks he's got everyone fooled, that his charade is a success, and that people actually look up to him as a *woman*....
