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CC Antagonists Tier Ranking + Some Explanations
Hi, just here to drop more opinions. Again, these are just opinions, don't come for me I beg.
CC Inkember, Days 4-8 (1 Grimsborough + Pacific Bay)
I have continued Inkember, so here are some more drawings! Once more, thank you @trulyatessfan for making this challenge possible!
S7-8 Killers Tier List
- Frankie Sparkles actually is terrifyingly similar to my toxic positivity-spewing former boss and it's been haunting me
- I don't like Roxanne and Fabien killing her was a good move, but he's a massive creep towards Luke so yeah I hate him even if killing Roxanne made sense.
- For some reason, I really liked Howard Stacy when I was playing COR. Genuinely, it might just be because I thought he was hot. He's obviously a selfish, awful person thought.
- Eleonora is low-key kinda just evil Giulietta but she's within my top 3 favorite main antagonists of CC lol
Lawson + Abigail Headcanons
TW for Death, Bereavement, Violence, and themes of PTSD
CC Inkember 2023 Bonus: David Jones (Anger)
I wrote this short fanfic as part of something larger I've been cooking for a while that I hope to release at some point...but I thought this snippet fit really well with last year's Inkember post, so I decided to release it as a little bonus. Spoilers for case 52 of The Conspiracy under the cut!
CC Inkember 1-3 (Grimsborough Days*)
So as many of you have already seen, there's a fun CC Instagram challenge going on, where each day, you can pick a character to draw. I decided to group drawings I do for it by game. Here's my s1 drawings!
*There's another Grimsborough character day tomorrow, but unfortunately, I'm not feeling well right now and don't really have the energy to draw, so I'm dropping these drawings today!
What's your favorite "killer becomes a victim" case in CC?
Pretty self-explanatory. I tend to think those cases are some of the best in all of CC, and several of these cases are quite popular, so I'm curious--out of all of them, which one was your favorite?
Note: I'm only counting cases where someone who was revealed to be the killer of a case who then becomes a victim, so people who masterminded/ordered, but did not personally commit, murders such as Archie Rochester or Natasha Romanova, people who killed someone off-screen but weren't convicted for it during the game, such as Father Donovan or Ruth Wu, or even people who murdered someone on-screen but weren't arrested and convicted, such as Denise Daniels, don't count.
Thanks to Tumblr's poll limits, I couldn't put all 12 cases where the killer is the victim. The cases I decided to leave out were Death without Parole, where Kev O'Connell is killed, and The Third Degree, where Theresa Rosenthal was killed, considering I figured that those were probably the least memorable out of all of these cases. If those were your favorite "killer becomes the victim" cases, uh, sorry about that.
I made a stupid meme about The Art of Murder because Meera has been brainrotting me lately (I'm currently writing a fanfiction about and making some fanart of her hehehe)
yeah Meera was a bit of a monster as well, but hey this fit WAY too well. I'd reject Bateman, too. I mean his confession to her must have been absolutely insane. "I thought it was impossible for me to feel love until I met you, because of you, I can actually feel things now" like they spent a few hours tops with each other. Wtf. I'd laugh at him, too. Anyways, friendly random reminder that Bateman is not redeemable in the slightest and Meera x Bateman is a really gross ship imo
mini rant about Julia Brine's wasted potential
hi. I am back with even more Ad Astra stuff, this time with something to complain about. I'm hardly the first person to talk about this, but it's something that's bothered me ever since I played The Conspiracy. Spoilers under the cut.
Don’t worry, I don’t think anyone would accuse you of woobifying Leroux for that post, or at least they shouldn’t. I mean there’s people in this fandom who literally defend him like it’s their full time job, blame Zoe for all the hate he gets, and make being gay/not straight basically his whole personality because of that one scene where his cellmate revealed he creeped on him in the showers. What you’ve done doesn’t even come close to woobifying him, compared to them imo.
Thank you so much anon! That means a lot to me. I'm always a little worried when I say something about him because I think he's a really, really interesting character but what he does is vile, vile, vile, from spying on Zoe, trying to kill her, actually killing her, leering at his cellmate, threatening to send someone after his lawyer's family if she didn't get him out of prison, and anything else that might be slipping my mind. If someone wrote an essay about why they hate him, chances are high I'd agree with pretty much everything they say be like "yep, that's valid." In my drawing, I definitely wanted to portray him as absolutely pathetic, but NOT in a "aww, poor little meow meow :(" pathetic, but rather, "what an absolute worthless excuse of a man who can't handle the consequences of his actions once things don't go his way and only cares about himself" pathetic in that post. One of my mutuals and I headcanon that he'd be like one of those killers/criminals who faint in court after their sentence is passed because they're absolutely pathetic pieces of trash who again, can't handle getting comeuppance for the heinous stuff they've done.
That was a lot of rambling from my end. Thanks again, anon :)
Poll: Which member of Ad Astra is the LEAST redeemable?
A sister poll to this, I'm curious about said poll's opposite...which member of Ad Astra do you think is the least redeemable? The most evil, the least likely to change, the most vile, all that kinda stuff being irredeemable entails?
Poll: Which member of Ad Astra is the MOST redeemable?
A sister poll to this. Title is pretty self explanatory--which of the five members of Ad Astra is the most redeemable in your opinion? The least evil, the most capable of changing, all of that kinda stuff that redemption entails? This isn't asking who your favorite member of the group is, just who you think is the most redeemable.
Breaking News: Local Privileged White Man Realizes He Is Not Invincible
First of all: do not accuse me of trying to woobify Louis I BEG I know he is a BAD PERSON! But I also think he is an interesting character, especially because "villain who knows they've been outsmarted and outplayed by a greater villain and knows said greater villain is going to kill them" is one of my favorite tropes, and that is exactly what was happening to Leroux during Airport, which is my favorite district of The Conspiracy.
Second of all: We know that Leroux was panicking and knew he was in danger before he exploded and died in his prison cell, and that all tied back to him breaking into the dome controlled by SARA and Denise's secret lab, finding out about the neohumans, her betrayal of Ad Astra, etc, and her blocking him from sending that message to his co conspirators. I theorize/headcanon that before he died, she enjoyed psychologically tormenting him by sending him death threats and the like in the days leading up to his arrest and death, considering she knew about his break in as early as the end of the first case in Airport, leading Louis to start to absolutely panic, knowing his days were numbered and he knew she knew he knew. My favorite one of these headcanons is the idea that, like how he snuck a camera into Zoe's room to spy on her and her powers, someone snuck a camera into his apartment to spy on him and mess with him. Karma!
And finally, since they're kinda hard to read (forgive my poor handwriting), here are the threats on the floor:
- "Did you enjoy your lunch at Rubio's with your coworkers on Monday? Did you enjoy your talk with the CCN secretary as you left work at 9:30?"
- "Where's your chipper reporter smile? :( " (written over footage of him in his apartment)
- "CCN is saddened to report on the gruesome murder of its reporter, Louis Leroux. As a nosy journalist...His tongue and hands had been removed, cut off as Leroux was still alive...won't be looking into any business not his own...died in ....and misery."
- "Have you decided on your last words? Or will you merely scream?" (on the phone)
Thank you, Carla, for helping me with this and letting me bounce ideas off of you!
Random CC Voice Claims (S4 + one S5)
It's exactly what the title says. I'm currently trying to procrastinate my midterm studying as much as possible, so I decided to make some voice claims! I had quite some fun with this.
I tried to choose audio that at least sort of connected to the characters, but I kinda missed with Archie....ignore that.
Ngl I think criminal case should’ve ended with the conspiracy or travel in time
If I had to pick a different season to end on besides 8, I would choose The Conspiracy. As much as I love season 7 and would hate for it not to exist, it could have made sense for season 5 to have been the last season. We had returned to the OG city, reunited with past friends and enemies, made new ones, and, with how the story concluded, it could have ended there.
Personally, even if they're not as good as the other seasons due to being half the length, S6 and S7 were fun to play. (I'm excluding S8 for obvious reasons). And while it would have been nice for Criminal Case to continue, truthfully, I don't know how much longer it could have gone making new content... I've seen lots of people make their own versions of season 9, and all of them are so cool to learn about, but I don't think the game could have survived to a 9th season, even if PS hadn't gone downhill with it.
S4 -S6 Killers Tier List + Explanations
- Larry and Horatio are awful, vile people, but they're interesting characters and very effective antagonists. Arresting them was INCREDIBLY satisfying, with Horatio having one of the most satisfying arrests in all of CC.
- Kev being murdered was one of the most satisfying moments in all of CC
- I'll be honest, the only reason I like Felix Murray is because he looks like Seamus from s4 lmao
- I am not excusing anything Louis, Bateman, or Brock Perry did in the game. They are all--especially the first two--very bad people. I'm just saying I think they're interesting characters. Do not come for me I beg
- S5 is my second favorite season, but I can't stand half of the University characters, and despise all but one of the killers there lmao. Also, Junior Ad Astra, I am your biggest enemy, what annoying af tools
I'll probably end up making a tier list template for S7 and S8 since the website doesn't have that pre-made (as far as I know, I could be wrong). That's going to take a while...sigh.