20-07-18, 08:49 | #11 |
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Yeah, but usually wounds close after a while, so no matter how much you press them you shouldn't be able to make the spots where you had them bleed again.
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20-07-18, 11:12 | #12 |
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I disagree, the stigmata plot was a really good touch and made Ana one of my favourite villains of the franchise.
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20-07-18, 13:19 | #13 |
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The stigmata thing is hilariously bad. There’s no need to associate that imagery with Konstantin, and doing so without a believable explanation leaves it feeling pretentious. It sucks because Ana and Konstantin had the potential to be really interesting.
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20-07-18, 15:12 | #14 |
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Agreed with everyone. The stigmata thing was a TERRIBLE plot point that made absolutely no sense. Let's say Ana did manage to sneak into his room at night, how would she manage to stab two holes into her little brother's hands without him crying in pain or running out of the room screaming for help? Would he not recognize his sister? Did she drug him?
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20-07-18, 18:04 | #15 | |
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Maybe some kind of subconscious / psychosomatic effect of his brain that made him bleed because he deep down needed this confirmation to continue his madness ? Wouldn't surprise me in the state of mind he was in.
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I didn't think this part of the plot was bad, I never really had an opinion about it apart from it being kinda random ^^ |
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20-07-18, 18:15 | #16 |
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I think that plot point was an afterthought since it was relegated to a collectible journal.
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20-07-18, 19:51 | #17 |
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Ha now I see how stupid it is realistically speaking. Typically the obvious things I never noticed (Where did i put my brain ? I want it back)
I still like the idea and this aspect of personalty it gives to Ana. |
22-07-18, 14:36 | #18 |
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I just assumed he either clenched his hands together too hard or it was purely coincidental
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22-07-18, 22:31 | #19 | |
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It's just a stupid plot point. |
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30-07-18, 19:42 | #20 | |
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I had read one thing about the stigmata (here in Italy we have a famous saint with the stigmata), who said that they were a phenomenon "mental" (sorry for English), something psychosomatic. The bleed could be related to this "extremist fixation" by Konstantin. According to the Italian Wikipedia: Some researches attribute the stigmata to causes of hysterical origin or linked to dissociative identity disorders, in particular to the combination of food compulsion, dissociative mental states and Self-mutilation, in the context of a religious creed. According to these investigations, nervous anorecties would often present cases of self-mutilation similar to stigmata as part of a ritual typical of an obsessive compulsive disorder. A relationship between hunger and self-mutilation has been reported among prisoners of war and during famines. A psychoanalytic study by Teresa Neumann suggested that her stigmata may be the result of post-traumatic stress symptoms expressed through unconscious self-mutilation. |
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