19 Works in The Beginner's Guide (Video Game)
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To commemorate this new understanding of things, you put a kind of signature up above the glass windowpane.
Three dots arranged in a triangle.
“What does that mean?” a “player” might scratch their head and wonder.
Because people always do that with art, don't they? Insist that everything has meaning.
A few of Coda's thoughts as they were designing each game.
(I am not a game designer/developer)
Comments are off for a number of reasons. Not the least of which is the fact that this is a very personal journey of trying to move away from needing external validation.
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Hi, I'm a person you've never met and will never tangibly interact with outside the medium of this work.
You're here for a story, and you're here, in part, for The Beginner's Guide.
And I'm here for the same reason.
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A story in two halves.
Half 1: The friendship and fallout between Davey and Coda.
Half 2: The reintroduction of Coda into Davey's life. -
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Fandoms: The Beginner's Guide (Video Game)
16 Jan 2024
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Davey has just finished recording his lines for the new game he's making. Imaginary Coda pays him a visit.
'He wished they had stayed the same. With an unusual friendship linking them. Two lone lampposts joined by a common road.'
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Miracles don't happen to us because we deserve them.
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suddenly everyone's a poet by CodaAtTheEnd for Pegasus143
Fandoms: The Beginner's Guide (Video Game)
25 Dec 2023
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You are the queen, dusting your jewelry while your kingdom is destroyed.
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Five years later, a Source developer plays The Beginner's Guide.
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You happen to overhear a conversation.
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Alazony by Mossy_Birch (Mossy_Bench) for aedini (hematophage)
Fandoms: The Beginner's Guide (Video Game)
25 Oct 2022
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Do you understand that you won't be happy until you love me? This is for you.
Davey looks in all the wrong places.
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So you can blame him for being selfish. But he was just trying to live.
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In which Coda reaches out to Davey again, and Davey finds hope again.
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Very short drabble, in which Coda tries coming out to their friend. It's hard.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 264
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 15
- Hits:
- 190
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A purgatory of nothingness. Memories flying by.
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Coda, like his games, is never fully tangible in Davey’s dreams.
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In which Coda reflects on her latest game.
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In which confronting the past is the only way to go forward.
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He thought that he had fixed it, that maybe if Coda played the game, he would realise that in the end he only wanted to belong, to feel loved. He thought that Coda would understand, that he would hear how broken he was and forgive him.
But now...
Codas' voice hate-filled voice echoed through his head
Why on earth would I play my games?
Davey hadn't been alright for as long as he could remember, but now that Coda had sat faced to face with him and Coda had told him he hated him.
Davey couldn't breathe
The guilt and pain swallowed him as Codas' words vertebrated over and over.
Our friendship is over.
And Davey was well and truly alone as he sank below the waves.
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Davey runs into Coda a few years after the release of the Beginner's Guide and they catch up.
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Everything he did was for him. Or so he thought.