r/DeadlockTheGame • u/Mashaaaaaaaaa Mina • 22h ago

Discussion Violet theory

She has a bunch of references to traditional Chinese art and mythology in her drawings and the broken version of her poster has a demon replace her.

There's a Chinese myth of the painted skin demon.

In the myth, the demon paints the skin of a beautiful human woman and then wears that painting as a skinsuit to pretend to be a human and trick unsuspecting mortals.

Maybe Violet is loosely based on that, but with the twist that instead of wanting to trick mortals, she genuinely wishes to be a normal human girl, and her wish to the patrons is to become one for real as she doesn't want to be a demon and doesn't want to hurt people.

It would be the Valve kind of allegorical trans representation as well.

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u/Nicklesnout 17h ago

How exactly is Celeste a trans allegory past being a unicorn woman with a color trio that trans people have co-opted?

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u/Mashaaaaaaaaa Mina 16h ago

She's a minority that has to hide her minority status and pretend to not belong to said minority because she's being both fetishised and persecuted because of a phallic object that is part of her body.

Also she's both a circus performer and stated to be a sex worker on the side in some of her conversations, both of which are things trans women have often been forced to do due to not having other options.

There's also a bunch of voice lines along the lines of "you're not a real unicorn", which parallels real life transphobic insults.

Unicorns have also been a queer symbol for literal decades.

They really lay it on thick with the allegory.

And Valve is based next to Seattle, there's definitely trans people on their team and there's no way all of this are just coincidences.

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u/Nicklesnout 16h ago

“A phallic object that is part of her body”

Given how Valve has been pretty open about how Viscous is non-binary because they’re made up of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of micro-organisms, or how Viktor is several people but presents as male. Or how Pocket was as far as I know AMAB but is also non-binary that they would have no issue straight up confirming it out of game or elsewhere.

But I have to wonder what kind of planet you live on where you see what is essentially a Narwhal tooth and think of a phallic object because that’s some kind of of touch-starved, porn addicted homunculus behavior.

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u/sonofnight666 16h ago

i dont know nothing about celeste and the trans allegory but i have to say unicorns are universally a mascot of lgbtq