r/DeadlockTheGame • u/Trashy-Guy • 12d ago
Discussion Viscous' strange writing direction.
Has anybody else noticed that Viscous seems overtly childish in the new voice lines?
I'm not sure if it's the direction that the voice actor has been given, the lack of sound edits that the older lines had (from what I've heard, the current lines aren't yet finished edit-wise), the writing or all of it as a whole.
Viscous's writing direction has shifted from the friendly yet determined emissary of The Deep, willing to put the goal of defeating The Adversary before everything else. (e. g. him saying that The Djinn's problems are less serious than The Deep's.)... To a second grader. It's a fun line, one of many the update added, but it often feels like an outlier in an otherwise solid character.
Viscous is an emissary, a political figure of the Deep with a message and ambition first, and a goo ball that studies the customs of the surface, second, not a baby.
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u/ResonantAce 12d ago
I mean I believe Viscous is quite literally days if not weeks old. He was a psychic sea anemone that got sentience from the maelstorm and somehow formed a protoplasmic body. Being psychic he probably only knew about things under water.
In his current form he pretty much is a child. It's a whole new world for a scientient sea invertebrate. We dont know what he knows, but he knows the difference between healing and murder ("cubes are for healing, balls are for murder!"). He also very quickly just wants to make friends. He is an innocent sea creature trying to do his best to save his home, and has a childlike innocence about it. He hasn't been corrupted by greed, violence or pride yet so he doesnt truly understand why Mina, Drifter, and Lady Geist would make bad friends
As for how he knows what finger painting is, maybe there was a preschool near the body of water he came from. We don't know what he did when he got on land