Viscous' strange writing direction.

[u/Trashy-Guy]

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.

[u/SnooCats5267]

I mean wasn't he always pretty childish in his demeanor? He was always naive calling random people his friends and whatnot but has deeper goals with the ritual that characters like haze and seven respect in their convos. I was hoping we would get more exploration of the deep with new convos but yea it seems they haven't really expanded on it yet.

[u/The_JeneralSG → u/SnooCats5267]

You're right. I'm rolling my eyes at these comments. I know Viscous has a couple lines where he's serious and not a happy go lucky guy, but 90% of his lines are extremely childish.

I think this is once again, people trying to make Viscous into something he isn't. I've constantly seen people in this sub who imagine that Viscous must actually be this "ignorant monster," archetype (as in, he's horrifying and dangerous, but also aloof and naive about it), when that isn't the case (Hell, there's someone in this very thread using his old model with the black helmet as proof? that Viscous was actually supposed to be creepy). He's almost as childish as Rem. He has a serious mission, but he is not serious.

Like people are trying to say this about the guy who goes "Weeee!!!" and tells anyone with any type of issue whether it be physical or mental, that the cube will help them lol.

All of these people waxing that Viscous is actually some serious character; read most of these and tell me with a straight face that he's not childish most of the time:

https://deadlock.wiki/Viscous/Voice_lines

Maybe some of these were added this update, but he goes up to Abrams and just says "You're blue!" like a child would lol. Like it reminds me of when kids see a person who's a different race than them and goes "You're black/white!"

[u/Inventor_Raccoon → u/The_JeneralSG]

yeah I feel like a lot of people are just imposing their own ideal of Viscous onto a Viscous who is not that

like, in one of his convos with Geist he genuinely displays a more childish view of friendship than actual-child Rem, and you can't say that's flanderisation because that convo is one of his oldest ones!