Why is he so fucking uptight?

constantly ridiculed for his glasses and his ethnicity by his fellow cops

was put on Juvie Beat (dealing with uppity teenagers) for over a decade

his last partner died in the line of duty

his latest assignment is to join a pissing match between precincts over one insignificant district that's strongarmed the cops out

and his newest partner is the notoriously drunk Harrier "The Human Can Opener" DuBois

I don't get why people love Kim so much. They act as if he's your best bud when he clearly thinks he's better than you

His signature skill is Composure. Also he seems to enjoy having things such as sticks up his ass.

holy fucking insecurity dude

He's a police officer
He just seems uptight cause his partner is a video game main character who says random shit

Literally look at yourself in the mirror in game and you should know why that might be.

I'm really glad garbage like Wolfenstein will never be made again. the idea that you can treat the Germans who put European self-interests over a hostile alien element as some sort of ultimate evil is propaganda that should have died in the 40s.

Harry is a drunk schizophrenic bum.
When you fumble your rolls, that's all he'd see Harry as.
If you solve shit he nearly worships the ground you walk upon.

he clearly thinks he's better than you

<Esprit de Corps - If an assault were launched on this building right now -- if the windows came crashing down and the whole world descended upon you -- this man would hurl himself in death's way to save you. You are sure of this -- but why?

Because he doesn't want to lose his job

As long as you're remotely competent the RCM is not going to fire you. Just look at Harry.

Competence is proved only in successes though

read detective novel

DUDE THE KILLER WAS A RANDOM SNIPER WHO NEVER APPEARED IN THE STORY BEFORE

throw book away cause it's a shit detective novel

He's not. He's actually incredibly restrained and even understanding of your incessant buffoonery.

As a lieutentant in the murder squad and two decades of service Kim's got enough good cop points built up to fuck up on occasion

It's said communism was the killer several times

communism personified was the killer

"wtf communism doesn't have hands, shit story"

never realize I can look in the mirror

spend the entire game wondering when my screaming void face portrait is going to update

Captcha: GAAYY2

He's not, he actually doesn't give a shit if you drink and drug your ass up on the job at all and admires how you say shit just to catch people off guard. That former one is important, I feel a lot of people play Disco Elysium as Boring Cop just because they think Kim is judging them.
He's just reserved. Because he's a faggot.

Pretty accurate representation of when you have to pee at night, don't turn on the lights, and look at yourself in the mirror. Shit creeps me out every time

Because he is gay

Because Capitalism

Everything after the Church sidequest is kind of a letdown honestly.
Also the vision quests are all bad.

Asian gay man when he visits working class ghetto docks.

hello friend, welcome :)

KILL YOURSELF YOU NAZI FASCIST

huh?

That was so out of character it was weird. Kim is so composed the skill portrait is his likeness and some random trucker dogwhistle makes him lose his shit.

he actually doesn't give a shit if you drink and drug your ass up on the job at all

He disapproves of it in several dialogues, EdC will mention several places where he's holding his tongue on your habits, and he mentions it against you in the final debrief. He just tolerates it because he needs a partner and because, as he tells you, you're not remotely the worst case of drunk-on-the-job the RCM has in service.

Yeah, but spend the entire game getting drunk and saying weird shit anyway, it's the best way to play it and Kim doesn't chew you out the whole time like I think people assume he will.

In general, the game holds very true to its premise of "just say that funny and weird shit, people will tolerate a lot from cops". It is actually hard to go back to other cRPGs afterwards, where every line is deathly serious

It is actually hard to go back to other cRPGs afterwards, where every line is deathly serious

that's actually a great point
other RPG dialogue choices seem so fucking boring after playing through DE even though the actions themselves are mostly benign
just something as simple as internalizing the concept of phrenology before hurling a slur feels infinitely more rewarding than stealing the goblet of faggotry from zanzibart the dragon god

it absolutely shits on the good/neutral/evil choice trope

Because Harry is unstable if he isn't careful Harry will/does kill himself. Kim really doesn't want to handle all that fucking paper work.

Next question.

the perpetrator has to return to the scene of the crime because…

he just does! okay?

the moral of the story is that none of the shit you did mattered because murder is murder regardless of the kind of detective you are, harry's political alignment and interests never matter to the case
and also that the phasmid is cool as hell

tumblr noses

yikes

They're alcoholics, it's rosacea.

Does the phasmid show up at the end even if you never engage with the hunter or his wife at all?

yes, the phasmid pheromones are the entire reason that the communist is still mentally active and he immediately degenerates as soon as the phasmid leaves

Yes but you need the phasmid pheromones to talk to it, it's one of the few always-fail rolls otherwise

The magic of the game comes from putting every investigation together, as some sort of stereo-investigation

2mm hole in reality is likely responsible for the failure of the revolution, the failure of Martinaise's economy, and Harry's memory loss

the Claires have used the deserter as their pawn, feeding his frustration with the world

Insulidian Phasmid made the deserter a crazy old man, so he shoots random people and things

Everything means everything, solving the murder is just the first layer

The Hole has nothing to do with Harry's memory loss. Edgar used him once by directly paying for his services. The Phasmid is the reason the Deserter is still mentally active after decades of self-loathing and total isolation but his reasons for killing Lely were his own.

I knew the game was made by shitlibs in the first 5 minutes when a simple "Hi! Welcome!" results in a 30 minute monologue about how evil fascism is. Don't know how people could keep playing after that point, let alone take it seriously enough to claim the story is "good".

He does respect you if you show him something to respect but he has to put up with a lot of Harry's dysfunctional bullshit

Authority [trivial: failure]

another retard filtered by the lorry driver

DE just cant stop being based

You mean the racist lorry driver? That dude's welcome wasn't genuine, he was intentionally implying Kim doesn't belong there

I feel like i remember a dialogue connecting the hole with Harry's memory but i can't find it, must be misremembering
The deserter expresses his disdain over Martinaise multiple times, and that partially stems from his frustration with the Claires not being the heroes the working class need, they're also the reason he thinks he can shoot anyone, after he shot someone for them
And were it not for the Phasmid, he likely wouldn't have stayed in the islet, and definitely wouldn't be able to take the shot

exactly. He's there to help you solve a murder, meanwhile harry's sinking cars and having a gay crisis

UHH, I'M A NATIVE JUST LIKE YOU EVEN THOUGH MY PARENTS MOVED HERE, YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT ME AS ONE OF YOUR OWN

I wonder what kind of reception you would get as a white man spewing that drivel in Asia/Africa. Really makes you think!

He's a liberal gay Kenny.
Anyone filtered/annoyed by Kenny failed a basic moral litmus test because that dude overlooks basically everything else. Anyone who passes finds that he's basically the only dude in the game who has your back.

What?

third generation, meaning his parents were born in Revachol, as was he

Revachol itself is a multiracial city state that used to control several racially disctinct countries so a mixed race population is a given

there's literally an entire street of black people just down the road in Jamrock proper

I wonder what you'd be like if you paid attention to context

did you take that entire interaction as a personal attack or something
are you brown?

Reading comprehension is not an anon strongsuit

if you're born somewhere, you, as an individual, are native to that place

he clearly thinks he's better than you

Literally anyone would be better than the drunk amnesiac delusional paranoid retard that is Harrier du Bois.

Because RPGs became very formulaic because of hardcore CRPG fans and devs nostalgia baiting them.

There's lines that people take to mean Harry has been to the Church before and therefore MUST have interacted with the Hole because they need to make mountains out of molehills. The fact that Harry hasn't really lost his memory at all should really clue people into the fact the Pale hasn't sucked the knowledge out of his head, he just has brain damage from excessive alcohol, tobacco and speed usage over the course of three days.
And while the Deserter isn't happy with the state of things, it's mostly because he had to spend years watching the remnants of Communism being wiped out by Coalition soldiers, then everyone else rebuilding the city and going on with their lives like the Revolution never happened at all, before finally accepting that the revolutionary spirit was dead and never coming back.

Literally anyone would be better than

The Human Can Opener, who has twice rejected promotion to Captain (the highest rank), who has over 200 solved cases, only three kills (in the worst part of town), and is better than 99% of the entire RCM? Being a total fuckup of a human being is the only reason he hasn't Solved Crime in Revachol.

alcohol is the only thing stopping him from becoming a god

I love how Kenny calls Lee "urban".

Just like real life.
Jews and the deep state is why I have no gf. It's all connected.

hardcore CRPG fan

I don't anyone's really a fan of InXile and Obsidian rehashing Baldur's Gate dry-as-dick approach for the umpteenth time. Ultima, Might and Magic - crpgs were pretty experimental until Bioware decided to exist.

Life is to be taken seriously.

Kim is the normal, responsible, mature gay dad every liberal dreams about. A reliable adult person.

I wonder how something as ambitious as the examination of morality in the Ultima IV-V-VI trilogy would work if done with current gen tech.

Kenny is much more emotional than Kim. I'm not a liberal I like Kim better.

ok but kenny isnt a faggot who whines about racism all the time though

Kim could work as a weed addict.
Harry is a drunkard, Kim is a junkie.

Kim doesn't though? He almost always tries to brush off the subject if it comes up and only divulges after you pester him about it.

Because it's the perfect counter to the crazy player character? If they were both whacky you'd be making a thread saying 'why is disco elysium cringe'? or 'why is disco elysium just rick and morty slop'

This, in comedic terms he's a foil. Standard issue scheme of a duo where one is wacky while the other groans.

Why did yellow monkey fucker trigger him so much?

I dunno, maybe he is touchy after all like a little faggot he is.

Yeah, it grounds the comedy in realism. Disco Elysium leans heavily on this especially in the beginning when introducing the characters. Kim shows us that the protagonist is not as cool and funny as the player or the protagonist himself thinks he is, which in itself is funny and primes you for the more emotional introspective discovery that slowly gets drip fed to you.
During the beginning he's your support structure. For Harry but for the player too. You don't know what to make of the world or what you're playing and Kim provides a lot of information. If he was a quriky character it would lead you to believe that everyone in this world is insane and the vibe of the game would feel immediately different.
Also having a foil means later you can have moments where he drops his guard and joins in on the antics or has moments of vulnerability or shows he has your back. All of which are very effectively endearing in stories

the only dude in the game who has your back.

Except if you don't take his side even once.

That's cuz Kenny's white.

I never got the impression that he thought that he was better. He's just a very patient man while he's dealing with Harry's insanity. He also risks his life to save you.

yikes

no anon, you were the tumblr all along.