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13 years ago
It’s sort of silly, but out of all the romantic gush and love stuff I’ve read (and have been subjected to) the one that leaves the most impact with me comes from a quirky video game RPG called Earthbound.
In one area of the game known as the Dusty Dunes Desert, while making my way from one plot point to the next, I bumped into a single white pixel that didn’t seem to be part of the background graphics. Being young and curious and already enjoying myself with this game, I figured I’d “talk” to it.
White Sesame: I heard that the black sesame I used to love is somewhere in this desert. If you see him, please tell him that I still love him.
Well, not quite a “mood whiplash” but it was a little sombering given that the game was definitely more light-hearted and happy. So I kept making my way through this desert when about an hour later I saw a single black pixel on the screen. I figured what could be the harm in wrapping up this “side quest”.
Where I thought I’d get another goofy counterpoint that would have been more in line with the rest of the game, I got the following:
Black Sesame: Why would you feel like talking to a tiny black sesame like me. I wanna apologize to the white sesame that I hurt before If I could just see her. What? The white sesame still… loves me?! *cries*
I guess I’m a sap. After digesting what I’d just read I had to put down my controller and go have a good cry for about 10 minutes. Here, couched in the middle of a strange RPG for the Super Nintendo was a love story that couldn’t have been more that 4 lines long that moved me to tears.
So even with my theological background, my knowledge of the science and the sociological origins and results of “love” whenever I think of true love, the story of the two Sesames of Earthbound is still one of the first examples that is brought to mind.
And it to this day, it still makes me cry.
In one area of the game known as the Dusty Dunes Desert, while making my way from one plot point to the next, I bumped into a single white pixel that didn’t seem to be part of the background graphics. Being young and curious and already enjoying myself with this game, I figured I’d “talk” to it.
White Sesame: I heard that the black sesame I used to love is somewhere in this desert. If you see him, please tell him that I still love him.
Well, not quite a “mood whiplash” but it was a little sombering given that the game was definitely more light-hearted and happy. So I kept making my way through this desert when about an hour later I saw a single black pixel on the screen. I figured what could be the harm in wrapping up this “side quest”.
Where I thought I’d get another goofy counterpoint that would have been more in line with the rest of the game, I got the following:
Black Sesame: Why would you feel like talking to a tiny black sesame like me. I wanna apologize to the white sesame that I hurt before If I could just see her. What? The white sesame still… loves me?! *cries*
I guess I’m a sap. After digesting what I’d just read I had to put down my controller and go have a good cry for about 10 minutes. Here, couched in the middle of a strange RPG for the Super Nintendo was a love story that couldn’t have been more that 4 lines long that moved me to tears.
So even with my theological background, my knowledge of the science and the sociological origins and results of “love” whenever I think of true love, the story of the two Sesames of Earthbound is still one of the first examples that is brought to mind.
And it to this day, it still makes me cry.
