Where have all the goths gone? I found one making Skyrim mods. This lady named Kukielle reminds me so much of so many girls I knew in high school who liked shopping at Hot Topic and listening to Type O Negative. Yeah, I'm calling that "goth" but I'm well aware there was a pecking order and drama over what is high brow enough to be called goth or if something even has to be high brow to be goth. The point is, this Skyrim modder seems like a throwback to another era. The Skyrim community seems to have had a fractious relationship with her, mostly because it's a lot of whitebread types who don't understand her abuse shtick. They take it personally when the follower character she created insults the player character. When she updated the character so that she has a boyfriend, there were angry voices in the community from people who felt she was cheating on them (although they didn't phrase it that way). All this made the mod author swear off Skyrim modding to focus on her music career.
I recently installed her original mod, Daegon, again after setting it aside some months ago. Kukielle voices the character herself and she often speaks quickly in very low tones obliging me to set the volume on music and effects to zero.
Yet this is something I actually like. A lot of my favourite mods come from authors whose personality constantly comes through in the mod, seemingly by accident. It's like method modding. Do I want some AI doll perfectly enunciating every syllable or do I want this chick who slurs her way through every other "is" and "that"? Call me crazy but I'll take the latter.
Before she quit the scene, Kukielle made a number of other follower mods, all with the same voice. They're available on Nexus Mods.
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