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This really isn't relevant anymore but I can't believe I forgot another important usage of dreams within Sdorica's narrative is the Dream Flower!

What we know about the keeper of the Udumbara is scarce but it's very strongly suggested they are a guardian of Sdorica. They don't seem to exist in any physical form currently, inhabiting the dream realm instead and possibly being destroyed when Yao blew up the Dream Flower.

That's a third piece of evidence that connects the concept of dreams with Sdorica which has me even more certain that maybe these DR units will lead to something more.

So, for the past week on Twitter I've been losing my marbles over the latest Sdorica teaser

For context, Sdorica has not had a story update in over a year and this looks awfully like it 'might' be a story update finally. A lot of us had taken to just expecting EOS before we ever got to see the end of the story so this is renewed hope. This is all speculation however and nobody really knows if it actually is a new season or if it's just like a new event or a new series of alts. So I've thought to take the liberty to analyze the image for all it's worth here.

Firstly, if you look at the background you can see what appears to be..... A whale? I wouldn't be pointing this out if it wasn't something that might be important. We actually have seen it before!

This whale actually showed up previously in this loading screen! So you might think we know more about it then? Nope! It's been a loading screen for the longest time but we know nothing about what it depicts. I can't find my source for this claim and I don't want to scrub through files again but I heard a long while ago the file name is something like 'Atlas Beast' so that gives us a location too. This is a pretty interesting thing to include and makes me think that this something more as dropping a long running mystery in something that isn't a story chapter seems very unlike them.

Second line of thinking is the importance of dreams within the game's narrative. I think this is most strongly associated with Sdorica themself/ourself(?). Sdorica can't die so right now it's in a sort of 'waking dream' esque state. We aren't embodying the holy dragon right now but living through a dreamlike state while we rest. The Dracotines then would naturally be trying to wake us from this dream.

The other character related to dreams in Nolva. She enters a dreamlike state everytime Waverlyde takes over her body and her SP has her literally in dreamland. This doesn't mean too much initially but then you consider how she is the only character who is capable of directly communing with Sdorica. Her connection to monsters via Waverlyde and to dreams might be what allows her to do such a thing.

So we can see this reference to dreams as a possible direct connection the narrative which somewhat suggests it might be story content

Okay now that the factual stuff is out of the way here's my doomer and copium theories:

It could possibly just be a new type of alts ala OS two whole years ago. The game has pretty much ran out of girls they can make alts for and the game still holds firm on the idea of one SP per character. So the new type of SP would exist as a mechanism by which they can release alts of popular characters again. These alts might be 'dream world' alts that are perhaps the characters as their 'ideal' selves. OS already exists for a similar purpose but maybe they found the theme too restricting.

My cope theory is that this is a main story chapter and ALSO it is Soohyeon's dying dream. She has a connection with monsters (bewitched) and a theme of her character is 'hope' like the teaser says. So Soohyeon while in the throes of death will.... Idk commune with Sdorica or something? Kiss Tindoiimu sloppy style? Cure herself? The teaser is also blue and you know who else is blue? That's right, Soohyeon! She will show up within a week and I'll get to retire my Twitter gimmick account.

Anyways that's all, if you read this far I really really love you and want to give you a big smooch on the cheek.

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Your favorite mentally unstable lesbian who plays the gacha game Sdorica is moving up in the world! Top 7 in this War Zone!

If you're curious (you aren't) its Sophie DR/Maeok Sp/Tingko SP and Izumi SP/Puggi SP as advisors

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We are gaming

Not a cent given to Rayark for this beautiful blorbo.

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One of my favorite designs like ever. She was actually the reason I got into Sdorica in the first place which I will forever hold against her.

It's a shame Rayark had to be such a garbage company.

Ivy’s profile from ‘cytus ii: art & design’

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This is me with Soohyeon tbh.

My unwavering faith that one day she'll return gives me the will to continue on.

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kong soohyeon of the kyo tribe

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This is literally what this blog is about

Okay well Sdorica has a decent to good story for the most part and has some very pretty art mostly but everything else? True.

Well I like it but it’s not very well written. Also it’s a visual mess. The plot doesnt make any sense and the creators suck and its politics oscillate from mildly problematic to frankly baffling. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. However. the character

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A kind of small detail about Soohyeon that only I have ever noticed is that she has horns?

Check this out. Soohyeon prior to being a bewitcher with a full set of horns. She has them adorned with decorations here which is cute.

You can also spot them in her SP design where they seem to be fully red. Her good also has horn holes which is very cute but must be a pain to take off and put on the hood with them.

You can vaguely see them in the curse of 480p art too. You also can note that Maeok has a pair of smaller horns. You know what they say, the bigger the horns the bigger the-

You can even spot them in her SSR design! They seem to be fully decorated here to compliment her headdress.

However if you look at her R design you'll see no horns. Bewitchers can keep some of their bestial properties so you might assume that she kept the horns but nope! That means the horns she has in her SSR are FAKE HORNS. Which is just really really funny to me.

Okay that's all. I might regale you with my Soohyeon appearance headcanons that border on shamefully lustful later. I just thought this small detail was neat and funny.

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I think it's really neat how much of Ishmael's character is reflected in her hair.

It starts out short, reflective of her inexperience and in turn her longing for something more in life. She grows it out after surviving the Pequod's sinking which represents how she holds onto her grudge against Ahab for so long (mind you, she really doesn't even know if Ahab is alive at all). This ends up making Ishmael resemble the person she loathe both spiritually AND physically. This is made even more blatant in the Captain Ishmael ID where she quite closely resembles what a younger Ahab who was also a ginger might have looked like.

The full commitment here would have her cut her hair, symbolizing she has moved on from her Blind Obsession™. I think medium length hair would suit her best, representing how she has moved on from her past she still keeps the good times she had in her heart.

Then again she does still have the rope headband which represents the same thing lol.

I maintain the stance that if Limbus wasn't a gacha game that Ishmael would have gotten a character development haircut™ after Canto 5.

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My plan is to post about Limbus Company enough to get people to follow me then bombard them with endless TindoYeon shipping content until they unfollow then repeat.

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My Better Half.....

One of the romance tropes I use to define TindoYeon is the idea that each thinks of the other as their 'better half'. They both have different reasons for this of course and both are equally wrong (in my summation at least). It manifests within the relationship itself as a sort of veneration of the other. They will put eachother before themselves and often to their own detriment. It's something that both of them might acknowledge if pressed on their but will subconsciously keep doing until things reach a breaking point.

Tindoiimu thinks this way primarily because she views her own self-worth very very poorly. This is canonically supported after Eclipse with how she views herself a burden to the people around her. When she takes up the mantle as a guardsman she does so as a sort of self-harm(?). She sees her presence as something destructive so by becoming a Guardsman she fulfills that prophecy.

When she gets together with Soohyeon, in some sort of nebulous post-canon scenario that I have yet to clarify to anyone except myself, this takes a different form. She still deeply regrets what she did to Soohyeon and never lets herself live it down. This morphs into her seeing Soohyeon as someone who is uniquely virtuous and strong willed compared to herself. She does not understand the intense self doubt that filled Soohyeon's every waking moment or how many times she thought about the worst option. She props Soohyeon on a pedestal that she doesn't belong on and it causes friction because Soohyeon wants to be true in front of Tindoiimu of all people yet she keeps putting her on a pedestal. She places these expectations and assumptions all on top of Soohyeon without considering if Soohyeon is as firm or as righteous as she thinks.

Soohyeon meanwhile still maintains at least some of her previous veneration of Tindoiimu that I discussed earlier. She's shaken off a lot of it but there are remnants that remain and a new type of idolization that has taken its place. Soohyeon sees Tindoiimu as someone who is unshakeable in her conviction, which you might notice is what Tindoiimu thinks of her, and stronger than her mentally. Shes somebody who took fate into her own hands to achieve something while Soohyeon couldn't really save anyone in the end. Soohyeon see parts of herself in Tindoiimu and as a result projects an ideal of who she is onto her. It's like how she was as a child, turning her into an ideal. Soohyeon ends up denigrating herself more than Tindoiimu does herself. She doesn't really see herself as worthy of her affection, part of this stemming from her initial resignation of ever getting with Tindoiimu.

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I maintain the stance that if Limbus wasn't a gacha game that Ishmael would have gotten a character development haircut™ after Canto 5.

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lets all hold hands together and pray that every time someone asks for a man in the game another handsome butch lesbian is created

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My Assorted Unsubstantiated Limbus Theories

Don is the Judas

Penelope is a woman but their relationship is not explicitly marriage. Telemachus doesn't exist lol

Calypso will show up in Outis' Canto and there will be Yuri (I don't actually believe this but a girl can dream)

Ryoshu's daughter isn't hers and is adopted or found family or something

Babies in the city are secretly weird

Beatrice isn't a person but an object/idea. Might have been a person at some point.

Dante has some very direct association with Carmen

Christianity existing will be canonized but they will not elaborate on what that means or the existence of other religions including other Abrahamic religions

The game will end and Leviathan will not have a complete English translation still

Dante prior to joining the company was actually turbo extremely evil

We'll learn more about the 'Gods of the City' pantheon and they'll be gradually more 'godlike' than the Index one

There will be exactly one Touhou reference

We'll get a new permanent member of the bus at some point (not necessarily a Sinner)

One of the last Cantos will break the format in some way

I will cry profusely during the Meursault Canto for some reason

My source for all these is "It came to me in a vision"

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Project Moon keeps releasing woman in bindings and straitjackets to appeal to me exactly.

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"You're a good person, I know you are... Why become just like them?"

If you're just a casual Eclipse appreciator you might not have noticed it but them use the term "Good person" a curious amount in the story.

The first appearance of the phrase is..... This.

This is in relation to Juan Yun. Very ironic given what happens later both in terms of Tindoiimu's actions and what is revealed of Juan Yun later.

Next instance is.....

This is said about Soohyeon. Oh my heart aches.....

A bit later there's.....

We don't know much about Juan Yun's backstory as much as it pains me to say. Neither the Qilin or the Dracotine. So we can't really gleam much from this but it's interesting. If I had to say anything on this I would say that maybe Juan Yun's (Qilin) mother was such a good person that she turned Juan Yun (Dracotine) into a slightly more sympathetic person. It's also ironic given he is responsible for the war.

Much later.....

This sort of parallels Tindoiimu to me. She recognizes people of her tribe being terrible (in this instance being Ableist and jealous towards Juan Yun) but believes that the people of the East are good at heart with bad actors ruining everything. Tindoiimu meanwhile believes the East a whole is corrupt with a few 'good people' as she deems.

This is the basic friction of their ideologies and in the same conversation we get the lines about how Tindoiimu wants to destroy the Udumbara to drive it home.

I've written about this more in length previously so I won't dwell too much.

And then.....

You have The Scene.

Calling back to the first mention this is Tindoiimu's personal morals coming up against what she feels she has to do for her people. She has damned other oppressed people and a woman she once called a 'Good Person' to their deaths. What Soohyeon says here is true in a sense, the Tindoiimu she believes in is a 'Good Person' but she is acting not as Tindoiimu but a vessel for the the Cycle of Hatred™.

Tindoiimu is obviously incredibly hung up on it too. At the end of that chapter we see her appear before Juan Yun as a sopping wet cat and during the Dream Flower, where we see Pang fight against his greatest regrets again, Tindoiimu instead must fight Soohyeon. Which is super super gay btw but also shows how much this cognitive dissonance has destroyed her psyche. It's the FIRST thing she thinks about when she reaches the Udumbara because it reveals just how much her pursuit of revenge has destroyed the people around her.

So in conclusion: themes? Idk how to end this. If you read this far you get a sloppy kiss on the cheek from me as a reward or not if you're not into that kind of thing I don't really mind.