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He got pushed out. (Dunno why Asa still thinks those slapbacks will work on him.)

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Ship meme from here

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reblog if you have skilled writer friends and you're damn proud of them

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I guess it's finally my time to give tumblr a proper try ✨️

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Elpis trio aegyo

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G'raha WITH the slutty little glasses... or without?

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G’raha / Crystal Exarch 🥰

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Chp 11 is up! I should fix up the chapter ordering sometime but enjoy this story heavy episode of BEU \o/

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WE GOT OUR AETURNAS!!!!

thanks to @ectojyunk and @talizoraa

our fourth clear of orthos

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hythwolweek day 2 - creation

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💜🌸💜 "In our finite time on this star, it is our duty to make it a better place, that all who call it home now and in future may abide in happiness." 🥺

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The wetsuit...

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I keep forgetting to post my stuff on tumblr. More emethyth mermaids

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okay okay okay okay okay. this is messy AF but i dont even care

Rotating This Thought In My Mind

yes yes the time knife we've all seen it.

anyway i spend i lot of time chewing on this plot thread. the obvious explanation for What The Fuck Is Wrong With Zenos is that the devs dropped it along the way. but barring that incredibly unsatisfying but most likely answer, the other answer i most hear for this is that emet was somehow experimenting with memory transfer or else the making of an ancient in some capacity. and thats a delightful theory. chewed on many a french fry from that theory's basket before myself. something new occurred to me though that maybe you would like to rotate in your mind too.

what if zenos is an entelechy? more specifically, what if emet tried to make an entelechy out of a human and fucked it up.

walk along this road with me for a minute: emet selch is a pissy, pissy gentleman. second point - bringing back his people may be his whole jam, but remembering them in the meantime is also just as important. its his final command/plea to us after all. what do those two facts have in common? well, at one point in his life emet had his memories forcibly removed from him. imagine for a moment that this bothered him like a little sliver of popcorn caught in your tooth. its certainly not the MOST important thing, but it IS annoying as shit. now. imagine you are an annoyed pissy MF to whom memory is critical and you have so much free time you built as a Depression Project a scale replica of your capital city. emet may not be able to remember what happened, but he can remember what happened around the event, and one thing would probably stand out given that his whole job at elpis was to talk to hermes and convince him to join the convocation:

meteion.

when emet learns about dynamis in elpis he is pretty... displeased, about the concept of an entire form of energy he knows nothing about. so imagine emet, hunting about for clues about what happened to him in elpis, learns about meteion, and that she's an entelechy, and that this is a being that can interface with this whole invisible form of matter.

so mr depression project decides to make one. eventually. for an unknown reason that is not the point of this post.

two possibly exclusive outcomes:

1) people dont WORK like that. no really. what you get out of stuffing meteionic abilities of Space Despair into a human person is a complete negation of anything like emotion

2) people DO work like that and what you get is a human child hypertuned to experience everyone elses emotions all the time. imagine fordola but times fifty thousand. imagine if you will how someone might cope with that - by detaching entirely.

regardless of mechanics, imagine that what emet makes is zenos.

i really like this idea because zenos already interfaces with dynamis so well. like us, he seems capable of transcending his mortal abilities in the rush of battle emotion - i dont believe they ever say he does limit breaks like us but i think the things he does in battle count. his story is also deeply connected to emotion - to me, it reads that his entire character arc revolves around chasing that one moment when you feel something. about the necessity of feeling and connection to life. he also seems to work on dream logic at times. he can do magic because he shoved a crystal in his hand and he believed that ought to work so it did. he can traverse the entirety of space on hydaelyn fumes because he believes he can and he really really wants to. he fucking. not to story-fy gameplay elements but it always bothered me how he said he was gonna summon up a sky platform in the shinryu fight and then he did but. thancred made a whole floating archipelago by way of dynamis with no prep time so.

he operates to me a bit like a thing that functions with emotional energy, too. i think about the way he was sitting on the throne in ala mhigo. i think it scans like lion imagery, the way they laze about doing nothing but radiating potential energy, and then BAM then comes the violence. but thinking about it now it also scans as someone who is barely even alive when he's not chasing an emotion. he cuts his throat open in front of us because life and death (the corporeal, aetheric) matters to him far less than Feelings (dynamic).

and then we have the final fight. honestly him using dynamis in the final fight is easily waved off, even on this fun walk of ours, as an instinctive thing accessible by anyone. we do it, and we're written as supposed to be but i have my doubts normal living thing. at the same time, any list of people who have used dynamis on a high level has to include him, and like. the half dozen scions who sacrificed themselves on ultima thule. at least with the final fight we have proof he can access dynamis. woo.

so that was all i had. i was munching on that. i rambled about this to my friends the other day and one of them mentioned zenos is also strange in that he managed to keep his sense of self most exactly having not only eaten shinryu, but zodiark, and the remains of hydaelyn. he posses such a concrete sense of self that even shades of him or ripped data copies act exactly like he does. dynamis could really be a mitigating factor in situations like this.

so i was munch. and THEN. i saw THIS post. about fandaniel and zenos' relationship. and YALL.

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I like their expressions- Also someone get Hyth some glasses for far-away soul seeing