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katanayume · 17 hours ago

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heyheyhey can I have some netzach x reader hcs? thank you!!

Yes you may! Also I’m realizing that I tend to default to writing the lor versions of the characters, so if you ever intended the lobcorp version instead just let me know and I’ll write them again for you. You’re welcome, have a good day/evening/night! Also sorry for this one taking a couple days, but it’s here now.

Netzach x Reader Headcanons:

He’s not the most romantic type, at least in the traditional sense. It’s more of he has no idea what he’s supposed to do, and he didn’t really expect to make it this far. There might not be glamorous and fancy date nights unless it’s something you initiate, but he expresses his care in his own ways.

He’s a pretty leisurely guy so you don’t really have to worry about too much stress in a relationship. However, his procrastinating does impact his schedule because he might have to stay behind longer when working. If you don’t mind, then it’s a perfect opportunity to spend more time together.

If you’re a little disappointed that you can’t have as much free time together then I’m sure that he will make the push to do better. The reason he was so casual about it to begin with was lack of motivation and a disliking for the job, but if you serve as a reason for him then he has more reason to get things in on time.

Honestly, even if it isn’t intentionally, you help him get out of a lot of bad habits. You’re someone that he can talk and rant to, and who has been through the experiences of Lobotomy Corporation and relate to an extent about his troubles. He’s a pessimistic person, but seeing you manage to enjoy yourself even after all you’ve been through encourages him to start seeing things in a more positive light.

Netzach is tired a lot of the time, and prefers to spend time sleeping over anything. However, you make his waking moments a lot more pleasant. It’s not as though it’s some shift into someone who’s energetic and ready for anything, but there’s a visible difference.

In the artbook it says that one of his hobbies is to paint puzzle pieces. I think that one of the ways he shows he cares is by making intricate art and giving it to you. He puts a lot of thoughts into these gifts, as well as passion because they’re honestly quite stunning.

Whether it’s a normal painting or a whole puzzle, he’ll probably come up to you at random and hand you the items. He doesn’t really know how to approach it. I wouldn’t say he’s super nervous, Just kind of awkward and slightly flustered because relationships are a new thing for him and he doesn’t understand proper timing if there is such a thing.

Of course you greatly appreciate this, and he eases up when he sees that big smile plastered on your face. You might come up and give him a big hug, which he returns.

Continuing off of his sleepiness, he tends to be pretty loose in his affections. He’ll come up to you, sling an arm around your shoulder, and lean into you. It’s as though you’re a pillow to him, because he could fall asleep on you in an instant.

He also likes when you loosely play with his hair. He clearly knows how to tie it up but it’s still very lazily done. If you just come up and fix it for him, or in general tidy him up a bit he’ll find it to be quite lovable. He thinks it’s nice that you regard his health highly, but he will absolutely lightheartedly tease you about it.

I actually feel like he would tease you about things a lot. Of course if you genuinely communicated that you prefer if he didn’t, he wouldn’t, but otherwise he will. This is a big way that he expresses his adoration, and is one of the easiest for him to do.

He’s actually really good at picking up other people’s emotions. It’s actually one of the biggest reasons why he hates working at the library as he did with Lobotomy Corporation. He hates seeing others suffer, because it makes his heart churn.

For this reason, if you ever seem to be a bit insecure about a specific thing he might joke about then he will catch on almost immediately. He’ll probably confront you later just to make sure that everything is okay, and get clarification.

But it’s not just for when he’s being playful. If you’re having a rough day in general then he will absolutely be able to tell, whether you want him to know or not. He understands that sometimes you don’t want someone to pry, or don’t want to talk about it at the moment, and he won’t push you too.

Actually really great at comforting. For all the times you’ve helped him through depressive states, he’s absolutely going to return the favor. He understands how it feels to be miserable, even if he doesn’t know the specific reason why, and will try to get you to feel better.

He comforts a lot through physical touch. Sitting down together, just embracing each other in a heavy yet comfortable silence. He isn’t the best at speaking and using his words to cheer you up, but he tries. And when he does talk, he can say some really memorable things.

If you both struggle with something, I think you help use one another to encourage each other to improve. When you’re not isolated things can seem a lot more approachable.

If you are both artists then I feel bad for the mess of colors that you’re going to have to clean up. In all seriousness though, I think that having someone who has a similar passion as he does results in a lot of fun. He’d love to see anything you create and try to interpret what it means, if it does have a meaning.

If you’re creative in other ways besides painting or drawing, that’s wonderful too! If anything, Netzach might ask for you to teach him. Be it woodburning, woodcarving, sculpting, pottery, embroidering, sewing, knitting, crocheting, cooking, decorating, or something else he’s fully willing to try it out.

If ever you use him for a reference in something you create, he just savors it forever. He may know how to respond to comments better, but for you to build something specifically for him that you put your heart into it’s just on another level.

He understands what it’s like to put emotion into a creation, as well as how challenging it can be. You don’t have to worry about it being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ because it’s beautiful to him.

You know the little chartreuse humanoid blob creatures that run around? They’re actually adorable and it’s even cuter because you’ll notice that Netzach will just be doing completely normal things and they’ll be hanging out on his shoulder or head.

Sometimes when the two of you are relaxing with each other, one might come up and squeeze in to sit in between you. You’ve begun naming them too in order to keep track. The other patron librarians don’t understand how you can so easily tell which is which.

If you both are busy on opposite ends of the floor, he might send one of the little critters with a note in hand. The poor thing can bareful pick the paper envelope up, but when you see them heading towards you, you immediately know who it’s from.

Of course there’s something scrawled out that’s completely sweet in it, talking about how if you two didn’t have work you could be hanging out instead. He’s being blatantly dramatic, but it doesn’t stop from getting a laugh out of you.

It’s like passing notes in class. Who knows, maybe you’ll write a response too and get the little guy to deliver it to him.

#coughs up blud. i hauve covid /pos #I LOVE THIS SO MUCH THANK YOU #fav #lor

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katanayume · 18 hours ago

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The floor of history: an analysis

This is going to be the final revision of this floor's analysis for at least a few months, im going to prioritise finishing other floors before coming back to it.

Major Spoilers for Library of Ruina and Lobotomy Corporation's story

The Abnormalities//EGO:

Scorched girl ("fourth Match Flame" (Currently "4th Match Flame"))

Happy Teddy Bear (The Forgotten (Formerly "Bear Paws" (Lob Corp))

Fairy Festival (Wingbeat)

Queen Bee (Hornet)

Snow Whites Apple (Green Stem)

happy teddy bear; scorched girl; fairy festival; and snow white's apple, all represent some form of loss or (in the latter two’s case) being betrayed.

The scorched girl was a child who lived a poor life selling matches, in the fires of the lit matches she saw hope for a better world bathed in the warmth that the flames provided, in her longing and pursuance for this better world, she burned to death; The Abnormality of the scorched girl is the soul of this child, betrayed and burned by the flames which promised her a better life.

Happy teddy bear is an abnormality that we have less knowledge of its past, only that it was abandoned and left to decay at some point by its previous owner; longing for attention the abnormality, upon finding someone who cherishes it like its old owner, will ensure that they are never going to leave

For the case of the Fairy Festival, it's the only one of the bunch to be the betrayer rather than not; the fairies of the festival will heal and take care of you, with ideas of them being able to sense goodness in people, and protecting those who are faithful and trustworthy (haha), but then: the hunger. The fairies are carnivorous creatures who simply attempt to keep their prey fresh through their “care”, being able to kill them in an instant despite their perceived nature.

I am not writing about Queen Bee

Snow white's apple, as the name suggests, is the witches poisoned apple from the fairy tale of snow white; the apple, after a single bite, was thrown to the side and left to rot, vermin and worms came over time, attempting to eat the apple, all of them died of the poison. After serving her use to both the witch and snow white, she was thrown to the side to rot, after which she started to look for her own path in life...

Angela and the Floor Realisation:

"Is it a sin that I was born this way?"

The thematic of isolation, which is present in the bear, apple, and child, is quite obvious to the realisation, Angela suffered untold period of pain, isolated from everyone surroundings her, suppressing her desires, her honest urges to stop the suffering of the employees, as doing so would only prolong the play;

Angela was punished for her existence; A machine created to be a human, created only to suffer endlessly where a human would not; Angela was punished for the sin of her birth, condemned to this hell, to orchestrate this play.

As the finale of the play comes, the Girl who had nothing, who was denied happiness since creation, who was not allowed the warmth of the stage, not allowed to stand alongside the others, saw a future in the light, the whispers of a future she could make, if she only claims the light, Carmen’s promises of her truest desires, mirroring the world seen in the flames of the Match Girl.

As both of these children have nothing in life, the Match Girl and Angela both desperately seek these promises shown in the blaze, chasing the light, their hope of the future, as it is all they have left.

In seeking the future she saw, the Match Girl’s last match burned out, and she, no longer having the warmth to guide her, was consumed by the night.

"If this matchlight goes out, nothing will be left for me."

Angela’s story diverges in the end, being pulled from the light by her one and only friend, not letting her be consumed, forgotten as she was always meant to be.

In relation to the scorched girl, who seeks to burn all that there is in order to gain this sought world in the flames, Angela seeks fulfilment in burning down all that Ayin planned for her, the petty revenge to see the hopes of others burned the same way that hers was.

"Maybe I could be free after I’ve burned down all things and then myself."

In the course of Lobotomy Corporation’s story, Angela grew to despise A, her creator, after being abandoned, both left to follow the script, and in the finale, where she is expected to simply lay down and cease after serving her purpose; in this idea of being abandoned Angela Resonates with the Happy Teddy bear. Being modelled after Carmen, in Ayins futile attempt to replace what he had lost, Angela was created, a human machine, despised by her created for existing in the manner he dictated for her; Angela was not abandoned at the end, Ayin had abandoned her the moment of her birth, as soon as she first spoke.

“I remember you… You were a person with a warm smile…"

In this denial of an ending, a place to stand amongst the others as the show concluded, Angela, despite her value, her necessity in the play, was simply used as a blessing for others only to be cast aside, expected to rot.

In this desire of being denied an ending, of being disposable to those who needed her, Angela creates her own ending; In being forgotten, abandoned, left to rot, Angela’s desire for a life of her own is manifest through the library as a whole, and causes her to resonate with the Snow White's Apple:

"My existence was born from a yearning and began as a curse, yet I served as a blessing to others."

Akin to the apple, Angela was made to serve a purpose and be discarded; Both left waiting in their isolation, waiting for someone to come to them, waiting until the last moment for Ayin to look at her; As the apple grew limbs, in search of her own story, her own prince, Angela walks in search of what she had been denied, a life, a story, a happy ending rather than being neglected until the end.

Through the true ending of Lobotomy corporation, Angela makes the ultimate betrayal in defiance and spite of Ayin's plan; After eons of living simply to serve others, to complete this act of the play, she was still unable to stand on the stage with the others at the finale:

The connection of the fairy festival is one of her deceptions, the presumption of her goodwill and servitude to the plan used to hide her true intentions. As Angela says herself:

"I did everything to care for you, so it’d be only fair that I get something in return."

Just like the famished fairy, being starved, deprived and denied of her innate desires for so long, Angela takes action herself, looking to consume hopes of others, the culmination of this time spent starving, all for herself.

Now, as she attempts to satiate her hunger, the desires that have been aged for millennia, denied for her sin of existing, Angela pilots the Librarians in the same manner that Ayin set the script; The Library’s guests, the librarians, the Sephirot, suffering to make Angela’s will manifest, sending countless to their deaths, to be killed and forgotten, all for her pursuit of humanity.

"No one remembers those who gave their effort to raise the kingdom. It’s a truth that repeats on and on."

In taking on the role of the Queen, Angela takes the role of her father, forgetting those who suffered, who worked towards the ending, seeing others as disposable, only tools to achieve a purpose.

"There can’t be any meaning to a history that repeats itself. Attain the will to stand up straight by looking back? You know nothing about my past."

[Insert Natural Segue]

The Willingness to Stand up Straight:

Elijah, Malkuth:

Lobotomy Corporation, in regaining the memories of her trauma, Malkuth sees her death, in impatience she tested the substance Cogito on herself, after being denied as a test subject several times. (oh god that is one fucking sentence isn't it) In this recklessness, through her desire to help the Cogito project, her determination to make a difference in the project, Elijah, now Malkuth, died, decaying from the experiment. Writhing on the floor in pain, begging Ayin to turn around and help her, there is no option but to ignore her. Ayin did not remember everyone name, nor respond to or make "meaningless gestures" of praise, which only fueled Elijah's fervor to make a difference in the project, to have the fruits of her effort be tangible.

Overcoming this despair, in competing the Meltdown, Malkuth sees a glimmer of hope for improvement, she cannot continue to look back with hopes of changing her choices, to despair at her own actions. Instead, she sees the possibility of improvement, and gains the willingness to stand up straight, to hold her head high rather than being weighed down through her past.

Like Angela, Elijah was cast aside by Ayin, finding only despair when seeking rewards for her deeds:

Though already having faced her past, overcame her trauma, the Abnormalities on this floor represent Malkuth's, Elijah's, history:

Through Ayin's lack of validation, a desire begins to take place, hollow, demanding to be filled. Only driven further by her impatience, Elijah is driven to take action for this hunger, to finally satiate herself in return for her actions, in the same manner as Fairy festival.

The famished faeries (fairy's? fairies?), being unable to feed their desires for so long, begin to consume other faeries, destroying itself in the process.

"I knew I didn’t have any right to participate in the experiment, that’s why I was so impatient." "Will you finally praise me? I just want to feel proud."

In seeking her desires, wanting validation from Ayin for her efforts, Malkuth loses her hopes, being burned by the supposed source of her rewards, losing hope for the future.

in seeking this validation, like the Scorched Girl seeking the world seen in the flames, Elijah's story ends in a death, alone and forgotten by others.

"Make sure you feel this horrible sense of helplessness to your core, right to your heart."

After working so hard, sacrificing herself to be useful, to finally be praised by Ayin, he refuses to turn around to see her. Not even acknowledging her, even as she reaches out to him.

Just like all the others who have been burned by Ayin in the past, Elijah represents the workers of the queen bee, seen as disposable by the queen (Ayin Queen Bee art is next on my to do list), sacrificing everything for the greater workings yet never being remembered, not being rewarded, only discarded when they have outlived their usefulness.

"No one remembers those who gave their effort to raise the kingdom. It’s a truth that repeats on and on."

After everything that she had done, she was abandoned by Ayin, forgotten, left to the wayside to rot, to be forgotten, like the Apple and the Bear which appear before us.

"Be honest, back then it wasn’t that hard to turn around and look back at me."

Where the story of these two abnormalities diverge follows the point where they were abandoned. While the bear seeks the fulfillment of a new, loving owner, the Apple seeks its own path in life, growing to find its own path, its own fulfillment. While Elijah, now Malkuth, was abandoned by Ayin, in the past, rather than seeking the same fulfillment that she sought from Ayin, she looks to the future, with hope of improvement, the Will to stand up Straight.

Angela:

Like Malkuth looks back at Elijah to gain hope, to know that her past does not define her, Angela must realize the same, as we can see from her quotes in the realization:

"Attain the will to stand up straight by looking back? You know nothing about my past."

In the same way that Ayin refused to look back on Elijah, refused to create a place on the stage for Angela, the sufferings of both were ignored.

Angela refuses to look back at her past, to realise what she has become. Angela cannot gain hope for the future without accepting her past, she cannot gain the Will to Stand up Straight as long as she is defined by her suffering, by her past.

"Looking back on myself… It wasn’t even so difficult to do."

Angela says, mirroring Malkuth's own words towards Ayin.

Angela, following the realisation, like Malkuth, looks towards the future, to seek her own path, undefined by her trauma, free from the script that bound her.

. Thank you for reading this Essay, the Ayin Queen Bee thing is not a joke, there is an actual list and it was next down.

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and for a final note, a quote from Angela's realisation:

"I can’t fly with ragged and tattered wings."

... Yi Sang Hornet EGO when?

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