#Arcana 13

[soullessseraphim]

So uhhhm....

Death 13 Valdemar anyone...?

(based on this ; with yet another poor attempt at rendering under the cut)

[mmpookie]

RAAAAAAAA HAPPY BIRTHDAY POLLUX !!!!!!!!!

[snobgoblin]

i finally gave him a handful of expressions! you know what that means (info card) (I couldn't get the right fonts unfort)

[amber-of-tharaval]

...

I really need to stop making memes-

But I had to-

[5leggedlamb]

HOLD THE FUCK UP

ok the second one doesn't work as much but still- ...WAIT NO IT DOES SINCE THEY'RE LIKE ENEMIES AND IN THE EPISODE KAKYOIN HAS LIKE THAT FIGHT WITH DEATH HOLY FU-

[cuddlybelphie]

I'm going to sob, I'll never get over him

ALSOO

Him in floor 13 ☹️☹️

I WOULDN'T EVEN HESITATE, WHY WOULD I EVER REFUSE HIM??

I don't need time, LET ME STAY

[omegadazai]

I don't know if this has been pointed out already, like if it's a known speculation in death note fandom since I'm quite literally new gen, but when I finished reading LABB murder cases I noticed that the book ended in 131 pages(I am not counting the afterwords pages), and something immediately clicked in my head. Was that number of pages intentional, or am I being like super delusional? LIKE 13 was used to represent the letter B in the plot, so in my brain, I said, "Oh, 13 is B and 1 is L"

SO EDIT: after looking at my book again I realized it is not, in fact, the last chapter ending page. My bad, it's actually Chapter 6: Failure that starts at 131. (In my defense I was like sleep deprived when I finished the book)

[annabelle-creart]

BoulWave across the Multiverse be like:

👇

LoRB!Boulder: Hi, it's a pleasure to meet you all-

*sound of explosion (it was just a paper bag)*

SG!Boulder: WOW- WHAT THE-?!

SG!Heatwave: HA!

SG!Boulder: Son of a-

Adventure!Boulder: Wow! There's no need of it! Calm down!

Adventure!Heatwave: Pal, that was rude!

SG!Heatwave: Oh, shut the fuck up, you don't know how to get fun

SG!Boulder: you don't know how to stay alive much!

Outlier!Boulder: Hey hey hey! Calm down

SG!Boulder: Calm down my chasis, I will kill this motherfragger

SG!Heatwave: You couldn't even kill you own stupid spark mate, what makes you think you can kill ME

H:KoL!Hector: WOW! That was hard- those kind of things are not to split out like that

SG!Heatwave: Give a reason not to treat you like a fleshy bug right now, "king"

H:aTaT!Heatwave: You're making it hard to like you

SG!Heatwave: you're making hard to not to want to-

Outlier!Heatwave: SHUT UP!

All: *silent*

Outlier!Heatwave: what were you saying, sweetie?

Sparkling!Heatwave: CAN YOU TEACH ME TO DO THAT?!

Outlier!Heatwave: Of course, but before you must teach me that card trick

Sparkling!Heatwave: Sure! You just need to put your hands and the deck like this

Vulgora: like this?

Muriel: your deck is upside down

Vulgora: you're shitting??

Outlier!Heatwave: Language

Sparkling!Boulder: Put an offer on the swear jar

Vulgora: ahg! If I had much

Outlier!Boulder: aw, that's so sweet

Outlier!Heatwave: it works every time

H:Modern Family!Hector: can I use the trick?

Outlier!Heatwave: Sure, no problem

LoRB!Heatwave: ...these people are crazy

LoRB: They're technically us, so...

Fwench Fwy: I WILL NOT SAY IT AGAIN, ISCREAM, GET OFF THAT FREACKING ROBOT

Adventure!Heatwave: Which one of us?

Iscream: NOT UNTIL I FULFILL MY PORPOUSE!!!

SG!Heatwave: FUCK! WHAT'S THAT?!

SG!Boulder: Is that a rat?

Iscream: A RAT? I'M A BUNNY AND A POWERFUL DEMON! IDIOT!

Vulgora: that sh... thing is not a demon, I'm a demon!

Muriel: you wish for

SG!Heatwave: GET IT OUT, GET IT OFF ME!!!!

Iscream: MUAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA

Fwench Fwy: Oh, dear gods!

13P!Heatwave: quiet! I got it!

13P!Boulder: NOT WITH THE HAMMER! you will kill both

13P!Heatwave: that's a gift for me

SG!Heatwave: BOULDER?!

SG!Boulder: I will not help, I'm enjoying it more than when Chase almost kill you

LoRB!Boulder: That when they did what?

Vulgora: BUNNY BUNNY! USE THE MOUTH TO TIGHTHEN IT! DON'T FEAR TO CUT IT! AND ALSO, GOOD TEETH, I'M JELOUS!!

Muriel: You're glorifying a murder?

Vulgora: Is not murder until he is dead

Outlier!Heatwave: keep the sparklings away, I will end with this now

Outlier!Boulder: Don't use the knot head

Vulgora: the what?

Outlier!Heatwave: sure

And that's the story of how Iscream, Outlier!Heatwave and 13P!Heatwave almost kill their variant SG!Heatwave

Meanwhile:

H:KoL!Boulder: You have an eight?

H:aTaT!Bernand: nah. You know? I'm out, I suck at this

H:MF!Bernand: C'mon, it is getting good!

H:aTaT!Bernand: Sorry, but I have enough with Heatwave always beating me in this game

Monster!Boulder: Eat that!

Monster!Heatwave: That's the worst deck you could give, geny

Monster!Boulder: oh...

Monster!Heatwave: hey! The kitty cats are awake

Cat!Heatwave: HISS/Don't touch me

Cat!Boulder: Mau!/Behave, don't be like that

Hunter!Boulder: aw, you're so fluffy!

Hunter!Heatwave: How can this creatures be so ferocious but tiny?

H:aTaT!Bernand: maybe because you two are Mothra and Godzilla from outer space

Hunter!Boulder: I think the cat like me!

Sudently, someone falls and is hitted against the floor and pointed with a gun

SG!Chase: Say that again! I dare you!

Adventure!Breakdown: Is that the best punch you have? I was better than that when I was a sparkling!

SG!Chase: I killed you once, it will be a pleasure to repeat that!

Another bot points SG!Chase with a gun, other growls

Adventure!Chase: GRRRRR

Swap!Chase: Release the bot, now

SG!Chase: Or what?

Swap!Chase: Dare you. I won't hesitate...

It will continue??? SG!Chase and Adventure!Breakdown will be saved??

[xcerizex]

If StoryTaco doesn't pump out a Season 2, then we're doing it ourselves who's with me? ✋

[kaitlyn-pink]

I still can’t sleep from the story 💀

​Listen I’m rambling a lot of thoughts but

(Spoilers floor 13)

1 I WANTED MORE EVIL CASTOR!! Or possessed.. Pollux?? W/e but, I WANTED HIM TO LIKE DRAG US AWAY, he was kinda 😍

THE WAY HE SAID

IM SORRY BUT. 😳

We could’ve seen more of him honestly, OR maybe even the cliche of getting yoinked by Void sorcerers and castor to know more about the void sorcerers instead of them just being monsters 💀

2 I Wanted more of the characters and side characters like Rigel and Albali, BECAUSE HONESTLY??? They were introduced and never expanded on. Also more evil Arcturus because DAAAAYUUUUUM 😳 (I don’t have a thing for evil hot guys I sweaaar 😊) Or even just Sirius going fully evil. I mean.. even Schedar or Thuban getting a parental bond with Summoner and instead of making them.. YOU KNOW.. LEAVE… helping them adapt to polaris’ abilities and magic. I hate the whole Polaris thing though where they keep getting compared to them and not letting mc be mc (ahem ahem whb and kind of obey me)

3 I keep saying it but they were so fast with the story. They could’ve dragged it on in SO MANY WAYS, and I hate to say it but maybe even some filler. And they better not try to do the Obey Me thing where they make another game. They already rushed the story and threw a bunch of things out there that they could’ve spread out across multiple floors, even if it took longer. So going back and explaining it would be hard even if they DID rethink it and decide to go back to the game.

ALSO ABOUT THE COMMUNITY

the game community is small but honestly it keeps it close together and everyone here is so unproblematic and nice 😭😭

I don’t think there will be another game like arcana twilight that will drag me in this much, and I’m hesitant to go jump to another otome game. If the game does officially end and get abandoned for good, the people in the fandom will eventually leave, and it makes me sad because the game had so much potential and they skipped over so much.

I just wanted more romance and tension, maybe even angst and drama. Kinda hoping the summoner would get possessed or go crazy/evil but NOOOOO 😒

[pomegranateboba]

ArTw Incorrect quotes (4 maybe im not keeping track)

(spoilers [maybe idk does this count] for lessons 12 onwards)

ArTw players at Lesson 12: This can't possibly get any worse...can it??

ArTw players at Lesson 13: Oh yes it can.

[jas-the-shrimp]

Fuck it I'm going back to my arcana phase

[multificimagines]

hi ^ ^ you said that asks are open too to discuss floor 13, so I just wanted to ask some questions if you're alright with it. Did the story's ending feel rushed? Like, the conclusion made sense but it would have been more meaningful if there were more floors to flesh out the characters and story. It was just one revelation after the other, and it was such a huge whiplash. I think it was also a little bit sad we couldn't have had a few floors or books(?) that allowed us to talk to the characters more once it was the aftermath of us coming back from Vega's home, because there were just a lot to unpack and it would have been a nice break from the recent, more action filled floors. but maybe that's more so on me wishing there was more content, so I could be kind of irrational saying this ;_;

but i also wanted to ask if there was anything you liked about floor 13? for me, I liked that pollux was given at least the chance to shine a bit, even with imo, a very abrupt character arc and conclusion.

I hope you have a good day and take care ^ ^

Ah I do actually have opinions about this!! I’ll start with the negative side first. Below the cut because this ended up being kind of long. And of course spoiler warning for floor 13!

So I do agree with it being rushed. Like 100% the last 3 floors were rushed, with floor 13 being the worst so far. I think that maybe the team was told they had a certain number of chapters to wrap up the story, and they focused on answering the questions and actually wrapping up the story rather than on the characters or pacing of the scenes. Which is unfortunate, because the romance doesn’t really feel like it’s started until after the destruction of the first tower. It also contrasts kind of weirdly with the earlier chapters, because in the beginning the build-up to the plot was pretty slow.

I’m also kind of irritated about the stuff we don’t get to see that we should have. There seems to be more that the writers wanted to do with the story, because if you notice there’s a lot of lore that’s never touched on in the story, or that’s only gone into very briefly as to be more confusing than anything. Spica never really gets tied into the main story the way the others do (by which I mean, Alpheratz had a past life that was intertwined with Polaris. Pollux and Arcturus had ties to the void mages. Sirius had both! Even Vega’s story peripherally brushes against the void mage storyline with the rifts, and is otherwise significant because he’s tied into the summoner’s forgotten past). There’s several references to mythical creatures that we never even see, despite it nearly always being referenced alongside Spica and the East. The summoner is extremely disconnected from Polaris, even after they gain access to Polaris’s power, and even for them to be such a small part of Polaris’s being, it doesn’t feel like they’re at all connected aside from the summoner’s inheritance of the pact and Polaris’s power. We never get a proper explanation of Sirrah, or what happened to him that caused him to become Alpheratz. We never get a proper explanation of what that reincarnation means, how common it is, or even really any acknowledgement of it aside from everyone understanding that summoner is Polaris in the same way that Alpheratz is Sirrah—which doesn’t make sense, because summoner is only part of Polaris, and only because Sirius salvaged that part of him. And speaking of Sirius, we never see any meaningful character development for him.

Anyway, I think what bothered me more than the pacing was just the ending? Like, no matter how you spin your interpretation of what happened, that wasn’t really a satisfying ending. More problems were created than were solved, and we have no idea what happened to the sorcerers, the boundary—hell, we don’t even know for sure what happened to the summoner. I get that if this is the ending of the entire game, then the ending was meant to be open to interpretation, but like…We’ve been told that the boundary will be destroyed (via Sirius talking about bringing about the apocalypse), and eventually the summoner will be turned into a monster. What kind of ending is that, when the entire game has been the sorcerers giving everything to protect the summoner? When there was so much emphasis on returning the summoner home safely, and when the sorcerers’ parting words to the summoner were genuinely hopeful for a reunion? Like maybe this was always meant to be a tragedy, and that would be fine, but a good tragedy would need much more build-up than this (which brings us back around to the issues with pacing that you mentioned)

But some things that I liked about floor 13:

•I kind of like what they did with Castor and Pollux, actually, but I think the reveal would have benefited from more foreshadowing within the main story. There are a couple of hints to it in his dialogue, the messages, and some of the hard mode floors’ extra scenes, but I feel like the main storyline should be capable of standing on its own.

•Also about Pollux, I went absolutely insane when I read this:

And I also really like how confused and traumatized Pollux is shown to be by this. We know that Pollux was probably manipulated into this by his brother, but Pollux still has very conflicted emotions about his brother, which he hasn’t been able to properly sort through because his attention has been on the summoner and trying to fix this mess. It also brings about some very interesting context, because if I’m remembering properly, on at least one occasion, Pollux’s brother is described to him as “disgraced”, or something similar. This switch happened very recently, so either Castor wasted no fucking time in causing problems, or the character we know as Pollux wasn’t well liked and was being told to his face that he wasn’t. Either way though…..

Also Pollux’s character being built on the guilt of enjoying being in someone else’s body and perceived as someone else. The imposter syndrome. The implied self-loathing. The fact that he even says he felt terrible because he felt like he was living a lie, but that he was enjoying that lie too much to tell the truth and risk it being taken away…god he’s such a compelling character now that we have the full story

•While I obviously didn’t really like the ending, I do love the way they did it. Ever since we were first told about Vega being separated from the summoner, we’ve heard so much about he and the summoner being told not to look back, and the consequences of that rule being broken. It really brought it full circle to have the ending be the summoner deciding whether or not to look back while trying to return home. (I’m also biased tho because Orpheus and Eurydice is one of my favorite myths ever, and I squealed when the choice was presented)

•I do actually really like the idea of the ending where the sorcerers say the summoner has to go home, and one day they’ll reunite. I think if I had written it, and I wanted to end the story with floor 13, I would have had the summoner return home, and then have the final scene be the beginning of that reunion. Maybe as an epilogue attached to floor 13’s hard mode??

•I love the scene where Alpheratz gets upset on summoner’s behalf when Schedar and Thuban are looking at them and seeing only Polaris. I’ve also kind of been waiting for Alpheratz’s confrontation of Schedar for some time now, because he’s been trying to protect the summoner from him since the beginning and has clearly always been suspicious of his grandfather’s interest in them. I think I would have loved to see more of this—of the love interests or even the summoner themself saying “No, summoner is their own person, and we won’t let you use them like this.”

•Pollux honestly just had some good moments in this floor. Him giving the summoner the cookies/pastries before sending them on their way was so cute, and also him being the one to ask them to consider staying with him….

But overall, I didn’t entirely dislike floor 13. Like I said, I agree that it was rushed, but I think it still touches on the right points to wrap up the story. The problem it suffers from was just that they had way too much to wrap up at once, which meant that it was a endless barrage of information with little room for interaction. Among the things addressed in this floor were the summoner’s (ambiguous) fate, Pollux’s story, the conclusion of the overarching plot, Castor and *gestures vaguely* everything going on there, the resolution to summoner and Vega’s…fight is a strong word, but it’s the only word I can think of? from floor 12, Sirius and his motives and goals, Schedar and his motives and goals. And all of that is just off of the top of my head. I think that the poor pacing also made the climax very um, anti-climactic. The fight with Castor just didn’t last long enough, I think, and wasn’t as challenging for the characters as it should have been.

Anyway, I want to hold out hope for a season 2, because it seems like the intent was to leave room for a continuation of the story. I’m not sure I believe there will be one, but I really want there to be. Guess we’ll just have to see what happens in the next year or so.

[angsty-bisexual-doctor]

[arsenicxarcana]

perennial reminder lucio is a vers/switch and letting nadia dom him does not automatically mean he'll let just anyone dom him

you only get privileges in his route bc you saved him

[marisssa1248]

I know this is probally a serious line but imagine Schedar and whoever this guy is or i forget probally bullies each other alot- but thats their friendship i think-

BUT SINCE ALPHERATZ BIG GRANDPA IS HERE FINALLY- boy i feel like Schedar might think his doing the right thing but boy has not thought of the summoner rn- BUT i mean if it means to be with the hot guys- BUT WERE THE SUMMONER AND WE WANT TO GO BACK TO OUR WORLD AND NOT GET MARRIED EVEN THOUGH I WANT THAT, but i definetly feel like Schedar and whoever that guy is were friends with Polaris and probally went to the same academy together and blah blah until something happend that made them go their seperate ways and the dude in the pic definetly cares for Polaris i think- idk but Schedar also cares but is not thinking straight- i feel like the dude is also like Alpheratz not personality but agreement on summoner