#I. AM GOING. TO EXPLODRE.

[autisticlalna]

PANDORA'S BOX IS OPEN AND I AM SIMULTANEOUSLY PANDORA, THE BOX, THE EVILS, AND THE HOPE LEFT INSIDE

(i think the transcript work is getting to me. TOO LATE NOW.)

so. i mentioned the concept of multiversal bleed in my initial deranged discord rant. it's kinda just a byproduct of mcyt storytelling, really - if you're doing a bunch of stuff at once, references are gonna get made. but with multiversal stuff being an actual plot point in Viking and Ruby's TSMP lore, the fact that tViking is not the Viking that Ruby remembers but still has an attachment to them, has basic knowledge of a history with them... but at the same time doesn't really understand the idea of a time "before this", and when Ruby first asks him what he knows about her his answers are very surface-level:

Ruby: [sigh] Okay. Um… What else, what do you— what do you— What do you know about me. Viking: Uuuuuhhhh. Ruby: Do you know me. Viking: Uhhh. You… need therapy ‘cause of beetroots. Um… your full name is something like Rubidium Company or whatever. Or Rubidium Corporation, or Ruby… the Third Corporation, or something like that, iunno. Um— You, uh… Um… Like… drawing… and diamonds— er, gemstones.

and then, like. cc!Ruby saying "It's just so you. No matter the universe or time, after all this time, it is still you" and that snowballing into "tRuby saying that right before tViking kills her" and that being one of the dreams in Ruby's dream journal. and tViking also remembering it... maybe. he seems to remember several different outcomes of it, several different permutations on how it ends, and doesn't remember that it's Ruby.

and then when Ruby confides in him about xer sleepwalking, tViking is very casual about it. in fact, the way he responds makes it sound like not only has it happened the couple times we see it happen (the villagers, the bamboo farm) but that it's something regular for him. maybe even something he does on purpose:

Viking: Ruuuuuby. Do you think- You think- You really think, do you really think that I would sit down, and do all of this. Ruby: I mean, no. Viking: Do you think I have the patience for that? Ruby: No? Viking: Bro, I just- I— See, the secret is, you go over to a corner, kinda you go, “a’ight I’m gonna go honk shoo snork mimimimi,” and I wake up, oh my god villagers. Poof. Magic.

(source: the big fucking transcript of the ~4 hour lore VOD im working on. i'll finish it soon i promise)

but Navigator did not build that farm. he shows up to tell Ruby "hey, don't let him do this". tViking went under the radar, he's poised to cause a lot of devastation, and Navigator wants Ruby to stop him. there is no way in hell Navigator would do anything for tViking, and he straight up does not want tViking to know he exists at all. but... tViking knows that there's other hims out there, and that those other hims will just nab his body to do stuff sometimes:

Viking: Riiiight? Doesn’t matter how many versions, what times… Doesn’t matter what any of that is. A Ruby is still a Ruby. Ruby: …I guess. Viking: A Viking… is always a Viking. Ruby: [quiet] Yeah. Viking: So for me, [laughs] I may not build these things myself, but I wake up and they’re done, and I know it’s me, because me wants to help me. Vikings help Viking. That’s how it works.

but when Ruby tells Navigator that, he brushes it off:

Viking: < he assumes he is the only one > Ruby: (Sorry.) “He assumes he’s the only one.” Well, that’s not quite correct? He’s- He’s told me that he goes to sleep and then the farms are there, so… I don’t know? If that assumption is the right one to make? Y’know? Viking: < he mistakes his “dreams” for his actions >

and we haven't seen anything like this from any other Viking. the closest we've got is Skyblock!Viking recognizing Avid, but that might end up getting spun off into him specifically having personal history with Avid considering he's currently being targeted by the Old One. (there's also the vague implications that Gilded!Viking is Dominion!Viking because of him and Josh riffing on it a bit, but im gonna be honest i have no idea what to take away from that / don't know if it was intended to be anything more than "haha hey we used to be in a thing together")

so ALL OF THAT combined with Navigator casually hijacking tViking is just. making me wonder if maybe tViking is actually Built Different in some way. that he's somehow intertwined enough with the Vikingverse or whatever to act as a conduit for the others when he's in a sleepwalk state. maybe that's how he went under the radar in the first place? Navigator might've noticed other Vikings popping up in weird places, but didn't put together "it's because there's a Viking there channeling them and he's up to some shit" until he was able to slip in himself.

OH. ONE LAST IDEA. hey. hey you know how we immediately knew it was Somebody Else even before he pulled out the signs because his eyes changed. and how the eyes changing is so far our go-to sign for if a switch happened bc of Sapphire and Navigator having different eyes than Ruby and tViking. assuming Navigator's eyes are actually green and it's not a general "someone else is in control" thing for tViking, that brings up the idea of: how many times have we seen tViking and it hasn't actually been him?

or, on another route, what other changes are we going to need to look out for when Vikings that aren't Navigator "wake up"? are we going to be able to notice them at all?

i have finally come out of my shell enough in vikingcord to start dropping absolute bricks of text. what the fuck is up with tviking. how many vikings are in there. is he just a conduit for any other viking that falls asleep out there in the multiverse. what hte fuck

[lenondenon]

the venus ambassador hyperfix is getting toomuch

i fel lkme im going to explodr just because im making another desihn (yes... i will have 2 venus ambassadors maybe....I AM NOT REPLACING VA! ABSOLUTELY NOT! NEVER! NUH UHHHHH!!!!!!!!! i am maybe just make another based off a different veriosn lf the song...