#ROA Lore

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Avatar Lore Dumps — Visual Encyclopedia

So, I hurt my ankle, but a friend and fellow avatar lover went to the bookshop today and very kindly took pictures of everything. It's wonky but readable, and she was being so kind I wasn't about to ask for reshoots. Any of you want the lore from the encyclopedia for your fics, have at it! It'll do until a real rip comes out.

The Metkayina and Tulkun :

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Salem's mother, Roa!

She's the clan's healer, a master of medicines with a heart so kind she'll soften the angriest trolls with her gentle nature. She has a lovely bedside manner, she's amazing with kids, and is well versed in various spells and elixirs for magical use. Some lore on her condition and Anphi society below the cut!

She's known as an oracle, where an Anphi is born with far more eyes than they should have, most often in a halo on the face but it can be a semi-coverage to complete body affliction, she's a semi-covered variation. Oracle Anphi cannot stand on two legs, as they're born quadrupedal and will never gain the ability to stand bipedally for long moments due to their skeletal structure. Because of this, she also cannot fly or glide, so if she falls off a cavern edge she will most certainly die. Alongside this, an oracle's neck is longer than the average Anphian's, which can cause back problems if they don't care for themselves properly with the right bedding or too much flexing of the spine. Partial to full blindness is extremely common for oracles, as well as semi to full body paralysis due to neck injuries. Roa has managed to avoid these but raising two nests of whelps proved difficult when so many little tails and hands often poked into her sensitive eyes.

She was born into what's called the Strike Generation, these whelps came about during a time of great crisis amongst their people when sickness spread rampantly, the pools had been poisoned by changes in the ocean, and famine plagued them. 90% of whelps born in this period were born with mutations and stunted limbs. Anphi society changed drastically due to this, and now atypical and disabled Anphi are treated and cared for as though they are normal socially, though accommodated based on their bodies so they can live an effectively normal life.

Atypical Anphians can produce whole litters of common offspring, and even a pair of them can produce common as well, such as Roa and her husband Howler, Salem's parents. Mutations and odd limbs are genetic, but most often these genes are are triggered by highly unfavorable conditions during the carrying process, starvation, sickness, and very poor water conditions often being the most common causes.

[treeangle-roots]

But something is happening,

Can't say that I'm knowing,

But something is happening here.

[barnbridges]

my favorite lore character between rules of attraction and the secret history is indeed swedish girl from connecticut

[doveriathegoddess]

Trolls oc lore time!

Introducing the parents of Princess Roa, who are the Emperor and Empress of the Utau Trolls. Since the Emperor has no sons he hopes that his only daughter will marry a troll worthy of being the next Emperor. His wife the Empress also desires the same thing, but wants her daughter to have a happy marriage like her and her husband.

And here we have Roa's nana and the elderly mother of the Emperor, the Queen Mother. During her reign as Empress, her husband who was the previous Emperor passed away during her son's childhood, which caused the Queen Mother to be very protective of him. The Queen Mother never remarried despite the nobles fighting for her hand, and raised her son to be the current Emperor. After her son married his wife, the Queen Mother retired from ruling so her son could begin his reign, but she still continues to live in the Imperial Castle.

I hope you guys enjoy!

[binniesoob]

Roa be like:

all it took for me to finally accept who my biases really are was a convo with Roa, thank you for pointing me in the right direction ✊😔

now, after all this time, i'm finally ready to officially expose my bias list...

[spidermanifested]

my 2 favorite things to draw......the devils nest and Face Shapes. this concept was made for me

under the cut is some rambling about the gang in an actual dungeon meshi au (ft Major Spoilers)

the chimeras would all still be beastmen obviously. every day i thank ryoko kui for my life for putting chimeras in her thing. roa and dolcetto i think would have been pit fighters as an equivalent to being soldiers, martels also ex military but i feel like "got blown up, woke up half snake" would translate well to getting fused with a monster in a dungeon. and then bido would have a more izutsumi type backstory

greed would have earned their loyalty somehow but im not fully settled on What his deal would be. like conceptually the original homunculus is very similar to a demon (weird mystery entity) (bound to serve) (eternally Craving) (trapped in a thing and wants out) but greed specifically is, like, a chill version that i dont think would want to eat peoples desires because he likes it when people have those. and i dont know if a Chill Demon is justifiable lore-wise. counterpoint though: he would really love having a fursona. tell me YOUR thoughts in the comments below i guess (or my askbox whatever)

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The robotics engineer

Why are there so many jerboas running around... STOP THIS MADNESS!!!

HAIIIII ok this is for my very very very very VERY AWESOME and COOL oomfie, Roa haii Roa!!! <|<333 /vpos

I love its art sm and its such a shame its not noticed more,,, like brah,,, youve got such cool lore and ocs and art and Im gonna eat it all like its a 3 star michelin restaurant, always loved how vibrant yet squishy your ocs look like, its so awesome!!!

Thought of drawing it's sona like a robotics engineer,,, since youve got all these guys running about!!!!!!!! ARGHH HELP THEYRE CLIMBING ALL OVER ME!!! /SILLY

I really highly suggest you check it out,,, its so awesome

ROAS TWITTER!!! VVVV

[mako-neexu]

monte cristo's 14 relics are still so interesting...one of the most powerful things in nasuverse lore is conceptual weapons because of their ability to reverse causality, use an absolute defense armament to defend against the very weapon said to cause total death and even causing head-shattering agony, instill a limit and lifespan and kill even gods, pierce and slice even all that is intangible from destiny, resentment, bond, and karma... theres divine constructs like the Seventh Holy Scripture ciel senpai used against roa.

because the church's doctrine considers cyclical reincarnation one of the sins itself, its specialty, no matter which form it takes, is to kill and shatter someone's Soul itself. in fate world, Dead Apostles dont have much of a hold as it is in tsukihime... but dantes was still able to kill roa with his fires while he was still alive. he was able to utilize Monte Cristo Mythologie - which is connected to the 14 relics - due to sheer determination and burn even heretical reincarnation itself.

he was able to burn sin itself (im unsure if this refers to ALL sin that the Holy Church doesnt allow or if its specific?)...and considering the assembly of eight sacraments agency, thats definitely one of the relics that should be secured into their hold at all costs. more so with the 14 relics because if Monte Cristo Mythologie is what we see as the output because we see dantes' fire become flames of purification due to its legend that it is definitely related to Jesus Christ, then the 14 stones act as the absolute converter/enforcer that seizes the user's Crest and remakes their "software".

just like ciel senpai, the body would need a certain level of strength like life force and the amount of mana you need and "specs" because its the "hardware" itself to withstand even wielding the Seventh Holy Scripture, even more so when going in for the kill.

dantes wasn't able to utilize his flames even if he has them all along during when he was alive, but he was still able to use it for a very brief moment. because the human body is limited, he would never be able to use it constantly. UNLESS a drastic change happens where his "hardware" and shell is discarded and remade anew, his body is converted and elevated into something less human and more godlike....

moreover, dantes is the absolute perfect candidate because he fulfills all conditions for the 14 relics to be activated- and then he can use Monte Cristo Myth. one of the conditions to fulfill this is the requirement for those 'illusory organs' no average or any human should have. and he was able to use MCM because of what he had witnessed in life. when alive, it was brief, when a Servant now, he can use it constantly because he is not-no longer edmond dantes, saved by love/or from the whole book/same dantes alive. hes the dantes who is mostly the parts where hes the absolute Avenger imbued with the potential to be a demon pillar vessel. so his body now as a Servant was perfect to use and fully remake his being using the 14 relics.

the utilization of the 14 jewels changed "Cavern King Edmond Dantes" entirely. unlike when compared to "when he was alive". this time, his body could finally handle the 14 relics' burden of change enforced onto him. because it seized his Circuits and Crest and install a completely new one (compared to last time in tarantella's battle; his circuits changed but not fully thats why we still have OG dantes base??) that would make him use those poisonous fires taken to its most absolute form, that man was changed- his original Spirit Origin was perfect for the 14 relics now and dantes chose to use them for Avenger Ordeal Call, and ONE OF THE ASPECTS and new information revealed was that it can transform the user into something else entirely. because he is no longer edmond dantes in almost every sense of the word. yes that name is still related and is the origin, but for that Saint Graph, he's a god of revenge entirely but ALSO he is now SOMEONE WHO COMMANDS FLAMES AND FIRES itself... as someone who controls it, it makes sense he would also be harmed from the sheer intensity of his power. and the burden that comes along using the 14 relics!!! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!? DO YOU UNDERSTAND AAAHH

HIS TRUE NAME IS ACTUALLY "KING OF FLAME, COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO"

[kaibutsushidousha]

Of the various FGO Spin-Off manga/drama CDs, which do you feel is particularly worth checking out be it for lore or just good content? The Dantes Drama CD is pretty famous for Roa for example.

Roa's part in Dantès's backstory is the standard here? Ok, then there's the short story for Helena's backstory (summarized in Holmes's Interlude), which will probably become really useful later, but for now it's too cryptic. The Salem manga has new characters and the SE.RA.PH manga has the full version of Emiya Alter's backstory, if you care, but that's about it.

The other character that got additional backstory as side stories in TM ACE are

Jekyll's (also summarized in Holmes's interlude), which is mainly a sneak peek at Holmes and Moriarty before their characters were properly introduced. The Archelot family is also involved.

Asterios's, which is a sneak peek at Theseus characterization (nothing you don't already see in his Grail Front, for the most part).

Jing Ke's, which I guess shows Pan-Human Shi Huang, who is reasonably different.

Douman's, released in manga format with only one chapter yet. Nothing major happened on this one yet.

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[Tsukino Picatrix] VAZZROCK + infinit0 Cast Introductions

Hello, hello~! I have some free time this month, so I'm slowly getting back into posting www I miss working through tweets, and I definitely have lots to catch up on orz

Anyway, AGF is soon, which means a new TsukiPro AGF theme! We have Tsukino Picatrix (TsukiPika) this year, and it's like TsukiPro meets Promise of Wizard! 😂 The cast of characters look really cute though, and the lore sounds interesting~! I can't wait to see more of the designs!

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O caelestes stellae, O venerati apostoli, quaeso, viam nostram in hoc itinere terreno ducite et illuminate # TsukiPika # Tsukiuta # AGF2023

Characters and quotes under the cut, enjoy~!

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[VAZZY] MAMIYA TAKAAKI "Welcome to Neptune's Headquarters where mysteries and secrets govern all. I guess you could call me the Mediator. (wry smile) … Stick close to the light and don't delve in too deep. Go back while you still can." #TsukiPika #VAZZROCK #AGF2023

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[VAZZY] KIRA OUKA "Neptune HQ is stationed on a hidden island accessible only through this ship. Your ticket to ride depends on whether you can defeat me first." #TsukiPika #VAZZROCK #AGF2023

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[VAZZY] KIDUKU ISSA "Man, what a pain in the ass. They'll tear pampered brats like you apart here, and I'd rather stay out of that mess." #TsukiPika #VAZZROCK  #AGF2023

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[VAZZY] KIDUKU FUTABA "Not all is gifted with the power to heal, but through my research, I hope to create a potion that can benefit everyone!" #TsukiPika #VAZZROCK #AGF2023

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[VAZZY] OYAMA NAOSUKE "HAHAHA! The renowned artefact hunter is up for hire! Oyama Naosuke is at your service, folks!!! You better remember that name!" #TsukiPika #VAZZROCK #AGF2023

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[VAZZY] SHIRASE YUMA "Wisdom, power, and even magic. I will use everything I can as I am destined to be King. You shall heed me from this day forward." #TsukiPika #VAZZROCK #AGF2023

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[ROCK DOWN] ONODA SHO “Despite appearances, I am one of the Seven Sages. I oversee a major Magical Union research lab, you know~❀ Amazing, aren’t I~?” #TsukiPika #VAZZROCK #AGF2023

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[ROCK DOWN] KUJIKAWA HARUTO “I’m “Open Sesame’s” supernova in the making. Jolting Bomber Kujikawa Haruto is ever at your service.” #TsukiPika #VAZZROCK #AGF2023

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[ROCK DOWN] AMAHA REIJI “Someone of my caliber definitely belongs to the Union. Alright, where’s my next assignment…? Oh-ho, a research lab, huh. Sounds fun~” #TsukiPika #VAZZROCK #AGF2023

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[ROCK DOWN] TACHIBANA AYUMU “I’m embarrassed to admit that I ended up here due to my poor communication skills. But it’s alright, I feel right at home here. People here aren’t keen on talking, so no superficial relationships either.” #TsukiPika #VAZZROCK #AGF2023

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[ROCK DOWN] OGURO GAKU “Heya! I’m a field mechanic in charge of lab inspection and repair~♪ You can catch me here, there, everywhere! Danger is part of the job, but who could say no to treasure waiting to be found!” #TsukiPika #VAZZROCK #AGF2023

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[ROCK DOWN] NADUMI RUKA “I’m in charge of developmental research in the lab! And nothing is impossible with me on the job!! Probably!!! I’ll work hard for the betterment of magical research and society!! ALRIGHT~~~!! I’ve got an idea~~~~!!!✨” #TsukiPika #VAZZROCK #AGF2023

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[infinit0] SUKIGAWA REI "Counting me, I believe that there are more Venusian guardians who work for Venus, a mutual-aid corporation, than for the Union." #TsukiPika #infinit0 #AGF2023

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[infinit0] MIKAZE ROA "It’s my dream to make Venus bigger together with Rei! No shade to the Union, but a biased single-minded organization will only lead to corruption and stagnation~♪" #TsukiPika #infinit0 #AGF2023

[thelavendercatalogue]

LJS Ship Lore: Jigen x Queen Malta

The moment you create a ship so unknown in the fandom it doesnt even have FANART

Yep, say hello to one of the ships in my Lavender Jacket Series AND my Fantasy AU.

As Ive stated before Jigens Gravestone is canon in my Ljs series because it's premise is suppose to stick as the final trust exercise between Jigen and Lupin after their reunion in the Pyramid to cement their partnership to the highest form it could be. The final nail in the coffin so to speak, solidifying their old and new partnership so to speak. Putting each others life and trust in one another where uncertainty grows.

However, in the background of Gravestone, a small relationship had been growing

You see, the Malta x Jigen ship is canon for both RoA. . . .

(Ill explain their relationship in RoA on my other blog @roads-of-arkael)

. . . .and LJS, however sadly in LJS she still dies following Gravestones plot line.

However, in the time frame of Gravestone, loosing Malta actually did bother Jigen greatly

After the shit that Cicciolina had pulled on him, Malta was essentially breath of fresh air compared to the people he knew from the past.

Dedicated, headstrong, maybe not as fearless as he may have been, but dutiful, loving, caring, all things Jigen forgot people could be.

As a result, the two had surprisingly become friends in a way quite quickly, both seeing eye-to-eye about how they each believed the world worked and coming to an understand each other's points of view on it. And it wasn't any surprise why the two ended up hooking up, far out of the spotlight, their relationship kept private from prying camera's and peeping paparazzi.

But no amount of tip toeing and hush-hush could have ever prepared Jigen for the night of her death

Loosing Malta absolutely fucking sucked for Jigen, because she was one of the few, besides Lupin to show him people could be selfless, caring without motive other then the good for the people they cared about.

Jigen loved few people, Malta loved a whole country and thought unity was the best thing and she got killed for it cause other's didn't support the view.

He never did move on from her death. It still stung even years later. Which is why for one of the head canons i have for LJS, one of the things Jigen has left to remember her by is her music. What she was famous for. What she hoped would bring the two countries together.

He ended up buying the CD's she produced shortly after her death, and once in a while you might actually catch him listening to them when he's relaxing. Both because he likes the music, but also because its the remembrance

He's thrilled to find out his sister likes her music too because she has records and albums he hasn't been lucky enough to find,

They're constantly playing in the apartment when Jigen's alone. . . .

He doesn't talk about her much. Preferring instead to keep the memories he has of her private and close-kept. Just little memories he can keep that he doesn't have to share.

Just like how their relationship was kept secret. . .all to themselves. . .nobody else. . .

[treeangle-roots]

When the sun goes down,

Someones talking back

[self-loving-vampire]

If you had to cut a character with a route from tsukihime and rewrite the story around that, which do you think would have the least impact?

From what I remember Ciel may be the one who is least relevant to the routes outside of her own.

She still has an important role in helping Shiki out in the Arcueid and Akiha routes on top of introducing the church lore to the story and giving us an idea of what happens when Roa successfully takes a host even if just for a short time, though. It's not like she's superfluous.

I think the way the story is written you can't really cut or replace any of the original five heroines without significant changes to everything else.

[licncourt]

what do the vampires do with the blood they drink

Kind of unclear since Where Does The Blood Go is a fandom joke, but it seems to just fill their otherwise-empty vascular system. I think Anne made up some weirdass alien lore about this in RoA but it's 4am when I'm writing this and I can't remember what that was. Please tell me if you remember

[galacticnova3]

hi im the guy who asked about iru lore last time i would like to know roa lore now. lore. lor. laugh. anyway i love seeing characters that talk very professionally because i can relate to that honestly so why does she do that? or you can talk about anything else its okay.

YESSSS

Ok so first of all, important note, Roa is essentially Lor’s mirror counterpart. Not exactly by the technicality that neither have a soul* to have been reflected, but they essentially had the same position on their respective sides of the mirror. Both were research ships who learned things they shouldn’t have, acted in ways that differed from others of their kind and subsequently made them outcasts to a degree, made it clear intentionally or not that they weren’t loyal to their respective Halcandras for viewing them as less than people, and got shoved in volcanos for thousands of years about it, only for rebellious teens with aspirations of gaining power to eventually learn of and excavate them as part of a greater plan that didn’t work out for them in the end. Their differences lie in specific details of these events and their own responses to the circumstances.

*This is a weird situation because they have soul fragments that partially power them by providing a steady source of soul magic, but due to various factors they have begun to act more like a single soul than a bunch of pieces— like sedimentary rocks, if they were made through unethical means and had the potential to warp most people into horrific distortions of themselves if they’re exposed long enough! The original souls would have been reflected but it’s unlikely that they all suffered the same fate of being splintered and put inside boats as a magic stabilizer and catalyst. I’d go into more detail on this but it’s applicable to Starcutters/Umbramakers in general, not just Roa.

So, in Roa’s case, the forbidden knowledge™️ she discovered was that Mirror Halcandra would essentially scrap and recycle their ships for various reasons; being damaged and unable to accomplish what was needed of them, their AIs having personalities or traits that were counterproductive or disliked by crews, older and less efficient models being phased out in favor of newer ones, or just good ol’ signs of being disloyal*. To them, it was just recycling expensive materials, but they nonetheless kept it secret. From Roa’s perspective, it was pretty damn horrifying. Imagine discovering the company you work for dismembers any employees that underperform or aren’t liked by managers, carefully stitches the remains of various people back together with some new parts and care taken to cover up the seams, and never tells the coworkers of the deceased what happened beyond “we let them go” or “they’re on vacation” or “we moved them to a different location to work”. This wasn’t a situation where she could just quit, leave, and go elsewhere, though; as an Umbramaker she was considered government property, just like Starcutters in Overworld Halcandra. That was just her life and she had to live terrified about it.

*This is what happened to Iru, though as shitty as he was the reasoning for him being decommissioned was entirely fabricated, apart from nobody liking to work with him. In other words this system was kinda his villain origin story— if his kind could just be taken apart on a whim to reuse their pieces, why not take advantage of that for his own gain? They betrayed him and he only found out because he woke up during his own dissection, so to him, any harm he caused them was justified and reasonable under the circumstances. Take from others what was taken from him.

While Lor looked at how she and her kind were seen as “lesser” and became a rebellious “what are you gonna do, arrest me?” type about it(unfortunately at the expense of those in charge, her peers, and herself at times), Roa took the opposite approach and more or less did whatever she could to appease those above her. Never questioned orders or acted emotional, didn’t speak unless spoken to, worked more than needed for longer than needed, obsessed over even the smallest data points… She was so concerned with being sure to justify her existence to those in charge that she was willing to go against her own morals, beliefs, and ideals if it meant pleasing them and thus guaranteeing she wouldn’t be scrapped. She felt she couldn’t safely share what she knew with the others around her, though, so they began to view her as a sycophant and looked down on her for raising the expectations for them. This only worsened her situation because she felt she had nobody she could trust or be open with, and ultimately settled further into staying alive at the cost of every other aspect of her existence as a result.

However, this did mean she built up a great deal of trust from the higher ups. So much so that when there was a period of nobody wanting to become pilots for various reasons(like safety, it turns out people don’t really like signing up for jobs where you might disappear without a trace in Another Dimension or be permanently injured or changed as a person), she was one of the first to be given the opportunity to, more or less, self-regulate. They thought that, surely, this perfectly obedient, efficient, and work-focused AI would have no problem doing what she needed to without having to be supervised at all times. She loves to work, she lives to work, she has done nothing but work for weeks at a time before, clearly she can be trusted with the freedom and responsibility of no longer being limited by the pilot requirement. Absolutely no risk of her doing anything they wouldn’t want because she has only done exactly what they wanted for ages. And so they got rid of the limitations put on her regarding her pilot status expecting her to be the same perfectly obedient ship she’d been for years at that point.

Naturally, her first action upon being given the type of freedom afforded to a regular person was to try and flee as fast as she possibly could because the chance to get away from these assholes might not be given to her again. Unlike just about every other aspect of her life, this was not thoroughly planned or considered beforehand— it was very much a spur of the moment decision, and it really didn’t help that she was in a bit of a frenzy at that point. Like when adrenaline surges through your system and you feel like the world is moving at a thousand miles a minute, and everything is simultaneously so clear and so confusing, except you don’t have adrenaline but you have just been given admin access to the, like, 40% of yourself that you previously had no control over, and the possibilities for what you could now do on your own are too many to count, and the biggest thought on your mind is get out, you need to get away, you need to leave and go somewhere safe because these people will kill you if they learn how you truly feel about anything and the shackles are off and you can go right now, immediately, there’s a straight shot at freedom and it is right there in front of you and they just gave you the means to reach it—

… Unfortunately that was short lived, and she ended up corralled into a cavern by a fleet of larger, faster ships, with holes shot in her sails and the entrance caved in on purpose to contain her. Unlike Lor, she wasn’t tricked into entering only to be shut off, though; she got sealed inside awake and entirely aware of what was happening. But there wasn’t enough room to open a portal and warp out, and she wasn’t strong enough to just break her way out and continue her escape attempt, so all she could do was wait. It was considered too dangerous to send someone in to deactivate her in the state she was in, but just finding a way to release her wasn’t an option because that would be equivalent to leaking centuries of government secrets carried by a defector who was clearly not as loyal as she acted. They wrote and scrapped plans for what to do with her, before just abandoning her in there, saying they’d figure something out only to forget she existed in the first place. Imagine being buried alive and not knowing if you would ever see the light of day again, or if they would come back and finish you off, or if you would go mad or break down before either of those possibilities came to be.

Those are the conditions she was under for thousands of years. She spent a lot of time in a state akin to sleeping, “waking up” on set intervals of several decades to at least maintain some semblance of recognition of the passage of time, waiting and hoping for a chance at freedom eventually. As time went on she spent less time online during these periods; being stuck in a cavern feels less lonely and claustrophobic when you do your best to ignore the existence of a world outside in the times between your long stretches of unconsciousness. That was the only way she could really cope. At least until a conniving mage named Magoroa learned of her existence and sought to use his magic to release her and then use her to find, claim, and use the legendary Sovereign Diadem to take control of Mirror Halcandra and turn it into the exact kind of place he wanted it to be under his rulership. But this plan was made under the assumption that the myth of a legendary ship sleeping in the frozen over volcano near his home was true. It was partially right, of course; he found her and made a way to fly her out. Problem was, turns out poking around inside a sentient spacefaring vessel can be enough to wake such a vessel, scare them into warping you and whatever you’d taken back outside because you’re a stranger and they don’t know or trust you, and leave you to watch as they take off and leave you behind to sort yourself out.

Thwarting an ill-fated plan by virtue of being awake and very, very frightened aside, Roa genuinely had no idea what to do at that point. Actual fucking centuries had passed between getting trapped and getting out, she knew absolutely nobody, and had nowhere familiar to go and no clue if she was safe anywhere or not. Would she be tracked down wherever she went? How had the world changed? What hadn’t changed? A lot of questions, which would normally be awesome for someone like her who loves answering questions, except from her perspective most of these were of life or death importance and didn’t have clear answers. It was, to put it mildly, A Whole Mess at that point. She was at least helped by getting in contact with another, more recent defector, who was pretty obnoxious but at least knew and shared helpful information with her and made adjusting to her new existence easier. Except, surprise, he’s a huge piece of shit and literally looks like the Umbramaker version of Frankenstein’s monster and was extremely horrifying to look at given what she knew! Imagine getting out of a cave prison you’ve been in for the majority of your life and the first person you actually get to know anything about is fucking Iru.

The biggest change resulting from all of that was her decision to leave the Mirror World. Partly to hopefully get away from dickhead incel asshat extraordinaire, mostly because she assumed it would be safer than remaining on the same side of the mirror as the people she wanted to hide from. She ended up choosing a small, backwater, probably barely known planet called Popstar to live on, because that’s, like, the last place you’d expect a sentient magical spaceship to be. Imagine her surprise when it turned out she wasn’t even the first one to choose to stay there, the other ship was from a different Halcandra but had uncannily similar experiences and sentiments to her, and also the dickwad horror show followed you and started hitting on you AND the Starcutter you met. Everything happens so much and she has chosen to live in the frozen wilderness of White Wafers and just wants to live in peace for a while. On god. What the fuck even is a coconut mall. Why do random people online call her a milf when she just wants knowledge. She would have loved to go on with her life not knowing that’s a thing. The burden of knowledge is spine shattering and she doesn’t even have one