#aeon spoilers

[outeremissary]

The Hierophant, Strength and the Hanged Man for Carmen?

Thanks for the ask! For once, there is something resembling brevity to my answers.

(also reordered to obscure some aeon spoilers for anyone for whom those are a concern)

[tarot asks]

Strength: On what issue is your character persistent?

The abomination thing. It’s the abomination thing. It’s most certainly that, the abomination thing. Carmen has developed a fringe theory of the cosmos in which the pristine world of Golarion has been corrupted by the unnatural incursions of creatures and forces not meant to exist on it. History is full of hubristic supernatural overreaches, evil wizard tyrants, and wicked gods and demons sowing destruction. Fey tricksters run rampant in the wilds, the self-righteous so-called good gods leave doctrines of discord for their followers while turning their backs on disaster, the unquiet dead have so infested the earth that a whole disgusting nation of them has taken root. People turn to religion for salvation and the gods feed on their fears and their hopes and all their beautiful, rich lives like parasites. And hardly anyone can see the connection, that there’s not good and bad types of abomination, but that it’s rotten all the way down. That you need to purge it all: the angels and the demons and everything else. The Worldwound is but one corner of a far greater crusade, one that mortals fight endlessly every day just to survive. She’s absolutely miserable to discuss religion with.

(From a meta perspective, this was an adaptation of her impractical and logic resistant tabletop philosophy that every arcane magic user ever born was, deep down, evil, because magic is inherently evil and corrupts everything it touches.)

The Hanged Man: When has your character needed to step back and look at things from a different perspective?

Honestly, just being appointed Knight Commander was a major moment for this. Carmen has never thought of herself as a leader. She knows she doesn’t have a lot of social savvy or patience for trying to parse issues outside of her skillset. Her skills in compromise are generally poor. She doesn’t like delegating tasks. She’s most comfortable receiving orders, not giving them. And grand strategy? She’s a soldier, she doesn’t know what it is that generals do. It’s hard to understand what she’s being asked when Galfrey makes her intentions clear, and it took some processing to come to terms with and accept. Trying to push outside of her usual narrow view of the present and to consider Galfrey’s reasoning, Galfrey’s character, and the state of the crusade did help. As much as the symbolic reasons or the reason of blessings she knew she hadn’t received and disliked being associated with didn’t resonate with her, she could see logic to the crusade needing new blood and fresh morale. The disaster of Kenabres made that much clear. And some morally superior part of her could also be swayed by the logic that she was the right choice for being more upright, for being more clear-headed, for being willing to do what others wouldn’t, just like when she purged the Wardstone.

I suppose in the end it would up less the empathetic understanding of others and more a roundabout way of reaching her own warped perspective there though. Common Carmen L. She does respect Galfrey though, mostly. She has very complicated feelings about Galfrey. All part of the toxic yuri love triangle.

AEON SPOILER ZONE

The Hierophant: Who has served as a mentor to your character?

Carmen has had effectively zero people in her life in the recent past she would consider mentors, especially in the crusade. To “mentor” her would require demonstration of shared values, valuable skills superior to her own, and a temperament she finds agreeable and worthy of respect. Let me just say that there are no characters in the game who meet these standards. She respects some, like Greybor or Galfrey, as equals or near equals. But there’s no one who can put her in a position where she feels that she is a student. The closest that you could probably come is the aeon in the mirror (it’s always that damn aeon in the mirror), and that’s because to her, it is very much not a separate being. It’s just her. She’s just spending time clearing her head and thinking- that’s normal, everyone does that! And she easily internalizes insights she picks up from there. It’s fine. Don’t worry about it.

Would love to see a dynamic of mentor and penitent disciple between her and Hal if she ever halfway shaped up her act though, that would be fun. I thought about that periodically in 2021.

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS (2021-2024) ↳ "These two looks are aimed at the same person btw (the person is Vi, this is heartbreaking)."

[solidors]

i keep hoarding barrels in act 1 solely for this fight in act 2

[qweaenr]

HONKAI STAR RAIL - Aeons:

Lan - Hunt / Nanook - Destruction

Xipe - Harmony / Yaoshi - Abundance

Mythus - Enigmata / Fuli - Remembrance

Aha - Elation / Qlipoth - Preservation

Nous - Erudition / IX - Nihility

[wolves333]

My favourite bugs🦗

Oh, and this one is from outer space

cr:@Evara on Pinterest

[ghouleh-ghouleh]

Rite Here Rite Now (2024)

The Split Edit

[haunted-girlyy]

Everyone is worrying about sister imperator.

Dewdrop: "I hope I can convince Copia to stop at ica maxi on the way home so we can buy cheezdoodles and chicken nuggets for dinner tonight."

Also not forget about Phantom trying to get a better look on seestor

[yuseirra]

really long post here but Aigis and Ryoji basically share the same vibe.. these guys should have been friends!! They could have been!!! They're both very very wholesome entities, very precious people. So sweet and curious and caring. I kind of want to see that happen because they actually do share a whole lot in common regarding how they interact with the protagonist

[n4tsum1-san]

waiter! waiter! more 2.6 content please!

[outeremissary]

Finally home and while I will not be partaking in Wrath ask game (no full PT lol) seeing aeon in the mirror mention fills me with the desire to address just that. That's Carmen's unproblematic bestiiiieeeee the voice in her head that's always so normal and correct because it is her and she's always right about everything <3 Yay!!! There are zero troubling consequences of this mindset.

[falling-skyzz]

wonderlust ....

[kala-mies]

Troy discovers friendship

[VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:

Troy: Blink and Runt are like, kind of the chillest guys and the best friends I've ever had and... it seems like that's pretty important to them, so it's important to me, too. We're a team and such.

Bizly: You feel a warmth in your chest.

Troy: I think I'm getting a heart palpitation.

Bizly: You feel yourself lift off the ground for a half a second.

Troy: Well yippity-skippity ain't that the darnest thing!

Blink: The fuck did you just say?

[laughter]

Troy: I don't– I don't know, eugh! Oh, that was gross! I– I don't know what–

END TRANSCRIPT.]

[channelinglament]

For the SAHSR about the player being an 'aeon,' does that mean that the actual aeons are aware of their existence? Would they get obsessed with them like how the playable characters did?

Like despite Yaoshi kissing the trailblazer in the actual game, did they did it bcuz of the player controlling the trailblazer? -‐ if that makes sense,,,

Hey there!

More SAHSR brainrot 👀✨️

(Buckle up-)

I'm pretty sure that Aeons are indeed aware of players, or should I say.. Prime Aeons/Aeon of Aeons existence!

So, hsr load was...kinda long- (at least for me, a phone player)

AND

Imagine if during that the whole "history" was happening? Like while we were patiently (or not) waiting for the game to load and open, they had:

1) Aeons meeting "you" (and maybe getting yandere too)

2) Them getting so obsessed with you, that even old history books talk about you because other Aeons did EVERYTHING they did because they were either INSPIRED by you, either WANTING TO PLEASE you.

3) OH NO??? Where are we? Somehow the traces of Prime Aeon/Aeon of Aeons is..well gone. All the traces. No one knows where you went. All aeons (even the most calm/tranquil ones) are going batshit insane.

4) Now you are known as a legend, and that one day you will definitely return.. no one knows when. They hoped you would return, because you won't abandon them, right?

All this and maybe even more (deaths, wars, sacrifices, and etc) while you were sitting infornt of loading screen (or had it load in the background)

Idk why but I really do think that actual Aeons would be yanderes aswell (gut feeling?)

Now that we know they're obsessed freaks aswell, I can reply to the other question.

Yes, Yaoshi probably felt your presence in the Trailblazer and decided to show love and devotion through this kiss.

If you were like me, skipping it all and uhh, not noticing it earlier,,,,, I wound say that Yaoshi would try to think of other ways to get to you/get your love. After all, if this wasn't enough.. or maybe you didn't want Yaoshi to kiss you trough Trailblazer, there are def more open doors with ideas to get your love. * hip hop hip hop hop hop hops away into the distance *

Also I jokingly called reader a Prime Aeon-

I like Aeon of guidance a lot <3

But you can have both titles

It rlly is just up to you ^-^

(I'll probably write as both titles lmaooo)

[wolves333]

Rhrn gifs♥️

I love my bugs

(the only bugs I wouldn't stomp)

[ghouleh-ghouleh]

Rite Here Rite Now (2024)

The Trio playing Rats, AKA The Three Blind Mice moment, AKA Cerberus time

[squeakyducky]

I have a theory regarding the Aeons...

Possible spoilers below\\

Do you think an all out war between Aeons and other characters might break out? Like maybe it will happen near at the end of the story.

In xianzhou update, when Jingyuan was interrogating Loucha, he mentioned that Xianzhou, himself and Jingliu are enemies of Yaoshi, the Aeon of Abundance.

And Jingliu doesn't deny it. She admits it even. And then, she talks of killing THEM. This conversation shows a possible, potential confrontation with an Aeon later in the story.

Another thing is when, we talked to Kafka after the interrogation. She reveals that, the Stellaron hunters are deliberately helping TB to form an alliance with Xianzhou. So that, they would help TB when the time comes.

And RIGHT after that, she talks of TB facing Nanook in the future Elio chose. Another confrontation with a different Aeon. Here, this is the key. The stellaron hunters probably wanted Xianzhou to help TB kill Nanook.

"It will be a brutal struggle of Aeonic proportions." If that's not hinting at war, I don't know what it is.

Kafka says that the Elio/Stellaron Hunters' main goal is to kill Nanook, where only a slim portion of possible futures succeed under specific conditions. Nanook is the Aeon of Destruction, whose purpose is to destroy the universe, which Elio can see happen if he fails. And from what we can see from this conversation, I concluded that the stellaron hunters are trying to make TB into a God, or at least a Godlike being whose powers' can rival the Aeons.

As for now, TB follows many paths, Destruction, Preservation, Harmony, and in this new 3.0 update, they will get Rememberance. I wonder if they are pulling Genshin Traveler where they restore their original power with each element? In this case, TB is collecting paths like pokemons, to gain more power little by little perhaps? I know characters can follow different paths, just like March with Preservation and Hunt paths, Danheng with the Hunt and Destruction, and Tingyun with Harmony, and Nihility. But they don't have as much as TB.

Not to mention, in the latest update, Tingyun, or rather Fugue talks about making THEM pay. This also kinda feeds my theory tbh.

"Making THEM pay" I think this also hints at war. I also have another evidence to prove that. Because, before this, they were just talking about wars just now. Countless wars happened because of Aeons before, right?

As for this one, I suppose the picture speaks for itself.

Alright, thank you for reading. I just wanted to discuss a pattern I saw with each update. I don't know if this theory or this topic is a common subject in hsr fandom, but I don't see anyone discussing anything about it at least. If this is a well-known fact at this point, this is embarrassing lol. There might be information that I might've missed or several facts that I might not know too. Correct me if you can. I would also love to hear what you guys' think about this as well :D

Credits: video 1 / video 2 / video 3