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Wilford: "I wouldn't do that to Alex"
Me:
#and her Reading Don Quixote to him#STAHP#I'm always there for FATHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIPS you know ke#*me#you know me#i dont know who KE is#Snowpiercer#alexandra cavill#joseph wilford
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I love Don Quixoteâs observation logs because sheâs very goofy and almost always doing something funny but sheâs also really observant too.
Yes she tried to eat raw chicken but she also noted a similarity between the Steam Engineâs self-repair ability and Danteâs healing, since both can âhealâ damage by âundoingâ or âturning back the clockâ.
With Siltcurrent, she also realizes the glow sticks can be used both as breathing tools to keep the Sinners from drowning once the whale floods the arena, and also as barracades to lure in the whale to charge into.
And then her WHOLE deal with Distorted!Heathcliff. The more I read over it the more I realize how depressed she is having to write the log but is trying to stay positive about it, thatâs part of why she makes a point to praise Heathcliff as a strong combatant and the ways he stands out from Hindley.
#limbus company#Don Quixote LCB#Iâve read distorted Heathcliffâs log so many times#even tried to dub it at one point#on the third fourth or fifth read i started to pick up that sheâs not really happy writing the log#her going off *just* wanting to gush about heathcliff may have just been her wanting to avoid the topic of his distortion#and when she couldnât get away with that she made a point to fill the log with glowing praise of him#but also saying that it was hard to have to attack a friend :(
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I'm pretty sure everyone remembers how Dante's clock has been moving over time. BUT, there is now an identifiable pattern to its movements, and its associated with the development of the sinners!
During Cantos 1-3, Dante's role in events is one of a passive observer. Gregor, Rodion, and Sinclair all made it through their cantos without much (if any) advice from Dante, the events of which mostly served to establish where they stood as characters/why they behave in the ways that they do.
Canto 4 was where this formula started to change. Yi Sang needed more out of Dante than the previous sinners; There was a Big Issue from his past that was controlling his future (namely, his entrapment in the past caused by the Hot Mess Involving T-Corp And The Mirror), forcing Dante to take on the role of Emotional Support Clockhead to guide him through the Canto. And at the end of the Canto, two things happened:
Vergilius commented on "the look on [Dante's] face"...
... and the clock moved for the first time.
The next 2 Cantos maintained this level of involvement from Dante: Ishmael needed Dante to help guide her away from her self-destructive obsession (I.E, to find "[her] compass [which] was swallowed by the sea" and choose to start "piercing through the rope that strangled [Captain Ahab] and [Ishmael]", freeing her to move toward the future), and Heathcliff needed Dante to help guide him through effectively communicating how much he loved Catherine/engaging in healthy relationship dynamics. (Seriously: the real antagonist of Canto 6 is communication issues.)
Effectively: Cantos 1, 2, and 3 had Dante doing the equivalent of talking with their respective Sinners as they drove their car down an empty street. Pretty casual, nothing major happened. Cantos 4, 5 and 6 required Dante to give directions, help them figure out where they got lost, convince them to pull over, calm down, and eat SOMETHING to get their blood sugar up before continuing toward their destination. More work, but these Sinners received greater rewards.
With Canto 7, the car was inside an IKEA.
Sinclair had to get the doors open. Faust had to find the car, awkwardly wedged in one of the shortcuts between display sections. Gregor, Rodion, Ishmael, Yi Sang, and Heathcliff had to pull Sancho out of the bunk bed in a completely different section of the store, with Ryoshu and Outis bringing their spoils from the marvelously-priced IKEA food court. Hong Lu had to help guide Sancho through getting the car out of the place it was awkwardly wedged, and Mersault held back the crowd. Dante's task wasn't just emotional support, but guidance. Sancho/Don Quixote needed someone to reassure her that there was a way forward, a something worth pursuing. And Dante did wonderfully.
So, is it a surprise that this canto is where the clock moved again?
Don Quixote (Who, as we learned in this canto, is a bloodfiend, like Vergilius) commented on Dante's expression.
And the clock moved.
BUT BETWEEN THESE TWO EVENTS, DANTE MADE THE CHOICE TO SMILE. "like Don Quixote asked me to".
THEREFORE, it is my conclusion that, between the commentary of lu-is-not-okay on Hong Lu's impending mental breakdown (SPECIFICALLY this post, which is the reason for my diatribe) AND the existence of this pattern of increasingly intensive Sinner rehabilitation efforts, Canto 8 will be the mental health equivalent of trying to get Hong Lu off of the car, which is precariously balanced upside down on a fountain, on the third floor of a shopping mall, while being chased by mall security (read: his family).
And it's going to be awesome.
#limbus company#limbus theory#canto 7 spoilers#canto 8 theories#I have no clue why bloodfiends were the ones to comment on Dante"s face both times#But I'm noting it anyway#Also I am so tempted to meme this mental image now
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Odd interaction at the bookstore yesterday. Got summoned to the register in my capacity as Employee Who Knows About Old Books because a customer wanted to know what Don Quixote was about.
(Yes, this does mean that the employee already at the register wasnât able to answer that question. I have a lot of âwhat are they teaching you in those schools?â interactions with my younger co-workers.)
Anyway, I gave the customer a quick synopsis. He asked if Iâd recommend it, and I said I would, that it was not only well-written but also pretty accessible & engaging for a novel written four hundred years ago. Then he asked if he would âsee things differently after reading it.â
He then elaborated that he really liked Paulo Coelhoâs The Alchemist and wanted other books he read to have a similar paradigm-shifting effect.
(I havenât read The Alchemist, specifically because every time someone recommends it to me they use this same kind of language, which makes me feel like theyâre trying to get me to join a cult rather than read a book.)
We are in a college town, so âyoung person whoâs just learned what philosophy and poetry are and now thinks of themselves as Deepâ is a Type of Guy we encounter fairly frequently.
(Just a few hours before this, I overheard a young man recommending a book to his female companion because it would âhelp with her creative energiesâ.)
So itâs not that this is particularly unusual in vibes, itâs more that⊠this seems like an odd standard to hold a novel to before you read it. And itâs an odd question to ask your local bookseller â âwill this book change my life?â I dunno, man, I donât know your life. Maybe it will, books do that sometimes.
Anyway, I told him âprobablyâ, because honestly Don Quixote is a really good book and I think more people should read it. And, I dunno, maybe it will make him see things differently.
(It might even make him see novels as intrinsically worth reading rather than as vessels for personal change.)
I have no idea if that worked, because as mentioned I wasnât at the register at the time. I went back to organizing the used books and didnât see him again. Kind of hope he bought it.
(To be clear, at no point during this conversation was he holding a copy of Don Quixote. I had to instruct him to look under âCâ for âCervantesâ if he decided he wanted to buy it. His curiosity was sparked by a set of novelty bookends.)
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stupid ass Don Quixote ramblings
hi this is my first tumblr post but i really wanted a good place to put this
spoilers for all of current limbus company, including Murder on the warp Express, the Don Quixote book (( kinda )), and a musical (( i'll get there ))
please humor this deranged rant about a character i havent read the source book of
so basically ive had a theory since Don was even teased that she's less so based on book Don Quixote and moreso based on the Man of La Mancha musical which is. an insane thing to suggest but hear me out here (( ive since changed how i word my stance to the much more mild "it will most likely delve into the themes of both works and reference both" because suggesting they would discount the book entirely is TRUE insanity ))
her quote (( from teaser tweets that i cannot find anymore? they seem like they were deleted which sucks )) was "To reach the unreachable star!" or something which is notably not a quote from the original book ((as far as im aware at least?)), and suggests. a lot i think!
One of the most notable differences between Man of La Mancha and the original Don Quixote is their tone and attitude towards Quixote. In the original text, he's shown to be a fool who is ignorant to the vastly more interesting world around him, and prefers to instead sink deeper into his delusions of reality equating to chivalric literature. This makes sense as Don Quixote was written as a parody and mockery of the genre
La Mancha is, notably, much more forgiving on Quixote's character, showing that while still a fool, and his insanity often detrimental to those around him, he is still a good person at heart and that he truly wishes to pursue this justice he posits
I usually say it as "Don Quixote is about how reality is beautiful, and La Mancha is about how sometimes one should strive to make reality a little more fantastical" although i dont know if that. is the most accurate comparison. both Don Quixote and La Mancha have a lot of themes and stuff going on
one of the things that made me scream was learning about "Miguel" being written on don's LCB combat spritesheet instead of her listed name
which if you've seen or read a summary of la mancha is a huge alarm bell
In La Mancha, the whole thing is shown as a Play within a Play
Miguel de Cerventes is sent to prison, awaiting trial by the inquisition, and is tasked with defending himself in a mock trial with the other prisoners so they dont take his belongings. His defense is Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha! With the prisoners acting out the various roles he assigns them, and him acting as the leading man, Don Quixote himself!
that was most of the things that made me think "Oh, maybe it'll be La Mancha!" and then this happened
and i sort of lost my god damned mind
because like what if this is miguel... what if shes simultaneously playing out her life as don quixote as a her delusion, and as her dream, but also as a statement...
idk but this isnt JUST about Man of La Mancha bc i think this has a few implications for how don's canto is going to go
In both don quixote and la mancha, they send someone to cure quixote of his delusions
The final thing they try is setting up an act where a "Knight of Mirrors" duels with Quixote, which ends up working.
The Knight forces Quixote to see how he is perceived by others, to see the truth that he is no knight.
ignoring the stuff with vampires and mirrors for a second, i feel like this could be more mirror world shenanigans, where either the knight IS a mirror world don quixote, or is someone who will show her mirror worlds. Whatever that will imply!!! i dont know its exciting!!!!!
Her being absurdly old and powerful, plus bloodfiends having a whole familial adjacent hierarchy makes me think theres a LOT of bloodfiends out there that would want her back
I dunno!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
im insane!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! i just wanted to get my thoughts out before her canto actually happened so i can say that i did indeed have an opinion on this
-limbus assets taken form Lunartique's asset google drive go look at it -text written by me and not proofread
ok thanks bye dont follow me byeee byeeeeee
#limbus company#don quixote#limbus spoilers#project moon#ramblings#if her name ends up being confirmed as Miguel i will cry so loudly in a joyous chorus of crying loudly#forgive me#fan theory#limbus don quixote#lcb
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Hot on the heels of my last list, here's my ranking of how good the Sinners are in bed
12. Gregor
Don't. Forbidden. Not allowed. No sex for bug man. Theoretically he's fine, but the risks of spontaneous mutation are too great.
11. Yi Sang
Maybe he's on the ace spectrum. Maybe he's just super depressed. Either way, he's not interested. He'll gladly read poetry with you, but physical contact isn't on the table.
10. Faust
Before you even get started, you'll notice that she's 100% checked out. Total dissociation. It's not trauma or anything, probably. She's just distracted by the group chat. Even if you can get her in the moment, it's gonna be super awkward knowing every Faust in every universe is judging your performance.
9. Sinclair
Is he even old enough?
Okay...so, i just confirmed he's 20. That said, I doubt he has ever even fooled around with anyone. He has enthusiasm, but that's about it. He'll fumble around for a while, apologize, and eventually, out of desperation, try that one thing he heard on the schoolyard (to disastrous results).
8. RyĆshĆ«
She knows what she's doing...unfortunately. She's not one to ease you into things. DESOS (deep end sink or swim). You're not walking out of this intact. There will be scars, both physical and psychological. Don't stick it in crazy, is what I'm saying.
7. Outis
Outis is the exact opposite problem from RyĆshĆ«. Super vanilla, missionary only. Thinks a light slap on the rear is "getting freaky." The only thing that puts her at the top of the "don't" half of the list is that sex is actually happening and no one is going to therapy over it.
6. Rodion
Is it possible to fuck sarcastically? She's good but she waaay oversells it. You're barely moving and she's throwing her head back and moaning like a porn star. It makes you super self-conscious.
5. Don Quixote
Like Rodion, but a bottom and sincere about it. You barely have to do anything, and she's completely incoherent with lust. She's had three orgasms before you get your pants off. The only problem is, with all that screaming and crying and squirming and begging, there's not a whole lot that she can actually do for you. Hey, at least one of you is having the time of their life.
4. Heathcliff
An attentive and passionate lover who is gonna make you feel special. Though he tends to be maddeningly gentle, there's still a hunger underneath the surface. Give him permission and he can really unleash the beast.
3. Ishmael
A dominant and assertive lover who knows what she wants and is going to get it. She likes some fight too, so you're both gonna walk away with scratches and bruises (though nothing like with RyĆshĆ«). She's also excellent in the aftercare, very affectionate and snuggley. I could probably swap her and Heathcliff, so this was a matter of personal taste.
2. Hong Lu
He has memorized every single book on the subject. He knows things that you can't even imagine. His empathy means he knows exactly what you need before you even know it, and he can perform perfectly. The only drawback is that, despite his vast knowledge and flawless technique, it's still kinda rote and performative. Hell of a performance, though.
1. Meursault
Mersault.
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stray canto vii part 1 thoughts (warning: long)
so many cool new designs!! it made me realize how few of interest we got in Canto VI. Then almost everything was pretty standard (classic maid and butler outfits, lots of suits, Cathy had a fancy dress at least? and everything was brown. yes I know, T Corp color drain, but still. and Ăufi came before season 3 ended so that didnât count), but this time we have Camille, the P Corp guys, Fanghunt Office, Hugo I guess, Hong Luâs sister, the firefist guy? if he counts? he barely appeared, SansĂłn, and all the fancy dressed up bloodfiends. woo babey!!
speaking of Jia Xichun, I like her! Sheâs cute! I didnât expect to see anyone related to Hong Lu, but in retrospect I probably shouldâve, since his turn is next and his family is massive. I hope nothing bad happens to her. I've never read Dream of the Red Chamber
also speaking of Hugo, lol. lmao. when he was talking about pressing the button to get the reward I was like âoh hopkins 2, got itâ and then RyĆshĆ« sliced off his hands so I guess⊠not hopkins 2
ALSO the blonde Fanghunt guy is named Romero, which is apparently the name of a character in Vampire: The Masquerade. I wouldnât be surprised if it was an intentional reference
Sinclair cursing that one guy out was so awesome. I remember when Canto V part 2 came out and he censored himself saying âBitch Brotherâ people were worried that the new translators were making him softer than he actually was, but, nah, he tries his best to be a polite boy but when heâs actually genuinely pissed off he does not hold back. RyĆshĆ« correcting him BUT THEN SAYING HIS INTERPRETATION WAS GOOD absolutely killed me. my son demands respect
itâs a good day to be a Leviathan fan
The scripted loss encounter was so cool. They set you to level 45 no matter what level your LCB Don is, and take away all your EGO except the base (which you canât even use), and I donât know how far you can actually get in this fight because I flipped tails every single time and lost every clash
letâs talk about the Barber! leave it to Project Moon to look at the character who didnât have very much of a personality who stuck around with the priest and attempted multiple plans to bring Don Quixote back home so he could become sane again (and burned a bunch of Quixoteâs chivalry books, also with the priest), and turned him into an insane vampire woman with big scissors and a shrill cackle who stitches masks onto peopleâs faces.
interesting choice to have Sancho and Dulcinea both named in a single line and then not acknowledged or mentioned again
SansĂłn! so based on his story log portrait background being bisexual, the blue name, and him resembling someone in Demianâs group in the Limbus Company PV, I feel confident saying heâs part of Demianâs Group. The spot where his Sign would be is covered by his mask, though, so no one in-universe knows
I think this is why Sinclair was cast in the role of the Knight of the White Moon: he also has the sign, which SansĂłn (who is the Knight of the White Moon) would be able to see, and even if other sinners have it too, theyâre not Demianâs special guy. everyone else, though, seemed to be cast in the most humiliating role possible: horse to be ridden for Gregor, wild animal for Heathcliff, random peasant for Rodya, presumably homeless old person for Outis
ok SansĂłn. in the book, heâs a young college student who read the first part of Don Quixote and, in part 2, approaches Quixote saying heâs a big fan and encouraging him to go back out and do more knight stuff. However, he actually just thinks Don Quixoteâs antics are very amusing and isnât actually an earnest supporter, and is conspiring with the barber and priest to get Quixote back home to stay. the way they (priest and barber try to bring him home in part 1 is by tricking him with an adventure thatâs conveniently in the same direction as their home village, but then they get sidetracked in an inn for a long time so they just put him in a cage and drive him home. in part 2, they want to play on Quixoteâs terms for a more effective result. near the beginning of the second part, they have SansĂłn dress as a knight (called the Knight of Mirrors/Knight of the Forest. these titles have no significance in the book but apparently the mirror thing forces Quixote to see himself as the frail old man he is in Man of La Mancha), say his lady is fairer than Dulcinea to get Don Quixote to duel him, and then make Quixote promise to stay home for a year when he loses. however, SansĂłn is the one who loses, because he wasnât expecting Quixote to actually be good at jousting. Later, near the very end, which iirc is 3 months after the first encounter, another knight called the Knight of the White Moon issues the exact same challenge to Don Quixote (itâs just SansĂłn again, and "White Moon" has no significance in the original book either), but this time SansĂłn wins, so Don Quixote goes home, dejected, and then becomes âsaneâ again and dies.
Since this SansĂłn is part of Demianâs group, I donât think his intentions will be the same- the Barber was a bloodfiend, and he sees beyond the ambitions of the bloodfiends now- but itâs fun to know how he is in the source nonetheless
I really like how he didnât show up after the Barberâs defeat to say something cryptic and then leave, he told us quite a bit, and though his methods were⊠questionable, he DID force the sinners to actually finally pay attention to Don Quixote
speaking of the stage play, I like the juxtaposition between SansĂłnâs play and the Barberâs. in a different context, what SansĂłn did mightâve been framed as horrifying, and weâd be talking about how uncanny and unreal this is, but I donât think thatâs the intention here. the sinners might be playing roles, and all the enemies are cardboard cutouts, but itâs better than putting targets on real people (though I guess theyâre not âpeopleâ, theyâre bad, bad, bloodfiends). the cheerful music in La Manchaland is distorted and out of place, while the stage play is nice in comparison. the music for the talking sections is a bit too upbeat for the situation, but the music during the battles really immerses you. guitar! trumpet! maraca! this music is clearly composed to emulate spanish music, and itâs very earnest, which I think is important, with how easily music sets tone in media.
in both cases, Don Quixote is in a delusion. nothing in the stage play of her adventures is real, but sheâs also completely wrapped up in the narrative of evil bloodfiends without the knowledge that she is one. a violent nightmare and a peaceful dream, both of which she needs to wake up from.
they both do this thing with black-and-white thinking, too. thereâs a difference between the âgoodâ bloodfiends, which you should get along with, and the âbadâ ones, which you need to kill (though Don sees them both as bad), and then the bandits in the stage play are cartoonishly evil and love to bully the weak. except it seems the first is the narrative the Barber wanted to sell, while the second is Don Quixoteâs reality⊠I mean, the play is definitely inaccurate, but weâve seen how Don behaves
if you follow me for kingdom hearts and are for some reason reading this you know how much I love Nobodies in kh. people who used to be human, but arenât anymore, who look close enough but are different on an intrinsic and physiological level, that everyone automatically treats as unreasonable monsters that need to die when theyâre more complicated than that⊠I love it so much, Iâm cheering and clapping whenever bloodfiend morality is brought up. Moses said that Larierre was cordial and offered her a place to sit and talk, but then also said bloodfiends are insatiably hungry and you shouldnât underestimate them. agh I love it
also THE MUSIIIIIC every fight theme so far has been a banger. songs that were already good but with typical carnival instruments, big brass swing, the aforementioned nice spanish music, and the fucked up and evil sequel to dubstep electroswing featuring evil laughter
and finally, the helm of mambrino. in early part 1 of Don Quixote, he sees a barber (COMPLETELY unrelated barber to the other barber btw) carrying a basin on his head, and thinks itâs the amazing mystical Helm of Mambrino, so he attacks the barber and steals the basin. Don Quixote wears it as a helmet a few times and everyone thinks it looks really stupid. they did not fight a bear for it, nor did they go into a cave. idk what this might actually be in the City. either weâll see or we wonât
#limbus company#project moon#aoaaagghhhhh#canto vii spoilers#limbus company spoilers#emil sinclair#don quixote#nobodies#<- mentioned#sanson carrasco#bluejay reading log#me post
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i need to flesh this out once iâve mulled it over more but i adore how limbus company expands on the incredible world-building of project moon, because it is so goddamn realistic.
from the outset the player is presented with this incredibly bleak world in which corporations have become the state. the poor and the desperate bow their heads and toil at the altar of the free market. worth is measured by talent in exploitation. itâs a social darwinistâs wet dream. i also think the choice to base the cast off of literary figures was amazing, because it highlights very important connections to the past. i havenât read all the books referenced, but the ones i have (the metamorphosis, don quixote de la mancha, & the odyssey so far) draw an unmistakable through-line from the suffering and exploitation depicted in those books to that which occurs in the city. the most horrifying parts of this game in my opinion arenât the monsters or the machines â itâs the sheer enormity of human suffering which exists in the economic and political system the city operates under. and thatâs the worst part, because in so many ways, the suffering and exploitation portrayed in the city is not a hypothetical fantasy â this is just capitalism working as intended. itâs not confined to the historical context of those books, nor the gritty sci-fi horror of the game.
but not only do we have this incredible setting thatâs somehow both brutally realistic and fantastical at the same time, we also get to see how our main cast attempts to survive in that world â and ultimately how none of their attempts to change it succeeded at all.
in my mind, canto i portrays how neither kindness nor cold-heartedness will help you survive â especially through the dynamic between aya and hopkins. gregor has been both. he was a war hero in a meaningless war. after it ended, he was discarded as any tool which had outlived its usefulness would be. he canât even control his arm from becoming a killing machine. and yet, gregor is still exceptionally personable, even going out of his way to be kind at times. but no matter whether heâs a tool for violence in the hands of war profiteers or simply a man doing his best to protect others, he still couldnât save yuri â just as he couldnât save his comrades â and this clearly haunts him. neither the war nor its end changed anything.
canto ii shows between rodya and sonya how both direct action and an âinevitableâ revolution fail to quell the suffering of the vulnerable. sonyaâs revolution is all bluster and no action. he does nothing to help the people in his community in favor of this grandiose revolution that must happen at the âright momentâ â even if it means leaving his neighbors to starve in the meantime. rodyaâs inspired yet short-sighted action to remove what she saw as the source of her communityâs suffering only led to its destruction: the tax collector was a branch, not the root, of the problem, and killing one person did nothing to stop the system which upheld them.
canto iii is even more clear-cut in the ties between sinclair and kromer: neither violent zealotry nor blissful ignorance will save you in the city. kromerâs cult does not âpurifyâ anything, but sinclairâs courage to stand up to her isnât enough to beat her either. canto iii still doesnât end in a victory. dante and the sinners barely survive. itâs only through demian (and k-corpâs) divine intervention that the sinners and kromer donât destroy each other in the corpse pit.
in the most recent addition, canto iv appears to do the same thing. on one hand, you have the devotion to a principle shown through shrenne, samjo, and donbaek. their causes are different, but their devotion is the same. on the other, there is the cynicism, indifference, and escapism of yi sang and dongrang, both willingly complicit in the machine in different ways. and yet â none of them make any positive difference. whether they resisted or submitted, the machine grinds on around them â the only choices are to become a cog in it or be ground to bits by its gears.
to be clear, i do not think the game is arguing that none of these individual actions matter. even if gregor couldnât rescue yuri, even if rodya couldnât protect her neighbors, even if sinclair couldnât defeat kromer and all that she stood for, even if the league of nine members each failed to realize their ideals â limbus argues that it matters they tried. it matters that theyâre still trying. it may never be possible to oust the corporate overlords and make the city a better place, but the love still matters.
#canto four spoilers#canto iv spoilers#canto iv#THIS IS ILL THOUGHT OUT SORRY#bad metaposting moments#i just need it Out my brain or ill Esplode#limbus company
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I'm not going to be able to write my typical long rambles for a bit (need to catch up on important work), but here's a short list of things I wanna talk about with the latest canto.
Spoilers, of course.
The entire Canto taking place after the ending of Don Quixote (the first Don, I will not call him the Actual Don because our Don is as much Don Quixote as he is) is not something I expected, but makes so much sense and made for a wonderful story. There are themes of identity, struggling to live under a broken system and GOD THE FAMILIAL TIES. THE FIGHT AGAINST THE TWO MIDBOSSES + THE PRIEST HAD SUCH MAGNIFICENT STORY BUILD UP. AND THE PRIEST'S ENTIRE MOVESET. UGGGH I WANNA TALK ABOTU IT
Hey. Outis. What did you mean by that. We all know what I'm talking about, right? This is the first time I know of that she's actually given even a smidge of info about herself somewhat directly. Somewhat. Everything else is just in how she knows things and acts. Here she is asking a very specific question and god, I need to know more about her now.
Good job Sinclair. And everyone else. But good job Sinclair.
Vergilius with Sanson's face/mask is cursed.
I continue to feel so so bad for the Bloodfiends. They did the best they could in a world that gave them only two horrible options. I couldn't help but compare La Manchaland to the Tokyo Ghoul:RE ending, because the hemobars reminded me of the artificial meat, except in TG:RE it worked and here, well. We saw how that went. I think it's a great idea to start with the after of their solution; this isn't a situation with a possible solution, they tried that and failed. Who knows if there is one that works? Does it matter now that they're all dead?
I'm going to be very weird about Camille once this is all said and done, but I do want to note that the pretty boy being turned into a flower and having a name very clearly gotten from Carmilla the flower (and maybe the book? Haven't read it yet so idk if he's taken from there) is very cheeky. I still wish I could've besting him up myself. This isn't me critiquing the writing, this is me being weird.
The QTE in the ending cutscene of the boss fight was cool and really added to the feeling of fighting against and overcoming a clearly superior foe.
I wanna hug Don Quixote the First. He's such a ray of sunshine and deserved better. Even if he was somewhat delusional, at least he genuinely cared for his family.
What happened to Hong Lu's sister? Did she just vanish? I didn't notice until later on, so I'll probably need to go back and check myself.
Bari is the Librarian of Death (edit: Nameless Bookhunter, thanks for the correction AE)? Idfk and idc for now. If Bari ends up showing up again or a moot of mine decides they wanna talk about it, maybe I'll look into it.
The familial themes here are most certainly also going to be related to Hong Lu's story, which once more is a reason I really should get to reading all the books for this game.
Ryoshu accepting death from the possibility of fighting Don Qui the second was really funny.
The abno fights here are really good, and I love how Limbus is making unbreakable coins the standard from now on. Makes it so you can't just blaze through fights taking no damage, and these battles genuinely feel difficult. That's good. Their designs and mechanics are also pretty easy to understand and match with their ego gifts pretty well. God I wish we had more Rupture ids that could stack as much count as the Lasso abno.
Sancho fight was cool as hell. The clashable 10 speed skill was so good and made it feel like a massive improvement on the Cassetti fight. So good. On use coin power did mess me up a little given it doesn't show up in the clash numbers, but that was on me for not reading tbh.
Fun fact: final boss can be Meatlantern soloed really easily. So easy in fact that that's how I cleared it. Doing it with a full team didn't end well for me. The solo's also really consistent, which is nice.
Mili song is really good. As usual. I need to go listen to it again. I need an in-game mix. I need it. The childishness of Sancho's side of the tune compared with the seriousness of first Don's side is lovely.
Also. Please, in the final clash where you use Don's base ego. I hope you looked at the name of the ego and the name of Don the First's attack. Please. It's such a good detail. And it's so much better when you remember that Sancho was always the one making weapons for Don. He calls Sancho's lances much more graceful than his. It's so lovely. You can tell these two genuinely love each other. It's so good.
Also the fact that basically every fixer we went in with got wiped out by weakened Bloodfiends really shows just how powerful these bloodfiends are. Camille had to resort to using ego gear to survive. Sheesh.
That'll be all for now. Expect a long ramble on any of these points when I'm more free, aka never.
#unma rambles#limbus company#limbus company spoilers#canto vii spoilers#unma's in-depth ramblings#short list he says#sure.
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SUUUPER long ask sorry.
What I find so fascinating is that, everyone, whether dante or her family, display her as this âprideful,â and having this âself importance,â that puts her above everyone. But, every memory we get of her is undoubtedly soft or full of, usually, love. You could say this is because of her natural softness with Quixote, but, sheâs shown to be this way with Bari, too! Sheâs shown to pity the bear and even Dante later on. Faust informs Dante her level of agression then was because of Cassettiâs taboo and not a general read of her character. Even in Barberâs and Priestâs narration, she does enforce them, yes, but itâs always never something âprideful,â whispering at Priest he missed a line, and apparently watching over Barber, which leans into OUR Donâs and Sanchoâs habit of acting like she.. isnât apart of the world. (Giving her Gubo makes so much sense, on several levels, but especially Dongbaek accusing Gubo of acting like they arenât one of them. Dongrangâs âyou donât need to keep acting like a guest.â) The sinners affirming she never, ever talks about herself, much rather sharing and wanting to hear OTHERâS stories. Sheâs always felt distant from the sinners, even more so than those âemotionally closed off,â like Outis, and thatâs because she doesnât let anyone in. And it seems sheâs always been that way. I mean, she was willing to completely erase who she was in efforts to live someone elseâs story. Even meta wiseâ she isnât even the protagonist! Sheâs the person who watches the hijinks occur. She does not own this identity or story, sheâs manually removed all her agency and autonomy. Something she ultimately did because of loathe of herself and love of someone else. Dante doesnât want Don to face herself because it means theyâd have to face her. Despite, how frail she seems, how even warm Iâd say Vergilius sounds making the deal with her, her talk about âwatching over Hong Lu,â with the implication that to just be there and try, and how thatâs being taken from her, even now, because no one can seem to accept her, but Quixote. She canât even accept herself. Sheâs someone who longed for family and love, but the entire world seems sure on seeing her as something prideful, evil, terrifyingâ and even as a human she was a one dimensional annoyance at worst. I wonder if she truly loved her family, the sinners, but was still unable to convey that? Did they read her wrong? Was she always prideful and distant? Or was she scared of not being loved? Is she truly that terrifying or has she learned to harden herself up to keep things in order for her helpless master? Has she taken up the burden of being the âbad guy,â to ensure he gets all he wants on a silver platter? The dichotomy of love in their relationship and what is ultimately terrifying, a lack of autonomy to even live her own life, be his ideal instead, simply on pretense heâs the only person to ever love her. Someone she cannot deny, quite literally, all for him.
THANK YOU FOR LONG ASK, I'm glad to see people to be that passionate about Don!
And I like the idea of her being less prideful but rather distant, which creates a feeling of arrogance. And I agree that most of her memories are full of love, just I think all of her love reserved to Don Quixote.
About Bari, she seems rather suspicious about her and flashbacks and agrees to her company only because of Don Quixote. You could argue using last Sanson play, but we still don't have a confirmation about who we're spoken here yet.
About Bear...I don't think it was piety, more like pragmatism.
About Dante... yeah, she looked at them as they were pietful it makes me wonder why...
About Cassati...well, . She's honoring this taboo, but this taboo is rooted in hierarchy in which she is much higher than Cassati, and if she believes in importance of taboo, she should believe in the importance of her status. We can compare it's to Don Quixote, who is letting Sancho ignore lines between their statuses while she calls Cassatti all insults possible.
And when I made point about her correcting Barber and Priest, it was not about pride, but more about their discomfort around her.
But I adore the idea of Sancho being an observer and the idea that she does not fit in and that she's not even trying. I thought a lot about Gubo's identity as a traitor in this story and how it paints Don, but him being never "one of them" now makes a lot of sense.
And with that, I think Sancho's problem is not even with thinking that everyone is unimportant. It's more like there is no one as important as Don Quixote, and that includes herself.
In a way, Don Quixote made a great thing becoming her family, but at the same time, he became the center of life, even if by accident.
Maybe she became a "bad guy" to make sure his dream will happen. But it still centering one person and his happiness while ignoring pleas of others. Sancho may not be purposely cruel, but she was ruthless archiving whatever Don Quixote wanted.
And that's why I think that her life as "Don" gave her a new perspective. Or understanding. About Don Quxote and most important about herself. She had a chance to have a life that wasn't centered around one person(she just didn't remember it was), learn other kinds of joy, and create relationships.
It's interesting that Dulcinea said that Sancho's eyes once were bright and starry until cold disinterest settled in them. And that means that from the beginning, there was something in her that could be Don Quixote.
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I'm realizing the sinners are essentially a team of 10 player in a tabletop campaign, who each had very different expectations, and are making their DMs life a living hell.
Faust is the only one who read 100% of the lore documents, and she gets super annoying with it. She made her character smart so she could always go "it's not meta-RP, my PC just knows everything..."
Ishmael wanted a nice campaign with a small, tight-knit group, but a 10-player campaign is too much, and she's angry at the DM for allowing it, and at the other players for not focusing.
Meursault is playing for the first time and has no idea what's going on. He just does what the others tell him to do. It'll take him a few sessions to get the hang of it.
Don Quixote plays the same character every campaign and always try to force the whole "errant knight" archetype, even if the setting doesn't work for it.
Gregor is just trying to make the campaign work, and he got the DM's trust to be the focus of the first scenario, so things could start moving along.
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How would the sinners react to the reader (who presumably they care about to some degree or another) distorting? I think there's a lot of potential in a reader distorting and the conflict that would bring (especially if the sinners are close to them) and there's almost none of it so...
God these became so long
Faust: She would like to study the phenomenon of distortion, but not like this. Not when the one she cares so much about is involved. Her mind is racing to find the right questions that would lead to answers relevant to this problem. She doesn't want to consider killing them, but she knows very well how these things tend to go. Her team works hunting distortions, after all. Still, there is a chance, a remote possibility that she can revert this. She's a scientist who sticks to hard data, but this time she has to put her faith on something much more abstract: hope.
Yi Sang: He wishes he could have perceived the circumstances that have led to this. He knows an individual does not distort under normal circumstances. He knows a distorted individual is one who was often pushed to the brink of their sanity by an immeasurable amount of suffering. He feels impotent in the face of his dearest's pain, because if he had been a better person, he could have prevented this. It takes all the other sinners' help to make him realize he can still stop them, and that there is a chance to revert the distortion. He needs all the support to actually face them in combat.
Don Quixote: She's shaken and unsure of what to do because she's used to seeing distortions as foes. She heard all the scientific explanations to this occurrence, but in her mind she simplifies it so she can do her job competently. Now she has to come to face the fact that behind every distortion is a person who is dear to someone else. The world is not so black and white with heroes and monsters. The one that takes a monstrous form this time is none other than a person; a human she deeply cares for. She is uncharacteristically serious and sober, and leans on the smarter sinners to solve this issue.
Meursault: He knows it can be reversed and that's the first thing his mind goes to when it happens. He's compartmentalizing it so bad he can't feel his own body. It's do or die, and he doesn't want the latter to be happening to anybody here. If they can undo this, he can begin to unravel the reason for their distortion, but for now he can only think one step ahead. He needs to bring them back, no matter what it takes. Failure is not an option here.
Ryoshu: The trembling of her hand is almost imperceptible as she listens to the explanations the big brained sinners give her. She knows she will have to face them in battle sooner or later, but for the first time in a while her muse fails her. She doesn't want to lift her arm, she doesn't want to use her knowledge of murder to take them down. Ultimately, she doesn't want to cut down the monster her beloved has become. There's no art in taking the life of a distorted creature, no soul in a brainless abomination. She wants them back. She will have them back.
Ishmael: Not only has she read the manuals about this phenomenon, she has also seen it happen many times before. More than that, she knows it's reversible. She's holding onto hope that she knows them well enough to talk them out of it. She raises her shield and mace, gritting her teeth and bracing her heart and mind for what she has to do. If they are to have a chance, she has to strike them down. She doesn't want to do it, but she also doesn't want to see any of the others do it either. She must be the one to neutralize the threat.
Heathcliff: He knows that behind a distorted monster there is a human being going through unimaginable suffering and grief. He's been there, he knows better than any other sinner what goes in a distorted person's head. He's the most hopeful about it, even if he's not looking forward to taking them down in combat. Heathcliff doesn't want to hurt the one he cares about, but he knows it is a necessary part of the process. He won't fail them, no matter what.
Outis: She's dealt with this before many, many times. Her team's the most competent at handling distortions. Of course, they're a bumbling bundle of fools, but still the company trusts them with these missions for a reason. Still, for all the outer confidence she tries to show while she requests permission to order the sinners around, her voice wavers. Her hand trembles when she has to raise her weapon, and the sound of breaking glass when the others take on their ids make her jumpy and tense. Will it really be fine? Are they really enough? As another identity begins to override her mind, she cannot help but ask herself: is she making the right choice?
Hong Lu: His heart is taken by unspeakable sadness, he can barely bring himself to say a word. He's seen distorted people before, and to them it always seemed like the manifestation of nightmares. To him, a distortion is always a physical manifestation of one's nightmares, and he can't help but look up at them and wonder: is this what haunts them in the darkest, coldest nights? Of course they cannot answer him, they're lost to their own grief. Whether they are capable of words, it's impossible to say unless they are confronted. Regardless of the answer, what he knows is that this event will forever haunt his nightmares from now on. He relies on his comrades to help bring them back, but he feels too helpless to lead the charge. He numbs his heart to the task ahead and waits for Dante's orders patiently.
Rodion: She feels cold, like it's the coldest winter night. She's sure it's only herself though. She cracks a joke about how the weather changed, and tries to smile but everybody knows how hard she's faking it. She's shaken, and among all the low blows life has given her, this is the one that bends her spirit near its breaking point. She tries to keep her smile up, in spite of the deep pain she feels in her chest. She knows if she isn't careful, she'll be the next to distort here. For a moment she wonders if that wouldn't be the preferrable route. After all, then they both could be together again as monsters.
Sinclair: This can't be real, right? This must be a mirror dungeon or something. His mind is being tested, that's all. It is definitely not real. Because after all the suffering he had to face through his journey in hell, why's it that he has to go through this too? Has he not gone through enough punishment to pay for his sins? No. No, maybe not. The mistakes of his frivolous, youthful, immature mind are yet to be paid for, and this is why he has to witness a person so dear to him distort. Deep inside he can't help but feel a deep anger and hatred towards life and this unfair world he finds himself in. He will save them, no matter the cost. He will save them, and FUCK YOU WORLD YOU WON'T TAKE THIS FROM ME. YOU WON'T TAKE ANYBODY ELSE FROM ME. DON'T FUCK WITH ME!
Gregor: Of course some shit like this had to happen eventually. He sort of saw the signs of a greater darkness hiding in their heart before, but he could never... bring it up. He knows that somehow, he's half responsible for their pain. If he was a better man, he would have stopped it in time, but now he has to see them become something else; something out of control. He trusts the others to come up with a solution that could bring the person he treasures so much back, but he's resigned himself to observing and following orders. The best he can do here is let others take over for him. He could never do anything right on his own. He's sorry, deeply so, but knows that his sorrow won't change a thing.
#limbus company#lcb#yi sang lcb#faust lcb#gregor lcb#meursault lcb#don quixote lcb#rodion lcb#ryoshu lcb#sinclair lcb#outis lcb#hong lu lcb#heathcliff lcb#ishmael lcb#I got too tired to do Dante and Vergie sorreys anon#maybe in the future!
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Follow Up Post for explanations:
Nothing There
While Nothing There fits several sinners (as do most abnormalities), I personally believe that Meursault is the strongest contender for a Nothing There wielder due to his presence as an âOutsiderâ or âStrangerâ to the rest of the company, and to humanity in large (seen in the source book).
Though Meursault does not do things outwardly incorrectly or in methods foreign humanity at large, having learned the basic processes and standing by them, he is still seen as a person abstracted from normal humanity, despite learning and acting in base like the people that surround him.
For the other possible Nothing There wielders, I think Don Quixote and Gregor both fit equally well for different reasons.
As others have pointed out, visually speaking Gregor is the most fitting for this due to his prosthetic arm, alongside his thematic connections to alienation and change. Noting this is interesting because I personally donât see Gregor as the greatest fit for this EGO based on my reading of his character and the abnormality, as i feel their stories are somewhat separated â Gregorâs arm acts both as a visual symbol of his past traumas during the war, as well as a stand in for physical damages and changes that one may possess, leading to his discrimination; While this concept of needing to hide something to appear as a human is a fitting description of Nothing There (as is suggested by its EGO name of Mimicry), I believe that the two diverge from this point, while Gregor presents his humanity above else, hiding his arm behind his back often, his own humanity is in fact, his downfall in this case.
Nothing There acts as an imitation of humanity, wishing desperately to become it. While Gregor is visually abstracted from humanity due to his arm, he is unmistakingly human, without wearing a mask or personality to appear as one; Meursault, conversely, appears the part of a normal person, but is recognisably âHollowâ or a âstrangerâ when spoken to, which correlates with Nothing Thereâs motif of mimicked speech patterns in the prior two games.
Don Quixote âdonsâ the other end of this abnormality to Gregor, while not appearing as anything abnormal, she is recognisably different from her peers. Her learning of fixers and attempted imitation of them, or her perceived notions about them, also leads to the same conclusion.
I can imagine Nothing There Don Quixote going âGREETINGS? OUT UPON THEE?. THOU HAST RECEIVED- -A VOICE MAILâ
(purposely kept short to avoid Canto spoilers)
Why did Faust get the following? And other possibilities for said abnormalities:
Dreaming Current:
I am writing this with a migraine. Akin to this, the previous post was made with a migraine as well, such that I do not fully remember what caused me to put certain things in a sinnerâs category, but this one I have a fairly good guess at my line of thinking.
This placement was made from my connection between the Homunculus from Faust and this abnormality, largely due to their shared link of the ocean.
It is a somewhat thrown around theory that Faust, the sinner, is either Gretchen or the Homunculus from the book, due to her self referential speaking pattern, which we later learned was due to her connection to the greater âFaustâ.
The Homunculus, within Faust, is a lab grown creature representative of the heights that science may achieve. Being a creature that is confined within its container, even during its travels, it seeks to give its unnatural form back to nature, through the form of the ocean.
The Homunculus shares the same wish of the Current to âLive a proper lifeâ, with specific regards to the ocean, after all, a shark on land is decidedly unnatural.
The alternative options for this abnormality are likely Don Quixote and Hong Lou, for rather obvious correlations each, as HourlyDonQui pointed out.
Queen Bee:
See Naked Nest Below for reasoning, I'm not typing the hive mind/collective thing twice.
The latter reasoning is due to her being the primary organisation behind Limbus Company from what we know, having recruited all the sinners and Vergillius.
You may notice that almost every minion abnormality, or almost every abnormality that can possess multiple employees, is in the Faust section.Â
Snow Queen:
â[Kai] became curious of the world beyond his knowledge. He felt as though everything he knew amounted to so littleâ. This line, alongside the fact that Kai lost the feelings of Joy, Cold, and worry that he held upon receiving the Ice Queenâs kiss, is the primary reason why I have chosen Faust for this Abnormality.
There are exactly two other angles to view this abnormality from however, from the Snow Queen herself, and from Gerdaâs (the saviour and protagonist of the inspiration story).
As there are many ways of interpreting this, I will first list out the sinners who fit criteria to receive this EGO in some way shape or form due to these three pathways.
Kai:
Yi Sang (a shard of the mirror lodged in his heart causing him to seek knowledge beyond what he knows, and resulting in a later realisation of himself after losing his emotions; As Faust put it âhe was not always like thisâ, alongside the connection to mirrors, and the fact that it was in part the reflection of his Wings that caused this spiral)
Don Quixote (see Below in Gerta)
Fau (see above in Frost Queen)
Gerta:
Don Quixote (the power of love and affection overcoming a cold unfeeling evil in the blizzard)Â
Heathcliff (Gertaâs long, arduous quest to find her friend who had been lost in the blizzard, mirroring Heathcliffâs search for Catherine.)
Queen:
Meursault (The Queen within the story is cold and unfeeling, credence to her icy nature, and freezes Kaiâs heart so he forgets his family and friends. This mirrors Meursault due to his source bookâs opening line of âMother died today, or maybe it was yesterdayâ, his lack of care towards his relations and towards life in whole)
Heathcliff (Mirroring his book counterpart, specifically the extreme weather of the Heights, alongside his seeming lack of care towards others following the events of his past)
Naked Nest:
Ill be honest, this abnormality gives me a headache to discuss, similar to Mountain of Smiling Bodies, because it's so extremely direct and to the point with what it is/does that it hardly represents any theme in whole, so this is the best i can do (Basically its on the other end of the spectrum from whitenight, who i avoid talking about because of how many different angles of thought there are).
I believe that I put this abnormality here due to both its connection to a âhiveâ, which relates to Faustâs hivemind/communion with herselves, alongside the fact that this hivemind seems to supercede the personality of said person, shown similarly with Girlfailure faust in MOTWE event, during which she cannot access this network, and is thus not part of this nest.
There is also the concept of Faustâs knowledge being that of the greater âfaustâ or âGesselschaftâ, and the relation that by the time the parasite is noticeable, it has already assumed control of, and eaten a large part of, the hostâs brain, leading to their inability to function.
If this abnormality were to be given to another sinner, it would be Meursault, see Nothing There discussion for reasons.
Either that or potentially Don due to her persona and clear imitation of an honourable fixer, which has slipped multiple times such as in Canto 2
Tree Sap Meur:
I think I might have been smoking [Giant Tree Sap] when doing this because i do not remember putting this here.
I think(?) The primary reason that it was placed in Meursault is because of the uncaring indiscriminate nature that the Sap is portrayed in, not doing anything out of malice but simply because it must to survive, it simply âreaps from what it sowsâ in a sense.
This can be related to the stranger in obvious ways so im not going to blabber too far about it.
Multi/Other explanations:
Some questions are those relating to the final miscellaneous tier, so lets go through them as well, and then I will do another follow up at a later date to see if there are any other questions that people want answered.
WellCheers:
I tried to avoid giving sinners EGO they already possessed, and I quite frankly do not know who is the best fitting for this EGO because the one that i would have chosen already got Soda so????
Anyways there are three options based on different straws i grasped at making this: Ishmael: Connection to the ocean
Meursault: Connection to the content lives that those who work the fishing boat day after day have, where they finally enjoy their tasks despite menial labour.
Sinclair: Major paradigm shift leading your life to enter an unforeseen world.
Outis: Stuck on a boat or journey.
Gregor: Funny shrimp arm.
All Around Helper:
I personally think that the Mirror Dungeon aberration of this, âall around cleanerâ is a better fit for the cast, as its fitting for Rodion in particular, realisation of ânot being specialâ. That being said Iâm not sure if anyone in particular fits this abnormality, except for potentially Don Quixote.
Il Pianto De La Luna:
They often say that the moon is beautiful.Â
But when enough time has passed, when you look at it and see what kind of face it truly wears...
Youâll realise you were madly in love with something so broken and shattered. In the end, we all become like the moon. All because we canât bear ourselves." "
The concept(s) of: Love. Primal humanity. Obsession. Lack of/loss of control.
Ishmael, Heathcliff, Don Quixote.
This one is shorter for multiple reasons, but namely because I want to dissect this abnormality separately later on, because she's cool, but also because shes a backer abnormality and likely wont exist (although Steam Transport Machine exists so the fuck do I know)
Dream of a Black Swan:
Don Quixote, Hong Lou deserved this equally.
[Censored]:
I personally do not think that [Censored] can or will ever get an EGO.
Its archetype *IS* the unknown, it cannot be given to any sinner except for Faust due to her strong connection with knowledge itself. [Censored] is an abnormality that by design should not be given to a sinner, because even that implies too much about its existence; Unlike other archetypes, this cannot be defined nor related to the sinner's archetypes and stories, as it cannot be known nor defined in whole.Â
I know this is disappointing, but I wholeheartedly believe that it is a betrayal of the abnormality itself to be given an EGO.
I highly recommend this linked video by Connor McGrath, which explains this concept in a much less pompous manner than I could ever do, which saves time for me and enjoyment for people who don't like my writing style.
That being said, I want to address the concept that [Censored] has been shown.
There is a common theory that [Censored] is related to the Smoke War, specifically being the âcreature in the smokeâ that Roland saw during his period.
Though I can't say anything in certainty, I refuse this on the above principles. [Censored] cannot be shown for the sake of its existence.Â
For the other reasons that I don't think this is true: [Censored] is never shown creating smoke; The creature that Roland saw was the energy source of the previous L corp, which would mean that both L corps in succession used the same method of production without this ever being mentioned by anyone in the story; If we were to assume that everything within Project Moonâs universe, notably creatures, are due only to Lobotomy Corporation and Cogito, then we are completely disregarding the existence of 25 other singularities, natural creatures like the whales, the old âgods of the cityâ from ages past, and the magical powers and relics from the outskirts, as well as seemingly mystical features such as the rivers of Hades, one recently mentioned by name, and two others heavily implied â While it is not impossible, it is reductive to assume this of Censored in my opinion.
As a final note, people seem to forget that abnormalities donât simply exist in the world, Lobotomy Corporation is the mother of abnormalities, and is the source of all of them.
Every single abnormality lies, and people seem to forget that they do not exist as they claim; Every abnormality is a conscious perception of an unconscious archetype extant in the autonomy psyche of humanity. Little Red Riding Hood did not grow up to become an abnormality, she did not have a long past of growing up and hunting the wolf, but her existence is that of one who has spent time hunting, obsessing, over this beast â She is not a person, but an existent being who has a perceived and personal history, which did not truly happen.
The same rule applies for every other abnormality, even those who have more recent histories, those who were captured or came to the facility of their own free will. It matters not, they are all borne forth from the collective unconscious, nothing more.
Spider bud:
This abnormality is too closely linked to Ryoshu for me to give it to anyone else by now, the concept of motherhood isnât one that is shared well enough to any other Sinners.
Snow Whites Apple:
Yi Sang, Don Quixote, Heathcliff, Ishmael, Sinclair, Outis.
Mountain of Smiling Bodies:
See Naked Nest for my thoughts on this abnormality.
No:
No:
No.
#project moon#lcb#essays i wrote primarily while half asleep#projmoon#lobotomy corporation#limbus#literally's ramblings#limbus company#library of ruina#lor#Nothing There#Faust Lcb#Yi Sang LCB#Don Quixote LCB#Meursault LCB#Rodion LCB#hong lu lcb#Ryoshu Lcb#Heathcliff LCB#ishmael LCB#Sinclair LCB#Outis LCB#Gregor LCB#[Censored]#Abnormality#No.
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Lunch Break
a two-prompt phic phight fill for @fuyuthefoxwriter; demon!au and fangs
Notes: 1. This IS a continuation of my prev. demon!au (Visitation) 2. based on the laws of Phic Phight you CANNOT read the previous iterations, as it is nsfw and therefore cannot be linked 3. but for the already present fansâŠitâs a continuation from that. Also, itâs gray ghost.Â
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Valerie likes her boyfriend.Â
Heâs cute, with a button nose and blue eyes. Heâs sweet. Heâs kind, and heâs gentle, and if she leaves him alone he takes the toaster oven apart just to see how it works. Itâs kind of like living with a small dog who takes apart pillows if you donât give them enough attention.Â
Valerie loves her boyfriend.Â
âŠBut the goddamn teeth.Â
She pushes his face away, cutting off their kiss with no warning. Danny squawks.Â
âDanny,â Valerie implores, again, because they are in public and not in the comfort of their own apartment, âIf you cannot keep human teeth while we are making out, we are not going to make out anymore.â
Her stupid, human-shaped boyfriend pouts. Valerie should be pouting. Valerie has to avoid shredding her tongue like sheâs kissing a cheese grater.Â
Danny, who is the cause of all this, should not be pouting as if heâs been denied the opportunity to stick his tongue in her mouth for no reason, instead of his habit of turning his extremely normal and flat human teeth into something extremely hazardous to tongues and lips everywhere.Â
Danny makes the worldâs saddest eyes sheâs ever seen. Itâs very rude of him. Valerie deserves better. âBut Val! I brought you lunch!âÂ
For one, itâs six in the evening. A more apt word might be âdinnerâ. SecondlyâŠ
âI work at a burger restaurant,â Valerie points out, arms crossing over the Nasty Burger logo on her shirt for extra emphasis. âI already have dinner. I also have to be back on shift in half an hour, so if youâre not going to put your teeth away, Iâm going to finally finish Don Quixote or nap trying.âÂ
âYeah, but you hate eating work food for lunch,â Danny points out, because he does do some very sweet things by 1) recognizing her likes and dislikes and 2) applying them liberally throughout their relationship. He holds up a weirdly large tupperware in his hands. Itâs clear. Itâs green.Â
Itâs Fenton salad.Â
â...So my Mom packed you leftovers after I picked up stuff at the Ops Center, since she knows you like the dill vinaigrette she makes after the ectology conference every year, and she added the shredded carrot and the crumbly cheese you like since no one else in the house eats it, plus some of those little orange slices and the croutonsâŠâ
Valerieâs lips purse. Fenton salad. Her favorite.Â
âŠShe takes the container from Dannyâs outstretched hands, determined to ignore his smug look. Valerie prefers to be right, but higher in priority comes accepting free food from her boyfriendâs mother.
âYouâre welcome,â Danny offers, smugly sweet.
âIf I kiss you, will you get me with your teeth again?â Valerie asks. Sheâs deeply suspicious of both his motives and the timing.Â
â...Maybe?âÂ
Valerie looks at him. âChange your answer.â
â...No?âÂ
âClose enough.â Valerie draws him in, and Danny lets himself be drawn in; the kiss is sweet, and short, and tastes kind of like mandarin oranges.Â
He definitely had some of her salad before sharing. Whatever. Itâs a good thing she likes him.Â
The kiss is lovely, and not very long; separating is a little harder, though, when Valerie realizes that Phantomâs tail is still wrapped around her waist.Â
â...Danny.â
âMmhm?âÂ
âI have a shift to get to.â
âYeah,â Danny agrees, entirely ignorant to his least controlled limb holding her back.Â
âSo,â Valerie continues, and then scratches at the fur in his tail until he flinches with recognition. âUnwrap me, please.â
âDo IâŠhave to?â
Valerieâs look flattens. Danny makes entirely unacceptable goo-goo eyes at her.Â
âI have a shift in ten, and your momâs salad to devour. Move it or lose it.âÂ
Dannyâs tail unwraps. Danny sighs, leaning in for one last peckâ
Valerie feels the tips of fangs bite explicitly into her lips.Â
Her growl is hardly intimidated by Phantomâs rush of guilty laughter, her demon-shaped boyfriend slipping out of her fingers. Great. Now she can taste bloodâ the thing she was trying to avoid.Â
Seeing him in all of his claws and fangs and teeth and horns in daylight was always a little strange; he was never quite opaque in sunlight. He was always a touch translucent, only just shifted outside of reality.Â
And the stupid cow ears.
No, they're not endearing. Shut up.
It certainly didnât help that if someone saw him turn into a demon, his whole âhiding his identity as a half-demonâ thing would be over! He needs to pick better spots for his random acts of infernal dramatics!
âIâm sorrrryyyy,â Phantom shouted from a healthy fifty feet away, floating in the air. It made him hard to reach, but an excellent target. âI looooovvee yoooouuu!âÂ
No. Valerie will resist reaching into her armor for a weapon to shoot her boyfriend out of the sky with. It is rude. It is unkind. More importantly, Valerieâs not interested in having a public identity reveal behind the Nasty Burger any more than Danny is.Â
Itâs fine. Thereâs other options.Â
âPut a shirt on!â Valerie hollers back, hands over her mouth.Â
Phantomâs mouth drops in the distance, little fangs glinting in the evening sunlight. His clawed hands go over his chest, looking for some perceived gap in his coverage. âIâve got fur! I donât need one!âÂ
âExhibitionist!â Valerie heckles back. âNudist!âÂ
Phantom squawks in offense. âCome on! Iâm covered!âÂ
âGet some pants!â Valerie shouts back, finally attracting the attention of one of her employees. At the sound of the Nasty Burgerâs nasty back door creaking open, Phantom bolts off.Â
Good. Thatâs what he gets.Â
Temerity peeks through the back door. Her name tag is upside down, again. âBossâŠ?â
Valerie brushes herself off, grabs a plastic fork from where it was sitting on her ebook reader, and reclines back onto the plastic lawn chair that counts as their âbreak roomâ. âIt was nothing, Temmie. A demon got into the dumpster again.âÂ
âOh.â Temerityâs countenance warms. Sheâd always had an interest in the local occult scene. âDid it leave anything behind?â
âNah,â Valerie replies, popping open her tupperware. Just her lunch, apparently. âYou need any helpâŠ?â
âNope! Weâll be fine until you get back in.âÂ
That for sure means somethingâs wrong. Whatever; Valerie is totally satisfied to finish off the last fifteen minutes of her shift with some literature, a bucketâs worth of satisfaction, and her boyfriendâs dismayed texts pinging in bursts onto her phone.Â
#phic phight#phic phight 2024#faer fic#demon!au#gray ghost#valerie gray#danny fenton#VERY quickly uploading this on break#yes they're stupid yes they're in love yes they're antagonistic#spent all the weekend with two supermarket managers. the inspiration is so real
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Tales of the Castle: A Mini Series
ANNND THE FIRST MINI STORY IS OUUUTTT!!! I hope these small stories give you an insight on how close Beast! Miguel and reader are, although it's more like of the two falling for each other. Also, this obviously takes place during ch.5
Happy Spring Break Guys!
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Disclaimer !! This is loosely based off of the 90s Marvel Special comics of BATB
Grumpy Mornings
It is a cold winter morning and Miguel has been peacefully sleepingâŠor at least that's what it looks like. He was actually dreaming of a sweet romance between himself and Y/N as two happy lovers, but that abruptly stopped when he woke up heartbroken at such a dream. He then got up and walked to his mirror...and in despair let out a huge roar that was heard throughout the castle.
âOh dear, looks like Migs is up and angry alreadyâ Peter exclaimed to himself. His little adorable teacup of a daughter looks at him and asks âDaddy, isnât he always angrwry ?â Peter chuckles and shushes her âyou canât say that honey, it's rudeâ. Peter hops to the windowsill and looks outside âit is quite the sunny day thoughâŠâ Peter sighs and looks down âonly if he was just a little kinderâ. Mayday looked at him confused âdaddy ? why say that ?âÂ
Peter chuckles âyou know the story..â Mayday giggles âtell me again !â Peter sighs and softly tells her what happened long ago. Mayday giggles as she sees it more like a little fairytale book. Peter seeing that relaxes, at least she isnât so troubled by it. Peter then looks outside âhow about if we go find Y/N ?â Mayday nodded and squealed as she hopped from the windowsill to the little serving tray, ready to travel the castle.
Meanwhile in the Castle
Y/N was in the library just happily humming to herself as she was on the ladder looking for a new book to read. âSĂ© que lo vi en alguna parte..â she muttered to herself. All of a sudden Miguelâs roar was heard thundering through the castle. It startled Y/N so much that she had to hold onto the ladder that was kind enough to let her use it, in order to not fall off. âThank you ladder, although I think Miguel is angry about something againâŠwho knowsâ she says. Y/N eventually goes back to searching for the book she was looking for âThere it is, Don Quixote !â She then takes the book and slowly goes down the ladder.
âY/N ! Hey !âÂ
Y/N turns around to spot Peter and Mayday. âWell good morning to you both as well, any help you guys need ?â Peter bites his lip and says âwell⊠we were searching for you but then we got caught up because Lyla asked to try and give Miguel some tea, turns out Jess was there alongside Miles and Gwen because they were trying to serve breakfast for him and all he did was throw them out. He even refused the hairbrush..soo I was wondering if yâknow, you could goâŠtalk to him ?âÂ
Y/N looks down at the book she wanted to read and then smiles âmaybe all he needs is a good bookâŠalright thenâŠlet's go to the west wingâ
Y/N walked as she left the library with Peter and Mayday.
After a while the trio arrived at the west wing âI can handle it from hereâ Y/N says. Peter smiles at her and simply says âOnce youâre back, holler for me, Iâll have some tea readyâ The serving cart starts to move on its own to the kitchen âByye pwretty y/n !â mayday yelled out.Â
Y/N chuckled and shook her head. She then took a breath and walked to Miguelâs room. Once she arrived she knocked on the door and opened it. âHey MiguelâŠmind if i have a wor-âÂ
âLARGATEâ
Y/N sighed and walked in âno hasta que me ESCUCHESâ Miguel growled and looked at her with an annoyed look. âfineâŠâÂ
Y/Nâs face softened and she spoke calmly to him âyou canât just go terrorizing your staff just because youâre in a bad mood, Theyâre here for you because they careâŠbesidesâŠâ she approaches him and fixes his coat âyou can always talk to meâŠâ
Miguelâs face sank as he looked disappointed. He then sat in his chair and looked away âI-I I had a dreamâŠâÂ
âA bad dream ?â Y/N approached him and placed a hand on his shoulder âMigsâŠeveryone gets a bad dream, even nightmaresâŠbut remember it was only a dream..â
âno fue una pesadilla... fue dulceâ Y/N shut herself up confused at why he was so heartbroken over a good dream. âThe Nightmare only began when I looked into the mirror and saw this..â he says as he looked away from her even more âSoy un Monrstruo..âÂ
Y/N looked at him and simply wanted to comfort him even more. He was simply just misunderstood. âNo digas eso, The outside isnât what matters !â She looked at him and held his furry hands. âIt's the inside that matters, Who knowsâŠmaybe that dream could eventually come trueâ she says softly with a smile. Miguel smiled back at her a little but still seemed a bit down âHow about if you read Don Quixote with me, we can take turns reading aloud..â Y/N suggests âIâŠ.I think I would like that very much.â Y/N smiled at him as she made her way to pull him from the chair and sit on the carpet, she then sits in between his legs as she made herself comfortable laying her back on his chestÂ
From outside the room Peter was peering inside with a smile
 âlooks like they wonât be needing tea anytime soonâ
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Hey. Waving towards the three other guys into pjmoon and tma. I uhm. Assigned the limbus guys tma entities below the cut. Smile. Sorry if itâs inaccurate I am open to fighting in a parking lot for my honour. But do feel free to share your thoughts and suggestion on the matter !!!! I would love to hear and discuss
Yi Sang
marked by the web and the stranger (unsure on how the deal w sang yi would count hereâŠ)
aligned w the lonelyÂ
Faust:
the eye avatar ((obviously))
Heavily marked by the web (the fauschaftâŠâŠ..)
Don Quixote
spiral spiral spiral the throat of delusion incarnateÂ
Possibly also aligned w the hunt (the endless hunt after justice? Maybe?)Â
Ryoshu
Marked by the desolation lol
Maybe even aligned w the flesh? In the human garden sense
Meursault
Marked by the strangerrrr and the eye due to.  Feeling like his behaviour is constantly being watched and deemed as inhuman Â
A bit unsure on what entity would resonate the most with him? Maybe the buried ⊠I think he would like just laying in a grave Â
Hong Lu
the stranger the corruption and the web are all having a tea party
Personally I think heâs aligned w the vast  âŠ. Longing for sky blueÂ
Heathcliff
marked by the web? And the buried (constantly being overwhelmed and ââburiedââ (haha get it?) by other peopleâs expectations and having to play by other peopleâs expectations. And stuff.  Gestures vaguely)Â
Aligned with the hunt (searching after Cathy   acceptance loveâŠâŠ)
Ishmael
marked by the dark  âŠ.. the vast (the whaleeeeeeee) âŠ: and the webâŠ.. (ahab is an avatar of the web)Â
And maybe even aligned w the desolation? Maybe? Burning down her old life for a new oneÂ
Rodion
hmmmmmmmm Avatar of the flesh maybe âŠ.. or the web âŠâŠ.. that one gambling ep in tmp
marked by the desolationÂ
SinclairÂ
I have no fucking clue
Marked by? The dark? Maybe? Seeing something he didnât comprehend w Kromer?Â
Avatar of the flesh with a star next to his name? Due to Artist stuff?
edit: reading the notes I have to agree heâs def aligned w the desolation idk why it didnât cross my mind âŠ. Aligned with the desolation and marked by the flesh, the dark and stranger. Oooh boy
Outis:
HEAVILY marked by the slaughter and the vastÂ
Aligned with the end and stranger #lowkey
GregorÂ
the corruption avatar.  ObviouslyÂ
Except that marked by the webÂ
#Thumbs up hope you guys can at least resonate a tiny bit#limbus company#lcb#Please donât eat me alive for rhis#project moon#faust#yi sang#don quixote#Ryoshu#meursault#hong lu#outis#rodion#gregor#sinclair#ishmael#heathcliff#tma#the magnus archives
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