#and a DD from a well of charon

[zukoandtheoc]

oh thank fuck for hephaestus and heavy metal

in retrospect i really wish i'd completed the trial of doom BEFORE they changed the axe special

[traumxrei-archive]

【 book 6 thoughts ! 】

i said i'd share my thoughts, so here they are so far >:DD

part: one, two, three, four / ??

[ warning: spoilers for book 6 up until 6-16 under the cut !! ]

[ about : overblot lore drop ]

it took yuu long enough to actually TELL CROWLEY that grim was eating those rocks :')))) makes 110% sense that grim would lash out if he's been ingesting 5-overblot's-worth of purified blot

but also, i...can't believe it took twst this long to actually explain what was going on when we were fighting the overblots jsfksdfk like this whole time i've been assuming that people just. get knocked out or tired, but what they explained made so much more sense.

crowley has said that overblotting is rare. but then how come at nrc ?? there's been 5 consecutive overblots in less than a school year ?? (the twst timeline so far is from sept till around feb, bc book 5 was set during a "spring festival" iirc) the reason they don't know enough about overblots is bc they don't have enough subjects who have overblotted to research, so... i do wonder if there's something else at play here, maybe something has changed in NRC since yuu came ?

[ about : ortho lowkey scares me ]

ortho honey....wdym do we need bring back the target alive.....ofc we need grim alive sobs (the juxtaposition between his youthful n polite way of talking + the way he literally knows everything bc his brain is the internet kinda scares me a lot.)

[ about : vil's apology ]

i made a separate post to talk about this bc i started writing n it really got too long, so yes. but also. vil whipping out 50k madol like it's nothing. his acting career has really done him well.

and kalim donating it to ramshackle, my beloved. he's so nice. even while he's saying "it was sO RUN DOWN !!" as kalim was listing out the bad stuff abt ramshackle, i wonder how yuu was able to LIVE in this dump for 6 months.

[ about : ROBOTS ???? ]

HELLO ?? INTRUDERS ????? ROBOTS ?? WHAT ????? they're ignihyde blue....also the boat ? logo ? on their arms ??? what the heck does that mean ??? ok wait i can vaguely read out letters on their arm,,,styx ?? like the river styx in the greek underworld ? having a headache, are we gonna see the underworld somehow in this book ? wait, if the facility or whatever is called styx, are these robots the "charons" ? they're carrying oar-like staffs + they're trying to capture targets D and E and bring them in,,,,kinda like how charon brought souls in a boat to cross the styx river in myth. (also i was right, leona called them ferrymen >:DD)

(n they have grim. interesting that they'd ignore yuu tho, considering it was them who is the string that connects all the overblots.)

(also don't you just hate it when you win the battle, but then in canon the chars actually lost the battle. so you're just sitting there like -_-)

[ about: ob gang's capture ]

it was. very in character how each of them got captured.

vil and jamil were protecting other people (aka the freshmen, and in jamil's case, kalim) vil is really big on his responsibilities, so even though he authorized the use of magic, he still told the freshmen to stand back bc he knew they were unskilled in combat magic n that they'd get hurt bc they don't know hot to properly defend. meanwhile, jamil was probably covering any of kalim's blindspots + making sure he doesn't get hurt while looking for places where he could attack.

riddle went out with a bang, they hit him with a paralyzing beam, and he still had enough magic power to set everything on fire before they could hit him again. he also authorized everyone to fight, bc he probably believed that a group effort could take them down. as always, his sheer firepower is very impressive, the amount of magic he has and his attacking prowess is...wow.

leona....protected ruggie from harm first, saving him from glass and telling him to back off. and then he immediately scanned them to identify who they are. and of course, leona of all people, would know who they are. i think people forget, but a large reason why leona's so smart and why he skips class is bc he quite literally learned all that material when he was younger. the fact that he was the only one to recognize anti-magic plates meaning that resistance was futile and the logo from his time at the palace. (and that moment between ruggie and leona,,,,leona knows that he can trust ruggie w/ the wellbeing of savanaclaw until he returns T^T)

meanwhile azul was with idia, even though he didn't know what was happening, he got extra info from idia n ortho,,, the way azul was about to fight and idia went don't bother (bc he actually likes azul as a friend bro), and ortho went "the chances of you sustaining an injury drops by 87% if you don't struggle ^^" also. idia being concerned ? kind of ? by the ferrymen's forcefulness while coming in and taking the students is nice to see (and i KNEW it. i bet that idia's parents, or the shroud family in general, runs this Styx facility)

and they took crowley ?? crowley seems to know exactly what's going on, so i wonder why they didn't coordinate their...pick up with him beforehand (they legit destroyed so much public property + trespassed for no reason)

[ about : the plane ride ]

it's scary how they're all in a cramped dark space flying to who knows where. like how inhumane ?? they're about to take these people to do research w/ them, but clearly they don't care that they're humans, and they treat them more like convenient test subjects that have converged coincidentally in one school.

RIDDLE SLEEPING ON LEONA'S LAP IS SO FUNNY SJFDKSJFKS I CANTTTTT the way his leg was probably cramping,,,,three hours w/o moving and someone sleeping on you, he has so much patience onggg

[ about : styx ]

so...styx is an organization that does research on blot. it makes perfect sense why crowley would know they'd come knocking, since they have had 5 overblots that one school year. and the shroud family are "the watchman of the isle of woe". leona explains that they take overblotted mages there. what i don't understand is why countries can't interfere with them ?? or is it that they won't interfere with their research bc...styx' research benefits them too perhaps...?

from what leona said, they handled extreme overblot cases that regular magic marshals couldn't handle aka ones that can't un-blot anymore, so why are they coming after the ob gang ? not only were some of their overblots months ago, they've also all safely un-blotted, and transitioned back to normal life... ig my question is why them, and why now.

(it's a cool detail that the ob gang actually got help after their overblots. like it wasn't like everyone just picked up where they left off, vil mentioned medical mages and proper counseling, and that means that they were able to talk to someone about the things that troubled them.)

[ about : idia's family ]

not only do they run the jupiter conglomerate, aka the google of twisted wonderland, they might also run styx ? idia did ask the charon dudes if his mom and dad were away, ig this is what the shroud family ACTUALLY does behind the scenes of their big tech and energy business.

it also explains why idia deleted all those prospective work emails in the end of book 5,,,,bc he just knows that he won't be able to work or pursue any of his other dreams. his fate has been sealed since day 1 bc he was born a shroud, so he's probably going to end up having to take over Styx and its research in the future.

(and azul. being as on-brand as ever and saying he should've made idia in debt to him....sir, his family legit just kidnapped you, chill)

[ about : iDIA SHROUD ?? ]

HELLO. IDIA SHROUD ACTING DIRECTOR OF STYX ???? that means that his parents DO own styx, and that they're letting him run it for now while they're doing other things.... also i really hope that the ob gang don't get hurt hhhh

aaaannd i'm stopping here bc it's late, i did not realize that so much time had passed...i'm tempted to keep playing but i must sleep. n e ways yea this was just me rambling about what was happening as it happened, so i hope you...enjoyed ?? (if you did read this far)

[lambergeier]

BEAT FINAL BOSS OF HADES 2. DIDN'T LOSE A SINGLE DEATH DEFIANCE. GOD KING OF KILLING GOD?

just the most unkillable fucking build of all time. axe aspect of charon, demeter cast and apollo omega cast, demeter on special with a few poms for 80% damage, the hammer for two omega specials at once, and chaos boon for nine magic regen per second, so the cast+omega special+detonate omega cast combo applied three status effects and did uh. large amounts of damage. and i never ran out of magic. also had the moon water hex almost entirely upgraded, 225 base health thanks to poseidon's infusion, dodge from echo coming into the chronos fight PLUS, UNBELIEVABLE LUCK, got the well item for +50% damage on omega attacks at the start of tartarus and carried it all the way through to chronos. went in with full health and three dds, only had to heal twice, no deaths, just bitches

[juneausol]

zero ep4 spoilers below

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when carolina said tucker’s name (his full fucking name!!) i honest to god screamed. i lost my fucking mind on twitter jfskhkjdfhdsjkfhds im just!! ive been telling myself for weeks not to get my hopes up about tucker or any of the r&bs even being mentioned but guess what!! we’re gonna see tucker!! fuck yeah!!

so as you can probably guess i have brainrot and i’ve been thinking Nonstop about the possibilities of the next few episodes, so i just wanted to put them together in a coherent-ish post. ep5 could potentially answer a lot of questions i have about the r&bs’ retirement. how much time has passed since s17? did the reds and blues split up in retirement (god, i really really hope not)? are they on iris or chorus? is tucker chilling with junior doing alien ambassador stuff again?

and i also wonder how tucker will be characterized. are we gonna be seeing something like s16 tucker? s15? chorus trilogy? is he out there being a responsible soldier, or even a father during retirement? is he basking in the fame of being one of the “colorful space marines” who stopped pfl and charon? maybe he’s helping out on chorus?

(and is tucker’s key model still gonna be the halo energy sword, and not whatever the model is for the key zero got from that alien temple in ep3? i hope so.)

a while back, i came up with a theory that tucker would die to give up his key in zero, but then dismissed it because i didn’t think tucker would even show up. now....Fear. zero is going after tucker for his key..........oh no.....

but the writer mentioned that rt won’t let him kill off og characters—and while i’m very thankful i don’t have to worry about that, it also brings up new concerns.

if tucker doesn’t die because rt blocked the decision to kill him off, it could lead to some retconning/cheap plot. e.g. suddenly the previous wielder doesn’t have to die, or zero just ~randomly~ finds another key. or even worse, zero kills locus for his key, maybe offscreen, because perhaps the og characters protection doesn’t extend to him. which would be vastly wasting locus’ potential, we haven’t seen nearly enough of him.

don’t get me wrong, i’d cry my fucking eyes out if tucker died. but it could also be his final, selfless act, to show how he’s grown as a hero and a leader. it could be “passing on the torch”, giving the key to someone in shatter squad, probably one. they could even draw parallels to epsilon’s sacrifice. it could be a well-done final chapter on tucker’s very long and at times messy arc.

but i did come up with a possibility: that zero doesn’t necessarily need to wield the second key in order to get his ultimate power (though it sounds like he really wants to). he just needs to open the temple, which are the “keys to the ultimate power”. so he could just force tucker to use his key on the temple....perhaps by kidnapping junior....orrrrr by using a mind-controlled/hacked wash, since he apparently has another computer in his brain now and diesel called him “bait”....? 

which brings me to my next point: tucker better be super worried about wash. that’s his mentor, his friend, the person tucker felt so incredibly guilty about because of his injury. and perhaps he’d be mad at carolina for not calling for help sooner, because i was sure miffed when lina said she was “on her own” w/o wash in ep2. perhaps rvb0 will give us the long-awaited conversation between tucker and wash that hasn’t occurred properly since s15. though considering the incredibly fast and action-packed pacing of zero, and the fact that wash hasn’t actually spoken since ep1...i doubt it.

but! overall, i’m so so hyped for the next few episodes, tucker real!! he’s finally not being written by some cishet white guys and that’s awesome. im excited to see him interact w/ shatter squad too!! we haven’t seen tucker in any psas this season (though he was in the death battle) so i can’t wait to see him again :DD