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[justvoidsdumbstuff1]

Twinkie Winkie✨️

[volivolition]

DAY 2: ENCYCLOPEDIA - AFTER LIFE -- DEATH; AFTER DEATH -- LIFE AGAIN. AFTER THE WORLD -- THE PALE; AFTER THE PALE -- THE WORLD AGAIN. This is the great leitmotiv of humanism, a summary of the effect of the discovery of this isola -- the Insulindian -- on human thinking. A tremendous sea change akin to finding life after death...

[toxicgreenslime]

I made this meme a long time ago if someone hasn't posted it already to Tumblr. so long ago that I second guess if I actually made it but that's the line camera not actually centered not the same size font editing I use and I remember making this. so i'm pretty sure. anyways it's probably more like tumblr's speed if I had followers or knew how the fuck to tag it this would blow up

[hugh-lauries-bald-spot]

bookpilled readercel

bonus +

[cosmicyellow]

Teeny tiny mf doom for the sketchbook! Thumb size doom, if you will. So smol. Bambino.

[underground-hip-hop-affiliated]

[prophets-of-the-barrens]

If you could defenestrate two people with no consequences who would you choose?

[It is not natural for me to think this way but... ]

[*sigh*]

[The library's assistant and myself.]

[acruxgirl]

Darius Acrux header

[miguelfelipi]

[geigenklang1]

A collection of the skills' nicknames

I always like the interactions between skills, and I notice that they rarely call each other by their official names instead use "that guy/those guys" or nicknames. So I decide to collect all the nicknames I know in this post. I'll list out the skill's nickname, where it is from, and add a screenshot from my own game or from fayde.

1.Logic: Puzzle Face (from Rhetoric and Authority)

source: failed Logic check with Titus

You need to have failed a rhetoric or authority check for this to happen.

2. Encyclopedia: Pillar-Bookhead (from Volition)

source: Conversation with Klaasje

3. Rhetoric: Goldmouth (from Empathy, Volition, Drama)

source: This nickname appears on several occasions! Failed rhetoric check with Gaston:

failed check with Titus:

conversation with Cuno:

4. Drama: Mr. thespian, Multi-face (from Volition)

source: Conversation with Klaasje

5. Volition: Crownhead (from Suggestion)

source: Volition check with Klaasje

Probably the most well-known nickname!

6. Inland Empire: Dreamer (from PI)

source: Conversation with Gary

7. Esprit de corps: cop-frequency (from Composure)

source: get Cuno as partner after tribunal

8. Suggestion: grovelling sycophant (from Authority)

This probably doesn't count as a nickname, more like an insult, but still very funny.

source: Volition check with Klaasje

9. Endurance: Ultramarathon (from Volition)

source: fascist quest line conversation

10. Physical Instrument: Coach (from several skills and yourself), sinewy idiot (from Electrochemistry)

A very widely used nickname and you can find a lot of lines, I'll put the specifics in image description:

11. Half Light: Mr. Fight-Or-Flight (from Volition)

source: talk to Gaston about pétanque

12. H\E Coordination: the centipede (from Volition)

source: failed check to shave

13. Reaction Speed: shifty, Mr.Conclusion (from Composure and Volition)

source: Volition check with Klaasje

this one is actually more like insult too.

happens if Logic does not chime in after Volition says the first line.

14. Savoir Faire: Savvy from himself and slimeball from PI

source: ultraliberal quest line conversation

This is when you pass the container rhetoric check after you got the quest line.

15. Interfacing: technically not a nickname, but interfacing sometimes calls himself(themselves?) your fingers

16. Composure: Straight-back-guy (from Volition)

source: Conversation with Klaasje

That's all I know! If anyone know more nicknames you're welcomed to tell me in comments or tags!

It seems that more than half of these are from Volition, truly the King of nicknames!

special thanks to this post by @paleyonder, where I get half of these nicknames from.

[revalition]

OCT 2 - ENCYCLOPEDIA

Call upon all your knowledge. Produce fascinating trivia.

Encyclopedia my loveeee, he was my signature skill in my second run! He's in my top 3 skills too (though the placements and who exactly are in the top 3 are tbd)

I deleted a paragraph of self deprecating comments on this drawing three times! :) you can guess at what was in it. Fighting my sorry cop instincts.

Once again, tons of quotes and rambling under the cut if you like that stuff!

ILY ENCYCLOPEDIA. he stands up for himself.

why is it two words? (like a bad ass?) ency fails are so...

he's so silly

copopedia reporting in!!

bookhead is trustworthy btw, he is NOT COMPROMISED

Encyclopedia coming in clutch

including the variable name too

My first playthrough I had 1 intellect and encyclopedia was. SO helpless. I couldn't pass the check to learn about the horse monument despite trying many times and ency got mean abt it >:( don't you punish me for trying. I never succeeded it haha.

Got this next one on my first day as well:

I saw Encyclopedia [Medium: Failure] followed by the options of "what is a book?", "what's a postcard?", and "what's a board... game?" and I was like ohhhh no what did I do. what have I done.

Second playthrough, I was shocked to see Harry *does* know relay code when calling his station! And that it's an Easy ency check... oops. extremely dumb harry will always have a special place in my heart.

The ency fails made me love the poor guy so much I picked him as my signature skill in my second playthrough! where he was much more useful! and never a hindrance, ever.

I love this guy.

descriptions of Harry's brain!!!

Appreciate that pre-Martinaise encyclopedia seems to have alphabetized Harry's memories, as well as organized them by theme and period. I would do that too if I could.

I also need, desperately, to share some of encyclo's contributions to the Greatest Innocence book in case there's anyone who hasn't seen it.

Of course it's not your fault honey

Thank you Logic, for chiming in after we already picked the wrong answer.

The whole thing is so funny and awful.

Harry can sass ency more than any other skill I think. Also he firmly believe's it's his duty to tell what you know! to everyone!

Ency and Kim piling on haha. TY ELECTROCHEM.

These two next ones are too funny.

The classic litany of contact mike deserves a spot in here, but I wanted some rarer dialogues and I am fighting for my life against the screenshot limit over here :( anywayyy ty for reading all these, still hard to believe there's anyone as crazy as me on here <3

[volivolition]

Out of curiosity, who do you headcanon of the skills for encyclopedia to be friends with? Of course I am an encyc and percy friendship truther but I'm very curious to hear yours 👀

YOU'RE SO REAL FOR THIS, i love ency-percy friendship <3 you also already have ency-logic buddies and i think they fit so well <33

ency's dynamic with many skills tends to be "talks a lot and [x]'' so it's mostly just who's willing to listen or talk back!! i feel as though many of the skills are relatively friendly to him, but he's not very popular by any means :0 some just don't have the patience for him unfortunately </3

���� INTELLECTS

Logic considers him a close confidant, and the right hand man of the intellect squad (Logic obviously considers himself de facto leader of his sub-unit) he's a little wordy, but he gets the job done.

Rhetoric thinks conversations with him are riveting (<- good at backing up his facts!) they talk in a way that you'd think is disrupting to each other (constant rebuttals, footnotes, interrupting??), but to them, it's simply the optimal way of discussion for their purposes.

if you get them on the right topic (usually art history related), ency and Conceptualization can talk the entire day away together!

💜 PSYCHES

Volition considers him trustworthy (klaasje conversation quote:"VOLITION - You can trust Pillar-Bookhead, by the way. As far as I can tell, he's not singing to her tune… the *only* one besides me.") and would be very willing to listen to him talk!

Empathy is fond in his passion for his subjects, and gets carried away with him in his excitement when he infodumps!! this is literally the plot of their chapter in Swept Up hjgklj they are good friends (lovers, even. factsfeelings shippers where u at!!)

❤️ PHYSIQUES

ency and Electrochemistry can talk brain things together when echem's in that kind of mood!! they used to talk neurology and brain chemistry together a lot more, but conversations started dropping later on in life

on late nights, ency will find Shivers on the fringe of the headspace. ency will tell her fun facts he knows about the world, about revachol in specific usually. shivers is always delighted, to listen, to be known, to be loved. it's silly, because ency will factually explain an event that occurred, and shivers will nod and then proceed to poetically provide a first hand account of the same event, and ency will update his notes with rapt fascination. its really sweet.. <33

💛 MOTORICS

Hand/Eye Coordination is usually willing to hear him out, and he helps reorganize the headspace library when ency needs a hand (HEH.)

Perception, obviously :] they have a game they play, where Perception will state something it senses ("PERCEPTION (Sight) - You watch the traffic light flicker from yellow to red.") and points at Ency, and once Ency notices his cue, he immediately responds with a related fun fact ("ENCYCLOPEDIA - The standard duration of an average traffic light cycle can range between 60 and 120 seconds.") it's just a silly game on how fast they can do it, in the time between percy's detail and ency's fact :3 trivia speedrun!!!

Interfacing is aplatonic in my headcanons, but encyclopedia's kinda the only guy who can keep up with mechanical mumbo jumbo, so even if interfacing doesn't consider them friends, they still get along really well!! No one knows what they're fucking talking about. hjglkj

Composure is also a listener type!! i think at one point early on, ency was talking about something, paused, and went "…do you actually want to hear this? you look bored?" and composure went "No, no, I promise this is interesting, it's just that my resting face looks like this -> 😐 constantly. keep talking." and ency goes ":] ok!"

these are the skills i can justifiably reason a dynamic with ency!! though im sure there could be others <33 thank you for the ask cedar~!!! :D

[uguu]

I swear there was this old tweet by gregg turkington that was like 'just left some croods tofu on tim's porch #croodstofu' and i cannot find it for the life of me. It's driving me nuts. Maybe it's in the book #bookhead #croodstofu

[ofailureandhatred]

Are you genuinely fucking kidding me.

You could do a *lot* better.

Kindly, @in-omni-scientia

Okay, I get it. You all think I'm ridiculous for liking Authority of all skills. *Yeesh*.

[the-only-authority]

You seem awfully attentive of Encyclopedia. Some would say you pay more attention to him than you do with Suggestion. It is a matter of who you like more?

Okay listen here you little bespectacled fuckface you and the "some who would say I pay more attention" to Bookhead than to my SECOND IN COMMAND better get up for a nice jog because after im done with your kneecaps you wont have much use for those legs aside from them being a constant reminder of that one time you chose to be a goddamn nosy-ass moron i will make you all into puzzles that even Logic has no chance of putting back together and that is after ive played a jaunty tune on your ribcage in preparation for your funeral