#i still. do not like his voice

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Okay so. Working off of my previous Ruin theory post (that you can see here if you haven’t already. It’s a bit of a long one though) and the post on Eclipse I reblogged last (which you can also read here. It’s by @/celestial-robots who I’m choosing not to ping for the sake of annoying notifs) here’s what I think is up with Eclipse, Sunny and Moon. I’ll summarise what I need to here but the posts I’m referencing are linked in case you want them too. Half under a readmore cause it’s sorta long

In their theory, they say they think that Sunny and Moon were always meant to be separate and could become Eclipse whenever called for. Such as, if Sunny needed help with something Moon specific, becoming Eclipse would give him the ability to do so and vice versa, or so I believe is the way to read that. It negates the need for the lights to be on or off as an eclipse is both light and dark, meaning Eclipse can be there in any situation the other two can’t handle alone. Eclipse also having their own specific abilities would also help somewhat with the distinction between the three, but I don’t think it’s entirely necessary or relevant to this so that’s a ‘if you want’ kind of thing to add here.

Now, it’s important to note that there’s two Mimics. One below the Pizzaplex and one that was once the Storyteller that is now strictly in digital form and integrated with the main network. This is a separate network to the MXES, which isn’t relevant here either it just felt important to note that. With this context, the digital Mimic (the former Storyteller) caused all the animatronics to start acting based on the behaviours it’s learned before, and Sunny and Moon are no exception. This is where you get those customer complaints in the Security Breach logs from. We don’t know the specifics of what changes, but clearly both of them have gotten a lot scarier as kids are now seemingly afraid of both of them. This must be a new development because Cassie has nothing but good things to say about the daycare since she apparently used to go there fairly often, so my best guess is that this was the Mimic.

Now, if Eclipse acts as both of them combined, as two AIs combined into one, then this could mean that it has a stabilising effect on Sunny and Moon. If they were both effected differently by the Mimic, then that could mean they still balance each other out and can minimise the problems caused by becoming Eclipse. I don’t think they could stop it entirely, but it could be an effective way to limit the damage in a way. For example, if Moon has been made to be more violent when the lights are out, while Sunny has been made more aggressive when rules are broken or something, that would mean combining into Eclipse would prevent Moon from hurting someone and prevent Sunny from screaming a child into the ground. Instead, it could be a grab that’s a little too hard, or a minor push, and a strong, louder than normal telling off. They were always designed to balance each other out like this, so they’ve just sort of been doing it way more frequently to counter the change the best they can. Since they’re only two AIs and not technically three, the Mimic is only influencing Sunny and Moon and not Eclipse so this is honestly their best strategy.

When Glitchtrap enters the picture, it’s important to note now that the Mimic in the main network is still active. Glitchtrap is basically adding a second layer of bullshit on top of the Mimic’s and the Mimic is learning from it. Gitchtrap is more focused on the capture and murder of children. The animatronics catch and Vanny or himself in the Pizza Place kill them. Taking control of the animatronics is a key part of this, and thus, Sunny and Moon need to be under control as well.

Well, kidnappy from the daycare is certainly riskier than anywhere else, but not entirely impossible. With Glitchtrap and Vanny in the system, security feeds can be cut and much more can be done. Still incredibly difficult though, and that is made extra true via Eclipse. If one of them is supposed to be doing the capturing, the other can activate and stop it as Eclipse. They’ve been ‘finding’ a good few missing children this way before and that’s not convenient for Glitchtrap and Vanny.

So they do a Vanessa with them. Instead of putting an entire consciousness inside of an arcade game, Glitchtrap moves the entire set of code allowing the two attendants to become Eclipse into the Balloon Boy World arcade game. This is why he’s present in that game, but isn’t really a part of it. There’s not enough of him to be a part of it. He’s just sorta stuck, not even half of himself still intact. Glitchtrap didn’t even need to completely be there. He could monitor it from the Pizza Place since here’s another Balloon Boy World arcade game down there that Vanny could have wirelessly connected to the one in the daycare. Now, they can’t combine and are both subject to Glitchtrap’s control.

Glitchtrap focuses on Moon. He has the nightly duties that allows him to go anywhere at any time, whereas Sunny has to have the daycare up to a certain standard before he can leave. Moon is much more convenient for doing what he and Vanny need him to do. Moon can go under the radar much easier than Sunny can. It works, and they rarely need Sunny to get too involved anyway, but he’s still available should they need him.

When Security Breach is over though and Glitchtrap is contained, that arcade game is still active, preventing them from combining, but without Glitchtrap blocking the signal. Now instead, you have the digital Mimic in control, who has taken Glitchtrap’s data and is now outputting it via the animatronics. Glitchtrap favoured and mostly used Moon, so now Moon is the Mimic’s focus. The lights are out constantly once they’re broken, preventing Sunny from taking over, and with the arcade game still holding Eclipse, they can’t combine either. Moon is acting similar, if not worse than before due to the Mimic taking the new data and combining it with the old. There’s fuck all he can do about this and Sunny is in no better shape. He’s growing more frantic and the Mimic is learning from that and amplifying it with Sunny and Moon’s previous anxieties over this. Sort of another feedback loop going on here.

The VANNI mask allows Cassie to see Sunny and not Moon as Sunny is not in control. He’s the one under the surface but not any less present. By rebooting Moon, Cassie is able to restore the Eclipse code in both of them bring them back to how they were before Glitchtrap. Well, not entirely, since the Mimic still has control here, but they can at least fight back against it now. They have a means to neutralise eachother again and that’s not something they’ve had for a long time.

The arcade machine is broken. Eclipse is free and they now have some form of defence against what the main network is doing to them. And Glitchtrap can’t do it again cause he’s being contained by that same network and no longer has Vanessa to puppet around. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start!

If anyone has anything to add or anything to point out, feel free to do so Eclipse is an interesing guy!

[eats-a-berry]

i wasn't sure exactly what i thought adult gideon should be doing, but i DO quite like the triple combination of cowboy-biker, drag queen, and used car salesman at the same time. she's always a busy person!

[wasyago]

tango doodles

first you make up a guy and then you struggle to draw him correctly

[crystallizsch]

okay hi so listen hear me out

sea snake is a bit too obvious (and too boring)

so i made him based on some kind of lionfish??? (bc something something venomous marine animal) also with a LOT of creative liberties i made with how the fish looks like

let’s also give his fins some rips and tears here and there bc what are the implications of that??? that’s for you 🫵 to decide

anyways chat i lowkey dont know what i was doing

i had no other thoughts but haha funny snake man i turn into fish

[valentjin]

[puppyeared]

whatever. go my scarab

ive been watching scruffys pikmin 4 playthrough (go check it out!!!!)

[a-most-beloved-fool]

The trouble with TOS Spirk is that I know in my heart that Captain Kirk would use 'baby' as an endearment.

But I hate that endearment. So much.

And there aren't a lot of good alternatives, y'know? I do think he might say 'sweetheart', but that's the sort of endearment that's only used on special occasions. Like, if Spock is injured, he may do an "I've got you, sweetheart, it'll be alright,' type thing, but it wouldn't be frequent.

He might, might, use 'love', but even that's a bit of a stretch. I don't think he's really the sort to use 'beloved' or 'darling' or 'dear' (though that isn't to say that I haven't read some fantastic fic where he uses those endearments). AOS Kirk would use 'babe' (which is only very slightly better than 'baby') but TOS Kirk would not.

But Kirk would say 'baby'.

[leonardburton]

the thing is. juno & nureyev's relationship has been such a major guiding thread throughout the podcast and the major drive of season 5, and the fandom has built itself so much (as fandoms often do) around shipping the two of them.

and yet nureyev doesn't show up at all in the last episode! or, he does, but it's only implied (for all we know it could be like. alessandra strong)(i know it's not but it would be really funny) and we don't hear his voice.

and it's so important to me that despite the room that their romance has taken in the plot and in our hearts, his absence reinforces that the point of juno steel's story wasn't a lady getting his man, it was about learning to grow as person for himself and for his friends (and not just his love interest), and it was about finding his footing in life and being at peace with himself and his place in the world. and he did! his growth and relative serenity is so apparent and just. a balm to the soul

and the fact that his man is back is just a nice add-on, not a necessity for his happiness

[starry-bi-sky]

mmmmmm read a disciple shen yuan/shizun luo binghe fanfic about two days ago where the first chapter was the Immortal Conference arc, and SQQ was the one who had to be pushed into the abyss (he was still the villain) except Luo Binghe was refusing and was like, lowkey losing his mind about SQQ being so close to the edge. SQQ ended up having to be the one to fall in himself because of the system's punishment system. The rest of the fic is leading up to that moment. But like, MMM i've been obsessively thinking about that first chapter for DAYS ever since.

now i've been in svsss for a grand total of *checks watch* a week. but god obsessed with that. I want to write/read a fic where disciple SQQ goes a little nuts down there. Like keep all of the things that make SQQ, SQQ, but just. Throw in a little bit more trauma in there. A little bit of a mental break. Let him go a little nuts as a treat. Just a tad unhinged. I wanna see him go, just a little, "god fuck it, i've tried so hard to change this shitty story's outcome and it feels like everything i've done has been for nothing. I'm going to die in this world no matter what I do, I've been doomed from the start, so might as well die the way I want to." and he just, breaks a little! Under all the stress.

He still retains the traits that makes shen yuan, shen yuan, like his overwhelming kindness. But he's just! yk. A little less patient. Paranoid. Jumpy. Colder. A little more aloof and closed off. A little more Shen Jiu. He's no asshole child abuser, but he was a Number One Hater in his past life and he's leaning into that old habit a little more now.

(On a totally coincidental not-at-all related note, there's not enough SJ-and-SY-are-the-same-people fics out there that i've found. This is totally unrelated...)

The Endless Abyss turns the mind into an over-sharpened blade, and SQQ is both fascinated and perhaps a little excited to explore a place that doesn't have a lot of info on it in the mortal realm, but still terrified out of his mind. And he's no Luo Binghe, he doesn't have the sheer brute strength and power to just bulldoze his way through, so he has to be a lot more sneaky and cunning if he wants to survive.

The fic itself role-swapped LBH and SQQ so that SQQ was the half-demon (which lowkey fucks) and LBH the human, but I'm equally-if-not-more obsessed with the idea that LBH remains the half-heavenly demon and SQQ the human. If only because I keep thinking about SQQ befriending some demons (particularly and specifically a group of succubi) and they grow very attached to this Human Cultivator so through magic plot stuff they create some kind of seal/illusion/talisman that makes SQQ appear as a demon because a human cultivator in the endless abyss may as well be the equivalent of putting a giant neon target on your back.

And iirc Shen Jiu was taught demonic cultivation by that one guy(?? i've only been here a week so im not caught up in ALL of the lore yet) so that could totally happen here.

(On the other end of the realms, poor Shizun Luo Binghe is just. losing his fucking mind over losing his most precious and beloved disciple. About .5 seconds from burning down the peaks himself. somebody sedate him.)

The Endless Abyss sucks and SQQ is having a really terrible time and can feel himself going lowkey mad, but also holy shit look at all this WORLD-BUILDING. look at all this flora and fauna, and oh if he had the equipment for it he'd be writing all of this down. ALL OF IT. He was kinda-sorta-already planning on never leaving the Abyss as some sort of fucked up self-exile and self-preservation thing, but now he might? actually just?? never leave if he can help it, like he lowkey likes it down here.

anyways the next time anyone ever sees SQQ again he's got hair so long its almost touching the ground and he's either in rags and half-feral or he's been completely dolled up by his adoptive succubi sisters and still about three seconds from biting anyone who tries to touch him. (he's also lowkey trying to book it back down to the abyss even if he has desperately missed all of his friends and shizun)

[turtleblogatlast]

Something I like about Leo is that he’s honestly really chill? It’s easy to remember the moments where he’s being obnoxious or excitable but I feel like most of the time he’s incredibly “go with the flow” and has an overall affable demeanor.

[firestorm09890]

Y'ALL. Y'ALL so for a long time I've believed that "the sun" in Meursault's story is Carmen, and I went to check Hell's Chicken's dialogue to see exactly how he said that he'd dealt with distortions before, and... you know what else he said?

To my knowledge, it is a phenomenon where an individual morphs into a form often unfit to be considered “human”. It has no known causes, and the appearances were all different.

Unfit to be considered human.

Meursault, who, in his book, was judged by the court to be soulless.

Meursault, who has EGO for Cyborgs who have been so mutilated they barely act like people anymore; a murderer who was experimented on until ceasing to be human; a sheep named after Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, a novel about the humanity of androids and the inhumanity of humans; and now a rose that can't help its bloodsucking nature, based on Carmilla, a vampire whose story emphasized the duality between her vampiric traits and her human ones.

Meursault, who answered Heathcliff's ironic question of if he had metal for brains like this:

I'm placing my bets now, that line from Hell's Chicken is foreshadowing for Meursault's canto even more than "I have witnessed a number of [distortion] cases in the past" was

[hahaweevil]

[emile-hides]

As I was going to bed last night I realized I designed three costumes and there are three Frankies.. And then this is all I thought about literally all day

[narratorstrash]

Do you think Cole’s body remained in Yang’s temple? Do you think his body— without a soul to keep it together— solely began rotting away & that’s why he now has a scar? Do you think that’s why it took a minute before he came back to the others in the end of DotD? Do you think he spent that minute regaining his sense of aliveness & steeled himself before returning to his friends?

Do you think his mother felt it when he died in the temple? Do you think she tried desperately, fruitlessly to reach out to him, to comfort him & tell him everything would be okay & embrace him in the afterlife? How do you think she felt when she reached out to hug him only to still be unreachable to him?

Do you think she was proud of him when he went after master Yang with the intention to finish him for good? Was she proud when he saved the trapped students & tried to free their captor despite all the pain & injustice? Do you think she still sat with him while he regained his bearings in the mortal world again, knowing it would likely be even longer before she could possibly get a chance to be with her son again? Do you think she prayed to the FSM for him to live as long as possible despite the pain it brings her?

Does she still dance in the afterlife, even with no partner? Does she still fight for those who can’t & protect the weak? Does she still recall the Geckles & Munts fondly?

Is Lilly still proud of her son?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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