#mianite thoughts

[syndianites]

the temptation to make a mianite s1 au where Tom, instead of getting tank of judgement-ed to stop him from killing everything on sight, gets turned into a cat and treated as the island stray while "Tom hasn't been around in a while. As nice as it is to not get disemboweled constantly I'm kinda worried??"

Except Tom is LOVING being the island stray and when the gods try to get him to go back he throws a fit like "sorry this is MY cat time >:0"

[chiangyorange]

i will not mianitepost in 2023. therefore i am allowed to mianitepost in 2024.

i would leave design notes but im not that person anymore and no one reads them also fuck you

[grailknightmonty]

fabrico [to craft, repair]

thinking about the thauminium aspects again and the relation between being a zombie, a self reborn and recrafted by his god from a state of death, and comprised of parts put together.. also love the headcanon that pre-death as a half human Tom had to sew parts of himself back together again due to the spread of the zombification, and occasionally when he dies and doesnt comes back right (via in-game respawning) he has to quite literally repair himself

bonus silly ship bit: if handstiching doesnt work, also have kisses to make it better

[springbudeyes]

I'm 35, it's been 10 years since Mianite Season 2, and I still haven't had my Andor arc. I'm still on "friendly" terms with my bigoted religious dad. I still haven't given my speech under the arch. I haven't been tied up, shipped off to jail, and had my wings clipped. I haven't escaped my cell, healed my wounds to scars, and wandered the wild in search of the goddess I pray to. Stories speak truth. This story speaks mine, but I still haven't lived it. The Unforgiven Ocean will be a great novel that tells Andor's tale more fully than S2 did, but I'm not ready to write it yet.

[coolcattime]

Capsize had real dragon guarded princess vibes, except the dragon is Ianite

[syn4k]

thinking about tucker and what being a champion of the god of order does to a person

[kiwibirdlafayette]

more self indulgent nonsense because why not (aka good omens has taken over my brain and is co-existing with mianite by forcing me to think way too much about this AU /silly)

[licantropa]

what if spark had a really good reason for leaving?

we don’t ever meet him, but we do get to meet ianite. we see how she plagued dagrun, and hear how she burned katsir. if she hurts so does everything and everyone around her. their relationship is not exactly a balanced one, they aren’t equals, not truly. she’s says that spark said goodbye, that he left without reason, but what if that’s not entirely true? what if ianite, a goddess who wants to be heard but doesn’t listen, didn’t want to hear it. spark left and it had been a long time coming.

or maybe he’s just selfish and didn’t want every facet of himself to be about her. because who is spark conway outside of his faith for ianite? a father? a husband? a champion? an architect? a king? all of that points back to her, things he did for her, with her.

[hottestthingalive]

my curse is that i keep accidentally saying funny shit in the replies/tags of posts while incredibly sleep deprived, forgetting all about it, and only finding out when said post crosses my dash again with my new additions a day to four weeks later. anyways i'd like to issue a formal apology to the mianite community-

[conwayfamilytree]

what if Spark took Ianite’s name, so his is now Spark Conway-Kikoku?

I didn’t know I could get asks. This is so exciting to me.

I don’t have a direct answer for this yet!! Personally, I love hyphenated last names. But in terms of characterization and stuff I think it comes down to how do divine families work? Do the gods hold last names to the same standard we do? I would have to assume yes because Akemi named her sword kikoku but I don’t know.

Also, how do the gods feel towards their parents (at the point in time that spark and ianite would be married )? Would she want to rid any association she has of her family?

Many things to think about. I will ponder !!

[syndianites]

I've always wondered what the criteria for being an 'alt' in mianite was.

Like, assuming it was a thought-out thing and not just a fun gimmick of being in an alternate reality, how is it determined who your alt is?

There's a few ways you can look at it:

They are literally you in a different universe- like literally exactly who you are but put in a different situation

They are someone who fills the same *role* as you, being more a metaphorical alternate

They are who, essentially, took your place in the world. It was either you existed OR they existed, not both

They are just the mirror of yourself, so to speak. Someone very similar to you and having the same core features, but having different... aspects? Like, if you were loyal and brave, but generally rather shy, your alternate would /also/ be loyal and brave, but could be easy and outgoing.

The reason I tend to ponder this a lot with Mianite as a series is because it very much feels like it could go any way, /except/ the person being a literal you from a different universe.

And I know that may be an unpopular look at it, but if you compare our most popular alt- Mot, to Tom, aside from the name and being partially mob-fied, what do they have in common as people? Their backgrounds are very different (which is to be expected), their personalities are very different, their choices and decisions can often conflict with each other, and so on and so forth.

In my head, someone literally being a different 'you' would either entail them having the same exact name (both having been "Tom" or "Mot" at some point) or looking nigh identical (though the Tom/Mot example is a little harder considering their different mob afflictions).

I suppose what I'm trying to say, is that when I think of a "traditional" alternative self, I think of the exact same person who was just put in a different situation. Like if Tom, for example, had been put in a situation where his family had all died and he got infected, etc etc. But even when in different situations you find that people tend to look the same, or has similar personality traits, or even have a similar way of thinking. Of course, we don't get to see a lot of alt interactions because Mot, for the majority of the time we see him, is the only "known" alt (since we didn't know Steve was supposed to be a Wag alt).

So how would I, personally, define alts in the Mianite universe? Honestly, I'm not sure. For a while I went on the idea that it was someone who was in "your role" in this other universe. Mot and Tom are both champions of Dianite, Spark and Jordan are both important devotees to Ianite, etc etc, but can we use that to explain Jeriah and Alyssa, or even Wag and Steve?

I think I sit right between the "role" aspect of alts and the "mirror" aspect. They almost beg the same question, "what is this person's defining traits," but in different ways. Tom and Mot are both heavily loyal, Tom to his friends and even the previous Dianite, who he stuck with even when he was THE bad guy, and Mot to Alyssa and Dianite. Spark and Jordan are both very devoted and- crafty? I don't know what word I'd use, but Spark created a whole town, Jordan had the Jerry's tree, how Jordan was very invested in any study he came across and how Spark was very invested in spreading the word of Ianite, etc. From what snippets we get, Sonja and Alyssa are both playful at heart and kind, though we don't get to see too much about Alyssa. I'd make a stab at what Jeriah is like but we basically never see him. Wag and Steve are both rather straightforward and not afraid to cause damage to get what they want done- and also have the same taste in women (lol).

You could argue that this is because they fill the same "roles" as each other, but you could also argue that it's because the characters share the same "base traits." It's like the chicken and the egg argument- does the role require the traits, or do the traits lead to the role? If two people are alts of each other, who came first? Who is the "original," discounting the fact that we enter the world of Mianite through Tiem Reester and are biased into believing they are the originals.

The people who throw this most into question are the gods themselves. They literally fill the same roles, have the same names, have very similar characteristics, and are basically the poster-children to the "traditional" idea of alternate versions of yourself. But if you stripped away everything- the godhood, the names, the aspects of life they embody- what do they have in common? The gods present that "what-if" scenario that happens when you look into alternate realities far better than the "human" people we see. Are both Dianite's stubborn and confident? Are both Mianite's self-assured and believe themselves to always be in the right? Are both Ianite's dedicated to walking the line between aspects, trying to keep a grip on the happenings of their universe and the fluctuations of the Void?

Mianite, as a series, gives us /so many things/ to think about but never a solid resolution to these ideas because it was never meant to. It was a story made up on the fly, a bridge being built as we walked along it. And I think that's why it sticks in my mind so much compared to other series that broach similar ideas. There are so many open-ended questions that /we/ get to solve, to debate, to consider, that it just sticks with you because it is so, so hard to leave something "unfinished."

Anyway, rant over, please go back to your regularly scheduled activities

[unnamed-atlas]

Having brain worms. What if uhhhhhh SOS Mianite au

[grailknightmonty]

"and i seriously hope that one day, when all of this is over and death and destruction aren't lurking around every corner- that we can go down to the docks and fish without a care in the world. to sit by each other's side from sunset to sunrise without a single fear. it would be amazing just to have that, even just once."

funky lil bday gift for my homie Mars from the RPG! :D I debated about redrawing a moment from the SMP but i settled on this idea of that in the middle of what's been a huge period of uncertainty and constant fear of losing it all for them, that I imagine all they could want could be found in something so mundane, so peaceful as just sitting by a lake, as the sun rises

[chiangyorange]

Spark is great value brand Jordan

the thing is is that ive been caught with Brain Bug and hes worse. hes an actual viable rival brand.

aka. he loves his wife so much but he will also drop everything including his two 10 year old kids (martha and ia lived in katsir for a decade, ianite spent a 10 year coma when she sent the alts to s1 world, martha is canonically in 30s) behind to go on a half baked quest to revive s1 dianite just because she said so (also have thoughts abput how the alts arent really that close to each other but thats not the point here)

hes so dedicated to her and her to him, but that just makes it so that their world is ONLY themselves. spark built a city FOR HER. s2 ianite has a reputation of cowardice (at least thats what it seems like to me) and spark is RELENTLESS on following her word no matter what. theyre both so interesting. i want to beat them up for being absolute bitches.

[coolcattime]

I had this silly thought, that if spark and jeriah both returned to ruxomar they’d start “““fake””” dating to piss off mianite. it’s practically psychological warfare.

Oh oh oh! YESSSSSSSSSS

I can picture this so well

Spark and Jeriah return and Mianite so ready to use Spark's grief as justification for his attempted revival of Ianite and all the bullshit that he justify doing for that, and Spark and Jeriah are having none of it.

It drives Mianite absolutely mental. He's absolutely sure that they're faking, but he can't prove it especially when the two have a remarkably consistent story about how they got together in the other world.

This is of course because they're just using actual stories from what they did in the other world, but adding in the fact that they're dating. The fact that their behavior now they're actively "dating" hasn't really changed in anyway isn't lost on the men, but messing away with Mianite and trying to stop the champions from listening to him is really more important than like introspecting about that.

Everyone else has questions though.

Spark: We're not really dating. Martha: Sure, dad.

Mianite: Fine, I can believe that you got over me, but Spark-- Jeriah: There was no getting over you, we never dated and I don't like you.

Tucker: So are the alts all gay or…? Sonja: Well, we're all gay, so it would make sense. Tucker: What? Sonja: What?

[syn4k]

im out here doing ap level analysis on this series of events trying to figure out how and why a thing happened in a decade old minecraft series