#n2 chr ramble

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if I haven't asked this already... ramble ask: Salem!

You did not! (Also I am waiting with Merida a bit till I feel like it,) but. Salem, I can do

(May have went a tad overboard.. 0 of this is canon)

Spoilers for N:E and N:E postgame(aka the Abyssals Update)

Salem! Aka Venefelis. Since uh, Venefelis is referred to as a He and Salem as a She, I'm just going with She for this whole rant^^

So. Salem. The girl in the woods.

She... Well, the time you play with her and the abyssal thing could be up to a year apart if not more in the time line (unless you did it at once like I did) , so...

First of all, she plays some Simon says with us, gives us a... I want to say Golden Nexotrap? Let me- Oh no, she gives you a Vault key. Vault key and there's Perfect berries nearby, figured.

She plays with us an easy game of Simon says, with how much it seems like Hilda's maze you truly have to wonder if it's because Hilda died around there, but when you're done, she gives you the vault key.

Now Salem... Is Venefelis, duh. But.

We know that at least with the Omnikids(thanks, Solus) they actually age, as shown my Solus in the orphanage, but so it's not far to assume similar for the Abyssals.

Salem was tasked with killing Hilda, and in return Blue(n1 protag) tied them to the woods(... Don't know why,) but you have to wonder. Surely she did it quickly, especially with Pluvian saying he practically did nothing and just waited, means they're made with adult Nexomon forms, so..

.... How old do you recon Salem to be? Not much, is the answer to whichever number comes to mind. Sure, she ages in the woods but, man, that's the WOODS. She couldn't exactly do much, other than obsess over the creator, we're returning here later

I'm noticing she never necessarily tried to push onto Solus the first time they came- Weather she just couldn't tell(which, isn't a non possibility) or because she actually wanted to do a game and then do so. Because she couldn't have known Solus didn't know they were, well, Solus.

You could argue she saw one of the revival beams and put two and two together, I suppose.

Then she tricks you with saying she's just a little kid and yada and- Well, she's not lying, to be fair here

Regardless, then she gives a speech and then she goes off, then, you kill everyone and then she has a meltdown.

.. Here's the thing, right. Kroma said that she cannot rest until she slays Eliza. That's telling me that they have that restlessness. When Pluvian did his task, he didn't have the motive to do much. When Braccus did, he found destruction amusing. When Salem did-

Well. She didn't have much to do. She was in the woods, kids came sometimes and they played, sure. But now she didn't have a "you need to do this" urge/voice in her head so. What was she supposed to do? Because she DID what she was needed to. And still nothing happened. So did all the rest of them, and nothing CHANGED.

She had all the time in the world to figure out SOME way that made sense to her in which she could get her master's attention back, because this was suffocating. Because kids came and went and then she was alone.

Nexomon are social creatures, so are humans, so it's not a stretch to say Abyssals are, too. And being all alone makes you desperate.

So when she figured out Kroma didn't do what she had to- Well that's SOMETHING. It's hundreds of years after she was trapped here, but it's something. Maybe this will work. It has to.

Then it doesn't. Then she just has a meltdown because these kids are stopping her from just getting her master's attention back because nothing else worked and-

Then she dies again. And I for one, don't love that. So! (Pulls out AUs)

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Nexomon Character: Admin! what's your take on her?

N2 the game I replayed a whole 2 times hello there (context, I have replayed n1 I think 5? Maybe 6?)

Don't think I need spoilers for this one, but

Admin! Admin, most of you guys formed my option of Admin to be completely honest, you Cyber and Azzie came together and that's what she is to me now

The one who deals with the paperwork and is probably the only reason this darn thing is running. She's trying, and she has a system, but she's definitely strained from it

Also there was a cut joke for Venefelis btw, it went something like coco saying that they don't have another ship to crash and Admin going "Well, I still have mine, " And then Venefelis getting wrecked by a ship. JV why do you exclude the funniest jokes I swear

Probably the LEAST ramble take so far, but she's one of the characters I started loving through fiction (in game I did like her, she was solid, but y'all bumped it up)

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Nexomon character: Tikala. Why not.

This one is complicated (down the wardens~)

Spoilers for n1 postgame and nexomon: extinction

So.

In n1 tikala had nothing, because Deena wasn't dead.

Ulzar still had one for Deena so I assume Tikala existed, but the issue here is, as Hexia beautifully pointed out, they need prisoners to survive

So, what the heck is up with Tikala? Considering Deena was very much alive and trying to get us out if Deena and Ulzar are to be believed

That... I don't have an answer to so, something something Omnicron something.

Afterwards he's casually in n2 as an actual tyrant which. I think it's the same dude, there's no way

I just assume we and Deena convinced him to come on the light side with cookies, or something

My question of a prisoner still remains but this time I'm willing to say Deena did something as the new appointed tyrant of life(she just had the forest title in n1. Heck maybe that's how she got it?)

And then he helps us! Which is very nice of him. I'm kind of shocked Ziegler says nothing in canon, honestly.

But he's genuinely a good person now, trying to be better all that. I mean he helps us, so..

He probably does care about Deena like genuinely, not in the way the other wardens did (especially Hexia.) So, just a good dude in general