#pp; prologue

[kimberlyannharts]

Kind of insane that Hasbro hasn’t given ANYTHING to a season from the Disney, Neo Saban, or Hasbro eras. Except Hyperforce. Which wasn’t a traditional season. And the only post Zordon stuff we’ve gotten is one time force book and like. Three In Space books (I’m counting Psycho Path as In Space because I don’t remember anyone from LG showing up)

The hierarchy has definitely been MMPR > In Space > Other (OCs or Hyperforce....which are basically glorified OCs, so.....) > Time Force; which I guess isn't totally shocking, but like the toyline, it's weird that they clearly know how popular In Space and Time Force are but never really capitalize on RPM's equal popularity. (Dino Thunder is also super popular but I wonder if they avoid that due to the can of worms that is Tommy's role in it.)

Though tbh the real tragedy was how Dino Fury and Cosmic Fury have been left behind by the comics. When BOOM first got the license they threw a bone to the seasons airing alongside their releases: Ninja Steel got its own annual story for Shattered Grid, Beast Morphers got some covers and cameos (even a special "first appearance" in Shattered Grid) - but Dino Fury has gotten one crowd shot appearance in Darkest Hour and Cosmic Fury nothing at all. And I have no clue why. You're not even going to make them one of the teams picked up by Hyperforce in 118??? Where's my Fern content!!!!!!!

[lightweaver-chosen-if]

DASHINGDON | FORUM | MAIN POST

I know it took awhile but… tadaah!

New 20k words of content just dropped, bringing the game to 50k! Each playthrough is around 22k~ words with mini paths to explore.

I tried to edit this as much as I could, but with the new amount of branches I'm starting to get cross-eyed after re-reading the game so many times. As always feedback is always welcome! I'm having some trouble in linking scenes together with code. So if there are parts where it seems weirdly formatted or abrupt, please let me know in the forums.

IMPORTANT:

Please use a new save! A lot has changed since the last update so it's most likely broken. The game passed both the quick and random test, so if you encounter any errors please make sure you didn't use an old save before reporting game breaking bugs.

What's New:

Continue the tour with A and L!

Learn about future events

Officially become a Launwyce Academy student

MC lore ;)

Meet and interact with your potential pet 🐶😺

Meet and interact with J

What's Edited:

Prologue

World lore

More physical banter variations for A and L when they have different genders

Hope everyone enjoys the update! :D

PS: Ignore the main re-post, just wanted to transfer the main post to this account.

PPS: omg I just realized it's April 1 - this is not an April fools joke !!!

[corinnetheanime]

As promised by the poll, here is the entire first part of the prologue (first six pages) for Soul of Stardust! This will be pinned. Minor warning for ectoplasm (Danny is bleeding).

The change in style was mostly from the shift of Autodesk Sketchbook (first two pages) to Clip Studio Paint in March (last four pages). Also give a big thanks to @lonleyghostpostsart for coloring page 3! You did amazing and I’m happy to be able to show it here with the other pages finally! It looks great!

Sooooo about that delay…to be frank, my motivation has dipped in May since a lot of stuff happened that more or less drained me. And usually it negatively impacted my health in some way, or resulted in losing energy. But I am getting back into my old mojo long enough to also hopefully get an attack in tomorrow for Art Fight!!

As for the story, the plan after this is mainly to finish my notes for the story and basically make sure it’s all fleshed out before I plan out the second part of the prologue. I still have at least some of summer left to do that, and hopefully update more character designs AND concept art! But hoping to do this at my own pace and not feel pressured, haha! I have my own life ahead of me to write and draw it out.

Also, this comic takes place after D-Stabilized, but PP never happened. Meaning AGIT likely wouldn’t happen either. Just a heads up.

Enjoy!!

Part 1 Summary: Danny faces the First Ghost in battle in a dark realm.

[apple8ees]

@the-bitter-ocean's aurora isat au in my head forever. lets go lmao (spoiler art is under a readmore because i'm insane (acts 3-6 + prologue spoilers))

[ps you should read @comicaurora [it just finished its first arc (22 chapters) so it's the perfect time to catch up before the hiatus ends in january :3]

[pps In Stars and Time is a timeloop RPG by @insertdisc5 which you can buy on Steam or for the Nintendo Switch and Playstation and you should check it out!!! also the prologue is 70% off on Steam until January 4 go look at this!!!!!!!!!]

ok spoilers time :3

[hassiegfrieddoneanythingwrong]

The 30M Download Campaign has finally come, and Oberon is the representative for it. (Really? A third Avalon Servant? 😒)

Here's the rundown, besides the usual rewards:

A x3 Super/Great Success when leveling up Servants, all Dailies are open and their AP costs 1/3.

Some more event CEs have been made available in Da Vinci's shop, along with some more event Command Codes.

The amount of Pure Prisms are doubled from completing Part 1, Part 1.5/EoR, Part 2, and OC.

Along with that, there's a way to refill PP stock, with a special kind of ticket (right now it's only restricted to three, so choose wisely).

Two more Mystic Codes (Anniversary Blonde and Sōya High School Uniform) will be free to get after clearing the LB prologue* (currently unsure if it is the LB prologue).

Three more CEs, those featuring Kayneth, Sola-Ui, and Kirei. Their effects respectively are: self invincibility for 3 times and buff removal resistance by 10%/20%, gain 4%/5% NP per turn, Quick, Arts, and NP gain by 3%/5%, and self star weight up by 100%/200%, Quick, Arts, and Buster up by 8%/10%. (Color coordinated for easier reading)

The next free SSR ticket is here as well, this time including the story-locked SSRs. The permanent ones included this time are: Dioscuri, Tametomo, Vritra, Odysseus, Taigong Wang, Nemo, Kashin Koji, Galatea, and Nitocris Alter. If you were expecting Bhima or Marie Alter, sorry but the cut off is Koji.

The requirements to permanently add them is leveling up your chosen pick to level 60 and bring them up to Bond 5.

Also, Oberon gets his own CC.

[crippleprophet]

i want to thank you for your post from a few months ago about abandoning the idea that health is good. it's helped me process and unpack just how much the health framework has damaged me (and everyone; you could get multiple phds exploring how the concept of health categorizes and controls bodies!). and those ideas have extended beyond my personal life to my academic and professional writing and my interactions with loved ones - they've reached and impacted a lot of people.

i was a disabled child in a family of career athletes; the health paradigm was deeply engrained at an early age. now that i'm finally shaking those teachings, i've gotten a lot out of reanalyzing ideas i've always framed through a health lens. if it doesn't matter if i "eat healthily," since that's a meaningless concept, then how and why do i choose what i eat? why do i want to stretch regularly, if not because it's healthy and my doctors said it will improve my disability? how does my relationship with substance use change when health is taken out of the equation?

in these questions, i often find there's deeper and more satisfying reasons for my feelings and actions. this process reminds me of my experience with transness, in a way. reconsidering the concepts and assumptions underpinning a framework, deciding the whole framework is useless to you, and exploring what lies beyond it. thank you for opening such a freeing and fascinating door :-)

oh, woah, this absolutely made me cry, i truly can’t express how meaningful this is for me. (as you might know from following my blog lol) i’m homebound & only see two people in person unless i’m at the doctor, so this feeling of connection to other folks in my community is so deeply valuable, i really can’t thank you enough 💓💓

i definitely relate to the sense of rejecting health leading to a changed perspective on, like, everything in my life + prompting more intentional ways of engaging with my choices, routines, etc. following that theme of community, lineage, & ideas that ripple out, i’d love to take the time to mention just a few of the scholars, ancestors, comrades, & friends who have been life-changing for me in this area!

while there is a lot of transformative & vital work within disability studies, there’s still a lot of structural barriers against sick people’s contributions to formal theory + a lot of direct & indirect reinforcement of health as a good thing in the field. so i’ve found in many cases more resonant work in trans studies, mad studies, & postcolonial studies, by people affirming the pathology of their own identities & positions. just a few favorites of mine from within, across, & outside of these fields, in no particular order:

Sandoval-Sánchez, A. 2005. Politicizing abjection: in the manner of a prologue for the articulation of AIDS Latino queer identities. American Literary History. 17(3), pp.542-549.

Fritsch, K. 2013. On the negative possibility of suffering: Adorno, feminist philosophy, and the transfigured crip to come. Disability Studies Quarterly. 33(4).

Barounis, C. 2013. “Why so serious?” Cripping camp performance in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. 7(3), pp.305-320.

Abrams, T. and Adkins, B. 2020. Tragic affirmation: disability beyond optimism and pessimism. Journal of Medical Humanities.

Stryker, S. 1994. My words to Victor Frankenstein above the village of Chamounix: performing transgender rage. GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies. 1(3), pp.237-254.

Sexton, J. 2011. The social life of social death: on Afro-pessimism and black optimism. InTensions Journal. (5).

these were all immensely profound to me, but this last work, following Fanon, was such a complete & total frame shift for me that i feel the need to include some of it here (emphasis added):

This is precisely what Gordon argues is the value and insight of Fanon: he fully accepts the definition of himself as pathological as it is imposed by a world that knows itself through that imposition, rather than remaining in a reactive stance that insists on the (temporal, moral, etc.) heterogeneity between a self and an imago originating in culture. Though it may appear counterintuitive, or rather because it is counterintuitive, this acceptance or affirmation is active; it is a willing or willingness, in other words, to pay whatever social costs accrue to being black, to inhabiting blackness, to living a black social life under the shadow of social death.

This is not an accommodation to the dictates of the antiblack world. The affirmation of blackness, which is to say an affirmation of pathological being, is a refusal to distance oneself from blackness in a valorization of minor differences that bring one closer to health, to life, or to sociality.

[…] In a world structured by the twin axioms of white superiority and black inferiority, of white existence and black nonexistence, a world structured by a negative categorical imperative— “above all, don’t be black” (Gordon 1997: 63)—in this world, the zero degree of transformation is the turn toward blackness, a turn toward the shame, as it were, that “resides in the idea that ‘I am thought of as less than human’” (Nyong’o 2002: 389). In this we might create a transvaluation of pathology itself, something like an embrace of pathology without pathos.

To speak of black social life and black social death, black social life against black social death, black social life as black social death, black social life in black social death—all of this is to find oneself in the midst of an argument that is also a profound agreement, an agreement that takes shape in (between) meconnaissance and (dis)belief. Black optimism is not the negation of the negation that is afro-pessimism, just as black social life does not negate black social death by inhabiting it and vitalizing it. A living death is as much a death as it is a living.

if you want a pdf of any of these & are unable to find one feel free to hmu (although they will likely come with my annotations lol). this was a major topic of my master’s thesis for my disability studies degree (which was actually about disabled trans people, so i love that you connected this process of rejecting normality to transness in your own experience – i relate to that a lot) & i’m also happy to share that research with anyone who’s interested :)

i also have relevant thoughts & reblogs in my “stay sick” tag here (which i’ll add to this post) & my “embracing abjection” tag here + more broadly on my main.

& just a few of the many folks whose work + lives have shaped mine: @kelpforestdwellers @heavyweightheart @librarycards @crutchbutch @gatheringbones

i would also (always) absolutely love to hear more about your thoughts + writing if you would like to share! thank you again for taking the time to share this with me, i appreciate it more than i can say 💓💓

[dangermousie]

My next sageuk rewatch after TPM is probably going to be The Legend - another drama in the running for my favorite sageuk of all time.

Despite the shippy vid (and I do adore DD and Sujini - the intellectual underdog prince and his best bro the alcoholic archer), this drama is not romance-centric. It’s a glorious fantasy epic centering on a fight for throne but also prophecies, battles and supernatural forces meddling in the fate of mankind.

It’s smart, impeccably acted, gorgeous and just a perfection. DD’s quiet, soft-spoken royal (who may or may not be the prophesied savior) hits my competency kink dead center. It has a ton of amazing characters (including some complex ladies), tragic villains and just so much amazingness.

It was a huge hit when it came out but it was in 2007 so I bet most people around haven’t watched it. You should totally join me.

PS the first ep which is very fantasy prologue of 1000 years ago is cheesy as hell but the rest of it is not, promise.

PPS this was the last drama Bae Yong Joon ever made before he retired on his piles of money but what a way to go out. If you weren’t around for the mania btw, this man was HUGE! He was basically huger than all the Hallyu stars now put together and probably single-handedly kept the lights on for the companies for quite a few years. Wish he’d come back but he never will.

[balu8]

Metron

Justice League #40: Darkseid War, Prologue

by Geoff Johns; Jim Lee (pp. 16-22); Scott Williams (pp. 16-22); Alex Sinclair (pp. 16-22) and Rovb Leigh

DC

[sobeautifullyobsessed]

Hi! I've been musing over this for a day or two but I saw you mention you were in a Shakesperian play before and it got me thinking....you and Benedict in whatever Shakespeare play of your choosing I think it'd be so cool!

Also on the same note but an AU with Dr. Strange as a theatre professor and you bond with him over your love of literature and playwriting 🥰

I love this so, sooooooooooooo much and guess what, my brilliant friend...

It's an actual thing!

The One That Got Away

In my early years on tumblr, there used to be a lot of contests by Artists and Writers to promote their blogs. One such that I won was a custom written one-shot. And as what you've described above (me acting in a play by Shakespeare, opposite Benedict) has been a long desired dream, that's what the Author created for me. BC & I performing together in The Taming of the Shrew. Dust to Dust is a fic filled with angst & mutual but unfulfillable longing!😁Please check it out; it's a very quick, wonderful read.

But it gets even better...

I loved this story so much that my mind kept going, I need more...there has to be more to the story. And I began to write. Bits and pieces of Benedict & Virgilia (Vicki) interacting. Pining. Confessing forbidden feelings. A kickass prologue. Until I finally had to broach the topic with the Author--who had felt a pull to continue the story as well

So, she asked for samples of what I'd written, and once satisfied with how I envisioned the story playing out, she gave me her blessing. The One That Got Away is one of my dearest WIPs, and though it's been ages since I've updated, I know exactly how the rest of the story goes (including lots of angst, a forbidden tryst or two, lovers separated by an ocean wide, reconciliation and a happy ending). I even wrote an epilogue already, for a bestie of mine who initially struck up our friendship because she loved the story so much.

Gotta say, it makes me really happy to talk about it, so I must thank you heartily!🥰 I miss those inspired days of writing. So impassioned to get the words on the page that I even wrote one pivitol chapter in a law office where I had to give a deposition about an accident I witnessed at work!

I hope with all my heart that a few new Readers will check it out from seeing this post, and maybe even give it some love. I know many of us refer to something we've written as some of our best stuff--but this is no cliche; I really think it is.

Oh, and your second suggestion...Stephen as a Theatre Professor? Absolutely worth adding to my list of things I'd love to write if I ever get my mojo back for real.

a very excited PS:

I have two songs that encapsulate some of the feels for this fic. Girl Crush by Little Big Town, and Taylor's Wildest Dreams

PPS: a wonderful graphic artist made an amazing 'book cover' for the story; and the OC costume designer for Shrew is based on her

[unchartedperils]

Been four years since I got into writing fanfiction for the first time. April 1st, 2020 in the midst of depression from lockdown was a day. I began writing my uncharted 3 fix it prologue and those next 2 or so weeks were a whirlwind. Began my post-Lost Legacy AU as well as an Uncharted 1: Drake’s Fortune AU.

Sometime during the week of April 13th-14th, I got tipped off to the great library that is AO3/Archive of my Own. Changed my life on the Internet forever and it’s been an experience since then (got my account up on April 20th aka 4/20). And I just wanna thank all of you near and far across my Discords, my comments, my subreddits in r/Fanfiction and others for all the lessons, support, and cheers/hugs during good times and bad.

Here’s to many more years of writing and reading fanfiction together! 🍻

PS: I updated my profile today to reflect my four year anniversary. Check it out and if you can, read/kudo/comment on one of my fics today or even this week! Heck I’ll take this month! But it would mean so much! 🥹❤️

PPS: enjoy Miss Valentine SHUT UP as I in the last week or so have return to my RE7 Fix It with her in Ethan’s stead and it being retconned to 1996.

[starlightandetherealshadows]

it's a bird! it's a plane! it's an update (7/12)

Hi my loves!

I just submitted a few more medical school applications, so I'm exhausted but in a good mood! There's still a lot to write, but this is the cross i bear for being a bad bitch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

I'll be offline for a few hours before I hop back into working on Contra Spem Spiro. I wrote about 3000 words of the prologue last night and the end product is looking to be around 5K. We'll see what's tea once it's nearing completion. Once we get over that hurdle, I'll look at the mountain called Evercoding.

And I'll be answering more asks tonight (my favorite part of the day!!!)

If you haven't gotten a chance to vote in the poly poll (hehehe the pp), you can do so here! I also answered more questions about the poly dynamic here and here.

Fair warning, I'm leaning quite heavily towards locking those two routes together. I've thought a lot about it last night. Like this was quite literally me:

I'm also so excited to plan out key moments and dynamics in all of the RO routes!! Tonight I plan to get started on that. (although I may sway towards working on the prologue, we'll see how my brain feels)

Big big big things planned. I'm a mastermind word to Taylor Swift.

Happy Wednesday, angels!! ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡

All my love,

Cheye

[artemiseamoon]

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[dorianmathay]

(T)GAUTIER.Le Roman de la Momie.ISBN 2-277-30081-0 & ISSN 1255-0337;Librio,texte intégral.08/1995.pp.159+pp.2catalogue.Flammarion.imprimé à Pössneck(Thuringe,DE).p9(prologue):

[..]les chercheurs de trésors nous ont toujours devancé. - Une tombe que n'auront fouillée ni les rois pasteurs, ni les Mèdes de Cambyse, ni les Grecs, ni les Romains, ni les Arabes, et qui nous livre ses richesses intactes et son mystère vierge, [..] - Et sur laquelle vous publierez une dissertation des plus érudites, qui vous placera dans la science à côté des Champollion, des Rosellini, des Wilkinson, des Lepsius et des Belzoni[..].

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Champollion

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ippolito_Rosellini

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gardner_Wilkinson

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Richard_Lepsius

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Belzoni

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_(region)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambyses_I

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambyses_II

[dominimoonbeam]

I would love to help as someone that's been listening to yuurivoice for years however sadly i'm not good at explaing things like this. At this point i just know how to navigate his channel but struggle to explain how to for someone else.

Something i wanted to recommend tho is if you've only listened to the bittersweet compliations (i.e. chapter 1 and 2) there's also chapter 3 of bittersweet (which, i'm not sure what exactly you had in mind by angst e.t.c. but its definetly more dramatic and higher stakes than the previous chapters, Chapter 3 episode 7 makes me cry everytime i listen to it) that doesn't have a compilation yet and for that you could just check out the general bittersweet playlist with all the single videos https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo3gUOtcfZqOtpnYoLvkMGgCIrbqsbQUX

In terms of compilations there's also the Alphones compilation of all his videos pre bittersweet which according to the title and descripition is now the official canon bittersweet prologue https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx_lPdawx8E&list=PLo3gUOtcfZqMArqPABWqwL3u8Zttb07Ox&index=5&pp=iAQB

There's definetly more stuff you should probably now about but i struggle to explain it, sorry

Hopefully someone else can help as well

I've gone through season 3 too! I am very into it and very tempted to get that patreon to see if there are... trio audios? We'll see after payday!

Thank you so much for this! I know trying to explain something this big this many years into it, isn't an easy ask.

I'm figuring out that there are a lot of au situations going on, which were throwing me at first. So like, lots of Alphonse meeting listener in different ways/situations or maybe different listeners depending on your take? I will get a grip on all of this eventually!!

ALSO the summary audio Yuuri did about the whole Bittersweet series was hilarious and just brilliant!

[iciwelcome-home]

Welcome Home Fic - Saving My Neighbors 0

Aka Prologue (Ch. 0) - ‘Moved’ into the Neighborhood

((A/N: This hasn’t left my mind for weeks, so I’ve decided to write down the fanfiction while I can. Now, this is sort of a coexist verse of toons and puppets; plus Muppets, with humans. A bit like Who’s Framed Roger, Space Jam, Looney Toons Back in Action, the Muppet Movies and maybe a few others as well. This fanfic is... sort of based on Welcome Home ARG, BUT this is a fanfiction and not all of it is true. This is sort of separated from the official/canon version which still works. Now, this is a Wally Darling X OC, plus a guy x guy relationship later on so if you have issues with that, you’re free to leave or not read it 😅. I’m just having some fun with this. This will have some... psychological horror (ish) which I don’t think I have done anything scary like, but once that theme comes in, I’ll try. This is SFW fanfic, despite the scary stuff. Welcome Home is created by @partycoffin/Clown so give them the support and the respect to the creator. This fanfic and AU ‘Saving my Neighbors’ is made by me; @iciwelcome-home which I also go by @ginnyicyidragon which is my main blog. Enjoy my fanfic and I do apologize my grammar.))

Somewhere in the space of darkness, a pale lavender periwinkle rabbit puppet with long lop ears, yellowish orange bowl-like hair, indigo freckles on the cheeks, wearing cyan sweater with rainbow collar part and white shorts with one black stripe on each sides is seemingly laying on the ground on his or their back. His eyes are closed while trying to remember where he is or even how he got into such a state.

'...Where... am I?' He thought. 'I was... standing in front of, but... how am I...?'

Er...ic... Ho...pp...er... yo.......et in... F.… ou......pened... Be... ca...ful…

'Huh? Who is that... talking to me...? Eric... Hopper... That's me. But I can't remember... anything...' He thought, grunting as he opened his blue eyes to see... colorful leaves of trees, seeing the clouds in the sky. It seems the sun is rising. "...Huh?" He slowly sits up, places his right hand behind his head. He winces, "Ow... My head."

The rabbit puppet slowly looks around, seeing he's in the woods as a breeze slightly blows in. "Uh... How did I get here?" Eric mumbled. He tries to remember, but... nothing comes to mind. "I was... walking and ended up here." He quietly said to himself.

He then slowly stood up, dusted himself off. He seems to be only 2ft tall.  "Okay, okay... My name is... Eric Hopper, a rabbit puppet... I have a cousin and... um..." He muttered. He tries to think hard then sighs loudly, eyes close, "Ugh! I can't remember much... I don't even know how I got here…"

The rabbit puppet turns around to see if he finds something or anyone nearby to help him. Eric then spots a path leading towards... somewhere. "Oh, good! A path! Maybe this could lead me to civilization!" He smiled with relief then began walking over to the path and headed down the path.

5 minutes later, Eric looks ahead to see a town. "Ah! This is good! Maybe I will get some help and call for help...” He smiled, quickly hurried into town.

But once he entered, he could see colors around him and see some of the houses. It seems kinda quiet. He slowly stops by a building which looks like a post office, looking around, "Is this town… abandoned?”

Before he knew it, once the sun moved in the right spot in the sky, the rabbit puppet suddenly heard birds chirping, feeling warmth and happiness in the air, then… the door of the post office opened by a four feet tall orange colored puppet mailman named Eddie Dear. “Ah~ Time to deliver some mail!” Eddie smiled, adjusting his blue hat.

Eric, after slightly jumping when Eddie opens the door, stares over at Eddie, “.....”

Eddie walks out of the post office and onto the path, but then he stops once he senses someone is staring at him, turns to his right to see Eric standing a few feet from him. He exclaims, jumps back a bit, “Oh! Where did you come from?!” His sudden jump made him hit the mail bag and most of the mail was scattered onto the ground. “Gah! Oh no!” Eddie quickly tries to grab the mail that was in the air.

Feeling bad, Eric went over to Eddie and quickly gathered up the mail that fell on the ground, saying in an apologetic way, “I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to scare you…”

“N-no problem! It’s okay!” Eddie replied, kneeling down to pick up the rest of the mail and then standing back up after putting them back in his mail bag. “I just wasn’t expecting to see you there.”

Eric hands over the mail he’d picked up to Eddie, saying, “Yeah, but I still feel bad for scaring you like that. I just arrived here and we--”

“Oh? Are you the new neighbor then??” Eddie questioned, putting the mail Eric gave him in his mail bag.

Eric looks unsure how to answer that question, trying to remember a bit, “Um… I guess so. I’m mostly lost and trying to find some… way to get to a place called the Neighborhood.” Eric wasn’t sure why, but he was technically going to say ‘To find some help and call someone’ however he has a nagging feeling to not say the real reason.

Eddie then smiles, “Well, you’re in luck! This is it!”

“This is it?” Eric repeated, making his lop ears raise a bit. He looks around, surprised to know this area is the Neighborhood.

“Yep! And you’re in luck, I’m about to go around town to deliver some mail to everyone.” Eddie told him, smiling. “This way, you can get to know everyone in the Neighborhood.”

Eric thought about then nods, “Okay, but only if it’s okay with you. I would rather not disturb your job…”

“It’s fine!” Eddie chuckled. “Besides, we can’t have our new neighbor getting lost again. Oh! I almost forgot to introduce myself, the name is Eddie Dear.” He holds out his left hand to Eric to shake hands.

Eric stares at Eddie’s hand, looks up at Eddie and… places his hand in Eddie and grasps it with a smile, “I’m Eric Hopper. I hope we’ll get along.”

Eddie begins shaking Eric’s hand, smiling in a friendly way, “Same here. And I think you’ll love it here! It’ll be like this is your home already.” He releases Eric’s hand and adjusts his mail bag. “Follow me and don’t wander off from me.” He said to Eric, then began heading towards what looks like a blue shop with the words ‘Howdy’s Place’ on it.

Eric stood for a few seconds, looking back where he’d come from while hearing words inside his head…

…What…r you do… do… tell whe… you’re from, act like…n’t… rem… You’ll probably for….. But stay strong… and fi…

Unfortunately, Eric can’t remember nor make out whoever told him. The rabbit puppet shrugs it off and quickly follows after the mailman puppet, not knowing someone is watching from afar…

((A/N: …And we’ll stop there! Short, I know, but I figured maybe in the next chapter, Eric will meet the rest of the neighbors. I hope this is a good start and I hope my grammar wasn’t so bad. Anyway, it seems Eric met Eddie Dear after arriving, which is good.  However, it seems Eric forgot some things before moving into the Neighborhood. Why is that? We’ll find out that in the chapter… maybe~ Also, will be post on my A03 account))

Chapter 1 - Getting to My Neighbors - Link

[dwagom]

vector the crocodile is a fascinating character for being stated to be generally religious but i don't think that the full context's implications have ever been seriously explored

the japanese manual, pp. 7, has the following on him:

「神の存在を信じており、奇跡の島のニュースを聞いてこの島にやってきた」 (Kami no sonzai o shinjite ori, kiseki no shima no nyūsu o kiite, kono shima ni yatte kita. // As he believes in the existence of [Kami], he made for this [island of miracles/miraculous island] when he got news about it.)

japanese language does not possess a singular/plural distinction in morphological terms, and so singularity/plurality of the thing being talked about are not found within the nouns and verbs, and must be taken from context or simply additionally stated. kami could mean either "God" (capital-G as in a monotheistic one), "god" (small-g as in a henotheistic one), or "gods" (which would mean that he's a polytheist). (screw this, see below)

「奇跡の島、kiseki no shima」 can be interpreted either as "island where miracles happen" or "island that is a miracle" since the particle の is similar to english's norman genitive syntactically (although the possessor precedes the possessed in の's case, which is the reverse of english, where with 'of' the possessor comes second) although a lot more flexible. (It has nothing to do with the sentence-terminal の which is an auxiliary noun.) In this case it's a bit of both but if I had to choose, I'd choose the latter, as the japanese manual says that the island came into being because of a pillar of stray energy from the master emerald when the floating island had been downed during S3&K (page 4; no i'm not going to translate the entire prologue):

another important distinction from the non-japanese versions is that in the japanese version, none of the cast arrived together. like everyone else, vector came to the island on his own.

one final note to make is that in the japanese beta versions of the game, the "super rings" (or "special rings"/"chaos rings" as they're called in the j manual) are instead named "holy rings", and while this was changed away for the release versions, i'd still take this as the more canonical term for them because it's clear that the team was willing to do a lot more worldbuilding after discovering how addictive that shit really is while working on S3&K. they appear to be simply tacked on (all early worldbuilding is a mess), mentioned as previously lost by knuckles' ancestral civilisation. eggman thinks of them as something that will point him to the master emerald again, as they're its crystallised energy （しかし、スペシャルリングの作り出す不思議な空間には、”ピラー”エネルギーが充満し、「カオスリング」というリング状の結晶体と化していました。）. also vector is definitely in an objectively polytheistic universe if he's not a polytheist at least, as line 4 in this has 「神々、kamigami」 which is semantically strictly plural:

the full course of events seems to be this: the radiation from the master emerald during S3&K gets to the ocean floor directly beneath the island; after the new island rises (it doesn't seem to have a name in the prologue), vector gets wind of it and just... goes on a pilgrimage or something. from the context i'm willing to believe that vector is actually a polytheist who believes in the same gods that the omniscient narrator in the manual's prologue mentions, which also happen to be very real and tied to the chaos emeralds. so, uhm, yeah, vector's hauling cloaca to the nearest place where he can approach chaos energy, and seems to be the only one doing that. given that he's described as "laid-back"、「楽天家」、i'd say that the last thing he is is an emerald-thumper, and that he might in fact be one of the last members (if not the last) of a very old religion with at least similar beliefs to the ones held by knuckles' ancestors, and who number so few that he just went to the island solo. vector is religious, but less in a catholic way and more because he wants to find all the chaos emeralds and escape his fear of death by means of achieving godhood (implicitly, a permanent super-form)