#reverse 1999 the ring

[pepa-is-drawing]

behold!! the ring!!! nothing bad happens to him ever, trust <3

[thatgremlinkid]

This game is gonna influence my art hardcore like just look at these

[meelkiewee]

A bunch of Golden Wind stuff I drew <3

Babygirl, amiright?

btw I just rewatched some episodes yesterday and I really want to draw a proper Bucci fanart aughh

Other silly stuff below the cut ⬇️

This is just meselfff with Mista's outfit cause I love the man.

Some lazy lazy lazy character design featuring some mlp references I guess?? I mean me and my friend assigned them elements for fun jshdjs

Man this character designs are veeeeeeeeery lazy, they will surely undergo some changes in the future.

Anyway, don't ask why BUT I also drew this. The ship name is PaSta and they're both from italian mafia. You don't need to know more I guess.

Ah btw yes, in my head Mista has bleached zebra pattern hair cause why not?

[arcanistsanctum]

Main Story 1-4 Chapter Covers (No Reflections)

[acesw]

The School System of SPDM

The School Primary Defense of Mankind is a private institution where every few years, they take in orphaned arcanists around the world to train them for the purpose of becoming members of the Foundation. Many of the graduates go into the military/investigative sector of the Foundation and a handful are assigned to offices, given positions in headquarters and in rare cases accepted by the political councils. There is also a chance to work at Laplace, but thus far, Mesmer Jr. is the only one who had been placed there because of her lineage.

Not much is known about how the school works, but I will be mapping out as much information as I can find about the school, and make sure its organized as possible.

Disclaimer: This is solely based on Chapter 3, Green Lake, and the characters we have thus far who were students at SPDM. The only graduates we have are Horropedia (oldest graduate), Sonetto, Mesmer Jr., Vertin, and Matilda (youngest graduate of the group). I'll be referring to them as the "Foundation Kids", since the name sounds fitting enough. There are going to be spoilers for Chapter 3 and the characters' stories, so tread carefully.

Additionally, I'm going to be rarely using images because I really do not want to go into the effort of making screenshots after screenshots right now.

So buckle up and get ready for a big wall of paragraphs and sentences.

Known Staff Roles of the School

Principal - The head that manages the affairs of the school and responsible for all the matters that happen within. The current principal as of chapter 3 is Richard. Instructors - Their main purpose is to teach students varying subjects, a few that can be named are biology, music, potions, and arcane history School Physician - The person that takes care of the overall health of the students. It can be assumed that there are two per semester, since Tooth Fairy in particular would only stay in the school as its physician for half a year. Janitors - Of course, people that clean up areas in the school, and they have the freedom to interact with the children. Some are referred to as uncles and aunts I'd assume. Monitor Assistants - Students or Student Graduates that choose to help monitor the students of the school as a means to train them for instructor roles. Matilda is the only known monitor assistant so far. Monitor Students - Students that are given the role to monitor their peers. There seems to be a head role given to the school's high-achieving students like Sonetto. They are changed routinely every day and can increase/decrease depending on the necessity.

Level System and Enrollment

Of course, a school would not exist without its level system. The SPDM has a curriculum in place that sections off the varying different age groups of the orphaned arcanists after taking them in. The average range of the arcanists they take in are between a few months to 4 years old at its possible max.

The youngest student that had arrived in the school is Vertin at 1 month old, while Matilda is the oldest known student that had willingly enrolled at around 6 to 7 years old. This means that enrolling at the school is possible if the arcanist family is known to the Foundation. (For our Foundation kids, Sonetto and Vertin are the only ones to have been adopted into the school, whereas the other three have family or at least a guardian prior to enrollment)

The age of which arcanists graduate from the school seem to vary, in which Vertin, Sonetto, Matilda, and Mesmer Jr. had graduated at 13-15 years old. Whereas Horropedia, claimed to have been "several grades above" the group when the breakaway incident had happened. He's estimated to have been 17 at the time of the incident, while the rest of the group were around 10-12. This makes the information conflicting at first glance.

But of course, figuring out this level system would be rather helpful. This would be considered as a K-10 or K-13 curriculum, and it seems that the students can be categorized by as "Academic Year # Semester #".

Nursery & Kindergarten (1-5 years) - Where new baby and orphaned arcanists who were taken in by the school are raised in the first few years at the school.

Early Stage (5-10 years) - Young arcanists start their academic journey in the school, where they learn about the world around them while being isolated from the outside. They also begin their physical/arcanum training as a means to strengthen them whilst their afflatus and arcane skills slowly develop and awaken over time.

Late Stage (10-12 years) - The age of which arcanists begin to awaken their arcane skill. They are given the materials and training to develop their arcane skills and are slowly introduced to the world around them, being shown the opportunities they could take based on their skillset and possibly being invited to explore the work environment. (Its also in this stage that the students have a change in uniform.)

Work Immersion & Graduation (12-15 years) - The arcanists will begin to do work immersion in the fields they choose to specialize in, to familiarize themselves in the environment and even make their placements in these fields early on. Eventually, they graduate and go into official work for their sectors within the Foundation.

Higher Education (15-18 years) - Student graduates who might choose to seek higher education as a means to train for more skilled positions in their line of work. This can give them more opportunities and guidance on their first few years of work.

Rules and Education

"May the peace be with us. May the peace be with mankind." The school's main pursuit for its students are some philosophers' exhortation: "Heritage, Honor, Rationality, Responsibility"

The education in SPDM is rigorous, and goes in depth about many of the topics at hand and also putting their students through difficult trainings to ensure that they are at their best physique and readied skills. They tend to be strict, and would have a consistent flow of tests to ensure every student studies well.

Their rules are also just as meticulous, wanting to make sure that their students' conscience and goals stay close to the ideologies of the school and the Foundation. Going from disallowing them from artistic/literary media that is "not advocated or approved by" the Foundation, treating outside attachments as "meaningless", and teaching students that they are meant to sacrifice themselves for the safety of mankind.

The school has a Student Handbook that goes through these rules and guidelines. The main idea and rule that the school imposes is to pay no heed to the world outside, as creating an attachment would only bring harm and regret. They are to focus on training themselves to serve their mission towards pursuing peace and order in the guidance of the Foundation until death, since all of the students are taught that they would die martyrs for the cause.

"To live is to lose things around us until the day we lose life itself to death. That's why we should only focus on the supreme missions." - Sonetto, Frogs and Toffee (3-2)

Some of these rules include the standard things (no skipping classes, no in-fighting) while also having rules such as no mass gatherings, conspiration against the school, acquiring and keeping contraband, leaving school grounds, etc. However, there are some liberties that are taken, such as having freedom with hairstyles, free use of arcane skills, etc.

Interestingly, one of the rules is that discussion about the "Storm" is forbidden. Its also forbidden to go out when its raining, and discouraged to discuss any incident that had occurred within the school.

There are routinely inspections that are carried out to make sure no rules are being broken, such as dorm checks and head counting. Monitor staff are also in place to ensure there is order among the students, and as mentioned previously, the school would have a head student monitor that would cooperate with the respective school monitor and monitor assistant. If strict supervision is required for any reason, the Foundation will step in and arrange to deploy their own units or Zeno recruits from the academy. (Like in the case of the Manus Vindictae's olitiaus having to be scouted out by Zeno recruits like Lilya)

Punishments

Punishments are of course, carried out based on the rule that is broken. Normally, these punishments wouldn't be so harsh (it just so happened our little troublemaker just actively likes to break major rules). The most normal of the punishments that have been given out so far is a timeout and confiscation of contraband. Of course, there is the more…extreme side.

With the little shit I mean Vertin having this tendency to break rules, one of the punishments we see her go through is isolation. There is a guardhouse in the school's campus where students who break major rules stay in it for a specific amount of time based on what rule is broken. The most merciful would be only a mention of the "Storm" (1 day with no food/water), the worst of it is mass gathering and what can be classified as rebellion (2 weeks with no food/water).

Campus

We currently have a complete map of the school thanks to chapter 3 and the manus. The school is walled off and has watchtowers to ensure that there are no outsiders (and of course, escapees). There seems to be air raid tunnels beneath the schools as well, why they were built in besides its main purpose is not known, but as we know it has been rarely used. In these air raid tunnels we find that there are also blast doors that border between the tunnels and the watchtowers.

There are no labels on where the guardhouses are, but they are of course meant to discipline the students. There are critters and tools at the kids' disposal, to mostly alleviate immediate problems. The guardhouse is checked regularly, and is cleaned up weekly. Though, some messages left behind by previous dwellers are left as is for the next to help guide them through.

George the Oak is a tree possibly situatied near the lake on the map, and is known to be a famous tree for the kids because of its age and its size. There, they can go in the tree hollow or even just sit under the giant leaves. Either way, it looks to be like a nice spot to go to for the students when they have free time. Sad it got cautioned off after the parade incident.

Employees from the Foundation headquarters have the freedom to enter the school campus and visit the facilities as they'd like, as we see with Constantine and Druvis meeting in the library, and Madam Z and Katz meeting in the sports field in chapter 4.

Lastly, the school is most likely situated next to the official headquarters building, and there is a town that is near the school since there was a time where Vertin and Sonetto went to watch an outsider parade from a distance.

Events

There are 3 important events for SPDM: The Annual Evaluation, Parade Ceremony, and the Graduation of Year 10 & Higher Education students.

The Annual Evaluation is where they evaluate the overall performance of their students, and rank them based on the evaluation. -Sonetto and Matilda had made it to the rankings prior to or during the 4th Year of the Storm. Sonetto made her way to rank 1, while Matilda had achieved rank 3.

The Annual Parade is to showcase the school's best image and boost morale, and with it, the school selects their best students to participate in a three-month intense training. Through this they would become the school's honor guard and represent the students in the best way possible. Before this, a pre-parade ceremony is held out to help practice and for the principal to send his regards/support to the students. -As again, one of the most outstanding students, Sonetto's "Parade Anthem" garment seems to be the honor guard uniform that she had been given, signaling that she was one of the chosen students for the training course.

And lastly, Graduation. Of course, the main focus here would be the year 10 students of SPDM; who officially become workers for the Foundation. We're not really sure how this ceremony happens, but it can be thought that the students will be given the choice to choose their paths immediately after the ceremony, or, it would be assigned to them.

Vertin and Mesmer Jr. are excluded from the choice/allocation, as they were both put into roles early on for special circumstances. For Vertin it was because she became the Timekeeper after the breakaway incident, and for Mesmer she had been put into the role of working in Laplace because of her lineage and heritage.

While Sonetto seemed to have chosen to be a field investigator, Matilda was assigned to her role as a Monitor Assistant.

Horropedia on the other hand seems to have sought out higher education since he stayed in the Foundation a bit longer than others, and thus graduated with such an honor. This made him able to start working in the external inspection unit as it seems.

Other notes on the Foundation kids before ending this megapost:

Sonetto has proven to be the most outstanding graduate of SPDM, and has been rewarded medals (i.e. Merit Medal of Session Eight) and even a ceremony stick because of her role as an honor guard.

Its very likely that Vertin was isolated from the rest of the students to train her for her role as the Timekeeper. Besides that, she is one of the most unique students of the school.

Mesmer Jr. had been assigned to work in Laplace's Rehabilitation Center at 12 years old, making her the youngest person to have started work among the five.

Besides Sonetto, Matilda has technically not seen her former classmates since graduation, and possibly has not seen Vertin for an even longer time.

Horropedia is the only person who had stayed in SPDM past the assumed graduating age, which makes me believe that he had received higher education or was held back by troublemaking…I can see both possibilities.

Overall, these are the observations that I was able to rule out. There are still some things that I might not have considered or taken to account yet, but that's just because I can't really tell if it can be added here + I wrote this at 5 am. SPDM's school system is a bit screwed because of the punishments and everything, but this entire guide feels like it can be comprehended better.

Thanks for reading to the bottom of this post. I'm open to answer questions as well as add into/fix the information here!

[murmew]

(You know who you are)

[cyberpunkboytoy]

Hey. So I started playing the phone game "Reverse: 1999." Doing my 10-pulls, as you do. And uh.

They put me?? In the game???

[godofthestupid]

I wanna do another art style study~

[deepfriedtrout]

It slips away from her hands. Vertin dives after it; her heart, always calm and collected, starting to ramp up in pace. She catches the band before it hits the grass, and she lands on a knee, cradling the item with a gentleness like it was something precious and deeply cherished. Because, because it was. But why? Did the Foundation not care to collect what was left of her friends? Vertin looks out into the fields. She stands, upwards, slipping the rusted bangle into her wrist. With a certain desperation— of a girl chasing after the ashes of the dead— she stumbles into the grass, hands parting the collected blades, eyes darting over— here, there, left, right, up, down, she combs through every square inch of the field.

i got the idea of ‘hey. what if the foundation were even more assholes and didnt recover the remains of the other kids in the breakout incident’ to fuck up vertin more

[l3xdrigo]

Under the Oak tree

The wilderness of the suitcase is an expanding space of forests, lakes and rivers, no one knows how it formed but we know that it's been there since the beginning. In a specific place of the wilderness, there is a large oak tree, its branches swaying in the wind, taking a closer look, there are things placed under the tree. It looks like a small makeshift of graves, rocks used as the tombstone,twigs tied together in the form of a small cross, flowers sprouted from these graves, slowly swaying in the breeze. All graves were slightly different, be it having different colored flowers or having tiny trinkets that have seen better days. Two trinkets standout from the others, one is a giant ring, placed on the cross slightly slanted, the other was a pair of glasses, that have small cracks placed on the rock. It was a somber and peaceful sight, it was clear that whoever placed this had made this as a memory for them and a way to grieve the loss. The grave of a boy who had an adventurous spirit, who grew curious of the outside. The grave of a girl who was shy and timid but had the soul of purity and was courageous till the very end. The graves of children who sought freedom of the outside but in truth were just lambs to the slaughter, being used as a sacrifice for a plan of manipulation and repentance to one of their kind who stands alone in the rain. Isn't it scary to die at such an age, the unexpected feeling of death as you felt raindrops on your skin for the first time, it's not all bad, at least you now have now met peace and freedom. For the lone sheep who's still standing, the chains have broken, but the shackles are still heavy. The door is open yet freedom is still so far.

(Or I personally headcanon that in the wilderness, Vertin has made makeshift gravestones for her fallen classmates when she first became the timekeeper, to keep their memory and as also a way to grieve the loss and guilt that she still faces till this day)

[sleeplesssmoll]

So like since necrologist can see ghost and all that communicate with the dead and stuff

What if she can see Isabella and the ring just floating around the suitcase or even just vertin herself trying to make sure that their classmate is doing okay

Would they be angry? At vertin or the foundation since they didn't know it was constantine who hijacked the whole thing

What would they feel about the other arcanist? And who else can see them?

I've thought about this too, but so far they can see the dead which seems to be different from the "Reversed". There seems to be some type of afterlife present since Spirits and such are confirmed entities. However, the Reversed don't seem to enter that afterlife. They're just...gone.

The real question is "where" do they go if not the after life? Back in time? Which time? What is time anyway??? We may have this debunked later but so far the Reversed have made no comebacks or appearances unlike those who have died.

As for Isabella and Ring, I'm sure they're hearts would break for Vertin if they saw her fate as TK. Smoltin dropping to her knees in the rain while everyone vanished. It's devestating. They were all part of a sick plan and now Vertin is forced to watch people disappear over and over again. The Ring and Isabella were both brave but kind kids. They held Vertin's hand when they opened the door together. They fought with her until the end. I don't think they'd blame her for what happened.

Not even Mesmer does. She was also deceived and lied to by Constantine. However, she doesn't have hostility toward Vertin. It reads more like "why do you keep doing this" because it ends up with Vertin getting hurt.

She didn't have to tell the truth to Sonetto about the Foundation actually holding Vertin hostage in AS, but she chose to. The SPDM kids have a bond despite the different paths they chose (or were forced into).

It makes me wonder if we'll ever see Sonetto, Mesmer, and Matilda's reaction to Vertin's official promotion to Timekeeper.

What happened when Vertin, the leader of the rebellion, returns without her people?

[fishareglorious]

In the event of the storm finally disappearing and the timeline being back to normal (?), I do hope those that get reversed get sent back. But that would either mean that. either Vertin's classmates stay the same age as they were when they got reversed, or they'd somehow be her age?

The mental image of The Ring and the others marvelling at how grown-up she's gotten is a cute thing tho. Imagine Vertin sharing with them tales of the world outside, the people she's met, the things she's seen, and all the other things she's experienced. Her introducing the suitcase crew. Their lot getting to know Sonetto more, after their experiences with her are probably clipped. The kids shocked at how tall Matilda's gotten, yet she's the same prideful girl they've spent nights in George the Oak with. aughe

[thatgremlinkid]

The Ring is so cute but I feel like something bad is gonna happen to him I’m gonna be so upset I will scream

[newquestion]

the newest reverse 1999 character made me think of something else

[arcanistsanctum]

Chapter 3 Nouvelles et Textes pour rien

[acesw]

some reminiscing and some iron under the sun.

The bells chime and the flowers of all kinds bloom today. Joined with a gentle breeze, its quite the perfect weather in the suitcase, and many lively arcanists enjoy their peaceful time and play around in their antics. However, the Timekeeper is nowhere to be found.

She couldn't be found outside of the suitcase, as the residents had not felt the gentle rocking for quite some time now. She could not be found in her office either, with the only telling clue being her indigo coat and hat left hanging on the rack. When asked, all the spirits had said, "She had departed quite early in the morning. 4 in the morning, in fact."

However, somewhere among the trees, hidden within all of the blooming fruits and lush leaves, is a girl sitting on the branch. Coat discarded, hat dismissed, it was merely just Vertin. Not the famed Timekeeper everyone knows, but Vertin; the troublemaker, the arcanist with little power, the lonely child…among other titles.

Vertin enjoyed doing this. Climbing the trees was a fond hobby for her, and it was a way for her to reminisce.

Its why she was here. To see how the sunlight made their way through the leaves, how the ants traced up the old bark, remembering the struggle to climb up the branches and finding the right one to sit upon, and the way iron shone against the sun.

Iron?

Ah, yes. On this day, Vertin wears something else rather than her hat. The thick iron circlet could only fit the top of her head, but just enough that it wouldn't be able to fall off. A piece of small yet rugged cloth was tied to it, having familiar texture despite how it never seemed to have been cleaned. On her lap was a stack of similar yet smaller hoops, shining brightly against the sunlight.

Balanced perfectly on top of them was a plate of fish and chips, with a small cup of onion vinaigrette on the side. It was a familiar meal, eaten on the days where she had to risk sneaking out to get them right off the school kitchen's counter. She made this plate for this special occasion.

Vertin hums, taking out a candle held on a small terracotta pot, and a lighter. Lighting the candle, the humming turns melodic, singing a song that was never sung to her in her life, until four—no, nearly five—years ago.

...

"From that day forward," He declared. "It will be our birthday! You and me Vertin! You and me."

...

Today is October 20th, 1913. 2 weeks since she had been broken out of the rehabilitation center, and 1 week away from the anniversary of the day that changed her life forever.

Luckily, today was not that day. But while it is a day of celebration, of shared memories and dreams, all Vertin could do was celebrate it alone. The person she shared this day to, the one that declared this day as their own, is forever immortalized by the iron circlet and bands. But, he was the one who drove her to move forward, and encouraged her to keep going.

He, among others, was the reason Vertin continues to strongly strive for change and peace, for freedom for everyone. She won't let this unresolved grief hold her back, as it will ruin her efforts. It will ruin her friends'—old and new—efforts in fighting for a new future and to go home. It will put her old friends' unfortunate sacrifices in vain. But as the Timekeeper, she won't let any of these happen.

However, today was their day alone, for once. Theirs; not the Timekeeper's, not anyone else's, but just Vertin's and his. He enjoyed climbing these trees and feeling like they were on top of the world too, you know.

For this instance, she was 12 and he was alive once more, to celebrate today for the first time.

In the suitcase, the grass was dappled with shadows and rays of light, the flowers of all kinds bloomed, and the breeze was cool and gentle. Today is one of the happier days.

Because on this day, it was a day of celebration and the birth of a newfound hope for freedom.

Vertin sighs, looking at the candle and then the meal, giving it a faint smile. Blowing out the small flame from the candle, she says: "Happy birthday, "Ring." Happy birthday to the both of us."