#still hung up on the eridians masterpost tho

[cruddyborderlandstheories]

hey i wanna talk about tentacles.

or vines... or whatever these things are that keep showing up yeahyeahyeah

tl;dr: so like, biomechanical Guardians, amirite? ... its Guardian flesh. please help.

flesh

flesh

flesh

flesh?

no...?

oh no :(

have you ever noticed on nekro, when you melee the vines, they bleed?

and i thought to myself huh... thats funny. i literally just killed a guardian during the takedown and a whole puddle of that came out

(the build is a WIP (test build pls ignore))

and then i decided to look at some guardian art and like

hmmmmm....

suspiciously similar...

even the watcher has these decorations and at first i thought they were like... blood vessels almost? that the armor was part of their bodies and needed blood bc idfk, aliens, but their blood is this blue/black puddle stuff. so it would be a deliberate choice to decorate their armor with these vine branching things so they MUST be important right?

and it is notable because usually eridian stuff has those swirly siren-like markings on them but not these weird root/branch designs, these are specifically only seen on guardians

for example, the watcher’s staff has eridian markings, not those branch/root/vine (im trying okay) designs

here’s a better example of the two designs side-by-side in different colors:

and i went and looked back at the bl1 guardians and

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

HMMMMMMMM

also if you sit in the vines and listen they have their own squelching noises, like theyre alive. its this bubbling, almost groaning kinda noise. You’ll know it when you hear it, it sounds almost as if something is, idk, growing?

i brought this up bc tannis was talking while i was killing (girl...) and she said she never thought to connect the vines to nekrotefeyo’s destroyed state and i thought. hm. that’s WEIRD why would they bring that up what do the vines have to do with- oh. oh no.

i still think my theory that the glowing innards of nekro was where the guardian ‘souls/minds’ are stored until they find another body to use and maybe, idk, MAYBE the way these biomechanical things are created (cause WOW there’s a lot of them aren’t there? almost like they keep getting made) are partially through these vine things or by using these vine things and that’s why minos got destroyed in the making of more guardians to stop the destroyer from escaping. bonus points to graveward for being made out of trees and roots and shit and fully supporting this theory as he is controlled by not one, not three, but two guardians

also a bit off topic but yeah i think they tried to sacrifice the people of minos prime to the machine to try and stop the destroyer from ‘slipping its chains’ since Tyreen let it loose, but because whoever is sacrificed to the machine isn’t really DEAD coughtheeridiansarestillalivecough, that is why tannis has a line saying it’s like ‘they just disappeared off the face of the universe’ when u beat the takedown, not that they died. but i think i made a post about that before and if i didnt we’ll just add it to my ‘the eridians are the evil masterminds behind all this and we ought to team up with the Guardians to find and fight them’ masterpost and call it a night.

alt theory for minos’s destruction is that in a temporary fit of rage at the multiple dimensions theory, the dimension the eridians are in and the dimension we are in merged together as a fuck you to humanity and that’s why a random eridian temple just appeared on minos, guardians vines and all, and tannis says it must have been teleported. that or it was moved from nekro. which makes me wonder. why. they couldn’t move elpis further away from pandora. but hey let’s not get my blood pressure up tonight im supposed to be sleeping lmao.

i was also thinking that the vines and those big bulb things are a power source for eridian tech, which keeps the guardians going. which is why a lot of eridian stuff in 3 is red instead of purple, since its actively being powered (maybe the power the vines generate is condensed into those red crystals we mainly use to power an elevator like once). potentially meaning that eridian symbols that are blue = no power? low power??, purple = medium/charging power (alternative power source with eridium/sirens?), and red = full power/actively being powered. also could explain why the guardians are still active after so long... if they’re made with the vines that make bulbs that power them, they just power themselves. it’d make sense if i knew anything about anything, probably.

SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE LORE GOOD NIGHT