#the aracana game

[ponderingxpariah]

after being gone for 4 years, the tiktok ban brings me back..any Arcana fans still out there? 😞

[grapenamjams]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOUNTAIN MAN 💚🌲

Let’s pretend it’s a lemon cake

[kill-cry-die]

PJO: Percy and Will

TA: Asra and Lucio

:3c

Percy:

Will:

Asra:

Lucio:

[grapenamjams]

*clenching the edges of my work desk* M-Muriel if he grew up in his southern tribe

the way he hugs and carries mc..

[emmatcb]

oh hi. i’m back with an updated oc… 😐😝

[makotafi]

Some sona x muriel doodle

[simarcana]

pick a song for each letter of your URL and then tag that many people

tagged by @mattodore and @morrigan-sims aka two of my fav people in this community (who also have great taste in music!)

rules: spell out your url using the first letters of songs

S - Sun I will rise by Dune Moss I - Inkpot Gods by The Amazing Devil M - Moonsea by PHILDEL A - Aphrodite by Honey Gentry R - Riptide by Vance Joy C - Crack baby by Mitski A - Acid Rain by Lorn N - Never Take It by Twenty one Pilots A - A wild river will take you home by Black Hill

I'M TAGGING @berisims @lilypixels @hekpacubo @softietrait @stargazer-sims @hause-of-pancakes @ezra-trait and @red-simulation !!

[fandomfollowerart]

Finished Nadia’s Route in the Arcana!

Spoilers ahead cuz I need to rant

I am very gay for this woman, I have realized that much

She flirts about as much as Julian, here I was thinking I’d get a break

Lucio you toxic a-hole, your wife is mine deal with it!

Also don’t blame me for her being a strong independent woman now, she realized you sucked all on her own

Volta’s great, glad I could free you girl

Also Valerius and Hierophant teaming up with Nadia and I to bully Lucio is great

Upright: She proposed 🥺

Valerius actually being happy for us tho? Shocking

Heck yeah! Beating up Vulgora and Valdemar! Here i was thinking we were gonna leave them, thank god!

Family healing! Love that her family likes me!

Portia and Nadia’s sister? That’s adorable!

Reversed: What is with the characters and not trusting me to beat The Devil in the reversed endings!? First Julian now her!

Also she’s taking a note from his book with the whole “It’s too dangerous, you can’t follow me, I need to do this alone” etc, like jeez!

The actual heck Nadia!

“What do you offer?” “I offer *MC*” Like girl!?

Even the Devil is surprised!

I get no say in the matter ;-;

Yeah she looks pretty as the devil but that doesn’t change that I’m annoyed

Also Valerius controls Vesuvia now, that’s a thing

Aaaand I broke the magic keeping her in her realm, idk how I feel about that

That has been me ranting about Nadia’s route lol, conclusion? Upright is 100% the better ending!

[bethanythebogwitch]

When they say "be there or be square", today's Wet Beast Wednesday subject chose "square". I am referring to boxfish. Also known as cowfish, trunkfish, and cofferfish, these real-life Minecraft fish are bony fish in the family Ostraciidae, sometimes called Ostraciontidae. This makes them close relatives of pufferfish and file fish in the order Tetraodontiformes. While all the Tetraodontiformes are weird-looking fish, the cowfish are easily the strangest, they don't even really look that much like fish.

(image: the yellow boxfish Ostracion cubicum. They literally named it "cube")

The squarish shape of the boxfish comes from their unique skeleton. They have a carapace made of overlapping, hexagonal plates called dermal scutes that are the equivalent of scales in other fish. Each plate is composed of a soft and bendable collagen layer and mineralized surface layer. This carapace is very sturdy, with holes in it to allow for the eyes, mouth, fins, and cloaca to pass through. In game terminology, the cowfishes are stone walls. Because of the composition of the carapace, boxfish are fully rigid and cannot bend their bodies in any direction. This, combined with their not-overly hydrodynamic shapes, makes them slow and weak swimmers. When they filled out their character sheets they went all-in on defense and neglected speed and offense. A boxfish won't be winning any races, but the carapace is extremely hard to bite through or puncture, giving an effective defense. Despite their small sizes (the largest species can get up to 50 cm/20 in long, and most species are much smaller), adult boxfish have almost no natural predators. It's worth noting that while boxfish are slow swimmers, they are very maneuverable. They have the ability to create small vortices around their bodies to help maneuver.

(image: a boxfish skeleton)

(image: a boxfish with its hexagonal carapace visible through its skin)

Not satisfied with having an impenetrable shell, many species of boxfish developed another defense mechanism. When stressed, they can release poison into the water. These poisons are surfactants, substances that break up surface tension, that can damage the cell membranes of other animals. While each species has their own specific chemical and not every species is poisonous, these toxins are collectively called pahutoxins. Poison is a pretty common thing in the Tetraodontiformes. Famously, pufferfish, close relatives of boxfish, are highly poisonous. Most poisonous boxfish species are brightly colored. This is called aposematism and is used as a warning to potential predators that the animal is dangerous. A famous example of aposematism is the brightly-colored poison dart frogs. Young boxfish are typically more colorful than older ones.

(image: a longhorn cowfish Lactoria cornuta)

Boxfish are voracious omnivores that will eat just about anything that can fit in their tiny mouths. The majority of boxfish species live in coral reefs and their diet consists largely of algae that they scrape off of coral. Additional foods include sponges, tube worms, mollusks, and small fish and invertebrates. Some species can spit out water to blow aside sand and search for buried food.

(image: Ostracion meleagris, the spotted boxfish)

Boxfish are typically solitary, but occasionally come together in small groups. These groups typically consist of one male and a few females. Scientists speculate these groups are formed for reproduction. They are known to reproduce by swimming to the surface of the water, releasing their gametes, and quickly swimming away.

(Aracana ornata, the ornate boxfish)

Because of their unique appearances, boxfish are popular in aquariums. They are recommended for experts only because of their ability to release poison. Boxfish are easily stressed and can kill themselves and other tank-mates by releasing toxin. Aquarists usually say they should be kept in solo tanks or with smaller, mild-mannered tank-mates. In addition, they need to be in tanks with minimal water flow as even the current of a decently-sized filter can blow them around uncontrollably. People who keep boxfish have called them shy, but highly inquisitive and even playful. They have been reported spitting water and their handlers, apparently in an attempt to get attention.

(image: Lactoria forasini, the thornback boxfish)

[hermaeu5mora]

So, today, Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight RE LIVE ended.

Despite having almost not played in the last year, bot for lack of time due to work and lack of story update, I'm sad it's over.

It was one of the worst gacha game in terms of "luck", almost as much as Saint Seiya, but I spent a good amount of time (and money) on it, and at the end of everything I'm grateful for it.

Thanks to have created Yumeoji Fumi, a character so human, that struggled, stumbled so much, and thanks to others it gains the strenght to rise again, thanks because Fumi's mistakes and story echoes so much with my own, that she'll be always my favourite character.

Thanks for Rinmeikan and their story (which I'm so sad it didn't get a continuous after Arcana), and other's schools, and Aracana. But also a lot of others incredible characters, and their seiyuus which take them to life.

Also, thanks to all the creators, at the time I still was on twitter, and their fan art were gorgeous, and the fanfic writer, with some of the most incredible crack pairing ever as well as most memorable stories, like MahiMichi, the Haikyuu au, TamaFumi etc. It surely is thanks to them that I loved this game so much till now..!

I remember being so invested in pvp, keeping playing and winning at the last turn, or being incredible crushed by Op players, and all the small victories against them; or being finally able to do Round's Table Revues and winning them..!

They said don't be sad it's over, but be happy because it existed.

Well, it surely was a journey, not always easy, and with a bit of a bitter end (the management of this game took it to its end), but I'm glad I played it, and to having be a part of it..!

[dailydemonspotlight]

Skadi - Day 115

Race: Lady

Aracana: Empress

Alignment: Light-Chaos

September 27th, 2024 (Posted Sep 30, 2024)

Among the most unique figures within Norse mythology, the most famous aside from the Æsir themselves are likely the jötunn. Many of the ranks of the frost giants have risen to pop-cultural infamy, such as Ymir or Grendel. However, one of the most baffling of the morally gray bunch of giants has to be today's Demon of the Day, and a fan favorite for many. This incredibly curious figure is none other than Skaði, commonly anglicized as Skadi. Of the many jötunn, Skadi is one of the most confusing, with a web of history and translations connecting her, somehow, to the Irish figure Scáthach, so without further ado, let's delve in.

Skadi herself is a rather simple figure, which is funny given how bizarre her portrayal in SMT is. As a jötunn, one could assume this giantess to be an antagonistic force, but she's a far friendlier face- she's a representation of hunting and the wilderness, as well as being the wife of Njörðr, the Norse god of the sea. Not much is said about Skadi, outside of her representation as a goddess of hunting and that, though she does have a major myth, being in the form of her heading to Asgard to get revenge for the death of her father, Þjazi. Now, if that name sounds somewhat familiar to you, I'd be surprised- but if you saw the name Thiazi, it might make more sense, as he was the giant who kidnapped Idun, who I went over in her own analysis.

While, predictably, kidnapping an Æsir will get you on the bad side of the rest of the gods, the younger Skadi didn't care- she marched all the way up to Asgard, tow in battle armor, and was met by the gods, who decided to play a game with her rather than entertain her quest for revenge- they offered her a husband in exchange for her condition of not attacking them, being to make her laugh. The thing is, Skadi wished to marry Baldur, but she was only given the ability to look at the feet of the gods who were set to be her spouse. She, naturally, thought the best looking feet would belong to Baldur, but, lo and behold, they belonged to Njörðr, a guy who just wanted to be left alone and hang out in the sea.

Displeased, Skadi went on to the next offering- to make her laugh- and Loki had an idea, as he always did. He tied a rope around one of his testes, and another around the beard of a jumping goat, and every time the goat would jump he'd yelp, causing her to laugh as he'd eventually fall in her lap. Finally, as a last thing to please her, Odin tossed Þjazi's eyes into the sky, where they became stars. The stars they became are somewhat disputed, but a common consensus seems to be that they were Castor and Pollux. Regardless, satisfied, Skadi eventually went to marry Njörðr, though the marriage went off with many hitches, and the two eventually went their separate ways.

Now, what does this all have to do with Scathach? Well, Scathach and Skadi both have similar names, similar roles, and lots of other similarities, being both representations of hunting in their respective cultures. This, eventually, led to a strange amount of conflation between the two, mostly led by one Barbara G. Walker in her book, the Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets. The book drew a connection between Skadi and Scathach, claiming the two to effectively be the exact same figure, and while her claims have been disputed, this idea has permeated throughout culture (as seen with Fate Grand Order) as well as throughout SMT itself, wherein Skadi's design takes clear inspiration from elements of Scathach's. Overall, a pretty strange source for a stranger claim, but one that SMT took inspiration from regardless.

[totally-not-here-for-the-smut]

Saw your early guesses of the game post and oh my god I'm impressed by how you came up with all those conclusions u must've read a lot of books! I couldn't come up with initial ideas on the story ((I also finished Julian's route thinking asra was lucios murdered IDK WHY??))

I also agree on wishing the game leaned more on dark themes. I've never read a visual novel with near perfect characters it feels like a waste not having it rated 18+.

Even some dialogs in the game are a little too mature for PG 13 audience..

Well, I don't think you're wrong, after all Asra DID messed up with Lucio's ritual, and that ended up with his death! Asra is also a kinda gray character deep down, so even a more "direct" murder would have worked.

You have guessed right, I have read an unhealthy amount of Agatha Christie's production, and to be honest I think that Lucio's route would have at least entertained her: the whole [SPOILER]

"It wasn't a murder, I messed up" dropped on the character was an absolute masterpiece of a surprise if you didn't already played other routes.

But when all is said and done, even though The Aracana is a jewel of a free to play game, a darker story would have made it even better.

[grapenamjams]

You know who I think about sometimes?

Sage. From last legacy.

I absolutely loved him and his route so much.

What happened? Did they stop his route? I know (not fully) the devs changed company?

But like is his story over? I genuinely was eating up his angst and story plot

Sage where are you? 😔

[m34gs]

what are YOUR favourite shows and video games?

Aw, thanks for asking! Some of my favourites may be a surprise to some people, since a lot of shows I think of as favourites are older or less mainstream. There's quite a few that I watched before I ever had any sort of social media, so while I hold them dear in my heart and think of them often, I don't always talk about them as much, so this will be fun to answer!

(Some of) My Favourite Shows:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) (yes, specifically that one)

Blue Exorcist

BBC's Merlin

Psychic Detective Yakumo

Psycho Pass

BONES

Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

In/Spectre

Midnight Occult Civil Servants

My New Boss is Goofy

Karneval

Ghost Hunt

Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens

Michiko and Hatchin

Juni Taisen: Zodiac War

Karneval

The Wallflower (I like both the anime and the live action but the anime slightly more)

Strong Girl Bong-Soon (literally my fave Korean show)

Natsume's Book of Friends

...is anyone surprised that they are mostly anime?...

My Favourite Video Games:

Skyrim

Twisted Wonderland

Drammatical Murder

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (I like Goodbye Despair and Ultra Despair Girls too, but I favour Trigger Happy Havoc)

The Aracana: A Mystic Romance (I only played Julian's route though, because I didn't like that I had to wait real-time for keys to unlock story chapters. But, he was the hot and tortured plague-mask doctor, so I got the route I wanted anyway)

Sims 4

The Nonary Games: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (999) - I'm still mad at this one because I accidentally deleted all my progress after getting 3 of the multiple endings, and the puzzles are hard so I haven't taken the time to redo it. I debated not putting it on this list but I put so much time and effort into the gameplay (I had like 8 doublesided pages of notes for the puzzles and clues I picked up through the game) and I really do love the story

There you go! :) Lol, I feel like we are slightly opposites, since you had less shows and more games listed ahaha💜 If anyone has questions about anything listed above or anything like that, they're welcome to ask.

[asoulofatlantis]

At the end of Kai, we were supposed to be roughly 90% done with Trails - Kondos words, not mine - means we can not expect much more than one or two smaller (like Crossbell-small) arcs. And yet... we still have 8 Enforcers that we have yet to see (AND the last two numbers have not even been filled yet to our knowledge...) and there are also some Anguise we have not seen yet, including whoever it has been who was invited to join Ouroboros to fill the Steel Maidens place. I am not sure if Kondo truly knows what he is doing. Calvards Arc is 3 games big (could be 4, depending on the question of Kai ens with a Cliffhänger...) and has shown us 3 new Enforcers as well as the Twins that joined as one. (Technically we knew about Lucrecia already but we never met her in person before...) so I highly doubt they will include 8 freaking new Enforcer on top of all the still missing Anguise in two small Arcs. Not to mention, just like with Walter, there are some Enforcers whos story are still not finished, likes Cedrics, which means those also have to make a return at some point to give their characters a satisfying finish for their story. Not sure if Falcoms idea to use the Tarot-Card-System for the Enforcers was really a wise idea, seeing how many Enforcers there are and how little room we usually have for them because our Main-Cast (plus the many important side-characters) is often already big enough to fill half of Ouroboros ^^'

There are some rumors by the way, that someone from the current cast of the Calvard-Arc is secretly also a member or Ourobors in some shape or form. The only people my well honed traitor sensor have at least somewhat reacted to so far have an agenda that doesn't exactly would fit in a side-job at Ouroboros but I have been wrong before, so lets wait and see. (Kasim is high on the list of Anguis by the fandom lately, it seems... he is... odd... I must say... but uh... I don't know if I would assume he is the "Ouroboros" - kind of person... then again, before CS3/CS4 I would have said the same about Cedric ^^')

Speaking of which... I guess we finally knwo who is filling the Moon-Aracana between him and Shirley. I was... actually afraid of that when saw the first picture of that girl. I can not explain it but she looks like she fits the role ^^' I would assume she is kind of quirky, energetic and slightly mischievous (I have not seen the translation for her character description yet, I've realized... I just do that quickly.) Uh... I guess she is an... uh... influencer in Zemuria? WTF?!

Uh... uhm... I honestly do not know what to make out of her, with that Information. I was worried about Cedric being stuck between Shirley and someone like her. But now I am more worried about Shirley ^^' She is the kind of character who needs rebuking every now and then that is for sure. Well... I guess... we have to wait and see...

In the meantime... lets change the topic for a moment. The shipping discourse on my Twitter-Timeline is INSANE! "Van has to make a choice and some players won't like it" can mean A LOT of things without any doubt. The Japanese fandom, by the way, is much more divided between Agnes and Elaine than the oh-so-righteous western-fandom that has no more sense for romance. This means that while the Western fandom may think "some players won't like it" automatically means that they chose Elaine and the players' routing for Agnes will be unhappy that is very likely not automatically what it means. YES it still could but it doesn't have two. It could very well be the other way around. It could also mean that it might be players choice - there is no trophy for that tho - OR believe it or not Vans choice is not even between Agnes and Elaine per se, but rather if he wants/will be in a relationship or not. Meaning he might decide to not date ANYONE. This Devil is still inside of him and we do not know what the future holds for him under these circumstances and while we should be hopeful... we are speaking about the game that decided to give us the Aida-Plotline in the first chapter of the first game in the Calvard-Arc so it is not per se impossible that this will be the first game who actually canonically kills off their Protagonist. Van likes to sacrifice himself just as much as Rean does and there is always the possibility that we may not be able to actually stop and/or save him. With the possibility in the back of his head that he might be going to die for whatever is coming at the supposed end of the world, he might very well decide to not date anyone. THAT would be a really bad idea for the fandom because that would mean the shipping-wars will never end, because no one can scream "My ship is canon!" to end any argument ^^' I do have to say I would prefer Van making a choice. A canon-choice, no matter what his destiny will be. I get that my chances that he chooses Agnes are small, but I am very well prepared for him choosing Elaine and that will be SOMEWHAT fine with me as well... somehow. But I am stuck with Rean in Limbus and its sucks. Especially now, resurfacing with only 3 of his 12 Ladys around its driving me nuts! (Seriously, one picture with him getting a headpat from Fie and I see my ship suddenly sinking and that is NOT fun. I do not wish that kind of suffering for anymore Trails-Shippers - Lloyd fans have it just that rough too, after all... tho I guess they get spared this game) and this is why, no matter the outcome for me, I wish Van to make a choice without the player having any right to influence it. I will learn to live with it either way... and so will anyone else. So I hope you go for it, Falcom!

Now... we are only having two weeks left to wait. There is still no story-Trailer out. But I assume the live stream tommor will show the In-Game pictures that we usually get. Likely playing Märchen- uh... Grim-Garten.

[revolutionary-girl-erina]

Before I begin my theorising, here’s an interesting fact: datamined dialogue shows that the Fool Arcana in P5 would have originally been the PTs as a group, just like the previous games! There were other Arcana changes, like Death Iwai and Devil Takemi, and one of the PTs (Haru is my guess, since Empress is missing from that list of party member Aracana) would have been Strength.

As for Erina’s potential awakening, I and some others have guessed Jeanne D’Arc, since she’s already been a demon in SMT, was a standard-bearer, and fits the rebel theme. And during the P5T panel, Leeanna Albanese mentioned reaching out to her “inner Joan of Arc” to find Erina’s voice. And much Strikers’ Sophia, it wouldn’t take much tweaking to turn Erina’s initial animations and “Arts”, like her “First Aid” (rough translation) and special Partisan spear moves, into Persona boosted skills. She even has the Aura already:

But going back to the DLC, my guess is that it will happen after the base plot, perhaps picking up as Akechi is escorted by those suited men; on that same day, Sumire also bumps into Joker on the station. And I agree that something will happen to him; my guess is that Arsène’s dire state represents the loss or weakening of his Metaverse powers. As for the other Thieves during the DLC, I’m not sure, and I don’t think we can make many concrete guesses right now. But brainwashed Haru and Ryuji seem to be under the first boss, Marie’s, control. We see her holding a giant ring/collar in a screenshot, and it’s around Ryuji’s neck in another:

Something else that makes me think Repaint will happen after the main plot is that the Japanese Persona channel advertises it thus:

(Translation via Persona Central)

“For those who have enjoyed the main game”,

“Additional episode”.

Those are still ambiguous, and could mean a side episode happening elsewhere alongside the main plot rather than one after it, but Arsène’s prominence nudges me towards the latter.

Rodents Repainting Hearts

(Source: SteamDB)

The lack of official information on P5T's DLC has no doubt frustrated many of us, especially amidst all the leaks and vague statements. However, I have noticed something I haven't seen pointed out yet: the shadowy figure behind Arsène is a rat. The two circles (one of them torn and covered by the logo) are its ears, and its eyes are next to Arsène's wing, for the right, and arm, for the left. Its whiskers and fangs are also apparent.

(Source: Japanese P5T Website)

Of course, this being is no normal rat, and there are other interesting details, like a patch sewn onto its body. Sadly, I think I lack the context to decipher this... What could it mean?