#urtv

[stunnedswallow]

jr. my friend

[xeno-urtv]

[dearlymrme]

U-TIC covets everything Lost Jerusalem they can find. That included old books that have gone on lost and forgotten to time. It’s not uncommon to find an old statue, classic paintings, or lost physical copies of books, given Albedo’s little throne is a very pretty but headless statue. I firmly believe that they would keep all this stuff in The Song, because that ship has its own intricate defense systems to stop intruders as well as it being, ya know, The Song. So Albedo, being raised by U-TIC, Margulis, his practically surrogate father, explains his well-roundedness and culture, given his theatrical and poetic performances.

Well, Jr. got all his physical copies of books from U-TIC raids. As is said in the game before 2 and he finds Jin’s bookstore. So I figured, I bet there’s all kinds of books Jr. hasn’t read that are still classics and Albedo, Albedo has read them.

When Albedo has merged with Jr. after 3. I figured it would be a nice thought that some nights when Jr. can’t sleep and Albedo stir’s, Albedo would read him a story. Maybe Atlas Shrugged and The Divine Comedy. Ironically enough, Red Dragon, and maybe To Kill A Mockingbird. I figured the U.R.T.V.’s are designer soldiers, why would you design a soldier with shitty memory? I wouldn’t put it past Yuriev to make it so that they couldn’t memorize a book or two.

[ciitrinitas]

funniest thing i've ever done is make xofi watch a cutscene compilation of xenosaga ep 2 with me. i told him it was some insane incest, and he was still like holy fuck that was some incest after we finished.

[pluralmedia]

Hello, I have some suggestions for your list

Xenogears: Grahf and Wiseman

Xenosaga: Gaignun Kukai and Dmitri Yuriev | Albedo and Jr. (Rubedo)

We didnt add those already? Thanks theyve been added!

We did xenogears as a full post a bit back that mentioned the Grahf situation, for some reason forgot to put them on the list X-X

[protect-namine]

wilhelm xenosaga is the funniest antagonist because he killed jesus and created catholicism (yes), he's literally the ceo of all the governments and weapons companies that are fighting each other, he spends thousands of years gathering his magic batteries for his gadget to reset the universe — which is his literal job, btw, as the manifestation of the will of the collective unconscious to not see the universe collapse just because humans still fuck things up even after death (as gnoses). he does all of this while exhibiting mega divorce energy with yeshua as if them watching each other prepare to "destroy" the universe as humans know it (lower domain) in every loop is just flirting on a regular tuesday, and he's done this so many times before, but then he finally fails because mary magdalene became a robot lesbian who wanted to protect the wish of her reincarnated girlfriend to just face the end of the universe head on

this is such a weird sentence to write but I'm watching a summary of xenosaga lore (it's 24 videos. I am only in part 10) and it's such a bonkers series. anyway, I heard there is a wilhelm expy in xenoblade so maybe I will play that series just to see what new incarnation he gets

[hauntedtotem]

Hey, what's the symbol you draw in BEN's eyes sometimes?

I (try to) put 🚫 in the pupils for all the AI / robotic characters I draw to signify theyre not fully human, (but it's missing on most my p03 art because I think I started doing it towards the end of my inscryption phase?)

and I genuinely just forget some characters in the xeno series are androids or artificial. BEN's probably the only one I'm consistent with but it's supposed to be on every ai/digital/electronic based character lol

[kukai]

happy pride again throwback to this

recent urtv memes i doodled. happy urtv week and happy pride

[foxceus]

urtv kitties!!!

[tsunael]

10 characters/10 fandoms/10 tags

Tagged by : @icehearts & @aethergazing Tagging : Girl you think I know 10 people??

1. Bayonetta <- Bayonetta

I just love her, okay. She's gorgeous, she's confident, she's a witch that fights with her hair and can run 80 mph in 5in pumps. Jokes aside, I just love that her sexuality is a thing that she owns and has fun with-- and it's never used against her maliciously. (I also love her parallels to Dante my other fave). I could go on more but basically... she's truly one of a kind.

2. Akihiko Sanada <- Persona 3

My long-time beau. I RP'd him for about 8 years and met a lot of good people through that blog so I'm a little biased in how sentimental I am over him and Mitsuru. I'd add her too but I'm doing my best to be diverse here. Anyway, I just love him-- he fits all of my standards. He represents the Emperor arcana: the 'father' type. He's a control freak, he drags his guilt around by the ankle, is fiercely protective, has a little jealous streak, and is a hot-headed idiot (who is actually very smart)... And DON'T say it's because he has white hair.

3. Garnet <- Final Fantasy IX

The older I get, the more IX means to me. She has been my favorite since I was little. Not to get personal but I find her relatable: she grew up sheltered but was expected to do great things, and I am sympathetic that her mother (once kind and loving, even though we don't see it) was turned against her by forces she couldn't control. She deals with her grief more realistically than most FF heroines-- she gives into depression and self doubt but she never becomes bitter and that's something I want for myself.

4. Yuna <- Final Fantasy X

My grandma and I played all the FFs together, but the one that really made an impression was X. Yuna is my love: thematically, symbolically, and aesthetically. My sacrificial lamb who would burn herself to keep others warm. She takes her notoriety and her father's burden with grace and never shies from it even when she loses her faith in the system designed to throw her to the wolves. Also every line she has has such gravitas behind it... beautiful writing, beautiful voice acting. My forever girl.

5. Nier <- NieR

My doomed boy. I don't want to go into spoilers because Nier is more of a niche game, but I love him so much (and dadnier, too.) The moral quandary this game has... the morally grey protagonists... I love a character who loves with all his heart and would give anything for the people he loves. The side-story where it's implied he even ***** ******* for some coin was... man.

6. Kim <- Xenogears

Trying not to spoil here either it's just vague. IYKYK.

I thought about putting Elhaym here but I feel like the Zeboim era has more characterization than the main lol. Anyway. I love how he has become so cynical about the world around him, yet he is still willing to save and create life, only to find he suffers from the same affliction. As a scientist, he embodies the question: 'What makes a God?' and 'What is does it mean to be human?'. I love his story and I wish there was more.

7. Rubedo Yuriev <- Xenosaga

He's an idiot, he's a tragic figure, he's learned, he's traumatized, and his relationship with MOMO is uhhhhhh complicated. Honestly maybe I should have put Yuriev here because he's such an interesting villain. The URTVs are all squashed together for me like one big delicious smoothie anyway so.

Anyway Rubedo, your dad stared into The Abyss and it stared back and now he's insane and his fear of God and his own mortality was so strong he would use his own flesh and blood to run (and it was honestly really sexy of him) but what he never seems to grasp is that you can't run from what you can't see and sooner or later it will catch up.

8. Misato Katsuragi <- Neon Genesis Evangelion

Hi I love women with daddy issues.

I love her with Kaji. She looks for her father in him, while he's searching for his mother, but Misato, try as she may, she will never be a mother to anyone--not to Kaji, and certainly not to Shinji. There's a ton you can read into nge characters but there's something to be said about the trauma our parents force us (willing or unwillingly) to inherit, and how we hurt others as a result of that.

9. Dante <- Devil May Cry

He's so fucking stupid (affectionate). Dante Alighieri is rolling in his grave.

He's not only a boyloser but a boyfailure. He gets bullied by women and children and could probably suplex the earth. He loves his mom!!!

Anyway I love that he exudes a type of masculinity and machismo at first glance only to play the game and see he's a little fruity. I'm also a sucker for characters with duality themes that, when asked 'what makes us different?', the answer is because they chose to love-- which is not something you'd expect from a hack n slash game, inspired by resident evil in which you find new and exciting ways to kill things... yanno?

10. Kenzo Tenma <- Naoki Urasawa's Monster

I was running out of characters and was about to put Thancred or Squall but that's too many FFs so I tried to think of some anime that made an impression on me and Tenma came to me. We needed another Liam O'Brien rep here, clearly.

Anyway read/watch Monster if you haven't, it's an amazing mature series that barely feels like an anime.

Again, the themes of duality here-- who embraced life and who would rather take it? If Johan represents the inherent evil in the world, and man's propensity for it, then Tenma represents all that is good. He's just so tragic. The moment he finally stands up for himself he's punished for it, then when pushed to his limit, saves the life of a little boy only to be cursed for it. Even through everything he never gives up on people, and every life he touches is changed for the better. And that ending... oh man.

He's babygirl x100.

[blaiddfailcam]

Unprompted Xenosaga cut story ideations

While Omega Metempsychosis is obviously a calback to Deus, I always wondered what possible explanation there was for the two accompanying subunits tethered to its arms. It seems rather pointless to ponder, but...

Given that Xenosaga's plot was ill-fated by financial disasters, it feels at times like the story was altered in some way that left a ton of loose ends in order for Monolith Soft to be able to deliver an actual trilogy with the usual staples of video games, like progression and gameplay, which always gets me thinking where these loose ends might have once connected to form a cohesive world. (For example, the alpha trailer for XS1 shows another Deus-like mech, seemingly an early design for Proto Omega, which was cut from XS1 and moved to XS2 to fill out the journey from Miltia II to Old Miltia.)

Well, there is one other loose end I realized would paint a clearer picture of just what Metempsychosis represents—it very easily could have been the conclusion to both Jr.'s beef with Dmitri Yuriev, as well as Shion's promise to Febronia.

In XS1, Febronia sets Shion up with a quest to free her sisters, Cecily and Cathe. Within KOS-MOS's encephalon, Shion and Jr. are forced to face their conjoined trauma sustained from the Zohar Incident, representing Shion's fear of chaos/humanity and her resonance with U-DO, and Jr.'s fear of order after failure to suppress U-DO's waves and the subsequent corruption of the URTV. Together, their fears form the beast Tiamat, whose destruction reveals the imprisoning dream shared by Febronia's sisters, trapped on Miltia.

Of course, it isn't until XS2 that we find them in a gruesome suspended animation, their fleeting subconscious forming a link to bind the limitless energy of the Zohar. Rather anti-climactically, Shion and co. eventually make their long and bloated journey so that KOS-MOS can put a bullet or 100 through the sleeping children, achieving... not much of anything, as the Bad Pope promptly appears to activate Proto Omega and escape with the Zohar anyway. Then there's another rather pointless dungeon that sets up the fight with Bad Pope, as well as Jr. and Albedo's temporary conclusion.

What probably would have made more sense from the standpoint of story progression would be for the Bad Pope to have not existed, and for Yuriev to have appeared much sooner. In which case, I feel like there would have been a much more... tense battle as he fused with Omega, the Zohar, and Cecily and Cathe to form Metempsychosis, with the two sisters represented by the tethered "mechs" on either side. (Although they're clearly modeled after Weltall and Vierge, I feel like this could oddly represent Jr. and Shion's conceptual parallels to Fei and Elly.)

It's a bit of a shame XS ended up as inflated as it did for the mere mistake of planning a video game trilogy without accounting for the actual gameplay aapect, necessitating all that repetition. (Seriously, Proto Merkabah, Merkabah, Miltia's destruction, Proto Omega, Omega Res Novae, and the appearance of Abel's Ark probably should've been combined into one major event in a single game, lol.) But at least it's fun to ponder how the pieces might have once fit.

[stunnedswallow]

gaignun kukai

[ciitrinitas]

the saddest thing about getting a new laptop is that this new one only has a single drive inside of it. my prior one had three, and i obnoxiously gave them all urtv theme names (because including my external hard drive, it was a total of four, so i got all of my beloved variants).

[crystallizedtwilight]

The Yuriev Institute “Number 666...why are you the leader? You’re a variant. You’re a monster.”

[ohhhmomo]

credit goes to bwandrz on pinterest for both of these 🤍