#weve travelled very far

[marstyler42]

Isn't that worth holding on?

[enden-k]

btw now that i can get to it (was busy and had someone over) i can babble a little abt zzz and give my thoughts so far on it if anyone is still wondering whether they should try it or not

first thing i have to say is, to me it feels like a cozy casual kinda game. and i love it. i think thats the part i saw some ppl complain abt

it reminds me a lot of P5 w the overall vibes etc (i played on first release years ago but not the additional stuff afterwards so idk if there were changes to the plot or anything with whatever royal is about) and it was a comfort game for me back then so yea. this might add a lot to why zzz feels like such a comfort game to me

the siblings are not active, playable characters in combat since theyre the proxy guiding and supporting the playable characters (agents) in the hollows (compare it to domains). outside of the hollows you run around with ur chosen sibling and whoever you picked, the other doesnt disappear or becomes irrelevant. they are a unit, run their video store together, theyre one proxy, supporting each other. i already love how trailblazer is more vocal than traveler but the siblings are active, talking parts in cutscenes and whenever theres dialogue choices, your chosen sibling ACTUALLY SAYS IT. this is smth i wished for a while in gnshn so seeing it in zzz made me super happy. it gives them sm life and gets me into it idk how to say it

(this is them btw. pretty mfs)

anw its not overwhelming like gnshn feels to me. gnshn has sm to explore and sm story and its smth i both enjoy and feel exhausted by. now, if you played persona or are familiar, its easier for me to use for comparison. you get to run around as the chosen sibling in the city but the fighting (w the agents you pull from the gacha) all happens in the hollows (similar to when you enter the metaverse). it runs with a day-night cycle and depending on the time, npcs and quests pop up. you can pass the time if you need a specific time of day for an objective, by doing hollow exploration or simply resting in ur room. theres side stuff you do, like running your store and visiting the arcade and play snake akjscbk

the combat itself reminds me of HI3 and wuwa and feels super smooth and fun to me

it has cutscenes etc but the story parts in between are illustrated and presented in a comic/storyboard kinda way? which fits the whole video/movie aesthetics well. its pretty cool

overall, if you didnt try it out yet bc you think it requires lots of energy and time like gnshn, its nothing like that at all. ofc im not through with everything but so far it feels like a very nice game to play casually, w a big cozy bonus when youre spending the day freely in game. i play only on pc or on console when i wanna lay down but this game even i would play on phone or ipad to chill akjscbk

the characters are also pretty fun and cool looking! like, look at them, so far we got

the most chaotic ragtag group in all of new eridu (they share one braincell and its anby who is in charge of it)

fresh looking heavy industry workers (they have a bear)

classic horror housekeeping service who will poison ur tea ig

motorcycle gang (oggling the glasses guy and boss lady super hard, they will be mine when playable-)

public security (they have an actual catboy in case weve got catboy enjoyers here)

special hollow operation elite squad aka the coolest strongest mfs out there taking care of hollow disasters

ALSO THE NPCS!!! LIKE!!! look at the cook!!! tinmaster running the coffee shop!!! the girl selling gadgets or the bunny person running the arcade!!!

even the regular npcs just roaming the streets. theres lots of cool details and life in every bit, its really cool

anw!! idk if this helped or made sense, this is also just my own impressions and feelings so far so yeee. if someone decides to play, i hope you will have fun and get whoever you really really want!!

[aquaredhomestuckau]

who wants an unintelligibly unfinished lore infodump

wow really ? ok here goes … no pictures sorry

set the scene theres a space player guy who played sburb ( who would have guessed ) and did all that average dead session caliborn stuff but like not caliborn , and also the challenge being more tailored towards space players rather than time players , how it would change ? IDK . he wins all the fucked up sign leprechauns who will become the horoscope and is like wow i could conquer so many universes with these guys or Whatever thats very on the nose

but in a different medium , his timeplayer ex-hate-girlfriend from ANOTHER UNIVERSE also played sburb and because of the challenge thing couldnt really get all too much done past the god tiering crap . but its ok … becaus she didnt need to .. she only did that bs so she could stop that orher guy from being all big and bad .

she traveled through the furthest ring woohoo and kicked that other guys ass hashtag girlboss and then was like ok guess im leading you guys now and the leprechauns were like OK that other guy was kinda chill but ALRIGHT , they go back to alternius through stupid time shenanigans

this girl im tlaking about is technically the lord englisj ‘ standin ‘ but there was a falling out involving a first guardian ( doc standin ) and the fun gang or whatever they were called and time girl went their separate ways … how this happens ? give me a break i havent thought that far yet . scratchndin is like dont weorry you can go run your errands and become one with the timeline or whayever your team and universes are in good hands ……. and time girl is like ok thats good i guess dont try any funny business , ill be back with the milk soon ……….. then you wont believe who fucks a bunch of future stuff over ..

ok now weve got the first guardian of alternifuck and shit who like in a way is very opposite to doc scratch … everything she .. its a girl btw i dont know why i made her a girl but its too late to change it now LOL .. everything she does is very against what timeplayer stands for and does a bunch of stuff just for the hell of it as a test of her powers she thinks shes funnie …… let women have hobbies i guess ..

thats about as far as im gonna infodump

OK howd you like it how many plot holes did u find how much will you drink to that

[fatehbaz]

Travel back [...] a few hundred years to before the industrial revolution, and the wildlife of Britain and Ireland looks very different [...]. [B]etween 1529 and 1772 [...] [i]n the early modern period, wolves, beavers and probably some lynxes still survived in regions of Scotland and Ireland. [...] [T]he now globally extinct great auk could still be found on islands in the Outer Hebrides. [...] [A]nd pine martens and “Scottish” wildcats were also found in England and Wales. [...] [B]urbot and sturgeon in both rivers and at sea [...] [and] threatened molluscs like the freshwater pearl mussel and oyster were also far more widespread. [...] [S]everal species of wolf have gone extinct [...]. The capercaillie is [...] [t]oday [...] found only rarely in the north of Scotland, but 250-500 years ago it was recorded in the west of Ireland [...]. [B]y the end of the 18th century, sea eagles were essentially extinct across England and Wales. [...]

The Powte’s Complaint is a protest ballad probably written in 1619 to bewail the drainage of the Fens around Ely and Wisbech in Cambridgeshire. 

Attributed in one manuscript to a “Peny” of Wisbech, it is written from the perspective of a burbot, a freshwater species of cod commonly found in the Fens at this time. (This fish is now nationally extinct, but may be soon be reintroduced.)

The ballad summons the “brethren of the water” - probably meaning local people as well as fish and other animals - to fight against the drainage scheme, which sought to create new pasture land: 

Come, Brethren of the water, and let us all assemble,

To treat upon this matter, which makes us quake and tremble;

For we shall rue it if ’t be true that Fenns be undertaken,

And where we feed in Fen and Reed, they’ll feed both Beef and Bacon.

According to research by Todd Borlik and Clare Egan, the subject of complaint here was a plan to cut a canal through an area of common land south of Haddenham. This scheme would remove the ability of local people to catch fish, and also to transport their produce and fuel on the water. Protests against the scheme apparently culminated in a demonstration of some 2,000 people who lit bonfires, banged on drums and fired guns all night during a meeting of the Commission of Sewers in 1619.

Within the poem, the alliance of the “brethren of the water” seems to recognise the interdependence of humans and wildlife on each other, and on the environment of the Fens. 

A comparable example [...] is the Welsh poem Coed Marchan (Marchan Wood), written around 1580 by Robin Clidro, a wandering poet from the Vale of Clwyd in Denbighshire, known for his humorous rhymes.

Clidro’s poem tells the story of a group of red squirrels who go to London to present a petition against the felling of Marchan Wood for charcoal. As with The Powte’s Complaint, the use of the squirrel as narrator is a conceit, and the poem is really a protest against deforestation on behalf of human interests. But again, the author re-imagines the world from the perspective of animals:

Odious and hard is the law, and painful to little squirrels. They go the whole way to London, with their cry and their matron before them. Then on her oath she said, “All Rhuthyn’s woods are ravaged; my house and barn were taken one dark night, and my store of nuts.” The squirrels all are calling for the trees; they fear the dog.

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All text above by: Lee Raye. “Wildlife wonders of Britain and Ireland before the industrial revolution - my research reveals all the biodiversity we’ve lost.” The Conversation. 17 July 2023. Image and caption are shown unaltered as the originally appear published in/with the article. Published at: theconversation dot com /wildlife-wonders-of-britain-and-ireland-before-the-industrial-revolution-my-research-reveals-all-the-biodiversity-weve-lost-208721 [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism.]

[noonbeam17]

INTRO POST NUMBER TWO !!!!!!

well now that weve hit 100 followers [thank you very much viral post that was just me vagueposting about my oc story] i should actually bother to remake this post, something that ive been putting off for a while now </3

HIIIII im noonbeam/noon but you can call me ev ^_^ i am just a weird little vocathing who goes by every pronoun under the sun i literally do not care :3 you probably know me from the soil composition diagram of flesh machine and divinity

hmm lets start this off with: MY HYPERFIXATIONS in order from most to least crazy insane about them levels

MY OCS [a whole section about them later], NUCLEAR BUBBLE WRAP [also ties in with ocs], VOCALOID, EVERHOOD, hatchetfield/starkid, wandersong

tag guide :3

#noonbeam rambles - just me talking

#noonbeam thinks theyre funny - just me talking but in a shitposty way

#noonbeam draws shit - my funny little arts

#noonbeam answers - asks :3

#noonbeam banging out the tunes - i make music too !! this will go under that tag.

check out me unvale and me artfight !!! :3

i also have a toyhouse but im basically like never active on it so </3

ALRIGHT COOL THATS OUT OF THE WAY. letters of recommendation from friends + oc ramblings under the cut

THE DRAWING BOARD JUMPSCARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is my main ocverse :3 theres these four guys in a band. they have been chosen by the goddess oda to save the universe. they travel across the universe to defeat the cacophonous six [the supposed bad guys] and have many, many, MANY missteps along the way. like oh my lord their journey goes wrong in so so many ways. anyway you should totes ask me about tdb im so normal about tdb

NUBARA, TENNESSEE !?!?!?!? WAOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this may seem longer than the other one but half of it is just me being silly. this ocverse is very new. as in like. 4 days old as of writing this. nubara is a fictional city in tennessee where everyone and everything in it is based off at least one song by nuclear bubble wrap :3 i dont really have an overarching story or that many characters rn i just have some bits and bobs. "noonbeam," you may say, "a city named after the first syllables of each word in an artist/band on needlejuice records, with the people living in it based off of at least one song by said artist/band, and most of the people's names being wordplay on the main song they're based off of? that sounds familiar..." AND YOU WOULD BE CORRECT. @autisticzaphodbeeblebrox you did this to me. /silly

[yes this is why aub's letter of recommendation is that he did the despicable me thing to me. it was the one who introduced me to nbw]

anyway youve made it this far. have sharktopus [heads up for cartoon gore]

[abimee]

i realize i need to post more stuff outside of my discord. anyway do you all wanna hear about my hades and azem dynamic

as with all things i love connecting althaea to next to normal. for reasons weve already discussed. but ive never really elaborated much on althaea's relationship with hades which is that of childhood friends but hades keeps creating his own wedge because he cant possibly fathom that he could be a problem for althaea because he sees himself as a sort of. not a protector but more like someone whos been with her so long that hes ''in this'' ?(whatever that may be) with her, a sort of ''weve both been walking the same way for so long that were partners in crime now'', but especially later on when the zodiark stuff starts happening and althaea starts going insane hades struggles to fathom that althaea is her own person with her own thoughts and decisions, purely because althaea feels betrayed by hades' choice in the convication matter, and when hades tries to have his cake (go against althaea's beliefs) and eat it too (stay her friend) he cant fathom why its making everything sort of horrible. Like okay this is based a chunk off of ''i am the one'' which in itself a whole thing but like. okay three steps back

this is going to be a 2 am tangent for sure [11:08 PM] okay so to unweave the woven thread of hades and althaea we need to head all the way back to near-childhood

althaea met hades when they were incredibly young: hades often was visiting there due to schools and what his parent did and so he was coralled to be with the only other child on the floating islands, who was althaea (minthe never came out of her room). I think emet is only a few years older than althaea (when shes 42 hes 46), so they meet when althaea is around 4 and hes 8; he originally didnt like her very much and hated being tied to a ''child'' (he always tried to play the mature older kid thing), while althaea was heavily fascinated by him and often tried to get him to talk to her. He spent a good chunk of time trying to just keep her out of his hair and ignore her, even going so far as to push her away or try to ''scare her off'' by getting in her face/acting really rude, but althaea didnt take no unless being clearly told no, and despite it all hades never Truly told her no/to back off ---- this is a common thing hades does, of acting one way but believing something else entirely, which will bite him in the ass eventually in other ways [11:18 PM] regardless, while ahdes never ''gives in'' in his eyes, he does start to actually ''''tolerate'''' althaea, including letting her tell him about the bugs shes seen and dragging him all over the place and trying to get him to play games she entirely made up but believe every child in amaurot plays Althaea, having no other kids to make friends with, and Hades, knowing she doesnt have any friends, do eventually become ''friends'', and when hades is old enough even makes the trips to elpis on his own to visit althaea more routinely, typically around age 10-11 while hades is liked within his schooling and amicable with others, his constant travelling to visit althaea makes it hard for him to maintain any other friendships (so he says), when really althaea doesnt ''need'' him to visit so often --- it becomes more for him than for her at some point, as despite how well-liked he is, he himself rarely makes the effort to make friends, and often relies on others approaching him to befriend him, and to expect them to get over his crusty exterior personality, which often makes most friendships fail and for him to be left to himself the only other friend he makes obvs is hythlodaeus, who did similar to althaea of basically getting into his space and refusing to leave unless hades explictly said so, which he never does; hes a magnet for people someone who weaponizes his self-percieved/created ineptitude (hythlodaeus) and someone who is genuinely inept (althaea)

through these formative years (him 8-14, althaea 4-10) for hades althaea grows to be his closest friend, and this is also when althaea is finally able to enter into amaurot/come down to the star for an education on behalf of venat and her mother, which means althaea is now visiting him while he is beginning his more rigorous educational advancement; he gets considered pretty early for something non-convicational, and gets a mentor who he follows alongside his studies. This is also when Althaea's flights of grandeur are pretty bad because a sudden change in enviroment has agitated a manic upswing, and through a series of events althaea basically flings herself off a basically swingset setup while hades isnt looking and cracks her head clean open on the landing hades, who is the only one there to witness this, has to deal with cradling althaea's head in his hands as her blood smears all over her face and drips into his lap, and he has to actually do something rather than just call for an adult, and carries althaea to the nearest sidewalk in hopes that someone will spot them (which luckily happens). Althaea has no memory of this event as the concussion caused an amnesiac episode that lead her to never recall what happened that day, and she makes a full recovery (the wound was thankfully no deeper than skin, and healed spotlessly). This did however leave a traumatic memory for Hades as he had to witness althaea laying on the ground with blood coming from her head, and that he remembers the feeling of its warmth in his hands, and that hes the only one who remembers --- not to mention the only one who tries to continously ''jog'' althaea's memory for it, while everyone tries to make him stop and to just pretend it never happened, since althaea doesnt remember. This will be the first case of hades' oncoming dynamic of often feeling like the ''only one'' who was there for althaea, or one who ''knows everything''

if you recall though, this is not the only time that althaea has been put in harms way: later she'll be chased by an animal in the woods on an escapade with venat and her sister minthe, and minthe had to protect her against said animal with her own body until venat caught up to them. This is a memory althaea Does recall, but Minthe does not put it on althaea nor make it a ''moment/memory'' minthe feels she needs althaea to recall herself to assuage minthe's own feelings on it. Minthe's trauma of this experience is only relative, but her own, and unlike Hades she does not require her sister to constantly confirm/affirm her savior-complex; Minthe is willing to take this burden onto herself without having to feel the ''satisfaction'' of althaea ''knowing'' shes shouldering this burden. If it makes sense, Hades in a way is always looking to be affirmed that he is caring for althaea/that he is burdening himself for her sake, like a need to be seen for his ''selfless'' act here, which doesnt manifest much elsewhere; while hes a standoffish person, he does have his intentions for his people, but specifically with althaea a sort of need of self-gratification manifests for reasons hes not fully sure of for a good chunk of time (but which will be realized later)

anyway. This is a sort of declaring moment in his life where besides all of that (the need to be affirmed that he is being self-burdening for althaeas sake), he does truly care for her. Theyre best friends forever by the time they hit their teens, and of course theres the entire thing with Althaea's treatment of her bipolar that ive chronicalled in here

so i think during thsi time where althaea is getting treatment hades feels sort of ''shut out'', as althaea is heavily barred post-treatement and basicaly only sees her family, the medical students, and venat; hythlodaeua and hades dont see her much this time, and when they do it's when althaea has undergone convulsive shock therapy and is having her ''eerily normal'' moment with amnesiac symptoms, and this randomly sort of sets off hades --- hes known althaea for years at this point, probably around 10-12 years (relative to amaurotine time), and he /knows/ althaea; he knows her as the flightly, crazy, fast-talking, imaginative, strange, colorful child who always had something to say and barely any time to say it and who had so much knowledge for the most random things yet struggled to recall basic concepts and often relied on others to help her out. To see his best friend suddenly….. be someone Else, someone who was quieter and calmer and spoke rationally and made eye contact and remembered her manners and the little details you told her last week felt… off. And hades couldnt help but partially make this about himself, not outwardly but definitely inwardly: he had no idea what was going on with his best friend, what they were doing to her in there and whaty these ''treatements'' were, and now a complete stranger was calling herself althaea and there was nothing he could do, him, the person whos supposed to be there for althaea and know everything about her and be her support, is now shut out and is now the one in the dark, who doesnt have any idea what happened, just like althaea not remembering the utter mental scar her bloodied head put into hades, and theres nobody he can talk to about this because this is althaea's ''choice'' and her life, hes all alone without even the one person whos /always/ there actually being /there/ --- althaea might be present, but this treatment ''took her away''

If we remember, this ''self'' of althaea was named Iphicles by althaea herself afterwards, but this information was never brought up to Hades. To him, Iphicles is a stranger that althaea was briefly, when he was ''abandoned'' and left alone in the dark while althaea goes through her treatement. I think Hades finds out eventually about what happened between althaea and her mother, and the fact that she was going under electroshock therapy, as when althaea was taken ''off'' this treatement and they awaited their relapse althaea was kept at home, but she was allowed visitors, of which is where hades finally gets to learn and be ''let in'', but this too is also a sort of mental scar for himself, one of the ''moments'' of althaea that he keeps in his mind always; the few months where the althaea he knew was taken away, and he was abandoned by her for ''going'' Like he is there for her in her relapse post-treatement cancelling, but it's one of those things that he feels hes forced to just ''move on'' from as this wasnt ever his fight, but it still had an effect on him, and the fact that he was once again (willingly) being burdened with caring for althaea, and he wants to be noticed for this, i guess in a way he wants to be seen as someone who carries a heavy weight, while also self-gratifying in that he is willingly taking this on. A sort of cognitive dissonance of ''people need to see how im burdening myself with caring for this ill child''/''i care for this person deeply and want to help her and be there for her''. A selfish/selfless double-side that he has that he never reconciles which, like a bunch of stuff im mentioning, WILL bite him in the ass later Post-relapse, when Althaea is back to being herself and she can finally ''move on'' with her plans to become the next azem, hades eventually condenses their friend circle together as Hythlodaeus hes been friends with althaea for a while and didnt realize that hades knew her as well, and in their teens they all begin to move as a unit; while hades is still studying under a mentor and about to head to one of the anyders, hythlodaeus is picked up by the current chief architect to study under her and potentially become an architect as well, while althaea is still following venat around and gaining experiences for a possible future as the next azem

during this time (their teens to mid-20s) hades is a steadfast friend and confidant to althaea, and by this point (their 20s) theyve known each other for two decades (amaurotine relative) and are practically an inseperable bond; hades has seen althaea at her highest and lowest, both in the traumatic sense and in that hades was there for when althaea went to the ocean for the first time, submitted her very first concept, came down with a horrible flu, cut her hair, tripped and broke her elbow, etc --- he was even a sort of confidant for hythlodaeus when they reveal that he has developed feelings for althaea, and is there to witness althaea and hythlodaeus start a relationship. He was there when althaea completed her apprenticeship, he was there when she was bestowed the seat of Azem, was there when she got married to hythlodaeus, was there to help her through every step not to mention like, emotionally. He was there for every manic high and euthymic limbo and dysphoric depression, was there when she'd lock herself in her bedroom and run through the pouring rain and when she stayed up until the sun rose developing 100 different types of ants, was there when she started having chronic night terrors or when she had a brief issue with her stomach he was even there when althaea had the ectopic pregnancy that nearly killed her but she herself chose to ''go through'' with it, hades and halmarut being the two to bear witness to althaea bleeding out on the tile floor as her body got ''rid'' of it

when the convocation tries to get althaea back onto some sort of medication, Hades is one of the major encouragements for it --- and this might seem strange, as when he was younger he didnt like the althaea that was when she was on the shock therapy, but the difference is that hades had matured and thought himself outgrown from the petty notions and ignorance he lived in as a kid ---- decades upon decades (amaurotine time, relative speaking they are in their 40s right now) of time with althaea and growing up had made him begin to wonder if perhaps althaea can have a better life if she re-try the treatement that pre-dated the shock therapy, if there was possibly a chance that althaea could be ''helped'', as hades goals switched from not just being ''there'' to take her burden, but to possibly alleviate/remove it entirely. The treatement, minus shock therapy, seems genuinely viable, and in hsi darkest moments he even thinks about a world where althaea was just slightly like that person he saw when they were younger --- if perhaps althaea would have a happier life is she was just a ''bit more normal'' like ''the rest of them''

this is the main meat of the sort of tension that arises when theyre grown: Hades had developed his ideas and ways of thinking, and while hes always seen althaea as at least partially an ''outsider'', as hades is ultimately a comformist to amaurotine ideals, he thought himself a sort of ''charitable'' person: again, that he ''burdens'' himself with loving and caring for this ''outsider'', this ''unwell'' deviance of societal norms --- much older now, hades has developed a sense that this can be corrected, that this doesnt have to 'be', that the treatement althaea experienced beforehand was traumatic and horrible, but theyve 'worked on it' and it can find 'alternative solutions'. At the end of the day, no matter how much hades is doing this with good intentions, similar to his stance with hermes, he sees behavior outside of the normal as something that can possibly be surpressed/altered/'treated', and that it would do the person good to help them 'overcome' this. Essentially, even though hades does care for althaea, he ultimately believes that it would be better if they were cured, or that what they have is always a burden [turns around] this is also partially developed because hades does ultimately form what he considers an attraction to althaea. It was a sort of inevitability that he would fall in love with her, at least he tells himself such, and so part of this thought process is the idea that if althaea could get 'better', then they could be 'happy' together. If you're curious how this works wrt her being married to hythlodaeus: althaea leads a very strange life, and while hades doesnt encroach on their marriage, it is also known that her ectopic pregnancy was between her and hermes and not her and hythlodaeus. she is not polymarous but she has also never cheated. Enjoy that anecdote as i return to the main point anyway Through all of this --- the pain, the concussion, the electroshock, the pregnancy, the near-deaths, the highs and lows, hades has always been there. ever since she was a little thing was he there, and hes planned on being there until the end ---- that is, until the first final days strikes and they have to develop a plan to subvert it, which eventually becomes the Zodiark project Hades of course is all for it. Althaea, of course, is entirely against both it and Venat's idea of sundering the star

but back to it. and this song

Hades is very firm in that Zodiark is what needs to happen, while Althaea is so firmly against it that she feels betrayed by everyone who agrees to it. This is due to a multitude of reasons, including the fact it sacrifices concepts and amaurotines, the fact that she feels theres another way the convication isnt seeing, and the fact that it requires her close friend elidibus to become its heart (as mitron refused loghrif being made it), and the fact that she feels powerless to stop any of this She eventuallty comes to flee her seat entirely and ''go missing'', but for the first few weeks of the plan developing Althaea sticks around, but she is so overcome with a sense of being betrayed by those she kept close that she quite literally cuts everyone off --- she tells Hades to his face that she cant look at him anymore for his choice and that she doesnt want him to ever contact her anymore which just absolutely sends this guy into a fit, like an astronomical one (as depicted in this song) ^, because how dare Althaea just burden him for all these years and then decide to just walk away from Him, to throw away all of his hard work and all the years he spent by her side, how dare Althaea make a choice for herself and not consider all that Hades had been put through for her --- he essentially in this moment devolves down into ''i willingly did all of these things you never asked me to do, you owe me to stay''

Hades never considered that he could ever do Althaea wrong, that Althaea would make her own choice, it sort of all comes out that Hades' perception of Althaea was a helpless, mentally ill deviant of society that should be greatful that someone like him loved and cared for her so much, and that she cant just leave him now and be her own person with her own choices, she has to come back here and recognize that he put so much time and effort into caring for her, someone so difficult to love, and that he needs to be rewarded for it, that he cant experience the reprocussions of his defensive personality and that he kept visualizing himself as a sort of protector/carer for althaea, and that he never developed an idea of althaea independent to his care

So althaea making a choice, to put her foot down and say to hades that shes leaving is unfathomable to him, hes spent Decades loving her and hes just being left in the dark again? As if althaea knew any of this, which she never did, because he never opened up about his feelings and so just intentionally burdened himself, and now feels owed But Althaea doesn't budge: for once in her life she is making a choice all her own, and while hades is unable to accept the consequences of his choices, Althaea is ready to accept hers, knowing shes ostracising herself from her major supports and is essentially being ''let loose'': but this is her choice, and she wants to have a choice in life already, she wants people to stop choosing for her and deciding everything without her, she doesnt hate elidibus for choosing to become the heart but instead for everyone else for choosing this path and forcing elidibus' hand for his people, she hates that this world Chooses for others, concept and man, and that theres so much that doesnt get a Choice, that she rarely gets them, that the few choices she got in life she had to physically kick and scream and fight for, that someone so close to her like hythlodaeus and hades and venat would spend so many years Choosing for her but then when she wants to make her own choice the option isnt there, she knows theres another way but nobody is letting Her Choose

so she makes a choice distinctly her own, and throws away everything shes ever had with the three of them: they all mean nothing to her, and she's going off to make her own choices and defy them, to prove that she wants to make her own decisions and all that it entails; its not that she wants to be right, she just wants to feel like she agrees with what shes doing, she wants to feel like a person that others are listening to instead of just hearing This, of course, makes hades ungodly amounts of angered, but this isnt his choice, and for once he is forced to reconcile that the point of loving someone is to respect their choice, even if it means not choosing you, and that he cant force althaea to Do anything he says --- she is her own person, and He chose to be by her side, and now hes made his choice, and he is experiencing the consequences of what he chose anyway we know the rest of that story. peace and love <3

[magnoliamyrrh]

had an odd dream that i was w my parents to this like travel trip/boat expedition to antarctica ?? and like we finally get there after alllll this travel and the boat is docking on this piece of land which my brain can barely wrap itself around bc. there's like the land were docking on which we realize isnt glaciars at all like we heard, its all completely melted and there are red flowers blooming everywhere instead - there are red flowers blooming in antarctica. and were not out of the boat (?) yet so i can't 100% get a look at it but i get this very intense emotional reaction and this feeling in my chest of ?? wonder? terror? pressure? and the waiter staff on the boat asks me, what is that, where are we? and i say,, weve made it, weve made it to the north pole, as far north as anyone can go, weve made it to the end of the world... so we step outside and realize not only have we made it to this surreal looking jaggedy edge covered in blood red flowers and.not ice, but when u look up.. the world curvers,,, like the earth curves up, it warps, when you look up and up you can see parts of the world and peoples lives and whatnot right above us wrapped around like something out of interstellar w their gravity formula or whatever. and then this sense of wonder and terror rly hits, bc its like, oh, were not supposed to see this huh? its the end of the world, and here something about the world seems to b unraveling and falling apart

[maliciousspirit]

-turntechGodhead began pestering tentacleTherapist-

TG: have you heard from john anytime recently

TT: No, I can’t say I have. Why?

TG: bro hasnt responded to anything lately

TG: all the trolls either

TT: Jade has gone AWOL as well. I believe all of this could be considered noteworthy. Of course, only if you deign to consider our friends as incentive to actually listen to me.

TG: i honestly do not believe your freaky psychic shit

TG: shits redundant

TG: jade already gives out prophetic dreams like candy

TG: dont need any more obscure puzzle pieces to try n fit into this insane game

TT: Precisely. Jade telling us something from the future is commonplace. My visions are far more important.

TG: sure why not

TG: lets say your freaky psychic crap is right

TG: what am i supposed to do about that

TG: already conferred with the crocodile bros on lohac

TG: they werent any help

TG: they just squawked at me

TG i didnt know crocodiles could squawk

TT: Dave. Cease your inane rambling for thirty seconds while I attempt to drill my point into your brain, if you even have one.

TG: heard

TG: drill away

TT: If I am correct, John and Jade are dead. We are the only remnants of life left in this game. We’re alone.

TG: and what am i supposed to do about that

TG: cant go serenading their ghosts from their window

TG: wherefore art thou romeo

TG: and all that jazz

TT: Get your head out of your ass, Strider. You are the Knight of Time.

TG: uh huh and hows that helped us so far

TT: Shut up. We can handle this. It must be meticulously planned, and could end up in both of our sacrifices as well, but we can bring them back.

TT: You just need to warn John and Jade about it before they disappeared. When was the last time you spoke to John?

TG: when i prototyped calsprite

TG: actually can i just kill my past self for making that idiot decision

TG: i dont care if it causes a paradox bro

TG: i was an idiot

TT: Sure, we can arrange that. But that actually works out quite nicely if you think about it.

TT: You can prototype yourself into the kernelsprite instead of Cal. They are quite attracted to doomed or dead things, correct? You would be doomed yourself once you go back and change history.

TG: rose you ingenious bastard

TG: remind me to never question you again

TT: Noted. Does your time travel have any sort of limit?

TG: not that i know of

TT: We should try and progress through the game as much as we can before saving John. You can then buff your past self up and we can propel their game session forward.

TG: dope

TG: weve got this

-tentacleTherapist began pestering turntechGodhead-

TT: Dave.

TT: You cannot ignore me forever. You have not attempted to reach out to me in a week. It is not like you to be this withdrawn.

TT: If you are dead I am going to be very disappointed in you.

TG: nah im alive

TG: allegedly

TG: i could be typing this as a corpse though

TG: or i could be a crocodile pretending to be dave

TT: I’m sure. Are you trapped in whatever unnecessary time travel roller coaster you have would be helpful again?

TG: shut up

TG: ive got time travel down pat

TG: shits rudimentary, dear watson

TT: Elementary. Elementary, my dear Watson, not rudimentary.

TG: whatever

TG: ive been busy

TT: With what?

TG: trying to find my bro

TG: feels like planets empty though

TG: like were seeing the empty textures when you glitch through the floors in zelda

TT: It does resemble that, yes. Why are you trying to find your brother? I would think you would have been happy without his authoritative abuse.

TG: bro wasnt abusive

TG: stop tryna lobotomize me

TT: Apologies. My preconceived notions of him seem to have infiltrated my perceptions of him.

TT: However, I do have an actual reason for messaging you. The consorts on my planet are becoming increasingly more frenzied.

TT: I believe their status as NPC entities has caused them to begin to deteriorate, as our timeline is doomed. Considering their populace on both your planet and mine, a large percentage are dying every day.

TG: and

TG: this genre of panic has really run its course

TG: cool were doomed

TG: anything new

TT: I’m going to ignore your omission of empathy.

TG: sorry

TG: just tired of being freaked out

TT: Of course. Everyone knows a Strider must be reluctant for any sort of emotion. Did your brother teach you that, too?

TG: shut up

TG: you dont know what youre talking about

TT: It could practically become the Strider slogan. “New and improved- now emotionless.”

TT: It is quite reassuring that you are indifferent to our imminent deaths.

TG: your imminent death

TG: i just gotta be fused with a crow for the rest of my life

TG: become a feathery asshole and peck your past selfs eyes out

TT: Are you done?

TG: yeah sorry

TG: game’s got my stress taut

TG: pullin more than a truck outta mud

TT: What is that supposed to mean?

TG: no clue

TG: just that the syndicated crap the game has put us through is getting real old

TG: what do you think is behind the scenes

TG: im starting to think its those chess piece dudes

TG: never trusted them

TT: You’re going to regret blaming them when I vindicate their case.

TT: The carapacians are innocent. Most of them are just peasants under the Derse and Prospit royalty.

TG: my bad

TG: obviously the mastermind is a bald con artist

TG: got lockpicks down his throat and shit

TT: Have you been watching John’s movies?

TG: …

TG: no

TG: im gonna go kill some more cyclops dudes see ya

TT: Don’t you run off, I’m not done!

-turntechGodhead ceased pestering tentacleTherapist!-

[floaromatown]

do you have any tips about getting PR in canada, i'm trying to figure this out with my gf who lives in america (also idv edaters. unfortunately)

WE WERE NOT IDV EDATERS SCREAMMMMM you should have just kicked sand in my eyes. i begged him to play idv with me he wouldnt cos he was scared. anyway.

unfortunately my tips are very limited as ive been 'done' with the bullshit for over a year now. and like immigration lawyers literally get paid thousands cause its so complicated :( like not in a 'pay me' way but like its an insane feat to pull off without professional help. that and pr shit is changing all the time so im sure a lot of what i experienced is outdated

i spent like 1.5 years no exaggeration in the pr RESEARCH mines (mostly on r/immigrationcanada) and honestly i still felt like i was learning new shit right up until the day i submitted my application. and then more and more after i had submitted it. its really really hard unfortunately. i really advise asking/searching for questions on that subreddit whenever possible, there are a lot of people who can help when youre unsure.

if it wasnt clear you have to be married to apply for the spousal sponsorship, which as far as I understand is pretty much how most american to ca prships happen. if you (when i say you i mean your american girl bc thats the perspective im coming from) happen to have a skilled job (the canadian gov website has a key to determine if your job classifies as skilled) then I believe there is another route, but I wasn't eligible so idk shit about that. dont bother looking into whether you qualify as common law or conjugal or whatever bc you very very likely dont meet their standards. i got married in the states a week before crossing the border, your marriage certificate would be valid in canada

off the bat i would say, unless you know for sure your living situation would 100% COMPLETELY PROVIDE FOR YOU for 6 months to a year, then you should probably apply for an OUTLAND spousal sponsorship. if you move in together in canada and apply for INLAND spousal sponsorship then you cannot work period, there is no legal way for you to make any cent of income. you will not be eligible for provincial healthcare, so i recommend getting long term travel insurance (i rec geoblue). the border is a whole other ordeal if you don't have any status in canada, you can't look like you're moving (i.e no moving boxes no tons of luggage) you can't look like you're eloping or staying for more than a couple months and even if you do everything right they still may suspect you and deny you entry. i did inland and it was really really difficult and at times scary for these reasons, i did not exactly do some things by the book in order to get by *WINKKK*. if you can stand to get married and then part for upwards of a year then i would really really suggest the outland route. unless youll be provided for then GOOD FOR YOU *shaking fist* random but americans also have to continue filing us taxes even if they have moved out of country. so remember that.

moreso tips umm DOCUMENT EVERYTHINGGG YOU DO TOGETHER this is my biggest piece of advice. you have to prove your relationship is legit, here is a list of stuff i included in my application:

receipts/the route we took for our honeymoon

screenshots of support from relatives, like facebook or other social media posts acknowledging your relationship

we got our wills done to make each other the sole benefactor

receipts and pictures of gifts weve gotten each other

photos of both of you with friends and family is 100% required

proof of past visits to each other

receipts and pics for past dates/outings/events

letters of support from family/friends (i got these notarized)

lots of stuff from online chat logs/social media. pictures of chats, phone calls, video calls from across years. i think i included at least one of each from every month since we got together. chats should be relevant to relationship stuff like discussing moving in, getting married, relatives, etc.

a letter detailing our relationship with exact dates, locations, etc. like when we met, when we started dating, when we visited, how we got engaged, etc. you have to make a case for yourself as if you were in court.

if youre researching stuff there is honestly not a lot of resources specifically for edaters! so many people like have like children together in another country or have been established there as a married couples for years so they have a ton of foundation to work off of. canada doesnt just want to see that youre in love they want to see the work that goes into that, like shared leases and joint bank accounts and years of financial support and children etc etc. it sucks but you have to justify it in other ways when youre (im assuming) young and childless and unmarried until recently. you can get some of those things once you move in together but idk, i was rather safe than sorry an scrounged up all the 'soft' evidence i could right up until i submitted it.

i think thats about it i wish i could help more lol. its definitely one of the hardest things ive had to do like emotionally financially temporally effortfully lmfao. good luck?!

[barbatos-sama]

so, this is an interesting story being laid out so far. i finished acts 1 and 2 which is all the story that's available so far. kacchina ended up dying during the battle with the abyss and the song of resurrection didn't work; so we had to pull a team together and go to the night kingdom to try to retrieve her. the night kingdom is like a purgatory between life and death, and the main conflict of nattlan seems to be that the abyss is taking over the night kingdom, as well as attacking nattlan itself. we got her back, but with how badly nattlan has been being attacked the fire goddess estimates well only have one year before nattlan is completely destroyed.

i'm not gonna pretend to understand Everything they were talking about bc they were throwing a lot of new words at me; but from what i understand the fire goddess predicted the fate of nattlan 500 years ago so she cast herself into the sacred flame to die and be reborn in present day to fight this outcome. basically it's almost like she time traveled to the future except not really? she died so she could be reborn in the right place and time. there were six great warriors during that time 500 years ago but she didn't want to tell them to give up their families and lives to make this journey with her, so now in present day she's been waiting for the six warriors of each tribe to be "reborn" for lack of a better word. so far four warriors are present and two have yet to surface.

gonna assume we know those two already, probably characters weve seen in the trailers. willing to bet chassca is one.

anyway the fire goddess fought with one of the fattui members cappitano and lost a lot of her power apparently. very interesting to start out a quest with the god already weakened like this.

the fire goddess is not what i was expecting. she seems very honest, and is fully letting us in on her plan as well as being vulnerable in front of us. the other gods were very vague with us, but she seems very forthcoming and transparent about whats going on. this is either a nice change of pace Or she could just be hiding something. being a human once however, it does make sense for her to Feel more "human", having connected with humanity with a human family before, compared to the other gods who have always been set apart from humanity

[rainbowywitch]

Hi 🌟,

I hope you’re doing well. We’ve raised very little so far to support me and my family during these challenging times due to the conflict in Gaza. We’re still working to reach our goal and would greatly appreciate your help. 🙏

If you can’t donate, could you please share or reblog my pinned post? Your support in spreading the word would mean a lot to us. 💪

Pinned post: https://www.tumblr.com/ahmedharara/757031731268386816/weve-been-able-to-raise-only-120-so-far?source=share

Donation link: https://gofund.me/f751a38a

Thank you so much for your kindness and support! ❤️

My name is Mohammed Alwadiya. I'm from Gaza. I’m a math teacher, I have a doctorate degree in business management, my wife and I have struggled to obtain these prestigious certifications. We have lived a wonderful life, God blessed us with our first and only child, Eleen, after several years of trying via IVF, and finally it was crowned with success. Together we made our dreams come true for a bright future, but unfortunately the dreadful war destroyed everything we worked hard for. Our beautiful home, and car was destroyed and our educational center demolished. We are now homeless living in tents, running for our lives from one place to another, seeking peace, suffering from the lack of food, water, and medicine needed to treat our injuries especially after the outbreak of diseases and endemics caused by over crowding and water contamination. All of this doesn’t compare to the moment I had to identify the remains of my martyred sister and her two children. Luckily, her daughter survived with injuries, and she’s in our care now and I hope one day I will be able to give her a better life and help her overcome her trauma. In the midst of fear, chaos, destruction, I can’t even grief and mourn the loss of my loved ones during this constant state of fear for the lives of my wife, daughter, sick elderly parents, and the last surviving injured child of my late sister. how the funds will be, when boarders open travel agency will have 5000$ for each adult and 2500$ for each kid, we are 4 adults( my wife and I and my parents, 3 kids ( my daughter, my late sister's daughter, and my little brother that equals 25000$ without living expenses as we lost our home and our money, this is the amount of money we need to escape death in Gaza.

I’m writing this as a last resort to help my family and end our suffering, I need your help to wake up from this nightmare.

[pasteld0ll6]

OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF HELL AND BACK 💃💃💃 WEVE TRAVELLED VERY FAR 💃💃💃 COVER OUR SOULS IN ROBES OF BLACK 💃💃💃💃 THE LORDS OF BLACK WE ARE💃💃💃💃💃💃

[animulcanibul]

THAAATT LOVE IS LIKE A STAR ITS GONE WE JUST SEE IT SHINING CAUSE ITS TRAVELED VERY FAAARR KEEP A LEFTOVER LIGHT BURNING SO YOU CAN KEEP LOOKING UP I AM YOURS NO MATTER THAT LOVES GONE WE JUST SEE IT SHINING WEVE TRAVELLED VERY FAR ILL KEEP A LEFTOVER LIGHT BURNING SO YOU CAN KEEP LOOKING UP ISNT THAT WORTH HOLDING ON

[good-or-bad-luck]

9 11 30 36 39 for whoever is currently most occupying your brain!!!!

its my elder scrolls ocs <333 the geese outside are having a rave as i type this

9: Is your oc afraid of touch or do they actively seek it out? Is there a reason for this? What are the exceptions?

weve got a good variety. Breaks is the most normal about it doesnt seek it out doesnt shy away from it. comes with the territory of being the older brother to the worlds clingiest little sister. speaking of sister Spore is still like that. always hovering over someone or leaning dramatically into their shoulders to look at something (gives the best hugs <3) does it with everyone rlly. Rina is the opposite <3 hates touch on every level and only puts up with it ifor Breaks and Spore's sake. even then spent a very long time unable to put up with Spore's nonsense. will offer one (1) hug on a good day.

11: How competitive is your oc? Is every little task something that they can win, or are they just in competitions for the fun of it? Is there anyone they’re most competitive with?

all of them are insane. are you kidding me. you go like i bet i can do this thing youve never even attempted better than you and all three of them are like i will. beat you to death. spore and breaks are the worst with each other. rina is the worst with everyone ever if she loses no she didnt <3 it could be a normal day doing a casual thing and shed be insane about it. she sucks at mario kart btw

30: What topics does your oc know the most about? Are these obvious or would these be surprising to others?

great question. spore is the least surprising to anyone she knows 2 topics like the back of her hand, its the history of kvatch and the hero of kvatch himself and every little myth and legend from the divines (her and elyss worst catholic, fight !!) nerd shit. no one enjoys it. rina is slightly less surprising she knows a lot ofstuff about skills to just like live on her own like cooking and textiles and hunting and growing shit and can tell youy a lot about ant of those. also knows a lot about deer and their behaviors but if you ask her how she knows shell look at you like ._. breaks is our lovely assassin he knows a lot of poisons and shit but with that territory also comes a HELL of a lot of knowledge on potions to heal people and every single combination to make even the most simple of potion. he doesnt use this knowledge a lot since he is rarely ever in a situation where he needs to pull out like Minor Health Potion since his two traveling companions are his paladin sister and the lycanthrope magic user who knows at least basic healing spells.

36: How stubborn is your oc? Are they easily convinced of the opposite opinion, do they not agree but let it happen anyways? Or do they cause conflicts with their inability to budge in their decisions?

rina is a problem because she has never been wrong ever fuck you if you think differently. she will change but only after too long convincing her to stop being a dick about it. will fight you about it. breaks is also kind of stubborn but in a way where hell be like silently disagreeing before going fine okay and then complain to someone about it later. spore is by far the least stubborn of all of them she takes no shit about what they believe it but is also more than willing to hear most people out. comes with the territory of trying to be a fairytale hero

39:How superstitious your oc? Do they end up following them ‘just in case’? Or are superstitions incredibly important to your oc? What are some that they believe? What about the ones they don’t?

breaks doesnt believe in any superstisious shit the only reason he believes in some of it in his world is its afantasy one. would roll his eyes into the back of his head in the real eworld hearing anything about ghosts or knocking on wood or anything even remotely close to it. the only thing he believes in is fucking santa claus. rina and spore are the exact opposite. both believe in more tame ones like classic breaking mirrors gives bad luck or (this one is from the actual game) talking on tales and tallows out of the belief spirits will possess the body, insert breaks eyeroll. the difference is spore doesnt do it because she is scared rina doesnt talk because she doesnt want to deal with it if it is real (she is also scared). both also carry supersitions from their time as worshipers of stendarr like if you give to others good will come your way or if you strike those weaker than you stendarr will strip you of his blessing (canon in the lore! ask me about elder scrolls facts)

[vampkomori]

anyone else think neo’s reports are weird about composers i think theyre weird about composers. lets make sense of joshuas status as composer and hazuki as comparison

this is gonna be a bit long. so anyway the og reports are p straightforward about what Composers (specifically, joshua) can and cannot do:

- Joshua can only pick up Hanekoma’s vibe, because Angel vibes are too high frequency for him to pick up

- Inter-planar contact (so, communication between the UG and the Higher Plane in this case) is difficult, which is brought up because

- The Composer, Joshua, only resides in the UG.

- But the Producer, who is an Angel, mainly resides in the Higher Plane, and only occasionally lingers in the UG.

The whole matter of jumping between worlds highlights the difference between their abilities even more:

- As Composer, Joshua is one of the beings who can jump between worlds, but isn’t meant to do so often. His vibe dipped too low, so Hanekoma had to come retrieve him, because as an Angel this sort of travel is simple for him.

the OG reports make it pretty clear Joshua isnt an Angel

*But. unfortunately its not that easy. because by clearing the final time trial joshua gives you an item called Angel Feather (天使のハネ in JP), of which the description says “Our buyer used divine means to acquire this mysterious feather that was once in the possession of Shibuya's Composer.“ (which some have interpreted as, “in the possession of” meaning “it was given to him” potentially by hanekoma, who actually IS an Angel)

and if things are vague, we turn to the JP to clear us up! but its. still vague there bc it says “バイヤーが特別な力で入手した渋谷エリアのコンポーザーが持っていた謎の羽根“ (The mysterious feather that was held/carried by the Composer of the Shibuya area that the buyer obtained with a special power)

so. we are none the wiser about whose feather this is. i imagine its up to interpretation whether its joshuas feather or hanekomas, who then gave it to joshua. but given how clearly the reports differentiate between the Composer and Angels in regards to their abilities, suffice to say theres two interpretations that are most likely

- Composers arent Angels, their power disparity is just too much

- Composers are Angels, but theyre so much weaker compared to the Angels who reside in the Higher Plane that they’re never referred to as Angels, just as Composers

which takes us to neo, and hazukis little lightshow

i think its notable that the reports dont comment on kubos so-called “exorcism”, and only on haz erasing his noise.

haz himself refers to his little stunt as “exorcising” kubo, while in JP he actually says haiki 廃棄, get rid of, revoke, invalidate.

i think its important that he clarified “i didnt erase him, i exorcised him”. because with kubo, the executor, being an Angel from the Higher Plane, a Composer shouldnt be able to erase someone of higher ranking than them. i think as the person who called upon kubo in the first place, haz could specifically revoke his services and send him back to the Higher Plane.

which means kubo wasnt erased, he was just sent back. hes still kickin

we could leave things right here as they are. Canonically, Composers are so far beneath Angels to a point where even if they were Angels themselves, they are so much weaker than them that they could hardly be referred to as such

this is where the facts end. but im gonna keep going and have fun speculating about things and include some i dont have physical proof of (yet)

its notable that in JP, hazuki says that kubo tried to purify shibuya probably because he wanted to be praised by Hazuki. which is weird if kubos supposed to be higher ranking than haz. (in EN, haz just says hes always been an overachiever) but lets put a pin in that for later 📌

which takes us to the matter of Shinjuku’s Producer. or their lack thereof

throughout all of neo’s reports, there is not a single mention of Shinjuku having a Producer. before neo, we kind of assumed every UG’s setup follows largely the same structure. a Composer, a Conductor, a Producer, and then some Reapers. but Shinjuku does not seem to have a Producer. and i think its because it doesnt need one.

its important to remember Who is writing these reports and Who theyre for. the reports are written by shibuyas Producer, and theyre written for the Higher Plane. and shibuyas Composer cant pick up the vibes of any Angel except hanekoma, so he cant be the one writing the reports for beings he cant even pick up the vibes from, especially since he only resides in the UG.

and yet, hanekoma comments that Hazuki should have filed a report, and that haz is disinterested in the lower planes.

in English its a little vague about who hes talking about, but the JP specifies Shinjukus Composer as the subject of this sentence.

throughout both reports, the UG and RG are considered part of the lower planes. its strange for a Composer to have no interest in the very planes they govern, plus for a Composer to file a report to the Higher Plane when its been established that Joshua, as a Composer, cant even perceive anyone from there.

so i think Hazuki may actually be a proper Angel from the Higher Plane, who was potentially demoted to become Shinjukus Composer.

though you can very much interpret haz “exorcising” kubo as simply “sending him back whence he came”, its of course pretty anticlimactic to see this massive laser beam essentially disintegrate kubo on a molecular level, only for it to have been a quick ride back to the higher plane with kubo being perfectly in tact after. if haz were actually much more powerful than an ordinary Composer, itd make sense why he would have been able to erase an Angel like kubo so. thoroughly.

this would also explain why kubo may have wanted to be praised by hazuki in the JP dialogue. with hazuki potentially being an outlier for Composers and being far Higher ranking than kubo, our executor may have wanted to sucker up a bit. maybe get promoted and away from his “basically a janitor” job if haz puts in a good word for him upstairs

theres also hazukis entire demeanor, and how Bad he is at acting like a normal person

we know of four paths that Players can take

they can choose erasure

they can choose resurrection to return to the RG

they can become Reapers

they can become Angels

and Reapers can eventually become Angels, though its yet unclear if the only way for that to happen is

for them to become Composer (potentially the Lowest Angel-rank there is) and thats it.

or if Composers can ascend and become Actual Angels and eventually reside in the Higher Plane, though how a successor for the seat of Composer is chosen in that scenario is yet entirely unknown since Usually the seat only becomes vacant when the previous Composer is defeated

or if they, as a Reaper, need to Ask the Composer who then asks the Producer to send a guy for evaluation or something

or if the Higher Plane has like, a talent scout guy somewhere.

potentially more than one may apply but at least the last point is the most likely, because

Conductors are invited to the Higher Plane (probably to become Angels) upon purification

(interesting to note that Composers are not mentioned as being invited, which would point to “theyre Angels, but like, weak-ass Angels”)

anyway, the point is that so far weve been told that Angels were Players or Reapers at one point. we know Joshua was a Player for sure, given the morsels of backstory we get from him and Hanekoma. but we dont know if All Angels came from the RG at one point, or if Angels that have always been Angels exist.

either way, the point is that for Hazuki to act so non-human like and to be disinterested in the UG and RG, he either must have been an Angel for a very long time, or he was never human to begin with.

this is relevant to how he interacts with joshua in the Secret Ending, though its a lot less obvious in English, in JP their dynamic is clear: Joshua is his senior, and as his junior, Hazuki looks to him as an example.

for one, thats hilarious. secondly, that recontextualizes like everything

‘course, you could keep the interpretation that theyre just Both weak-ass angels and hazuki just made kubo use a flashy dramatic elevator to the HP and nothing groundbreakingly powerful happened, but thats kinda anticlimactic

so. staying w the idea that hazuki may be a demoted Angel from the Higher Plane, then itd make sense for Joshua to have been Composer for longer than him, and for haz to act Like...That, since he couldve been not-human for a Very long time, or Never was one in the first place, but is still a younger Composer bc he got demoted like. 4 years back or something.

it also explains why Shinjuku may not need a Producer, and why Hazuki is the one writing his reports. its because hes still an Angel from the Higher Plane, so he does not need an intermediary to contact other Angels.

so to summarize what im tryna say here

Hazuki may have initially been a regular Angel from the Higher Plane, before he eventually got demoted to become Shinjukus Composer, despite how disinterested he is in the UG and RG. (he is considered to be “infamously unsympathetic”, a trait which is reinforced in the JP version to be something he is known for amongst the Higher Plane, which could potentially be the reason for his demotion)

Since hes Joshuas junior, that means he hasnt been Composer for as long as Joshua has, so Hazuki looks to him to know what youre even supposed to do/how to act/etcetera as Composer. With his Special circumstances, he does not need a Producer as an intermediary to interact with the Higher Plane, because hes already an Angel so he can do it himself.

whatever Angel Hierarchy there may be, Hazuki is at the very least a higher rank than an Executor, considering how kubo wanted to impress him, and how haz effortlessly got rid of him. with kubo being from the Higher Plane, joshua is decidedly lower ranking than kubo, and cant even pick up his vibe. which clearly positions haz into a unique circumstance as a Composer bc of this discrepancy in ranking and power. amen

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theres other things that back this up but i unfortunately do not have a source for them, so This section, take with a grain of salt.

Supposedly, in neo’s data files:

Joshua is referred to as an Advanced Angel

Kubo as a Junior Angel, and

Hazuki as a Senior Angel

i only heard this secondhand and have no way of corroborating this myself, but if this is true then that lines up with the super long super sexy little essay i just wrote up there

this “ranking” solidifes Kubos position as Hazukis underling. which, if he were an ordinary Composer, wouldnt even be possible.

Joshua is notably a different rank from Haz, though its difficult to figure out if “Advanced” is supposed to be Lower than junior, or Higher than senior. thats up to interpretation until its possibly ever acknowledged,

but my interpretation is that an Advanced Angel is lower than a Junior Angel. i think “advanced” in this case is meant to refer to the traditional evolution of players to reapers to the composer, advancing from one status to the next.

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**Little post-edit, @/inkerii gave me the actual designation in the files! (so this ones backed-up!)

so in the files, theyre designated ranks are as follows

Joshua: 男、天使上級 ※前作  (Male, Senior/Advanced Grade Angel ※from the Previous work)

Hazuki: 男、天使上級 (Male, Senior/Advanced Grade Angel)

Kubo:   男、天使下級 (Male, Junior/Lower Grade Angel)

so haz and joshua are the same rank bc theyre both Composers! since thats an internal data text kinda thing it might not have any bearing on like, potential Technical exceptions since they Are both the same “job”, but mightve gotten it under different circumstances.

as for kubo potentially being lower ranking than even a Composer, i think unless we find out what a Producers ranking is, we cant say much abt whether an Executors lower or higher. i kinda mean it in the sense of,  Producers are a Composers subordinate bc they follow their orders and have to create the things theyre tasked to make by the Composer (pins, etc), but may still be “higher” in ranking because they reside in the Higher Plane/jump between parallel worlds, while a Composer cannot. an Executor may be in a similar position where theyre a Composers underling, tasked by Composers to purify things, but may actually be “higher” in ranking because they reside in the higher plane, etc!

i think regardless of whether kubo turns out to be lower ranking than joshua or not, hazuki could still be Even More Higher in a way where he actually has like, sway over whether he could get a promotion! if that was his intent. he could also just be a huge suck up. a real kiss ass. teachers pet for angels

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theres also the ntwewy Official Guidebook, which has a small comment beneath hazuki that says

and i additionally remember an interview, though i dont have a source for this claim and i could very much be misremembering, but i recall seeing the reason for hazuki not being the final boss is because they did not think players could suspend their disbelief far enough to accept that the twisters would be able to defeat a being from the Higher Plane.

which is perfectly reasonable, but

Composers are meant to be able to be defeated by Players or Reapers. if hazuki really was so powerful that itd be impossible for them to defeat him, then hed be far too strong to be an ordinary Composer, since thats. how you take over in the first place. thats kinda the whole plot of og twewy.

anyway that concludes my case

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I literally love all of these

HCs: Taang

Height Difference. This is very important to me, for some reason. Toph’s a little shorter than Aang when they meet, then they kinda even out at 14 – and for a while, it actually looks like she’s gonna surpass him, but then he has a massive growth spurt, and just … doesn’t fucking stop growing again. So, Aang tol, Toph smol. 

PDA. Aang is a touchy-feely person. He likes to hug and cuddle and kiss and hold hands, and be hugged, cuddled and kissed. Toph likes all these things, too. In fact, she loves them. Just … not particularly in front of other people. Holding hands, fine, a kiss on the cheek, too, but everything else is reseved for home. 

Travels. That’s honestly basically it. They travel, a lot, not only because I’d imagine it makes Aang’s job as the Avatar easier, but also because they both are very free spirits, and the world is big, and there’s much to see and explore. 

The Best. I truly believe Aang and Toph are able to bring out the best in eachother; they are able to give eachother what they need, if not necessarily always what they want. Toph helps him to stand his ground, to square up and not back down. Aang help her see that that isn’t always the best way to go about things. He gives her freedom, she gives him stability, things they desperately crave/need when we meet them. 

Chores. Aang is much more likely to do most of them; he has more fun cooking, he doesn’t like it if things get too messy, and letting Toph do the washing is not a good idea. Toph helps out when he asks or when she can see that he doesn’t have the mind to do it at the moment. 

Diet. Expanding on Aang doing the cooking, I also imagine Toph being mostly vegeterian when they’re together. Not out of conviction, though. If they’re with friends/family she will happily eat meat. But I don’t see her going out of her way to cook it herself when Aang’s preparing dinner anyway, and he definitely won’t serve her steak. 

Children. They’d both be pretty hands-on parents, I think. By no means perfect, but doing as best as they could. I can see Toph being a little too lenient, not making that many rules initially (’cuz she had too many), but Aang’s there to somewhat balance that out. (I can’t imagine the Air Temples just being complete chaos; they must’ve had structure and rules, and it didn’t hurt him. There is such a thing as too few rules.) They make a good team. And good parents.