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wealmostaneckbeard · 1 month

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Signalis and Dungeon Meshi: Unorganized Comparison

Both are about crawling through dungeons, fighting monsters, and picking things up to get into inaccessible places.

There's a pair of siblings and a lesbian couple, both are cruelly separated by powerful forces. The living half (Marcille Donato, Elster, Isa Itou, Laios Touden) is willing to do anything to bring back their loved one (Falin Touden, Erika Itou, Ariane Yeong) from the depths of the dungeon. The searchers are motivated not just by love but guilt too, a stubborn refusal to fail their beloved one last time by abandoning then.

Both stories are about the evils of anthropocentric ideologies. It is the inescapable first lense that we all see the world through. It is a subjective, selfish, and almost nihilistic view point. It is the belief that the universe cannot match the significance of humanities existence. For anyone who has loved another human, this is an easy ideology to embrace.

It's also the foundation for hierarchical authoritarianism which dictates that you are either a productive member of humanity or a nonhuman agent of a hostile universe. Those who try to view the universe as itself and not as a means of, or obstacle to, the gratification of human desire are put into the latter grouping. Those who conform are elevated to positions of power within the hierarchy. This is illustrated by the suffering of Ariane Yeong and Laios Touden. As well as the elevation of various political figures in Dungeon Meshi and Kommandant Falke in Signalis.

Both universes feature similar world building elements: a cosmic force grants individual humans their anthropocentric desires resulting in the formation of impossible things. In Signalis, bioresonance allows for the colonization of other worlds and the creation of replikas. In Dungeon Meshi, the Demon's intercession has resulted in the formation of different races, monsters, dungeons, and the magical arts.

And now we come to where the two narratives truly differ with each other:

The characters in Dungeon Meshi are able to triumph over anthropocentric thought and create a better world. Tragically, the characters in Signalis are not able to do the same and become trapped in a hellish existence. This isn't exclusively because of their traits, they are unconsciously conforming to a larger pattern.

In Dungeon Meshi, the natural world still exists and can be defended from corrupting supernatural influence. Even when the earth is devastated by magically augmented warfare, the world is big enough to recover. There are trained specialists, like the canaries, who are able to counter the expansion of dungeons and it's associated threats. Because magic is so important to the world dungeon meshi, knowledge is prevalent with a few severe restrictions.

In Signalis, Vineta/Earth was destroyed by the war between the Eusan Nation and Empire. The closest that people can get to nature is potted plants and a nights sky. The Eusan Nation limits knowledge about bioresonance so that no one can use that to challenge their authority. As a result, no one can understand what's happening during a bioresonance crisis.

In Dungeon Meshi, food preparation is a narrative focal point, it connects people to the world and each other. In Signalis, food is a secondary consideration, it is rationed out by the Eusan Nation, given to good citizens and denied to dissidents.

Ryoku Kui is a japanese manga creator and Rose Engine are a pair of german game developers. One could guess that the artistic differences between them are reflective of their nations history during a certain conflict that happened in the last century...

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rhythmickorbit · 10 months

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friends and I are playing a ttrpg game in the setting of the game signalis. It is wonderful. I’m not nearly finished the game yet but my GM is Very Familiar with the lore. Depicted is my eule Lamm taking regulations as suggestions.

text by @metathefool. Also i didnt invent the meme obv but i did do this drawing.

#i was told the signalis fandom might like this?#replikas #eule #signalis #eulr #system is those dark places btw its very good #also its a horror campaign

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myreputatioooon · 28 days

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Replikas absolutely have their own cultures and subcultures that inevitably spawn due to being treated as Not Human by the Nation

To Be a Replika is to have countless like you across the stars and walking by and right next to you as you do your work

To Be a Replika is to have people who gets you down to the slightest detail, who don't need the countless cycles Gestalts and others not your model ever would, who will catch when you're starting to irreparably degrade and help your get back on track

To Be a Replika is knowing that before and after and during your time there are others just like you who will come to be just as if not better at your job, you will never fear the consequences of your loss

To Be a Replika is to be Replaceable. No one will suffer because of your decommissioning

You Hurt Nobody through being decommissioned

Your Nation and Gott least of all

#SIGNALIS #Replika #Replikas #Signalis Headcanon #Signalis headcanons #idk how to expand on this lol #this wouldnt apply to elsters or falkes or alders likely thought given canon implications #in whoch they're the sole replikas of an area

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unrewind · 18 days

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Bildiğim yok koca evrende Gündüz biter başlar gece Mutlulukla ve ölümle

#replikas #zerre #2008 #2009 #Youtube

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badasserywomen · 6 months

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I've been enjoying the hell out of signalis

#i love learning about the replikas #signalis

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lulzyrobot · 26 days

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Hey Elster....you okay? Yeah shes fine.

Its a crime I havent drawn anything Signalis related so Im here to fix that. And of course its something silly, hehe

#signalis #elster #lstr #replika #my art #fanart

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clodcakes · 1 month

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Chasing feelings, pacing back and forth

What are all the empty places for?

#signalis #signalis replika #falke signalis #signalis falke #elster #lstr 512 #lstr #ariane yeong #Ariane yeong signalis #signalis fanart #signalis art #signalis spoilers #falke #flkr #thou art #artist on tumblr

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tinyflything · 3 months

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I love sketching them 8,)

#signalis #signalis elster #lstr 512 #lstr #replika #signalis fanart #fanart #digital art #procreate #sketch #sketchbook #myart #kolibri #signalis kolibri

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schwarzgeier · 2 months

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Please be in my walls, Please be in my walls, Please be in my walls

#signalis #signalis fanart #Arar #ara unit #ara signalis #i can take on any replika unit but i fold for these fixers god save me #my art

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likared · 7 months

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#lika red #replika #beautiful ai #cowgirl

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wealmostaneckbeard · 4 months

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Track 1: Welcome to the Neighborhood by Brian David Gilbert

A Gestalt resident decides to kill their annoyingly creepy Replika neighbor. A new Replika replacement is ordered and takes their place.

Track 2: Well, Well, Look Who's Inside Again (cover) by Kat Rampage

A resident laments being in lock down

Track 3: we like watching birds by Brian David Gilbert and Karen Han

A pair of gestalts express their love and appreciation for all the varieties of replikas that serve the Eusan Nation. They deliver bones to their "bird god" who is a Falke unit and she is very confused.

Track 4: In Your Light by Gotye

An Adler unit sings about how much he loves his Falke

Track 5: Business Man by Tom Cardy

A Starling unit attempts to infiltrate a gestalt gang. Her disguise is terrible and the gestalts let her know. They all come under fire from a corrupt Protektor.

Track 6: Look Who's Inside Again - Instrumental by ZFM

We check back in with that one resident in lock down. They've developed a fun hobby to pass the time.

Track 7: Go Ahead and Cry by Metric

A Eule unit gets high and performs a little song and dance for her co-workers. It's a little sad and silly but everyone loves it.

Track 8: I'm alone in my apartment by Brian David Gilbert

A different resident is also trapped in their home. They decide to rewatch a propaganda movie. And be anxious. And talk to themself.

Track 9: Get Louis Theroux It by Tom Cardy

A gestalt journalist with Bioresonant abilities causes a reality warping cataclysmic disaster.

Track 10: Nothing Worth Loving Isn't Askew by Lemon Demon

A gestalt political dissident sings a love song to their defective replika cell mate.

Track 11: I Will Remember You by Metric

A pair of actresses dressed like Ariane Yeong and Elster perform an abbreviated retelling of the original subjects tragic romance.

Track 12: Eclipse by The Blasting Company and Little Star

The real Elster sings a love song to the real Ariane Yeong.

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mold-lover · 8 months

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i tried to make a gif

#signalis #my art #fanart #video games #elster #ariane yeong #gif #replika melons #yuri babs forgive me

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myreputatioooon · 3 months

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Replika's having blood is fascinating me...

Because they're machines int eh grand scheme of things and all but/are clones. Human clones.

But again, they're mechanical so why the blood?

is it Because they're practically clones? Because despite living like they aren't humans they also live like humans and humans are supposed to *have* blood and never having it feels wrong?

is it Because human instincts cannot be negated no matter how much AEON tries? Because suppressing human instincts costs more than it's worth?

Because not giving them blood would be detrimental to their psychological state in such a way that personally degradation becomes worse and simply bothering to give th Replikas blood is less costly or bothersome than the increase in persona degradation and decommissioning that would ensure?

#SIGNALIS #signalis spoilers #replika #replikas #i know its not actual blood but shhhhhh

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nictanova · 1 month

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