#secrets one republic

[writeouswriter]

Why don’t you listen to Secrets by One Republic (Tesla Coil version as featured in the 2010 movie The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) and maybe you’ll calm down/feel some weird aching whimsical nostalgia for a time that doesn’t feel like so long ago but already ludicrously spans over a decade.

#sorry I was thinking about how hot I found jay Baruchel 😭 and the song got stuck in my head #I saw that movie in theatres and was obsessed with it for a while #I had the song on my MP3 playlist in highschool but specifically that version #i think Jay Baruchel in that movie might’ve been one of my early fictional crushes?? #loser (affectionate) #the sorcerer’s apprentice #secrets one republic #music #not writing #leave me be #the song played on the coils makes me feel things! #(also that was nic cage’s best look) #old man shoes 😭😭😭

[this-acuteneurosis]

my dumb brain had a dont look back prompt of Obi going hey Leia fake marry me so I can adopt all the clones and get legal case on the citizenship, and hell throw in Anakin and Padme into it and now the crack thought wont leave me alone. Like I know that legally its too chancy a concept but various fake marriage for legal nonsense are in my brain. fake relationship turning real / legal shenanigans. also that Lando 36 marriages to mess with tax nonsense so everyone in a convoluted marriage chain.

Friend, if we're talking fake marriage/legal nonsense, you're sleeping on the best one.

Shmi Skywalker hunts down Jango Fett, drags him before the nearest legal authority, names him the father of her one million children, and gets them married so she can have custody of all of them, including Boba. The entire GAR are now citizens of Naboo. So is Jango. Palpatine is having daily fights with Queen Jamillia over the legality of it all and we must have our army back. Jango is fending off assassins that are coming after his new wife, not because he likes her or appreciates her interfering in his business, but because if he lets her die it's a professional smear he will never be able to live down.

Leia, Anakin, Padmé, and Obi-Wan are all enraged. Jango cannot be in the Skywalker clan. He has committed Offenses against them.

Shmi is undeterred. It is his penance. She is looking after her boys.

(She and Plo work out shared custody of the 104th. Eventually.)

#this works because there is no centralized authority on Tatooine to recognize marriages except the Hutts #Shmi and Cliegg's marriage was considered valid in their local community on the basis of they said so #But neither one of them was getting married with the blessing of a Hutt #also Shmi does not care about bigamy laws #she's indifferent to Republic law except where it suits her #a true Skywalker maverick #this is my secret “Shmi will marry any man to mother his child” agenda #just wait until she realizes unsupervised Jedi on away missions can be subject to local planetary law

[geekwithacuriousmind]

Servant Two Begins to Question

Surprise @diazuk-legacy ! I was your Secret Santa! I hope you like this one-shot and don’t think I took too many creative liberties with describing Servant Two.

Servant Two never had much of a choice regarding the course of his life. From the moment he was able to serve, he served. Freedom was a forbidden word, discouraged from all of the Emperor’s Hands. In return, the Emperor gave them power—the privilege to be His voice among all His subjects. Their words, in turn, became the Emperor’s word. And in the Empire, that meant power.

Yet the Servants were not foolish to think that power was enough to intimidate everyone in the Empire.

There were some Sith who believed they could do better than the Servants. They thought, in their naivety, that the Emperor’s inner circle worked similarly to their silly power struggles.

They all learned their lesson when the Servants were done with them.

Yet there was one exception: one person, a Sith whom the Emperor forbade to dispose of.

As Servant Two kept a close eye on the Emperor’s chosen, the Emperor’s Wrath, he failed to see what was so special about this Sith.

Why was it that his Emperor chose this Sith above everyone else?

Servant Two knew that even thinking this went against his vow. Their duty was to follow orders. The word of the Emperor was law. His wisdom was beyond the realm of understanding. As much as Servant Two wanted to understand, he knew he would never be able to grasp fully what his Emperor deemed or didn’t deem worthy.

Yet why did his heart ache every time he met with the Emperor’s Wrath? Why did he feel disheartened each time he tried to speak to the Emperor and was met with silence instead? His gaze, which fell on him so long ago— felt so out of range, as if his God was no longer in this realm.

Yet that couldn’t be, could it? He wouldn’t abandon them.

Right?

Servant Two was terrified of the answer. Because just even questioning his Emperor’s presence meant he doubted His power.

Yet it was too late for him. This existence was the only thing he had ever known. It was the only way he could think of surviving.

But could devotion, adoration, and loyalty be enough to hide the truth?

They were still following the orders of a God that was no longer there.

“We live to serve Him,” Servant One told him as if that was enough to eliminate all his fears and doubts. “We must keep his voice alive.”

What is there left to keep alive? he thought.

But rather than saying this, he kept following orders. He kept whispering in the Servants’ minds empty promises and broken vows.

He watched from the shadows as the Emperor’s Wrath stopped following the Emperor’s voice. They knew his ambition would be unstoppable. That his lust for power was unlike any other Servant Two had ever seen.

Yet they believed they could control him. Use him just like they did in the past to eliminate Darth Baras.

They had been wrong. Servant One returned with bruises and a wounded ego after almost being choked to death. With their spy robots destroyed and the Dark Council’s betrayal imminent— it was only now that they realized how weak the Emperor’s Hand had become due to His silence.

They were hunted down and destroyed by those who first sought them to further their selfish agendas. By those who were now in positions of power thanks to their influence and intervention.

Yet there wasn’t much they could do. Not with the Emperor gone. After all, their power came from Him. And without Him, they were nothing.

And would die like nothing, one by one.

It was their duty, after all.

#swtor secret santa 2023 #one shot #servant two #instrospection #exploration of feelings #swtor one shot #swtor #the old republic

[slowsweetlove]

#secrets #one republic #Spotify #slowsweetlove.2023 #a year in pictures #austin butler

[buttertheflame]

I’m very surprised there is an “Okafor is for the resistance” theory circulating in the fandom. ‘He is fomenting a soft coup within the military to peacefully give power to the Civic Republic once the time comes.’ I’m hearing this going, what? I feel like the odd one out! What am I seeing differently?

Maybe it’s my interpretation of his vision: “Monsters that kill the monsters—that’ll be over soon.”

Okafor speaks well and is charismatic but that’s the trick. He doesn’t care about anyone’s freedom, including Rick’s or even his own. He’s a villain—someone to test our two heros’ limits and their beliefs, not support them. Well, if he and Beale were on the same path of destruction and control when they ‘recruited’ Rick and gassed Omaha, then they only disagreed on the tactics of the CRM’s coup of the Civic Republic. They split on something more subtle; Okafor wanted a soft coup but Beale wants a hard coup.

What does that make our heroes, Rick and Michonne? I think for Rick the question will be, to inherent the Lieutenant Colonel’s vision and change it, at risk of losing everything to Major General Beale—or to abandon the Civic Republic’s fight for the safety and comfort of family if he can? I think 1x02 will bring Michonne’s years gone by and her inner conflict into play. As always, she will lead Rick to make the right choice, which will affect a lot of people. ❤️

Even if I’m wrong, at some point I’m gonna argue why we should dislike Okafor and appreciate him as a villain. Think I’ll make it part of a 1x01 analysis thread: Rick, Pearl and Donald: CRM’s Alliance of Three.

#tv shows #twd #the ones who live #donald okafor #rick grimes #michonne #amber speaks #* #Okafor loved his secrets #once Rick realized he’d committed to a coup which was actually a bad thing leading to more control it would have been too late #or too much to bear #thank goodness Okafor did not survive his encounter with Michonne #heheh #… #‘there will be no more As and Bs’ #the CRM are monsters; they don’t want the Civic Republic to know who they’re being ruled by #Okafor wanted to do a soft coup but Beale wants to do a hard coup #he wants hot warfare; a ground war #remember World Beyond #Michonne’s ​1x02 will show us how far they are willing to go too #to cancel any threat to their absolute power

[cienie-isengardu]

Skirata was talking about something to thwart the Chancellor. It was the first explicit proof Darman had that he was running his own operation-not in parallel with the Republic's interests, or outside them, but against them. Darman loved and respected Kal'buir, but he was under no illusions about his methods. He'd been up to something dodgy for a long time; Fi's extraction, the base on Mandalore, Ko Sai, the bank job on Mygeeto with Vau that Delta didn't talk about - something major was happening. Skirata was well off the chart

Republic Commando: Order 66

#star wars #republic commando #clone commando darman #kal skirata #delta squad #this is another example provided by the same book that omega squad and delta squad kept in contact #and i guess atin was the one that talked with deltas (as fi was out of the GAR since True Colors) #as it was vau's men that told him about ko sai and stolen research by skirata (told by sev) and the myheeto bank raid #Mygeeto* #so much for keeping secrets LOL #but on serious tone poor darman

[livvyofthelake]

had a crazy "your experiences are not universal" moment today btw. so i was playing my lame little playlist in my car and my friend who doesn't listen to normal music is commenting on each song whether she knows it or not (this is the friend who hadn't heard of olivia rodrigo/joshua bassett/sabrina carpenter until i told her about all of it like. three weeks ago...) and then secrets by one republic came on and she's like oh i know this one! and i go yeah everybody knows this song it was in the sorcerer's apprentice... and she's like i have literally no idea what you're talking about. so. apparently that movie is NOT a cultural touchstone for everyone. who knew?

#yes i watched it for the first time last october but i still saw it as culturally significant before that. how could i not it's such an #iconic 2010 urban fantasy art piece.... #and i said this and was like you're joking what do you mean you don't know the sorcerer's apprentice? #and she was like yeah i just didn't really like that genre i guess... #and i was sitting there thinking to myself like oh my god how am i friends with her... she doesn't even respect 20teens urban fantasy.... #to be fair to her she had a lot going on in her life at the time. but still.... #imagine not knowing the secrets by one republic scene from the sorcerer's apprentice 2010................ BLEAK #beth.txt

[corriegardenia]

New clone OC: his name is monte cristo. Though not strictly speaking force sensitive, he has an uncanny ability to appear whenever the plot is overcomplicated. He doesn't seem to know why or how he turns up, but by golly, he's going to make this absurdly unlikely plan go off without a hitch through a combination of stage makeup disguises, more credits than he knows what to do with, and sheer luck.

#clone oc #the count of monte cristo #its a real Interesting book for the sheer amount of what the fucking fuck it manages to squeeze into its surprsingly short run time #where did monty get the credits? #he was in prison for a week and met a nightsister who told him where to find the secret cult funds from the high republic era #its cool he doesnt have to share them she dies of Old five minutes after divulging this information #hes not a deserter so i have to cut out the bit about the actual count of monte cristo escaping by hiding in a corpse disposal sack #he gets tossed into the sea with a kettlebell around his feet and survives #its absurd and i love him #i think clone monty does finger guns a lot. and strokes his (imaginary) (or maybe costume idk) beard thinkingly #he is 100% certain he is NOT force sensitive #all he can do is be absurdly lucky IF his plan is absurdly overcomplicated #its terry pratchett rules he can only win if its a one in a million chance #tcw #op does content

[ghoul-haunted]

if i didn't know you this whole recurring talk about cannibalism would be concerning 😂

I just think that roman empire should eat itself!!! for my enjoyment!!!!!

#bread circuses and cannibalism #the only historical figures during the era of the republic that are free from cannibalism is spartacus and friends #roman empire: vague. also includes the republic bc it was an imperialistic power #even cassius has cannibalism themes 😌 #his are a spookier version of brutus' tho just bc we have a handful of crumbs about his family history #and its like. alright then. keep ur secrets cassius. i will invent worse ones for u #i also like reinventing the house atreus under different settings and for that u need cannibalism bc it starts before atreus #its about the transgressions babyyyyyyyyyy

[navree]

i think my biggest issue with the sequel trilogy is that it’s just such a textbook case of good ideas bad execution on practically every level in every movie and that makes me mad

#personal #star wars #i'm one hundred percent serious here #like tfa was definitely the highlight of that trilogy just because the set up was half the movie and that was good #like the idea that fascism can in fact return based on nostalgia and warped ideals and not as a tyrant but simply #a major political party #like the first order is clearly considered on par with the republic as just a facet of power in the galaxy before starkiller base happens #and the way that they were setting up kylo ren and the way it could be a commentary on how vulnerable kids can be #to things like exploitation and grooming and stuff like that #and just how COOL the concept of 'scavenger who's got a heart of gold and force sensitive stormtrooper who defects' were as characters #and poe of course was just a really good character #but they NEVER delved any deeper in that at all in any way #the last act of tfa wasn't good and then jj left without solving anything so rian had to try #(and i'm saying this as someone who likes rian johnson but finds tlj to just be a mediocre to bad movie) #and so you get good things like luke NOT being the classic star wars mentor but bitter and jaded #and the concept of rose tico as a character and the conflict between poe and laura dern's character #and the idea that rey ISN'T part of a secret special bloodline (tho there still should have been more explanation for why her parents left) #(like they abandoned her specifically because they thought she was force sensitive or smth) #but then also absolute horseshit like reylo (god gag me) and finn and rose's actual plot and basically the entire second half #and then jj comes back and writes the worst star wars movie ever made and retcons basically everything #and butchers basically everything and is basically public enemy number two to me now (behind jon favreau for his lion king crimes) #so anyway yeah literally good ideas but extremely shitty execution all around (and i maintain that kylo should not have been an only child)

[kakashihasibs]

I would apologize for the star wars posting but I've been a star wars bitch pretty much my entire life so it pops up from time to time

#i love the jedi so much 🥺🥺🥺 #i sometimes wish the force was real bc i wanna be a really annoying philosopher about it #i have Opinions on the force and jedi code #and none of it is like the jedi are wrong >:[ but more like what purpose does the none attachment rule serve #does having that rule actually succeed in it's purpose? #if we have a light side and a dark side how should we react to and interact with being who do not have that concept or concern? #YAKNOW #I'M A PHILOSOPHER #i would be the most annoying jedi academic ever #missions? maybe later catch me in the archive reading text older than the republic :P #I'd even do research on the sith #the the rule of two fascinates #the dark side is stronger the more concentrated it is! #the purpose of having only one apprentice is so a group sith cant group up and over power the sith lord #which would ultimately lead to a overall weaker sith lord #i think about jacen's path to the dark side and anakin's too #bc they both had /secret/ attachments! and that secrecy can lead to fear of being discovered! #i wanna talk about that!!! but the force isnt real so like x_x #i fucking hate D*sney x_x #the legends will always be the canon i care about XP

[misheard-lyrics484]

I was listening to this song again...I was gonna post about it a while ago but kept forgetting *what* I originally misheard because now I know what it was originally written as. But I finally remembered, so here y'all go! (I think my lyric makes more sense because they're talking about lying and being tired of it, and that metaphor they used makes no sense, but... 😅)

Secrets by One Republic

Actual Lyric: “tell me what you want to hear, something that’ll light those ears”

Misheard Lyric: “tell me what you want to hear; something after all these years”

#~Nico #misheard #misheard lyrics #lyrics #secrets by onerepublic #onerepublic #one republic

[crazy-pretty-ready]

Fun learning about sea-creatures by singing. (Changed-lyrics of Secrets by One Republic)

#Fun #Learning #Sea Creatures #singing #changedlyrics #Secrets #One Republic

[inquisitor-apologist]

God I’m just thinking. And ugh, the Jedi’s martial arts must have been amazing. They had seven distinct styles, passed down over a thousand generations, by uncountable lineages.

Every lineage must have had their own katas, their own training methods and distinct variations on the forms. There were probably inter-lineage feuds on what type of sparring they taught, variations on specific katas, which techniques were acceptable in sparring, anything. You KNOW those High Republic Outpost Jedi must have created new styles that were gradually subsumed into the 7 forms.

What would a Jedi Tournament have looked like? Were there ones for specific forms, like Soresu-only competitions? Did they have some kind of point sparring? Was there an endurance/blocking division? How would they have measured Force abilities in a tournament setting? How did they score?

In conclusion, SHOW ME THE SECRET JEDI MARTIAL ARTS LORE LUCASFILM

#this is brought to you by: kid who has been doing karate since 8 thinking about how Mace Windu developed his own style #Lucasfilm I am in your walls I need to know #star wars #prequel jedi #Jedi order #jedi culture #Jedi martial arts #Jedi tournaments

[bits-and-babs]

✦ 𝐏𝐈𝐗𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 ✦

– KINKTOBER DAY 1: CAMGIRL!READER

simon riley x camgirl!reader | smut, 18+ | 1.3k words

summary: a new client sends a request for a solo-cam performance. his lack of detail and scarce details leave you unprepared.

cw: f!reader, sexwork, dirty talk, breast-play, m & f masturbation, use of sex toy, use of honorific 'sir' but no real power dynamic.

⇽ KINKTOBER MLIST | DAY 2: TOUCH STARVED ⇾

❝On Deployment. Don’t be afraid.❞

Cryptic in its context, the message that popped up from your new client in the lower right corner of your computer screen made you smirk at the time. However, gazing at the skull-faced mask that materialised on the pixelated video screen when you answered the video call that swiftly followed, your amusement slips from your lips. Username ‘Ghost’ hadn’t been making some kind of arcane joke about the size of his dick being too much for you… 

“Oh,” you let out a weak laugh, eyes slipping over the grainy footage as ‘Ghost’ leaned back in his seat, immense, bulging arms crossing over the plane of his chest, “When you said… I wasn’t expecting that.”

“Can’t take off the mask,” the gruff, northern accent that rumbles through the computer speakers sends a ripple down your spine– a concoction of a nervous chill and delighted arousal. It metastasises in your guts when you watch him spread his legs, the blackness in the eye sockets of the skull burning through you even behind a screen. “The URA don’t take kindly t’people contactin’ cam-girls.”

URA. United Republic of Adal.

“You’re– On a military base?” The question passes your lips before you have the opportunity to think better. The plain black t-shirt stretched across his humongous frame gives little away, but the khaki-camo pants and the silver dog tags glinting in the low light of the room seem to corroborate his claims. 

“Can’t divulge that information.”

Of course he couldn’t. Obviously. 

“Y’can call me sir.” ‘Ghost’ clearly had experience contacting cam-girls, leading with his preferred address. It’s impossible to ignore that tingling arousal creeping into the pit of your stomach again, knowing you were in for a ride– so to speak. 

“Yes sir,” you answer to his demand, watching as ‘Ghost’ rubbed his palms over the top of his camo-clad thighs. You note the grainy blackness across the back of his hands; a tattoo. Most clients were secretive in their own camera-exposure, focusing the frame on their head and shoulders while pleasuring themselves off camera. ‘Ghost’s’ whole body was on display, offering just as much of a show for yourself. 

It was thrilling. 

“Lose the bra.” 

“Yes sir,” you nod, compliant to his demands. Reaching behind your back, you unclasp the lacy bra you’d chosen specifically for this cam-session. Your contact with ‘Ghost’ had been minimal, limited in the information he would reveal to you. It was entertaining this way, guessing at what you should wear like taking a crack at an enigma code. A shot in the dark; you’d gone for simple black. Slowly slipping the unadorned bra from your arms, you made a note of your victory when you hear–

“Fuck, that’s it,” ‘Ghost' mumbles beneath his breath, and you’re unsure if he was unaware of the sensitivity of his microphone, or if he’d meant for you to hear his whispered praise. You can’t find it in yourself to warn him when his palm settles over his crotch, inhaling sharply as he lifts his hips up to grind into it. 

Cupping your breasts in your hands, you squeeze the supple flesh so it bulges slightly between your fingers. It’s as natural as breathing now, a learnt behaviour after months of cam-work. Nothing special, but it gets ‘Ghost’s’ attention. 

“Hmm, fuckin’ ‘ell,” he groans softly, quick to work himself out of the khaki uniform trousers. You have half a mind to inform his superior that one of his soldiers had stolen a weapon from the armoury, watching him wrap his hand around his throbbing cock in a tight fist. “Get real close to the camera. Wanna see you fuck yourself, love.” 

You remember his initial request, much like his communications with you; simple and lacking detail. ‘Fuck urself w/ ur largest toy. Panties on’. Though, gazing at the image of him on your computer screen through heavy lids, you weren’t sure even your largest dildo compared to the girth he held in his hand. The ruddy tip is shiny, and you can just barely make out the shadows of bulging veins where his palm couldn’t reach. 

“Fuckkk,” ‘Ghost’ groans when you ease the tip of the toy in, camera angled just right to see you clench around the silicone but also to show your eyes rolling back. “That’s it. Greedy cunt’s swallowin’ it all. Look at you creamin’ around it–”

For a man so unwilling to talk much in any other set of circumstances, ‘Ghost’ was particularly mouthy now. Even as the head of the toy touches something mind-numbing inside of you, a delirious, breathy giggle escapes you at the thought. 

Beginning to push the toy in and out of your cunt, you watch ‘Ghost’ begin to fist his cock with a grunt. His eyes stay glued to the screen, enraptured by the way your walls squeeze the toy so tightly. It’s hard to miss the way his lungs rattle with unsteady breaths, the sheer size of him making a slight tremble appear like a shudder so violent it could trigger an avalanche. 

“Christ, I’d fuckin’ ruin you. Fuckin’ split you open and flood that cunt with my cum,” he moans, the sound wanton and wholely unmatching his intimidating size. It takes you a moment for your vision to focus before you note the slow, methodical rise of his fist, matching the strokes of the toy inside of you. 

Like he was imagining fucking you. 

Your own arousal spiking with the realisation, you thrust the toy inside of you quicker, more eagerly. It's ecstasy, the head of the toy spearing something inside of you that has your legs quaking. “Ugh– hhahah, ohmygod, oh fuck–” 

‘Ghost’ continues to talk you through your squeals of delight, his gruff voice particularly throaty now as he matches the violent thrusts of the toy. “Good fuckin’ girl, love. If you were here I’d fuckin’ paint your face with it– fuck!”

It’s like a chain reaction, the usually stoic man’s filthy comments causing a visible clench of your cunt when you cum around the toy. It makes ‘Ghost’ cum. White floods your vision, but the static sound in your ears can’t drown out the gruff, choked sounds that play from your speakers. 

When your blurred vision finally centres, ‘Ghost’s’ fingers are drenched with thick ropes of cum, the creamy spend dropping from his knuckles onto the khaki of his trousers. Leaning his head over the back of the chair with a shaky exhale, the black hem of the ski-mask rides up slightly, exposing the bulging veins beneath the pale, rosy skin of his neck. It’s a tantalising glimpse of the man behind the obscure username, underneath the skeleton-veil. Instantaneously, you’re like an addict– desperate for more, one hit isn’t enough to satiate the screaming need inside of you for another inch of skin. 

It’s why you leap out of bed at 04:27am when you receive a message weeks after you’d hit ‘end call’, the promise of your next fix delivered in a cryptic message deposited in a private messaging chat that had lay dormant since the footage went black. 

‘Want u on ur knees this time. Panties in ur mouth, fingers in ur cunt.’ 

Biting on a grin, you rush to answer. He was still in the URA, the digits on the clock in the top right of your phone evidence of a timezone difference. It was still relatively early there– like he’d finished his shift and immediately contacted you. Like he couldn’t wait to jack off to the image of you stuffing your cunt with your fingers and whining his name. 

Fuck the four figure amount he’d deposited into your bank as thanks for the last video call, the thought alone is enough to urge your fingers beneath the waistband of your panties, circling your clit as you clumsily type with one hand to respond to his demand. 

‘Yes sir x’ 

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[littleeyesofpallas]

So, with the new legends there's a neat way we can take a guess at some of the time frame. Although it's largely aesthetic and hard to gauge the intended historical parallels of, the not-Eiffel Tower at the center of the city could presumably have been completed in the late 1880s like the real thing. Interestingly that places it pretty concurrent to the construction of the Hokkaido Government building in the 1870s that served as the basis of the Galaxy Team HQ in the first Legends game.

But with the keywords being "urban redevelopment" the setting could only possibly be Haussman's renovation of Paris that took place from the 1850s-1920s. So given that the tower is already standing, that places Legends Z-A between 1889 and 1927.

And I doubt it would play into the setting of a Pokemon game but I think it's neat that it would mean taking place firmly in the 3rd French Republic, as that's not typically the most romanticized period of French history. (Kind of shocking given just how much Japanese pop culture loves to fixate on the Ancien Regime and Rococco architecture.) It's right at the height of the French Colonial empire and their rivalry with the British... Even if they don't address the history directly, certainly not the darker bits, I wonder if we'll see an ancestor of Rose* and some mention of Kalos and Galar's relation as a hint at the Pokemon world's equivalent of India. (Elephant, what elephant...)

*put a pin in that... Well come back to Rose later...

Also I know a lot of the stupid "leaks" that were just running with any/every rumor they could find had been talking about Celebi, despite there being no signs of it in the direct, but it's possible that the Z-A title and the fadethru of the sort of sci-fi looking city diagram into a pencil and parchment one is indicating going back in time --backwards, from Z to A, end to start.

and just so long as I'm just picking at edges of things...

The unknown are an anagram of, "POKEMON PRESENTS"(oh and the SOEYUE one at the end is just "SEE YOU") and the ""confidential"" stamp on the documents likely reads "Gokuhi" as in gokuhi[極秘]: "Top Secret," but the rest of the text doesn't seem to match either Japanese, French, or English,

Hito to POKEMON no kyouzon o yumemite[人と ポケモンの共存を夢見て]: "Dreaming of people and Pokemon's coexistence" Toshisaikaibatsu hassou MIARE CITY[都市再開発発想ミアレシティ]: "Urban Redevelopment Concept Miare City"

The obvious exception being that redacted text is clearly the romanized MIARE from the Japanese MIARE[ミアレ] and the English CITY, which is the Japanese name for what was localized as "Lumiose."

Curiously the word "Pokemon" is very clearly missing from the passage, and also in both cases there are too few "Galarian" characters for how long the phrases are in any actual language.

and finally, given some of the existing examples of handwritten Galarian in SwSh, I'm guessing the text on the big logo is as i've transcribed into the more standard Galar font, although I'm really uncertain about that second one, and a bit iffy about the big "X"s, but the little cyclone O, the V with the underbar, and the E seem certain enough.

Also there's a logo I know I remember seeing that looks like this one but I can't remember where it is or what it's associated with.... It's the logo on the Macro Cosmos power plant. Not Rose's personal logo with the stylized rose, and not the Cosmos business logo with the big star system orbital ring Cs, but the power plant in Hammerlock where you go to fight Eternatus specifically.

It would be really neat if whatever this organization is was tied back to an ancestor of Rose and Peony and the origins of Macro Cosmos somehow.

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