#Zero-One Spoilers

[cor-lapis]

Fontaine is in remarkably good shape after getting completely submerged. Even Dvalin threw a few signs on roofs and whatnot

Kaveh and al-Haitham redesigns are mine (still WIP), while Nahida's is by fallencrowkarma

Masterpost of other quest sketches

#anyway glad tartaglia got some enrichment this update #wriothesley's ark being able to fly was kind of hilarious. was that necessary duke. the entire nation is covered in water anyway #the thing is. people didn't dissolve. but I assume they can still drown ToT but everyone seems to have been fine??? #oh well. anyway furina deserves the world and if she has one fan that's me if she has zero fans- #genshin impact #my art #4.2 spoilers #genshin spoilers #navia #arlecchino #neuvillette #gi traveler #paimon #mona megistus #barbeloth #i guess. #furina #lyney #egeria #focalors #rukkhadevata #makoto #ig??? #dainsleif #he got zapped #tartaglia #skirk #kaveh #al-haitham #lynette

[ghostampede]

she’s the protagonist she’s the antagonist she’s the villian she’s the hero she’s a bystander she’s a victim she’s vengence she’s a scared girl she’s going to save the world she’s meant to die she’s immortal she’s the saviour of the world she’s going to burn it all down she’s an extremist she’s pragmatic she’s optimistic she’s divorced she’s faithful she’s a prisoner of time itself she’s trapped eternally she’s free forever she’s dancing across the 4 dimension she’s playing games we will never understand she’s alive she’s dead she’s the observer she’s the cat in the box-

#zero escape #implied zero escape spoilers #this is about #akane kurashiki #genuinely one the most nuanced and complex characters i have seen in a while #akane zero escape #zero escape 999 #zero escape vlr #zero escape ztd #9 hours 9 persons 9 doors #virtue’s last reward #zero time dilemma #rambles #zero escape spoilers #2000+ reblogs later and i still feel pain whenever someone tags this as a blorbo post #this is about AKANE KURASHIKI put RESPECT on her NAME #fr though glad so many people have characters they connect to this #though i must reiterate i am being 100% specific and literal about this with akane kurashiki #please play zero escape for more details #:D

[smokeyinferno]

#zero escape #9 hours 9 persons 9 doors #999 #ill draw one or more of the old guys as a proper shitmas thing later probably i just needed to get this out of my system #999 spoilers

[sinlizards]

SEEK A WAY OUT!

#zero escape #ze spoilers in tags #9 hours 9 persons 9 doors #junpei tenmyouji #999 #my art #fan art #undescribed #2023 #just wanted 2 do a funny lil 999 jumpy portrait in a similar style to my previous ztd one of him

[luffyismss]

#no captiob bc i have zero words #I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM #THE INSANITY #THE SILLINESS #WAHHHHHHH #one piece #monkey d luffy #monkey d. luffy #one piece spoilers #wano spoilers #gear 5 #op 1071

[saewokhrisz]

"hopeful visions"

spread i did for the Focus Network zine! we are having left over sales currently so if you missed out on grabbing a copy during preorders, nows the chance to go grab a copy it really is a beautiful zine 😭🫶

#phew ages since i posted horizon fanart #this one im still super proud of #id like to think that tildas attitudes weren't all [vague gesture] like that towards beta at first and genuinely wanted better for her #but oh well.. #horizon zero dawn #horizon forbidden west #hzd #hfw #hfw spoilers #beta #tilda van der meer #my art #illustration

[shadandrews]

ISAT shitposts in no particular order, many more but some are spoilers under cut etc teehee

#in stars and time #isat #in stars and time spoilers #isat spoilers #somehow ended up with ZERO mirabel ones how #isat memes

[kicktwine]

if you look at the literal implications of alisaie stealing the limit break first chance she gets it’s not because she sees a shiny button and hits it it’s because she is Always, Consistently ready to push past her limits in combat at the drop of a hat

#also alphy has a shiny new shield after endwalker! #I assume because his shield broke and he wanted a better one. my boy #kipspeak #endwalker spoilers #ffxiv #also also I always love when girls have battle barks that aren’t overly feminine waah~ aah!~ hwah~!! I LOVE zero’s RAAGH #HRAAHH #love you xion love you zero love you ali

[drsatyr]

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.

#dio vlr #dio zero escape #zero escape #virtues last reward #zero escape spoilers #vlr spoilers #having a normal one tonight. ok?

[laismoura-art]

Kuai... baby... what are you doing? That's not how you use a couch💀

Bi-Han, please, teach your brother how to use the damn couch!

#i laughed way too hard at this #also Bi-Han’s impatient ass💀 #eu falo que o Bi-Han tem fogo no c* #tomas is the only normal one in here #kuai liang #bi han #tomas vrbada #sub zero #scorpion #mk smoke #mortal kombat 1 spoilers #mortal kombat 1

[cormorant-red]

I played 999 recently at @xivu-arath's recommendation, and I had so much fun that (inspired by that one polygon video) I illustrated my liveblog about it!

If you haven't played 999 and you are even a little bit intrigued by a puzzle/mystery visual novel with multiple timelines that all guide you towards wild plot twists...probably don't read the text! 999 is the kind of story that is best experienced with no knowledge besides the basic premise.

Transcript below the cut:

Cormorant: characters in this game really just say shit like "have you heard the story about the crystallization of glycerin?"

as a matter of fact i haven't, june, please enlighten me

Storm: "I know we're stuck in a freezer but. let's talk about weird mythical science!"

Cormorant: it's also killing me that junpei is dressed like marty mcfly and isn't sharing any of his jackets

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Cormorant: this game is leading me to arrive at mathematical concepts on my own. what the heck

Storm: kshgushhsg

I take it you're having a good time then

Cormorant: trying to check lotus's work and it turns out that no matter what group i arrange to take through a door, the people left behind will always have the same digital root

so to get through door 7 with snake missing, i could either send a group with sum 16 (junpei, ace, clover, and june) or with sum 25 (clover, june, seven, and lotus), but it doesn't matter because the remainder always have root 9 and can't get through doors 3 or 8! wild!

Storm: yeah the numbers and which doors end up barred to you is so cleverly deliberate

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Cormorant: i'm glad i finally checked what novel mode meant, because this is way more fun

Santa cocked his head to one side, like an inquisitive bird, and looked at them.

After several long moments, during which it became apparent that Santa had no idea what the cards meant, June took pity on him.

i'll have to go back and redo the beginning after i get to the first ending

Storm: oh yeah! as I recall that was done differently when it was originally a dual screen game... but it's much better when in novel style. gimme all the descriptions

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Cormorant: I had a long day of sitting though presentations and so I entertained myself by calculating digital roots

I discovered that adding 9 or any multiple of 9 to a number has no effect on the digital root, which is awfully interesting bc I got to the part where snake gets killed. Assuming door 3 was opened with 12 and not 21, the options are 7+3 (motive?), 6+4 (they’d both have to be REALLY good actors), or 9+1. And if bracelets work without a body attached, and if ace picked it up in door 5…

That would be a really useful tool to get around the 3-person minimum without altering the digital root

I’m also very intrigued by the theory that zero is also in the game but I don’t know what to do with that yet

Storm: forlornly having to keep myself from saying literally anything

Cormorant: Understandable, please don’t give me any hints! I’m just calling shots for the joy of being wrong

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Cormorant: and how do you know that, my traitorous friend?

Santa: “The RED doesn’t need a person, you know.”

Santa: “All I need is the bracelet.”

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Cormorant: y’know what i think he’s bluffing. he does need June specifically and that’s why he refused to consider leaving her when they first found door 9. if all he needed was a hostage, he could have grabbed junpei and forced ace to come along, and then he would be dealing with two people under duress instead of three

i peeked at a guide and apparently i found the ending adjacent to the true ending(?) first, oh well. time to see the others!

santa: i said i don't want to leave seven alone

me: bud you can't do a heroic sacrifice too, it'll mess up all the math

reader, he was not doing a heroic sacrifice

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Storm: got any character opinions or theories to share so far?

Cormorant: hmm I’ve got soft spots for santa and lotus maybe just because they were in the first group I went with. I like that the game makes a point of showing that lotus is quick with the math/technical knowledge. I warmed up to clover and seven more than I expected to! I have no evidence to mistrust ace….but I don’t trust him

Snake died before I before I could say two words to him

Or…didn’t. Forgot clover said he didn’t

I got info about the previous experiments from clover and I wonder if we’re like…reenacting the past somehow? Experiencing morphogenetic resonance with the last voyage?

Again no evidence i just wonder where the pseudoscience is going

Storm: santa was so my type as soon as I started playing that I just picked all rooms with him on my first run skugrhsghu

Cormorant: AHAHA that makes me feel better about going “yeahhh door 4 I like the cut of this guy’s jib”

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Cormorant: “the bracelet comes off when your heart rate reaches zero” interesting then that we’ve brought up cryostasis

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Cormorant: i simply don't trust him not to have a spare bracelet in his pocket!!!

They climbed into the elevator and Junpei listened to it creak and rattle its way to the bottom deck. Only Junpei, Ace, and Lotus were left.

As the elevator rumbled out of sight, Ace spoke.

Ace: “Lotus, would you be so kind as to go with me?”

Cormorant: “bad end” YEAH I’LL SAY

Storm: lkksghr yeah there's a few of those!

Cormorant: santa was really quick to declare that he, june, and seven needed to go with clover. waht's his game

june and ace could have done it just as easily

Storm: they could have! good catch

maybe he just thinks seven is cooler than ace,

Cormorant: i'm imagining clover taking all her grisly trophies to the door only to find it already engaged, because lotus needed no persuading,

and regarding the true ending requirements, it's also funny that santa's like "i hate this bookmark! get it out of my sight!" and this is a huge help in junpei befriending the girl who's otherwise about to snap

Storm: load bearing bookmark

Cormorant: good thing you threw that tantrum bud or you would have been killed with an axe

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Cormorant: in my suspicions i forgot a critical detail, which is that he didn't actually go into the door with the body this time

of course seven has been propping doors open, so it really could have been anybody

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Cormorant: "where have these 16 boys and girls disappeared to?" eight for each game and then an experimenter? again with the idea that zero might be in the game...

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Cormorant: bad endings complete! on to the normal ending, which hopefully has less of junpei getting stabbed to death

puzzling over who could have done all those murders, especially in the sub ending...or did everyone get killed? clover thinks that snake's death was faked. or did snake do all the murders, since he was the only one unaccounted for?...and then i remember what kind of game i'm playing. can't discount the ice mummy as a suspect.

Storm: you truly cannot ignore the possibility of the ice mummy

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Cormorant: ah no, so santa's sister was the kid that died...

i can't figure out the connection between events! why did the last games have the veneer of a science experiment, while this one has no context given? why was it all kids last time, and a random mix of ages this time, with some repeat subjects?

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Cormorant: called it!!!!

Junpei: “Ace, Guy X, and the 9th Man’s bracelet.”

Junpei: “That was all you needed to open door [3].”

Cormorant: called it before i even got to an ending ehehe

what i’ve been saying!!

Ace: “(9) is a potent ally in the Nonary Game.”

Ace: “Adding (9) to any set of numbers won’t alter the digital root.”

Ace: “As you can see, (9) is a very useful number here.”

Ace: “With it, one can go anywhere, with anyone.”

Ace: “It is, I suppose you could say, a game changer.”

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Cormorant: okay, normal ending finished! junpei did not get stabbed but we also didn’t resolve much…I’m now thinking that ace with his pocket drugs could have easily played dead in the sub ending

glad to see that snake is okay and hopefully can stay okay in the true ending. where did clover get that riddle, and will she still have it?

0=6. how much do I read into this

still don’t understand how we get from here to santa hostage situation. he’s been so consistent about not even considering betraying or abandoning people, so either he’s a better actor than ace…or it’s staged. are he and june in cahoots

Storm: augh so close now!! soon I can actually say things

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Cormorant: O FUCK

Seven: “Santa’s always in the room with her. That’s what you’re saying, isn’t it?”

Snake: “Yes, that’s right.”

Clover: “What about it…?”

Snake: “That’s quite simple, really.”

Snake: “You told me that the first time you came to this room…”

Snake: “…Santa was the first to refuse to leave June behind.”

Snake: “Now, doesn’t that beg the question “why?” Why would Santa do such a thing?”

Snake: “The answer is easy.”

Storm: B)

Cormorant: i've been thinking of them as a pair because it makes the math easier! if you've got 3 + 6 + 8, just cross out the ones that make 9 and don't even bother with the addition, your root is 8

Storm: B) B) B)

Cormorant: but god!! they are a pair, do not separate (or the jig is up)

Storm: they hid it soooo well

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Cormorant: was wondering when we would see the last cradle guy and oh duh, he was guy X

i did think it was odd that santa phrased it as "i need to leave two of you behind" rather than "i need three of you to come with me," but if he was responsible for everything (most things?), he knew that snake was there, and he was setting up a group that could follow him. excited to see where this is going!

[dreamy sigh] this game is so elegant. what a little puzzle box

Storm: yeah it is, it's just so wonderfully crafted. so little is wasted!

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Cormorant: oh boy [akane vision label]

"through the morphic fieldset we were resonant, and we were as one" i don't think i've mentioned it before but i'm constantly pleasantly surprised by the narration in this game. it's not flashy but it's evocative in a way that's really working for me

Storm: this is where the port falls short a bit of the original version... the ds really worked well with this aspect

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Cormorant: the number of times i thought "this will be totally wrong but i'll say it to storm anyway"

hello??? [arrow pointing back to the message “I wonder if we’re like…reenacting the past somehow? Experiencing morphogenetic resonance with the last voyage?”]

Storm: Y E A H

Cormorant: laser-guided spitballing

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Cormorant: man i said that 4+6 would have to be really good actors if they were the ones that opened door 3...and while they didn't kill snake, i sure underestimated our queen of the stage akane kurashiki

the baseline was NOT where i thought it was

Storm: no one does it like her

#zero escape #999 #999 spoilers #'i'm calling shots for the joy of being wrong' <- girl who just correctly identified the murderer #i wanted to include more back-and-forth but i didn't have enough notes and illustrations to pad it. storm still got the last word in hehe #talk tag #THIS is what the waiting until the ink is dry post was about. #i went and got a new kneaded eraser because my old one was fossilized. are you all happy

[dailysanta]

santa from da vaults. this was a collab i did with my gay boyfriend @dailyjokerp5 back in january! i did the lines he coloured <3

#daily santas #santa 999 #zero escape #9 hours 9 persons 9 doors #999 spoilers #aoi kurashiki #totally didnt fall asleep before i forgot to hit post on this one

[sarmaril]

Thinking about the Durante/Zenos WoL/Golbez parallels right now and the one that sticks out the absolute MOST is that Durante is what Zenos would have been if he had his "good reason." If he and the WoL had been on the same team to begin with, if they were fighting the same fight.

Durante doesn't know how to cope with Golbez gone, he was who he was because of Golbez, what was he *without* Golbez, so instead of finding that out, he BECAME Golbez. Just as Zenos needed to know the WoL so badly that he hijacked their body, Durante needed to keep Golbez as close as possible and followed his friend's ambition to it's most destructive extreme, his way of keeping Golbez alive. Like Zenos tore the world apart to keep HIS connection with WoL alive.

#if they didnt want me to draw these connections they wouldnt have peppered the zenos imagrey through this #the fact that zero was zeno's avatar and her first notion of friendship was Zeno's feelings toward thr WoL #and the fact that Zero was the one to pull Durante back from the brink #many thoughts #and zenis blinders babyyyy #ffxiv #zenos yae galvus #zenos viator galvus #zenoswol #6.5 spoilers #endwalker spoilers #chewing on them like a dog

[laveyll]

#zero escape #9 hours 9 persons 9 doors #akane kurashiki #phi zero escape #luna zero escape #zero escape spoilers #999 spoilers #lav art #posting my stuff from twt.hi #sigmas here as the bonus no one asked for

[bother-blame]

SHADOW LEVIATHAN

#subnautica #subnautica below zero #shadow leviathan #spoilers #subnautica below zero spoilers #these guys are terrifying but they also look rad as hell #the colors in these areas are cool too but the water is tricky to work with #the farther away objects get tinted the water color & it doesnt always look good #b does gifs #should this be tagged for eyestrain? #uh #cw eyestrain #just in case #nooo i just noticed its tail clips through the landscape in the first one ;-; #1k #1.5k #2k

[b6d11f]

i don't want to start any blasphemous rumors but i think that god's got a sick sense of humor and when i die i expect to find him laughing

#akane kurashiki #zero escape #zero escape 999 #zero escape vlr #zero escape ztd #art #// #spoilers #image lyrics: human behaviour - bjork #yes its been a while but be grateful my setup outside of uni is abhorrent. #tagged all the games bc her outfit is a mixture of them all #but more of a focus on vlr #fun fact the ribcage is actually one of those avant garde fashion accessories but everyones tagging it with like body horror #i mean cheers i guess it can represent both #also its so funny that ive drawn akane more than any other ze character bc when i first played 999 i hated her #i have pda autism and didnt like that the game was trying to force me to like her LOL but now i understand she is everything