#also bringing her into XC2 means she's going to interact with sapphire and there is a *lot* of fun to be had there

[moved-to-void-kissed]

I think I might finally have a name I really like for the self-insert I use to selfship with KOS-MOS - namely, Calanthe!

It is yet another flower name (hence the -anthe- stem, like in Telanthera), and I know Xenoblade establishes that the girls named after flowers are the robots - Poppi, Lila, Rosa, ..there’s another technically but that’s spoilers - but Xenosaga as a series seems to use flower names for most of its female characters in general - KOS-MOS being cosmos of course, but then Shion being the Tatarian aster, Juli whose name is pronounced in Japanese as yuri meaning lily, maybe MOMO being named after peach blossom and based on a character called Sakura which is cherry blossom, and so on? So, given that my self-insert originates from the world of Xenosaga, and Calanthe is a genus of orchids, it could still fit!

Regardless of name, she starts out as a promising young scientist working in Vector Industries’ First R&D Division, specifically as part of the programming team responsible for coding KOS-MOS’ artificial intelligence. Only, while she is in the process of fitting a modification to KOS-MOS’ operating system to allow her to emit expressions whenever she wishes (rather than only when her emotion module deems it necessary), and attempts to begin testing the results of her new code, something happens with.. probably the Zohar and/or the Conduit, I haven’t figured out the specifics yet, and ends up transporting both KOS-MOS and Calanthe into the world of Alrest, unexpectedly converting KOS-MOS into a light-element Ether Cannon Blade and Calanthe into her extremely confused Driver. Yes, we’re going to travel around with the main XC2 party, but no, I haven’t figured out anything about how yet.

At the moment, assuming I stick with the name, my tag for her is going to be “self-insert: in a world displaced (calanthe)”, which means I finally have all three tags set for my selfship with KOS-MOS! Thank you to anyone and everyone who’s happened to read all of this rambling, and please take a tiny pixelart KOS-MOS I found on the Xenosaga Wiki for your troubles~

#a call from the void #selfship #selfshipping #love: power of another world (KOS‑MOS) #selfship: encoded emotions (KOS‑MOS/calanthe) #self‑inserts #self‑insert: in a world displaced (calanthe) #I don't have any visual reference but she is definitely going to look pretty nerdy #also bringing her into XC2 means she's going to interact with sapphire and there is a *lot* of fun to be had there #I love getting multiple self-inserts in the same place since then it's like different sides of me all interacting at once haha #ask to tag #science~ #I've added her to the main void-kissed carrd but not to the void-kissed-characters carrd yet. that will happen tomorrow