Anyways this Arach ( pronounced: Are-Rah-ch ) their soul type is - • Hope •- inspo for the design was Chara and clover from both undertale and undertale yellow. ( If you’d like try and guess what Arachs name is based off of here’s a hint: it’s pretty much another characters name spelled differently like frisk and kris )
Minthara is like "oh yeah, poisoning my partner so they have poison resistance when we go to Menzoberranzan", Minthara we don't even know how to talk the drow tongue! Start with something easier!! THINK
What if...that one Spider-Man/Moon Knight fusion character had an MCU counterpart? So they get the suit that magically shapeshifts, depending on who's fronting?
Foreground to background: Spidey, Science Peter, Business Peter, and the Knight. Kinda wish they had more individual names. Maybe if they stuck around long enough to get character arcs, they'd pick some new ones.
Is that arach's actual full name or is that your own speculation?
A Piece of Blue Glass Moon makes it abundantly clear that Arach is an Ancestor, so her real name is somewhere in this list.
She takes one of the newcomer slots, discounting Chromclay, Be'ze, and Zaria/Vlov, which means the Arach candidates are:
4. Millennium Se*ata Ut--
12. Lululily A. Pa--
23. Zuckham Eri Ra--
26. Agape
Before Type Lumina became a shitpost, it included allusions from Roa and DA Noel to a more powerful related figure named Paranodahlia. Arach is the only character where all threads fit for the Paranodahlia bill. And in the DAA list, The unreadable part of Lululily's name starts with a Pa, making it the only place where the Paranodahlia name can fit.
Notice also that Lululily A. Paranodahlia is the only name in the list with an abbreviated initial. This means there was a special need for this "A." to be concealed. Revealing the meaning of the "A." would make something too obvious. So, with the knowledge that Arach is Paranodahlia, it makes sense that the "A." is just Arach, plain as is.
Incidentally, Zelretch's TM Manuscript profile states that the only Ancestors he befriended are the "three stooges" Caubac, Agape, and Ravmatross. So from that we can fill up Zuckham's name as well.
There’s a really interesting, missable scene in the Arcueid route.
If Shiki chooses to have Dr. Arach patch his broken leg up instead of Kohaku, Arach will start yammering about Shiki and Akiha’s unnatural bodies, foreshadowing the Far Side routes as early as Arcueid route.
She notes that Shiki appears to have been bred for short bursts of speed, with hollowed bones like a bird and incredibly fast-moving muscles, to Shiki’s disbelief.
To annoy him further, Arach then goes into Akiha’s body and the Tohno family’s history of interbreeding with humans and selecting from the right stock (though as Shiki has no idea that oni exist nor that he’s in a family of them, he may have just thought Arach was calling the Tohno family eugenicists.)
What’s interesting though is that Arach reveals that, whether by a miracle or freak accident, Akiha was born pure-blooded. Her DNA matches that of a pure oni from before interbreeding even began. In other words, Akiha doesn’t have any human blood in her. A true oni from ancient times born in the modern day.
It’s also notable that when Arach asks Shiki to guess how ancient Akiha’s physiology appears to be, even the answer of “Once in a millennium”, which would put her on roughly on the level of Shuten, Raikou, and Ibaraki, is wrong. Akiha is the sort of oni only seen once in ten thousand years.
ik we talk a lot about Toland and Shin and Asher et. al. when we talk about our odd destiny guys but I think Jalaal needs some love in these conversations. He's a spacer. He's the head of an organization that wants to gtfo from Sol before humanity is done in by like 10 different extinction level threats. He analyzed Truth To Power with Ikora, and philosophized about what Savathun is up to. He rolled up to the aftermath of the Battle of Saturn with the interstellar equivalent of a tow truck and asked to take the scrap. He's a little into the idea of being force-choked by Petra. His aesthetic is kinda goth cryptarch appalachian trail thru-hiker. Why are we sleeping on him?