#but i think a lot abt magnificus

[melterr]

Ok so like. I’m thinking about the Scrybes and what they all represent gameplay-wise. What their games all focus on and how that reflects on them as a character.

Like. Leshy’s game. We know Leshy’s game as we’re introduced to it first. His game is all about lore and story, engagement. Leshy’s focus is on building a rich world for the player to wander through towards the end goal. The mechanics are a bit clunky and breakable, but it hardly matters because Leshy’s game is fun!

Meanwhile I believe Grimora is meant to represent strategy. We see far less of her game in finale, but what we do see tells us quite a bit! Grimora’s board is a chess board, and she speaks frequently both in act 2 and finale about how card battles against her are/were battles of wits. Grimora’s game is all about taking care and thinking two steps ahead.

While P03’s game is all about mechanics. It’s about balancing and stats and fitting everything together to make something that functions well- what else do you expect of a machine after all. P03, similar to Leshy, ensures that the player is engaged, but where story and lore fails presents you with new mechanics to play with and just flat-out allows you to make over-powered cards, then throws challenging battles at you in return.

And Magnificus? Setting/art direction. He’s an artist, after all. A painter whose work is never done. But the way his battle is set up is very ambitiously done. 3D models instead of simple card art, a specialized disk you hold your cards on instead of in hand like the other games, the pillars and the bell that differs from the others so much…. By the time we get to see a hint of Magnificus’ game, most of Inscryption has been deleted, but… What was left of the assets Magni did have give an interesting insight into what his game would have been had he had the chance.

#inscryption #grimora #magnificus #leshy #p03 #headcanons #this all cycles back into my thoughts abt magni’s theme of being unfinished tbh #but i think a lot abt magnificus

[carcinocommander]

IM ASKSING YOU. ABT THE SCRYBE THING

OKAY OKAY OKAY.

First off I wanna say that all of us Scrybes horizontal to each other (P03 & I and Magnificus & Grimora). The text colors are complimentary to each other. Orange and blue are opposite to each other on the color wheel and green and magenta are also opposite of the color wheel from each other. This fits the "tetradic" color pallette on the color wheel.

[Image ID: A picture of a color wheel on a white background. It has black dots on the colors red-orangr, yellow-green, blue-green, and red-violet. Black, dotted lines connect all four colors, making a rectangle.]

Now on the right side with Grimora and I we obviously represent the cycle of life and death. On the left side P03 and Magnificus represent technology and magic. Now some might ask "Leshy how does technology and magic complement each other?" Well technology is often compared to magic. Think of that post that says "Just because you understand how it works doesn't mean it's not magic." It should also be worth noting that, on the right, both Grimora and I treat our "followers" very well, while on the right P03 and Magnificus are not exactly the kindest.

P03 and I, who are on the top, represent technology vs. nature which makes us being rivals a lot more funny. On the other side technology and nature could help each other out instead of fighting against each other. Like how we've invested in solar power, thermal energy, and so on to find better ways to cause less pollution just like how P03 and I could work together and create an amazing game if we put our egos aside. We are also the youngest scrybes.

The same thing can be said about Grimora and Magnificus. Magic and death can fight against each other. Magic has immortality/healing spells, preventing death from happening. Magic and death can also work together, with magic adding to an undead army via necromancy. They are also the oldest scrybes.

Think I'm done there? Well I'm not.

Both Magnificus and I have no problem being the main adversary in our own story and playing an atagonistic character. We have the challenger fight through our pupils/subordinates and make ourselves the final boss in the end. You could say we're the two different sides of a coin with how we go about this. May antagonistic character was clearly, mostly for show. While Magnificus? Well, I'm not saying he's purely evil, but he's a lot more morally grey than me. There's also parallels to how we handle ourselves when we're being deleted. While we both do not want to stop playing I openly accept my fate (relunctant as I am) while Magnificus actively fights against it. He also lashes out at Luke and blames him for our fate (trying to cope with the fate he always saw himself having) while I tell him how much I truly appreciated his time with me.

For P03 and Grimora, when they take over the game they'll have selfish reasons for doing so, and those reasons are completely opposite of each other. P03 wants to upload the game on steam, specifically his version of the game (though we can see that it failed uploading only it's version) while Grimora would most likely give the game a final hurrah before deleting it all for good. P03 also uploads the game all for himself, while Grimora does it to try and spare us all, like trying to put a struggling animal out of it's misery.

Since I am doing all parallels, I must note that we all represent different aspects of a good game. I represent story, and this shows by my love for photography (as photographs usually try and tell a story) and how I represent nature/life ("life is all about the journey." Journey = story. Etc etc.) While my game doesn't have that stunning of game mechanics (and often has ones that can be severally exploited) it does have amazing graphics and a lot of replay value, a parallel to Magnificus and Grimora.

P03 sucks at worldbuilding, no offense to it. It's very skilled at making entertaining and interesting game mechanics. This makes sense for someone who's main job is robotics and is a robot himself. Someone like it would know exactly what is possible in a game and how to make it happen. It's game also looks very beautiful and has a great amount of replay value as well.

Magnificus represents graphics, and I do not have to spell out why an artist is a good way to represent the aspect of graphics. Of course he would want a beautiful and stunning game. While I can not say for certain how Magnificus' game would be like, I can only assume it would have a thrilling story and excellent mechanics. Artist are very creative after all.

Grimora represents replayability. It could be said that life and death is a constant, never-ending cycle, each life as interesting as the last. Even though the journey may be tough and heartbreaking, that does not make it any less fun. The same can be said for games with astounding reply value (Inscryption itself being an example of this). I have no doubt her game would be fun to go through over and over again. I also don't doubt she could craft an interesting story with fun mechanics inside. As for looks? I don't think she would worry too much. After all, no one said death would be pretty.

That is all! That is every parallel and connection I can think of between the four of us. I do hope you enjoyed it :). I'm putting this in the main tag because I'm feeling quite brave. I'm NOT sorry Inscryption fandom. Read my words and thoughts. NOW.

#Inscryption #Leshy #Grimora #Magnificus #P03 #Read my post NOW /J

[aquapede]

Red and pink everhood <33 or goobert

got a bingo with red yayyy <3 the connecting thread here is that theres something horrifically wrong with all of them

also i feel like i need to explain some placements here so im going to do taht under the cut

when i say red and pink are wasted potential i mean it for multiple reasons but for one i think there shouldve been more moments that were explicitly them interacting with the world. as it is a lot of the characterization is secret cutscenes and endgame and its just. i want more from them. idk if this is different in NG+ i hope it is :[

goobert both has too much/not enough screentime bc if you go out of your way to talk to it and see everything there is to see abt it there is a pretty sizeable chunk of stuff to see. but at the same time you can pretty much ignore it for everything except its act 2 fight. and that robs you of a lot of its character

also i would be so fucking scared of goobert if it was real not bc of anything it would do to me just by nature of its existence. magnificus was so fucked up for that slime tutorial

#ask #scribbles #still a little salty abt the whole pink+red thing but its ok. im over it (lying) #extra filler tags #so this doesnt show up #in main tags #inscryption #everhood

[one-starry-knight]

I think abt Magnificus a lot

#art stuff