Another moment that lives in my head rent free, is Rae explaining all the medical risks he's taken, or have happened to him and Ulysses just clutching his pearls degree like "how are you not dead?"
Centross saying “you know who else fucked up? Literally everybody. That’s what makes us human”- one, a very good line, two, it’s one of the main points I feel that’s consistent through Fable. These characters are not perfect people- a good few of them are murderers. But they’re still there, and they’re better than they were then. Sherbert with Haley, Centross with the souls, Ocie when she was the ocean, Ulysses (need I say more), etc.
It’s okay to mess up. Just get up and become better from that experience
I have thoughts and feelings about Quixis showing up for Rae and Ulysses, let me dump them here...
• This is the second time that Quixis has shown up when Icarus isn't around.
And even though the events were similar, this one feels worse.
This time, Quixis slowly guided the way/direction), almost struggled to communicate (used 1 block instead of a bunch to say yes/no), hesitantly confirmed that Icarus was in danger.
• Quixis communicating when Rae is around makes me think that Rae is somehow involved with Quixis or maybe, Quixis' Rae has something to do with it
• Quixis giving a direction rather than wack spots like they did last time, probably relates to the fact that they go dormant around Fable
• Quixis talking to others - especially in this case - just seems like a last resort.
The World Port is dying and the decay is spreading. Icarus won't listen and help deal with it - because they don't want to - and they still don't trust Quixis.
The decay on Quixis could be worse at this point, I can't imagine the pain they're probably in. So getting to Rae probably took a lot.
• Quixis simply giving a direction, cause they can't go near Fable, but also letting them know that it's not safe to do so right now.
That long pause after Rae asked if Icarus was safe. Then he had to plead for an answer.
I feel like Rae was asking if Icarus was safe at the current moment - with Fable around and his plan.
And Quixis answered no to them not being safe with Fable or in general as the WorldPort is collapsing, which could basically mean the end of the world...
Quixis gave them a direction, that has to be good enough for now. They can't exactly do much on their own right now.
• If Icarus finds out that Quixis snitched their location, I feel that they're going to spiral more. Cause they think Quixis is with them, maybe not on their side but they've been with them, so how dare they go to Rae when they're "trying to fix everything"
• Also Ulysses refusing to let Rae go around Quixis stuff even though he only knows it as this violent thing that can hurt people I just- the lad I love him.
Local anthropologist would like to geek out over the current Ulysses arc
Seeing the way someone interprets the last member of a people or a species alive is always interesting, but paired with Ulysses' background in... less than ethical medical and bioscientific experimentation???
Sometimes I think about how Ulysses was canonically described as having a “dad-bod” when Connor was asked and I just… am not sure where to file that information tbh
This is a safe space to throw out crack ships rn right? Bc we’re all mentioning non-canon ships
C!Centross and Ulysses…
I would say hear me out but there’s not much to hear me out about…
I mean Connor said it himself that these to would unironically work well together…
And Centross dating one of the 2 people (the other is like probably Ic) that Ocie hate is a little funny
And like a kinda bartender x regular at the bar is like they’re dynamic and it’s silly…(kinda cafe-au but with spice)
If you wanna be basic about they’re ship name it could be like Ulytross or Centsses or something like that but consider something like glow-fish or soul fish or something like that
I probably thought about this more than I should have