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autistic-sidestep · 2 months

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🧿 and 💋 for Sura, please!

🧿Do they have a superstition or belief? Such as "black cats bring bad luck", belief in ghosts, tarot, crystals, meditation, etc.

yep! there's a reason why eyes are a central motif to argos' design (and in general just being rife with symbolism. im linking the posts i wrote up a while back bc i don't really have the spoons to add anything new). they've picked up a lot of things from other people, baby sura was a bit like a sponge absorbing other peoples' belief systems from people they liked (so some of stuff of ortega's or elena's from the time spent with them).

like they used to wear a nazar bracelet/pendant (which ricardo kept) and prayed. both were things they picked up from the various people sura met during their first escape, since they'd observed cultural things were something you could find common interests and community. ("these people look like me, therefore, maybe i should do that to fit in?").

sura was still willing to learn even if it never fully understood the customs, but it was really the communal aspect to it that they found so appealing, the connection and unified purpose that they didn't really get to experience at the farm (seeing, but never being able to participate). similar reasons for the draw to vigilantism and becoming sidestep, i think. so sura picked up a bunch of different customs, (including avoiding pork, up until the nanosurge at which point they went basically pescetarian if not vegetarian, (raw) meat made sura nauseous after that).

i think post hb they're a bit less superstitious now. but there's still some traditions sura will still keep up, like prayer (and using an accompanying mat/cushion), or using tealights and incense. it doesn't really believes in higher beings anymore (or at least not in benevolent ones. what was that quote in nitw? "a universe that doesn't care, but people that do." feels kinda fitting. entropy and forces that aren't really personified, that just are for fate motive? although i might swap it to anger/justice and have it as a secondary motive.), but just for the routine and comfort of it (autism). also i think it factors well into sura's outsider scar and attempting to heal it.

not to mention sura's had some habits in the past like. letting the microwave timer go off is not only bad, the whole day's ruined now. when they used to hang out in the rangers hq breakroom sura would just. stop the timer a second before it was done. even if it wasn't their food. no beeping allowed. >:( (i'd hesitate to call this a compulsion but it certainly was one of sura's eccentricities.)

(does this make sense lol. i am so exhausted)

💋Do they kiss first? And do they bite their lips if they're mischievous or aroused? And do they bite their partner's lips when they try and pull away?

kissing first depends on the context, but Probably yes if they know the other party is interested. sura's not really one to presume on that front, since their orientation stuff makes figuring that out little wonky. i think sura's puppet/ace/juno is allo so that makes things extra confusing flipping from her body to itself and the fact it's less confident dealing with "romantic" stuff as itself. sura can fake it well enough as juno since she's meant to be attractive and deal with the stuff that comes with (dating, flirting, etc.)

sura? less so. even with argos, there's a degree of separation between that persona and its civilian self. but yes to lip biting, probably a big tell lol. biting partners lips…. i could see it, yeah, just to tease as long as they can tell there's nothing wrong? all comes down to how comfortable they are with the other party, ig

#oc: suranga fernando #ramblings #ty cigs i have now added NEW sura lore thanks to your ask o7

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loregoddess · 2 months

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ayyy there was something tricky about Ochette's final boss, and it was that the final boss has a ton of health and an attack that reduces one party member to 1 hp (which the boss uses to power up and will use multiple times throughout the battle), so having healers is very helpful, bc despite Ochette being lv. 70 I was not able to "deal massive amounts of damage to get through the fight in like, 4-5 turns" my way through her final boss, although I had significantly less trouble this time than I did on my first playthrough when this was the first final boss I took on.

Anywho, thoughts on Temenos and Ochette's final chapters below...

I can add "timeline for when the Kal got wiped out" to the list of things that I just legit forgot from my first playthrough, like I simply did not remember seeing "Thirty years earlier...." at the start of Temenos's Ch4, which is such a weird timeframe (are you telling me Reiza was 7? and she has major guilt from a genocide she participated in when she was SEVEN??), but at least the "Temenos might have been a survivor of the Kal" theory makes so much more sense to me, bc I just thought we got a vague "decades ago" timeframe, not an actual set of years, bc in my head I was like "Well, Reiza's 37, so if this happened decades ago maybe it was two decades and she was 17 bc that would make sense for all the guilt she's carrying" no, no we actually got a timeline and she was apparently a whole whopping seven years old. Anyhow I'm gonna have to unshelve the Kal Temenos theory in my head and turn it over a bit more.

That all said the writing for Temenos's final chapter is...fine. So it's really not that his storyline bugs me so much as his Stormhail chapter specifically bugs the hell out of me (and also I don't like the "genocide survivor joins those who killed her people to seek revenge on them...somehow" as a plot point, like don't get me wrong I love the concept of Kaldena and think she should be in the story, but not as the main antagonist, but that's an entirely different rant).

I still wish we got some sort of timeline for when D'arqest came and turned whichever group of people living on Toto'haha into the beastlings. Like this guy apparently did something on every major landmass, and we don't know when or in which order. (whose name I hate typing by the way, why did the localization team decide to have it spelled like that?)

Also for as...clumsy as the whole "D'arqest turned people into beastlings by taking the evil from their hearts to call up the Shadow, so they can't be corrupted by the Shadow or at least are very resistant to it" is a worldbuilding point (believe me, I understand why this is criticized by fans), I don't think it's as simple as I've seen some analyses write it off as? Like, the Nameless Village is very much Right There, and there is very much something...deeply weird and concerning going on with the "heirs" in the village. Like, I dunno, I wish there was more about exactly what is going on with the "heir" situation in the Nameless Village, bc like what does it mean that the heir is a "vessel"? why does the heir, if they survive, end up with scars across their backs? who do people living there act as guides to outsiders even though those outsiders might end up summoning the Shadow (like what Kaldena was trying to do)? Ochette, Juvah, any of the members of Beasting Village, and also any of the members of Cohazeh's village never bring up the beastlings in the Nameless Village, and even Temenos doesn't have much to say about anything in the Nameless Village itself since he's so laser-focused on Kaldena. I just...have a lot of questions about the Nameless Village.

Ochette's final chapter still gets me like, that is one hell of a tragic battle, and even though I knew what was going to happen I still teared up a bit. (story-wise, not combat-wise, the battle itself was fine mechanically, but the story bits afterwards just get me).

From the perspective of trying to figure out how Vide's influence works and stuff though, it is interesting that one of Ochette's potential companions is able to be influence and corrupted by the Shadow (since we see the purple-y shadow stuff around the companion not chosen back when Ochette was 10, well before Petrichor and Harvey turned the creature into the Darkling), since mostly we only see Vide's influence in humans and monsters.

Juvah also calls Toto'haha's flame the "First Flame" which is a really interesting bit of lore, since we have the Kal who worship the "Azure Flame" and the Order of the Sacred Flame who worship the "Sacred Flame". Can't remember where it was in who's story, but I remember it being said that after their battle with Vide the gods were said to fall into a slumber (potentially literally becoming the various Flames), so it's interesting that we have a religion that seems to have been carried over from Orsterra, a new religion formed by the Kal people, and indications that the ancient beastlings or warden beasts also had some sort of understanding of their island's flame that is separate from the Order's interpretation of the Sacred Flame. I'll have to keep an eye out during Hikari and Agnea's crossed paths Ch2 to see if anything interesting is said in the cave of that region's flame.

ALSO THOUGH because the Scarlet Moon only happens every 400 years, this might actually help me if I ever sit down and sort through the in-game lore to set up a potential timeline bc like, the Scarlet Moon is basically an astrological occurrence (lunar eclipse? that makes it possible for Vide's power to seep through from "another world"); the fact that Toto'haha is a weak point that connects to Vide's "world" isn't really that surprising when we consider that the island is located sorta halfway between where Vide is fought in the endgame, and the isle containing the Gate of Finis. We also know the legendary creatures prevented the calamity of the last Scarlet Moon before dispersing over the world, and Tera shows up in the Kal's mural.

So it's possible the Scarlet Moon occurred, the legendary creatures dispersed, D'arqest began his conquest of the world fighting against Kal and Tera, fighting against the first leader of Ku and possibly the Lumine clan on the western continent, fighting...someone on the eastern continent (the kingdom of Fjall? someone else?) and causing the Pit to open up in the wall, and attempted to summon Vide or obtain Vide's power on Toto'haha, resulting in the beastlings (he might have done this before fighting Kal, since D'arqest had the power of the Shadow when he fought Kal, and actually might have been at Toto'haha first? maybe Kal and Kal's people managed to kill D'arqest and that's why he's buried in Gravell so close to where the Kal people lived). We know he also had to obtain Vide's power or blood somehow to make Claude into a vessel for Vide, so Toto'haha might play into that as well (maybe the beastlings found a way to seal the power of the Shadow that seeps through the Rifted Rock, and that has something to do with the "heir" tradition that I have so many questions about).

I'm pretty sure D'arqest had to happen after the first Scarlet Moon though, just bc of Tera being in the Kal mural, which would place D'arqest's activities sometime in the last 399 years before the game, which wouldn't be that far stretched (Lyblac was only active for like, less than 200 years in Orsterra which is hardly any time). It also makes me wonder if the gods' original battle with Vide didn't occur 400 years before D'arqest, since Vide has to be sealed in another world in order to try breaking through when the planetary alignment is just right during the Scarlet Moon, and a lunar eclipse would have been the height of Vide's potential power (the night side of the planet is in shadow and the moon is in the shadow of the planet, unable to reflect as much light) which might explain how 7 of the 8 gods ended up dead or as close to dead as a god can get. It would then place the timeframe for Vide getting sealed at roughly 800 years before the events of the game's story, which follows the 8 theme pretty nicely.

Which is all wild speculation on my part, but I can't see D'arqest being active more than 400 years before the story events. Also the legendary creatures disperse from Toto'haha, whose flame is protected by the warden beasts and the beastlings (who are, if not immune to the Shadow, at least very resistant to it and therefore ideal protectors), and one creature ends up in the area of each of the other three flames, as if they're protecting those flames as well--and there seems to be a group of people who come to worship/protect each of the three flames as well: the Order of the Sacred Flame, the Kal, and the Lumine clan (potentially, since the current Alpates says she has to "return to her people" and then she's found dead in Conning Creek, which is very near Hinoeuma's flame; one of Ori's journals mentions that Alpates and Rita both come from the Lumine clan, and it's possible Kura was related to that bloodline as well). This might explain why Arcanette has Petrichor hunt the three legendary beasts, to weaken the defenses around each flame? (it would make sense for Crackridge at least, since Tera seems to be connected to the Kal people, and Arcanette could have had Petrichor try to kill Tera before ordering the slaughter of the Kal people, since Tera would have been unable to defend them).

Anyhow this is all just unorganized rambling now, and I may be going absolutely nowhere with all this, but I wanted to get my thoughts written down bc I dunno if we'll ever get an official timeline to clear up at least a few things about Solistia's history.

#this definitely turned into stream of conscious speculation midway through #but I have a lot of unorganized speculation about things #oracle of lore

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sinquisition · 2 months

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all very good but 5, 10, 11, and 12 for the angelic acrobat

5. Does your OC have a signature weapon and/or attack? How long did they train to master it?

He normally likes to fight with his quick wit and cutting tongue, but when push comes to shove and he needs to fight, he's got a proficiency in throwing axes that will fuck an enemy right up. He learned how to use them originally as a trick to add to acts, but that entailed learning how to be very accurate with it, which made turning it into a way to defend himself the next logical step. He took up magic because even though he's accurate with the axes, he doesn't always have enough strength behind them to deal with threats fast enough.

10. Is your OC sentimental or pragmatic? Do they keep mementos or only what they need to survive? Have they always been this way or did something happen to make them change?

Hmmm I think he tends a bit more towards pragmatism, partially bc he and his family have been moving around his whole life, never in any one place long enough to really call it home so that doesn't lend itself to having a whole ridiculous amount of belongings. He does have some sentiment towards his old costumes but he doesn't keep them in their entirety, he usually cuts squares off them and sews them to his other squares so at this point he's got a decent-sized blanket—more useful than keeping old costumes that take up space. He also does keep way more gifted jewelry than he needs, but that's usually not sentimentality, it's more that he likes shiny things and struggles to get rid of them bc they're sooooo pretty

11. What does your OC believe in? God(s)? Monsters? Love? The power of unbreakable bonds of friendship to overcome any obstacle? The ability of money to open any door? Or are they indifferent?

Arcosæ worships Calistria, which I think might actually be a family religion, since her worshipers include performers (and also thieves, which... is also part of the whole thing ajdjfk I feel like I haven't talked much about this even with you but I have been imagining his parents as kind of similar to the Thérnadiers, mostly the idea of them being a lot of fun to be a distraction for the fact that they're also robbing you blind) and I think he was casually into her whole deal but as he got older he got more into it because she's a cool as fuck goddess ajdklg also I think at some point he had at least one relationship that added him to the 'scorned lovers' category of her followers. So he's actually pretty devoted to her but also devotion to her entails a lot of doing whatever the fuck he wants lol.

12. Is your OC cynical or optimistic? Who or what shaped their outlook on life?

Cynical. Very much so. He maybe used to be a bit more optimistic, but it's hard to keep that up when you've never really fit in anywhere. He stands out because he's an aasimar and that draws people towards him, but a lot of their interest is very surface-level. They only see the pretty face and not anything beneath that, not the hard work he's put into his performances, not the fact that he's extremely intelligent. Not anything deeper. He doesn't trust people much with his deeper self because not many people have cared to try to uncover it, so he doesn't bother anymore.

#arcosæ phaeton #ask games #thank you for indulging me ajdkfl

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redjaybathood · 2 years

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JayKyle, RoseCass, Talia x Shiva?

1) JayKyle is something that, potentially, could be good (for me; shippers are good with what it is I assume) IF you retain their antagonism. If they don't hate* each other at the start if it, then what's the point?

Sure, there are all those AU where they're childhood friends or Jason as a Lantern or Modern AUs but it's missing the JayKyle factor: them being low-key jealous of each other and wanting the other one to notice them back without realising it.

*oversimplification

There's also a fact that fandom sometimes uses JayKyle in order to give Jason a non-objectionable male SO (who's not Roy Harper bc haven't you heard that Roy is Dick's friend?). I'm not saying all JayKyle fans do that but I have seen enough posts that go "ugh if you need to ship Jason with someone, do it with, idk, Kyle" and it's pretty much a turn off

Tl;dr has a potential, but the execution, in general, is lacking

2) RoseCass

I was gonna say: "don't believe in it" but then I remember

- Cass's first crush was International terrorist. And, okay, you can interpret it however you want, but Black Wind was something to her, something huge (and forgotten pretty much after his arrest so not that huge; but huge when it happened - and clearly it never happened before). Comparatively, is Ravager being a crush that much of a stretch?

- the cursed "evil Cass" arc that ended with Cass legit wanting to kill Slade. If anyone would understand and help, it's Rose. Look. Look. This story is writing itself. As soon as I am less depressed, I am going to take the worst Batgirl arc and one of the most boring TT03 plots with Titans East, and I am going to rewrite the ending with RoseCass epic roadtrip to hunt down Slade.

It doesn't necessarily end up with Cass, or Rose, murdering Slade, because ultimately, it's a story about reinventing yourself. But they will kiss, I promise you that.

Tl;dr I can believe in it but under specific circumstances.

3) Talia x Shiva. It's very aesthetic pairing for me. Two beautiful, competent, complicated women, it should work, and yet. For me, there's just not enough drama.

Don't get me wrong, each of them has a lot of drama on their own, but it's not a complimentary drama, you know?

You (by "you" I mean, me) need an AU for it to work. For example, Sandra, Talia, Richard, Bruce and, maybe, David, all students in the same dojo. Or, Talia recruited Shiva to take back Leviathan.

Or, they're both live in suburbs: Shiva never wanted kids but had one, because her asshole ex, which she never seen again after the divorce - and now she has to help her partner, Talia, deal with custody war over the child Talia wanted very, very, very much and yet weren't able to keep. Bonus angst points if meanwhile, Talia is fostering a local teen, and Sandra's biological daughter found her after running away from her abusive father. Just to add to the mess.

This one would be much, much less about romance and more about marriage and parenthood.

Tl;dr beautiful but needs a lot of work

#jaykyle #rosecass #talia x shiva #ask meme #Send me a ship and I'll give you my (brutally) honest opinion on it

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