#chaos‚ balance‚ order

[blood-orange-juice]

*still procrastinating 6.5*

I love how FFXIV "Fiend" lyrics is literally Childe with the exception of the god's name and identity.

While we still can't connect those to anything in FFXIV.

[engagemy-others]

the Eldritch God, the Golden Mage, and their hammer boy who forgot to shave

[littlekinng]

no because it’s about “form and function” and “a bit of both” and “they say opposites attract” and “we have different styles” and “only order? no chaos? sounds boring” and—

[threeoffucks]

Jupiter's Storm - Chap 16 additional notes

Teehee! Hi guys! Chapter 16 was a bit of a lore drop. Here's a post detailing important changes and updates from the recent chapter! :3

Where does this chapter leave our characters?

As of right now, Chapter 16 leaves our Jayce, Ekko, and Heimderdinger in Duumvirate custody (implied sitting outside, everyone's curiously not resisting this). Viktor is still bluetooth (essentially) operating Blitzcrank in the intervention room. Sky is currently locked up in Viktor's childhood room (mental construct), waiting with company for the Herald.

What we know of right now...

Doomed!Svetla

So, Doomed!Svetla didn't send Jayce back to fix his timeline on honest terms... woof! It seems her thank you gift wasn't a gift. Or was it? With this reveal in mind, I just want to point out what we know to be fact with her story and what we don't yet! Everything about her story is confirmed to be true by a separate perspective (Chap 12 (Singularity), Fortune, lol Flying Lessons will confirm a specific part of her post Fortune)--OUTSIDE of the following.

Coincidentally, there are 41 corrupted listed under casualties.

"Bugging"

A concept similar to what we've been seeing with Consumption (taking sentient data and storing it in the Hexcore!Fused nervous system). By giving over a piece of herself, she now has control over the bugged individual's nervous system. Though it changes the bugged person into something they're not, Jayce got the better end of what could have happened. Jayce is now a mage.

Hexchildren

The product of a human and hexcore-fused person.

Champions (bastardizing league lore lmao)

A term for Hexcore-Fused mages who've gone through the canon event of consuming their planets (last man standing).

The Duumvirate

Name dropped back in Chapter 11 (Revelations), we are finally getting to meet the "friends" that saved Fortune during his attempt at the end of Chapter 12 (Singularity - Part I). We're finding out that those friends happen to be a community of Champions across different universes (Runes) and timelines. It seems they have a lot of procedures and rules behind them. It looks like Fortune's doing as much as he can to bend them in his daughter's favor.

The Council

The Duumvirate has a council system with variants overseeing different departments within the Duumvirate. They aren't important for now, so we won't worry too hard abt them.

Chaos

A Founding Father of the Duumvirate--the acceleration Rune variant of Viktor and considered a prime Herald. It seems time has left him calm and pleasant. We know from past chapters that his appearances and personal presence is intended to be rare.

Order

A Founding Father of the Duumvirate--and a royal looking idiot. Titled the prime Defender, his brief introduction shows he's a rather frazzled and uptight prick. Has perfect teeth, full brows, and a curious fixation with his hands.

Fortune (V-42-A/Doomed!Viktor)

Waking up in an inpatient institutional facility--Fortune spent roughly 800 years on a psych hold. Taken out of it to serve as the head investigator of Case 41--a case investigating Doomed!Svetla--he's been working under contract for the last 628 years. It seems he's maintaining that contract as a case consultant--implied to have little power over what's decided next. We find out that Fortune is 5944 years old! We also find out that Fortune has been with the Duumvirate for four millennia (end of singularity to now).

Hermit (J-36)

The Head Officer of Case 41, father-figure-like, and Fortune's husband. Confiscated and kept Svetla's knife on his nightstand. It seems him and Fortune have a family friend that he proudly displays in his cubicle as well...

Things we're being kept purposefully in the dark on:

Egg/Incubators

The last time this was referenced was at the start of Act 2--Chapter 6 (eggs!). The last person to be called an Egg was Viktor, by the Hexcore (to Good!Svetla).

For context, The Hexcore disguises itself as Sky to go over plans of Viktor's transformation into the Herald. The Moon/The Egg are both used in reference to Viktor. The Sun is used in reference to Jayce.

What was the point of Bad!Svetla bugging Jayce?

While Chaos and the Duumvirate have their theories--

We really have no idea what she has planned outside of an understanding that-- She's done something like this before. And she's doing it again.

[quasieli]

[Art by Baydews on Picrew, link to picrew can be found here. Image description: A digital bust icon of my character (he/him), set against a light pink background with an array of gold star scattered across it. He is a young, thin, tan complexion Elf trans man with shaggy black hair with a pink fringe and longer pieces that frame his face, one red and one blue eye, brown freckles, a short chin beard and a sharp toothed half smile. He is wearing a light blue button down with several buttons undone as well as a green scarf. End description.]

Making this fun new friend for a game that's starting up soon, been wanting to play a class I've never played before so going for Sorcerer (Clockwork Soul) for this dude. He comes from a long line of sorcerers who have honor and order running through their blood and will do anything to uphold what (they see to be) is right by any means necessary. And then his story is basically, he hates his pseudo-cop family, so he fucked off to become everything they didn't want him to be 💙

[badcolonyclothing]

[shi-loki]

Good evening everyone, been getting back into reading tarot recently, decided to find out what my birth cards were. One is The Chariot which is all well and good, but the other is um, well, thE TOWER. 🥲

[ly-gushka]

i mean 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 as cora is. she is the leader of the 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂s

yeah no, i dont think i wanna match cora's freak. she's freaky enough for the entire tokkiblr

[blindmanbaldwin]

i’m just a man waiting for atsv to come out on 4k so i can (re)write my deranged letterboxd posts onto tumblr dot com with gifs and screencaps

[random-xpressions]

Enthralled, super excited, an insane rush in the blood, jumping on my bed, going head over heels - if these things aren't happening, then definitely something seems to be a little faulty. At the opposite spectrum - calmness, tranquility, an unfound peace, a deep overwhelming quietude, a prayerful state, pure bliss - if these things are also not rooting in you, then there's definitely something that seems to be a little faulty. Man must exist like a pendulum between the polarities of madness and awareness, between music and silence, between dance and stillness. I'm not even talking here about any love or relationship that involves another human being - this subject is too vast and far encompassing to limit itself around a human soul. Your existence is not to be shrunk to fit into another individual. You have the capacity to contain multiple universes - roam in that vast open space, and balance it with both your polarities of chaos & order, of stillness & motion!

Random Xpressions

[thixcy]

✨ I’ll bring some order, let her be chaos, and let’s do this✨

Source: naftalimoses via instagram

Good Moaning 🌞 & Soulful Listenin’ 💚

[qosmiq]

Balance between Chaos and Order

The Balance between Chaos and Order. One perpetually in motion. One perpetually trying to contain the motion. as illustrated in the Cosmopopicon.

The Cosmopopicon: Cosmogony though Mythology, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Pop Culture and more, by Ghislain Barbe, is available on Amazon, Lulu and Barnes & Noble.

Cosmopopicon (lulu.com)

[awholelotofladybug]

Is there a Kwami of Chaos? Because I feel like they would be the only “evil” Kawmi.

Especially if they’re anything like Klarion.

[reno-matagot]

KaOrder Thoughts

Please don't read this to Fnords!

A serious and joyful game, not only with Khaos and its possibilities, but with KaOrder:

• Being multi-observant without being an icon breaker (construction, order, devotion, magical work). IRL example: Orryelle Defenestrate Bascule. (loyalty to its pantheons & systems)

• The Meta: crystallization of a goal, almost a system: it is not kHaos, which avoids systems. It is not deconstructing one's identity per se, but refining it in wizarding art. (Strigoi VII influence)

• I am not a Thelemite but am today capable of enacting my true Will. I also received a Name in a vision, perhaps that of my Daimon. The physical/spiritual balance is very poor for me. As I use (apparently poorly) the spiritual to try to resolve the problem, it becomes stronger.

• I am this person who will practice Satanism, honor Hestia and the gods, use the Feri touch to magnify my goals in a witch path multiplying into original and attractive currents for me. Dislocate then repair in one of the pantheons (Chaorder) Example: Projective: spell with Hecate, countryside magic but Belial style, etc (magic) integrative: spiritual and magical pantheons reinforced by devotion with the aim of global magical transformation: it is magico-religious, it is not enslavement. The Witchfather never provided a manual, fortunately.

[heartsdefine]

gonna probably rework the events of lok s1 and s2 a little bit for my korra to make them...better. lmao.

[star-pound-star]

Trump’s Tariffs Could Put the Supreme Court in a Major Bind

Was “Liberation Day,” as the Trump administration framed it, actually legal? Two new lawsuits argue in the negative. Plaintiffs ranging from a libertarian legal group to the state of California have filed separate challenges to Trump’s tariffs, invoking legal and constitutional doctrines that should—at least in theory—be well received among the Supreme Court’s conservative majority.