#its like... u dont have to be textbook smart. shes a bit simple

[beingderanged]

Introducing: Marina!

Marina is an omnic, initially built by a somewhat eccentric engineer as a 'companion model,' or 'sex bot,' in Spain. She is one of few omnics who have an expensive synthetic flesh attached to her metal plating, giving her a more human look and feel.

She's sweet, and a bit airheaded, because of her programming limiting her intelligence, but this does not stop her insatiable curiosity and childlike wonder about the world around her.

Marina finds many things in life to be beautiful and captivating, her absolute favorites are music and dance, painting, sexuality, and the ocean. But Marina's love encompasses many more things in life.

Despite her grim past, she still sees the beauty in the world, and has a zest for life, wanting to help fight for omnic rights. However, Marina's programming also bars her from committing violent acts, stopping her from being able to fight the good fight--but she can heal, and inspire others, and does her best to help.

Backstory briefed

Shortly after she was completed, Marina was sold by her creator to a wealthy Pimp named James Mercer, in Monaco, just before the omnic crisis began.

After the Crisis ended, Mercer tracked Marina down, and took her back to Monaco with him, to work in his high end brothel.

After several years, Marina managed to escape, and fled the country, hopping from shelter to shelter before she heard of the Shambali Monastery.

Having many unanswered questions about existence, and nowhere to go, she decided to travel there, and study.

Marina studied at the Shambali Monastery for many years, learning about the Iris, and her other passions and interests, to the best of her ability.

After she had learned to heal, and connect with the Iris, she felt a calling outside the monastery, to pursue her passions and help people through her art and healing.

[violettressedd]

omg did not realize how long that ask was (and how long this one turned out to be- so sorry 😭) til u answered my bad i yap a lot lmao

oh really? u *dare* me? ive got a very competitive spirit, sweetheart, and i love to win. i also play dirty, so fair warning that i WILL find ur weak points and exploit them <3

and remember darling, u wont ever be getting what u want until u ask nicely. (let me know if pet names are okay?)

yesss its just. the HUMANITY and the eternal knowledge that whatever i know or feel or am, someone else knew and felt and was before. 'we are the universe endlessly reflecting itself'. everyone whos been in love knows what its like. that feeling when u smile at a baby or when ur in a big group of people all singing the same song and its so powerful it lifts u right up out of ur body. its all just so fucking beautiful.

i love lots of different periods/themes/parts of history but im especially interested in things like mythology and religion, folk tales and nursery rhymes and lullabies. the stories we tell ourselves and others are so so important to learn how we see ourselves and the world in general and humanity and good and evil and all sorts of things its so so fucking COOL! i could talk for hours on all this sorry for this freaking long ask lmao

oooh i loveeee philosophy!! we have a college philosophy textbook in out home library that i read for fun when i was like 14. speaking of im 19 and pronouns are she/her. my bad i forgot lol

i also wanted to be a therapist or a counselor for a long time but its not in the cards rn. maybe someday. i love listening to people and giving advice and helping them tho its always been smth ive been good at

in everything im interested in i think theres this common theme of 'people' or 'humanity'. i just love people, learning how they work and how our minds work and how we grow and change and have relationships and its all just so fascinating

ooh tell me more about what ur learning!

thank u!! i dont want like a sleeve or anything super big and bold. i want small simple delicate line art. lots of little things in different places. ooh wdymmm more sci-fi style? im intrigued

thats SO fricking sick smart women are incredible and admirable (and also hot) tell me more about ur planned research! whats psilocybin therapy? also i did a research paper in school about the effects of music on the brain and body and it was SO fascinating like when u play music to alzhiemers patients it helped them remember, and the effects of music on ur actual physical body was shocking as well like it was just so cool. i would def recommend looking it up if ur at all interested its absolutely fascinating!

ill be getting my degree in childcare and early education, like for preschools and such. i work at a preschool rn and if i work here 20hrs a week (which i do, and ill be working more during the summer when my 2nd and 3rd jobs end) i get my classes for FREE which is super incredible. im currently planning on working my way up to a lead teacher position but rn im just an aide. its super fun tho i love all my babies so so much

what time is it for u when u answer this? rn its 11:42 pm so i need to sleep soon lol ive got work and i still have to prep for it tomorrow

goodnight!

<3 🍒

really it's no problem, all i do is yap so i get it. and i love rambling on about random stuff it's fun as fuck

competitive, huh?? did i rile you up enough to make you want to take me down? good luck with that, you might play a bit dirty but you're going to have to fight for it. pin me to the floor, rough me up, make me shake. show me you deserve it, then maybe i'll say your name.

(i love petnames!! i added a list of some i'm not into in the intro post but any others i'll welcome)

(also love the switch from hornyposting to anthropology, the duality of humanity hahsh)

you get it!! understanding that the world around us is full of continuous and integrated cycles is so interesting. the love i've felt has been experienced by countless others in the past and will continue to be long after i die. we forget we're all just a part of nature, life that's intrinsically tied to itself and interconnected. and like you said about each of us knowing our common experiences, yess bc there's no feeling that hasn't already been expressed. you can find solace in the fact that thousands if not millions before you do understand and have lived through the exact same experiences.

BIG ON MYTHOLOGY AND RELIGION OMG, two of my biggest interests especially as a younger teenager. understanding the nature of existence through stories that have built upon themselves for decades. they're all metaphors for the natural world and that's insanely poetic. particularly with religion, it's so interesting reading about how it's expanded and formed over time according to culture. and the amount of ethical frameworks that stem from or are influenced almost exclusively by religious beliefs is so vast.

and yess psychology and therapy is such an interesting field, just going deeper and deeper into the mind and why it behaves or reacts is ughh beautiful. and how it shifts and adapts through different ages is crazy, the difference between the neuroplasticity in an adolescent and a senior is astounding

what i'm studying right now is more looking at the differences in their cultural views on sexuality, marriage, kinship groups, also their intersection with local politics <33

yes yes yes i love the soft, gentle tattoos i think they look so pretty. especially with flowers, it's just elegant idk how to describe it. and sci-fi meaning something stereotypically futuristic in design or maybe cyberpunkish if that makes any sense??

thank you!!! psilocybin therapy is used to treat patients that have undergone significant trauma (veterans, child abuse survivors, etc) and help them by giving them a microdosed psychedelic to induce introspection and maybe even a bit of ego dissolution to unpack their trauma. YES WAIT i was going to do a meta analysis on musics interaction with alzheimer's or stroke victims and it's so cool how differently the brain responds to something like music in comparison to other stored information

that's so so awesome and sounds like one of the best jobs known to this earth omg. preschool kids are so precious and early education is super fun because you can integrate so much psychology into it (also free classes hell yeah)

i'm answering this way to late at night for me so i'll end it here haha, i might have written a little too much

anyways gn 🍒!!

[verytiredowl]

A character analysation of IdV’s Bloody Queen

Bloody Queen AKA Mary is a hunter in the mobile/PC game Identity V. She is personally my favorite hunter because she is easy to learn but hard to master. Her backstory is something that has always interested me though, so i decided to compile my thoughts onto this one post.

Something i appreciate about IdV’s character roster is that some of them are based off of historical characters, and interesting ones at that. So expect a lot of history lessons and references that should be explained in order to understand a character fully (especially with Mary considering how there isn’t a lot shown about her backstory through promotional content, and im talking about stuff like the official website here).

With that in mind, let’s just get into it.

There is not a lot we know about Mary other than the fact that she is inspired from a mix of stories, those being about a French queen named Marie Antoinette and Bloody Mary. These two are used in seperate ways, Marie Antoinette’s story being used as heavy inspiration for Mary’s backstory and lore, while Bloody Mary is a visual/gameplay inspiration.

Mary’s description on her info page and on the official idv website is 

This is strange because it really tells little to nothing about Mary besides her being aware that the position of a queen means a lot of vulnerability. It also strikes me as weird because every other hunter has a fleshed out backstory being written under this tab. (With the exception of Guard 26)

So overall, the ground to work on is pretty small, we dont have a lot of info revealed to us, and therefore leaves her to be a character who loses a lot of potential on a writing stance.

Intro Video

Mary does have an introduction video, though, which explains the base of what happened to her Pre-manor. 

The video explains how Mary was the queen of a country that had a bad financial crisis which was so bad people couldn’t afford food (if we are sticking fully to the Marie Antoinette inspo, this was in the 1790′s) and the public felt as if Mary didn’t care enough to help her people, the citizens voted her to be beheaded under a guillotine. Truth be told, Mary was actually trying to help her citizens by giving them cake.

We have probably the most lore information about Mary from her deduction descriptions, which explain her career as a queen more in detail, about struggles she had and her situation in general.

Deductions

(Credits to u/mawile94 on Reddit for the images)

The first conclusion is clearly telling us that the king Mary married had a problematic family, and the king’s family probably only looked at Mary as someone who will keep the family’s name up, someone who will have a child with the king. (Also, dont get confused: Maria Theresia is Mary’s mother’s name, not her actual name.)

Mary used to spend a lot of time away from the palace in Petit Trianon, which is a manor located in Versailles. The secret letter tells us that Mary was egoistic, naive, and was kind of a glutton. The letter mentions how rumors are powerful, and are going to spread really fast once word comes out about the “incompetence” and lacking abilities witihin the royal family, which will eventually be Mary’s demise.

Princess Lamballe is once again a historical recreation of actual Priness Lamballe, a part of the Savoy House (Western EU country). In real life, Lamballe was actually the confidante (someone who you would discuss private matters with as a royal) of Marie Antoinette after her 1 year old marriage came to an end. IRL, Princess Lambelle dies along Marie Antoinette’s side as she gets killed in the French Revolution. 

The shameful secret can really only be assumed to mean that Lamballe was actually Mary’s secret affair, especially looking at how all evidence suggests that the actual royal family Mary is connected to seems to be a mess. Mary is kind of confirmed to be wlw from this deduction which is fucking cool, but this rumor mightve been what also caused Mary to be beheaded. (But, IRL, the king Artois considered Marie to be physicially unattractive or even smart enough for him, in contrary to him, where he apparently was attractive. He did end up making up with quite a number of mistresses. But let’s not get into a conversation about how unhealthy or toxic royal relationships were in the 1700′s)

this is obviously saying Lamballe is being replaced by the Yolande (Countess of Polignac) as her confidante. IRL, this happens because the Countess of Pilognac and Lamballe start having quarrels against each other, in which they try to win over the queen’s heart, and over time Marie ends up preferring Yolande’s company. But Lamballe feels as if Yolande was a bad influence on the queen, yet she could do nothing about it. The friendship between Lamballe and Marie remained regardless, and she constantly admired Lamballe’s loyalty toward her.  "She is the only woman I know who never bears a grudge; neither hatred nor jealousy is to be found in her." 

Mary finally has a child, and it is a girl. Here we see the reinforcement of Lamballe’s loyalty, but with this conclusion also being titled as a rumor, it is also telling that this is one of many reasons people will start getting suspicious of Mary’s possible affairs.  

This conclusion only leads me to believe that one of the several reasons why Mary was treated the way she was by the public was because of jealousy towards her life and the things she achieved at a young age. The description of the people who are spreading the rumors are bitter, sour people who take joy out of seeing the bad in successful people. Here is where it all goes downhill (as evident by the subtitle under the deduction title.)

We will once again need a little bit of a history lesson for this one:

Koblenz, first of all is a city in Germany. The reason why the French would ever think of even setting up anything in Germany was because of the French Immigrants, and the reason why the Germans were cool about this was because the archbishop-elector (one of the chiep bishop electors) was the uncle of Louis XVI-a persecuted king of France. Along with the refugees that entered the city, two of them was Louis XVI’s brothers: The Count of Provence and the Count of Artois. them, along with Louis XVI’s cousin, Prince Louis Joseph formed an army of aristocrats who would seek to fight for the Ancien Regimé (The name of the political and social system that was popular in France at the time.) In the meantime back in France, the Royal Family gave in and decided to adopt the  Constitutional Monarchy, which was very modern at the time. This deduction description just basically explains that this is where Mary and the royal family fucks up, i just thought it would be interesting to know what they actually meant by what they wrote.

Yolande has left behind the Royal Family and made a run to escape the country. If you’re wondering, at the start of the revolution Princess Lamballe was actually in Switzerland, but as soon as she got notified of the situation she revisited the royal family to aid them, and reassumed her position.

This letter in particular is pretty cut-and-clear: the intention of the revolutionists was to smudge the royal family’s name in the dirt once and for all. What real-life anti-monarchist propaganda would consist of at the time was promiscuous imagery of Lamballe and the queen as lovers to further “besmirch” the queen’s reputation.

This is just obviously hinting at the aftermath of the French Revolutions and also telling us the present (at the time the letter was written). Mary gets executed by the Guillotine, and-well we all know how the rest of the story goes.

Overall, Mary’s deduction story is just a short summarization of what actually happened before and during the French Revolution: it even added the details of how actually sketchy and corrupt the royal family within was, not just the dissatisfaction of the public. As a summary of what this meant for Mary, as the Hunter, she feels pure bitterness, and anger towards the citizens for the way they treated her and the people around her. And as we can see, there was no reference towards Bloody Mary what-so-ever, and the reason why that is is because according to the Chinese version of IdV (which is what the original game’s region/language is) Her name actually would translate to “Madame Red”, not Bloody Queen. I think it was just the translators having fun with words, and since her design is very similar to that of what a person would think Bloody Mary looks like, i guess it made sense to them lol

But regardless, we’ll still take a look at Mary’s design.

Mary’s design is simple compared to other hunter designs in IdV. A simple, ball gown which was originally white, but turned red due to Mary’s beheading, pools of blood dropped all over her body. Mary also used to have long hair, but assumed by the very broken looking locks of hair, her hair probably was cut down by the guillotine. Eagle-eyed people will also take notice to her neck, which is stitched back onto the rest of her body, which the designers wanted to include really bad since its prevalent even in concept sketches as well:

Mary’s gameplay design is based solely on mythologies about Bloody Mary, however, which makes things kind of confusing, but i guess thats what idv excels at the most lol

anyway, you’ve reached the end! if you have read this far, thank you so much, i put so much effort and research into this and i hope people will make good use of it. I also hope i made you more interested in playing mary and/or the French Revolution, lol  but thank you for reading this!!

references:

The Count of Artois and the Coming of the French Revolution by Vincent W. Beach 

The Princesse de Lamballe; a biography by Hardy, B. C. (Blanche Christabel)

My history textbooks

And wikipedia lol