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i hate when rich people condescend with the whole 'money can't buy happiness' argument like listen. just because buying your fourth car didn't fill the void in your deluded disconnected-from-reality life doesn't mean not having to worry about food/ bills/medicine wouldn't greatly improve the mental health of literally everyone else on the planet

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Tiny lizards… 🐉

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Teh blorbos :D

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it must be said the ancient greeks got a little funny with it

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While Dr. Ratio was earning his computer science degree, he came across rubber duck debugging and has sworn by it ever since.

In fact, he loved it so much that even after finishing his doctorate—long since he's had to touch another piece of code—he still carries with him the exact same rubber ducky that's gotten him through all his hours of frustration and despair over all those stupid little coding bugs.

Rubber duck debugging, he decides, is far too wondrous of a technique to limit its usage only to coding. And so, he begins talking to his duck whenever he comes across difficulties while trying to prove mathematical theorems, or finds himself struggling with something or another while conducting his research. 

Soon enough, he finds himself talking to the rubber toy just to air out his daily frustrations. His duck—whom by now, he's affectionately dubbed "Ducky"—listens to it all without a single word of complaint. Rubber ducks, he concludes, are far better company than other people.

And so, Ratio’s conversations with his duck eventually turn to all sorts of topics, from philosophical to mundane. Anyone walking by his office will occasionally catch bits of muffled conversation floating out from behind his door.

(Is it considered a conversation if only one of them is able to talk? Perhaps soliloquy would be a more fitting term.)

All geniuses are prone to their own idiosyncrasies, they suppose.

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It's the way he introduces himself as Dan Heng the Nameless. Last time we met him after a transformation, he questioned if he was allowed to call himself a Nameless due to the reveal of his past and what he'd been forced to transform into. After everything, he didn't know if the Astral Express, his closest friends and companions, would still accept him. This time, there is no hesitation. He may look different and he may bear new responsibilities, but at the end of the day he is still the guard of the Astral Express, he is still our companion and he is still one of the Nameless. And this time, he knows that for sure.

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after everything that happens on amphoreus, i expect a trailblaze trio quest where they can hang out together. catch up on everything. finally feel like the universe isn't a moment away from completely ending.

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The trio is absolutely not getting out of amphoreus unscathed, which we knew but I just need to say it

March got frozen in ice, her ability to remember stolen and was then assimilated into evernight who I’m assuming is some kind of alter? (Think DID, mainly from the mirror thing in her splash art) whilst slowly fading away

We straight up died and got a heck of a ton of trauma considering all of our friends dying and the world ending and the sheer pressure that I don’t think I even need to explain

Dan Heng straight up gaslit himself into believing us dying was a hallucination until he couldn’t anymore, also got a heck of a ton of trauma for relatively the same things as us, then got merged with someone from the simulation and essentially repeated his childhood whilst being trapped on the planet for 1000 years away from anything familiar at all

Nobody is going to be alright after amphoreus and absolutely nobody is coming out of this unscathed no matter how much they may pretend they are

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furniture planet is just a really big ikea

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daniel what happened to u... ..

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first word

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Kid today (probably like 6 years) came up to me and was like "teacher teacher what's your name" and i was like "asha :) also im not a teacher" and he was like "okay asha asha asha I need help" and i was like "okay buddy what's wrong" and he showed me this chunk of metal he'd found sitting in the sun that he was just carrying around and it was super sharp and super hot from the sun and he was like "my hand hurts :(" and i was like "ok. put that down. does it still hurt?" And he did and was like "no." and then he picked it up again and immediately went "my hand hurts :(" again and then I was like "kid. put that down and stop touching it" and he was like "ok but when I touch it my hand hurts :(" and i was like "Please Just Stop Touching That. If you dont touch it your hand won't hurt" and this went on for like another 2 minutes before i got him to realize that if he stopped touching the metal it would not hurt. Kids are so fucking weird man

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Possessive aventurine to go with jealous Ratio

He's not possessive in an obsessive not healthy relationship. He's just had everything he's ever loved ripped from his arms. So, he doesn't want Ratio, the one and only person he will open his heart up to, to be taken from him.

He's mostly possessive in situations where ratio is being flirted with and ratio hasn't picked up on that. The person is obviously flirting, and they touch his arm gently and Aventurine has been watching this. He struts over and stands in between them with an obviously fake smile and is just "he's taken, sorry sweetie."

Later at home, Aventurines resting in ratios arms, but before fully falling asleep, he scoots up and gives ratios neck a lil mark as a way of telling others that he's Aventurines. Ratio scoffs and tells him "you know I'm never going to leave right?" Aventurine shrugs and snuggles closer, "yeah, I just want others to know that you're not available." And be falls asleep with ratios fingers brushing through his hair.

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Why am I suddenly seeing takes on twitter confidently saying "Phainon wasn't the Deliverer from the prophecy"??

Like... People realize the "prophecy" was never actually real and was just propaganda programmed into the system by Lygus and/or Irontomb to drive the Chrysos Heirs into the Flame-Chase Journey so they'd iterate by swapping places with the Titans, right?

People... know that... right?

And therefore, it is impossible for the Trailblazer to be "the Deliverer of the prophecy" because the prophecy does not and never did take the presence of outside factors from beyond Amphoreus into account. That's... common knowledge, yes?

Phainon choosing to read the prophecy in a different way, with the "gray dawn" being projected onto the Trailblazer, is something that occurred after the fact; even Phainon and Cyrene of Cycle 0 could never have known that the person who would eventually come to aid Amphoreus would conveniently fit the "gray" part of the description. (Unless we're about to engage in timeloop mindfuckery in 3.5, but god, I really hope not.)

We can definitely say this is a lucky coincidence or a stroke of fate, but the prophecy itself as created by Lygus/Irontomb and passed through the Titans (whose voices "come from the Black Tide") was very much supposed to be referring to Phainon (or at least to the electrical signal on the path of World-Bearing/Primum Mobile: Hatred) and not to the Trailblazer originally.

This is why passing the torch to the Trailblazer works to "turn the page" in Amphoreus, because it's taking a direction that the prophecy (and therefore Lygus/Irontomb) did not originally account for.

Phainon is absolutely the Deliverer of the prophecy.

The prophecy just happens to be a lie.

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Line of Code, Line of Fire

is this ooc? YES i still want to see a side of her that proobably still be different from elysia

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I love the hc of clingy Ratio but let’s be real, Aventurine was the golden child of his family, (well, his entire clan) which is probably also the reason why he’s so comfortable being in the spotlight, so he has a need for attention. Not only that, he is probably the most touch-starved man ever. Having a loving family, then having that stripped from you in place of the worst horrors known to man to not trusting a single soul. So when you finally know someone enough to trust them? I feel like initially, he’d be very wary of touch with Ratio but after that, he’s unbearably touchy and clingy. Melting into it like, “yeah, I remember this feeling” and from then on it’s over. Just my truth though