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Amiya's Garden - Chapter 3: A Handful of Earth

I'm back.

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happy pride month

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For those who may not be aware:

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That makes me wonder, how does Rhodes Island organize its logistics? Is it something like field offices in cities both offer treatments and also information relays for the Landship's route?

They haven't really gone into the specific details of RI logistics, but from we do know field offices often act as bases of operation for missions from the landship.

It seems likely to me that they are used as way stations for other things RI needs moved, and are how RI gets most of their information about what's going on in the world.

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The more I think about this Dungeon Meshi collab the more I wonder who actually wrote it. Even setting aside the glaring plot holes (the party eating unambiguously lethal food and walking it off), it really doesn't feel like AK's usual writing style to me.

AK likes to give scale to its world by talking about the time and effort to travel around, but the collab hops across the entire world and seemingly teleports the characters in to their next scene.

Previous collabs have focused on how the characters learn and adjust to the differences in the new world, but the party automatically knows what a truck is. Yet they still call tech "magic items" after travelling through several countries.

AK skips over action writing but likes to explain the material details of things. The collab spends a long time on Marcille's flashlight shenanigans without giving much sense that what's she's holding is indeed a flashlight, or why things go wrong in the way they do.

Kal'tsit is known for endless patience and endless monologues. When Laios starts asking weird questions, she goes silent and sets Mon3tr on him.

There are various lore oddities and inconsistencies too, like Originium slugs having dangerous innards but safe shells, or the whole deal with the Sal Viento cultist. Overall, this collab feels like it was written by someone other than the usual writers, who was getting their AK info second-hand. The writing focus is on skit scenes, with little concern for their requirements or consequences. (Not to say that AK's writing is perfect, but when it gets things wrong it does it in a different way.)

A lot of this mismatch is weird, because Dungeon Meshi is also a series that's interested in lore, logistics and characterisation! If Hypergryph wrote the collab, you'd expect them to try to emphasise the common ground they have. Is it a known thing for rights-holders to parachute in their own writers for collabs to protect lore/characterisation? Judging by the content, I could believe that this was largely authored by a publisher hire interested in promoting the anime.

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Thinking about it, we know there's a lot of vehicles that we use IRL in Arknights, besides the Warships and Nomadic Cities.

But what about Inter Cities Transportation?

If we break down on all the information that we know, normal cars are used by people in the wastes, but when it's immigration or transportation of goods by traders like Cannot and endless supply of goods?

Helicopters and planes aren't an option since the cities also not only move but communication between them a far in between and internet is a pipe dream

Would all of them have some bizarre Mad Max convoy formation, or are there vehicles dedicated for transport? Something similar to this image?

It depends on what you're transporting and who's doing the transporting, but I'm sure there are some very large supply landships out there.

If you look at the supplies levels you'll see Rhodes Island actually makes a lot of money providing security for other people's convoys. A totally normal thing for a pharmaceutical corporation to be doing.

As for intercity communications, I believe somewhere they talk about Columbia having message relay towers set up, so internet isn't actually too far outside the realms of possibility.

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Thinking about it, we know there's a lot of vehicles that we use IRL in Arknights, besides the Warships and Nomadic Cities.

But what about Inter Cities Transportation?

If we break down on all the information that we know, normal cars are used by people in the wastes, but when it's immigration or transportation of goods by traders like Cannot and endless supply of goods?

Helicopters and planes aren't an option since the cities also not only move but communication between them a far in between and internet is a pipe dream

Would all of them have some bizarre Mad Max convoy formation, or are there vehicles dedicated for transport? Something similar to this image?

It depends on what you're transporting and who's doing the transporting, but I'm sure there are some very large supply landships out there.

If you look at the supplies levels you'll see Rhodes Island actually makes a lot of money providing security for other people's convoys. A totally normal thing for a pharmaceutical corporation to be doing.

As for intercity communications, I believe somewhere they talk about Columbia having message relay towers set up, so internet isn't actually too far outside the realms of possibility.

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In Warfarin's first operator record she talks about being able to determine where crystallization is happening from the smell of the blood. While this particular ability is due to her scientific experience, it suggests to me that vampires can smell if blood is infected, and presumably just avoid drinking it.

That being said, vampires do seem particularly resistant to contracting oripathy, and while I have theorized that it's due to them having a lower body temperature, blood filtering arts are also a good explanation. (Midnight isn't a true vampire, change my mind)

Also I want to highlight these excellent tags from @asylumdream:

Love your posts, by the way.

One of the things that have been nagging my mind lately is some very specific topics that I didn't find, that being said. I'm on a question of the immune system of Terrans and blood types (and as a future writer, I needed that knowledge).

Like, does their immune system have something more or less than what we have? And their blood types? Does it even exist due to the Originium, or do they have more variants?

The capabilities of the Terran immune system seem so far identical to real humans. Originium doesn't interact with the immune system very much, if at all.

We know blood transfusions are a thing, but I don't remember any real blood types (AB+, O-, and everything in between) being mentioned yet. There's one Warfarin line that references blood type, but that could just be a translation thing. Either way I think it's fairly safe to assume the blood works the same way as real blood.

Originium does circulate through the blood, which might make getting plasma for transfusions difficult, but I bet you can centrifuge out originium particulates, which would let you use blood from infected people safely. Unprocessed infected blood does pose an infection risk, but only if it actually makes it into the bloodstream.

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Love your posts, by the way.

One of the things that have been nagging my mind lately is some very specific topics that I didn't find, that being said. I'm on a question of the immune system of Terrans and blood types (and as a future writer, I needed that knowledge).

Like, does their immune system have something more or less than what we have? And their blood types? Does it even exist due to the Originium, or do they have more variants?

The capabilities of the Terran immune system seem so far identical to real humans. Originium doesn't interact with the immune system very much, if at all.

We know blood transfusions are a thing, but I don't remember any real blood types (AB+, O-, and everything in between) being mentioned yet. There's one Warfarin line that references blood type, but that could just be a translation thing. Either way I think it's fairly safe to assume the blood works the same way as real blood.

Originium does circulate through the blood, which might make getting plasma for transfusions difficult, but I bet you can centrifuge out originium particulates, which would let you use blood from infected people safely. Unprocessed infected blood does pose an infection risk, but only if it actually makes it into the bloodstream.

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Damn, I hope so too.

The thing that drives me crazy about ponfarin is that like, compared to Closure, who we would expect to do something zany like hire a girltoything and then fumble so hard her official operator name becomes Pudding, Warfarin comes across much more straight-laced and serious.

She’s professional. A leading expert in medicine. Somewhat dignified. Right?

So I was like oh, cool, so it’s a gap moe thing, this even-keeled respectable doctor going out and doing this wild and dubious thing, getting RI to hire a girl she fully intends to entrance and then feed from and play with and stuff.

But uh. Have you read her files?

I had *no idea she was like that!* But it turns out that’s totally something she would do!!

She totally would find someone to obsess over in super unhinged and arguably unethical ways!!

Whereas Closure and Pudding are weird and horny and chill, Warfarin and Poncirus are weird and horny and intense.

And i think that’s Pretty Cool.

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At one point in Episode 14, it's mentioned that there was a half-Sarkaz half-Liberi child, but they were killed by prejudiced neighbors.

Related to this post here

Good catch! Unfortunately it doesn't give us any useful information.

It's in 14-21 After, and is actually talking about several children.

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Genetics question. Or rather, an extrapolation on something.

We know that it's been said in Canon that the child of a Sankta and non-Sankta end up as the non-Sankta race, but does that (given the relationship of these two races) apply with the Sarkaz as well? I don't remember if we've had any characters who have Sarkaz and non-Sarkaz parentage.

I can't think of any characters with sarkaz and non-sarkaz parentage either (other than Cecelia of course), though there are a few who I have seen discussed as likely. What I can say is that, from a genetics perspective, you should be able to have half-sarkaz with racial traits affected by both parents; though in other cases hybrids have taken their racial traits from one parent more than the other, and I would expect that to hold true here.

Sankta have a unique connection to the Law and it is very possible that this is what prevents half-sankta in most cases. The Law may have some sort of contingency to prevent hybrids with faulty connections. In the case of Cecelia, the sarkaz genetics of her father were similar enough to sankta to not trigger this, and we get a half-sankta. If this is the case, I would expect you could also get half-sankta with oni and durin, both of which should actually be considered sarkaz subtypes (like vampires or cyclopses) but aren't for cultural reasons.

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Do you guys ever think about how there is a way for Kal'tsit and W and Ascalon and everyone else to actually tell if Doctors actually faking their amnesia, it's just that they can't trust it.

Because it's Amiya.

With Civilight Eterna she can probably pretty easily tell that Doctors confusion and lack of understanding are genuine, but no one can trust Amiya's word when it comes to them. Just like she was the most important person Doctor wanted to hold onto when having their brain scrambled, the Doctor is the most important person to Amiya that she wanted by her side no matter what. She'd protect them from anyone and anything, even Rhodes Island itself.

ANyways how are you guys doing :)

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You see it's quite simple: if they call the earth Gaia, it's fantasy. If they call it Terra, that's sci-fi

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Except Columbia doesn't have public healthcare and the manga literally spends a whole page explaining that the "public health tax" is only paid by the infected.

Most of that money goes to initiatives to protect the uninfected, rather than actually helping the people with the terminal illness, which is what he's protesting when he says "and what do the infected get out of it?".

Big bob is so fucking cool

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would viviana be transfem since she has male antlers

I've already answered variations of this question a few times, and my opinion is still the same:

The writers may try to use a bit of biology, but the artists are just making cool character designs, and I'm not going to give them credit for representation that isn't actually happening. As I put it in an old post: I’m not going to rule out the possibility that every female Elafia we have seen except Gitano is trans, but it does seem statistically unlikely. Generally male animals just have more recognizable traits that artists can stick on a person.

I do think Courier is trans though.

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would viviana be transfem since she has male antlers

I've already answered variations of this question a few times, and my opinion is still the same:

The writers may try to use a bit of biology, but the artists are just making cool character designs, and I'm not going to give them credit for representation that isn't actually happening. As I put it in an old post: I’m not going to rule out the possibility that every female Elafia we have seen except Gitano is trans, but it does seem statistically unlikely. Generally male animals just have more recognizable traits that artists can stick on a person.

I do think Courier is trans though.