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Thanks for your post about memetic entities, especially the bit about the black swan theory 😅🤡 that would maybe explain why I'd encounter cryptocurrency?? tweets when looking at the #blackswan hashtag 😂

Lol yeah, the black swan theory is most often used in the stock market and those in finance, through it's supposed to be a psychological concept.

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(Spoilers for 2.2)

I see a lot of people getting confused about the whole Gallagher/Misha/Black Swan thing, so I'm making this post to clarify. All three of these people are memetic entities, so why did Misha and Gallagher "die"?

Gallagher is a History Fictionologist and is not real being, or more specifically the existance as "Gallagher the Bloodhound" is. So when Sunday exposes him to be a "lie", what he's actually talking about is that "Gallagher" and "Death" is a lie created to decive the family from Dreamflux Reef and Dormancy. When he brings Sunday there he exposes that lie, allowing the family to see the true Penacony. Since the truth of the lie has been exposed, Gallagher ceases to exist, since logically if a falsehood is proven false, it no longer continues to hide anything, and so no longer continues to exist.

Misha is also a Memetic entity, however he embodies Mikhail's will of the trailblaze, and his hopes for Penacony's future. You see Misha isn't supposed to exist in Mikhail's grand plan. Mikhail was tied so strongly to the will of the trailblaze, that when the memories hosted in the dream bubble called A Child's Dream perceived the train's whistle, they left the bubble to try to go to it and subsequently forgot their actual purpose, which was to help the Astral Express. When Misha finally completes his mission, he stops existing since his purpose is complete. Similarly to how the memory bubbles in Herta Space Station fade after you look at them Misha also fades away.

Black Swan on the other hand, is a Memokeeper and due to the the Remembrance's power is less likely to become into the corruption of the Enigmata. (A small theory I have is that memokeepers are a more stable form of entity because they probably embody the memory of their life experiences. In some philosophical concepts, that's considered the soul. She's more stable because unlike Gallagher she isn't formed on a lie, and unlike Misha she wasn't created for a specific purpose.)

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Black Swan is probably named after two things. First, the European idea that black swans did not exist (proven later to be false as they do exist, just on different continents), probably alluding to her identity as a memokeeper. Second it's also probably referencing the black Swan theory which is,

Black swan event, high-impact event that is difficult to predict under normal circumstances but that in retrospect appears to have been inevitable. A black swan event is unexpected and therefore difficult to prepare for but is often rationalized with the benefit of hindsight as having been unavoidable.

Britannica.com

It's probably why she can predict the future through past memories.

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Anyone ever think about how the reason why Aventurine was able to pull off his gambit so well was because his scene partner was Ratio. Like, the guy really understands acting his ass off to pull off a plan.

(Side note, if you get any of his messages after the space station quest, it's pretty obvious that most of the snootiness was an act. He genuinely is amused by the trailblazer's curiosity and actually answers their questions in good faith, no matter how stupid they act.

I say mostly because the guy is still pretty snooty regardless.)

Both Aventurine and Ratio were acting from the moment they stepped onto Penacony. Their first conversation is also an act, because we know that the Bloodhound and Nightingale Families have been monitoring everyone.

So Ratio and Aventurine fool Sunday, Ratio gets his data about the Stellaron, and Aventurine gets to go to the other side of Penacony.

Dr I'm planning shit just to play games meets Mr I'm so good at lying that I fooled myself, honestly.

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they're all insane for thinking this, actually

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the kids share one braincell and its purpose is to help people

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aventurine with cat... cat with aventurine...

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How to do character parallels (Acheron & Aventurine) Spoilers for 2.1

It's pretty evident that the writing team for Penacony has knocked it out of the park and they've been getting better by patch. The best part of this patch has probably been the use of the switch POV to show between the two protagonists of this quest.

I mean it's pretty obvious that they're parallels. They're the last survivors of their people, destroyed by an invading force (the Avgin by the Katica and Izumo by Takamagahara). Both survived through their own skill and support from other people and then suffered horribly through the aftermath of survival.

Acheron becomes a Self-Anihilator and loses parts of herself, like her memory (and sense of taste). She has to use emotion to navigate the world because she can't keep a hold of her memory. In The Pioneer Diver of Dead Waters set it's implied that she was Freebas' friend, and if you read the description of the set it's pretty evident that Freebas died journeying into the black hole that is the Nihility.

Aventurine loses all of his people in a single day (his birthday!!!) and then becomes a branded slave forced to participate in a Hunger Games-style tournament for his survival. It's implied that his only weapon for this entire twisted game would have been his chains, which would have been horribly traumatizing for him since every death he committed would be up close and personal.

Throughout this quest we follow each of them as they carry out their own personal agendas and how each of them come to the same conclusions. They even have a single companion for their quests who helps them carry out bothering Sunday (which is pretty funny in retrospect, since five different people broke into Suday's house in the same 24 hours).

And then Aventurine pulls his closing gambit and Acheron is the only one who understands why he's doing this. Because both of them have loathed themselves and wanted to die, and found something they so dearly want above all of this.

Aventurine needs the power of an Emanator to break down the walls of Penacony and he knows the only person in Penacony who can carry out his ends is Acheron.

And then this happens.

Aventurine understands Acheron's version of Nihility more than anyone. He understands what it means to keep holding on, even when you should be rightfully dead. Acheron understands all too well what it means to lose so much of yourself just to survive, and their conversation about Aventurine's scheme is full of nuance and many, many layers.

My favourite recurring motif for these two is Rain. Aceron says that she weeps "like rain" when she activates her Emanator powers. When she "slashes" Aventurine, she creates rain, something that should be impossible in the Family's dreamscape. Aventurine is associated with rain constantly from birth, something his people consider a blessing. However, now he can't even bear getting his outfit wet in the rain, something that may be a rejection of his past. But when Acheron fulfils his wishes and he finally accepts his past, the rain pours.

In conclusion, I'm losing my mind, and Shaoji is responsible. Probably.