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There’s a new friendship guide for HSR on Reddit, which officially tipped the scales for me, so I’m gonna replay HSR (again, lol). If it works I’ll post the link here, but I wanna see if there’s anything I can add to it first. I know I did Cain’s friendship route differently, for example.

Anyway. I also saw a calendar shared with the predicted dates for the upcoming RC events, so apparently the next DR is very, very soon. I almost want to wait for it before starting my replay, so I can unlock 💎 scenes I missed in the past (trying to avoid romance routes), like Greg’s apology scene, but tbh I’m too excited to maybe actually get to read something like proper friendship routes with the men now, so.

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Things I’m always thinking about, but typically don’t post as often as I consider/want to:

1. VoG+Humanity!Lane (AKA, original-Lane).

2. CainLane or Cain or Cain & Abel. Or HSR.

3. Lada or Dragan & Lada or Novak & Lada. Or how I want to make my Sirin slot already but I don’t want another obsession just yet asdfghjkl

4. Airdal & Tiss or Sha’arnez & Tiss. Or just TTS.

5. Aslan & Lale, and Vlad & Lale & Aslan. And how much I like the ‘secret’ path Lale can do.

6. How much I enjoy certain RC tracks (a lot).

7. The Our Life games, music and my OL OCs.

I fear I’m just a sad enby with chronic fatigue. Unless I’m possessed by hyperfixation, I’m too tired to write as many posts as I truly desire 😅

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[Spoilers for ABH, S3, Raphael’s romance route + past. Possible spoilers for HSR, Lane’s past.]

Btw, you know…when I said I thought maybe Sepha had grown and tended to Lane’s soul in his pocket-dimension private garden, and that maybe Raphael was made the same way, I did not think we’d get something like confirmation from Raphael’s memories, esp. before Lane’s.

I wonder if Raphael, or perhaps Mikael followed by Raphael, were Sepha’s first attempts at her?

At creating his Chosen One.

From S3E5:

💎 choice: What was your life in paradise like?

Imagine an endless field of daisies.

It’s quiet, warm, and serene. There is nothing in it but peace…and me.

[…] What’s it like to live in paradise?

When I first opened my eyes, I saw light.

And for a long time I knew nothing else.

It wasn’t like life. It wasn’t like death.

It wasn’t just my body. My thoughts were also confined to a closed space.

And even if I had found someone to talk to, I wouldn’t have had anything to say.

I led a truly miserable existence.

[…] Were you always alone?

Only Sepha visited me.

Sometimes, when the despair became unbearable, I would start to suffocate.

I couldn’t understand what was happening inside me.

The only thing I knew for certain was that I wanted it to stop.

That’s when Sepha would appear. He would talk to me and give me hope.

At the time, I thought he came in moments of despair, answering my prayers.

But in reality, his presence had only one meaning—it was too soon for me to die.

Sepha once again trying to be compassionate, sincerely (saving humanity), and being cruel in the process without even (seemingly) realizing.

Anyway. Incase it has any relevance: daisies, in the language or symbolism of flowers, mean purity, love, hope, joy, innocence, rebirth, loyalty, new beginnings, and/or playfulness. They can link to the divine, and balance of life.

Pretty interesting, considering these ‘siblings’…

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Not me wanting to replay S1, or even the whole story, of HSR again. Also, apparently DALS has been extended another episode? I’m probably one of the few on Earth glad about it, but yeah, after the last ep., tbh I was expecting two more.

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Once again, I was over on Reddit like, ‘no, Skye, nobody wants to hear your positivity on the CainLane sex scene,’ only to get multiple replies to my initial comment in agreement, and others rambling with me on the details.

It seems I’m not alone, after all. Maybe one day I will actually post one of my drafts on this…

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I really love the background chanting in this - beneath the obvious vocals, there are those so subtle they give the impression of whispers.

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[7 Brothers S3 spoilers.]

Btw…am I supposed to be getting this on my monogamous Grant slot??

Also…what was Grant referring to here?????

I had no clue. I feel like these were not meant to be in my playthrough asdfghjkl

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[ATHWTU season 2 spoilers.]

The wreath prediction, if anyone’s interested:

I’m pretty sure there was then a part about her looking around and feeling maybe she wasn’t the only one who heard the whisper, unsure if the villagers really did, but I only saved these.

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Aside from the S1E1 path scene, I think I adore Princess!Jaynie. She’s so…sincere. It’s lovely.

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[Spoilers for Dragan’s romance route.]

I am still waiting for her to direct this look to Dragan when he’s awake to see it, btw.

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[ATHWTU spoilers.]

Anyway, I just finished skipping through S1 on Novak’s slot, to have a warm relationship with Volot, now that I’ve figured how to do it, as I’ve said, and I’ve been waiting for the end to finally get to replay S2 all together on Novak’s route, buuuut now I really wanna go back and replay Dragan’s romance route asdfghjkl…

I swear, if he actually had a friendship route, it wouldn’t be so difficult replaying S1. But I hate that they don’t even talk or help each other as they’re both grieving, even though - if you’re on his friendship route ofc - they care about each other. It’s sad! It’s very sad to me. Can’t even hug when she’s just heard her best friend die in agony without it being romantic, ughhhhhhh….

So yeah. Whenever I go through S1 for Novak, I just. feel like I need to reread Dragan’s romance route to not feel so sad. Even though it is very frustrating at times, at least the two will talk.

I don’t really wanna read S1 again, buuuut…Idk. Maybe I’ll just rewatch his scenes on YT????? I don’t want sadness distracting me while I’m reading Novak’s romance route, y’know? Hm…

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[ATHWTU season 2 spoilers.]

I hope, despite the ending of the last episode, we actually go back a little in time, to see the events in the village of the days Dragan was in the Haze. I want to know where Novak was, if he was staying at Venciena’s still, or if he was with Lada’s family again (now that he’s helped the village). I want Lada on Dragan’s routes to worry if he’s alright and finally remember their childhood. I hope on his friendship path they’ll AT LONG LAST have a conversation, and settle on whether to return to being friends again. I don’t want it to take the whole finale ofc, but…I just feel like we shouldn’t skip all that entirely. I think the ending worked for episode 9, but still. It makes the most sense to me we rewind a bit.

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[HSR spoilers. Cain’s romance route.]

Okay, so it wasn’t just on Yan’s slot; Sasha took out the scene of Abel flicking Lane completely?