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I drew Cerces in the Hades art style

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“I don’t know what my goals are, no. Thanks for asking.”

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we are so backquill

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cost you to keep me quiet

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happy father's day to my favorite ace attorney dynamic

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I only get to pick 5? Going through the art I drew at those ages to see...

Undertale. Undertale, Undertale, Undertale. I was very obsessed.

Minecraft! To the point where my first personas were all themed off The End, and my first social media username was 'EndercheezPlayzMCPE'. I would constantly watch Minecraft videos.

I drew a lot of Pokemon fanart, evidently. I don't know if I'd say it was extremely important? Actually, another one of my accounts at that time was a crossover between Minecraft and Pokemon. I got into Ace Attorney at 14 or 15, I'd wager.

I'd discovered how to download an NDS emulator onto my school computer, and I used various Pokemon games and Ace Attorney to survive school. It's not the nature of the games themselves which was important to me, but my personal history with them. I'm still obsessed with Ace Attorney, though...

I started playing Genshin Impact at its release, but I was already 16 then. Not completely youthful. Still, this game's lore has had a big impact on my own worldbuilding & themes.

So, the list: Undertale, Minecraft, Pokemon (particularly Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire and Pokemon Sun/Moon), Ace Attorney, and Genshin Impact

Honorable mentions:

Hades had a borderline life-changing effect on me. I really saw myself in Zagreus.

I had an Overwatch lore hyperfixation despite never playing the game until I was in college. How was I hyperfixated BEFORE Ramattra existed?!

Reverse:1999 came out in 2023, when I was already 18. Parts of it (cough the Journey to Mor Pankh event, Isolde/Kakania/Grace Hofmann, some other stuff) are still very important to me, though.

Sky: COTL allowed me to spend time with my friends during the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic. I don't play it much anymore, but it has a soft spot in my heart.

I was really obsessed with Detroit: Become Human for a while. Also the Submachine series is an on-and-off fixation. Love West of Loathing / Shadows over Loathing.

There are many games which briefly touched my soul, but I didn't dwell on them for a long time afterwards: The Sigmund Corps. franchise, Omori, Presentable Liberty, Fran Bow, Little Misfortune, Soma, Oneshot.

If I didn't keep procrastinating on it, I bet Disco Elysium would occupy my whole soul. However, I'm very slow about playing it...

Need for Speed Underground, Midnight Club 2, Mercenaries: World in Flames, Black, Quake II.

Honorable Mentions: Mech Warrior, Doom !&II. 

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Mediterranean apathy metaphors

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am i doing this wright anything agency (emphasis on the anything) thing right?

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I don’t like being referred to as a boy

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Dirk’s nervous on dates with Jake

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idk why people photoshopped the crying cat meme on this pic when the unedited version is so powerful

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you're not a god. you're just a kid who lost his dad

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oh karkat the lad that you are

OP this art is so freaking cute, i want to squish his face, i want to put him in my mouth, he's so ITTLE,,,

*blacks out*

*wakes up with karkat all over the canvas and 'lets read homestuck' playing on my laptop*

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Elizabethan man 1: [descends swiftly from stairwell and emits a sudden cry] Elizabethan man 2: By God! Desist arriving with such clamour, lest mine croissant fall from my grasp!

Elizabethan Peasant 1: Look yonder! Someone has writ upon that ceiling that thou art most easily gulled!

Elizabethan Peasant 2: More fool they, for I cannot read.

Elizabethan Peasant 1: *sighing, lowers his visage unto his palm*

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where's that masterpost of quotes that have no right going as hard as they do. I'd like to submit "Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane"

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3.2 SPOILERS / Theory on Flame Reaver's identity

EDIT: This has POSSIBLY been debunked. The Lord Ravager on Amphoreus is now implied to be Irontomb, who is fated to destroy the Erudition. I have also started wondering if this is really a trap at all, or if Irontomb has just found a spot in the cosmos outside of Nous's gaze to scheme without Nous realizing.

But at the same time.. the version is called "for the sun is set to die". So it's absolutely radiating Sun Devourer energy... and irontomb was confirmed active outside of amphoreus recently... I really don't know what to think!

Alternative idea which keeps my theory intact: Irontomb is trying to break Sun Devourer OUT of amphoreus

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io9W-dvBTog

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!!! 3.2 SPOILERS AHEAD !!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

As an Anaxagoras superfan, my mental health is presently in tatters. I'm trying to focus on the lore revelations to cope. So, let's review!

In the final mission of 3.2 (Witch's Mirrored Reversal), Lygus reveals that the third Path present on Amphoreus is The Destruction and that the planet imprisons a Lord Ravager. (Also, Lygus is our Erudition rep-- he's an Emanator!)

Additionally, our favorite blasphemer Anaxa proved his theory without a shadow of a doubt, revealing that the Titans are the Chrysos Heirs of the previous Amphoreus Cycle. Now, the popular fandom headcanon/theory was that Flame Reaver is Phainon from the previous cycle. However, we now know that the closest thing to "previous cycle Phainon" is actually Khaos, aka Kephale. We also know exactly where Khaos is- holding up the Dawn Device. He's busy holding the memories of the whole world.

So, maybe there's a previous-cycle Phainon separate from Khaos (who is technically not the same person in any form, he just the same role as Phainon), but I still think we have a much better candidate for our Flame Reaver's identity:

The Lord Ravager.

Now that I've put this idea in your head, let's move away from Flame Reaver and instead focus on the Lord Ravager. Which Ravager is the one imprisoned on Amphoreus? (Hint: I know already)

Conveniently, the Xianzhou Alliance has a list of all the ravagers. We can outright eliminate a good chunk of them.

phantylia (she was present on the xianzhou loufu)

zulo (dead at the hands of galaxy rangers)

irontomb (mentioned active in IPC broadcast)

Male Voice: The industrial planet Baranza Forge has been crippled by an attack from the Lord Ravager "Irontomb," impacting the production of Synesthesia Beacons.

zephyro (mentioned active in IPC broadcast)

Female Voice: The Lord Ravager, Zephyro, was spotted at the Tia'nua galaxy. According to the Mourning Actors, that galaxy has been completely destroyed.

celenova (mentioned active in IPC broadcast)

Male Voice: Recently, traces of the Lord Ravager Celenova have appeared at the edges of the Sedounirama star cluster.

So, all these Ravagers are either active too recently to be imprisoned or straight-up dead. Our three remaining candidates are...

"Chess Grandmaster", who likes to take things slow and observe dying civilizations like they're an ant colony

a completely unnamed ravaged associated with antimatter

"Sun Devourer", a solo ravager who eats stars. The Antimatter Legion follows the trail of No Light to go pillage the worlds Sun Devourer plunged into darkness.

Of these three candidates, I feel the best is Sun Devourer.

Himeko mentions that Amphoreus is indeed a "star system", meaning that there is or should be some kind of external sun.

Himeko: Then this isolated star system must have been home to at least three beings comparable to Emanators.

However, Amphoreus's light doesn't come from a star. In the past, it came from Aquila, the Eye of Twilight. In the present, only Okhema has light, which comes from the Dawn Device forged by Aquila and Kephale.

I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that Sun Devourer has eaten whatever star Amphoreus revolves around, which is why the Titans had to create a sun for the planet.

Additionally, Sun Devourer is a sufficiently isolated Ravager. They don't travel with the antimatter legion; instead, the legion follows the trail of darkness/eaten stars and pillages those worlds. If Sun Devourer was imprisoned, they would not have had the antimatter legion with them at the time. Most other Ravagers act more as generals or troop commanders in some way, meaning they wouldn't easily go missing unbeknownst to anyone.

As for why the other two candidates don't work as well...

Lygus reveals the existence of the Ravager with this quote: "You will break the shackles of a Lord Ravager, and when that happens, their fury will engulf the Cosmos." Mr. "Chess Grandmaster" is described as calm and composed, so I couldn't see him reacting with "fury".

As for the antimatter-connected Ravager...

Ecologists from the Luofu's Realm-Keeping Commission once researched a strange world that has completely been converted into antimatter. All antimatter objects hurtle toward their matter counterparts, releasing a destructive dazzle upon impact. Antimatter Legion Creations have always had distorted, twisted appearances. When destroyed, many instantly implode with an intense backfire, dragging their enemy along with them to their destruction.

Their abilities involve converting matter into antimatter, which leads to explosions and implosions. We don't see any phenomenon like this prevalent on Amphoreus.

So, great! We've decided that Sun Devourer is the one imprisoned on Amphoreus. Let's look closely at two likely manifestations of Destruction on the planet: the Black Tide and Flame Reaver.

Now, in the Seat of Divine Foresight, a helpful file describes certain phenomena surrounding Sun Devourer's star consumption:

a lot of the vacuum spaces in the Yvanna chain were filled by an unidentified light-absorbing flocculent material

(For those like me who didn't know what flocculent means, I'll define it as "loosely clumped". Not that important, anyway.)

Methinks this substance may be similar to the Black Tide.

It's black! :D ...Yeah that's all I have for that. Let's move on from this embarrassing tangent and go back to Flame Reaver.

So, the game stats that Flame Reaver's origins are unknown, but they 'came with the Black Tide'. This is their only explicit connection in the game.

A nameless swordmaster who came with the black tide

(It also mentions some Destruction-esque properties for his swords, hehe)

Within their swords, madness and obsession entwine

Flame Reaver's voice lines also mention chains and torment, suggesting that the Reaver is trapped.

 Still... chained.. Defiant... break the chains!

And one of their voice lines mention drowning a sun! I feel that's not too far removed from devouring one.

Sanguine darkness... drown the sun!‍

Aside from this, when Flame Reaver attacked Aedes Elysiae, there was a “blood-red half-sun” in the sky.

Phainon: A blood-red half-sun hung in the sky, just like on that day. And before my eyes, that murderer...

There’s probably many other bits of evidence, but I feel this is enough to substantiate the idea. So, TLDR:

The Lord Ravager on Amphoreus is Sun Devourer

The Black Tide is due to that Ravager’s presence and destructive powers (they make a substance that absorbs all light)

Flame Reaver is either a manifestation of the Ravager, or is the Ravager themselves. They’re trying to escape Amphoreus

And now for a few other related notes which I found interesting:

One of Flame Reaver’s voice lines:

This world... is a fallen leaf.

In the context of Honkai Impact 3rd’s imaginary tree/sea of quanta world structure (which is canonically present in HSR as well), a leaf would be a world/universe. If it falls, it becomes something of a bubble universe in the sea of quanta. This is what many people suspect Teyvat from Genshin is— a world only kept safe from the abyss / Sea of Quanta / corrupt data outside via a firmament. And what do you know, Amphoreus has its own firmament, and a massive amount of parallels to Teyvat…

Also, about one particular Lord Ravager— Zephyro!

So, we know Zephyro isn’t the one stuck on Amphoreus. He’s been active recently. However, he has a bunch of coincidences with Amphoreus. His name comes in part from zeyphrus, the **greek god of the west wind**. in amphoreus, the place at the end of the west wind is death! very strong contender, especially since ampho also has greek inspirations. (it also comes from pyro meaning fire) (flaaame? reaver?)

Zephyro’s chinese name also references zephyrus through a complicated series of connections.

焚风 Fénfēng, "burning wind", is used in meteorology to refer to a Foehn wind- a kind of rain shadow wind. the name Foehn comes from Favonius, aka the roman word for Zephyrus!

other things... apparently, when zephyrus destroyed wen-II, they only left behind a broken flower

However, everything ended the moment the Lord Ravager Zephyro arrived. What followed was the fire of a supernova exploding. When the light faded and the Legion left, only a single broken flower showed that history once existed among the now-empty dust plains.

And what do you know, the place where Amphoreans go when they die is a field of flowers.

This would thematically connect Zephyro to Thanatos more than the Black Tide, though. Still, it’s a weird connection.

Anyway, that’s all for now! I’ll close off by linking some of the relevant in-game text.