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Limbus Company is so ripe for theories and predictions and stuff but like. okay none of my Canto 8 theories turned out true (at least my character analysis seemed was still on the mark?) and that's alright because the Canto was great and good fiction is so much more than just a guessing game.

but what's amazing is that after a character's Canto, you look back at them beforehand and everything, lore, backstory, personality, symbolism, etc, still make sense, sometimes even more sense than before, even if the theories you'd founded on those moments before didn't pan out. it all coheres 👍

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thinking about Hong Lu and some of the more subtle character development shown through his announcer lines and such - it seems like his whole airheaded rich boy shtick is gone, and that's a good thing. like that fake smile was washed off his face but it turns out that underneath he was wearing a smaller, genuine smile. in some of his other IDs he has a bit of a sadistic bent, but our Hong Lu is a kind person through and through. I'm glad...

I know in the leadup to the Canto a lot of people, myself included, were really hoping for some show of really intense emotion from him, and other than the flashbacks to his childhood that doesn't really happen, but it still works...like, he has every right to hate the Elders and Jia Mu for what they did to him and the Kong family, but even when he's defying the Elders and standing up for himself for the first time he doesn't get angry, it's not even about him, his defiance is just him calmly asking if this is really what Xichun wants.

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my brother and I conceptualizing the concept of what if Limbus was one of those visual novels with one limbillion messy Bad Ends

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the other day i was drawing a picture of Ryoshu drawing her sword and I was struggling to draw the curve of the blade - wondering if there could be some significance to be made in the pun that Ryoshu "can't draw" - she can't or won't pull her sword from its sheathe, and while we often see her critiquing other "art" I don't think we've seen the sort of stuff she actually makes.

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hey guys I made an AMV of Yi Sang hope you like

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tumblr and youtube both trying to kill my creativity by taking forever to upload the Yi Sang AMV I just spend all after noon on

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when you're a Silent Protagonist people are always going to fill in the space of your silence with whatever they want to hear.

in my heart the way the WoL is frequently dehumanized (whether elevated to a hero or reduced to a living weapon), how much their friends and allies love them, all the shiptease with almost every major NPC, and Zenos's obsession with them as his "mirror" are all kind of the same thing, you feel me?

you can't choose how people love you, and being loved so intensely by so many people is sometimes a gift, sometimes a burden, sometimes a threat.

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in my heart the way the WoL is frequently dehumanized (whether elevated to a hero or reduced to a living weapon), how much their friends and allies love them, all the shiptease with almost every major NPC, and Zenos's obsession with them as his "mirror" are all kind of the same thing, you feel me?

you can't choose how people love you, and being loved so intensely by so many people is sometimes a gift, sometimes a burden, sometimes a threat.

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man job searching in The City must be a unique sort of hell. imagine scrollling Indeed and seeing shit like:

Back of House Team Member - Pierre's Bistro Join our exciting restaurant concept fresh from the streets of flavor! Job Tasks: recapture the ingrendients if they try to escape

Level IV Agent - T Corp. Experience Required: 1,000 years

Limbus Company Bus Manager Limbus Company, an enterprising startup revolutionzing The City through the procurement of Golden Boughs, needs you to make our great work possible! The ideal Manager is a proactive leader who can bring out the best in their team and works best under pressure. Pay: N/A Benefits: N/A

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I think these two could be freinds they have Themes in common

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also i tried to animate a little donki btw. if you even care

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warmup doodle is donqui doing one of my favorite happy stims i call it the penguin walk

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Echo of an echo.

or, how do you cope with a condition that randomly beams other people's worst trauma directly into your brain? you don't, not really

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the WoL gets noticably more bitchier dialogue options in Shadowbringers, which I love and find a great bit of subtle storytelling.

for one it fits how DRK is the poster child for ShB (Fray would be glad we're finally speaking our mind for once). for two you're fighting in a post-apocalyptic world while being manipulated in two different ways by two different wizards and haunted by the ghost of your narrative foil who once tried to kill you, and you might catch on to the fact that you're not as immune to the Light as the Exarch said you were, so it's completely understandable that even someone as tough as the WoL might be reaching the end of their patience.

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bro is yearning, longing even. downright pining

bro is projecting

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after every Canto it feels to me like we move on pretty quickly to the lead-in for the next which is understandable when you have such a large cast but I always get obssessed with thinking about how the subtle ways each Sinner might change after their respective Cantos...

For Hong Lu I imagine he'll start being more active in making choices or making suggestions to the group on what to do, and always choosing the kindest course of action, even if it's not always the easiest - but not like the intense shonen hero-like way like Don Quixote but in his own gentle and subdued way. Other changes...I can picture just the slightest difference between his usual expression and a more natural smile.

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now that I'm actually back in FF14 i am politely requesting everyone to look at my little guys