#🌄 dawnbreaker

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Unlocked a new Zayne pose, so that means it is once again time to add to the Dawnbreaker (Still in) Dark edits.

My favorite thing about these specific Photoshop settings is how well they highlight the scars on his hands. They're so faint and easy to miss in the washed-out lighting of the photobooth (I wish I wish with all my might that PPG lets us edit the amout of light), but when you start messing with shadows and exposure and highlights they just pop so beautifully 😌

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I keep seeing your amazing posts abt Dawnbreaker!Zayne but I genuinely don't know where to get his card in the game :(

Do you know what cards contain his Dawnbreaker lore?

Hey there! I'm glad to have pulled you to the deep shadows of the way of the Dawnbreaker 🌄

So while Dawnbreaker does technically have a singular card, it is only a 3☆ card and does the not have any lore associated with it-

Many of us were hoping the new myth would be Dawnbreaker, but with the Xav card using the tagine of "Dawnbreak" for some godawful reason, it's pretty clear they're going a different direction there.

So as it stands, the only place to find Dawnbreaker's lore right now is via the Anecdotes

You can find the Anecdotes under the Date portion of the app if you haven't read them yet. I highly recommend you give them all a read I'd you haven't yet!

The first one is wonderful and very fluffy (and also where you meet my other boo Dr. Greyson~ who is so worthy of loving btw) it's just all around feel goods ♡

The second has a reference to Dawnbreaker, though it is from the perspective of Dr. Zayne rather than DB himself, and gives some wonderful insight as to why Dr. Zayne has so many nightmares and makes you wanna hug that poor man even tighter.

The third Anecdote, Still in Dark, is the one you want to pay the most attention to. It is from the perspective of Dawnbreaker Zayne, and details a moment of his life and the way he and Dr. Zayne are connected through space and time. It is... sad. There is no comfort here. It is all Bad Feels and Trauma so take that warning as you go into it. It is so so worth the read though, I promise!

I hope you come back and tell me all your thoughts when you read them because I would LOVE to hear them!!!

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Hi just finished the Dawnbreaker story... 😭😭😭 what the fuck that was so sad!!!! 😭😭😭 you weren't kidding Jesus christ 😭

AhhhhhhRIGHT

That shit is so brutal 😭 I HIGHLY recommend you read the second anecdote next to get that other slice of Dawnbreaker lore to add the nail in the coffin when you learn about how Dr. Zayne knows about and sees Dawnbreaker.

It will W R E C K you 🥴 or at least it did me

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"Death is not bone and blood alone. He is gold and caramel and the rending of soul and form. Let him in, and you will know he tastes of honey and loss."

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“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” -Pabulo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

With the addition of 3 new poses in the photo booth, so too does the Dawnbreaker Dark Edit series get an update of 3 new pieces. Unfortunately, that post is at its limit, so enjoy Part Two of this post 🔗🔗🔗 💜🖤

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Thank you papergames for blessing me with the opportunity to make myself more Dawnbreaker content ♡♡♡

That's really all I wanted since yall are too chicken to write more of his story or w/e.

Now I can play around with his model in game and then do even more lighting edits in outside software 🥹😌 the new snap studio is by far the coolest thing they've added to the game and I'm so so excited about it!

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"𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, 𝘐 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘋𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘥𝘢𝘺" 🌻🌄

Part 1 of ? Of my Dawnbreaker illusio edit photodump. As always, feel free to save and use however you please- no credit necessary.

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"You're not leaving, right? As soon as I close my eyes, I won't be waking from a dream?"

"I promise. I'm here, I'm real, and I'm with you."

Why does this pose have the biggest k drama/c drama vibes like they didn't need to go that hard and yet-

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Thanks to the current event we've gotten the clearest, cleanest look at Dawnbreaker's lapel pin we've ever seen before and I just-

What the hell is this thing?

Let's discuss below the cut a little, hmm?

I've compared it to several of the similar-ish symbols we've seen in game so far like the aether stone sigil

Which to no one's surprise is the same symbol that is on the floor during your indoor combat trials (that is very hard to photograph btw)

So what or who on earth is Dawnbreaker's lapel symbol for?

It's almost totem like, with its multiple stacking heads and arms and wings, all wanderer shaped in their variations, and this has me wondering if the very symbol of Astra himself isn't something so wandered-coded given the nature of protocres and protocore-radiation having some type of mutation property.

It seems oddly fitting to me that Astra, who I still fully 100% with my full chest believe to have been a human at one point, would have the visage of something twisted and violent but in a terribly powerful from. Even more so if my pet theory about Carter (or anyone at Xander) rings true.

Especially against the juxtaposition of Zayne- a man who cannot be disfigured by the protocore energy because he is An Actual God, remaining himself despite the unknown hundreds of years he spent locked away with the creatio protocore at his side. [Mind you this is all speculation of course. We still don't really know what part of the process of the creation of protocores cause protocore sickness and how far it goes before it starts creating the Abominations that Dawnbreaker sees.]

Overall, I believe that at some point in the future, we're going to learn that Astra is more Wanderer than Man by the point he's a "God". Be it by his own hand or not. The way they've set him up, and the distinction they've set between Zayne's previous Godhood and Astra's Godhood, the storytelling is ruffling my feathers in such a specific way that I'm really getting "Man made Eldritch Horror" vibes.

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Dawnbreaker Discourse 🌄

Over the last couple days I've been tagged in a number of posts regarding the theory that Greyson's story No Morning holds proof that Zayne's Snowy Serenity card is actually Dawnbreaker Zayne who managed to make it to the present timeline.

Below the cut, I'll discuss why I don't believe this is the case, along with references to the in game content that supports my theory. That said, please note that I fully support the folks who want to believe this theory, because at the end of the day my man deserves to have everyone in his corner.

Let's dig in shall we?

For starters, I'm not going to rehash the entire breakdown of where all this commentary started, but will try to sum it up quickly instead.

『The CN players have linked the appearance of the white flowers and the black crystal ice in the WU story No Morning to Dawnbreaker.』

All of these theories are interesting and have a lot of fun ideas, but all of them are missing what I think is the key element here.

I believe the constant reference to the black crystal ice as Dawnbreaker's Evol is being misconstrued for what the game is setting up to be a major plot device/point in later parts of the story.

In No Morning we see Greyson observe the black crystals here-

Earlier in this same story it's specified that this plant comes from a very specific place on Mt Eternal, a place where we've seen another massively impactful scene involving something identical in another anecdote- Never ending Winter:

We also see them referenced again in the World Undernead stories Longly Flame, and Snowy Stairs-

I believe there are other references to the black crystals I am surely missing, but these are the ones I remembered right off the top of my head.

I ALSO realize that in Greyson's POV it very specifically calls them "black ICE crystals" while every other reference says "Black crystals" but I fully believe that's either a translation error, or just a solid case for unreliable narrator. As much as I adore Grey, he can be a bit of a dork, so I can accept the mishap there. That being said, I really do believe with all my heart it is simply a translation difference rather than a deliberate misdirection.

And while Dawnbreaker's ice is indeed a black ice, I do not believe that it will ever be used in a significant storytelling capacity (as in I dont think it will be used to subtly hint at his presence) due to the very heavy-handed usage of these black crystals PG has been feeding us since the very beginning. Never Ending Winter was one of the OG anecdotes, so these black crystals have been set up from launch as a very important reference to either a type of protocore sickness, a metaflux disease, or some other deepspace linked disorder we've yet to understand.

That said, I'll admit I've definitely been calling Zayne's Snowy Serenity card the DawnFaker card because I'll agree- it has some H E A V Y DB undertones and they didn't do him any favors by putting him in a Dawnbreaker cosplay but with a beige sweater. I'm gonna continue to call it the DawnFaker card, but know that it's said in jest and with affection, and that I don't actually believe that card was Dawnbreaker (as much as I wish it was!)

I hope my little bit of imput was helpful or even slightly insightful! Please feel free to discuss or link me any refuting information. I'm always down to say "oops I was wrong~" when it comes to the lore of this game. Because let's be real, it's a mess lol.

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I just spent the last 45 mins taking Dawnbreaker on every 5☆ Zayne date I have and let me tell you something

That shit healed my SOUL

So anyway get ready for a big ol' Dawnbreaker photo edit dump tomorrow or whatever bc LORDDDDT yall I'm eating good here. PG might be refusing to produce more DB stuff for us but they loved us enough to let us make our own and I'm grateful for that at least 🥺

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My dear

Beloved

Honey

Check this

Okay now

What if ☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽

We have this ☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽☝🏽

You think infold would make us suffer that bad or??? 😭😭😭😭😭😭

I know damn well they won't give us this (mostly because I feel like they're gonna work hard to keep the bday events happy, and a little somber at most)

But let me tell you I clutched my entire CHEST when I read this because OOOOOF I WANT IT SO BAD??!?!??!

I want to give Dawnbreaker a birthday cupcake and I wanna sing for him and I wanna hand draw him a little card and make him a little hat with a tassle on it and AHHHHH MY HEART PLEASE GOD GIVE THIS TO US HE DESERVES IT 😭😭😭😭

I'd sell my neighbor's left arm for this to be the actual bday event UGH. But also I'm gonna be happy with Dr. Zayne getting a sweet, loving bday with some bday boning bc he also deserves that just as much and hopefully DB can find a sliver of solace in experiencing it via the dream and typing that made me want to vomit God I hate this game so much fuck you Astra you big blue bitch 😭😭😭

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I am home, I've read and re-read the greyson story like 10 times, and finished all the new content.

I've slept

I've eaten

I've snuggled my puppies

Soon I will be catching up on Grey's blog and writing a whole ass post here about his new story (and girlfriend?! 🥺) So give me a day to rest and recoup, and I'll get to all the tagged posts and messages I have here and on Grey's blog! I also have a ton of tags about the new Dawnbreaker discourse which I'm LOVINGGGG and have a lot to say about that too so again, give me some time to let my brain decompress and I'll be making a big ol' post about that as well (bc I love the theory but I think both sides are way off and I'm pretty sure I know why!)

Anyway, thanks to all of you for being so patient while I was dealing with ~family stuff~ and I love and appreciate all of you ♡♡♡

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You are my favorite dream, Kay. I yearn to live in sleep so that I may have you in your arms for a moment longer, even if I am perceived as a separate version of myself. I will be a thousand facsimiles of who I could never be if it meant seeing you smile. I love you.

- Zayne, known to you as Dawnbreaker

I-

Dawnb- I mean- Zayne!? Oh my goodness please, it hurts my heart so much to know we can only be together in a dream. And forgive my indiscretion, you're right. You are, and always will be, Zayne. Whatever parts of you I can have and hold, I will piece back together. I will be a thousand hands to gather every fragment in my arms until you are whole, and then I will be the softest place for you to rest.

I love you too.

-Kay💜

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You've mad a lot of pretty edits now and in your tags you said you have your favorites

Can we see which ones you use as your backgrounds? (Genuinly curious which ones you like the best 0w0)

Hahahahah oh gosh, thank you!? 🥺

Don't judge my messy home screen pls 😅

Here are the two edited pics since they're not in the posts I put up-

I kind of had a little story for them that like, the first one is when you first meet him, it's dark and snowing and everything is tense. The second is the morning after, the sunrise greeting you just as he does. Idk I'm weird like that lol.

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Ohhhohohoh I DEFINITELY did it on purpose 🥰😂