#Chuu lore…..

[candycryptids]

Well, now I have to pop in and ask YOU a question. Which is hard because looking over all your characters pages, I'm sobbing on the fucking floor... I love them all so much????

But! I'd really like to know what sparked Chuusday's interest in technology and how did she get so good with it?! ♡

N..nobodies ever asked that before 🫣💦 So I’ll hammer some of the details out for you RIGHT MEOW! A 2sday-Wednesday special :3

Actually we’re gonna cover a lot of ground I haven’t talked about openly before so settle in

Chuu’s fascination with Machines n the like started REAL early, early when she was small. She wanted to…. Disassemble things. Crates, shelves, alchemist tools of the trade, Mammets… carts… she wanted to lay it all out. See how it fit together. And then MAYBE put it all back together again. And she lived on an island, in a port town, with her mom (an actual Viera) who was continuously unwell and kept getting worse every time she got better and sick again, and the sunseeker chirurgeon who was trying to treat her condition, and his partner, another sunseeker who if I recall correctly, was an alchemist. So. The house she was staying in had no shortage of things a Viera with curious + grabbing destructive hands shouldn’t be grabbing.

It takes coaxing to get her to start putting stuff back together again all the time, and by that point at least she’d stopped trying to pry nails out of things (wooden objects were a pain, she found, to take apart, and piece back together, the wood sometimes was old and slightly rotted, the nails came out unkindly, the shapes were often simple.)… things with screws and bolts were… fun. Her dads (in her mind, they were her dads, but out loud, it was sir, and mister) kept trying to send her out on Missions (chores; your mom isn’t doing well, we don’t want you to have to keep hanging around the house while her every breath rattles and her every cough is harsh and wet. Chuu knew. She was 14. It wasn’t hard to figure out…) for, small stuff. Fetch quests; go pick up ingredients for dinner, or hunt down this one small herb on the cliff side above town for this tincture I’m trying to make to help alleviate the cough symptoms. I have enough for now but having more to replenish what I’m using isn’t bad.. low stakes, yknow.

And when her Mom finally passed from her illness the pair kept Chuu on (Chuu herself will not comment on the her mom and the dads’ relationship, but I CAN and I’ll tell you those fuckers were poly. They might never have slapped a label on it but the love was there. It didn’t start that way, but it certainly was that way by the end.)

This ended up wildly off track didnt it. (Let me get it back on track, and in so doing gracefully gloss over the chunk of history I’m unclear on 💖)

She gets REALLY good at what she’s doing when she signs on with the Garlean Empire. It wasn’t… a hard choice. There was nothing left tying her down where she had been by that point; they’d offered direction, room, board… and, well… her current skills were enough to get placed under Midas’ guidance.

And she found that. Magitek is incredibly interesting compared to whatever she’s had her hands on before and she loves it. Purpose. Drive. She learns how to build things that she’d never dreamed of before under Midas’ guidance. She helps refine designs for two legged heavy artillery a lone person can pilot. To deal with the enemy. She does not think about who the enemy is. The enemy is a problem, and the Machine, glorious, flawless, violent, is the answer.

And then they blow up Bozja. Midas with it. An entire city, wiped off the map. She finds that the numbers- subjects- on the sheet that they’d been running experiments on have faces. Haunted, tired faces, with dull eyes and drawn cheeks and small hands. Children. You can’t just quit, but Midas was gone. Cid was missing. Nero was a thorn in her side and she didn’t want to continue work under someone less competent, or pursue someone else’s dreams. So …. She went missing too. Crashed an airship into Thavnair and stripped the wreckage to the bones for coin. Went into temporary hiding in Kugane, then Ul’Dah, and finally fell in with the slightly sketchy free company she’s with now. She maintains their airships and submersibles and they don’t ask where she came from 💖

I think I got a lil lost in the reeds and I was supposed to go to sleep like 4 hours ago but I kept turning this question over in my mind like a rubrix cube despite my best efforts >v>; The Long And Short Is; she’s always wanted to know how stuff worked, and falling in with Garlemald for (cautiously estimating her time there at about 30+ years) helped her understanding grow in great leaps. Around the start of 2.0 she awakens the Echo (Thrice damned Migraine Creator) and doesn’t realize it’s use until her next encounter with Allagan tech (where she interfaces on a personal level and. It kicks her new obsession up. And… allagans did quite a bit of soul research… it is, somewhat, why there is a Tuesday.)

… 🫣 thank you for the question !!!!!!! I’m. Hopin this makes even a lick of sense, ahaha… some of the stuff I had partially cemented in my mind… I had to fix, after reading the actual lore and wiki -w•;; but not much.

[infizero-draws]

butterfly effect

[kyouka-supremacy]

That fic from Akutagawa's pov that remarked how although Dazai had left a bomb under Chuuya's car, at least that showed he had thought about him before going, while he never cared enough to spare a thought for Akutagawa.

[good-enemy]

Apparently we have 12 options now so loona poll

[pawbeanies]

being called "cute" by someone in like. a higher up/management position and kicking my legs all silly like

[mobiused]

I have a lore question if you habe the time: do we know why yyxy is in Cher from Clueless cosplay?

I've spoken about this before, I can't find where I've spoke about this before, but I think it's to do with setting yyxy's time in Eden as a story that takes place in the 90s. A lot of the lore is set in the late 90s, indicated primiarly in Vivi's and yyxy's arc with fashion and technology, such as the cassette tapes, walkmans, computers, VHSs and whatnot. As mentioned in the 1/3 section of this post, I think there might be some geopolitical signifiers too, that suggest a lot of the story is set in this time period. Talking about Walkmans at all reminds me of this theory, from ChoerryColour, whose theories are focused on metanarratives and the music industry and really worth checking out.

By using one of the most iconic outfits from the 90s, right in 1995, it helps indicate when this part of the story is taking place, and what that means. If yyxy's arc occurs at the same time as Vivi's pre-robotification life (as suggested by EDILY's retro vibes) then you can more easily make connections between the two, like why Yves shows up on Earth in The Carol 2.0, why Vives go on a date in 'new', why a lot of strange things happen like they do. What message are they trying to deliver by setting it specifically in the 90s, over setting it in present day, or a nonspecific time all together?

[princesssoyeon]

CHUU 츄 'Strawberry Rush' MV

[illusionindelirium]

At some point I must return to my true obsession, my raison d'être if you will, analyzing and uncovering the secrets of the Loonaverse! I haven't touched my notes since the BBC era ended.

Hmm, should I start posting them here?

[lizzieicecreamqueen]

Just realized how the end of Chuu Heart attack mv looks like Charlie Emily's death 😨

[gummygowon]

i'm fucking back to talk about loona LMFAO i swear i'm almost done with my san oneshot

anyways, i read the translation of the dispatch article talking what really happened with chuu and bbc and shit is fucking insane. all the girls were doomed from the start in terms of money because bbc decided to release a project with very little fucking money which is why they have this weird ass contract that basically makes them in debt no matter how many activities they do bc this debut project was so much money.

loona's whole concept would've probably flourished under any big three/four company but fr what the hell was bbc thinking they would be able to support the members and the company as well with this big of a project. it probably didn't help that mr. jaden jeong wanted them to be like "underground" too during their debut.

i know i can't be super mad about bbc deciding to debut loona bc like they produced one of my favorite groups ever but still wtf????

it also explained "the harsh words" chuu said to her company and yes she did use words that could be interpreted like that but it was bc the company didn't take her seriously when she tried to talk to them about her earnings and shit.

i really wanna know what the members think about this situation and how they're doing. i know that haseul and yeojin have talked about not being paid before but i wanna know how bad it is. i have a million questions about this whole situation and it's gonna be a while until they're answered but i sincerely hope that the rest of the girls are okay.

[candycryptids]

Send 👗 to see them in a fancy dress for Chuu! (sorry chuu...)

...In the celebration of the entire known world being saved from certain doom, Sharlay held a Banquet to celebrate.... which meant fancy attire. And representing the cultures that shaped who you are. Which in Chuu's case was actually Garlemald, so here she is with her wife wearing the finest marriage of Garleans militant style and colors, with Talia wearing Amalj'aan styled clothing in honor of her half Amalj'aa heritage :3 Provided by the finest tailors... Chuu wasn't allowed to NOT go, and really she only showed up for the tiny horse divorces and drinks.

[FFXIV Screenshot Meme!]

[fancyavocadorandomshitgo]

HORNS??!!

[lilidawnonthemoon]

💯🪐✨

[daisy-mooon]

the moon shines in the sun washed sky

(260 words - AO3)

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And then, everything flipped. And they start the journey through the FREE-

And then, twelve became eleven.

But the girls do not cry. Not even the Wolf. They have lost each other before, and they will find each other again.

For now, they simply look at the empty space with a longing expression. Yyxy feels lonely. But they have been three before, and they know how to be three again. Besides, they are moving forwards. The FREE is a strange place, and they can not afford to be slowed down. She will be waiting for them.

Yet the train feels a little emptier. It can't be helped.

And somewhere in the FREE, where flowers grow in thick fields up to waist height, there is a girl waiting eagerly for their arrival. She sits underneath a cherry tree and smiles. It is nothing like the oppressive world she came from, full of rules and strictness and limited, agonizing days crammed with tiring overwork. She's not dressed in a well made outfit. She's dressed in a simple top and leggings. The grass tickles her feet.

Off to the distance is unimaginable beauty. A wild of freedom. The heaven that Eden tried to be but never was. She can't wait to explore it with them, when they get here. She misses them already, even though she knows they will be here soon. For now, she is free.

The moon shines in the sun washed sky. It's never been more beautiful.

Chuu smiles.

[pigeonxp]

ill never forget the time i saw a tweet that was like "this type of shit is so annoying" or wtv as a response to a tiktok comment of someone w a chuu pfp making a joke about how wonyoung from iz*one looked similar to wonyoung from ive and someone in their replies (vivi pfp this time) made a similar joke and OP's response was like "get back to me when vivi has a job" LIKE... and then they qrt their own post abt the responses they were getting and said that wony in iz*one vs ive is a sensitive spot... BUT LOONA GETTING ABUSED ISNT ????????

[nats-revival]

girls talk by chuu ft. yves..