#Iro RO

[kitkat-the-muffin]

EYYY I CAUGHT THE GYRUS CAMEO

[justaghostingon]

A Question to all my Ros and Lmtd followers and friends:

Pros:

1. He’s got stubble

2. He’s complaining about the others not respecting him

3. He has side bangs

Cons:

1. His hair isn’t purple

2. He’s not running into battle headfirst with wild abandon

3. He can smolder

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[snazzyscarf]

the parallels are, unfortunately, very present 💔

bonus:

[itgr]

Early ROS season 3 Kodya thoughts (aka here's my excuse to ramble)

I'm only on episode 180. I have thoughts on a lot of things but rn I just wanna talk about Kodya?? Idk ever since we've seen him again in episode 159, he's been a lot more stoic and and standoffish than he used to be? (at least compared to his season 2 counterpart, which yeah he spent most of that outside his body but he wasn't this standoffish to Gyrus before). He's a lot more similar to his season 1 counterpart in some ways which I found interesting. Originally, I thought it would be a temporary thing just from the shock of seeing Gyrus again and recovering from the fact he genuinely thought they'd never meet again, but then he kind of stays that way and he's kind of snarky and defensive which I find interesting. I really like when characters are flawed or are tangibly impacted by things that have happened to them. Anyways here's like multiple reasons I headcanon (some of these are just straight up stated or heavily implied) there's such a big character shift (at least to me):

Um. Yeah he literally thought he'd never see his on and off boyfriend of several years who he literally fought so hard to keep around. That's going to fuck you up regardless of if it ended up not being true

^ Also I feel like losing Gyrus again definitely brought back some old pain and trauma from the time he, yknow, watched Gyrus lose himself over the course of years and eventually had to be the one to kill him ^^ so. YEAH (he has abandonment issues to me)

This is more of a minor point but we should talk about how fucky it would be to spend several years with people from the future and then be plopped back into your time period and expected to just. Keep existing like nothing happened and like you don't know at least hundreds of separate things and concepts that are, quite literally, ahead of your time

Look me in the eyes and tell me he didn't 100% face or see homophobia after returning to his time period. You know that would mess with him a bit (I find his defensiveness near Iro, while partially justified, really interesting? because it's the first time I can think of we get any implication that homophobia explicitly exists in the world of ROS <- which makes sense and it also makes sense to assume that the room of swords itself was probably pretty queer friendly because of the amount of different people there. Anyways Kodya's defensiveness near Iro just reads to me as someone anticipating homophobia because of firsthand experience with it)

Gyrus self deprecating about not as strong as Masiosare, who's essentially like if you took BB! Gyrus's inability to open up and ask for help and his tendencies to do morally fucked up shit for his version of the greater good and then maximised it(/hj), probably made Kodya feel worse. Like he already spent years watching Gyrus lose himself to those ideals and I feel like at this point, the amount of trust issues and general abandonment issues of having a partner who used to hide things from you constantly until it literally destroyed him, combined with that same partner now self deprecating and faintly implying he wants to be like that again, would 100% trigger the shit out of his trauma and probably make him feel like history's going to repeat itself

I don't know if this was intentional but (oversimplification) CPTSD symptoms tend to show up after the person's left whatever stressful environment they used to be in and it starts flaring up because the brain can't process or understand that its in a safe environment and is still in a very defensive protective mode even when it technically shouldn't be. Kodya's likely CPTSD from, yknow, EVERYTHING in the room of swords probably could've started flaring up because of the fact he finally managed to escape, which could also partially explain his mentioned thoughts of feeling cursed and like he'd never be happy before Gyrus showed up (it's a common thing to struggle to feel happy or safe after not having experienced either feeling for a long time)

In conclusion, Kodya Karevic is a well written mentally ill little guy who's literally done zero (0) wrong in his entire life/j. Jokes aside, I wanted an excuse to ramble and get my thoughts out and also just talk about how pleasantly surprising it is to have them actually acknowledge the flaws in Strawbarrow's relationship and show Kodya have tangible problems with trusting Gyrus again. Idk I really like how well and complexly they're written

[prtygoth]

i am eating a croissant from the grocery store and thinking about gerard way :/

[myvampiricworld]

For my beloved brother His Warlock from Ragnarok Online Zeus :3

[raizelsknights]

recently i finished rereading room of swords (+ finally getting around to the last ~30 chapters i stopped reading at) and while the resolution was absolutely beautiful and more perfect than anything i could have imagined, i'm still kind of,,,confused over the main loop lol

correct me of wrong but basically the room of swords is a prison for anomalies like kodya/sylvia/tori/the other ros cast/etc and gyrus, iro, amelia, & don are all npcs designed to keep them trapped ? and if so . . . gyrus was the one who designed the room but how did he do that if he's an. npc. also how did tori know amelia from beforehand if amelia's an npc? and was vsc an actual thing from the world they came from or was it just part of the recursion loop? plus what happened to the world the non-npc characters came from? the story ends with them creating a whole new earth so did the previous earth cease to exist or do they just exist simultaneously?

[vanillefraisecaek]

{May 29, 2012} Screenshot from some RO Private Server:

{December 15, 2023} Screenshot from iRO:

We finally got our closure. So much great memories but it's time to move on.

[i-forgotmy-name]

“Hmmmm….Muichiro Uichiro, Muu, Mui, Chiro, Moo, Ro, Iro, Ich, Mi, Hiro, Ichiro, yep…enjoy these nickname whether you like it or not, list em up!”

She giggled enthusiastically, patting Muichiro’s head, since he’s short anyways.

*he looks at them*

Was that my name?.. I don't remember..

[kitkat-the-muffin]

Something that’s kind of neat is how in Room of Swords the hair-length of the leading males definitely means something but I still don’t know what it is

I think it represents knowledge though, or maybe wisdom? Like, Gyrus had long hair when he met Kodya, who had short hair, and back then Gyrus knew a looooooot about how the RoS worked

Then of course after everything went wrong, Kodya’s grown out his hair and he finds a young-Gyrus with short hair and lots of questions. This Gyrus has no idea where he is or what’s going on and so Kodya has to mentor him

Then during season 2 Kodya sort of shaves Gyrus’s hair as a way to measure his mental state???? I haven’t reread the story in a few years so I forget but I think he uses it as a way to know how far along Gyrus is in recovering his lost memories based on his hair length

And at the end of the season it’s touching the floor lmbo and they have to cut it again… I think. Actually maybe it gets cut off on its own? I… I haven’t read in a while… something Masiosaire related right?

Uh anyway his hair is short for most of season 3 and then long again in the finale so I guess I wanna say there’s obviously a thing going on but what is the thing ya know?

[justaghostingon]

Room if Swords chapter 213 Reactions:

Look

At

All

The

Cute

Couples

And then

There’s

Don

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[willidleaway]

so like @desultory-novice​ I’ve been thinking a bit about the voice clips that you can hear in the new remix of the final boss track. the exact parameters are a little lost to me but in Audacity I attempted the following on the original track:

Vocal Reduction and Isolation, Isolate Vocals. Leave the frequency band at the default settings (120-9000 Hz), and set the strength to somewhere around 1.5 and 2. (Too high and Audacity just returns silence!)

Filter Curve EQ with this curve:

and then the only change is to turn the volume back up to max out at -3 dB with Normalise.

this doesn’t work amazingly, unfortunately—the orchestral samples mix hard with the vocal samples so isolating the vocals would probably take a lot of manual artisanal spectral suppression. but! this processing is enough to make things a little less distracting, and I’ve compiled a set of three samples from the resulting output where I think I can particularly clearly hear things:

kaa—bi ... (this was taken from ~04:25)

i ... iroha ... (taken from ~05:00)

ma ke ... fu ... kaa ... bi ... (taken from ~06:30)

(oh, also, these timestamps are for the full track, to avoid confusion.)

and this leads me to my conspiracy theory. keep those audible syllables in your head as you read on. i-ro-ha ... ma-ke-fu ...

if you go look at the Star Allies OST website, there’s a sound staff roundtable discussion (kindly translated previously by Kai), where they discuss how Void Termina’s voice was created (Kai’s translations in square brackets):

（熊崎）そうですね、4人の声です。ゲーム内のボイスではおなじみの安藤さん、比較的若い声の小笠原さん、それから女性の声も欲しかったので『みんなで！カービィハンターズＺ』ディレクターの東藤さん。そして私。4人の演技、声が混ざった鳴き声をやってみよう、って。[Kumazaki: Yes, it was the voices of four people. You, Mr. Ando, being a regular with in-game voice clips, Mr. Ogasawara with his comparatively younger voice, as well as Mrs. Todo, the director of “Team Kirby Clash Deluxe, because we wanted a woman’s voice, too. And me. We wanted to try out a cry made by mixing voice lines from the four of us.]

（安藤）そういえば何て言ってたか、覚えてないなあ。[Ando: By the way, what did we say? I can’t remember.]

（熊崎）「イロハニホヘト、カービィ〜」です。[Kumazaki: It was "Irohanihoheto, Kirby”.]

（安藤）あー、そうか。[Ando: Oh, right.]

（熊崎）全員同じ言葉で、「イロハニホヘト、カービィ〜……」みたいに発して別々に録りました。私が言ったら安藤さんが、「あ、それでいく」って言ったんですよ（笑）。[Kumazaki: We each uttered those same words, “Irohanihoheto, Kirby…”, all recording seperately. When I told you, you said “Oh, we’re going with that”. (laughs)]

hmm. let’s go look at Iroha (emphasis mine):

いろはにほへと ちりぬるを わかよたれそ つねならむ うゐのおくやま けふこえて あさきゆめみし ゑひもせす

some of these look familiar? here, a romaji transliteration (again, emphasis mine):

Iro fa nifofeto Tirinuru wo Wa ka yo tare so Tune naramu Uwi no okuyama Kefu koyete Asaki yume misi Wefi mo sesu

so my conspiracy theory is ... it’s Iroha again. the Iroha is basically a ‘the quick brown fox jumps’-type pangram, and while it has actual literary meaning, it’s often used to simply iterate through all the kana. I think Ando went to record himself reading the Iroha and saying ‘Kirby’ once in a while, and then shuffled the different segments around, and that constitutes most of the discernible vocal samples that aren’t crying or screaming. I say it’s a conspiracy theory because I haven’t gone through all of the vocal samples, so there could be something extra hiding in there (and of course I could be mishearing some things).

and if it holds up? not terribly exciting, I know, but still interesting from a development standpoint!

[444namesplus]

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[jadipose]

She wanted to carry you!

Ho+nestly, I think she wanted me to+ eat myself into+ to+tal reliance o+n her. Tho+se are my suspicio+ns, at least. She wanted me big and ro+und and relaxed and immo+bile and co+nstantly stuffed, usually high eno+ugh to+ eat myself into+ a ridiculo+us stupo+r.... iro+nic, co+nsidering we met at the gym