#Singularity Six

[thiefkingyall]

Reth to go along with the Jel I did prior~

handsome soup boy

[eikoh-draws]

Welcome to Zeki's blackmarket!

[ertiskal]

[luxiiien]

a little drawing of Hassian, one of the villagers from Palia!

[tortor-sauce]

“why does everyone always look at you that way?”

[elfrooting]

List of cryptids in Palia that are obviously just figments of Elouisa’s imagination:

The Flothman

Dawnstumblers

Star quality Duskwing butterflies

Eshe’s basic human decency

Creepees

Einar’s pebble quest achievement

Brightfiends

Star onyx

Fuckin muujins, apparently

[nostalgicfun]

Critters sighted in Rapid City, SD

[krittec]

for the longest time, i genuinely believed that people who were like “I don’t understand Six of Crows/Crooked lol what happened? where did that tank come from?” were joking because it seemed like too many people to be real.

recently found out that they actually have no idea of what happened despite reading the book but saying it’s their favourite and i am absolutely shocked plus a little concerned

[professionallydorkish]

Hi it is so unfair the grip that Reth Palia has on me. On us all.

[popsicle-stick]

going insane with this graphic novel pitch because i know if i just managed to finish it and it was by some act of god accepted by a publisher, that would be my.........job. i could support myself doing that. which is a insane thought. but i can't bring myself to just finish the thing

[thiefkingyall]

Drew my gf's and my Palia OC's tonight, Rae and Hayden. Seen frequently trying to not fall asleep at cake parties~ 😘🎂

@varioushues

[eikoh-draws]

I don't remember a game I enjoyed as much as I have with Palia Anyways, here's a fanart of Jina <3

[ertiskal]

[hypernova-blitz-arts]

PLEASE RB INSTEAD OF LIKE! SPREAD MY WORK!

[madnessofmen]

Shell shock? What? Come on Corporal, get out of that daze. We have more pressing matters to get to. I have a very important question. Would you still love me if I were a worm?

Yes, sir. I would fill a mason jar with mud and carry you around in it at all times to make sure you were safe. (A shell goes off a few dozen yards away, throwing dirt and debris into the air. It lands with a series of soft patters in the ankle deep mud of the trench. I stare at the ground for an uncomfortably long time, watching the soil soak up the water and become mud. My thoughts are far far away. You wait expectantly. I finally look up.) Can I also be a worm?

[queen0fm0nsterz]

The Maw makes much more sense when you think of it as an extension of the lady. She strips the kids out of their individuality and makes them all look like as she transforms them into working drones.

In a way it paralells what she did to herself , doesn't it?

(From my very sane Lady post [×75])

Yes! This is exactly what I think, but most importantly, it goes both ways. The Maw is an extension of her, but the Lady is an extension of the Maw. She's the symbol that rappresents it and everything that comes with it -- for better and for worse. And there is very little "better" to be had in these circumstances, if none at all.

Honestly, even considering the issues she does have, ultimately she's the one that got the most lenient treatment. It depends on points of view of course - I don't know how bearing the generational curse would be an ideal living condition in any other setting - but considering she has a roof over her head, constant feeding and revenue as well as the fame all around the Nowhere (in all instances of visual storytelling in the franchise there is at least one reference to the Maw and/or to her), you can't say she got the short end of the stick. She's a lot better off than even other adults.

So with this in mind, and knowing that she is someone who is able to form these reasonings (I cannot stress enough how peculiar that she's the only one who seems to understand genuinely that something in the outside world is wrong), I suppose that weighing her options and choosing to live on the Maw was ultimately what she thought was the better choice. She wasn't wrong, necessarely. She did survive a long time: but what point is there in surviving if you lose what makes life worth living along the way? If you don't have yourself, why should you keep pressing on?

I think this reasoning is what led her to form this attachment to the Maw, to the point that eventually she died for it even though her primary objective was survival, at some point in the past. Probably.

Mervik confirming that the Maw has existed before her was, at least for me, even a further look into just how futile - and interesting - this mindset of hers is because at the end of the day, the Lady as a person is... disposable. The position isn't, but the individual is. The Maw existed long before her, and it will exist long after if Six decides to stay. It doesn't matter whether or not she sees it as her home because to the institution Maw, she's just another chess piece - as expendable as a pawn in spite of dressing the clothes of the queen, if you will.

Considering this... only adds insult to injury, don't you think? She lost herself to a place that did not care for her at all, in the grand scheme of things. She is to the Maw what children are to her: a parasite. A useful one to keep the system running, but ultimately destined to be eradicated and forgotten. Faceless and nameless. It's like she - the person - was never even there to begin with.