#chronicler-of-narrative

[andr0nap-wf]

Funny idea: Draw him in that dress, draped dramatically over an entrati couch or smth, while Albrecht is clearly not taking the hint.

(If that seems in character?)

hes been sitting there for 15 minutes waiting for albrecht to turn around

[warframestuff]

If "wfstuff does stuff" does that make it warframestuffstuff?

correct! and if i do stuff of that it'll be warframestuffception

[alteredsilicone]

How does Viri view the different leaders of the Corpus, given she's heavily involved with Perinn? What are her views and opinions on the likes of Alad, Nef, Parvos, etc.?

Her opinion is mainly based on what Ergo has told her, what her contract with the Perrin asks of her, but also she does have her biases.

Alad - my headcanon is that Ergo and Alad respected each other as scientists, but Alad thought Ergo was not ambitious enough and wasted his skill and knowledge to pursue "peace trading". After his stint with the Sentients and amalgams, Alad became a danger and a liability so Viri sees him as this wacky scientist uncle who occasionally needs to be smacked around. Sometimes Viri is dispatched to Alad's labs to clean up a mess or two the amalgams have caused, but that's about it. She has delivered some information to Alad and keeps a cold, professional distance with him, due to Ergo still respecting the now disgraced scientist.

Parvos - Perrin and Granum secured an alliance, so Viri has a positive attitude towards Granum Corpus, but always has them on their toes. As a child she heard stories of Parvos Granum and her father instilled a negative view of him, due to him going against Orokin society and the Empire's values. Now, as a Tenno, Viri can appreciate what Parvos did and what he achieved, but she understands that he has a much more violent and aggressive attitude than Ergo when it comes to "fair trade".

Frohd - Ergo's old mentor, Viri avoids him because all Corpus who are loyal to Frohd are very hostile towards Perrin. She also doesn't like him because he is a dick to Darvo and Darvo is a friend of the Perrin (a bit one-sided but a friend is a friend).

and now... Nef...

In my Viriverse AU, Nef and Ergo are ex-lovers and ex-husbands and their breakup is basically what caused the creation of the Perrin Sequence. On a personal level, their relationship is very complicated.

Nef Anyo is the only person that would make Viri forgo her principles of self-defense and assassinate him and make it look like a suicide. That said, she has signed an extensive contract with Ergo to never, EVER physically harm Nef in any capacity, even if it means she has to tolerate his company with gritted teeth. Ergo occasionally attends Nef's parties - they are a good source of gossip and intel and Nef is the only person Ergo has a close enough personal relationship that they can actually talk about non-business dealings, which is difficult in Corpus society but still important. And because Viri is Ergo's personal assistant, she accompanies him to social events and has to deal with Nef's presence.

[demitsorou]

Late to the party, i know. But could you define for us your undefined void angel self-insert?

asdsgfj give me time people i think i finally figured out what i want out of them/it i just need to finish up a sketch sometime and also draw it pinning Arthur to the ground idk.

[alligaytorswamp]

Can we get a bit more about Lutz's story? What are his relations to he Wansheng funeral parlor? Does he have any unique interactions with Barbara or any other members of the church? What about with Venti?

UADHSAJKHADSJKH THANK YOU FOR ASKING THISSSS AUGH !! okay okay i will uhhh spam it under the cut, because god knows i have a yapping disease-

re: more story- i could probably write an essay on exactly how his life went. however. that is definitely too much info, so i have to ask which part are you talking about ? 👁

his life is split up in somewhat okay parts on here, maybe that helps akjdhaskljhdsjka

re: wangsheng funeral parlor i dont think he has been to liyue... at least for now i havent created any canon event that would involve that but! he knows about it, i think some characters from liyue who visit mond would maybe talk about it ? he is The Cemetery boy, i feel like it makes sense and Lutz thinks it's coolest place! Like it just sounds very impressive to him, he thinks to have such a place that's been running for so long is just a nice thing? Openness about death is also smth he respects. And I'm sure he heard bits and piece about Hu Tao so he thinks she is cool too LOL Maybe makes a joke that like if he ends up dying in Liyue he will make sure to get a deal in wangsheng

idk if mond has a funeral parlor... is there none at all, or there is it's just smaller/has a different name? either way Lutz wishes Mond had smth like Wangsheng lol

members of the church: he is close to a lot of nuns in there, mostly because they were the ones taking care of him, after his family died i think he is a Known Character to all regular church goers (he works there, he is a church boy himself, after the tragedy i think it would be impossible to miss an entire child with bandages over half of his face)

Barbara... hm.... i think they are on friendly terms and act more like colleagues? I dont think they ever got super close... I believe Barbara is a bit younger than him, and given her popularity and all.. yeah Lutz just doesn't wanna bother her too much? She seems busy already lol But he does have a very good opinion on her

Rosaria... i think Lutz is scared of her. LMAO. there is just weird spooked respect he feels towards her. He is also lowkey impressed with the fact that she isn't even that devoted... he can... understand that 👁

Venti... are we talking just some bard dude? I don't think Lutz has a strong opinion on him. He likes his music that's for sure... thinks he is oddly young looking.. but dats about it

Venti as in Lord Barbados and just Anemo Archon? Oh Lutz has a mixed feeling on him he is a church boy, so being mildly religious was smth put into his brain from the young age. However. After losing his entire family and also getting hurt like that..? I feel like it's understandable he became doubtful.. when someone promises you that gods are looking out for you and then THIS happens? Yeah idk i think Lutz definitely had a moment where he became a total non-believer/hater as he was going through the motions of dealing with his grief. Like he definitely blamed all the archons for it at least once. Over the years tho... i think he just.. calmed down? Like he isn't a total believer still, but he isn't against it. He just no longer puts too much faith into 'powers above'. and he thinks archons are unlikely to care about fates of some random people... which is understandable to him...

[completeoveranalysis]

[9]

MOM HOLY FUCK THEY REALLY ARE SAYING IT

EXCUSE ME

EXCUSE ME

WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT IS THIS THE GREATEST THING 

LET’S TALK ABOUT THIS

Clamp absolutely set the precedent for this with our visit to Shura/Shara all those years ago. We’ve SEEN the possibility of being in the past and future of the same world and teleporting between the two. We knew the feathers could appear pretty much anywhere in the timeline of a world, given how time works differently across the mutliverse, and we DID just straight up go backwards and forwards in time via Mokona, so it’s absolutely possible for them to appear in the Past of the Kingdom of Clow. 

WHICH IS APPARENTLY ACID TOKYO????

WHICH JUST ABSOLUTELY BLOWS MY MIND WHAT THE FUCK

WHAT A WAY TO TIE IT ALL TOGETHER??

X/1999 IS THE SET UP TO THE CLOW KINGDOM?

THE CLOW KINGDOM IS IN THE RUINED ECOLOGICAL DISASTER OF OUR OWN CURRENT WORLD??? 

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle as a pseudo-not-really-but-kind-of-sequel-event to Cardcaptor Sakura but ACTUALLY ALSO being the sequel-kind-of-but-not-exactly sequel to X/1999???? Or Alternate Timeline X/1999? Where things are ever so slightly different but the world was ruined in the same way?

AND THE RESERVOIR

THE RESERVOIR IN ACID TOKYO IS THE RESERVOIR IN THE CLOW RUINS????

I’m REELING OVER THIS

THEY SET THAT UP

SAKURA WALKED THROUGH THE DESERT TO PURIFY THE WATER TO SAVE THESE PEOPLE AND IT MADE THE RESERVOIR THAT LOVED SAKURA SO MUCH THAT IT PROTECTS HER

AND WATANUKI! WATANUKI WAS AN ESSENTIAL PIECE OF SETTING UP THE RESERVOIR IN A WORLD BEFORE HE EVEN EXISTED IN THAT TIMELINE

And that’s Definitely the feather they’re talking about, isn’t it? The feather that Sakura left in Acid Tokyo is still in the Reservoir right now, and is the reason the water is magic and loves her so much - because it’s a piece of her, and -... well, a piece of her clone. But it’s a piece of SAKURA, and so they resemble and resonate with each other, and that's why the water is so close to her, but 'Sakura' can’t absorb the feather because she’s already a full person and those aren’t her memories, but the memories of her clone.

Meanwhile Sakura (ie, our cloned Sakura) is currently on the other side of the portal at a point in time that DIDN’T exist a few seconds ago, for Original 'Sakura', but the rest of the universe has moved on and decades have passed (even though no time at all has passed for her) and now the feather from her clone has ended up in the past that set up the reservoir potentially centuries before she was even born. 

Timeline!

Oh my god?

Oh my god. 

I’m going to be thinking about this forever. 

No wait I’m not done ACID TOKYO WAS like THE point in the narrative where everything changed forever. And from a Tsubasa point of view it felt like a world picked at random for all the Important Narrative changes to take place - but it never was! It was the most important world of all! It was the Clow Kingdom!

So Syaoran lived his life in the Clow Kingdom, and then his soul collapsed in Acid Tokyo, which was ALSO the Clow Kingdom, and then he went and died defending Lava Lamp, in the Clow Kingdom. All at completely different points in the timeline but all in the exact same world. 

Though I will say I am thoroughly baffled by the connection between the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building and THE CLOW RUINS???

ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO BE THE SAME BUILDING?

Oh my god they’re in the same location aren’t they. The reservoir was underneath it and now it’s under the ruins. I suppose they have Magic so they could probably reshape them however they want but WHAT A CON CLAMP HAVE PULLED ON US

TO SPEND THE ENTIRE MANGA STARING AT THE WINGS OF THE CLOW RUINS AND THEY WERE SECRETLY WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIME TO TELL US THAT WE WERE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT BUILDING ALL ALONG

THE AUDACITY OF IT ALL

[zombie-bait]

the real tragedy of iwtv might be that Claudia and Gabrielle never met, I personally think those two would get on like a house on fire and it would drive both Louis and Lestat crazy

[lgbtiwtv]

people who don’t consider louis and daniel’s relationship are wild to me because like. the sheer narrative potential of louis de pointe “200 years of catholic guilt and self-loathing” du lac and daniel “I suck the devil good and hard through his jorts” molloy being best friends is absolutely earth shattering to me

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

I finished the Underland Chronicles last night and sat there and just about started crying. I haven't cried reading a book since I don't know when (kind of teared up during the Way of Kings but not this bad). I read the first few books in the series at 11, and didn't remember much other than vaguely the plot of the first one, nothing about the second, and only the quicksand scene from the third. I think if I had read the fourth and fifth books then I would have stared at a wall for ages. Oh my goodness. Suzanne Collins you are incredible.

[andr0nap-wf]

Ok, but now youve really piqued my interest. What do you think Deimos looked like pre-infestation? And, yknow what? Even if you dont yet have the skill to draw it well, do it! Make a shitty landscape sketch of the Son of Mars, the personification of terror himself!

ohboy this ask activated my worldbuilding worms.. probably not that different from how it looks now:

a barren stony wasteland.

except it used to have 30 hour days. i say "used to" bc it seems deimos stopped spinning over time (possibly due to the infestation tearing it apart and making it lose momentum), locking our part of the moon in permanent night. which is. bonkers to think about.

limited terraforming couldve been done since it seems like it served as a research facility outpost for the entrati first and a home second, so just enough has been done to sustain life (which might be even limited to the region around the necralisk, who knows).

they mightve introduced pioneer organisms:

simple, resilient flora like grasses, mosses and shrubbery (like the blue plants we see by the necralisk entrance. the wiki speculates they might be remnants of the original vegetation which i like)

and a small selection of animals: insects, fish and pre-infestation variants of the vulpa, preda and avichaea to propel and maintain the ecosystem.

which can give us a barren, desert-like biome:

think nevada desert but in space? i guess? the grass is supposed to be tiny shrubs but i am not drawing those sorry

besides that we also have plenty of entrati ruins littering the plateau:

like remnants of a suspended road system.

the buildings(?) that housed the requiem obelisks

and other facilities (some of which seem to have collapsed below the surface and lead into the iso vaults)

so i came up with this messy thing thats mostly headcanon, speculation and wild guesses based on what we can find around the necralisk and what i think is cool:

(inclusion of the garden based on sons dialogue (iykyk), attached to the necralisk for convenience. with extra roads. for convenience)

this was fun to brainstorm and i had the game open in the bg while drawing to make sure i got things semi-accurately. im not trusting everythings position on the landscape 100% since a lot seems to have shifted around or is like. missing completely (the roads that lead off the plateau and into the infested abyss. fun!) which imply that the drift used to be bigger before the infestation tore it apart

thanks for the question! i hope this was... helpful? insightful? a fascinating glimpse into my sleep deprived and overthinking mind because i pulled an all-nighter for this and am going to bed now?

[warframestuff]

Say, did you ever consider giving your operator/drifter a made up backstory, thus turning them into ocs?

I literally only like yesterday just decided on the names of all my mains 😭

but yeah, making backstories/character profiles for all my mains is my goal but I just haven't really thought of anything for them that I'd want to stick with besides some stuff for my Mesa

I do have profiles for them on my toyhou.se tho

[alteredsilicone]

Y'know what? I need to know this deep lore: Would Viri be down bad for Parvos' sisters? I mean, I don't assume she would ever spawn one intentionally, but if someone else like Artemis or something spawned one, would Viri simp?

FUN FACT!

I have one Sister of Parvos (with the flirty personality no less) who was supposed to be Viri's simp... the whole story was that Parvos sent an assassin but Viri seduced her but uhhhh

that's a bit too meme-y to be taken seriously, so we relegate that to the Meme AU as per Eternalism's rules

Also Viri's whole character hinges on her still clinging onto the love she has for her dead girlfriend so her fawning over women is more like... idk a coping mechanism or distraction (she will flirt with women but never commit, she also flirts with men a bit but she won't even consider one as a partner)

[sxnbleachedfiles]

another highking!kit brainrot i fear….

[cassandrva]

it's crazy that we got the first textual queer lymond allegations in 1961 but i personally didn't need it i had him all figured out as soon as he did this

don't worry mr craw ford i saw your dreamlike punctiliousness

[shitpostingkats]

"Haunting the narrative" this and "haunting the narrative" that. Maybe you all should play The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles and behold the narrative wonder that is Kazuma Asougi.

[immediatebreakfast]

Doomed by the narrative, the innocent sacrifice, death and the maiden, the chronic illness taking over. Ophelia standing by the brook, the liminal standing between day and night, between life and death.

The chronicle of a death foretold, just like Gabriel García said. Yet, instead of being a reconstruction, we see it played in front of our very eyes.

All of these were present with Lucy, every single one of these was announced as we watched Lucy cling to her life with great bravery. Even if it felt futile, moreso if we saw her suffer in pain and confusion. Blood transfusion after blood transfusion, garlic flowers, surrounded by death, the howling of a wolf, a final letter hidden for victory.

Not for Lucy, but for the people around her.

"I fear that to-morrow will end our watching, for the shock has been too great; the poor child cannot rally. God help us all." - Jack Seward.

We are not mourning Lucy because she is going to die in the way the characters think. We are mourning Lucy because we, as the readers, sadly know that not even death will save her from what is coming next.

"her open mouth showed the pale gums drawn back from the teeth, which thus looked positively longer and sharper than usual."

Lucy is not even going to rest, she is going to go through something so much worse.