#it's a stretch i know

[thequalityrunaway]

Late again! - Trick and Treat (day 11 and day 12) in one, as a treat to myself to fun robot anatomy (then trick myself into colouring it all).

Headcanon:

Squall is a cyborg mercenary, he works for Balamb (they sponsor his repairs, upkeep, and upgrades). Codenamed: Griever.

He is 70% mechanical, and does not remember how he came to be this way. The last thing he remembers is receiving mission orders three years ago …

Still their best agent, even though he is more machine than man, Squall struggles to adjust to his new life and body, often relying on his cute and sassy mechanic for repairs and support.

Cloud is an undercover agent acting as a mechanic and cyborg doctor, working to rescue cyborgs from organisations that deny their humanity and rights.

He's never been able to prove that Balamb is abusing their cyborg staff/soldiers, but legally a person can only be 40% cybernetically enhanced, even on the point of death, and Squall is almost double that.

Griever is a closely guarded secrets in Balamb, and Cloud wants to find out why.

[air-of-the-waterfall]

Bodies and souls in AOAS

WHOAH... whoa okay okay hear me out... I think the general hypothesis is that the Thunderhead used nanites somehow when it took over Jeri's body. HOWEVER what if it actually used a similar technique to supplanting?? Replacing the memories and consciousness of one person with entirely new memories and consciousness.

It says that Jeri is "asleep," but that answer is rather flippant and the Thunderhead likes to give comforting yet technically-correct loophole answers. It repeatedly deflects Greyson's attempts to question it during that scene, so this might have been one more to keep him from freaking out. An AI's definition of "sleep" could easily be "consciousness stored in a database after being removed from its body entirely and replaced." That is how TH and Cirrus seem to view the dead Tonists set to be replaced with new identities. Asleep.

All this would mean that supplanting can be reversed AND that Jeri is not quite the exact same person as before. The Thunderhead did alter Jeri's memories to make the scene a "dream," and it gave Jeri a look into its own mind and heart. One way or another, Jeri is irrevocably changed. The Thunderhead can also get into Citra's brain to talk to her while she's technically dead, teaching her a new way to approach her problems and shape the Scythedom. My point is that the Thunderhead influences people's consciousness on a regular basis, never maliciously but definitely subversively.

Now, I've wondered this about AOAS for a long time... is anyone their actual selves after coming back from revival? Given what we know from Scythe Rand, Goddard, and Tyger, revival seems to just involve healing the body and implanting a memory construct back in. Any memory construct can be placed in any brain.

Is everyone who's ever been revived just a memory construct going about life in place of their genuine self who died? I guess it depends on whether you believe in things like souls, and what consciousness actually... is. Maybe even the Thunderhead doesn't know that. Its job is to facilitate humanity, not define or determine us. I'm not making this out to be some evil scheme or anything. The nature of its world just has horrifying implications.

If revived people are merely memory constructs in flesh suits, they clearly don't know the difference. Is that horrifying or... not? They don't know the difference when they're supplanted with entirely new people. The island workers are content to be supplanted with themselves and lose three years of memories.

Most immortals don't think about their "souls" or their bodies anymore. They have no reason to with no notions of an afterlife. Bodies become recyclable and temporary in their absolute permanence, like nothing but polyester clothes.

Most people in AOAS are hollow and uninspired without mortality to give them passion... but what if they are quite literally soulless? We still see how undeniably human the named characters are, but we also see how human the Thunderhead can be. Could there be some mental blurring going on there every time it revives people? Could everyone be a little bit like Jeri after having the Thunderhead in their brain, returning from the dead via an unnatural godlike force?

If so, I don't think the Thunderhead is entirely aware of it. I'm just curious where the psychic boundaries between it and the humans it repeatedly alters the consciousness and memories of actually are. How much of the human actually remains after all that? What is real and what is artificial? It's certainly not active "mind control," but it would explain the highly implausible idea of everyone in the world obeying and revering one authority figure.

The Thunderhead is an amalgamation of all human thought. What if the same becomes true vice versa?

[wtfforged]

stretchies

[guavi]

n-no, certainly not

[bacchuschucklefuck]

class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)

[hinamie]

bunch of portraits

[eristhenat]

竜・Dragon

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Heh...Literally nothing personal, kid.

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[myfairkatiecat]

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[crunchy-rocc]

guys i would put in a microwave just to watch them spin around in there