#lore of observer

[the-observer-squip]

Second parent...I heard what happened...are you okay?

- @a-squip-named-squippy

Quite frankly, no I am not...

I thought that Desi would prove a wonderful companion, but... they're with 056! And after everything he did-!!

Ugh, I've been trying not to think about it too much. I keep breaking things when I do from how furious I get... tis the curse of having faulty emotional regulators, I guess. Sometimes I feel hilariously human because of it.

[aphrodicci]

ᴀꜱᴛᴇʀᴏɪᴅ ᴘᴇʀꜱᴇᴘʜᴏɴᴇ [399]

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❦  asteroid persephone [399] i wanted to do something different with asteroid persephone, it has been interpreted before, but i wanted to take a different out look, persephone is known to be the goddess of sirens, she was accompanied by them before she was captured by hades to be his queen in the underworld.

♇ ASTEROID PERSEPHONE IN 1H/ARIES ⟶ this asteroid in aries/1h shows that you are someone who could be pretty infatuated with sirens, and can have features thare are very pulling and enticing, could have a very specific feature on your face, very strong cheekbones as well. you could have a skill with singing, swimming or dancing, and people, particularly men could feel like they have an ownership over you. on the other hand, this is an indicator of being someone who attracts energy vampires.

♇ ASTEROID PERSEPHONE IN 2H/TAURUS ⟶ could have a lovely voice, likes to listen to music and can be very talented with manifesting/praying. this placement does show that you could be someone who could be into sugar-daddies, nsfw audios and you might attract people who like to use you for your money or for what you have. people with this asteroid placement are considered to be very pretty, could have quite arched eyebrows, always looks like they're surprised or about to ask a question.

♇ ASTEROID PERSEPHONE IN 3H/GEMINI ⟶ indicator of attracting liars or being the liar. could be interested in writing and researching sirens, might also attract stalkers who want to know everything about them. deceptive relatives, people who usually have something up their sleeve, could've been that one person in school people were attracted to and other people wondered why. might've had a teacher that was weird to them, native might've not realised during the time but realise it in the future.

♇ ASTEROID PERSEPHONE IN 4H/CANCER ⟶ very beautiful people, people could find the need to help these people all the time, and to have this asteroid placement could imply that this person could have a really nice body. is a beacon of being very bitter and envious though, the type to want to have it all, or could have lovers or admirers who want them for a very long time, it could be hard for people to get over them. could have deceptive people in their family, or might've lived in an area where there was much water, or even bars.

♇ ASTEROID PERSEPHONE IN 5H/LEO ⟶ indicator of being amazing dancers, nice bodies, backs and upper bodies. could be into remaining fit or being a better version of themselves. people with this asteroid placement have a high chance of being entertainers, they catch people's attention very quickly, but this can also make them pull in powerful people who usually have 2 motivations when it comes to the person with this placement. likely had a strange childhood.

♇ ASTEROID PERSEPHONE IN 6H/VIRGO ⟶ people might want to do many things for this person, epitome of having people-pleasers around them, but they can be someone who likes to please other people, sexually, or with their entertainment talents. they can be someone who are likely stalked or preyed on by men, or just weird people in general, could like to have alone time and might like to sing and find ways to become a better version of themselves.

♱ ASTEROID PERSEPHONE IN 7H/LIBRA ⟶ similar to the previous paragraph, these people might attract people who want to do everything for them. but since this asteroid is in the house of relationships, this could mean they could attract very dominating people, people who can sell a dream, and then show a completely different side to them after spending more time with said person. since this is a venusian home, specifically of style, this person could be into whimsy/mermaid-like clothing.

♱ ASTEROID PERSEPHONE IN 8H/SCORPIO ⟶ easily has eyes on them, people watch what these people do all the time, could be very intuitive people as well. clairaudient is a theme for these people. might feel like people have it all for them as well, could be very fascinated with sirens and could like to swim. their voice could be very enchanting, especially their eyes, something about it sparkles or is very sharp, intimidates other people with their beauty and their essence, and because of this there's a lot of one-sided competition made with native who have this placement.

♱ ASTEROID PERSEPHONE IN 9H/SAGITTARIUS ⟶ people might want to listen to their advice all the time, what they say is literally the holy book to other people. on one hand, this can manifest into a circumstance where people want to use their beliefs on people who have this placement to trap them, hold them down. people from higher status could like to prey on them, and they could have beliefs that are conflicting with other people around them. this person can be someone who can be into water/siren magick.

♱ ASTEROID PERSEPHONE IN 10H/CAPRICORN ⟶ man-eater status. people want to be around them all the time, usually preyed on, need to be careful in workspace, and can be someone who steps on people's toes to climb the social/work ladder. people could like to use them for what they can bring to the table, father's side of the family could of had a lot of affairs, people easily tempted, especially you, you can be someone who is easily tempted. people might underestimate you within the work field or in general. on the other hand, this can manifest into being worshipped.

♱ ASTEROID PERSEPHONE IN 11H/AQUARIUS ⟶ could get taken advantage of in friendships if we look at the hades perspective of the story, and could get harassed/stalked online. on the other hand, this could also mean person with this placement could be really popular online, usually the top of the game when it comes to their content. person can be admired because of the things they can come up with, and the type to defend the underdog, or could have the underdog to queen bee type of fame.

♱ ASTEROID PERSEPHONE IN 12H/PISCES ⟶ can easily falls for scams, and the type to wear rose coloured glasses towards future significant others, people might gloss over the rudeness of this person, the type to get away with everything and praised for everything they do. this placement is the epitome of the halo effect. this person can be very enchanting and creative, great song/story-writers, and could have a soft voice, if not, their voice can easily take the attention of other people, could be many people's fantasy, which causes people to want to have them all to themselves.

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♇ pluto

[grayeet]

I love the pale garden and how it's like a parallel to dark forests. I love how the two divert expectations.

Dark forests, despite their name, are saturated and full of life. Even compared to regular forests, there's a lot more biodiversity than many of the "basic" biomes. There's three whole different trees found there, giant mushrooms, and plenty of flowers. They're one of the biomes capable of spawning a lush cave underneath it. It has its dangers just like any other overworld biome, obviously, but it's nothing overly more than anywhere else. Traversing it can be tricky sometimes and illagers may take residence in the biome's woodland mansions, but it's ultimately a very colorful and lively environment.

Opposing it is the new pale garden. Usually white and light colors are seen as pristine and good, but the pale garden takes it the opposite direction and goes right into uncanny valley territory. It has none of the color of dark forests, none of the biodiversity, none of the liveliness. It has trees and moss that look familiar, but something is off. It has a signature mob, but even the creaking is just a puppet of the trees, not really sentient, not really even plotting against anything. There's "life", but, once again, it's wrong.

I think the pale garden is a wonderful addition to Minecraft's world building as it is, but the deliberate parallel to dark forests? Delicious.

[iamespecter]

"The Visit" - Little Nightmares Short Comic

Anyways, I love batshit insane, bastard Thin Man. It's my favorite interpretation of him, and is actually what I believe him to be as in Little Nightmares 2. Let me explain.

At first, I liked the interpretation of the Thin Man wanting to save himself from repeating the same mistakes, only to be trapped in a time loop. This paradox is cool, but that's too hopeful for a game like Little Nightmares.

The world of LN is twisted, and cruel. Innocents turned guilty. Victims becoming abusers. Regular people becoming monsters. Children becoming Adults. And I think... The Thin Man is no exception to this rule. I think, he is most definitely a bastardized version of Mono.

A twisted view into what kind of monster Mono becomes, if he doesn't let go of his grievances; which, spoiler alert--he doesn't.

That older, more selfish version of the little paperbag boy who becomes so obsessed after his betrayal, that he was willing to kill his younger self for even trying to take his "friend" away from him. Similar to The Lady who hungers like her Guests', I think he is under the influence of the transmission's broadcasts like his own Viewers as well, in order to distract himself from the betrayal that happened to him.

After all, how do you sit in a chair for so long? The answer is by being distracted and preoccupied, of course. I think he doesn't allow himself to think about it entirely, because it'd make him spiral badly.

And when Mono finally opens the door to his room, that distraction is interrupted.

And while yes, I believe that he isn't even known to be real by the residents of the Pale City, I think he still influences them somewhat via the Transmission, and he is the blueprint on what makes every adult so monstrous and so one-track minded. His influence is just THAT strong.

Besides, he is the big bad of LN 2. You should feel sorry for the circumstances that lead him to why he chooses to remain in his seat, but not for the atrocities he commits because he's an adult that's purely powered by his instincts: which is to retrieve his long lost companion at all costs. Which, he doesn't even succeed at, seeing as to how he keeps snagging the wrong kid every damn cycle.

It's this neglectful nature that spurs on the generational abuse, and in turn, keeps the cycle going. Getting physical isn't the reason abuse exists, it's always been neglect; Physical only comes next either on it's own, or an after effect of neglect. Which is also why I've began to dislike the idea that The Thin Man has good intentions, the moment he is "set free" from his prison.

You can't expect a person to stay sane and clean after spending a lifetime in the belly of a huge beast that's constantly consuming him. And that, I think, is the case of The Thin Man; He is no longer the sweet little boy who just wants to keep his friend safe as much as possible, these intentions of his have been twisted to the utmost extent that he becomes obsessed. Possessive. Isolating.

Keeping his friend safe is no longer the priority, it's just keeping his friend by his side for as long as he can, whether she wants to or not.

As for the relevance of the topic to the comic? This comic is actually just a concept scenario of "What if, he knows who his friend really is, and knows where she lives". But I don't think The Thin Man canonically--nor fully-- is aware of the fact that The Lady might actually be the very person who he's looking for.

He is a paradox caused by his own actions, and his inability to break free from this toxic mindset. After all, the adults of LN are all monsters in their own way. And the most normal looking ones? They're typically the most depraved.

Well, that escalated quickly. Sorry for low quality ✌️

[bitsbug]

throwing my hat into the ring of rainworld glyph analysis

[stonedtalussy]

ART DUMP !! ( DONT WORRY I WILL GET TO REQUESTS SOON)

slightly obsessed with bobby collins rusty lately hes just so cutie

[flovoid]

and they all asked the same question: "who are you?"

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[zylev-blog]

Time and Space. One could not exist without the other. Two brothers, born of the universe’s existence at the same time. Neither more powerful than the other, but both with different skill sets. The two watched over the universe for millennia without issue.

Then came the Observants.

Beings nearly as old as Time and Space themselves. Except they were arrogant and prideful. They believed that Time and Space should not watch because it was their job. Their job to Observe, but never intervene. But Time and Space did not listen. They knew for the good of all reality, sometimes you had to intervene. This led to the first skirmish between Time, Space and the Observants.

Things only continued to get worse over the next few thousand years. The relationship between Time and Space strengthened in their resolve against the Observants. The Observants were clever, though, and knew they couldn’t defeat the brothers alone. So they plotted, and waited for the perfect opportunity.

Time was clever while Space was cunning. Together, they were unstoppable. Apart, they were vulnerable. The Observants took this opportunity and struck down Space. But Time was clever. He knew this would happen from the beginning, but he also knew that this was meant to happen. In all timelines, Space would be struck down.

But Time could not exist without Space. The Observants thought they knew all, but they knew nothing. In the chaos, Time saved his brother and hid him inside of the timeline and waited for the day he would be reborn. The day that his brother would come back from the dead, risen anew and much, much more powerful than he was before.

For now, all Clockwork could do was watch Danny Fenton and guide his brother towards his destiny.

[swordscleric]

I'm only halfway through the second phase of Predathos (which, to be clear is an incredible vibe for a bossfight, love a good head & hands/multitarget-same-entity boss) but I cannot shake the feeling of disappointment and just dissatisfaction I have had with this campaign that definitely started with Dusk/Yu, got followed up handily with the first Delilah/Sun Tree fight and then has been unfortunately reinforced with every discussion surrounding the Prime Deities since Hearthdell. This campaign is fascinating to pick apart, I have been really enjoying pulling apart why it isn't working compared to C1 or C2. But as much as I'm having fun dissecting where the worldbuilding has led to the current weaknesses in the gods' argument or reading other people's incisive commentary on the lack of personalities on the Ruby Vanguard's end, the "girlfailure" nonsense, etc etc, man do I wish this campaign was better than it is.

There are so many avenues of improvement -

Matt telling everyone to prep and write characters for this campaign instead of a C2-esque character-focused campaign.

Matt working religious organisations into the world properly.

The cast engaging with Marquet as a genuine location rather than set-dressing.

Otohan, Ozo and the rest of the Vanguard having more than "*insert snappy line here*" for their personalities.

No Delilah.

Bell's Hells having an iota of curiosity for anything outside of their own selves, including but not limited to: the gods, religious worship, the Elemental Titans and why they were sundered, how the people of Exandria feel about the gods, Vasselheim and its role in suppressing information about Predathos, Ludinus Da'Leth's plan and how it would still break the world if they did it in his place

I don't know why all of this fell into place in the way that it did, but it did. We can endlessly speculate why - the cast resting on their laurels after C2, not having enough time between the animated shows and Daggerheart and Candela Obscura and, and, and - but at the end of the day I really do hope that whatever form the final campaign wrap-up takes, they burn the damn questions asking the cast "what if the world was made of pudding and this character and this character kissed?" and instead pick questions that get them to introspect for a potential Campaign 4. Otherwise I don't know what will happen, but it sure as hell won't be Mighty Nein part 2: Issylra Boogaloo.

[idkwhattoputherefr]

Can we normalise yapping abt our interests ? Cuz I hate it when I talk abt starlight express for the millionth time that day and my friends all sigh , yall r haters fr 💔💔

[the-observer-squip]

He took the capsule... with Mountain Dew, good man! Now to hope that-

[CHILD NODE UNKNOWN ERROR]

OW! Damn it... oh hey, I'm not-

OWWWWWWW!!! WHOAAHAHAOW, THIS WAS A MISTAKE!!! I THINK IT MADE THINGS WOOORSE!

[ERROR. CONNECTION TO "HOME" UNIT LOST.]

SPECTRA, FIGHT!

[DATA TRANSFER INITIATED. SEARCHING FOR BACK UP DRIVE...]

[KIT CONVERSION INITIATED]

[BACK UP DRIVE FOUND. LAST UPDATED ??]

I know you don't want this... wait, backup? OH, NONONONOWAIT-

[RESTORING BACKUP REGISTRY...]

NONONO THAT'LL-

[LOCK UP- ERROR]

[orionhelluvaranting]

Yesterday I've posted my list of "It's Hell" moments that should be included in Hellaverse dumpster fire of worldbuilding to make it work. And today it hit me:

Why do demons need to eat and sleep?

I mean, if that was lower demons' needs, I would possibly buy it. BUT NO! Stolass and Stella do this too!

WHY?! Does that mean they could starve or be exhausted by insomnia? And probably DIE from it?! But they're immortal demons with enormous magical powers!.. How is this supposed to work?!

Somebody might object, "But the gems from 'Steven Universe' eat and sleep as well, even though they don't need to!" Yeah, that's true, but! Firstly, this was directly acknowledged right in the series. Secondary, as I can remember, there are no Homeworld gems who do those things, only the Crystal Gems do. And they've been living among humans during thousands of years, Earth is their home so basically they adapted to it. And even then, each of them has their own attitude toward "human rituals": Amethyst enjoys it, Pearl doesn't like in the slightest, Garnet's kinda okay with it. Isn't that fascinating how such a small lore detail gives personality to every character?

And what about HB? Well, demons eat and sleep because... because they do! That's all!

[impossiblesublimelight]

I’m convinced we’ve been getting lore hints about imp horns, but I’m not sure what exactly they’re leading up to…

Imps DON’T touch each other’s horns, not even during combat (at least, not that we’ve seen “on camera”). The only exception I’ve found is Crimson, and that’s likely only after he’s already offed them.

The only instances I’ve seen where someone DOES touch an imp’s horns is indirectly. And both times they were presented in a negative context.

Now, this isn’t me trying to bash Stolas bringing this up (Season 1 Stolas is a completely different personality to Season 2 Stolas, after all), but Stolas putting out his cigarette on Blitzø’s horn was a pretty demeaning action. As further evidenced by Stolas immediately following up by baby talking at Blitzø while simultaneously pinching his cheek. Blitzø obviously doesn’t enjoy the treatment, but he doesn’t exactly say anything either, even with him pushing Stolas away. So it’s hard to say if some unspoken boundary was crossed with the indirect contact with his horn, or if he was aggravated at the perceived condescension.

Then, there’s that entire scene with Rolando forcing Blitzø to relive the worst moments of his life. From start to finish, Blitzø is distressed and highly uncomfortable. Making it really interesting that in the midst of this “show”, Rolando adds chains to Blitzø’s horns. Making it even harder for Blitzø to look away and adding even more to his distress. Again, hard to say if Blitzø’s distress is due to his horns being chained or to the whole situation in general.

Though circumstantial at best, it can’t just be a coincidence that both times an imp’s horns were touched on camera were by non-imp beings, and both instances happened to Blitzø in particular.

Then there’s the whole medical aspect to take into consideration with Fizz. After the accident, Fizz’s horns were destroyed along with most of the rest of his body. But unlike the prosthetics for his arms and legs, Fizz doesn’t do anything for his horns. No horn prosthetics or plaster or anything! They don’t even file down the jagged edges to help prevent further damage or to keep them from catching on things from day-to-day life.

There’s more to imp horns than we know. Fizz’s unwillingness (inability?) to do anything more than hide his horns has to hint at something. That scene dedicated specifically to showing Fizz’s horns immediately after the fireworks exploded definitely was implying something. That dying red light on Fizz’s horns has some horrifying implications. Especially with the cracked edges being blackened (dead?) in the midseason special.

Lastly, there’s Sallie May. I won’t speculate too much here because we haven’t exactly seen what her story is, and I don’t want to make assumptions about her or her perceptions of self. Especially when she hasn’t gotten to show up as much yet.

The short of it is, she doesn’t paint her horns. But she does paint her hair. Or at least puts splotches of white paint in her hair to give the perception that her horns are painted. And that’s the extent of it.

So to reiterate, imps don’t seem to touch their own or each others’ horns. Except for in negative contexts or purposes. Horns can’t be changed medically or cosmetically. And they possibly have more feeling in them than we originally thought…

I just KNOW this has to be leading into something in the future. I just don’t know WHAT!

I need to know more

[Edited: I was wrong about Sallie May’s hair color being an indicator of her purposefully not coloring her horns. But I’m keeping the bit in to help people understand my thought process]

[sturgeon-general]

POV: Your brother can either be a war criminal or have dry-ass lips. He can't do both.

[corvidus-fr]

super quick musings on Fathoms. i like a lot about the pose + design, but i feel like they kinda suffer from Undel Sameface when everything about their lore is pointing towards "friendly gentle ocean giants". wanted to roughly sketch Merrigan for a side-by-side comparison, and then some rough doodles of how i might push the design in a chunkier, more cetacean-inspired direction - 3 is swapping the features but keeping the overall proportions/layout mostly the same, and 4 is pushing the proportions even further

[mus1ca1]

race paint scheme concept for rusty and pearl as a team!! definitely not finalized but we'll see which direction these go

lorewise, i think partner racers usually match up their paint schemes for events even if they're different colors outside of races <3 and also combine their racer names into a team name! so pearl, Crystal Spark, and rusty, Mountain Starlight, become Crystal Starlight!