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Global Half Anniversary Illustration

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R99 fans, These code expire tomorrow so be fast!

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happy half anniversary to Reverse 1999 y'all!

[gacha99]

really curious to see just what the fuck this guys problem is T_T why does he seem hellbent on being as nosey as possible and spreading bad rumors about Desert Flanel lol

[gacha99]

This is so sad T_T But I think it's interesting that Ezra sees the Laplace and The Foundation's motto differently than how most humans have been treating the Arcanists in the game. I think the only other human characters who have been earnestly just trying to help Arcanists and guide them has been Sherjah and Madame Z everyone else views Arcanists in a really icky "They don't know how to help themselves so they need us" way.

And I don't think Ezra is really looking down on Arcanists when he wants to help them and when he says this:

Because we already know that it's a fact that Arcanists and Human's can't see the world the same way both mentally but also physically (like that Arcanists just can see things that humans cannot) and rather than treating Arcanists as if they are liars or that they are being illogical when they claim something to be one way that human's can't prove, Ezra is trying to meet Spathodea in the middle and improve the parts of the games that might very well be overlooked by her because she is an Arcanist and not a human.

Rather than going "That's dumb why would we ever even HOLD these games again they're SO dangerous to everyone we should just avoid them entirely" or even trying to control which games Spathodea holds again he just wants to rebuild the physical integrity of the stadiums walls.

It's the smugness that comes with the whole "Arcanists are so illogical" that makes the Foundation and Laplace's motto really gross and just downright bigoted because instead of trying to help Arcanists with Arcanist things, the humans who work for these organizations instead take control of aspects of Arcanist culture that they don't fully understand and that they don't care to understand.

"Tame the orderless power" is a really gross thing to say that doesn't exactly say "Let's help Arcanists so that we can help everyone!" Ezra may have been taught by his mother that, but that is just not how a vast majority of humans think.

It would be great if that were the case and if most humans really did just want to help Arcanists because they can understand that helping Arcanists means helping the betterment of everyone, but most humans use their authority and their privilege against Arcanists to keep them out of higher institutions

or to control the way they use Arcanum

or to simply just discriminate against them and any businesses they run.

And that's not even getting into the times where humans just straight up did unethical experiments on Arcanists or psychologically tortured them to discredit them in some way all the while locking them away in some mental institution meant to help 'guide' Arcanists

(i couldn't find a photo of Scott Mesmer obviously but you get the idea)

Point is, Ezra has the right idea but he is sadly in the minority with humans who actually tolerate Arcanists in a respectful way without looking down on them or using his position as a human to control what they do.

And it's sad that Ezra and Spathodea's potential friendship gets torn to shreds because of it.

[gacha99]

Part of me really liked @schneiderenjoyer's addition to my last post about the argument that Ezra and Spathodea had and how the idea that not making any safety changes to the stadium is ableist and the whole "They can get themselves out if anything happens" angle isn't very helpful advice considering there ARE arcanists who just aren't that great at Arcanum, but another part of me also just understands where Spathodea is even coming from. Like yeah it makes sense to try and make the games "safer" from a humans point of view and for Arcanists and Humans to come together for some fun games, but the last time humans were allowed to see the games they did indeed change everything T_T. And it did start off as simple "safety" concerns that ended up with The Foundation full on banning entire games because they weren't safe for humans, even though humans aren't the ones participating and are just in the audience. It went from a way for Humans and Arcanists to enjoy something, to another way for The Foundation to control Arcanists.

I'd like to believe that Ezra would be different, and that he truly just wants to improve normal things like the integrity of the walls and the ceiling beams above them, but Spathodea is kind of valid in saying "Humans have literally every other sporting event in the entire world, and this is the ONE sporting event that caters to Arcanists, and I don't feel comfortable with you trying to change things all over again etc etc." That's just something I can personally relate to a lot, especially since the Uluru games seem less of a business thing and more of a cultural exchange between humans and arcanists.

I do think however that Ezra is right and that the stadium needs to be upgraded just so everyone is safe Human or not. But I understand why Spathodea would have this reaction as well.

[gacha99]

An aspect of this event that I really like is how it's spreading light on how humans interacted with actual Arcanist culture that was completely separate and different from human culture. Up until now, each event has really been about the separation of Humans and Arcanist thinking, in that they literally cannot comprehend the world in the same way. From the trailers alone, I kind of assumed that the Uluru games had just been cancelled due to the Storm, but it seems they fell out of popularity because the Foundation changed literally everything about them once they had control over it.

And really, I feel like there's no better allegory for cultural appropriation and colonization than that because it happens all the time in the real world as well. People take an aspect of one culture they're not apart of because they think it's cool, they change everything about it or misappropriate that part of the culture, and then they completely ditch it once no one from that original culture is engaging with what they've created because it's "lame" now or always was "lame".

I can't count the number of times I've seen white people take a dance or a song or a piece of actual vernacular from black people and run it into the ground or misuse it, only to stop using it once they have no interest in it (because the people they took it from also have no interest in it) and I feel like it's the same for these games and other things that Arcanists in Reverse 1999 made. Or how white people will butt their heads into a topic that specifically pertains to the black experience and give their very wrong and ignorant opinion on it, and then get mad when black people tell them that they're too misinformed to understand what the topic at hand really is.

And this part in particular with Ezra really just cements in me that the Arcanists probably had so many infuriating and annoying arguments with Humans back then when the Foundation wanted to just keep changing the rules of the games to be "safer".

Ezra is "technically" right that the blanket statement "Fire is dangerous" is correct. And the Arcanists know that "Fire is dangerous" but the Arcanists are not worried about it being dangerous. Not because they are foolhardy or illogical, but because they understand how it works and can control it and have their own methods and ways of using fire that humans just can't.

Arcanists have been doing their own thing for centuries, they don't need humans barging in and giving them a stern warning on fire safety especially since their warnings and lectures about fire safety would only apply to humans anyways. Humans definitely didn't care about that though, and most definitely insisted on changing everything because "its unsafe, and don't you WANT people to be safer during the games?" even if Arcanists have been safe for centuries in their own ways.

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I find Ezra to be a fun character. His insensitivity to others feelings and problems is fun to read I think. I enjoy how he will just- say or do things that he doesn't seem to process as potentially off-putting, upsetting or similar. Like when he presents the idea of renovating the Uhuru Stadium, or when he just casually stalks the group through the desert. Both because Spathodea isn't doing well but also because of his own intellectual curiosity. There's a leering quality to his actions where he is treating the very real people in front of him as simply scientific curiosities.

Plus his little white knighting moment here:

Ezra: My job is to help and protect them, so their burning enthusiasm will not be dampened. Like what Mom said, this our mission as mankind.

I like how this lined identifies this as learned behavior. "Like what Mom said." He's a bit obsessive in that sense in his curiosity and interest. He's not the most self-aware person in the world.

But I think that's what makes him a layered character. Someone who isn't educated enough on the issues around him but Does Want to learn, and who's very honest about those feelings.

Honestly, he reads a bit like a human autistic boy which his genuine interest obsession with mushrooms and reincarnation and the aforementioned insensitivity. I think it be fun if we saw him with Another Human and he interacted noticeably oddly with them. It would also provide and interesting avenue for questions about humans and how they are that united as a group and not as generalized as they seem, just like how archanists aren't.

[gacha99]

Wow Spathodea actually looks really cool when she uses the fire arcanum. I was wondering what she'd look like when she uses her power tbh since her design doesn't really scream "fire" to me.

[gacha99]

Vertin's just constantly finding herself in so many wacky situations its crazy T_T

[gacha99]

I've finally stopped being lazy and got Kanjira to i2 for her pretty outfit.

[gacha99]

Ulu came home! Hurray!

[gacha99]

she bumped into another person and fainted goddamn how fast were they running T_T???

[gacha99]

I'll always find it so funny that this games horniest design is a metallic robot woman. It's like the design artists knew they had to have at least ONE fanservicey character and instead of making it someone in the main cast they chose the robot woman.

[gacha99]

I'm right on time for the new reverse 1999 update hell yeah! I have nothing saved though and will probably not be able to get the characters I want unless I leave it up to chance </3

I'm hoping to get Spathodea but if not her, then I'll try for Ezra. I was able to get both 6 and 37 so I have some hope at least.

[gacha99]

The new characters teased in the upcoming patch for Reverse 1999, they look SO cool. Personally I will be trying to pull for Spathodea i dig her design.

[gacha99]

oh boy they're teasing the next patch now it seems! I've always liked that their posters looked like actual movie posters because really each chapter does feel like watching a movie.

[gacha99]

PRETTY MATH MAN CAME HOME i had 6 wishes and a dream tbh with you. gonna save the rest for another character.