#4.3+

[lothlaer]

jaskier wearing a gay little scarf now

[deer-feather]

Ok like, according to leaks and stuff, Asat Pramad genuinaly did love himeko/liked raising her, and his only regret was letting og!himeko die in the bloodstained games, caused by him, wich makes me think that he left as ryusuke to stop himself from getting to attached, but It Din't realy work, so he held out from destroying planarcadia, waiting for himeko to die of old age to do It, but himeko died earlier, and he discovered about our himeko/imaginae himeko so he din't until he got total confirmation that our himeko wasn't og!himeko, in 4.3 he finds out that they are diferent and decided to destroy planarcadia

-masked fool anon 🎭

Anon...

I hate to break it to you, but it was already stated this patch so no leaks, just spoilers. Asat Pramad is The Okayest Dad™.

But it gives me a chance to gush about how adorable (even if still tragic) 4.3 actually is.

SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT

First, TB growth into actual person is noticed, even if just by March. We have Dan Heng actually admitting openly is feelings. And that March is no longer running towards learning about her past instead just accepting the future. Sunday is finally opening up to us about his own past too.

We also get more of Himeko, her opening up to us and promising to tell us the story of her repairing the Astral Express. And Pom-Pom lore!! With, wow, never expected to see that coming.

Welt is just stressed the fuck out

The whole AE finally feels like people and I'm happy that they're getting focus.

We get jumped by the dread of having Aeons remains.

Sweet. Nice. Totally not stressful.

Then, we get sweet moments between Silver Wolf and Blade, with interruption from Ashveil.

We get to learn of Blade's, or more so Yingxing's past and his relationships with people. We get to hear him when he was young, along with Baiheng flashback and baby Jing Yuan with Jingliu. Fortunately or not, Dma Feng was not once mentioned by name now he was shown. I like the idea that he moved on from the past Imbibitor Lunae and let himself forget about him a bit to remember Dan Heng as his own person.

I don't have a picture of the place where we could see all the weapons he had made, and the one he didn't (sounds like a fanfic name okay). I have little theory that all weapons on the right side were made for the people he cherishes still, and he clearly does.

While on the left are those who he has no emotional attachment to.

Which would imply that Yingxing and Jing Yuan's relationship was stained long before the fallout, but it's backed up by the fact he hadn't made Kafka's sword that is there so he can't have emotional attachment to it. He himself describes it in flashback as bad work. And that normal soldier sword is right there too.

Blade being sweet to Silver Wolf and her actually admitting things is also wonderful to see. Their dynamic is something I never thought about, I always thought they are the most apart instead of attached to the hip lol.

I think Silver Wolf's relationship with Blade is supposed to be a slight representation of what Real Himeko wished to have with her father, later Our Himeko wished for despite her defensive reaction to Ryusuke's appearance after all those years.

Himeko's whole conversation with her "father" was actually quite wholesome until the final moment when everything was revealed. After the whole reveal that neither of them is what they wish to be, it's rather obvious how awkward they are in the role of daughter and father.

Asat's reaction was also clearly emotional, as much as that Ravager would hate to admit it. He didn't act with calculative precision while revealing his real self, on the contrary when he acted on emotion. His voice, even the look in his eyes is different.

The whole story of Graphia that we get before we have a moment of Himeko and Ryusuke also suits very well. It explains what it actually looks like from the outsider's perspective and what consequences Himeko would be forced to live through if Asat stayed.

The Graphias connection to Astral Express is clear poke at how Himeko's backstory was.

Graphia and Himeko aren't parallel stories, they're the same story, one 1000 years in the past and one in modern times. They are raised by Demon, they discover Trailblaze and AE as the first of the new generation, make the Demon leave and we. We don't know the ending.

Okay, now I'm showing my favorite scree shots of this patch‼️

Asat Pramad making 67 joke

March in the background was my reaction when I saw Ryan Mei.

Blade getting his life back and first conversation with Shuhu that was in the game. It was so epic to hear it.

Himeko's having the same dream, one reaching out towards the express is letting the dream become true while the other is just watching.

I want this artstyle so bad. Oh and Oroboros vs Elation is such a cool concept.

Btw, before someone takes it wrong when I say relationship I mean platonic one. There's nothing romantic in this patch, only the power of the family we chose.

[yasammydaily]

...and touches her head to Sammy's hand once more.

[lunchboxkidscomic]

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some things are just better left buried

[yaoguangsupremacy]

me when everyones saying how out of character blade is now except i ate up every part of the quest he was in and i really liked it

(i dont have a reaction image for this guys pretend theres one here)

[sharedblood]

i really enjoy the scene of mary ‘confessing’ to dean about wanting to leave the hunter life in 4.3 bc while we (and dean) have this oppressive understanding that she is talking to her adult son who is also a hunter, that is not mary’s perspective at all. she lives in a very confined and dangerous world separated from ‘civilians’ (who samuel does not respect) and apart from other hunters (who samuel doesn’t trust) controlled by her father. samuel brings mary to talk to civilians in disguises but this is not a ‘life’ this is a mirage of ‘normal’ and so she has this moment to talk to someone who lives in her world (but not in her power system) and she says ‘i want to get out… i want to be safe’ and to me, dean is almost the personified ‘face’ of hunting. (he isn’t a hunter in association with her father, isn’t defined by samuel’s hierarchy from her pov) she is confessing her deepest hopes to a lone Hunter as the representative of the world of hunting who is finally close enough (inside the nuclear home but also not staying) for her to be able to talk about these feelings and about wanting to protect her kids from the trauma and isolation her upbringing caused her without causing immediate disruption to the current family system (as she builds up the courage to try for freedom, key word ‘try’)

[chaotic-anxious-the-2nd]

I am honestly just anticipating the next Planarcadia lore drop because 4.3 was full of them

4.3 spoilers obviously

The Himeko one was obvious enough from the trailer

So was the Ryuusuke one though I didn't expect him to have been replaced THAT FAR BACK

The Enroute one I definitely didn't expect (The shiver that ran down my spine when Ashveil said he was on the express AND THEN EVERYONE DISAPPEARS)

Graphia being adopted by Asat Pramad and Imagenasis being Destruction was one of the biggest shocks (does this make Himeko her ancestor's sister?)

As was Elation being from the Voracity

So

Next update lore drop predictions!

More Voracity stuff definitely

Nihilux stuff maybe

What ever Pearl is doing is probably going to involve another planetary secret since everything else she's done so far has

Sparkle by rule of the first person always being involved in something (although technically the first person would've been Himeko)

not a lore drop prediction but since Asat Pramad is so close we mayyy get an Evernight hint

pls pls pls whatever is going on with the Permanence (definitely no bias here hahaha....) I mean Dan Heng is near the Voracity right now please

very low chance but Abundance lore drop? though I doubt it

Considering how 3.4 went, I'm scared for 4.4 and 4.3 only came out yesterday.

[illuminated-in-darkness]

Charles Vane | Proper Pirate - A (Part 1) Black Sails Musical Parallels | IV. XX. XXIV. XXV. XXVI. XXIX. XXXI.

music breakdown note: The music in this parallel is made up of parts A and B. Parts C and D are each a different extension of part A. E is a tease of A (only the first two notes of part A)

All the scenes in this group have A.

music variation note: The music in the scenes in IV, XXV, and XXVI is played on hurdy gurdy. The scenes in XX and XXXI are on low strings. The first part of the scene in XXIV is on piano, the second part of that scene is on strings. The scene in XXIX is played on distorted guitar.

Part 1 | Part 2

AB | A | B | C | D | E

I spent a year rewatching Black Sails and tracking all the bits of music that repeated at any point during the show, and my findings are reinforcing that Bear McCreary is a genius and this show should have been called 'parallels that will kill you over and over again'* (tag | chronological)