Its name basically says it all. This is an asteroid that will bring apathy to the area of life corresponding with the house it is placed in. Generally negative, it tends to add difficulty to finding drive and reasoning to engage in certain areas of life. Its presence can somewhat detach value from whatever it touches. Conjunction to personal planets can create distance between the native and the themes of this planet.
Apatheia 8273 in Aries/1st house/1º, 13º, 25º: Apathy towards their appearance. The native may not care much about their personal style or appearance in general. May dress or appear plainly. They can also wear dull colors. / Apathy towards independence. Not feeling like its a requirement. May be neutral about relationships. Seeing independence as something they don't necessarily benefit from. May have identity issues as a result, can have a hard time valuing this independence. / Apathy towards identity. Not feeling too strongly about being unique or 'making their mark'. Once again, they may come off apathetic to most people, and they usually don't care.
Apatheia 8273 in Taurus/2nd house/2º, 14º, 26º: Apathy towards material possesions. Likely not too concerned about the worth of the things they own. They definitely don't care much about having luxury brands. / Apathy towards luxury. May not feel like they need to emphasize it in their life, and when they do engage in it, they aren't too particular. / Apathy towards money. Similar to as I said before. These people may not have a strong need to be incredibly rich. May not have many material desires, and are likely okay with having a livable wage and nothing higher.
Apatheia 8273 in Gemini/3rd house/3º, 15º, 27º: Apathy towards school and learning. May not have a specific favorite subject. May have not cared much for grades, and therefore may have slacked off in school. May lack academic drive in general. / Apathy towards communication and curiosity. These people may not be the most curious, and therefore can come off quite literally as apathetic during conversations. They just don't care. / Apathy towards their neighborhood. May not care to bond much with their neighbors. May not find a lot of value in where they live... These people can be antisocial
Apatheia 8273 in Cancer/4th house/4º, 16º, 28º: Apathy towards family. May not care much for family gatherings. May have a hard time expressing familial love. / Apathy towards their house. May not feel a strong need to feel 'at home'. May have a house that isn't too decorated. Likely to view houses as simply somewhere to live. / Apathy towards their emotions. Can be a very apathetic person. Though, they can also feel their emotions deeply but just not really care. Can come off as unaffected and even aloof as a result of this.
Apatheia 8273 in Leo/5th house/5º, 17º, 29º: Apathy towards the arts. May not feel a strong pull towards any expression of them. May not feel very emotionally affected by it, either. / Apathy towards children. May not desire being a parent or dealing with children at all. May not see any reasons to parent, and even view children as a challenge in general. / Apathy towards fun. These people definitely have fun, they just don't place a huge emphasis on it. They can also seem to lack hobbies, or they may have ones and not feel emotionally attached to them at all.
Apatheia 8273 in Virgo/6th house/6°, 18°: Apathy towards work. May not care for the job they’re working and therefore aren’t too picky with what jobs they pick up. / Apathy towards health. May not care too much about how to manage their health, may not take steps to go above and beyond to be extremely healthy. May do the bare minimum in keeping themselves alive lol. / Apathy towards serving others. May not feel called to volunteering. They may have a hard time understanding the value in it. The benefits are unclear. They can come off as selfish for this reason..
Apatheia 8273 in Libra/7th house/7° or 19°: Apathy towards marriage. May not desire marriage at all. If they do get married, they may not care much for a huge wedding. / Apathy towards long term commitments in general. May not see any value in longevity. They may have a tendency to be noncommittal simply because they don’t see why that could be a problem. / Apathy towards justice. They may not care at all to see both sides of an argument. May not care much for making sure everyone is heard. They tend to stick to hearing one viewpoint, simply because they don’t see any value in seeing both.
Apatheia 8273 in Scorpio/8th house/8°, 20°: Apathy towards marriage as well, but more so in terms of marrying wealthy. These natives may not care for a wealthy spouse. They may not even like the idea of managing their finances with their spouse, either. / Apathy towards the darker parts of life. These natives may avoid topics like death or the Occult, or they may not really care about what learning about them. / Apathy towards mystery and digging deep. Similar to what I just wrote, but they tend to not care much about deeper motives of others. They don’t care much about solving things, about having an understanding about how other people act.
Apatheia 8273 in Sagittarius/9th house/9°, 21°: Apathy towards expanding their horizons. These natives may never leave their hometown/state/country, and they are totally fine with that. They don’t see any reason or benefit to moving away. / Apathy towards religion. These people aren’t necessarily nonreligious, they just don’t care much for religion at all. They may have beliefs but leave it at that. They tend to not see any benefit in going too deep into religious beliefs. / Apathy towards higher education. They may not see any reason to go to college. They may not go at all. If they do, they don’t really see any benefit to their decision. They may just go to get it over with.
Apatheia 8273 in Capricorn/10th house/10°, 22°: Apathy towards building a career. They likely work, but they don’t care to be a big name in their respective field. They don’t see any benefit in that, and may even be annoyed. / Apathy towards their reputation. These people tend to not care how they come off. Obviously they come off as apathetic. They don’t care to build any specific reputation and tend to go with the flow. / Apathy towards achievements and recognition. These people may not like being recognized for anything. They may find no satisfaction in achieving big things. They may also not see any benefit in being seen as ambitious or successful in their career.
Apatheia 8273 in Aquarius/11th house/11°, 23°: Apathy towards activism and humanitarian causes. They may not feel too strongly about them, and may not engage in a lot of protests. They may not choose sides. / Apathy towards long term friendships. Similar to Libra or 7th house in a way, these natives may not see the value in long term friendships. They may jump friendships frequently, or not care much to reconnect with old friends. / Apathy towards goals. These natives may not have many aspirations, and may not care much for achievements. They tend to lack hopes and dreams. If they do have them, they don’t feel too strongly about them. They put little emotional stock in success.
Apatheia 8273 in Pisces/12th house/12°, 24°: Apathy towards introspection. May not feel a strong need to do a lot of it. May not see any enjoyment in self-reflection, and find it burdensome. This can be obvious to other people (no offense) / Apathy towards escapism. This can manifest in (usually) one of two ways: Not feeling any need to engage in escapism and finding it harmful OR engaging in escapism but not caring about it. That leads me to my next point: / Apathy towards self-sabotage. May quite literally watch their life burn in flames right in front of them and not care to do much about it. May self-sabotage without realizing it, or not care. This can be a very dark placement for this reason.
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apatheia is a short poetic piece diving into the conflicting feelings of a girl-powered mech who cannot save its beloved pilot dying within her. A machine, made for combat and dealing violence, not meant to feel things... Yet, when she takes over the control, all that wasn't meant to happen does. And like a pandora box, you cannot go back to the way things used to. Making the opening all the more gut-wrenching.
It's also a beautiful piece visually, with the illustrations.
Man, fascinated with himself, constructs his double, his intelligent specter, and entrusts the keeping of his knowledge to a reflection. We're still here in the domain of cinematic illusion, of the mirage of information precipitated on the computer screen what is given is exactly the information but not the sensation; it is apatheia, this scientific impassibility which makes it so that the more informed man is the more the desert of the world expands around him, the more the repetition of information (already known) upsets the stimuli of observation, overtaking them automatically, not only in memory (interior light) but first of all in the look, to the point that from now in it's the speed of light itself which limits the reading of information and the important thing in electronic information is no longer the storage but the display.
Paul Virilio, The Aesthetics of Disappearance, pg. 56
I'm currently watching a let's play of Tales of Vesperia, and I must say, I'm still a little sour that they didn't expand more on Elucifer (or Elucifur, as it is spelled in the French version*). I mean, sure, he is long dead when the party finally hears of him, but still, he played such a pivotal role in the history of their world, both past and present. And I'm not even taking into consideration what happens during the ending of the game.
Truly, there are so many unresolved things about this guy. What happened to his apatheia, for example. We can see Duke mourn before a tombstone on Ehmead Hill that is supposedly Elucifer's. But as we know, Entelexeia don't leave corpses behind them when they die, so could it be his friend's apatheia that he buried on that cliff ? I mean, the scene in Yormgen shows that he much prefers to "return" them to aer, but one can only wonder if he actually could have brought himself to destroy what is essentially the soul of the person he held the dearest in the entire world. Granted, if Elucifer’s apatheia was still around, one could think that Duke would have been a little more enthusiastic when hearing about the possibility for his boyfriend to be reincarnated. But then again, considering how unnatural he thinks the process is, it could be brushed off as him not being thrilled at the idea of his dear comrade being defiled like that...
Another theory I’ve seen is that Elucifer’s apatheia was stolen and used by Alexei to power Heracles. I mean, according to a conversation in Halure, the dude was reportedly ginormous. At least as tall as the town’s giant tree (then again, said conversation also states that his body is buried under Ehmead Hill, so it has to be taken with a grain of salt). So it’d make sense for his apatheia to be quite big, and the one that powers Heracles is probably the biggest we got to see. Also, I could easily imagine the guy talking with the deep voice that thanks the party when they destroy the crystal to save the capital (which would in turn match what we know of Elucifer’s character, as he was a gentle soul who would obviously object to his power being used to cause such a cataclysm). But then again, I’m having a hard time accepting the idea that Duke would have let Alexei - or the Empire for that matter - run away with his partner’s apatheia...
Anyway, if Elucifer’s apatheia is still intact, it begs the question : what happened to him when they all were converted into spirits at the end of the game ? Sometimes, I like to think that he would have been reborn as Aska, the great spirit of Light. Although I must admit that it’s partly because I tend to subconsciously use Aska’s model from Xillia 2 (I’m sure you know which one I’m talking about :p ) as a mental placeholder for what the guy might have looked like. I mean, his daughter sported quite a lot of avian features, so I guess it’d make sense for him to look like a big bird. Besides, if I recall correctly, Duke describes his golden form - at least in the French version - along the lines of "his friend lending him his strength", indicating that it's something he learnt from Elucifer. So I don’t think it’d be too much of a stretch to assume that the Entelexeia sported a similar palette when he was alive. Which, in turn, would go pretty well with the idea of him having an affinity for Light. And I’m not even talking about how his name alludes to a certain angel also known as the "bringer of light"... I’m just brainstorming, of course, but I think that you can see where I’m coming from.
That being said, I also kind of feel like being reborn as an elemental spirit wouldn’t really be "enough" for an Entelexeia as powerful as Elucifer, if you see what I mean. So maybe he could be reincarnated as one of the franchise’s traditional higher spirits, like Maxwell or Origin. The latter is usually revered as the king of spirits, so it’d make sense for him to be born from the one who was regarded as the king of the Entelexeia. Then again, I’m just sorting ideas here, so don’t take any of this as definitive headcanons (supposing that headcanons can even be definitive...).
Speaking of kings and headcanons though, I also like to picture Elucifer as a descendant of the Spiral Draco, which Duke describes as "the ancient king of the Entelexeia". Maybe not his son, but his grandson. I mean, as I said, Elucifer was also regarded as a king among those mighty beasts, so it’d make sense if he inherited the title. Moreover, if we take into consideration the previous point regarding Duke’s golden form and how he may have learnt it from Elucifer, it’d give a new layer to the way the Fell Arms react to Duke’s power during the third phase of the final battle, as they were made using the power of the Spiral Draco. Besides, while the Entelexeia are usually born directly from aer, we know for a fact that they can also produce offspring - although the exact details of the process were obviously left to the imagination -, as demonstrated by none other than Elucifer himself.
Anyway, I don’t think I have anything to add on the matter, but still. As you can guess, the relationship between Duke and Elucifer is one aspect of the game that I find infinitely endearing and fascinating**. And I still resent the game for its unwillingness to elaborate on the topic. I mean, come on ! They didn’t even let us get a glimpse of what the big guy might have looked like ! And it’s not really an uncommon stand that, as excellent as the game is, a good chunk of its characters could have afforded to be fleshed out a little more... With that being said, thank you once again for your attention. It’s always a pleasure to share my thoughts with you guys. I’ll make sure to write a follow-up if I think about anything else, but for the time being, take care. ^_^
* I must admit, I kind of prefer the "fur" spelling. Sure, it makes the etymology slightly less perceptible, but it also makes him sound like an extremely fluffy guy. :3
** It goes without saying that I like to picture them as having been more than friends, but obviously, it’s only a matter of personal interpretation.
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