#boe

[ferretsquid13]

HTN SPOILER

Wake = Yellow

Pyrrha = Green

[rebeckeronie]

Characters who made it out alive but continue to be reminded of their terrifying past, being worn down by the realization that they had just buried the trauma deep down, and every day fighting the rage thats piling up in their bones. Forced to come to terms that they are still terrified despite the years of building up their cold facade. And being forced to admit theyre obsessed with destroying those who destroyed them.

I like that.

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

sometimes a family is the terrorist cell you're raised in :)

[skeletalheartattack]

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[saturatedspirit]

My theory of what The Message is

AIM mentions that the message "It's too simple for humans to understand.". My guess is that it's data stored in the form of DNA sequences. Most people think of DNA as just genetic material inside the cells, but for years now scientists have been studying it's application in other areas.

With DNA you can storage a lot of information in a very small volume using nitrogenous bases A, T, G, and C (or U instead of T for RNA). This information can be preserved for myriads and wouldn't degrade like our normal methods of preserving information does (paper, HDs, SSDs, tapes, print, etc.). As long as there are humans that can read and write genetic codes, we will be able to decode it. (https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-could-store-all-worlds-data-one-room)

This explains why BOE picked a veterinary, because they have the knowledge to read and decode a DNA sequence. We know that Blood of Eden has the technology for that, and I think that it's mentioned that they had a project to clone Wake.

While this seems to contradict that it's "too simple for humans to understand", I think it's like the "you can't enter a door that you don't have permission" riddle. We can't understand ATGACGGATCAGC...just by looking at it, but it is what defines life on Earth. We understand it by decoding, which require our mind and memories that work on proteins, so there is level of separation already.

I think they are carrying information about life on Earth (and also maybe, other planets that they inhabited) in the form of DNA. Kind of like a Noah's Ark, but with also all the history, music, literatures, internet memes, etc., that humanity produced. That's why the BOE names are all pre-resurrection references.

My theory on how The Angel carries all this DNA information is that someone modified their body by making them like a chimera (with necromancy it seems). That's why they said to Palamedes that "My dead body is designed to deny you answers.". So if he were to examine them, he would find what looks like a bunch of puzzle pieces, each belonging as if to a different puzzle.

By this point I can't help but think of Teacher from the first book. The Angel was presented to us a teacher too, and they refer to themselves as "we", so like Teacher, they are a form of construct (with what I came up). Maybe Teacher is one of the parts of The Message? Cassiopeia was the one that created him and  there is this speculation that she helped create BOE, so AIM being like another construct made by her would make sense.

[justwithlu]

the irony is not lost on me the number of e|riles that don’t want elain to find friends in the band of exiles because it would somehow not count as her making her own friends because of their ties to lucien while praising her friendship with Nuala and Cerridwen who are quite literally Azriels spy employees that tell him everything and report directly to him

[roxan1930]

Lucien: My mate is still ignoring me...

Vassa: Hey, don't worry about it! Sooner or later she'll wake up and see you great this is! *points at Lucien's heart*

Jurian: She's right! You've got great tits!

Vassa: I actually meant his heart but yeah his tits are great too!

Lucien: ...

[gruvu]

Drew some bugbears, one being my baby boy Boe and there’s this random one I made. Broke out the prisma markers I’ve been hording.