#exocolonist sol

[pechebeche]

couldnt sleep so i dug up a simple tarot card format on google and slapped these together! just sol and the major chars for now, though maybe ill do the rest of the major arcana later. i did my best to pick ones that fit the visuals of the traditional cards, not just the art i thought was prettiest

[greenest-of-beans]

Dys, sym, and solsym.

[domesticlion]

digitized + cleaned up a doodle i did while at work! 💙

[ghost--cafe]

Are vine compilations cool anymore? who cares!

[manaquartz]

Legally required Dys meme.

[justsalpals]

So I still haven't done every romance route in iwatec, but there are certain ones that I find more compelling on a story level. Namely Dys, Marz, Sym, and Vace (toxic version. Hey I didn't say happy stories, just compelling). Rex, Nem, and Tammy I love so dearly and fully that I fully see them as my Sol's family. (And don't get it twisted, I still love Tang, Nomi, and Cal. Don't wanna leave them out just because they aren't in the former two categories.)

That said, there's just something about Sym's romance. It feels Correct. Natural. It breaks my heart when I can't pursue him for a route I want, in a way the others don't. I thought maybe it was just because I'm an alien fucker, but there's more to it than that. It's in the way his scenes differ from everyone else's.

On the surface gaining affection with Sym is the same. Go to the location he's in, get the points. But it feels so much more organic to find him outside the colony, as if honestly stumbling into Sym rather than hounding the area just for his company. And the fact that he doesn't take any gifts, it feels removed from the usual video game formula. Yet he still falls in love with you, no matter who this version of You is. I suppose you can technically woo anyone without pursuing a certain life path, but it feels like you should (if only to get extra scenes with them at the location they frequent). But if given the time to, Sym loves you no matter the path and no matter your hobbies. He simply loves YOU.

Which pairs so well with him being the only person who accepts your knowledge and dreams of other lives. You can tell Dys, but even then he still feels at the very edge of all those implications (and I don't see my Sol telling him more than the basics, wary to bare themselves when in so many worlds he's broken their heart). Sym knows you, Sym loves you, Sym is the one character who really feels like he understands the full scope of You and he is in awe. Every version. Every you.

Even when finding happiness with someone else, anyone else, it always feels like keeping a large part of yourself hidden and locked away.

But Sym can truly know Sol, the good and the bad and the complete transcendence of time.

[domesticlion]

Violence begets violence.