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[ravennanightcrown]

Parallax Error: behind the fic

Finally, I’m gonna talk about this fic ➡️ (Parallax Error) and what led to the writing of my admittedly most deranged fic ever. 

Basically, the fic’s foundation is: “What if Danchou was literally a “black hole”?”

And core to that thought is this particular description of a “singularity” being the center of a black hole:

From Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/science/black-hole)

I also spent an ungodly amount of time looking at this artist rendition of a black hole (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anatomy_of_a_Black_Hole.jpg). Among other things. Like browsing Wikipedia, Britannica, and even NASA gallery

Disclaimer: while I did base a lot of these upon science concepts, it was not my goal to be scientifically accurate to the nitty-gritty (after all, at its core, this fic is still rooted in fantasy). Moreover, a lot of these don’t completely or consistently elaborate on a soup concept—basically, I’m just throwing whatever meta bullshit I can think of into the cauldron. Be warned.

(the rest, including my thought process, under the cut!)

I. The Black Hole Theory of Danchou

So, what the fuck exactly am I talking about? 

Hear me out: Danchou is a black hole, and all that entails.

Let me go about the steps of the thought process, as incoherent my brainwaves may be:

I.1. Singularity is the center of a black hole. I.2. Danchou is a singularity.

That which pierces through all timelines, timespace textures thingy. Like an axis

I.3. [zero escape music starts playing] Danchou is the center of a black hole 🡺 [extends that further] Danchou is a black hole---- HEAR ME OUT

Danchou, like a black hole, drags everything in their vicinity into “orbit” (or rather, territory/domain of canonicity); Events™️ keep on happening around Danchou because they just…attract them. And it also happens with characters, who, once they have “interacted” with Danchou (or the Observer, or the “Journal”), are now permanently inscribed in the records of the observer

I.4. The event horizon of a black hole is “a boundary beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer”; ‘nothing that enters a black hole can get out or can be observed from outside the event horizon”; 

I.4.a. More or less, as it is also the namesake of that one tvtropes thing, the event horizon is the point of no return I.4.a.i. Fun tangent: Event Horizon is one of the chapter titles in GBVS (the final chapter of Vanilla actually) I.4.b [Refer to image again] The event horizon is the radius around the Singularity. It is roughly the area or domain from which, once something has entered, it can no longer escape.

[Refer to I.3] If such things keep on happening around Danchou, and characters inevitably get pulled into canon/records against their will, THEN [slams desk, Ace Attorney-style] Danchou’s Event Horizon must be their Field of Vision! [Objection!!!] What about recruitable characters, or fate episodes, in which Danchou was not present?? It does not make sense! [slams desk] It cannot be the Main Character’s—the Singularity’s—field of vision! [AAAAArgh!] But… it cannot be denied! These things happen by chain reaction from past-and-future because the Singularity exists! The Main Character—! (Case in point: The «Amplification Factor» passive skill of the Singularity! [Screeching] That is not relevant to the current argument!) [browsing papers] but the previous point still stands. It is not always the case that Danchou is present! Therefore— [Hold it!!!] Consider, what if it’s not the character “Danchou” themself? What if it was…someone else? Someone that still, by some definition, is the Main Character? [Argh!] You can’t possibly mean?? [Smug face] The Singularity = the Main Character = Danchou = The Player = God … And we know by now that multiple timelines exist, and some characters, notably, Danchou, can observe multiple timelines. You «You» must be seeing this, too. There is one person—nay, ONE AND MANY—who can see Everything regardless of said event’s or character’s non-existent interaction with Danchou at any given time: [POINTS FINGERS] THE PLAYER!

I.4.d. Yep. The Player is the Absolute Observer. And then apply the transitivity property to arrive at Danchou again. Further support that by proposing a Version of Danchou that has seen everything.

I.4.e. PROFIT: Danchou has an Event Horizon. It’s the…undefined yet existing field in which the Observer sees. Once seen, observed, there is no escape— Welcome to Danchou’s realm of canonicity, even if you are a failed timeline I.4.e.i. [Tangent of Seofon’t and nonexistent fantasies having been tainted by the essence of canonicity by the voyeuristic gaze of The Player/God/Absolute Observer]

I.5. Some black holes are born from the collapse of stars at the end of their stellar evolution. Inescapable gravity born out of star expending its fuel, provided there’s enough mass. What if…that mass is equivalent to «data records»? I.5.i. [Insert lore-related soup theory as tangent] Stars «Astrals» are meant to become singularities at the end of their life cycle. But since the stars have chosen stagnation, they have forsaken evolution. And therefore cannot become singularities… or gods.  I.5.a. So, that perhaps becomes circular as an argument if I claim that «We» amass data records by being the Singularity, because then, where would the mass needed to precipitate collapse «Ascension» come from?  I.5.a.i. I posit, time-space convergence.

I.5.a.i.1. Key assumption: Singularity 🡺= God I.5.a.i.2. The Boundary is where all of time converges. So… it’s a circle. Or a catbox [vomiting soup] HEAR ME OUT. The Egg Short Story.

Also, there was something a friend said about the jp of “Boundary” written in kanji I think, that could also be read as “horizon”. And then the implications, of the unreachable horizon (can be seen, but moves farther away the closer you get). Also…horizon as boundary between sea-and-sky. Much to think about.

I.6. Black holes are like, nothingness. Vibes-wise. And what gets born out of nothingness? Something. 

I.6.a. I don’t know exactly what I’m getting at here but “void 🡺 world” I.6.b. God creating Something.

Tangent:

It’s kinda interesting how the Eternals-related skins have Zenith and Azimuth there, yeah?

So yeah, that should be it for Part 1. Next, I would go on to very short overviews of 2 concepts I used for the fic, before going into dissecting the thought process of the Fic itself.

II. The Observer (condensed)

Now I talk about…  The Observer.

Yes, this part is very Very important.

The Observer is «You». And «You» are The Player, The Main Character, Danchou, God.

You…observe. LMAO. But seriously, yeah.

To observe is to be observed. To be observed is to be “real”. To observe is to make something “real”.

[insert The Catbox] The moment in which all possibilities can coexist, when the truth is unobserved.

[insert lore-related theory: Time-Space Dimensional Bubbles] I seriously theorize that the Sky and Astral realms overlap like “bubbles”. Imagine, 3D Venn Diagram 🤣

This is how I tried to reason out the inconsistency of Lucifer being described as in the Astral Realm in 10th anni, and Canaan being in the Sky Realm. What if both are true in that… in terms of “absolute” location coordinates(?) they are in the same place, but relatively speaking, it can be a place in the Sky Realm, or a place in the Astral Realm. 

This theory is not exactly related to the fic, but the idea of dimensional/reality coexistence does.

[choking on soup 🍲]

If you are God, and you are the Absolute Observer…then your dreams and fantasy are not that different from reality «canon». You Create The World.

III. Parallax Error (condensed)

The error caused by parallax—"a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight.”

Basically, an object’s apparent position shifts depending on from where it is observed. 

For the fic itself, I more or less used this concept to present the same Object as different things, simultaneously, by describing it as a different thing in separate instances. 

—But of course, with my own bullshit about The Absolute Observer being “the observed” in multiple instances. [Refer to The Egg about being multiple existences at once]

IV. The Fic (Parallax Error)

Here we goooo! Gonna divide this part into sections rather than through process chronology to be more coherent:

IV.A. Core Concept

IV.A.a. Inspiration (in the correct direction? I cannot say)

I was very much inspired by Hellstar Remina (Junji Ito).

Special mention to Soup (Umineko, Zero Escape, Sanhora, among others).

[…] the subject's gaze is always already inscribed into the perceived object itself, in the guise of its "blind spot", that which is "in the object more than the object itself", the point from which the object itself returns the gaze. "Sure the picture is in my eye, but I am also in the picture" […]

IV.A.b. The Plot

IV.A.b.i. Setting

Modern AU – Basically, I have been juggling many modern AUs in my head for a while now (with a substantially larger cast and a lighter tone). And then it just, clicked.

Astronomy – Part of the soup package. The concept was already astronomy, might as well incorporate that into the setting.

IV.A.b.ii. The ‘“Plot”’

IV.A.b.ii.1. Modern AU Danchou, but it’s not actually a Modern AU divorced from canon—this “Modern AU” Danchou is still very much the Singularity of Granblue. To cut to the chase, the protagonist Gran and/or Djeeta, is the same Entity, and is also God.

IV.A.b.ii.1.a. The characters Gran and Djeeta do Not Know they are God. That’s why the “timeline” of the fic begins with the «birth» of God aka, the discovery of a black hole or singularity, and ends with the «death» of Gran/Djeeta 🡺 «awakening» of God from their (humansona’s) dream IV.A.b.ii.1.a.i. To be specific, to align with the type of Singularity they are, their domain of authority as God is “acceleration of evolution”. This is also why the polar star could “speedrun” stellar evolution in the “dreamworlds” or Gran and Djeeta’s «Reality». And why the humansonas (God’s self-inserts) hunger for knowledge, progress 🡺 «Ascension» is inevitable.

IV.A.b.ii.1.b. Gran and Djeeta are fundamentally the same entity; think of them as separate “humansonas” of The Singularity, being in separate yet coexistent timelines—realities, or «dreams».

IV.A.b.ii.1.c. The Observer and Parallax Error

I will elaborate on this in IV.A.b.iii (The Layers), but basically what I’m going for is that the Entity (Danchou/Singularity/God/Observer/You) both acts as observer and observed object, sometimes, in a circular manner (like looking at a mirror), unknowingly.

[Refer to Illustrative Example in IV.A.b.iv.] What happens if a certain observer is aware that there is a singularity at certain coordinates (and as a corollary, that there is a black hole)? What if said observer is unaware that they already are within the black hole’s event horizon (therefore, already inside the black hole)? After all, no one knows what is actually inside of a black hole. What would be the view from the inside looking out? What if YOU were the cat inside the box?

IV.A.b.ii.2. If you realize XXX, it’s already too late. IV.A.b.ii.3. Singularities are like players in the meta-world.

IV.A.b.ii.4. SIDE: DJEETA

Djeeta’s story is a world with no one else, until she brought a certain star fallen from academic and artistic grace (Faasan) into the realm of existence, (and with it, of sentience and sapience). Because he is a star—an object that is not even a being—he is nonexistent in terms of being a creature; Djeeta’s fascination. It is his insistence of being someone who should not Exist and the unignorable incongruent state of affairs (truth of the world) that eventually shatters her worldview «Lie».

No one else exists in this world…but there sure is another character that is referred to that isn’t a star 😉

The redacted letters and choice to name Faa as Lucifaa 😉 (This is not the character I refer to in the previous statement tee-hee)

IV.A.b.ii.5. SIDE: GRAN

Gran’s story is that of a world filled with other people, all of which slowly disappear from existence as he himself forgets them in pursuit of the «Truth» through his astronomy research. All relationships lose value when weighed against The Self «God». And if something is forgotten, unobserved, by God…does it really exist?

Who better to warn of reaching The Truth «Divinity» than a certain blond man?

And yes, the incomplete names, or the letters that are lost were all 😉

IV.A.b.ii.6. Meet me halfway, me. IV.A.b.ii.7. The «Observer» desires to be observed, recognized, known, seen. By anyone, be it a lover, a companion, or ultimately—a father.

IV.A.b.iii. The Layers (Flavor text, Summaries, Notes)

The layers… These are the nested narratives—or rather, the frames used to nest them. All are true. But some are truer than others.

IV.A.b.iii.1. The Locations feat. Non-location Observers [Refer to Illustrative Example in IV.1.2.4 for actual placements]

Here we have the observers 🡺 the observed:

Event Horizon Observatory 🡺 God >The realm of the Narrative. That which proclaims God.

Lartcen Sixa Aronomiclast Strooverbay 🡺 The Sky Realm >I had a hard time combing through all moonspeak in canon to make up my own take for words without official en moonspeak. I’m quite proud of the moonspeak hehe.

Inter-Skydom Astronomical Union Observatory 🡺 The polar star GRDJ ▉0000+0000 >In-universe observatory.

International Space Station Roving Observatory (Ceres Outpost) 🡺 The planet Earth >Our world as we know it.

Djeeta 🡺LC▉ 00Ø𝜝

Gran 🡺 all named characters

God 🡺 Reality >[MSQ Chapter 129-4] A god is the definition of reality. To defy a god is to defy the world itself. 

YOU «the girl reading this» 🡺 The fic and all its layers

YOU 🡸 = 🡺 YOU

IV.A.b.iii.2. The Dates

February 29, 2017 🡺 a date that does not exist. But… it should precede March 1, 2017

The passage of time up to 2019 via nonexistent dates 🡺 all of time converges in the Boundary

February 29, 2019, 23:58 🡺 It’s also a fun coincidence that 000 first dropped on February 28, 2019

March 1, 2017 🡺 The Birth of the Singularity «What Makes the Sky Blue» This really is a lovely coincidence. I was taken aback when I saw it while researching. Earlier iterations picked February 29 of various years (2014 for Granblue going live, 2017 for “singularity” mention), ending at a proper leap year but you know how revision goes. I came across this more fun information.

IV.A.b.iii.3. High Concept: I wanted to simulate the idea of the story changing depending on how you look at it. In this case, the hovering will change the SIDE shown. Can also be toggled via clicking for accessibility. 

The texts hidden under “readmores”, and the hyperlinks/urls were to give off the vibe of “If you know where to look—"

Buttons were included to simulate the logs of the Event Horizon Observatory. Yes, that Layer. Also, yes. It could also be nth layer 😉

IV.A.b.iii.4. Illustrative Example of what the Fuck I was trying to do with this fic

I drew this a long while ago to explain my Insanity to my friends and I refuse to edit it to something more legible or comprehensible.

Observer A’s location: The Moon

Observer B’s location: Somewhere from beyond—outside the event horizon (In the fic’s case, Ceres)

Blue Circle: The Planet Earth/Sky Realm

IV.A.c. Musings about Canonicity

IV.A.c.i. Existential Pseudo-math | The (non-exhaustive) set of existential values

Canonicity Coefficient: the value describing “in how many timelines or realities do you exist”?

Canonicity Constant: the fixed value determining how similar “you” will be across iterations 

Canonicity Quotient: The canonicity coefficient divided by the total number of timelines or realities >Possibly correlated with physical proximity to the Absolute Observer

Validity Coefficient: has 2 determinants (a and b); formula still unknown >Does your existence affect the world state? Will it render a canon timeline (be it MSQ or sidestory) non/existent? >Will your existence influence the birth or existence of the Singularity? If you were/weren’t, will the Singularity not come to be? Will they cease to be?

IV.A.c.ii. Danchou and the Singularity have different existential values. IV.A.c.iii. Walder has a canonicity quotient of 1

IV.A.d. Free Will

– What is «God», the «Singularity», but one with a free will that trumps all others? To bend fate, distort probability—

⇊

IV.B. Pairings

IV.B.a. Faajita

Faasan hates Djeeta. Because she made him real. Because of her free will that overrides his own.

The very fact that he hates her, that he feels his free will, his very Selfhood, is violated, picked apart 🡺 more reason to hate her for making him be.

I WROTE FAASAN TO BE LIKE AN UNHAPPY SELKIE BRIDE

Djeeta, confessing her love to Faa: Lucifer was more beautiful than you. You are an imperfect successor, a disappointment. I think we’re soulmates. [Refer to IV.B.c. for more details]

The only attraction Faasan feels toward Djeeta is gravitational.

I just really wanted him to accuse Djeeta of eating stars.

IV.B.b. GranBabu

To be completely honest, the reason why the other pair became Faajita (when it could be any Danchou) is because at the time of conceptualizing this, I was seeing Granbabu fanworks, so I rolled with it.

[verbatim from a discord convo] Bubs: hell yeah if i gain enough muscle (mass) i will become a Singularity (black hole)

Babuchan desires to be an equal, to be of importance. And Gran cannot give him that because he is in pursuit of something Greater. 

IV.B.c. “Faaferu”

[“but Faaferu isn’t tagged?!”] Yes, exactly. Because it isn’t in here. But… it’s also, HERE.

An important aspect to the fic here is at least, for the Faajita SIDE, that Feru is the unseen 3rd “person.” He does not exist in the same plane (physical, existential, narrative) as the characters Lucilius and Djeeta—because he was not incarnated into a humansona. 

The entire time, Faasan is pining after him because they cannot be together. He has been torn away from the realm of non-sentience, and away from his twin/triplet star that is Lucifer.

He woke up one day, incomplete in almost every existential sense of the word.

He misses Feru so so much 🥺

Lucifer is the star mythologized, yet somehow the one who wasn’t incarnated and remained a literal star (because Djeeta was more fascinated with the mythos of Faasan, the Demoted One—being demoted from being The Cool™ Star)

This is because Faasan became an object of interest, like Pluto. [wordvomit] “What if he isn’t a star?” 🡺 What drew Djeeta’s attention.

Faa hated being, but he was at least comforted by the thought of Lucifer being designated as «True» by virtue of him being «False»; however, he still disliked the undisproved possibility of Lucio being the «True» One.

[Special Bonus Feature: FORK where Djeeta incarnates Lucifer against Faa’s wishes]

“We can hold hands now,” Lucifer smiles. “We didn’t have hands back then; also, the Roche Limit didn’t allow us.” Lucifaa is still as a statue, unable to process who is in front of him—in the flesh.

-RAMBLE: END-

[gatesblue345]

MSQ THEORY

I saw someone point out something on reddit so I went back to check (MAJOR Spoiler below!)

In Rel's Speech she mentions 9 (Nine!) people

4 destruction

2 Creation

2 Conduits

1 intergrated entity

But if you count the number of people who came with us to Estalucia it only adds up to 7!

This image below is my best guess onto who is what role?

As teased by the final Chapter Ferry also managed to hitch a ride to estalucia

However, this is where to mystery of the integrated entity comes in

Because we have three possibilities

Gran - Part Primal and Skydweller

Gallanth - He's been in Estalucia for couple of years could be considered integrated

Ferry - She's dead and technically a lost soul so it would make sense that she got ported to Estalucia so she could an integrated entity

However no matter which way you slice it we are still missing one being of destruction

As for my guess, I'm betting on Proto Bahamut and yes I know I'm bias for the dragon, but I have an argument for this

It can't be Rein or God Bahamut because Rel was surprised that God even showed up in the first place so it rules those two out

Secondly, Proto bahamut is the unofficial 4th member to the iconic trio so as a result it wouldn't be a surprise to Rel that Bahamut did also tag along.

[fictionimitateslife]

GBF timeline theory:

With the addition of Heart of the Sun and Lucio's 5* fate, here is my current Theory on the GBF timeline;

- The Old World used to be a modern version of either RoB or Shadowverse world.

- Phoenix is the source of energy the world used to create souls in the Old World. (NEW)

- When the world had too much life, whatever created the Phoenix also created Wardant to keep balance (Robomi).

- Wardant or the Abominations left some sort of curse/virus on the Old World after they left it.

- This took Thousands of years to actually be effective and is what created the Otherworlders and the Crimson Horizon.

- The Moondwellers escape to the moon. There, they discover the Wedges (energy?).

- The Moondwellers drag Nectar's original form into reality, take his mind/soul out of his body before he can actually recover, throw it away into the Old Word, and from his body, create Bahamut, with a new Mind/Soul and extra powers out of Magitech. (NEW)

(Bahamut's power of Rebirth and Destruction is just a fancy form of Nectar's Life and Death powers, as well as his power to Server.)

- The Wedges are "awaken" to reality because of this.

- Bahamut creates the Skydoms, and starts developing and "farming" it for the Moon.

- The Phoenix realizes what Bahamut really exists for, even if he doesn't, and tries to defeat him in order to save life itself (that was born from her).

- She and Melin "kill" Bahamut.

- She feels sorry for Melin, his family and even Bahamut, and starts a plan to "save " them.

- Two Bahamuts are created, Sky and Astral one.

- Astral Realm (or whatever it is) is created.

- Astral War happens, and it's actually just the natural order of Bahamut's creation trying go back to where they belong (Skydoms).

- Astrals are defeated.

- Present days.

[ravennanightcrown]

valkyrie: behind the fic

yeeeeeeeeee so I just recently posted this fic ➡️ (valkyrie) and now I wanna share my thoughts on the theories and soup that gave birth to it. or cooked it. yeah

So, basically, I had been wondering a really loooong time ago where "Reginleiv" came from, and the closest thing that showed in the results for potential mythological references was "Reginleif", a Valkyrie name. And considering how Ragnarok is also referenced in some of Bahamut's attacks (aside from the other Norse mythos refs in granblue), that of course lodged myself in my mind.

At this point, I already have been rotating theories in my mind, and sharing it with a friend over the course of many months. I think it took me seeing some valkyries in another media to remember that I had a fic concept lying around lmao.

Anywho. the tl;dr of this theory is that "Danchou, as the Singularity and/or Dadchou's child, is unknowingly amassing an army for (or against) God, who is waiting in Estalucia."

(more thoughts under the cut!)

Let me actually begin with this...observation, so to speak:

"What would the Grandcypher crew, the entirety of it, look like to an outsider who doesn't really know about the Captain's shenanigans?"

An army, that's what.

Like, fair, if a hypothetical rando (let's assume rando A is from a relatively isolated island like Zinkenstill) is not that knowledgeable about politics and powerful factions of other skydoms, I think they might still be able to sense that the crewmembers (especially some of the more otherworldly primals) are hella different from the average person. Royalty and warriors aside, there are literal local deities (and yes, primal beasts and dragons) that are part of the crew!

And suppose we have Rando B who has a broad awareness of skydom affairs, then they would recognize the literal royalty, knights, mercenaries, Eternals (special mention teehee) and former criminals there!

The Grandcypher crew truly is a very diverse bunch, and the way they all stand behind the banner (even though Danchou doesn't run the crew like a commander) of one person would understandably be a concern to a non-acquainted outsider.

Okay, enough about that. By this point I hope I have already stated my theories on potential unflattering perceptions (or dangerous reputation) of the Grandcypher crew.

NEXT, we talk about Valkyries.

For this part of my theory, I won't get into the nitty-gritty of the actual mythos (because granblue for the most part likes its references a lot of inches to the left and what not), and only enumerate the aspects (a rough summary of them) which I then souped:

Valkyries are to gather souls of (fallen) warriors

These fallen warriors are to prepare for Ragnarok

Valkyries are associated with battle

So, how then did I relate this to Danchou?

Danchou has gathered many many warriors (and other peoples of varying stature and occupations) under their banner---the Grandcypher crew.

Smth smth these crewmates will accompany Danchou to Estalucia (let's ignore main quest canon for a hot second, yeah? :') )

Danchou is a jack-of-all-trades in a sense. Hell, I'm even specifically thinking of their Eternals outfit where they wield all the Revenant weapons, and has the ougi name "Reginleiv: Azimuth"

Bonus: Reginleiv is an attack associated with Danchou AND Bahamut (whose raid also has a field "Ragnarok Field". Fun)

And, yeah, I think this is the last point of my theory: If you combine those "parallels", wouldn't it seem that Danchou is gathering an army to march upon Estalucia, God's bastion?

yeah.

And then here, we considered multiple forks, which took from my other theories (help, we cooked so many), such as:

[Danchou is (a vessel of) the sky God theory, Vyrn is just a terminal] Danchou-as-god is marching to reclaim their throne in Estalucia, the Holy Seat of Genesis

[same as above, but Astral half] Danchou is going to invade Estalucia

Danchou is an immature god (or a copy of the G-guy) that was destined to evolve and mature through The Journey, and at the end of it (Estalucia), they will finally Ascend/fuse/be sacrificed

smth smth they are a copy of their Dad. Funnily, this and the previous 3 was spawned from, and spawned theories like 1) Their dad is god, somehow (we have other theories on dad following the latest offspring lore. That other than Human, he miiiight still possibly be an astral, a moondweller, or a dragon. or God, in a weird combo of the three); 2) Danchou will fight their dad because they will be on opposing sides of whatever the army Danchou brought there will result to (Dadchou might interpret this as reinstatement of the Omnipotent and be against it, or it's an effort to get rid of the Omnipotent); and 3) there is a vicious ouroboros cycle of a Hero leaving behind a child for the sake of concluding the Hero's Journey, and the child will then discover upon following their parent's footsteps that what awaits at the end is ascension to God (and that along the way, they repeated the cycle by leaving behind another child/clone).

Dadchou is the son-brother of The Omnipotent (the whole-ass one) through shenanigans (aka, being the discarded molted skin of God, which then gained sentience as a Vague™ entity that is sometimes described as snake-like), making Danchou divine by lineage. I also wrote a fic heavily centered around Dadchou theories! ➡️ Untitled (Portrait of the Hero's Father). what a shameless plug, huh

Some other forks I probably forgot while I was typing this.

basically, I just think it would be really cool and really fucked up if there was an unknown undercurrent of destiny and tragedy to Danchou's extraordinary ability to form connections, converge fates, and rally people.

Okay, last.

As to the fic itself, Reginleif (OC) wasn't actually part of the original outline. But as I was working out the transitions and scenes for my vision, it just happened. and now we're here.

Also, I had so much fun trying to slap on parent-child trauma and relationships and parallels on there. (Ngl, the original draft was really influenced by, uh, Catholicism with regards to God=Father). yeah

So...

I think that's it for this "behind the fic"! unless i add on a part 2 again LMAO

P.S. I headcanon Dadchou's name to be Azur wehehehe.

[ravennanightcrown]

Lost in Mythos: behind the fic

So! I've decided that this fic ➡️ (Lost in Mythos) is the first one I'll be rambling about. Especially because I haven't really used the author's notes section to ramble about what the fic is about.

Well. First of all. It was born from me having sooo many thoughts about the moon/creation/god lore of granblue, which was then midwifed by me watching so many sci-fi movies wehehehehe.

As to my understanding of granblue timeline, my friend and I drafted some vague chronology which we plugged with theories about almost all of the storylines. (But this isn't THAT important to the fic).

Okay, might be spoiler-y (or even contradictory with canon, who knows! It's deliciously hard to track everything, and we can always make theories) but info/decoded stuff about the fic below the cut!

Well, the 2 major timestamps I used for this fic is "70,000 years ago" and "7,000 years ago."

And if you haven't worked it out yet, the timestamps for the "logs" in the fic are in t-minus hours hehe.

Meaning T-613,620,000H and T-61,362,000H were the equivalents!

I actually had half a mind to set a time zero, but I just delegated that bit to the Log #s instead.

Going back, the timestamps I picked were referenced from the Robomi storyline and the 10th anni Bahamut lore.

As for the in-betweens, I personally didn't think That Much about what happened. (Although i kept a spreadsheet with formulas to have some "systematic" pairing of timestamps and log numbers, and also the chronology milestones). My intention with choosing the timestamps is roughly to make the milestone events be the 1) Destruction of the old world, and 2) Creation of the new world.

And the blackboxes, the zalgo-ed text at the moment of the "apocalypse"? Aliens.

I'm joking. Not. (I mixed the Lucio uncap lore with my personal pet theory of "The One Who Covets The Blue". Who may or may not be also the one who sits beyond the boundary. That's a theory or a fic for another time).

As for the characters in the fic....my friend and I have taken to calling them Lucio Prime and Shalem Prime teehee. (Completely did not expect to find this OC of sorts with Feru's expression, Lucio's whimsical personality my interpretation, and Faasan's science-y side to be hot. HELP. My friend was laughing at me with my foot halfway into lucifucker hell)

I made them married because [vague hand gestures] smth smth pairs, a set, a match. They are the source code from which the imitations The Speakers were patterned from, albeit imperfectly. I wanted to look at them like myth, a foregone conclusion, or a role set in stone. Unlike The Speakers which! exist in the present, and can change. The Helel primes are already engraved in the past, almost forgotten, and whatever their story was has already ended. Their connections with the Speakers are just superficial. Smth smth clones smth smth. I have so many other thoughts about the Speakers which miiiight make it to another post. Maybe.

Aaaaand. Yeah. I had to add one more named character in here, but I had only a few choices to pick from. Pretty difficult choice tho. It was Kamuzumi that won over Austras, Gaokerena, and [wheezing] Nereus.

anywho. With sci-fi stuff I'm just really somft for the romantic aspect of it (is that even the word im looking for? Maybe not). I am so obssessed with referring to the planet as something blue (or a star, or a jewel), and so I wrote that. And also as a reference to Vaseraga's line in 7th anni.

Lastly, I think.... so, the stuff I wrote about Bahamut's roles? That was part me going insane over Nereus, astronomy stuff that I'm delusionally connecting to granblue, and going feral over Zero Escape (yeah, the games).

Okay, this rlly is the last thing. Probably the most important one lmao. For this fic specifically, I was going with the hc that Bahamut is a terraforming instrument, loaded with the database of all of mankind's knowledge and history for the past.... [checks notes] 6,000 years and more.

Yeah, my theory was that the old world (Robomi's world) is our world. (I dont think this is a new theory tho) And then I took heavy inspo from the Evillious Chronicles when writing/theorizing about how the new world was created.

So, hm, that's it for now! Maybe I'll post another of these things again, or something about the many many WIPs i'm sitting on. [headholds]