anyways landback or bust and if your first thought for dismantling the US is to burn it to the ground rather than return it to its Indigenous stewards you are ultimately still subscribed to a genocidal colonialist mindset. sincerely a Lakota. Aŋpétu wašté yuhá po.
I'm out of the grinder of customer service. Yeah the new job still has customer interactions but like, it's not 8 hours a day taking on every problem ever
i never realized how much I love Dia until the last month or so! so allow me so spread my wisdom as to why they are one of my top 3 favorites
they were one of the first gems we saw treat Phos with genuine kindness! (:
if it were not for them being the only one concerned with getting Phos out of the shell (and Cinnabar for being smart ofc🙄) then no one would have even bothered figuring out what happened to them/ what to do..
they are cute and I like them.
this gif
and those are my top 4 sellinf points! good night. *tucks you all in for bed,
My thoughts on the separation of Belle and Tiara. This will be incoherent.
Something that has plagued my simple mind about Petscop ever since I plunged head-first into is... who actually is Tiara. Everyone's first response is just "Tiara and Belle are the same person... you idiot." And like yes I know that..! Tiara is an identity that was forced onto Belle as a child and felt the need to use in order to feel accepted. But!! Who is the actual Tiara? Is there even an "actual" Tiara, or was that just a title made up as practice? I've been wracking my brain for months and I think (think) (key word: think) I may have come up with something that maybe probably might make sense. Probably. Let me know if there are any inconsistencies, mistakes, bits of information that I left out... and all that. I'm bad at writing, so bare with me.
The very first mention of Tiara is when Rainer mentions her talking about rebirthing:
"Tiara says that some young people can he psychologically damaged 'beyond rebirthing'."
At the time of that quote, or when Rainer was making the game and put that quote in there, Belle most likely was a child.. I imagine her being slightly older than Care, but still around her age. So, it doesnt exactly seem likely to me that she had any kind of concept of what rebirthing is, or what psychological damage even meant. It's just rather dubious, to assume a child said something like that, I think.
This is also (to my knowledge, at least) the only reference to the "real" or "original" Tiara. Like all things in this God forsaken series, things would be so much easier if it had been explored just a teeny tiny bit more...
However, since that's all we're given in terms of who Tiara may be, the rest I can do for now is speculate.
It's also important to note Rainer's... resistance? Refusal? To refer to her as Tiara (I would even exaggerate to call him pissy over it lol). But we know how Rainer made a huge, big, dramatic deal over how Belle "gave up" and isn't Tiara, so it doesn't exactly make sense to me that he's referring to her (Belle) in that quote. So, who is Tiara, actually?
My thoughts is that she's some kind of psychiatrist, or therapist, or doctor. Perhaps she was even Rainer's therapist, and is the one who introduced him to the concept of rebirth therapy? (That last part might be a stretch, though.) However, the point is that she very likely played a large role in Rainer's experimentation with rebirthing. She may have introduced him to it one way or another, and he showed it to Marvin who wanted to use it to birth Lina through Care.
It's also important to note that Petscop itself was likely used as a child therapy tool. Each child had a save that recorded their controller inputs, we see a TV with Petscop booted up on it in a childs' classroom, and during the "egg hunt" the dialogue "have you caught every egg in the office?" could have been referring to a therapy office (the word office just always jumped out at me. Instead of "room" or "class" or whatever, it's an office. It was just interesting to me). Also, shortly after Paul enters the Newmaker Plain, one of the first rooms he enters appears to be a doctor or therapist office with the dialogue "Care left the room."
Jumping around a bit here. I should also bring up the (attempted) rebirthing of Tiara through Belle. My question is, why was Tiara being rebirthed? And what happened to her?
She possibly could have died, or disappeared, or had something happen to her. It's possible nothing happened to her, and she was just used as a baseline for Rainer to practice with.
We know he failed, and we know that Belle still wanted to be referred to as Tiara for a while afterwards. It's commonly agreed on that this is because she felt the need to take up the role of Tiara in order to feel loved or "part of the family". In episode 23, we see a letter to "Tiara" Leskowitz from her mom (who is theorized to be Lina Leskowitz) which is titled "Your New Life Letter", referring to her "new life" as Tiara. The letter consists of her mom very emotionally expressing her love for her daughter, telling her how she wishes everyone treats her with respect and how she misses her while she's at school, reassuring her how no matter who she is, she will always be loved.
Another thing to mention: when Paul asks the tool who Tiara is, the response is "Petscop kid very smart," in reference to Belle quickly solving all the puzzles. Why would it be referring to her as Tiara, when Rainer calls her Belle?
Probably the same reason Belle wanted to be called Tiara; because if she's Tiara, she's "part of the family," whatever that means. This, for me at least, raises the question of who the tool is supposed to be... But I think that's too big of a fish to catch right now. It might just be Rainer. Idk.
As of right now, I think that's everything I wanted to cover... I will add more if anything crosses my mind. Sorry for having a small brain.
people will say they want more female sonic characters but then say they dont care for (or hate!) Tangle and Whisper and Sage and Trip and Tori and Lanolin like what do you WANT