i think vulpes wouldn't know how to receive soft, kind, gentle love. you'd hold him in your arms, kiss him maybe, and he wouldn't know where to put his hands or where to look. he'd be on edge, expecting some kind of trick. doubly-so if the two of you already had a more aggressive approach in the relationship. a good, long and meaningful kiss with unspoken adoration would leave him dazed and confused enough to most likely avoid you, if only for a while.
Piecing together the political sub-plot + the ensoulement plot for 3.x (CN spoilers as of 3.6)
Since 3.0 a sub-plot has been happening in the Foundation over the war effort, between becoming fully involved with a standing army (the Hawks) and remaining neutrality (the Doves) that Im guessing will resolve by 3.8/3.9.
We also have the reoccuring mentions of incarnation and revival, especially with the Amber Rooms in 3.3
So this is me collecting the current info as of 3.6 for more speculations yay.
Starting off with 3.6 info (i should really do a summary of info from that first, though I want to pull info together before i forget)
Remainder:
The Doves (Constantine, Madam Z) (Laplace under Engima falls under here by the end)
The Hawks (Irinei, potentially Creius though I am not 100% sure yet)
Neutral (Vertin as of now)
The Bill to decide the control over the Foundation between the Doves and Hawks is the Storm Personnel Bill, which includes full martial law and the assimilation of organisations like Laplace (even Lorenz) into the foundation to fully commit to the war effort.
The reason why Laplace comes to a critical point to appoint a new Director, the Flood pretty much setback alot of the research Lapalce was doing, as well as losing Lucy (though I wager that was more of the Foundation's doing) lead to higher ups in the Foundation to view them as inadequate and pushed for more Foundation influence such as the multiple limitations and need for approval requests.
Its interesting that Constantine: one reveals the committee, or certain members of the board know about the Amber Rooms, and two chooses Engima as the new Director and to reveal certain details about the ensoulement. Again, reinforces that the Amber Rooms were Pax House/ Foundation higher ups and Zeno, Laplace did not have any involvement before. She also mentions the 'first stage', so the 'successful' test with Urd only likely concluded the tests in the Steppe, but not overall.
Moreover its established in 3.3 that the Hawks are also interested in info about ensoulement, attempting to use Vertin to gain more info by leveraging info on her mother. This is mostly me speculating that these two seemingly separate subplots are one in the same, that maybe a major deciding factor in who might win the bill is whichever side can successfully restore a Stormed person.
Going back to the ensoulement, I think we can say three individuals came close. To clarify, I would state the conditions are:
Restoring the physical body
Restoring the original personality (or ego)
Merging both the physical and the personality (or ego)
The three are:
Felicienne in 3.2 (went into the Depths of Myth, lost her body but a fragment of her ego was able to live on, unsuccessfully attempted to take over Brume but failed)
Ramona in 3.5 (Hummingbird's attempt to build on Roussea's idea from 3.2, used the Depths of Myths again to restore Teresita, her mentor and likely Ramona's pre-Stormed self, but it was fundamentally flawed due to Hummingbird's deteriorating mental state and only worked very briefly)
Urd in 3.3 (it was the only fully successful transfer, for only a few moments and only after 12 other failed tests)
Once again, I think by the end of the patch series we might meet a successful ensoulement of someone.
The commonality of the three above seem to be
the depths of myth as the medium to locate the human subconscious/ ego (the implication that all the reversed personalities might be all returned to the depths) - Ramona and Felcienne
A bond or connection is likely required (Hummingbird and Teresita, Vertin and Urd
A vessel requires an anchor point, object or location (the paintings for Ramona, the Amber Room for Urd, and the French Blue for Felicienne.
And it seems the fractions in the Foundation want monoploy over whoever is able to successfully do this, which then in turn will decide the Foundation's involvement in the war, whether the current negoitator or a fully realised standing army joining the war.
Final Question: Doesn't the Foundation already know about Urd? The Amber Rooms?
Info in the Foundation seems wildly inconsistent and on a need to know basis, for the Amber Room I theorise only the Pax House (highest authority) and selected Committee members are aware, as seen with SPDM the Foundation control exactly what infomation reaches who and when (though the random clerk knowing more than Vertin in 2.2 is still a question I have no answer to).
(Final bit: if Constantine is aware of the Amber Rooms, and by extension the Committee members like Irnrei are aware, does Madam Z know? Because that would be very tragic and fascinating to see play out if Vertin realises/ finds out Z had knowledge about her mom and withheld it from her. Though I think a more likely scenario is that Z is being kept in the dark.)
