#incarceron

[rotten-whispers]

Ongoing list of series that involve strange towers, factories, dungeons, or other mystical structures:

Video games:

Fear and Hunger (The Dungeons of Fear and Hunger, the Hollow Tower)

Darkest Dungeon (the dungeons)

Baroque/Baroque Syndrome (the Neuro Tower)

Pandora's Tower (the Thirteen Towers)

Lost in Shadow/A Shadow's Tale/Tower of Shadows (the tower)

Rune Factory, Legend of Zelda, Infinite Undiscovery (for various dungeon levels, honorable mentions)

Schuld (the dream worlds, honorable mention

Ib (the art world, honorable mention)

Witch's House (the house, honorable mention)

Books:

House of Leaves (The labyrinth)

House of Stairs (The stairs/the experiment)

Sapphique & Incarceron (Incarceron)

Dungeon Crawler Carl (The Crawl/the Dungeon)

Smallcreep's Day (The factory)

The Southern Reach Series (The tower)

Piranesi (The House)

Boxes (The Complex)

Tales from a Mall (The Fresh Malls, honorable mention)

Movies:

The Labyrinth (The labyrinth)

Cube/Hypercube/Cube zero (The Cube)

Meander/Meandre (The tunnels)

The Platform (the Vertical Self-Management Center)

Dave Made a Maze (the cardboard maze)

Symbol (The white room)

Art/Artists:

MC Escher

Max Ernst

Ari Bach / @oozing-carbon

Tanaka Suguru / @doumyakutosi

TV series/Anime/Manga:

Sword Art Online (Castle Aincrad)

Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon (the dungeon)

Blame (The City)

The Umbrella Academy Season 3 (Hotel Oblivion)

Short Stories:

SCP: The Forest Outside Space and Time

SCP: Exploration inside the Gears World of SCP 914

SCP: Exploration of the Kowloon Walled City of SCP 184

[mossy-rainfrog]

[ID: Three drawings of Sapphique from Incarceron. Sapphique is drawn as a straight-sized Black man with his hair in locs pulled back in a ponytail. He has a round face, his skin is covered in freckles, and he is missing the forefinger of his right hand. The first drawing is a digitally painted portrait of him from the side. His freckles glow white like small stars, and he smiles gently. The drawing is painted in greens and blues and purples.

The second drawing is traditional on lined paper, and shows him looking directly at the viewer, and bringing his right hand up to rest on his face. The gap between his missing finger allows his right eye to peer through. His eyes are pupil-less, and his expression is serious.

The third shows Sapphique smiling warmly, and clasping his hand to his chest. End ID.]

One must imagine Sapphique happy. I got deeply emotional about this guy out of nowhere today and realized I never posted any of my drawings of him!

Oh, dear embodiment of freedom and legend of the Outside, I hope your wings brought you as much comfort as they did liberation.

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

me: I can totally reread my favorite series casually without getting obsessed again lol. obviously

me, 16 pages in:

[ID: A comically distorted emoji with huge black eyes and a flat mouth. End ID.]

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (2007)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onJul 13, 2024

[t0astedl0ser]

THIS IS A CALL TO ALL

A CALL TO ARMCHAIRS INSTEAD OF ARMS, BECAUSE IT'S TIME TO GET INTO BOOKS NOBODY TALKS ABOUT!!! GO READ THOSE OBSCURE YA NOVELS THAT AREN'T FOR KIDS BUT AREN'T NSFW!! SCREW BOOKTOK, SCREW RECOMMENDATIONS, GO TO A LIBRARY AND PICK OUT A SILLY LOOKING BOOK AND GET OBSESSED WITH A FANDOM THAT DOESN'T EXIST LIKE THE GOOD LORD INTENDED!!!!

[greencheekconure27]

I will try to analyse this better later on, but one detail that I find interesting about the Incarceron duology* is that Keiro of all characters is the one consistently referred to as Incarceron's "son". He's nowhere near the mythical messianic figure that Sapphique was but on a certain level Sapphique's story and his have more parallels between them than between Sapphique and Finn or even Jared, who seem more likely candidates for the role. And yet.

And yet we get this outwardly selfish rogue side character whose conflict with Incarceron turns out more intense and personal than even Finn's, despite him being much more adapted to this environment than his oathbrother, and seemingly able to thrive there. Keiro is Incarceron's perfect creature, much like Sapphique is said to be, and he hates it so, so much. Finn escapes first, but unlike Keiro, he doesn't "belong" there, and has help from outside.Claudia is an outsider as well. Jared "escapes" into the prison, not out of it**.But Keiro is part of the system(literally), and also the first one to escape on his own accord like Sapphique, using Sapphique's own tool.

I wonder if his hatred of and fight with Jomandric in book 1 was intended as foreshadowing...

*hopefully soon a trilogy

** which in itself is has very interesting implications that merit further analysis

[agayhurricane]

Finally some news about the upcoming book in the Incarceron series, Lachrymere!

[ultimate-artificial]

ROUND 1-B

Who is the better artificial character?

Aigis (Persona 3)

Incarceron (Incarceron)

Voting ended onMar 5, 2024

Propaganda below the cut; feel free to add more via asks or reblogs!

Aigis (Persona 3) -Her journey of becoming “more human” throughout P3 is beautiful and heartwrenching, and the final cutscene with her... aaargh my heart!! -Her Persona changing from Palladion to Athena when she finally recognizes herself as "alive" is SUCH a phenomenal moment

Incarceron (Incarceron) -It's a living prison -Incarceron was created as a social experiment. If you lock a bunch of criminals in a self contained system with all of their needs met would they create utopia? Incarceron was an ai designed to make sure the experiment ran smoothly. But the experiment failed. Generations have been born inside it's walls and it has become the cruel ceaseless watcher that no one can escape.