yo wuddup superjail gang. i know this blog as been dead for forever but i think now is a great time to utilize it to grow the fanbase for this new cartoon im making with my friends. Its a lot more lighthearted than superjail but its still pretty fun and silly, and i can imagine this appealing to a lot of you. its about two friends, judi (voiced by me!) and gwen, who work for the apocalypse research committee trying to uncover the secrets of pre-apocalypse earth. they also go on silly adventures doing whatever. episode 1 is out and you can watch it below, and episode 2 is coming out march 17th! please share this around as much as you can so hopefully we can one day make revenue off our project so we can continue it for as long as we have good ideas. oh and if it helps to convince you watch or share it, two big inspirations for the show are adventure time (mainly) and steven universe. if you enjoy episode 1, feel free to join the discord server for exclusive occasional behind the scenes content, and to mingle with the cast/crew and other fans!
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"The blackface allegations are ridiculous 'considering Alastor is Actually Black' ...UWU"
... I'm just gonna insert that one meme from that Other Hell Show I Stopped Watching bc antis kept shoving it's existence down our throats as our "wholesome alternative" to Hazbin because Viv drew fanart of a youtuber she didn't know once did blackface, even though Ted Danson already did Blackface once too in the 90s anyway, but I digress...
Like, the "big name fan" incel side of the fandumb doesn't get how Alastor being black rep already is what makes that second shitty figure design all the more worse and people have a right to be angry if they are? And especially the people who are angry who actually like this show?
Anyway, a reminder to all of how ayylmao.tv and iox are either at least literal neo nazi simps who've implied through their videos how they think Viv Medrano needs to be more like their OTHER favorite youtubers PewDiePie and Logan Paul, or actual neo nazis, so of course they're gonna tell you they don't think that second Alastor youtooz or whatever ugly figurine is racist but I just wouldn't listen to a thing that they say anyway!
It's like that one time I had to even block a fan merchant/marvel loki simp for making Hazbin themed valentines candies and for some reason they went and made Alastor's candy flavor watermelon instead of strawberry but like... Why the fuck does all the official merch for Hazbin outside of the T-shirts have to be so ugly?!
Heavenās Vault Part 3: The Withering Palance and the life of the first Empress
Aliya continues her journey through the Nebula, following sites dating back to the Empire.Ā
This post contains spoilers from the whole game.
Using information found from various sites, Aliya can pinpoint the location of the Withering Palace.Ā
Aliya says that the invasion of Iox and the FALL of the Empire started from the Withering Palace, and we know that that was where the robots were stored.
Arriving at the site, if you let Six go ahead, he will lie to you and say there is nothing (not confirmed, read online). Once you arrive to the gate of the palace, you will find an inscription.
āIn this place the dying may find mercyā. This is because dying emperors and empresses who were dying were taken to the Withering Palace to have their neural mash inscribed on foil.
But, returning to the game, Aliya enters the palace, which was left open and has clearly seen some damage. The library, once full of books, is now destroyed, probably burnt. No ramps are in the palace, which suggests that no robots were used at the time, but a makeshift ramp was created from one of the walls.Ā
In the destroyed library, Aliya finds many remaining texts and possible translations. One of them saysĀ "Ancient knowledge" and is an ancient text with mathematical diagrams. This books probably had some information on how to control robots, maybe even their control words. Other books seem to confirm that prior to the Empire there has been a Steel age where robots were in control (āRobot emperors were efficient but cruelā).
Remaining in the building is a trace of a murales that seem to illustrated the experiments done on people to create and modify the recording technique (people in line, flash of light). A number scratched on a wall could maybe represent the people who died?
Continuing the exploration, Aliya finds an altar and an open space.Ā The six gods are at the center of the building, which Aliya finds strange as the empire later on destroyed the gods. Six seems perturbed by the place and starts explaining that there was a chair with wheels at the center, and it is clear that Six is remembering the Empress's last moments before she was put into the foil (and before she died). The empress was tied up to the chair (the ritual was probably very painful), and could barely move her head (she was probably very sick and dying).
The gods are:
Water Goddess ("water")
The Sky god from the crater moon ("Sky")
The buried god from the mine ("Ground"), the goddess of Earth (with rocks left in front of her, maybe a tribute because she saved the miners?)
The giving goddess from the market ("Sun?")
The Serpent god ("Serpent")
The weeping goddess from the graveyard, but the glyphs are covered
Later, Oroi will also notice that these gods not only have no feet but they only have one eye.
At the center of the goddesses, there is a hole, probably leading below. One in front of the other, with the hole lined between them, there is a HOPPER and a HOPPER SOURCE. The Hopper and the Source passes right through it, suggesting that this might have started as a place of execution (hoppering someone into the stone). We know that later empire executed by throwing people in the rivers (or at least that was a believable threat).
The SOURCE on the altar comes from the ancient aquifer. We later find out that the first empress personally sent many people looking for that source and many died in the attempt.
Six confirms that the SOURCE has been MODIFIED. The source predates the hopper, but has been modified by the empress to experiment and create a mechanism to only transfer the neural mesh of a person, instead of the body. This would allow the transcription of the personās memories up to that moment into a FOIL.Ā
This was done by ENKEI, the first empress, to become immortal, like a goddess.
Under the Withering Palace, Aliya finds an enormous empty space, an under building with ramps built in, clearly a storage for robots, maybe thrown in from the hole above.
The space is empty, but Aliya can see some movements (some servos = robots without the projected face and personality), and it is clear that whatever was in there broke out (the Empress broke the robots out). Six comments that the ones in the ground are not robots but servos.
The empress probably trapped there all the servos who had ruled over humans (at different levels) during the Steel Age, She later used them to add the foils from the emperors' graveyard and to fall Iox.
One of the books find also seem to confirm that the people in the empire did not want the robots returning, so it could be that during the empire only limited robots would be used (maybe servos?).
Aliya then can return to Elboreth and ask more information about the site. She can then invite Oroi to come with her to the Withering Palace.
Oroi confirms the function of the HOPPER + SOURCE and she also confirms that the hoppers store some information of who passed through them, so it might function as anĀ āawakeningā of the foil in Six. She also adds that these foils are written in layers, confirming the fact that it is possible thatĀ the foils are older, but were reutilized under the empire rule.
Aliya can agree to test the hopper on Six, awakening ENKEI in him. If Aliya is not quick enough, Enkei will move away from the hopperās eye and Six will never return, as he will be stuck in Enkei.
If Aliya is quick, she can turn off the hopper, and Six remarks that he is glad to be back and he doesnāt like Enkei that much. This could confirm that Six is its own personality, on the foil, but that Enkei is written on him. Also, SLISET, the word Aliya learnt to access information from Six, does not work on Enkei.
Enkei will confirm that she is the first empress, she moved the source from the aquifer, and she was cruel, but she didnāt like how the empire became, so she led a rebellion and caused the FALL (as a robot). She led the robots from the Withering Palace to Iox.Ā
She also confirms that she moved the ruling seat from Elboreth to Iox.Ā
From the information collected, we can imagine her life as:
The First Empress is born as royalty/non royalty, probably on Elboreth
She betrays her father (the story of the three sisters betraying their father, Six tells it on the Market Moon, and the Mazwai chronicles talk about three wolves fighting at the start of the empire). This could be her real father King in the Steel Empire, her commoner father, or a metaphor for the King (not her blood father). If she is not royalty and she participated in the rebellion against the robot, it could be that she betrayed the King (or the robot king) and stored him in the stone, using the first hopper. The three sisters could simply be three possible rules that fought for power at t he beginning/fought to end the steel empire.
The Iolite Crown was of her fatherās, so it was possible that her father was the true first emperor and she betrayed him.
The empress confirms that she took the Hopper Source from the Ancient Aquifer and modified it. Initially, maybe the intact hopper could be used to store bodies in the stone, as a method of killing someone. But this means that if she killed her King/Father she did this after she was already Empress, because she confirms many people died FOR her trying to retried the hopper source from the aquifer.
It could be that she simply killed her father, and her father was the one participating in the rebellion against the robots and becoming the first emperor/some kind of first ruler?
Enkei confirms that the powerful rewrites history
Enkei destroys every trace of previous ancient history and prohibits the gods. Still, she must have some reverence for them because she keeps the statue in the Withering Palace, and some trace of god worsphips remains (during the empire time, Maersi still worships the Water Goddess)
Enkei probably knew the word to control the robots and this might have helped against the Steel Age. Other emperors might have known as well, as one of the text found in the Withering Palace is about mechanical calculations.Ā
Enkei stores the robots in the Withering Palace
Enkei, as empress, experiments on people (probably from Elboreth) to be able to modify the hopper and record herself. She might have known of this possibility because of the Crown (it has many recordings and it comes from the Great Forge), and because foil and collars come from the Great Forge, so probably the robots' laws were written on the foils.
On her dying bed, Enkei stores her neural mesh into the foil
Enkei is stored in the Graveyward, and many emperors do the same after her, storing their neural mesh and putting them in the graveyard to give information and advice to new emperors
Something must happen here. Someone (it has to be a person, in my opinion), takes Enkei or is convinced by Enkei to take her and put her to a robot. The robots are stored in the Withering Palace. Maybe someone wanted to punish Enkei, or maybe Enkei convinced them that the empire had to fall. Enkei seems to believe that all emperors are betrayed, so I am convinced that someone (person) used Enkei and then accepted her help to cause the Fall
Enkei uses the word to control the robots to free them from the Withering Palace, and then destroys the library around, so that no one can learn ancient or that word.
Enkei uses the collars/foils from previous emperors on the robots so that they can use their knowledge to Fall the empire, in Iox.
At the end, Enkei is betrayed, and she is also wiped and stored. They are all buried in Iox, but some robots (servos) remain in the Withering Palace
(Read online, so not confirmed) Enkei seems to think that the LOOP ideology started during the Steel Age and was used by robots to reduce their own suffering. As robots are compelled (ethical core) to act to keep human safe and surviving, robots might have gladly accepted the idea that history repeats, so nothing has to change. I donāt remember if Enkei believes in the loop, but she clearly had some respect for the gods, enough to want them to see HER becoming a goddess. She also wanted to be eternally stored in the mesh, which makes me think she really didnāt believe she would come back.Ā
Furthermore, the empress is more than happy to Vault at the end, which would led to the disintegration of the rivers (I think), and the rivers are an important player in the loop religion.
