disconnected chunks or sumthin about what parasitic armaments even are and why they exist, but specifically why they exist in like a technical sense and not a story sense (under a cut in case it gets lengthy)
so for personal reasons i peeled HARD away from lobotomy corporation oc making like 2 months ago. im still washing off metaphorical grime from my view of projmoon cus of that. either way at first it was a REALLY messy split. im still banging out the dents in how to differentiate Lob Corp from ORAE. one of those dents was ego equipment.
a lot of plot beats in bbd (blahblahdummy) relied on ego. manifesting it, having it, stealing it. to wit:
ayehop stealing a suit she was not prepared for and corroding it constantly (in a pre-limbus world where i played toys with it)
constance's ego weapon being alive and having his arc sewn at the hip to blue star
voice's entire gimmick/powerset relying on the properties of ego equipment
tony's was just stuck to him
at least two other manifestations for characters ive never mentioned before even on my old blog(s)
so, in order to not have to redo the entiiiire thing from scratch, i needed some kind of concept to replace ego. it needed to be able to fill a similar narrative niche, but not, like, be EGO (JUMPS) 2!!!!
and then after banging my head against a wall for 5 days i had this really sick like. i dont fucken know. vision, of a daydream. and i had my answer. it really is that one brian david gilbert image where its like, i get my ideas like visions from a angry god.
so what a parasitic armament is at its core is an object that picks its owner. specifically by testing them somehow. they're called "parasitic" because some of them can like, fuse to your skin or replace organs, but they run a gamut on how alive they are.
a big fundamental on how i want to handle them is to keep them as mysterious as possible. there are multiple parties making them, but which one is making them "the right way" or "how they are usually made" is never to be revealed; hell, all of them could be doing it "wrong." some parasitic armaments obviously were once people, or at least contain a person's mind, but it is purposefully unclear if that's how it *always* is or it's just a thing that happens sometimes. so on so forth.
maybe i sound pretentious saying that... but a part of why i ran from projmoon is, i had this friend who needed everything in a given story to have an explanation, and made their own explanations that went WAY against the spirit of the thing re: literally everything about projmoon, and it got really really exhausting and restricting really fast. so thats a big motivation as to why PAs are the way they are.
anyway back to the point of the post. ...well i lost the rest actually. readers of this post, call in and say what you think. did kira "susie and funybun too" moonrabbit succeed in the goal of making NOT Ego 2 but a thing that is more unique? and more importantly, going back and reading the list of current PAs, are they cool?
