#lore salt

[devourer-of-acetone]

biocompatible transmat technology is another severely under-explored aspect of the eliksni and related world-building. i always sit down and just soak in the implications of it all.

no other species has biocompatible transmat. a Guardian can transmat out of a place but risen don't generally need to worry about coming out the other end intact (and arguably, they're composed of light and not technically biomatter). Cabal don't have it. Humans don't have it. Hive kind of do, but it involves tearing a hole in reality using throne worlds and it's not nearly as nimble.

and like i get it, you know? if you're a writer, you'd have a headache trying to write around this. eliksni having the ability to deploy and extract troops and supplies at the drop of a hat would make trying to keep continuity hard and it'd be very difficult to explain the instances where this tech isn't used.

but it could be so cool.

(edited for specificity: i mean people-safe fidelity level biocompatible transmat. humans definitely have transmat that can transmat biological matter, but you don't see transmat pads or beacons being used to transmat refugees for example.)

[zappadoodlecat]

i’m just laughing these days

[fox-fic-and-ink]

Now I'm learning new content references the Great Disaster on the moon but seems to shift blame from the prideful, ill-preparedness of "We kicked Fallen ass and we assumed we'd kick Hive ass." to "Idk man, we lost some supplies and stuff."

And just....

Why wasn't THIS ZAVALA'S REGRET? You don't need freezer burnt, microwaved wife trope when you could explore a collosal blunder that shaped an entire career path/way of life/Vanguard MO.

[charlietheepicwriter7]

Can we please have confirmation on WHY the miraculouses can be evil?

Because the NY Special confirmed that there are “evil” phrases for each miraculous when they’re being used for evil. Gabriel’s “Dark Wings Rise” isn’t just him being dramatic, it’s literally his phrase for evil miraculous powers. 

WHY do the miraculouses have an evil mode? Did the kwami decide this or did the human who made the jewels do it? Did someone discover the phrases? Why did Gabriel know the Eagle’s? Did someone write down all the evil phrases for someone to find and if so, why did they think that was a good idea? 

If the miraculous are supposed to be a sole force for good, which is what That Guy has said in the past, then why give it an evil switch? 

[gale-gentlepenguin]

People forget that LB and CN are “partners” because, other than dialogue lipservice, the show does almost nothing to support that notion. From frequently getting compromised by Akuma, to never being allowed to save the day on his own, to the unequal treatment from the supposed mentor figure. Sometimes I wonder who is more abusive towards Adrien: his father or the writers.

Marinette and Adrien get screwed by the writers in different ways.

I think Marinette gets the shorter end of the stick because she is the main protagonist and is expected to handle more.

I am gonna be frank, if I start talking about the whole unequal balance on the show. I will go into a twenty page rant.

The point is, It is fine that Marinette is favored from the show and Marketing standpoint, but from a lore standpoint it annoys me the lack of balance, and Fu’s incompetence is beyond infuriating.

Despite this, I still like the characters in the show and the premises they get right.

But sometimes... I get why people are salty at the writing.

[devourer-of-acetone]

Crota's court is still not an eliksni house

[zappadoodlecat]

WANTED: Skolas, Kell of Kells

STATUS: Unknown, Unconfirmed; INTEL REQUIRED

“Her Harbingers ripped into Ceres, destroying the asteroid and killing Virixas, Kell of Wolves and more than half his House. The remaining Wolves scattered, burrowing deep into the Belt for cover.”

You ever just sit down and wonder about Bungie’s narrative choices?

Like the Guardians aren’t squeaky clean in any manner of speaking, but as a congregation of Risen, they weren’t indiscriminately murderous in general (contrast the Warlords or the Dredgens). Even Saint’s crusades were aimed primarily at, well. The leadership. His most famous story is about headbutting a Devils kell to death. Just plain logistics-wise, he was one person and the eliksni could pick up and leave at the drop of a hat. He wouldn’t have had much TIME to massacre everyone, each strike would have been on a helluva time limit. “Evil mass-murdering Saint-14” just plain doesn’t make much sense when his supposed victims can haul tail fast enough to make him spin. And, assuming he isn’t evil, Saint could well pick and choose his targets.

Compared to Mara… it sounds like Virixas had made Ceres into the main hub for the House, and the Wolf fleet was at least hundreds of thousands strong, if not millions. The lore never specifies if the numbers indicated ketches or the actual population of the house, but even if that’s referring to the individual eliksni in their army, that’s a lot. Millions of ships. Even more millions of people on those ships. The entire population of a nation — their homes — halved before they could even react.

Imagine the number of Wolf corpses still orbiting the shattered remnants of Ceres. There are almost definitely corpses of babies and children among them: Forsaken confirmed that babies are kept on ships, not to mention that’s just what happens when you use a WMD like the Harbingers.

Bungie loves talking about gray morality but they sure don’t like dealing with actual, previously-established-canon genocide. They wrote Saint — who’d lived through the Devils’ human extermination campaigns — into being a monster instead.

Doesn’t make much sense does it?

Anyways, thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[zappadoodlecat]

Jalaal not getting on Petra’s case about Sophia haunts me tbh. To be fair, Jalaal probably doesn’t KNOW about the Sophia- or most of these crimes. We’re just using him here as a vehicle to make some meta commentary. (I really want him to find out about Sophia and get on Petra’s case though.)