#meta .

[maternalists]

saw a comparison post about the kate hiring kids joke going around dwtwt just for someone to point out sarah apparently does the same and man.

i really had to sit there because ( ignoring the obvious point of shes not in a government position doing that shit nor would she ever want to lmao ) how are we ignoring the fact she tries constantly to not let them in through each of their first meetings with her, and when she does finally grow comfortable with / accepts them as a team, she feels such an intense responsibility for them all the time because they're still kids in her care.

several of the villains she comes up against throw the fact she allows them to join her back in her face, she beats herself up the very second that one of them get caught or hurt, especially if its an indirect result of her own choices ( maria being injected during the audio series, luke being infected with the rackweed spores, her forgetting the lipstick while bringing clyde and rani with her up against the dark horde ).

i mean hell she literally resigned herself the second she was told she was ill / shouldn’t have responsibility over anyone because she didn’t want to get people, especially not her friends and family, killed.

it’s something that clearly persistently haunts her n i think to ever even imply that she’ll happily put kids in the crossfire is insane because she really is out here fighting for them all the time.

[silverhandj]

[only the trembling of his hand - the meat hand-betrays any emotion.]

Robert Linder meta oo1.

[belioness]

do you ever sit and think about the prominence of how nearly everyone uses a pet name with rebecca and they all always carry some sort of indication towards her relationship with them.

the people from her past all using names that represent their connection to her last chapters in life. deborah clinging to calling her sausage to signal she still wants that bond with her, something her and rebecca share even though rebecca probably finds it silly. sassy still calling her stinky and rebecca doing the same through using sass, acting just as effectively to show they always still have that tether, so much that nora has taken it up as a name of endearment for her, too. rupert weaponising the use of darling against her because its the perfect indicator of how he uses double meaning to do harm to her and guise it under something else. that he manages to take something that would've made her feel so loved in the past and turn it into something condescending and sharp.

and then we get to the people in her life who have helped with or experienced her change. how ted and beard both call her boss while also not letting it be entirely defined by the formality of their work dynamic, that the respect and authority is there especially with her, but its also said warmly and casually as a friend, the same way they do via using coach for each other- there's never anything cold to it. how keeley has so many names up her sleeve she could and has called her, while also always falling on the comfortable closeness of using babe / babes that i think always manages to disarm rebecca / put her at a sort of ease.

[abundanced]

as herta states in the first simulated universe mission, some aeons used to be humans, granted godhood by a higher power. in-game lore assertions state that if one's will becomes completely intertwined with a path ( i.e. a particular set of beliefs ), they can become an aeon. yaoshi was once one of these humans, hailing from a world that no longer exists, their home overrun by death and destruction. before their world was destroyed and the aeon known as yaoshi was born, they were a human healer, aiding those in need of help however they were able. the details from this part of their life are blurred by time, as thousands of amber eras have passed since their rebirth. but as a human, they embodied the core values of the path of abundance: an altruistic, selfless healer. any who were in need of aid sought them out, and they kindly offered their help when they could, and they were content with life. however, the world they came from was ravaged by plagues, the kind that the would-be aeon had no capacity to heal. they aided the dying, making them as comfortable as possible to ease the pain, but it wasn't enough. they wanted to do more, to save people from the scourge of plagues that had been devastating their home. yaoshi's family was lost to illness as well, and it spurred them to seek some kind of cure, some way to help the dying, undertaking perilous journeys in search of knowledge. yaoshi couldn't say for certain the exact moment they received an offer of godhood, just that it happened, and that the path of abundance was born. they gained cosmic powers, the ability to restore and preserve life, to cure the uncurable, to fix the unfixable. they'd become a god, but that still didn't let them save their home, though it wasn't as though yaoshi remembered much of it. but ascendence opened their ears to the people suffering throughout the cosmos, praying for a miracle, a cure to disease, a fix for injuries, a fix for death. they followed these prayers, guiding those they deemed worthy onto the path of abundance, whose will and selfless, altruistic nature aligned with their own values. yaoshi was born from the compassion and selfless nature of one human, so it would only be natural for their beliefs to gain traction, for their path to gain followers, who were blessed with long life by their aeon.

[cardinalhope]

     there is a concept that bones hold memories .. just like water or ice holds memories and the truth of time , i imagine bones hold memories too. Why is this important Hunter , you dare to ask ? 

                I propose a concept ; Bones hold memories . Hunter is made from bones of those golden guards before him. A rehashed telling of a puppet stitched together over and over again ..  So the concept comes into play where Hunter remembers things that the older golden guards , even CALEB remembers at times . Via dreams , or events that could possibly register as a PTSD flashback . 

         Hunter experiencing memories or attachments to people he has never met before , feelings of family and respect for people he doesn’t know .. He sees people in dreams he doesn’t know , almost constantly plagued with Deja vu in certain situations when associating with people due to the fact of repressed memories and associations.

       just an idea but a fun one at that .. 

[theyforget]

@fockbambi , @disconnectng , @redemptioninterlude  @earthqucke , @moons0uled , @eapoeism , @ofkngs

january 1st , 2012. 12:16 a.m.

jiseok’s mind feels hazy , beginning to waver by the pain throughout their body. they can’t place the pain , except for the blood staining their shirt , blood dripping from their throat and they know that they should be dead. yet , they aren’t and somehow that scares them even more.

december 31st , 2011. 11:00 p.m.

it’s a quiet night , jiseok is spending the latter of the year with their parents , planning on seeing their grandparents the next day. they were expecting for the group to pick them up after midnight , spending the start of the new year with their friends was an ideal night for them. 

everything feels okay for once , no bullies , nothing to worry about , at least nothing too big for jiseok. they were always worrying , that was nothing new. they spent most of the night watching tv with their parents , father cracking a joke per usual every few minutes or so. laying in their mother’s arms as they began to drift in and out of sleep. 

everything was okay. 

until it wasn’t.

december 31st , 2011. around 11:55 p.m.

jiseok is jolted awake by the sound of someone banging on their front door , their father tells them to stay there as he answered the door , they feel their mother hold onto them just a little bit tighter than before. they hear the door open and it’s quiet for a moment , they almost feel relieved , hoping that it was just their friends at the door. 

just bambi banging on the door to pull a frown on his father’s lips , nothing out of the ordinary they hoped. until their father screamed their mother’s name from the kitchen and something along the lines of telling her to get jiseok and run. and then the sound of fighting , jiseok feels themselves stand and their mother holds their hand , taking them into the hall. 

looking around the corner , they can feel their mother shaking as things go quiet. their mother is crying when she looks around the corner into the kitchen , they can make out the sight of their father on the floor , face down in a puddle of blood as a man stood over him. they feel their mother pulls them close and covers their eyes , they can feel themselves crying against their hand now and they want to call out for their father. 

the fear is climbing up their throat , pulling them under the water and drowning them.

their mother tells them to run , that she’ll be there soon and she lets them go. she lets go of their hand and jiseok finds themselves glued to their spot , their mother is running out and trying to distract the man , but he strikes her down and she falls on top of his father’s body and jiseok steps out and they’re calling for their parents as sobs choke them. they make eye contact with the man and they scream before the man closes in on them and slices their throat. 

they feel themselves beginning to fall. and then everything goes black.

january 1st , 2012. 12:20 a.m.

they are awake now , dazed and confused , everything hurts yet they feel looked around them as much as they can from the floor. their father is still there , but their mother is gone. they hear the door open again and it’s the sound of the group laughing , they hear their name being called out and they know that it’s alice’s voice. yet , they can’t place her name for the life of them and they can hear the sound of her walking towards them. they aren’t sure what to do , to hide how much they are hurting and the blood that is staining their skin , they don’t want to scare their friends.

they don’t want to scare them.

they worry about that more then the fact that their vision is becoming blurry and they can’t tell if it’s from the tears or because they feel themselves drifting away , finally being taken away by the heavy tide of the ocean. they feel themselves drowning right when they hear alice scream , then things went black again.

[silverhandj]

Briefly touching on Robert Linder's involvement with the war given that he was raised blue and true and patriotic by his father, who was a maxtech tank specialist, and ironically died BY said tank in a small riot uprising because of how the war wasn't conducive or even necessary. We can speculate all we want, but the chances of his death by this tank may have been a ground for testing as the incident was quickly covered up and fed into Robert's values of revenge.

Now, the war that Robert participated in was a secret war where only 2000 of them were dispatched without any outside knowledge. It's heavily implied that Robert's team and those soldiers were genetically tested on.

Skip to when Robert decided to become Johnny, as his name wasn't one he chose, but a name he took from someone who died for him. This would be the major driving point in deserting the army.

Johnny deserted the military and started Samurai to voice his disapproval of the wars started by the NUSA and the era's mega-corporations. Samurai actually split up for a short time between 2008 and 2020 (not sure what the exact time frame was). During that time, Johnny Silverhand wanted to make his own solo music to continue pushing his messages and lyrics. However, DBS Music wanted Johnny to keep making music for their label. The record label even went as far as blackmailing Johnny Silverhand by digging up his past as a military deserter and threatening to release it to the public, which would ruin his image.

So instead, Johnny Silverhand agreed to do another album with Universal Music...

But in the album "SINS of your Brothers", Johnny admits to deserting the military and talks about how horrible the military life was, as well as the things he was ordered to do by his higher-ups. The album was so successful that it changed the public opinion of the NUSA government, the military, and those who deserted during the Central American Conflict.