#ph ask

[phrasetale]

How tall is Polaris?

how would I know that? Polaris never lets me get anywhere near him :/ ask him yaself

[quietneighbor]

How tall is polaris?

Uhh idk ask @phrasetale

[prehensilehate]

I love you more than anything. I love you more than the Earth loves the Sun, I love you more than the Night loves the Moon. P-post this on your b-blog if you're not a c-coward....

Thank you anon <3 I know you do. And I ain't no coward, so here go

[lilyginnyblackv2]

Oh, that's okay! Though I saw echo-silver-doll @ tumblr post few pictures. But if you want to have an original in front of you, then I am willing to wait! Thank you! (About ph book)

Yes, I saw their picture uploads too. I might ask if I can use their pictures, but with it being a sketchbook, that means a lot of small handwritten text by Mochizuki-sensei herself, which is easier to read with the physical book on hand.

 That being said, there are likely some images where the text is clear enough to read via scan and what not, so this won’t be an issue. I’m going to look into it some more soon. :) I work four jobs, so I’ll see when I can fit in the time for translations. ^-^

[ryoura]

i just got an alert on ffnet - btwr is returning on the 23th!

Ahhhh thanks for the info anon, I just checked my emails and I got it too! Yay! :DD Gonna go back and reread the chapters before it comes out but YAY can’t wait to see what the author comes up with~ :D

[lilyginnyblack]

Slytherin is very loyal house especially towards their families. And Vincent didn't have any ambitions purely bc he just given up on life. I dont think this can be a sorting trait. Anyway Vincent is 100% Slytherin to me but I respect your opinion too! Thank you for answer!

You’re welcome! :) I respect your opinion too, especially because I do think that Vincent exhibits a fairly equal amount of Slytherin and Hufflepuff traits (for me, the difference comes from what he values, rather than the traits that he exhibits). I also agree with your assessment of Slytherin House.I think a lot of PH characters could be sorted into multiple houses actually, and that’s due to the fact that Mochizuki-sensei gave us such well developed, three dimensional characters to work with! <3

[lilyginnyblack]

Sorry but imo(as vinc fan) Vincent is pretty selfish. He is very good at convincing himself that all he did was purely for Gil/Ada/etc but if you look closely all he does in manga is for his own comfort only. For the same reason Vince abandoned Ada in the end bc he is weak coward who cant come out his comfort zone. I think it's cool and realistic tho. Coward can't turn into superman out of blue. So as wise Break said: Don't try to excuse yourself by saying you're doing it for someone else's sake

Hello! :) I’m assuming you are talking about the sorting thing that I did, right? (Since that is the only, recent, post I’ve made about Vincent). I’m gong to go off that assumption and therefore incorporated talk about Vincent and why I did, in the end, decide to put him into Hufflepuff House (and why I agreed with another poster about Vincent and his connection to loyalty and it having nothing to do with personal gain).

I agree with you (as a huge fan of Vincent myself) that Vincent is rather selfish and cowardly, though, I don’t think that takes away from the fact that Vincent  values loyalty. I also think that there is a difference between selfishness and personal gain, you can be selfish without necessarily getting any personal gain from an action. Vincent was selfish in his desire to make Gil happy and he was selfish in his desire to make sure Ada found happiness, but both of these actions would not have amounted to Vincent necessarily getting any personal gain from the results. He would (and did, in the case of Ada) get what he wanted, but those actions wouldn’t necessarily lead to any type of personal gain for Vincent himself (which was the whole point). The individual who brought up that Vincent wasn’t motivated by personal gain was right, he was motivated by a selfish loyalty, but not by actions that would necessarily provide him with personal gain, since he, himself, did not want that. 

To go more in-depth into why I did decide on Hufflepuff House for Vincent and for his main value to be loyalty, please check out the Read More below.

When it comes to Hogwarts Houses and sorting, what defines where someone ends up (outside of choice) is what that individual values. That’s why you can have selfish or cowardly Hufflepuffs and it doesn’t make for a contradiction of any kind (after all, there was that one Hufflepuff who was always a complete and utter douche to Harry and was somewhat cowardly too).

For Vincent, loyalty is something that he demonstrates (it may come from a selfish motivation, but it is still loyalty) to Gil and Leo, and he is likely to show it to the Core too. While Vincent’s relationship with both Noise and Echo is complicated by the fact that Echo was a doll created by Duldee and was therefore like a doll/shell version of Noise in Vincent’s eyes, there is no denying the fact that Vincent found Noise’s loyalty appealing and attractive. Echo never showed any loyalty to Vincent (not saying she should either, just that she didn’t) and that put him off to her even more. The same with Lotty, when he came onto her before his date with Ada, he stated how he found her loyalty to Glen attractive. And speaking of Ada, it was her loyalty to him that really got to him and allowed him to let her in and fall for her (and to eventually decide to let her go).

So while I do agree that Vincent is rather cowardly (though, I don’t think that is a factor for any Hogwarts House or anything) and that he can be selfish (also not necessarily a factor for sorting really) his motives come from loyalty rather than ambition, and therefore lack the personal gain aspect.

[lilyginnyblack]

I had a question about Pandora Hearts - after the end of the world was saved, would the Contracts kept in Pandora still have been there? We know Sharon grew soon after but it wasn't implied that she severed her ties with Equus. And Gil explained that the Dukedoms were stripped of their power - so wouldn't that include the Doors to the Abyss - or no? And when a Baskerville dies naturally like Vincent - does their Chain die with them as well? Like did Demios die alongside him?

Hello! :) Sorry I took forever and a day to respond to this! 

As for your questions, I believe the contracts all remained. Sharon’s growth was described as being a ‘miracle,’ so I assume she was still contracted to/with Equus, which was why everyone was so shocked that she started aging again. I would imagine, now that the Baskerville Household has kinda been put back together (and they have worked out a system to help control the Core of the Abyss with her loneliness) that all responsibilities and items related to the Abyss (the Doors included) went back to belonging to the Baskerville Household. I would believe that the death of a Contractor (whether natural or not, whether a Baskerville or not) would lead to the Chain ending the contract, though I don’t know about the Chain dying. I think that could be up to fan interpretation.

I hope this helped! <3