#polyboros

[waveridden]

cleo - etho swap purrhaps :O ?

zombieetho... cleoslab...

[sillypix]

hocus what is... oracrys

hi :3 honestly kurohadiana sums it up best here!!! tldr: its a visual novel that kinda got lost but still has this super devoted cult classic following. i haven't been following it for crazy long (like a year? 2?) but from the scraps we've seen of it thatve resurfaced it's all such such fun writing.

personally i'm trying to find more info about this one character named calamity!!! as always hocus loves deeply strange women. a lot of her info is super hard to find atm </3 but we persist

[honestlyvan]

any polyboros thoughts?

Many. I think every iteration through the group has something unique going for it, but because out of the six of them, five have learned to socialise strictly in-context with each other, they keep inadvertedly referring back to those relationships in the way they approach each other, and it ends up blending everything, forming this web of connections that make the group adhere as a whole.

For example, I've mentioned in the past that I think Lanz' treatment of Taion parallels the way he treats Noah, and the way Eunie treats Sena parallels the way she treats Lanz, and that both of these are the wrong approach -- Sena is far more sensitive than I think any of them realise, and the prodding and stress-testing Eunie does doesn't make her feel like they're connecting, it makes her feel like she's failing to give her what she wants; likewise Taion is far more grounded and dispassionate than Noah, so what is meant to be a brake on him being led by his feelings comes across like second-guessing his reasoning.

And just like Sena had to step in to remind Noah that he's not dealing with Lanz and Eunie when he's dealing with Mio, that her way of communicating and her way of showing she loves him is not gonna be the way he's used to receiving other people, there's gonna be a lot of meddling occurring from the Ouroboros partner of one or the other participant in a relationship trainwreck for it to all work out, y'know?

So Taion has to keep reminding Eunie that even though he likes her because she's a bitch, he can also literally read her mind, lol, and it took Noah and Lanz years to get to that point with her; and Sena needs to bond with Lanz to feel comfortable approaching Noah and Eunie even though both of them have very standoffish vibes to her at first, to realise that Noah is just a nerd and Eunie is just a jerk, and she's better at being a person than both of them.

Likewise, the dynamic of uncomplicatedly being half of a person with someone else changes the way they approach relationships to each other -- less so for the Agnians, who have always been more distant and standoffish with each other, and have had to work on communicating more, but seeing the parts that their Ouroboros partners draw out of the other makes Noah, Eunie and Lanz far more aware of what they don't know about each other.

Neither Lanz or Eunie has ever been able to get Noah to be at ease the way he is around Mio, Eunie is far more trusting with Taion than she is with either of them, like. There's a lot of little things that would start nagging at them, witnessing those interactions, the three of them are so used to being each other's whole world. They would need to get to know each other again, properly, rather than relying so heavily on always having been together, being boxed into a comfortable dynamic with each other.

Having other people there changes things for them -- I think that's the only way they can really cope with the way they now have these memories and feelings and opinions about these perfect strangers in their lives. They have to interrogate those feelings somehow, to figure out what parts of them are real and what parts of them are coloured by their soulmate, which will also give them better insight into their soulmate. If they want to retain their individuality, they have to ask those epistemological questions about their own feelings, which incidentally is a really good way to make yourself fall in love with someone XD

[captain-maws]

polyboros affinity chart + sexuality hcs bc im rotating them in my brain always

[polkadotpatterson]

🫐 + 🌻 (note: took me. so long to figure out what that first emoji is supposed to be. ambiguous fruit...)

same lol and now that I'm on my computer it's actually just showing up as an even more ambiguous square

🫐 a line from a published work that you’re proud of, but no one’s mentioned yet - or if you can’t think of one, an underrated line in general

the hand that you were dealt is one that never got a lot of attention (including from me, I haven't touched it in ages riv) but it's got some of my peak Dot Angst Lines

it's easier to have no one look at you at all, to warp the very world around you so their eyes skip right over you, uncomprehending. You are not a person anymore, you are something new and unheard-of, an anomaly, a conduit of the gods, a long list of records piling up, a collection of numbers that no one had even thought to imagine before. What is there for them to stare at? You throw the ball in ways they cannot comprehend. They know only the perfect pitcher, and so do you, because it's easier to use all these new fingers to bury the person who was once behind the name of PolkaDot Patterson than to try and hold on to them.

🌻 favorite funny quote from a published work

First thing that comes to mind is DOT'S SHOES ARE STOLEN because that fic was a chance for me to be as silly as possible. barry style scriptfics are fun

Workman: Marquez Clark did not steal your shoes, Dot. Dot: HE STOLE YOUR BLOOD, WORKMAN! HE STOLE YOUR BLOOD AND HE ENJOYED IT! HE DIDN'T CARE THAT YOU WERE MY TEAMMATE! HE HURT YOU! I THOUGHT I KNEW HIM AND THEN HE TURNED OUT TO BE A VAMPIRE AND HE HURT YOU! WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE HE MIGHT BE CAPABLE OF? Dot: Dot: Sorry. I got a little carried away there. Dot: But I will never forgive him for his crimes. Workman: You forgave Jaylen for killing me. Dot: She didn't mean it. 

[faggotsanji]

you are like an evil scientist to me (yes it is the evil in the air tonight)

EHEHEHEHEHEEE THANK YOU it is i... the true evil wife (scientist)

also i didnt fucking see the word 'ask' in the post so ive just. been scuttling into the tags when rbing from other people lmao,

[captain-maws]

@junos-ramblings

i am asking you to elaborate on your polyboros headcanons if you so wish to...

yeah ofc!!! although my hcs have changed a bit :0

so in aionios, outside of the city, love isn't rly a Concept. romance isn't a thing. we Know this. but it's rly hard to sorta fully understand what "love" is when it's being explained to you if you don't know what it is. nd the way monica explained it was. Well. i don't think it was as detailed as it could've been LMAO

i can imagine maybe the next day, during breakfast, they're talking about how much they Don't understand it. there's so many different kinds of love, and they all love each other. they kiss and cuddle each other all the time (lord knows they need the comfort) but now there's this whole "wait is that an acceptable thing to do? if you're not 'spouses?'" and the topic of sex and marriage and it's just A Lot. nd monica said that you have to pick One so. they're all kinda having a moment.

gray and rozana explain everything in much better detail (tbh they're kinda like eunie's adoptive parents in my eyes). that there's different kinds of attraction, love and whatnot. and also that you don't have to pick Just One person. sure it's what most people do, but it's not a rule.

honestly they perceive their relationship with each other as queerplatonic. it's probably not until the reset nd their reunion that they're able to understand their individual dynamics and whatnot. they all kiss nd cuddle nd be complete lovestruck dorks (cuddle piles are very frequent) but anything beyond that is smth only select pairs do. i mean noah and mio have canonically fucked (ik TECHNICALLY it was M and N but Still) and as much as i want 2 make everyone ace i feel i need to follow canon at least a tiny bit.

uhh hope that's good!! if there's anything specific u want me 2 elaborate on feel free to send another ask :)

[sillypix]

hiii hocus have you read/seen prison of plastic yet and if so: is it good

I KNOW OF ITS EXISTANCE BUT I HAVENT LISTENED TO IT YET. the little audio snippets I've heard so far are so. yeah that's epithet erased all right. there's my little guys

i Have had trusted friends tell me its a fun read/listen so there's that at least

i was actually planning to buy the audiobook tomorrow and listen to it while i code!! so ill have an answer to whether if i think its good or not. soon enough hopefully