#py bites

[mercurypyrite]

ok so i made some rlly rlly self-indulgent edits…

(please don’t tag as f/o !)

psds used: blondie revenge tragedy, mint parlor ( strawberry mint ver ), sunset meadow, royal jewels, tunnel vision.

tagging: @crystalcatgamer shoving my edits in your face look what i made :3

[mercurypyrite]

a few hours ago i saw a post on my fyp about wonder teaming up with maruki and that’s the reason he’s fighting joker in the casino and i thought i liked it but i didn’t and now i Can’t Fucking Find It

i remember someone in the replies saying smth like

maruki: i’m trying to stop people from suffering

nagisa: when do we start

and i think @askmarietheapprentice (sorry for the @ but i’m desperate) mentioned white mask wonder too

it was an ask on someone else’s blog and i’ve looked up every combo of nagisa/wonder, ren/akira/joker, and maruki’s names i can think of and i just. cannot find it.

if anyone could help me out with this i would be extremely grateful 😭

[mercurypyrite]

i prefer to read the trailblazer and kafka’s relationship as the most tangled complicated ??? thing ever (complimentary) — they love each other, they hate each other, they are best friends and bitter rivals, they’re divorced but never married, etc or however that one post goes. platonic, romantic, whatever, they’re just fucking weird about each other <333

[mercurypyrite]

ok but seriously the goblet wire did smth up there.

the odd way they worded things. the weird surrealism of it all. the characters and, sometimes, their dynamics with each other...

spoilers for all of the goblet wire s1 under the cut, including some of the lines and scenes that i thought hit the hardest. to reiterate: the entire post is spoilers.

(PLEASE listen to the goblet wire. it's so weird. it's so good. i beg)

(yeah this post is a love note to the goblet wire. i'm not sorry.)

"I'm flipping a coin, Dictator. If it's heads, it means I love you."

the coin flips. the episode ends.

a trick quarter, weighted heavily toward heads.

all the little fucking callbacks -- e12, an elk bone die, my friend says it's good luck: Moth-Food in e01. e01 and e08, the child in the treehouse awaiting the flood. e01 and e06, the hole in the heart and the cargo ship, the white hippo.

"I saw a frog try to cross the highway today. I hope they made it." / Perform a heartbreak saving throw. / Flip your coin. For it is on such an edge that all hearts are balanced and wagered. / There will be significant consequences if you fail. And if you succeed. / It is not too late to stop them. "I don't." / "From you. I can't accept gifts from you." / Doing so may kill you. Shall we proceed?

e01, Patient Hourglass asking after Moth-Food when she switched her coin. e04, Fisher's takeover of the guardian and the aftermath. e05, the doomed sapphics who will never meet, ships passing in the night, Pearl Forest trading a prism to know Night Thistle's name. e06, Maldive's operator being concerned about them playing three sessions in the hospital, telling them to go home; Maldive telling the Dictator to fuck all the way off when he oversteps, these words are not for you. all of e07 with Tipped Bishop and her attitude, especially Patient Hourglass asking if she's okay but she just responds with, essentially, fuck it, i'm done - ends the call. leaves the game, leaves her character in an awful scenario it will never escape. that one dumbfuck in e09 who fumbles his entire scenario insanely poorly, including trying to lie about a dieroll when he never rolled at all - the dictator coldly telling him to roll was my favorite part of that whole clusterfuck. i'm still laughing at that, dumbass tried to say he rolled a six. lolno. e10 and e11, LaceyHearts_XO bantering with the dictator and the deer the deer the deer and 'no text.' and the impulsive intonation detection, Lacey's panic before getting kicked out. every little bit of e12. all of it all of it all of it.

"Tell them, Dictator. To drink deep from life. And sometimes there’ll be static and high phone bills and sometimes they’ll just get disconnected. But if the odds just aren’t working in your favor: try a friend’s die for good luck. Switch to a weighted coin and make your own luck. And no, poems can’t help you survive everything but they can keep you alive through most things."

also i just. realized. it is on such an edge that all hearts are balanced and wagered. / "if it's heads, it means i love you."

aaaAAAAAA-

i'm not ok thanks for asking :D

i love this podcast so damn much

(here is a link to the goblet wire's carrd. please.)

[mercurypyrite]

rewatching nope (2022) again and. everyone in the tag is soooo right and correct <3333

i love reading abt all the things that elevate it from great to excellent. i poked through the tag after i watched it the first time, and now again, and being able to pick out all the little details, all the threads tying together, is just… wonderful.

[mercurypyrite]

"Aside from the Arbiter's Lux Arrow, I'm afraid that nothing can materially harm [the Ambrosial Arbor]."

so the trailblazer is definitely going to kill the arbor again after picking up lan's power, right?

[mercurypyrite]

spoilers for trailblazer-related plot points during the jarilo-vi final boss fight, though not for the boss themself

ok so theory time

we met qlipoth the preservation in the simulated universe first (in world 1) & then later unlocked the path of preservation

(we also got the fire element in jarilo-vi, an ice world, which is a related-but-separate thing. this is kinda a stretch but i think it’d be interesting to get an element that counters wind like fire does ice. definitely not for angst reasons, i promise. and i think it’s cute that we got to match paths with march 7th and potentially dan heng first)

since we met lan the hunt next (in world 2), if the trend continues we’ll get hunt mc next

…i don’t actually know which aeon we meet in world 3, if any — i haven’t gotten that far and wasn’t able to find much online 😓 input is welcome [edit] in world 3 we meet nanook the destruction and immediately get murked (thank you @yeeted-into-the-multiverse!) why am i not surprised… at least we got an interaction with them, i guess, even if that interaction was murder

but from what my friends have told me and what i’ve dug up online, it seems like we meet ix the nihility in world 4 and yaoshi the abundance in world 5. correct me if i’m wrong bc, again, i haven’t gotten that far myself

(and of course we may meet other aeons like fuli the remembrance and aha the elation in world 1, it’s just that they don’t have playable paths.)

so i’m gonna guess that, for path progression, it’ll go like:

destruction [canon]

preservation [canon]

hunt

???

nihility

abundance

???

not sure whether we’d get erudition (nous) or harmony (xipe) first but i kinda wanna go with harmony…? which would leave my beloved aoe trailblazer ‘til last rip

^and this is mostly because we got asta as a kind of “tutorial” character — and i know we were given herta too! asta just came first.

(but also i think it’d be funny to see trailblazer bounce from harmony to nihility. imagine the whiplash for their teammates.)

just for kicks, elements to go along with them:

physical [canon]

fire [canon]

ice

wind

lightning

imaginary

quantum

reasoning:

canon.

canon.

wind is fast & i think ice is a good counter to that. slow enemies down, freeze them. can’t attack if you’re frozen.

this was actually the last one i put down via process of elimination kek. but, coincidentally, it ties back into matching with march (ice) and dan heng (wind) again so i’m happy with it.

honestly i think it’d be really neat if the trailblazer ended up with a similar skillset to kafka — lightning + nihility.

imaginary and quantum both feel like endgame elements to me since they kinda stick out against the more “mundane” elements.

a lot of early-game enemies in the space station are weak to quantum. said enemies are the antimatter legion, followers of nanook, the big bad. so it wouldn’t surprise me if they became late-game enemies as well, or if nanook shared that weakness.

i think that’s everything i’ve got. i’ll reblog this with updates as i’m proven wrong or right.

i’m probably not the first person to bring this whole thing up but i don’t care because i had fun thinking about it /lh

[mercurypyrite]

spoilers for xianzhou luofu storyline

thoughts on kafka’s interrogation…

everything about it was marvelous, honestly, but when she started talking about killing aeons-

“There is only one thing I can tell you about the future: In the best and the worst cases, you will eventually have to face Nanook the Destruction. When that time comes, you will need all the help you can get. It will be a brutal struggle of Aeonic proportions… proportions that neither you, nor I, nor the Astral Express will ever be able to reach. […] …You know, even Aeons can be killed.”

“Killing an Aeon? Humans don’t have that power.”

“That’s right, it would be impossible for a human… but then I didn’t bring humans into the picture, did I?”

-i thought she was implying that the trailblazer isn’t human — which honestly wouldn’t surprise me, considering silver wolf just kinda. edited them into reality.

(what makes a human? i wonder if the trailblazer will still be one — if they are one now — at the end of their journey, or if they’ll become an aeon. they’ll tread the paths of seven aeons — who knows what could happen.)

the last bit where kafka says even aeons can be killed with nanook in the background… i forgot to screenshot it and that bugs me because it was the coolest 😞

also march asking if the trailblazer got brainwashed made me laugh out loud ngl she’s so funny