#rainbow rambles

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happy Halloween guys (it’s still September)

[28rainbowsnakes]

Really sweet detail in ORAS that I'm sure most people missed. If you open the BuzzNav while on Victory Road before becoming champion, you'll see Norman and your mom wishing you good luck on the news. Just take a look at what they say:

Transcript for easier read:

Mom: "(Player), can you hear me? It's sound like you're working really hard. Don't work too hard though, though! Make sure you get plenty of rest when you feel tired!"

Norman: "(Player)... At last you've made it to Victory Road. As a parent, I'm proud of you and your Pokemon. There's nothing left for me to teach you. Believe in yourself and keep charging ahead until you're the Pokemon League Champion! Best of luck!"

Host: "Those were some inspiring messages from (Player)'s proud parents!"

😭🥹❤️

[rainbowwwzo]

Thinking about just how selfless Helga is again. There are ample opportunities in where she could have revealed her altruistic intentions but she never willingly does - cough cough deep voice cough. You could argue she chiefly does it to conceal her affection for Arnold, but she still could've found a way to. Not that she would- My point is that she doesn't care about improving her image or even being rewarded, Arnold's happiness alone brings her fulfilment. It's undoubtedly one of the many aspects of Helgas character that makes her so special 🥺🙁

[mechsarchives]

Lyf put down their phone, expression twisted in stony anger, and closed their eyes.

“Ivy, we have to go now.” They pushed away their half eaten breakfast, and Marius frowned in confusion.

“What-“

“Her Lyf decided to be an idiot and kidnapped another one of our counterparts, apparently, and is now panicking because they obviously had a bad reaction to the corridors.”

Marius’s eyes widened. “That is- I’ll grab my coat.”

Lyf’s expression softened slightly. “You don’t have to-“

“Nope. You’re not going in there without backup. Come on.”

@lyfrasilly-edda

Ivy sighed. What in the hell was Lyfrassir thinking?

"Yes. Alright, time to go then. It was lovely meeting you all, I do wish you well."

Ivy stood and made her way to Lyfrasilly and Marius, grimacing a bit.

"It. May be best for someone other than Marius to join us, they won't want to harm a Marius, even accidentally. They'd likely be best comforted with the counterpart of someone they've known longer, such as Jonny."

[lyfrassireddatsct]

It was just under half an hour later when Silly got back to the small ship, this time with not only their Marius, but their Toy Soldier in tow, too (wearing a very stylish weevil onesie). They were sporting a few new bandages on their arms, that their Marius had taken to fussing over and making sure they were alright.

"Are you sure they're tight enough?"

"I- yes, they are. We'll get the antivenin, and it'll be fine, okay?"

"Okay. But are you sure-"

They pressed a quick kiss to his forehead “I'm sure." That seemed to help relax him slightly, and they squeezed his hand a bit, before knocking on the door.

- @lyfrasilly-edda

Stell opened the door. They looked beyond tired now, leaning in the doorway to provide any sort of support.

"I-- oh, you made it. El. . . El left the antivenin just inside. Said she was synthesizing more. Are you all right?"

[lyfrasilly-edda]

Happy fuck you and fuck your train Friday!

Sparkle on.

[rainbowcarousels]

In a break from my regularly scheduled lack of programming, I wanted to talk about how Angeal's rose tinted 'memory' in Ever Crisis. As I was going through things, some thoughts occurred to me and I want to collect them.

I think Jenova has a habit of integrating memory without understanding the individual relationships that cause code shifting in conversations or even the major differences between characters. Lucrecia as she portrays her is Mother, she's not Lucrecia as a person, she's a designation and part of the grouping of this being what a mother sounds like is based on Jenova's limited experience with the subject, especially with modern humans. The memory has the same feeling as Cloud's 'memory' of Nibelheim at the beginning of Rebirth, right down to a photograph and that's because those are Zack's memories but twisted and edited just enough to pass for Cloud's.

Angeal's relationship with the townsfolk when he was supposedly quite the thieving toerag of a kid screams of fantasy of being accepted and beloved. Heroism for him is producing crops, it's making sure his parents are taking care of and feeling accepted as part of a community where he grew up in poverty. It's rose tinted because it's literally rose tinted glasses.

I would bet that was not remotely his mother's reaction to him joining SOLDIER. We're saying Gillian Hewley, the woman who wouldn't talk about her experience to the point of death, who ran off with Angeal as a baby to try and get away from all of that, who preferred to live in poverty rather than take a single gil of Shinra's money, would have a) cared about Angeal's SOLDIER uniform looking sharp, b) ordered the 'finest materials straight from Midgar' and c) when Angeal expresses worry over dirtying it, would giggle and say it was fine when should just make him another? Does that sound like the same woman or does it seem like a fantasy of what he wished would have happened?

I'm going to go further here and say that in fact, it's much more likely to be in line with Genesis's mothers reaction and I'm wondering if either a) Jenova got them mixed up because of the close quarters or b) Jenova just characterised it as Mum Behaviour and went with it, assuming it all sounded roughly the same when the difference between Angeal's mother and Genesis's (and Lucrecia for that matter) is vast in terms of personality and relationships. Either way, I think this is again one of those little edits where she's using one memory to patch another.

Having now looked at some of the better quality pictures of a younger Gillian below, I am now more convinced than ever that the other Nibelheim scientist we see with Hollander in the opening film of First Soldier is Gillian. For me, this pretty much confirms Jenova had close proximity to the mamas (and Genesis's biological mother who SE need to stop gatekeeping because saying it's a secret is making me feral) and could have patterned their behaviours between that and the pre-existing J-cells.

The next FS part cannot come soon enough, I am fascinated by this turn.

[rainbowarmarouge]

another WIP… I will finish this one day..