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feelings-flooding-away · 1 year

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@cass-who

This was rlly Long so I just decided to delete my replies and make a post so yeah^^

I’m writing a book on them (and two others but I haven’t finished the other two) but all 8 of them will have backstory’s so be prepared for a lot of reading lol. But the book is a psychological horror/found family with my own take on the 7 deadly sins! It’s 8 short stories with a overarching story mainly about the flaws of humanity. All of them were twisted into something less then human by human hands and in sharing their pain they can heal the wounds of the past together [i’m really excited to write the last story it’s the light in all of this angst]

I’m summarizing these backstory’s bc they are looong without that like AT LEAST 5 PAGES FOR EACH OF THEM

I’m going from lesser to worst “sin”

First sin is Quinnel who is manipulation! He was manipulated into believing the only way to prove he loved his gf was to commit several crimes for her. Before she shot him in “self defense” he’s very loving and dotes on His friends. Extremely close to Cercila (almost done 7th character) because their experiences are similar he likes chocolate covered strawberries and American psycho.

Second sin is Nonamé! who is alienation! It was a highschool student who was bullied for being “creepy” and anyone who showed any form of kindness to it was bullied leaving nothing but negativity which drove them to commit.. nonamé’s tale makes me sad:( it likes to listen to Abi argue with Quinnel.it doesn’t say much but its there and included.it likes horror movies and forensic. Major oldest sibling behavior

Third is Abi! I love her<3 she’s the OG (also was my persona for a while) And her sin is bystanding! Basically she was beaten to death at a lgbtqia+ rights protest while people watched. no one stepped in no one got help because after all someone else will do that!Worst part is the attacker got away with this hate crime>:( Abi likes feeling things with her hands. And when you find the perfect spot under the covers. Quinnel did take a lot of inspiration from my bf so take that as you will👍🏻 very much a adhd middle child.

Harry is the 4th sin neglect:(

He was born into a family who didn’t care for him other then keeping him from smelling bad or starving to death and one day he ate a hairball from the beloved pet cat and slowly suffocated when he was only 4 years old.he likes water, and the 90s music gladis listens to🥹 he needs to be protected

Fifth sin is Gladis. Her story is a close second for the role of saddest story:( She represents silence. she was married off to another family for money her husband was a mean man who wasn’t above taking lives to watch her suffer.one day she uses all of her courage to go to her family for help but they turn her back to him because she should suck it up and be a good housewife>:( .months pass and his state worsens until one day he comes home wasted and enraged.I’m not going into details but she passed from blunt force trauma to the head…. I love Gladis! She’s the mom friend and Her hair is really really fluffy Abi loves styling it! She see’s Harry as her son. She likes group cuddle-naps and fudge brownies:)

They just a lil sad family that deserves the world and im gonna give them it. This cat is me rn. Why did I make this so goddamn sad:(((((

#my story #oc character #original character #character backstory #response #this is wholesome #book lore drop #stay tooned

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suntails · 8 months

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do you deserve to be loved?

#*smashes thru the wall like the kool aid man* im fucking back #we're so back. it's joever. i'm screeching into the sun i'm ILL i fucking sobbed last night i cried during work #i sat and drew during my lunch i finished the lore drop at 7am and didnt sleep and drew until work started at 9 #i. um. i dont even know where to start for making shit. i feel adrift i feel lost in the sauce of misery #the way he screamed at his baby self that he didnt deserve to cry. that he didnt deserve to be loved. im fucking ILL #ive talked before abt his bad relationship w his own mortality but ngl i REALLY underestimated how deep this ran...esp w the new dad knowle #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #silver vanrouge #ch7 spoilers #book 7 spoilers #he got a new rigged expression!!! all the new animations!!!!!! as a rig animator by trade i was v impressed and pleased #silver nation. fuck every other book like im sorry this one wins u cant deny it #suntails

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black-and-yellow · 1 year

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Punk rocker in training.

#mic drops Eri off at school and such in his car because he thinks that it'll make the other kids respect her #little does he know #6 year olds dont care about his vintage ride #does eri go to a normal school no probably not #im not caught up on eri lore #Eri either gets taken places by a man who stinks of cats #a guy dressed head to toe in leather and spikes #or the symbol of peace himself #wish i was her #bnha #mha eri #hizashi yamada #present mic #yamadad #if you havent read my loudspeaker fic yet youre missing out #accidentally made it better than my actual proper book

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cacaocheri · 1 month

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You should in fact infodump about poptropica, also have you considered doing a DCA Poptropica crossover to unite the interests together?

1) I love you so much dude I hope you're doing well 2) poptropica infodump would take AGES this thing has lore so I will spare you a ramble for now 3) I . HAVE NOT. BUT COULD YOU IMAGINE SUN AND MOON WITH THE BIG BOBBLE HEADS

no? because I can

oh my god they look so much more cursed than I expected I'm laughing my ass off

#guys new au? poptropica dca au anyone?#where they just look like this thats it #my art #dca fandom #sun fnaf #moon fnaf #also friend if you really DO want to hear a poptropica ramble #you have to ask about a specific island #because just dropping all of the lore is way too hard #like first decide if you want book lore or game lore #(thats right there is a book)#and then we go from there #i could tell you aaaaalll about my favorite island though #cryptids my beloved #harold mews ny beloved #OKAY OKAY BUT YEAH YOU GET THE POINT #i fr appreciate so much that you are always asking me to info dump about my interests though<33 i love you so much #just know this isn't me trying to avoid talking about it there's just SO MUCH to talk about its hard for me to focus!#but yes thank you again man <3 i love you hope you're doing well #we should chat again sometime #ask #poptropica

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sunshine-zenith · 5 months

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I got my niece some Encanto stuff for her birthday and one of them was a book with brief character bios that came with a bunch of small figures. The bio for Bruno, interestingly enough, says he was the “star” of the family once — it kinda makes him sound like a parallel to Isa instead of Mirabel

That’s a pretty cool idea, actually, and does kinda make sense — iirc the directors said Alma would depend on Bruno’s gift a lot because of the unpredictable trauma of losing Pedro. While his gift is overall different from Isa’s, it makes sense Alma would cling to their gifts the most and make them out to be Golden Children — Julieta’s gift is the most dependable so it’s easy to see it being taken for granted/her being way overworked like Luisa, and while Pepa’s gift is the most similar to Isa’s of the triplets (controlling the weather and therefore affecting the crops/growing and to a degree controlling plants themselves), Pepa has less control over her gift. Shoot, when you compare the way Alma talks to Pepa and the way she talks to Mirabel, it’s pretty similar (criticism, reprimanding, frustration)

Bruno’s gift theoretically offers a chance to prepare for/change the future while Isa’s gift is on the surface level so benign is can only mean stability — you don’t need flowers to fight a war, so if you’re given the ability to grow a bunch of flowers you probably don’t have to worry about losing everything and dying. You Can Keep Yourself Safe vs You Are Safe

The difference I guess is Julieta isn’t currently going through major burnout and ending overwhelmed with the need to protect her community and family, while Pepa isn’t afraid to snap back a bit (the advantage of age, having a solid support system in their loving spouses, having to cope with basically losing their brother, and growing up before Alma worried about losing their miracle might’ve contributed to them having a slightly better handle on their mental health and self worth)

Bruno, going off this random page in this random book for small kids, could be a dark-end parallel to Isa — someone who spent years of their life trying to do everything Alma and the town asked for to their own detriment. I can also remember a couple occasions where their body language also notably changes around/when thinking about Alma — Bruno shrinks down when he thinks about her, Isa straightened her posture, both looked apprehensive. Isa was going to waste her life marrying and having babies with a man she didn’t love and Bruno literally lost ten years of his life in the walls of Casita. The difference is Bruno’s once-praised gift eventually turned to something hated and he turned from the golden child to scapegoat, while Isa’s gift is largely unexplored by her to keep it palatable to help her avoid losing the golden child status

Or something idk y’all I’ve been babysitting all week and I’m Tired

#bruno madrigal #isabela madrigal #encanto #encanto disney #the sun shines #long post #‘inaccurate information from a deeply condensed children’s book written by someone who saw the movie maybe once’ you say? well I say #‘secret lore drops!’#broke 100

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swordplease · 1 year

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Merry Pippin and Sam from the books are actually the most hobbits ever. like. frodo having them help him in this elaborate scheme to have him move away to a house in Buckland, trying SO hard to pretend that it’s bc he’s losing money and he just feels like moving and he’s like agonizing over it to himself the whole way. They get there and merry is like go take baths you stinky shits and they’re like oh well who’s gonna go first and he’s like actually I personally arranged it so there’s THREE bathtubs because I KNEW you fucking gay assholes would fight over this. Frodo working up the courage to tell them that he can’t stay there and has to go further away and they’re straight up like “LOL dude we know, youre a shit liar also you literally kept talking to yourself about for months. Plus merry saw bilbo put the ring on and disappear so he could avoid a social interaction like YEARS ago dude. so yeah danger is whatever. Btw we’re coming with you.” like. truly epic bro moments

#bilbo teaches Sam to write and Aragorn is like. way more Dad than in the movies but he’s also not bc the hobbits are adults but he’s also #he’s like dad in that he knows lore and woods #he’s lore and woods dad #also like there’s SO many other ppl in the books who drop everything to help Frodo when they know nothing like #yes Tom but more importantly fatty bulger and farmer maggot and the Bree i keeper who’s name I forget #who BUYS THEM A PONY #anyway #Lotr #lotr: fotr #fotr #lotr books #hobbits #merry and pippin #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee

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consumebread · 10 months

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#malleus draconia #twisted wonderland #twst #twst malleus #disney twst #twst fanart #twst mc #twst yuu #sorry you had to witness me redraw the same malleus sketch 4 times now #erm honestly dont know whats happening in jp book 7 but i keep getting spoiled and im like...mmm malleus lore...#i already finished book 6 so now I'm literally just waiting for when book 7 drops in en...for now i wait for masquerade event....

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piper-mcqueen-ask-blog · 3 months

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Jason definitely opens things with his teeth that should not be opened with teeth. Piper and Leo are equal parts concerned and amused by their favorite wolf boy

Y’all can’t tell me Jason’s hair doesn’t stick up like wolf ears (click for better quality I’m begging you)

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d4ydream-girl · 4 months

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PERCY "LOYALTY IS MY FATAL FLAW" JACKSON CHANGED ANNABETH "HUBRIS IS MY FATAL FLAW" CHASE'S VIEW ON UNCONDITIONAL LOVE SO MUCH THAT GIRLIE IS OVER HERE YELLING AT A GOD ABT HOW GREAT HER FRIEND IS 😭😭😭. THE WHOLE FUCKING "tAkE thE sHieLd YouR mOM wiLL bE pRouD oF yOu" THING HEPHASTUS SAYS DOESNT CATCH HER HUBRIS BC SHE JUST WANTS TO SAVE 😭 PERCY 😭😭. AND SHE DID SAVE HIM 😭😭😭.

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yashley · 25 days

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liking critical role is consuming 1000+ hours of content and then waiting for the day they write a book about something so you can know everything about it

#no but like what i wouldn't given for an entire 900pg+ book series about every odds and ends #in exandria #i need them to publish 900 page '''cobalt soul'' lore drop books like massive tomes of information #these really sexy hardcover books with gold filigree like buying the book is checking it out from the cobalt soul #anyway i want to read a 900 pg book about the calamity

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thrxughthenxght · 17 days

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I put in my notes on Kindle on the line of Wymack telling Jean he was never letting Moriyama/Riko touch him again, something about how protective Wymack is makes me love him so much. Like in this chapter Nora refers to the airport scene with Neil and Wymack and it just reminded me how strong and caring but not quite paternal yet still a father figure Wymack is for the Foxes and really any stray desolate child who comes to his door. He's so good. Obviously it'd be heartless to send Jean back, especially like this but even at all, but to be SO dedicated and to say it to Jean's face so blatantly and be like "fuck them fuck you I'm not letting them hurt you and you can hold me to it" it just makes my heart hurt? I love him sm.

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suntails · 11 months

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lead us not

#this comp is directly based on 'lead us not into temptation' by mucha. go look it up the piece looks so GOOD #just #head in hands. this is prob my last piece before the next lore drop so do w that what u will #just give iiiiin silver just follow malleus and trust in the dream worlds hes making!!! duh!!!1!1!!!1 DUH. (lying) (lying) (lying)#he knows BEST let him lead u towards a happy end for the next 1000 years of happy dream worlds. sobibng.#yea so the composition fucked so hard i literally HAD to draw something. im genuinely begging just go look it up. u gotta see my vision #twst #twisted wonderland #twst spoilers #book 7 spoilers #malleus draconia #twst silver #silver vanrouge #peep the other chars distorted af in the bg u cant see them well but i swear they were distinct originally #suntails #tumblr gets it first again. congrats u guys r my favs dont tell twitter

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beanmaster-pika · 9 months

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Okay so like so like. That llondonfog fic where Lilia’s bats’ narration referred to Silver as “little prince.” The current thought ping-pongging in my brain is Lilia himself calling Silver his little prince knowing full well that Silver is descended of the Dawn Kingdom’s royals. Idk if Malleus would know or not but Silver definitely wouldn’t because he thinks he’s some random orphan that Lilia found in the woods one day and not the very interesting implications of whatever’s going on in book7 right now (people are theorizing Silver was kidnapped as revenge which makes sense but my theory is that Lilia’s title “cradle seeker” is because he set out to kill the infant heir of the Dawn Kingdom but baby Silver got shotputted through time to the future where a Lilia whose heart had healed some and is no longer so keen to bloodshed finds him), but Lilia knowing/thinking that everything he’s given Silver pales in comparison to what he had been meant to have as a crown prince like Malleus. Everyone around them thinks it’s just because Lilia’s a doting parent, and in part it is, but can you imagine Silver finding out about his birth family and Lilia, ashamed and resigned, dropping the “my.” Because Silver was never meant to be his.

#and silver thinks it’s a rejection of him because oh of course fa- lilia wouldn’t want the child of his mortal enemies to be his son #HRNGJFHRDHFJFJDHDHD.#I’m kinda glad I didn’t get into twst until bc if I had to wait years for the diasomnia family lore to start dropping I would’ve exploded #pika’s ramblings #twst #twisted wonderland #twst spoilers #<-for sam idk if you’ve been looking at the book 7 tls #lilia vanrouge #silver vanrouge

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amarisrosalette · 5 months

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just for your reminder, mondstadt literally means "moon city". moon being "mond" and city as "stadt". fyi on why i'm talking about this is because i am a literal moon enthusiast and whenever i come across this thought in my head i think "wow. my favoritest city in my favoritest game is really named after my most favoritest thing to look at." and then it just ends up strengthening my love for mondstadt even more

just wondering if there are any mondstadt enthusiasts who are also fellow moon enjoyers? plus points if you're a lore enthusiast because i REALLY wanna know the lore and origin behind mondstadt's name.

#genshin impact #mondstadt #mondstadt genshin #genshin lore #and not to mention my online name is literally amaris #which means child of the moon #that is how obssessed with the moon i am #like can venti just drop some lore to us because i'm really starting to get the vibes that mondstadt is related to the moon/lunar palace #like. mondstadt and lunar palace lore when #once again mihoyo is gatekeeping us some precious lore of them places #i also think its because either mondstadts earliest founders has a relation with one of the moon sisters?#maybe one of the moon sisters named it or its true founder named it after them #could this hint to the fact that mondstadt is much older than we think it is?#despite how isolated it was during the reign of decarabian?#like we only ever get to have mondstadt's lore form until decarabians reign until the aristocracy #not just from what we're first introduced in the cutscenes but in the books and lore pieces that we get from the game #i wonder if there is a deeper history that extends from even far beyond decarabians reign #like besides #what was decarabian doing even before he reigned mondstadt? how did he even get that position?#and once again my ramblings all circle back to venti #i hope carmen dei act II will give us some huge lore bomb about mondstadt's origins and it's name #plus the moon sisters #and pleaspleapselpaase decarabian lore i'm so fascinated with this god #like yeah ik he's a tyrannical ruler but please #ok im done

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chipistrate · 3 months

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Novel trilogy centering around 3 star family and their journey to trapping the Mimic and creating MXES

Completely canon, but not necessary for understanding any future plot points- just more context to how it all went down that may be vaguely hinted at later, as well as giving us a glimpse at the three's dynamic before we see them in action in the games

#Chip Chatter #sorry- might be biased- but THIS would be a good way of utilizing telling canon stories through the books #something you don't NEED to understand the current story #you don't NEED it to understand the main villain or get very important lore drops that may never be brought up in the games #but it gives more context to certain actions and gives us a deeper look at important characters.#And it doesn't SPECIFICALLY need to be about 3 star fam- this is just an example of something I'd love to see #but using the books to tell not-necessary-but-still-relevant stories that we may never see in the games is a great idea!!#You can understand 3 star fam built MXES and trapped Mimic without the books #but WITH the books you can get a deeper look at how it went down.

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thefirstknife · 1 year

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Kraken Mare

And ANOTHER thing, from TWAB:

And we’re not kidding when we say we’re going under the sea…here’s a glimpse of one of the places you’ll be headed in Season of the Deep:

There will be actual underwater sections! That makes me insane right away.

Also, this is a Golden Age facility. Why is it at the bottom of the ocean? Or in some sort of a cave? Well, we don't know, but we do know that they were investigating Titan's ocean(s) back in the Golden Age. Perfect time to talk about it!

I cannot recommend Last Days on Kraken Mare enough as a lore book, as it's not only relevant right now, but it's one of the only true and direct accounts of the Collapse starting and the devastation it brought. Last two pages deal with a scientist who was doing research on life in the ocean.

In The Water Sun, Part I, the scientist Maury Yamashita is diving to open a pen with creatures he calls swarmers in order to save them as the Collapse is starting. They were native to Titan and, from the way he talks, we know they weren't originally in the place where their cage is at.

Sorry, Mia, he thinks. It has to be worth my life, or I'm worth more than them, and I know I'm not. I put them there. It's my job to let them out.

He's always loved the stupid little swarmers.

When Titan gets pulled and released from the gravity attack, it causes a massive disturbance not just on the methane sea, but also in the ice shelf and subsurface ocean; yes, Titan has another, non-methane ocean under the surface:

"The tidal pull. The ghost mass. It just… left. The moon is collapsing back to spheroid shape. I'm detecting primary waves in the subsurface ocean—it's a quake. It's a quake! Maury, get away from the substructure! Get clear!"

Maury imagines 60-plus meters of bulging moon, Titan's mass hauled up into a teardrop pointed at the sky—suddenly released. Smashing and scraping and grinding back into equilibrium. Cracks in the ice spewing plumes of water and ammonia. Continent-sized shelves slamming and rebounding and calving like bergs. The whole vast inner ocean sloshing back into its shape.

Maury gets tossed and tumbled in the methane ocean and has a fear that, with the ice cracking, he will fall over "into the abyss," meaning through the ice shelf:

"The swarmers," he says, and he jettisons his buoyancy tanks. Without that lift he is so much denser than the bad water around him that he plunges like a skydiver toward the cross brace below, where the swarmer pen is anchored. Titan's gravity may be gentle, but even gentle acceleration adds up. He hits hard, and the spinmetal surface blasts the air out of his lungs. He gasps and gags. Scrabbles for purchase before he slides off and falls into the abyss. He's going over—no! No! He is not going over! He will not fall!

In Part II, Maury saves himself with his hi-tech suit and finally reaches his swarmers. He gives us a description!

The swarmers seethe and pulsate in the perforated plastic sac. Not Titan's highest life, nor its lowest, they hive across the icy sea-bottom in enormous braided patterns that speak to Maury of intelligence. Not individually—not even at the hive level—but some kind of vast concert, conducted, perhaps, by leviathans down beneath the ice shell, communicating across the barrier by magnetic whisper that the swarmers receive via organic SQUIDs. An ecology spanning methane life and water-ammonia life. Why? How?

This is so cool! Not only does he describe the creatures, he also tells us that there's also life under the ice shelf and he calls that life "leviathans." This also means that there are probably ways to go through the ice which allowed them to study those creatures beneath the ice shelf. Maybe caves? Maybe the Golden Age facility is beneath the ice shelf. Not entirely likely, but still! Maury's theory is that the swarmers are somehow connected to those leviathans beneath the ice and that all life on Titan is a connected ecology of lifeforms that live in wastly different biomes.

These creatures predate the Traveler's arrival, which we know from the writing of Clovis Bray who specified that Titan, Europa and Enceladus were never terraformed:

Did the Traveler bypass Europa and Titan and Enceladus out of respect for their native life?

Or was it afraid to touch the things pulsating below the ice?

This is interesting now in context of the information that an "enemy of the Witness" is on Titan. Did the Traveler bypass the life or has that life always been a part of the Traveler as enemies of the being that seeks to destroy it? Or is it something more specific, like the Leviathan from the Fundament? Vibrating to find out.

Maury thinks about how he brought the swarmers up from the bottom and that he can't bear to see them all die because he captured them so he hurries to open their pen. Once he does, they all skitter back to the bottom.

The polymer shreds and the swarmers scatter, their tiny bodies siphoning liquid methane as they pump down and away. Safe. Safe.

And then:

The quake hits.

A hundred and fifty meters below, the icy basis of Kraken Mare rolls like liquid. The arcologies answer the low geological wail with a cacophony of groans and shrieks, joints flexing, tethers snapping taut, substructures soaking up unthinkable mechanical energy, trying to keep anything from—

Breaking.

Maury falls to the bottom from the blast and gets told to move it back up because the wave is coming. An ice shelf completely collapsed into Kraken Mare and the wave is going to be catastrophic and he has to reach the surface. Which he does! He manages not only to reach the surface, but also to fly out of the water with really cool Golden Age tech suit:

He makes it to the surface. He's up there in plenty of time. He can even see Dome 1, still intact, though a lot of the surrounding rigging is damaged. One of the creepy Exo soldiers stands outside, beckoning to him with a laser dazzle, guiding him in.

Maury opens his suit wings to their full membranous span. A single mighty stroke of paramuscle cups the air and hauls him up out of the sea. He's aloft! Titan air is thick, and Titan gravity is light, and like a huge bat he can fly. He puts his head down and starts building altitude, headed towards the beckoning Exo.

Alas, it's not enough. What follows is one of the best descriptions of just how utterly cataclysmic the situation was:

First, he sees the supercarrier, tragically buoyant, tragically light, built for seas with gentle one-meter tides but now riding the greatest wave Titan has ever seen, directly into Dome 2's crippled understructure. In 152 kilopascals of air pressure, the pandemonium sound of the collision has the gut-mulching power of a rocket booster.

The entire arcology collapses down onto the ship, into the sea.

Then he blinks past the devastation and recognizes the sheer scale, the utter speed, the complete imminence of that unthinkable methane wave coming down at him.

"Oh, man," he says.

This is easily in my top 5 lore books in all of Destiny. Honestly read the whole Last Days on Kraken Mare. But this final bit is so good. It's incredibly good. It was the first direct description of the type of devastation brought on by the Collapse and how incredibly impossible it is to survive it. No weapons fired, no armies involved, nothing. The moon was just squashed and then released, and gravity did the rest. Nothing short of immediately leaving the planet can help you.

It was also the first unambiguous proof that what happened on the Fundament was because of the Darkness. Last Days on Kraken Mare released in Season of Undying which was the first season of Shadowkeep. We'll wait for The Witch Queen to see the Witness admitting that it caused the God Wave of the Fundament and blamed it on the Traveler to deceive the Hive siblings, but Last Days on Kraken Mare was our first direct indication about it, as well as insight into how it's done. Our own God Wave that started the Collapse.

It's very cool that two celestial bodies with some sort of underwater leviathans linked to the Traveler were hit by cataclysmic waves to destroy them. I guess, it's the easiest thing to do to a water planet like that, but still an interesting parallel, especially now that we're very specifically going to be looking for a creature that's apparently personally an "enemy of the Witness." This lore book also confirms that the existence of some massive creatures in Titan's oceans predates the arrival of the Traveler.

So much text about that one picture, but to see a Golden Age facility at the bottom of the ocean is such a sight. I'm hoping for more Golden Age information in the next season and more about the research that went down on Titan, especially research into its life forms.

Interestingly enough, there was another important research being done on Titan, though it wasn't about Titan. But this research was the subject of the rest of the lore book and has relevance to the Collapse, as well as Ishtar and Braytech. The scientist in question was Shanice Pell who fled to Titan to build an interstellar probe. She wanted to send it to explore the universe outside of the solar system.

Both Ishtar and Braytech were interfering with her work so she went to Titan which was independent. Did Ishtar and Braytech interfere because they were also doing research on interstellar space and travel? Did they want to stop someone independent from learning more, especially about the strange anomalies in space that seemed to be coming over?

Very likely, because Shanice's probe discovered the anomaly as well. Initial data from the probe made no sense, obviously because it's paracausal, the anomaly being the Black Fleet. She continued to research and figured something is off and when she figured it out (as much as she could, we aren't sure how close she came to understanding it), she decided that her data must get out. Unfortunately, this is where Last Days on Kraken Mare happen; Shanice was being evacuated, but her evacuation was intercepted by Braytech Exos who came to aprehend her and stop her from publicising her research. She boarded the evacuation shuttle which was then shot down by Rasputin's warsat to stop her escape.

Ultimately, she died in vain. This was literally at the start of the Collapse so even if she had escaped, her data wouldn't have done much. There was no way to stop or survive the Collapse at this point. Her data may have alerted the people at the end, but nothing could've been done with it.

But it's super interesting how many stories are converging on Titan, especially now that we know more about Ishtar and Braytech and their involvement with predictive AIs, exodus projects and all the other stuff they did which ultimately led to Neomuna.

It's also been brought to my attention that the author of Last Days on Kraken Mare, Seth Dickinson, previously said that he wrote three times as much content about Titan. Titan was apparently supposed to be relevant in Forsaken, but there was not enough time in the existing crunch to get it done so it never got implemented. But he wrote a lot about it, and a third of his writing got implemented as Last Days on Kraken Mare in Shadowkeep. I'm sincerely hoping we'll see the rest of his writing about Titan in Season of the Deep. His comment:

It was supposed to be Titan content back in Forsaken but there wasn't enough time during crunch to get it all localized and hooked up. Even the chapters available in Shadowkeep are only about a third of the whole thing.

I'm looking at Bungie with the biggest eyes and hoping the rest gets released.

ONE MORE thing before we go and it's just a nice little detail about Last Days on Kraken Mare as a lore book; its "chapters" are named after various eschatological beliefs of different cultures aka beliefs about various ends of the world. Namely, The Sixth Seal from the Biblical Revelation; Tenth Avatar and Kalki's Burning Sword are from Hindu beliefs of Kalki being the Tenth Avatar of Vishnu who will appear to end the world; and the name of the final two chapters, The Water Sun, is from the Aztec myth of the Five Suns, or eras, in which each era ends with some sort of a catastrophe. The Fourth Sun (also known as Water Sun) ends with a great flood.

#destiny 2 #season of the deep #titan #lore vibing #long post #listen. i've been re-reading this lore book for the past 4 years to live vicariously through it with the lack of titan content #getting something. ANYTHING. about titan now is a personal gift to me in particular. i've wanted it since vanilla #to know they had stuff planned but had to scrap it is so painful to me. and then they never had time to go back to it #perhaps this is the content that was supposed to drop + obviously updated stuff that's relevant to us now #i'm getting dangerously overhyped for this but i can't help it #fave planet fave vibes fave apocalyptic story. so so so so glad it's returning and that we're getting so (hehe) deep into it #we'll see titan's ocean..... man.

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