Close-up view of the Pewabic mosaic designed by Mary Chase Perry Stratton at the Griswold St. entrance of the Union Guardian Building. The building is also known as the Guardian Building and the Union Trust Building. Medallions underneath the winged figure symbolize industry, agriculture and transportation. Stamped on back: "Grossman Knowling Lehr, 400 Marquette Bldg., Detroit, Michigan. File number 63." Handwritten on back: "Griswold St. entrance."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

The Guardian Building in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA

Originally called the Union Trust Building. It has 40 floors and serves as county headquarters.

Opened in March 1929.

Architect: Wirt C. Rowland

Photographs by Leandro Martins Photography. Used with permission.

My sweet wife,

In the sunlight or the shadow of the night, my mind is consumed by you. Every beat of my heart is an echo of your name. My love, my fire, my only reason to exist. I feel like the guardian dragon of our love, ready to burn anyone who dares to look at you inappropriately.

I see you as my most precious jewel, something so rare and sublime that the world does not deserve to contemplate. The jealousy that inflames my being is like uncontrollable flames, burning to protect what is mine. I promise to watch over you, protect you and destroy anyone who tries to steal a fragment of our love.

No obstacle, no power in the world or beyond can separate us. My love for you transcends even death, and if anyone dares to try to separate us, your existence will become a memory that not even the seven kingdoms can erase.

(Y/N), I would do anything for you. I would pluck stars from the sky, build mountains, dive into the deepest abyss if it brought you happiness. The whole world bows before our union, for nothing is more powerful than the love I have for you.

The gods have intertwined us inextricably, and any attempt to separate would be like tearing my own soul from my body. I could not bear the thought of a world where you were not present, and serious consequences would be taken to ensure that this never happens.

Don't you even dare to consider the possibility of abandoning me, because the world I built for both of us is inviolable and it suffers the consequences. We are connected by the strongest ties that exist, and I will never allow them to be undone. Always remember: our eternity is sealed by blood and love.

With eternal love,

Maegor Taegaryen.

I don't think I've ever really spoken in depth about how much I love Lauriam as a character, which is honestly a crime because out of all the Union Leaders I'd probably have to crown him as my number one favorite.

I love Lauriam not only as a character (pink, sibling plotline) but also as an example of how much prequels can recontextualize an entire character. While Ventus is also an example of this, I think we all knew that he probably had some sort of messed up past that landed him in the clutches of Old Man Xehanort. Marluxia, on the other hand, had absolute zero background to infer from his screentime. He was the villain, you're not really meant to think too hard about him and how he became who he is because he sucks and you hate him.

I don't think there were many people chomping at the bit wanting to get info about his past. Like, it would've been cool to get, but I don't think a background for Marluxia was necessary for the story at that point in time. His role was to establish the organization as a threat to Sora and the other guardians, and that was pretty much the extent of it.

And then Union X happened, and Lauriam entered stage right into a tragedy where his fate was already sealed. You look at Lauriam with his polite little smiles and cute little chibi animations and immediately think "what is this man up to" because you are already primed to distrust him on principle due to COM. Did not help his case that he was introduced in the cutscene immediately following the death of Strelitzia, painting a huge target on his back. Fandom reaction was hostile towards him before he was even fully on screen. Occam's Razor, the most obvious answer is the correct one. Lauriam is the obvious suspect because of his actions in the future, so he must be the killer. Literally him just existing in a scene caused more ire to build against him.

But then the Shift Pride cutscene happened. Then it was revealed that Lauriam and Strelitzia -the girl who so many thought he killed- were siblings, and that he was quite worried for her wellbeing, actually.

Every cutscene a clearer picture of who Lauriam is a person was painted, and soon you stopped looking at him with distrust, and it's replaced with the question of "What happened to you?". What happened that caused Lauriam, someone who has been shown to care deeply and immensely about the people he loves, someone who is willing to do anything for those people, become Marluxia? It became increasingly obvious that they were incredibly different people, even though Marluxia came from Lauriam.

And this isn't to say that there was no connection between the two. Lauriam seemed to be incredibly self-confident in his abilities, enough to be pretty steadfast in his resolve to square up with goddamn Maleficent of all people (even if he did get his ass kicked). There's also his very intense anger, as seen in the cutscene where Ventus confesses to being the reason why Strelitzia "vanished", as well as a bit in the scene where he's at Ventus's bedside.

This is all to say that Lauriam was not a necessary addition to the khux cast, he very well could've been swapped with a random new character and the plot probably would've worked fine, all things considered. But because it's Lauriam -the somebody of a character that has already been established to be a prick- it gives his whole plotline a hell of a lot more punch. If it was a new character, people probably wouldn't have been as distrusting of him right of the bat, the sibling plotline would be sweet, but because it's Lauriam and we know how he ends up in the future, it becomes a hell of a lot more tragic. How did the change happen? He's tragic because we know that whatever he does will lead to the outcome of him losing his heart and falling to darkness, something that is essentially the exact antithesis of the keyblade wielder mission statement.

Lauriam is someone who was made to struggle against the destiny that was written out for him with a neat pen and ink, and someone who was doomed to fail in every regard. He could not save his sister, he could not defeat Maleficent, he could not help Ventus, he could not keep his memories when thrown into the future. He couldn't do anything about it.

I realize this is all rounding back around to "the inherent tragedy of prequels" but it's true.

...and yeah that's basically it. I have a lot more thoughts about this guy but I feel like if I write anymore I'm just gonna sound completely incomprehensible bc I'm very tired. Thanks for reading, and don't forget to sparkle on

commies are catching strays over calling Biden fascist. Biden is a liberal, fascism is a political ideology, etc.

the commie line on fascism is that it is capitalism in crisis and the capitalist use the weight of the state and markets to bring working class to heel to quick fix the economy.

We see this with Biden busting the rail strike, the never ending waves of layoffs which coincide with increased interest in unionization, states legalizing & encouraging child labor, the rise in prison labor, the contradiction between the necessity of undocumented labor and build the wall — which as we’ve seen multiple times over recently Biden has the same line on this as far rightists (“he was an illegal”; offering to build the wall and other border measures per republican doctrine). the economy is booming according to gdp (the capitalist measuring stick of economic success) but nobody can afford groceries.

the genocide in gaza is a manifestation of this as well. much has been written on israel and the us not having a game plan. there’s no strategic victory just death and destruction for its own sake. all while weapons manufacturers get paid.

the proxy war with russia and posturing toward china hints to this as well; both challengers in some way to us imperialism. But we see the weakness exposed bc the comedian president who used to get gold saucers is now begging for scraps. can’t fund ukraine an israel infinitely.

yemen and ansarallah also expose how stretched the empire is when it seized 3 ships back in october, along with the hilarious fallout of the initial phase of prosperity guardian and the fact that the us has yet to open the red sea.

and insofar as liberalism is opposed to fascism… well we won’t look too closely at the transfer of power in Germany say around january 1933. nor how obama expanded repressive state apparatuses like surveillance, militarized police, unilateral presidential powers, setting a public precedent of extrajudicially killing us citizens and handing it off peacefully to trump, who is evidently a unique existential threat to democracy. nor how in every fascist regime the liberals, who are capitalists, sell out the commies, who are anti capitalists, to the fascists, who are capitalists.

i love that a large part of oliver's character arc is coming to love ni no kuni over time until the journey is no longer only about saving his mother to him but about defeating shadar. and i will forever be pissed that level 5 got rid of most of it in wotww. btw.

accidentally wrote an essay about this so i'm putting it under a read more

they didn't get rid of all of it. he has his soulsnare moment. he. uh. i'll be completely honest with you i'm entirely blanking on ANY other moments. like obviously he willingly sacrifices himself to defeat shadar but that's like the culmination not the build up. um. what other. uh.

okay anyway in dotdd you can SEE him get more attached to ni no kuni. literally the first cutscene you see of him after gateway (the deleted ghibli scene. you can see it in the casino in wotww) is him staring at the world in awe. it's emphasised. there's a zoom in on his face. in wotww he has a moment like this but it's a lot less focused on oliver's reaction and more on showing You the beauty of it. (the ghibli scene is prettier anyway...)

in general dotdd does a much better job of showing oliver falling in love with the world and its inhabitants. listen i am the fairyground's #1 fan but in the arc it replaces there's a scene where swaine protects esther, and then immediately after they start fighting again, and oliver starts laughing because he's FOND OF THEM. they're FRIENDS. it does a much better job of showing the party's bonds with each other than the fairyground does. (in a perfect world we would have both the fairyground and del mokahl.)

it's even little thingsss. stuff like swaine directly saying he wants to go with oliver. the tombstone trail where oliver makes friends with a ghost and cries when she disappears. it's so much more obvious that he's getting more and more attached.

and then in xanadu when they discover that mornstar's stones are scattered and they have to find them there's a TURNING POINT. where oliver steps forward and stubbornly says well i don't care that it seems almost impossible. there's a CHANCE. we can do this. think of everyone who's out there suffering we have to TRY. otherwise what was the point of everything we've done up until now? (foreshadowing for his soulsnare moment!) and he doesn't mention alicia ONCE.

in wotww the only stone guardian where you clearly help someone in need is aapep, where you help ali and yasmina break their curse. in dotdd it's all three - oliver promises to look after grey/cerboreas for his past owner, and also, um, organises a union during crossbones. it's just a lot more obvious that oliver wants to help people. he had an ulterior motive for coming here but now he genuinely wants to help and it's OBVIOUS.

and then oliver gets really fucking angry at shadar in perdida. he gets more pissed off in general in dotdd (yet another trait i wish wotww oliver had...) but specifically at shadar he starts shouting about it to the sky. he gets PISSED. it's set off by them discovering a girl who had a piece of her heart stolen by shadar due to her grandmother, on purpose. oliver shouts to the sky that he is "going to SAVE that little girl!"

even the SOULSNARE isn't only about alicia! esther and swaine get trapped in there too and oliver tries to run directly into the poison marshes HIMSELF to get them back and is only stopped by drippy who rightfully points out that he will DIE.

when he finally frees the souls in the soulsnare he has the wotww moment of "everything we've done up until now was for nothing" and then is reminded of everything they've done, and his reason for fighting CHANGES ENTIRELY!!! and it changes in wotww as well - this is the most important part of oliver's arc, after all - but in dotdd. it's already changed. they don't even need the pea montage because you already know how much oliver loves this place.

and then he SACRIFICES HIS LIFE FOR IT!!!!!!! he came here to save his mother - remember, he SAID NO when drippy asked the first time, until he learned about alicia. but he's become so attached and in love with ni no kuni that he heads into a battle he knows he's not coming back from to keep it safe. it drives me NUTS. this world isn't his own and he's killing himself for it because he adores it so much. it's [SCREAMING]

and then in wotww they get rid of almost all of this and oliver is still a fantastic fucking character. they got rid of all of his anger and most of his tears and he's still phenomenal. isn't that crazy. like dotdd oliver is superior but wotww oliver is still really good is the thing

god. anyway. this is your sign to play dotdd. please. please. please. pl

This is the guy behind charging Palestinians thousands of dollars to flee Gaza. It isn't 5000$ right now though, it's actually 10,000$

His name is Ibrahim Arjani 🧵

By the way, all what I'm talking about is only available in Arabic. I only translated and summarised from another thread that was in Arabic.

Hala is part of Organi Group whose CEO would be Ibrahim Arjani. He is really close to the current regime and has a complicated history.

Ibrahim Arjani was born in northern Sinai to the Tarabin tribe. His father is called Gom'a Arjani from the Tarabin tribe. His mother is Sabiha Sha'er who is from Gaza and he was actually raised with her in Khan Younis before moving back to Sinai.

In 2008, some Police officers clashed with the Bedouins of northern Sinai in suspicion of involvement in the 2004 and 2005 bombings and 3 guys from the Tarabin Bedouin were killed. Those officers left their bodies beside a trash can and no investigation was done regarding this.

Arjani was released in 2010. Now we jump to May 2014, when Sisi met up with Ibrahim Arjani (who appeared as the sheikh of the Tarabin tribe) as part of his campaign during the 2014 elections. He even dressed him in the Sinai abaya.

From here, the relationship between him and Sisi starts He founded the Misr Sinai company for investment which he became its CEO with the help of the military. This company's capital is HUGE with the military contributing to it by 51% while the other 49% are Sinai businessmen

This company's name was later changed to Organi group and he was involved in hundreds of projects with Sisi outside of Sinai.

And in exchange, Sisi helped him form his own armed militia in Sinai. In 2015, Arjani founded Sinai Tribes Union which tens of Sinai tribes are involved in. And part of this Sinai Tribes Union is the Knights of Al-Haytham brigade which serves the interests of Arjani.

And during the Sinai insurgency, these militants helped the Egyptian army and were accused by Sinai for Human Rights of using 37 schools in Sinai as military bases and destroying 59 more schools and there is actually a report by The Guardian about this. theguardian.com/world/2023/mar…

And as a side note, this isn't the only thing they did in Sinai. There was almost no media coverage of what was happening in Sinai as it was hidden from the public so it's been hard to determine the toll on civilians there. But sometimes, vids were leaked:

As well as many testimonies and like hundreds of videos and info leaked by Sinai for Human Rights but it really needs a whole other thread. Sinai for Human Rights is the one who revealed that refugee camp they were building as well.

In any case in 2014 after the aggression on Gaza, the only company that obtained authorization to enter building materials into Gaza during the reconstruction was the Organi group and they monopolized this and became the biggest beneficiary in Gaza out of this aggression.

Zvi Bar'el, a political analyst for Haaretz, said that the main beneficiary from rebuilding Gaza is the Organi group and that Egypt's monopoly benefits Israel's policies. He also said that Arjani does this on behalf of the Egyptian gov't so they don't "get their hands dirty."

Arjani basically controls all the crossings between Sinai and Palestine and Israel. There were even instances of him using these crossings to smuggle drugs and for human trafficking, according to one of the sheikhs in Sinai.

And on the 7th of November 2023, Resolution No. 234 was published on the official Gazette appointing Arjani as a member of the National Authority for the Development of the Sinai Peninsula which means Arjani's control of ALL of Sinai was complete.

This is the same Sinai whose people were displaced and God knows what else happened there because of the heavy media blackout during the insurgency.

Anyway after all of this, the Egyptian media wants us to believe that he is just a businessman. Does this look like "just a businessman" to you? This is one of the reasons why many Egyptians call him the Hemedti of Egypt.

They're so heavily armed from the gov't. Absolutely doesn't look like he just formed his own militias in Sinai with the help of the gov't or anything.

He’ll do anything but stop throwing money and funs at israel, or pulling our troops from israel

(The only win here is his losses in primaries is clearly scaring the hell out of him)

Two women ... locked themselves to a massive drill, stopping work on a controversial oil pipeline project. One of the women, Rose Abramoff is believed to be the first American climate scientist to risk a felony in an act of climate protest against fossil fuel projects. “The stakes are so high,” Abramoff told the Guardian. “We cannot build this pipeline and meet our climate goals.” The Mountain Valley Pipeline would stretch 300 miles across West Virginia and Virginia, transporting liquified shale gas. The US supreme court made a ruling in July to allow construction to resume on the $6.6bn pipeline, which has been championed by Senator Joe Manchin. According to Scientist Rebellion, over two dozen work stoppages such as lockdowns, rallies and walk-ons have taken place at the Mountain Valley pipeline construction site in the past two months. ... Abramoff has a long history of climate activism. ... In December of last year, Abramoff interrupted the American Geophysical Union meeting, calling on fellow scientists to join her in climate activism. In response, she was expelled from the conference and lost her job. ... For Abramoff, the risk of going to prison is scary, but the alternative is unthinkable: “We can’t keep expanding fossil fuels. It just can’t happen.”

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Greetings Pope Francis Xi Jinping Mohammed VI Cyril Ramaphosa Abiy Ahmed Olaf Scholz Alain Berset Thomas Müeller Oliver Mintzlaff African Union Arab League,

Biology Magic: As a Fallen Angel of his level he can use his energy to manipulate the biological components of lesser beings and control their internal processes as a result. (Telepathy and Fifth Heaven Brain)

Luciferianism New Religion Buddhism-Confucianism Greco-Grigori Yoruba: Lucifer as God, Oversoul 6 Fallen Archangels (not Satan), Satanel and Oversoul 5 Lesser Satans (The Grigori) (not affiliated with Satan), Syncretism on Obatala; Caishen; Inari; Eros; and Satanel, Gadreel as Guardian Angel, Syncretism on Azazel and Gadreel, Change Demi-god/Legacy Powers to Angel Powers to Develop your wings. Asian-Pacific Ancestry for Yoruban Zodiac Signs. For example, I am building Gastronomy-Health Insurance Angels for Shango's Heaven to help develop the Oyo Royal Farm.

Olaf, Luciferianism Grigori Anglo-Saxon is possible.

Regards,

Adrian Blake-Trotman

Nighttime view of Union Guardian Trust Building. Automobiles on street in foreground. Printed on front: "638, Union Guardian Trust Bldg. by illumination, Detroit, Mich." Printed on back: "Metrocraft, Everett, Mass. Made by Metropolitan, Everett, Mass. Pub. by United News Co., Detroit, Mich." Handwritten on back: "Good morning, Sis. I wonder if your [sic] up yet, it's 8:00. Just think you can sleep long tomorrow morning. What do you know we went for a walk last night at 11:45 p.m. My mother-in-law and May and I. Boy we went shopping yesterday in these big stores there [sic] nothing like ours. I'll write tomorrow. Love, Irene." Card is postmarked August, 1943.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

The Guardian Building in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA

Originally called the Union Trust Building. It has 40 floors and serves as county headquarters.

Opened in March 1929.

Architect: Wirt C. Rowland

Photographs by Leandro Martins Photography. Used with permission.

Capricorn ♑ - The Goat 🐐

Element - Earth 🌎

Modality - Cardinal

Ruler - Saturn

"Feminine"

☀🌙☿♀♂

Where's Capricorn in your chart?

I have asteroid Karma in Capricorn 8th House.

Do the images resonate with your Taurus placement(s)?

#Capricorn you are the overachiever of the zodiac. Ambitious and disciplined, you set realistic goals and methodically work your way to the top. You are pragmatic architects of your own success. You are not afraid of hard work and are very strategic with devising plans and implementing them.

Capricorn, you can be a stoic guardian of your emotions. Though you may not wear your heart on your sleeve, you harbor a depth of feeling beneath your composed exterior. Being an emotional fortresses is a specialty of yours, and you approach relationships with a commitment similar to your career ambitions.

Strategic thinkers, Capricorns carefully choose their words and plan their conversations. No fluff, just straightforward and calculated communication that gets the job done. Expect meetings to be efficient and emails to be clear and concise.

Love for Capricorn is serious business. You are drawn to stability, commitment, and long-term partnerships. Forget the grand gestures; you express love through loyalty and reliability. In relationships, you often present yourselves as architects of lasting unions, building connections that withstand the tests of time.

Capricorn you pursue your desires with a methodical approach. You are action-takers that are driven by ambition and a relentless work ethic. Whether conquering professional goals or personal challenges, you approach every task with determination and an eye on the prize.

Me and my friend were talking about Warframe earlier, and I realized why Fortuna feels so weird to me from a storytelling perspective compared to Cetus and Deimos: There’s basically nothing going on that’s not directly linked to the enemy faction.

Take Cetus for example: obviously the Grineer are an important threat, but they’ve got a ton going on outside of that. The culture of Cetus had existed for ages before the Grineer showed up, and you can tell. It’s a charming congregation of merchants and hucksters assembled around and nourished by a long-forgotten Orokin meat tower, and haunted every night by the threat of the Eidolons: shattered wandering remains of a godlike sentient who was splintered apart by the city’s guardian many centuries ago. Here are their factions:

Ostrons: The people of Cetus, you earn standing with them by providing them food and resources, saving local endangered species, and by protecting Cetus from the encroaching threat of the Grineer in bounty operations provided by Konzu

Quills: Mysterious unseen monastic order who provide the Tenno operators with amps for their void powers. Their motives are very obscure, but you earn standing with them by slaying the enormous Sentient Eidolons which roam the plains at night, implying they’re more concerned with more mystical/cosmic threats than the lowly Grineer

As for Deimos: obviously the Infestation is massively important to its story, but it also has the aspect of who the Entratis are and were. The interfamilial drama and history of these people, the highs and lows of their technological advancement, the mysteries behind the one absent Entrati behind the curtain of much of Warframe’s lore and how his shadow haunts the remaining family members, all of these come together to make a very interesting story that’s almost entirely separate from the hordes of infested roaming outside the Necralisk. Here are its factions:

Entrati: The aforementioned formerly-Orokin family who inhabit the Necralisk, you gain standing with them by finding resources with which Father and can fortify their home, bringing in wildlife to be studied/protected by Son and Daughter, collecting minerals for Otak to do… something with, and culling off hordes of the Infested in missions provided by Mother in order to keep their numbers under control before Deimos becomes completely overrun

Necraloid: Not exactly a traditional faction considering it has exactly 1 member (or 2 depending on how you look at it, possibly 3), but an ingame one nonetheless, the Cephalon Loid aids the Operator in building and upgrading their own personal Necramechs, ancient weapons used before the creation of the first Warframes, relics of a bygone era whose blueprints are lost to all but Loid and Father and whose parts can only be found on Deimos’ Cambion Drift. You gain standing with this faction by plumbing the depths of old subterranean Entrati ruins and finding the forgotten technological artifacts sealed within.

Then there’s Fortuna. The people of Fortuna are called the Solaris, they’re wage slaves to the Corpus who’re basically trapped in an endless feedback loop of “Work to pay off debts to Corpus, get injured/old/disabled/sick meaning you aren’t able to work anymore, buy mechanical replacements from Corpus so you can keep working, now in more debt to Corpus, work to pay off debts to Corpus-” and the cycle continues. I think the story of the Solaris is definitely interesting, realistic, and easy to sympathize with, and the characters related to it are pretty likeable, but it bothers me that the Solaris have nothing going on with them except the Corpus. I mean it makes sense that that would be the case considering their situation, but it makes for a somewhat shallow story without much mystery to pull you in or culture to really dig into. Like think of the factions of Fortuna:

Solaris United: A people’s rebellion/union against the Corpus secretly led by Eudico with close help from The Business. You gain standing by providing mechanical parts and minerals to ease the Solaris’ repair and maintenance costs, protecting endangered species on the Orb Vallis, paying off the peoples’ hefty debt bonds (essentially saving they and their families lives), and conducting coups against the Corpus directed by Eudico.

Vox Solaris: A people’s rebellion/union against the Corpus secretly led by Eudico with close help from The Business… again…except more secret and exclusive I guess? It leans more towards the rebellion side than the union side and it’s also helped by the Quill contact Little Duck. You earn standing by killing the Corpus… again… but this time the Corpus in question need to be standing in specific buildings, or be one of two of the Orbs (big Corpus robot bosses).

The Ventkids: Children living together in the vents of Fortuna because their parents died working for the Corpus. You earn standing with them by doing skateboard tricks. They don’t really have much plot importance and are more there just for fun, but they do have a side quest associated with them where the primary antagonists are, again, the Corpus.

Do you see what I mean? While Cetus’ main faction focuses on stopping the Grineer, their special faction focuses on helping you kill the otherworldly alien abominations that are the Eidolons (who are entirely separate from the Grineer).

While Deimos’ main faction focuses on stopping the Infestation, their special faction focuses on helping you recover lost Entrati artifacts in the Isolation Vaults (you still fight the infestation, but they’re not the main focus).

Meanwhile Fortuna’s main faction focuses on stopping the Corpus, and their special faction focuses on stopping the Corpus again.

You might say “But Vox Solaris is about killing the Orbs more than anything” which is true, but unlike the Eidolons and their mysterious origins or the Iso Vaults and their Entrati history, the Orbs are literally just big Corpus robots. Wider lore-wise they’re essentially just like the Jackals, and the Hyenas, and the Raptors, and the Ambulases, and the Razorbacks, and the Zanukas, and all the other Corpus robots we’ve fought before, only this time they’re tougher, chattier, and more spherical.

Or you might say “Well what about Deck 12? That’s deeper lore concerning the Solaris and the Orbs” well yeah I like that lore, but it only happened a couple years ago, effects like 3 surviving characters, and is all still 100% centered around the Corpus, nothing impacts the plot and lore of Fortuna except the Corpus, literally everything revolves around them.

The culture of the Solaris? Well they’ve got a sick song and fun Space-Australian accents, but their culture isn’t nearly as interesting or noticeably rich as the Ostrons or Entratis. Hell, the only reason they as a culture exist at all is because the Corpus grabbed everyone with hefty amounts of debt to their name and shoved them together to all work in one area, there’s a good chance none of these people would’ve ever met each other or become Australian at all without being forcibly put there by a greater power (just like real Australians). The one singular non-Corpus aspect of Fortunian life is the fact that the Orokin pumped twelve billion tons of liquid coolant into the mantle of Venus in order to cool it down for habitation then promptly all got murdered before their plans were done, leaving the planet fraught with miniature coolant volcanoes and Orokin towers overflowing with the stuff, leaving viscous probably-toxic lakes filled with cleaner robots everywhere. Does the coolant matter to the culture of Fortuna? Yes, it’s one of the reasons why the Corpus are so interested in this area in the first place, doing shit with the coolant is presumably one of the most prevalent jobs the Solaris perform, and the coolant plays a major role in the ecosystem and climate of the Orb Vallis. Does it have any more lore, backstory, or purpose beyond what I just described? Not an ounce.

Anyways I realize now how long and ranty this post got so I’ll cut it off here. I just wanna say I do love Fortuna and the Solaris, but I really wish they got more depth and lore to them than what they ended up with.

parent! Freddy x child! Reader headcannons

First off, you're adopted by him.

Straight up, only wants the absolute best for you.

If you're not feeling so peachy, he'll sit down and will actually listen to you. He doesn't interrupt and will, for your sake, hold back that primal urge to fight or kill whoever or whatever made you feel that way.

I headcannon him to have had a deadbeat dad growing up, so he tries his hardest to be NOTHING like him.

Will always be open to cuddling you. When your happy, sad, scared or just wanna cuddle for the heck of it, he is down for it.

If Leon offers to help, he doesn't immediately turn him down, instead he tests the waters to see if it's a safe idea. Doesn't want anyone to kidnap, torture, rape or murder you.

If he knows you're near him, he tries to be as careful as possible, doesn't want you getting hurt or, god forbid, killed.

One time, he was fighting a pretty powerful Miramon and it had blasted a chunk off a building, and it was headed for you. But he was quick enough to catch it and hold it up long enough for you and the other bystanders to get to safety.

He'll always keep his problems away from you, but if you pry long or hard enough, he'll open up to you.

Once, he was taking a stroll through town with you when you met a member of the Union, it was Drew. Freddy was immediately apprehensive, he thought you wouldn't love him anymore.

But to his pleasant surprise, Drew only said "You really are a gentle soul." Before ruffling your hair somewhat and taking his leave.

If he adopted you prior to joining the Decree, he will practically BEG Sander for missions that don't include killing or torture, he wants you to have someone you can look up to as a father.

If he adopted you after joining, he tries to hide his body count. And if pressed about it, he avoids the subject altogether.

But if you do find out about his body count, you're petrified next time you see him, and he knows why.

He will ask you if you wanna go back to the adoption agency to see if there's a better family for you if you find out about his body count.

And if you said yes, his heart would be shattered into a million microscopic pieces. But he understands. After all: who in their right mind would WANT a murderer as a parent or guardian?

But if you said no, he will be confused as all hell.

He will keep asking if you're absolutely sure about your decision one way or another, and when he's certain you're sire about it, he goes through with it.

And even after you leave him, there's a void in his heart that could never be filled. To make matters worse, your new family constantly beats and harasses you.

He makes a beeline for the adoption agency to see where you went off to, and when he finds the place and learns that you're practically being tortured to death, he is furious.

He kills your new 'family' right in front of you, but this time, you don't mind.

STORY TIME!

You were being whipped with a belt and being tased at the same time at maximum voltage. You were going to die if someone didn't save you. And to think, it was all because of some kind of luck. As you prayed for someone to help you, he came bursting into the room, eyes red with rage. He looks to you, with a mix of sorrow and self loathing. He only confirmed what you already knew. Before he left though, you ran up to him, and hugged his leg. He was visibly taken aback by this one gesture, but it touched his heart. And in that moment, you finally understood. Yes he's violent. Okay, very violent. But he wasn't evil. He was only looking for revenge on people who truly are evil, and it's those people that are subject to his feral rage.

He picked you up from the underarms and sat you on his forearm. You leaned into his chest and he grabbed a blanket that wasn't covered in blood or guts and wrapped you with it. After you got back to his apartment, you were surprised to see that he had kept your room in tact. He really did miss you. He put in bed, tucked you in and laid his muzzle on your chest so you could pet him if you wanted. And the two of you fell asleep, then and there.

When it comes to affection, he shows it by cuddling you, obviously. Man's a cuddle bug.

He also likes to get you gifts, especially when you're interested in something.

So all-in-all, aside from the whole body count thing, great dad material. 8.5/10

Also there were 7 total murals with the last 3 obstructed at there are 7 total tears as depicted in the first mural and there are 4 Champions plus Zelda plus Rauru plus Ganon and that makes 7 and HAND SYMBOLISM with Link and Zelda and there is Clearly a connection between Rauru and the other incarnation of Zelda as they are both literally in the fucking shrines (They always say "WE bestow upon you this blessing") that give you shit and YET the recall ability is SEPARATE to ability of Rauru/Rauru's hand as bestowed to us by Zelda who may be ACROSS TIME because when we give the Master Sword we are in the SAME LOCATION and the Recall Rune on the Rauru hand GLOWS and IN ADDITION TO THAT why would The Upheaval both raise Hyrule Castle and ALSO the Zonai Sky Islands because wouldn't those be two opposing ambitions why would You as The Demon King want to also bring the Zonai and it's technology closer yet to the kingdom that doesn't like you AND Ganon corpse falls down into the Chasms so he doesn't NEED to go up so why are the Sky Islands also there Because first off we known Rauru communicated with Zelda but currently he is clearly dead and Ganoncorpse also spoke of Rauru placing his faith in Link THEREFORE the most logical solution to this inconsistency would be that it is a TIME LOOP that is organized by ZELDA (as I feared) and yet the evidence stacks even more when you look at the fucking LOGO and also there would then be a PARALLEL between Link/Zelda and Rauru/Zelda Incarnation because THE IMPRISONING WAR MURALS confirm that the Royal Bloodline is descended from a union between the Zonai of the heavens and a Hylian right and if we translate the runes on the two Dragons within HIRIGANA it becomes THE MEETING OF TWO LOVERS so the HANDS foreSHADOW the MEETING and REUNION through a TIMELOOP and temple of time seven sages the DECAY of the Gloom is the foil to the RECALL of Zelda because to make time move forward and corrupt and age would be in defiance of an attempt at recalling and timeloop and I KNOW THIS BECAUSE THAT DRAGON ISN'T NAYDRA it is GOLD SCRUFF that is just swimming around in the sky around The Great Sky Island the Hylia-damned Garden of TIME and WHAT were dragons before? OH they were SPIRITUAL GUARDIANS that represented the Golden Goddess near each important shrine so why not have a FOURTH to represent ZELDA/HYLIA near a SHRINE/IMPORTANT BUILDING dedicated the fourth aspect of the universe besides courage, wisdom, and power and that is Time and it is TEARS because the tears drop from the sky and ripple down below but then we REVERSE IT all BACK into the heavens and woah there is a seagull guy with goggles I gotta go talk to him now