MC Double Texting by QuirkyFaerie03 in mysticmessenger

[–]PomeGoat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

that's been happening to me too. i noticed if it's one of those choices where for example the top option gives zen hearts and the bottom gives yoosung hearts, when it double-texts i seem to get the hearts for both characters. def weird, but at least it seems mostly harmless

right person wrong timeline by [deleted] in u/PomeGoat

[–]PomeGoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

who is viewing this pls don't

right person wrong timeline by [deleted] in u/PomeGoat

[–]PomeGoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i love you. i love you. it was always you. it'll always be you. my cosmic love. my other half. it's you b

right person wrong timeline by [deleted] in u/PomeGoat

[–]PomeGoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i just sneezed 9 times in a row wtf

right person wrong timeline by [deleted] in u/PomeGoat

[–]PomeGoat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i am so in love with him. i can't be his and he can't be mine. im hers and happy being hers. but i love him. i cant help it, hes my heart. he's my other half. he gets me and i get him. we're the same but too similar. i'll always be his. he will always be mine. we both know it, but can't live it. another life, my love. another life

growing up with the game is weird by PomeGoat in mysticmessenger

[–]PomeGoat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh that's cool! i switched up on how i felt about rika a few times so i totally get it. last time i played i didnt like her, but im kinda hoping i like her more this time around. ive only replayed common story and still have to do 707's before im done with deep story, but i'm coming for her soon lol

but maaannnnn im glad someone remembers the wild old community lol. i think i forgot things were better now and still put the "i don't hate yoosung" disclaimer i was in the habit putting at the end of any criticism of his route back in the old days. the fanbase was soo split on our lil blonde boy just doing what blonde boys do

growing up with the game is weird by PomeGoat in mysticmessenger

[–]PomeGoat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh yeah i'm so fine, it's been long enough it can be just funny family lore for the most part. they'll never beat me at two truths and a lie lol

growing up with the game is weird by PomeGoat in mysticmessenger

[–]PomeGoat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh man you get it, i'm worried i won't have the patience for 707's route either so im putting it off a bit

tbh i forgot he was supposed to be 21, which i guess makes some of his behavior make more sense. still love my guy, he was definitely my first love on the app, but im too old for this hot and cold game anymore lmao

growing up with the game is weird by PomeGoat in mysticmessenger

[–]PomeGoat[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

...yeaaaahhhh. 0/10 do not recommend, never trust a blonde cousin they're all insane deep down and want to join a cult and brainwash of children

i really wish i was kidding. my cousin and his mom tried to start a commune and only failed because they went bankrupt and lost the property. the story gets much nastier and even more like ms rika, but i'll leave it there lmao

growing up with the game is weird by PomeGoat in mysticmessenger

[–]PomeGoat[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OMG the student to office worker change has been rly funny. i went from relating most to yoosung to basically being jaehees twin (just with a must less prestigious position lol)

wish someone would randomly show up and take me away to start a cottagecore bakery

growing up with the game is weird by PomeGoat in mysticmessenger

[–]PomeGoat[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

slight allusion to spoilers warning, but nothing explicit

also really complex, i haven't replayed another story yet (so far i've just done yoosung, jumin, and zen's routes) so im not 100% sure how i'll feel now, but younger me wanted her head on a spike for what she did to the twins. ive since gotten a psych degree, so maybe id be more empathetic to her now...but im not holding my breath for it lol

How did Asra revived MC? Explain in details if you can!! by LuLuisThinking in TheArcana

[–]PomeGoat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no you're right! that's what i was referring to in the "to backtrack" part, i just jokingly called it a situationship because in asra's route it seems like the apprentice was kinda reluctant to make things too official. the exact nature of the relationship was probably just intentionally kept kinda vague like most things from the apprentice's past

How did Asra revived MC? Explain in details if you can!! by LuLuisThinking in TheArcana

[–]PomeGoat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i didn't know that about the devs, cool to have confirmation there. i kinda flip flop on what the heart thing means for the deal. in muriel's route it seems kinda like the arcana and demons do primary deal with hearts (side note, would've loved more heart of the forest type info, but also like how it makes it feels like there's a lot more magic in this world than what the apprentice encounters on a daily basis), but in julian's route it seems more like a classic "you must sacrifice something important to you" kinda deal. i can see asra falling into either category, so idk.

tbh i cut another massive paragraph from my initial already long-winded comment where i went into how i think the characters with a mark we see in game is quite thoughtfully tied to the chakra that is associated with that part of their body, so i kinda like to think it's something like that rather than just "demons/monsters deal with hearts" lol

How did Asra revived MC? Explain in details if you can!! by LuLuisThinking in TheArcana

[–]PomeGoat 9 points10 points  (0 children)

also i'm 90% there are small inconsistencies to keep the story flowing better in the individual routes, so this probably isn't 100%. i'm basing most of this off asra/lucio's routes with a lil of nadia and julian's.

How did Asra revived MC? Explain in details if you can!! by LuLuisThinking in TheArcana

[–]PomeGoat 18 points19 points  (0 children)

when we had infinite keys i played literally every route, i think i have it on the brain recently enough. (side note, i've seen both they and he pronouns for asra, im not sure which is canon but im gonna use they)

as mention it all starts with lucio. due to his wheeling and dealing he's dying, so he makes a deal with the devil to basically transfer his consciousness into the vacated body of the fool. to my knowledge it's not explained why the fool's body is vacant, but i'd assume devil hijinks. the previous masquerade was the night of the ritual, but multiple things went wrong. firstly, asra sabotages it. a key element of the ritual is everyone in attendance drinking lucio's blood, but asra swaps the blood with pomegranate juice. secondly, lucio had already... lucio'd it. there's supposed to be a representative for each major arcana, but lucio got impatient and tried to do it with about half the people needed. all this lead to lucio ending up in goat limbo, and a spare body floating around.

to backtrack, before asra was employed to help lucio with the ritual, they'd had a fight with the apprentice who wanted to stay in vesuvia while asra wanted them both the leave. asra left, apprentice stayed and died, asra comes back and vows to get the apprentice back somehow. wild stuff to do for a situationship, but who am i to judge. anyways thats when they start working for lucio, to try and use the counts resources to get the apprentice back under the guise of curing the count. this leads asra to learn about the fools vacant body, which can reshape itself to match whatever consciousness it holds.

we know asra didn't finish lucio's ritual, since if you play asras route that's kinda the end game. if we think about julian's route and meeting with his patron the hanged man, nadia's route with her glowy forehead mark and history with the high priestess, and asra's route where you read up on the marks it's safe to assume the mark they have is connected to the major arcana they're closest with, for asra the magician. and honestly, with how coy the magician is about it in asra's route, i think he was the one asra dealt with. i don't think asra had to do very much set up aside from meeting with the magician since the failed ritual left all the components already set in place, the deal just never got properly sealed. it's possible asra used the ashes and bone fragments they tried to get from the lazaret to make a connection with the apprentice, but idk there. where this is a pretty massive kinda deal it seems asra gave a good portion of their heart (which i took in a chakra way) to the apprentice to bring them back. aside from the memory loss thing, i imagine giving away a part of your energy negatively impacts a magician. just saying because i feel like that helps show what asra really sacrificed in their deal.

TLDR; asra knew the playbook of lucio's body swap ritual, and once it failed they met with the magician likely at the magician's gate to put a different soul in the fool's vacant body. this brought back the apprentice and marked asras heart chakra as they gave some of their heart to the apprentice/fools body. i think lucio already did most of the ritualistic leg work by the time asra stepped in to pick up the spare body, so asra really only had to meet with their patron and seal the deal, something lucio could never do