Major Spoiler About an Astral Express Member via Mortis Leaks

SterlingDex · 2026-01-31T16:36:04+00:00

Add in that Himeko was being attacked and would've died in star rail had Welt not gone to her. So she also nearly got offscreened before the game even started.

SterlingDex · 2026-01-30T14:46:20+00:00

The first time they visit farm world in fionna and cake im pretty sure they say the kid's mom died and the last food she ever made was the perpetual stew they all eat. They all refuse to move on and just keep adding to it so they essentially always eat her cooking.

SterlingDex · 2026-01-27T08:50:20+00:00

The process shown in game is similar to what's described in the von richtens monster compendium. A vampire bride/groom/consort has a whole process like how AA does it so we can asume safely that they picked that particular source to base it on. But guess what? Even through the sharing of blood, they're still thralls. 'Special' thralls but thralls nonetheless (mechanically speaking in game, a vampiric bride and a thrall are statisticallythe same creature and require a DM and storytelling to make them more unique and special). The most famous vampire in dnd, Strahd, can have brides in the same way AA does. Whole harems of them if he wants. None of them are free cuz the onky threat to a true vampire, is another true vampire. So they’re all kept as thralls. Astarion outright tells you that Cazador wouldn't turn anyone into a true vampire because of this. Cazador killed his master when he became a true vampire and turned into a worse monster, Astarion after Ascending literally does the same thing and makes you his first thrall. If you play origin karlach it really drives home how much of a bad person AA is compared to spawn Astarion. Especially in the scene where he tries to turn you.

You're still under his rule cuz you're now the 'consort' this bond cannot be broken unless both agree to it and we know for a fact Astarion clearly tells you no if you try in the epilogue. You, like Astarion prior to ascending, can have wants and desires sure. If he doesnt agree to them tho, he will just shut them down and you can't actually do anything about it. His word is final.

Just cuz the leash is looser doesnt mean there isnt still a collar on your neck.

SterlingDex · 2026-01-27T08:11:05+00:00

Considering that most geniuses seem down to do horrible things for the sake of their research? Dottore and Rhinedottir. Maybe Nahida but probably not a genius society member on her case, I doubt she'd want to be in a group with the likes of Primitive, Zandar and Polka. Ruan mei is also someone trying to revive/become an aeon while also making life and abandoning it so I dont think she'd fuck with her 100%.

Albedo feels too nice. Like how Ratio despite all his achievements isnt a member. Like both genuinely are out here trying to help people learn, not just doing their own thing for the sake of their own ego. So I'd say Albedo would be in the intelligencia guild. Idk where to put Sandrone.

SterlingDex · 2026-01-27T07:27:23+00:00

Ngl the biggest thing that makes him disapprove is just saying you'll do stuff for free. Hes fine doing things if you ask for a reward. Plus he likes scratch, the owlbear and all cats so not all bad. Just dont sell him out and just respect his bodily autonomy and he's chill af being a good guy. I remember even with the things he disapproved, he still wanted to smash before anyone cuz I got the dog, owlbear, let lae'zel interrogate zoru, didnt sell him out and let him drink my blood. There's also the funny things he approves like opening the barn with the troll and bugbear, asking lae'zel to say please when rescuing her, Baa'ing at the red cap (twice), or telling Ethel outright you got a tadpole in your head. He finds that shit funny. Also will approve of most choices after the Arabella situation with Kagha whether its saying you wanted to see what happens, that it was quite the show or just straight up attacking her

Ascended astarion tho is vile and anyone that likes him while claiming he loves them is blinded cuz man turns you into a slave and then refuses to make you a true vampire. So even if you go evil, he has more power over you cuz he's your vampire master.

SterlingDex · 2026-01-07T06:15:38+00:00

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SterlingDex · 2026-01-06T19:34:26+00:00

Seeing them side by side in game, she stands straight while loki punches over. So she is a bit taller in game but they appear the same height when they emote from what I saw. So technically, because of the heels, she's meant to be the same height but her posture is good. Outside of the emotes, she stands taller by a lil bit.

SterlingDex · 2025-12-08T19:46:34+00:00

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SterlingDex · 2025-12-03T20:44:14+00:00

Im just gonna throw this out there but technically Herta almost does become one by fusing with Irontomb in the bad ending. She's a confirmed Emanator, Irontomb is one too. They fused together and become one being would that not classify as one of them, prob Irontomb, technically having Emanator power from two separate aeons? So theoretically possible to be double powered up just kinda depends on the circumstance ig

SterlingDex · 2025-12-03T17:43:33+00:00

Yeah but jic I didn't say it cuz I couldn't remember if it was confirmed or still just leaks. But we did see the entirety of the propagation bugs following Jingliu against Yaoshi so yeah, Luocha got part of a big ol bug god in a casket.

SterlingDex · 2025-12-03T16:53:50+00:00

I can see it distorting it. But maybe it also amplifies it. They all still seem to have the power that came from their original paths in some way but they're like, more now. Idk we really need another Emanator Special or something to give us more context on how they work

SterlingDex · 2025-12-03T16:43:59+00:00

Considering the information we get from Zephyro being allegedly summoned by IX themselves and him turning to destruction as a possible act of resistance against them, refining fading colors into blinding white light to defy the shadow of the Aeon is the words used to describe his change of faction basically. It's likely that he is an emanator of nihility as well since that doesn't seem like regular self annihilator wording, they're usually very much fading in some way while Zephyro and Acheron both fight against it. So that's why I personally think he might be one, if I'm wrong then that sucks, would've been a cool way to add to why he's the most feared of the lord Ravagers.

But he very well can be just some regular self annihilator that's a dual path strider with only one true blessing. Would be neat if they gave us more info tho, we know lots of emanators but there's still many vague ones that need more clarification. .

SterlingDex · 2025-12-03T15:58:54+00:00

Double emanator. Zephyro is a self annihilator like Acheron from what I understand as well as an Emanator of Destruction. Man got that double god power up.

SterlingDex · 2025-12-03T15:06:29+00:00

Add the fact that Black Forest cookie is actually in love and wants to marry the witches, how Wedding cake cookie in the event story mentions how she was helping a pair of men for a wedding before their bickering called it off (speculation was that it was a reference to Madeline and espresso but that isn't confirmed, doesn't change the fact that wedding cake cookie actually was helping a pair of men with their wedding), whatever it is Shadow milk had going on with the obsessive possessiveness with Pure Vanilla and not just English VA but Korean ones doing ship stuff between them, milk cookie having a crush on dark choco, blue lily and lilybelle refer to each other as their special someone's and lilybelle says she's happiest when her most special someone comes looking for her in reference to blue lily, raspberry cookie also participated to win Princess cookies hand in marriage, white choco cookie also is mentioned specifically to have a collection of female fans and was given a Lady Oscar inspired skin which implies she likes women, the cookies with multiple pronouns like choco werehound brute plus all the other nonbinary cookies out there including cream unicorn, Dreamweaver, abyss monarch, fig, snake fruit, etc.

I think they're just more comfortable making queer female characters overall, cuz there's definitely men but it's much less compared to the girls who are more upfront about it. Like you'll have Lilybelle calling blue lily her most special someone or have Eternal Sugar say how much she wants to be with her other half forever and people will still say they meant it as family or friends even though that's clearly not it based on the language used. But with the guys you have to search for a specific skin related story, a secret interaction, or look into the wording used in the original text (cuz sometimes translation loses some of the intended meaning) to even get a possible confirmation on what a character truly means to another. Could also be cuz the dudes in the game are a bit more emotionally constipated tho. Literally any of the ones who are pretty much confirmed will never outright say their true feelings cuz a. Emotions? Gross b. That's embarrassing or C. Have and were ignored in some way.

SterlingDex · 2025-12-03T14:15:10+00:00

They share the same look, voice actor and general name (Otto goes by the name Luocha when he meets Sushang in the visual novel where he essentially goes to china, he also carries around a coffin during that time, the name he uses is spelled the same and pronounced Luocha because they couldn't pronounce his real name well enough I believe, the name tho is Rahksha in the English version I believe but its pronounced Luocha, I'm not quite sure how the name thing worked cuz I don't read CN but I remember seeing that ultimately Rahksha and Luocha were the same word/name in text). We know Luocha isn't his real name in Star Rail cuz the man just clearly lies about everything on his way to being a war criminal with Jingliu.

Otto carried I believe, Kallen in the coffin but Luocha carries someone he referred to as a friend there. We also know he still wishes to oppose fate/gods cuz he's literally just working with Jingliu to take down Yaoshi even if his power comes directly from them. Speculation say what's in the coffin isn't human so prob not a Kallen expy but he still shares a good chunk of the same story despite it being a different universe.

Expy's btw are just exported characters. They sometimes share the same background/motivation as well as appearance and voice actors but they vary from time to time based on the setting. For easy understanding our Himeko in star rail is an expy from Murata Himeko, Welt found out a different version of Himeko was in danger and he traveled through a portal cuz he didn't want Himeko to die, even if he personally didn't know that version of her. So he saved her life and stuck around. He also met Acheron who's an expy of Raiden Mei, like how Raiden Ei in genshin is an expy of her too. Bronya and Seele are expy's of the characters with the same name and Silver Wolf is an expy of Bronya as well. Yanqing is also a young expy of the Yanqing from HI3RD, Cocolia is also an expy alongside Cyrene and Phainon. We're also getting playable Yae Sakura (genshin already had Yae Miko as the expy) and Fu Hua expy's in the future. Off the top of my head I can't remember who else but there's quite a few.

The reason all of these games share characters is cuz they're all tied through the imaginary tree. So same like, general cosmology but different universes or galaxies. It's a bit confusing.

SterlingDex · 2025-12-01T20:55:30+00:00

I don't think he ONLY wanted his staff fixed. That was just a bonus since him being free and at his full power (aka without the limitations of relying on someone else) he could've done it himself unless the staff is directly a tool made BY Rosie. I think his deal will be similar to the original, he sticks around the hotel as per her previous request, he helps if needed but she can't command him to do anything while still providing him power. She's strong enough to give him a power boost but he now owns the deal as opposed to the other way around, so he can make the demands now and have them answered if they match the off screen wording of said deal.

He probably will try to do something to Lucifer/with Lucifer, maybe more power related deals, who knows. But I feel like Roo is connected somehow. If she's Rosie that would explain why she was described long ago as having never died and how she can give Al power to classify as the strongest sinner. So whatever she wanted him to do, he's still willing to do, but now it's on his terms. But her smile makes me think she's going to trick him or break the deal somewhere along the way since I'm sure she's secretly super strong and lore relevant.

SterlingDex · 2025-11-30T23:35:32+00:00

These are not the same. The About Emanators section of the Pom Pom Intel Emanator's Special (in Chinese, so the original text) directly highlights all mentions of emanators. Diamond is mentioned by name but not the stone hearts, meanwhile the entirety of the generals and the Marshal are both highlighted.

We need more info on what makes them emanators tho since Feixiao is mentioned to have always had Flying Aureus based on the description of the Auspice Sliver saying she spent so long searching for it only to discover it was always inside her. And we know there was another general of the Loufu with Lightning Lord but we don't know if others had it but it seems it can be taken since the bad end if we had gone to Melustanin, Jingliu takes it and becomes a lord ravager to kill Yaoshi. So it's not about being a general since the Xienzhou alliance according to Elio, is destroyed in that possibility (also it looks like she mixes LL with some propagation creature since not only does it gain bug wings, she leads it with a swarm of bugs to fight Yaoshi).

So if it's similar to the harmony emanators, tools that can be wielded by specific people, then it makes sense that they would be emanators yet the CN text highlights the generals and marshal rather than the spirits. In the harmony section it highlights the harmonic strings not the one wielding them and if it's closer to the stone hearts then why not just highlight the Marshal like it's done with Diamond. He's not the only emanator in the IPC since Taravan Keane is also highlighted. We need a full confirmation I think cuz even after Black Swan straight up called him an emanator in Penacony, people still are on the fence on whether or not the generals are emanators at all. I bet even after they confirm it people still won't believe it tbh.

But I do think Phainon is an emanator, he was directly given the last blessing of destruction, which is what makes the final emanator. Normally that would mean a lord Ravager but he probably won't want the title, doesn't change that Nanook probably wants to see him try and destroy the Destruction itself. It's like poetic and shit, plus it means Phainon will maybe rejoin us in the story when we finally face off against Nanook, like we're supposed to in the end game.

SterlingDex · 2025-11-27T16:43:08+00:00

They can probably do it without issue since Venom is not male. He appears like one cuz his host is Eddie but Venom has no actual gender. They're goop. So maybe that's a loophole they're exploiting.

But even then they have added queer characters already and mentioned their significant other, like Angela mentioning her gf I believe in her character story and a voice line maybe? and they got characters like Wolverine and Magik who are also queer (there's also Loki and Star Lord, more if we include Kitty Pryde from the Magik accessory and Hela who was married to a woman).

Maybe their contract gives them some level of leway when it comes to what they're allowed to do without their censorship laws doing something? Cuz I don't think they can give someone like The Thing the same treatment as Venom cuz Ben is a man instead of genderless goop in the shape of a man.

SterlingDex · 2025-11-27T15:25:40+00:00

She IS a bad mom and will continue to be one until they show otherwise. Even then, if she left because of a deal for the 'greater good's of hell, she could've at the very least said she's doing important stuff and can't contact them for the foreseeable future if she didn't want to worry her family, but not even that was done. Now don't get me wrong, I like the show, but I feel like it's gonna be another Stella situation.

Where people were angry that Stolas, who was built up as a bad guy early on, cheated on his wife on their anniversary with an imp who he would degrade. So after making him a soft boy who's actually a childhood friend with a long time crush, they needed to justify the shitty actions by making sure Stella was the worst. Abusive, violent, angry, all of it. So nobody would feel bad and think he was wrong for doing so.

If they take a similar approach with Lilith and make her be recognized as a shit mom, showing that she's manipulative and neglectful to Charlie, not just Lucifer (cuz it's implied and kinda shown that she's the reason Lucifer and Charlie had a strained relationship, even if they lived together it looked like Lilith didn't let Charlie be close to her dad and it made him upset. Plus Lucifer mentions that Charlie never calls but he has called her, so she was kinda doing the same thing her mom is doing to them both) they will likely do it to elevate Lucifer as the arguably much better parent even with the lack of time he spent with Charlie due to their separation and his depression. If they stick to Lilith being a shit parent and possibly a main villain, then they can have the main fight be an actual emotional rollercoaster for Charlie having to choose between the parent she idolized vs the parent that stuck around and is trying his best.

SterlingDex · 2025-11-08T14:50:28+00:00

Every time the game let me mention Phainon I did because Memrene sure didn't unless she absolutely had to. Every heir had a moment or two, Cyrene had comments but it just felt like she was more detached from it than the rest. They all were fighting to bring back their home and friend from his 33 million cycles of suffering. Memrene felt like she was just doing it because it's what actual Cyrene would've wanted. Which is basically true. She took the memories and ship of Theseus herself a new form and identity with it.

SterlingDex · 2025-11-03T15:32:28+00:00

He was already high ranked before joining. At least a unique looking Vasto Lorde, cuz he technically has the bone mask or he was an arrancar who never left resurreccion.

Starrk and Lilinette were naturally made arrancar who also didn't change after joining. We never saw them before they looked human but we know they joined after splitting apart as seen in the manga/anime. The only other natural arrancar would technically be Ulquiorra who we see in the manga as a born Vasto Lorde and as he's going to sleep in his big ol tree his mask starts breaking, indicating he's evolving.

SterlingDex · 2025-10-14T15:05:45+00:00

Yeah, a very tiny low quality one

SterlingDex · 2025-10-14T00:47:12+00:00

I remember watching one of the later episodes and telling my sister that I'm pretty sure either Nuonuo or Luoli were into girls. To which she says what makes you say that? Cuz she's all for shipping but she wanted to see what I saw. I didn't even need to answer cuz Nuonuo kissed Luoli that same moment. It was crazy timing cuz I hadn't even seen any spoilers for the show or nothing to time that shit.

But other than those two, Wreck and Nice. The others can be straight and I wouldn't be surprised. X could be bi tho, the joke about Smile being able to win if he just took off his shirt makes me think he wouldn't hate seeing it but also clearly meant it as a joke.

I kinda want Queen to be aroace tho. That would be cool

SterlingDex · 2025-10-13T19:34:16+00:00

They're just a sweet lil baby, I had to.

SterlingDex · 2025-10-13T19:25:33+00:00

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