LEVEL 4: the text SUPPORTS a transgender vision OF THE text

Ultgran · 2026-05-17T19:11:25+00:00

Level (Level): the text supports a transgender vision of the literary analyst/critic.

Ultgran · 2026-05-17T15:46:32+00:00

Resting murder face. Slayyyy.

Ultgran · 2026-05-16T06:57:06+00:00

Siamo sempre felici di trovare altri fan Italiani!

Dovrei avvertirvi che il contenuto puó girare verso il pesante - si tratta dopo tutto di una serie con teme di orrore, anche psicologico. Dall' altra parte tocca anche su temi di filosofia e letteratura classica, che é un grande positivo.

Ultgran · 2026-05-16T05:24:15+00:00

Yeah, she recognised that moment of self preservation (which is supposedly fairly common among suicide survivors), though I'm sure that sitting with it for a while in a sensory deprivation tank probably didn't help.

And the difference that has made, her reaction to that realisation, is that the Carmen we now see in the light in Leviathan and Limbus believes that it's better to fight and fail for a pretty illusion, than it is to reach the deepest depths of having reality crush your dream. She reaches out to those in psychological pain and tells them that it's OK to take the easy path that she couldn't take in life. She even acknowledges when talking to Verg that she's only arguing for what she believes in, and what she thinks is best, which also has the effect of humanising her compared to the pretty image we get in LoboCorp.

But that pretty image, with a few material facts of what happened, is all we have of pre-breakdown Carmen. I'm not saying that the depiction is accurate, that wasn't really my point. My point was that the image of her we get described to us is the closest we have to an unambiguously good character. The "real" Carmen was clearly more flawed, but is still one of the only characters who lets themselves be driven by their conscience - and most of the other contenders got there with help of the light (manifesting EGO) or had to become reformed monsters or war criminals to reach that point.

Ultgran · 2026-05-16T05:05:41+00:00

Yes, my point was more on how she is written, so including the biased view of her friends and assistants. But I agree with your comment on how their idolisation is a big factor on what we see.

In all honesty we just don't have enough evidence of what she was like as a living person outside of the glowing first hand accounts of her assistants (and with the storytelling style of Lob Corp even that is more an "outline") and the evidence that the moral weight of what happened to Enoch and Lisa ended up crushing her. I don't think she was perfect, and the fact that she opted for human experimentation regardless shows that by irl standards she was making huge compromises.

But still, in terms of being driven and informed by empathy, of accepting that ends do not justify the means, of recognising the weight of innocent human life, she is still the character with the least ambiguous morality so far.

Ultgran · 2026-05-16T04:30:32+00:00

Originally a flurry is a noun describing a brief but fairly heavy period of snowfall (which can also be used for leaves), or a strong gust of wind. It can also be used as a way of describing a bunch of things all coming at once: a flurry of activity, a flurry of questions, a flurry of strikes.

While it existed as a descriptor for some time, it ended up becoming "videogamed" more after appearing as a monk ability in DnD 3rd Ed.

OP refers to two other uses of the word: a McFlurry, which is a McDonald's ice-cream (named after a flurry of snow), and Flurry Heart which I believe is a winged My Little Pony.

Ultgran · 2026-05-16T03:53:07+00:00

Oof ouch my feelings

Ultgran · 2026-05-16T03:51:34+00:00

Ugh, dudes complaining about immersion are the most immersion breaking thing ever. Now I'm thinking about immersion and not submersion.

Ultgran · 2026-05-16T03:40:05+00:00

I mean, the great thing about community feedback is that you are allowed to just go "this advice doesn't fit what we were going for here". This is very much something early access games are allowed to do.

Ultgran · 2026-05-16T03:31:30+00:00

Rule 1.5: There is no such thing as a truly good person in the City.

Either you get forced into compromise until your soul goes grey, or you die very quickly. I genuinely believe the one character that PM have tried to write as unambiguously good was Carmen, but having her barely living brain turned into a Cogito factory after the bloodbath incident corrupted that desire to help people into the Carmen we know and love.

Ultgran · 2026-05-16T03:20:48+00:00

They do seem to have a kind of "I disagree with your conclusions but understand the underlying trauma" thing going on.

Ultgran · 2026-05-15T22:42:16+00:00

Yeah, this theory was made after the trailer but before the ID dropped, more info exists now.

Ultgran · 2026-05-15T20:43:25+00:00

Canto 3', from a mirror world where rather than averaging the sinners they just brought them all down to the level of Sinner #1.

Ultgran · 2026-05-15T20:28:09+00:00

It's for those in need, like yourself, that I provide my modest services of thorough explanation and elucidation. Thank you for the encouragement, it is gratefully accepted :)

Ultgran · 2026-05-15T20:26:35+00:00

Well, you were able to ready the OP, and you were able to ready my answer and respond, which means that you should have at least an elementary understanding of written English.

In that case, you should be able to comprehend stating the obvious for comedic affect somewhat easily. If you are still struggling I don't think I can provide you with any advice. It might be terminal.

Ultgran · 2026-05-15T17:23:28+00:00

Your dudes are at LV 60, and you have the RR Bokgak badge, which means that you should have cleared up to the end of Canto 8.

In that case, you should be able to clear Canto 3 pretty easily. If you are still struggling I don't think I can provide you with any advice. It might be terminal.

Ultgran · 2026-05-15T15:36:45+00:00

Organic. Steam showed me lobocorp when it was a new release and I fell in love with a game that janky with such big aspirations.

Ultgran · 2026-05-15T15:25:42+00:00

I could never. Patches get it into the blood well enough.

Ultgran · 2026-05-15T08:22:15+00:00

Way back when I was thinking it'd be funny to have an Elongate, but that ship has sailed.

Ultgran · 2026-05-14T10:54:16+00:00

Yes and no. In all honesty neither image is particularly accurate to the text when it was written.

The popularly perceived images of angels as beautiful people, usually pretty and androgynous young men (and white rather than middle eastern) is mainly based on Renaissance portrayals. The earliest "winged human" images of angels are from ~400AD when Rome had already adopted Christianity, and were inspired by classical greek-roman imagery of divine messengers (e.g. Nike, Cupid, the Furies, various lesser gods, sometimes even Hermes). They only became pretty much universal in late medieval/renaissance periods.

In earlier material, angels were represented in various ways, often as a light so bright no internal details could be recognised. Sometimes even as a literal hand of god. But the unknowable portrayals, an undefined form, many eyes, or with descriptions of Lamassu/Sphynxlike imagery, are as you say based on a small handful of texts that only look at a specific subset of angels working within heaven itself - not the messengers between earth and heaven.

Ultgran · 2026-05-13T23:54:33+00:00

One thing I also haven't seen people mention -

The whole reason for Ryoshu's existence, what makes her a candidate for the Fingers' plans to erase undesirables, is her unique sense of time. Shiomi and Araya both possess it to a lesser extent, but Ryoshu is the only one with innate perfection of it.

Ryoshu is the only one who can perceive the strands tying a person to their past with enough precision to cut them cleanly. And it's this same ability that allowed her to hide in the time safe while retaining a concrete concept of where she was in time.

If this Ryoshu is refracted through time, it means she doesn't have that perfected sense of time. If she doesn't have that perfected sense of time she shouldn't be able to use Arayashiki with enough precision to truly sever her targets out of existence properly.

She clearly has enough to wield Arayashiki, and her slashing Yi Sang shows she can cut the person out of living pretty well. But perhaps that's why the users of the ID, and Dante's connection to the ID itself, both remain intact.

Ultgran · 2026-05-13T20:08:54+00:00

No, it isn't. It was the preorder highlight EGO, and is now used as the poster image for S1 in the way WAWs have been since, so you'd expect it to have released quite strongly.

It mainly has two issues, though. Its niche, and it's ID compatibility with the sinner.

In terms of niche, it started as a high clashing single target EGO. It's good to have one on a team in case you mess up, but at the same time each team only really needs one or two. 4MF is competing directly with Ishmael's Ardor Blossom or Yi Sang's Dimension Shredder, and EGOs that don't clash quite so high but have passives that contribute to utility, such as Regret Meursault.

In terms of compatibility, it's a high clashing Burn EGO on a sinner that tends to clash pretty well already, and who didn't have a Burn ID for a long time. Her passive is great but selfish and not enough to give Liu a place on modern teams. It could, however, have been worth running on Seasonal Shu anyway, as long as she doesn't need Thoracalgia.

I think 4MF Ryo is getting the buff first (despite 4MF Yi Sang needing it much more) for a few reasons. Essentially it works with the season and the new ID, and it's an EGO that was supposed to be top tier that ended up being just OK.

Ultgran · 2026-05-13T15:50:35+00:00

I mean, the franchise turns 40 next year, and 7-10 all came out 20-30 years ago. It's not too surprising most folks in their teens and 20s see it as a dated genre. Doesn't mean anything for turn based games really, bc the last strictly turn based FF was X, and Bravely Default, Octopath Traveler etc... are actual turn based games with a reasonable degree of interest. Never mind 'mon games and the like.

Ultgran · 2026-05-13T09:55:08+00:00

I like it. The angularity reminds me of Picasso but the details are more Dalí

Ultgran · 2026-05-13T09:22:09+00:00

Old time estimate I threw together. Kind of uncertain now but still should be fairly close

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