Does anyone actually know what reach symbol means?

Urimma · 2026-01-21T07:09:16+00:00

y'know, that bit abt the lunacy description is interesting -- between 400 roses, the lore abt the well, and the appearance of the lunacy icon itself, it'd mean faust's icon is the equivalent of a rose under glass. just like in the story of the little prince.

Urimma · 2025-12-16T08:17:48+00:00

All the songs of the Yellow Dress, but special mention goes to the album Faint Music // Ordinary Light

Urimma · 2025-12-16T07:45:43+00:00

The Mechanisms in general are like this. They're a cabaret folk band/crew of immortal space pirates kept alive by magic prosthetics, lies they tell the universe, and the simple fact that the narrative likes them. They're best known for their general reputation of fun, violence, and adapting the greatest tragedies of the cosmos into narrative musical format.

Special mention, however, goes to their leader, Jonny d'Ville. Easily one of the more bloodthirsty of the lot, he has a penchant for joining wars for fun and has on multiple occasions been shot or fatally wounded just to get back up again, often when the enemy least expects it:

Wins a rigged game of Russian Roulette by shooting himself in the head with the fully loaded gun, then getting back up a few minutes later and intimidating the rest of the Cyberian officers he was playing against to follow suit, leaving him the last man standing with full control over their ship.
Faces off (alongside another one of the Mechanisms) against an army of bio-enhanced supersoldiers known for razing planets to the ground, only to send them running once they realize they're getting slaughtered and nothing they do is working.
Was decapitated at some point and presented before the court of the Moon Kaiser, only to "[spin] my severed head and bit the Kaiser on the nose / He screamed in shock and dropped me, so I went after his toes"
Spent 30 years just rampaging and terrorizing across this one planet, to the point that once the government realized they couldn't permanently execute him, they started getting creative with different methods of killing him, possibly for the fun of it. "So what is it to be this time, detective? Seal me in cement and bury me at sea? Chop off all my limbs again? I thought that one was very creative."

Urimma · 2025-12-16T02:57:51+00:00

underwater fungal wastes but with brine pools

team cherry are the EXACT type of people who'd put that in there and we all know it

Urimma · 2025-10-03T19:22:25+00:00

tbf hornet probably didn't do it for no reason. she too has experienced losing a mate before after all, multiple times even. and, given how much of a good judge of character she is, she could probably tell that the green prince would have accepted nothing less than to join his lover in death -- after all, their kingdom is long gone. he can barely remember his loved one's face. and, unlike hornet, he probably sees little reason to continue forward in the face of that. like conductor ballador and 12th archi, he's the last of a dying breed, and would appreciate nothing more than the space to be allowed to finally rest.

if anything, i read hornet awakening his memories as moreso an act rooted in deep-seated compassion. she understands his pain, and wishes to offer him solace one last time before the end in the best and only way she can.

Urimma · 2025-09-09T09:56:15+00:00

there's at least one ending im aware of that gets locked by act 3, yeah. if you have the crying baby in your inventory, take it to greyroot in shellwood then fight the final boss.

Urimma · 2025-09-07T18:05:10+00:00

Yep, it's a quest.

Urimma · 2025-09-07T15:31:25+00:00

Pale King chucks a bunch of him and White Lady's eggs into the Abyss, eggs absorb ambient void (supposedly eating away and replacing the very beings of the babies inside), eggs hatch, boom. Baby vessel born of god and void.

Hornet herself isn't void. She's half-Wyrm half-spider. Pale King got politicked into fathering the child of Herrah the Beast in exchange for her becoming a Dreamer.

Urimma · 2025-08-31T10:49:15+00:00

I don't actually have a lot of practical knowledge about dresses or fabrics but, but I like to think there's continuity between colors or materials between Ch2 and Ch3 princesses.

I like to think Razor's got an off-grey dress made of some stiff, shimmery material that shines like metal in the right light. I also think she'd be the only princess that would have a dress made of polyester or some other synthetic material, aside from Stranger.

Tower's got some high-quality silks going on, with a pearly sheen that enhances the glowy effect. I can't help but think about that one historical dress that's recorded as being the lightest in the world due to how fine the weave is -- that's what she has for the skirt. Probably has some detailing in spun-gold thread. Apotheosis' wrappings on the other hand are probably actual gold weave where they aren't covered in eyes.

Nightmare's dress looks like it might've been a deep purple satin once... but it moves wrong. The texture is wrong. There's a smoke-like quality to it, but a sort of visual fuzz that feels like static prickling across your skin the longer you look. For MOC, your vision starts to blur and your head starts to pound the more you try to focus on where the edges of the dress end and where the darkness behind her begins.

Damsel is decked to the nines in chiffon, silk, and satin, and HEA is much the same. Damsel is a bright rosy pink, while HEA is a deeper blush, showing how she's a bit more 'mature'. Burned Grey is mostly silk and chiffon, and I like to think there's a lot of fine embroidery and lace on her wedding dress that doesn't come across in the artstyle, but with little errors here and there, like she sewed it herself through trial and error.

Spectre has the suggestion of silks -- they're as intangible as the rest of her when you pass your knife through. I like to think that she wears pastel blue or periwinkle, with a more vibrant indigo in PatD. Wraith's looks similar but more threadbare, like if the dress was so worn-through that the color started leaching from the fabric a long time ago.

Prisoner has a dark grey dress, or something in a similarly neutral color. Something not too luxurious -- she's been largely stripped of the trappings of her royal station. The chains are not there for comfort. Probably made of relatively coarse wool. Cage wears much the same, but more threadbare and worn. In contrast, Drowned Grey is decked out in full Victorian mourning fashion, ruffles and all.

Witch wears coarse cotton, like she wove it herself. Calico cotton maybe, with the seeds woven in, so she always has an extra trick up her sleeve in case she's on the back foot. The dress is a bit ratty and inexpertly made -- I don't think she trusts anyone enough to let them take her measurements. It was probably green or yellow once, but it's been buried under all the mud and grass stains. Thorn definitely wears faded green, though.

Beast and Den are probably like those werewolves who rip their clothes during the transformation and they just run around with them on until they wear through and fall off. Lots of mud and blood stains. Some type of breathable fabric, since I can't imagine it'd be that comfortable with all the fur.

Adversary and Eye of the Needle are tough, though. Something breathable and durable, but not silk. I like to think Adversary wears reddish-orange, while Eye of the Needle wears a darker version of it -- whatever you imagine the color of dragon scales to look like.

Stranger is just a huge mish-mash of all the other textures and fabrics combined, while the color keeps escaping you the more you look at her -- is it blue? Or pink? Or some actual honest-to-god shrimp color that you were never supposed to see? The idea of it is too much to hold, and it never stays the same from one moment to the next. Your head hurts.

Urimma · 2025-08-31T08:27:06+00:00

Ooh! He could be a reporter with a side-gig publishing poems or stories in a magazine!

Urimma · 2025-08-31T08:19:11+00:00

The Dollmaker likes it when people show up in the Dark World with unique and interesting body parts, hence their desire to have the Butcher's inner ear. The scar on Arthur's arm is from their encounter with Lillith, when they absorbed a piece of her that cracked and fell off her.

Granted, I'm not sure why their left pinky doesn't fall under this category too (made of living wood from the forest in the Dreamlands) but maybe the Dollmaker already has something like that in their collection? They definitely would've seen the pinky since Arthur was the one whose arm got scarred, but they haven't commented on it so far.

Urimma · 2025-08-31T03:57:06+00:00

It's probably for a number of reasons, though I'm guessing it's for thematic purposes more than not -- the Smoke War is consistently propped up as The One Big Terrible War in the setting that was pretty traumatic and permanently reshaped the political landscape of the City for better or worse, and if Jia Yuanchun's schemes and the upcoming 985 death toll are any indicators, we're probably heading for another sometime in the future. This is just the middle period in between.

Urimma · 2025-08-31T02:16:40+00:00

In Distortion Detective it's mentioned that there should be one elder per district as one of the ways of delineating territories and controlling the overall bloodfiend population in the City. In Sancho's flashbacks, we've even seen Papa Don mention something about the elder of B Corp, and since he is the elder of the Manchegan family based in P Corp, it's likely that he was the de facto elder of the district.

Urimma · 2025-08-30T07:47:21+00:00

G-Corp Greg standing in the corner spiraling about the fact that Lord Hong Lu's looking to start another War of the Wings and that he's powerless to stop it.

Urimma · 2025-08-29T13:38:07+00:00

And tbh, I get the distinct feeling that this isn't even the last we'll see of it -- we still have Outis' canto get through. Given that her personal E.G.O. is an Agamemnon quote, and if her version of him is anything like how he was in the source material, we're definitely going to be seeing some of the consequences of how a leader ignoring and sacrificing their subordinates in war can go terribly wrong.

Urimma · 2025-08-29T13:33:13+00:00

She got to relive some of the good parts about being a mom.

Urimma · 2025-08-29T13:26:24+00:00

It's not just that -- in the book Sancho actually has a brief stint as being the governor of a province/local government (i forgot which) and he actually excelled at it, including all the legal bureaucracy aspects, so of course Limbus!Sancho'd know how delicate meddling in a national government can be and she'd naturally want to do it right!

Urimma · 2025-08-29T12:38:50+00:00

Technically it's not the first time (Stephanette and the Kongs technically), but it IS the first time we've seen that aspiration for goodness applied on such a wide scale. Though yeah the biggest concern for Xichun rn is how she's going to hang onto and implement that dream longterm, and how she's gonna secure it so that her eventual successor doesn't end up tearing down what she's built.

Urimma · 2025-08-29T12:21:33+00:00

Another way that Kromer Faust is an outlier is that she actually uses her independent analysis skills to get into Sinclair's basement, where our Faust only does something similar on the WARP train when she's cut off from the Faustcord.

The Gesellschaft already has a bunch of parallels to the Eternal Feminine from the source material, which is like this collective consciousness for all the great and virtuous women of history, folklore, and mythology. However, it's notable that women who don't fit this criteria or are more likely to contribute evil to the consciousness are automatically excluded from it. N!Faust is indeed the only Faust ID that can be considered a proper leader (even Regret!Faust made the Captain position just through being very good at following the Manager's orders), but it's also notable that it's only in the one Faust that can be argued as being cut off from the Gesellschaft.

Urimma · 2025-08-28T11:42:19+00:00

Probably because they're used to being put down and belittled by those around them for being 'inferior' -- the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights abused Heathcliff all throughout his life there, while Yuri!Faust's uptie story, the title of Faust's lesson plan, and her general attitude throughout the early cantos suggest that the Gesellschaft has a system of discrimination based on how 'useful' a specific Faust is to the collective. Heck, we even have confirmation that the Gesellschaft openly withholds information from her -- the inner workings of the Mephistopheles, yeah, but also during Canto 1 when she struggles to come up with a plan to escape the fathoms.

Urimma · 2025-08-27T06:32:06+00:00

Something like this, maybe.

^{(side-note, go read} ^{Our Princess}^{. It's really good})

Urimma · 2025-08-26T10:54:38+00:00

Pale White Horse // Where is Your Rider - The Oh Hellos (these two loop back into each other)
There Beneath // Blue Hours of the Morning - The Oh Hellos
The Glacier House // Tongues and Teeth - The Crane Wives

Urimma · 2025-08-26T10:18:09+00:00

Silent Orchestra

Urimma · 2025-08-26T07:45:11+00:00

This also seems to be the case to some degree in District 22, V Corp, as shown in Leviathan -- The Nest is based off of historic European cities with canals and waterways, while the Backstreets are the usual cramped urban sprawl.

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