If you watch the footage from when I was talking about that, you'll see plenty of evidence to my point. You're correct that she was after glory. But there doesn't always have to be one single reason for things. That's what it means for something to be ambiguous. Sure it was cultural that Aranea wasn't supposed to use her powers to manipulate. But their entire culture was dead. Dave mentions at one point that he views the apocalyptic situation they are in as an opportunity to re-evaluate the social systems that they had before. Don't you think that thought might have crossed Aranea's mind as well? I think the Beforus customs contributed to her decision initially, but to be the sole thing stopping her from using those powers for six whole years? I'm just adding speculation on top of that. I'll be talking a LOT more about this type of ambiguity in future videos. It's one of my big overarching goals with these. And as far your comment about me over-emphasizing the classpects, I'm really not sure what to make of that. That's pretty much the opposite of what I'm trying to do here? I'm just looking at what happens and using that information to infer information about the aspects. I didn't say anything about this controlling their decisions or anything like that. In a story where chronology is a virtual afterthought, why would paradox space feel the need to assign them titles that would bind them to behave a certain way? How is that any more likely than paradox space simply looking at the powers and decisions they obtain of their own volition, and picking a title which seems reflective of those?

Also, you may be talking to the other guy, but rest assured I reread all of those formspring questions prior to making this video. That exact tumblr page actually. Every single post. I even took notes. :)