10-06-2025, 01:30 AM
okay, now that i've gotten through the myth on my own (we thank you for your patience in these trying times) i can go back and read what you come out with (so much more succinctly than i did!)
Chapter 1
The number seven seems to crop up a bunch in places. Probably coincidence? Or just that seven and nine are just nice numbers for mystic purposes.
So now that we'd gone through this whole myth, Zayne went through all Seven Gates to get to Creatio, and spent all of his divinity to do so, arriving with nearly nothing to face the scales. So he gave the last of his power, his blood and his heart and... succeeded. But he couldn't have died there? It doesn't say how he escaped with it, or if we're just supposed to assume that Everlost let him go because of the magnitude of his sacrifice. But again, if this was the past, how he is he still walking around in the future, with a definite heart in his body. I assuming its all symbolism? Although. Huh. What if this is an overlap past/future deal? At the end of time he goes to get Creatio and then returns with it back to the past. He has it in the Tower of Thorns (hey, thorns!) and he shoves it in Her heart then. And she has it in Niava without realizing it so.. timey winey shenanigans, as usual?
The Vastraen seems to be a place, but I guess we could call the monsters that too.
Ye gods, the voice of the Limping Poet indeed - muahaha!
On the symbolism of Her turning into/being an arrow -- His arrow, His marked path to destruction?
The whole completely unhinged sexual vibe of this myth. Overt, even, this is so thinly veiled it might as well be covered in 1ply chiffon. I am so, so hopeful for the future, you have no idea. Actually, you have all the idea! That was a glorious keysmash, you should cross-stitch that somewhere :D
Chapter 2
When the Aenzu bird dies, taking out a timeline, and a new place is born out of destruction, Zayne's snow seems to be a very pointed inclusion. I am not quite sure what exact thing its trying to say because after watching this myth my brain is fried, but its white snow or white flowers or white sand.. even a white glow. He closed his fist and golden dust/sand trickled out between his fingers and then snow fell around him. Recalling all the lives he just took to start again?
And yeah, when she originally thought him a god, a sun that belongs to another world, that was facts.
Chapter 3 & 4
I still do not quite grasp the overlay of a protocore = monster's heart to any degree of certitude. I keep trying to think of the Wanderers/Vastraen as living creatures, when maybe they're just some other higher level kind of manifestation? But one of the hint tips that shows on loading screens in the game says that lower level Wanderers can get eaten by higher level ones, so what's the deal there? If you've got any insight into that, I'd love to hear it. Maybe you already told me and I completely failed to file it in the appropriate drawer. And how can we get trapped inside a protocore at all? Is a protocore a singular... event? Event horizon? The World Between Worlds?
And yeah, before they get trapped in whatever resides inside a protocore, there's that whole sequence where he closes her eyes and tells her to sleep. Which is exactly what he did in Foreseer's myth, so was that something that actually happened, or was she just "seeing/hearing" it again?
And how can Zayne draw a 'magical array' that is unspecified in its purpose that just turns into what I would recognize as a Wanderer/protocore manifestation?
Saemyra. I also ship it. No notes.
Chapter 5 & 6 & 7
"High Priest" Zayne is a fun little thing to think about. So while he was on the outs with the resident Goddess, he just wandered around taking her name in vain and randomly healing people? I guess you have to fill eternity with something, I suppose, while you're waiting for your ex to come back to Her senses and yank you in by Your power collar for a booty call to end the ages. Zayne always called to the healing arts is a lovely thing. God meant to end the world, all worlds, travelling around incognito just making life a little better for all the furiously busy little ants and their tiny baby children.
These two are all over each other, I am both impressed and vaguely wistful. The fact that she keeps trying to distract him with kisses, wine and lap crawling is so cash money of her, I can only applaud.
Chapter 8 & 9
I did not catch whatever reference was there to Death & Rebirth, since I have no idea what that was. Did I mention it at all? Or did it sail right by?
MY BRAIN HURTS TOO. What the heck, Infold. Zayne's VA rose above and beyond and ascended into light. That whole ending sequence came out of the very far left - for ONCE, the trailer did not spoil the main plot point and I am So Pleased. I am going to have to watch that last sequence all over again, because I am pretty sure I only understood about 60% of it. I don't think that was the end of Earth and our modern EVER to be honest, but it could be, sure. It just seems a little too on the nose, you know? I may concede on a rewatch though.
The final piece in the Fractal Library was *chef's kiss*, agreed. That the variable itself isn't the MC in Her gucci boots at all, but the fact that she * exists * and because of her existence, Destiny is subverted because the manifestation of it loves her. Where does Astra fit into all of this? Is that still a thing, over and above Zayne as the Si-Ming?
Holy fuck... that line in Snow's Embrace - "There is no sign of her becoming a variable." Because in that timeline, he didn't love her (yet)! He was still holding himself actually aloof and I guess her personality was abrasive enough that nothing had warped out of true / he wasn't (yet) swayed from his course. /mind asplode
Chapter 1
The number seven seems to crop up a bunch in places. Probably coincidence? Or just that seven and nine are just nice numbers for mystic purposes.
So now that we'd gone through this whole myth, Zayne went through all Seven Gates to get to Creatio, and spent all of his divinity to do so, arriving with nearly nothing to face the scales. So he gave the last of his power, his blood and his heart and... succeeded. But he couldn't have died there? It doesn't say how he escaped with it, or if we're just supposed to assume that Everlost let him go because of the magnitude of his sacrifice. But again, if this was the past, how he is he still walking around in the future, with a definite heart in his body. I assuming its all symbolism? Although. Huh. What if this is an overlap past/future deal? At the end of time he goes to get Creatio and then returns with it back to the past. He has it in the Tower of Thorns (hey, thorns!) and he shoves it in Her heart then. And she has it in Niava without realizing it so.. timey winey shenanigans, as usual?
The Vastraen seems to be a place, but I guess we could call the monsters that too.
Ye gods, the voice of the Limping Poet indeed - muahaha!
On the symbolism of Her turning into/being an arrow -- His arrow, His marked path to destruction?
The whole completely unhinged sexual vibe of this myth. Overt, even, this is so thinly veiled it might as well be covered in 1ply chiffon. I am so, so hopeful for the future, you have no idea. Actually, you have all the idea! That was a glorious keysmash, you should cross-stitch that somewhere :D
Chapter 2
When the Aenzu bird dies, taking out a timeline, and a new place is born out of destruction, Zayne's snow seems to be a very pointed inclusion. I am not quite sure what exact thing its trying to say because after watching this myth my brain is fried, but its white snow or white flowers or white sand.. even a white glow. He closed his fist and golden dust/sand trickled out between his fingers and then snow fell around him. Recalling all the lives he just took to start again?
And yeah, when she originally thought him a god, a sun that belongs to another world, that was facts.
Chapter 3 & 4
I still do not quite grasp the overlay of a protocore = monster's heart to any degree of certitude. I keep trying to think of the Wanderers/Vastraen as living creatures, when maybe they're just some other higher level kind of manifestation? But one of the hint tips that shows on loading screens in the game says that lower level Wanderers can get eaten by higher level ones, so what's the deal there? If you've got any insight into that, I'd love to hear it. Maybe you already told me and I completely failed to file it in the appropriate drawer. And how can we get trapped inside a protocore at all? Is a protocore a singular... event? Event horizon? The World Between Worlds?
And yeah, before they get trapped in whatever resides inside a protocore, there's that whole sequence where he closes her eyes and tells her to sleep. Which is exactly what he did in Foreseer's myth, so was that something that actually happened, or was she just "seeing/hearing" it again?
And how can Zayne draw a 'magical array' that is unspecified in its purpose that just turns into what I would recognize as a Wanderer/protocore manifestation?
Saemyra. I also ship it. No notes.
Chapter 5 & 6 & 7
"High Priest" Zayne is a fun little thing to think about. So while he was on the outs with the resident Goddess, he just wandered around taking her name in vain and randomly healing people? I guess you have to fill eternity with something, I suppose, while you're waiting for your ex to come back to Her senses and yank you in by Your power collar for a booty call to end the ages. Zayne always called to the healing arts is a lovely thing. God meant to end the world, all worlds, travelling around incognito just making life a little better for all the furiously busy little ants and their tiny baby children.
These two are all over each other, I am both impressed and vaguely wistful. The fact that she keeps trying to distract him with kisses, wine and lap crawling is so cash money of her, I can only applaud.
Chapter 8 & 9
I did not catch whatever reference was there to Death & Rebirth, since I have no idea what that was. Did I mention it at all? Or did it sail right by?
MY BRAIN HURTS TOO. What the heck, Infold. Zayne's VA rose above and beyond and ascended into light. That whole ending sequence came out of the very far left - for ONCE, the trailer did not spoil the main plot point and I am So Pleased. I am going to have to watch that last sequence all over again, because I am pretty sure I only understood about 60% of it. I don't think that was the end of Earth and our modern EVER to be honest, but it could be, sure. It just seems a little too on the nose, you know? I may concede on a rewatch though.
The final piece in the Fractal Library was *chef's kiss*, agreed. That the variable itself isn't the MC in Her gucci boots at all, but the fact that she * exists * and because of her existence, Destiny is subverted because the manifestation of it loves her. Where does Astra fit into all of this? Is that still a thing, over and above Zayne as the Si-Ming?
Holy fuck... that line in Snow's Embrace - "There is no sign of her becoming a variable." Because in that timeline, he didn't love her (yet)! He was still holding himself actually aloof and I guess her personality was abrasive enough that nothing had warped out of true / he wasn't (yet) swayed from his course. /mind asplode
